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the flower of the Turkish army. It is remarked that the | and rotted and stank, and stink "the jmmense anfount of Russians have begun to arm their ships in the harbor of Sebas-| are half starving. Ju the same way ¢ F om - is chast ofts topol, while a portion of the English fleet is thought to be in timber which washed about the harbour = svlige 4 cw an Sinope, and a part of the French fleet at Constantinople. It side, and which would have answered r oat + oe day as surmised that the Russians were meditating a dash by | and for fuel, was permitted to drift ou te cna Sea, to try what chance there was of an attack on our dimi- when the freshet set in to the head of ats nae pad Nittla of

pished squadrons. rains, and when the wind biew off the shore, an a y Sai - ik, it was saved, though woe betide the luckless wretch who J

be found by the Provost-Marshal walking off with a piece 0

THE WAR IN TH CRIMEA. wood for his hut without an order.

Suspension of the Siege-Uncared for Sufferings of the! The French in the Quarantine Battery: | British Soldiers. | Phe struggle between French and Russian riflemen, Came perorr Szsastopol, Novemser 95, — Althoug! | by artillery, was renewed last night as usual. The Prort St may be dangerous to communicate facts likely to boo! | bone of contention, in addition to the Ovens, Is = a a ‘ . t acrs t c . . —) ave i sarvice to the Tiussians, it is certainly hazardous to couceal jat the Quarantine Battery, of a ihe. renem. TE > mone e sessi though, truth to tell, truth from the English e. They must know, sooner | possession, ga. ¢ , ode ee that the seks rome for ser days practically | position very materially. The Liege rifles used by the Russiaus ’ - ° } apended, that our batteries are used up and silent, and | ; — hee dat bas army are much exhausted by the effects of exces-| done, as the combatants fire entirely at the one hiefs, of sive labour and watching, and by the wet and storms to | opponents’ weapons. | We have altered the hours of reticts, which they have been so incessantly exposed. The Russians | despatch of ammunition to the a. will know this soon enough. ‘They are aware of it long ere’ the Russian artillerymen, who are generally wont this, for a sileat battery—to hazard a bull — speaks fer itself. | q sales datin The relaxation of our fire is self-evident, but our army, | Waggons aud mea are moving Cure: Staal though weakened by sickness, is still equal to hold its position | have spiked five guns in their rusa inside Devastopo’s and to inilict the most signal chastisement on any assailants | An Irish Dragoon in Battle. who may venture to attack them.

‘us with a salvo of shot about the time when they expect our

In fact, I believe nothing |

would s0 animate our men, deprived as they are of Gagnsee, Dorset Chronicle. is from a captain -in the Enaniskill

aided

it does pot benefit their | With this view,

ici ei : scution are very efficient Weapons, but there is not much execut

trenches, &e., so as to bother | single bullet struck the French, ahh uvour | showed to our allies the precise position of the enemy, and

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‘jutended for road metal.

The Russian Sortie of the 29th November —

A litde before midmght of the 28rh, the French pieqnet heard an unusual amount of noise and bustle going op 1™ the Flagstaff Battery. One of them volunteered to advance, and creeping forward unobserved, distinguished through the gloom a body of Russians, between 2,000 and 3,000 strong, forming in column in the rear of the battery. He instautly returned, but in doing so was seen and fired at by the enemy, who began to move forward in the direction of the French earth- work. fortuvately, however, by that time all in it were on ‘the alert, avd instead of waiting, as they should have done, | and firing ou the enemy fiom under cover, they determined / upon sailying out and meeting the Russiaus on the glacis, the French, who were not more than 7U0 strong, mounted the parapet of the battery and awaited the

assauit,

the volley was so utterly confused and ul-directed that not a The musketry instanily

taking cool aim from the parapetof the battery, they gave,

Tne French are said to|in return, three murderous volleys, which told with fearful

effect among their crowded ranks. The whole column of Russians wavered and halted, and the French, with more bravery than prudence. ru-bed from the battery and charged

The following remarkable letter, which we find in the | them with the bayonet. As they closed with their antagonists, eM | the Russians,who had been rallied by the voice and example of

ing words and of the —— personal presence and exhorta- | Pragoons, a regiment whose olden fame has been brilltantly ‘their officers, fired a volley, which, had it been steady and Pp ©

tions of their generals, snd are + stimulating | maintained in the recent cavalry action in the Crimea :— influences beyond those of their undaunted spirits and glorious | “"™ C Te i oan Me A courage, as the prospect of meeting the Russians outside their | — eee gle OE intrenchments, and deciding the campaign by the point of the) Duar Jack.— * * * I am, you see, a ~s i - bayonet. It is now pguring rain—the skies are black asink | but God knows for how lung after. You have, 7 presu re —the wind is howling over the staggering tents—the trenches | devoured all the er aay we boon sent home as ! are turned into dykes—in the tents the water is sometimes a) our glorious charge. , such a charge! foot deep—our cn have not either warm or waterproof the sallop and trot Ww clothing—they are out for 12 hours at a time in the trenches Pheenix Park, when you desire to form a notion of a arg —they are plunged into the inevitable ae of ve peat pet — ange. such as that I we ans mont. campaign—and not a soul seems to care for their comfort, or| with a few lance prods, minus some gold lace, & he'me pam g their lives. These are hard truths, but the people | chain, and Brown Bill’s (the charger’s) right ear. From of England must hear them, They must know that the the moment we dashed at the enemy, whose position, and so wretched beggar who wanders about the streets of London in | forth, you doubtless know as much about as I ean tell you, L the rain leads the life of a prince compared with the British} knew nothing, bat that I was impelled by some irrestible soldiers who are fighting out here fer their country, and who, | force onward, and by some invisible and imperceptible ine we are complacently assured by ms home Le Pat ry ‘fluence to Pree — or ee my best appointed army in Europe, They are well fed, indeed, | good sword and brave old charger. nev : but they have no shelter, no 0 ay oe Fe ato ce iivieneel such a pre gare tes in oe of weather. Thetents, so long exposed to the biaze of a touiga- the charge. Some fellows talk of 1 cing emoniac. rian sun, and now iatintalty S sbhcel by torrents of rain, | I know this, that it was such as made me a match for any let the wet through “like sieves,” and are perfectly useless as | two ordinary men, and gave me such an amount of glorious | protections against the weather. No one despairs of success indifference as to life, as I thought it impossible to be master and victory, but the country ought to know how dearly they | of. It would do your Celtic heart good to hear the most are earned, and to whom they are due. magnificent cheer with ee ae eee W. ; : . . calis “the gully serimmage.” Forward,—dash—bang— Furious Fight~Russian Intrenchments carried by clank,—and pl we were in the midst of such smoke, the French: . cheer, and clatter, as never before stuaned a mortal’s ear. Last night (24) there was a brisk affair between the Freuch It was glorioas. Down, one by one. aye, two by two, fell Chasseurs de Vineenues and the Russian riflemen - f ront of the thick-skulled and over vumerous Cossacks and otber lads the Flagstaff Battery earthworks, and the Russians dispelled of the tribe of old Nick. Down, too, alas, fell many a all absurd myths about their want of powder and ball by a hero with a warm Celtic heart, and more than one fell most tremendous cannonade. Assaults and counter-assaults screaming loud for victory. I could not pause. It was all continued amid a furious fire, which tighted ve the skies with (push, wheel, frenzy, strike, and down, down, down they sheets of flame from 9 o'clock at night till near 4 in the morn-| vent. Twice [ was unhorsed, and more than once I had to | ing. The French at one time actually penetrated behind the | rip my sword tighter, the blood of foes streaming down outer intrenchments, and established themselves for a time |. 6, the hilt, and running up my very sleeve. Qur old within the enceinte, but, as there was no preparations made | Waterloo comrades, the Greys, and ourselves, were the only for a general Geaalt, they withdrew eventually. Volleys “ fellows who flung head!cng first into the very heart of the musketry and salvoes of cannon roared through te camp ,Museovites. Now we were lost in their ranks—now in little during the whole night, but very few lost their rest in conse-|) ,a. bat tling—now in good order togethor—now in, and

2 . ee q } , i Preach a Seemnae ae tain cine ai ore ot The} now out—until the whole “ Heavies” on the spot plunged + .

‘into a forming body of the enemy, and helped us to end the Neglect of the Ships at Bala Clava.

fight by compelling the foe to fly. Never did men run so The gales of wind to which the fleet has been exposed are | vehemently —but all this you have read in the papers. excessively strong and violent. very night there is a storin |

L cannot depict my feelings when we returned. for a few hours; every day there is a “ breeze of wind” and, down completely exhausted and unable to eat, though deadly rain. Will it be credited that, with all our naval officers | ba"gry-

All my uniform, my hands, my very face were in Bala Clava with nothing else to do— with our emdarras | bespattered _ ae eee eee ee des richesses of captains, commanders and lieutenants —| idea! Bat my feclings—they were eet there is no more care taken for the vessels in Bala Clava than if they were colliers in a gale off Newcastle? Ships come in and anchor where they like, do what they like, go out when they like, and are permitted to perform whatever vagaries they like, in accordance with the old rule of “ higgledy piggledy, rough and tumble,” combined with “hap »y-go- lucky.” The vessels in Kamiesch Bay are about tenfuld more numerous than those in Bala Clava, yet the order and regu- _— en prevail in the French marine are in the most : : “alta IP

i een nena tae or the march of Celtie bands—never! Qh, that I could have

: patience to write you of'such deeds of individual heroism

avers that our merchant captains won't attend to him. Capt. h thi tee! Fictioni habb Powell, of the Vesuvius. a most active ani indefatigable | * ave come within my noice ictionistS are sha y No novel ever had a sham hero

officer, is beach master, but he has no power of interference judges of true bravery. — , | who comes up to the realities | have witnessed. One of my _troop for instance, had his horse shot under him in the melee.

in such matters, and there is no harbour police whatever, A “ Bloody wars,” he roared, “ this won’t do,” and right at a

drunken man may put an end to the British expedition pro. wind to which this narrow lake is exposed, nothing could | Russian he ran, pulled him from his horse by the sword-hand

steel alone, and at least as many more put on the passage to that peaceful exit by the same excellent weapon. So also can others say. What a thing to reflect on! I have almost grown a soldier, philosopher, aud most probably will be one of these days, if the bullets which are flying about so abundantly give me time to brush up.

My dear fellow, our countrymen have not tarnished their fame in the Crimea. Gallantry and glory will never abandon

hac vice, for, if a vessel cauglit fire in one of the gales of

save the vessels, packed as they are without order or arrange. | M1 the most extraordivary manner —then detiberately cutting |

off h's head as he came down, vaulted into the saddle, and turning the Russian charger aguinst its late friends, fought : his way. This took less time to do than I to tell it. I saw Preparations for the Renewal ofthe Bombardment. another of our fellows unhorsed, and wounded, ereep under

ment, with fouled anchors, cables crossing and re-crossing each other, and hawsers made faust iu every direction.

hich you have often witnessed in the |

T sat | read this.”

| weil-directed, would almost have destroyed the French. As) Ee was, however, it did but little mischief.

Before they had time to repeat it the French were among them with the bayonet, and a short but desperate struggle ensued. Each

¢ | wan used his bayonet or clubbed his musket according to his Never think of strength and the exigencies of his position, and after a regular

* scrimmage,” which lasted about ten minutes, the enemy gave way, and rushed back to the town in all directions. The French pursued them past the arsemal houses to the very ditch- es of their batteries, but which, from the smallness of their foree, they dared not then attempt to meddle with, and knowing from old experience that they would open fire the instant their own men were under cover, our gallant allies made all haste to return (indefatigable Zouaves, of course) found time to plunder the enemy’s guard-houses of beds, blankets, cooking untensils, and so forth, all of which were much wanted by themselves. Hardly had they got back to their battery when al] the Russian earthworks, as if in revenge for their defeat, opened a tremendous cannonade, and shot and shell were indiscriminately hurled against the English

and French lines for the space of half an hovr. This exhi- bition of valour was perfectly harmless; all the Allies were

under cover, but never returved a single shot, and, without

showing their position, allowed the storm to subside of itself.

This it did gradually at a liutle after one o'clock in the morning, | by which time the enemy had wasted about 500 rounds of shot and shell, and, as faras 1 have been able to ascertain,

without killing or wounding a single man on the side of the

Allies. In the actual contest with the sortie party the French

lost five officers and ninety-one men killed and wounded.

Tie Russians left the bodies of one officer and upwards of 250 men in front of the battery. Tho whole affair must have cost the enemy some G00 or T00 men hors de combat.

Correspondence,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

My pear Sin—A stray copy of the Is/ander of the 15th December, which I perceive by its eontents—for the printer now, as ever, appears ashamed to publish the name of his editor—is still edited by that emphatically bad man, Duncan MeLean, bas fallen .in my way, in which I see a misquoted extract from the Middlesex Journal, headed “ Americans With McLean's usual subtiety he endeavours to make it appear that the article in question is the production of my pen; and reprints it in the publication which he has debased so low that it is a standing disgrace to the Colony from which it emanates—its character abroad being on a par

| which it is impossible to describe. At least twelve Russians with McLean’s where he is personally known—for the pur- were sent wholly out of the * way of the war” by my good pose of endeavouring to injure me with a class of men among

whom I count many of my be-t and and most sincere friends. The article in question, re-printed in the Is/ander, is the production of a correspondent, and was forwarded to my office at a time when [ was absent, and the editorial manage- ment of the Middlesex Journal was vested in other hands, Setting aside my willingness to at a‘l times give the advocates of both sides of a question a fvir and impartial hearing through the columns of the periodical 1 control—and the correspondeuce alluded to touches on a subject now agitating this country from the Penobscot to the Gulf of Mexico—I do not, and cannot be considered, for the reason assigned, respousible for its publication, or the sentiments it expresses. The falsifying, double-dealing editor could not but have been well aware that he was quoting the letter of a cor- respondent, and the public will perceive that he was but sustaining his well known reputation for gross deception

A change of residence, my dear Sir, has not in the slightest degree altered my feelings and principles as regards

political principles were taught to me in a hard school; they

The preparations for the renewal of the bombardment ofa Russian charger, and run the sword up his belly. The | came in lessons not only of personal observation of the wrongs ‘f ; ; Sebastopol are proceeding with a certain degree of energy and | animal p!yoged and fell on his slayer, crushing him te pieces. | intiicted on my vative country through tory misrule and |ber position might be diseoyered; but no trace of her was

activity from day to day. _ The great obstacle to the gon-|* * We must take this doomed place even, as (Grady veyance of guns and ammunition up to the batteries is the says, if we be doomed who take it.

a few days, however, it is hoped that we shall have at least. charge was a desperate but a grand affair. Lord Raglan is 40 now guns mounted, and ready to open. These guns will | blamed. The general belief is that. Nolan gave his orders be furnished from the fleet, and are of excellent construction, | literally. Lucan is a regular fire-ball, but not mad enough but our artillerymen have as yet had no experience of their to have done that without strict commands. * * * * We practice, and I suppose they will be principally worked by the | want reinfurcements very badly; without them wa cannot naval brigade. The Stromboli has arrived in Bala Clava! continue to contend against fearful odds.

harbour from the fleet, carrying 16 32-pounders from the fare

armament of the Britannia, and the Firebrand came in this Scarcity of Food for the Soldiers.

afiernoon with 24 guns of the same description, and about 60 Dec. 1.— Yesterday the issue ef meat to the men of the 4on weight of shot and shell, There are also some new guns. Fourth Division was restricted in must instances to two danded from the Quebec of the south direst from England, and ounces of meat, and that meat was salt pork. This division

darge stores of ammunition are lying on the beach in readiness | received part of its grog or rations of rum. The general |

for transport, but the huge guns press the carriage wheels of | allowance of meat per man throughout the army new is balf ‘the trucks deeply into the soft earth, and our horse-power is # ration, or half'a pound, Sometimes this allowange is re- just now inadequate to move them up the hillside. | ‘our cavalry is at present employed in feeding itself. It is all meat. At 3 o'clock yesterday the men of one division had they havetodo. The men are sent down with their horses | received no rations whatever, but they were in hopes of from the camp to the watersidé every day, and carry back Setting full allowance. The Third Division and Artiliery

their fodder and rations. Monad Chinwbiil ia te

weit read (biscuii) is, however, j sntiful. iree Scandalous neglect and forbearance. roo é this aes yh eid i St aa OT ERR The correspondent of the Times says: It is perfectly dis: satuyated by heavy rains, has become quite un t for the graceful to the authorities, whoever they may be, to see on | passage of carts und arabas; but there is <. a deficiency of this, the 12th day after the gale, trusses of compressed hay ‘supplies, which may be attributed to the recent gales gt floating about and rotting in every direction in the barbour,! There is, therefore a. difficulty in. gettiu food t the while our horses are dying of wheer anition. Scandalous army from Bala Clava; and eealiahecdia aaa 8 neglect and indifference to the interests of the public service in the co uim'ssariat magiaieen in the latt ‘ — ore ehargeable somewhere or another in this matter. The though there is a cause, there is no Panay ah rs panes am meee beset press ~ man J dans had it, to shich the men are exposed, We were all told Ne eT

s fished out even in tha week after it foxted out of) the bad weather set in the coqutr ds would be impass | #he wiecks,.and the slight impreguation of the outer portion | The rawest lad froy Add: ae iy mR /by sult water would not haye rendered it at all distaarefol to | that < 2 ; a : rane ait ners Bb Se crate -tlie horses,,; But, no; we are all «Jolly miller wights” ontt banka inpuntain-trycks, beaten hard by w yeels aud ho:se- i RED SS CORY Oy hoo!s, which form the ryads to‘our camps, would be turned shere, and eare for nobody or nothing, and sd the Todder uated | into wud by a few hours’ rain, Still - fing oe was:

» @tdbobbed about, stranded on, the fringe of, aflewed a co Weand tbe ee fe the! abominatigas Tae tipus by the beach er servtiecae allowed ‘0 go by,and the roads were lelt.as the Tartars’ capis

off agaih had mde them, though the whole fics of the country is |

Indeed, duced to one-third, or even to one-quarter of a pound of sult |

had had no rum, and were on short allowance of rations. |

| oppressiod, but of dear-bought experience, and black-hearied,

Any one of our fellows malignant persecution from the clique of whom McLean is state of the roads, or rather of the tracks across the hills. Ln _is a match for three Russians. * * * * The light cavalry | 0 lies

the low hireling. My principles. as well as my affection for the people, are deep-rooted and permanent, not to be cradicated either by time or distance ; and it is possible that in the course of human events, McLean and his villainous coadjutors may yet again, asin days past, have cause to bear witness to this fact, Yours truly, JOHN J. PIPPY. Woburn, Mass., January 5, 1855.

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THE EXAMINER. |

CHARLOTTETOWN, P, E, 1., JANUARY 22, 1955.

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| THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Is, for the most part. very unimportant. Two or threc Colonia! and United States Mails have arrived here since our last publication ; but the intelligence they afford, either from the | Old World or the New, is meagre and unsatisfactory, The

} al 7 } i f Z ‘ > ’ Mail which reached Charlottetown on Thursday night brought | a sual portion only of her clothes could _ be discovered at -

advices of the arrival of the steamship Baltic at New York 2 - ’

with seven days later front Kurope. The following items of

‘iutelligence have ben received over the telegraph wires at St,

Johu aud Fredericton,

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| SEVEN PAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

| ARRIVAL OF THE ‘ BALTIC” CP NEW York.

(From the St. John N. B: Courier, January 13.)

| A telegraphig despatch was received at the N ews Room on

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the Cols gieumer Baltic, trom Liverpool, withdatemte 30th : Dedés oT. : i

The foremust ranks of the Russians, as they ran up, of their | discharged their muskets, “ pour encowrager les autres ;” but

when he covertly attempted to fasten the authorship 6n me. |

the people and the politics cf Prince Edward Island. My.

Thursday evening, announcing the arrival at New. York of|the bedigs, when, in a case of, Miss

(By the Quebec and Fredericton Telegraph Line.)

There is no news of importance from the Crimea,

A high diplomatic conference was to be held at the resi- ‘dence of the British Minister in Vienna on the 28th Decem- ‘ber, between the ambassadors of England, France, Austria, | Prussia and Russia, Prince Gortschakoff was to take part ‘in the discussion. The conference was to be of @ private | character.

| A Vienna despateh of the 25th says, that Gortschakoff

presented a note which he has received from St. Pete

‘for Count Boul. . [t is believed to be unsatisfactory, but it ‘is not the final reply of Russia.

| The affiirs before Sebastopol were unchanged up to the 20th December. The Russians claim to be doing considerable damage to the approaches of the Allies; nevertheless the French third parallel was mounted with cannon. The rein- ‘foreements of the Allies due to the 18th December reached 18,000, *

An official despatch in the Paris Moniteur from Balaklava says that the situation of the Allies is excellent. Genera} Liprandi with 40,900 men, was manceavring in the vicinity of Balaklava.

Menschikoff was sick, and Gen. Ostensacken was in com- mand.

In the meantime, 5,000 Turks had landed at Eupatoria.

The destination of Omar Pasha’s army was kept a profound secret. It was thought they would invest the North side of Sebastope.

Tne Railway expedition from England was already on the ‘way in seven steamers and two sailing ships, with all the ‘materials for constructing a Iailway from Balaklava to Sebas- topol. The wretched state of the couutry bad put almost a | stop to all operations. | The communication between Perekop an] Sinpheropol was ‘completely interrupted, and a week had transpired since’ a’ ‘courier had arrived at Oulessa from Sebastopol,

frost, and both armies were renewing thejy activity. | Admiral Hamelin, writing ov the 12th, says that for the ‘last four days the place has kept up a tolerably brisk fire. The enemy have made vigorous sorties against our lines, and those of the English. As soon as they reached the parapet. they were received by a well-directed volley of musketry, and repulsed.

An obstinate struggle at the point of the bayonet and a skir- mish, occurred near Iukermann, on the 14th,

On the 17th, Omar Pasha le‘t Schumia for Constantinople. His proposed future movements were not known.

The Turkish troops began to arrive from Varna on the 18th.

for sea.

It is probable the Russian garrison have mined the places in Sebastopol which they pretend to have left. ;

Tue Batrtc.—France and England have notified the Swe- dish Goverment that all intercourse between Finland and the Russian harbors in the White Sea is to be stopped.

Osten Sacken is removed from the 31 to the 4th corps, vice Dannenberg, who is disgraced.

The chief engineer #flicer who conducts the defence of Se- bastopol is Gea. Destrim, a Frenchman. ,

ConxsrantinopLe, Dec. 20th.—It is confidently asserted that a resolution has been adopted to storm Sebastopol as soon as the Turkish reinforeements come up. The French, itis said, are to storm, while the British and Turks attack Mensehikoff.

fc —_-—__ -- -—_ -+ wee > ---— -— ---— MELANQHOLY DEATH OF TWO YOUNG LADIES. ;

communicates to us the following particulars of the heart- rending death of two young ladies, one by drowning and the other by ethaustion on the ice near Suu-nerside: —“ On Tuesday last, the 16th instant, Thomas Itobins, jun., Miss Ann and Miss Mary Robins, and Miss Eliza Johason, (the former three of Bedeque, and the latter of Indian River,) were réturning, about 8 o’clock, p.m., fiom visiting their friends at Summerside. The night being rather dork, they got astray ou the ice in Bedeque Bay, (where no bushes were set down as a guide up to the date of the disaster). After driving for some length of time, Robins got out of the sleigh to lead his. horse, when suddenly the ice gave way beneath him—(there being an opening about twelve fect wide near to where he fell through)—about three and a half miles from Summerside, out the barbour, when the whole party, together with their horse and sleigh, were instantly submerged. Robins was the first to get out of the water, and he then helped out his sister Mary, she being near the edge of the iee, having the horse’s reins entangled about her feet, Her brother removed the reins, and threw the bite of them ‘over the neck and shoulders of his sister Ann, by which |means she was also brought out of the water. Eliza John- |son was on the off side of the opening, and appeared to hold on by the ice for some time. Robins, having exfrieated hig sisters from their perilous situation, then jumped from the ice

_he stood on to the sleigh, thinking that thereby he might alsa ‘secure Miss Johnson. He seized hold of a cloak which she ‘had on, but her person came not with it. Having wade furs 'ther search to find her, but in vain, it being se dark, and hearing a noise as if that of a person drowning, and feeling | the sleigh sinking under him, Robins returned to his sisters, whom he found suffering greatly fiom the cold and wet. They waited for some time on the ice, in the hope of hearing

| » oe . . some ery of distress from Miss Johnson, by means of which

iseen or heard; and the young man and his sisters moved 6u /a little distance, when they discovered a light, in’ the diree- | tion of which they walked—the horse meanwhile alive and swimming about, but could not be secured. After walking about a mile, Ann Robins, the elder sister, beeame exbaust- ed. Mary Robins and her brother belped her for some time, but finally she could not move any further, aud she sat down. | Tbe brother and sister still pursued their way towards the ‘light, in order that prompt assistance might be obtained for ‘their exhausted sister. Mary next became exhausted, but fortunately not until she approached the shore at Summerside. Here assistance was immediately had, and the poor young girl was at once conducted to Mr. Wm: MeEwen’s, where she was properly cared for.

“ It was now about half past twelve o'clock, and the “sad intelligence having rapidly spread throughout the settlement, a large number of persons volunteered to go in search of An Robins, as well as of Eliza Johnson. No trace could be found of either that night; but on the following morning, at daylight, the seareh being continued, Ann Robins was found lying on her fice on the ice, quite dead. The body of Misa Johnson was also found, shortly after, at the opening, a few yards from where she fell in—-ter elothes being eutangled in

the ice and lolly, prevented her from sinking to the bottom ;

‘first. The bodiés/6f these unfortunate young ladies, placed \side., by side—a_ heart-rending spectacle for tucir sorrowl parents —were then removed. to Summ side, to awaity Coroner’s Inquest. Miss. Anw..Robins, it is said, was,25 years of age, aud Miss Jchnson 27 years. Pheirme fate, thus cut off with hopeful, bounding hearts, in the blob of womanhood—creates a profound apd painful. sensation, . “Mary Robins suffered very mel from the intense cold of the night; oue of her feet and her two arms were much injured by the frost; batshe is recoverjpg rapidly. «An Lnquest was hejd on Wednesday evening on view of

“ Accidentally drowned,” was rendered 5.1

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| Ana Rolias; “ Died from cold 484 exhaistioad’s oof

At the last accounts the weather had improved, with heavy “s

Twenty-two ships have been equipped and are now ready - J | [Upp ¥

A correspondent, writing at Bedeque on the 18th instant,

a Ba?