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Gould be taken out, and the gonvers tried to shelter them-| Then we are buyi ildi e th alli from their entrenchments; or, by, keeping thes actively , : : : peqt ying and building at a greater rate than ever. | allies fr ! ents 5

Selves behind their gun, rather than to get it loaded and fired. If we are not bubettieting al fire-arms for the whole of the engaged, and redycing their number, so.deter the fall of Se-

Ove gun only could be discharged, and the Russtans were army, we ought tobe. ‘The forces in the Crimea are repre-| bastopol, Kyery day spent in inaction on the open plain

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now only 10 yards from the gun I was with, which was sented as fairly out at elbows, ragged, shirtless, ill-shod, and brought the labours of the siege nearer to.a close. It was | amore advanced than the rest. Asa forlorn hope of saving. altogether approximating to the condition of Omar Pasha’s | therefore the interest of the Russians to assume the offensive

at, Lealled to the gunners to draw their swords and charge. brave, but ill-used soldiery. whenever an opportunity offered; this they did, for the first I palled out my own and galloped at them, 'Fhere was 10, Government js doing ‘its best to mend matters in these time, since the siege ,cqmmenced, on the 25th October ; and or a dozen togdther ; three at least fired deliberately at me, | respects, and a shipful of woollens had just arrived at the the aflair of the 5th November was merely a repetition of the but a merciful Providenge preserved me, and not a bullet date of our last advices, It is also sending on wooden houses | unsuceessful attempt to overwhelm the allies at Bala Clava touched either meormy horse. With a little support I could | for 23,000 men, stoves, charcoal, wood, and even coal from | but the Russians found themselves on the 6th November in have driven them back, for they checked their pace instead of Heraclea. It ougkt to give them the means of baking their! the very position that they occupied before, after having Wsing their bayonets, as they ought. [ gave ore cut with my own bread, roasting and grinding their coffee, and cooking | thrown away in a fruitless combat their best soldiers, the sword at the nearest man, which be parritd with his firelock ; their rations iuto a more putriticus form. Every soldier on | prestige arising from the presence of two grand dukes, and the my horse swerved, I found myself alone, and accordingly ; -cantered, back, leaving my cap, which had fallen off, on the

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the heights of Sebastopol ought to be made as comfortable, | mora/e of their army. As to the account of the terrible con- . this winter, at least as any Jaborer at home; and this, as we | flict of the 25th being an old story, we believe it wil] he read on ®mong the enemy. I found the battery some way are aware, cannot be done without enormous expense. The} with nearly as much interest a hundred years hence as it is haek, Weh a. line of infintry on the right front and another | leust extra pressure or the smallest unusual demand is sure! by most of the present generation. We know of no battle in in the rear, but three of our guns had been deserted I to raise the price of materials and labour. Only yesterday ancient or modern history to compare with it for extraordinary asked the Major if he could do nothing to save them. He we were told that the Jeather market was ina state of great feats.of valour. The charge of the Grays and Enpiskilleners ~ nef to an afficer behind, and some of the Counaught excitement, and the Hudson’s Bay Company thrown into against a foree five times greater than their own; and __» (Seth) and the 47th came forward with a cheer to transports, by some Government purchasers, comprising an) the despeiate attack of a handful of cavalry under Lord Mera yn. ‘led with the most intense exeitement I ever grder for 18,000 buffalo hides, fortunately ia store. Cardigan, while mowed down by a murderous fire in front, __» ated with them. No live Russians did we tee, but. We presume that next year we shall ‘not be content with | and flank and rear, notwithstanding which: they made good

_ yf" several dead and wounded, aud soon came up to two merely holding our annual naval review in the Baltic instead their attack—were such prodigies) of “heroic daring and

“he guns, The third I gave up for lost. I could see it of Spithead, but sball attempt some achievement worth the | courage, that we think we eannot dwell upon the recitat too 3 where, but, oulowing up the wheel-tracks, I found it still salt of our navy. Lor that purpose it is evident we must often. To say that the battle of Bala Clava was the greatest ip the old spot, with my cap stil) lying in front. All was have an entirely new description of vessels, that can enter | yet:fought in the Crimea, is but an equivocal compliment to now complete, and my delight was beyond description. ‘The shallows apd defy granite batteries. This cannot he done / the brave soldiers of the allied armies. The engagement on y pressed on while I got the guns limbered up as without vast expense. Then we should like to know the ex-| the banks: of the Alma was a glorious affair—the vale ot

pense of the new company to every regiment in the line, the Inkermann was the scene of a terrific fight, and a successful

gask as possible, and took them to a safer place, One man hae 1 been shot dead; I found him lying over the trail of the augmentation of the artillery, and to bring a hundred regi- | one for the allies ; but in going over the story of Bala Clava we feel as if we were reading rather of the achievements of

foremost gun, and brought back the body with me. We ments of militia into form and condition for regular service. t r :

Were soon moyed to the front, and came into action again, en | demigods and giants than of the ordinary exploits of & battle but only tie left half of the battery was there, for the other | ghia me. tio field. ,

ad: half had moved considerably tothe rear, and afterwards came | Correspondence. ; : : Lsidtnpreas .

up a long way to our right. Luckily the Russians had onl y We received this morning, through the politeness of a Pots friend, two late papers from Liverpool, G. B.—one as late

| spiked our vents with wood, which was easily removed; one had not been spiked at all. Ju our new position we bad a as the 22d ult. They came via the United States, and reach-

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Fei see nothing at all, and at al} times the smoke hung about to| _ I have observed in the Islander of the 22d ult. an article| ed here last evening—a private boat having crossed over : such a degree that I could not see the result of a single shot. 00 the subject of the ** Winter Mails,’ wherein [ am accused | from Cape Tormentine with some passengers. There ap-

a i = battle was going on we did not know, but in one of i tealirting in manenae gang ol as more a pears to be no European news of any importance since the

: ace the enemy’s artiller had advanced considerably. The | Claily charge wit superceding, or being the means o tlt 1 , ° us . "

; ohewe was awfully bot. The Adjetant., Coptain T-+ superceding the Messrs. Irving, of Cape ‘Traverse, in the | Sling of the last English EOE pee en eg

‘i was wounded in the head by a splinter, which an inch lower carrying of the winter mails, and of corruptly inducing | extracts from the papers kindly furnished,

- would have killed him; and when we moved him to the rear | Messrs. Bell & Co. to relinquish a contract about to be| An English Mail is hourly expected, and may arrive be-

‘ out of fire about 12.30, there were only 10 horses to my two. entered into by them for the performance of that service. fore going to press

. guns, instead of 16, and at one of the gun detachments every ‘Keference is likewise made to the carrying of the winter , ak

= man was wounded except one. Most thankful we were to wails in 1834, in connection with which I am charged with RUSSIA

escape out of the horrible scene, and most grateful at being subletting the contract for that service, and thereby pocketing, Letters from St. Petersburgh state that the news of the

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dence by Mr. Palmer, who did so in orde,” to avail himself of the admission that Mr. yey was the editor and proper of the paper which contained the alleged libels. “This affidavit reeites, “that the writ of common process iast,°d in this cause was made returnable on the sixth day of May ).'st, amd that on the thirtieth day of the said month of May onent ‘caused a demand of particulars of the cause of act, om to be served upon the plaintiff's attorney ; but po particulans were then, nor have been since given to depoyent ;~tha¢ the atiorney of the plaintiff allowed last Trinit

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jin this cause, nor serve the game until the iulanaih dane September last, and which was sometime subsequent t

e departure of the defendant from this Island. That said

defendant hath been since the month of September last, and is now, as this deponent believes, residing at urn, in the

United States of America, That in gonsequence of the par- ticulars of the plaintiff's alleged cause of act?on not hayin been served upon this deponent, and of the declaration not having been filed, until after the defendgnt left the Island as atorcsaid, this deponent bas had no opportunity of personally consulting with the defendant upon the na of hie to this action, That issue was joined in this cause in ber Jast, and notice of were for this pre: on the 16th day of December. * That 'so'soon’ ay thé declaration was served upon ‘this nt, he communicate the fact by letter to the defendant, and shortly after*he ze ceived an answer from the defendant, dated’ the’ 30th Sept ber last, stating it to be his intention to be in Charlottetown’ June next, for the purpose of being present at the trial ‘of this cause. That this is an action on the case for alleged libels against the plaintiff, published by the defendant in the news- paper called the “ Advertiser,” owned and edited by thé defendant ; and this deponent believes that the said defen. daut is the only material and necessary witness in this eanse, and that he could not proceed to trial, with etfety thout his testimony. And this deponént” Tasty” suit . that this application is not made for the purpese of delay, but that the said cause should be tried on its merits.” ’ We were not in Court when this very reasonable applica- cation of the defendant’s cownsel was discussed, and we are therefore ignorant of the grounds upon which it was rejected. The counse’ for the defence had consequently to rest their cause upon the good sense and justice of the jury. Mr. Howe—a barrister from the other Provinces, who has lately taken up his abode amongst us, and whese talents and | acumen will speedily procure him a high reputation at Bar—addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, “We will not attempt to give an outline of his speech; suffice it to say, that he clearly demonstrated to the jury that the pab-

preserved through it. For about five hours we had been as the editor elegantly styles it, a portion of the “ public

under a heavy fire, and were besides tired with the hard _ plunder,” hurricane on the 4th and the loas of the Allies on the Crimea

lication of the 23d March, charged as libellous, was far from

coast was received with an outburst of joy. This feeling was

work, especially as we had had no breakfast. We remained I shall enter into no detailed discyssion with the editor of soon tempered by other reports from the Crimea, which told

fee some time in rear, in case we should be required, but | the Islander on the subject of those grave accusations. He aiter some time the last Russians in sight retreated, and wl! admits that he does not pledge himself to their absolute truth, | the pitiful state of the Russian troops themselv-s. ‘They bad the columns of French who had come up in support begen to | and that he is not personally acquainéed with the facts about | been almost without provisions or forage during the several retura home. The Turks had been under arms all day, but Which he writes. This admission is somewhat judiciously | days. The tempest had not only scattered and destroyed kept carefully out of danger. The cavalry came up towards made by the editor of the Islander, for 1 wish that individual | convoys, but even the ricks of forage, and so forth, of the the close of the action. When the battery returned to camp to understand that all the charges he has preferred against| inhabitants. “In the midst of peace even,” says a report I went back to look at the nymber of the dead horses, &«. me, in reference to the mails, sre absolutely and urequivo-| from Perekop, “such a hurricane would have been more I saw some Russian field egrriages, which had been deserted, cally file. destructive than a visit of locusts, and would have brought fear ammunition carts, two Jimbers, and one gun carriage ; | The remarks respecting Mr. Tod and the alleged inquiry | famire and plague with it, for, to the drstruction of crops, the gun itself had been saved by dragging it with ropes along | into the validity of his title, are equally untrue. Notwith-| must be added that of habitations.” the ground. ‘Phe yumber of dead and wounded along the | standing that the agent of that gentleman used his utmost} A letter“ from Odessa of the 2d, in the Soldatenfreund Inkermgnn-road was sickening; they seemed to me far more influence against me, and in support of Dr. Conroy, at the last | of Vienna, states that the inhabitants of Odessa continued to numerous than at Alma.” jelection, { felt that my position in the Third District was too be in daily: fear of sceing the allied fleets arrive. On the eS oy) Sir 335 sad |stromg to require any aid from promises of Escheat, or any- | other hand they were also afraid of a visit from the Turkish DE em , ‘thing of that kind, the subject of which, during my recent | troops. The following is an extract from a private letter of an canvass, [ never mentioned. Sr. Prrenspure, Dec. 8.—It ought not to be supposed in parry hg _ eer — poe Nh trvi \ | Had the smallest tittle of evidence been adduced in support | England that because Russia remained entirely passive this my Gear /anc,— tou see I am stil trymg to eke out an lof these accusations, I might he more particular in my reply | summer in the Baltic, and allowed her ships to be cooped up oceasional seribble to you, indiied on a blank book that I to them. But I fel that the unauthorised and unproved at Cronstadt and Sweaborg, that she intends to follow a similar brought with me for the purpose. 4 am on picket, This is calumnies of the Islander, emanatiug from the pen of a man | course in the ensuing campaign in the Baltic. Lt may with Pee ae Me aeacdaie aoa Nera ae “whose total disregard of truch and whose libellous and males trath be asserted that the declaration of war took Russia by Sos. laettstintste, Catneteee te token ok de PS uSs | volent disposition are notorious to the Whole community, Surprise, and that, with all the gigantic resources she ; ossess- or picket daily; thereiore it takes place every fourth day. |can neyer injure me cither in my public or private capacity, 8, neither the army nor the fortresses were at all prepared A picket is an advanced guard thrown out close to the I am, Sir, for active warfare. The same may be said with regard to enemy's lines; in order to protect the camp from a surprise ; | Yours, &e. the navy, aud to a much greater extent, both in the Baltic sousequently the sentries can see each other, and wee n sce | W. W. LORD. (and the Black Sea, large masses of Russians manoeuvring in the hollow all day. We command, from-our position, a road which is a short cat | for the enemy into Sebastopol, and as they often try to dodge | past our sentri¢s, we have shot several of them at a surprising j : ‘ distance with our long rifles. Hardly a day passes iu which. Sir— Tits action, of the commencement of which we gave a brief the pickets have not a brush with the enemy, but our pickets You have proposed for public discussion whether it would | notice in our paper of the 8th May last—came on for trial

always drive theirs back without alarming our main bady, | he hathsn-« mee see . Neg 18 gs oe aT ei . : : : ; AL ave a steame . ‘he tow av atéuss we hoped and ex ecte 1 int which has not been engaged TL wrote vor yo te Fe tet to have a steamer to run from Charlottetown to’ on Thursday, and terminattuj p nect

kitled 600 Russians, and ---v you Word That we Halifax, instead of two steamers to ply between Charlottes | would, in the complete discdintttare of “the plaintiff, ‘The oun dutics Sates d ofa: « 72d =" officer wounded, Another of ‘town and Pictou, and between Charlottetown, Bedeque and ee ot Pare Sia eae ee Loe bettesios, ‘and these * thee of our batteries. We have five Shediac. . om x , ii ” parts re ey quire a large armed gucrd and fatigue; From Chariottetown to Halifax requires an attentive pilot counsel for the plaintif; the Hon. Charles Young and " tw hee and night—a fatigue party to keep the works in | the whole distance ; and from the Gut to Halifax a thick fog | William Minns Howe, Esqr., for the defendant.

ropes after Whig komen — 8 gone to defend then! | nay be expected a Ps ened eduings Ae Hetiatas all It appears from the declaration, that John James Pippy,

es. 1s e bgerous of our recreatious, ! of ga. veos@s, to avoid whic quir stea i ; ; ; ;

and at day sini that two or three fatal eases do not ee Tea ating The Capta” could not keep watch the whole formerly publisher and proprietor of the Weebly Advertiser, oceur. At night they shell us incessantly from the forts ; | passage, and the run-away sailors wud might be found about | " greatly envying the happy state and condition of the plain- but at night shells are not so dangerous as in the day, because (parlottetown or Halifax are not to be tructed to keep a) tif” (the Hon. Easanuel McKachen,) published in his paper we can always track their fiery course for balf'a minute Jook-out; and in t a , e through the air. I bave often scarcely had time to roll over ! their passengers to sink or swim, as they did ia the Farry | ya2uuel McEKachen, wherein he was styled an “ insane from one treych to another before these fiery messengers fall |Qucen aud the Arctic, A vessel to be employed only seven | man ;” é \ G\ and explode. I have accumulated all kinds of Russian relics, | months in the ycar could not keep a steady crew, and any dant did farther “ wickedly and maliciously ee eee qwhich [ got after the different fights, but I see no chayce of, bounty which this Island could give would not be an induce- | to be published” another “ ucfamatory libel * concerning the carrying any of them away. I need hardly tell you thut,' ment to obtain a steamer that would be fit for the purpose | said McHachen, as to the imputed insanity being “an here- mcdly clothed as we are, this kind of night and day work is’ contemplated. With an easterly gale, there is as muchi sea) ditary taint.” « By means of the committing ¢f which said telling on us. As yet it has only affected my limbs aud | on the Halifax coast. as on any part of the Atlantic; and a| several grievances by the said defendant,” recites tic decla- gums with rheumatic pains; the vital parts—chest and steamer will roll and toss about as much, or more, in a sea/ ration, ‘throat—are thank God, pretty safe. Sometimes, after lying! than a yesscl of the same size under canvas; therefore very in his good name, fame and credit, and brought into pablic on the wet d all gight, my limbs are all pains, and my few would take such a passage for pleasure, and none would | scandal and contempt with and amongst all his neighbours, teeth quite loose in the gums. I went yesterday to Bala | profer that passage for safety. Theo, in regard of freight, | and other good and worthy subjects of this realm, to whom Clava, and was lucky enough to buy two flannel shirts for the owners or agents of the steamer would require a ware-;he was in any wise known, insomuch that divers of those £2; and a tooih-brush for 8s. Rumour is very busy assigning \\ouse upon the wharf along side of the steamer, where she neighbours have on cecasion of the committing of the said us this horrid life for the winter; if so, it will finish any of gould load amd land goods, rain or shine; without such ware-| several grievances by the said defendant from thence hitherto us that the Russians leave. It is said that we are to as-ault! jouses there would be no freight, suspected and believed, and still do suspect and believe the the plage soon, and if the Russians defend it half as obstinately| [4 appears that there are sailing packets which ply between said plaintiff to have been affected with the malady so as as they have done hitherto, England will again be gratified | edeque and Shediac. If their owners were le/t to them- | aforesaid mentioned to have been imputed to him as aforesaid, with a‘loug butcher’s bill.’ 1t is only when the word to Se they might convert their packets into a steamer as soon aud have by reason of the committing of the said several 4 ge’ ig given that the old valour of the Briton is really | as there would be employment for one, grievances by the said defendant from thence hitherto refused

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ACTION FOR LIBEL—McEACHEN vs. PIPPY.

FOR THE EXAMINER.

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he cyent of an accident, they would icrve | of the 23d March last some remarks relating to the said_

and in the Advertiser of the 30th March the defen- |

* the said plaintiff hath been and is greatly injurea}

being so — that the expression “an insane man,” applied to the plaintiff, was a common one, and used to, designate sills and ridiculous behaviour—that the sabseqnems publication of the 30th March was a magnanimous declaration on the

ot the publisher, that inaswuch as the accusation of insanity. had given offence to the plaintiff, ke (the pablisher) would treat him with more indulgence in future, since it bad come to the knowledge of the publisher that the taint of insanity, was unfortunately and unhappily hereditary—that the plain- tiff had suffered no damage from the publications, as no damage had been proved—-that be (the advocate} was sur- prised to see a gentleman like My. NeBachen coming to that Court for a vindication of his eharacter im such a case—that he thought his Scotch blood should rebel against sueh a pro- ceeding ; and that even the name of” + Knanuel McKaehen ” itself lad appeared attached te publications mueh more sihel- lous and defamatory than those en.which he based hir present action.— Mr. Howe concluded by. stating that it was not the intention of the defendaut’s couse! to call any witnesses; aw the only material Witness for the defence, tii. daut him- self, was not on the Island.

The Chief Justice then charged ‘ie jury, and we-mast do his Honor the justice to say that we have never listened! to a charge with more sincere pleasure. Lt was in the highest degree dispassionate and impartial. .

The jury were out for a considerable: time, and returhed’ into Court, as we are informed by seme: of themselves, unas nimously agreed to a verdict of Not Guilty., When in. Court, one of the jury asked the Bench for some explanation- respecting the nature ef a libel. On this they were directed, to go back to their room, and deliberate farther: on ‘their; verdict. Having done so, they again returned>in a skert. time, unanimously agreed, as before, to vender a verdict of’ | Not Guilty ;° but ’thejaryman who interrogated the Bench,

ou the first occasion, again suddenly manifested some

of conscience, and whiie the foreman was im the act of hand-. ing the verdict of Not Guilty to the Clerk of the Crown, Mr., Palmer jerked himself up, and moved for a nonsuit of his. client—thus ingloriously terminating the action, and evidenc-. ing a most pitiable dread of having the verdict of Not Guilty, recorded against bis client. It was a pusilianimous retreat, from the ignominy of a disastrous defeat. 3

We have been particular in reeting the facts connected with this suit, not because it derives importance from the dns. dividuals immediately coneerned, but because it affects & great, principle we ail hold dear — the lilerty of the press. The»

ewpannel!ed—to recover damayes against, and perhaps de-. stroy, a printer who may be fearless and honest enough to | discuss the actions and to reprobate the bad conduct of bad public men. ‘The Tory press—itself the most abandoned and licenticus— has on many occasions advised its friends to insti- tute prosecutions for libe] agaiust the Liberal press, in order: crush it, because it was believed the Bench, the Bar and, the ‘Jury Box were all impregnated with anti-liberal opinions,. and a liberal journalist had therefore a smajl chance of escapes -M‘Eachen has been the first to follow the advice ; and he knows. ‘now it is not the first time he has ‘allen by following advice ‘from the same quarter. The Tories oa a tool of him to. ‘support their party in the House of Assembly-—he was reward-, ‘ed for that act of perfidy by the overwhelming indignation of a Constituency whom he dave not face for the second time,

resuii of the trial must teach the Tory party the futility ofr going to a jury of Queen's County—as juries'are now-a-days .

shown; then I do believe, from what I have seen and felt, | that 1,000 English soldiess would send 5,000 Russians flying jike chaff before the wind. #9 B. D4

MISS NIGHTINGALE AND THE NURSES AT SCUTARI.

Mis: Nightingaleand her nars3s are going oa wonderingly | well, and the benevolent subscription raised by the British | public is being applied with the best effect. The French have | all along had the assistance of the Levantine Catholics, and

THE EXAMINER.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.1., JANUARY 8, 1855.

HE BATTLES OF THE CRIMEA.

em discourse with the said plaintiff; and the said plaintiff hath | of putting down the liberal press by _been, and is by means of the premises otherwise greatly in- is fortunate for the cause of civil liberty that they could not jured and damnified, to the damage of the plaintiff, of five pervert the institution of trial by jury to their iniquitous hundred pounds,”

and still do refuse to have auy acquaintance, intercourse or They have made a tool of him ae to try the experiment, y

legal persecution ; but it

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Who is Emanuel MeKachen? Is he a man of such dis-

Here is the ground of action modestly and graphically |

ae Mr. McEachen is much to be pitied, if there be creet habits —so tender of the reputation of others that he any truth in legal phraseology. conducted the prosecution, merely en!arged upon the verbiage against the strictures of the press? Those who may take the

Mr. Palmer, who mainly should be so ready to fly to the courts of law for protection.

although their hospital arrangements have been more com- ‘We give in this No. fuller details of the great battle of | Contained in the declaration—dwelt long and pathetically on trouble to refer to the Islander of March or April iast, and

plete, and the pgmber of their official medical men far greater than at Seutari, yet they have shown unwillingness to accept the contributions and to employ the labours of their co-. religionists. The Sisters of Vharity in Smyrna alone have! supplied large quantities of sheets and socks, and not less: than 3,000 shirts; those of Pera are emyloyed in the hospital, |

und from all sides their sick and wounded are supplied with devoted our last page—which is usually filled with adyertise- |

counsel for the prosecution followed ap his addiess to the jury, threatened with persoual violence by the same indiy

pittle comforts which were unknown in the British hospital upiil a week ago. EXPEN‘ES OF THE WAR. he cast of the contest is very heavy. ‘The London Times emphaticaily and advisedly states as foilows : vernment has now laid its hands on every available steamer, and there js not a line of packet service which is not

deranged in consequence. We are undertaking the convey- ance not Galy of our own reinforcements, but also tuose uf the French. coaling, victualing, repairing, and occasionally

‘transports is an immens? addition ty the hire.

[ukermann than have yet appeared in any Island paper, |

believing that nothing cap be more interesting to our readers | than the most minute particulars respecting the progress of) the great war now raging in the Crimea. We have likewise |

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| ments—to an authentic and connected account of the battle:

‘of Bala Clava on the 25th Oct. This may appear like an ‘old story to some of our readers; nevertheless we do not re- metmber that any of our cotemporaries in Charlottetown gave such a complete account of this battle as that which will be found in our present columns. Some of its details came t> ha «t ouly by the last Mail from Knugland, and therefore our | previous accounts of it were by no means complete. Besides, tn battle of Bala Clava was but the commencement of that sanguinary and terrible engagement which took place on the Sth Dovember. Itwas che firs€ great attempt to drive the

| the injury which might possibly be inflicted on his clieut by to the reports of the House of Assembly for the session then its being declared io print that ie was a man of ursound mind going on, will find the character of this man pourtrayed by

uoted law to shew that such an assertion was criminal, and himself, The gentleman who then edited the Advertiser—. maintained that ifnot cheeked by the verdict of'a jury the party the paper prosecuted for libel—was assailed in the most thus assailed would be justified in 1esorting to physical violence ferocious and vindictive manner by this very Emanuel Me- for the defence of his character. The evidence with which the Eachen—even the proprictor of the paper (Mr. P IPpY bes idus] ;—

was of the most flimsy character. In fact it amounted tu and in short his conduct, his exhibitions, his antics at the

‘nothing. It was not proved that McKachen had sustained time were such, that we thought any man might be well ex- the siizhtest damage from the alleged jibel.

In short, the cused for considering him insane. Whatever our opinion on evidence only proved the fact of publication, which the coun- tla: poiat may have been, we have never serupled to express sel for the defence, at the commencement of the trial, admitted our firm belict, that he was a most arrant fool. His short with the utmost candour. public life afforded sufficient proof that we were right in th’s

The defence was very brief and straight-forward ; but we respect; but in addition to his being a fooly he bas proved

niust premise that the first step taken by Mr. Pippy’s couuse! himself a foul-mouthed ealumniator—one, indeed, of so low:

Was @ motion to postpone the trial, on account of the ubsence a grade that his performances asa seold and dealer in slang of the defendant. The grounds for this motion are clearly might put a fish-woman out of Billi ‘ate to the Liush. stated in the affidavit filed by Mr: Young, and prt in- cvi- | Nor syas he satisfied with spreadingwhis: abasive trash eter

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