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7 ice ai each ae we nie seen aie ar le in. ncaa easel tama nla em ARE ts A at

CORRESPONDENCE,

—e ~ - i ae OTe LL LLL LOLOL LLL

TUE EASTERN QUESTION.

CIRCULAR OF TRE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. A species of Bluebook has just been published

by the Kussian Geeernment, coutsining a series

ef ad manic decuments upon the Easteru

Question. Che earlier of these go back as far ae the begining et Is66, and among the latest isa vine addressed to the Ri«iag embassies and Prine Gortechakef,

as the [Sih October last

is as fellows :—

eive Iegatiows abroad, by

receniy hia circular

“Sr. Perensnias, Oct. 18.—You are ac- quainted with the course followed by the linperial cabmet in the affaire of the Past that, ee far back a+ 1863, it called the attention of the Porte and of the great powers to a situa tion whieh, ta ite opinion, became more serious daily. In facet, epon the one band the Christian populations, seeing the collective action of the great powers, which bad become therr sole guaran

tee, paralyzed by the waut et ogreement, gradua'- ly leat There pe ot an ameloratian in th tate gad their confidence tm ve suppert of | ipepe Upon the ether hand, their desires were raised te ‘he Wighest degree by vetrmes they saw tritmph elsewhere, and by accomplished facts in

hetg ehor img This tweteld current, whieh acted upon these popalations, could net fail te reuder their pesities mere pamtul and theig resignation mere difficult. Partial and suceessive outereaks in Syria, the Lebanon,

oountoies

Rervia, Bosnia, the Herzegovina, Montenegro, |

god witimately ia Candia, had eceurred to con-

firw eur previsions, and to alfest the lmuninence |

oft a erwis which became aggravated by growing more geveral, Nevertheless, our warnings have reamed fruitless, When recently the rising in Candia revealed the progress of thie movement, the Imperial cabinets repented ite efferta with the Purkest Gevernment and the Gireai lt addreseed to the cabinets tae mvitation te j iy it iu exhertiag the Porte net to allow that teur- rection te terease, Which might be re-«choed threugheut the whole of the Chriatian Hast, and heecorme the first spark of a general conflagration In anticipating an explosion by wise concessions te the the Cretansa, by granting eq ittutehe the the Servimne, reforms whieh weald assure bearable conditions ut existence te the Sultan's Chreatian subjects, it wae permitted to lope for an appease-

complatinta ef

satisfaction te demands of

meut of wen's minds which would leave te time, |

te the progress of idea, and to the deveiapment

of tuferests the peaceful solution of the secial and |

political difficulties of the Eastern Question Notwithstanding our endeavors, the agreement

You are aware

Powers. |

LATE BUROPEAN NEWS. FRANCE AND NORTH GERMANY.

Tu the audience given by the Emperor Na-

poleon on T wsday ty Coui.t Vou der Goltz, the newlyeacered ite 1 representative of North German Cunfederation, the Emperor

spoke as follows:~ "In notifying to me the new functions with which you are invest us the represeniative of the Confederation of the

i

North, you renew the assurances of the friend

ship of the King of Prussia

On my part, Lembraee the opportunity with ple asure to confirm noderstanding existing between the two Governments. I beg

fof you to be the interpreter of my sentiments to the King. Having been able to appreciate ithe high qualities which distinguish you, I do

not doubt that you will continue as heretofore to exert all your efforts to maintain between

}the two countries that friendly understanding which is the pledge of their prosperity and a

Count Von

was afterwards received by

the good

yuarantee ot the peace at E rope: ’ der Goltz kan, ess. reeeiving

xspay Nicur.—Upoen

‘apa N lid

Tu

tne ¢ lntiens of the | ov as the SKOKECSI ot the D plomatic Body at tlie i Luileries yesterday, the emi ror replied ; “

am happy tu beyin the new veal as usual, sur rounded by the represeutatives of all the Powers. il am abie tu allirm once more ny Constant desire to maintain the best relations with them. 1 thank you ivr the wishes you have been good jenough to express in their name for France, answer to the { Archbishop of Paris, the Emperor replied :— |The prayers you address tu heaven for the | Empress, the Prince Impertal, and affect me deeply. } heart. I know

eligious mterests

jmy family, and myself.” In

tavselt |

They Sprivg from a noble that vou hot

trom thoae ot the

de country jand of civilization.

FENIAN ALARMS AT WOOWLICH, At Wovlwich the same disquieting state of | things prevails as last reported. From in {formation received by the Guverument, there is fnot the a dvuubt but that the i prompe action taken on Friday se’nuight, u lnizht attack would have been made upon the | Arsenal, Round house and East Store, contain- ing rifles and Armstrong guns. The intelli- {vence received since shows au increased de- termination oa the part of the Fenians to make

shadow of tor

I thank you for it. |

separate j

raids on the Government stores in all parts of |

the country where arms and ammunition are

ef the cabinets bas remained inemnplete, and) | ; kept, and it has been deemed necessary to in

their language haa net pradeced the desired tus pression wpen the Turkish Government. It has rather than ee the precautionary parsued a course of repression with a rige } measures. Phe Roya! Arsenai continues to be whieh has only rendered the struggle more ardent, | guarded day and night with troops, with sizuals pasHets mere augry, agreement more difficult.) to be in operation tor communicating with the aud ite partial attempts at conciliation, t.king | dierent barracks, where piace at the el veautl ave lost their op- troops are kept armed and accoutred through portuneness aud eficacy. Dader these circum) oor the night. The progress of the special stances, the lwperil Cabinet has not departed | stable movement in Woolwich is extraordi- from the course it originally adopted. This} on : a

course was warked out for il by the views go- | "“8'Y and unprecedented. lhe entire ewilian versing the policy of eur august master, of the adalt male population have manirested a uf traditions of Russia, ber iuterests ea neighboring | Ht Imous determination to enrol themselves for power. ae an European great power, bound up| the maintenance of law a id order, and it is be-

crease

additional reserve

beur,

With the repose of the East and the mainteuance | coming an extremely dificult matter to find a |

}

the geweral peace. [In ber opinion, it there! man in Woolwich, Piumstead, or Chariton who

Were stil any chawee averting imminent com | is not either a special constable or a soldier. |

plications by cowusel addressed to the Turkish | jy Wednesday the Roval Arsenal presented an Government, that task veler ged exclusively to i 1 Europe, interpesing its collective authority be

tween the parties at variance, and speaking to them with firmness in unanimous terme. It the chance were lost, and the erisia become inevit

able, the duty and interest of all were then bound t+ cireumescribe it by abstzining from all ieter-

veution and presenting it from comprounsing the | general peace. Lt waa this the Luperial cabinet proposed under date of Now 16, J566. Some!) at the Mansion House, on Wednesday, the awaong the (ireat Powers bove adhered te its Lord Mayor said that the Clerkenwell Rehef Tews, the first pertoa of this programme was Comaiittes had already dispensed £1,860 to- fulfilled. The result i known. The pressing) ~ ae i © ae <4 siais' waliariaay of and reiterated steps of the Linperial cabmmet, and, “4° alleviating the ae vest ompaten yin of the government associated with it, failed in the people injured by the arene aan £5 the face of the reauiutions of the Porte. The | 000 towards repairing the loss and damage ot private ‘attempte at persuasion exerted by our furniture and tools owned by persous who august master during the mission of Fuad Pasha! could but very ill afford to suffer such juss and tu Livadia met with no greater success. Henee-| inconveninence. The committee had a balance forth the Imperal cabinet considered that nething| of £1,500 in hand. after providing for those remainped save to acquit tteelf of the second | causualties, but fresh claims were being made porden of the task reserved to the Powers. This ' was the ehject of the declaration bad proposed, | aod which, with these slight verbal alterations augaested by the cabinet of the Tuileries, and a sees -. wa eroe greed to by the cabinets of Berlin and Florence, POWDER AT FAVERSHAM,

has just been Landed te the Porte by their re The coroner of East Kent bas held an in- presertatives at Constantiouple. While forward-| quest at Messrs. Hall's oilice, Faversham, ing the text aw aunexed (already published), I touching the death of eleven unfortunate men think ft meeessary to point out the sense We! wig were literally blown to pieces by the ex-

cae jhe hale nites she ‘ ed plosion which occurred at the powder mills on , a igue aete ares e reir’ ie ' ' a wT « , ™! Saturday. The relatives of the deceased men

extraordinary and animated scene on the oc casion of the swearing in of the whole of the employees, 9,000 in number, as special con- stables. In addition to the above 3,000 of the Woolwich Dockyard workmen sworn in.

have

upon them daily.

THE TERRIBLE EXPLOSION OF GUN-

from respousbility ter a eituation ef which his

been |

THE CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION. |

lincluding the Government grant. and elear off his debts. The setalement jot the Siam and Casserim frontier has been i ‘ :

jcompleted. ‘Lhe treaty concluded by Colonel

| prute

the | Fyiche, with the Government of Burmah, was |

ratified by the Viceroy on the 26th alt. The King of Burmae has assented tu the despatch fanexploring party to Western China via

Bharao, and has issued an edict to vive it every

sus istanve.

of the party.

Captain Sladen ts appointed leader

FURTHER FROM THE ABYSSINIAN EXPE DLITION—AN EMBARRASSING ALLY. (Army Correspondence of London Times Dec. 24.)

The Egyptians have vot only mustered 3,000

i fresh troops at Massowah, but have actually taken upon themselves to send a message to Theodore, warning bim that if he does net give ap the eap- tives, they intend te jein ia our expedilion, and otherwise give us all the aid) at their com They are further g send to this netghborboud ten ost po itely off ho any uu ber of tres peand guns, Al! this courtsey trom a

mand tig te

frigates, whieh they rte place at our disposal, wit usty and well-beloved ally may be very gratily- Ing but j ist now 1 i a notion that the Feyptians are going te help us, hy

itis very embarrassing

gains general credeuce in) Abyssinia—and oun luckily the muster of troops at) Massewah and the arrival of a naval equadron will give it color- ‘ing—we may find ourselves engaged ina national and religious war, as desperate as semi-savage patriots and fanatics can make it, in lieu of the comparatively easy task fo hunt down one out- lawed and hated leader overmatched by power. tul foes. The very name of Egyptian stinks in

Abyssinian nostrils; and Theodore could wish| motion, I feel fully assured that your inherent | Fenianism does not simply aim at the redress | more

nothing werse for ourown, or better for his, than the assistauce our kind athes are offering us. . * * * *. Massowah is full of Abyssinians, sume of them messengers recently arrived from Magdala, Debra Pabor, and other places in the heart of the country, jand their report is that the people have a notion

! ' }—the netion which has given us se much trouble

sland helped to work se tiuch mischief in India— |

that the English are coming with an army to jmake them proseiytes by the sword, to do by force what the tuissionaries have failed toe do by

persuasion. The nation has not, even after the

lapse of two centuries, forgotten the cruel perse- |

leution of the Portugese bigots, and this netion, juow, perhaps, but a vague suspicion, would be at ence converted into certainty of conviction it the fanatical fellowers of Mehomed came ite the cotntry with us as our fellow soldiers and allies. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 9 —Very late ad- | viees from Col. Mereweather of the British Abys lsinian expedition have been received here, conveying the rather important intelligence that bands of nalives, supposed to be Thostile, prowling around the English Camp at Senate In consequence of (his manifestation orders were

stationed at Annesley Bay and the different points

(along the line of march trow there to the intertor |

to advance to the trout aud join the headquarter division at Seuape.

) |

——s Che =~ Gramier.

SIREN RN RIN ERR RRR PR EERE }

| Charlottetown, January 27, 1868.

Hast thou killed, and ulso taken possession ?

1 Kings, ch. xxt., v. 19th. THE APPROACHING ELECTION FOR THE SECOND DISTRICT OF KING’S

COUNTY.

Mr. Edward Reilly having vacated his seat

in the Assembly by his acceptance of the office

{ot Queen's Printer, is nuw again a candidate |

for the suffrages of “the free and independent of the Second District ef King’s

County, in the hope that they will again be in-

electors’

duced to elect him as their levisiative

sentative in the lower branch of the Legislature; and, until quite recently, as there had been no mention ot

any intended opposition to * his

| claims’? — whatever these may be —io that

honor, his hope of }

his Own ODS

. ! ‘ re-€ieci

n, aS appears by rvations respec ting it, had grown into certainty. It now seems, however, that, on that head, he had been reckoning without

his host, for many of those who, formerly

under the influence of false impressions, save him their support, having, in consequence

i - Jere The ex.) called. and yet with the most bitter and ne iy Of Qude is now endeavouring to investi! stent maliguity, haraased, thwarted, and lit

were)

ON or ee nee |

repre- ‘ |

lnperial Majesty torsees the pertie, aud which be

have been anxious to see and identify, if pos-

offence against me was hus

respect, immeasurably my Superior.

after having thus yot id of him, I have | aled triamph,

not, inthe momentof my ill-conce the of euiogium, }

coupled with foul and insidious detraction,

through naked aileetation |dared to insult hig memory and outrage the

feelings of his bereaved and mourning friends. |

And neither, as if to attain Che very summit of

of | . z of J baseness and wickedness, have I, after having I have not been ac-| almost inextinguishable aversion to the Gov-

}

‘killed, taken possession. ceasory to the death of a husband and a father ;

jand then seized upon what ought to have been

ithe son. men, in di that I

‘cUarin

Now, rent

who has been guilty of such

l beg y

tively say

am not a man

hl +)

moral obliquitics as these,

serve that I do not posi either | th re is such aman, or that, even admitting '

\that there is, he is one with whom you eithe .

have or are likely to have any immediate con- | nexion. |

But this I will say, that, should any such man—you having full knowledge of his being so—peresume in his eager desire for the

}emoluments of office and the outwacd honor of

| love of honor,justice,and integrity, your natural |

abhorrence of falsehood, meanness, and maligni ty, would induce you to give him such evidence

of your detestation of his principles and

practices as, though it might fail to eradicate |

jhis natural depravity, would yet render him,

ifor the future, less confident of the efficiency Be aes ‘ ; bare lof wicked machinations, however cunningly | - ldevised and speciously practised; and force

upon his mind the conviction, however slow is unquestionably at alltimes, the best policy,

andunwilling he might be to adinit it, that honesty

and the surest means of obtaining permanent

success and elevation in life. Now, gentle-

men, I have done. You have a full know-

any, as well as of my defects; and if,

ally hurried into his grave @ man whose only | being, in every|in England.

And, |

the dower of the widow and the patrimony ot}

vu will ob-

that

ledze of my worth, if in your estimation I have |

trusting} of the Church as a costly super

per-| community any individuals who sympathize

‘bolical Fenian outrages which have occurred There is not, we are certain,

either at home or abroad, a single

ormities that does not feel the utmost abhor

rence of them, What we mean is this:

that

er-| with the perpetrators of the recent most dia-

honest-

hearted Irishman who has heard of these ew

the greater part of the Irish amongst us,

having as immigrants, brought with them, or | o . . i ‘as having been born here of Irish parents, having inherited, not only a strong and tender

l attachment to the soil of Old Ireland, but an }

leruament which they believe, and not without)

becoming aware that preparations otf a most

imposing character were being made for the

liberation of their native soil from the domin

r ‘ 27 ‘ * . } lion of “the stranger’? have, as under

circumstances is most natural, rejoiced in heart

at the new-born hope of the realization of their |

abundant reason, to have ruled through cen-

turies, disastrously tor their Father Land, on

are those who will te!! us that it

way, and there qd, for my part, helier?

is hostile to religion.

t th i” rer was, or eer will be, hostilk ta : _'. that no me bi but let me | *Wore that the package containing the

religion which is agreeable to justice ;

coummend this subject to your deep, earnest, and

serious reflection, for, rely upou it, you have yot |}

\

tte

| ond addressed to the cashier of the Bank, who reeeived the letter of advice,

ithe remittance Some of the Pitt’ bat wt /was caretully tied up with the Summerside letters jputinto the bag tor that office, and kecurely ted

and sealed in the presence of Mr Land whe

a

this before you; itfaces you, it Confronts yous it | that he delivered the Mail Bag to Mrs. Crnil ag

stops you ia the way, it will pursue you 4 here ps 3 ) : doors; Pro-

you vo Ireland is ut % ! } by and ; videuce has piace d ier there; law and jeyisia

ture have madi

evel youl

must face these obligations, you naust dea! with | ther aud discharge thei, : viving effect to this principle, I don’t enter | I am of opinion they should be | dictated, asa general rule, by that which may appear to be the mature, well-cousidered, and | but, us to}

upon them,

yeneral sense of the Irish people. the principe itsell, J entertain a depth of con- viction in regard te it, and a strength of assur- ance that it will come up aud meet us at every

»ofeour future progress until we have dealt with it effectually, that will not suffer me to be tin if pres nee, buturges me a,‘ain }

iva 110 bey you to lay to heart the considera

i tions that are conuects d with the complete and

suca

effectual settlement of this great and pressii

! (Quest ey

country’s independence; and have, perhaps, |

jsecretly, but earnestly, prayed that success

might crown the enterprise. | Or the real objects of the Fenian organiza- |

tion and of the true characters of its leaders,

throw of public order and the peace of society. | might easily be accomplished by

There is a wide diilerence between their designs | a Roya

Daniel O'Connell. He was loyal to the throne,

steadfast in his attachment to the Coustitution,

j

and the material instrument or mere physical |

Fs . 'foree he held in abhorrence. 7 and

ito accomplish was a repeal of the union,

} : . al jan Trish Parliament, whereby it was his belie! | all the wrongs of Lreland would be redressed

}and the couutry raised to an exalted deyree of

| prosperity. What the Fenians wish is to es-|

What he sought

position to solicit your suifrages for his pro-| they have, however, had no just conception, | Land Questions both happily settled, son

of grievances; it contemplates the subversion | tion to Iveland; but that, as we

— . . . . . | of all existing institutions; it alms at the over-| ed

|

| og : | tablish a Republic after the American fashion |

| i in the place of the existing monarchy, get rid ]

. } Nuity, and

ito the one, in despite of the drawback of the! divide the land in such a manner as micht

With the peculiar resources of Mr. Rielly’s| As respects that majority, it is justly observed | disappear; abuses would be corrected ; wrongs

e of the people at large.

E tw | other, you choose to do me the houor to elect | seem good to themselves. issued ter all the Eurepean troops temporartly |

me, I can confidently promise you that [ shall|as all this might be to the individuals engaged

[rish people to whom it would not be agreeable.

In these sentiments, must heartily do we con- cur; and most sincerely do we wish that they may find such liberal aud enlizhtened accept- the

speediiy lead to their practical adoption.

ance in Imperial Parliament as may

a compact between you; you

As to the modes of

he bad receiwed it. Evidence was alan lo show that the Post Office at Summerside Was conducted generally in a lovw and careless manwer, but we think this part of the case wag bot very stong. A geod deal, too, was made both in the diveet and cross examinations of the tact that the Post Odice was beld in or adj “ining the Bar Room, with the same entrance to both. Be. fore the present loss eceurred, a separate entrances was provided tor the publie, though the Post Master titosell eaters (he office through the bar room as formerly, On the occasion when it was alleged the money was lost, the Steawer reached )Sununerside seme time atter widoight. Jt was in ‘evidence stated that Mrs. Crabb reeeived the Maiistrom Mr, Lund, put them into the office, lock. ed the deur, and look the key up stairs inty her bed room, Where ber sou George found it when coming ,dewn at six in the morning to epen the Maile, On taking up the bag he neticed that it looked as ithad been intertered with, and he went at onee aud asked bis mother it she opened it, le Which she replied thet she bad not. The defend. ants counsel ably coutended that when delivered linto the Summerside office, every dilyenee and j precaution which the law required for the tule keeping of the mal bay had been used, and that this being the case if the money reached the office, jand war stolen therefroo: on the nigh? in qvestion, | the detendant was net hable for damages, Jt ”

Sill, however, were the Lrish Church and | but justice to Mr. wid Mrs Crabb to eay that ang

would be req sired to vive entire satisfac

see it suyyvest-

} \

in a late number of the News of the World, the se ding ol

IP [reland—to hold th.

rice to live in

and that which was the aim of the great agitator, Court there, as representative of his illustrious

parent, bring Protestants and Catholics into

happy association, patronise an opera, eh Lative arts (and there are arts ol &e.. in Irish

exce!) make Ireland, in fact, what England is

courase the

ue music, decoration, which the

—a Royal place; and the agents of sedition:

would be at once and for ever discombted. lu such case, if the Prince (Prince Arthur, the Queen's third son, is meant) should happen t bestow his atfections upon an Irish lady, and

desive her hand in marriage, whatis there that

| should cause the banus to be forbidden? The fai:

| A greeable, howere r.

ever be found faithful to your interests aud/in effecting it, there is a vast majority of the |

;

Dt } ‘ res | Irish king won descendant Of some preat oid irish King would

ainount of sympathy and ( ; uf t . 7 nere

be no ery for separation ; all [reland would re-

' bring a wonderful

heart allegiance to the wouid

joice in the Union;

J 3

mind and the extent of his inventive powers— | that they do not want a change in the form of] redressed; and no grim Transatlantic adven

° , ogo 3" | he ¢ » j 2 well as we know * by what bye-paths and in-| Goverment; they are loyal to the throne, | turers would be able to disturb the

| divect crook’d means”

position—we have so little acquaintance that

we

| any anticipatory ‘detiverance of himself’’ be-

ifore the electors. the

observing that his position on thut occasion

matter entirely in his own hands; merely

Richard, Duke of York, waen seeking to cajole |

the populace of London into a seeming thrust- ling the ill deserved powers aud ouer of royal- ‘ty upon him; and whom, we think, we might with but littie impropriety call his prototype.

is subtie, sly, and bold

Like Richard, he venturous ; and it would by no means surprise us if, through the persistent exercise of these qualities, he were to secure his re- But should

he do so, it would be well for him to remember

election as he first accomplished it.

that though craft and malizgnity may prosper and work their will for a season, as they did

with Richard of England and Haman the

Agagite, yet, as with these preemineutly wicked, and, for a time preeminently success- | ful hypoerites, a period almost invariably ar-

rives when signal punishment, although it may

| |

has done everything to avert. He desires to pre- sible, the remains of their feuds ; but the vent political rivalries frew adding te the already | 4uthorities, knowing that it would be utterly kerious complications of the Eastern question that useless for them to attempt to do so, in kind- whieh the present situation of Larope affords. It, ness to them refused to allow any to enter the is Wil this intention bis Imperial Majesty bas sbed in which the remains were deposited, for laid down the principle ef nenoatervention, which nothing could ever obliterate from their minds

4 ae Oaerve , al . . j he ready to ooserve eo long ae it ahall be re- the shocking spectacle which there presented

speeted by the other Powers. This principle, however, can in ne case imply ind:ff-rence. We are «nable, any more than the cabinets which have assectated themeelves with us, to renonnee the generous wissen their eonscience mnn- pose upon the Great Powers upen occasions . , : whete humanity renders ita law. For the same! been in the enjoyment of the full reaen, while abstaining tram all isolated action | manhood and the sole support of as many which would aggravate the complications existing wives and families. Of these only one re in the East, the Imperial cabmet will always be | tained the resemblance of humanity, and that ready to concur in an European agreement for! body was so blackenedand dish gured that even the object of settling them. It is firmly convinced | the men who had worked in the factory for thar such an agreement could only have for its | years, and knew all the unfortunate fellows

itself. In aheap in the centre ef the shed lay a mangled heap of human flesh, so charred ind shattered as to render it almost impossible tu bring the mind to believe that it represented

eievelh meu,

viyour ol

who had only two days previously |

vf a late mournful event, been led seriously to| have been long delayed, falls upon them with |

investigate the grounds on which alone he can | "TC

. ° We have now only two additional remarks to

base his pretensions to the honor he covets,

i ° . ate Es i . a _ ee . : .

‘have discovered that these, mstead of being | make. These, however, respect two points, ; . . . “nt 1“ . iy) Ie ; hove

such as ought to entitle him to it, are in fact | Coucerning which, we think, it behoves us to

speak out freely and distinctly. The first respects Mr. J. H. Fletcher who,

} . . 2 time thought would have been a

precisely such as should call forth from the

whole Qonstituency nothing but feelings of the

most indignant contempt for his | it was ut on

resumption. estion, and who

In cor sequence of this oy candidate for the vacancy in qu

ny ing t eyes and

revulsion of feeling, a goodly number of the! and we say it without the most distant

electors —men of substance, of influential | thought of inany way detracting from the worth

of Mr. McHwen—as having been, in a con

the

positions, and of unquestionable intezrity —|

“a : i lt ede ihaving cast about them to see whether there | 5! rable degree inured to

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it would be wholly in vain for us to attempt, as have done with respect to Mr. McEwen, |

We shall, therefore, leave |

will bear a striking resemblance to that of|

and |

vreally |

sistibie power and the moct crushing weizht. |

he «ttained his present | and they feel their account in it; the destruc } 2 }

ot ; ; j tion of the tie that binds the two islands toze-

ther would produce an annoyauce to England ; but it would be death to the industry of Ireland.

The first to suifer would be the dupes are doing the work of unseen Fenian leaders.

The next session of the British Parliament,

it is believed, will be enturely devoted to the affairs of Iveland; and it can not but be the hope of every lover of both Ireland aud Britain that every thing possible to statesmeuship and

wise and enlightened legislation will speedily

be effected, in order to allay present discontent

land hatred, and render the union of mutual , ; pte put off ibe trial til ext Lerm.

interest and affection to both countries.

The “Irish Ditliculty,” we apprehend, will

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iwhich w

who | ays j speedily and DapPpPHYy cared nto ellect—so lai

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be found to be chiefly in the Irish Church, ** as |

by law established,” and the Laud ‘Tenures. The English papers express a hope that Lord Derby aud his colleagues may hit upon a happy mode of terminating the strife with satisfaction to both sides; but, at the same time, the y admit there is small ground for hope to rest upon. Auy proposal, it is said, that would imply the surrender of the land in perpetuity to

Ils occupants would be vehemently opposed by

testants in Ireland would be very much inclined to dispute the correctness of the surrender ot jthe Church Establishment.

| <As respects the Irish Land Question, it

uppears to us that Mr. Bright’s is the

Most

feasible plan that can be devised for its solution. It scarcely, if at all, diiferS from that of out own Laud Purchase Act. He proposes a

Parliamentary Commission, to buy large es- tates, and to sell them to existing tenants. <A

sum of £5,000,000, he says, would secure some

{large estates, and the process of creating brunt of |

‘‘farmers owners of farms’? would begin and

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peace,

his suggestion, lightly as it is made, is one

tion of the Bi

is there in it to recommend its aduption, that

lisa Government; aud, sv uch we should not be at all surprised to see it al least as respects its list slayes.

mei coemsnnateqeenatnith SUPREME COURT.

Frew the Pairivt of Thursday.

On Weduesday, Denald Melitesh, a servant an in the empioy of W. Ei:anan, Eeq., of Cra pawd, indicted tor stealing sundry longing to bis eaiployer, was tried and townd giuilly. lu the case of the Summerside Burk, rs Phowae Crabb, the Court refused the application

ailicics be

Was taken (to the juvat wm ibe defendant's afhda vit, Which stated that the affidavit was sworn to at Chariotteiowa, bul did not sel oul that Char lottetowa was in Queen's County. ‘This objee- tion being aflerwards waived, teave lo amend was moved for on the part of the defendant, but driend wit’s son, was, lu his father’s kKuewledge, living New Hampshire, U. 8, ana been sent for ib time ter the trial

was refused on the ground that witness,

. je Portsmouth,

might buve

| besides, in a Case Where there Was stispicion thal

the application Was inade fer the purpose of de

lay, the applicant should disclose the nature ef the

jevidence which the absent witness could testily,

. eg . jlads against wliom the proprietary; and the two millions of Pro-| :

in order to get bis case postponed Ou Thure- day, Thomas Fennessey and James Kelly, Iwo

been towmnd, were put Gpou their trial and ae-

thing

rievauces would gradually |

ei) deserves the wiost serious considera.

Ant ACeplion |

Indictments tor larceny had |

ja shadow of surpicion rests upon thea, ner did jthe Plaintiffs Counsel in any way implicate thay in the trausachiou. Indeed they acquitted buth, jbut laid cousiderable stress on the fact whie ‘came out in the thal, that one key opened the bar rooms aud the Post Otlice doors, and that &y pexactl similar key bad been missing tor several months betore the wneney was lost. This coupled )with svother iuportunt fact, viz, that the Post. jwmasters eldest son, who bad previously stolen» (jarge suin el meney trem his tather, aud was at this time living at home, was urged as reasons why the Defendant sbeuld be more than ordinari- ly careful in the discharge of the duties of bis j« flice. Alter sbout four hours’ deliberation, the Jury, whe were the sole judges of the question of lneghgenee, reported that they were unable te agree upon a verdict. . For the Bank, E. Palmer, |J. Hensely, C) Palmer aud M. McLeod. For jibe Delendant, Haviland, Brecken, Longworth rod Hi Ogseon. | At the hour we write, (4 p. m, Wedneeday), the case of James Jeukins and anolber ts. the Goeveriment is going on. | . ae is From the Patriot of Saturday. | In continuing our synopsis ot the proceedings of | this Court, we bave to make one or two corrections 1» our Detece of the case of the Sammerside Bank vs Thomas Crabb. The detendant’s tedroom, in which ibe P.O. hey was kept, was situaced on the ground floor, and not up stairs The «ne key which cpemd | two doors, opened the dar-room and ball doors, and not thore of the bar-roctn and post office. Jawes Jenkins and another vw the Government, | Was an action to recover the sum of £49 D4s. for | extra labor und expense alleged to be incurred aboug

COULUY $) building a Powaer Mageaine in Victoria Barracks,

| ln 1s06, the Piaintifis, bricklayers by trade, entered inte a contract with the Government tor the comple. }tion of this work. The Magazine was to be a square | fat roefed brick building, with an outer wall is inches thick. Tneside was a second wall, 14 inches in tuickness, 5 teet high and arebed overhead, For ihe purpose of ventilation, an aperture oF open ' space of 9 inches was lett between the two walls. It | Was in evidence that the contractors followed the | plan ard specification to the better, but that as the eson Werk Wes completed the arch tumbled down, | In reLuriding it, the Superintendent of Public Works | videred the space between the walls to be reduced irom 9 inches to 44. The defence was that the work was uot properly executed, nor supported by the cutside wall as it should have been, and that that was the reason it did not stand. The Plaintiffs aumiticd that the inner and cuter walls were not connected, but that was bo fault of theirs They built the areh according to agreement, and did pot feel themselves bound to supply any omission or defect iv the plan aud specification. The alteration afterwards made in the butlding by the Superinten- dent of Public Works was prev that the plan was aereelive On the other hand the defeadant’s coun. sel contended that it was the duty of the Plaintiffs to strepgthen the inper wall, by projecting the briskg at the spring of the arch against be outer wall, but tuis would pot only vary the contract but iperease | the cost of the work beyond what the plan and spe- cification lod the contractors to understand at the time they tendered. Verdict tor the whole amount claimed. For the Government, the Attorney Gene. ral, Solicitor General and J. Longworth; for tse Piaintitis Messrs. C. Palwer and Me .