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3 : fre ion sary ; | Le pre 1, without donde, bo mitch i ‘k, by the jonction | cantlemen whose eloqnence is the delight of Exet r) poor pr ople toexpeet that the gece fa’ ory cretary’s Office, although the uhfbeti

ine o be mies i but still, I hope the pro-| will, without doubt, be mach surprised at the ac | nefore the Reformation, fell Sack, by Se 7 ye wn, | Hall—(laughter)—to propose any mode of making | Proprietary Govertinent would act otherwise are compelled to pay biti fir being there

we oSained. You may be surprised to hear this, | of reception necessary; put still, 1 hope & ae : y salle ter hous lof Chareh and State in the hands of the sove ii rs i |! ic A miserable, whiek our fathers bAve not be- | would deprive themselves of the means of being ee J pe

aud you would be s irprised to see the pumber of | visions of the Bill will be made to extend te the | count which Mr. Laing gives of the extremely low} into a lower condition as to civil and politiea iz we donthe Irish people. (liear.) the aristocracy of the Island at the expense of the other pattern of ail the Virtues, the

persous Wao are uader the influence of strong
drink in this “ity va a market day; I believe, toe,
that the driaking cuatem is on the increase, Li-
quer lees not appear te have the effeet on people
wow that it had rm fermer days; then it made men |
merry, but new if makes them mad. il SU Ppose |
it is owing to dillateriews inqretients that
ewised with it. Ll asaw an account nut long age of}
@man in Halifax, by the name ot Dodd, whe}
drank 2 glasses of liquer and was dyad in 2 hours
afterwards. Upon examination it was discovered |
that he had drank veisen which was the cause of
his death. Another provision of this Bill is that}
en a renewal of license it requires the same form
to be gone through. There is one provision ta the
Bill which is somewhat nevel, and I de not knew
how it will operate. It is that if a man be a ha- |
bitual drunkard, his friends may apply to a Ma-|
gistrate for a writ and have him imprisoned, # nd |
his property reserved tor the benefit of his family
la the United States there are drunkards’ Asylums,
aod numbers of the persons confined are elergy- |
meu, aud ladies in the higher walks of lite. Phat
abows that prohibitiog is the only remedy; but I
doubt very much it it could be carryed out here,
for it John will drink, John will get drank; and
if Dick will net drink, Dick will not get drunk. |

Hou. Mr DING WELL—This question has been |
taker up almost every session since I had & seat |
at this beard; and if there is so much drinking as |
his honer represeuts, it is certainly our duty te en-|
deavour to prevent it |

liow. Dr. JOHNSON — Ibelieve the only ef-|
fectual remedy is meral principle. Legislation |
will not make gmen sober, therefore the moral |
principle is the best to depend upon, That prin |
ciple can be increased by moral culture, and it is
the duty of every man to set about it; the Govern-
ment eet the example. I believe the li-
cence system ia not sound policy; I would go to!
some ether source for a revenue than the mnmo-|
rality of the people. a

Hea, Mr. HUTCHINSON — I approve of this’
amendment tothe license Act, for there are too
suany licensed taverns ia town. If there were |
fewer, it would be better, doth for the persons who |
keep them, and for the public at large; and 1
believe that for every one that has license, there |
are twe that have net. luimy opinion we cannot do |
Letter thau to put it in the power of the City Council |
to say whe shall have licence, and who shall not. |
‘They have te keep order in the town, and therefore |
they should have the management of the licenses; |
and I have no doubt but the decision of the Mayor |
aad City Council will be equitable, not have I any |
doubt but it will tend towards improvement. [|
am of opinion that if a man is once convicted of |
keeping a disorderly house he should be refused a
license.

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This would be a terror to others.

Hon. the PRESIDENT—] think we havea law
already to that effect.

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON—Yes, you ean punish |
a man but he can get a license again. The law
is not suffiviently clear, There must be heuses of |
entertainment; some think that one on each street
is enough, but that must be left te the City Go-
vernment to decide. I will support the Bill.

Hou. Mr. PALMER—I will alse support the Bill,
though I do not conceive that it will remedy the

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whale Island, which could be easily done by giv ing
the Magistrates the same power 4s the City
Connei lors.

Hon. Mr. ANDERSON thought there was no
necessity for extending the previsions of the Bill
to the country. : , :

Ilon. Dr. JOUNSON was of opinion that it

would be very daring for the Policemen to enter |

those bad houses at all times, as they are authorzed
te dv by this Bill, without satisfactory proof, as
such hanses aré not ostensibly set apert for the
purpose ef carry ing ou those evil practises.

Ilon. Mr. DINGWELL—I deo not believe that
such places exist in the country, and I would not
sit at this Board and hear it insinuated that they
de, without raising my voice to disclaim the in-
ration
Hon the PRESIDENT—I do not suppose for

one moment that they do exist inthe country; but

I said that when they cannot be kept in the city, |

they will be removed just beyond its bounds.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—I am glad that his Honor
the President has given that explanation, for l was
going to ask whi
he wished to have the provisions of the Bill extend
to. Lam of opinion that it is unnecessary to ex-
tend it beyond the perludes of the City, not even
to the Royalty ; but I have ne doubt that the pro-
vision is necessary in the City, aud it is a power
which may be safely trusted to the Civie autheri-
ties, without any fear ot it being abused. The
rreat difficulty is to get those laws put into exe-
eution; therefore, it is necessary to make them
more stringent. I will support the clause, and I
hope it will have a salutary effect on the com-
munity. j

The House was then resumed, and the Chairman
reported the Bill agreed to, without any ameud
ment.
The House again in Committee on the Elective
ouneil Bill.
Hon. Mr. PALMER —TIf this Bill serve no other
purpose than to introduce the principle of having
acrutinies held before one of the Judges of the Sa
preme Court, it will be a good measure. One
objection tothe Bill was, that members of this House
taking offices might cause u number of s« rutinies, as
they would have to be re-« lected; bat this objection

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will be removed in a great measure by the mode of

holding serutinies which I have proposed, us they
will be held by persons who will be able to keep
order and conduct the business properly. 1 hepe
the introduction of this principle here will lead to tts
option by the House of Assembly.

heavy daty on the Judgos, bat | suppase his Honor
has consalted them on thp matter.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—I have not consulted them,
I would take esneciul good care not to do so, for
they would doubtless throw cold water upon it; but
Tam acting upon my own opinion of right and wrong.

The additional clauses, proposed by his Honor Mr.
Palmer, were then severally read and agreed to.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—This Bill provides that it
shal go into operation inimediately after a Despatch
is received from the Colonial Office signifying that
it has received the royal contirmation. Now, Sir,
if the Bill is passed in that way, the election may

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| we kuow that those special Bills are kept longer at |

the Culonial Office under consideration than others ;
aud it often bappens that they do not tind their way
out here till January or February, or if it came in

at particular parts of the country |

on. Mr. DINGWELL—L think it is imposing a |

morals and the abject slavery of the people of Swe
den ; but they will be startled when they learn that
the Inqnisition is in fall force in this the most Pro
testant country in the world. Mr Laing says -—

“ Hadelse mod Gad,” er contempt of God, is a
crime for which, from 1830 to 1836 inclusive, 4
versons have been condemned to death or to slavery
in chains for life. In this crime, as in treason, Go
vernment must institute the proceedings ; that is,
the ecclesiastical department, the minister of state
for chureh affairs, orders the prosecution, It is not,
| therefore, an old remnant of monkish law, working
unobserved by Government in rare cases ; but it is
inquisition—law working in the hands of a Luthe
ran state church, as strongly a8 in Spato or Porta-
gal in the hands of a Roman Catholic Church.
Between 1830 and 1836, not fewer than'242 persons
have been condemned to chains for this crime
(mockery of the public service of God,or contemptu
ous bebaviour during the same) in Sweden. Who
will say that the Inquisition was abolished by Lu
ther’s Reformation! It has only been incorporated
with the state in Lutheran countries, and exercised
by the church through the ecclesiastical departinent
of Goveriment in the civil courts, instead of in the
church courts. The thing itself remains in vigor.
(pp. 324 and 325).

It is not in Sweden and Denmark alone that civil
and religious slavery exists. Let us listen to what

our intelligent Scotch Protestant traveller says of

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Prussia :-—

“The Prussians morally are slaves of enslaved
minds. Compulsory education, re eg religion,
compulsory military service, and the finger of Go
vernment interfering in all action and opinion, and
leaving nothing to freewill and uncontrolled indi-
vidual judgment, produce youths well educated, as
it is called, because they can read, write, and sing,
well dressed, well drilled, and able-bodied ; and
whose selbstvefub], (self-respect or esteem) whose
moral sense has not been educated, raised, and cul
tivated, even to the extent of making them feel de-
based or degraded at running, cap in hand, begging
at the side of carriages on the highway.”’ (p. 176).

“If the serf deserted, he was brought back by
the military, who patrolled the roads for the pur:

pose of preventing the escape of the peasants lato
| the free towns, their only secure asylum; and was
|imprisoned, fed on bread and water, in the black
oe which existed on every baronial estate, and
flogged. The condition of these born serfs was very
similar to that of the regro slaves on tne West
india estates during the apprenticeship term, before
their final emancipation. This systein was in fuil

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liberty and rights than they were in before. Swe
pen, Dr NMARK, PRUSSIA, AND ALL THE 1 ROTES-
TANT STATES OF GERMANY ARE, AT THIS DAY, IN
ALL THAT REGARDS FREEDOM IN SOCIAL ACTION,
FREEDOM OF MIND AND OPINION, MORE ENSLAVED
THAN’ THEY WERKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE
sakes. The union of Church and State has estab
lished an irresponsible power m the hands of the
sovereigns adverse to civil and reliious liberty.
This is clearly brought out by the different position
of the Protestant and Catholic clergy in these coun
tries. In Sweden and Denmark there are few or
no Catholic clergy ; but the established Lutheran
clergy are employed as government functionaries
and overloaded with statistical returns, Inquiries |
and local business in their parishes, which however
necessary to the State, are incompatible with the |
pastoral ‘duties of the clergyman. She Roman Ca
thoiic priesthood would not subnit, in any country,
to such abuse of their time and proper functions. In
Prussian, the two branches of Vrotestantism, the

into one a few years ago by the late sovereign.
New forms of worship W ere imposed upon them by
royal edict ; coercion, imprisonment, military force,
and quartering of troops on the recusant peasants
were resorted to in order to force the ministers aud
people to receive the new service ; and to resist
this monstrous tyranuy and aig a there was
no Rome, no Vatican, no Pope or Head of the
Charech to appeal to. llow different, in the same
country, at the siine period, wis the exertion of the
antocratie power of the same Prussian monarch
over his Roman Catholic subjects! They had pro-
tection at Rome, and consequently in the whole
Catholie world, against such arbitrary violence to
the religious convictions and chureb of his Catholic
subjects. He could not even appoint to any clerical
oftice independently of Rome, although he could,
and actually did, jmprison and distuiss Protestant
clergymen, for refusing to adopt a new church ser-
vice, which, as head of the Church and State, he
composed and promulgated by royal edict,

“ Whoever considers impartially the historical
events of ancient and recent times, will admit that
the Church of Rome was, for many a dark age
and haur, 2 beaeon-light in the puth of civil and re-
ligious liberty, shining far ahead through the uni
versal gloom ;....it still shows to arbitrary kingly
power in Prussia, that there are restraints upon
tyrannical interference with religious opinions and
convictions.”

Thus it appears from the testimony of a dis-
tinguished Scoteh Presbyterian gentleman, that the
Protestants of the north of Europe are in a state of
abject civil and religious slavery, and that the spirit

vigor up to the beginning of the present century,
and not merely in remote unfrequented corners of
the continent, but in the centre of her civilization,
all around Hamburg and Lubeck; for instance, in|
Holstein, Schleswig, Hanover, Brunswick, and over
all Prussia.’’ (p. 104.)

Mr. Laing, in comparing the spirit of Hberty of -

the Catholics and of the Protestants of Prussia, |
shows very clearly that a much larger share there- |
He writes :—

| “Her Rhenish and Westphalian provinces (Ca- |
| tholic) are not only wealthy and manufacturing ;4
|} they are liberal, and hang very loosely to the auto- |
eratic principle of the Prussian Government. They |
retained, when they were handed over to Prussia, |
their forwer |aws and law courts...-and have no- |
| thing in their laws or courts in commen wich the!
| rest of Prussia; suffered no revival or intrusion of
}the old feudal or the Prussian jurisprudence and

of is possessed by the former.

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of liberty is kept alive and nourished among Catho-
lies by the opposition of their relizion to despotic

sway. I would wish to see Mr. Laird’s observa-

Lutheran and Calvanistic Churches, were squeezed

fore fally and fairly trie i !
Disabilities have been tried, and insults, and confis

eations, and the sword, and the fire, and the axe,
and the gibbet — all have been tried in vain, and
what shall we try now! One thing is clear—that
it is madness to try any means of the nature of thone
things which have so constantly failed. Phen, gen-
tlemen, another class of considerations arise in our
winds. Why was it, in the sixteenth century, that
error and power united yielded to truth? And
why is it, in our own times, when truth and power
have united, that they have yieided to error 1 Can
it be that the addition of secular power may,
sometimes, be the subtraction of moral inthuence ?
(Great applause.) Can it be that we have degraded
and enfeebled truth by help which she disdained?
Can it be that, by constantly presenting Protestant

ism and misgovernment side by side to the Irish
we have taught them to abhor that which
they would otherwise have looked upon with
reverence and love? (Loud cheers). 1 believe
that itis even so; and I believe, farther, if it le
your wish, that even at this late period Ireland
should be added to the goodly fellowship of the re-
formed nations, your first duty is to dissolve the
connexion which the misrule of centuries establish-
ed in the midst of Ireland between Protestantism
and oppression. (Hear and loud cheers). It is be-
cause it conceive that no greater blessing could be
conferred on any country than the moral ascendancy
of Protestantisin in Lreland, that I struggle, with
every faculty 1 possess, against every uttempt to
give to Protestantism a political ascendancy with
which the moral ascendancy is incompatible.
(Cheers). It is thus with all truth. The ark of
God was never taken captive by unbelievers, wntil
worldly-minded persons brought it down from its
sanctuary into the camp, and encircled it with wea-
pons of w orldly warfare. Alone and deserted, and
In captivity, its own virtue was sufficient to lefend
it, te strike to the dust the wretches who profanee
it, and to lay the hideous idol prostrate on the thres-
hold of its own tent. (Great cheering.) It is thus
with all truth, and most especially with that so-
lemn truth which, in order to produce its full effect,
must not only be received by the intellect, but must
sink into the heart; therefore I say, maintain the
Emancipation Billas you would waintain the Bill
of Rights, as you would maintain the Reform Bill—
[immense applause]—and execute it according to its
integrity and spirit. Treat the Catholics, in all
things temporal, as your brethren. Spare not to
defend that which you believe to be truth ; but re-
member that no man was ever insulted into ortho-
doxy. [Renewed applause}.”

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To THE Epiror oF THE EXAMINER.

Sir—In your information to the inhabitants keep
then in mind that they are to be governed by the
opinions of the men they choose to express their
wishes in the Legislature. Now, the present House

people,

tions on theze telling facts, as well as those others
which I brought forward in my last few letters re-
garding the state of Edacation in Taly, Austria,
England, &c., and the disgusting state of morals in
Lutheran Sweden. That gentleman must now find
himself ina very unenviable position. However,
he has himself to blame for it. Had he refrained
from his gross calumnies regarding Catholics, the
disagreeable facts contained in this and former let
ters would not now be known to many of his friends

and would net be rendering odious and contemptible

of Assembly being in favor of the proprietors in
| voting for the Award, they voted that the forfeited
| titles should be pat Do There were only six
lwho voted against it. It is not likely that the hn-
| perial Goverumeant will decide upon the settlement
}of the tenantry until they know the views of the
}men returned at the next election to express the
| wishes of the people.

‘The tenantry were nearly being settled twenty
jyears ago. Mr. Hume, M. P., undertook to act as
} our agent, and if he could not vet a satisfactory an-
oworn femgmiaionare. agreed to bring the subject
|before Parliament. When he handed our petition
{to the Colonial Minister, and was desired to call
again, and when he called at the time appointed,

| those publie calumniators whe have ever represen- | the Minister told him that he had been informed

poor tenant. Many were simple-minded enough
to imagine that the thing called the Palmer-Grey
Government would do inuch for the poor man;
but the results of the Land Commission show the
extent of the political toim-foolery which bas been
imposed on the country. It would be against the
order of things in this age of political raseality and
selfishness to expect that the Palmers, Havilands,
Popes, d&ec., would pass measures by which the
persecuted tenant might be freed from the tyran-
nizing grasp of the hard-hearted proprietor, whe
scruples not to deprive his sickly wife and hungry
children of the morsel of food necessary for their
subsistenee. Sooner might we expect the
Southern slaveholders immediately to emancipate
their slaves than to suppose that a Proprietary
Government, such as ours, would honestly and
sincerely desire the tenants to become freeholders.
Although we have toe much reason to be displeased
at our own sirplicity for ever imagining that the
‘Tory faction would ever benefit the tenantry, yet
that will net prevent us from giving our deceivers
to understand very plainly the deep-seated indig-
nation which eXists in every bonest mind for the
political kuavery which has been wractised for
three years on this most wretehedly governed
Island. The results of the approachiig election
will show clearly the estimation in which a free
people hold proprietary deceivers and hypochron-
driacal jugglers. Lin‘end to return to the subject.
A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

~The Examiner,

Charlottetown, May 5th, 1862.

Visitor,leaves school teachers and scholars to take
care of themselves as best they may—ty

on for want of advice or instruction, Which it ie
his business to impart, and perhaps to ROW care:
less and negligent in their advocations, While he
rambles through the country, drivelling

about what he ealls the errvre of Popery —
tending to be mightily coneethed for the
welfare of his fellow colonists, and tellj

that the only way of going to Aeratis - _
the portals of an Orange Lodge. No wonder that
the editor and some of the of the
‘ Protestant,’ with a degree of j and
impartiality that reflect credit upon them, have
raised their voices against the Bebool Visitor’,
neglect of his proper duties, because vlamiy
see that the cause of education is suffering throu)
purse fur its support is every year becom
greater.

With regard to the public printing, Which shons
such a large increase in 1861 over the charge for
the same service in 1858, we all remember what
a fearful howl was kept up in reference ty that
subject while Mr. Whelan held the 0 fice of
Queen's Printer. The sum then paid for Printing
was declared by the Tories to be
large—we Were reminded that, some thirty years
ago, Mr. Lfaszard had receive? searcely half the

PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE —
OR, AN OLD PICTURE SEEN IN A
NEW LIGHT.

Wuex the party now in power were in opposi-
tion, they never ceased to rail at u.e Goverament
for alleged extravagance with the public money
and the alarming increase of the publiedebt. The
country, they contended, was going to ruin at a
fearfully rapid rate. General bankruptcy, they
were sure, would overspread the land, and the
Colony become the scorn and bye word of the
neighbouring Provinces, unless the Liberals were
speedily turned out of office, aud the economical
Tories put in their places. No party could ma-
nage the public finances so well as the Tories-——
they were all well educated people, from the
highest to the lowest — they were accustomed to
affairs of business and of Government, — in short,
| they were the only people who couid save the coun-
try from financial ruin. Growing desperate in
| the last year of their opposition, 1558—madly im-
patient of having the public purse strings with-

t, and it was declared to be a
cessary to have the whole of the work SY ip to
public competition. The matter wae debated ia
the House of Assembly very frequemty, being al
ways brought op by the Tory opposition; sed
was made the theme of numerous articles in the
‘Islander.’ We showed conclusively, on every
occasion, that the charges made by the Queen's
Printer under the Liberal Goverament were, ing
great many cases, considerably leas than those of
his predecessor. Nothing, however, would satis.
fy the Tories but to have the whole work pat up
to tender. Of course, they were expected te do
that wnen they came into office; but they found
it convenient to forget that promise as wel] ag
many others. It is true, that a few small jobs
were put up to tender, or supposed to be put up
to tender; but it is remarkable that nope but
staunch supporters of the Government ever gut
the jobs to do. At all events, the charge for
printing and stationery has greatly increased under
the Tory administration. It was £1246 36, 6d.
last year—we have no reason to believe that it

{that the people were again paying their rents, and
as there was to be an election in tie Island, and he
could not give an answer until he was informed

will be less this year; under the Liberal Govern.
ment it did not exceed on the average £300. We
may be told that in 1861, the public printing was

evil, for I think we have had enough to do with | November or December, it would be very incouve- | tribunals, and have very clearly indicated that they
the license system; we are always changing it, | nient to hold an election in any of those months. | would not suffer it. They bave shown, in their
but do not appear to be bringing it any nearer to The meri sient seme - po _ a support of the Catholic Bishop of Cologne—arising
perfection. Por ap ees, Lam atkins alive to, | OOS Se ee: ee ee ae levidently not from a blind spirit of fanaticism, but

|ted ignorance, immorality and slavery as the
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held from their itching paluaas — they went every-
where, day and night, Sundays and week days,

daughters of ‘‘ Popery.”
I have the honor, &c.,

and no jess deplore, the evils of intemperance which
we witness almost daily, and which has evidently
been on the increase daring the last two or three
years; but I almost despair of a remedy short of
total prohibition ; and if I thought I could carry
it, i would stand and advocate the cause till my |
legs were exhausted. But I fear there is little’
prospect of carrying it at present, aud the friends
of the caase must coutent themselves with endea-
vouring to show the country the utility of the |
measure; and in the mean time todo what we can
by carrying such piecemeal measures as that now
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could be no Legislature withogt a Counci!. There-
fore, I think some discretionary power should be lett

| with the Lieutenant Governar,which would prevent

any inconvenience of this kind; and we might rely
npon it that he would select that time which would
be most convenjent for holding the election.

Hon. the PRESIDENT thought that a discre-
tionary power of six mouths should be given to the
Governor.

Hon. Mr. DINGWELL was disposed to agree
with Hon. Mr. Palmer, but thought that two mouths
would be sufficient, as the party in power might
work jt to their own advantage.

Hon. Mr. ANDERSON thought that six months |
The facilities for obtaining licenses in| should be allowed and then they might have it in

this country are far teo great. The examinations one il they choosed.

of the accomodations of their houses are so super- |
ficial that a man who is too lazy to fullow any
other occupation can easily procure a license, and |
when be has obtaiosd that he thinks he is duly li- |
censed to kill by law. His honor Dr. Johuson

ithe Lieutenant Governor a
exceeding six months.

he Clause was accordingly amended by giving
discretionary power not
The House was then resumed and the thairman
reported the Bill agreed to
On the question, ‘shall the report of the commit-

thinks it is not seund policy for the Government tee be received,’ being put—

te grant licenses at all. Many persons are of that

opinion ; but I am notone of thuse.

it is sound policy, but it is the best of two evils; | *

therefore the Government permite licensed houses '
for the sale of these liquors, fur if unbounded li-

at all. The principal

, more I consider the matter,
cense were given we would have no good houses) confident 1 aun

Hon. Mr. WALKER inoved that the Bill be re-

Ide notthink | ferred back to tie Committee for the purpose of |

amending the clause reiating to the ¢
he electors by striking out the wor
tred,” and substituting the word

poeeees ot
suid his honor, the mere
that the high qualifieation will be

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quired every second or third house in some sections ci-ing the eleetive franchise.

ot Charlottetowa would be a house for vending |
those liquors. There is some little restriction ia
the liceuse. It is compelling them to pay a pen-|
alty, rather than deriving a revenue fromit. And
with reference to that part of the Bill which pro-

¥ roper isiou; for when a person becomes
per ay eee. I think there is cemde & pe
who weuld say that he should not be dealt with |
in that way. If his propensity runs sorfar, it is |
due to his children to provide some remedy of that
kind. Theretore I will support that clause, and 1)
pegs the day is not far distant when some strong
and effective measure will be devised to put a
stop to this degrading traffic. I do not think our
revenue would suffer by such a measure. There
might be a temporary shock fora yearor two; but |
even if the couutry got in debt to the amount ot

rson | bonor's motion.
Charlottetown, and I am aware that a number of
merehunts and others, who are paying 50 or £60 | autocratic sovereign is de fucto a home-pope.
reut, will be prohibited from voting. Many of the | churel affairs of Prassia in this half cAniury, thoee
. j of Saxony, Bavaria, and the sualler principulities,
bonors’ will allow the Bi : ;
mittee for the parpose of recousidering that clause. | has assamed and exéreised power inednsictently

Hon. Mr. DINGWELL, on rising to second the

If a man
roperty,
i men ‘a
re not without intelligence.
Hon-Mr. HUTCHINSON —TI will support his
I can speak more particularly for

o are untlortunate

most intelligent will be prohibited. I hope your

f to go back to the Com
Hoff Mer. PALMER—TI shall adhere to the clause
many Worthy persons from voting; bat I am afraid

will exclade all; for by lowering the qualification

“one hun-/

| from a spirit of op

| they are uot a popu

osition to despotic sway—that
ied to be governed, like wili-
tury serfs, by the will or caprice of a cabinet. It is
froin this pobulation of about 4,000,000 that the im
| pulse has ie given to the great movement of the
|German peeple in the German league. (p. 155)
| This population, living under French law, is the
| very kernel of the Prassian kingdom—a concentra-
ted population of from three to four millions, the
| inost wealthy, commercial and manufacturing, and |
} the most enlightened upon their rights and wants
|} of any perhaps in Germany.” (pp. 230-31).

“The principle that the civil Government or
| state, or church and state united, of a country is
entitled to regulate its religious belief, has more of
‘intellectual thraldom in it than the power of the
|popish (?) church ever exercised in the darkest |
ages ; for it had no civil power joined to its religious
|power. it only worked through the civil power of
jeach country. The Church of Rome was an inde
| pendent, distinct, and often an opposing power in
every country to the civil power, A CIRCUMSTANCE
IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE MIDDLE AGES, To
WHICH, PERHAPS, EUROPE IS INDEBTED FOR HER
|} CIVILIZATION AND FREEDOM—for not being in the
| state of barbarism and slavery of the east, and of
levery country, ancient and modern, in whieh the

i
}

|civil and religious power have been united in one

| government. Civil liberty is closely connected with

rofit is in the retail of | the means of preventing many worthy men, who | reli ious liberty—with the church being independent
spirituous liquors, and if there was no license re- | have the interest of the country at heart, from exer- | of the state....In Germany the seven Catholic So

vereigns have 12,074,700 Catholic subjects, and 2

541,009 Protestant subjects.

The twenty-nine Pro- |

motion, said—I too have been considering the mat- | testant Sovereigns, meluding the four free cities, |
ter, and I am stifl of opinion that it would be the
means of keeping back a large number of intelligent
| people ghey Keegy I ror ze sorry to inter-
fere with their rights and privileges.
vides that irreclaimable drunkards, on application jowns £100 weet af a
of their friends to the proper authoritics, shall be | not increased by it. A
put on the same footing a: lunatics, I think it is a) a

jhave 12,113,000 Protestant subjects, and 4,966,600 |
Catholic. Of these populations in Germany, these |
| which have their point of spiritual government |
| without their states, and independent of them— as |}

iritual independencey are less exposed to the in-|

Ss
comehiiian of the hand of civil power with their|
religious concerns, than the Protestant populations, |
which, since the reforimation, have had church and |
state united in one government, and in which each

sudi—us Aubalt, Kothen, in all of which the state

with the principles, doctrines, observances, and

as itis, though | am aware that it will prevent) privileges of the Protestant religion, clearly show |

jthat the Protestant Church on the continent, as u |

that if we attempt to give them the privilege we | power, has become an administrative body of cleri

cal functionaries, acting under the orders of the |

| views.

A. McDONALD.
St. Dunstan’s College, April 24, 1862.
——- «ooo -+—
To Tue Epirorn o¥ THE EXAMINER.

Deak Sin,—In an address to his constituents at

Edinburgh, Lord MeAulay gave a most withering

rebuke to some bigots who were degrading religion
for the purpose of subserving their own selfish
As his words may not be inapplicable to
several of our Island religio-politico gentlemen, I
tuke the liberty of subjeiningthem. Tt must not be
supposed that I intend Lord MeAnlay's “ Lecture
for the bigots,” to be especially applied to that dis
tinguished, gentlemanly and patriotic oficial the
Col. Secretary, Whose winazingly increased zeal for
Protestantism within the last few years has been
most uncharitably attributed to the magic eects re

sulting from a taste of the sweets of ollice by those

| who ure not as fully aware as he is of the deep in-

trigues and formidable power of the * impotent old
man’ who is prererved from annihilation by fo-

reign bayonets. Those who insinuate that our po-

| honorable motives in his ultra-Protestant zeal should

be reminded of the imminent peril in which stand
our Civil and religious liberties, all our most che-
rished rights, from the probability of the “ Bishop
in Charlottetown” having gone to Rome for the ex-

his intelligence is| the Catholics have at Rowme—enjoy certainly more | press purpose of inviting the Holy Father to take

up his residence in'P, FE. Island; and be no longer
“the Pope of Rome,'" bat “the Pope iu Charlotte-
town"! Tie Col. Seeretary may be quite right in
thinking that there are quite enough of Popes here

julready, and the public should be ever grateful to

him for his exalted patiiotisin in striving so ener

getically to ward off the dreadful evils of Pope ish

domination. VOX.

THE BiGOTS” REAL AND
FEIGNED.

In his address to his constituents, at Edinburgh,

A LECTURE FOR

whether or not the peeple had chosen men to cyrry
out the views pro andl in their petition,

The Colonial Minister had been wel] informed,
for a proprietory House was returned at that elec-
tion ; ae no doubt Mr. Hume was greatly ashamed
to think that he had agreed to act as ageut for such
a fickie people. But I hope the preseut generation
jare become wiser by experience.

I cannot believe that farmers who are settled in
freehold would vote for the proprietary interest to
| keep their neighbours in bondage. In cases of ship-
wreck, if by some fortunate circumstance a few got
}sufe on shore, 1 would not expect they would go

away and leave the rest to the sharks; but on the }

|contvary they would be prompted by sympathy to
jvet a rope from the tinal 5 and try to save them all
jif possible, without inquiring whether they were
Catholic or Protestant. But Lown it might be dif-

| ferent if some of our Island clergy were present to |

advise them otherwise.

WM. COOPER,
th, 1862.
pr

BRUNSWICK

Ch. Town, April 26

AFFAIRS.

NEW

j (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN r.)

| Released from the frozen chains of winter and
jthe monotony of dormant trade in all its depaurt-
jments, we ure now surrounded with the radiant

and commercial business. Quite a spirited denaund
is being made on the services of artivane, Jumber-
men and labourers —especially so in regard to the
| former, by whose skill and indnstry a large number
of ships is in course of construction about St. John.
It is geuerally believed that the fortheoming sum-
jwer will be a prosperity and enterprise
‘among the laboring¥mechanic and mercantile classes.
lndjcationsof this desirable state of things are mani-
| festing themselves sinee the approach of spring. The
/nstual steam communication between this place and
Boston bus been resumed ; and one of last smmmer’s
| steamers whieh has been for some mouths past em-
vloyed in t® American navy, has just Peturned and
lis now ranning between St. John and Digby.
| A few days ago a namber of pauper emigrants
‘arrived here from Boston, by the direction of the
civie Masters of that place; but on failing to aflord
sccnrity against becoming a burtheu bere, they were
immediately reshipped to their own cguntry., Most
of those destitute creatures are old womenand youug
children, whose husbands and fathers are fighting
| the battles of their distracted country. And how-
/ever retaliative may be the ordinance of St. John

. is . , . . tsmiles of spring and the cheerful bustle of manna! |
lite, religious Secretary is ac tuated Ly sellish or dis- , — ile ——e 4 : " of !

denouncing the Liberal Government for allowing
the public debt to extend to about £39,000—the
“Islander” and * Monitor’ overflowed with the
most violent abuse of the ruling party :—* ruin!
ruin!” “ public debt!” “extravagance!” “ gene-
ral bankruptcy or unbearable taxation !” — were
phrases on which they never wearied of ringing
the changes. “Turn out the spendthrift Govern-
ment!” was their stentorian ery. ‘“ Put in,” was
their own modest appeal, “a good God-fearing
Government, who will put down Popery — who
will pay off the public debt without increasing the
burthens of the people—who will greatly reduce
the taxes—who will allow no deputies to be em-
ployed in the public offices — who will settle the
laid question, establish vote by ballot at elections,
pass the Maine Liquor Law, reform every abuse—
and who, in fine, will convert the Island into a
miniature garden of Eden, where long-suffering
Tories may reet, and wicked Liberals shall cease
| from troubling.”

Lect us see how far this delightful picture has
been realized.

When the Liberals surrendered the Government

considerably increased by the Census returns;
but, when the Census returns, taken in 1856,were
printed, the charge for public printing in the year
which included the charge fur the printing of the
C ensus blanks and returns was £1037 12s. 34.,
more than two hundred pounds less than was
charged in 1561; and with regard to other printing
there is certainly no more work of that kind re
quired now than there was three years ago.
Several other items in the foregoing tablemight

to the party now in office, in the early part of
1859, the public debt was exactly £39,547 10s.
24d.; it is now £69,320—shewing an increase of

|

‘revenue avill shew.
jand discreditable to the

| this increase of debt has been going on in the face
'of an increase of taxation. When the Liberals

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i
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be noticed in detail, particularly those relating to
Government House, but we have not space forthe
purpose. The intelligent reader will, however,
supply his own comments, and he cagnot-fail to
come to the conclusion, that seayeely in any ease
was it necessary te incur an increase of expendi-
ture.

Some other topies connected with the fimancial
affairs of the Colony cannot, however, be passed
ever without a remark. Men, Mr. Coles mado
an able review of the whole financial atte of the
Government when the report of the Committee
on Public Accounts was under the consideration

| of the House of Assembly ; and somewhat startled

the Tory party by turping agaist themadives eno
of the weapons they had so frequently used agains

nearly thirty thousand pounds in three years, or) the late Government. They contended Haat the
ten thousand pounds a year; while, during those | unsuld lands on the Worrell estate were worth

three years, the “Island has been blessed with a/ little or nothing—that they should be sold at pub”
succession of good crops, apd has had an average lic auction for whatever they would bring—that
amount of general trade and commerce, as the | the Land Office should be elosed, and the salary :
What is more remarkable of the Conmissioner saved to the country, Wea!
party in power, is-—that! know how well they have kept the proniise of

closing the Land Office, as well as their other
promises; but we find that when it suits théir

left office in 1859 the ad valorem duty on merehan- own purpose to make out a large credit aceoant
was 64 per cent.; it is now 74 per cent. \in favour of the Government they estimate the

we would procure the rejection of the Bill. We | civil power or state.”’ (p. 194.) which forbids those outcasts a lowly sustenance, it |

£2000 of £3000, 1 would not object to it if the
abominable traffic could be stopped, for it would |

| would thereby do an injury to those who bave £100}

worth of property. Let us not loose the substance |

Our Presbyterian author in the following pas

}on bis re-election, Lord MeAulay, one of Her Ma
| jesty’s Ministers, expressed himself as follows:

lis ungrateful, uncharitable and cruel in the extreme

Duty on other goods, not subject to the ad valorem

unsold lands on the Worrell estate to be worth ~

If we could obtain a) by grasping at the shadow. | sages—notwithstanding his sneers at altars, eruci_| |for their own government to wake them fugitives | seale, has also been increased; such as spirituous) more than they were ever considered to be by

be enriching the people.
fair ion of the amount ef labour that is |
lust, even by men whe use spirituous liquor mo-|
derately, we would find that it would fully com-|
4 for the ‘vss of revenue. How many men
with large families will incur a bill of 5, LU or £15 |
in the course of a year fur liquor!
spend so much in ligqner they will buy so much
less merchandise. revenue is diminished
for want of consumption; and those men's fami-
lies are suffering for the waat of the necessaries
of life; therefore I think that if the liquor traffic
were our revenue, in afew years, would
greatly increase. ‘These have always been my sen-
timents, but the time is not yet at hand for carry-
ing them intoeffect. However, let us look forward
and do what we can to advance tie cause. It
will gain by step, and I trust that at no dis-
dant day our efforts will be crowned with success.

Hon. Dr.. JOHNSON—We have repeatedly |
made attempts to suppress this evil, all which only |
“go to show that the principle which I have fre-|
P ror w advocated is the only, feasible mode of |

ing with this matter, viz: that the Government |
should not encourage the sule of spirituous liquor ,
by granting licenses; for it is clearly seeu
abe increase of drunkenness at the present day is |
corelative with the heensing system. And I am |
reaaded that if we had none of those houses—
it they were not under Government protection by
being ljcensed—then moral adasiale would be
brought to bear upon the people.

Hon. Mr. DINGWEML—Does bis honor sup-
pose that if there were no licenses graated, that
people could not find any way of selling spirituons
liquor, or of drinking it! 1 think we should hold
4 restriction over those places,

Ho. Dr. JOHNSON—We will bold the restrie-
tion of moral power over them.

lien. Mr. DINGWELL — Yea, but you cannot
bring it te bear upon them

Hoa. Mr. SIMPSON—The discussion is chiefly
on the propriety of the liceuse system. It is weil
nown to us all that it does not prevent all the evil ;
but another jon arises here — are we in a
position to ibit the sale of spirituous Liquor alto-
gether! In my epinion it weuld be useless to pass
such a jaw at present. There is no doubt that
restrichous are and, if carried

out, ~~ would have a salutary
flow. Mr. LLUTCHINSON—As far as Chariotte-
town ed I perinatal a Sererockean
The Bill was'then committed ts a committee of
as wegia House aud agreed ty without any amed-
The Tlouse went again into committee on the
Elvetiye Council Bill, and the Hon. Mr. Palmer
Teiid several clauses i

es in such canes, instead of the Sheriff, as
ermerty. After some remarks being made thereon,
the Hose was resumed and progress reported.

_ The Bill to authorize the Government to p
hibit the exportatiou of Naval and Military Stores
aud Provisions, was read a ime, passed
turyugh Committee, and reported agreed to with-
oul Guy amendment.

t r preven-
at of Vie and Immorality in the

And if they | {

t

The question was then pat on Hon. Mr. Walker's
motion, aud the House divided :
Costexts—lons. Messrs. Walker, Hatchinson

j and Dingwell—3.

Nos-constents—Hon.the President, Hons. Messrs.
almer, Johnson, Anderson, Forgan, Huszard, Me-
zaren, Rainsay and Sitnpson—Y.

So it passed in the negutive.

House adjourned.

CORRESPONDENCE,

POLITICAL SLAVERY AND THE INQUI-
SITION IN PROTESTANT COUNTRIES.
(No. 12.)

To THe Eprror or THE EXaminer.
‘Six—Those whose aim is to live on the prejadices

P

of a deceived people cease not to represent Catholic
countries as being very much inferior to Protestant
oues even with regard to civil liberty, and this they
attribute to the intluence and tendency of the Ca-
tholie Church. Now, I purpose to prove, by un-
uestionable Protestant authority, that Catholicity
tends more ito the development of liberty
than does Protestantism. Mr. Laing,a Seoth Pres-
byterian gentleman of the highest character, in his
“ Tour in Sweden,” says :—

_ “Itis one of the most remarkable circumstances
in modern history, that about the middle of the 17th
century, when all other countries were advancin,
towards constitutional arrangements of some kind
or other for the security of religions and civil
libe=ty, Denmark, by a formal Act of her States or
diet, abrogated even that shadow of a constitution,
and invested her sovereigns with fail despotic
power to make and execute law without cheek or
control ou their absolute authority. Lord Moles-
worth, who wrote an account of Denmark in 1692,
thirty-two years after this singular transaction,
makes the curious observation, ‘ That in the Roman
Catholic religion, there is a resisting principle to
absolute civil power from the division of authority
with the head of the Church at Rome; but in the
North the Lutheran Church is entirely subservient
to the civil power, and the whole of the northern
o— of pe meagy s we ee have i their ge
ies ever since they chan their religi ora
better. The blind ualiecs which is Soaunties
of national liberty is, he conceives, more firmly
established in the-northern Kingdoms, by the entire
and sole dependence of the clergy upon the prince,
without the interference of any spiritual superior as
that of the Pope amon Rowmanists, than in the
countries which remained Catholic.” (pp. 10 and 11.)
Lord Molesworth was right, when he said that the
whole of the northern people of Lutheran countries
had lost their liberties ever since they
their religion for a better.” (326)

Here—to use a common expression—-is a nut for
Mr. Laird to crack. If it is too hard for him and
his assistants he might obtain the aid of a goodly
number of the officials of our “ Protestant Gevern
ment.” The following extract from Mr. Laing
gives us an idea of the liberty enjoyed in “* Lutheran
countries.”

“ The great body of the Swedish iation,more
than four-lifths, live by agriculture. What are the
rights, civil aud political, of this body? Beginning
with the lowest le, the servants in husbandry,
we find them subject to a law which is op to
all feeling of personal rights.. They are subject to
corporal chastisement from their masters for negli-
genee in their daty; and this house discipline is
sanctioned by law (© Cap. 14, Handel's Balk) of the
present reign. It reduces this clase to the state of
serfs, who may be cudgelled at pleasure. The
servant,....dunng his time of service, has no more
rights than a slave. This state of law indicates a
raw, condition. It is acted upon not only by
the wale, of She penmaey. but by the higher and
even the ---.f saw lately a casein the
uewspapers of a clergyman, a man of literature,
secretary to some learned society, accused of intlict-
ing’an indecent flagellation upon a young woman,
one of his flock, for being pregnant ‘with an illegi-
timate child, (whieh probably resulted from her
pructice of rs doctrine “veniat ancilla.”’) The
reverend gentleman's defence was, thas a master of
a@ tawily is. entitled by law to iutlict corporal chas-
ero upon offending servants; and, a fortiori,

he r was enti to chastise one of his
erring fleck.” (p. 278).

A clergyman, a man of literature, secretary to:
some learved society, inflicting an indecent tlagella-
tion upou a young woman.”! This is a fair sample
of the liberty and morality of “ Luthern countries.”

What say you to this, Mr. Laird? Your readers!

fixes and surplices—makes, in favour of the innate}

Protestantism to slavery, some very important ad-|
missions which must be exceedingly distasteful to
Mr. Laird and his assistantsas well as to all “ illite-
rate agitators’ who love to dwell on the liberty
of Protestantisin and the slavery of Popery. Mr.
Laing says :—

“ The traveller who has ne partiality for Popery
or Pusevism, and holds shaven crowns or sheve
| hats, alturs, erucifixes,and surplices, white or black,
lof silk or of serge, not very essential to salvation,
or very worthy distinctions among Christian minis-
ters, will yet look with a certain reverence and
respect upon the pomp, pageantry,and magnificence
of the once universal Church of Rome—these relics
of her former power and grandeur still displayed in |
her religious ceremonials and machinery. He can- |
not forget that there was a time, extending over |
some fifteen or sixteen hundred years, when Europe
contained ouly slaves and masters, serfs und nobles,
and the churehmen were the ouly third estate in
the social body. They were not men of birth, pri-
vilege or interest. The highest dignities and the
greatest social and political influence were attain-
able in the Catholic Church, by men of the lowest
as well as of the highest classes ; and individuals
rose to eminence and power by worth, talents, and
learning. This charch clement was, in the early
iniddle ages, the popular clement in the social strue-
ture of Europe, the counterpuise to the kingly and
aristocratic elements. In any true reading of bis
tory, the Chureh and her establishments, dependent
upon the ee authority at Rome alone, and inde-
pendent in their civil as well as their ecclesiastical
affairs, of the sovereigns,nobles, feudal jurisdictions
and institutions, and of the military anarchy and
violence prevailing in every land, were the only
asylums in which the spirit of freedom and of inde-
pendence. of mind, and the restraints of public
opinion and religious feeling upou barbarian chiefs
und men in power, the moral checks upon brata
despotic sway, were lodged, kept alive, and nursed
to their present maturity. Rome would bave been
what Constantinople is, and western Europe what
Turkey and Russia are, but for the separation of
the ecclesiastical from the temporal authority in
ery country of the Catholic faith, and the inde-

ped of ihis distinet Church power of the power
of the state, its concentration in a sovereign pontiff

at Kome, and its being upheld, not by arms and
brute foree, but by public opinion and a moral and
religious sentiment or faith. ...Law, learning, edu-
cation, science, all that we term civilization in the
Pp it social dition of the European people,
spring from the sapremacy of the Roman_poutills
and the Catholie priesthood over the kings and
nobles of the middle ages, All that men have of
civil, political, and religious freedom in the present
aye, may be clearly ‘raced, in the history of every
country, to the working and effects of the indepen-
dent power of the Church of Rome over the pro-
perty, social economy, movement,mind, and intelli-
gence of all connected with her in the social body.
She unquestionably represented the publie mind in
all social action ; and if she often abused her power
as its representative, she always maintained the
rights of her constituent to indepeudeuce of the civil
power, or state, in matters of religion. By nursing
this spirit in the European people, the Church of
Rome was herself the mother of the Reformaticn.
It was the legitimate offspring of her own prixciple
of existence. Without shis spirit and principle of
independence of the civil power in religious wtfairs,
the etlorts of Luther, Calvin,and Knox, would have
been unavailing with the people in establishing the
Reformation; and the Free Church of Scotland
shakes bands with the Church of Rome over this
one great social and religious principle common to
both—the inde nee of religious faith of all
state power. — no man contemn the Church of
Rome as having been, from beginning to end of its
history and secial influence, a noxious or useless
establishment. Ju the Greek Chureh no such refor-
mation as Lather's can take place ; becunse no such
independence af the civil power as the Roman
poutitts elai , nade good, and infused in the mind
and spirit of the people of western Europe, was
ever ded to, or iueulcated by the patriarchs of
the Greek ‘braneb of Christianity. We read history
wrong when we swell with indignation ut the ar-
rogance, pride, and almeopt royal p, wealth, and
power of the prelates in the middle ages, at the dis-
. of crowns and ki ms, and at the humilia-
tion and dethronement of legitimate sovereigns in
the pionitude of their power, by papal decrees. We
forget that these events, go common in the midd

tant countries of the Continent. Those which bad
not, like aginst, Switzerland and Holland, ob.
tained some form of an effective constitutional

professors of morai pharmacy whose only remed
to repeat the dese which aggravated the di

the unpardonable lenity of the Government

. ; try. ‘Away with the its,’ says one— Repeal

ages, Were the subjugation of brute force, in bar- ths Emnnele ; , Fa ;
; ; : “at, ion Act,’ says another— Let the Irish
beg A pera spiritual and intellectual influences ie — Poe sermons, by past 4 of
leg Hee drum, and have soldiers with fixed bayonets around
‘We see, at this day, the want of such a third| them, to e order, and prevent them going
power in the sociul structure of some of the -| away till the end of the service,” says a fourth.

(Laughter.)

“A new gues.iow has arisen into most serious
mr guitude—iuto such a nayuitude, that for the mo-

apirit of liberty in Cutholicity and the tendency of | ment it uppears to me of more importance than any lnerate the patriotic arms that drive the Bayonet

other. It is the question whether the great prin-

| ciples of religious literty shall be maintained in its
° ° * = ° . i . .
full integrity — (tremendous applause) — whether | of the unfortunate exiled Irishman when inhumanly / we are enabled to shew the particular items upon

any class of our fellow saljects—guilty only of wor-
shipping God according to their conscicuces—shal
be excluded feom participation in the honors and ad-
vantages of the State, to which they contribute of
their substance, and Which they defend to the jeo-
pardy of their lives? (Loud cheers.) The spirit of
factions animosity, despairing of success through
other means, has at length invoked a spirit darker,
fouler, and fiercer than itself—a spirit more easily
raised than laid—the spirit of religious fanaticism.
(Loud and tremendous applause.) This is no new
calamity ; ofteu—too often—has the history of our
country been disgraced by the cvimes of enthusiasts
and bigots. Too often has Christianity—the nurse
of every virtue, the solace of every misfortune, the
surest ally of civilization, the best safeguard of li-
berty and order—been perverted by human interests
and human passions till scarcely any trace was left
of the high original from which she is descended.
(Loud cheers.) * * * Even now, in the mame of
Protestantism, you are called upon i reprobate and
apostate journalists, and by mountebank preachers,
(loud on prolonged cheering) — yes in the name of
the Protestant religion, such men call upen you to
trample upon one-third of the population of the Bri-
tish islands (renewed cheering).
the Protestant religion do 1, too, call upon you, not
as a politician alone, but much more us a Protestant,
to stand up manfully against those who encuinber
the religion of truth and charity with belps, which
charity repudiates, and which truth does not need.
(Great barsts of applause.) Let us look back for
one moment to the past, and then consider calmly
whether the policy of such men as these be Protes-
tant policy. t ix now nearly three centuries since
the Protestant religion was dormant in Ireland. Not
only was the Church, then established, amply fur-
nished with everyting that could conduce to the
conifort and splendour of its members ; not only were
its prelates seuted in the Leyislatare ; Hot only was
a princely college, in connexion with it, erected in
the Irish metropolis; but a vast mass of property
was transferred from Catholic holders to Protes-
tants—the whole being framed on the principle of
giving Protestants every advantage over Catholics
—and nothing being spared, from the severest pu-
nishment which the engined? nialice could execute,
down to the most petty annoyance, to increase the
power of the Established Church. Every insur-
rection, from the time of Cromwell down to Wil-
lian 3rd, tended ouly to widen the breach between
Protestants and Catholics, until the distinction be-
tween them became as great as the Brahmin and
the Paria, or West India planter and the negro cul-
tivator. And yet after all this has been doue—after
ten generations of Protestant government — has
Protestantism advanced? Or, rather, is it not sta-
tionary if it has not retrogaded? Has the Catholic
religion lost its hold ou the affection of the peeple,
or is it not stronger than that on any part of the
continent! Has the influence of the Priest dimi-
nished, or rather has has it not become yreuter than
in Flanders or in Spain, or even within the precincts
of the Vatican? (Loud cheers.) These are the
fruits of the policy under which the government,
the education and the whole social system of Ire-
land, have been fashioned with no other view than
that of forwarding Protestant ascendancy. If I
were a Catholic I should be at no loss for an expla-
nation of all this! If 1 were a Catholic I should
say, that herein I sawa signal fulfilment of the
prophecy which I have seen written ou the door of
St. Peter's. Ihave established my kingdom on a
rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. If f were a Catholic I should say, that, in our
day, as in old times, truth was victor over violence,
and the same religion whi. h overcame the power of
the Roman emperors and the subtleties of the Athe-
nian schools, had also triumphed over every obsta-
cle opposed to its progress in Ireland. But what
is a Protestant to say, who believes that in all the
sa at issue between him and the Church of
ome he is in the right and they in the wrong!
How is he to account for this phenomenon? Hus
a change taken place in the human mind? * * *
How is it that our religion, which a few centuries
ago triumphed over interest and every kind of op-
tion, should now droop and languish when we
nd her receiving the ee portion of secular aid ?
(Cheers.) There are, i » gentlemen, a sort of
y is
sease.
cause of al] this they say is

(Laughter.) The only my
to idola-

Alas! alas! if measures like there
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vernment, or some general feeling ia favour of it,

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were the mode of ing truth
wouldget ben Roman Oniheiie in btlen2 ;

In the name of |*

now ruling us with an iron red have played their
a plage They have made many honest men
honest, Ln
the condition of the tenaritry; whereas they a:

from starvation—tmendicants despised—by robbing |

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them of their only support, and newlecting to remu-
|

through rebel and seditious ranks. ‘Phe situation of |
these famishing beings reminds us of the condition |

| expatiated by the ruthless despoilers of his race,
land shipped off to die on the anhallowed soil with
| the ferocious beasts of the forests.

This year we have two candidates for the mayor-
alty, the choice between whom will be effected in
afew days. The present incumbent — McAvity —
who has presided over the eorporate destinies of
the city for the last three years, and Alderman

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molasses question and the controverted elections,
have been prolific sources of wrangling and cap-
tious opposition. At one time the government seem-
ed in a fair way of slipping out of office while dis-
cuecing the imposition of tax upon molasses; bat,
like. the arch-tempter, they resolved by “ willing
words to conquer willing hearts,” and on the final
submission of the financial measure their proposition
was carried by a most obedient majority ; and now
the honorable gentlemen are anxious to get home
to their families and avocations. Members from the
country districts, before commencing to catch gas-
peraux or drive their teams of oxen, will have an
opportunity of explaining to their constituents the
reasons for their different votes, partieularly that
relative to the molasses question, which agitated
the trembling hands of the government, and at last
flowed down so smoothly the throats of ‘subsidized
representalives.
’ermit me to say a word in reference to a short
sentence contained in my last communication to the
‘Examiner,’ It appears I made a personal allusion
to my respected friend, Mr. Grattan Cliflord, which
is by no means agreeable to his sensibilities. That
expression was not the first silly act of my life, and
what is worse, I have no assurance that it is to be
the last. However, J must here declare—and I do
so uo less voluntarily than as a measure of repar-
ative justice to Mr. C,—that the hasty dictum whieh
proves unacceptable is wholly incorrect, and hereby
expressly withdrawn. It should be remembered
that the smoothest course of friendship has its pains,
and that truest friends sometimes inflict upon us the
severest Wounds. Does the inquisitive reader ask
what am I talking about? I beg to intimate that
the matter to which I have just referred has not as-
sumed quite so formidable, a feature as the late in-
solence of Sir Robert Pecl to The O’Donoughe. 1
must apologise for writing so mnch concerning two
obscure individuals, and » baad by assuring all whom
it may concern that the matter is honorably settled.
“Happy, proud America! The lightnings of nea-
ven yielded to your philosophy : the teutptations of
the earth could not subdue your patrio.ism.”’
St. John, April 2i, 1862, ie =
a
(For THE EXAMINER.)
POLITICAL JUGGLERY.
All must admit that the proprietary faction

until lately, that they themselves were
and were sincerely desirous to ameliorate

to have been the whole time most cunningly
ring to secure their own interests by

opt ingepious of all those

havi
their more than doubtful titles to land outunel
by the Lwperia) Government. It was folly for us

Reed—a consequential sort of man, are the rival 1858 1861 ‘Increase.

aspirants for this munificent post. Mayor McAvity fea Seat V4

is suid to be very elficient for the high otfice which | 14¢ Class Teachers, (9,750 17 210,671 1 11.920 4 9

he holds from the suffrages of his fellow citizens ;/ 24 Cjass do. || 470 10 0 1,083 14 3.633 4 3

but I declare if you were to observe his worship| Female do. 751 50 1434 5 16830 1

while passing some publie thoroughfare some after-| Normal School | 200 00 "$07 :17«0.127 17 0

noon—shaking off the cobwebs of his office—with | prince of Wales!

his corporation cane keeping regular pace with his Jellege and hen-|

step, his black surtout ¢ osely buttoned, his com-!| demy, including!

pressed lip, his somewhat haughty but undignified | penuirs, £420 104) 250 0 0, 1,132 1 88821 8

mein, you would not aceuse him of possessingavery | Rosrd of | Educt- } }

delicate temperament or bland demeanor ; but I be j sa 72) 264 3 9| 33167

lieve he is, like Mr. Speaker Johnson, a “shrewd | printing and Sta-| |

old gentidman,”’ and one who will probably be fe:} Gonery 964 97) 1246 3 62811311

elected for the fourth time. to the cushioued chair Mail Service {n- . r

and its handsome golden fringes of four hundred a land, ' 875 18 6 972 10 3) 96119
With a few set phrases, the Attorney General at pee i B 4 5. 49 a 74139

has demolished the chartered immunities of the im- Nova Reotin nani” “- |

portant seaport city of Moncton. The good people id Mr Roalhten-

of that town are now reduced to the position of ano ‘ feeeely

mere villagers; and the words “ may meres your eredited tothe Is-

Worship,’ will be henceforth to the Monctonians land 20 0 0

an expression to remind therm at once of their former 7 ins lboeang

greatness and present humiliation. The reason as-|_. : 2,277 14 0308 4 0

signed for this sweeping coup d’ etat is the non-pro- Lights and Light) }

gressive condition of Moncton, whereby corporate Houses, 783 117, 1,035 6 12468 6

assessments pressed too heavily on its inhabitants; | Buoys and Bea-!

and the reason of THIS reason, is the fact of the | CoMs, } 141 32) 217 11 6 758 4

Railway terminus being at Shediac, and thereby | Public Land Office’ 664 1 2) 1,169 10 4)905 9 2

tending more directly to the growth of the latter | Govt. House, Ke. % 10 1159 9 4/792 12 4

town. Lunatic Asylum, | 955 2 3) 1,064 7 83109 55)
To-morrow the Legislature of New Brunswick | Jails — Queen's } |

will be prorogued ; it has been in Session for the | County, 415 39) S9414 8179114

space of ten weeks. The prolonged debate on the | Do.—ling’sCo. | 117 19, 398 4 4/2732

time to write, as be never speads au bouriu the Se-

liquors, groceries, &e.
Now, having before us the Auditors’ classified
statement of the publie accounts, for last year,

which the Government have increased the expen-
diture, without any corresponding benefit to the
country :—

INCREASE OF EXPENDITURE IN 1861 OVER
THAT OF 1858.

We must add to the increase of expenditnre in
connection with Government House the large
sum of £1200, which was laid out in preparing
the House for the visit of the Prince of Wales;
and also a sum of about £1,800, as an increase to
the interest on the public debt. All this shews
what admirable economists the Tories have been,
and how wonderfully well they have kept their
promise to liquidate the debt, and lessen exper-
diture. No one can shew that the interests of
the country are better served now with the great
increase which the foregoing table exhibits, than
they were in 1558. Our educational system —
though costing a great deal more — is far worse
administered than it was under the Liberals, be-
cause the common schools are shamefully negleet-
ed by the officer whose duty it is to examine them
carefully and regularly,and see that the Teachers
are stimulated and encouraged in the strict per-
formance of their duties, The present School
Visitor receives the same salary as his predeces
sors did under the Liberal Government, yet it is
notorious that he does not visit half the schools in
the Island once a year — some of them not even
ouce in two years. He is only known as a politi-
cal messenger for the Government—te drivel po-
litical gossip and spread misrepresentation wher-
ever it can be expected to serve a political end—-
to establish Orange Lodger wherever bigotry and
ignorance may be found to favor their establish-
ment; and to sow the seeds of discord between
peaceable Protestants and Catholics, in order to
excite and unite all the former in an unholy eru-
sade against the latter when the day of election
shall come round. He and his masters know that
their enly chance of remaining in office depends
moral and pious Colonial Secretary uses all his
scribbling taleut to keep it alive by means of his
articles in the ‘Islander,’ whieh he has ample

the Liberals. The Worrell estate and Lot 11
cost £23,500; the lauds sold on these properties,
as we learn from the Commissioner's accounts
laid before the House during the late Session, re-
alized £23,629 6s. 3d.; the unsold land, ausount-
ing to 31,060 aeres,are valued by the Government

Committee at five shillings an acre, and therefore
capable of yielding £7,765, which, if added to the

£23,629 6s. 3d., will make a total of £36,394 Gs.

3d.; and deducting from that the first cost of the
properties, £23,500, there will remain the hand-
some balance of £12,894 6s. 3d., which will be
more than sufficient to cover all working expenses
and loss of land tax, and leave the purchase of

the Worrell estate to be something more profitable
than a mere self-sustaining transaction.

There were a few other items brought to the

notice of the House by Mr. Coles. He showed
that no rent had been paid into the Treasury for
the Warren Farm during the last two years, and
that in consequence the lease was forfeited to the
Government.
sum of £40, which was shown, in the Session of
1861, to be due to the Government for wine
bought for the Prince of Wales’ Banquet, but not
used thereat, and taken by the Committee of
Management, had not been paid into the Treasury
up to the close of the Session of 1362. Healluded
also to the charge of £49 19s, 9d. which appears
to have been paid to Mr. Seeretary P.
dition to his other emoluments, to defray his
penses for one or two pleasant trips be took,
while pretending to look after the Steamer Mest-
morland, while, in reality, he was attending to
his own private interests, in speculating in od
wrecked vessels about the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Mr. Coles alluded to other unnecessary eb

the public accounts; amongst others, he com
mented upon the expenditure of £575, which was
given to the Commissioners appointed to repre-
seut the Island at the International Exhibition
London, without the knowledge ur consent of af

He commented on the fact that the

in ole

Legislature.

— were |
THE official editor of the ‘ Islander’ appear

be very much annoyed and disgusted at the po

ponement of the general meeting of the Central

Liberal Svciety, which was advertised ty tek
place to-morrow evening, to discuss the expedr

ency of petitioning the Queen,praying for » dissk

lowance of the worthless Bills which were lately

passed to humbug the tenantry, regarding the
Award of the Land Commission. The ‘ Islandet

censures us for postponing the Meeting, im the
same spirit as that with which we were

in December last when wo gave our opiniet

against the petition for a dissolution, In the full

flow of his indignation, the editer of the ‘Islander

puts two or three questions in a breath. He #y*
— We should inuch like to know who called the
meeting of the Society! whe postponed it! and.
above all, we desire to know who constitute the
Central Liberal Society 1” We dare say sll this
would be very desirable information to Mr. Pope:
but we see no other way of his obtaining it thse
the following ; — Let him at once renounce bi*
ciates—become a red-hot Liberal, to the surpr®
of many, and to the inexpressible disgust
own
year,—aud let him apply st once te be evr

of bis
friends,—let him exert all his scheming and
abilities to secure the best office oF
power vert
olled ap