whether favorable or otherwise, of the Magazine. Our pockets are light, and we cannot afford to pay for the great number of papers which we at present receive.

THE LAIRD.-But I say, lads, there is the tinkle o' Mother Grundy's supper-bell!— Exeunt omnes.)

COLONIAL CHIT-CHAT.

CANADA.

MISCELLANEOUS LAND GRANTS.-Return of Lands alienated from the crown without valuable consideration, since 1st of January, 1851, for information of the Legislative Assembly:

therefore behoves people receiving money to examine it closely. Forged notes are seldom heard of in Canada. The $4 notes alluded to, it seems are executed with a pen.

ARTILLERY IN QUEBEC.-The Artillery in Quebec, now practice ball firing frequently along the surface of the water; and it seems this will be continued, as a quantity of gunpowder has been allowed them this year, for the purpose. It is also stated that several heavy pieces of ordnance, have been lately placed on the fortifications. These preparations seem ominous, at least they are prudent, considering the portentous state of affairs in Europe.

GOLD IN CANADA.-The reported discovery of Gold in Canada, is already making some noise in the newspapers. The New York Tribune

says:

We met yesterday an intelligent gentleman, recently from the mines, who exhibited about two dollars' worth of coarse gold which he said was the result of the washings from two pans of dirt. Our informant is not engaged in gold digging but has visited the mines from Yankee curiosity. He states that quite a large number of persons, in the employ of the proprietor of the mines, are successfully engaged in surface washing. These mines are situated on the River Dupont, near its junction on the Chaudière, some forty-six miles from Quebec, and near the Kennebec Road. About five miles from this place, at the Rapids of the Chaudière River, there is said to be a very rich vein of gold bearing quartz. Our informant

Granted to the Wesleyan Methodists of London, lying in the township of London, N.E. block on Great Market Street, 24 acres, for Church; Free Presbyterian Church of Canada, Sydenham, lots 4, 5, 6, 7, north side Union Street, 2 acres, for Church; Council of Lanark and Darling, Lanark, Reserve block, 4 acres for Town Hall, &c.; Free Presbyterian Church, Holland, part of lot 19 in 1st concession, 2 acres, for Burying Ground and School; Trustees of Grammar Schools, County of Kent, Chatham, S.E. part of block adjoining Church of England, 24 acres, for School; Council of Normanby, Normanby, part of lot 7, west of Owen Sound road, 10 acres, for Burying Ground and School; Council of Chatham, Harwich, Park lot, 18 and 1 in 2nd concession, 10 acres, for Burying Ground; Agricultural Society of Kent, Chatham, park lot, 5 acres, for Fair Ground, &c.; Wesleyan Methodists, Warwick, park lot, seven acres, Church and Burying Ground; Council of Sydenham, Syden-states that sixty dollars worth of gold was recently ham, Triangular block, 51 acres, for Public Pleasure Ground; Council of Chatham, Chatham, Market block, 2 acres, for Market; Council of Norfolk, Charlottenville, block Grave Street, 4 acres, for Burying Ground; Trustees of Grammar School of the County of Frontenac, Kingston, S. of lot 14 in 4th concession, 100 acres, for School; Council of Niagara, Niagara, lots 79, 80, 89, and 90, 4 acres, for School; Council of Harwich, Shrewsbury, block, 2 acres, for School and Master's residence; Council of York, York, part of lot 15, east of Yonge Street, 1 acre, General Burying Ground; Roman Catholics, Russell, part of lot 8 in 8th concession, 10 acres, for Chapel and School; Orphan Home and Female Aid Society, Toronto, part of the Reserve adjoining the Military Burying Ground, 1 acre, for building for the Institution and School; Council of Albert, Albert, lot 4, South West London Road, 5 acres, School and Master's residence.

broken from the surface of a piece of rock in this vein weighing only thirty-eight pounds. He also states that some 50 or 60 years ago, a lump of pure gold, worth about $300 was picked up in the vicinity of these discoveries, and that 2 or 3 years ago, several small lumps were found, some of which were exhibited at the World's Fair in London. It has been known for several months, that there were rich deposits of gold on the banks of the Chaudière and its tributaries, but negotiations for the sale of the mining privileges there have delayed active mining till within two or three weeks past.

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LIVERPOOL

AND CANADA.

THE contract for the establishment of a line of Steamers, between Liverpool and the St. Law. rence, is now before the public. The contracting parties are Mr. J. Young, late Chief Commissioner of Public Works of this Province, on the part of the Liverpool Shipping firm. The Montreal Transcript, gives the conditions of the contract which, briefly expressed, are that Messrs. Kean and McCarty, the Shipowners, shall keep up a regular line of large and powerful screw Steamers, to leave Liverpool for the St. Lawrence, either monthly or fortnightly, while the navigation is open; and monthly, during the winter, to Portland.

PROVINCIAL EXHIBITION IN NEW BRUNSWICK.

The maximum of passage rates is not to ex- and his associates. The other provides for ceed, for first class, twenty-one pounds, ster- the repeal of the Facility Act passed at a preling; for second class, twelve pounds twelve vious session, which contemplates the conshillings, sterling; for third class, six pounds struction of the railroads of the Province on a six shillings; and, for families, by agreement. different plan. This latter was passed through Freight, for fine goods, not to exceed sixty its preliminary stages in both Houses on the shillings per ton measurement; and, for coarse 27th, and it was expected that the Legislature goods, forty shillings. Rates of freight to would break up on Friday the 29th. The acts England not to exceed the average of sailing are subject to the Queen's approval. Every vessels. Time occupied from England to Can- member of the Legislature was in his seat. ada not to exceed fourteen days, nor, on their The proceedings of the Legislature appear to return, thirteen. Fourteen trips from the give general satisfaction in St. John's. The middle of April to that of November, to be New Brunswicker says:-A new era is about made to the St. Lawrence; and, while the to dawn on New Brunswick, and we now St. Lawrence is closed, five to Portland. The enter on prosperous days." steamers to come up to Montreal, if there be water for them; if not, to forward the cargo by lighters. The line to be in service in the WE have already announced the opening of spring of next year. Mails, and the officers the New Brunswick Provincial Exhibition. in charge, to be carried, and days of departure The following circumstantial account of it we to be adopted at the discretion of the Provin- abridge from the Fredericton Head Quarters cial Government. Books, pamphlets, and of the 6th instant:— maps, for the purpose of promoting emigra- The subject of so much labor, conjecture, fear tion, to be carried and circulated without and hope, was formally and successfully inaugu charge. The contract to last for seven years; rated yesterday. At an early hour, the the steamers to pay no light or other provincial dues. On the other hand, it is contracted that the Canadian Government shall pay to Messrs. McKean, McCarty and Company, at stipulated rates for certain voyages named, the sum of nineteen thousand pounds sterling a year, and the Railway Company and the city of Portland agree to pay five thousand pounds in addition. The other stipulations are merely formal and explanatory.

NEW NOTES.-New notes, of various denominations, have been issued by the Bank of Montreal. They are exceedingly plain and business-like, resembling in this respect, as well as in having a water mark, the notes of the Bank of England. We may mention that they are only signed by one of the clerks.

TORONTO AND GUELPH RAILWAY.-The contract for the Railroad from Toronto to Guelph has been given to C. S. Gzowski & Co., for £7408 currency, per mile, or £355,600, currency for the whole distance. This does not cover land claims and stations. The amount greatly exceeds the first speculative cost, when the project was got up.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

THE Railway Bills have passed both houses of the Parliament of that Province, by decisive majorities. In the Council there appears to have been no opposition, and in the House but seven dissenting voices. The bills are two in number; the first provides for amending the Charter of the European and North American Railway Company, so as to render the provisions of that Charter in accordance with the agreement entered into by Mr. Jackson

firemen of Fredericton and St. John, and the Masonic fraternity, headed by the Band and Pipers of the 72nd Highlanders, under the direction of Sheriff Wolhaupter, as Grand Marshal, marched through the principal streets of the city, and in their varied and showy costumes, with badges, banners, and insignia, made an imposing and gay appearance. Precisely at two o'clock, p.m., His Excellency Sir Edmund Head, Lieutenant Governor of the Province, and Patron of the Exhibition, was received at the Hall of the Exhibition by a Guard of Honor, of the 72nd Highlanders, and entered the building under a salvo of artillery. At the moment of His Excellency's entrance the scene and circumstances were deeply impressive. The vast area of the hall was densely crowded by men of all ranks and conditions, from localities near and remote, with a large admixture of the mothers and daughters of our country. The Band of the 72nd Highlanders, and the united choirs of all our churches, struck at once into a glorious rendering of our time honored national anthem, the full choir, accompanied by the band, sang to the venerable measure of Old Hundred, the appropriate hymn beginning

"With one consent let all the earth,

To God their cheerful voices raise." A complimentary address having been presented to Sir Edmund Head, His Excellency replied to it in suitable terms.

After the reply, the opening of the Exhibition was officially declared, and was received by a round of thorough old fashioned British cheers, with a genuine Bluenose one or two more.

The Exhibition in quality, quantity, and variety of specimens, both agricultural produce and manufactures, outdoes the utmost expectation of the warmest friends of the enterprise, and is at once a triumphant refutation of all the apprehensions of the timid, and the disloyal prophecies of the "ruin and decay" men.

If any New Brunswicker can stand in the bility of faith and gratitude. The trophies of presence of the industrial treasures which the mechanical skill and ingenuity in vast varieties soil and climate of our Province, and the labor of form, are equally abundant aud demonof our agriculturists have piled up on these strative." shelves before him, and the noble edifices The Exhibition closed on the 9th instant. which skilled, ingenious, and successful manu- The cattle show is spoken of by our New facturing industry have arrayed around, above, Brunswick contemporaries as "a grand affair," and before him, if standing thus he hesitates and the cattle exhibited, as being greater in to "thank God and take courage," his mind number and better in breed, than many supand heart must be dead to the veriest possi-posed New Brunswick could produce.

In view of the immense activity prevailing in the French naval arsenals-a curious corollary on the peaceful Empire proclaimed so lately at Bordeaux-our own Admiralty, we are glad to perceive, is strengthening that great arm of our defence, that may be needed when we least expect it. A ministerial journal announces that ten line-of-battle ships, now on the stocks or ordered to be built, are to be fitted with powerful screw propellers. France under its new régime must be watched with unceasing vigilance by those to whose keeping the welfare of Great Britain is committed, since assuredly nothing on earth but apprehension of failure will prevent the self-willed Louis Napoleon from attempting, sooner or later, the project before which even the genius of his uncle recoiled. Or he may perchance, and events point that way, look to the East for the fulfilment of what he calls his mission. The position and strength of the British fleet in the Mediterranean is always perfectly well known; not so would be the character and purposes of an armament that might be assembled or fitted at Toulon. Without pursuing this vague train of thought, it may be sufficient to predict that whenever the reserved and resolute man, who now lords it over France, shall feel himself sufficiently strong to work out his destiny, we shall hear stirring news from the "French Lake."

power may sometimes console themselves with the hope, that if their burden be heavy, a change of person may work to their advantage. If the Emperor be severe, his heirs may be kindly.But Louis Napoleon in his intense selfishness and utter disregard of that family claim which he so ostentatiously puts forward, is it seems to have the Empire made hereditary in his own direct male line, but failing his male issue is to have the right of naming his successor! The modesty of the proposal, the fresh stimulus which it will offer to obsequiousness, and the debased condition of the people who can blindly put on such a yoke, need not be pointed out.-Again, there is talk of a large reduction of the army, even to the amount of fifty or a hundred thousand men. This would read well in the eyes of Europe; but the truth is, that his idea is to disband or reduce many regiments of the line whose recruits are easily procured, and at the same time to keep the officers in pay; strengthen, foster, and train his cavalry, artillery, and riflemen, who compose the flower of his forces; and even to organize fresh troops of the Municipal Guard, who are equally efficient as soldiers or as policemen. As usual, one thing is announced, whilst another is intended.-Amongst minor Parisian items, we observe that Abd-el-Kader has arrived in the Capital where he will probably become the lion of the moment, such as the Dey of Algiers was in 1830. Having already alluded to our dearly-beloved-Mademoiselle Rachel, of tragic celebrity, who friend Louis Napoleon, we shall not waste many as the Goddess of Liberty, sang the Marseillaise more words upon him, although his undoubted on the stage of the Theatre Français in 1848, has influence upon the policies of Europe will prevent condescended to recite in the same place a twadour passing him over in silent contempt. The Empire of course, with all its contingencies, is still the prominent theme, as it will be until its proclamation; and the manner in which it is now said that the question will be submitted to the nation is entirely characteristic of the nation's Sir Charles Grey must have resigned, or have master. The subjects of hereditary despotic been recalled from his post of Governor of

dling and sycophantic ode to the Prince President; on this occasion she enacted the Muse of History! The Pope still declines going to Paris, to perform the coronation ceremonies. He is wise.

Jamaica, inasmuch as we find the name of his success orannounced in London Journals, although subsequently withdrawn. We allude to Major Beresford, M. P., the Secretary at War.-It is recorded, but not officially, that Mr. Keate, now civil commissioner of the Seychelles Islands, is promoted to the governorship of Grenada, West Indies.

FUNERAL OF THE DUKE.

ness may not be disfigured by vulgar and tasteless devices. The funeral car in which Nelson was conveyed to St. Paul's combined in its structure the forms of a fourpost bedstead, a ship, a Greek altar, a hearse, and half-a-dozen other incongruities. What will foreigners think of us, and what can we think of ourselves, if, after so many years of increased civilization, we evince our scrrow as a people by a repetition of such extravagant and ludicrous absurdities ?"

universal demonstrations of European grief, by attending the most extraordinary military funeral the world ever beheld. Russia, we hear, is about to send a portion of the 27th (the late Duke's own

THE arrangements contemplated in connection We understand that ail the foreign powers (says with this solemn act of reverence for the memory the United Service Gazette), with one necessary of the Great Duke have undergone a slight modi- exception, have signified their intention of sendfication. It was intended that, on the night pre-ing deputations to participate in the forthcoming vious to the interment, the body should be removed to the Horse Guards, and that the funeral procession should be formed at that point. In this the precedent of Nelson's interment was followed, for his remains rested on the night pre-Regiment) to take part in the mournful obsequies ceding the burial at the Admiralty. But it has of their illustrious Colonel. This is an appropriate been justly considered that Nelson had no town- and graceful tribute from the Czar to the memory house like the Duke, and that Apsley-house, there- of his venerated friend. The No. 27 naturally fore, is the proper point at which to form the induces us to ask, will the 27th Inniskilling Regiprocession. In accordance with this view, the ment be excluded from a place in the last march body will remain at Chelsea Hospital till the morn-with their immortal countryman? By a singular ing of the 18th, and, when it reaches Apsleyhouse, those of whom the cortège is to consist will fall into their right places. The military escort of the funeral will consist of detachments from every regiment in the service-of three battalions of the Guards, 84 pensioners, representing the age to which the Duke had attained, the 33rd Foot, the Rifle Brigade, six squadrons of cavalry, and 17 guns. The artillery will head the procession, but it is intended that the firing should be at the Tower, which is sufficiently near for the purpose, and the more appropriate from the Duke haveing been Constable. Deputations of 100 men, with their proper complement of officers, will also attend on the occasion from each of the five continental armies in which the Duke held the rank of field-marshal; and thus, in addition to a complete representation of the military force of this country, there will be assembled on the occasion types of those of Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Portugal. It is not believed that more than forty equipages will be required in the procession, which will be mainly conducted on foot.

Both at St. Paul's and at Chelsea Hospital the preparations for the approaching ceremonial are in rapid process of execution. The hall of the hospital has been completely cleared, preliminary to the arrangements for the lying in state, and the additional facilities required for ingress and egress are also being provided for. The fitting up the cathedral is, as we have stated, progressing satisfactorily, and it is expected that, irrespective of the procession, at least 10,000 persons will be accomodated with seats in the interior. There is no doubt that the coup d'œil of the gigantic edifice, brilliantly illuminated from end to end, and with the light of day completely excluded, will be inexpressibly grand. Several imperfect trials of the effect produced have already been made, and with the most striking results.

"It is to be hoped," observes the Times, "that the attention which has recently been attracted among us to the subject of artistic design will not be thrown away on the approaching occasion, and that a national act of homage to departed great

chance this is the only Irish national Regiment of Infantry which followed his victorious banner through the Peninsula, and concluded its brilliant career by literally immolating itself on the field of Waterloo. We say immolating advisedly; for the Duke himself, when speaking of them to Gen. Alava, observed-"The 27th will always be a striking proof that Irishmen can be as coolly brave as any other troops, for they died where they were formed in square by Lambert." Their loss on that day of carnage exceeded that of any other regiment engaged. Out of eighteen officers seventeen were killed or wounded, and four hundred and seventy-nine were knocked over, out of six hundred rank and file. This was not the first visit of the 27th to the plain of Waterloo. They were encamped twice under William the Third on that field of blood. That great Military Monarch was particularly attached to them, and always retained them near his person after the battle of the Boyne. In 1839 they were expressly detained by the late Lord Hill in this country for six months, after they had been under orders for Ireland, for the special purpose of forming an appropriate national Guard of honour, at that splendid festival given by the Cinque Ports to their illustrious Lord Warden. We trust that Lord Hardinge will not overlook this opportunity of paying a compliment to one of the most modest of our national regiments, and to that country which has the proud honour of being the birth-place of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.

A PROPHECY FROM THE ARCTIC SEAS.

The date of the following extract from a letter written by one of Sir E. Beecher's officers has been anticipated; it has, however, a peculiar interest in connection with the ascertained opening of Wellington Channel.

"Lievly, Davis's Strait, June 6, 1852. "The Arctic squadron is at present snugly moored in the harbour of Lievly, Davis's strait. Our passage out has not been a very pleasant one, although we were towed to 21 deg. of west lon

gitude. We did not reach the Whale Islands till Maine, between which port and Quebec and Monthe 29th of May, 31 days from Stromness, two-treal a railway now in course of construction, thirds of which time our deeply-laden little craft During the season it is contemplated that the was literally under water, consequently you may Company's steamers shall run straight up to Quesafely class her amongst those animals designated bec or Montreal, where they will be in communiamphibious, but, as 'Jack' says, 'it will all rub cation with steamers plying to Lakes Ontario, off when dry.' Thank God, we are now in the Erie, Huron, Michigan, and touching at all the region of icebergs and smooth water. Nothing ports on the route. When the line is established, worthy of remarking occurred during our passage, it will probably cause a great diversion of the and to the best of my knowledge all hands in the lake produce, which now passes in a great measure expedition are well, with the exception of Cap- through the Unitsd States to the Atlantic sea tain Kellet, who has been poorly since the steam- board. The island of Newfoundland, so long deers left. Our Arctic commodore kept us strictly prived of the advantages of steam communication, in sailing order, 'line abreast,' and did not lose will also be included in the route of the Comsight of one of us for a single hour during the pany's steamers, and it is therefore probable the passage; no matter whether a calm or a gale, the association will secure the bounty offered by the signal flew, "Keep your station.' Colonial Legislature. The company is at present provisionally registered, under the Joint Stock Companies' Act, but a charter has been applied for, and will in all probability be readily secured, until which time a deposit of 2s. per share is to be payable. The capital is fixed at £600,000 in £20 shares, and the committee includes some of our most influential firms connected with both branches of the North American trade.

"We weighed anchor from Whale Islands yesterday. With the exception of a few straggling pieces we have as yet met with no ice, so it is quite probable that it is a 'block game' to the northward. I do long to see the commencement of the Melville Bay campaign, in order to witness the effects of galvanism and gunpowder on its opposing barriers. We can form no idea as yet what kind of season we are going to have; if we may believe the natives' it will be an 'open' one, but there is little faith to be placed in them. However, be it as it may, there is a general determination throughont the expedition that no obstacle shall impede our progress. Certainly, it is not in mortals to command success; but with all the experience of former expeditions to guide us, and possessing resources which they did not, as well as the greater portion of our crews being inured to Arctic service, we would be undeserving the name of Englishmen should we altogether fail. "I am one of those who have returned twice from an unsuccessful search of the missing navigators. I am among those who have been blamed for 'not doing our duty, by men who, whatever may be their claims to science, are about as competent to discuss Arctic subjects as I am to deliver a lecture on conchology, a science of which I do not even know the technical terms. But, in conclusion, mark what I say!-Bells will ring, and bonfires will blaze, from the Land's End to John o' Groat's, on the return of Beecher's expe

dition."

BRITISH PROVINCES AND LIVERPOOL, DIRECT.

Last week's English mail brings us the following confirmation of a report long prevalent :

OVERLAND MAIL.-We have received the fol

lowing message by electric telegraph, dispatched on the 25th, from Trieste:-A brigade, under Brigadier Reynolds, C.B., consisting of her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish, her Majesty's 80th Regiment, and the 35th Native Infantry, with a proportionate force of artillery, left Rangoon, on the 18th of September, in steamers, for Prome, accompanied by General Godwin. The steamers were to return immediately for the brigade. The Burmese troops had destroyed Prome, and had posted themselves in masses on a height ten miles off the town. They were said to be only 7,000 strong with a few gnns.

PARIS.-The Moniteur announces the libera

tion of Abd-el-Kader, who is to be conveyed to Broussa, in Turkey, and receive treatment worthy of his rank. In addition to the titles of "Napoleon III, Empereur des Français, and Roi d'Algérie," the future assumption of which is attributed to "Protecteur des Lieux Saints," The liberation Louis Napoleon, it is said he will assume that of of Abd-el-Kader has occasioned some surprise, but satisfaction generally, so far as has as yet been ascertained. The breach of faith of which

the Emir had been the object is undeniable, but perhaps the allusion to the preceding Government would have been better omitted, as well as the censure on those who fail to perform their promise.

A very useful project is being brought out CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-The war still "drags its under the designation of the "London, Liverpool, slow length along," and the latest intelligence and North American Screw Steamship Company." from the frontier states that outrages are still comThe object of the company is to establish an eco-mitted on the frontiers, even in the very proximity nomical, expeditious, and direct steam communi- of the towns and posts. Both parties still war cation for goods and passengers between London, with cattle-the Kaffirs managing generally to Liverpool, the United States, and the British hold their own remarkably well. The frontier North American colonies. The steamers will districts are still swarming with rebels and Kaffirs, leave London and Liverpool alternately for New who carry with them devastation and ruin, too York throughout the year; for Canada and New-frequently with impunity. The coal that had foundland from March to October; and during the been discovered turns out to be anthracite, giving remainder of the year, in order that the commu- encouragement to further search, which is much nication with Canada may not be wholly inter- promoted by the Government, who have offered rupted, they will call at Portland, in the State of a reward of £100 for the discovery of coal beds.