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SUMMERSIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1869. i
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THE ANNEXATION QUZSTION.

HY A CANADIAN,

Pormits me to reply briefly to your cor-{
respondents Brerostt CaN apin and Nova
Seorus Brovts, ‘Tothe first. thanking
him tor the courtesy of his notice, TI bave
only to say thatthe question of annexation
hes two aspects; and the objections to
that measure may be ranked under two
fiends, niinit those which are addressed
te the reason, those which
dressed tothe sentiment of men—my letter
wus inteuded to reler solely to the for-,
2uey,

The tone of the letter of your Nova Seo-
tian correspondent does not do honor, to
hhistemper Not being, however, reduced
to vituperation for lack of argument, I
shall not imitate him by charging iy op-
parent with dishonesty or untrath,

Jivntns declares that my arguments are
sophistry, and my faets untrue; he truly,
ronmarks that many persons are deecived |
hy sophistyy; but it is no less certain that
nriny persons ave led into error by the use |
of words which they do not understand. |
Desiring to avoid this error, let us define |
sophistry to mean argument apparently
sonmd and plinsible, but veally fallaciou
Having made these two charges of fallae
and falsehood, it was surely incumbent on
Brutus to show that ut least some of my
arguments were fillacious and some of my
foments of fact untrie,
2 Not in any cne inslanee,

Your correspondent objects to my ar-
gument as unsonnd by reason of an erro-
neousassumption thatall British Americans
are oppose! to annexation, 1 believe, in-
deed, that this assumption is trae, or near-
ly true; but it formed no part of my argu-
ment, I

|

Aincriean system of government, Of

conrse may man of common sense will une |
derstand this us it was meant—namely, to}

to the vast majority of Canadians. A

re

fey disappointed Nova Scotians cannot be |

yenk forall Canada, any more

allowed to
than the ti
al England,
drains, however, liaving failed to show
the untrath ef any of my statements of thet,
is not unprovided with some facts ot his
és '

party in
Bronswick. It by the term Canada he
means the Provinees ot Quebee and On-
Tdeny the fret, and respectfully in-
iim to show the proof of it, As to
New Brunswick. | believe that it contained
one annexationist, who moyed in the as-
sembly an annexation resolution which
failed to find a seconder; after: whieh he
fied to the United States to hide from the
general exceration of his countrymen,
jut our amiable consor goes on to ty
i
This is the

that people in Canada are corrupt as we
old fallacy so offen exposed, the argumen-

vs people in the United States,

ium ad ouinim, You are corrupt your-|

selves apd therefore should not object to
be annexed to a people still more corrupt!”
Butare we corruptin Canada? Was any
part of our public debt ereated for corrupt
purposes, or used in venality, as our friend
charges? Of course the answer to this
«question does not in the least affect the ar-
gument, but as it is introduced. however,

tis answered by adenial, Neverthe-
, for sake of argument, Jet us suppose

_ oldest States of the Union,

to flourish like the rose, In this we see

what we wish ourselves ‘snecessinily toy

imitate, but we are not deceived as to the
enuses of these events—wedo not think
that we shall prosper becavee we live une
der amonnrch, nor that the Americ:
have prospered because they preterred a
republic. We attribute the success of the
English race to their capacity for politics,

legislation and government, to their in-| or nearly one-third of the whole revenue p

domitable conrage, energy and industry: . A 5
. By it i schools, ef course this will proportionately’ contains « singularly stupid, filse and abusive

in short, to those qualities which render

, impossible that they should be badly gov-| expand, and as the
_ferned under any form of government; | ®

which made the English nation prosper
under such sovereigns as Charles and
James, and under such republicans as
Oliver Cromwell; and which has enabled
the Americans to prosper in sptte of uni-
versal suffrage—-the worst form of govern-
ment known among men.

The last article of Brutus, which T find
space to notice, is the only one used by
him which merits the name of » sophism
inasmuch as it has a superticial appearance
of sonneness, but ig in reality fallacious.
is where he compares the povety and

ackwardness of Nova Seotin with the
wealth and civilization of Massachusetts,
and argues that annexation would speedily
raise his province to an equality with the
Our friend is,

ns)

To turn Eprror oy tie JounNnat,
Sir:—
The subject of Rduention is undoubtedly an
important one, and is well worthy the strious
consideration of all retlecting minds, Phe

|

| cost of that department, at the present time, |

his a large item in the public expenditu
|Last year it amounted to £19,466 17s.

3
per of the Colony. With the increase of
assessment on land for
chool purposes amounts to only £4,091 3s.
ild., it will decrease each year as wildernes
lands become cultivated, Ittherefore tollow:
that it will soon be a serious question, where
the fands are to come from to maintain our
school system.
impost duties will keep pace with the increns-
ing expenses of education, and even if they
did, steam communication, telegraphs, post
offices, roads, bridges and wharfs,—which are
as cssential as schoolhonses,—must also be
maintained; and their cost, we have every
reason to believe, will incrense rather than
decrease. Under these circumstanees—which
must be patent to the meanest eapacity—the
financier or statesman who can solve the

lnrgely increase t tax upon lands, for school
| Purposes, will be deserving of the warmest
thanks of the whole community. An extraor-

We cannot assert that the!

problem otherwise than by the imposition ofa

IIas he done)

(that Canadians are adverse |
to annexation beenuse they dislike the)

ailors of Tooley Street for.

he says that there is ane
Canada and New!

vently, it should be answered, there- |

dinary emergency has ever brought forth the
straordinary man to grapple with it; and so
sin this case. Vosterity will not have to
sbor under the same difliculty in establishing
the exact locality of his residence, as im the

however, mistaken in this—wealth and
civilizution are plants of slow growth.
Nova Scotia, if it had been settled as early
as Massachusetts, would now be far richer
and more civilized, it possible; for the
natural ricLes of Nova Scotia exceed by
an incaleniable amount those of Muassachu-
setts, as our American friends are well
aware, But at present, and for many
gencrations to come, the effect of annexa-
tion would be to reduee Nova Scotia to!
_ the level of the new States and territories |
of the Union—countries like Arkansas and
Mississippi—ochlocracics, or mob goyern-
ments, tempered by assassination; her
| tertile regions teeming with all sorts of
agricnitural and mineral wealth wou.d be
overrun with rafians; her citizens would
_ be elbowed ont of their legislative halls by
law-mokers of the newest and most mar-
ketable pattern; and the orderly admin-

birth io the benefactor.

ills to which the body politic is heir; nor will
his prescription cost the patient an extra ‘pen-
ny.

his sentiments over an annonymous signature,
jhe assumes to speak in the name of * the
people.”
title adopted by your correspondent,
evidently acquainted with Latin, and heuce
the classical patromymie of the New London

of April.
which Atlas was forced to bear, was greater

assumes,
be better 7

there is no cl
would more

the regime of the bowe knife and revolver,
[ will now take leave of your. correspon-
dent Bratns. 1 cannot indeed flatter him
by enllingzhis arguments sophistical, for independence ¢
that would be to pay them an extravagant: jj1o and lavorion
compliment, but L um grateful to him for important profession.
demonstrating the exceeding badness of a their qualiti
eanse which can tind no better arguments not to say t
_ to defend it, Bb.
|
| Intelligence was received in this city on

Wednesday last of the death (from appo-
_plexy) of the Right Rey. Dr. Dalton. Ro-
| man Catholie Bishop of Harbor Grace,
| Newfoundland He, Lepre Me eee news [18 “NOt within the roar of an ass” of it.
| ~The Steamship Germany” arrived ot) me examine his panacea—his infil
Quebee on the 29th ult. with about one | all remedy,

Tthan they are. Ife is rigat,anc
in the community whom |
My

c
mimensurate with their hum-
yet highly responsible and

,
‘

i dition, both socially and financially,
unduly increasing the burdens of the tux-

mayer,

| teachers are not better paid are

and their families, from London,

o Se cerans ee =) 1, That £1000 is wasted in public printing,
7, mi | tab Tut it might ily
Aa a “over and above what it might easily be

| | 2. That a great deal of money is wasted in
| ie re Tanne, May 6. | senseless delegations.
| In the Ifonse ¢f Commons this evening, 5
} Mr. Otway, under Secretary. for eonlen 3. A eee aa ul RA MA a
| 1G 5 . Se an f vo { ed to wait on the M,. 8 during the | were ask
{been sent to the British Minister at Mad-| ee en One eat sae wy idee el |

ridin regard to the seizure of the brig! 4. ‘Thata ** few special friends” are kept,

| Mary Lowell, but’ they could not now be} in ‘fat offices.”
| y )

“Vox Populi” is the high-sounding

exponent of the popular voice, who very ap-
propriately finds his way into print on the lst!
Comparatively speaking, the burden |

istration of her laws would be replaced by | than that which ‘Vox Populi voluntarily
Ws Ile contends that teachers ought te

placed in a posiiion of

1 know something of
ions and labors, and [ hesitate |
it they are poorly remunerated, |
| L would candidly unite in any passable scheme
| of legislation which would improve their con-
yout

Whatever my own views may be as ‘ the
|best method of accomplishing this desirable
object, it is needless to say that ** Vox Populi”
Let
lible cures |
With the utmost flippaney and
thousaud Emigrants, mostly working men | corfidence he asserts that the reasons why

In one particular he lacks the character: |
istic of true greatness; for, whilst he utters tance

Ile is | sorrowful exhibition

1. Apart from the bad grammar of the sen-

‘importance of public questions, and who know
the value of time and newspaper space, the
trouble of exposing bis vagaries, and making

‘hin coatemptible in the eyes of the public.

Very truly yours,

ONE WILO KNOWS,

April 22, 1869,

Hl To tus Eprron or tim Jounnar;
| Dean Sir:
| The Azaminer, in its issue of the 10th inst.,

‘editorial, which is wholly devoted to me. This
‘journal has of late achieved for itself an un-
Lenviable notoriety among Newspapers. ‘The
togdies which control it in the capacity ot
j writers, appear to be totally regardless of
trath. Since November last, f have been re-
peatedly and violently attacke.. by this seur-
rilous sheet The next attack prior to the
one of Monday last, was made some two
months ago. I then, on the principle of self
defence addressed a letter to the Journat.
Since that time the Hraminer deemed it pro-
per. at least for awhile, not to interfere with
me. But its pent up” rage burst forth
again in its list issue in a furious onset upon
me. ‘The writer has apparently lost all con-
trol of hic temper. He chases and foams and
froths at the mouth,

The Lxaniner labors hard to palliate the
conduct of the Board of Education, in refer-
ence to my letter of the 18th of March last.
‘The poor fellow, if he thought as little about
the matter as I do. would not waste so much
of his strengh upon what I believe the public
condemn—his puny efforts to the contrary
‘nothwithstanding. I believe the members of

ease of Homer, nor will ambitious villages be | the Board, who were present when that fa-
permitted to contend for the honor of giving| mous Resolution was passed, feel ashamed
New London has the | of themselves, and well they ms
genius really made, who can remove all the |

| We thought, too,” he says, ‘that the
‘letter was not written by himselt,”—ot course
“not. I should be very ungrateful indeed, had
[not called some of my pupils to my assis-
in the task of writing it. I shall not
}soon forget, how sharp and discriminating
their faculties were in detecting the ignorance
‘of the Reetor, and of which he made sucha
the day he made an
juttempt at examining the pupils of the Gram-
‘nar School,

| The scribe” says that my short note, pub-
lished in the Jounnan of the 22d ult, isa
tissue of grammatical inaccuracies.” He
publishes it in full, and italicizes those por-
tions of it which he considers ungramiatics
‘This will not do. Ie evidently wishes to de-
ceive the public by such smull tricks. My
short note is. strictly grammatics “Speak
out” venerable scribe—who ** has no equa
in this colony as a scholar and examiner” (7)
tell me what rules of grammar are violated
in the note referred to. You appear to have
special ard for Lennie as a grammarian.
Do tell me, on his authority, what are the
rules of grammar that I have violated.” I
maintain that what L have written in that note
is grammatical; and until you produce better
authority than your own in the matter, I shall
hold you up to the gaze of the public as a
contemptible impostor and disreputable vilifi-
er. Itis a matter of wonderment to me that
the scribe” of the AHraminer would not be
prevented by a sheer sense of shame from
making the slightest mention about gram-
matical” errors; but he rppears to be alto-
gether unconscious ot his own ignorance.
Kyen his article in which he so unrelentingly
|* Seritisized” my note, abounds in * grammia-
tical” blunders,

in

the elegant composition of the Hraminer.

orinstance, he says the questions which
ed my pupils, and ** critisised” by me,
**are almost to trivial tor notice” &c.

| tation?
| adjectives.
(2). Here is another hallucination; “Speak

plan; but there are those who object to
it. ‘The Government refuse to move in
the matter. They say that there are in-
herent difficultics in the business, which
they do not care to face. Ov hers say the
colonies don't want the worst and least
provident part of the nation; what they
want are what we cannot afford to lose :
the young, the intelligent, the skilled la-
borer, Others, again, say that there is
work enough in Great Britain. for its
whole population, if the laborers were
fairly divided ; tor, though in some lo-
calities there are more hands than there is
work for, in others there is work for
many more than can be procured. It ia
said that the country which can add to its
capital £150,000,000 sterlirg, annually,
cannot be a poor one. Neither is it. ‘Fhe
sum is enormous. When savings of a
nation amount to this unimaginable sum,
it should not allow its workers to live in
want and misery, ‘The men who make
this money are the toilers in the field,
the mine, the factory, the ship: these
are the men who produce this enormous:
wealth; and a pity it is that many of
them reap so small an advantage from it.

ree

1869.

nena

THURSDAY, MAY 13,

No notice can be taken of annonymous com-
munications. We must know the numes and
addvesses of our correspondents as a guaranty
of their good faith. We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used.

: HOME NEWS.

Tire contents of the English newspa-
pers can, in these days, hardly be called
news to us who dwell on the western side
ofthe Atlantic. It is indeed surprising
to find how little that is really new, is to
be found in their columns, Not only has
the telegraph anticipated every important
item of intelligence, but the diligent
newspaper reader's knowledge of current
eventsis very considerably in advance
of what he can learn from the
Old Country sheet which he holds in
his hand. While the steamer was sjowly
and painfully ploughing her way across
the Atlantic, the telegraph wire at the
bottom was flashing with the lightning's
speed, a record of each hour's events, as
they occurred, Much, then, that was

For the amusement of your juvenile readers
once more, Mr. Editor, 1 shalt reter them to

‘To
‘what class of words does ** to” belong to in
the sense in which it is expressed in that quo-
Lennie says that adverbs qualify

part ofthe Canndian debt was used
corruptly; is that any reason lor annexa-
fion? My reason against annexation,
drawn from the corruption of our neigh-
hours, is this, not that: part of their debt)
was used corruptly, bat that their officials
are corrupt, and their legislators eapable
of purchase, and that these evils arise
from universal suffrage, Will your cor-
respondent assert that in any legislature
in the Dominion of Canada the passage

an Act ol Par
bribing the legislators?

sideration of the Lrish Chureh Bill, Sir
George Jankinson, (Conservative), moved
that the claim providing comp
Maynooth College from the Church funds
be stricken out, Rejected by the follow-
ing vete: for amendment, 192; against
318; Goverment majority, 126.

Mr. Aytoun (Liberal) moved an amend-
ment that the compensation to Maynooth
College take the form of annuities instead
of Capitalists’ sums,
sion, the House again divided with the
following results :—For the ammendment,
198; against it, 305; majority agains’, 107.
The other ammendiment which had been
proposed were then withdrawn; and clau-
ses 39 and 40, in regard to the College of
Maynooth, as originally introduced by
Mr. Gladstone, were adopted.

Consuls 93$. U.S. bonds 79). The
Bank of England las advanced the rate of
discount to 44 per cent, Bullion has de-
bereased £400,000, Liverpool markets
without quotable change,

Madrid, May 6,

Does he not know
perteetly well that such an attempt would |
cnuse instint destruction of all parties en-|
gaged in it? does he not know perfeetly |
well that sueh things are common celse-|
where, and that the price of legislators in |

certain States is almost as well known as
the price of Evie stock in Wall Strect.
Again, our friend from Nova Scotia as-
serts that the debt ot the United States is
diminishing. and that our debt is inereas-
ing. Are we to judge of the correctness
of his other tacts by the truth of these?
What does the Seerctary of the Treasury
say? no less than this, that on the 1st
Jannary, 1869, the public debt of the

The House in committee resumed con-!

ensation for! list year £1682 4s. da,

Alter long discus- |

j
made known. |

‘tence, I unhesitatingly pronounce the first!
charge against the Government of the Colony
jto be wholly incorrect, Public Printing cost!
Of this amount the

scholars know best: Lennie’s Grammar, from

y ay’ i Y owhic »

detailed public accounts show that the Rie UE Mab ee a
Printer received £940, and the balance of £740). 0 pat ; “ »

Oe ene pan Aa Na Was put tnt | Ne HACC! ae ice eu

ender, ius, OU the amount expende: ” +f
he ihe whole of the feeeleae ony bnetnit | i‘ ne eat warite vil Milt Ha
of it can be any Cown fur SO Ane work, Now partici; ie must not be used in the past dense’ ;
from ena Saye facts of the case, | out what the scribe recommends in theory he
bat of the public printing? Lecerutay e ul | UsFegards in practice,
not be saved out of the contract work, and it) (3). In the same number of that PACE Ape
would be a diflicult- matter to transform the Pers the following sentence :—* Scurrility
Queen’s Printer’s amount of £940 into £1000, | and blackguardism 18 a weapon of rowdys in
even though the former sum was all profit to) CYeTy country, but respe tible people shun
that officer, which is far from being the case, | te moral pest.” Lennie says, ‘* 4 wo or more
I offer no opinion here as to the possibility of Singular nouns coupled with anp, require
dispensing with a Queen’s Printer, and putung Yer} in the plural”; but the scribe of tie Lx.
all the public prinung up to competition; but @#”e7, it appears, does not believe in that
I do most positively state, from an inspection | rule.
hy any competent and dispassionate person, of (4). In another number of the Mramtner
the contract work and that performed by the | of a recent date occurs the following p ssage:
Queen’s Printer, it will be readily admitted | ‘* Dous Bishop Melotyre, Key. Mr. Pitager-
that the Queen's Printer has given. felly as} ald, the Rev. Mr. Duncan, and many other
much yaiue for the money received by him,as | Rey. gentlemen require a hint from us,” &e,
the contractors haye. I tail, therefore, to see | Here, also, Lennie’s rule, to which [ have ree
where any saving worth speaking about could | ferred above, is shamefully * violated,”

|

out, * Alex, McRae,’—w: ich book ought your

which you are supposed to teach them, or

speculation and conjecture with the Brit-
ish journalist, isa matter of history to
his trans-atlantic reader, We knew long
ago that the Irish Church Bill had passed
through its most dangerous stages, and
that the majority in Parliament for its
cisendowment and disestablishment, was
avery large one. We see in the papers
before us the whole history of that great
measure, ‘There are the arguments for
its passage, and the arguments against it.
We find that the new law strips the Trish
Church of its wealth, and severs its con-
nection with the state. ‘The first process
is that which is called the disendowment,
and the second goes by the name of dis-
establishment. Some people—and very
intelligent people, too—have been sadly
puzzled to see what constituted the dil-
ferenee between the two processes, From
this time forth, the Episcopal Church in
Ircland will stand on precisely the same
| footing, as regards the state, as all other
denominations in that country. ‘There
will, after the passage of the Irish Church
till, be no church established by law in
Ireland. Religion there will be pret-
ty much as it is among. ourselves.
Kyery denomination will be obliged to
support its own ministry Aut of its own
resources. This seems to us to be the
fair way of regulating the religious affuirs
of anation, in which the people composing
it profess different religious erceds, It
always seemed most unjust in our eyes,
to see the Roman Catholics of Ireland
compelled to support the religion of afew
Mpiscopalians, ‘Those poor people —and
they were always poor enough, goodness
knows—were forced by the law to support
a religion which they did not believe in,
and their consciences and religious con-
victious compelled them to make large
sacrifices to support a religion which they
did believe in. It is no wonder that the
Trish were discontented. Such an impo-
sition, or one not one-tenth part as unjust.
would raise a rebellion in a few weeks in
the most loval and obedient of the British
colonies, ‘The tories are fighting against
this measure of tardy justice with might
and main, but with yery little effect.
They were never more badly beaten,
The honest English people see at last
that they have been partics to a most
atrocious picce of tyranny, and they are
now in haste to make what amends they
can, The principle of the Bill once al-
lowed, the management of the details is
comparatively an casy business. In
closing so old a concern as the Irish
Church, there are many matters to be
settled, many claims to te considered.
It would be neither justice nor good poli-
cy to turn.the present incumbents out of |
their livings, and to send them adrift up-
on the wide world, without any provision
for their old age. ‘They had been educa-

|

Looking at this emigration scheme from
a colonial stand-point, we think very wel?
of it. What we want in these new coun-
tries, is labor; the more of it that we can
procure, the better. If laborers are sent
here, who have been merely unfortunate
at home, they will be welcome. We
certainly don’t want thieves and prostitutes
in a new country ; but if honest men and
women come, who are willing to do a fair
day's work for a fair day's wages, they
will be welcome. It will never be asked
here whether they have received parish
relief at home, or not. Let them only
behave themselves well, and work hard,
and they will soon be ina better position
as regards worldly goods, than they could
ever expect to be had they remained in
the land of their birth. Ifmen who have
never been convicted of crime be sent to
the new countries, they will do well, and
be an advantage to them; but let the
rate-payers keep their bad characters at
home; we don’t want them, except per-
haps the poachers: we have no great an-
tipathy in America to the poachers.

A Bill has been introduced into the
Tlouse of Lords, empowering the Govern-
ment to create Life Pecrages: that is, to
create Peers as Legislative Councillors
used to be appointed in this and the
neighboring colonies in the good old
times, and as the members of the Senate
are now appointed in the Dominion, Tt
is said by some that the House ef Lords
is falling into contempt in Great Britain,
and that the new Bill'is a contrivance to
supply that august body with brains,
without at the same time doing any in-
jury to its blood. If some plebian Brown
or Jones distinguishes himself in any walk
of life—say at the bar, or in parliament,
or in literature—it will be quite pleasant
and convenient to make a Lord of him,
and send him into the Upper House, to
enliven its heavy debates by his wit, or
relieve its stupidity and dullness by his
sense and spirit. We hardly think that
the aforesaid plebian, however, would be
wise in accepting the honor, particularly
as his family would be in no wise bene-
fitted by their short-lived elevation to the
patrician order, In order to keep up a
style corresponding to his rank, he would
be obliged to spend a great part of the
savings of his lifetime, and would, at his
death, be unable to leave his tamily great
riches or a high-sounding title.

There has been some talk in certain
circles about the colonies, which shows
that with a large and increasing party in
England, colonies are not looked upon
with any very great degree of favor.
What is the good of the colonies? What
do they yicld us in return for the sums
annually expended on them? are ques-
tions much more casily asked by the
grumbling English tax-payer, than satis-

ted for their calling; they had taken
their positions under the existing laws ;
and it was only a matter of honesty and
good faith for the state, when it disen-!

|

United States was fitteen and a halt mil-
lions more than it was at the date of the
Tast statement. ‘This is diminution with a
vengeance, As to our Canadian debt; no

person can tell whether it is rising or fall-
ing, until the next mecting of Parliament; |

Dut supposing it rising in amount, is that!
any reason for annexation? Brutus says’
fo us, ** You owe seventy millions, and)

In the Spanish Constitutional Cortes,
yesterday, the article of the National Con-
stitution guuanteing liberty of worship,
was adopted by the following yote; For
164; against, 140,

New York, May 6.

A railway tie ef polished) Calitornia
aurel wood, mounted with solid silver
and spiked of pure gold, has been forward-

be effected in the department of public print-
ing. If put up to tender to-morrow, it is
doubtfulit the teach rs would be benefitted
thereby to the extent of a fiurthing each,
remains for those who assert the contrary to
prove their position, which will be rather a
diflicult matter,

2. Iam not aware whether your corrcspon-

dent refers in his second charge to former
; delegations, er to those undertaken by the

It

(5). In the same paper the following is
found :—* Our progvess men treat with disdain
the cnlightened of the leading statesmen of
Kurope, views and laud to the skies the god-
less and intidel system of cducation.” In this
pussage the first rule of syntax is recklessly
transgressed; but the passage itself is at once
nonsensical and ungrainmatical,

(G). One passage more, Mr. Editor, and I
shall not dore your readers with any further

your debt is inereasing; therefore you! ed to the end of the Central Pacific Rail-
should assume the debt of a nation which | road, and will be laid on Saturday next

illustrations ot the grammatical acumen of

present Government. If he means the latter,
the ** venerable scribe.” Here itis:—"* Llence

i must say that I have too high an opinion of

dowed the church, and took from her the
temporalities she was legally possessed of,
to secure to them, for the term of their
natural lives, the livings which, to very
many of them, were their sole means of
subsistence. ‘The curates, too, were en-
titled to some consideration, and we be-
lieve a very liberal provision has been
made for them by the new law. Some
complain of these compensations,but, we

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owes to theusaud millions,”

My argument concerning slayery was to
this effect: Canadians dislike annexation
toa country formerly oppressed with mil-
lions of slaves, and theretore now iy great
part governed by the bayonet, ‘To this
one triend replies, “Trae, but Great
Britain introduced slavery into America.”
Is this meant fora reason why we should
like annexation ? if not what does it mean ?
‘This iso great mystery, bub not greater
thin what follows next; we are twitted
with the St. Atban’s raid, a villany infliet-
ed by one set of Amerionns upon another,
What is that ton We indeed thought
iv ight to pay the cost of it, for it seemed
70 US that we were answe
crimes of those whom we should have
gaarded better; butis it our fault that our
gest should prove to be a thief ? or, ifit
were, shall we, therefore, be in love with
snnexation to the country which produced
him?

Let us now, with the words of Brutus,
look at the other side of the story. Less
than one handred years ago the Ainericans
numbered bat three and one half millions
of people; they are now about thirty mil-
lions, At present we number four millions
and upwards, and are increasing in a more
yapid ratio than ow neighbors, In one
Jundred years we may fairly expect that
the New Dominion will contain more in-
habitants than the United States at this
moment, Shall wes therefore, abandon
this tnir prospect and Jose our identity ot
being swamped and merged in the over-
grown Republic of tne States,

It is perfectly true, as stated by your
correspondent, that the American nation,

Alter gloriously aequitting themselves in
the wars of their revolution, being oppres-
sed by debt and all sorts of politieat difti-
culties, did nevertheless create order ont
of chaos, and flourish with unexampled |
prosperiiy snd suceess, Brutus considers
this to be due to the excellence of Ameri-
ean institutions—in this respect 1 differ
with him, L-onsider they have prospered
not beownse, but in spite of, their institue |
veons We Cinndianus sincerly rejoice in|
the success of one neighbors—we Lope
Mhat they may long coutinue to prosper

ible for the.

|national grievances to arbitration did)
more than could be fairly demanded, and jerter forces the conviction on my mind that. going to have it this summer?

| was celebrated yesterday in various parts

| Jersey, were destroyed by fire layt night. | wishes to bring before the public, By adopt.

thus completing the road.

The Government soll one million dol-
| lars in gold, to-day, at 136 and 1364.
| Ottawa, May 8.
| TIon. Mr. Rose made a tinacial ‘state-
finent yesterday. Ie spoke for four hours.
‘The receipts from Customs and [xcise
had fallen below the estimate; but the
Government curtailed expenditure, so
that there was no deficit, Ordinary re-
coipts for 1868-9 to S0th June, last quarter
estimated at $197,446,56, Ordinary ex-
penditure, $154.706, 24, leaving a surpius | delegations to Quebee in behalf of Contedera-
of $274,034. Estinmtes for next year, | tion, to Brazil in search of free trade,
$14,7650,06
Surplus $246,122. 0 }
of the country, holding that the falling off right; but the former Government, and not
in import was due to prudence and pre-/ the pressnt, are responsible for the extrava-
vious overtrading. ah ths

3. Your correspondent is in error as to the
number of messengers employed to wait on
|M. P.1"’s. ‘Lhere is only one messenger, a
door-keeper and a fire-lighter, whose united
salaries amount to some £60, I leave it to
‘the teachers themselves to say how much this

the intelligence of the people of this colony,
‘to believe that they share in the opinion of
* Vox Populi,” that the Hon. Mr. Lensley’s
nissions to London, Halifax, New York and
Washington, were * senseless” ones. Ly the
first two, £500 per annum was saved to the
Colony, and by the two latter, telegraphic
communication will be restored, and, it is
hoped, free trade also, These objects may
be *! senseless” in the opinion of * Vox Popu-
li,” but notin mine, No waste or extraya-
gance can be traced to those delegations, If,

}
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London, May 10th.

Tn the house of Commons to-day, Mr.
Fortesene, Chiel Secretary for Ireland, in
reply to an inquiry of Lord John Manner:
said Iler Majesty's Ministers were already
considering the best means of increasing
the powers of the Lord Lieutenant of Tre-
land, for the more effectual repression ol
outrages in that country.

Loudon, May 11th,

The London Standard to-day has n
Heading article on the Alabama question
hand Senator Sumner's speeeh, in which
lthe writer reviews the relative positions

of the United States and Great Britain
‘and asserts thatthe raids and other out-
rages perpetrated by American Fenians

the fires in the Colonial Building,

4, I scarcely know what “Vox Dopuli”
| meaas by the statement thit the Island can
afford to keep a few special friends in fut offl-
ces,
! either that unnecessary offices are maintained
to reward special friends of the Island, or that

highly. If this is the case, * Vox Populi”,
in Canada during the past few years more should ee Gap the remedy may
than overbalance the depredations com. | ¥° a teh ede ae what’ your cor-
merece, The Government of Great Britain | brite me to the offeet of thy letter, which 1
is consenting to submit the mutual inter | would have written much souner i isan pete
mitted. The whole tenor of © Vox Poyuti’s”

|

to yield Jurther would be an act of cows he is in hopeless ignorance of the sul ject |
ardice and irreparable degradation, | upon which he attenspts to enlighten the pab- |
New York, May 11th, lie. He does not capital what he is writing

H tae jad About, and therefore he, in common with many

The completion of the Dacitie BACON | het nowspape . correspondents requires to

i 4 sig ) be told that betore his ambition or vauity again
of the country with public rejoicing. «| urges him into print, he ehould make hinself |
The Murray silk mills in Patterson, New | vequainted with the facts of the case wh
i

Loss—-quarter million dollars, | ing this simple advice, le will #ave himself

however, your correspondent reters to the.

‘ and to | English tongue, as established by reputable
Expenditure, $14,519,600; | Ualitax in order to bring troops to the Colony | authors.
Ile reviewed the state |to suppress the Tenant League, perhaps he is |

| would allow each of them, even if the amount | ability, commanded a high and respectable
were divided amongst them, and the M P.2,’s | Character among its contemporaries, both at
compelled to ran their own errands, and light | home and abroad.

A person would be inclined to inter | Which it so richly deserves,

these special friends are remunerated too |

'—one for Newloundland and the other for

ich he | Charged 500 barrels of flour and a quantit

mathematical teaching may be neither relig-
ious on irreligious. See Lennie: * English
Syntax, Rule eleven, ‘These are but speci-
mens of the grammatical accuracies: which
have lately characterized the columns of the
kraminer. ‘Vhe shametul blunders to which
1 have referred above, L commend to the eare-
ful study of all those who advocate a sectarian
system of education. Such blunders cannot
fail to enlighten them, JT presume anew and
improved edition of the Hnglish Classics will
soon enuinate from St. Dunstan's College, tor
the * motley crew” of the Aeandtner oppear to
treat with disdain the modern usage of the

It is to be regretted that the Bvaminer
should have passed into the hands of a set of
‘‘ignoramuses,” who cannot write a single ar-
ticle without murdering the Queen's Engl
Alas! the brilliancy and purity of style whic
once characterized the columns of that journal, |
have completely disappeared. A clumsy style |
of composition, scurriiity, and exceptiionable
grammar, now distinguish that paper, which,
while it was in the hands of a gentleman of

In the //eraid of the 2nd inst., there is also
an editorial paragraph in abuse of me, Con.
sidering the * insolent” creature from which
it comes, L shall treat it with that contempt
* enough now.”

ALEX, MoKAL,
Summerside, May 12, 1809.

; ,
‘Two Schooners Joaded with potatoes

Halitax—sailed trom this port this week.
Dr. Hovxixs, for many years a resident
ol this ‘Town, left here on Friday last’ tor
the United Siates,
What about the Market Square—are we

Perer Stuxciain, Esq., has been a
pointed a Member of the Government, in
the place of the Hon, B. Davies, who re-
signed some time since,

Tre Steamer Merritt, from Montreal,
enlled at this port on Monday hast, and dis.

ot goods. We understand that she intends

| grounds are, we believe, to remain the

| think, without reason. In a few months
| the Irish Church, as a national establish-
| ment, will be no more ; a great grievance
will have been done away with forever ;
and if'a few years must elapse before the
whole of the rubbish of the ruined edifice
is cleared away, so that not a single trace
of it shall remain in the land, we do not
think that there is very great cause of
complaint. The church fabrics and burial

property of the Episcopal Church in Ire-
land. ‘There will no doubt be consider-
able squabbling aboutthe Regium Donum,
the Maynooth Grant, and other matters,
before the matter is finully settled. The
holders of endowments are to be divested
of them on Jan. Ist, 1871. These en-
dowments are to be vested in a commis-
sion, but what use the revenues of the
Irish Church are tu be eventually put to,
we have not yet seen,

There is a great deal of talk in the Old
Country now-a-days about emigration.
There are a great many people there out
of employment. These—-or by fur the
greater number of them—are a burden
upon the poor rate, There are 30,000
able-bodied men in England who cannot
find work ; the number depending upon
charity for subsistence, is enormous,
Now, charitable men say, why keep these
poor people in a country where they can-
not find employment, when there are wild
regions of the earth that are wanting but
just such strong arms to convert them
into smiling fields and fruitful gardons ?
Tet us send them away, say they, where
they can get plenty of work and a gencr-
ous return for that work. Let the parish-
es, instead of wasting their resources year
after year in feeding or keeping, in a
miserable existence, thousands of half-
starved creatures, make one grand effort
and ship their superabundant population

t
t

onliing at this port once a month,

to Australia, to New Zealand, to Canada,

stind alone,
should we not frame a Confederation, to com-
prehend all our colonies; by which the Moth-
er Country and her younger branches should
bind themselves to afford each other protec:
tion in case of war?
would be no need to spend millions in plough-
ing the seus with extravagant troopships. Wo
might reduce our army,save our money, freight
the old wasteful transports with lusty labour-
crs, and make the colonies every year less
liable to be assauited from without,by peopling
them out of our redundant population.”

and sensible letter,
Albion, written in answer to a le

factorily answered. Wee clip the follow-
ing from an English newspaper, to let our
readers sce themselves as others sve
them :—

** * “We are paying millions a year for
troops to guard colonies that are rich and
prosperous; while at home, the masses of our
own people are miserable.”

+ ae ee **

“+ She [Canada] draws from us some three
millions annually tor her defence; she makes
no contribution towaids the cost; she relies
mainly on us to defend a frontier of 4,000
miles, and she excludes our goods by prohibi-
tive duties at her ports.’ This is the ancient
grievance, anda very deep one it is, ‘The
reciprocity is indeed all on one side. We de-
fend Canada; and she cultivates her home
manufactures, behind our battalions, by clus-
ing her markets upon our producers who pay
toxes for her,

“The case of the Australian colonies is even
More preposterous than that of the Dominion
we have set up on the American continent, in
deflance of Nova Scotia, We send costly
regiments to Australia, to he paid for out of
the taxes on home labor (tor directly or indi-
rectly all taxes are derived fron industry) ;
and our soldiers at the Antipodes (save in
New Zealand) serve no other purpose than
parade on state occasions, They imparted
solemnity, it may be, to the receptions of the
Duke of Edinburgh; but is this reflection
comfort enough for the waste of millions?

*** 7? ad oe

“The present system weakens us and them
—us by taxes and by the withdrawal of our

men and ships; the colonies, by preventing
the development of that self-reliance which
is necessary to form a nation’s greatness.

The colonies are strong and old enough to
As regards protection, why

‘Thus bound, thero

We publish in to-day's ra vory able
irae tee New York
tier pub-
ished some time since in the same paper,

and reproduced in the lact Pro , on the
Annexation question, CA

Jom Cray, Esquire, of Bedeque, bas

been appointed Superintendent ot Public
Works tor Prince County.
know of this gentleman's ability, and his
general knowledge of the whole of this
part of the Istund, we think the Govern-

From what we

vhoice. Wo

nent have nade a very
rust that experience will prove that they

and We are both right,