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In every view in which it is possible to regard it, the question of war with England will be soothed by this impossibility of raising money by the Am ricans. The courage of our transatlente beh hours is not to be doubled, but the prospect of the tax-gatherer will cool their fever sonner.

Then could the substance of ten thousand soldiers, Indees it would be scarcely possible to course. anything more absurd hun an American agerenci

That nation bas nire shy a upon Great Britain, territory which it does not possess A Tumericaljo. WAL pulation one-fourth sufficient to cultivate. boundless tracts broken only at intervals by the an. pearance of cultivation, and connidies covered with primeval forests, the American Statea desire ta grasp at a lerritory which, by all the elims per- mittel by the law of nations, priority of discovery, and occupation belongs to another Stats,

This claim is supported by a threat of way, at a time when they are without an exchequer, dare not the their subjects, and when their foreign credit would not be able to victual a frigute.

million and a half, his fortresses occupied for four or five years, a resident stationed as Lahore, ant her conditions equally stringent imposed upon hun. Another of our contemporaries admits, and more than admits, the moderation, and is indignant cran ko ranke mincal therent, thinking that the Punjauh gaght to have

been made, like Wales, part and parcel of the Brit. be the Sexon lavaders.sh empire, to be governed by justices of the peace recanvely modest it is an oppressed and Iurd lieutenants of countries. We fear much nation of sight brave millions to hold thing thor that both our contemporaries are equally wrong in sand foreigners essential indispensable to her I- what they agree upon and in what they differ. beraient

As to Sir Henry Hardinge's moderation, it will Nest Brother Junaikan was link-d to as the create a smile on the lips of all those acquainted avenger, and Ireland's battle was to be fought in with or gradual and cover; mode of absorbing 15. Oregon. Again this is modest to the malne prdaran princes and empires, allying with them en for if any other third of the kingdam really felt thai day, protecting them the next, merely for the pur. it had – just cause and a haule to fight, it would fall pose of swallowing them with more facility the In fact, Indian princes pass through three surely fight its battle nearer home, and fight it with third. its we hands and trusting only to its own right processes in our politient mill ore they are comple and might. Hampden and Cromwell did not look lely and definitively ground to powder. Duleep to foreigners to champion their cause.

Singh is now only going through the first squeeze The Sikhs have been, the last bape of too modest poor lide fellow; but he is not the less between the Young Ireland. The Nation sees them sweeping fillstones. Sir Henry Burdinge does his spiriting us out of India with 200 000 blazing sayauitars; but, gently Sir Charles Nipior did the same roughly informately for this cheering and encouraging Yet we will be bound in say that the treatment of view, it was hardly published lalore the arrival of the two will come to pretty much the same result the news of the complete overthrow of the encing,

in time. whose blazing seymitars aro pawned for the eI- penses of the war.

We hire therefore no hem to sing to moderation, or yet an anathema to fling upon military modes ty and over-forbearance, We have been the most glorions and most successful robbers that the Eust ever saw. We could not help it certainly. And as Government is but little the gainer by it, we may souceive its reluctance. But the old policy perpe tantes itself in the public as in the private doings of this world; and we know that the thief, if he would not starve, must keep on thieving to the end of the chapter,

From the whole frets, ane ar riem at the conclusion, that the hopes of the invading army are now very for, and are wearing lower every day-that Sir JI. Hardanga and Sir (7. Napier will probably never meet-and that, if the people of Bathore and the protected" states on the Findon side of the river make rood mea

of their time, and hand wrinary sagacay to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crise, the game is in their hands-that the whole Masten population of Northern India, who are only Theso, however, aro lago considerations of ma- waiting for the first reverse that befale the British ality quite out of season for the present. The only artos to raise the cry of Deen! Deen! -the Faith! question is the policy of what Sir Henry Hardinge RECEIVED AND FOR SALE —2 of

the Faith -and fall upon their oppressors with all has done; and his seems the policy of necessity. flern For Tomps, suitable for the fury of vengeance haarded well for thirty years, He might have conquered the Punjaub; but we do mrt of a muse, and equally will clear the way to Bengal with 200.000 blazing not see how he could have governed it without the of Fue; also a quantity of Ladscymitars: tat ere twelve months shall have gone aid of the Sikhs themselves. Unless, indeed, the Around at the Suy only, but the Tumna, and pos inferior, chiefs would have consented to rule ander

ribly the very Ganges shall be no longer överskad.

HS, we do not see how we could have organised a mired by the robber-standard of the tyrants of South- government, or collected revenge, within any pe- ers Askt; and that the bloodstained Company-the riot that would have indemnified us for past expen- plagnes of the East - the plunderers of flyderabad-ses, and secured us against future ones. We know the scourge of the Carnitic--and the poisoners of fram experience that the consequence of sweeping China, may begin to set their house in order at away the upper classes and the smaller functionaries Calcutta

Allah Biemallah! God is great-Amen, frami a conquered country in India, and the replac. and Amen." K

ing of all these by Europeans, is a work of such How really paar in spirit is all this vicarious. Lime, that it requires a number of years ere it set. tles into any organisation at all, and ere it produces any amount of surplus revenue. Sir Henry Hard inge is therefore acting the wise steward as well as the brace general. He is stripping off a few of his laurels merely to fill his pockets with more quiet and effect, and he allows the pageant of an ludian so- rereign to remain on a throne where the presence of a British force must for ever overshadow it.

* DRINKER & JEYL.

received and for sale, in few cases of supe-

Pale Ale (Bagalk

DRINKER & HEYL

Fjulória, May lat, 1820.5

NOTICE RINKER & HEYL., obter a sale, at their.

Stores, superior Port, Saerry, Madeira, und Varit Wines, Peppermint, and Cherry Cordials. Beer and Porter in wood nud Bngles, Wine Mitter, hulce Butter in legs, Neats Forgues, Tobarro, Ours, Old No. & and 4 Manga Cherols, Paint Dil and Furpentine in cans Bright Varnish, Ravens Duck, de de

Victor, 16th February, 1836.

1 SALE by the undersigned ut his Anco

and Commision Sale Rooms (opposite Chi- nam's Hong) Queen's Road

Churet, Sherry, Port, Charopugne, Hock, Tatay c, Ale and Potter of a light quality, Sparkling Champagne (yder. English Gin in 3 duz. cases"

c. &c. to be purchased at very mederale prices. Just Inoded a small assortment of fresh Provi sians preserved in tins, Ship's Stores of every de Beription, superior Shops, a variety of Cutlery and hardware dec, &c.

EDWARD N. BURGESS, Commission Agint and Auctioneer, Victen. 24th June 1840.

FOR SALA

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It was sung of a certain Jacobin worthy, that

He fed full

On the 1st of June

But he baile the rest keep fighting, Young Ireland bids the rest keep fighting, not having fed, invised, for he has not jaken the field. He is marvelously strong, nothing can resist him, and yet he unaccountably submits to what he re presents as the most intolerable tyranny, and com tenis himself with calling on foreigners to go to war for him, or on Indians to revolt, if they have the ordinary sagacity to see the value of tuion and co- operation at such a crisis."

Young Ireland is quite right in no playing the rebel, but Young Ireland should not in the rebel which it dues not play. The dialogue without the action has the most abasing enzi. It too ob. trositely making the dare no wait upon 'I would,' like the puer eat in the adage.".

Ireland has many grievances, bot more worth bloodshed; she has many chalina, but none to be ad vance by bloodshed, or the diabolical death for it

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Young democracies must, however, be anled and America, owing to its Anglo-Saxon descent, is by no mean the most preposterous of juvenile re- publics. It is, to be sure, a subject of wondering which are allowed to pass in America for hoping to overcome the English. Wolte," say the Canada, and why not we * The conclusion is a very hurried one. The sesailing troops in that day were British men, and their leader was Wolfe, and the defending troops were those of France, when the days of Fontenoy had passed and the glories of the empire had not begun. The Syrians judged like the Yankees, when they argued that they must be able to keep St. Jean D' Acre, because Napolean had been unalile to take it. In their case, however, British sailors were on the opposite side of the walls, Stopford was outside, and Si Sidney Smith was not within. Lord Catheart would manage, we doubt doubt not, to show the Americans that their arcu. ment is a non sequitur also

But with all this prospect of the American wir ending in sound ant fury-with an averence that the country is unfit to go to war and the evident fact, that such men as Ale Webster hyve E prest controlling indigence in the legishimire we cann but see that our own Government are pursuing ht this moment a most sinical courses fortes colater to Canada. There certainly is no Majesty's Subjects, not even, excepto of the province of Ulster chip are somewhat amingous subigoted to ge than the loyal Canadians. They are p a race foreign in descent and hostile the English, and they see daily this face prematel over them - nay, alth oment they hát a trator actually prompted to office, blinisters, abila those who supported the throne throughout the res bellion which he created are disparaged and pass-

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Bat the corn bill has been the crowning blow to Canada. That all the Minister declares to be in- lended for the advantage of the United States, ond, as such, to hen mears of preventing war. It goes Batish color v

It is possible that the Governor-General was 11- fluenced in his conduct by the contingencies which might arise in another hemisphere. A war with a destroy ali listimatings between America were better not commenced ill that on the Indus terminated Then we are most anxiogs to set the French and Russians an exemple of mo- deration.

How far we may be sincere in this, and how far we may succeed, is one matter. But whatever sen- timents we may excite in Europe by our moderation after victory, we cannot but have created also very salutary ones by the right royal way in which wa gained those victories. The British are most re- actant to war, and therefore in general most unpre Ben Paint Orl.

Y the undersigned in few Jars of superior Eng. without the duling to share in the paril. The re prepared but it has been pretty well shown in this dress of oud Ireland's wrongs will come in due course campaign, that want of preparation doge pot drunt if the malur pudor of Young Ireland do not for the comage or neutralize the efforts of the Brush tunately excite feelings calenlated to retard in

solliers and that however outnumbered or surpris Young Ireland only wants a Lude monly pride. Heed, he is right able to fight himself with the bayonet must dot be always exaggerating and enlarging on

out of all olis and every difficulty. --I did his sores.

He must not make out his case worse than it is, so as to make it recreancy to bear it while he is bragging of his potency, He must nel count, 100, upon the alias of foreign valour for his deliver

C. MARKWICK,

Auctioneer:

Pottinger Street. Victor, 19th November, 1945.

FOR SALE.

Improved Letter Copying machine and ma hogany Stand (hy Royston & Brown, Lon. don complete, with Ink, Bucks, Foolscap, Postance. and Folio Copying Paper &c., c. Apply ta,

MB C. MARKWICK,

Poulinger Street.

Victoria, 19th June 1846. MERY FRASER & Co., inform the Com- punity of longkong, that they have a horse horr and farrier lately arrives, and though their palabasament is rather distant from the contre of The dawn, Gentlement may rely on having their Horse faithfully and expeditiously shod. Uposite the Catholic)

Burring Ground

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HIPPING ARTICLES, Cording to the res 7&8) for sale at this

Office Friend of China."O

10th October, 1315.

REPORTS UBG WAY BILLS for sale

Linn, 28th Dec, 1844.

forms of bills of lad PRE by the PEO Ustler goods deliver.

There is no case, to accusion whatever far valour, fareiga er indigemus. Nothing is wanted and wanting but a Hule good sense and right spirit You have nothing to do with blazing soymars-no, nor with blazing shilelaghs either, things much ap ter for combustion and broil.

THROUGHOUT the discussion of the American Senate on the subject of their most unjust pretension to the ownership of Oregon, the statesmanlike con duct of Mr Webster has been particularly remark able. An American statesman, indeed, at the pre- sent time has not the task which Bacon esteemed so dithcuk- to be eminent among able men." There are many foils among the wisenares of the wed to set off the abilities of Mr Webster, but it is fortunate for the peace of the world that that gentle

awarded by democracies rather to the most violent man obtains, in a country so unsettled, the respect for his character and abilities, which are usually

than the most able.

Let there be an end of the foreign look-out for mischief Magland, and let your hopes live on your and a ton of Labor another who tares out to be ow Ticans, 'not on the bup-de-mer Jolaville one day pared of his claws by the next advices. As the homely old proverb sare, Let every herring hang Mr. Weinster has broughta new and most impor by its own head, every tub and on its own bottom," tant element of the war question before his countryj and let Young (reland pluck up a litle of the ball men-an element which, in all probability, will nest pride of indepon lence-independence of fo- decile the amater, Mr. Webster demanded estima teously directed-Examiner, April 4. reign wu, and self-reliance on rights means rigates of the cost of the warlike preparations, by which

PEACE WITH THE SIKES..'

It never rains but it pours, in the shape of victory. Each extraordinary express from India now comes fraught with such ordinary.news,

And hewerer gigantic the efforts requisite to overcome the requ FOR THE OVERLAND ance of a military people like the Sikne, we

Who live at hope ni lake their defeat and subjugation es a matter of course. We are, however, right glad to learn thai the pluck of the Sikhs has been beaten down, that their chiefs treat, and that the young Maharaja is safe in the British camp. For these same Sikhs, who seemed to have little left in barn of the art of war, were learning this little fast. ersuccess eive artion the numbers were more equal, and yet The She fought na stubbornly, and let victory As long underse in the lotusan the first. The de lence of the thirt ougend Sikhs and their dimin

goods deliverable at de deliverable at Suez: at intermediate parts COMEDY & forms on

Mr Paik's policy must be supported. This was an Exceedingly delicate subject for the warlike party. No amo at of declamation will place at truop of borse in the Lald; the money is the place whereon to stand for the want of which the philosopher grieved All the projects of bringing down Bri lish pride, end of annexing the remainder of Ame rica, most balt for the lack of a consolidated fund, cations; and how is this deficiency to be made up 7 Money does not exist to make the necessary, prepa By Taxation? It is instructive to imagine what species of government it might be which would the United States. Such a courage would assuredly haye alla courkue to dentand taxes of the people of nestroy all the supposed aden tages of the great de

racy, The Americans have in un

government which is inffectust; its executive is weak, ful to civilization ; but the charm in this govern- and its deliberetive council exhibit scenes disgrace ment is, that if it is bad, it is cheap.

PAY for it poser enters into the head of the Americans, nor

templation conlanet in a prospect of

Irad them to give of thoits

sod a foreign country, and, as the correspondent of the Morzing Ulronicle anounces, it affords great hopes to the discontented pnt on independent gir vernment will forth with beestablished in Canadi. Ms. Papineauchas awarded to the Premier his ap- probation with respect to the mensura, and takes in evidence that Sir R. Peal will not hesitate to do whatever may be further askot of bim-Cana- dian separation, of course, included,

This is the estimate formed by the enemies of British connexion of the Minister and his measures

and such is the treatment by which the hyal Che madians are prepared to meet, if di SSARY an ol fenrire wat aganistas. The general characteristic of the Premier's late policy name ampindence —is in nothing more visi relations with Gangde at dois moment Courier 4p1422

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

MANILA

From the Weekly Price Current. June 6, Cham Good Our Mark for Coloured Goods

REMARKS ON THE MARKET. has been more active and the Imports per Quid- Dardo likewise has arrived from Singapore with a Pro Que have gone with the same spirit. The

off freely and a slight advance has been obtained general carge of piece Goods. Cottons have gone for some qualities of white Shirtings.

The Sales reported are. 100 Corges Blog Combays & Hikis at 8161 for

Cambares and $321 for Edks. 400 Pcgs Checked Ginghams, 30840 inches from

17 a 2) rs. pd. 2000 Poz. Muistine Cambares hdkie, eu apdor. 6: CorgesCamboys&Hdkfs T. Red 834 bayas. Cam-

270 Pel Carranclanes 220 Do,

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1121 P. Cambrics 700 Doj do.

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1-0-9 3-0-0 EXPORTS. few operations for want of tonnage for Dogland. SUGAR-The article is in demand, but there ar which is much wanted We bare heard of con and 5000ple of Brown at 63.50 add $39 end of tracts for about 7000 pls of current quality at 841, a purchase of a lot of first white at 85

but few importers are willing to sell at this price.", HEME Some parcels, have been sold at 35-0 RICE. It ne demand. Procurable are 16 p.pl. On board

SAPANWOOD. Abundent, price declining, and large stock.

Stakes. Somes Best delivery baco berk le doring the week at prem. p. mil and

EXCHANGE OF ENGLAND. There has been, ne evation in rates quoted by us.

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