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the bors, sed thus provialon wos ma‘w by the.

uARESPOWDCACE,

7 The Latin language was studied and well under.
EPUCATION AND THE CHURCH.
Ne. 5.
(Continwed.)
Pu tye Rorrok of rue Prorestayt.

Moewtthetaading that rou are obliged both
By Domot act) asti-e to publish We whole of my re
pay te Pour unjret attack on St. Dunstan's College ,
and the Popes, yet you have not pabNished the two | cal history :
jest letters whie', I sent you, although you ineert! tiepmes.) St. Gertrude of Saxony wrote in Laws
weekly i yoar jouras! communications againet me. \ wome pious historical worka (Inainuations D. Tie-
vehich appear to be written by some low rabidtha. Us) The abbess Herrada of Alsace wrote in the
racter who holds tue sume position in {b> lierary | me language an extensive Encyclopedia (Hortus |
world that a rowdy, Slackley, or Hp does tn the debemrum) which is still preserved. We are ,
excia) one. “The position fa which you have placed | formed by the author ofthe “Anglo Saxon Church,
Tourrelf, is not, in me humnle opinion, the most en. oF the uuthority of the Veaeruble Bede, that the}
viable, and is Kittie caleniated to raise your charac. | Anglo-Saxon clergy of all ranks exerted themselves |
ter an a gent lemar «ad 9 Christian in the estimation | 12 the cause of literature in the most laudable man-
eren of your miends, many of whom will, 1 think, | Ber, and that “their exhortations and example ex-
with me in saying that your refusal to insert) cited an ardour for improvement which was uot|
a “Ge rather dishonorable, not to | confined to the cloister, but extended its influence to

fay cuchmatian. the castles of the nobility, and the courts of kings |

world, who'Sften wrote and received letters in that

of Grandersheim, wrote Latin poems, st\!l extant,

(See Annales de la Philosophie Chre- |

un

It te more than probable that you ngs |
fee\ conacions that stould vou publish al! my letters | The children of the thanes educated in the anigh-
voor readers wil! be convinced of the injustice and bovring monasteries, imbibed an early respect, it |
malignity of many ofthe namerous enlamnies which “ot @ passion for Lierature ; and several of the
heave been #0 often repented against “ Papists,” and | princes condeacended to study those sciences on
wil] consider in its true light the character of the, Which their tarbaroas, but victorious fuihers, ban
calunivinior#. As you do not appear to “ have lei | trampled with contempt ; others by rewards and}
pure to reply” to my communications, perhaps it} donations endeavoured to distinguish themselves as |
weuld de well fur you to obtain the assistance of | the patrons of the learned. (Bed. Hist. I. iv. 2 |
three or four more berary " blacklegs’’ or pimps’; Albat. Wirem. p. 300.) “' Even the women caught
to abuse “ Father Angus’ in the most “ Evangel | the general enthusiasm : seminaries of learning were |
cal’ style of modern mes. established in their convents: they conversed with
If one were to crevit certain geatiemen who think | their absent friends in the language of ancient Rome
to raise themselves by striving tolower their neigh (what many of their revilers cannot do at the pre- |
bours, be would believe that the Catholic Church | *¢ut day); and frequeatly exchanged the labors ot
bas ever Inbored to keep those within ber fold in a| the distaff and the needie for the more pleasing
wtate of menta! slavery and degradation. In the! aud more elegant beauties of the Latin poets Bt
* Protestant’ of the Sith ult. is published a Report | Aldhelm wrote histreatixe De laudibus Virginitatis,

Literary Institute,” which saye:—“ Shall we try | The style in which it is composed shows that if he
to dauieh them (science and literature)? That! Wished them to understand it, he must have con
Svuid be tuo much like the Chareh that holds, that! dered them as no mean proficients in the Latin
> Iquerance is the mother of devotion;’ andthensets language. From this treatise we learn that nuns
forth her ludex LExpurgatorious, enforcing ber ex-, Were accustomed to read the Pentateuch, the books
purgations as far as sbe can." | of the Proph.ts and the New Testament, with the

L have seldom reads calaumnions insinuation more | Commentaries of the ancient fathers: and to study
barefaced than that which is contained in the above | the bistorical, tropological, allegorical, and anayog

poor man will pursce ja Served fair ceniottars,
: : / with the Government it cap bar re w
Ubereb for the educativu of chiktren of both sexes. | ae kth oth typ retin d o
. ae ge: =. And “ oupnete the
mood, not only by mifiny of the religious ladies of | wi 80 at the sacrifice of hin:
the oofiventa, but aleo by many. of the ludies of the | “ under the stigma of rep
be disclosed at the election of

: Hreswetha,a nnn probably in considering the answer to the Goyer
language: In the tenth centary , ace r y wo Ny

on the foundation of ber convent, and on the life of | jority after making a present of three or four to the
Otho the Gree! and also six dramas on ecclesiasti | opposition, bat I doubt the correctness of the reason.

| @ scrutinizing eye will he watch the doings of the
| Government, und if Mr. ‘filley’s well arranged

| rearon to deem himself one of the best Provincial

of the “ Young Men's Christian Association and | for the use of the Abbess Hildeltt and her nuns | diplomatiots

aap a ee so We all fi.dye: we never the

~

The
That adurees maui

and a corti edaliber, who crammed
any words they pleased iuto it, and uot five persone)

by tittle Co-

ion he
iples, | out of every one hundred whose names were
to that doctncalblched knewor cared what langxuage
was made use of therein. os quite surprised that

o honest man cou ,
hy inion of the Belfasters ; that after haviny sut-
fere? all the privations of immigrant life in t!.e de-
solate wilderness for #9 many yeurs, we sbould, on
the day of achieving our independence frow the ri-
yorous t # of landlordism, become at once
worse than savages or Turks to ferociously offer our
services to help the villainons Jand cliimants to tor: |
ture oor suffering but unoffending fellow colonists |
of other sattlements, who may earnestly endeavour
to accomplish their freedom as wellas ourselves. I
have no ill-will to the.Goverament; I wish them
well; but I regret that they so desperately cling to
the interests of the proprietary claimants. I don’t
see how it is possible for them to expect support at
; the next Election from those tenants whom they
| now try to induce to be satisfied with the Land Com-
misioners’ report, which would compe! the unfor-
tumutes to pay more than double the prices at which
the best Jands on the Worrell or Selkirk Estates!
have been sold for. If those lands had been worth
more, the Government had a right to charge more |
for them. Then what right has Mr Deblvis, Mr. |
Haviland, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pope, Mr. Yeo, or any,
others of the Government to demand more for other
lands than those which belonged to the Government |
lave been sold for? Echo answers What! andthe.
tenants also answer What? :

(To be continued in the next Examiner )

egade. This course
believe be will adopt, and evidence of it will first
er, or more

The Gevernment boast of having seven of a ma.

ing upon which this calculation is Bre &
week goes by we shall have a precty accurate
knowledge of the relative atrength of the tworides.
Twe subjects were brought before the considera-
tion of the Council last week. One was Mr.
Tilley’s report of his Delegation to England, and
which, it is supposed, falla fur short of the expecta-
tions that were entertained respecting it some weeks
previous to his retarn. This necount of his qoovent.
ings was exclnsive of the pedantic orations he made
to Manchester audiences, upon the invincible bar-
riers which the Sons of Temperance here were
ready to make to an assailing foe. Th other subject
for the dissection of the men of state would be that
periodica) formula the Governor's Speech, which
no to-;werrow's sun shell have touched the wertern
horizon, will have assumed typographical proper
tions. Wilmot and Gray—the two principal chiefs
of the Conservative party—having been kindly ap-
ruinted to manage the Home Department, their
former compeers, while lamentiny this promotion,
are left to regret the abseuce of sach well disciplined
superiors, and to make the beat of a bad cause ip
devising expedients to embarrass the Government.
Poor Mr. Gray, I am realiy sorry for his situation
Possessed of commanding talents and gentlemanly
deportment, he was well qualified to take part in MORAL LEPERS.
measures of parliamentary discussion; and oft has
be made those halle from which he has been driven) MR. WHELAN—Str—A good deal has been
ring with the echo of his chaste and finent elo- | written in several papers about “ Dreamer’s”
quence. He bears hie fate with cheerfuiness and | dream, and the reasou is because the dream war
ortitude becoming an unsnecessfal but hononrable | tog true. It would have been much more prudent |

For tne Examiner.

vive) fee the: roward whieh ‘is was his ebjeetto | for the ‘Islander’ to be silent on the matter. "¢

altuin \* * * * * - * . *
There are three new members for this Connty | . ae .

and City—Anglin, Skinner, aud Jordan. The first, . J- B. Cooper turning moralist! You bavegiven |

this mana well merited castigation for immorality,

said, if 1 mistake net, to have been practised

against hismother, The * Monitor’ of the 4th inst.
has an extract which is filthy and obscene in its
sentiments, and which must be the production of
a person very loathsome and immoral in bis cha-
racter. I would think that a man who would/
print such an extract must be an inipure wretch, |
‘Tne bitterest |

named will, most assuredly, make a stand in the
Assembly at onre independent and brilliant. With

stratagems escape from expostire he shall bave

Skinner is a mere boy in appearance, and Jaehs:
; that degree of physique which people delight to . i
behold in their chosen rx pre retitative. He is not, lust to all sense of morn! decency.

however, without some fitting qualifications for en- | enemies of Pios IX., with the exception of those |
| tering upon his new eareer, and by guarding well} Outeasts of society who have lost all genes of;
| his entrance into the lottery ef politica, sneeess will ‘shame, and who spend wostof their time in stews |
jattend bis early ambition. Beimg a Barrister of! and brothels, however much they condemn his |
growing importance, and withal as stirewd aaa!

of wach a tive of going te
esteemed friend!

tonity of thanking Mr. Fellowes for giving pub .
licity to this subject, as it affords me en opportunity | judge tor
" of correcting aod

form so ciareapectable i. Greulation.

| business, but latterly be seemed to avoid it wud took
no interest in what was going
tire management to wyself.
dc

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jell fur nix montbe, whieh Lam
to believe Waa the moet anxious wish of my

me prem

Before ng furtber, I will take this oppor- ;

confirming many erroneous reports

The “ Agricultural Warehouse’ had been open

some four or five ne ager to Mr. Fellowes
taking an interest iv the t ,
money to perchase stock in Englund and the States, |
and I took the position of managing partner, every
thing being bought and sold im my name; Mr. b
came occasionally to tue store after he joived in the | ner

e business by advancing |

on—leaving the en-
The books, invoicer

,
7

., were open to Mr. Feilowes at ail times.
* * * The business went on increasing and 1)
was getting into some good agencies, sud looked
forward to un early period when I might not only
make a yood living for myself, but ultimately be of
great service to Mr. Fellowes. Everything, how-
ever, was brought to a stand, witvout a moment's
warning, constables being put in cha at his in-
stance; 1 wa, of course, very muc

i

Desbrisay what was going on. J i
store, sud looked at the instructions given to the
constables, who had an indemnity; Mr. Desbrisay

7
‘sould: but advised them not to read the “F.xami-

| Whelan & Co. wanted and laboured for. H. d-\the meeting that’ Messrs. ©
bardly knowing what to do; 1, however, told Mr. |} mitted that he had done the Governmentot this! though backed. by —— t Pe
purchased Mc

surprised, }

lie came into the}

, milion on of wands 65 and
ed that would benefit the tenantry at the cost of

Proprictors. He then,

Whe bis opinion on the nward—the re mh

vea as to ite merite; but —
lieved that the Cunarda and other large ri-
etors would not agree to the jou cine.
Ite concluded his speech by flaunting & yellow
handkerehiet, appealing to his hearers, as Protes-
tants and Urangemen, to rely upon their own in-
telligence, and to gain all the information the

“ Protestants,” he said, “ have intelligence
at least. Irishmen could live upon nothing; but
Seotchmen such as those before him could not do
so; and they should be grateful to the Government
for having purchased for them the Seikirk estate.
W. I. Pope, Esqr., was the next speaker. He
said he was the most liberally abused man in the
Colony, but as a Protestant be would never aub-
mit to be enthralled by “ Popish plotters ’’—that
the Liberals were all Cat
tablishment of the Catholie religion was all that

som Having nag

ies, and that the es-!

hin Gol that.be lived woder 1 flag
so many battles and breezes, Ke, be ;

favour of

fect that bo Iaboured a
tages to Sppearing beture bie flow
io Gadbtedl, «0 wah =

TZ

that wien

they were Protcstants,—defenden

b
charge that might be brought pre ny ne
land speeuiator in bis purehare of the Ww
estate, and bis sale thereof to the jy.

cal Goverament, by t and tak ,
feng of hie hoaene HK doe pate ee
their potatoes for 2a. a bushel

realize 3s. for them.

crowd's mind
| pored comparison, the orator, in

He ad-

Island out of a large sum of money in the Worrell
Estate transaction, but he the act jus-
tifiable, as much so as fora farmer to sell a bushel!

was kind enough to guy tbat he would see Mr.
Fellowes and ascertain Lis views
he told me that all Mr. Fellowes wanted was to

know how things stood, and that if I would hand! gdmitted that the Islander was the organ of the | ders in their bebaif: aud, if I
over the books to Mr. Desbriexy, and have stock ; Government, and that it would advecate its iu- | words aryt, be said that the

taken for that purpose, an absoract account would
be given to each of us and the books returned to Mr.
Desbrieuy ; and that if the business was not fonnd
to be in ‘uw satisfactory state,or Mr. F. wished to
withdraw from the concern, some arrangement
might be entered into between us for the future
manwrement of the busiuess,which waste be carried
on by myself as usual] until] this was carried ont.
This investigation Lagreed to at once, and there
and then handed over to Mr. Desbrisay all the
books, invoices, &c., belonying to the business.
Surely, then bad there beeu any atte. opt on my part
to ctubezzle any of the woney iu my possession, |
would not have acted in this straightforward man-

While this arrangement was pending Mr. Fel-
lowes, or the constables in his name, again entered
the premises, with instractions to remove the goods
at ouce, nnd if [ resisted, to sweep away not ouly
the goods in the store, but my furniture, dyer which
he had held a bill of sale for some years, but for

which I never received any consideration! ‘This | P
| bli of sale was actually put in force, and bad it not | ing that when the Award of the Land Commis-

been for some kind friends myself aud family would
have been left for about three weeke of the most
piercing weather experienced last winter without a

chair to sit upon, a bed to lie upon, or a blanket to

On his retarn |

Philadelphia lawyer, he is likely te evince con
siderable tactin the Legisiature. if the practice of
| his profession hag net circumscribed his intellect,
the cread of which seemed to have prevailed upon

political acts, give him eredit for all the moral!
virtues Which ean adorn the Christian. This
being the case, the man who could place before
his readers such an extract as did J. B. C r

cover us! An afrangement was subsequently |
entered into, und by giving up the stock, as takeu |

and money received since proceedings commenced,
| I got back my furniture in a very dilapiduied state,

by Mr. Mancey, and accounting for the goods sold | *

of cate for three’ shillings, if be eould get it, al-

though it might not be worth one shilling. He

\teresta, The Examiner,he said, fidsitied and mix
represented the acts of the Government ; and was
sv vulgar aod indecent thet ne one should read it.
The Hon. Joseph Wightinan next addressed the
meeting. He read a great part of the exposition
of the Award as given by the Hon. Mr. Howe, and
eommented in very severe terms upon the em-
luyment of the Spy. Ife thought that if the ar-
bitestion clause in the Award could be improved
| by legislation, some benefit might accrue from it.
He head come to the meeting for the purpose of
learning the views of his cousti(vents respecting
the important question under discussion, in order
that he might kuow what course to adopt in the
House of Assembly. Fer his own part, his views
were embodied in the following resolution —
{The Secretary dues not say whether this reso-
lution was put to vote.—EbD, ExrR.}
“ Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meet-

| Siovers is. received, and made known to the Le-
| gislature, if approved of by the constituencies of
the Island, after public meetings have been called
| for that purpose—then the Represeutatives of the
Colony will be authorised tosanction the Award.”

* * *

*
W. D. STEWART, Sec'y.

estrct. The “ Young Men's Christian Agsocia:ion
and Literary Inafitute’’ ts under the patronage of
Iie Excellency the Lieut. Governor, and has con

ical senses ofthe different passages ; profane history,

chronology, grammar, orthography and poetry, also

employed their attention. St. Aldbel

de laude

wected with it severui other gentlemen of high! Virg. p. 24. The lives of Si. Willibald and Sx

siandiog in the ty, among whom is Profes Waunebald were bet) wiittenin Letin by an Anylo-

sor luglis, LL.D. Itis not surprisingthat it sbould | Saxon nun. Several letters in the same language, |

be insinnsted by “ iliternte agitators’ af «mall minds! Written by English ladies, are preserved among the
and contracted ideas thai the Cutbolie Church holds | epistles of St. Boniface. Iu some of them are alla

tant “ ignorance is the mother of devotion ;" bat it | ious to the Roman poets ; and in one, a few Veree*) for place and emolument was competent to confer | print anything tike what appeared in last week's

is certainly not s little «mange that the insinvation| composted by Leobgytha, who was then learning |
should receive the apparent approval of a person) the rules of metre from her mistress, Eadburga.
whom the public hitherto regarded as a gentleman | Ep. Bonif. 36. p 46. (Antiq. Ang. Sax. Church, pp
of expanded ideas aud extensive information. 1/189 & 190.) For further interesting detuils regard-
would be very surry to maiutain positively that Dr | ig the learned females of the middle ages, I may
Lobe bas endorsed the sentivente of that portion cf | refer you to the 6th art. of the Ann. de la Philosep
the Report to which I bave allnded, but as he has (bret.
vbewn for some tine oneset the oflice-bearers of the! Whilst writing of the schools of the middle ages,
slove naged Association, 1 think that, if be does | I may add the just observations of a recent American
por desire the public to understand that he has en. | Wer, who says that Ireland took a prominent part
dorsed them, he would be only doing an act of jus '““im the cultivation and promotion of literature. ;
tiee ty his own character to mako a public disclaimer | From the middle of the fifih to the middle of the
iseoel | eighth century she carried on what might be called |
la my last letter I proved conclusiv _ from the acrusade of learning throughout al! Europe. While
mst vexpectable Protestant authorities that ihe Ca the tide of barbarian invasion was rushing over the
tholic clergymen of the ‘dark ayes’ did much for | Continent, burying under its turbid waves the relics |
E-dneation by copying and collecting books and es | Of ancient literature and civilization, the Emerald
tabushing libraries, in fact that were it not for them Isle was devoting the repose w bich Providence
the sources of aucient wisdom aud learning would then granted her to the practice of religion, the |
bave been altogether lost. I presume thet had the founding of schools, and the cultivation of letters, |
Popes and other elertyymen of the Church acted on both sacred and profane. To give one instauce of }
tg prineiple that * Ignorance ia the nother of de vo- the flourishing conditivn of her institutions of learn-
tion,” they would aot bave given themselves as! #9Z.during the period in question, it is well known, j
wueb tronble as they did to preserve books aud ‘bat the monastery of Benchor, or Bangor, contained
frm libraries. But you may ssy that the Priests [0 fewer than three thousand monks, besides scho-
tdeed did mach w educate hemselves, but they larsinnumerable. Fired with enthusiasm, Lrishmen |
did vothing to educate the people, whom they kept Visited almost every couutry in Europe, leaving be- |
in & stare of ignorance, in order the betser to ty-| bind them splendid institutions of iearning and re-
rauize over them. I shall show inthis communica. !igion. Irishmen established the monasiery and
tou that the Church, Ly the establish ment of schools, school of Lindisforne, in England, of Bobbie, in
colleges, aud universities, did, even in the “ dark sly, of Verdien, in France, and of Wartzdurg,
ues, ¥for the promotion of learning, much more Ratisbon Erfarth,Cologne and Vienna in Germany.”
tan her malignere arm wiilirg to give her credit (Spal. Mia.) For farther particulars on this sub-
oe | ject you may read Annual. de lu Philos. Chret. 7
Throughout the Christian world during the mid. | One of the causes which contributed most to the
dle ages the episcopal Seee became the special nur- developement of the mind was the creation of great
series of learning, Wherever there was a Cathe. °e?tres of instruction, whence the light of science
dral, tuere also was & school. This waa not the WW diffused ever modern Rurope. Al! the celebra
eve: of chance, but the natura! result of the epirit ted European Universities were founded in the |
of wwe Church, whieh by provincial, national and | ™!ddle ages by Popes, bishops, aii] religious princes, |
1! Goaneile enconraged the establishment of 224 many of these educational esinblicshments, such
schools forthe rich and poor. Ishball refer toa few #8 those cf Rome, Bologna, Padua, Naples, Pavia,
only of the numerous deerees of Councils on this Pisa, Salamanca, Valladslid, Vulencia, Alcala, Paris. |
ecdjert. Lonvain, &e., &e., &c., relied on some papal docu
Iu the rear 900 it was enacted by the Council of ment for their prerogatives. Boniface VIII opened
Orleans that the clergy should erect schools jn % university at Fermo; Clement V. opened one at
towng and villages for the elementary education of Perugia; and Boniface IX. unother at Ferrara.
children. “ Let them receive,’ says this Council, Many of the colleges attacked to the uriversities of
“end teach these litle children with the utmost Europe were founded by Caibolie clergyinen in the
charity, that they theuelves may shine like stare “dark ages." History tells us that Pope Urbain V.
furever. Let theui receive uo remuneration from *4pported more than a thousand students at various
tucir schools, uvlessa what the parents, through universities, and even supplied them with books
charity, may volimurily offer.” (See Council Aure- | (See Spal. Mis. p. 129). It is almost unnecessary
Law. Au. Suv, Can x) | for me to remind you that the two great Enylish |
The Counei! of Mayeuce, in $13, ordered priests | Universities « )xford and Cambridge, were establish
to adug@nish the parents ander their charge regard. | ¢¢ by “ Papiste” in the “dark ages,” and tbat all
ing the daty of -euding their children to the schoole the balls, and twelve of the twenty colleges of the
established, “either in the monasteries, or in the former, and twelve of the seventeen colleges of the
users of the paruciial clerzy."’ (Cencil. Mogan- latter, were founded before the so-called Reforma. |
Uaom, Cun. x) tion.
Temporal princes wided the ecclesiastical authori-
ties In carry img into cifect the benign intentions of universities which I bave meniioued were frequent-
tbe Chureb, for we read in history that Charle- ed not by hundreds, uor by thousands, but by tens |

let it be remembered that many of the great |

mange, ‘a one of hie Capitulare, ordered schools to | Of thourunds of students from every part of Europe. | fol

Le erected throughout his vast empire. In Eng: | We learn from Anthony Wood, the Protestant his. |

lewd, Ailived the Great enacted laws of a similar ‘Tian of the University of Oxford, that, during the ; iumbering and shipbuilding brisk, many of them

natere. | reign of Henry IL. this celebrated institution count. |

Tue wird general Council of Constantinople, beld 4 thirty thousned students!
ia the seventh century, commands priests to open ,
schouls im country places.and to receive gratuitously | euter into further details regarding the eneo .rage-
wll those who eould be induced to frequent them. | ment given by the Chureh to Education. |! have

The third generul Counei! of Lateran, convened, proved most conclusively that clergymen of the
in 1:79 by Alexander III. passed the following | Catholic Church, did, even in the middle ages, ex-
canon :—‘ Siuce the Church of God, like a tender! ertthemeelves in the most praiseworthy manner to

mother, is bouud to provide for the poor, both in| preserve and promote learning by every possible |

these things which appertain to the aid of the bedy| means. Catholic clergymen copied und collected
and in those which belong to the advancement of | books, established libraries, founded schools, col-
the soul ; lest the opportnuity for such improvement | leges and universities, wany of which are supported
hould be wanting to those poor pereons who can-! ut this day by the munificent legacies left by Popes,
uot be aided by the wealth of their parents; let «
couapeteut benefice be assigned im cach cathedral
ebarch to & teacher, whose duty it sball be to teach
the clerks and poor scholars of the sume church self-euilicient, self sanctified, loug-visaged “ illiterate
gratuitously; by which means the necessity of the | @gitators, who would fain wake others believe that
teacher umy be relieved, aud the way to instrection | they are honoring God whilst vilifying those who
uty be opened to learners. Let this practice be| ever served Him in charity and trath.
alco restored i» other clrurches and wonasteries, jf} For the last three bundred years bistory hasbeen
iu times past, avytbing was set apart in them for one bage plot against truth,
this purpose.’ (See Cabassutiue, Notitia Cencil. in | repetition of lies has made tbat which was true ap-
locum.) This decree wae renewed in 1215 by Lano- pear falee, and that which was false appear true
cent IfL., who extended the law to parish churches. 1 ¢m aware that in consequence of thie being the
Thus it appears that the eystemof Education which | axe, wauy of the facts which I have brought for-
obtained iu the days of “ Popith ignorance and su-| Wurd are not in accordance with what you have
peretition” was much wore entitled to the name of | Seen taught to believe from your infancy; yet I trust
Fries than that which now exists in this eolony. that now you will candidly admit that the Church
Tt would be too tedious to enter into particulars} bas not been that tyrannjcal enemy of intellectual
regarding the alwost innumerable schools which | culture whieb she has often heen represented. If
Were opeued by mouke, particularly by we Francis. | Yeu do not do this, but choose rather to be intinenced
cuos, Dominicans aud lvaedictines whose services| ¥¥ the predjudices which you imbibed with your
to literstare cannot Le overestimated. Hallam be-| other's milk, 1 entertain the hope that the addi
stows on the cathedral and conventual schools of | tional facts which I shall hereafter bring forward
the niddle ayes the following qualilied praise —_ will couvince you that whatever haa been said of
“ The pruine of baving originally established schools | ihe tendency of the Catholic Church to enslave and
belongs to some bishops and abbots of the vixth| eodwink the mind is but calumny. “That

sneered at for being ignorant aud

ways of men; and have long sisce gradvated with | 2n4 it is this, if J were Governor Dazdas, or Mr.) ing, to reply to 9 charge of embezzlement brought

| Sons of Temperance in New Bronswick; and the |

| him a provincial celebrity, and assisted materially

fand whose sqneaking voice cansea much merri.
; ment in the House of Assemi'ty

, dom of expreesion of its transitory oecupants for the

| Belfast property to become freebolderson sach easy |

jsome kinds for domestic purposes, which only en-|
It is quite unnecessary, at the present time, to, couraged the rapacity of tue usurping proprietor and

bishops and kings, who desired no recompense but |
the smiliag spprova] of Heaven, and who ere now |
superstitions by |

jand given up with the pro

and by the frequent was sold; and Jem sure you would not think that

Henry Grattan to abandon ite arbitrary and stern , last Week adoutthe Pope, should be looked upon
reulities. Mr. Skinnerhas acquired that monotonous Bot ouly as iniamously uncharitable, but as an
| style of oratory that emanated from the * Division | unchaste, beastly fellow, w ho shoutd be shunned |
| Room,” and the palpits of a modern retigions deno- 1
en a small on of which sufficce for the! guderstand that this manu Cooper goes to the
| Saate of & promibenous nedioney. | Levee at Geverament House sontetimes. I don't,
Aa for the other members for the County—Tilley, | knew if he has the eonsummate impudence to,

Watters, Cudlipand Jordan, they are well schooled Ses : 7 |
| in political education, thoroughly hackneyed in the | visit Lady Dundas, but there is oe thing I know, |

| by all decent people as a piece of moral filth.

the honors snd rewards which a s-ecessfal coniict | Atkinson, and if a nasty, filthy fellow, wo wonld |
‘Tilley is the first champion for the order of the|* Monitor,’should presume to come about Gotecn- |
tment House premises, I would take him by the
scruff of the neck and give bim a cowhiding that |
' would teach him not to print any iore filth for a!
while, It is to put deceat people on their guard |

advocaey of the cold water principle has won for

in elevating him to the first office in the gift of the
Government. To him, too, iadne the rare and aie a 4
honorable praise of illustrgting bis temperance pre- 4e@inst “ moral lepers” that ) ou have been troubled
cepts by his own exainple. : | with this short epistles trou

Watters. the witty and facetione Solicitor Gene- i CAVE.
ral, deserves more attention than Jean afford to
vive him in this place. A young widower and the |
best looking man in the Government, he has many
attractions for the fair spectators that throng the
galleries of the Legielutive halle, looking softly
patrietic npon the array of oraters to whom are
committed the doctrines of the country. This is
the gentleman, too, who has heen impeached with
the interesting miademeanor of having. by his theo-
logical persnasione, snereeded in bring’ng over &
young lady from the church of her forefathers to
the possession of what Mr. Wottera regards as the
saving doctrines of Catholicitv. Waa thir not
ernel in Her Majesty's Solicitor General? Had he
made ber his bride. then. indeed. there might be
some mercy extended to him; but look at the naked
fart—you who are parente—and where can be
fonnd a jnetifiention? Here ia a vourg girl, an
only ehild, fair, lovely, accomplished, induced by a
smiling man to forsake the faith of donating parents,

ad embrace that represented as containing the.
meane of exclusive salvation. But, bold, I must.
proveed no further inthis strain of censure. When
I reflect it is not diffienlt to find cousiderable palli
ation for such a provoking encounter; who could
resiet such a fascinating and romantic an opportn.
nity to add to the true foid ? and the oecngion of it
in the brilliavt cirele of the ball room. Oh. it must
have been delightful to the Solicitor General A
few words will suffice to diapoee of Jordan end Cud
lip. One ix a good sample of the Blue Nose race.

—_—————_.9¢@-—_—_.

Mr. Wuetax—Sin—I beg to hand you the
following extract from the Sunderland Herald of
the 24th January last :—

“ We are rejsiced.to hear of the safe arrival of
ihe Paraua (with the Scotch Fusileers on beard) |
at Sydney, C. B., on the 6th, two days after the
daie of her reported Joss in the St. Lawrenee.

' Nothing can be more admirable than the tone and
spirit of the whole population of British America.
The French Aabituns and the Irish immigrauts,

_ Protestants and Catholics, Orangemen and Peep-

| o'-lay Boys, vie with each other in expressions

j aud acts of loyalty; and, if ever the North should

| Venture to invade Canada, it will be encountered
by @ population as united and loyal, by good go-
| verument and sound institutions, as if they had
never been split into factions and arrayed againat
each other in civil war. Nothing has se much
surprised the North as this loyalty of both Cana-
das. The work of housing the troops already |

,arrived in Nova Scotia, New Branswick, and
Canada, is gumng on admirably and actively. De-
fences are being everywhere raised or strengtlened
on the frontier, aud at Montreal, at the lochs of
the canals, aud the bridges of the railways. ‘Tbe:
Mili.ia are in active drill, and the Volunteers,
growing intoa fatge and effective force under
tucir natarab leaders, and with the aid both of the

tary retired soldjews settled in our Norti Ameri-
cau territories, ang by the officers, comatissioned
and uen-commissigned, sent out for that purpose.”

There is pe deubt that the Canadian Press,

_ Clergy, and Goverpinent have materially aided in
disseminating the spirit of unity above referred to. |
How honourably this contrasts with the majority ,

_ of our Island press, namely, the ‘ Islander,’ ‘Mou
tor,’ and even that professedly sanctified paper

| the * Protestant,’ the sole object of whose respeci-
For tar Examiner. , ive editors is to sow diseord and fan up revenge
| between the Protestant and Catholic portions of

NOTES OF A TRAVELLER. | this Island, at a time when, in the defence of our

| hearths and our families, they should strain every |
nerve to create peace and unity. I question
whether the Colonial Secretary of the Canadian
Government is guilty of acting either as the edi-
tor of a newspaperor as the avowed mover of the
worst motives among men, as our Colenial Seere-
tary is chargeable with; and I shculd like to knew

) if, m making up the Blue Book, our Secretary

gives a full and explicit statement of tue iniquitous |
part he acts ia this Colony, which our Goverament
iacitly acquiesces in‘

Yours,

specially when he
hasacold, and disevesing a question in which he
hae a personal interest. The other ie a Fardy and
unpolished son of Old Scotia, whose unaided indus. |
try has placed him in affluent cirenmetances. They
both belong to the class that Dr. Johneon describes
as being possessed of ‘one idea,’ and were mv
opinion of any value, I would say that they are
more celebrated fur silence than rbetorie in their
capacity. ;

St. John, N. B., Peb. 12, 1862.
i
S1e—Having had occasion lately while travelling,
to stop for some honrs at a wayside Inn, daring a
snow #torm, not one hundred miles from Vernon
Kiver, I listened with no smal! stare of interest to
a conversation which took place between two
farmers. The room in which we were located,
though of small dimensions, served the purpose of a
bar room, refectory and general reception room for
visitors of all clesses. and hence the eave and free-

time. The farmers were evident)y of an intelligent
though unupresuming clases; and although J] wae x!
stranger te both of them, yet I was not long in de- |
cipbering that one wae from Belfast and the other
from New London, and for the purpose of abbrevi
ation, I shal) call the Jatter N. and the former B.,
or in plain terms, N. shall represent New London, aeyie

and D3. Belfast. It ia scarcely necessary to premise “KISSING GOES BY FAVOUR.” }
that the™ Land Questien " appeared to be their all- | i 4 i
absorbing topic ~ bey csliede [ensideastie pust the | MR. Wetas—Sin.—I thought the system of fa- |
meridien of life, to jadge from their silvery locks | Voritism in the British service Was among the things
and other iudicatious of hurd werk in a uorthern) Which Lave been; it so, can you tell why it is con.
latitude. j tinued in this portion of the British possessions

N. suid— You have heen very fortunate on the | @0°8 the Valumtooss

+} ee
Charlotietown, February 14, 1862.

Ross's lart ‘ Weekly’ announces that His Excel.
ray of | leney bus been pleased to sauction the following!
| appointments in the Prinee of Wales’ Rifle Com-
pany viz :—Jobn Robins to be Lieutenant, vice W.:
>. Dawson, resigned ; James Peake to be Ensign,
vive Robins, promoted! [ admit that Master Peake
is a native of this Island, is in the prosvect of being
wealthy, aud that if he felt disposed to jein the
Volunteers, is perfectly at liberty to do so; but I
contend, under the present rule in the British army,
* that promotion shall be in accordance with merit!” |
No power on this Island has aright to place Muster |

terme. Would that lhad the sume thing to
the New London district.

B. replied — Yea, but if the stupid tenants had |
lowed my advice we would have been freeholders
many years ago; but while times were wood aud |

; continued to pay rent by relling the timber from off |
their furmes, often not leaving the merelves enonugl of

| his greedy cormorant of an ageatin the expectation |
that all the tenants would finally consent to pay rents | Peake umong the Volunteers where be now stands! |
for the lands which their own bard labour redaimed | He might have been commissioned in the Queen's |
from the wilderness. For my own part, continued | County Militia, either as an Ensign, a Licutenant |
B., 1 was fool enough to perebase a farm on the | Or @ Captain, but among us he has no right to be |

| Seikirk Estate before I lefi Scotland, but *eeing | taken from outside, and passed over the heads of |
how matters stood some time after my arrival, ] | Privates, Corporais and sergeants, who have for);
verbally reuted two other furme contiguous to the | ™Wenths been drilling and preparing themselves for!
loue I purchased. I was pot, however, foul enough the hour of duty! Mas Master Peake been drilling!
to pay a penny rent for either to the present day. | OF practising?” Does his uniform bear the marke
Some few others followed my example, and they ath
{have now ygot-the freebold of their th for less merit is be the performer of which should authorise |
than oue-half tre nominal arrears of rent due or! him te be lifted abcve hie seniors ia duty and dri]! 2;
| claimed at the time of the transfer of it to the Go-, Had he beea here at the formation of the Company, |
vernment. And 1f al] the tenants on the othe: } and then selected to take his present rank, it is not
Township lands had neglected or refused to pay | probable I should have called your attention to the
the saune as I did, the pretended owners cr Lees ; bor i* it now, done becuuse I belong to that
proprietors weuld be equully willing two sell on as| Company. Far from it, it is the principle that I!
easy terms as did the Earl of Selkirk’ ! look at, which it quietly allowed to pase in ene com-!
} N. Then you think it was because the Belfast | pany, may be extended through every a)
| tenuntry in general did not pay up their rents thur Company on the Island.
} - property was soid so cheup ?
$

|

i

| renta,

Most certainly. The arrears of rent claimed me ws lp 5 te Lae ect fete ge’ 4
i ada m5 pk tay that lam bappy in not belonging |
: \s ish a body of mea who would preter piuc- |
ing a person who bas never had the honor of being |
- la roll asivate in advance of some of their own men |
| who prom: : ;
whieh be claimed some £20,000 arreura of reut, beliews "the Comelier wield bie palin teen te]
besides a0 apaus! rent cluitn of nearly £2000. No, | justice, but think it has been viewed by our Govern. |
no; it was becouse the rents were not paid, and be- | ment in the light that wealth, either in ros ive |
cauve the title to the land would most probably prove | or possession should always predominate w ther
defective if ax bonest enquiry were held on its iu. its possessor or anticipator be a wise man or » fool |
vestigation, and Lence the Luste to get someting —a person of diseretion and experience orn beardles:
for it; aud eo it was with the proprietary ciuimant boy ; in short, that MIGHT should take the plac of |
on Lot 04, to whiob be bad no more honest chai | RiGut !! ‘ Yours —
than you bad; and if the Land Coumpission, which | A VOLUNTEER. |
has made so much poise amonyst us bad been pro-| Ch. Town, Feb. 14, 1862 " aa
perly directed by our Government, and requested to | : in
examine into the vigil titles ww the Township | in liaaiatacaialla as |
lands aud pronouuce tor Excheat, or viberwise, ac- | To Tat Eprrorn of Tur ExaMiser
cording to circumstances, more thav three-fourths of ae:
the Township usurpers would be too bappy to sell) Sin—In your edition of the 10th inst. there is a
for whatever they could get, as they dare not go to, letter signed “ Robt. A. Fellowes,” stating that the
an investigation, by which they Know well that | Grand Jury on the [3th January last sent down a/
they would hot only lose their prevended claims vo |“ Preseutuient”” against we, by which I am accused |
the lands, but would also have their diabolical ma- | Of no less a crime than that of embezzlement Mr. i

| times the amount for whie
j any land claamant or agent would sell out for ever |
for seven or eight thousund uds a property frow

century. They came in place of the imperial schools which is born of light cannot produce darkness :
overthrown by the barbariuns. In the downfal] of , tat which is the work of truth itself neéd not fly |
thai lemporal dominion, a spiritual aristocracy was} from the syu’s rays to conceal itself in the bowels |
Pryvideutinily raised up, to save from extinction the | of the earth. The daughter of heaven may walk |
temuiue of learning aud of religion itself, Some of | iM the brightness of day, may dare discussion, may
taewe schools seem to have been preserved in the | gather around ber all the brightest intellects, well
svath-of Luly, though merely, perlaps, for elemen. | assured that the more closely and attentively they
tary iustruction. ‘The eatbedral and conventual| see and contemplate her, the more pure, the more
tehools, created or restored by Clarlemange, b beaut and pturiug will she appear.
the menns of preserving the small portion of learn. I Lave the honor w remain,
tog which coutinued exist. They flourished most, Your obedientand humble servant,
having had time w produce their fruits, under his : A. McDONALD.
euccessors, Louis (ue Debuiiair, St. Dunstan's College, Feb. 12, 1862.
ta

Form rs baanminen.

chinations exposed, and prove them fit subjects for) F. also states that although I was red there |
the gibbet. ‘aud then tw xo inte a contin pe arg case, the |
N. Then would you advise us New I andoners as | Auorney General—owing to a press of business—|
well asthe other tenantry throughout the Island | ad ne time wo file a Bill of Indictwent to send up|
aot to py BOY wore rents until we get our farms on t¢ the Grand Jury before the Court rose, &e., &e.|
as good terms ax the Belfast tenants got theirs tram | Mr. Fellowes then goes on to say that the Attor ney }
the Governmeut? , General applied to the Judges for an order to coni- !
BI don't advise you to anything, fonly say thut ; pel ine to find good and sufficient bail for my uppear- |
whieh I believe to be wu fact, that if rents be nox ance ia the June Court, which they refused to do. |
paid, the lands will be useless to ue Proprietary | considering, I presume that under the circumstances |
claimants, and therefore whet becomes valueless is | @Y OWn recognizunce was sullicient. Mr. Fellowes’
Ways easily purchased, beesuse whatever arises | Appears Very inuch alarmed ihat on account of the |
from the sale thereof is so wuch gain vo the seller | conduct of the Judges in this matter, the Commer
Suppose we had a Government free trom proprie- | Cul world and sociew geuerally may be placed in a
tary influences, either as Land claimauts theinse vea,| dreadful predicameny. While finding fault with
OF us ae tor such—would they notat once write! the coneuet of the Judges, I think Mr. P. might |
& circular lo the Lund usurpers, and iuform thers | S#tfely have given a Bittle advice in another quarter,
that they (the Governmem) buve settled some of: #nd cuutioned Graad Jurors against being too easily |
the best lands on the Island, by selling them to the |» by one-sided representations—that they |
actual teuant thereon ut ten shillings, eight shill. ; Should enquire into the. character of the parties,
iugs, and six shil respectively per acre, accord. | their antecedents, whether or not

| them.

* Daring the age of the Charleses, of the Othos, and
of the ddenrys, the euiidien oi Aitgs aud duker
Were plared at 4 vender aye in tue achools of the
conons aud of the mouke, that they might acquire
* knowledge of the liberal arta, and of the lan
7 al (See Ziegelbquer Opp. Tom. 1)
€ Guunerice id fie the girls that which the
monastic, auhedral aud parvehial wchuvls did for

POLITICAL Al'FAIRS UF NLW BRUNSWICK.

This worming a rowad deren of Legislators from
the cite and dinar counties leave tur the capital io
maugere yu ies awityd tue we Parliament.
Some re le icaiurcs will aitend the presem
con ventivu vt Re ore-enty ives,the foremost of whieh
willbe the targe proportion of new
abeence of the Couservative leaders, and the ano-

malous dituativn of Mr Risber. What course this

wigm kee quite youthful ; the Geve

] anything had |
| ing to quality aud tn, and tlerefere that no been done in the master previously (as in this case |
| pesasiotor or owner or claimer of lund ought, or, bad been and rejected) before pd sally the Pree,
should ask more than these ratex, which would u: of any one by finding a Presentment ; T am, bow. |
ee . j and that if they did oot |€¥eF, Hot in. pomition to blame the late Grand |
t such & measure, that there is | ducy, being quite i tof the specific ch
iim the Island to euforce payments of reuta from te || zt egninet 150 by ‘Me. whe bes knoe
; pants tuved uimeel! 2 mae notte stick at tritles to
} . Bat did not you Belfasters, in an address vo thin end, ae I will presently sBLiAlACOriLy aoe

offer your ser- + lad she Sndygesottored ine to find ather boil than

ww the peor ten my A would bave dour my best w procure j
pea Ties im dving so, ¥ had the plewsunt te om

| Governor . some Line "
, Vices to help him wo collect gnete fee
| aute in other parts of ihe Leland ?

by Bending for it,
I soon found that having got hold of the stock and
I Payment of the trade ac-
coats, which was part of the agreement, and i bad
to apply to Mr. Charles Palmer on the part of the

books Mr. F. repudiated

creditors, to compel hint to do so. After this, my | prevented from dving so, and when Mr. John Goff | against cpaners piscry dl agriust Lin
i wt)

persecution began, by receipt of a sy. mens
the Mayor's Court to aitend on the foi!

iro.
2 morn

against me by Mr. Fellowes. Lappenred,of course,

jand atter the charge wae made and tie matter fully |
‘gone into, the cuse was disutissed, there beiny | ton,

nothing to prove such a charge either direewy or
adirestly. After this Mr. Fellowes was Cross
ques/ioned by Mr. Puliner, whe elicited that 1 was
not ouly ma@waging clerk but had a share in the
business.

Shortly after this I wae arrested by Mr. Fellower

ng the usual time necessary to ge through the dilfe-

i
rent forms, [ was released through the *induess of

| Mesers. W. B. Dean and J.C. Hall, whe became
bail for me—a kindness which 1 shall never forget. |

During my incarceration, when not able to protect
myseli, Mc. Ropert Atston FeLLowss, not being
satiafied with the rebuif he got at the Mayor's Court:
tried the embezzlement dodge again witli the Grand
dury, who,being busivess men, saw at once that the

ang ws eee ee De ne ot a » liana the day was far
charge Was vindictive and frivolous, and dismissed | have not rece ived any deseription of the rather } 2 es. tae said hi placed rr
him in avery suinmary manner. After laying upon | extraordinary Yory tashion in whieb it was con-|\ R™-

his oars for #ix months betried the Grana Jury
aguin on the 13th of January last, and by, I pré
sue, u string of false representations, succeeded in
getting them to send down a presentime it against
me, Very much to the astonishment of every one.

By these persecutions Mr. Fellowes knows well
that he can obtaiu no pecuniary advantage, so that
‘is sole and eviire object is to ruin my credit und
begyar my wife und chiidren, and proceeds from a
vindictive and maligna it feeling perfectly unjust
fiable. lac Mr. Fellowes, before ecoumtuencing pro-
ceedings, listened to the impartial advice offered him
by afew highly redbeatabte storekeepers in Town,
veither of us Would bave enifered in the estimation
of the public. I would have preserved my credit,
and he buve saved money which be has so foolish Is
excrificed. * ic. * * ~ o >

Jam sorry to trespass eo long on yeur patience
and what ef the pabhe, but have felt compelled to
enter inte this loay explanation in self-defeuce. J
have still a “reat deal more to say in regard to Mr
Fellowes, but ‘tnowing your dislike to persoualities
my rewarksa will appear in a diderenut form.

I am, Sir, Your obed’t servant,
Wa. W. IRVING.
Ch.Town, February 14, 1362.
re
' y ew +
THE PUBLIC MEETING AT
MONTAGUE BRivGE.
REPORT FROM THE =" juetapenoed OF THE
MEETIN

ffow. E. Wieraxn—Sim—]I hasten to furnish

you with a summary report of the sayings and do-/ tertnight since discovered, at a religions meeting, |

ings ot the Meeting at Montague Bripge, on the
loth iast.. ia order that you may see tacough the
designs of certain interested parties, and e. able
you to counteract false statements that may come
irom other quarters.

For more than a week previous to the day of
Meeting, @ number of Orangemen from Charlotte-
town have been in this part of the country lectur-

| ing «mall audiences wherever they could be found

on what they were pleised to call * Secial Pro-

| gress,”’ which were very offensive and insulting to

the common sense of niany who went to listu to

which he atiewpted to show that Catholics would
assume any form aad do any deed to promulgate

and propagate Catholicism, and that poutics were |
| used by thein to premote that design.

lt was the
duty, he said, of every Protestant to become a

member of an Orange Lodge—to support the pre- |

sent Government, attend public meetings; and
plainly intimated that they should not be very
scrupulous of the means to be used at such meet-
ings to carry their own points. Rev. Mr. Fitz-
gerald, Rey. G. Sutherland, and Mr J. B. Cooper,
visited and pried the people jor the meeting. par-
ticularly the Orangemen, ou Douse’s Road, Mur-
ray Harbour Road

Thus encouraged, at about 12 o’clock on the |
day of meeting a large body of Highlanders from |
Belfast, Wood lanka and Donse’s Road arrived |
at Montague ridge, with a piper at their bead, |
determined to listen to nothing except that which |
dropped from the lips of those whom their lectur-
ers approved of.

Tue Liberal Committee of Management were |
about appointing a Chairman, when a number of

| the Georgetouians, headed by the gentleman us-, Pemembered and fully appreciated by many who |

aper—in thus you, ca
| was one of those who, from thinking

of either a Sergeant or a Corporal? Then what | ually styled Parson Rory, rushed into the room! heard hie, I beg Bir. Palwer to allow me, a8 his

appointed for the meeting, and plaved Capt. Me-
Douald, of New Perth, ia the ehuir, whack wove
ment was supperted by the Orange bretiiice with-

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| out, thus taking the business of the weeting out of Clause in the Award, Mr. Palmer exp
This done, | Self nearly as follows—* that the great objection
j amidet wild yells and rude applause, “ Parson! Which he and others of his party entertained to its

the hands of those who called it.

acory” called upon Mr. Manoab Rowe to address

1 hau |

Phe Rey. D. Fitzgerald delivered one of)
these lectures at Georgetown, in the course of |

, and at New Perth. | hibited by !iuy when he accompamed his Roy ai

(‘The remainder of Mr. Stewart's letter gives a
description of the seenes which oceurred towards
j the conclusion of the meeting, when Mr. Le La-
|cheur attempted to addrers the people, and was
| abruptly and arbitrarily closed the proceedings,
by urging the multitude to separate, although
Thomas Owen, Esq., and the Hon. Edward Thorn-
the members for the District, attempted in
vain to address their constituents. Mr. Stewart
| adds, that while Mr. Goff was advising the people
| to go away, the Bagpipers from Belfast seut forth
' their discordant yotes, and all was confusion.—

(ona baifable writter £200, but how he arrived at | Aud such waa the end of the Great Moutague
| chis exact sum, a8 bein #ltlanee of account due by | :
, me to him, I have been unabis to tind out!

no alternative but to go to prison, and after spend. |

Meeting !j
Elias Ph ile

THE MONTAGUE MEETING,

Audi alieram partem.
To THe Eprron or THe EXAMINER.
+ Dear Sin—Having availed myself of an oppor-
tanity of attending the polities! meeting held at
| Moutagne Bridge on Thursday, the 13th instant,
and surmising that you, a# a publie journalist,

'

| dueted, and the rather ordinary Tery speeches
thereat delivered, I venture for the first time in
my life to attempt the part of reporter. The
, readier method of reporting the speeches is to take
| them seriatim and ic order. I regret that I was

tov lat eto hear Mr. MeAalay’s speech, except at
‘such a distance fram the scene ef action as en-
, abled me to recognize only the well known “ ore
rotundo”’ style and sonorous tene so peculisrly bis
own, but imagined that he was informing his
hearers that political party feeling ran too high in

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this Colony, that sentiment being the burden of

his discourse during his private conversation in
the aliernoon. As 1 neared the place of meeting,
Mr. Rowe (Liberal) essayed to address the audi-
ence,but could obtain no bearing from them,
though the Chairman, Mr. McDonald, and the
Hon. Edward Paimer used their endeavours to
,obtam for lim a fair chanee ef expressiug hix
views.
On the withdrawal ef Mr. Rowe the Hon. FE.
Palmer delivered himself of 2 speech which was,
‘in my humble opinion, distinguished bya readiness
} and eloguenee which may tend to lead one to hope
| that the time is net far distant when he shall ex-
| plain his views in a mere endurable manner than
heretofore. The Hon. gentleman spoke with
, much feehng on the lengthened period of his poli-
tical eximeuce in this world, oan the part he had
taken in the public affairs of this his native iste
tur more than @ querter of a century; and, as
‘you might reasemably expect from one who some

a most remarkable coincidence in the fact of one
‘mail trom England bringing the sad news of our
) beloved patiun’s and Queen's irreparable loss,

aud the next the news or the departure from the

lite of this world of a very near relative of our
respected Queen's representative resident among
| Us, strongly recommended that we should await
with patience the arrival of the Land Commission
‘er’s Award from the Colonial Office, the delay of
which much press of business, ine/uding the mourn-
ful death of Hes Royal Highness the late Prince

Consort, had occasioned. Jn fact, like the Award

itself, * THE TIME HAD NOT ARRIVED.”

Mr. Paimer next informed the audience that u
/to the time of his leaving Charlottetown the
English Mail had not arrived, but that, when it
did, he and His Exceliency the Lieut. Governor
expected the Award in the despatch bag. The
hon. gentleman having alluded, in rather a mild
and pleasing style, to the fact that ns private
conversation with His Grace the Duke of New-
' castle had been short, and to the fact that some
of his political opponents had been sincere intheir
endeavors to settic the land question, he passed a
| riebly deserved eulogy on his Grace the Duke of

Newcastle, intorming his bearers that the stern, |

' wanly, straightforward conduct of the Duke, as ex-

Highness the Prince of Wales in his American |
tour,affurded a sure pledge that be would still act |
the man of stern integrity, aud one worthy of a}
British statesman. As his Grace's most fearless |
and ever to be remembered act during the period |
alluded to was his determined refusal to obey the |
insolent behests of a most intolerant and fanatical |
faction at Kingston, Canada West, was possibly

especially hinted at by the speaker, and probably |

i

fellow citizen, te thank from my heart for paying
a most just tribute ef praise to one whom J shali |
never cease to aduiire. Speaking of the Loan |}
ressed him. |

acceptance was the great danger there woula be

the meeting, which he did, telling the assembled | if its provisious were carried out in placing £100,-

crowd that as McAuley and others, who had not

originated it, had the effrontery to take the on

nagement of the meeting out of the hands of bim-

, 000 sterling in the hands of, perhaps, a pre e
Government, thereby giving them a great hold
over the tenantry, and entailing a most unendurable

selt aud his friends, they might proceed with it us| tax for payment of the yearly interest thereof on

they

hand to submit to the meeting, which be would

| propose if they allowed him to do #0. He then |

proceeded to read it, but the Orangemen con-
menaced bowling in the most tndeous manner, and
he eoull not be beard. * Parson Rory” then pre-
sedied himself, and addressed the motly group.

His speech was a rough patchwork of seraps trou |

English, Seoteh and French history. He alluded
to the character of Louis XIL1—the invasion of
the French, tke landing of Charles the Pretender,
bis defeat, &c., without offering the least infor-
mation or a useful hint respecting our local affairs.

He did, indeed, caution his bearers not to listen | of the estates in the market. 1 may add that when |
| to the arguinents of his political opponents—know- | I was in Haugland in July last, the sale of Prince |
| ing that neither bimself nor his triends could an-| Edward Ialaad Government debentures, with the
| swer them-—and this was the only time he seewed ;

to have any consciousness he was addressi
political meeting on the affairs of the Island.

Hon. E. Palmer followed, and spoke in favour
of the following reselutiou :—

“Moved by Mr. John Crawford, secanded by
Hon. R. MeAulay :—

** Resolved, That althongh the Meeting feels dis-
appointment that the Award of the Land Com-
missioners bas not yet been torwarded to this Co-
lony by Her Majesty's Colonial Minister, they are

ng @

nevertheless content to await the final result of |

that measure, fecling assured that the Colonial
Goverament, supported by the majority of the pre-

| Sent House of Assembly, will use every cocstitu- |
tivnal means im their power, whether by legisla

tion or otherwise, to secure to the tevantry of this
Island the full benefit of that reasonable lode ot
Gually settling the Land Questiou of this Island.”

Mr. Palmer attempted te account for the deten-
tion of the Award by alluding to the Queen's late
bereavement aud tw the unsettled state of affairs
between Eugiand and the United States. He said
that if the Award should come out, any diffieulties
that migit arise respecting the a: vitration ciause
could be settied by legislation. Lf the Award was

would be to blame for tt.

Hon. T. Heath Haviland next addressed the
meeting jn a very boisterous speech. He said he
did not present bimself there ass wolf in sheep's
elotbing. He acknowledged thst be was a Land

pleased. He said he had a resolution in his | the inhabitants of the Colony.” It is a py that

86 old a politician should make such
statements in public, er credit, if he dees, the pos-
sible coutingeney of the origina] Loan Bill, or the
Loan clause in the Land Commissioners’ Award,
ever placing one pound currency in the hands of
any local Government—for one hour. By either
scheunes—viz., the legalization of the Award, or
, the original Loan device—the Fund, say £100,000
sterling, could be drawn for by local Government
debentures, to be issued and negotiated in the
home money market at their rateable value, and
i the proceeds handed over forthwith to the vendors

Imperial Government's guarantee, could be effect-
ed at a fraction under four and a quarter per cent.
Se much for the ignorance or gross fallacy of the
leader of the Government.

The Hon. T. Heath Haviland then made his
bow, and informed the audience that he gloried
in the place of bis birth, and was proud to own
be was a P. E. Islander, and in the same breath
he wished he was a Scotehmaa, aad expressed hix
great satistaction at having discovered lately that
either through the Havilaud ot Brecken family he
might vauat the proud boast of baving some Scoteb
| blvod in his veias. About this time the counten-
| ances of his hearers beamed with delight, and
| their eyes flashing with even more than their
wonted fire, they cheered their middle-aged chiet-
tain right lustily. Mr. Haviland then cunuciated
| a truth, te the effect, that he was aa ni,

that

| that if the Award became the law ot the
Pa mt

‘as sueh his “oeeupation w ”

Laving passed inte law, secure vast benefits to the

| teumat , he and his Government predict that by

so much the hauds of the Adininistration

| will be: ; and his first cousin by blood

and his partuer in business may still retain his
ition as Attorney General.

4

pation wus gone,
| perhaps, the rather palpable ‘aot that if

Mr. F., whe bas hither 2t senetioned, he cowieuded that the Liberals | Mir. Haviland spoke of Irishmen as these who!

eonld |
lengrenpualinn taieciomey te a
and swallowing of

trov of Gur Amerieah

and at the same time, I noust

| Feby. 15, 1862.

oni many others
| that a meeting was
| Bridge to consider

® | Now, Sir, if Orangemen are

| odded to, moreover,
from the Worrell estate—were
| the freedom of the tenantry, or an
their condition ; and. that be waa.
the present Government would

caught hit
above tamet .
tlemea did not care one Ser

fer the
whether yall ‘te devil,
gained te’ ake tt ie Me then
the Protestants -present, on bis wird of
ee ete
that -
tiou with the Government—that his pritate bee
ness was more than he could
taueh deereased by

and that he only eutered the bet ae 2
the sole se Of evvercing Remar
from a touriah ascendaney. ti

The Hon, Jose: Ves os
on the pethent eat ving a
| Colonial we A calling him hie
friend, informed the multitude that the
on his mind was, that that official had,
purebase of the Worrell Estate and ite
sale to the local authorities, for an advamsecetet
original purchase of some ten thonsand poy
devs aud taxation of the island, Dj
official rather abruptly,
then procesded to re:
the exposition of the Aw
sioner Howe, regretting
itself was net before %
their opinion as bis constituents, and aet thereon
as their sentative ut the
\lature. He deseanted strongly
( by the announcement of Mr. Howe, ay
_ in bis exposition, all hopes of » Court of
own

/were at anend, He maintained bis
| had fearlessly edvoc Facheat, and
' favor of the Comission on the

| & positive reservation of bis
| untit its arrival, Ile next
, the su tinerits of the

i Whi ; ing be bore nearly

| bame as bunseif—and expressed “surprise and
| disgust that the Land Conunisai

the veracity of ype total T to the
of 40,000 ithe vitaute of this Colony,
rebuked the Government tor ailowhag te
access to our public records. Mr. Wigh
wented fally on the various clauses of the
and their prohable effects, ex
opi lon, that the Award, anhen we petit,
aceepted in ts entivety,and bis ardeut hope thatit
wight benefit the tenantry. >

| The Chairman next inivedueed Mr. J. W Le
| Lacheur as one who was desirous te addtess the
| meeting. This gentleman could obtain ne
| Order having been restared, Mr. John G
forward, and having declared itas hide
re hour

n
in the Government, but as dinner tine had arrived,
he proposed three cheers for the moved
that the Chairman leave the Chair, and that ano.
|ther gentleman take bis place, All this being
conducted amid vociferous Mr.
Thomas Owen stepped out, and his
great surprise and indignation that rege og
“should bave been closed se abruptly, , Mr.
| Thornton, and others, were desironsof i
the people. The characterised the fimale ana]
handed, astounding piece Me eon and pr
tion, aud remarking that given
(strongly on the subject of the probable of
the Award an the tenantry late the evening before,
he would deter any further remarks on the same
sulject, ta be given at » time and ina place where
he knew thet he and others would be beard.
| Mr. Thornton came forward avd expresaed bis
; . inion ” “¥ iehiandes spel whieh te
Meeting had been origina C a
| throughout, and papedently "eee: “Mric-
tures on the arbitration clause in the Awanl were
pungent and much to the point, but as the Meet-
ing was, before Mr. Owen addressed it, virtanlly
jover aud closed, 1 will fivich my = by saying
| that Mr. Gott, attempting te refate Mr. Pherntan,
| Wes somewhat disturbed in his vociferona deel
| maiion by the sirains of bag pipers within a few
yards of him, which readily drew eff the enuwd
attention of all from

| trom the spot, and the

| parting words.

| Ifany of the gentlemen at the meeting, whose

speeches Lhave feebly attempted te epi .

sign te read this report, and imagine that f ha

wronged them, I bey their ebaritatile i

that F have net done eo intentionally, and
accept ny assnrance that if ever I irave the
our of attending with them at any public
ing of their own devising in this Celery or
where, it they will kindly either call the meeti
at early dawn, or at any other hour, J

| listen to their eloquence and arguments

/ 48 tuey may choose to extend them. itt

_calmer minds and far abler pens than mine toe

‘large on the enorndty ot a Government

| their and the Colouy’s paid servaut to i

| sult 56,000 of their fellow Colonists and ite tute

‘ bitants, and add to their shameless conduct

| the last «ix mouths by retaining bim in

, by permitting him to appear as their a“

a public meeting.
the Reverend
whe

&

Hie.

Fs

Spare me space to compliment

D. Fitzgerald, who honoured the
| ther in his capacity as an Anglican .
Divine, or as Honorary Chaplain te ap

Lodge, or as a wérthy ‘supporter of the
| Bible-loving and God-fea Ge
| simply seeking relaxation from isis
and mental exertions, eptailed upon him
laborions pastoral duties in this City, J kaiowna;

&

e

penny gare 7 at Moutague Bridge on theo

casion of their public myeting, for their gentle

manly conduct aud yrderiy

Very truly yours,
STEPHEN SWABEY.

~ 7 po — - -—

To Tie Eorron or rive Exasiner.

Sir—You will excuse me—not 3
ber to your

I was an Oraageman were edeed
politically ; but, Sir, er content Tues
Government has net only opened my eyes bus
when it
take

to
¥ the A
sicners, e

tones

the third and Electoral
County who would be the prlepey

sulied at that meeting, as it concerned
most; but toour horror the meeting
bered with the Beltasters from Queen's
the most of whom belong

g

| teud Public Meetings, tomct ar a
Secretary who is t Ly wg? .
frrernd Apegd ol by i

en
persona

| acts of rowdyism, so as to
expressing their opinions freely, merely boc
they may uot be pata to the Goverumentaal
| Col. Secretary, nooner we become dinate
zed the better; but I _gnd many others

‘oar eyes opened, and I can
not going to be made the
vernment to the injury of

meeting t

out an appeal to the people,” took place, a#
announced, at the above institution, oB FF.
On the question being put, there appeanel ie MO
ab

ros
ws, ey.

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