rr r323 mrj g dreadful shipwreck the gfcugotf ffrrojd gives ibc following ac cost of the dreadful shipwreck of the brig eimoulh wilh two bundrejaml forty lives we announce with extreme pain ih2i during the storm of ust week a lamentable shipwreck has occurred en the shores of way been accompanied with the most extensive loss cf fife which has tafcn place on the west coast ilhiti our remembrance i h vl f scotland indulgence was brought to glasgow on satur day afiemoon last by three seamen being the qiv survivors nf the crew ami passenger o orig exmonthof newcastle who bad been frwardeu from way in the modem athens teamer chiene the factor for mr campbell of islay accnnlingto their slate- ttcnl ibe exmoulh of 320 tow o which eftne booth of sunderland was master sailed fttm londonderry for quebec between three fiil four oclock on the morning of sunday the 25th aft with a light southwest breeze he bad a crew of eleren men inclusive of captain and about 240 emigrants consist- jp principally omall farmers and tradesmen jwith their families who bad torned their little ajljjito jnnney for the purpose of escaping the famineand earning for themselves a home in the tem world many were females and children going out to join thei fathers and imotecwra who bad already settled in canada and who had beckoned those who were dear to them across the atlantic there were also hfca a- camn passengers young unmarried ladies fhe middle classes two of them beingsis- tetbn their way to join their relatives at st 7tu ftew brunswick the vessel was vegistered for 165 passengers but as two children coint as one adult and as a very jarge proportion were under agr there being jonly about 60 men amongst the passengers of the wreck who jire our in- isrwranla think that the total number of these iirfaled emigrants must have amounted to the total slated viz two hundred and forty the ship tost sight of the loom of the land about 4 oclock on sunday afternoon the ireew which had been light in the morning increased to a gale daring the day and about xi p m it came in terrific squalls accom panied by heavy torrents of rain they then itfrledthe fore and mail sails the wind which had been westward at first veered northerly and the storm increased in violence which blew the two topsaifs from the boll rooe the crew then set the foresails and spanker and rommenced to bend two other topsails which they furled but about three in the morning were mown from the fleets previous to this the jib had been stowed the larboard tacks on board and the ship was now airing to the southward and eastward the reason of the master not standing n the west ward when the wind became northerly and where be would hare ample sea room was for the purpose of attaining some harbor of refuge where he might repair damages and replace the sails shortly after this on monday forenoon tha long boaj was unshipped from the chocks hy the force of the iea which successively broke over the vessel and in the course of the same forenoon the bulwarks were stove in anil the life boat washed away the gale continued with some violence during he whol of mon day night and tuesday and an indication of the force of the hurricane maybe leagued from the fact that on the latter day the mainsail after bein furled was lorn from the gaskets by the storm mau while the crew were seutttorfrtwtiilt ttttmmr4rrfv the mr topes and the topsail mast was unshipped and main gaffearried away which rendered them tunable to carry the spanker during ibis ifreary time the vessel pitched dread full y- now on the crest of a mountain wave and in two seconds afterwards reeling in the re ugh of the sea the passengers were all hhow under hatches many of them insensible to ex ternal danger from the pains of seasickness hutallwertnotso some of ihem had a fear- ful presentiment of disaster and it would be 1 difficult to say whether the parents suffered the greater apmy from the cries of their chil dren pent up in the dark noisome hold or from the innocent prattle which betrayid no fear or consciousness of the unhappy fate v bich was so won to overtake them cooking of courted vas out of the question but thegiown- up people had no heart to be hungry and moreover the cooked provimons brought from londonderry were not entirely exhusted ahout 12 oclock on tuesday night land and alight were seen on the starboard quarter which capt booth at first took to be he light on the island of toiyoffthe northwest coast of ireland and in the belief that he thus had atnjile sea room in the course he was strering 1 bore along as he drifted near the land sweve and observed that the light was a bng instead of a stationary one lie became konscmft jr is error and dangerous position and rniatj effort to repair it by bringing 1behip farther to the cgljtfyward ayi west ward and aith ttujjew cf u clawing her off the land the mvfatqpoul and the forelop- rnast staysail were skaadlhejib half hoisted the tffort however tons an ineffectual one the ahip soon got tooiigst the hmken water nd at halfpast 12 on wednesday morning t dashed amongst the rocks- ff the above be a correct version of the impression on the captainvminfl as to his position and it is iretinctly sam to he by the two survivors wltom e have teen the result shows that he ntust tiave been fatly a hundred miles out of his rakoaing- hut perhaps u could not well be otherwise- the sua was obscured during all it time of this brief and disastrous voyage byldack driving clouds which distilled er- ftetual rains the moon was only seen through afceavy haze at fitful intervals and from these cavses it was impossible that any observation coa1d he taken the light seen watn reality jhatof otansa 0toversayon the point of the shihns or runs of stay to the northwest of the entrance of locbindaul and the land seen and on which lite brig eventually struck was the western part of the ironbound coast of the island she went ashore with all the ails already mentioned fully distended ami after striking once was dashed broadside on the rocks whicft rose to the height of the masthead she struck violently against the rocks three times and at the fourth stroke the mainraifct went by he board and fell into a chasm of the rock an hour and a half previously when capt booth observed his dangerous proximity to the shore he took his station in the maintop that he might person ally keep a lockout and see how the land tore and from this place he occasionally gave lis orders to he crew as soon as the brig tmck john cheat he mate and all the seamen eight in number joined the caitain in the maintop leafing the captains son a youth nf about 15 years of age asleep in his cot below after remaining in the maintop sbontihree minutes five of the crew went down for the purpose of ascendingthe foretop thinking they would have a better chance of paining the shore from that part of the ship at the same time one of tht crew named john scott went out upon the mainyard with a life buoy on bis person thus leaving in the main top the captain and three teamen whose names arc john mevens wm coulthard and geo ltghtford all belonging to south shields we have taid that he maintop alon with ibe wreck of the mast was thrown into the rift or chairn of the rock and immediately forwards coulthard then ligbtford and anally fteveai scrambled op to the topmast tffcng and obtained a footing on the crags as it m ptub dark at this time the captain adtfl tfct sea their names and when they tu4 lafonwd bim be aij it wu their duty tfthrr in such a teniblt crim to jritaw tht nun when a all j xtfr itaif heads n they clung f tl 4f wm enabud to main- fwftfc jud irtoa tby looked round after the sea had retired they found that the captain and all were gone the mainmast hid been broken into splinters by the fcttrlh collision with the rocks and this recoiling wave had not only draped the ship but the fragments of the rflast which ad hered to her by the rigging further into thrf sa and thnscut oft from the dense msoc human beings on board every dianfl to escape had the wreck remained in th chism where it was originally thrown and from which the three survivor escape it might hate been used as a bridge by the otters but unhappily this last possibility of relief was taken away the same wave which effected this fearful havoc must also haw prevented the five seamen from reaching the foretop from which they might have had a chance of escaping a quarter of an hour elasped from thetime of the brig first striking uiitil the thsee survivors ot upon the rock at the moment she struck and a little pre vioistoit about half a dozen of the mile passengers were standing on the deck oc- ca si on ally asking the mate there was in occasion expose the preacher to the ribald abuse of the nterestedand desitmwf knaves who haw told the peasantry that they we rj the finest peasantry on the earth and such like stereotyped terms of adulation- after admonishing the people upon the paramount necessity nf attending to the culture of the land ur menery observed what if such another year were to suc ceed the present it would take years before the effects of the calamity could be removed see what are the effects at present take the child in the nurses arms it is taught to cry and brought up in lying from its very in fancy the practice of deceit is carried to such a height that it is almost impossible to get a direct answer from any of the unfortu nate creatures who swarm around us the state of society has become completely demoral ized lying cheating deception and stealing are making fast inroads on the social order of these poor creatures the suffering of the irish people has been the grotfth of centuries but has been matured and burst with accumu lated force this year for centuries those casinnaicy asteing rne mare ii mere wm mi fated lorce tnis year tot cen nines muse wahty any danger but as the latter welli who ought to have protected and stretched kfltftv theperib of their position from the broken water seen around he answeed them not of the three yoong ladies who were cabin passengers one of the sister had been confined to hej by sea sickness from the moment ofleavmg derrybut at loon tuesday night the other two took aheir jmsuion i the companion way and anxiously gazed on sea and sky till their agonising doubts were realised by the fearful catasttophe at halfpast 12 they wore seen there when he survivors last gazed on tht deck the ship was ground and crunched so frightfully amongst the rocks that she miisthave broken up almost instan taneously there was no cry of despairing agony from the multitude of gods creatures cooped up wilhih the hull of the illfated brig or at past it was unheard for the com motion of the elements was so furious that the men on the top could scarcely hear each other at the tojiof their voices the great mass of the emigrants therefore mutt have perished in their berths as the rocks rapidly thumped the bottom out of the vessel and though there miht he one universal shriek within a very few minutes all was hushed save the wild wind and the remorseless dash of billows the three men who had escaped to the rock so soon as the ship entirely disappeared searched anxiously for sqme outlet by which they might reach the mainland but none such could he found anil they finally took shelter in a crevice which however did not shelter them from the rain which fell hea vily all night and here they remained till grey daylight tkey then discovered an opening through which they scrambled to the summit and having travelled abont a mile they saw some rattle on a waste or muir near which they lay down in the hope that some peisnn would oon come to look after them and take them away no one came however and after day had fairly broken the men got up from thu grass and ascended an elevation near at hand from which they farm house about half a mile distant thither they proceeded and were most hospitably nourished and put to bed they were thoroughly worn nut by eshaustatinn not one of the crew having been in hd from the moment the ship left dcrry they were at the same time nearly naked from having divested themselves of twir heavy clothing when the exmnulh struhcy and mtnart nf hat which remained when scrambling on the rigging and amongst ihe rocks the hospi table farmer whose name we bave not learned and others who had been apprized by him went to the scene of the catastrophe but of course too late to help and only to gaze on the desolation mr chiene islays j factor soon heard of the event and kindly ftinviphed the men with a passage to glasgow by the modern athens steamer where as already siatefl they arrived on saturday last her- they wr consigned to the care of mr ftatdjof the naval rendezvous and as- sislant to jteol forrest agent for the ship wrecked mariners society nftd by him they have been clothed and comfortably boarded in the meantime they wih be franked to newcastle 5n the course of today or to- morrow- on thursday afternoon the latest dte of our advices from islay about twenty of the bodies had come ashore they weie princi pally females with one little boy among them and as many of them were in their night clothes ihe probability is that they were those who had rushed upon the deck at the just alarm caused by the striking of the ship they were frarfolly mangled by being dashed amongst the rocks and being jammed within the crevices along with pieces of tbewreck few of which were above two feet in length- other bodies were seen floating in he surf but the sea was still too high to permit any boat venturing out to bring them in the befief however that the great mass of the poor emigrants went down with the between decks of the ship and that their bodies will not be recovered till this part of the vessel breaks up the exmouth had nothing on board but ballast atrd the provisions and little stock of goods of the emigrants she is the property of mr johneden of south shields and though old is stated by the survivors to have been well found in every respect all the crew and passengeis were perfectly sober daring this fearful time and the three seamen state that they never saw drink on board at all the captain was in the prime of life and has left a widow and family all the rest of the seamen were unmarried with the ex ception of a man named george ross who is amongst those who perished according to the above estimate the number who have been thus suddenly called to their account amounts to 248 but even leaving room for misinformation or exaggeration the loss has unquestionably been frightful whether or not this fearful shipwreck may hare been partly caused by negligence or unseaworthiness we cannot say we have no reason ta state that it is so but still the public voice will demand a searching inquiry we have only 4o add that ihe above narra tive has been principally made up from the forth the fostering arm have neglected us for centuries those who ought to have been our friends have treated usmorelike enemies for centuries lias tht light of education been sedulously kept from us and ignorance cher ished and fostered while the arts and scien ces have progressed in the snrroundiog nations we have been kept in darkness interested and designing knaves have told you yon were the finest peasantry on the earth that you were enlightened and so forth those who told you so were impostors you are not if i wished to curry your favor i would tell you the same but no i i will not i must tell you the truth however disagreeable or how ever harshly you may think of me you are a patient people i believe you lo be a warm hearted and a religious people hut yon are an unenlightened people not half educated and very few decrees removed from barbarism we are now arrived at a period when the peo ple must help themselves and the first step to that is lo till the ground let every one who holds the smallest portion of ground the smallest nook or patch of a garden put down seed commit it lo the earth and call upon the name of the lord with fervency and piety and he for prayer moves the arm that guides theniverse will hear yon in your tribulation f you allow a few weeks nay a few days to pass away without doing this ihe time for this year will be irretrievably gone and you will have to endure for five or six year the misery which this neglect will necessarily entail upon yon your sons will have to work by the road side without the opportunity of receiving that moral culture so necessary to make them fitting members of a civilized com munity every one will make a god of his belly forgetting that god to whose divine will we should at all times bow neglecting the sacraments and devoting your thoughts to satisfy the cravings of appetite you will he chea steal and decrive one another and ulti mately deceive yourselves the weaker observed a portion of you your wives and daughters- will bave to join in the breaking of stones on the road side where from listening to the loose conversation perhaps blasphemy of her course companions the woman so situated may nay must become demoralized and con taminated the suffering which the irish have endured by the loss of their staple food and indeed i muit any it wa a bad one has reillhitftiififwpbpwrtkv world and sympathizing nations have gener ously stepped forward to assist them but thi sympathy and aid which you have derived from other nations has been given because they have seen that the present calamity has not been of vourown making but if you do not shake oft this apathy this torpor which sterns to be taking possession of yoor very souls and do all in your power lo produce foo for the next year instead of exciting their sympathy you will create their contempt and you will become a byword to the nations of the earth as a lazy indolent mean people who would rather trust to the bounty of others than exert themselves if you do not help yourselves man will not help you nor will god help you the increase of crtmk on saturday night last says the tip- perary constitution two murders were perpetrated at killan- kin in this county within 11 miles of cahir at the mitcheutown side the facts are these a man named michael brien went to clogheeu in sell oats and having disposed of it he re turned home in the evening two acquain tances of his named william and lawrence cull came to his house and after remaining some time they departed brien and one of his daughters went to bed another daughter about 10 years of age remaining sitting at the fire some time after the culls entered the house and look their seats by the fire the daughter who had gone to bed meanwhile fell asleep but was soon aroused by the crackling of fire she immediately got up and found her sister burned to death she then called her father but he made no reply and being almost suffo cated with the smoke she left the house in a short time it was ascertained that the father was dead the money of the oats was taken off an inquest was held on monday before mr w ryan coroner dr bagwell after examining the bodies stated he found two severe fractures on brien vhead a verdict in accordance with the facts was returned and both the culls have been committed the waterford paper thus narrates the par ticularsof the kilkenny murder on monday night a most cruel and savage njnrder was committed in the county kilkenny determined within foe next week or two boldly to appropriate t customary quantity of land to the gram 0 their favorite es culent the truth j the farmers never deemed jthe failure 0 year ah the year before conclj lo i vitality or if they still hav apprhenions they re solve to make this rtu before tbey give tt up as lost they canntf a to do that easily no root or rai n is or ever will be a substi tute in their estimation for the potatoe as an article of domestic unless indeed rentsare everywhere reduced onehalf and not even then because thoustnds who understood in some degree its tnatinent and were able to procure means for its cultivation could not perhaps for twe remcimler ot their livesarquire the necessary skill aid capital to grow food of another character the richest and best of all the roots naittd as sibstitutes could not take the place of ine potabe in the cottiers or the farmers domestic onomy as well on that account as became the familiar root pro mises to prosper thy cling to it resolvedly and prepare to try mother and a last experi ment the number of irwi who came from ireland into liverpool durinthe month of march is 50100 above 35wcame over on the 27th tbe expense of mantainmr them is between 600 and 700 pe week luge sheds capable of holding miveen 400 and 500 fever patients have been hired in great howard street at a rent of 00 per annum and addi tional feversheds arvto he built near the fever hospital tbe dead jd taken up by their rela tives to the wprkbona cemetery at all hours of the day sometime night in coffins some times nailed add sonetimes not nailed and if the sates happen to closed they are left outside or put over the wall some of the medical men frightned by the number of patients are resigning their situations though their number has reently been doubled and an additional numberuust be appointed the cork examiflf contains ihe followins hocking element we ifain dy witnessed a most horrifying ondapalling spectacle at ho shandn gunrdliouse itlhe footof mallow ant under the ibedi aitachddo that buitdmguy eome thirtyeight human beiff old and young men women bud children ad infants of tlic tendcrest afo all huddled tortttr like o many pige or doc u the ground h an other covering mian the raji on ihcirrfrson and therein ihe last since or nitli and there they lay otnc dying some dad all giunt and yellow and hideous with famincand discate wc have con many sight of hour within the last month but never qnythiug equto this congregated matt of huintn debasement the smell that came from the unforiunatcs v3oftcnive inlheeifrcmc nod was sufficient of rwlf to propagate d two of iiimo died this morning a man and a child hw many wilt how them before evening to their horhoof cterncjce we may not ealcu- lte several doad botfi principally of children were found thta morniuin ynrion parts of the city hundreds of witched objects lie about under sheds without foddur covering the famine inwe highlands to the editor opk london time sir as ihe disttw of the poor high landers and islanders f scotland appears to bo but little thought w jf not altogether for gotten amidst the mtfcty din scut across the chnmivl by our less patent neighbors i here with forward to yun anextracl of a letter from british whig oplfer pfr orbsm dlcor kingston friday may 28 1s47 we have two political facts for our readers today two real facts and thats saying something in these piping times of on dils and guesses mr henry sherwood is attorney ap is general west and madame a solicitor general east who thejatter named individual may be we dont happen to know but possibly very many of our readers do not participate in the like ignorance but thats immaterial sufficient for the purposes of go vernment that she can obtain a seat in the honse of assembly neither of these appoint ments has been gazetted but both will appear in tomorrows official gazette having done with facts let us advance a few conjectures mr draper will accept the vacant judgeship with a distinct pledge that he shall have the vicechancellorship as soon as the present incumbent can be handsomely provided for audit is added that a commis sion is forthwith io be appointed to examine into the working of the court of chancery with a view to its simplification sir allan macnab is to retain his seat as speaker of the house of asembly mr de blaquiere to be speaker of the legislative council veiy problematical and mr wm morris to be president of the executive council and last lymr d- papineauis to remain at the crown lands office as chef with two deputies one uf whom it is said will be mr gowan thefrjendsof the new administration are very sanguine and full of hope they con fidently look forward to a majority of twelve on all leading questions and to a constant working majority of eight or nine some of the lukewarm friends to mr draper such as messrs hall meyer and some others will give messrs sherwood and macdonald their cordial support and all the old government retainers intend lo remain 6rm in their alle giance not one single enemy is made by the late changes but many doubtful allies are metamorphosed into staunch friends the complexion of the minitry is too tory to please uj but it is so long since we ex pressed a political wish or opinion that its color is not likely to annoy us we happen to he in that particular stage of oar career so pithily expressed by dantf in his inscription over the infernal gates all who enter here oope behind er leave v a lady residing in sky and hope that you the friend and advoote uf the poor of the united kingdom will vjviflaifav laiwwi inflneiiualjoumalj a raise your powerful voice hi beiialf of oiirsi fellow subjects the cruel injustice j to the po of scotland two sessions iback of depriving them nf their really good though in manv places dormant poor law a l- enacted as far back a i behove the reijgn of james vi and which gave them a lejgai right to sufficient snstcntation nnder the pretext of giving them a more efficient system is much to be deplored a it appear now such as cannot work arr miserably oflt i enclose my card am sir your most obedient scrvant h m a ixttw from the isle ot april 9 kxtract or statements of the survivors stevens and ligbtford whum we have seen separately and their accounts of this most lamentable ajfair are enugijpijar in addition one above we have learned hat a brie from new orleans put into bow- more islay during the week in distress with loss erf two men and bulwarks and a schooner with the loss of one man on the island of jura a bark a brig and a schooner are on shore v ireland state of the coontry matters seem to be getting from bad to worse no sonner do signsf f amelioration in the condition of the starving peasantry begin to manifest themselves than agrarian crime hitherto repressed by the extraordinary cir- cth9tanc of the country breaks forth in its old and fflnujnary form to ihe black record published in 7m times of saturday are now to be added three more murders two in the irish aceldema and the third in the adjacent county of kilkenny while upon tho subject ot the increase of crime it may not be here amiss to append an extract from a very remarkable discourse delivered on ladyday in the koman catholic chapel of tralee by the vary rev dr mc- enrry coming from inch a quarter it may br well fiippomd lht the wholeiome truths which thp rev gentleman has had the moral umrsgff to enunciate wui roo some fu at a place called bishops hallgate within about three miles of this city the murdered man was a steward of mr milward and was proceeding from waterford to his own house at ballynamorahan where he was attacked it appeared that he left this city about six oclock yesterday evening and when within half a mile of home he called at a publichouse kept by a man named john halligan he left halligans at 9 oclock and went in the direc tion of his own house but when within forty brches of it be was attacked and murdered e was found yesterday morning at 7 oclock and his head and face were so mutilated that he was only identified by his clothes his skull was fractured in several places and broken in with stones his clothes were much torn and from the marks on the road and traces of blood it would appear that he had struggled hard for life there were two houses quite convenient but strange to say no noise was heard nor any alarm give he was robbed of 4 which he had on his personal the time and it is supposed that the accursed love of money was the cause of his brutal deed as walsh was a most inoffensive and peace ably disposed man no trace of the murderers has j et been dscovrred though the police are on a keen look out for them tf potatoe the cork reporter says we have learned from various sources that no symptoms of disease in shoots or sets are as yet discover ed the indications give promise so far of the utmost beallhfulness the potatoe has not for many years been known to sprout more vigorously kvery one is now more sanguine than some weeks since tiny who planted timidly at first are preparing fast to try the ex periment on a larger scale to appropriate a crealer breadth of land to potato culture we have spoken with several who very recently were without hope hut wherte confidence seems now perfectly restored we know that some parliri who pay at tho rate of 7 an acre taxes included fur land contiguous lo the city planted hq rifling part of heir holding at an ejrlv period and reauuryd y jba colour strength and vcgilgicm ofttie shoot ire syke datcd march 31 you never saw ar heard anything more distressing to the feelings than the state the poor people are in in this part of the country for want of food and some for watit of clothing 1 have actually been told for i did not like to witness it that a number of the poor were on saturday last weeping like children when they saw that the meal store was done and no more to he given till tbe next supply should come which perhaps would nut b for a week or perhaps more and what makes it douhly sad is that they dont see a prospect of getting seed to sow the ground nor pota toes to plant the latter is the principal food of the very poorest it is delightful to see with what resignation the poor people bear with their wretched slate when we contrast them with the wild clamorous irish when so many contributions are made for them and so much meal sent to llieir relief there has been a government frigate jmg in the bay of purtee for several months back with meal for the people and other steamers are coming with supplies lo them hut they never give less than a ton or half a ion and the poor cannot buy so much should i bey die for want it may be said with troth that the proprietors do all they can for tlw n giving he able bodied men work lo enable them to support their families but sdb as cannot work are miserably off oblfpary lord cowmlt wo regret to announce that the pari mipers of wedltday brings us accounts of ihe death of the riglu hop ucd cowley the ulc htnbitaiadir of nlnd at the court of the tuilleriw the umenlpd event tnnfc place at his lordships residence in w pim vendome pari on tuesday eveninr s w km h hcen fr tome time pnal in a iwecariotis but for some diy previous t he had so far rallied that impc were tfrlcrtamcd of ins ultimate recovery at the cud h k hfcwevcr he bosun lureltiptttind he tinued to decline till death put an end to in rmhutffc lord cowley as tt is known to mnjil f ou w fuunjpr brother of tlic v of welfaf ton he was four years oungcf n his grace having been born in llti and pf consequently in the 74th your uf hit rge ts cowley in the course of his long life bold wr lh ah diplo matic offices bavin bcrm manv years am adnrot vienna and frortf ot puia lord ciwley i eded in hi lilc by bis on by a first marrmgff lhc hcm richard wolleslcv whu is rmrrtfp to the d tugliw of lord henry filxjcraltt nnd w baronjsdc lb sih walter scott- dyseniciy at the cpe of gki hope p way home rrni madras licnienani cv if sc bart of abbottford ebf d idst surmin child of the author of ir j w born in 1801 and was bcutcnant colmcl in tlic 15th huttft tho bary is cxtinol bm the abbotsford projwrty psff walter scott bck- hurt a coronet in the ifrh lcers the only ran of the oditor of the quar nd the only griuidsm of the aalhim j str w wm married io 1835 to miasjbsoo file who rtill hiirvivc risiktr or soooa akfv the death of tho recently uphnted btstffp 4odr and han dr w a shirley look rf lhe 2 hio lordship wan tho bdinprv turer or the present mir and had delivered w two of the lectures when his course was w wt terminated at tho very eommencoincni ll w boped of u crccr of 00010 uaofulnrstt tlic duko v arirylfr p nn lhc 2cth ull- in liiftlllfi ysflr ua r ucceeded in his stales and lionure by his onl j gcof msrqun of lorn who maricd in w eldest daunhurof tbo duko ur sutharunm- sir david finttldg 6 nwr admiral of the red and via adinim1 lh united kinndom died hi ths 23rd ult sd he wts ibe friend snd momftjflu of nclsortii iwriey ijgvd holism hytjn 1ark at the coming election h the city election will take place on tues day next in the city hall thefcrodof wednesday last ives tiding of opposition to the return by acclamation of the hon john aimacuondw it announces the fact that mr kenneth mackenzie intends to offer himself on the reform interest we can hardly credit the truth of this announcement although there is no rean to doubt its cor rectness- mr kenneth mackenzie is a gen tleman of talent and worth whose reputation is daily growing in public estimation and at the general election in 1848 we should be happy to see him take his seat a county member nay more would contribute our humble aid to further w desirable an underta king satisfied that a man of his independ ence and integrity would do honor and credit to any legislative body but his present op position to mr macdonald we by no means admire he has chosen his time so inoppor tunely that nearly the whole interest is ab sorbed by the more fortunate candidate and all that he can rationally expect is to be ig- nominously defeated the reform interest never was strong in kingston and by mr macdonalds affable manners and willing dis position to oblige it has of late been greatly diminished mr kenneth mackanzie there fore has dot the shadow of a chance of sue cess he may however have two other objects in view the one justifiable the other barety so except unde rpeculiar circumstances- he may wish to make his political debut and seizes hold of the present opportunity to give publicity to his political opinions in order to their diffusion over the arena of the future contest for parliamentary honors to this uw have no objection ptovided he conclude his opposition on the day of jiomination- but if mr kenneth mackenzie demands a poll un der the belief that the reform party in the house of assembly are sufficiently strong to make a demonstration and thai it be desira ble to keep mr macdonald from taking his seat for another week then we say that pre vious to so doing he should make himself ac quainted with the facts of the case and not give any factious opposition until he has con vinced himself that it will serve the purposes of his political friends if the government possess as it is said a clear majority of eleven independent of mr macdonajds vote then it can matter nothing to detain that gentleman in kingston we are sure mr kenneth mackenzie will not commit an illnatured action for the sake of the illnature alone the herald in announcing mr kenneth mackenzies intended opposition is pleased to indulge in some strong invective against the personal habits of the gentlemen forming the present administration whatever grounds the herald may have for this wholesale cen sure he has none for including mr macdonald in the mass of vice and corruption which he says disgraces the canadian metropolis mr macdonald is too well known in kingston to need any defence at our hands from this very shameful accusation r fafrthrtn atr royal by looking at he advertising columns it will be seen that mr john c potters company of comedians will begin their short season in kingston on tuesday night next reports speeks highly of thw company particularly of mr mrs jones from london and philadelphia but it is of no use blowing the trumpet too loudly in their prairie theyll be here soon and the public will then have an opportunity of judging for themielvci we have one piece of good news to tell tho play going folks which i that the proprietor of tha theatre intent to have the building entirely cleaned from fop to bottom beforu the opening night the brockville statesman and the hamilton spectator to tht editor of the british whig dear srn in the statesman of tuesday last i per ceive a violent and uncalled for attack upon the hamilton spectator and some sneers at mysel which i request to notice through the columns of your journal i do so because the article in the brockville print caught my eye first in this city and as i happen to have an hours leisure today i do not care to send a reply to the paper with which i am con nected and thus lose a week in returning mr gowans compliment an additional excuse for my trespassing upon your good nature will i hope be found in the fact that my former connection with your establishment is alluded to in terms of reproach and dis paragement i look upon the present abuse of the states man as cowardly treacherous and vindictive in tbe first place it is cowardly and treacher- tfe because the exchange of newspapers has beervstopped and not one copy of the brock ville paper has reached me for a month the editor fancied be could give a stab in the dark and that as it would not he seen by the party which it was intended to injure the charge would pass uncontradicted this certainly would have been the case sir had i not accidentally picked up the statesman in your office the attack of the statesman is vindictive because no ostensible reason is given therefor and the true cause of his own unqualified abuse is kept out of sight the head and front of the oftending of the spectator lies in this mr gowan while in montreal some time ago either wrote or caused to be written an eulogy of himself in a montreal journal showing the peculiar qualifications be posses sed for office and the immense advantages that would revert upon the country by ha employment of himself in the department of crown land3 this piece of jnsglery the spectator in common with the conservative press of upper canada endeavored to expose possibly the hamilton paper went a step beyond its contemporaries it recalled the in famous disgraceful and avowed conspiracy of a certain ambitious gentleman to destroy the character of an estimable gentleman ihe present judge jonesand warned the govern ment against making an appointment that would entail indelible disgrace upon them selves and the colony i have reason to know that this and other circumstances of public notoriety prevented the consummation of the iiiquitous act and i know the disappointed gentleman too well lo believe that he can either forget or forgive for this i caro littc the editor of the spectator had no personal feel nuflhas3rt as far as a country newspaper could do the honor integrity and respectability of the con servative party the present abuse of the statesman bears at least partial evidence of his opponents success the statesman says a it is not long since the spectator avowed its wish rather to see the conservative parly in opposition than to follow in the wake of mr draper the spectator never avowed ought of the kind it has slated though that if radical measures were to be carried out it would he much better for the country and more creditable to the con servative party to retire into opposition and allow the acts to be performed by their oppo nents the spectator is not like the states- mansn advocate for expediency nor has its rdilorany personal views to advance by maintaining certain gentlemen in power at the expense of consistency and every virtue that ennobles the honest and independent poli tician the statesman says again in a subsequent paper he delicately hinted to the electors of leeds the propriety of abandoning mr gowan and of supporting mr kilboni this is another error and the editor of the brockville paper commits it knowingly the language of the spectator was plainly that the question was too nice for a newspaper to decide not on account of principle but dim ply because of the great contrast in the per sonal character of the opposing candidates the advice of the spectator to the conserva- t of leeds was tht no dependence could be phcei ttpontvfr gowan and that here- fore it was their duty tn cause that person to jetire in order to make way for z gentle man who stood above tbe reach of suspicion puisihly even the ohluse editor of ihr states man can see the difference between this lan guage and his own interpretation of it the statesman says that the spectator has latterly slandered mr sherwood this is another wilful mistake it certainly opposed the elevation of the learned gentleman be cause it was considered unbecoming the parly and unjust to a gentleman possessing direct claims lo the office but that the language was either slanderous or uncalled for i defy fit any person save in avowed delimer of pri vate character to show- the statesman once more pays that it is pretty evident that the object of the spectutor is to divide the conservative party in order to destroy it i know not precisely what foun dation would make a matter pretty evident to your brockville contemporary but as a great many disreputable transactions hav been made pretty evident in his own case both in canada and ireland without beinsc properly puiihed i preaumehis evidence is allowed to vary with his bias and is some times manofactured when a point is to be gained itisat least sufficient forme to state and more than under other circumstances i should have done that gentlemen occupying the highest position in ihe conservative ranks not a few in number have expressed their approbation of the manner in which the spec tator is conducted and commended it in terms which i will not presume to repeat this then is another addition to the catalogue of rnisicpreentation volunteered by the stattt- man that paper having made four distinct misrepresentations makrj an attempt to injure the paper that offended him in a manner for which i could obtain damages in a court of j usticf were tbo party worth the prosecu tion the source from wbtnci utmmatei will howeyer rriakc ill dart fallboimlwi and i paw the affair oer without notice havirig expended his spleen apparently to his satisfaction upon the newspaflejth editor of the statesman turns to myjelf he says- the avowed publisher of the spectator is a person named smiley formerly a printer in the employment of dr baiket ofkirfga- ton hut we understand the writer in tltiets a mr douglass formerly etiitbr of the pic ton sun an ultra radical newspaper published at hallowell inthe districtof prince esward the sneer respecting my being fonrrrfja printer is perfectly harmless i flatter my self that i am stilt a printer and in addition congratulate the men connected with that noble art that mr gowan never was nor can he ever be a printer it is too much thi fashion with people who force themselves into a business to which they have no claim to traduce those who have been regularly brought up to it and who have a right to depend uporf the art to which they served a tedious ap prenticeship as a means of future support mr gowan is a living instance of ttjis facc when that gentleman first commenced hi career in life it was as an apprentice dublin to a respectable shoemaker j how long tit followed the scientific operations of mending soles and waxing ends fnr his master know not but this i do know that it was an unfortunate day for the conservative party ia canada and for the typographical profeesfon when he got out an apology for a newaper in the village of brockville hadmfgowa observed the old proferb which for the sake of his convenience 1 turn into english shoe maker stick to your jast he woulddoublfta have risen to eminence la the boot line apdi have saved the party which he honored by hi adhesion in canada a great dealtjf morttfftfc- lion the last sentence of the s4tifnarrjitlkk i wish to pronounce in the plainest and meat unqualified manner an untruth mdoughsa is not the writer in chief of the spectator he exercises no control over the columns of tha spectator nor does he write a single political article for it the gentleman alluded to by the statesman was editor of a rcdicaj paper in picton but unforsren circumstances cjuutd him to relinquish the paper about the timv he left picton the spectator was established and since then he has been attending to tha business department of the corfbern ho ha been absent in the country at least onehllf of the time and when at home studiously avidf inlerferingwith the political management of the paper mr douglass for aught 1 know to the contrary is still attached to thiparfjr with which he was formerly connected whatever crimes the spectator may hiv com mitted must be laid at the door of your oht- tlient servant though ifnomoreseriouaohargt pan bendvaeod ihi ihat ml t have little fear of ihe consequences i fear sir i hve trespassed upon your space and written warmly upon this subject but the fault is nut mine nor was the quarrel of my seeking mr gowan makes an attack upon me in tbe hope that 1 will not see it and therefore not have the means of replying to it he has made a slight mistake on this as on more important occasions and he tghqtljf welcome to the benefit he may reap i am sir your obedient servant robert r smiley kington may s1s47 t mr macdonald mmong other terms of abuse which have so cojuonsly been showered npoi the head of the- new receiver general that of scion of pru rient aristocracy is one how far this accu sation s founded the following extract from the picton sun will show mr macdonald commenwrd ultfslody of the law in this town under the late hi p mcpherson eq he early gave indications of solid abilities and that selfreliance which have been the means of his rapid advance ment in his profession and although it ia an unusual change of fortune for a poor and friendless boy of yesterday to be called today to fill one of the most responsible offices in the province yet we know of no one amony the conservative patty in thehouse who is really more deserving of advancement tir whr l would he likely to fill the office more effi ciently and we may add one who woflld in all probability he more popular with the country for if not materially altered since he began his political career he is not of that bigoted and intolerant turn of mind which i too often the characteristic of a canadian tory on the contrary with none of tht aristocratic feelings and hut few of the illibe- ral viws of the party with which tie is as- soci tted he will bring into the administration if we are nut greatly misiaken a disposition to be governed by frank honorable and manly hearing towards all parties an aveision lo the finesse and corruption too bag prevalent a snaring above mere party teeling in short that be will be quite a different states man from some of th present ministry jiirien who have all the u honorable befoichoir names and none after- v n h the receiver general t we perceive by the kingslon jvemr that john a macdonald eq- the representative that city hai been appointed receiver eneral of this province in the stead rjclho hon william murrw resigned mr mac- ilnnald of course vacates his seat and appeals again to his constituents for a confirmation rf the liizh appointment- our kingston contem poraries art generally of opinion that no o- portion will be brought forward against ihe government candidate thereafcftwfhaa inthe province where conserpatffer prioci- ptcs have such complete acendahcy as ifm city whose representative has been honored by an elevation to the cabinet pnd yet we know of no place where national prejudice is permitted to have such unboundedsway wb are somewhat curious lo see the result in thfe instance personally mr macdonald is held in universal esteem hut by some unfortunate circumstance a rivalry has sprung up between certain classes of the community to which we do not intend more pointedly to illnde we are irlad to notice however that all sttch pttyr feelings will be repred if they have not th ready heen for ever abandnned the govern ment have a right to look to ktnnton for sup port and certain we are they wilt not be dis appointed since the above was in type the whg taining the proneedinw of meetings m each of the wards ha reached in tht feeling uy favnr of the receiver general 11 cordial nd enthusiastic all clmwes and i parlies anpr ft have joined together and the hon john a micdonald will be returned for tbe city whml he has already io ably repremnlrtktoy attorn mation we huve before apokon of the lilvju application lo buninc and affability of tha member for klngntnn sl have only to conj raty lain the conitiiuuncy on ihelr own ptnalrallwi and tho firm attachment of thilrrtprwutauva to cuniervativi prlntflplti