+h the authorities of the » overcome, to have re- r the quelling of such

resiatance te the law, wh Jsiand should be unable ; . , itary terce fw er But it was ne part ef the contr diieus with which the Legislature were fre- quired te cowply in order te secure the concession ot Responsible Goverviment te the Culonys; peither did it coutaim any coudition ot Gootasntion in which it Was uccesanry to acquiesce for the obtaining of such concess od. Had the ne or reception of the whole of the Deapatet, ao any condijen or deciaration which it tore 90 , been necessary to that end, it would have . pecosmary, # tar as the whole or any are - A was, ta wach way, conditional of dociaron’ o have inserted it im the Civil Last Bill, whie as the tecudation or charter of Responsible cere ment, contains all the « mditiony with W ich it | consary the Legisle Sil the sdvisdeos whieh i was necessary they should make, in order to weoure it The drawing up of that Despatch asd the placing of it in the | handa of the Licut Gieveruer, as with whieh—im the event of cennbined resistance | to the law, or ef any insucrectiongry Movements in the island, whieh could net be put dewu by the coil of coustabulary torce — it would be his duty @ comply, was altogether supererogalory, The Despateh conterred 10 extraordinary power |

instructions | of the Prauchise aud the Coustitution ot the

‘bad been represented te be, and had the)

|subseription to them by the Liberale been a con-

‘dition without which Responsible Goverument | would have been withheld, he would, as a repre-

| sentative of, and a trae friead of the people, have | ee ;

| conceived it to be his duty te uccept them simply, 4 very large quantity of Mail matter was tor the purpose of ewaucipating the country from brought from the Cape on Saturday night. It the rule of individuals who bad made sv iufameus | jyeludes the semi-tnonthly English Mail, with dates

au attempt to destroy the traachise of th le, | and to strangle rte Conatiuitiuu, rr hen hoes ‘to the 20th ult.; and large Mails from the Colo-

made ia the Gmeot the late Sir Douaid Campbeil, vies and the United States, some of which had

and just belore the imtroduction of Respousible | been fora considerable time over due. We devote Geverumenut. Me could pot, he regretted, reser | : : J tw @ copy of the whole of the Bull which those iu- | ® large portion of space iu our present No. to the

dividuais bad surreptitiously prepared aod traus- | insertion of news extracts; but cannot tind room mitted to the Imperial Government, with an for comments on any topic suggested,

urgent request that it aight be returped Ww them snosisinematadhceannnsbidadealedioncins

With instructions to bave it made the law of the | THE WAR IN DENMARK.

Banuerman, “in answer w an Address of the PRUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF THE ISLAND OF

ilouse of Assewbly, iv reference to a Despatch | FPEMEREN.

terwarded to the Colouial Minister ov the subject On Tuesday the Island of Femeren was oc- }

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ture should comply, aad ‘land; but, from a message of Sir Alexander ;

\ cupic.’ by the Prussians, who were ferried across

Island,” he would read what was quite sufficient | trom Meiligouhbaten during the stormy weather.

to shew the most despotic, traiterous, and | ihe whole Danish force in the Island, consisting

infamous character ot the design. The Hon. | ot 100 men, together with the commander ot a

gentleman theu read as follows, frow the said | gunboat, were taken prisoners.

message, trow the Journals of the House for1851: | The Prussians completed the erection and “Tue Despatch alluded to was torwarded to | armawent of their batteries at Gammelmark, on

upoe the Governor, neither did it couvey lo bin | the Secretary of State by bis immediate prede-| the Wenuingbuud, on Saturday ught. ‘The Danes

auy instructions which were not, independently | thereof, consequent upen his mere appointment | te the office of Lieut. Goveruor of the Culony. Every one knew that nething came more espe- cially within the gubernaturia’ province than the preservation of the public peace; and that a Go- vernat, having beew dul) commissioned and in- |

galled io his office, became, in virtue thereof, |

cessor, der the itipression thai i, would be un- | inumediately opened fire from the entrenchments wise to concede Responsible Guverument, uuless at Duppel. ‘The Prussian batteries replied in the accompanied with a measure ty limit the Frau | course of the tollowing day.

chise to a closer assimilation to a right of vollug | It is stated that the three Prussian men of war exercised in the North American Culonies, where | which have been at auchor in the harbour of

it was confined te Freeholders alone, by luntug the county constituencies le Freehold, not less than Forty Shillings ; and Leasebulders, posseso-

| Brest since the commencement of hostilities have ‘been placed under the command of the Austrian

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| horror is intensified by the fact that the accident took | pluce suddenly in the dead of the uight, when the | peuple, atter a hurd day's wil, hud laid themaelves | down to tranquil slumber; Laudreds who bud yone | torestin the full confidence that they would rise | with the light of returning day, awoke uo more, | their goods, their dwellings, and everything per- tain to thew—nay, their bodies—being swe

away by a migthy tlood.

twenty miles below, all through the smiling valley of the Don, which was just putting forth the tender buds of early spring, w mighty torrent has swept, aud in ove night hus changed the whole fuce of the valley ito a scene of desolation und wonder, such us wakes the beart sink Ww jook upon it. Peacefu villages and solitary farm bonuses upon the bunks of the Don bave vanished from the face of the earth, und nothing remains to wark the spot where they Ouce stood but a long, low, brown mass of alluvial deposit, wth bere and there a seuthed and branch less tree sticking Up through the waste, or a solitary guble wull where ounce stood « noble house. The scene, indeed, for wiles is one of utter auuibilution. The great reservoir of the Sheitield Water Company—a reservoir nearly 100 ucres in exteut. and which beld more thau a million cubic feet of water, suddeuly burst its embankment, and swept with the fary of another Deluge down the narrow gorge formed by the Loxley und Stanuing- ton Hills into Sbettield itself It is estimated that the loss of life will execed 230, and that the value of the property destroyed exceeds a half million.

iS We have given ao much of our space to news extracts,which our readers generally expect lat a season like this when the communication | with the outside world is so tardy and uncertain, ‘and have devoted likewise so large a portion of

| occurred in the neighbourhood of Sheltield. The | ,

admiral, in order tu operate in concert with the |

the conservatorprchiet of the public peace: | ing Fifty acres, at an annual rent of Pitty Shil- ' -

whieh, a8 such, it was biv duty, on all oceasious | jigs twenty years’ vecupation, and improvements |

when eudangered, to preserve, if possible, by | thereon, amounting to £300 Currency; to raise means of the civil power alone; but if, at any | ih. qualification of the Members of the Assembly, tine, the civil power sheuld be tound too feeble | 4g = reduce their number to nineteen.”

for the purpose, that then le might constitutionally | y¢ gard the hun. gentleman, the effecting of the call ia a wilitary terce to effect it. ’ ; inquestion, theretore, it was plain neither eonterred | yiduais, whe had thus traitorously eadeavoured to any power Upon the Goetecner, ner ie posed Upen | evertbrow the Constitution and

The Despatch | emancipation of the people from the rule of indi- |

subvert the.

Austrian squadren.,

All the superior officials and mayors of that | portion of Jutland now ecenpied by the allied | troops have been taken to the head-quarters oj }the enemy. This measure is connected with the | delivery of the requisitions for the supplies in- tended to be enforced upun the inhabitants.

Eleven Jutland officials, among wiom were M. M. Dahl aud Bretton, arrived at Flensburg

him any duty which was nyt fully aud positively | jiperties of the people, could have been effected | ou the 17th inst., as prisoners of war, and were

icaplied in his Commissio: thw that that Despatch was secepted by the Li- | cipies and instructions laid down in the Despatch, berais us une of the cund Ne ra Respow calied the “ The Bloody "—which, however, was sivle Government was conced to the Colony.) as jar as possible from being the case — the sudthut their acceptance of If Was — as it Was) 7 iherals, as the true friends and juithful repre- meant to be — See of the tithes of the | sontutives of the people, would have been tully proprictors, nething could be more absurd— |justified in accepting Respousible Government there could net be a greater fallacy. Had the!

: . ’ even on that condition. cyacession of Reaponsible Goverument been made en condition that the Legislature should confirm | the titles of the proprictors, their confirmation | ; ; 2 would have been iwserted in the Civil List Bill, | House in Committee on Expiring Laws. whicd, as he bad said beiure, was the foundation | Hoo. Mr. Longworth remarked that the Revenue or charter of Respoustble Government. But the | Bill would expire at the end of the present Session. coniirmation vf these tithes, how favourable soever | The Hon. the Speaker observed that that Bill the Imperial Geverument may bave been te it, | would have to stand vver until the House should had nothing whatever \& do with the establish-| go into ways and means; that was, if the Govern- meat of Responmble Government: and neither | ment wanted any means. had the party whe successfally negotigted for | the Opposition suid, if the Government could that furm of government anything whatever to du wanulacture thousands, a8 they had dune by the with the Despatch; for they wer® altogether | Auditors’ Classified Accounts of last year, they ignorant of it, not only whitet negotiating for a | would not require any turther ways and means ; change im the form of government, but even for | for he lad observed there was in the accounts of | seme time after they had successfully concluded | the receipts at the Treasury, as shewo by the | their negotiation aud furmed their government. | Auditors, the sum of one thousand pounds, which

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

He should never forget the taunts which were be hesitated net to say, was net in the Treasury.

levelled against the Goverument of which he bad By that extraordinary mode of making money, | the hener te be a member in 1851 on the score of the receipts at the Treasury were made ty appear | that Despatch; but be could refer with proud sa-| to be £62,688 I46. 4d.; whereas the actual | tisfaction, to the peace, prosperity, and happiness | receipts were only £61,608 14s. 4d.; which ac- which reigned throughou! the couutry during the | coanted for the bragging of the Tory Press of the eight years the Liberals were in power. Kejeieed | excess of receipty over the expenditure. In fact, | indeed beyund measure, be believed, would the | Lis Excellency in his Speech, had alluded to the | party auw im power hace been, bad the Liberal surplus. He (llon. Mr. Coles) could call the | Government been obliged to have recourse te! mode which had been adopted nothing but a | military torce t put down any attempt at re | cooking up ef the Accounts tor an end, so as to | sistance to the law. Happily, however, the rule wake the Revenue appear tu be larger than i of the Liberals, during ‘he time of tte continuance, actually was, for the purpose of deceiving the | was w acceptable te the people, that never bad | pewple. The Hun. the der ot the Government | there been leva reason tu apprehend popular | suid, it was uufair te charge the Government in | tumult or disaffection, such as that which was that gauner; wad the Hou. the Leader of thie | manifested during the old Tory rule, and which Opposition ought to have waited until the Public occasioned the sending of the troops to the East | Accounts Couumittee bad reported. Hon. Mr. | Point and viciuity for ite suppression, aud the on- | Ceies replied that, as a member of the House, he slaught of the people if they resisted. The parties did not think he was beund to ask the Hon. the then in power were aet indeed the individuals Leader of the Goverumeut at what time be should who vow exercised it; but they were these who | ex pose the acts of the Guverument ; fur if he did, | beld the same apivions aa the present Gevern- that hon. gentleman might aver be of opinion | ment, and whe were actuated by similar motives. that “ the time had arrived"; be (the Hon. Me. | The hon. geutiemaa then, adverting te what had) Coles) would, therefore, choose his own time for lwew said by twe hen members on the Gevern-, exposing tlie deception, The Hon. the Leader of | ment side of the Heouae—Mr. Longworth and | the Government bad bimselt laid the Accounts | Mr. Brecken—to the effect that, seeing the! before the House, and he (Hon. Mr. Coles) ax | Government bad failed in their endeavours te | sumed the Gurernment bad examined them. He, | carry out their views with respect to the Land | therefore, held the Government respousible tor question, thee Oppon lene should lay down sich a) their correctuess; aad he maintained that, if the | line of policy, as, in their epiuion, would, ii) Auditors, as vfficers of the Government, received | adupled, be mete practicable xad successiul than | £100 a year tor classifying and exuaniiing all the that which bad been pursued by the Government. | Aecouuts of the Pubhe Officers, tuey (the Audi- Ne observation, he said, could be more ridiculous ; tors) ought to have their own statements thereof and ve propesitien, as proceeding from the Ge- ) correct. vermment, cuid convey a were tuuilating! This led te a general examination of the Audi- acknow ledgment of theic weakoess. It was as tors’ statements of the Accounts; and the Go- | it they sheuld say, “We have broken dewn: yernmeut endeavoured tu excuse the error which | will you coine te our aid ’” lis auswer would jad been brought to light; but the Hon. the be, * Well, geatleaseu, if you have faded in your, Leader of the Opposition shewed that the farther | attempts te carry on the Gevermment fer the! they went into the matter, the mere glaring the benefit of the tenantry, ead if you are new con error appeared. vineed that you lack the ability te do ao, all | . — ‘eS have te say te yeu is, thet it is your duty to retire we eee - TOW frum power, to throw up the rene ofGererumers (TO THE TENANTRY OF PRINCE immediately, and to make way fer those who may, EDWARD ISLANL.

Feitow CoLonists:

perhaps, happily be teucd capable of overcoming difficulties which have proved insurmountable to you. This ix the only course lett for you to pursue, ‘In the last Islander there appears a letter from | = Generate meu.” Whea was it ever before the Hon. George Beer, charging me with decep- | a exclaimed the hou. gentleman, that the | tion in my second letter, addressed to you, on the |

in their perplexity and distress, called | . ’ ; Pah ipa the “Outs” to enable them tu extricate | Land Question, a8 published in the Examiner, |

themselves frou their difficulties’ It was a! wherein I stated that “the Gevernment have | ae ateceess te —, aoe kept the people in ignorance of the Duke's Des- mw his consideration of their lamentable: plight, than the Hon. Mr. Coles seemed disposed to be, | Royal Gazette—a paper which very few people see ; | and would indicate to them a means whereby | 44 | do not suppose that oue tenaat in a hundred | they might, perhaps, be able to extricate them- . "oN ie if Mr. Beo selves from their perilous pemtion. If they did | has ever seen it at all.” Now, Sir, if Mr. . not like to take up the proposition of His Grace | can show me from Mr. Ings’s list of aubseribers the Dake of Ne weastle, they might fall back upon | j , hundred takes that the Laud Purchase Act and the Loan Bill. By oF oF or, rr nm : ‘Ls means of these measures, if they had recourse to | PAPET, then I will admit bis conclusion te be cor- them, they might, perhaps, redeem their eredit rect. But Mr. Beer says the Despatch was wee as ae p, that «+ eee it published inthe Examiner and other papers. Did Those ee ae oo ‘the Government autborise the publication of the them, that it ewuld not be expected they would Despatch in the other papers! If so, will Mr. adopt them. ear was left oar t Beer preduce a Minute of Council, or any order sesign theic power; aud the seoner they did so, ce j the leas igneutinious would be their fall, and the | from the Government, to that effect? ae " greater their chance of theie retaining some | well kaows that the Duke requested the Governor eredit fur honesty and mucerity of purpose ameng to submit the Despatch to the Legisiature ; but the people. They aceupied a position which,| i toad of convening the Legislature, as should

it was quite clear, they were enable to sustain; | and, by every consideration, they were buund to have been done, the Government called sich ta- resign. | lented legislators as Mr. Beer toa Caueus Meeting

Whea the lion Mr. Whelao, in the course of ‘in the Colonial Building; and there, instead of

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| bassador at Vienna. The Hon. the Leader of

| —** After a coutest which lasted nearly the whole

} ment took up a position in the wood to the nurth

provised by breaking out the tiles

| bullets and shell, which, being ximed too high, did leur men little harm further than cutting the |

And, as to the asser- | by no other meaue thaw subscription to the prio-| conveyed to a Prussian fortress.

|REPORTED ACCCPTANCE OF THE CONFERENCE BY DENMARK.

The semi-official General Correspondenz o| | Vienua announces that Denmark has accepted | the propositions for an armistice and conierenee lou the basis ef the statu que, stipulating for the suspension of any further advance of the allies in Jutland, and promising not to further molest German shipping.

A telegram dated Vienna, March 17, says :—

lrelative te the aceeptance of the armistice by | | Devmark, was based sulely upon @ comuuniea- l tien of Prince Gortschakott to the Russian Aim-/ This comumnication was) to the effect that Bishop Monrad would cousent to an armistice, provided the surrender of the | captured vessels were not insisted upon by Prussia | and Austria,” | NAVAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN DANISH AND) PRUSSIAN VESSELS.

BerGen (RvuGeN Istanp), Mareh 17, evening. —A sharp naval engagement was observed trom | Rugard, this afternvon, between five Danish | steamers and two Prussian wen-of-war and | several gunboats. At 4 o'clock the action was} continued in the rear of Grauitz, on the eastern | side of the island.

DANISH ACCOUNT OF THE

AT VRILE.

The Jutland newspapers turnish details of the engagement of the oth, in Whieh the Danes had | to coutend with an overwhelming superior force :

ENGAGEMENT |

of the day, Veile ix now occupied by the enemy. ‘Towards eleven o'clock large hostile masses, ex- clusively Austrian, appeared in front of the hill. Our eavalry and the Ist battalion of the 11th Re- gineat, engaged on Outpost duty, retired as the | large force of the enemy advanced, continually firing shell. The 2nd battalion of the Lith Regi-

of the town. The Ist Regiment was stationed further westward at Leerbuk and Haraldskjer. Che evemy did aot commence his attack upon the position of Veile till about two hours after noon. He planted his guus upon the Mill-hill south of | the tewn, and opered a sharp fire, replied to by | twe of our guus stationed north of the town. | Hostile coluaus bad in the meantime marched round the tuwn, aud advanced now upon the Varde public read. A gun planted here, how- ever, was soon silenced by one of eur cannen ep. | posite.

The Ist battalion of the 11th Regiment |

| was forced to retreat vertlwards iuto the wood |

before Veile, while the evemy closely pursued it | through the town When he had advanced |

' through the streets into the northera portion of |

the tewn, he was fired upon by our guns and in-! tantry, aud is said to huve suffered great losses at this point, He threw his menu inte the houses

aud fired threagh the windows and loopholes im- | As may be}

| supposed, the dwellings in this part of Veile are | greatly injured. Av ity have been killed in the streets by shell splinters. | |Our position in the nurthern wood was held until

A man aud a bey are reported |

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nearly six o'clock, under a tremendous hail of

dark our forces retreated. Our loss iw not very | considerable. We suffered most during the re- treat from the wood across the open field, the 2nd company especially being badly cut up. Capt. Stagemeler is wounded, and a prisoner; Lieur. | Scheel is badly wounded and now in hospital here ; | and another officer is slightly hurt. Few wounded | ave been brought into hospital, the majority— |

field—baving tallen into the enemy's hands. The | artillery lust only 2 men and 5 horses. The ca- | valry was not engaged ; neither was the Ist Reyi-! ment, which retreated in eensequence of the} enemy marehing round the town. Some of the | South Schleswigers, incorporated with the regi- | went, are said to have allowed themselves to be taken. Flames were seen in two places to the | south of Veile; one 18 said to have been a mill, | set on fire by shells. The engagement at Veile | was preceded by @ sharp little cavairy aflair at | 9.30 a. m. upon the beights near the town. A detachment of Austrian dragoons, consisting of some 30 or 40 men of the Windischgratz Regi-

ing to our 6th Dragoons. The men fell back to

under Lieut. St. Aubain. meet the Austrians, and when within easy distance charged them at full gallop without firing a shot. After a short haud-to-haud encounter, in which our men slashed lusiily among the * miller boys’ (as they eall the Ausirians, in allusion to their

his « , took occasion to trast favourab! " the as 7 pe Meta a tnain poupele- | endeavouring to serve the tenantry, they agree to

ed, hotly pursued by our dragoous, who captured

“The statement of the General Correspondenz, | : | taken when he asserts that with the exception of

white cloaks), the enemy turned tail and retreat. |

| our paper tu Notes of the Debates of the House | of Assembly, that we are necessarily restricted in our observations on the proceedings of the Legis- lature. However, the time will shortly come when we may indulge, to any extent, in the ex- pression of our views ou all local topics, without any restraint, and when, by the progress of parlia- mentary affairs, we shall be able to take a clearer view into the actions of our public men. ——_—_+- <a —— —_—

THe War news from the States is not especially unportant, although signs are not wanting to shew ‘that the Spring campaign is likely to open with vigerous action on beth sides. The price of gold, | which had run up te 170 in the Northern States,

had declined to about 160 at last advices. —-— “Our contemporary of the Lvaminer is mis-

‘the Examiner and Protestant, none of the Charlot- | tetown press ever mentioued the Shakespearean

Tri-centenary.""— Ross’s Weekly.

WE acknowledge the “ corn.” The list ofexcep- tions should have certaiuly included Ross's Weekly. The omission was a mere accidental oversight on the part of the writer of our article. If he had only reflected on the matter, he must have known that friend Ross is a gentleman of too much poetical taste and intelligence te be behind any of bis contemporaries in domg henour to the memory of Shakespeare.

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WE are happy te learn that the fast and popular ‘Trader, the Gazelle, arrived at Liverpool, G. B. from New York on the 22nd ult., and may be expected to make her Spring trip to this Island in exellent time.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AND LITER- ARY ASSOCIATION.

On Thursday evening. the Hon. Joseph Hensley lectured on the “ British Navy.” He referred, first of all, to the wicker boats of the ancient Britons, covered with skins, in which they sometimes ven- tured as furas Ganl. He proceeded to speak of the rise of the British Navy under the great Alfred, William the Conqueror, Riebard of the Lion Heart, ond the Seventh Heary, whose reign war sigvalised hy the discovery of America, and the opening of a new world on this side of the Atlantic. The lec- turer further dwelt. in some detail, upon the con tes’ for naval supremacy between England and Holiand, during the Commonwealth, conducted by those emminent conananders, Blake and Van Tromp, with his broom at his mast-head, and his vain eal to sweep the seas. He told the story of the Spanish Philip's * lnvineible Armada,"’ with its wonderful defeat and destruction, under Howard of Effingham, Drake, Raleigh, and Hawkins. De- scending to more modern tines, he rehearsed at length, and with mucirfeeliug, the career, the Con- | queste, and the etriking eud of Lord Nelson. He also discussed the aguval incidents of the last war rel Ween PBrituin aud Aimesioa. aud expressed his couviction, that thera wus nothing in thore inci- dents to detract from the naval repute of our mother | eountry. He glanced at the changes etlected in

‘naval warfave by the introdaciion of steam, and

the experiments pow in progress Upon rifled cannon, and iron-elad versels., He had no idea, however, us sume comprehended, that any change in modes

. + « »1? of warfare would affect wufaveurably the spirit of

the British seam:in. He closed with uapirations for peace. and with tribute to * righteousness’ which Sexalteth a nation” more than the most brilliant victories ever achieved. The lecturer illustrated

| bis theme by some fine poems from MeAulay and

Campbell. Such, in meagre outline, was oue of ever been favoured, for its history, its literary skill, and its simple eloquence There was an enthusi- usm, tuo, about the affair, perfectly natural, when it is remembered, that the lecturer's own futher was engaged in the seizure of the Danish fleet be- ore Copenhagen, ip isu7: while we have yet

awong us anotherof the heroes of that Serre in | ing the Créw by Contract. Apply at the Office of | To the Tenantry and Settlers on the

the person of Col. Stewart. The whole lecture, occupying nearly all the evening, was heard with

pateh, except in so far as publishing it in the | eapecially those badly hit in retreating across the | sustained attention by the large, though not crowd-

ed audience.

The Kev. D. Kitz Gerald will lecture next week His subject will be “The Lakes of Killyaney,” il- lustrated by Dissolying Views. Aduission four pence half-peuany.

Ii silahacnlbidltiaiaponennentit CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN’S LITERARY INSTITUTE. As cireamstances prevented the Rev. Mr. Tra-

| delle from delivering his lecture on “ the religious

sentiments of Napoleon I," he will deliver it be- fore this Lastitute on next Wednesday evening, the 6th instant. W. W. SuLLivaAsN, Sec’y. dope ————- Easter Mospay, 28th March, 1864 —At a meet-

ment, came upon an outpost of two men belong. | ing of the Congregation of St Paul's Church,

holden at the Infant School-room this day, Easter

the field post, which then amounted to 22 men M:nday, the 2th March, 1864, the fulfowing per-

The post rod | OLS oer) m ae ved men for the evsuing year :—Hon. T. H. Haviland,

were elected Church Wardevs and Vestry-

Robert Hutchinson. Esq.. Charch Wardens. Vescry- men--W. Cundall, Henry Haszard, Joseph Hensley, Charles Pulwer, Thomas DesBrisay and Joho Brecken.

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A despatch dated Porland, Me., March

tors and tenants, set forth ia the Duke of New- | castle's propositions, with that af “the 16 years’ | purchase schewe of the Delegates,” as he termed | it, the Hon. Me. Pope rose and guid the hon. | tueinber Was misreprese iting the tecws proposed

by the Delegates, who bad not proposed 16 years’

purchase, but 15 years’ purehase and one year's | reat. Hon. Mr. Whelan, ia reply, said the abjec- |

tion of the hon. member was @ mere quibble. | that the least informed persons in the community | ),,¢ follow them tor fear of an ambuseade. are quite as eapable of judging of both proposals

Thereupow the Hon. Mr. Pope again rose and | protested against what ie accounted be aneour- | teous and unparliameatary expresmon of “a were | quibble,” as applied by ove bua. member to any eiplanation of statement offered or made by au- other hon. member; asserting that there was 4 wajority in the House strung caough to compel hon. members whe might be prone to disregard the rules of parlameutary courtesy, to abstain from direct violations of them. Se chiddeu and threatened, the Hoa. Mr. Whelan very bl«ndly raid he stood rebuked, and would bow to the

offer the proprietors a price—15 and 16 years’ purchase—that will keep the poor tenants in bon- dage all their lives. Mr. Beer endeavours lo shew that the offer of the Delegates is better than the Duke’s progosal; but I will not insult your un- derstanding by arguing against that point, knowing

as this Mr. Beer is, whe told the Tenants on Lots 35, 36 and 37, last year, in hie pri uted address to them, when be was secking to get the title of

“ Honourable” to bis name, that Sir 8. Cunard’s |

Bill, offering 15 years purchase, would be of no benefit to them, as not one tenant in fifty through- out the Isiand could pay that amoune for his land. Now he has changed his mind, to suit the

8th, says that the Bohenian has split open, ‘three men and a wounded officer. The Austrian | and will be a total loss. As much as possible

‘officer, a first lieutenant, although he had surren- | of her cargo is saved as it washes ashore,

[Ome his na nernantnnic 4 rene ee ate and much more will probably be saved when an affem oO Escape, » ,catdewn | * : with a a blow on the back of the head by wb } the steamer gues down

{ our dragovus, and fell into the ditch by the! : — eo

a side, The Austrians continued their flight | A diver went to the cabin a - se

tuwards blaakjer Wood, whither our men could | Bohemian, at Portiand, on Mop ay, of last

We| week, and recovered the purser's drawer,

containing 500 sovereigns valued at $4000

did not lose a manu, and only two corporals had " slight seratches in the face. Lieut. St. Aubain| He also brought up other valuable articles.

headed the charge throughout; and although bis horse was immediately wounded, threw bimeselt instantly upon another belonging to one of the prisoners, aud took part in the pursuit. Ie ia be- lieved that the enemy’s outposts are at Bredal.”

sali dipneniee The “ Bohemian’ was not insured. Her loss to the Company will be $70,000. eee dade oe ee ise The City Council of St. John have furnish- ed the Pottce of that city with uniform coats, The “ Presse’ of Vienna says—A fresh Austrian at w cost of $19 per cvat. circular note bas been issued with the object of tran- I quillising the Foreign Powers relative to the | —= advance of the alllesin Jutland. The note declares the readiness of Austria to participate in the Con-

Married,

Government policy. But this will cause no eur- prise; for Mr. Beer is quite used to ehanging

censure of that pattern of morelity whom he had offended by terming an explanation offered by him a mere quibble. This mode of apologizing, : : : this submission, ou the part of the offender against | anything, even to the altering of public documents the eee pastamentary etiquette, was not, bow- | for doing which, on one secasion, he was diruiss- ever, a ’ y any means sufficient, either | ‘ ; yal Agri- by the hon. metmber aggrieved, or his hon. friends; | od fom oun w 7 on but, on the contrary, it was regarded by them ae | Cultural Suciety. he circumstance ia well known poe — eriginal offence ; aud, there-| to the public. It was the decision of the Jadges , seemingly alarmed by the storm of indigna- | , i — havi tion which he had aroused, and dreading —— joa the Cattle Show, which he altered — having wquences, the offender (How. Mr. W.) begged be” entrusted with the document for the purpose a to withdraw the qpeten. “that pattern | of carrying it to the Islander wffice — in order to | morality,” which he applied to the Hon. | shew i best Ox. The C Seo Cokeeich ibeaschocy « ciealilag, that, oe: thes | OT Oey toe Se SON: Fe ben. geutiomen .discisinned. the liation, it | mittee who eeivsured him for this act included would certainly be very wrong in him (Mr. W.) the names of Judge Peters, the present Mayor of to persist in bestowing it apon hum. In consequence | the City, and the Hons. Messra. Hensley and Holt. this rccantaticn, the inatter was d —how | I in, fellow Colonists

much to the satisfetion of the Hon. the Colonial | ee ee

tary we know not —and the Hon. Mr. Yours faithfully,

Whelan was allowed to resume his speech. Hon. Mr. Warburton said the tch—con- ferning which eo great an outery the Tories at the time of the inanguration of

been made

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GEORGE COLES.

| P. S—Mr. Beer, by his superior arithmetic, as | shown in his letter, has worked a problem that

ference and to consent to an armistice. Austria states also that Jutland would be evacuated by the Auatriaus ’nd Prussians on condition of the evacu- ation of the Snndewith and the Island of Alsen by the Danes, who are also to cease capturing any German sbi se and to release all shipping they may have aloan y captured.”

Tar Dexe ano THE Emreron.—We learn on authority that the Duke of Saxe-Cobury Go- tha has altogether failed to attain the object of his journey Puris The Emperor refuses to encour- aye the elaim of the Duke of Augustenburg to the Duchies of Schleswig and Hol-ten. The Duke of Coburg leuves Paris greatly disappointed. At their interview the Eimperor profe the most pacitic intentions towards Germany.

Dineerovs Merrines ty Paris.—The ‘ Moni- teur says :—For several days past public uieetings have been held iu the populous quarters of Pans, under the pretext of canvassing for the elections, at

The meetings bave been dissolved, and a judicial investigation has been institated. No public meet- ing can take place without authorisation, sad the

whieh the Goverument was violently attacked. |

At St. Peter's Bay, on Wednesday the 16th March, by the Kev. Henry Crawford, Mr. Henry McKay, to Miss Matilda Coffin, youngest daughter of the late Andrew Coffin, Esquire, all of 3. Peter's Buy.

At Greenwich, St. Peter's Bay. on the 24th March, by the Rev. Henry Crawford, Mr. Horatio B. W. Sanderson, to Miss Surah Hodland Buuder- son, danghter of Mr. Charles Sanderson, jun, all of St. Peter's Bay.

On the 3d March, by Rev. A. Cameron, Mr. Alex. Cousins, of Lot 20, to Mise Marzaret Profit, of Lot

On the 24th, by the same, Mr. William McKay, of South New London, to Christina, fourth daugh- ter of D. Montgomery, Esg., M-P.P., of North New London.

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Died. ¢

On Friday, the 25th March, afters protracted aud painfal illness, which she bore with pret patience and resignation to the Divine Will, Hannah, the beloved wife of Mr. John McEwen, of St. Peter's Bay, inthe 55th year of her age, She had long been an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Congregation there, and on her death she gave satistacwry evidence of the value of true religion

Goverument will continae to make the law res- | * . : in the wost trying circumstances.

A FIRST RATE OPE

ENING FOR SPRING.

|

.To Farmers, Merchants, Shipbuilders, Tanners, and Mechanics.

| FENUHE UNDERSIGNED has been instructed by the owners to offer FOR SALE, or RENT,

several VALUABLE FREEHOLD and

LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES and FARMS ip

Pt For seven miles above) BELFAST and other parts of the Island, in good heart and ready fur cropping this Spri He busy wud populous town of Shettield, and for | fur which good valid bitles and immediate ienisien eun be gree. ee

| Aso —Several BUILVING LOTS in that most advantageous mereantile situation,

‘SUMMER HILL,” adjoining Montague Brid

| on to 190,000 bushels of produce are annual States, Kc. ke. &e.

where also apy quantity of all kinds of ** SUMMER HILL” property is the only Fr

in its infancy.

of any Temperance Society, who will mee in payment. t2 Plans, particulars, and any other i

April 4, 1864.

to all printers that they have raised the |

affairs.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

rr rer errr rrr

Household Furniture,

With a Neat Library, &c. &c.

‘EXO be sold by PUBLIG AUCTION,

ou FRIDAY, the Lith DAY of APRIL NEXT, at 11 o'clock, forenvon, ut the Kesidence of Mr. James Evans, (late City Marshal), New Perth, The Whole and Complete Stock of Fur-

:ture for a Comfortable D welling, Including some cheice sets of Bed-room Furniture, with Beds, Bedding, &e.; Parlor aud Dining-room Furniture and Stoves, with an excellent Cooking Stove and Kitche Furniture and Utensils in every department; 4 good Carpets, (ove very superior) . Dining ‘Tables, Sofas and Cushions, Chairs, &e. &e’ aLso,———

A Very Neat Library,

?

a uuinber particularly interesting to brethren of the ** Myatic Tie.’ Aithe sume time, a quantity of superior WHEAT and good FIREWOOD. A large assortment of BOOTS aad SHOES; Shop Stove and Counter, with a general Out-fit of Boot and Shoe mana- facturer's Tools and Implements, and every thing uttached to the trade. | JAUNTING SLEIGH and BUFFALO ROBES; 1 8 day CLOCK; 1 good SEWING MACHINE. Also a large qnantity of excellent MANURE; with such a variety of other articles as ure ditlicult to name iu an adver- tisement. te On the whole, this Sale being UNRE- SERVED and POSITIVE, offers such an oppertunity as does not every day occar. T KMs:—All sums under £2. cash; over £7, a} eredit of six mouths will be given, on good ap proved joint Notes ef , F. P. NORTON, Auctioneér. Georgetown, April 4, 1864. rw

de ter i STE |

Iuternational Steamship Company. |

First Trip of the Season!

(PUK Splendid sea-going STEAMER: “NEW BRUNSWICK,” E.B. Wincuestren, | Master, will .eave Railroad Wharf, Portland, on MONDAY, March 7th, for Eustpert and St. John ; | returning, will leave Reed's Point Wharf, THUURS- DAY morning, March 10th, at 8 o'clock, for Kast- port, Portland, aud Boston.