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nada to bay up the proprietors’ lands. 1 maintain that by the terms of this Report we will net receive a single farthing from C nada, ‘Lhe £28,000 interest, or thereabouts, which it is «nid we are to draw for the proportion of debt in our favor, would net be drawn at all—it would only be placed te our credit. We would have our ahare of the aggregate debt of the Colonies to pay, and the amount placed to our credit an- nually would be just equal to the interest which this Coloay, according to ber population, would require to pay on the debt ot Canada, Nova Se. tia and New Brunawick. So that by this ar- rangement not one penny would really come to the Island—it would vuly save us trom being taxed for the debt of other a. Besides this, ve re are told thia laland is to receive a} econ ae eal si conte whiek wilh wld “| littie over £20,000; and that the salaries of her) judges, and some other expenees will be paid, “amounting te about £10,000 more. But as our Revenue is now £66,000, by thie arrangement} we would lose over £30,000 auoually, with the!

tariff ae ours ia at present; if the Canadian tariff,| tary power of the United States?’ [f the | sion of eight hundred

however, were adopted, the sum lost would be neater £90,000. But some maiutain that the I pense under Contederation would be! as = This} ia tnore than questionable, fur there would be a) u general government te suppert, public works to} be undertaker, and the cust of defences tu pro-| vide fur. Ut bas bDeew estimated that the whole} expenses under Confederation would amount to! 313,000,000, but L believe it would be vearer future shall be, but I may be allowed to make a} caleulativa, basing my figures on the past The} expenditure of the Canadian Goternment for six | vears, from [857 te 1862, was £21,432,534, o| on aa average yearly expenditure of £3,572,110 Now taking the pepulation of Canada at v4 mil-| hens, it is a eimple question, in siunple propeetion, | if 24 williens et a population expends £3.5 72.110} a year, what would 1)’. E. Island with a popula- | tion ef 30,000, expend at the same rate, and 1 find we weuld expend £114,307 a year. Now we will see what P. E. Island did expend during | the same period. In the same 6 years the Go- vernment of this Island expended £299,168, or au average yearly expenditure of 49.361; sv that if we had been in connection with Canada the last G years, we would have had te make a re- venue over what we did pay of £64,446 a year, or during the said 6 years we would lave bad to pay tur the Canadian Government the sum of £526,- 672. Thisis the sum which we bave gained by being out ef or without Cuafederation fur the jist six years. Canada cannot decrease ber expenditure, xo it ia well fur us in looking forward to the future in financial matters to judge by the past. But then, again, by thia scheme we will be required tw give up our politieal independence. What is ‘earer to a man than bis country and its jnstitu- tows? By accepting Confederation we would be surrendering everything which we can poi tically hold dear. While we have a system of self-go- verument, We way sovetimes get into difficulties, yet effuires will suou reetily themselves; dul if we east ia our lot with others wuch more nuinerous than ourselves we will be driven wherever their taney leads. [ cannot conclude my remarks witnout protesting against the manner in which this question has come before us. A subject of such hmportanee as this should have been befure us for years, and canvassed fully by the press and the people ere it was submitted to the House in the forw which it assumes in the Report under diseussion. It bas net originated with the peo- pie, and almost the firet clause which it contains deprives them of a right, a8 it provides places fur at ieast 77 Councillors in a general parlianeut of the Colonies, where they will de indepeadent ol the people, and independent of the Crown. What authority bad the delegates to go to Canada and thus sign away our rights? They may say that they were invited by the Governor General. 1 say the Geveruoe General bas no power to juter- fere with the constitutional liberties of the people of this Coluny. The people or their representa- tives alone should take up this question, and I jook upen the action taken in thie matter aa a conapiracy against their privileges.

Hon, Col. Secretary moved an adjournment, and Hon. Mr. Pope opposed the motiun.

Mr. Howat.—Mr. Speaker, I would prefer. that we sheuld Gash the discussion this evening, as the advanced season renders it desirable that we sheu!d get tareugh the business of the Session us soon as possible. As io the question of Union, I may say that | am epposed to it on any condi- tons. The propertion sesigned to us in the Laited House of Commons would deprive us of ull influence in that branch of the Legislature, and wur situation in the Upper Branch would render us more helpiess still; and the fact that wme of the mest able aod benest men in the Is- land failed to obtain better terms at the Confer- Core, 8 @* strong an argument as L require to show me woat our position would be under Con- federation. The advocates of Union who have addressed you on the subject have endeavored tu show that our taxes will vot be increased when united; but how, I would ask, could the expenses tw be incurred for an army, a navy, and fertifica- tions, be met except by increase of taxation? Increase of manutactures to avy considerable awount would require a protective tariff, aad our Legisiature can adopt the principles of proteetion wr free trade, as it suite them, just as well ut pre- eeut as they could uuder Cuoufederation. The Hon. Svlicitor General has remarked upon the benefit we should reeeive from Union by having an independent Legislature ; but by the Report ot the Delegates 1 pereeive that our legislation would require approval in Canada, and wight atterwards be disallowed at Downing Street. As tu the defences in Canada they would be wo sate- gcard to ua. The loyalty of seme of the Cana- diane is vet beyoud doubt in my mind, and not- withetanding the allusion made by the Hon Solicitor General to such men as Cromwell and Washington, I ain disposed to judge of the future of some people by their eouduct in the past.

Mr. HOWLAN seevaded tie motion fur an ad- journment. It was unfair to press a division tenight when seune members had not spoken.

Hon. Mr. Pope, though auxious to close the debate, was not disposed tu treat the Minority unjustly, aed would conseut ty the division being taken lo-inerrow evening.

"From the Halifax Reporter, Ju'y 20. THE EXECUTIONS AT WASHINGTON.

The hangman has begun his work at Washington; and people are begining to ask how long the reign of terror w to con- "uG@ BOW that peace is restored. There seems no dispositivn to allay the revengeful feelings which must rankle in the busows of many thousands of the Svuthern peuple. Amid the wreck and chavs meident cn so great a struggle, there is nu gleam of hope for the futare—no indication of that sound wod prudent statesmanship so necessary for the restoration of the laws and the return of happivess and prosperity. Arbitary arrests collins to be Sites. a work of ativan has just begun ; and the remains of the late Mrs. Surratt, but a few days since dangling from the gibbet at Washington, attest tv the lamentable fact that the desire for revenge on the part of President Johnson and bis ad- visers, ig not yet sated. For we meded not the affidavit recently published in a Wash- ingtcn paper, to convince us that the hanging of Mrs. Surra:t was neither more nor Jess than deliberate murder. The trial itself was con- om to all precedent ; the tribuna! was il-

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; end the treatment of the unfortunate prisoaers, during their confinement, such as would have pat to blush a tribe of s«vages. No one is sate in a land where such wen us Hyams acd Sanford Conover are permitted to swear away lives in so loose a manner that their evidence shrinks into nothingness when brought into the light ofday. But fur the demaads of the press— iterated and reiterated, until there was no denying them—we «hould never have seen this ‘suppressed evide ove ;""

punishment, and it was understbod that the whole Court concurred in this view; and at length, all other means having failed, her friends caused a writ of habeas corpus to be obtained. It was issued by Judge Wylie of the Supreme Court, and directed to General Hancock to bring into Court the body ol Mary E. Surratt. Her council argued that if she was guilty she was amenable to this Court and not toa military tribunal, The

at ten o'cluck ; but General Hancock did not appear. Proof was offered that the writ had been duly served, when Judge Wylie explain- ed the utter hopelessness of the Courtaguinst the military power of the United States. *II,” he said, ‘the Court were to decide that General Hancock was in contempt, the only process it Could issue woald be an attachment

| for the disregard of its authority ; but why |

issue an ettachment against the whole mili-

military power would not respect the writ; it would equally treat with contempt any other process the Court might issue. ‘ The Court, therefore,’ said Judge Wylie, ‘must submit to the supreme physical force which now holds the custody of the prisoners.’ At fifteen minutes pust eleven, an hour and a

| quarter after the time named in the writ, | 220,000,000. Itia impossible te say what the General Hancock appeared, accum panied by |

Attorney-General Speed. An apology was made fur the delay—General Hancock had to :@2 @ giest many persons, On lu portant matters, tuat morning, and he had been de- tained—the service of the writ was acknow- ledged, bat the body of Mrs. Surratt was not produced by reason of the order of the Pre- sident endorsed on the writ. the President specially suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and gave directiuns to have the Judgment of the military comumissiva exe- cuted.’

‘*The Court declared itself powerless to take any further step in the case, and said it found no fault with thedelay. TThe conflict between the civil and military authorities was evi- dently felt by the Attorney General to be an auckward thing; and he tried to show that, in time of war, i¢ wus Inevitable. I[¢ was certainly a very undesirable mode of suspend- ing the writ of habeas corpus. A woman had been condemned tu death by a military cow- mission—she bad been tried in a way which the Attorney General admits to have been contrary tu the constitution —the day for her execution had arrived; when a civil court issues & writ of Aadeas corpus to ascertain the cause of her detention and secure for her a legal trial. The writ was then in full force ; it had beer issued; and the President, at that moment, and in reply to the writ itself, says, ‘1 do hereby specially suspend this writ.” Nothing eould be more unsatislactory than this wode of procedure; and the Ar. torney General fell back upon the * inevit- able’ + Conflict of necessity comes up,’ he said, * when war comes between the executive and the judicial.’ Asa matter of tact this ig not admissible. There is no necessary conflict between the civil and military authorities in time of war. Anything like the perfection of goveroment requires that the two should bein harmony. iu England, Parliament is the judge of the occasioa when the writ of habeas corpus should be suspend- ed ; and there can be no conflict between the two authorities, for Parliament ia always supreme. The mowent the civil authority has to yield to the military, constitutional liberty bas been exchanged fur military despotism. Judge Wylie did not at all ac- cept the Attorney General's doctrine of an inevitable conflict of powers. * The writ,’ he said, ‘was applied for, and I had no authority to refuse to grant it. It is a writ dear and sucred to every lover of liberty, in- dispensable tu the protection of citizens, and can only be constitutivnally set aside in times of war and insurrection, when the pub- lic salety requires it, and in regard to of fenses committed in connection with the army of the militia when called into active service.’ The truth is Judge Wylie had law on his side, whtle Generai Hancock, the President, and the Attorney General bad force on theirs; and as the Judge could not attack the whole power of the United States, he could only yield bis civil authority to supreme force. Iu what does this state of things differ from a military despotism ?’’

_-—_—-<—>-_—_ —_ A CHOLERA PANIC IN EUROPE.

The cholera is on its travels — that fierce aod pitiless plague, which has ite residence in the Ewst, West, North and South. From time to time we hear of the visitation in dis- tant places—deaths by wholesale in Central Asia, deaths in Southern Russia, regiments disbanded by death ov Indian marches, and rivers choked with corpses in the Islands otf the Eastern Ocean. ‘The last Red Sea news brought word that Mecca and Medina are this year vast lazur houres of cholera-smit- ten victims, the pilgrims perishing all along tife road to the shrines from Jeddah and the Southern ports, and Shieks who had come to kiss the Kaaba turning buck in horror, with their trains, to succumb in tents and houses where they had shut themselves up.

Already Egypt has been reached, and tire Feliahs there are perishing by thousands ; 9» much so that the italian and French harbors are shut against vessels from Alexandria. Marseilles has kept all the mail boats in quarantine ever since two Moribund passen- gers were landed in the Jolliette ; and at last we ourselves have been obliged to confront a@ peril that cannut be disregarded. The newspapers and letters which went out otf the general post office on Tuesday" last were seut in boxes instead of bags, to prevent in- fections being carried out of Egypt by the mail passing through the country. That, indeed, is not only & precaution ov our own behalf, but it will also be observed with re- gard to the overland despatches coming home- ward. Ali the instances we enumerate, and others which might be cited, prove that the cholera is on its periodicul murch; and. without ascribing tu the same source the out- breaks in North Russia, Poland and Prussia, it i8, at the least, possible that the year may be signatized by the invasion of that eneiny which patriotism aod courage cannot keep vut of our Island.

a <> WHY WOMEN “DRESS”

The true explanation of the prevailing extra- vagance iv costume is, that women dress for one another In other words, they dress for eyes which can appreciate the material and estimate the cost of every separate article they have on.

It we quite true that wany men care as much for, and are as competent to give an opinion on the appearance of their wives, or sisters, or friends, as any number of female acquaintances; but the grounds upon which the two classes of erities will base their several judgments will al- ways be distinct, and the conclusions themselves uot unfrequenotly opposite.

Ask @ wan and a woman to tell you who is the best dressed girl at a ball, aud you will hardly ever find them agreeing in their answer. Go o step further, and compare the costumes which have been selovied tw @ certainty that the woman has singled out the most expensive dress in the room, whereas the wan has simply asked himself which ia the most

never have known how bungling «a piece of villiany would find acceptance in the «yes of the Washington authorities.

The trial, aud the executions which follow ed, are invested with a greater and sadder interest because of their prububle bearing on the fate of the gilted statesman, who, bowed down by his irons and the contuwely and in- sults of his captors, lies in a dungeon at For- tress Monroe. We confess to a fear that the tribunal which convicted on such evidence as that of Merritt, Conover, and Hyams ; which consigned to death an innocent woman, without even allowing her time tu prepare for her fate, 1 capable of anything—even S great an outrage us the heoging of Mr.

avis.

The better portion of the Northern people are now asbamed of the manner iv whic!. Mrs Surratt was consigned to death , and well they may be. ‘The sympathy in favor ot Mrs. Surratt,’’ the New York Herald r ports, *‘geios ground by digcussicn, and bundreds who itted her guilt inveighed bitterly against the mode Of punisimefl. Sie was ® Woman, end that wes reason sufficient with many of them why she should not be exe- cuted. ‘Every possible effort,’* sues the To- ronto Leader, ** was wade tv obtam uw commutation of her punis! went to 1m prison- ment for life ; or failing that, u repri:ve fur three days. The Bishop of Baltimore p eaded that she could hot properly be prepared for death in less time ; five members ot the Court

by which she bad been wonrviewd joined im a

beeomiug. The one has suffered herself to be ao impressed by the richness of the wateral, the elaborateness of the embroidery, the custiiness of the trimmings, that in the end she bas found it

calculation. The other, happy in his ignorance, bas looked only at the general effect, and has probably given the preference to a young lady whose gown has no other merits than these ot being scrupulously neat, becowingly cut, and per- lectly wel! inade.—Saturday Review,

There isan enormous rush of Americans to Europe this season. The N. Y. Journal of Com- merce Uiinks the cost of the trip a good American mvestwenut. It says:

* One of the most senaible things a man of pro- perty can dy with his wovey is to take his fawily to Edrope. It does Americans good ; it gives to young persovs a practical education, it enlarges the wind, and fits men to tuke coswopulitan and catbulic views of public questions. We are not the only great nation iv the world. We du wot build the most elegaut palaces, or construct the best railroads, nor as our city unequalled. It 1s very well to learu these truths by direct observa. tion. And it w well, tov, to find out that com- weree, trade, and business of all kinds have wide ranges, extendmg from country te country, aud that the great laws of trade and business are not, and cannot be, confined to ue people or nation, but aie world-wide

--—-- ee A workman in a brewery ot Stanford, England, lately met with a fearful death. He was sitting in & drowsy state on the side of a tub, containi walt hquer ata tewperature of about one bundred and fitty degrees. Beme one entered and spoke

gecommendation fur 4 commutation of hes ,

to hewn. This startled bon, at d he fell backwards nw ibe var, aed Was sculded to death,

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THE ENGLISH LORD CHANCELLOR. | The fall ot this high o:mcer has caused consider able sensation abroad, and it coutains lessons which wake it worthy of attention everywhere. If it! shows that no station and reputation can afford a security against the corrupting temptations which | beset public life, it also shows the iuvaluable cor- frective influence which resides in an an biassed public opinion. The great trouble of Lord W ext-| bury, the English Lord Chancellor, seems to have | been that he hada most unworthy son, Mr. Richard Bethell, who, although be was married and had a family of six children, was a ‘‘fast’’ man in the worst sense of the term. Of him the Lord Chan- cellor said be bad been *‘a disgrace and a source of lintinite sorrew and reproach to bim during the last }teu years.”’ And yet the son appears always to |have exercised un iitlaence upon his father in the | latter's exercise of public patronage, although bis improper agency way not have been apparent. _ | ‘Thus, in the Edwunds case, where the reader in the House of Lords was charged with looseness in his moaey xccounts, the Lord Chancellor was per- suuded by his son, who had been heavily paid for his interference, to retire Mr. Edmunds on a pen- soundsa year. Inthe Leeds

Bunkruptey case, the Lee Chancellor uctaally ap- pointed this son, of such. ‘disgrace and ininite sorrow,’ to a rewistrarship, and that too, after re moving the former registrar, against Whow charges of corrupt practices had beeu preferred, and per- | mitting him to retire on & pension, the son in this | case, also, being bribed for his agency in tie matter. | Uther cages also were proved of u similar nature |The press at first took up the subject, with the tenderness which is generally accorded to erring members of the nobility in England, but with u | latent determination which showed that the public | feeling was aroused and would not be trifled with. | Committees in Parliament sat upon it, but evinced jconsiderable unwillingness to apply the proper re- | medies, until at last the House of Commons, by its deliberate vote of ceusure, while acquitting the Lord Chancellor of any knowledge of his son's corruption, convicted hin of ‘a laxity of practice and a want of caution with regard to the public interests in sunctiouing the graut of retiring pen- j sions to public officers aguinst whom grave charges were pendiug, Which, in the opinion of this House, are calculated to discredit the udmiuistration of bis great olfice."’

Speaking of Lis resignation a London paper pays the following tribute to Lord Westbury, better known as Sir Richard Betbell -—

“It would, however, be a great error to snppose that Lord Westbury clang so pertinaciously to office that this vote of censure was recessary to make him quit bis hold of the Great Seal. Upon this poiut the noble a.d learned Lord's own must tem verate aud diyguilied address to the House of Loras on »» ednesday is quiteexplicit. Three times before the division of Mouday be eutreated Lord Palmers- ton to lay his r-siguation before the Queen; ounce before the Lords Committee sat to investigate the Edmunds cuse; because, us he explains, he did not think it right that the Lord Cbancellor should be even the object of a public accusation however un- just ;—agvin when the Leeds case was brought up vy Mr. Ferrand.—and thirdly when Mr. Hunt gave notice of hig motion. But the premier over- ruled bim on public grounds, and thus it was that he became exposed to the censure of the House of Commons. The public were, however, already aware of these facts, for Lord Palmerston, in an-

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neuncing, on Tuesday, the Lord Chancellor's resi uation, wade a similar statement though not sofull as that of Lord Westbury himself. We hope the country will not soon tind cogent reasons for re- vretting the issue of the last act of the British House of Commons. When before did or could a retiring Chancellor announce from the woolsack that all bis werk was done—that every cause pending before him in the highest Appeal Court and in the Court of Chancery was finished and de- cided, that no judgment was left over in either court, and that his suecessor would buve no arrears ty work up! This is, indeed, an extraordinary statement of things in Chancery. Lord Westbury at all events bas broken no hearts, and ruined no tamilies by his delays; and the reflection is one that must solace him in the heavy sorrows brought upon him by # spend-thrift son, aud be a comfort to hun in bis retirement.”

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EvGtisn Versus AMERICAN ELecTions.— [ have now witnessed many elections in England, aud am prepared to say, without fear of success- tul contradiction, that the imost noisy and out- rageous scenes at the American polls are prayer

‘ mM. — The Herald's ~ “ eleetions in Vir- » favor of seeesssion: |

New Yor«, Washington cage’ ail rini » gone so strong eu ee guerilla Mosey 18 ne to become a candidate for Congress. - - - - © Times despatch says the Agricultural Bureau ig In re-

s of the = of sropa of every description...-. The World's des- porn _ ‘he Goverament takes possession of Ford’s ‘Theatre to-day at @ fixed reuit..... The rebel Secretary of State, ace: isin Paris. _...'The Herald's correspondence says Mason and the other rebel agents to Europe have re-

lerossed the Atlavtic, and are bow residing in

Canada..... Gold 143. :

New York, July 26.—Aa arrival from Aspin- wall brings interesting news. At Guayaquil, Ecuador, the President Moreno seized an Eng- lish steamer of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, loaded at the wole, drove officers and crew ashore at the point of the bayonet, placed irvepa, cannon and munitions ot war aboard, and started tor the mouth ef river, where revolution- ists lay at anchor in vessels seized from Govern- ment. He ran inte one of the steamers, cutting her amidships to water's edge, and sinking her. After a sbort engagement the others surrendered, the bulk of the people aboard, including the leader Urbina. making their escape into the woods. The prisoners were brought to Guay- aquil, aud 27 of them were instantly shot. After this Moreno started for Tumbes. Here he ex- pected to capture more victims; if so, they shared a similar fate. After his return to Guayaquil, the President returned the steamer to the cap- tuin, whe received her under protest, and got at the same trae £20,000, tor three days service ot the vessel. The seizure is still an open question, having been referred to the manager of the coti- pany at Callao..... ‘The rebellion in Peru appears to be gaining ground. On the Sth a bloody en- gagement occurred six miles from Lima between 12,000 tebels and 6,000 goverument troops, in which the latter were successtul..... Gold 143.

New York, July 25, P. M.—There is no new of interest this afteravon. The Navy Depart- ment has directed the reduction of the Mississippi Squadron to five vessels. ..-. Admiral Radford has sailed to take command of the Atlantic Squadron, with orders to reduce it to ten veasels..... Gold 143.

New York, July 26.—The steamer Scotia, with dates tu the 16th, bas srrived..... The elec liens engross geveral attention in Eugland. Four hundred and twenty-one election contests had been completed, of which the Liberals had 263, and Conservatives 153. Liberal gain thus far nine. Another week would elapse before the elections ciosed....- The Great Eastern, with the cable un board, would leave the Nore on the lth lor Valencia....- Consols closed at 90 to 8U} for money. United States 5 20's 71§ to 72 ....There was no notable change in general markets... .- ir is reported that Gen. Grant will sovg visit Haii- tax aud the Canadus..... Gold 1439.

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EUROPEAN NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.

New York, July 24.—The steamer Peruvian passed Father Point with dates to the 14th inet .--- The English news received by this arrival was centered in the Parliamentary elections Returns to the 12th show 184 Liberals, and 10z Conservatives elected. .... A later despatch via Queenstown says the returns so far show a nei Liberal gain of seven..... Among the Liberals elected are John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hughes. ----Four members of the Aduinistration had been defeated, viz.:—Lord Bary, at Dover; Col White, at Kidderminster; Lord Paget, at Liteh- field, and M. F. Reel,’at Berry..... As a rule, the contest had gone off satisfactorily, and with very little rivting..... Numerous elections were progressing when the Peruvian sailed, and it would be another week before the county con- tests would be decided..... Forty-three passen- gers of the burning ship William Nelson had been picked up by the ship Mereury, and arrived at Havre frow New York..... Coumercial news not important. Breadsteffs quiet and steady. Corn

meetings in comparison with the disgracetul scenes attendant here on the most quiet electiona. | { know it bas been customery with the English press to hold up American Elections as combining | all that is outrageous aud disgraceful, but I think ! L have passed through some of the noisiest elee- tions at Lowe, aud L know that they do not even approaca @ parallel with these almost invariably vceurring here. The bribery and corruption re- sort d to in England is of the most frightful de- scription, and at the polls, te say nothing ef order and decorum, the groaseat outrages and indecencies are practised and tolerated, with scarcely a rebuke even from the wore respect- able portion of the comanity.

I have seen men of education and refinement, baronets and lords, stand up to address these heterogeneous audiences, addressing to them words of flattery and even endearment, and | have seeu thew titerally pelted from the platform by showers of rotten eggs, to say nothing of other wissiles, such as dead cats and stinking fish ; and I have kuown such men as Lord Palmerston to apologise publicly fur rude conduct on the ground that it was ao exhibdi‘ion of playftuluess on the part ut ibe populace.—Loa. Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.

—————————— ee UNITED STATES. ee THE ARKEST OF JOHN MITCHELL. [¥rom the Dublin Nation, July 1°}

Jobn Mitchell has been arrested by the govern- meut and Mung into a dungeon, awaiting trial for high treason. We are deseribing the events of 1805, not the events of 1343. We are recording the acts of the American, not ef the English Go- verninent; for America has progressed tar of late days in copying “ the mother country,” and can now proudly boast of a “ uational debt,” and brag about putting duwn “ rebellions” al’ Anglaise. Jobo Mitebell must stand in the dock cuce more, to brave a courageous * rebel’s fate.” The coun- try that with wild raptures of welcome hailed and glorified Lim eleven years ago asa * rebel,” now consigus Lim to a duugeon for being a “ rebel.” Che streets that wituessed his triumphal entry eleven years ago, have seen biw dragged to a pri- son for the sawe virtue, or crime—whichever Americans may now call it. The jailor-general this tune is et Lord Clarendon; his nawe is Andrew Jobnson. How Euglaud and Russia must chuckle at all this!

Copying the “ mother country,” Ameriea bas been an enthusiastic swypathiser with “rebels” aud rebellions’ —everywhere but within her own do- minious. Like “ the wmoiber country,” America largely admired “ rebellion” against neighbours but not aginst herself. Eugland worshiped Kos- suth and murdered Lord Edward; gloritied Gari- baldi and manacled O'Brien; was virtuously in- dignant with the King of Naples for discomtorting the assassin who suught bis life, while she hersel| blew from the guns the Indiau “rebels” who rose agalust the regime of the Kittee! So Ame- riea also could welcome Kossuth, but ean slowly murder Davis, Miteheli, the “ rebel” against sowebody else, is worthy of weleome; buc Mit- chell, the “ rebel’ against “ us"—ah that is quite another business; Jet hin taste a“ rebel’s doom !”’

If this be the * glory” aud “ triumph” of Ame- rica, We should like to know what would be her shame and humilzation, unless, indeed, it be the terrible reproach of neglecting to disinter and bang in chains the skeletuns of those wicked * rebels” whose example Mr. Motchell has follow- ed: George Washington and Benjamin Franklin!

America the jailor of John Mitchell! What Next frow that “land of the free?” “The Star- Spangled Banuer” is being rapidly recoustructed vw the model of the * Union Jack.”

Mrs. SuRRATT.—It is stated that Mrs. Surratt before Booth was captured, and while she was at the Carroll Prison, was offered a free and uncou- ditioval pardon for herself and son, if she would accompany an officer in a buggy and point out ithe road which Booth had probably taken. She | protested that she had ne idea which read he had taken, and bad no knowledge of bis intentions to assassivate the Presideut when he visited the house, and positively refused to accompany the officer, as she could be of no service.

Washington is said tu be pervaded with the es- ee of defunct horses, aud is getting to be very sickly.

It is a singular fact — as stated by one of our exchanges — that no ebild was ever bora in the White House, at Washington.

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New York, July 22.—Official the facts that Jeff. Davis's health j us it has been at any time since his luprison- ment..... About all the correspoudence relating to Davis is pronounced by the authorities to be bogus... .. Bark A One, belonging to Providence, R. L., was sunk by a Cyclone, April 20th, near Akayab, and 13 lives lost..... A sudden tresbet jat Levanworth, Kansas, Wednesday wight, swept away 20 houses and other property to the value of $200,000. Seven dead bodies have been re- covered, and others were wissing..... Agents from North Carolina have come North to induce emigration tu that State, where large quantities of land, gold, iron and lead mines, are offered at most liberal rates to emigtauts..._. Gold 1423.

New York, July 22, P. M.~ The Hierald’s New Orleans correspondence says the Teche district of Lonisiana is filled with guerrilas, who have thus far defied the vational treops and citi- zous to capture them. They net ouly plunder rural districts, but euter towns and rob the stores... .. Capt. Wirge, the rebel commander of the Andersouville prison, will be tried next week bp 4 wilitary commission. .__. The number of troops sent to their homes from Washington over | the Baltinore and Olnw Railroad, since May 30,! when the disbanding of the armies commenced, up to the 17th July, was 208,087... .. Gold 14:

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firm at 26s. to 23. Cunsuls 90 tu 904 fur money. ----Gold 1423.

Che Examiner.

Charlottetown, July 31, 1865.

TENANT LEAGUE DISTURBANCES.

CHARLOTTETOWN was the scene of consider- able excitement on Wednesday last. ‘That was the day appointed for the examination of Mr. Charles Dickieson, of New Glasgow, who had been committed to jail a short time previously, as our last paper stated, charged with “riot, assault and rescue" at Curtisdale— the Sheriff's officers, as our readers wiil remember, having had at that place an encounter with Dichieson, and, as it was said, a large crowd of others, and, during the encounter, having been compelled to relinquish a horse and waggon belonging te a man named Proctor, seized for reat. At an early hour on Wednesday morning, groups of people might be seen at nearly all the corners about the City, und it was not difficult to perceive that they were wembers of the Tenant League, evidently bent upon making a demoustration in behalf of their unfortunate fellow member. It was, indeed, whispered that they contemplated a rescue; and the authorities, apprehending such a thing, bad taken the precaution to swear in about twenty- five or thirty special constables, whom they had armed with cavalry pistols, loaded with ball car- tridge. These pistols were issued by order of His Honor the Administrator, with the advice of the Executive Council, an a representation being made to the Colonial Secretary by the High Sheriff, tu the effect that ficevarms were indis- pensa ble. ’

When Dickieson was brought from the jail about two o'clock—the Sheriff, assisted by some Magistrates, the Police officers and special consta- bles—the Leaguers, numbering from 250 to 300, gathered round the escort from the jail, but no in- terruption or violence was attempted. The ex- amination, conducted by Theo. DesBrisay, Esq., the comiitting Maisgtrate, assisted by His Wor- ship the Mayor, did not oceupy much time, nor elicit uch more information than we had pre- viously possessed, and Dickieson stood committed4 to the Supreme Court for trial; but bail was im- wediately offered aud accepted for his appearance.

No sooner was this business completed—Dickie- son's friends as well as himself rejoicing at the prospect of bis liberty for a while at least—than the Deputy Sheriff stepped forward and arrested his body on an execution for rent. This was a very sudden surprise; aud no sooner were the Leaguers told that Dickieson would have to go to jail again, than they ‘gathered in a tumul- tuous crowd, followed and pressed upon the offi. cers of the law in charge of the prisoner, and pelted stones in abundaut showers; while one, at least, of the leading men of the League, who dues not live far from: Lot 49, wildly vociferated, “Rescue him! reseue him!’ That a rescue was intended at this time, admits of not a particle ot doubt; and it would have been effeeted but for the vigorous efforts of the Police Officers and Special Constables, who used their batons with crushing effeet upon the crowd that pressed upon them. There was a considerable number of damaged beads, but none of the wounds were of a very serious character. Two shots were fired, but we suspect they were fired more by accident than intent; and we are happy to say that no one was burt by them. Dickieson was securely locked up; aud long before dark, the excited, tumultuous Leaguers had dispersed to their homes, crest- fallen, aud several of them bearing warks of the melee. fl :

We hope we shall hearse more nonsense from the organ of the League, Ross's Weekly, about the law-abiding spirit aud the-eunstitutional char- acter of this uost mischievous organization. ‘The couduct of the League men on Wednesday was in strict accordance with their pledge, which proposes resistance tu the law betere the payment of reat eball be exacted. We have conversed with several of these misguided wen lately, who are in really independent circumstances, who es- timate the vulue of their property by several

hundreds, and in some cases by thousands — and they have assured us that they would rather part.

with every shilling they own, or every shilling’s worth, and undergo any penalty and suffering, than pay one penny of reut. “ Better,” said we,

\“to pay reat, however great the hardskip, than | baving had a railroad ride of about 400 miles

pay exorbitant fees tu lawyers—undergo degrad-

. ‘ing and health-desiroying imprisonment, and baye field, 1 might say, of corn and wheat.

| Chote preperty afterwards foreibly taken fron: arrived all safe at the Tinde them to pay the original bill, more than doubled, General Sherman and Staff are at present pir PROVINCIA /perhaps, by costs.” Other debts, they state, | stayieg; and immediately on our arrival a

they are willing tu pay; but they look upon the | landlord's claim as a swindle, and they are deter- | mined to resist it to the last extremity, no matter what the consequences may be. And yet, men apparently sensible and rational upon all other subjects, who talk thus, ageure us that the League, to which they are pledged, has an honest, lawful, and constitutional basis! Did ever poor human judgment labor under such a delusivn ?

In connection with the case of Charles Dickie- son, we saw it stated in Ross's Weekly of Thurs- day last that the riotous proceedings of Wed- nesday were, in ® measure, oecasioned by a report which kad got into the country to the effect, that he, Dickieson, ‘was a prisoner in one of the lowest dungeons, and that no one could see him under any circumstances. ‘i'o every applica- tion a blunt refusal was given, and even his own brother had to return home without even the pri- vilege of having one word with him.” Ross's Weekly then proceeds to tell us that the bundreds who came to town un Wednesday, and disgraced themselves by their lawless conduct, were only anxious ‘to know if such tyranny and hardsbip had been actually praetised upon the unfortunate wan.”