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NO PERT OE LNT

THE RECENT PRIZL-PIGHT.
PROM AN ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW.

Measured by the degrees of su fering whic! |
3¢ entails, by ‘the bad passions which it ex-|
eites, and by the vicious habits it indirectly |
promotes, the practices of pogilisim will bear
no comparison with some other social evils
But that tt is an evil, and one that ought to
be put down by puble op:pion, we folly ad
mit, and cordially agree with Mr. Baron
Pigott’s recent prosest against the philoso
phical advocates of the prize ring

The logie ol these geotiemen ia preeisel y
efmilar w that which justifies war not be-
eause it is sometimes just and necessary, but

to the ideas of a considerable class of the}
home population. We ean best learn the)
strength of their love of prizo-fighting in|
Rngland from the fact thatthe Saturday Re-
reew, a journal said to he mainly writtea by
Chareh of England elergymen, certainly re-

| presenting the educated and refined classes,

published an article in’ favour o! prize-
fivhting last year, and supplied an elaborate
editorial vu che late contest. expatiating with
Justo on the ** punishment’? received, with
jut a word of disapproval of the brutality of
the affair It is true that the Review is
famous for ita fondness tor the singular and
oufre, and that it is the only leading journal
whicb has taken this view of the matter, but

because it may develope fine qualities of cha-
racter. Tie fallacy of this argament is eo
manifest th at it cannot be etated in ® single
sentence [t is an error to say that war

still the fact shows that there is by no means
the strong aversion to prize fighting in Nav-
; land which is needful to secure a determined
sttempt on the part of the Government to

brings out more virtues than it stifles and
perverts. lt isan error to say that such as,
it dues bring out have no sphere of action in|
time of peace, or that those which it dwarts |
are lower thay courage in the moral scale —
It 19 wn error te say that & state of things in
itself pernicious acd deplorable ought to be
inflicted on mankind for the sake of caltivat-
rg beroimw ; for on this principle pestilences
should be propagated, and famines manutac
tored, lest the motives of charity should wax
cold. When we turn from so magnificent a
sophisu as this to the iudicrous Feasonings by
which prizefightias is defended, we find ix
difficult to relu'e them gravely. Lleenan and
Ring must have submitted to great priva-—
tions in training. and displayed a fortitude
m setion worthy of a better cause ; therefore
we are required to believe that prize-fighting
io the beat way of keeping ep English spirit,
that witbout it we should come to the poatard
and stiletto, that under proper regalation it
would be an ennubling national sport, and so
furth. There ia really no more Gonnection
between the prettts and the conclusie
Sian tits, and the mere statement ol the two
tegether uw reductw ad absurdum. Let us,
however. look at the matter a little more
closely. Granted blast the combatants are the
better, morally and physically, for being
brought tate condition and then muled un-
mereifuily. that the professignal! bra sere are
not given to excess, are nut brutal in their
habits and manners, aod are not short-lived,
what is the Droportivn oi effective to non-ef-
fective members of the ring, and what is the
effet of the system on the latter? Ut would

patitdown. Tt is possible that some such
oeearrence as the death of a man, like that
of MeCoy in New York twenty years ago,
may be needed thoroughly to arouse public
sentiment, and secure the suppression of the
ring. The system has declined raputly of

late years, and though international contests joayying sre more important qualifications |
y ' 4 r 4

beve brought it mto vogae, we trast if 1s
only for a brief moment, and will bring about
more certainly and more quickiy its final
extinction. pig

hw It

The Chieago Times thus bumourousty
banuters its countrymen on the deteat ol their
champion :--

Our Great Humintation.—The ** goggle’

f a “pug? smitten by the ponderous
**mawley ’ of an antagonist puts Dimself in
a pesition similar to that of a majority of the
‘taney '’ yesterday upon getting che news
from Eegland—** in mourning.’" Woe is
them’ Alhama, or rather, tleenan—Heenan,
the gallant, chivalrous young Ameriwan (of
Italian descent) —representative of the Ame-
rican Bagle, democratic mestitutious and a
sovereign people, * licked *’ in haif an hour
by a * blawsted ’* Britisher.—an outgrowth
of the effete, tumbling, decaying, rotten des-
potisins of Europe! Hereafter let the proud
bird of our national ty. no more seek the em-
pyrean heights of Katahdin to thrill the
universe with its exulcant sereain, but rather
let 1¢ come close earthward, and, upon some
lowly ra:l-fence of bhumilmtion, bersoan with
drooping wings the disgrace of that once
proud nation otf whom it has hitherto been

THE AMERICAN OF

, | the

have of Jate given him an advantage which
even Lord Chief Justice Cockburn did not
possess while at the bar. The new judge's
chiet diffeulty wiil be to subside into a pre-
sident. in the court
long an orator. Great advocates, it 1s said,
make bad judges.

which he will no doubt have many temyte-
tions to transyrees.

For some years, Mr. Serjeant Shee has led
the Bar, in virtue of bis rank of Queens
serjeant and his patent of preeedency. Ui
late, his «ppointment to the Boneh bas been
almost demanded on the part of the profes-
sion. It hus been w growing habit with
evancellors to make their appointments to
jadgeships serve Parliamentary purposes.

where be haa been so}

It isto be hoped that Mr...
Justice Shee will be an exception to the rule, |

The New York Herald says it is the inten.
tion of the Federal Government to organize
un immense cavalry foree ofat least 100,000
men, to be ready for active operations by)
next spring. This foree, it is thought, oper-|
ating against the South, willsweep everything |
before it. —— |

The value of the exports from the port of
Portland in 1863 was $5,018,506 agaist:
$4,117,202 in the year previons, The war
bas not done Portland much injary. |

lurorrs ar New Yorx.—The table of im. |
ports ac New York afford am instractive |

ylanee at the movements of commerce during schuols, if such they can be ealled, were in a St, therefore, appears to us that, in the first) causes of the prese

/our great rebellion. itn round numbers, tie

ably conclude th

nnpending over ourschools, Appearances certain-
ly indicate that unless an important chang 18
effected our colonial education will relapse Lito

‘ spieis of serious jmport is | of the original grantee of 1767, if any
at @ crisis of serious hny be, but om Ke purchaser of yesterday, or the
orphan whose inheritance fell to haw the day be-
fore. The destruction of the primary tithe would
carry with it the tithes of the small frecholders

such there! Amertean in
| in constant use were of American Manufacty
re,

ventions; and numerous other arti ag

fromthe “ Needle to the Awebor.”

Amerien
furnished the world with ae

~ntable ra hich it bas, during " see of the ia.
Oe eet enh eal te rsa th Already who hold under it, as well ae the tape tp ort 1 | civil and religions liverty, which have lian
the retrograde wovement is clearly pereeptible ; the tenants. If courts and ju or * a! tho muse of true civilization. he “
aud it gives unmistakable evidence of the speedy | to work out such a principle, no free peep | teahaema 2 4 rs 8 tanght
extinction of the Free Education System in P. 5. | would endure it long.” . pane & 7 turer, how to pyle
Island. Now, in protesting against this most dogmatic | Colonies, and be might have added, that Avortieg

We ean clearly perceive what are the more debunciation of the'principle of escheat, we shall, | hus taught the Colonies tw edueste thomesinns :

prominent injuries which the amendinent, | aa Sheed ala (heh ilk tea ) tog

has inflicted upon our educational system. We 5 becomes us in opposing so high an authority,
have not yet furgotien that, when teachers re-) proceed to do se with all the wariness whieh

7 ‘ P yo ) : 4 :
ceived the enorme eum of Five Pounds, as a prudence and diffidence ic ourself can dictate.
Government allowance for their services, our

wretched condition. We still distivetly remember place, it will be well te ground our dissent from

borrowed our system

of Free Schouls—the noblest of our institutions

| After the introduction, he entered vpon the
ut civil war, Many colunng

} had been written in the London Tomes, ve state, ?

|

Mon have begun to talk as if a seat in,

Parliament and success as a debater in the
Commons were necessary steppibg-stones to
ithe beneb. The idea is distasteful to the
bulk of the profession, which sees some of ite
ablest and most learned leaders excluded by
cireumstancesat this moment from the Honse
They naturally feel that genius and profound

for a judge than political activity and inter-
vst. W by are X and Y and Z, and A and B
not Judges? ‘They are masters of the kug-
lish law, and their character is equal to their
experience and talent. Barristers will nata-
rally continae to think it a poor answer to

say that these great Jawyers have not had |

the luek to be elected somewhere to serve on
other side of Westminster Hall. ‘The
honours of the Bar, in their opinion, should
be for the Bar alone. t the bottom, accord-
ingly, of the enthusiasa: with wate Mr.
Shee s elevation bas been welcomed, there 1s
& strong sentiment of the kind.
indeed, that the Bar intend to signalize the

event by a dinner given to the new judge |

fimself We cannot wonder atit. We can
well understand that no. vacant judgeship

could be more popularly bestowed thao on a |

lawyer who is both esteemed for his personal
qualities, and who, in # certain sense, is the
iather of the profession—the Grand Batonneer
of the order of Naylish advocates. —Maylish
? aper.

7.

Deatu or Mr. THackeray.—Suddenly one
of our greatest literary wen has departed.

Never more shall the fine head of Mr. Thack- |
eray. with its mass of stivery hair, be seen | the late sturm. A woman whose husband |
Is was but two days} Was recently killed in the war let her two.

towering amoung us.

356,000,000 5 in

imports of dry goods during the past four! that, when the teachers received the decent al-
years dave been as jollows: im 1860, 9104,- lowance of forty-five or fifty pounds, our sehools
000 000 = in 1361, $43,000,000; in L862, began to inerease and flourish, and the advan-

1863, $67,000,000. We tages which they conter on our Colony, to be fully |

thus buve the full movement prior to the realized. And, of late, whilst the teacher re-

their dictum upon admissions of their own, if we | attempting to prove that the Tariff was the.

lean do so. . Leta try. A little farther on, under | of the Southern States seceding from the Union,

Hut the attempts to prove that the high Tarity
| ‘vere the cause of the war are julile, py

the same heading, they say:
“ Constitutionally, a Court of Escheat has

lt is said, |

outbreak, the prostration of the first blow,
and the gradual recovery since. It may be |
judded that the proportion of goods entered
| tor Warehousing and withdrawn during the)
| lust three years, is neatly duuble that uf the |
same eluss in 1800. The amount of the pre-|

vious years, showing the commerce of the |
Noréh to be quite equal to that of the whole
country in 1802, we have already alluded to |

| Phe tuports of seperace articles other than)
dry goods, exhibit about the same tenor as-
the above fizures—that is, very large in 1800,
jvery Small in T861, and gradually socreasing |
singe. We are glad to see an exception in
some articles of luxury, os for instance cigars,
footing Up nearly $2,000,000 1a Loud, w tictle |
over @ inillion ip tue two years iolluwing, aud
‘talling down to S600,000 lust year, When
we consider the mcreased price, the quantity
of imported ¢gurs must be very muuch less. |
ocher artieles of the same nature that have
jfallen of wre eottke and tea (slightly) and
| brandy and watehes (very muchy. Books
bave remained quite uniform during the last

stood in 1860. The arucle which bas shown
the greatest rise iu the fast four years is

wool, going up trom less than $5

Tue Conp ar THE Wasr. — ‘the Chicago
papers record sume painiul seidents of sulfer-

jable to suppose, and. the oy

capable of eugaying in business more pleasant

000,000 in | reoted as ty be irremediable, [beg leave to remain,
value to over $9,000 000. —Beston Journal.

| January 23, 1864.

ing and death trom culd im thit city, during |

ceived an additional sum ot five pounds, the always existed. Eschent is incident to the power
rapidity with which our colouial education pro-| of the Crown in the administration of the publie
greased was truly astonishing. It is but reason-) dumain, It required no particular legislation to
inion is universally | pat the machinery of escheat in operation; none
conceded to, that a man labours wm proportion to j. required new ”

the wages he reeeives; and that additional | : ‘ ; ee
. : : coor ) : -clarative limisxion,
payment will secure addijepal Jabour, Such According | to this declarat re

clude that, since the teacher's salames have been | in the udininistration of the
reduced so very considerably, their zeal in
disseminating and promoting the principles of

public domain, be-
came incideut to the power of our local Govern-

education will be in a correspouding degree | ent, in 1851, when the transfer of the easua!

lessened. To expeet that the people, who lave’ and territorial rights and revenues of the Grown
80 jong been exempted from the payment. of Vhe argu-
teachers, and whe already pay a tax for that : nae :
purpos’, will consent to make up such a great ment, by which the Commissiovers have arrived
deficiency. is simply absurd. It then follows that | at the conclusion that, were the people of this
the teacher must either eke out a miserable sub-| pyand now to declare that they have a right te
sisfence upon the paliry pittance allowed him for | he Gommedinniiien iii beli einen di ~~
lis services, or relinquish the profession, in order | the remedy: Waeh they quay Sebere.9 Hourt o
to obtain a more remunerative business. This) Escheat could afford for their grievanees, “ the
latter alternative will assuredly be adopted by the
most efficient and uselul teachers, who are aft ve .
ont civilized communities of the

was wade te our local Goverment.

j country would cease to be regarded among the
world,” ia, in our
profitable. Our schools will then be under the | @pinion, avery unsound one. When they based
supervision of a very inferior class of teachers, their conclusion on the faet that “the grantees,
who, in consequeuce of thew poverty and in-

: ; ; 2 their heirs: signs’? ‘ rly a centaur
competency to ill otber situations, are continually heir heirs and ahcigue” Sad, fur neatty 90 2

three years at about bali the figure they reaming about the country in search of schools, been allowed to retain possession of their lands, | change when they found that the negre

f the
eonditions of the grants, and notwitstandmg the

| Trusting that the people will attend to those | notwithstanding their non-performauce o
| things, aud the evil has not become se deeply
Yours, &c., existence of the power to enforee their forfeiture
PLAIN TALK.

|
}

_—— _— ao

Che Graminer,

| ter such von-performanee, it seems to us that}
they aust. have overlooked the additional fact,
SEZ that, though this power ought to have been in-
herent in the local Legislature, or loeal Govern-
j nent of the Island, their power to exercise it was |

some of the seceded States alwayey voted fur
‘The South, for the greater period, Bice
| formation of the Government of the Viiied state
hiad coutrel of the Executive of the Country
The larger namber of these who filled the Pregi.

sent imports, a8 compared with those of pre-|being the case, may we net rationally con- Eacheat, os incident to the power ef the Crown | dential Chair were Southern wen or ies :

extensive’ territory

| senting the Southern views of political

The South had a far more
than the North. To what then, asked the Rey

| lecturer, are we te attribute the PRistenee lottad
Southern rebetlion 2 Nothing could satj

account tor it but slavery. Slavery ex

fore the Colonies declared themselves luidey

Ji was the desire avd intention of W satitngion

Adams, Jefferson and others ot the leading

of the Young Kepublic te have slavery g

abolished—ibat ail wen might be tree, pe,

of their race or color, But their views

io be entoreed in their days. “Phe

over South Carolina with a haudful of Beds’.

| the poor negro was required te cultivate pr

| Cotton became in great demand, and le
progress of slavery in the Southern States, The

| notaons of the slaveholders uuderwent @ striking

proving more remunerative than the horse
ass. From being ashamed ut slavery, they
tu Jaud it as a glorious metilution,

The lecturer vext eloqueutly deseribed
croact ments of the slave power, and thes
of the North to resistthem — Though many
debates had tasen piace in Congres,
| Slavery question, there never had beeu ve
| alarm that a dissolution of the Union would

secre

od

i thereby occur, wpb) the question of
| Missown inte the Diien took place. Ip

the haughty emblem.

be # strange thing to defend bull-fights on
What a tall was there, my countrymen!

the ground that they improve the character

ago that be might be seen at bis club, ra-, little boys, aged five and two years, in the|

diant and buoyant with glee. Yesterday house, to go aud make sume purcuases, but |

Charlottetown, January 25th, 1864.

alwaysdenied, or rendered nugatory, by the Hoae people of the territory of Missouri preceeded to

of the balls if they demvralize that of the
spectators. Now, it notorious that the
e.ass [rom which prize fighters are drawp 1s
practically very sunt), S» far from the
Champion of England being the picked man
among the millions of our youth, he is simp-
ly the ‘cock’ of the few hundreds who have
tried their hand at sparring, aed are willing |
to wake fighting their profession. No man)
with anything like a positon in society, no
farmer, or tradesman, or tliri'ty artisan, he
hia personal prowess what it might, would |
think of becoming a pugilist. The virtues,

|

is

ne

When Caesar Ueenan fell (over the ropes)
there fell the hest brniser of Ameriea!
Eheu! Eheu! Republicanism and the grand |
Principle of Lluman Liberty have thrown up |
the sponge, and Monarchy in tue person of «
King is triumphant.

When grand armies meet in the shock of
battle, amd one is beaten, it is some consola-
tion to the vanquished party to know thatits

oWn losses ure not matertally greater than

these of the vietor—that the victory is a

dear-bonght one—that the enemy wiil have

the exultation of victory dumpened by the
griet of his heavy casualties And so inthe

thereture, which that calling is sapp wed tol g ,
foster are necessarily confined to afew. And) roped arena. But what consolation have we

it will bardiy be contended that these hela. |
bur each other pour encourager les aires, or |
that the rest of us derive any refiex benefit!
from the process. Un the eontrary, the effect
upon those whe may he ealled the camp fol-
lowere of pugilisim js as bad us it can possibly
be. Outrage and disorder, cruelty and cow- |

earth ?

pexcept a binuse

in the defeat of ileenan —in the thrashing of
the noble representative of the noblest,
perest, most enlightened government on
Listen to the mortifying truth ;

* King presented no visible marks of punishment
under bis left eye.”

And this is all. For months the press and

ardiee, dishonesty and scoundreliem inevery | the people of two great eoutinents have been
form are the constant attendants of prise- convulsed at the thoug!ite of the approaching
fights. Tbe seene at the London- Bridge struggle. Daily we have received bulletios
station yesterday was infamous, and that 0) of the condition of our champion—we have
spite of all that the patrons of the *- noble | jearned that he had beeome a two-handed
art’ conld do turongh the woral ageney of hitter; that he was a mass of iron from his

waistup; that his fists had beeome as in-

the sporting press and the material assistance
of au overwhelming police foree. All that) gurate as granite ; and yet, after all these

jto sit up with him,

morning he was found dead in bis bed. With
all bis bigh spirits be did not seem weil ; he
complained of illness; but be was often ill,
and he langhed off his present attack,

treatment which would’ work a perfect cure

|in his system, and so he made light of bis

malady He was suffering from two distinet
complaints, one of which tas now wrousht
his death. More than a dozen yeare ago,

while he was writing Peadenais, it will be |
that the pablication of that!

He |

remembered
work was stopped by his serious illness.
was brought to deat?’s door, and he was
seved from death by Dr. Elliotson, to whom,
in gratitude, he dedieated the novel when he
lived to finish it, but ever sinee that ailment
he has been subject every month or six

‘weeks to attaeks of sickness attended with

violent retching. He was congratulating
himself the otuer day on the faiiure of ois
old enemy to return, and then he cheeked
hunself as if he ouyht not to be too sure of a
release from his plague. On Wednesday
morning the complaint returned, and he was)
m yreat sullering all day. tie was no better
in the evening, and his servant, about the
time ol leaving him for the night, proposed |
This he declined. He

He

jaatid that be was about to undergo some |

| amputated.
frozeu put them into warm water, by whieh |

)gotdrunk. On returning, during the mght,
, both children were found deau. On the
floor lay the youngest child in a heap of

dead. The eldest boy lay on the bed; he,
too, was dead, but not quite eold. He had
built a fire against a trunk whieh stood near

and a hoie was burned in its side, another
on tie oor, and the bed clothes had been on
fire. He had probably been asleep.
door had been left open, the room was filled
with snow; and on awakening, perishing

,

‘tie then closed the door, lit a tire on the
floor, and sank down benumbed with cold.
A svidier was found on the street unable to
|} walk, and being taken to # police station
both of
being badly frozen, and it is expected they
will have to be amputated,
was picked up insecastble.

lis legs -vere

found to be frozen from tus bips to his feet, |

and it is probable that both his legs must be
A man who kad both bands

means they were rendered a mass of putritied
flesh, and will probably bave to be ampTta-
ted. A Clinton (lowa) despatel says the
snow drifts along tae ratiroad are trom eigiit

snow ; be was frozen stiff, and was of evurse |

The.

with the @old, be found his brother dead.— |

his boots had to be eut off his fect |

Another man |

|

lit was by “ the proprietors.”

| THE LAND QUESTION,
No. 4.

|

Wher : ry _ | teitere would apply to every township and every
RONGS or evils are generally traced to their | sub-division of a township on the Island; that the

| , we, net 80 umm h for the purpose of shewing tow would be
their origin, as with a view to the devismg of |

means for their redress; and, in law, whenever | mary
: jsuvall treeholders who hold under it
he has sustained a wreng er injury, at the hands i the
of the defendant or appellee, the award of the | eee
Court is, that the delendant or appellee shall, if |

the plaintiff or appellant sneceeds in proving that

improvements of the tenants,” they seem ty

| it be im his power, repair or make amends for the | which might arise

wrong or injury done by him to the plaintiff or

appellant. Phat is, the wrong-doer shall, accord- | guarded agaiust by specific legislation.
| ing to a great leading precept of moral law, both |
} “ras Court of Escheat were to be had recourse to,
1AS Crile

divine and human, be bound to redress, as {
lies in his power, the wreng which he

would be impossible to prevent its operating
mitted.

[a the case now under our consideration,

quite forgotten that, in case the machinery |
of escheat were to be set in operation, the evils |
from its general and uneon- |
| trofled workings could easily and eiieetuaily be

ity

agains: the whele Islind without distinction of

Government, unjustly swayed and influenced as ordain and establish a constijution he me |

| for the contemplated State. Amony othet

| sions, it was ordained te pass such ‘awa as were

And, aguin, when the Commissioners assert /hecessary te prevent free vegroes and mulattoss
that, under the operation of escheat, “ the for-

j trom coming te and settling in the State, wader
any pretext whatever. Under this coustitutions

| State govermiwent was organised, avd went inte
joperation, The aduission of Missouri into the

general in its application, aad fall Union by the Northern party en the ground that
on all alike; and that the destruction of the pri-
title would carry with it the titles of the
, as well as remove to Missouri, or any other State of the

| tree citizens of color aud mulattoes were citizens
,ot the States of their residence; and that, as
isuch, they held a right, under the constitution, j

, | Union, and there enjoy ail the privileges and

| munities of other citizens of the United Sta

| emigrating to the same place; and, ae
that the clause referred to in the constiiutiwe

Missouri was repugnant to that of the United

| States, and consequently she ought not to bead

| mitied iuto the Union. The friends of Sha 4

!

Their | on the other hand, contended that the Afric
j assertion, that, if the power and decisions of a| Whether bond or free, were net a party tothe

political institutions of the country ; and therefore
were not ciizens, within the mening of the coy
/ siutution of the United States. The question far
‘the Lime was settled by the Compromise p

was heard moving about midnight, and he | to ten feet deep, and balf a miie iong, pack-

| the wrong is, by all, admitted te have proceeded |
| from the Crowu; and it is clear that the Crown,
| by action of Parliament, possesses the power te
redress the wrong. Therefore, we say, let the |
| wrong be placed iv this hght before Parliament,
and the award vr decree of that high court will

be—for it cannot be otherw ise—such as—whilst |

properties, either as to how they may have been iby Henry Clay, which Was, Usal Missouri *
tia” : ‘ ibe received into the Union, providing that she
acquired, or as to how they way be held, appears isball never pass auy law preventing any deseri
to us to be nearly as absurd us it would be to tien of persons trom commg to aud sel iling in the
maintain that, because an individual tradesman, | State; and by giving her the exercise of
jright or power which was constitutionally bh
; | cised by any of the orgimal Staves. ‘The iecturer
debts, should determine, for the removal of his | here gave a graphic and glowing desctipiion ot
ithe taleuts and characters of the men whe took

pressed for money, and baving many outstanding

ean be said is that it hal been worse the lust
time, and that the fight itself, although sick-
ening to Witness, Was not further disgraced
by any lawless violation of fair play on the
part of the spectators. To suppose that any
husnan being wae the better for it, or that
anything but o grand settlement of bets, and
a great consumption of liquor car result [rou
it, is sheer DONBsense.

it must be allowed that this view is very
prosaic and unsatisfactory — ‘neither the one
thing nor the other.’ We cannot help it,
and may as well confess at once to a doubt
whether ihe being the one thing or the other |
is a merit in an opinion. We take homan)
nature as it is, and eee mo use in railing
aguinet fighting in the abstract, because we
recogneae pugnacity 48 an instinet of our
species. ~ When two boys quarrel and deter-
mine ‘‘to have it out,’’ persvasion may do a
goud deal, but prohibition will only post-
pone oc aggravate the evil. There is ** a|
devil within us, which, if it sheps, sleeps
lightly ,"’ and bas not yet been exorcised by
civilization ; bat the fact that people well
fight in anger in spite of all that we ean do)
is the worst possible reason for encouraging |
them to fight in eold blo dd. The existence
of such a practice has hitherto been a char- |
tered anomaly in our social system ; but it is!
surely time that it should cease. The hal-
even days of the Ring are long since past .
princes of the blood no longer drive pugilists
ahout in their carriages, and the majority of |
those whom curios #/ tempts to see prize-fights |
would vecline the task of defenaing them. |
Let society, then, consider whether the plea- |
sure of profit derived from them is at all |
equal to the mischief they do. Let this be:
the last of our great fights We have frown |
ed down buil baiting withoat any sensible |
Joss of amusement, and preseribed dueling |
withoat much relaxing the laws of courtesy |
ainong gentlemen. A anited effort on the |
part of all elagses would soon pet an end to
a sport, which, however ** manty,”’ is more |
revolliag than a bull-fight. and has fess ex-!
cuse than duelling —London Times.

a COLONIAL VIEW CF THE FIGHT.

The Turonto Globe thus discuourseth on |
the event : ’

Phere is mourning in New York cons quent |
on the fall of Heenan, and chuckling in}
Londen over the vietury of King. Pao great |
and Christian nations have paused in their,
purseits of business, war, diplomacy, plea- |
sure sad philantrophy, to read with bated
breath huw an Americo-Irishbman pamed |

| graded im our high esteem,

encouraging assurances, he only punishes bis
opponent to the extent of putting a ** mouse

under hiseye!"’
—nobody expected, at the very least, less

than a good sized rat on both eyes, while

others, more anlimited in their anticipations,
wildly dreamed that the Benecia Boy would |

form an extensive and complete menagerie
around the bead and body of his competitor.
It would not have surprised usso much had
even a number of the pachydermata or-the
deinotherium hung upon every teatare ol
Heenan’ opponent at an early period in the
progress o! the contest.

Truth a8 well as history repeats itself, for
in this international mill, as of old, *+ Par-
turiunt mountes nascitur ridi-ulus mus “*
this case, pot only literally a ridiculous
mouse, but a wost ridiculous muss. We fee!
aggrieved ia our tational syspathies—de-

must have died between 2 and 3 in the morn

ing of yesterday. His medieal attendants
lattribute his death to effusion on | tive
brain. They add that he bad a very

large brain, weighing no less than S84 oz.
| Lie thus died of the complaint whiell seemed
to trouble him least. Te died full of strength
‘and rejoicing, full of plans and hopes. On
| Monday last he was congratulating bimselt
jon having finished four nambers of a new
novel; he had the manuseript in his pocket,

hand witha boyish frankness showed the last |
| pages to a friend, asking him to read them |

jand see what he could make of them. Wieo
i bad completed four numbers more be said he
| would subject himself to the skill of a very

| In the tuliness of his powers he bas fallen
| before a complaint which gave him no alara
London T:mes.

We have trained |

}

ourselves for long weeks to secure a victory, |

and after all our preparation and our agree-
jable antic!pations,

the whole thing
ended Wy our being tremendously thrashed
hy a fellow whose only punishment the
while is tuo insignificant for dispassionate

| mention.

Trati banners, abase yourselves, ye Stars

and Stripes, ia sympathy with our national |

bumiliacion.
re
SERJEANT SURE ON TUE BENCH.
The recent appointment to the vaeant
judgeship bas received the warm approval of
the Bar. By hie genius and character Mr
Justice Shee has long deserved the prize. To

have refused him it any lonzer would have |

been to Say that ne Roman Cathole lawyer,

however eloquent, however distinguished, |

however fitted for the office, was to be made
a judge. This is an announcement weltch no

English Governtacnt would make, and whieb |

the Eaglisi: nacion is uot prepared to receive.
In these Gays questivus uf theological mmport
are rarely, if ever, mooted before a commun-

jlaw judge: and when the intereste of the | over it.

Chureh of England are not direetly involved,

nv Englishman wishes to see unnee ssiry | early a day to discuss elaburately his eharae- | Sheriff,

. . . . . . *> s ’
barriers interposed hetween merit a suc- | ter asa scholar, & thinker, a controversial-/ cattle or the neal we had for the winter's support
j n ic ’

eess. The only tangible difference between
a Catholic and Protestant judge, as fur as
the publie are concerned, 1s that it might
porsibly be deemed inconvenient for a Catho-
hic to attend the Roglisu cathedral service
while on cireult. The d eulty will probably
be found one rather of theory than practice
A year ago Mr. Shee was appotnted to travel
one of the cireuits in the south ot England as
lt was found that he dia not ob-

has |

Heenan met an Anglo-frishmac named King. |a dh puty.
and aiter both bad been brutally beaten, the | ject on religious grounds to open the comnis-
one succumbed to the superior strength and | sion and to attend Divine service in the usual
skill of the other. The picture is not by any |way. Judges who are Dissenters, or even
means @ pleasant one. It awakes as to a) Unitarians, do so without reproach; and
eonseiousness that, in spite of Sunday and what they may do, & Roman Cathole may
Common Schools, Courches and Bibles, there | du also, Were it even otherwise, two Judges
js a great deal of the brute left iu the most | invariably travel the sering and sumimer as-
civilized of wankind. Lt is of no use saymmg! sizes in company, and ap arrangement would
that the newspapers are to blame, and that | easily bave secured the presence of one upon

UNITED STATES.

| olin

| Arcusrsnor Hvenks —The death of this
‘eminent American Catholic prelate took place

jon Suaday evening at his howe in New York, |

|at the aye of sixty-five vears. He was born
jiu the North of Ireland in 1794; and emi-
grated to Maryland in this country in 1817
| where he was first employed in the bumble
‘calling of a & rst; but soon abandoned that
jealling, and entered Mount St. Mary's
| Seminary at Emmetsburg. He was ordained
| @ Priest in 1825, and setuled in Philadelphia,
| Where he remained until 1838, h. ving while
he remained there founded St. Joon’s Chareh.

tu Bishop Dahois, of New York. The Bishop
soon after became disabled trom paralysis,
and bis assistant had therefore the principal
.echarge ; and in 1839 the Pope appointed bitin
administrator of the diocese. The Bishop
died in 1842, and the administrator sueceeded
to his office. In 1850, New York was raised
'to an Areliepiscopal See, and be was placed
Lie duties of this post he continued

j to discharge until bis discease, This is too

| istand a prelate, with accuracy and Satis ac-
‘tion; or tairly Co estimate his services to the
| Catholic cause in America, or impartially to
| rave his influence on American society and
limstitutions. Whether he was a liberal,
| bumble, pious follower ofthe Prince of Peace,
| by iis example pointing the world to better

| works, or & tribulant sectarian. a demagog-

ical priest or a clerical politician, coveting
I . £
| place and loving power, are questions not to

| be discussed upon iiliberal party creeds or |

)seetarian animosities, but in the broad spirit
lof American toleration, Whether as a

ue
\duriog value, or whether as 4 pulpié orator

‘he has achieved any triumphs or left any
‘monuments whieh will rank him with the
‘great men of the Roman Chureh, are que@s-

ed hard enough to hold up tems, The

| thermometer was thirty degrees below zero.
| Phe Pittshurg Chronicle says that two brake-
j}men on the Oil Creek Railroad were frozen
} to dewth the other niyit, one of whom rolied
olf the car and the other was found at his
| post, his lrind trogen ty the brake wheel !—~
| Boston Journal.

CHARGE UPON A SNoW-DANK BY A Locomo-
rive — Lite ENGiNeeR Loses itis) Lire.—
Owing to the heavy hall ot suew on the Racine
aud Mississippt Rastrowd last Wednesday, nm was
necessary to seud in advanee of the proper train
au locomotiye witha show-plaw toclear the track.
(Mr. Samuct DD. Valterd was the engineer, and

Faneeting With a huge bank he was obliged to go |
clever surgeon, and be no more an invalid. |

per hour. It went through, hut the eliginecr was
forced out of a windew and buried about eight
feel do the snow, As soon as his abseace was
noticed by the tireman the locomotive was siopped

as staied, with but a feeble pulse, and all efforts
to resuseiiale lian proved Vinitvatliug. Tle was
| evidently siuothered.—— dai, paper.

! CORRESPONDENCE,

To Toe Evrrok or rin Examine
Str:—As your paper is the ouly one that ap-
pears to advocate the cause of the oppressed
Feolumus with seme of the doings of the land
agents ou this township for the past three months.
Our agent bas always teld us that if we paid
| up one year’s rent without allowing arrears to in-

Karly in 1838 he was consecrated coadjutor | crease, that he would be satisfied ; but when we |

| paid him ene year’s rent this season, of anything
more was due, we were told that we would not
vet a receipt tor what we paid, if we did uot pay
off the arrears also, which we Cold him we were
t
| Donald for whom we had veted at the last election,
land get the money trom hin, for if it was net paid
| otf immediately he would distrain on us and seli
levery hoof we ewned.” Many were unable
| make up more than a yearsgrent and were dis-
/trained on, and are now at the merey of the

bof our families, and to sell them for half their

| value to raise the money for our rapacious ageut,
| who evidently takes a pleasure in prosecuting us
ite the utmost stretch of his power, becanse we
support those “ d—d rascals, the Snatchers.”

L beliewe, Mr. Editor, that there were more |
writs issued against the Teaantry on this Lot this |

_ year, than ever was issued during the reign of the
Liberal Governmeat. Our Tory landlords and
theiragents want to reduce us to the condition of |

back to attain all the velocity possible, inorder to |
hierce a passage. ‘The locomotive was dashed j
against the bank at the rate of forty or fifty miles | afsulute perfection. ‘The hing can do ne w rong, | such a measure (that of escheating the origina; |" #

tenantry, T want to acquaint the public through its |

mable to do then, le then told us to‘ go to a

to! jaw will not cast
| trate who it entrusts with the executive power, |

while others of us had to sell off our |

difliculnes, to enforce paywent by means of ac
acknowledging the claias of the proprietors as tar | t
as reason and justice will permit, avd aise provid- | t all bis deb-

ors alike, without distinction of persons or

nila | tv institute legal proceedings agains
ing for their saiistaction—wiil completely annili- | ¢

late “the vicwous system” of Jand-tenure in the | characters.
Island, and open up tor the people the cheering | “Dp

In support of their “ Report and Award,” as

| prospect of untettered industry, ueproving inter-
'

om | fespects Escheat, the Commissioners quote from
| ests, and political well-being,

Lord Grey's despatch to Sir Alexwuder Bay ner-

It is, we aj] know, a maxim that the king or the | man, of the lth ot July inst
’ ~ bs q? ,
Crown can do ne wrong; but yet, at the same |

wherein Lord
Greys says:

j tie, we alse know that very grievous and very) © Jt ig only my purpose now to state that Her
Majesty’s Govermuent jeel themselves bound to
adhere to the decision so repeatedly adepted by
| ny predecessors in this matter, and to state that,
both on the grounds of justice te the lapded pro-
“Besides the attribute of sovereignty, the law | prietors and of the permanent interests of the
also ascribes to the king, in his political capacity, j community of Prince Edward Island, they regard

j

scandalous wrongs have trequently proceeded from
the Crown.

'

On this subject, in Blackstone's
Commentaries, we read as tollows:—

Wich ancient avd fundamental maxim is vet to | grants) as impracticable.”

be understood as it every thing transacted by the | Before making their quotation from the said
)geverument was of course just and lawtul, but |

; ' ed . idee 5 4 iss? > * “
jeans ouly two things. First, that whatever is | deopateh, the Commissions comark, that “ pre-

and moved back. The engineer was found buried jeXceptionable in the conduct of public affairs, is | Vious to the cession by Her Majesty, in 1851, of Republican party, the breaking up of the

not to be imputed to the king, ner is he auswer-! the Crown and Te
able for it personally to bis people: for this doc- | |
| triue Would totally destroy that constitutional } : .
independence of the Crown, which is necessary repeated declarations, deuuded itself of the power
| tor the balance of power, in our tree and aetve, | of eseheating the original grants, and declared
sand therefore compounded constitution, And, |
secondly, it means that he prerogative of the |
| Crow extends aot to do any mjury; ib ws created
‘tor the benetitot the people, and therefore cannot
| be exerted to their prejudice,
t
|

rrilorial Revenues im the Is-
and te the local Government, the Crown had, by

any measure of that character impracticable.”
Irom the above extracts, both that from Lord

irey’s Despatch and that from the Keport of the

sand Coumissioners, it weuld seem that both

(

I
“The king, moreover, is not only incapable of Tied Cone ‘ ae
| doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong ; he ean a trey bored the ¢ a rs hold that the
never ean to do an improper thing: in hin is | “espateh of a Seeretary of State is as little to be
| no ae a. Ape theretore, if the | withstood or gainsaid as the nwst salutary and
| Crown should be induced to grant any franchise | heat establshed law of :
or privilege to a subject coutrary to re nent exteieiaed. Soar nt Ue Taal
| any wise
|

We, however,
recognise ip them no such auibority. Nay more:
point out, the force and validity of a statute of the
we affirm that to accord to soine, whieh we eould
Imperial Parhament, as some persens do, is very
litte less than treason against the State. ;

oan ason, or in |
prejudicial to the commonwealth, or a
private person, the law will not suppose the king |
| te have meant either an unwise or an injudicious
‘action, but declares that the king was deceived
in hia grant; aad thereupon such graut is rendered
roid, merely upon the tonndation of fraud and de-
ception, either by or upou those agents whem the} To dennde this Despatch of Lord Grey’s and
Crown has thought proper to employ. For the | all similar despatches of See ine ef &
an tinpufation upon that maygis- | 5 a re
the power claimed for them to bind and anbind
at will, we will again advert te the autherity of
Bi
tary of State, even with the sanction of the
whieh, if charged on the will of the prince, might | Crown, should, by any despatch, grant any fran-
a . soy ft } "y i “ae ” . . ih , i ;
le P* n ham - “ € ae of his subjects. __ | chise or privilege, to a subject or subjeets.contrary
Now, we be , oi , except perhaps “ the heirs | to reason, or in any wise prejudicial to the com-
of the grantees, are agreed that | monwealth, the law declares that the sovereign
peg “* rt the was deceived when yielding sanction thereto; and
id, we nearly one eT are ago, the! thereupon that such despatch is rendered null and
Whole of the Island was disposed of or granted | void, and of nev-eflect, werely upon the founda
,

|

jas if he was capabie of intentionally disregarding
his trust: bet attributes to mere imposition (to
which the most perfect of sublunary beings must

stil continue table) those little inedvertences.

ackstone, and maintain thereon that ii a Secre-

and assigns”

when, in the reign of King George

ions at law, that, therefore, he would be obliged

;

the leaditig part in the great discussions of the
}times—particularly Jobu C. Calhoun and Hevryg
(Clay. The Misseurt Compromise estabbshed the
| principle that new States were te deal with
Slavery asthes thought proper. ‘Then eonmweuerd
the struggle of ene party tv get Slave aud the
lothea Jree States into the Union. The leeturer
lhext referred to the success wt the South iu add.
ing Texas to the shave power, the Waltuot r-
‘vise, the Nebraska Bill, and the Fugitive Shave
lLaw. In all these measures the South fad the
est success, until Brovks struck Summer in the
Senate, when, said the lecturer, the South ap-
peared tke a gioustrotis buily, wath a elaine to tae
ankle of the negro in one hand, and a sevelver
land a bowte kutte in he ether Bet the aduae
Kausas inte the Union as a tree Stole
Lurning point in tivear of ths canre at
The torce of puriie opinaen, gnided m
reat measure by the example ot Great
Femanecipating the negroes in the West Indies, by
jihe publication ot “ Unele Tom’s Cabin,” and by
the religious revivals, set in strongly agwinat the
inhumanity of Slavery. Herce the rise of the
Doeme
jeratie party inte huge traginemts, aud the eeetion
|to the Presidency of Mr. Lineoln.
Thus tar Mr. Brewster delivered his lecture ex-

| slow of
| proved the
| Freedom.

tempore, and though verasionally it contained some
jaffectations of a certain style of pulpit preach
ing, yet it was a trely eloquent and able eflert in
itaver of the North. Durmg this portion of the
‘leeture be did not carry the audience with hin,
| Passages which warmed the hearts of the lovers
of the Free North met but a feeble applane,
| Whilst the Gitest allusions to the vanily. or
ilove af the eruwd were forcibly cheered,
Rev. gentleman, in the secoud aud concluding part
of his lecture, tried to shew that there were wo
|‘utinities’ Letwiat the aristocracy of the Seuthers
| Contederacy and the aristocracy ot England: He
}drew a parallel betwixt the characters ol Jel
jtersen Davis, Toombs, Yauey and a few pther
Southerners,and Lord Derby, Vaubnerston, Russell,
| Neweasrle and other Buglish Statesmen, He,
julse, to prove las argument, referred to the seal
customs, and domestic circumstances of both
countries. This we think was the weakest part
lot the lecture, There can be no doubt of the
| fact that the English aristocracy de sympathise
with the South, and that they consider that they
lave closer affinitics with the ruling classes oi the
j Seuth theu with the people of the North. "Phe
coutrast of a few persous of two countries prows
| hot hing against one or the other, for the persem
pwho makes the contrast will aaaue the indive
dials te suit his own theories.
| "The Rev. Jeeturer alluded to the symp: thies f
the Colonists for the South. Our feeling arose a
some measure against the North through the
Treat atlair, and tie hostile tons of the Agverican
press. As to the Trent affair, the lecturer said
we could forgive the North, af in it Joho Bull
gave America the benefit of his ¢apenence, and
jas te war with bugland, he believed that Atie-

seris, who will obey their slightest wish and vote away in a single day, —* the king was,” to use j

tien of fraud and deception: for the law * attri-

thinker he has advanced anything new, or as,
}a man of letters he has left anything of en-|

tor their friends, our oppressors ; but we may be |
turned out of house and heme to starve by the |
wayside, and we will vot be coerced to sell our |
privilege to do with our vote as we please. {

The Sheriff iv serving some of the writs on!
| Peter's Roud this week met with a warm re-
‘ception trom the women and children of that |
| Orange locality. On Peter’s Road the settlers are
ball Protestants, and nearly al] Orangemen,
| they have formed a league with the Teoantry of |

the language ot Blackstone, “ deceived ir bis
grauts,” and * fraud and deception” were prac-
tised, “either by or upon those agents whom the
Crown thought proper to employ; and that, in

consequence of the practice of such fraud and de-

-cepiion, the king was“ induced to grant privileges |
and tty cert

ain of lis subjects, contrary to reason, and |

they pablish re ports of prize fights. Most of | occasions where the presence of & judge was) tions upon which we have decided opinions, | the High Bank, and are determined to resist the | prejudicial to the commonwealth.” And, agreed |

the newspapers furnish aceuumts of battles; made important by sound and ancient cus
in the ring just as they pallish the reports of | tom. lt is a tribute to the diseretion of the
worders and suicides, and are as far from Government te he anle to say that, while the
approving one as the other. . In general they | conseientious feelings of the new Judge on
we quite as harrowing @ picture of the one | religious subjects need no vindication, no
as ot the viher. No one could read the | contretemps is ever likely to oceur under the
‘Tunes’ acoount of the lute fight and feel | regime vt Mr. Justice Shee.
more in love with prize figiting than lhe was, la bis elevation to the Bench the Bur loses
before. ‘Lie people. we are sorry to say, | its greatest orator; and perhaps its only ora-
Jove to hear and read of prize fights, and the! tor properly eo called. ‘Those whe bave
Hleenan contests have unfortunately added to | heard Mr Justice Shee in bis finest speeches

the jaterest of these events by enlisting on
their behalf a considerable amount of natinval
jeeloury anil amour propre.

Lhe practical question is—how Jong are
these dimgraceiul proceedings tu be suifered
gocontinue? We see thatanother Ameriwan
doe Coburn by name, has chailenged
King to fight. Are we to have another in-
sernational will uext year, with extras from
all Newspapers, Teyvicings from one side
aidan, and wailings frow the other ?
We trust not, for the sake of ver civilization.

There ean be no doubt that this fighting can

} wgilist

Ti the flome Office will give in-

structions, no train will be suffered to leave |

Londoe oo such an errand as that whieh de
ted from London Bridge Station at the
inning of the month, with one thousand

| bave heard something that is not easily re
} produced .
speakers at the Bar, whose genius and elo-
/quence are of the bighest order. The age
| the presence, the dignity, and the fire of Mr
| Justice Shee placed him at the head of ali
tt is said usually that he was not a success.
ful Parliamentary debater. His style, per-
haps, 08 too purely Gratorieal for the House of
;Commons in the present day. But at the
| Bar, in the conduct of « case of great public

ference when he bad enjoyed full time to’

prepare his line of argument and to rise to
the level of the subject, Serjeant Shee “ould

is @ fluent and accomplisied rhetorician,
pqualified by his cultivation and his nature to

There are other and younger

hold Westminster Hall breathless with sus- |
pense and interest for hours = Mr. Gijadstone |

but they cannot be wisely discussed in pre- | payment of rent te a party who have deceived | as to this fact, we must also admit, as Blackstone

sence of that sharp grief now felt by the
/namerous and respectable body of American
| Catholies who lament over his unburied re-
jwains. Many will claim to elass nim with

‘the great men of his churel, hrs ave and bis)

|adopted country. All will acknowledge these
indisputable facts; that in his rise trom
‘hamble life and mental toil, be has given
commanding testimony both to his own
energy of character and to the fostering
Spirit of our national institutions.

‘in the hour of its recent peril, entitles him in
the judgment of us all, to the high charseter
olan American patriot,

(to bis chureh, end his sucerssial management

of his great trust leave no doubt of bis vast
business capacity. The more marked events
of his iatelleetnal life may be brietly stated

His debate, in 1830. with Mr. Breckinridge, |

on the question: * Is the Protestant Religion
the Religion of Christ?’’ and another one
with the same man in 1532, on the question :
‘sis the Roman Catholic Religion, in any or
in all its principles er doctrines, inimical to
civil and religious liberty?’ have been pub.
Ce ray ina book form. His labours in be-
va

His de. |
‘votion to our nationality in ail its integrity, |

Lis great services |

of Catholie Edueation and Catholie |

‘them, as the present Government has, on the
| Land Question; and this is the reason that the
i Sheriff has been three times unsuecesstul in
his attempts to serve his writs there, for while |
the peaple will wet break the law, they will yet
use all possible means to prevent distraint for)
rent, whieh must, if persisted in, be the cause of |
their dying of starvation, and their children |
dying before Spring.

Now, Mr, Editor, you will bear in mind that |
those persons who have been distrained on at

resist the payment of rent, aud whe have pre- |
‘vented the Sherif frow serving his writs, are not |
frishwen, nor Papists, but good, sound, loyal

Orangemen, and we may yet see that geod will

‘come out of this bad society, for they now under-

stand the means and value of organization and will

jnow have something more nearly atfceting them-

/selves to stimulatetheir zeal than ihe old bagbear

(ot Popery. :

Apoloyising for the length of this eommuniea-
tion, aud promising te acquaint you with the
| progress of the rebellion,
lam, yours,

A TENANT.

| Lot 61, Jany. 15, 1864.
py a

| Me. Eprror :—
Sir,—It is to be hoped that the benefits accruing

declares, “ that thereupon such granis are rendered

void, merely upon the foundation of frand and |
deception, either by or upou those agents whow |
the C It this is,
admitted, then all the grants of Lands in this Is-
land, made in 1769, are void and of non-cffect: |
and,

escheated — not as failing to the Crown, but as |

rown thought proper to employ.”

therefore, ought at ounce to be declared

charged ou the wall of the prince,

bules to mere imporition (te which the most
pertect of sublunary beings must still coutinue to
be liable) those little inudvertences, which, it
Wight jesse
tim in the eyes of his subjects,”

Theretore,
to re

as concerns the Crown,we are bound
gard any or every despatch from a Secretary

of State. whien would in any wise prove injurious |

to the commonwealth, as having proceeded from
imposition, practised upon, the Sovereign, and
mere inadvertence on his part; and consequently
to be cousidered as having no legal or constitutiona!
power, weight, or authority whatever,

Le od 7 an ; if
REV. J. BREWSTER'S LECTURE

ON THE AMERICAN WAR,

Peter’s Road, and who have formed leagues to furteited to and for the benefit of the people.

| ON Thursday evening last, Rev. Mr, Brewster

We have never hitherto been an advocate of | lelivered a leeture on the “ American War” be-
a general escheat; and neither are we now. But, ture the “ Young Men's Christian Association.”
— with al] the genuine respect which we entertain The audience which crowded the Temperance
for the Royel Land Commissioners and their al was one of the largest that ever was packed
opinions, and with all the deference which we | ’s@tier in that badly ventiiatea building, Hon.
are disposed to pay to their superior knowledge— | F- Young introduced the lecturer, whe com
since our own views respecting the question of “erced his subject by boldly declaring that the
escheat diter materially trom thote which they Cbiect of his lecture was to give his reasons why,
have avowed concerming it, and set forth in their | 48 4 Cliristian aud as a British subject, he could
_ Report, — we will now venture to question the t sympathise with the South, He asked the
correctness Of their dictum upon that question. audience to lay aside the feelings whieh, doubtless,
Concerning it, in their Report, under the head ‘Heir prejudiees and their patriotism anade them
Escura, they thus reeord their epinion: cutertain against the North, We have much,
“TE it were believed that such a principle Said he, to teel thankful for, from the people of

jrnica would be sick enough of war when they were
| done wiki the South, and that the North wi
cultivate only the arts of peace. After the
lecture, the President in a tuw sentences, gore
bis voice heartily in taver of treedem aud
| North. He theaght the sympathies of the Cob
| uists for the South were due tu that mereputilé
iseltishness which believed that were the Soutl
| separated trou: tlie North we would have tie eed
| part of the coasting rade. Whilst we agnee thet
i this view accounts fora good deal of the $
‘sion sympathy which did aud docs exist, we
‘that the causes of the ieeliug of the Coigiiets
laver of the South should be attributed to iguer
javce of American polities, and pt iyeipally te the
}beliet in the docirine, that every people
nation should have the right to extablisi Whar
ever term or system of Government which Wey
consider best suited io promote ther awa ©
terests. %
| We are prevented, from waut of «pace, i
| giving aveport of the discussion wlieh touuwed It
Lecture. The How. Mr. Coles was the yao
speaker, and enunciated views direetly opp
to these ot the Lecturer, especially in regare ”
jthe raid made by Jolin Brown, whose aad ge
j prise at Harper's Perry received the uy plane
i the Lecturer, but which eest brown his lite. 3%
| Coles contended that Brown was guilty of robbe-
|ry aud rebelhon, aud was justly cacet ue.
Brewster seenied to consider him a warty! om
saint. Myr. Coles’s views, which were more -
cordance with those of the Southern ey mpatbnc™
| were loudly applauded.

| The “Chesapeake affair” and the iegal pre
‘ceedings justituted against Mrs. Eveleth al

Spiiuey, have ¥een tie cluet sources of cre pure
iu this Commeaity tor the last five weeks

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AFFAIRS IN sT. JOHN, N. B

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Seely —colr

friends of the ring on hoard. The diffieulty ravish the ears of a business-like assembly of
Jie, however, in the fact that a large portion educated gen lemen.
_of the English pudtie has too strong a liking he ever shakes and thrills an andienve as
lor prize fightin tu subinie readily tu iis Mr Shee has often before now shaken crowd-
“suppression: Lt te impossible to make fish of ed courts. Sinee the appointment of the
vue and flesh of another. If Heendu is |present Lord Cul Justice of toe Queen's
stepped, fighting all over the country must Bench the bar had not another speaker of
be scupped tuo, aud that would be repagnant | the surt; wad Mr. Suve's jours and pres ace

ve.

It will be long before |

rights in the school tund will long make him few the amendment to the Pree Education Act existed m Prince Edward Isiaud, or could be _the United States.

are being fully realized and heartily enjoyed by

memorable, while his services in placing | ii. cubabitekte f° P. BM Ustahd: “Sedging from

church property on its trae basis and in de-
fence of the character of Catholic America,
will make bim long honored as their broadest
champion and ablest defender. Up
more dificult

| the chanye has received the hearly acquiescence
on the and approval of the people. Lt however, we take,

enterced, it would be utterly ruinous to its pros-
perity. ‘Titles weuld be insecure, because, wit

‘the continued reticence of our leading writers few ‘exceptions, the forfeiture would apply to “POM Our votice in every place and at every rant on a charge of pilacy aud
upon this important subject, we might fer that every township and every sub-division of a moment. ‘The Washing and the Sewing Machines , (34a on of Wilnesses in support

township in the Island. No particular Jot, ne!
particular proprietor conld be selected; the law

questions we have hinted, we as a criterion, the turious distarbanees witeh are would be general in its application, and must S@p¥ens, of Orwell, advertises it, “The Wonder |
way Say u word ata later duy.— Boston Post, | daily arising invur scious disivicis, we way veason- fall ov all alike; not solely ou the represcuiative of all Natious”—the Reaping Machine, were tie vtiginal capiors — beloug w St
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: ot : ~~ jot the men—Mekioney, Collins and
Retieals WHT ond taGastry .| cerved in the semure sa the Steamer, having beet

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arrested here under the Lieut, Goverier igs

cution commenced torthwith in the ae bee 3
ot this City, aud bas already oceuped neal

: re of do wor!
fortuight. These three prisoners avn, »

and above all American ideas, force therselves

and that marvel of ingenuity, or, as our friend

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