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OE TE SOR PTT Tuvnspay, April 4. A number of private petitions were disposed of, When the petition of divers tnhabitants of the western portion of

the extension of Steam communication betwen this colony and the province af New Brunswick, was taken up,

Mr. CONROY said he had the honor of presenting that patirion, The benefits to be gained by such communication could not be estimated. Cuseumpee had hitherto ina great

measure been isolated from the rest of the world. He thought | Steam commupicacion te that Port, would be the means of in- |

creasing the revenue, ax much as would make up for a liberal grant, Ho moved that the petition be referred to supply. tions. Messrs. Yeo and Perry also sapported the prayer of the petition. Mr. M:Neill would oppose the petition go- ing to supply, beoause Pritce Cognty had already a suflicient suare of monies spent for steam communication, and because the harhor was a bad one. Mr. Conroy denied that the har-

. ! . , . . . bor was bad. Two or three other hon. members having ex- | sion or central authority, and it ts importaotthat [Lor Majesty's | correspundent of a country paper, it is feared by tired legisla- preased thewse! ves on the subject, the Louse divided on Mr. | Commiasiouers should know with whom they can officially ‘tors that Lord Palinerston—glatton as he is fur work, even

Conroy's motion that it be referred to supply.

Yeas—Messrs. Conroy, Ramsay, J. Yeo, Beer, Holm, Sivelair, Davies, Sutherland, Doyle; Hens. Messrs, Yeo, Pope, Gray, Loagworth, Perry, Tharuton, Coles, Whelan, Wightman, Lieusiey, Kelly —2U.

Nays— Messrs, M*Neill, Howat, Montgomery, Cooper; Hon Mr. Laird :

Hoa, Mr, PERRY from the Committee on petitions ro-

lating to Schools and E.lucation, presented the report of the |

said Committee which was read, and ordered to be comumit- ted to a Committee of the whole louse to-morrow.

Correspondence, -

To res Ewrvrok or Tan Examinka.

Dean Sea—Many of the people are alarmed at the opinions you have published with regard to the decision of the Land Conmission. Lt appears to me that you Lave pot taken the proper wew of the duties required of the Commissioners. ‘Their umteuetions from tler Majesty the Queen are in the following words, few ia number, but very comprehenrive——which I have marked to be printed io swall capitals—* To eNQuia® invo THE DIPFERENCES NOW PREVAILING IN OUR BalD LsLaND RELATIVE 10 THE RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS AND TENANTS, AND

FOR s0JUSTING THE £4ME UPON FAIR AND BQUITABLE PRIN- |

creces.”” Teese are all the inetructions to the Comunasioners. There is no mention made of Quit Reuts, Fishery Reserves, or Eschest. Each of these conditions were intended to serve a apecial purpove The Quit Kents were intended for revenue. The Pishery tleserves round the shores were intended for British subjects, to keep upa frendly communication with Beitesh shipping when the mterior was settled with foreigners, and the Escheat was invended to take place if the foreigners were not settled ; therefore the Commissioners can only inter- fere wok them as far as they relate to the rights of landowners and tenants, An owlime of the differences in relation tu these rights may be treated separately. :

Whoever knows anything of the grants must know that the lands are forfeited accurding to law for non-setticment with fureigners ; and the valy claim the landholders can have to the fand muat be founded in equity upon some benefit they had rendered the e¢ tere by enabling them to immigrate end settle themselves ; that is, to pay their passage, to make roads, pro- vide them wih mplements of husbandry, stuck, seed, provisions

or « house io go into; or even to watch over und encourage

them how to provide tur and settie themselves. All or any of

| Decisions further inform us that ** Her Majesty's Commussion- fers will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission, which the Government of each foreign country or colony m y apoomt for that purpose, and noarticle

sanction of auch Coanntssion,”’

ideration thet the Athonne rolls between P. E. l. and the office of the Royal Commissioners, it may, perbaps, be as well, if we linay do so without offences, to ask on whem has fallen the choice of Lieut. Governor Dundas? We don’t wish to pry ito the vweeretas of Government House, but we should lke to know, when pute conventen’, who i appointed, for we think the people island home, and dein lime Mer lthe toternational Exiibivon, last April sent instructions to Htweut. Governor Dundas and said, “in the first piace it would

j facilitate the arrangemenis here (England) if the appoimtment) who passes the most of his time in the House of Commons, is

jof the Cowuission or central suthority referred tora the ** leions”’ | ¥

| mitted from the Colonies without the sanetion of such Commis-

jcorrespond, Upon this point | am instructed further to observe, | that itis highly desirable in the interests of the colomes, that | whoever may be nominated as agent in this country should be }a man of business, well acquainted with the resources of the i colony he represents."

What action has been taken in this direction? Why don’t we hear his name ; perhaps the Govern ent mean to give some gentleman, with a good presénee, a pleasure trip as Comumis- | sioner to the Exh bition, instructed to report the apathy aud deficient capabilities of the fsland ; if soit will be tine enongh when the llonse meets again to inform the country. Noaction can, however, be taken by the Prince Edward Island Extubuors huntil the Goverameat has constitated a central authority of manayement by Comusission, and given notice of such appoint- ment,—and only about three moniwa remain to do itall; butut is no use fretting about lost time,—there must be double energy thrown into the collection of exh bitery goods, and tt is no use soying there is noting bere worth exibition, notil the country has been invited (o come forward, and refuses. We can exhibit under section 3 very respeciably—class 19, flax and hemp— class 21, woo! and homespun——class 22, rag carpeting and rugs —class 25, skine and furs—class 26, leather and sacdiery — class 30, huusehold furniture, representing the [sland woods in their manufactured besuty. Each colony will have a separate apace assigaed to it, distinct from uther Colonies. tu the article of thuber, the specimens must in all cases be converted inte plank four inches thick, with the sap on beth edges, and some twige, leaves aid tlowera when possible, pressed and dried. The object of this us for botanical claserfication.

Preserved wild fruus,and maple sugar, maple and birch vine- gar, and all sorte of fish, in tins, with glass tops. There is nothing wanting in Prince Edward Island, Mr. Mditor, to make a good impression of our products in grata and root crops, and jall we have mentioned ebuve, if energy, promptitude, honest faction and univa characterise the labours of the Commisson.

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Sia,—The editor of the Is/ander has at leng'h unmasked, and affixed his prop r signature to a most turbulent and mflamma- tory address to the Protestant portion of this community —an address unquestionably csiculated in many ways to rouse fee!- ings of anwmosity long dormant, and as every benevolent

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this isiand praytog the House to grant a sum sufficient for | will be admitted frou any foreign country or colony without the Sharlo When it is taken into canst |

| seen | LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM EUROPE.

woot to Know, so that they mag do therr part creditable to their | Nandford, the Secretary to!

e- | now enabled to find his bed after hig daily labors by the light | were to take place at as carly a period as practi able l of the moruing sun, ‘our Excellency will have remarked that no article will be ad-| might be brought to a close by the end of the present month. | >

Ghe Graminer.

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Charlottet»wa on Friday morning. 13th inst. We give below a summary of the news, which is | not very important.

Parliament is sitting early and late, and the aged Premier,

The business of the session, it seems,

| Such is the opinion of the Speaker; * bat,’ says the London | at seventy-cight—will be unwilling to dismiss his young | friends to their various sports and pastimes belore the regular breaking up time—the 10th of August.

In the Upper Chamber the Earl of Carnarvon preferred a complaint against the American Customs authorities for open-

Portland. We presume this complaint is well grounded, for | it is an annoyance which we should hardly expect the Ameri- | can Government to countenance when the tact is brought under | its notice. The Duke of Neweastlo, who takes the colonies under hs special protection, appeared to know nothing about | it, and the same state of ignorance prevailed at the Foreign | office.

Important M inisterial changes are ramored—Lord Herbert's | iil health will cause him to resign his office at the head of the War Department. Some say that Sir George C. Lewis will go to the War office, and that he will be succeeded at the home office by Sir George Grey. Another rumor gives Lord Elgin the War office, another sends him to the Indian Board, pre- paratory to his assuming the Governor Generalship, as the successor of Lord Canning. Mr. Cardwell, it is also said, is to have a step in promotion in consequence of these changes ; but all these statements must be received with caution.

The Queen's visit to Ireland cannot fuil to excite cow in- terest in the neighboring country. The people of Dublin will have the first opportunity of making the acquaintance of the Royal Fawily, for it is-stated that the Sovereign and her re- tinue will remain a week at the Vico Regal Lodge, the guests of the present amiable and popular Lord Lieutenant. From Dublin the royal party will proceed to the seat of the Dake of Leinster, and there remain another woek, and during ber stay the Queen will visit daily the Camp on the Curragh of Kildare, where the Prince of Wales is now learning the ini- tiatory steps in the art of war. Cork and Killarney will then be honored with a visit. Amidst the beautiful scenery of Kerry the Queen, who has not hitherto been familiar with that part of the Island, will enjoy the hospitalities of Colonel flertert at Muckross, and of Lord Kenmare at lis seat on ihe margin of one of the lakes. Both of these gentleman, the for mer a Protestant, the latter a Roman Catholic, are great Jand- ed proprietors, and are beloved by the whole of the peasantry in the district. Itis hardly possible to conceive mansions more delightfully situated. Viscount Castlerosse, son of the

individual might have hoped, forever set at rest. No more heverings about the Bishop's residence —no more visite to Col- leginte or conventoalesi ablishments | propituate the favour of the proseribed :

no further attempts to} the task has been tried | in vain, irksome and degrading as he must have felt ital! along |

| The vitor ts closed —the panoply donned, and the battle shout |

Karl of Kenmare, filled a situation in the roy#l household, and Col. Herbert, who is a relative of Lord Herbert. was the Lrish

. - .. ’ } Secretary during Lord Palmerston’s first Government ; so that Ller Majesty is well known to both her entertainers.

} Rifle-shooting has become ene of the institutions of the coun-

euch beneliie would have their value,and give the landholder a | of defiance gone forth, and warto the death proclaimed against try, and the Space which the newspapers devote to the subject

claim im equity upon the Land watil he was paid; and the rent |

the huherto peaceful and much tried Catholic. None will be |

shows the hold which this species of sport has on the people. |

should bear sume proportion tu the valye of the benefic couferred | found 80 obtuse as not to apprehend the motives which have | This week the shooting at Wimbloden for the Queen’s prize

on the settlers. Rights of the Landasldeys—They represenied to Ministers

that the seitiement of the land with foreigners was impracti- | genuine orthodoxy, or evangelical purity, the bewildered sceptre | men in every station in life. cable ; but they had introdaced and settled a number of viher) would toi snd trouble; fer other thongs engross his attention | figured very prominently, dat the fortunate winner was a per- | wounded. who could not otherwise lave emigrated, to obtain a | Llis real vbject in fomenting dissension and provoking a war of | 800 named Joplin, « mewber of the South Middlesex Volun- | ge guns out themselves.

;induced this leader of a motiev band of sour-fazed bigors to | jtaise the ery of meendiary sinfe. We cannot think that for |

of £250 and the gold medal of the National Rifle Association bas been of a high order, and the competitors have ineluded | A nobleman—Lord Bury—

setilement for themselves,—ihat they were poor iznorant per-| creeds is, that he may thereby delay yota iittle longer the over- | teer+, who has received something more substantial than ho¢|

Sous, who required a landowner or agent te look over them ; and Miaisters believing from sue representations that the benefits conferred on the setilers wers both ex'eusive and valu- able, declared thaton such grounds ut would be unjust to escheat the lands.

Rigdts of the Tenants—t was promised in the grants that alesse forengners were seitied, the Island would become Crown land, consequeatly t was a deception to allow defaulters to bold over for the parpuse of unposing rents upon British subjects, — that the few faudholders who introduced emigrants for setrle meut charged Wo Ligh a rent for any accoumedation they had afforded the setifere, and set an example to speculators that for teding sume they might become landowners and impose siumnt- tne rents ; and impostora who had uo title whatever but inpu- dence could set themselves up as lan iowners, and ebtain rents tm the same manner,—thal to pernnt delinquens to hold over forfeted lands neces-itated emtyurinta to become tenaute to such denquens; and then the law afferded no redress for this! eysiew of imposition. ‘These matters being brought to ihe notice of Ministers, they declared it could only be settied by en equiable adjustmen: ; and the duty of the Commissiouers

“ve te eequre ime such mitiers, and settic thew upon talr and cquitabie principles.

But it ts pet such an easy matier to defend the inhabitants fow the wnputstion of ign waace when the best infor. ved of our Piectora gave up the Land (Question to the proprietors, upsn Coudition that they Would change the constitation of our Go- veroment; and the religious part of the community could be wae to believe that unless they Lad @ proprietary Goverament to cule over them their children would be deprived of theur bible. But the proprietors knew the Land Qurstion must be settled, end their object was to hewe the settlement in their own hands fe ture it to their own advautage. Whatever benetit the people way receive from the Land C.umotission, they need not thank their Government. Bat (lis subsgect wil) require another letter.

Sailor's Hope, July 19, det. Wa. COOPER.

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THe EXamMiIneR.

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Sia —Beiag a member of the Volunteer Company at Cascum- pee, | trust yor will pernit me to rep y to & Communication winch appeared in the Examiner of the Lyn ina, signed ** A hater of Brutality.”’

‘The writer states that the order prohibiting the use of rifles, except on public occasions, has never been observed im Uas- cumpec ; **as,”’ says he, * some half-blind idiots from a sow bigot’s corner called the Dock, haye been firing off ofes on ali oceasions and at all hours, to the ne smal! auneyance of the inte}ligent aad sober part of the community.”’

Tits paragraph speaks for itself, and is characteristic of the man who peuned it. Its merits are, taleehood, scurrility, and tisreprese ntalion.

The order prohibiting the indiscriminite ase of rifles has been strictly observed ; because the wen are forbidden to use any smmunstiop except the proper riile cartridges furnished by Go- vernment, and these are nol entrusted to them, but delivered in small quantities to nec-commiesioned officers m charge of squads, and they are permitted to practice only at the time and place ceower by the officer in commend, every precaution being taken to prevent accidents.

The femarks about half-tlind idiote are scarcely worthy ef novice. They, together with the other vulgar expres- sions used inthe jeter, are an indelible index to the disposi- tion, and & label of the iil-breeding of tha man who would pelo lningelf of af an M.D. the man who blowing his own trumpet repeais his own name im public print as being in charge of a patient, when in point of fact the invalid referred to is no other than his own wife.

Hut methinks the doctor must have been locking in a mirror when he discovered that some of the Volunteers were tiall-blind diets, for, i point of feet, the only half-biind individual who applies for membership in the corps was peremptorily balloced out; that todividual was the person who siyles himself ‘* a Ji wer of Brutaltty’’—~hence the letter of spleen.

It i not true that this person met some topers armed with the public rifles, for those entrusted with thew are all temperate wen, o¢ Le very well knows, It is not true that he wae tuld vy Hugh Porsyth that he got and kept Ine rifle to mind hie sheep. it i not true that any rifleman followed a dog nearly two niles, aud then stot hin i 9 public and crowded place — (But the owner of the dog reterred to ned him up and had hun ehot.) ft ve not true that the deg was shut alongeide the house wa « person contined, &-

{ wake these statewieuts knowing them to be true, and if BeCessary ane prepared on s:ivestigation to prove them. It will, therefore, | think be quite plan, that * A hater of Brutality’’ is a lover of misrepreseniation, ani that Jns letter was written in & spirit of opposition to the Volunteer movement, and disap- pordtroens at bemg refused admiesion iita the Company.

Caseumpec, July 17, Id6l. A VOLUNTEER, =e ome

THE INT EBNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Ma. Eorron —By the Royal Gazette vi bhay J4, last past, the public were made acquaimed with the Decisions of Her Majesty's Commiasioners op pots relating to the Internationa) Hambuws to be holden in Loadeg im the commg year. By tive document it is kaown that * ler Majesty's Comm izsioners will be prepared to reesve all articles which may be sent to them, on or atier Wednesday, the L&h of February, and will comtumue to receive goods, until Monday, the Sist of March, 1362, melusive.”*

We kaow that the Commissioners will be ready ta receive, but we 4a sot know wherher Prince Edward isiaud will wake up tt lieve to delwer— whether the preseut hy berneting Govern- merat will yet their over before March 31, 1862. Already twospbele months have Seen aliowed to siip away without any known acon having beva taken, aud whea ut is taken into ac- count that uniess the gouds trom P. EL Isiaud are shipped this satan, PE 1. welt be uorepresented aud anknownu to Exht btiowel leme—we may be pasdoued for invoking auention. The

throw of an inefficient administration, involving his own pros-

pective ruin. ‘*Whata fall was here’’—1 chief officer of the |

scrupulous partizin, unsupported by any const dency, and | responsible to none but those of his own retrogressive chaque, | to sow the wind of false accusstion, that one-half the population religions indignation politics and rel.gion, and goes forth a

Romans into the red sea of electionerring strife. And for |

by neglect. Surely when the home authorities are made ac- |

| quainted with their own servant's Insane proceedings, the proper |

remedy will be found, and one at least worthy of respect well | be charged with fresh tostructions — instructions that prevent at least multe to religion from one ‘trobed in bref authority’’ as Colonial Secretary towards the thirty and five thousand people | who constitu'e nearly half the Colony. Let every effort be made | to support ‘He Ligerat Cause, by firm and united resolve, | and the great cause of prosperity and progress will not suffer } from the machinations of The Hireling. The Prorestant and Catholic do or ought to enjoy equal poli tical righ #; and if undisturbed by people in the high places of | the State, would and could share alike the benefits and privt | leges of our tree and glorious constitution—~sectarian differences immanities would extend to all, tet all, thea, auinte with bro- therly hand to remove this dagon of ‘Toryisi and Terrorism from tts pedes'al, and lay his opinivns, and threats, and warn- ings, and Hoers iu the dust. ‘The general welfare and pros- perity of the country—not the clatins of any party—must be the aim ard object and watch-word of every voter in the coming struggle. ‘I'v be fore-warned is to be fore-armed —says A PROTESTANT CONSTITUENT, +e. (roR THE EXAMINER ) W. H. POPE'S CURVE, OR THE WAY HE TS TRY- ING TO * COME ROUND” THE PROTESTANTS. There is a political corner to be turned. W. EH. Pope is trying to round that corner. He will be wise not to miscalculate the! law of centrifugal force : that law is—centrifugal foree which is always directed from the corner, increases with the velocity of the passing body. Friend Pope, don’t go too fast. Any animal possessing yo- luntary motion may Cause its weight, as vou may if you take care, to resist this force by inclining ts body towards the cor- ner; but if the individual enters a carriage—or, as in this case, the newspaper-vehicle of public opimon, and uses the lash as a means of rapid progression—the centrifugal force is NoT over- come, and the effect is generally that Jehu apsets his apple-cart, and is himself thrown out ina direction opposite to the corner. Friend Pope, there ts no one on the Island that wishes you to wake this dangerona experiment, 'o your own hart, although every one feels it would be a righteous verdict, ‘* Sarve hin right,” if you do, and thereby get a «pill. Friend Pope, do you innocently think you can est up a game of **Foullow-the-leader’’ with the forty-five (huussnd Protestants round thie corner? Friend Pope, don't be offended at the allusion, but pause be- fore the jaw-bone of the ass has done its destructive work. Send no foxes into your neighbour's cora — prees not against the pillare of the eonstitution ang equal rights. Ina word, be honest to yourself, remembering the swying—** if a man cheat you once, it is your misfortune — if a second time, it i# your yaucr.” A cheat atthe last Election was pushed into a mis- fortune ; but it will be the fault of the Liberal party 1f a: the coming election another is allowed to eucceed. Friend Pope, look and pause before you take the fatal leap. The yawning chasm of distrust you would fain open with your Protestant wedge will not close at the inmolation of your proud ambition. Friend Pope, what ever you are for-gettang, don’t forget the law of centrifuga! force, while you are trying to come round the Protestants. Your blood be upon your own head if you get a spill, and this be inscribed oa your resting place: —

*« Protestants eharge—on Torica, on, Were the jast words of this minion.’’

— —— —— = Commencta Vatow or Ixsecrs —Who thinks of it? And yet in the economy of nature, of what immense impor- tance they are in all seasons, every naturalist knows, while in commerce the amount derived from them is astounding, | We have no figures to produce ia regard to our own trade, for our statistics do not reach that bizh state of perfection which will admit of it; but Great Britain pays annually $1,000,000 for the dried carcasses of that tiny insect known as the cochineal ; while another, also peculiar to Lndia, guin shellac, or rather its productions, is scarcely less valuable. More than 1,500,000 human beings derive their support from the culture and manafaciure of the fibres spuu by the silk worm, of which the annual circulating medium is said to be $200,000,000. lu England alone, we say nothing of the other parts of Kurope, $500.00 are spent every year for the purchase of foreigu houey, while the value of that which is native is uot mentioned ; and all this is the work of the bee ; but this makes no mention of the 10,000 pounds of wax im- ported every year. Besides this, there are the gallnuts, used for dying making ink ; the cantharides or Spanish fly, used in medicing, In fact, every insect is contributing, di- rectly or indirectly, in swelling the amount of our commer- etal profs, Eveu those which in sme cases prove a plague, and become destructive, have their piace ia the ecouomy of

| certain and the more enduring when these » arty eonilicts have

‘ern Confederacy.

nour as the fruit of his vietory. There appears to be no di- | mination of the Volunteer enthusiasm, for it is likely to out- |

Government, Editor of a Government wewspaper, a land agent | live the panie in which the movement originated, and such valry has been thus used to close up the rear of an attacking actively hostile to the numerous tenantry of the Island—an un- | Contests as those at Wimb edon will be certain to sustain and | foree.

invigora’e it. Kept within moderate limits, we can see no- | thing injurious in the Voluntéer organization, [tis inexpen

and 8 presumer for the most selfish considerations —condeseends | SiV8, it suits the.taste of a hirge nawber of young men in the | Battery position most unpleasantly.

town and country districts who desire excitement of a healthy

may reap from the other half the whirlwind—nnites with un-| and invigorating kind, and it-is productive of a sympathising | brave fellows retired from the woods.the enemy firing on their

patriotisin which it is des:rable to keep alive in the nation, |

Moses among the Hebrews to draw the army and the host of the | !f evil was likely to flow from it, the evil woald baye been ap- | cavalry of course led the retreat.

parent ere this, and we cannot help thinking that Messrs,

what? Though hie Colonial Secretaryshop be confirmed i | Cobden and Bright, in their horror of war, have been prema-| mendous eannonade from all our guns, eight iu number. The bleod, to retain it, and matntain it, the simnecure he has meade it ture in denouncing a system wh.ca may prove the best pre- | enemy replied on our battery and on the retoring columns—

servative of peace.

S; eaking of [reland Wilmer says: ** It is gratifying, nover- | theless, to know that the internal improvement ot lreland is | steadity progressing, and this improvement will be the more | entirely disappeared. The crops are promising, the people | ure well employed, and the material prosperity of the country , has undergone a marked change during the last few years.’? |

The Luropean Tunes says : —Two bars of gold have reached London from Noya Scotia, being the first remistance from that | quarter since the gold diseoveries. kt is deseribed us of the ayerage quality of Australian gold.

Tue Pore’s Utarra.~—A letter from Rome of June 29, in

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would be unrecognized, and civil and religious privileges and | the Sentenella Bresciana, says :—** The Pope is going fast; he / end other civilians, eagerly watching the terrific contest. The

is dying in sleep. ‘The physician Francesco Sani, who was | lately sent for, could not understand his strange malady.’’ |

A letter from Toulon to a Paris paper says :—‘* Measures | are being adopted to bring back the French troops from China. | It is thus proposed that in the course of a few months all the | French troops abroad shall return tou Franee, with the excep- | tion of the army whieh occupies Rome and the troops which | are in Cochin China, who are to remain there like any other | colonial garrison,’’

The Freeman's Journal states that the prospeets of the har- vest in Ireland are of the most encouraging character. ‘There | has been no appearance of disease in tie potatoes.

The Prince of Wales will not visit the Royal Agricultural Show of Ireland, to be held at Belfast.

Arrica.—H. M.S. Falcon had captured the slaver Fight, of Boston, U.S., with 554 slaves on board. The prize was at Sierra Leone on the Sth of Jane.—The Dial.

THE CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES. BATTLE IN WESTERN VIRGINIA,

Tusre is no longer any doubt that a battle has been fought between the armies of the Federal Government and the South- Making due allowance for the exaggera

tions of the Telegraph, it has not been a very extensive fight, | nor a preconeecried one, but it was something on a larger scale

than a mere skirmish. The engagement took place about the

18th or 19th inst., at a place ealled Bull's Run, near tho Manassas Junction, in Western Virginia. In the first part of the engagement, and down to a late hour of the day, the Fe-

deral Army was completely suecessful, destroying » consider-

able number of the Southern force, and capturing some of their batteries; but it appears that in the evening of the. same day a large reinforcoment of Southern troops came to the rescue of their brothren in arms, and turned the tide of victory against the Federalists—slanghtering a large number of them, and forcing them to retreat on their regular encamp- ment in & precipitate and disastrous manner. The Telegraph | is, as usual, vague and contradictory in its reports of the re- sults of this battle, one despatch setting down the number of killed and wounded ut four or five thousand on the Federal side, and about an equal loss on the part of the Seccssionists ; while another despatch represent the casualties at only about as many bundreds; and yet another assures us that only 800 Federalists and 4000 Secessionists were engaged in the fight ; while another telegraph report magnifies the nambers to 2,000 and 90,000 respectively. It is hard to believe anything in the face of such contradictory statements. It seems cer- tain, however, that more blood has been spilled in the engage- ment at Ball's Run than has characterised any former colli- siun of arms singe the Civil War commenced ; but the immense tulk that is made about it, and the arrant lying of the tele- graph, take away much of the interest that would be felt in the struggle by a neutral people, and tend to bring the whole controversy into contempt.

From the New York World’s account of the battle of Bull's Run we take the following :

‘* The fourth brigade of General Tyler’s division, Colonel Richardson commanding, led the order of march, but General Tyler pushed ahead with his staff and an escort of 300 of the regular cavalry, second regiment, Capt. Brackett, to recon- noitre the enemy's position. On arriving at a height oppo- site Bull’s Run, a long valley slope of open field stretched out between them and the enemy. e saw bodies of the enemy's foot and horse gleaming in a dense, ugly piece of woods be- youd the valley, and appearing now and then about the farm

vature, and prevent worse.

houses at the edge of the woods.

| the Michigan Second, Third and Fifth. The 4 ew | jing and searching British packages sent to Canada by way of) York lay in reserve. ‘The column moved forward, stretching | indefehsible one, Mr. Secretary Pope makes two or three at.

Gen. Tyler sent back for two 20-pounders, Parrott’s vied cannon, with which to shell the points where the troops were seen. Our position commanded them finely.

When the guns arrived they were quickly p . served by Lieats. Babbitt and Benjamin. An adumrable range | was taken, and the first then distodged a body of cavalry from a grove a mile and a half distant We continued to firo both guns, and the Genera) ordered Ayres, hate of Sherman's

3attery, to advance and join in the fire. 2 a

Our cannonading thus commenced the action at preemely 124 o’clock p. m.

No rifles were fired for half an hour, of our glasses we could see bodies of men ¢ hill from Manassas and elsewhere, and appar the woods; but at 1 o'clock a battery of four g°us opened directly on our position from the edge of the woods. We ww then that we had started the game. The range had evidenthy been taken Jong ago by the enemy, for grape shot fell hot and heavy. Brackett’s cavalry was drawn up in the rear of out uns, and two privates were dismounted by the first fire.

Richardson's Srigade now came up, und Gen. ‘Tyler them permission to reeonnoitre the woods to the right and left, and, if possible, to take the enemy's gens, which had been silenced for some minutes.

Our column advanced under cover of the roiling ground, on the left, and along the nearest range of the curv» of forest on this side.

‘The Massachusetts First Regiment led the van,

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across the field, and declined to the extreme right near the location of the battery.

The majority dashed into the woods in fine order on the left avd centre. For awhile all was still, We could see our skirmishers advance close to the place from which their shots | came, and fancied that the enemy had retreated on the June- tion: It was now precisely 2 o'clock. Suddenly there were | scattered musket shots in the densest woods, under cover of which the Miewigau regiment and part of the Massachusetts | regiment were invisible. ‘fhere followed one or two rolls of volleys by platoons. *‘ They are at it,’ said the General. * Indeed they are,’ was the reply. In a few winutes the most rapid and tremendous musketry practice conceiyable was going on in the woods.

It was evident that the enemy were ambuscaded in groat foree. Brackett’s cavalry closed down ty the edge of the woods.

Wounded men began to be brought out to the ambulances in the fields, and the reserve was ordered to plunge into the woods to support the advance.

''wo field howitzers were also detailed from Ayers’ Battery, and swiftly disappeared in the woods.

They opened fire at once,und were replied to by the enemy's exnnon, which had been evidensly moved to the left of their morning position. ‘The platoon tiring also redoubled in foree. Our men fired at fearful disadvantage, their ranks breaking among the trees, while the enemy, lying in rifle trenehes and behind embankments, fired with great regularity and territie slaughter. They must havo used many thousand rounds of cartridges in the engagement. ;

Companies F, G, and H, of the Massachusetts First, who were on the right, led by Lt. Col. Wells, were the first to follow the skirmishers into the woods,and cleared the enemy's advance before them. Suddenly tuey were subjected to a fire | from three different points, and many of their men fell. ‘The rest stood their ground until they got into the cross fire of the Micbigna regiment, and then retreated in some disorder. }

he two howitzers which entered the woods, commanded by Capt. Avres, did not fire upon a body of seecssionists, sup- posing them to be friends, but passed them by, and also fell) into a terrible musketry fire. Capt. Beaekett, of the cavalry, | who was close by, says that in all his Mexican experience he never saw such a tempestof balls. Ayres served his yuns with grape and canister till his ammanition was exiausted and then retired, bringing the howitzer with hii.

None of the Massachusetts companies, except the three above mentioned, participated in the fight. —

The artillery men numbered only eighteen m alt, inclading Ayres and Lieut. Loraine, the latter of whom were slightly All the horses were killed, and the men dragged

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A curious feature of the fight was the position of the cavalry close to the edge of the woods. ; A battle has not been known of late years wherein the ea-

Our howitzers fire was most effvctive—the enemy overshot the range, and bis esnnon bails whirled through the Hill

Under the circumstances, it was not surprising that our

rear, but not venturing to leave their biding places. The

From our eminenee we covered the retreat by a most tre-

with what effect [ do not yet know, though the shots fell all about and among us.

The Michigan Seeond, New York [2th and companies G and li of the Massuchusetts First, are supposed to have suffered the most.

The Michigan troops acted well, but as yet I can state no- thing with certainty im regard to the other regiments,

For an heur the final cunnopadiag on both sides was terrific. .

Our shells barst all among the enemy, and their loss must be severe. as by appesrances half of Beauregard’s army were in the thickets. ‘The place of retreating wus 50 narrow shat it was impossible to get out of the enemy's fire. Lf noticed by

the battery Hon. Qwen Lovejoy, Ueury J. Raymond, Exqr.,

battle was fiaaliy ended for the day, unless the enemy should conclude to attaek our position to-night, before the Sherman brigade, consisting of the 69th and 7Yth regiments, can come up in the rear. :

The day was frightfully hot. For miles no water had been found along the route,and our troops went into action thirsty, and came out half dead. Nor have we any rations to-night, our provisions not yet having arrived. If the enemy had yen- tured into the open valley, the Hill battery would have mowed them down by the column.

Gen. Tyler and staff were under fire throughout the action. Our troops are now returning to their supperless camp.

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lfrom the Westward, that with the exception of PI

A fire ocenrred at Newman'a Cove, a short distar ree Bonavista, on the Sth instant, in the house of a man Brown, who with his son was out fishing. when, melanehy} to relate, five of bie daughters were burned to death, Te mother eseaped through the window, with the hair all borned off her head.

The Rev. J. O'Neill, a Catholic clergyman, distinga ‘hed for bis many virtues, died on the 10th instant, at ‘Trepusry,

The Courier of the 17th says :—Intellizenee was received hy the steamer Victoria, which arrived yortertay morning acentia and ‘jt neighbourhood, the fishery along she eteamer's route ‘been very indifferent. In the neighbourhood of St. John ‘also it has pot been so encouraging as we should like to see jg. We regret to learn that the prospeets of the fishery ag ssi}, and on the suwth side of Conception Bay, general! | far from encouraging this geason. ‘The caphin strnek in the iMth of June, and the fishery went on briskly ; We are

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THE SPY—AGAIN.

Tus Isiander stil }abours to invent excuser for the ment of Mr. Whitman asaspy on the temauntry of this Colony ; and at the same time, a9 0 fully eomscione that the act ie ag