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THE HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE _ 10, 1868.

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OFFICE AND HIGH MASS FOR THE LATE
HON. T. D. MoGEE, IN HALIFAX, N. S.
VUNBRAL ORATION BY THE MOST REV. THOMAS
L. CONNOLLY.

(Continued. )

Within » year from bis arrival, he made bis mark, and
took such hold of the public, that at the first vacancy he
member of Parliament for Montreal. During
that short year, there was scarcely a literary club, or
society, or a scientific re-union, from end to end of the
land, that was not charmed by the magic of his
voice and the flashes of vivid lightning
bat shot out from his prolific brain. At the first out-

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#et, be found in Canada many and signal advantages
denied tu bie people in the ok! country, and not enjoyed
to same extent by emigrants in the neighboring
republic; but yet even in Canada he bot too plainly saw
that much was still to be achieved before his fellow-
countrymen would-be effectual! on the same
perfect level with their fellow-sub: of other creeds
and nationalities. They were nominally equal before
a, bet in some vital instances the law was de-
ve and one-sided, and proscriptive to some extent.
The anti-Catholic and anti religious school system of
the United States was thrast on them in Weetern Cana.
da, making their conditioa in this respect
ov it of Orangeie rted fi th old cowl.
spin m, im rom the old country,
seemed to have acquired new vigor and increased in-
tensity on this wew soil. Prieats were insulted—their
lives threatened—some few churches, I believe, were
burned, and even several unavenged murders were com-
mitted iv the daylight, without a jury unprejudiced
enough to find an honest verdict. | Hundreds of
Catholics seld out their farms, and thousands of
mechanics and laborers were forced, for the same reason,

to seek employment elsewhere; and Fenianism to-da.

in Canada, odious and indefensible as it may be, is,
solemnly believe, to some extent, the inevitable recoil
and natural offshoot of all these unfortunate ultra-
Protestant exhibitions. We can easily conceive why
an uneducated Irish Catholic might be a Fenian in Ire-
land; bat why Fenianism, iu its most odious and as-
eassin forme, should have acquired such intensity in
Canada rather than in any other part of the American
coritinent, cannot be otherwise explained. Besides all
this, there was no pewter bond of union—no
common a whatever between Protestant and
Catholic; and tiv still more extraordinary and un-
, the same result obtained to a large extent

between French and Irish. On the occasion of my first

visit to that country, the three parties seemed to me to
resemble three un bulldogs, mare or less
ferocious, let into the same enclosure, for the mere pur-
of worrying each other, without any imaginable
waty baie Bi aed sry) et bens, gra cuts and
+ And positive and downright injury to the

most successful among the three. : .

Sach was the social and political state of Canada when
Mr. McGee arrived. His life was threatened, as far as I
remember, on his first public appearance in Toronto,
For aught I or any one else could foresee at the time,
there was never to be an end to it. Instead of improy-
ing as years rolled by, and as the country was becoming
settled, this gangrene seemed to be gnawing more and
more into the social system, and wide-spreading, till it
seemed to infect all classes. Every new importation
from Ireland but added new virus to the malady, until
the case appeared to be desperate as it was incurable,

In the reap nny arn simplicity of my heart at the tame,
I looked to the United States ge oe for the only
possible solution of the pean. but the unexpected
phenomenon of Know-Nothingism in that country. of
which I was an eye-witness, diepelled that delusion for-
ever. We had the same evils to complain of, in-an ex-
aggerated form, in the neighbouring province of New
Branewick, where, together with the usual excesses, %
midday and murderous couflict took place, which well
nigh threatened the peace of the whole colony, But few

ears since the same, in leeser degree, occurred in Nove
Bootie and Prince Edward Island, where the banners
of the respective contending ies seemed to be fur
the moment, ** Luve God, and your fellow-crvature
as heartily as possible,”’

And how was this amin evil to be remedied? We
had three millions of people in these now united Pro-
vinees; and 1 must he excused for stating my honest
conviction that I saw but one man alene with expansion
of heart and head enough to p the magnificent de-
sign, and with te lever of genius and indomitable
epergy to carry it into triumphant execution, and that
man was Thomas D'Arcy McGee. Other prominent
party leaders seemed to me to be ever screaming and
piping lamentations, and playing on the passions of the
per menay em a up the ery men's bones of
centuries gone by, tor purpose of finding the God-
= of a = . aor rarer ots — all their

nowledged ability, they at harm to the count
and to the public and but very little good to p aan sy
They were their whole lives pulling down rather than
building up, and therefore when dying left nothing be-
hind of an enduring character or worthy of a people's
gratitude. Not so with the great and good man we
mourn to-day, To him belongs the singular privilege of
per ar inaugurated what his journal in Canada was
called, the new era of peace, benediction, prozperity,

and strack down by the miscreant blood red-havd of
one of his own countrymen, is perfeetly overwhelming.
Whenever I look back at the deed with all its aceom-
panying horrors (and it is a speotre that haunts me
almost at every hour), 1 feel as if my blood would
eurdle and my heart shrivel ap within me. Instead
of being dwarfed by distance of time, in my view it
is every day looming up more hideous and more apal-
ling. Since the stabbing of Henry the Fourth of
France, by Ravaillac, nothing like it in atrocity except-
ing the pablic murder of Presideat Lincoln, has oocur-
red for three hundred years. In the absence of all
knowledge of the particulars, save what we all learn
from the prese, I only hope, and, I fear against hope,
that my worst suspicions will not be realized; and in
the midet ot all I 80 poignantly feel on the subject. to
know that it was not au Irishman who did the deed will
be a relief that I cannot express in words.

Rut the deed is done, beyond all doubt by an assas-
sin’s band, who perhaps, :

** Should against the marderer shat the door,
Nor bear the knife himself.”

Besides this great and good man,

** Hath borne his faculties so meek hath heen
Se clear in his great office, that his virtnes
Will plead like angels, trampet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking off;

And Pity, like a naked new-born babe
Striding the blast, . . . .
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye."

Impiously pushing God aside from His throne, and
the arbitrament of that life which he alone could give,
and ought to take away at his own sweet time, the as-
sassin, countryman orstranger, committed the foulest
deed that can be conceived against God or man, In
a fell ewoop he extingaished one of the most brilliant
lamps of God, and stopped in one second the throb-
bings of a giant's heart.

“How are the valiant fallen?

Jonathan slain in
the high places? | — for thee, Jonathan, exceed-
ingly beautiful, and to be loved as the mother loveth
her only son,” by those who, in this world, basked as
I did in the sunshine of your genial friendship,

And, oh! my friends, I will ask here to-day, for
what has this termble retribution been inflicted! Is it
for any criminal act, any treasonable or libellons speech
or writing against the State orfellow-subjeot ? If 40,
redress was at hand, the appeal was obviously to the
outraged law. If only a private feud, a quarrel, a
personal insult, there was another remedy—unsanction-
ed, indeed, nay, condemned by religion—in the manly,
the open, the midday fight for henor, But for the
coward wretch, who tracka his victim in the shades of
night, and craven-like lurks in holes, araynd corners,
and crouches behind walls for the security of his own
worthless life, while gending the assasain bullet on its
errand of death, the scathing contempt of the universe
together is not a feathers weight as compared with
God's maledictions on such aman. Tu poiat of fact,
that crime has no proper name in human language.
‘The blow of the avenvsin is terrific beyond doubs, but
a million of euch edwards never did and never could
or would fight a nation’s battles. Assassinafion never
yet redressed the grievances of a peuple nor won back
the lost boon of their national independence. There is
not in all history an instance of such a fact. Neither
ean there be, It is God himself who assures us that all
whe take the sword shall perish by the sword. Besides
the many inetances of assassination and its inevitable
retribution, quoted by the press when lately alluding to
thie sabject, 1 heard myself from x competent authority
in France, where I resided fur some yeara, that of the
hundreds of assassins who were prominent during the
French Revolution. there was scarcely one ever known
to have —- a bloody and disastrous death. Marat,
the prince of assassins, was killed naked in his bath by
the weakly hand of a girl, who plunged the fatal dagger
into his heart at a mount when he was probably plot
ting to make her a victim of hia lust, as he had already
victimized her dearest ones on earth at the guillotine.
Robespierre. who in the name of liberty boasted of
having cut off the heads of thousands, had bis own jaw
bone nearly torn away by a woman, and like a coward
as he was, screamed at the intensity of his torture as
he was carried on a hurdle iv the ‘bloody track to the
Place de Greve. Need I remind you of the terrific end
of Booth, said to be cut upin fifty pieces, and the
atrocious death of his wretched accgmplices, marked as
it was by everything a mighty nation could do to disgrace
and to consign them to everlasting infamy. Such wie
the end of assasination from the beginning of the
world, and in my soul I believe that there will be no
exception to the rule uutu the Consummation of all
things. ~
In Mr. McGee's case it would now appear evident
that he lost his life to save the people of his country
from a band of assassins, and for the unpardonable
crime, in their eyes. of fearlessly expressing his honest
political opinions in this free country. ‘The crime
perpetrated against Mr. McGee, if committed by a
cliqne, as alleged, is a crime against every man in this
land, whose life and liberties are thereby threatened,
and for the same reason. This is the first time that
midnight political assassination has been imported into
this country, and if it be proven to be by an Irishman,
I, on the part of Ireland and the Trish, repudiate the

and brotherly love, where there was naught before but
heart-buraings, and hard feelings, and deeds of death,
and darkness, and total alicnation of brother from
brother, and party feelings, and schism in their most
unchristian and revolting forms Without ceasing for
a moment to be the ardent lover of Ireland, her religion,
and her people, he was first among the benefactors, and in
acertain sense father, of hit adopted country. By
herculean labor he succeeded to a large extent in tear-
ing up, root and branch, senseless and inveterate pre-
ices, and blending all hearts in ene common effort
for one common weal. He did what before him no one
ever seriously attempted with any show of success. He
made man’s * and kisa,”” and without the
a le principe religious or political,
rich poor, Protestant and Catholic,
8h, Scotch and Canadian, into the
he social compact, and unified s
bee 9 pe people, far more than the
of new and interesting country
tivipated, And this, [ confess, ie the
olf esteemed, loved and. admired him,
Irishmaa, with all his failings, of whom
never seen him, and that he had lived an
ustralia, his literary works and the thrill of
and inspired oratory, and above all, his life-
any pee services to religion and country,
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Wednesday, Junc 10, 1908.

THE FENIANS
Aner 4 funny set, as well as troublesome and dangerous
fellows. General O'Neill, for.cxample, who 1% the Pre-
sident of the Brotherhood, and/who has receutly made
a tour of the States to awaken the organization and In-
fuse new life into it; has adopted a mew and extra-
ordinary system of military tactics on the safe side of
the Niagara River. Ile seems determined to conquer
Canada according to the ancient Irish maxim, that “ you
may as well killa man as frighten the life out of him.”
It is presumed that, looking to this latter result, the
General ordered a grand pic nic, with Irish music and
novel dances, near Buffalo, and the exuberance of his
men in these pursuits seems to have already stirred the
Canadians very profoundly, for a telegram from Ottawa,
of the lst instant, informs us that the military prepar-
ations for the Snticipated Fenian raid are completed.
Sir Charles Wyndham and Adjutant General McDougall
are directing affuirs, which are now altegether different
from what the Fenians found in 1866. Regulars and
Volunteers arc amply supplied with the Snider Enfleld
breech-loader, Field brigades have been formed, com-
posed of Regulars and Volunteers, and each has attached
to it a battéry of artillery and a troop of cavalry, under
the command of a Brigadier, chosen from the officers of
the line. If the Feniuns intend to subdue the Domivion
by dancing, singing, and military parades on the United
States banks of the lakes, we suppose there is no law to
prevent them doing so, and General O'Neill will get
plenty of men to “ fight it out on that line ” during’ the
year, provided always that he promises to grant exten-
sive furloughs just before the Presidential election in
November. In view, however, of the frolic going on at
Baffalo, a leading Fenian organ—the Irish Republic—
deeme it a duty to warn ita readers against the impoasi-
tions of O'Neill to obtain money out of the Irish of the
United States—only to lead them afterwards into serious

omy Every sensible person knows that the

a States will not--unless prepared to enter inte a

gigantic war with Great Britain, and present ciream-

stances pronounce an idea absurd—tolerate a Fo-

nian invasion of Canada ;but General O'Neill, with strange

perverseness, (if his comdact be actuated by honesty) or
criminal tion, assorts

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with the contrary, and states
that if the men and money are placed at his dis , the
green will tang over the British vinces
and Dublin is ig folly of the worst kind,
which even the Irish cannot tolerate, and this

Republic
organ very honestly sets itself to the task of “ lambast-
ing " O'Neill and his maltitudinous officials in the fol-
lowing styie:—Qur poor, honest, honotle, hard

working eank *nd file, fove their lost land a" Nate he

excitement, and got to enlist, and many of them to
march to battle, But before they go, we respectfully
ask them to decide a few doubtful points. Some of
them have helpless young families. Will these Fenian
leuders provide them with food and raiment and educa-
tion, with a home and. a calling in life, if they are left
orphans? The great O'Neill and his multitudinous
officials have not done this—are not doing it-—for the
families of Luby and of hundreds of other patriots now
rotting in English dungeons. ‘Thousands of other hon-
est enthusiasts will lose their situations. It is believed
that not less than thivty thousand of our best men were
ruined by the former raid on Canada. All who coolly
tnink that a predetermined failure and certain disgrace
are worthy of such great sacrifices, may make them if
they so please. But that subject is worthy of a little
reflection—that’s all, And above all things, let the hon-
est men whe really leave their homes to fight, see to it
that all leaders, senators, organizers, and officials are in
the fleld, at their head. Every man who invites and
encourages others to go must go himself—not merely to
escort supplies on railroad trains, or to skulk for 4
fortnight about Malone or St. Alban’s and then say he
was “at the front.” Every man who helps to get up
this guilty movement must take the fleld as a soldier—
and if he refuses and shows the white feather, we will
brand him before the world as a liar, a oo and a
coward. So, gentlemen, if you choose the cheap glory
of merely * talking,” we will put you through the some-
what unpleasant process of doing so.” We like this
style of this talking. Itis healthy; it is vigorous; it is
honest; and more than all it is sound and true. It re-
mains to be seen whether the Republics advice will be
accepted, or whether any considerable number of Irish-
men will close thelr eyes to the dictates of common
serse and reason, and rush blindly to destruction at
the behest of General O'Neill; for they may rest assured
that all they can accomplish bya raid at the present day.
before they would be assailed in the rear by a United
States army, and in the front by a well-disciplined and
well-drilled British force, of all nationalities, determined
to protect their property, is to murder a few unarmed
and inoffensive individuals, who are in no way respon-
sible for the wrongs of Ireland, and to rob them of their
portable possessions, A Fenian fair at Buffalo may be
a very healthy and pleasant pastime; military reviews
in sight of Canada may be all very well; and even that
martial ardor, which expends itself in talk and frightens
the Britishers, can well be excused, but those robbing
raids, in which human blood is uselessly shed, should be
denounced by every loyal and right thinking man,

Fareweit. Dinner To Corone. Sarru.—A Farewell
Complimentary Dinner was given to Col. Smith, In-
specting Field Oficer of Militia, by a number of his
friends, the military officers of this County, on Friday
evening last, at the North American Hotel. At half-
past seven, thirty gentlemen sat down todinner, which
was prepared by Mrs. Murphy in her usual excellent
style. Col. Gray presided. on his right was Col,
Smith, the guest of the evening, and on his left the Hon,
George Coles, Leader of the Government. He was very
ably assisted by Col. Haviland. After the substantials
and liquids had been satisfactorily discussed, the regular
toasts of the evening were duly proposed and honored.
The following is a list: Ist. The Queen —proposed by
Col. Gray. 2d. The Prince and Princess of Wales and
the Royal Family—proposed by Col. Haviland, in a brief
but eloquent speech, in which allusion was made to the
felicitious visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales te Ireland, and the providential
escape of H. R. Hi. Prince Alfred from the assassin's
bullet. 8d. His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and
Commanier-in-Chief—proposed hy Col. Gray in a grace-
ful and complimentary speech, and responded to by the
Hon. Geo. Coles, supported by A Mitchell, Esq. ference of opinion, however, existed between these two
gentlemen—the former very truthfully, in our opinion,
saying that not the least of the diMcultles which any
Government in ihis colony has to encounter in deal-
ing with the question of militia and defence, is the
hostility of the people generally to all military daty—
and the latter maintaining that, with few exceptions, the
people were wilting to Ayrslowegs any amount uf rallitia
training, and to shoulder thelr muskets in defence of
their homes ata moment's notice, 4, The Army and
Navy—proposed by Col. Haviland; responded to on the
part of the army by Capt; Middleton, of the 4th (King's
Own) Regt., and on the part of the Navy, by the [Han.
B. Davies. 5. Col. Smithy our distinguished guest—pro-
posed by Col Gray, who, among many other sound
opinions, hinted that it would be much the wiser plan
to sustain effectively a small, but well disciplined force,
armed with the latest bréech-loaders, rather than have
alarge, uscless militia,armed with guns and broomsticks.
At the same time he paid ahigh com»olimant to Gol,
Smith for the increased efficiency to which the Volun-
teer Militiahad been brought, with limited facilities,
during the time he had charge of them. Col. Smith’s reply
was eloquent, appropriate ang in good taste. As it may
be of interest: to the Militia generally, we give an out-
line of it:—“*Mr. President and gentlemen—I am
utterly dumbfounded—for, in rising to return thanks
fur the very great and unmerited honor you have done
me, Lam weighed down by a sense of my Incompetency
to do so, particularly rising so immediately after one so
gifted as the gallant Colonel. Y.angnage, \t is sald, has
been given to man for the expression of his thoughts.
T can only say, then, that language, like so many other
gifts, sometimes signally fails to perform its duty. I can-
not find words to express my senso not enly of the very
flattering manner in which my health was proposed, but
of the very friendly and kindly feeling which has been
evinced towards me on all sides. Tad results been at
all equal to my earnest wishes, [ might have had some
claims to your kindness ; bat as it is, it Is totally unde-
served on my part. Whatever success has attended the
Militia organization, is due entirely to the hearty co-opera-
tien of all ranks, and to the deep interest which the Com.
mander-in-Chicf has taken in the movement. Under the
felt necessity of military organization, for purposes of
defence, the militia of the Provinces of British North
America has made great progress. In the midst of a
movement Involving the security of soil, p rty, and
all the most sacred rights, Prince Edward Island could
net remain tnactive, with, figuratively, its hands
in its pockets. Let me draw an _ historical par-
allel: If, as a deep thinker has said, history is philoso-
phy teaching by example, it may be ‘useful. The

Republics of old Greece were very much in the same
position, with regard to a foreign fee, that the Provinces
of British North America would be in a similar case @t
present, and had also a powerfal and aspiring neigbour.
On the great day of Salamis, the Corflotes failed to
sy a part in Bh ed pang ty the liberties of
reece. tus transmit! shame to terity.
I have beon stationed in the Ionian Islands, and t to ths
day, after cen*uries have swept other memories away, it
ix still a reproach to the Corflotes that they were not on
the muster-roll of those whe fought at Salamis. Will
there be a similar case in modern times ?—will future
history carty down the reproach that in the evert of a
great struggle, Prince Edward Island remained passive?
No, Mr. President and gentlemen! such a supposition
would be an insult to the manhood and origin of the in-
habitants of this Island. You have felt this, and have
zealously co-operated .to carry out the wishes of the
Commander-in-Chief, ever bolleitous for the welfare and
dignity of the colony. TI will not detain you any longer.
I shall ever bear in affectionate remembrance, an Island
where I hav @ spout two very happy years of my life, and
where I have, met with so much kindness and friendshi
I cannot exp o8s to yon all I feel. [trust you will take
the will for the deed, and [ only add that I most heartil
thank ” Later in the ev: y
you. ening, on proposing the
toast of the Volunteer Militia of Prince Edward I a
Cot. Smith expressed the opinion that, physically, this

foreo was as fine 8 body of men as any of Her
Majesty s wide Domin
po tons could boast It consisted

men, and it was & source of pleasure to
him to be able to state,that out of this aualer, who re-
ceived Instructions last year, only avout two hundred,
from various causes, were absent from drilla fact which
testified at once te the patriotism and loyalty of the Is-
land Militia, as also to their willingness to undergo
military training for the defence of their homes.

The Gth and last regular tuast—Mrs, Dundas and the

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poe toaan arg SK grtggeen Regge yoda, - a Oe oes ror gallant and burmorous | Thursday last, at which, it is rumored, the Board of

After this, several Volunteer toasts were pro-| maucation was re-organized, and three School Visitors

strain,
posed, which prolonged the festivity into the small hours
ofthe morning; but about 1 o'clock, the company dismiss-
ed, well pleased with the corporeal and literary feast of the
evening, and atthe harmony and good fevling which
characterised {t. Nearly every gentleman who spoke
expressed, and certainly every gentleman present ex-
perienced regret that Col. Smith's services should be
lost to the colony, and that officer will carry away with
him a kindly recollection ef those gentlemen for this ex-
hibition of esteem extended to him. He deserved no
less at their hands. Among the Volunteer toasts pro-
posed, were Her Majesty's Ministers—by Col. Gray, re-
sponded to by Hon. G, Coles and Hon. J. Warburton,
“'The Opposition”—proposed by Hon. G. Coles, and re-
sponded to by F. Brecken, Esq. “ ‘The Militia of Prince
Edward Island,”—proposed by Col. Smith, and resporded
to by Col. Gray. The Fourth Estate, the Bar, the healths
of Cols. Gray, Haviland and McGill, and Major Rankin
were also duly honored, and elicited some happy
speeches.

THE “ METEOR” AGAIN.

Tux Islander insists that the ‘ wonderful meteoric ap-
pearance” was “,O. K.,” as “ Old Hickory ” Jackson used
to abbreviate all correct. The Islander wants to know
the facts as they presented themselves to our vision on
the evening of the 13th ultimo, Well, we will © favor’
our contemporary as far as we can, Our attention was
called to the remarkable appearance of the western
heavens, about 7. 30 on the evening in question, by one
or two gentlemen who were standing at the corner of

Davies & Weeks’ store. On looking, we saw, some thirty
degrees above the horizon, what the Islander very proper-
ly designates a zig-zag, sinuous streak of light, or lumin-
ous track, which, as a matter of course, projected from
west to east—very much io shape like the illustgation in
the last No. of Harper's Weekly, which containg an exhaust-
ive article on this very subject of shooting-gtars,aerolites,
&e. ‘There was not the slightest sign Of a luminous
head or meteor in connection with the streak when we
saw it; but in the same part of the a were two
strata of clouds, with an intervallum tween,-—one
of which was black and dense, and the other light and
fleeting. Along the outer or western edge of the under
strata, the luminous track seemed to shoot along for a
few minutes, and, after a close observation of it, we came
to the conclusion that the, light of the sun, which gilds
the mountain top when the valley is in darkness, pro-
duced the “ appearance ” or silver lining which we fancied
we had often witnessed on summer evenings before. To
the westward of the clouds, the /slander will understand,
the sky was clear to the horizon.

Since writing the foregoing, we have read the Eramin-
erof the 8th instant, wherein the editor, noticing the
difference of opinion between the Hernaup and the Jsland-
er on the subject of the meteoric appearance, declares
that “ the luminous undulating streak which attracted
so much attention, was not visible until after the fight
of the meteor”. This makes some slight difference in the
aspect ofthe affair. As we did not see the métcor wit-
nessed by both our contemporaries, of course we submit
to superior evidence; but at the same time, there is a
strong doubt upon our mind as to the connection be-
tween the meteor, and the ** undulating streak” seen by
anumber of witnesses, The affair, however, ls not so
* wonderful” as to call for further observation or critl-
cisim,

COLONEL A, J. DOUGLAS SMITH'S FAREWELL
TO THE VOLUNTEERS.

Five Companies of the City Volunteers, Artillery
and Infantry, paraded on Monday evening last at the
Drill Grounds, under Lieutenant Culone! Henry Beer,and
were reviowedby Colonel A. J. Douglas Smith, I. F. O.,
immediately previous to his departure from this com-
mand,

Lieutenant Colonel Buer, with much military adroit-
ness, manwuvered the Battalion for an hour and a-half.
Aad in simple justice to both officers and men we must
feankly say, that at no tine have we seen the Volun-
teers acquit themselves with so much eclat. Upon the
whole, they excellud themselves in drill and accuracy of
movements, and practically evinoed what they have
achieved under strict military discipline, inaugurated by,
and carried out through the instrumentality and im-
tediate supervision of the zealous and polished suldier,
the Inspecting Field Ofticer, :

Tho HBattalwn having been halted, Colonel Smith
addressed that body in a snocinet, practical, able and
wuching speech, marked by its soldierly spiritend manly
and feeling annnas. He adverted, with much praise,
to their appearance and discipline—their physiqag—and
spoke of them as being a body of men, such as a
thorough soldier would be proud to command,

ile then observed that their military statue had been
arrived at by avsiduity and obedience to strict discipline,
which had produced the harmony of feeling and of mili-
tiry action by which they had attained the present re-
sult of high efficiency aa soldiers, Aud he enjoined upon
them as an imperative duty to continue in rigid military
subordination, which aloue can render soldiers worthy of
the arms they bear,the flag they honor, aad the Severeigu
and country they serve.

Colanel Smith then expressed his regret that in a tew
days he weuld have to join his Regiment of the line,
aud cease te be with them—the Volunteers—and no
longer their commander, His associations, however,
with them would often reoar te him with pleasurable
fuclings. He wished them all much good aod happi-
nese, and tinally said, ‘+1 bid you a soldier's and friend's
farewell.”

We regret our inability from memory to do justice to
Colonel Suaith’s address, which far surpassed in strength
of diction, ability and feeling, this our feeble, meagre
notice af it.

The Battallion gave Colonel Sinith three times three
long, loud, hearty cheers, which he, the gallant soldier,
received with his manly brow uncovered. —Com,.

ArcusisHor Manning oN THR ArreMpTED Ass,s-
SINATION OF THE Duke or Evixnuncu.—The Catholio
Aged Poor Society eld ite anoual dinnerat the Albion.
on Monday’ evening last. ‘The Archtashop, in propos-
sing the health of Her Majesty, said: I have the hap-
a to propose to you the health of her most gracious
Majesty Qeeen Victoria, aud [ am ecoufident that I
shall interpret your thoughts and feelings, and that T
shall represent the universal desire of the Catholics of
England, in laying at Ler Majesty's feet an expression
of our profound and heartfelt sympathy. Eight and
forty hours we were all wounded by the tidings of
adeed which [ have ne words to describe. It was an
axiom among the pagans, ‘* Maxima debetur puere re-
verentia.” The grace and dignity ot youth exacted
from them a epecial raverenee. In its presence immo-
rality was abashed, and bratality held hand. But
we have been shocked and wounded in every manly
sonse by the aseassivation attempted against the son of
our Queen ‘ainet a youth innocent of all offence,
free from all the animosities and broils of political con-
tention—noble and generous in bis bearing, and engaged
in a pablic mission of royal benevolence to the people
of Australia, and in the kindliest offices of charity to
the national service in which he bears a part. “This
horrible and guilty deed has aroused, I am confident,
in the breast of every obristian, of every man and
every mother in her Majesyt's deminions, a sorrow. an
indignation, and a sympathy. the expression of which
for the want of a more prompt and better opportanity,
I desire on this occasion, in the name of the Catholics

p. | of England, moat respectfully to lay at Ilor Majesty's

feet.

[From the Londen Journal.)
LEAP YEAR LAW.

Tn am ancient Saxon Law, it is enacted :—" Albeit,
as ofton as loap years dotho ooeurre, the woman holdeth
Prerogative over the manne in matter of courtshippe,
love, and matrimonie ; so that when the ladye proposeth,

shall entertaine her proposal in all gude courtesic.”—

it shall aot be lawful for the manne to say her naie, but | I

Tuxne was a Meeting of the Executive Council en

appointed,—in accordance with the amended Education
Act. If our information is correct, Mr. William Me.
Phail has been appointed School Visitor for Queen's
County; Mr. John MeSwain, for King's County, and
Mr. Robert A, MeKelvie, for Prince County. The
Board of Education is constituted as follows, namely ;—
Revs. Angus McDonald and Isaac Murray, (Examin.
ers); John MoNeill, Eeq., (Secretary); Hons, ©,
Young, J. Hensley, J. Longworth, A, A. MeDonald,

and F. Kelly, D. O'M. Reddin, Peter Sinclair, and
Edward Roche, Esqre,,—businesa members. We are uot
pereonally acquainted with the School Visitors, and can-
not, therefore, say much about them; but we think we
oan safely say, that a better choice of a Board could not
be made; and whatever political changes may hereafter
ne = we trust the present Board will not be dis-
turbed. ' '

The German Catholic Union successfully carried out
their plan of having in New York one of those religious
pageants which are seldom witn cased outside the Con-
tinent of Enrope. Twenty-five thousand men mareh-
ed through the streeta, to the church of the Redemptor-
iste where a grand clerical procession took place in con-
nectionand the religions services ot the day. Ecolosias-
tical decorations adorned many of the streets through
which the members of the Union marched. It was got
up to prevent the people from joining secret societies.

Tur Halifax Chronicle of the Sth inst., says ;—
** There appears to be an unfortunate dificulty between
the pastor of the African Baptist Church in this city,
and « portion of the congregation, ‘The service was
interrupted on Wednesday night, and a disgraceful
scene ensued, rotten Oggs and other unpleasant missiles
being freely ueed. About a dozen persons have been
summoned to appear at the Police Court on’ Monday,
to answer the complaint of the pastor, charging them
— disturbing the congregation while at public wor-
ship.” .

An Ottawa tap despatch says the witness Turner—
who gave evidence against Whelan—while attending a ball
one evening lately, was inveigled outside and cruelly beaten by
three men, two of whom were subsequently arrcated, Gra-
ham, another witness received a threatening letter, “with
drawings of a coffin and pistol, and remarks to the effect
that he was not forgotten, and that Venians never did things
by halyes.

A French paper publishes the following calculation, by
which a voyage can be made round the world in two months
and a half: From Paris to New York, ten days; by rail
from New York to San Franscisco seven days; from San
Francisco to Hong Kong, China, via Yokohama, Japan, in
twenty days; from Hong Kong to Suca, thirty-two days ;
from Suez to Paris, six days; total seventy-five days,

Tue Halifax Reporter says that two prisoners, named
Loome and Day, convicted of burglary at the last sit-
ting of the Supreme Court, and sentenced to six months
imprisonment for their accomplishments, escaped from
the County Jail on the 6th inst; but were speedily cap-
tured and returned to the place from whence they caue,

Ws are glad to learn from our vivacious contemporary,
the Summerside Progress, that the inhabitants of that
interesting town are not in the dumps because the
steamer Emperor calleth not; but that they are ** gay
and happy stil.” Long may they continue in that
joyous mood, te which, we have no doubt, the lively
eallies of the ** muddy holler” wan materially coutribute.

A Montreal special says the troops in the garrison are
under orders. The soldiers’ wives at St. John have been
ordered out of the barracks, and accommodations for 2,000
troops are being prepared, ‘Ihe hospital are being provided
with field panniers, and Government detectives are watching
the frontier,

The Pore sent an agent to the United States to raiso
troops there for the Papal army, (iribaldi has writ-
ten several very earrnest letters to his friends, and to
the authorities in America entreating them, on behalf of
the Libera! party of Ltaly, to discourage the project.

Ovr friend of the defunct Weekly, Mr. John Ross, has
returned to this city, after an absence of several months
in the States. Lt is his intention to embark in the news-
paper enterprise about the Ist of July next.

AN Antstocaatic Convenrt,—Lord Beaumont was re-
ceived into the Church by Rev, Father Douglass, Superior
oft he Redemptorists, on the 23rd ult. He was confirmed by
Cardinal Reach. Lord Beaumont is anxious to joim the
Zouaves without loss of time.

Tue Young Men’s Christian Association of this city
forwarded to the local relief committee of Cape Breton,
a handsome contribution of seed grain and potatoes, to
to assist the destitute farmers of that Island.

An Englishman, on tris way from Michigan to Prince
Edward Island, toremove hia family out West, was
knocked down in Portland, Me.,on last Friday night,
and robbed of $185 in gold.

The C. B. News says that the country is looking well, and
mere than ordinery care and industry is being bestowed
upon farming operations.

Sir Robert Napier is to have the freedom of the city

of London, and a aword valued at two handred guineas,
presented to him on his return from Abyssinia,

An armless violinist from Pruazia has gone to Paris.
He places his fiddld on a stool and executes most difi-
cult music, using the toes of both feet.

A submarine diver is soon to attempt to remain un-
der water in New York from, sunrise until sunset on a
wager of five hundred dollars,

We omit our usual Enropean and American de-
spatches this week, as they do not contain muagh news of
importance, There is no change in gold quotations.

Frovn Is steadily declining in price. It has been sold
at auction last week at from 46s. to 53s. Housekeepers
will be glad to hear this news.

Tv there is alaw in this city against vagrancy, It ought

to be carried out occasionally, for the number of this
class at times is occasionally annoying.

Dawson's Tannery, which was sold by Public Auction,
on Monday last, was bought in by Dr. Hanmond
Johnston, for the sum of £1025.

Tue Princess of Wales, in coming to her moorings,
during the blow of Saturday night, ran foul of Pope's
Wharf, which received considerable damage.

Tue Judge and most of the members of the Bar left
Charlottetown on Monday, to attend the Court at Bt.
Eleanor’s, which opened yesterday.

Since the failure of Impoachmeyt, Secretary Stanton
has resigned as Secretary of War, General Schoefleld
has been appointed thereto,

Some of the New Bratawlck papers appear to think
that Province,

Owtna to competition, the fare from Boston to New
York, which was formerly $5, has been reduced to $1

Tue Hon. Mr. Rose, Finance Minister, ie shortly to
proceed to England on Government business.

Tur Hon. W. Howland ia about to be apported
Governor of Ontario,—se the Canadian papers say.

Tun 4th Regiment ts to proceed to England in the
troopship Himalaya, the Inet of the present month.

Cardinal Andrea died suddenly on the 9th, at Rome, from
*ppoplexy.

Recnvrrrsa for the Pope's army is going on vigorously
in Quebec. " *

Geyenat Dorie is to return to Nova Scotia fn
August.
Se at eek Oe mney to balld a theatre in

*.

Tux Nova Scotia fishermen are reported to have

The law is sopposed to be still in force.

done well so far this spring.

that Judge Wilmot will shortly be appointed Governor of