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d, you swear that
¥ One ponderous blew of your fist,
tween tht peepers of the offender,
down. “All this you will do, to
wf yous skill and kmewledve and
+o hep fou God.
wece? touk the position assigned him.
nated im ecchately after the court was organ
sed, Tam Ditgers, who looked as green as
young gourds, walked into fhe court room,
wearmg brogans numbey eleven, his hands
thruet deep into his pockets, and inquired

** Hellow, flere! wherein thunder is Sim
Sme)ins 2”

Silenve iD the lobby

raged official,

** roared the out-

You must be an ill-fired, tarnaj fool, and:

) ye jest open that bread trap of yourn agin
2ur marmy wont know ye!" shouted back
ie propfietor of the brogans

# hereupon dim Jarvis, the oficer, het fly
the dogs of War, and greeny fel} flat ob his
buck, with his pedestals at an angle of forty
hive degrees in the air. We grabbed greeney
by the seat of his pantaloons, and dragged
him, wrong end fOrethost, info the presence
of his honor, the presidirig judge, and said

‘Mr. Judge, here‘s that ‘darned, infernal
fool, Tom Diggers, who warn't reve? Mi a
court house afore, and ho undertibvk te fun
over this Chicken, but, ‘¢erding to'my oath,
i fotched thie tarnal eritter ap stoddin,’ by
aiypa? him a jerk atween the eyes, ‘cording
to jaw, and tow, say the word, and LJ} maul
the dog-wWood juice outen him afore you kin
Wink your éy@ twiee.”’ :

Judge.—Turn him loose, Mr. Ojfcer, and
accept the thanks of the Vourt'for the prompt
diseharge of your official dities.

Goon atter the Court adjourned to drink.

CORRESPONDENCE.
Serra —~
(POR THE EXAMINER.)
TO THE LENANT FARMERS OF PRINCE
' EDWARD ISLAND .

SENTLEMEN,—Moet of you must be aware
that a Genera! Election js near at hive, when
vou will hive "t in your power to dechIR at ence
wad tersdpe for ever, your ows future Coedom
trom’ she trammel* of Jandjordism, of yiyr hite-
time degradation, as well as that of yorr Jeseend-
ahfs, As ret paving serfs, according’ fo the unity
ef Setlort Vou take at such ele@tion. Tt iy 4 fact
well batabtistied tn warfare facties) that thé com-
maider-in-ehief conceals jrom hws euemy as much

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of lis real intentions a# possible, and the better to!
will frequently rliake a feigne" pretence |

eccive
of ditack ifs dome parfef the lines fat fen where
be thehuds to pdroetrate the greatest unl. And
if you permit me to compare the sublime tg the
ridieulogs, | wish to eall vour attention te the

cnoning devieesof your Land Proprietary Gok rn. |

meet, or their empliyment of the man wath
waren pats —the scrupulous, pious, religious,
ean “ftitenlous, self-saecrificing, e Staple of pertect
Protesvanticn, W_ HL. Pope, the Colonial Seer tary
— Nhe nial Whe never went ifith a Ceurt of justice
with “Uheleah Haods "—the man whe never
platidered ‘a Jian oul of £14.000—the man whe
never dies, fom the Jreast ry under fal

ilse nre
fences ttudther’ persen—the

Poe het, neing* ti
mah whe vever chatged The Westniorland Ten-
atifty two gulneas tor new Jenses under pretences
that their former jeases were not pood—the man
whe néver appropriated the reats of Capt. Cum-
beard and Mrs. Cumberland to his own use
mil Ghe' newer deelined rendering an account
iéreaf to thenigélves ot to chee vew ly soustitu-
ted “Agent, « Ye give up the Accounnat jLieroks of
the Estates! Yew auch is the good honest man
the hat deen fitely so busils employed by * the
teod-fereing Vroprietar® Govetiment, te dis-
tyeet Sour aitOite-u fran te great, the all
abaurbing gucation of the day, “This Land
Cueation,” by gettingup “a tempest in a teapet ”
Thott”: Lopish ” aggression, in appealing to Pro
wataat Telivious prejudices, against your bette:
jodginent! A worthy ‘agent certainly for such
a cause? “Lhe last effort ef a terlorn hope! Now,
geaticaien, T wish fe appeal te your better reason,

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To the Rev

Rey AND DEA iT

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. David Fitzgerald.

How me to acknowlede: receipt of
your letter appesring in the Monsor news
pper of the Sth of October, “8S One your
** fellow-Colonists,”* and t ‘sprees my deep

of

regret at reading therein your intention to
lay before us, through ‘the same medium,
Weekly, the nature of the Pope of Rome's

peculiar elaims,’’ and * the unseripturalness
at the doetrines and practices of that Chureh
of whieh h $the head,”

My grounds for yegret at your intention
are two-fold — 6ne, thai as I humbly opine
you might be far hetter employed in follow
ing your more legitimate avi eat ons, and the
other, at seeing one, who | cannot but wish
to revere asa rest of our Chureh, degrade
| his high and holy offiee by sto ping to openly
dabble in the foathsome strife of politico
religious controversy and unutterably un-
christian apimosity that has been for some

di. “we. XC

.

neh has all ulted from the keeping in
Ce Propri ry Government, who: have
hed over tl} | roprietary interest with

ike ly to ameliorate }} e eondition of th
wintry has always met with their Cisap-
pre bation, and their combined fluence has
iways | n suceessful ine warding off or Wp-
pressing every design to liber he tenants
irom the ey Asp ol landlordism Courts ol
kscheat, which might have taken place long
», as well here as in Noya Seotia, have

he evaded; and an irstance js on record in

the history of this Island, in which a Gover
wy was deposed from offiee for being fayvour-
who actnally had two townships escheated,

and who n » doul t, had he been alfijwed to
remain but for a short time jonger, would
have freed the most, if not all, thie
ths Celony; bus the landlords,

lands of

toge ther

i poser! le desire to I nefit

or :

1 ‘Phey ehai

wii

19 ess they pusaca mperiue ’
dead trees, and ot) Yankee. ™ ge nd | ged our works desperately, broke ows jes o ; ‘4
crowded upon them by vankee eta ; 9h Mi atry and captured a small forliticatios pty wr
that they would be saea@, &C., &° : PAS | a dattery of the Ist Missouri was planted, At
; ssi : : seized: our

sk yin he aa |
Not because these great qua k. printen ‘

eomed lest, and a temporary panic

bear witht a tameness absolutely ineredible the timony canuot be depended upon in refere
ale ; tru ‘on. one by one, of all the hopes ante br
the illus’sns which had led them to tle enh ‘
of the Atlantic. There ia, no doubt, RoUe ving
in the apeetacle of the nation 80 fe ry sith
idea that everything eise Tits

nee to
anvthing—that he never tells the truth unless he
stuinbles into it by the merest aecident ~ that
falsehood is a chronic disease with him—part and

sublime | Why, w
e*? °

“o Md parcel of bis mental organization ?

wedded to one

nor beeaw ‘9 aeey " r . c : ‘a ee ** the bea how and eur ri pn under the direction rison rest ances ety Piscost (08 man fost he) his caquires Mr Rape has. produced wo testi-
"OUR | copie "7 aly a , avery to | of oa weous officers, aud stimmilated by ae sha cco ahaa ller Maj sty’s fiddler, W ened — oh sg 0 ir ae battery Wis regained, and cogs aigeggbe > ig oN Contineuit aa asl from his for tsilip the Lichop of Clbrtieloen ;

the ** Terrace,’? came in
many of these nasty Yankees,

lie ( t

and

thea
(

and could not
thei’ tricks
the least

? since

stherwise than cognizant ol
and if he hy
** our } x yple <
he soiled his reputation by eontact with the
‘ Monitor,” he had every ¢ hance of doing 80,
and should have cautioned the unwary.
But. no, that would retdo. Now, however,
since ** Brother Cooper '* has received license
to preach, and Donald has been
their yalour knows no limits, and the latter |
>a quarrel with ‘fa big |

Ingrabituge 5

promoted,
i

|

; Corps,

+t hurled destruction into their ranks,

hire 2
day was saved, and the eneniy i fad retreat
Our loss was comparatively sinall during the |

featiilcharge. ‘That ofthe enemy was (ull twenty
to our ote killud Among the killed left on the
field were Brig. Gen. Rogers of New 8, Yrleans, Col
and Acting Brig. Johnson of Mississipp, and an
other Colonel commanding 2 brigade, Whose name
LS - : rned

: "The hee were commanded by Van Dorn,
Price and Villipine, With thetr respective army
whieh swelled their pumber te 50,000

Jt is impossible Yet to give a list of the cauml-

lsingle Government — America is sacrificing its | 2nd, from the Rey. A. McDonald; 2r, foey the
cent happinetwand its future hopes. Rather) tron. 1. Breman; and 4th, we
a State of modegate dimenstens, the North
a degree of sel{immolation that ;
may be required It would bea newle sight were | But before we notiee Mr. Conrey's letter, te

the end worthy of the means. As it is, we stand | whieh wemade allusion in our last, we must offer
achast at this w anten act of destruction, and at es

i ie? : Mr. Pope's leading artic
of that national vanity whiea can | * ; . : } ; g ' ticks,
yaeue imagination of terri-| in the Islander of the 10th inst., over his own

are now prepated
tu offer testimony from N. Conroy, Esq, M. Poa,

presen
than be
will procevd Te an’

1 few words on
the iuteusity
thus sacrifice to seme
ereatness not only all that mahes a nation | signature
but all that makes it happy or respected.

nn PO

Tur Grear CaNapian Exim

terial
ereat, The grounds on whieh Mr. Pope expects to,
| Page bring his party out ot the difficulty in referesee

} P, 3.::88 may be better for me

with their accomplices, soon devised means
to remove hii frow the government of this [s-
land. The inhabitants wt that time were very
ignorant concerning the polities of island
and what would be tor the general good, 15
an arigtoeratieal government and family eons
pact wielded their destinies. Lhe man

of that compact wag attended to as the cue
orwele , and thus the interests of the ; eople
were, through their ignorange, xbaorbed by a
erafty desiguing party, who were ever on the
alert to retain their power, and keep the
| people im a state of serfdom sane vasaalage

' Petitions were got up and weat the rounds of
the Island, praying for the removal of the
Governor; and as the Oraele spoke, so the
eophe believed; thus, by the influences uses
Oy thett worst enemies, were they induced
tosign chose petitions praying for the removal
of the best Governor for the people's rights
that ever administered the (sovernment cl

thie Fsland. On the day the people signed
those petitions shey rivetted upon themselves |
those shaekles which they and their descend- |
ants have to this day been endeavouring to

years the bane of our existence here, and
that may cause the eternal damnation of some
hereafter. ‘

i will not stay to argue the question now
for you may be able to steer clear of party
polities, even if you have already, or indeed

ray have wished to have so steered, by the
plan you propose to adopt, viz: the pulbliea-
tion of a series of controversial letters in such
& paper as the § Monitor.” Bat having ven
ional to eXpress my regret at your determi-
nation, beg to ask you two or three questions,
assuring you if you answer any or all ef Shes,
| Twill readily, if you wish, subscribe my wome
, toa public acknowledgment of your coursevy
ist. Do you not imagine that your more
proper sphere of action, a3 our Clergyman
and God's ordained Priest, would be the re-
viyal of the Chureh’s existence and services
in those so sadly neglected and destitute out-
lying districts that in years Zone by were
}imore or less tended and eared tor by the pre-
sence and zeal of the Charlottetown clergy-
men? I[ will spare your own blushes and ¢
those of your fellow laborer im this most! porst asunder, and which I hope shey will |
shamefully neglected eorner of God's vine-! aby }

ra itt i ft never cease te endeavour to do 2s long as)

» t My » » } . . i . > ‘
yare oy omitting the names of the numerous | there remaine one yestige of hope for accom- |
localities to which I

but passing allusion pagon = Wty — plishing it; and we have, even at this late |

i Oy smaey : perative Call’ date, every reason £0 hope that the lands will |
on yeu, as God's miruster, to & more constant) p, freed. ~The sentiment breathed through-
attention and personal yisitation to many of out the whole of the Commissioners’ Report

the

‘

om rhage congregation, whom you bare ly | facours this ides. “Whatever may be the
now to speak to, far, far less as a friend, stiugele to bring about this objéct, it must
|} 2nd. fo you not think that our braneh of — ; 4

come, for the whole prejadiees of the people
are enlisted in favour of tree lands. On page
23 of the Royal Commissioners’ Report they
say :—‘* The Lenantry of Prince Edward Is-
land share the common sentiment of the
Continent which surrounds them. The pre
judice in favour of a freehold tenure, if it is
one, is beyond the power of reason. ‘The
proprietors cannot change the sentiment
Lhe local Government have no power to resist
it, and the Imperial Government, having be-
come weary of collecting rents and supporting
evictions in Ireland, ean hardly be ¢ xpected
to do for the landlords in Prince Edward Is-
land what has ceased to be practicable or
popular at home,’’

Some contend that they have Jost all hope
af ever seeing the lands of this Colony free,
after so long an agitation and nothing yet
but there is no doubt that a con-
tinual agitation of the question will even-
tually lead the British Government to adopt
r to free this Colony. Continual
remonstrances to the foot of the throne for
so grieyoug an ijl, and the reasons for redress
- being sg tangible, that it must be granted
W ith respect, ra sooner or later. It has been urved that it

Kev. and dear Sir, would be unconstitutional and a violation of

I — . the sacred rights of property for a govern-

Your obedient servant, ment to interfere or to try any means to re-

’ A CHURCIMAN, medy the existing evil other than those that
Charlottetown Royalty, Vet. 13, 1862. the proprietor would be willing to accede.

to add that’ But this is not Should it be this case

| thé Church Catholic here, rotten and wither-
ed as it is, and J fear likely to continue, and
more especially you, as its head, might at-
fempt at lest to join the numerous denomina-
tions here, as well as our Roman Catholic
| brethren, in inaugurating a few such Chris-
tian aud charitable iastitations as a Poor and
Industrial House, a Public Infirmary and
| Dispensary, with possibly a louse of Refuge,
‘together with a better organised system vo!
eliarity and local visiting than exist at pre-
sent—than by your continuing to rake up
and publish, and by our reading, old contro-
versiaé papers in such journals as the * Moni-
tor’ and ‘ Pfotestant’ of this city ?

Srd. Were you ever,- To your KNUWLEDSE,
in your life, the means of changing the faith
of any sincere Roman Catholic to that of the
Anghean Chureh ? or do you seriously expect
that the publication of your ** anji P. gig
effusions can have the effect of strengthening
the Protestantism of one of your congrees
tion, or of shaking the faith of any Roman
Catholic in the whole universe in the slightest
degree ?

etlected -

measures

sO.

Gaod’s

' other markets and of common justiee : bat if|

the

having ' seared up’ Dias Our proportivn of officers killed is thought
‘ bg ack ‘ ne turned, | tes. ur prope e
Yankee,’ whose back is at present

‘ . sito be large. We lost but tour taken prisoners.
takes the opportunity through the‘ Monitor Richmond papers of Saturday last announce

of slandering all the persons who happen te the approaching atpaurnment of. ther ¢ onfederate
visit our shores from thestates. Braye, very Congress. "The Senile had apoointed a committee
brave, indeed, are these chivalrous fellows | iy take testineny relittive ty the outrages eom-
on bebalf of ** our people,”’ when no bravery | ritted by the Waukee’, Which is to be collated. and
is needed, but when rejuired it will be—no preserved in a permanent for Aw act pice

Such dastardly conduct on the part | passed authorizing the manulacture ef shoes and

of ignorant people might be winked at, but) clothing for the army: whiGh provides for the troy

emanating from two such highly bred, | importation of all — i bri - _
rent fi j : I as HG Hed DS ti
superior baug sientifics ‘ultured, | pose. A joint resolution has been adoy ;

superiorly j$aught, scientifically ¢ e | Virwinia , sine Poverty providing that mo person

chaste, talented, Avnest, and philanthropic

inded beings as these co-editors of the Within that state-shall be tried or imprisoned for
mMindes Cings % 8e .

; : ; ‘driving therefrom or putting té- death, by any
‘Monitor,’ is reprehensible in the extreme ; ceane au person, with or Without atime, who
and when known will cause the people of | mnay be found-on that soil aiding ot abetting, oriu
Yarkeedom or gny gther place to charge that | any way giving effect in-that state or its borders
portiow of ‘our people’’ known as the | ty the lawless and fiendisi’ proclamation of Pre-
satellites of Her Majesty’g Government Of) gdent Lincoln-te liberate the slaves.

Prince Edward Island, logated in and about | iculars
the Colonial Building and Momitor Oifice, | regarding the Oe ad ae

ot the Potomac

’ “pop f
itn deshonesly adrd ignorance , eee
Wiese y federal army is seuth-ot- the Rotemmo, sevilla:

‘ yeeping a charge d bé made | the Stony
Phat so sweeping a ¢ h urge should ” be the valley from Martiosburg and Harper's Ferry,
on the migratosy pextion of Americans by the |-upt ’ MLO Ye a Meat
TUR gg YR ey: ith that ®ud that a battle may be expeeted al any Une,
* Monitor,’ is quite im secordance with that * It in reported,” says tide hie. that one hun-
dirty sleet, but is quite contrary rig. dred and twenty five transports have gone up the
as ‘the * Monitor fob know right well. | Potomac to Alexandria, sudit is suppesed.the yur
What would have beem the Anancial state of pose is to make another move on Richmond by
this Island during the last [5 years Bat for | way of Fredrickaburg or some otlier reate, Ihe
the speeulations of Americans® Where, Enquirer of the 4th says: “ . ‘
would our surplus horses, cattle, sheep, P'g35 abe at Martinsburg, with th ory _ exten in tu
&e., &e., have fowml a market, byt for thems ? | is rapidly porine use } a 3 ’ pas b re
.e ? 4 tiate ttle is ¢ q * fougat. seth) MoClellt
Aud if ** when three or four of them get | ate battle is about to be tough it delta he
" F : canned areid an eugagement ubless he withdrawe
together ’’ and charged some of the Islanders © Rabat : ; qs
r ‘ dis! ty.” oth toubt had a cress the siver. This he canvot doawthe move rte
wip , pag : Es ogg wt ‘ . ment aud abwlitionists are urgiug him: furward,
cause, for instance :—~when many of our ‘Fur Examiner also says: “The negro proelama-
farmers first conymenced trading with the: ‘on ik causing some commotion in the North; b
“ Yankees,’ they tried to palm off the tasbings |. py osident’s aniversal martial-law will probably
of their grain heaps, and the most rubbishly quiet that.”
sainple of potatoes. Was that Aenest? And eithliiaienenin tha
if this were done without any bad intent, | (Fram the London Times.)
Aid it not display ignonpuce of he costotse | THE GREAT REPUBLIC~IN ITS. DOWX-
WARD PHASE.
desiznedly, could it be deemed honest? To If the people of America would only sit down
prevent the FOCRT FEROS ol shipping bad grain and cally consider the causes w hich have raised
vr rubbish, and improve the moral tone Of | tein during the last half century from 33,000,000
trade, a law was passed by our Legislature 4. 30.000.000, and made their country, unlike so
obliging grain to be sold by weight, apd many other lands favored with the iOst bavish
uurchasers of potatoes would take nothing : vifts of nature, proverbial for its prosperity and
I I iad ! .
but a merchantable article, and who eould progress, they might devrve from the reflection
blame them for this? ‘Then with respect to conusions whieh would bead them irresistabls to
* Yankee notions,’’ nobody is bound or foreed * P liey of pe ae beg seiie ¢ a : oe n. - th ica
} ; Ty : 5 ae * Wepse Mo ose
to subseribe to or buy them, and if they de; 0“ a > - . 7 a : = wilh
: Ls erentand enlightened jyuen, the fathers ¢ ' f
so of their own free will and accord, and are | STestaneenugiteneen
bitten, are they not as much to blame as the

of her repsblic. "They devised a sebeme of tem-
? Some p -ople will not learn wisdem perate liberty } pphovkea = oe 4 wie
AE ite ; r contrivance Which might prevent its tendency to
beaten into them, and many will not) Qecenerate inte licentionsness. To the worn-out
cherish it even then. Among such folk are | yietans of arbitrary power they offered equal
corps editorial of the * Monitor." As! laws equas rights, a light tasation, a freedom
respects the trees brought here dying, it is/| from debt and from the necessity of tereign war
nothing to be wondered at. When they were No wonder that the world stom saunra ginal at the
opened for delivery no trees could look more | *pectiele of so teh Virtwe aml 80 ae
healthy and promising, and if our farmerg | "Cs*, 86 ghecry tarned aside ee ig
would drink less liquor when they come to Circle of Wor an@ tyransy in which sivwe She
town, so 2s to take into their minds the in-

structions given them as to the setting out
. it would be

+

till it is

politics of Barope appeared capable of revelying,
toa Wicdown blessed alike by the wisden: of man
and the beneticence of nature, and capable of
more. ,

and eulture of those trees,

The Richmoud yaners contain some particulars |

“The: federal: forses |

jaity of Torouty was recently the scene of almost
lunrivatted festivities. The Great Canadian Ex.
hibition was held there late last month, when His
Exeelleney the Governor-General and family,
Lord Milgrave and family, and a host of other
notables, seized the opportunity to he present.
Vhe Exhibition, as might have been expected, is
described as having been a truly magnificent
afair. The Torenty papers are filled with glow-
itie deseriptious of what was on exhibition, the
ines of the successful competitors, the amount
of premiums ay arded, and'k ndition. of the cout
plete success of the whole, “The exvie ott herities
‘of Toronto appear te have acquitted: themselves
right hospitably; on. the o@casion. In’ qitestion.
There was one eoutinued round’ of balls, parties
gud dinners during the progress ot the Extnbition.
\ The Military and the Volunteers contribated their
‘full quota towards the entertainment of. the
vitizens of Toronto and their tens of thousands
of visitors, both on the occasion of receiving the
Gevernor-Getieral and his uoble: asseciites on
their arrival, as wellas the Gratid: Review whieh
took place the iMewing day. The Volunteers of
‘Toronto consist of some tenoe twelve conapanies,
‘comprising hore, foot and ontillery. ‘“Bhese, with
| H. M. 30th Regt, and the Regular Artillery, made
‘a fine military display, the whole acting together
lin the greatest harmony. At this Review upwards
of a score of prizes, consisting of silver cups, me-
dals, money, and rifles, were presented to suc-
cessful competitors by the Commander-ip-tsbief.
These had all been fired-for and wen some weeks
previously, and:the resentation of them had beey
reserved until the arrival of Lord Mouck. The
Agricultural dinner was attended by upwards of

twelve hundred gentlé¢men, ineluding ‘a number of

Americans. It is stated that a brass band pre-
isent, happening to play * Hail Columbia,” in econ-
liment tothese visiters, cause very near making
‘disturbance in the mammoth tent where the
vutertainment was held.—Erening Express

The Exaniner,

——— Segre ge cr

Charlottetown, October 20th, 1862.

‘THE
MENT WITH REGARD ‘tO ST. DUN-
STAN'S SOLLNGE.

ALTHOUGH. the intrignes of the. Government

'with influential Cathoses im regard to on endow- |

vinent of St. Dunstan’s College have been exposed

in such away as te fill them with pain and dis-!

comfiture, yet, i anotiver respect; the eomtroversy

may not have been withest aane censolation te |

the party in power. Phe heaviest serew loose in

the ship of state is that whieh woe seppesed.te

secure the rich freight whiek the Gorernreent nre-

mised to bring to the people as arrehef: ftom the |

burdens imposed upon them by the leasehold ten-;

are’,

We helped to wrench that sete, ard te

TRICKERY OF THE GOVERN.)

ae chim delibesate judgment—te your ewn the sense in which
self interest, if you will. It wust not be forgetten| Vineyard ’’ is in its application alone to the
that "your present Government promised you an/ amited Church of Eagiand and Ireiand in this!

I use the term when private rights would interfere with the
pablie good, to mflict an injury, it is right

to interfere, and this is clearly pointed out

realizu

as tar as itis possible on earth the wildest

shew that the hatches concealed nethine-b st trash

\ te this matter are—Tst. That when he proposed
| megrant: toe Mt. Dirstons College it was with the
jundersteeding thet that imitation should be
divested of its’ d@nectinational character. 2adls*,
| That “ the majority” of the Government never

The fallacy of

lagreed to, or promised the grant
these positions ie easily shower
| 4st. In the various interviews with the Reetor
jof St. Dunstan’s, and with Mr. Brenan, it woe
| never mentioned by Pope that the Cothege sheulde
| be divested of its denominational character—sueb
'a proposal would have put a stop ef ence to all!
‘consideration on the subject. Mr. N. Coprop, in
the letter te which we made allusion last weeds,
says that Mr. Pope “ expressed to me more than
one hunded:times his anxiety to preeure a grant,
| tor the College.” and never once alluded to the,
divestingvof the institution of its denominational,
character. He (Rope) teld Mr. Conrey that he
advocated the grant as-“"an aet of justice to the
Catholics that “the Govertinent would give
the grant! themecthes wnaske?’ —that “if the
matter was lett to his (Mr. Pope's)! metregement
he bad ne fonre that if the erant would pet be
given the present Sessien; it would be the wert”
—that “the feeting-of bigotry against the Cathelies
was fost sulwiding, and he (Pope)) hoped: the:
trovernment would be soon ito! position te
ase aod support & grunt to the College.”
Mr. Conroy says that the Colonial Secretary had
“daily conversations” with him on the subject of
the grast-—that be (Pope) said “ all his time wae:
taken up-withethe resttes” — “that it was not su:
much from the’ opposition of the non-coutents ia
the Government that made then hesitate imosk
ing tlie grant as the hostility of seme Reverend
genthmen — Sutherland avd: Sitegeraid — but he:
thought they would be brought round.” These:
are bows fie extroets trom Mr. Conroy's letter,
which, if ther are doubted, we shall ask Mr.
Conrey to verify. They show that Mr. Pope was
offering, on bebalf of the Govermmest.a grant tox
) Mt. Dunstan's Colleye, as 2 Cauthetic inatitution;
| “on aetiof iastier te the (4 @hehies :” and!
Mr. Conroy says, moreover; that when Pope made
the offer, he remarked, ‘1 eannet tell with what-
face the Ceyemament. oa-atbor expeet the suge
| port of Catholics at the hustings if they continue
to treat them in the same uanucr”’—that is, with
injustice:

Now, as regards the quilble, that 3 © majority’
‘of the Goveroment.” did. net promise the grant—

and as

what are weto- understand when a man. comes
tous, and says that the Gerertmuent are gomg te
We don’t step to en--
auire Whether the “ayes aud the ees’ have

de» such undisteh a thing ?

dafly setilemedt of the * Land Question ”
subjected you te ne small expense by getting up
the Laud Ceramission, in order te humbug and
deveive , od, ‘nid ve raise your expertations to
benefits Which they vever intended, never wished
er fevired mmter. While year expectations
were rear ’ high. ewing te the elixpremitious
shown by the Commissioners while here to take
the whele subject of tenant grietvances—Quit
Rent Claim, Levalet Rights. and Fisher:
Keterves inte consideration, they secretly and
insidicusly employed the “Spy Wightman, whe
acted wader theirdirections all Winter and Spring
wid offer he completed tis work, ne doubt to
their entire satistaction, they paid hi out of the
pablic funds, the taxes which vou and your fini
lies Jad te pay upen vour tea, molasses, tobacco,
<, “they naturally enough said and concluded
amongst themselves, that before the electors
would find ot ther raseality, their deceptions,
hollow pretences, it wopld be best to dissolve the
Hycse of Asseyubly, and try te get a majerity te
keep them in office for four years more, which
thet Knew they had ne ehance whatever of getting
unices the election were held while the electors
wold De ignerant ef their machinations; but
then they reeetlected that they had blackgaarded
the Cothohes at the last election, and that if thes

wont Doors

joined the tenantry at the election, no Proprietary |

city, as I fully believe that my Roman Ca-'ia the Royal-Commissioners’ Report,
thelie and }isSenting brethren are in the propri-
eases favored by haying those set over them etors who had not bi to the ar-
in the Lord whom they lave every reason to bitration, and whe to regard the
respect, love and venerate. Commissioners as intruders upon their pro
~O 10s perty and the willing violaters of their rights
pparent. These persons appeared
te forget that the Commissioners did net seek
the duties impose l upon them, that they had
enquiry, that the

pare
most 20: ** The opposition of some of
rties

come pa

seemed

}

(FOR THE EXAMINER.) was a —

THE LAND QUESTION,

The Land Question has long agitated the "0 personal interest in the

the minds of the inhabitants of thia Island, Ztievances of Prince F ward {sland erew out
causing much discontent, and for the settle. 0! NO Negiect of th ede Phese pers IBS ap-
ment of which the ominous appearance of Pesred also to forget that, th nigh the rig] ts
a Court of Commissioners was w med 0f property have ever en sacredly guarded
to the Island Those Commissioners held by the law whenever thi posscssion Or abuse
their sitting for the purpose of gaining in- ° Property become prejudical to the public

interests, the rights and prejudices of indivi-
duals can be constitutionally controlled for
the public good.”’ The idea sought to be}
upon the ple was, that there
eould be no interference, that it would be
unconstitutional and most absurd te seek for
redress other than by the good will of the
proprietors, and on theaproposals that they
would make. And, at the time the Royal
Commissioners held their sessions, the intlu-
ence used by our Proprietary Government |

formation trom Landlerd and Tenant. But
a few months ago this Court was hailed as
the great jubilee to our Island. ‘The oppres-
sed and the oppressors met to tell their stories
of the various ways in which they had been
treated and acted. The fact of the three
Royal Commissioners having full and unli-
mited power to investigate and permanently
settle the Land ()uestion was to the minds of
the populace beyond a doubt. ‘The tenants,

impressed
J

to their credit and profit.

lustead, however, dreams of the peet omd the noblest aspirations af
of keeping themselves sober and fit to learn) the philosopher
,! of

Not to any pecubiar

anything good, tou many of them act quite ‘the race which originally inhabited her,

the reverse, and the chtef wonder as, that the attraction she presented to emigrate dae

more of the trees are not dead. Men who -\merica owe 1 sition which she held but a
4 ‘ " ar and halt :

keep their horses standing for hours at) ear and a hat ag

} , “eae Does if never ocewr te ber that the prosperity
tuvern d yoTs in all eorts of weather can have .

no amount cf taste to cultivate plants of any Pe NT
kind, eyen hemp. low comes it to pass that: 41.5. who have broken asunder every tie which
so many of the trees Dh dor strectsmre dead? pound them te their native land, and crossed a
They were surely notjall brought here by the! stormy ocean to bask mothe stnshine of Amesiean
$6 bie Yankee! “W hy did not the * Monitor’. justitutions, to enjey the truit of their own labor
men,ysofond of the * sublime and beautiful,” BeeUTITY, Say
interest themsely@s about the cultivation of | which of al '
these publie trees, and pre yent th ‘iy dying ot the present mela choly year have not utt ry
through dishonesty and ipnhoran Ad

These great “ét/e men biave rushed into a
matter, which, before it is off hands, they 2
may wish they were still in the Log Shanty | 44,2),
where they reecived the

which has been gained by these and similar eauses

reversing

Yeroken

questie wal peace nod wy

‘hopes they entertained the events
i 7

1 +h
Lie

Thev eame seeking tor
1

peace and they are involved in a war whic ter
e enormous scale en which it 1

r carried on, the
1]

oss of tite whieh it has eeeasioned, and

th
itter exasperation which it has ealled forth,
may ehallen

BIRCH ] ; © COL paArisen with the vost disastrous
pyr -_
phhad LOD,
Charlottetown, Sth October, 1862.
~~ o-
(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

eouflicts that’ have decimated and degraded

jinankind
many to a desert, and cost, Schiller tells us, the
lives of 20Q000 warnrers, bat the Ameriean

Miz. WHELAN — Ft will be pleasing to the in- struggle has realized ina single year the desela-

“as worthless as the ashes in the fabled anne of beensfoat folly comnted at the Comneil Roard—we.

iertility in |
butte

bh Lett

The Thirty Years War reduced Ger- |

the deep Red Sea. The Government have
sadly tronbled by the exposure. Their partizans

fell off ta scores In consequence of their dupileity

very exeuse has been tried to cover their shame, :

but every eseuse hus been veted a frivolous one}

by all ithe have sense and intelligence enough to
jorm an eptuies. Se cemplete has been their dis-

comiiture im regard toe this matter, that the Go-

sernment have net dared to go to the country for

ap expression of the popular will, as, we believe, |

they infended, and as certah

But the

Grant have, fer a while, diverted public

to de. disclosures about the College

attention

fron the Land Question; and in this state thes

are, no doubt, comparatively happy, as a man,

Who, meeting with some dire disaster, suddenly
sees a ray of hope, and conselingly says to him-

seli—** My trouble is great, but it might be worse.”

| Yes, for a while, the Government intrigues in re-!

been don’t

ly they were bound

“are to ash whetilen Mr. Simpsen

Pere 3
tokL

We are
‘the Gorermment “ base said “yes,"’ ands
Mixthed « it
is trae enough that L-as Chief Clerk of the:

: ves or Mer. Laird. said.“ ya,
| teat
with that we are

Mr. Vope says,
| Executive Genpeath, sot Me. Rolne> te taveur the:
pprepesed crant, oud Mr Gray to fiveur ity ame
with “me measagement’ Lean get. the whole:
| Executive Thoard to favour the thing -in fact, i
have no fear of the nemcoutents at. the Council
atall.” Shallle thea,.be suff-red tecaasue ander

the shallow and paltry exeuse that a majority:

of the Government was net tnvevesble te tha:

measure! Tle led parties-te: believe that there
Was aiajority favourable to it, and his present
It reminds us of,
aun anecdote that was related te-us a short time:
A tremendous scoundre} had been convieted:
ot a capital offeuce, and when he was asked, im
the usual way, why sentence of death should not

plea will be of no avail te bivw?

i ayo.

habitants of this Island to Jearn that the press ot
Adelaide, the seat of Government of South Aus-
tralia, is eulogistie of Sir Dominick Daly's Ad-
of the that fine

miustration froverninent of

tien Wrought by the Austrian, the Bavarian, the | ard te the College grant may keep public atten:
| Swede, the Dane, and the Frenchman, asd happy tien from the Land (juestion, but, so faras we poy be pronounced upon hiin—be replied that he wae
soe ons OE at eonaae arg wear he: 7 jcoucerned, we promise that enly a short time | one of the Firm of Jone® Smith & Co. whe hadi
Villy and Wallenstein. Nor is this a momentary [Sball be further eecupied with the centreversy) been always edifying in their walk and coopersa-

“Agents er Members of the Government would be Many of them, attended at those sessions, and
ritytaed ; and, therefore, the trath-leving, saintly, told the lamentable tales of hardships endared
a Pope, Colonial Seeretary and Clerk of the —-of their striving to elear and cultivate
Pv ccutive Council, was employed to hambus and enough land upon whieh to raise a seanty
deceive the Cathelies—te advise or persnade them | subsistence for themselves and their helpless
ths * Ged-fearing Goverument * by whem he! fa milies—of their getting a little in arrears
war employed proudly and zeilyusly yearned todo! of re nt, and that small piece of land epon
thesy fyi) justiee by giving them a grant of at wtlich they bad chbaustal tksié Giretae!
igact 22000 per annum for educational purposes, | ? a BS a - seonney Seer
with many other spurious pretences of tavours snatches from their grasp by the relentless
innumerable, far which, ef course, the implied | landlord or his agent, and they turned home-
quid pre que consideration at the Eleetions was, less upon the cold charities of the world,
expected. And for the ability, integrity and! Then the aged man appeared, bent by the
sincerity displayed on the part of the Colonial) burden of over three score and ten summers,
Seeretary—the worthy representative of “a! and told of the way in which many of the
{rod-fearing Government “—I beg to refer sou to) Lots were grasped by usurpers for non-fulfil-
ye cevelations uw the last Eraminer and Islander. ment of the grants “and conditions of other
Phe Colonial Seeretary interme you that he | Lote—of those uaurpers seizing for rents the
‘eommanicated regularly to the Leader of the shole of the nO Bs Re
Government, the Honorable Edward Palmer, the , ¥ yr at the poor tenant's subsistence ; and,
substance of each conversation which he had with | #9 #f the vengeance of the law could searerly
the Bishop of Charlottetown,” and ne doubt to | be appeased, at last, when all would not sa-
pany others besides. What a gracions smile o | tisly, incareerating the poor man who had
approbation the Leader of the Government, Mr. been so unfortunate as to settle in a Colony
simer, mast have bestowed upen the Aomest, | in which the baneful influence of landlordism |
gencere brow ot the Colonial Seeretary when he | prevailed, while in the adjacent Colonies of
jl bis Leadership how admirably he eajoled the | Nova Scotia and New Brunswick government
pasuspecting Bishop ogt uf “a warm shake hands | tands could and can be obtained at the small |
for the pay ow. A © naga fa eta oy, Same of £12 10s. per 100 acres, and the pay-
Ws! determination © : Leade wou ihe BP) 3 : “e
fe oll te Geverdaea ard Jnkermaan Houses to| MeDt taken in instalments, and very often
. olad tidines of WW. HL. Pope's creat | the settler can puy in labor by making rcads
whisper the glad tidings pf W. pes g hich dee a mi Ape : if
success! Thus far the plot was all safe, just ere} Which are a great convenivrace to himself.
th» prorogation of the Flouse of Assembly—} Many haye to regret, when by experience of
nothing more wanted, but to get the “Spy "| their servility to landlords, and the degrada-|
safely packed off with hiv budget of accusations | tion to which they feel themselyes plieed by
sud falee stories about the wealth of the poor|the rental system, that they had not set-,
tovants op the Township lands pf the Island, and) red in either of the other Provinces, in which
the gates at which same of them proposed to sell! they and their children might enjoy the free- |
p few priest. aye. Pishery sites, allway © ae tonne wee | tands of this Colony was clearly seen and

thea an Election, while the poor tenants were) ‘*" , bie :
eapecting some good trom the Land Commission, pointed out by the Royal t OMPEBIGEIONOES 2 |
and as the Government and

and while the Bishop of Charlottptown was «o| their Keport ; . ;
greatly and warmly pressed with the «fast |) Proprietors were one in action and sentiment
squeeze of the “ unelean hand" of W. £1. Mope, at or about the time and after the separation |
Beg. Byt although it is a eommpn saying that) of this Jeland from the government of Nova
“the P—) is kind to his own,” yet it wenld Scotia, the proprietors had pledged them-
pppenr that bis D—lehip forgot or malerird “bis selyes to provide for the payment of the quit
ee tee othe fe evi rents aud civil list, upon whieh condition this

‘

Hiection ceme—eone of the Land Comynissioners

Island had a government conceded to it; and

ta the Ielaud, whe, net being posted pp in the this: yas the chanee for the proprietors to
intended Government plet, honestly enongh “ let | fortify their weak hold ; and this they could
the eat out of the bag,” by giving some hints | easily effect, as the proprietors swayed the
foot the Award to seme of the Liberals im-| government, and were a part and parece) of
mediately on bis arrival; and although W. HH.) it, which could not have been the ease had

Pope spirited the Commissioner off to Govern-
inent louse, as quick as he could, in arder te
peal his lips on the suect of the Award, vet it
was too late, after what bad been made known
to Mr. Benjamin Vavies, Mr. Coles, and Mr
Whelan, whe were ugt the men to permit that
light to be placed under a bushel.” Feeling,
Mc Fditor, that 1 have glready neacly filled yp

y proscat sheet of paper, the subject, with your

ind permission, ahall be resmed next week, by

A TENANT FARMER,

THE NEW FISHERY COMMISSIONER.
To tue Epsron or rye Examiner.

61a,—The death of Mr. Perley, the late
‘ommissioner of Fishoxies, sees to have
faused quite @ commotion 19 the neighouring
Proviners aa to who should be his guccessor.
Nova Seotia goes for the Hon. Joseph lowe,
New Brunswick goes for the Hop. John
Hamilton Grey. Now, why shonld not
Prince Edward Island go in?) We have the
epportumity and we haye the man--
” = inn, Gde in the utluirs of men,’ &c. Ke
ho wrote that lucid and concise
ins the en Islands, in which the
- ‘ert ere fepresented by the author
(page 46, lines 3 and 4,) 98 having in 1860,
16,000 quintils of dried fish, and
nows that George Sutherland is the man,
urged. Yours, &e.
PISCATOR.

deserip-

‘the Island remained subject to the govern-
iment of Nova Scotia. All the lands of this
| Colony would have shared the same fate as
thore of Nova Scotiz. The Hscheat Court
would have taken effect, and the fortciture of
| the grants would have heen effected for the |
}non-fulfilment of the conditions of those!
} grants: thus the land would be free. But
_the proprietors were fully conscious, at the |
‘time of the separation trom Nova Scotia, |
that if euch would not take place the lands)
‘would be eseheated, and they were quite
| Willing to promise to pay for the ciyi! govern-
j ment ; hut eyen in this they hroke faith by
)failing tg comply with what they had pro-
mised; but the extreme leniency of ‘the
British goyernment towards the proprietors
' here enabled them to maintain their position
}and power, until now they feel that the long
existing wrong has given them right and
| power oyes the soil, egnfirmed their titles to
| the forfeited Jands, and that their titles are
| plgced heyond dispute. But that a course
of reasoning, based upon premises wrong in
‘themselves, will cyolve a principle of right
| (28 jn this caso), ig a degree in mathematica]
knowledge to which i haye not yet attained.
; i can Gnd nothing analagous to this mode of
‘peasoning. That the proprietors were wrong
in holding the lands, when they had forfeited
| their right, js certain, Iet the blame come
,Upon whom it may: and if they are right
\won they haye solved a problem heretotore |
unknown.

to influence them in fayour of the proprietors,
and the various strategems resorted to by
many of the Government members to try to
retain their popularity, and at the same time
to work for the proprietors, was most appa--
rent to all who were delegated to that Court.
The jeople had not a fair representation as
they oughe to have had in an arbitration
which was likely to be of such vital impor-
tance to the welfare of this Colony. ‘They |
could not have, for the very channei through
which the arbitration was brougiit about
was corrupt, and in this case it would have
been hard for the Commissioners to give a de-
cision more favourable to the tenants than
is given in the report, for no arbitrators will
give more than either party seeks for. Now,
the parties concerned in this arbitration were
the British Government, the proprietors,and
the Government of this Island on behalf of |
their people. Had the Governmént consisted
of the Liberal party, instead of tho8e who be- |
longed to the proprietary party, and whose |
sympathies were altogether in favor of pro-|
prietary interests (whilst nominally acting |
for the people), the report would be much |
inore in the people's favor, and as no arbitra-|
tors can be expected to give more than is
sought for by any or all of the parties con-!
cerned, we could not expect more.
Campbelton, Oct. Gth, 1862.
—=—-orr -

HART. |

‘*Some things are done on earth by little men
Would make the angels stare if done in heaven.’
Suaxespeane. |
Mr. Wurtax—

Sirn,—You have for some time written in:
a& somewhat disdainful style of the Editors}
and Sub-editors of that piously (?) conducted
perivdical known as the * Monitor.’ I hope
after the issue of that rag of the Ist inst.,
you will be more circumspect to its whole
brigade editorial than heretofore, because
you must see that they have the interest of
‘“‘our people’? at heart. by their crying
down Yankee pedlars! Who but the editors
of that maligning journal would dare to step
out in behalf of our greatly imposed upon
people! Why don’t our boys throw up
their caps and cheer for these holy and bene-
volent editors from their Revds. J. B. Cooper
and George Sutherland, dewn to the Morri-
sons, the Curries, the Amoss, &c., &c.?
And why don’t our Governor proclaim «a day
of public thanksgiving for being blessed with
such & posse of saints at his elbow—part and
parcel of our **God-fearing Government,”’ who
have become so suddenly chivalrous in behalf
of the oppressed? Shame, that they are not
lauded and promoted while the Tories have
the power! ‘True, the Government does
remunerate them to a certain extent, but
they should be blessed with some mark of
distinction beyond a paltry pittance.

But to proceed : * These folks from Yankee-
dom travel our Island, partake of the hospi-
talities of our people, and when three or
four of them get together, abuse the Islanders
for dishonesty and ignorance. Men who act
thus shall receive no countenance or en-
couragement from us!’? Thus say these!
righteous Reyds. J. Bb. Cooper and Donald,
Lieutenant and Adjutant, Assistant Clerk, |
and jirst Fiddler to Her Majesty! Thank
you gentlemen ; we never knew you hetter
than to he retailing ‘ piper’s news,” or
‘‘shutting the door when the steed was
Stolen.”” Why was it that the valiant
“ Monitor man ”’ and his Adjutant did not
long since come out like men, and caution
the public against the evil practices of these
people from Yankeedem? Why not tell |
the Islanders that they would be robbed by

The people of this Island have having ‘useless booke, quack medicines, | slaughter was frighttl, but with darig

a

|* Protestant,’

‘The Civil War in the States.

viving Universal satisfaction to the
governed of all political shades:
CORRESPONDENT.
et ee
(FOR THE EXAMINER.)
ELEGANT KBSTRACTS.
Choice extracts from mild, clerical epithets

Colouv, as

outburst of tury. A meeting to which significance
and importanee were given by the presence ot
the President ot the United States, resolved on
the Gih of this very menth of August, ip the
eapital of what used te be the United States,
that rather than witness the overthrow of the
Unien they would proseente the present war
in the christian vocabulary of the model, until their towns and cities should be sence,
> . seats: Soa ete and they, and all that are dear to them, should
pious Rev. David Fitz., Orange Society | hs : he ; ine Reha

‘ : oe : ive perished with theic possessions. This is the
Chaplain, and Universal Adherent and Sup- | apirit of the North
porter of that Craft—Author of Anonymous jeeting with regard to the spirit of the South!

Missiles tending to engender diseord among) We are couvineed, they say, that the leaders of | danger, and publicly and privately have Pretes-|

QP
Christians—Zealous Personal Inflamer of) the rebellion will never return to their allegiance,
Religious Animosities between Protestant and therefore they should be regarded and treated
and Catholie—General Political Agitator— | #s irreclaimable traitors. The practice of Napo- |

Presbyterian Presbytery Orator—Holy De- leon is revived. War is henceforth te maintain
nouncer of Liberal Protestants in general, | war, and the beautiful Provinee of Virginia is given
but of Bible Christians in particular, &e. &e. ;"P indiscriminate plunder. ‘This must, of
: ; + overence—
ao ag Bt Siabii.t meaiioloasie'| a” let loose to revel through the land. Peace
: sry anites, (said derisive ¥) 5 malic —e jhas fled, and every day that the war continues,
false ; cowardly assailants ; base calumnia- instead of bringing it nearer toa conelusion, seems
tors ; public slanderers ; coward heads ; base, | to render it more and more impossible. America
detestable fulseliood,”’ &e., &e. j will net be sought heneeforth by emigrants in
Vide a most Christian letter from the | search of peace. Personal liberty, the right te
clerical pen of the said most model, meek, | express one’s own sentiments and to regulate
and pious Rey. David Fitz , directed against | one’s own actions, was another of the blessings
a Bible Christian, and published by a Govern- | that men wearied of the arbitrary Governments
ment favor expectant, passing “under the | #4 artificial societies of Europe sought on the
euphonous sobriquet of Gaunt Deacon David, | ST d sol of Ame rica. “They sought but they
in his, the Deacon’s arthodox, liberal, and | *#%¢ "ft found it. The first effect of the war,
5, ore ‘ ‘ eed

; : ‘long before any one could have foreseen the
brilliant ty Tart. “sia r — the | magnitude of its seale or the bitterness of its ani-
u chominate y

9X | mosity, was to sweep away that one institution
jon which personal liberty depends. Before any
| serious effort was made to humble the enemy, the
| Government of the United States filled its prisons
} with discontented citizens. The first thing that
jthe American revolution ereeted was the first
a oe te nF thing that the French revolution destroyed—a
BATTLE OF CORINTH. Bastile. The eivil courts in vain intertered.

The St. Louis Democrat of the 8th inst. has the | Their jurisdiction was trampled in the dust by
following details of the recent battle at Corinth, | military vielence. And now, as if there was not
Ky.: jenough already to remind us of the Old World,
On the morning of the 3rd our outposts were | the conscription, which English readers know

Populi, Rac.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND, FECTT.

Mark the opinion of the same |

course, lead to reprisals, and robbery and murder |

abont the College. | tien—patterns of propriety and honesty to all! the:
world; and he begged his Honor the Judge te

Government adyvecates — and foremost amongst | consider that the crime of Which he stood sceused

Ever sinew the close of the Session of 1861, the |

them has been the Colonial Secretary ef the Co-| should affeet him only in his individual capacity.
lony—have heen trying to raise «a erosade aroinst |
the Catholics, simply beeanse they are Catholies. professing the greatest esteem for the respeetable-
The publie have been told by those advoeates that i Firm of Jones, Smith & Co., ordered that Mr

jit the present Government were not contivued in| Jones should be hung ia his private aud indivi-

Ilis Honeur took the plea into consideration, and

(office, the religion of Protestants would be in| dual capacity.

} We shill be content to order that Messrs, Pope,
‘tants been called on to enroll themselves in Orange! Palmer and Gray shall swing high on the gibbet
It we asked from what quarter the of Pubhe Opimen; and then let the remainder of
danger was threatened, we were referred either | the respectable Firm whe operate under Mr. Dan-
te sore book on Catholic faith which concerned | das do the best they ean te keep up a decent
{none but Catholics themselves—which eould not, appearance before the world.

/by any amount of distortion, be shown to affect |
Protestants; or we were reminded of the disputes
jthat occurred in the Catholic Chureh fifteen or |
sixteen hundred years ago, which could not be
proved to have the least bearing upon our times;
—and these things were bronght to our reeollee-
tion by men whose aneestors were, no doubt, far
better Catholics than they themselves are Protes-
tants — by men who would be only too happy te
| forget their mushroom existence, and trace, if
i possible, their deseent trom men who were dis-
| tinguished by their learning and genius as the
| ablest combatants for the rights and supremacy of
| the Catholie Church.

A different feeling might have prevailed if the
|} Government were less under the influence of bi-
| gotry as exemplified in the persons of certain nar-
jrow minded Protestant clergymen. These parties

Lodges.

|

ee
DYING HARD.

As the time approaches when the hand-
writing on the wall shall be verified against the
Government, the straggle for official existence on
the part of these whe are in receipt of public
salaries becomes paminily intense. They cannot
patiently resign themselyes to their mevitable fate,
but are lovking abeut in all directions for expe-
dients to prolong their tenure ef office. The
Colonial Secretary, speehing for selt and fellows,
devotes more than s column and a half of wedri-
some twaddle in the last ‘ Islander’ to shew that
the miracle of @ resurrection may be performed
at the grave of the Award, and that some lide
may be pumped inte the miserable abortion frow
the breath of Popular Opinion. My. Seeretary
Dope recommends that the people shall set them-
vious to the last General Election. They tried | selves vigorously to work at once to sign a peti-

| Were very conspicuous in their movements pre-

attacked by the enemy in feree about six miles
rth-east of Corinth, and before nine o’clock the

gement beeame general and fierce, and a san-
guinary battle was fought. Our men under Gen. |
Roseerans stocé up manfully, and fought with

wreat coolness and bravery, but regiment afterre-

giment and brigade after brigade poured in upon

us, and we were forced slowly backward, fighting

desperately. Tue rebels pushed forward with de-

termined obstinacy, and held every inch of the
eround they gained. They endeavored to outflank

our inferier foree, a ul we were obliged te fall

hack still further to prevent this movement from

being accomplished. ‘The enemy were now inside

our breastworks, pushing us backward toward the

town, when darkness put an end to the fighting

for the day. During the day’s fight our loss was |
heavy, but that of the enemy must have largeh
exceeded ours. Three pieces ofthe Ist Missouri |
battery were captured; Brig. Gen. Hackleman |
fell mortally wounded atthe head of his men; and !
the same evening Gen, Oglesby was shot.

About four o'clock om the morning ef the 4th
the enemy opened briskly on the town with shot
and shell. Our batteries replied, and for an hour
or more heavy eannonading was keptup. At the
expiration of that time two rebel guns bad been
disabled, and shortly after daylight their battery
of seven guns was captured A portentous quiet
soon occurred, and it was evident some movement
was being made by the enemy. The Western
sharpshooters, under Col. Burke, were ordered
forward as skirmishers to feel the enemy. At)
hali-past nine they tet him three-fourths of a mile
in advance of our line of battle, advancing rapidly
in heavy columns upon the town. Immediately a,
murderons fire was opened on this heavy line by
our skirmishers, who slowiv began to retire. |

The woods seemed alive with rebels, and it ap- !
peared impossible for the gallant regiment to es-!
cape destruction in their retreat aver three quar-
ters of & mile which intervened between them and
our temporary werks of defence. For afew min-!
utes the engagement beeame general. Our battery
opened a destrnetive fire on the exposed ranks of }
the rehele, mowmg them down like crass. herr!

-

‘nationality than that of their ado

jonly by the experience of foreign countries, will

be put in foree.
voluntary energies of her citizens, and impresses
them for a service which money to any amount to
which it may be offered cannot bribe them to
undertake. Not only freedom trom unprisonment,

but “the right of every man to seek his own |

happiness in the best way he thinks best,” so con-
fidently stated in the Declaration of Tudependence,
is thus destroyed by a single word of a single man,
who assumes to himself the tremendous power of
dragging from the ordinary pursuits of life 600,-
000 of his fellow-citizens that they may puss
through the fire to the Moloch of civil strife. No
Oriental despot ever ventured on seo tremendous a
stroke of power, and no people of European
origin, exeept the demoeracy of America, ever

| submitted to it. Turn trom the qnestion of personal

liberty to the hope of physieal well being. Ina
lortnight from this time will commence through-

out the United States the collection of taxes more

ruinous in their nature and incidence, and more

| Yexatious and inquisitorial in the method of their
| colleetion, than ever modern times have seen. Ags

if this were not enough, all the transactions of
life are embarrassed, the relations between debtor
and erediter disarranged, aud the mtercourse

j with foreign countries rendered almost LN possi

ble, by a system of inconvertible paper issued in de-
Hance of all principle and experience, and sub-
mitted te with the most perfeet apathy and in-

| difference,

These measures have produced their legitimate
efleet. Already people are flying from the land
which Was once the desired of all nations. The
Conscription has restered to England and other

| European countries many subjects who little

thought to have ever needed te plead any other
pted country.
Canada, which has been for se many years passed
by with contempt by the millions whieh tlocked to
the more popular institutions of the United States,
has suddenly become a land of refuge, and thou.

) sands are re-eniigrating to escape that very Go-

vernment whieh a few months ago they were pre-
pared to extol as the BEBE and wisest upon earth.

rechlees- Bat the war pureuce its course, and the people / can be

America trasts no longer the |

| their strength then—and they are not the men to |
put alow estimate upon it. They felt they had
the Government under their control, and ther

tion, the substance of which he haa kindly pre-
pared for them—all out of pure regard, of course,
for the suffering tenantry—in which Petition the

i were determined to keep itso. Whee « the Go-| Crown must be made to understand that the

entertained the project of endowing Award cannot and shall not be put aside until
St. Dunstan's College, as, te use their own words. | tnose proprictors who object to it, show befere a
“an act of justice to the Catholies,” the certain | judicial tribunal that it is really and truly an
Protestant clergymen to whom we refer, said --| illegal and very linproper instrument to be put in
“No! you must give no such endowment — this | foree. The patriotic Seergtary also recommends
j country camy and must be governed without any | that the Legislature should be convened at once
regard for the feelings of the Papists " — the | to strengthen the people's petition by adepting
ews. Although| and sending home one of their own, urging the
Catholic conciliation might bring important poli-/ same brilliant arguments in taver of the Award.
| tical advantages to them, they considered it bet-| We presume that this course is approved of by
ter to forego the prospect of such advantages than | Mr. Dundas and his “constitutional adviser,”
jlose the favour of the Protestant clergy. Hence,| and the object is clearly to gain time for the
| all the double-dealing, misrepresentation and} salaried These parties, we have 0
heppe sper wf Whieh Mr. Secretary Pope has la-| doubt, say to themselves: “0, if we ean only
| te to ering the Goyernment out af the di | tide over another year! Let the Legislature be
jemmain which they have been placed by his! called very carly—let the revenue for next yeat
as to the | be provided for, and the supplies voted, without
Catholics if) waiting for the end of the financial year, to exhi-
; Tories in the! bit, when it would not be convenient, & fell
it is remarkable that in all he has statement of the publie finances. Unpleasant
not brought forward a particle of discussions may be avoided by hurrying on the
| testimony to support his own bare assertions. We) business. : ;
j again ask why has not the Hon. E.

vernment "

| Government had to change their yi

officials.

jineantious and unfounded assertions
claims that might be put forth by the ¢
the Liberal Party superseded the
| Government.

| written he has

Stunning speeches may be made by the
- i ‘almer, Pre-) Governtaent meubers ou the Laud Question and
sident of the Couneil, whose name has been often | against the Proprietors. Let there be a flaming
address to the Qneen in favour of the Tenantry +
and then prorogue Parliament with a dourish of
trumpets, ‘such as will take the breath out of the
Opposition. If there must be an election in Mareh
¥: request — from the neat, why let iteome. If our party are defeated,
i Bishop-and the Rector of St. Dunstun’s ? east we are notte know it,—the time for knowing it
Pope's word will « not arrive ” until about the March follew-
accepted, When it 1 aetorious that his tes- ing, and then we shali be dive yeare in

| used in connection with the proposed grant—why |
has he not come to the relief of the Colonial Se. |
‘eretary? Has he obtained no information that
lmight be useful in those two letters which he re-
| ceived — written at his ow:

|any intelligent miun suppose that Mr.

fo)
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