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THE HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE. 3,

1868.

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OFFICE AND HIGH MASS FOR THE LATE
' MON. T. D. McGEE, IN HALIFAX, N. 8.

FUNERAL ORATION BY THE MOST REY. THOMAS
L, CONNOLLY.

We learn from the Halifax Evening Express that a
Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the
late Hon. T. D'Arcy MeGee was celebrated at St.
Mary's Cathedral, in that city, on the morning of
April 24th, The pillars were draped with black, a
alteso cross in white relieving the sombre ground.
@ walls of the chancel were also draped, and im-

over the alter was a large white cross. ‘The
church was filled, every available seat being occupied.
of the Cathedral being also fully taken up by

the vast eongregation. among those present were
gates Jackson, American Consul; the Hon. Alex.
eith, President of the Legislative Council ; Andrew

- Uniacke, Esq., the Custos of the County; His
Worship the Mayor; Col, Ansell, Town Major; Col.
Lowry, and nearly all the officers of the 47th Kegiment,
and many other prominent citizens. At a quarter past
nine o'vlock the Archbishop and Clergy entered the
sanctuary, and having taken their places around the

tafalque, the Office commenced. — This over, the
“Very Rev Dr. iannan offered up the Holy Sacrifice,
the Rev, Cannon Power acting as Deacon, and the
Rev. Edward Mu as Sub-deacon; the Rev. Thos.

- Daly, Master of Ceremonies. ‘The following clergy-
“men were also present; Rev. Cannon Carmody, Rev.
Peter Danaher, Rev. Cannon Woods, Rev. Philip
- Walsh, Rev, Felix Von Blerk, P. P., Cape Canso; Rev.
-Thos. Allen, Rev. Mr. McIsaac, Rev. Mr. T urcotie,
Montreal,

After the Gospel was sung, his Grace the Archbishop
ascended the dias, especially erected for the occasion,
“and delivered an eloquent and feeling panegyric on the
“deceased statesman. It was a fine effort of manly
eloquence, and we regret that our epace does not per-

mit us to present, it to our readers entire. We give,
however, some extracts. The text was the lamenta-
_ tion of David for the death of his friend Jonathan, the
son of Saul, whom he loved as hia own soul. Alter
describing the grief of the people of Israel on the death
of ag and Jonathan, slain in battle, the Archbishop
‘paid;
' Mr. McGee, like thonsands of others, loved his coun-
_try not wisely, but rashly and too well, As long as
, the anomalous and unparalleled nuisance of a State
Chureh in Ireland is forced on a reluctant and down-
trodden — in the words of the O'Donoghue, in the
House of Commons, last year, all Catholic Irishmen the
world over will have the game feeling. The only dif-
ference between them is, and it is a mighty difference,
that they are not agreed on the possibility of redress-
ing their country’s grievances by pyhsical force, and this
.is precisely the difference between Thomas D'Are
MeGee, the inexperienced, hot-headed youth in Ireland,
and Mr. MeCiee; the profound thinker, the philosopher,
_the accomplished statesman in Canada, He was nght
“at heart and at fault in head in the first instance.
“Taught tn the school of adversity. he soon corrected

_» his grave mistake. and beeame right both ways ever

after, Like all young patriots, he wildly dreamt the
Anattainable ; his blinding love for fatherland blotted
#ut the sun itself from his vision; and but for the power
of bia giganto intellect iu controlling all hia emotions,
‘like thousands of others he would have lived on to the
end in hopeless idiocy on that one vital point where
‘Ireland and all her best interests are most deeply con-
cerned. Strange to say, after all the sad experience of
the past, this still continues to be the difference point
between the two Irish parties. Knaves and dupes,
and inexperienced boys, still, as of old, dreaming mad
dreams of revolution against the most colossal power
the world ever saw ; and then Ireland's hest, wisest, and
most patriotic eons frowning it down as a wicked
phantoin, leading to oceans of bloodshed, without any
‘other possible result but that of wholesale aud inevit-
‘able national ruin.

To begin and not to succeed, as we undoubtedly
could not, would be answering the hehests of our
‘direst enemies. ‘To begin and not to succeed, is what
_time and again blighted the hopes of Poland's nation-
ality and the Southern States in our own time. ‘To
begin and not to succeed, is what blasted Ireland's
hopes, and dyed her bill sides, her plains, and her
cities with the gore of her deceived and persecuted

ple ten times over and over within the last seven
hundred years.

In various forms and under every variety of pretext,
resistance to English power in Ireland was resorted to
‘ander Henry the Seventh, Queen Elizabeth, the Com-
monwealth, William, Prince of Orange, George the
Third, Queeu Victoria in 1848; and again last year,
almost under my own eyes, on the occasion of my late
Visit to Ireland; and oh! for my country. And what
was the result? I could have wept—lI could have sunk
into the earth with shame and mortification. ‘To dig-
hs such an insane movement with the name of re-
‘bellion would be an insult to common sense, as it
would be giving a false meaning to the expression.
‘With all the show of an embryo republic, and the hub-
bub made, and the money paid in, and the assurances
“given that the power of England would be speedily
_ erushed, and her empire in rains, there was no re-

sbellion—not even a decent taction fight gies | of that
name. Five or six cowardly assassinations of Ireland's
‘Catholic children, including my ever-to-he-lamented
friend, Mr McGee—several women and children blown
i few unoffending citizens of Canada shot on their
own soil, are all that can be boasted of, After all said
‘and done, this is the only advance made towards the
avowed object of overthrowing British power in Ireland.
And it is so, not because the Irish are not brave, and
jin acertain sense patriotic as ever, but because the
wiser and more numerous portion of them. who had

something to lose, ever looked on the physical force |’

scheme as utter madness, and most fortunately an’
‘most correctly decided on the hetter expedient of en-
deavoring to right their country's wrongs by other and
more feasible means, After the oppression of seven
handred years, thanks to God and the growing intelli-
: of the age, and, shall I say it, to the genius of
‘the Catholic religion, which, 1 know, toa large extert
is gradually permeating the upper classes in England,
dawn of practical emancipation is already upon ua,
‘and. like all the choice gifts from God, it comes from a
compass ee from which it was least expected. The
veare of Fenianiem, no doubt, may have centribnted
jte quota, but, like the scares of all the rebellions before
it, without the change that has taken place in English
‘public opinion it could have effected nothing. If the
enians met the British army in the field, as they
‘promired to do, and killed fifty thousand of their
enemies, every man of sense well knows that their
phort lived victories, like those of the Southern States,
‘would have po other effect but that of riveting their
ohains the more cruelly. Twenty years ago the most
ine friends of Ireland could not have povsibly
anticipated the great moral victories that are being
‘aehieved in England before our own eyes. What all
i and means of poor Ireland could never have
+ will be soon and triumphantly accomplished,

&

God, without the shedding of one drop of human
Within another short year [ helieve the last
of the bond chains of centuries will be rabbed
‘our limbe, and the Irish catholic will be on a footing
—e equality with every other man in the empire.
are the two “eg ar ged rinciples of physical

and moral force, the right and the
‘two in Ireland, a8 tested and proved by
nfailible criterion of palpable and unquestionabie
. Physical force in Ireland always failed, for
obvious and mathematical reason, that it was ever
question of the wenker against the stronger. Once
the strength of the weaker is tested to its utmost,
tad et the last of its resources is exhausted, the next
i the next effort needed and not fortheoming, 1
ot dred, the lee billing expencied, snd. then the

\ shilling expended, then t

Sa Reseis io Poland, and the North in the
4 merely in the ascendant, but is
ld. The weaker 1 not only
asatorce, If is survives
y and toleration of the
ong, never was thero a

wrong of the

ry antl her manhood were hurled.
d what is more lamentable,

this blood, instead of serving. has, T fear, only destroy-
ed the cause for which it was poured out in oceane,

(To be Continued.)

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News by Telegraph.

Lonpon. May 27.—Despatehes have been received
from Shanghai, which state that the Chinese rebels
have laid siege to the important commercial town
Tientsen, on Pehio River, about 70 miles from Pekin,
and the port of that capital, Michael Barrett, alias
Jackson, the Feman, who was convicted of causing the
Clerkenwell explosion, suffered the extreme penalty of
the law at Newgate, this forenoon. A Commission
Appointed by the Resolution of Parliament to investi-
rate and report upon the condition of the Laws of
Sngland bearing ou the snbject of naturalization, and
the rights of expatriated subjects, has been formed and
is composed of the following members :— Lord Claren-
don, President; Mr. Charles Adams, Secretary; and
Messrs. Kingslake, Philamore. Forrester and Harcourt.
Parliament is waiting for further despatches from the
Abyssinian expedition, and the action onthe vote of
thanks to Gen. Napier, proposed by Mr, Disraeli is
consequently deferred.

Loxpon, May 27, p. m.—Telegrams have heen re-
ceived, giving the particulars of a very formidable re-
volt which has just broken out inthe Province of Bosnia,
Turkey, Troops are being rapidly pushed forward
froni Constantinople to quell the ciserder, A trent

for the mutual protection of naturalized citizens, which
the American Minister, Mr. Bancroft, has been negoci-
ating with the Bavarian Government, has been signed.
Prussia has taken the initiative in the proposed general
disarmament. By command of King William a reduction
: to be forthwith made in the land forces of the king-

om.

Lonpon, May 27.—The greatest event of the year
on the English Turf took place to-day on the ‘Epsom
Downs. A vast throng was present, business was
almost suspended. ‘he Prince of Wales and other
male members of the Royal {omily were present. ‘The
day was delightfully fine and the coarse was im capital
order, More than the usual interest was taken in’ the
race in consequence of the heavy amonnt ventured hy
the Marquis of Hastings in backing his horse “ Lady
Elizabeth" against the field.

Lonpon, May 28.—A despatch from Warsaw reports
that bands of Polish exilen said to have been recruited
in France, have appeared on the frontier of Gallicia,
and making riotous demonstrations. It is believed that
Lanqueiwiz, leader of the last Polish insurrection, is at
the head of these bands,

Lonpon, June 1.—Messrs. Sullivan and Pigot, the
two Dublin editors who were imprisoned, have been re-
leased on a writ of * error.”

Paris, May 26,—Marehall Neill, in an oficial report,
declares the Chassepot rifle the best firearm known
Ife also states that these guns are now manufactured
in government arsenals at the rate of sixteen hundred a
day, and thatall the infantry of the French army are
now supplied with them.

MontreaL, May 28.—The troops in the garrison
here are under orders, The soldiers, wives at St, Jolin’s
have been ordered out of the barracks, and accommo-
dations for two thousanl troops are being prepared.
The hospitals are provided with field panniers, Gov-
ernment detectives patrolling frontiers.

of officers of the volunteers have sent in their resignations
in consequence of dissatisfaction at the provisions of
the New Militia Bill. The Adjutant General declined
to submit to them to the Governor-General at a mo-
ment when the country was threatened with danger.
Trade dull and tho country orders are lighter than
usual in consequence of the Fenian rumours

Orrawa, May 29.—Gunboats have been despatched
to patrol the neighborhood of Prescott and Kingston,

New York. May 27.—Seeretary Stanton has resigned
the portfolio of War, General Townsend has taker
the oflice ad interim.

New York, May 27, p. m.—General Schofield haa
been appointed Seerctary of War.

Gold M04.

New You, 29th.—Haytien advices of the 25th inst.,
state that Salnave's adherents have recaptured a for-
tress ®ear Portau Prince, from the rebels, and the in-
habitants of that country are flying in all directions,
Salvane is preparing to desperately resist the expected
attack of rebels. The British war steamer Phabe ar-
rived at Port au Prince on the 18th, and was hailed by
the foreigners with great rejoicing, buat she sailed for
Jamaica on the 20th. Foreign consuls still refuse to
surrender the refugees in their consulates,

New York, May 30 -A Montreal special says that the
utmost alarm was cauged by the commanding General
receiving telegrams of Fenians gathering at Buffalo
and St. Albans. A battery of Artillery has been
ordered tothe frontier andwere under arms all dayFriday
Two companies have left for St.John’s. Itis understood
that the two hundred Fenians at St. Albans will receive
arms and uniforms from Boston, A case of blasting
fuse seized at one of the wharves Thursday night.
The man in charge escaping after attempting to stab a
policeman. It is rnmoured that many of the yo un-
teers are Fenians. who will fire on their officers on
getting into battle. Desertions are taking place at
Prescott. and the garrison there is reported disaffected.
New York, May 29.—A cable despatch states that
the Marquis of Hastings lost £100.000 on that Derby
races on Wednesday, and committed suicide that night.

New York, June 1.—Ex- President Buchanan died this
— at his residence, Wheatley, Pennsylvania, Gold

4.

PRECIOUS REMEDIES AND TILE PRECIOUS
METALS.

There is a name familiar as their own, to the sick of
all nations, which will be remembered like those of
Sutter angl Hargreaves, the gold discoverers of California
and Australia, and that name is Thomas Ilolloway.
Ilis remedica accompany emigration on its march to
every point of the compass; and when the cadets of
enterprive faint by the way, under the enervating influ-
ences of disease, these inestimable restoratives recruit
their physicial energies, and enable them again to press
forward to the goal. What would theee colonics do
without them? In a commercial point of view they are
of no emall importance to our merchants, while to the
invalid they are the elixir vite,

Recent accounts from Bathurst, Ballarat, Mount
Alexander, and the various gold districts on Macquarie
and the Turon, mention some of the most extraordin-
ary cures on record, accomplished solely hy these rem-
edies. The habits of the diggers, their diet. and their
constant exposure to the direct raya of the sun, tend to
inflame the blood, and prodace eraptive complaints of
a painful and dangerous character. Wounds and ab-
rasiona, Which otherwise might be of little cousequenc,
become frightful sores under these cireamstances, and
allordinary diseases are rendered tenfold more obstin-
ate and maligant by the excitement of mind and body
which prevail at the diggings. Ienee ecorbutic com-
plaints, glandular swellings, suppurating uloers,tamors,
abecesses, bad legs, erysipelas, and rheumatism are
among the most severe scourges of the population of the
gold fieldy. We have itfrom the best authority that
the stereotyped prescriptions of the regular pharma-
copia are iiterally wasted upon external disease in
the gold regions. gon says a medicial man
writing from Bathurst, “nothing arrests the mirchief
and restores the patient in such enses, save map ge *
Ointment. assisted by the internal operation of Hollo-
way's Pills The effect of the latter medicine in bi-
lious tever, congestion of the liver, stomach complaint,
diarrhea, piles, and all diseases of the mucous mem-
brane of the bowels, ie equally prompt and decisive ; it
seems to change, as it by a miracle, the condition of the
whole system. The fever abntes. the bile resumes its
regular flow, the stomach recovers its tone, the dis-

charges become healthy,the irritation of the bowels ceas-
es, and a
These res
as wo bave described exists, are simultaneous, for it is
the en age ae < the Pills to aot specifically up-
on every diseased

tly and so challenged the | The blood. which, hke electricity, circulates the fires
as the South in the late civil | of disease throngh the aystem, ix purged of its impurt-
years, four or five hundred | ties by the operation of this great remedy, and it may

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Ite, strength, and hopefulness retarn,
. where euch « complication of ailments

ternal organ at the same time.

regarded as the most reliable medicine ox-

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t lor all internal disorders.—The Gold Finder.

Mostreat, May 29,—I[t is understood that a number

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TRADE OF THE COLONY.

Tun Customs Accounts for the past year indicate a most
healthy condition on the part of the trade of the Colony,
The ordinary exports of the colony, which comprise its
natural productions, amounted to £260,470 sterling. In
addition to this, there were 18,041 tons of shipping sent
home for sale, which were valued at £111,816. ‘The tota!
exports, therefore, of the past year, amount to £372,316
sterling. ‘Turning to the imports for the same period, we
find that they amount to only £294,413, stg. Thus, it will
be seen, that the balance of trade in favor of the colony last
year, is exactly £77,883 stg. This is a very satisfactory
state of affuirs, and shows that the productive powers of the
country are being rapidly developed. Trade is being con-
ducted on a safe basis, and asa natural consequence, the
wealth of the country is increased in the same ratio, The
combination of circumstances to which this healthy state of
trade may be set down, is an improved mode of agriculture
among our farmers, and the introduction of mussel-mud as a
manure; an increase of cultivated lands, an increase of pro-
ductions, and an increase in the price of agricultural produce ;
low taxation ; and non-interference on the part of the Legis.
lature with trade. So longas this combination exists, as we
have every reason to believe it will for many years, it is no
effort of the imagination to augur the brightest future for the
Colony. Although the wheat crop last year was unprece-
dentedty good, yet we regret to find that sinck the opening
of the navigation this spring, a much larger quantity of
breadstuifs has been imported than within the same period
last spring. For example, .ast year,up to the 31st of May, there
were imported only 1989 barrels of flour, and 1295 barrels
of cornmeal; whereas, up to the Ist of June, 1868, 7091 bar-
rels of flour and 2212 barrels of meal have been imported.
This is rather unaccountable to us, and is a condition of
things which ought not to exist. We look forward to the
time when the increase of scientific farming among our agri-

breadstuffs, for there is no reason in the world why sullicient
grain cannot be grown in this Island to feed its population.
Comparing the general exports of last spring with those of
the prosent, up to the close of May, we tind them as follows.

1867. 1868,
Oats 92,301 87.495 bush.
Potatoes 20,746 53,943 “
Barley 142 100 “
Turnips 1140 1957 “
Vork WH 968 bbs.
Oysters 176 46 “
Oatmeal 191 103 “
{ags 807 256 en

'THE SCHUOL QUESTION,

Tue editor of the Islander suggests the following amend-
ments to the Educeiftion Act of this Island, as likely to meet
the views and wants ofall classes of the population :—

“ Whereas it is expedientto encourage tle establishment
and maintenance, in the ‘Towns and Villages of this Island,
of Schools for the gratuitous instruction of poor children of
all ages; and also that superior schools or colleges through-
out the Colony, in which the higher branches of E lucation
shall be taught, should be cntitled to receive aid from the
Public ‘Treasury ;

Be it therefore enacted, a4 follows.
association, or corporate body, that «hall hereafter establish
or maintain within any ‘Town or Village in this Island, a
school or schools, and therein gratuitously instruct poor
children in the elements of an English education, shalt be
entitled to seccive therefor, from the Treasury of this T-land,
anannual aliowance equal to for each and every child
that, during the year, ay have Leonso instructed. — Every
individual, association, or corporate body, that shall here-
after establish or maintain with this Island, a superior
school or college, and shail provide such school or college
with a sufficient number of teachers, competent to impart a
knowledge of the several branches of learning enumerated in
the Act of the Legislature of this Island, relating to the
Prinee of Wales College, shall bo entitled to receive from
the Public ‘Treasury an annual allowance of —~——for cach
and every pupil that, during the year, way have been in-
structed in such school or college,

* The Proprietor or Proprietors of every such school or
college, who may be desirous of obtaining public ail, undet
the provisions of this Act, shall give to the Governm ‘nt of
this Island, a notice in writing, of his or their intention [0

which the school or college is situated, the nature of the in-
struction therein given, and the names of the teachers em-
ployed therein, and shall be given to the Colonial Secretary
of the Island,

“In every such school or colleg>, the proorictor or pro-
rietors of which sha!l have applied for public aid, there shall
e kept a daily record of the attendance of pupils, a copy of

which, veriticd by the signature of the principle mastcr of
such school or college, shall be fi'ed in the office of the
Colonial Secretary of this Island, every three months, ond
the average attendance shown by such record, shall be tak n
as the basis to determine the allowance to be paid from tue
Public Treasury to such school or College as aforesaid,

* Every such sch ol or college, the proprietor or proprie-

tors of which shall haye given notice of his or their inten-
tion to apply for public aid; shall at all times.after the giving
of such notice, be open to the inspecticn of any person or
persons who may be appointed by the Government to inspect
and report upon such school or college,
* No grant of money shall be made under the authority of
this Act, in aid of any school or college in which students
secking to enter such scheol or college, shall be required to
subscribe any religious test, or to make any declaration of
religious belief, or which shall require students thereat to
attend the religious services of any particular Church or sect
of Christians, nor to any school or college, at which the
semi-annual attendance of pupils shall be shewn by tho of-
ficial register to be leas than——,

We agree with our contemporary, and think so highly of
his proposed amendments, that we commend them to the
careful consideration of our readers.

PURCHASE OF THE LON, J. C. POPE'S ESTATE.

A Pountie Mertine of the tenants on this Estate was re-
cently held te discuss the expediency of the Governmen
purchasing the same upon the terms of its proprietor. The
meeting was, we learn, very unanimous in the opinion that
the Goyernment ought to close with Mr, Pope's offer, which
was twelve shillings an acre, with arrears thrown off, In
obedience to the wishes of the people interested, the Govern.
ment entered into negotiations with Mr, Pope, and after a
little haggling upon both sides, the bargain was closed at
eleven shilings anacre, ‘There are 7521 acres on the Estate:
and the cost of it 1s £41000. It is a very valuable Estate,
nearly all cleared, and within a convenient distance of Sum.
merside and Crapaud—both shipping places of importance.
Under the provisions of ihe Land Purchase Act, this Estate
could not ne by the Government, and, as a conse-
quence, the people on it, and their posterity after them,
would have had to. drag out an existence in the de-
pendent position of tenants, were it not that the Govorn-
ment introduced into the Legislature last aession, and
assed a short Hill extending the provisions of the Land

rchase Act, Although Mr Pope, as far as we could ever
learn, was an indulgent and liboral-minded landlord, yet,we
cannot help co ns his former tenants upon the
tay prospect of their beerming freemen—the owners in
their own right of the land upon which they have spent their
strength, capital and industry, and which they have brought
to a vory fair state of cultivation. Their position will soon
be an independent and a happy one—happy because it affords
the consciousness that whatever labor is expended, and
whatever improvement is effected upon their farma, is for
their own benefit and that of their children. This is the
esompe to which every tenant has a right to aspire, and we

pe to live to see the day when it will be fully realized
_——s the length and breadth of Prance Rdward Island,
There is not much doubt but that the Estate will prove fully
selfeustaining, because the land of which it is composed is all
good, and the tenants on it are a most Industric us and thri-
ving class of people, who are quite willing and able to pay

whatever prico may be set upon it to secure the Government
from loss,

Tim City Fathers should sce that their bye-laws with
respect toclearing out nuisances from back-yards, &e.,
before the Ist of June, ure strictly carried out. The elty

is In danger enough from the impure state of its wells,
without adding thereto by the foulnoss aecumulated du-

ring winter, and still remaining unremoyed.

: “Tun Editors of the Patriot and Islander

E uestion: the latter | &
wie misabtne a ng Cathotios and their | tention of our readers to it with more than usual earnest-

culturists will do away altogether with the importation of

j include the Editor of the Patriot.

Any inlividual, or} attords another example of the bona side character of

prictors.

reeanting lils former opinion

religion, now favors sectarian education, His motives,

however, are clearly understood by all denominations;

formerly he sought to avail himself of a Protestant
majority, which ‘he endeavored to unite against the
Catholic portion of the community, and in favor of the
party with which he was connected; now, he desires to
use the Catholics and the Education question simply
for the purpose of regaining power! In this attempt
we believe he will full, as he deserves to do, because no
one can believe him to be sincere. People look for con-
sistency in Editors and party leaders: Versatility-im-
plies crude opinions, formed from motives of expediency,
rather than conviction. Abler men than the Editor of
the Js’ander have recently, elsewhere, found it impossible
to educate a party up to their latest ideas, particularly
if these should happen to be opposed to their former
strongly expressed opinions. But hostile as our two
contemporaries are to each other, they are always reacy
for an assault on the Government.

«As the wolves that headlong go
On the stately Buffalo.” :
We can hardly believe the Editor-in-chief of the Patriot
to be the author of the very iWoxical article entitled
“A Contrast,” in the issue of that paper of the 16th
ultimo, unless, indeed, recent illness still depresses the
physical and inental energy of our worthy contemporary.
One would suppose the writer of that article, or some
of his connections, had a snug little estate to dispose
of, the value of which it wes sought to enhance, by ad-
vocating the increase of the maximum rate, now limited
in the Land Purchase Bill to 7s. Gd. ey., per acre. How
many estates does Our contempe rary believe would be
offered for sale at, or below 7s. 6d., if the maximum
price of the Land Purchase BUL was raised to, say, 10s,
cy. per acre, for example! Yes, the Editor of the
Patriot says the Land Purebase Bill requires an amend-
ment of this nature, and he blames the Government be-
cause they did not ask for more extensive powers of
purchasing than ean be accomplished with a credit of
£10,000! Apparently he has forgotten that application
has recently been made to mest of the Proprictors,
some ot whom absolutely refused to sell, while others
made demands absurdly exorbitant. A few only treated
the subject ina eandidsmanner, and to these, very liberal
overs were made. ‘The Government, no doubt, under-
stands how to act, in case an emergency. such as our
contemporary contemplates, occurs, Their remedy
against private speculators, is to tender Proprietors a
fur price for their estates, and thus leave the narrowest
possible margin for profit in cases where large amounts
of arrears exist. We maintaln that the Government
have acted in good faith, both towards ‘Tenants and

principle of capitalizing the net rental of the last seven
years, shows that they fully recognize the difference In
Value of two such estates as his Lordship’s and the
Cunard's. We know of no other principle of valuation
than that adopted in the ease just referred to: Lord Mel-
ville’s estate has for many years been under the manage-
ment of an experienced agent, and the clvil power has
been supported by British soldiers introduced especially
fort hat purpose, housed and maintained by our contem-
poraries aud their friends, the partizans of the Pro-
prietors, and amongst them we, sincerely regret to
The Sullivan estate

the offers made by the present Government to the Pro-
Miss Sullivan was offered the same price as
the owners of the Cunard estate had accepted two years
previously, ‘The offer, which, we understand, would
have amounted to £17,500 stg., was refused! ‘This is,
#e think, a very suggestive fact, and it seflects no credit
onthe Colonial Office, that a Proprietor should be en-
couraged by the expectation of support from the In-
perial Government, to refuse so liberal an offer in the
hope of eventually realizing larger amounts from the hard
earnings of industrious men. We affirm that the position
ofthe Colony is improved by the course the “Tenant League
or Composite Goverament,” as our contemporaries de-
light to title the present Executive, have adopted. la
stead of commencing a crusade of spoliation, they made
formal proposals to purchase, and, as a proofof their
sincerity. they were prepared to pledge the public credit
to obtain funds if required; after their overtures were
rejected, they proposed a compulsory measure, but at the
same time expressly disclaimed all intention to dis-

apply for such aid, such notice shall state the locality in |

possess Proprietors by unfair, unjust, or unconstitutional
means. ‘The Land question had been materially altered
by the purchase of nearly 800,000, acres and by the pro-
pos il, then made for the first time, to settle the matter
defini{ively, by pukchase at fair rates; to be ascertained,
not by tn? Tenants or their nominees, but by resuming en-
quiry with (iat especial object. at the point where the late
Commission ft /!ed to take effect. This moderate, just,

and equitable proposal was styled by the Secretary of

State a direct appropriation of private property "a
misapplication of turms. We venture to think, av in the
general acceptation of the word appropriation, there Is
implicd—the abstraction of o2¢ person's property and
applying it to another person's us%--without considera-
tion—which was never intended. A bona Jide proposi-
tion, such as this, merited, we think, something more
from the Duke of Buckingham than a siereotyped reply,
and reference to the “ views expressed by former
Sceretaries of State.” :

‘The policy of the Government, if it had been ac-
cepted by the Proprictors, would have afforded them an
opportunity of escaping with credit, from the very invi-
dious position they ocenpy with reference to the rest
of the community, The country had come to the
conclusion that it was preferable to make a great cffort
and shake off the Incubus which oppressed it, rather
than submit to the annual depletion caused by payment
of rent, withan occasional outlay ofexceptional character
in building Barracks and military Expenditure, Govern.
ment did not blame Proprietors for the existence of the
Leasehold System, or even for its continuance up to
that time: they afforded the Proprietors aun opportunity
of entering within the pale; they said, allow us to pur-
chase your rights at their fair value; you can then, if so
disposed, labour like others In this industrious hive,
build houses, or ships, cultivate the soil, embark in
trade, and win golden opinions. instead of sullen looks.

Much may be said in favour of the Proprietory system,
as itexists in England and Scotland: in those countries
the principle that “ property has its duties as well as its
rights” is fully recognized ; there the Landlord—as a
London paper lately obserycd-finds the fixed capital
employed onthe farm. He builds and maintains the
farm-house and offices: the fences, fleld gates and farm
roads are constructed by him; draining a'so is usually
done at his expense, ‘Thus the Tenant's outlay is con.
fined strictly to the cultivation of the soil, the payment
of wages, the purchase of live stock, manures, &c. ‘This
capital can be withdrawn without difficulty, and rein-
vested elsewhere in case circumstances render it expedi-
cot. In Ireland, and Prince Kdward Island, but notably
in the latter, the Landlord finds none of the capital, fixed
or otherwise, employed in the cultivation.” He grants a
lease of forest land, and looks on with complacency
while his Tenant converts the Wilderness Into a Farm-
stead: this is in most cases, as stated by the Government
in their “ minute,” the labour of lifetime, and would be
undertaken with far greater confidence If the tenure
was frechold, and the occupier consequently less Mable
to lose his improvements in case of sickness, accidents
or unforeseen misfortunes. We may be told that Land-
lords rarely exercise their right of re-entering; that may
be so. but, “arrangements” are frequently made which
result in a change of Tenants, and the abandonment of
his Improvements by the man who ought to have the
most enduring interest in them.

We have no desire to embitter the relations between
Landlords and Tenants, or between the Farmer and the
Government: We should regret to see a sort of Guerilla
warfare commenced which might, "o doubt, be waged in
& manner very annoying to Proprietors, who on their
part, would of course indemnify themselves by greater
strictness towards thelr Tenants. ‘Thoughtful, consider-
ate Proprictors, and some such there undoubtedly are,
must be sensible that their private Interests cannot long

Proprietors: their offer to Lord Melville, based on the | aera out, all the money employed upon it will be wasted.

‘ aaa acta | Buackwooo's MaGazine for May contains 80 many

rticles of interest, that we feel bound to call the at-

ness. For somo time past we read each number as it
appeared with just a shade of disappointment, and
quietly laid it aside: but the May number has made such
an impression upon us that we shall not be disposed to
part company with it readily, even though we are im-
patient for its suceesvor, If we may draw an augury of
the future, we should say that the Magaalue is about to
recover all the freshness of its early days. We hope
that our anticipations will be reallaed, and that the pro-

© present number will be fulfilled ‘by those
oy pr fallow. A glance even at a part-of the con-
tents will be suflicient toshow that there is attraction
very reader.

othe tent article is an historical sketch Lord Ches-
terfleld, the Man of the World.” Many have, heard of
Chesterfleld’s Letters, but few know anything of the
man. The present biographical sketch is very readable,
and will give 4 more correct Opinion of him than Is likely
to be formed from reading his book. ~

* Ilorse-flesh” contains a few hints to those who are
making up their minds to Introduce a new article of diet. .

* Unlucky Tim GriMn, his Love and his Luck,” is the
commencement of a new ard lively story, which will
cause this number to be much called for, and we advise
any one hesitating about subscribing to hesitate no
longer.

re article on the Odes of Horace appeared in the
April number, and in the present issue the subject is
continned, and ilustrated with numerous translations
and running notes on the best Odes. These translations
are made upon the principle of producing as cxact an
imitation as possible of the original form of the metr es
employed by Horace, with sucly modifications as are
necessary to harmonize the rythm to the English ear,
Every classical scholar will be delighted with this article,
A continuation is promised.

Published by the Leonard Scott Pablishing Company,
140 Fulton Street, N. Y.

Tur local papers are complaining of the backward state of
Queen Square, notwithstanding the amount of money ap-
propriated for itsimprovemont. Stray cowa, pigs, geese, G&e.,
are allowed to wander over it by day and night, and fatten
at the publie expense; but worse than all, a lot ot van-
dals, by whom the city is infested, cross the Square in al,
directions and destroy the trees which have already been
planted, ‘The fact is, the Square, instead of being an orna-
ment, is a disgrace to the city, and but very poorly contrasts
with IiMsborongh Square, which has been beautifully
aid off, planted, and ornamented, principally by the
public spirit and good taste of a few private individuals,
The introduction of fluwer-beds und a water-fountain aro
now only required to complete this Square, which will then
be an ornament to the city, and a delightful promenade for
the citizens on fine summer evenings. AS for Queen
Square, we very much fear, that until something like y c
supervision is adopted with regard to it, and strict rules
laid down, witha guard or watchman appointed to see them

Fine,.—On Wednesday night last, about 10 o'clock, a fire
broke out ina tenement house on Powaal Street, owned by
Philip Coyle, Tobacconist, Although the alarm was speedily
given, and the fire conpanies and engines promptly on the
spot, yet, owing toan inadequate water supply, the building
was completely destroyed, as also the one contiguous to it,
owned and occupied by Michael ‘Treanor, Preventive
Officer, Both houses were insured in the London and Lan-
cashire Office, ‘This fire shows how necessary it is to have
commodious water-tanks on all the principal streets of the
city, for without them, a steam fire engine is of very little use,
The sooner, therefore, the City Fathers set about supplying
this indispensable necessity, the better for the security of the
vity,

William Parton, in his Adaatic Aloathly papers, saya
the Roman Catholic Church has for many years care-
fully anticipated the progress of population Westward,

and by small investments inland at points along the
probable directions of future railwaya, has become verv
wealthy, **.\ professor in one of our wealthy colluges,”

| Saw, LWo years ago, at Rome, a better map of the voun-
| try westof the Mississippi than he ever saw at home,

upon which the line of the Pavilic Railway was traced,
and every spot was dotted where a settlement would
naturally gather, anda conjecture recordod ag to its
probable importance.’

Tux salmon, lobster, and oyster trade ot this Colony is
assuming larger proportions yearby year. Messrs, Wilson
and Waddell put up eleven thousand five hundred cans of
lobsters last year, most of which found a ready sale in Eng-
land, Mr. Cuirns has been engaged in the salmon preserv-
ing business for several years, and annually exports a la
quantity to Britair, ‘This year, Messrs, Wilson and Waddell
intend to preserve 20,000 cans of lobsters and oysters, and
the other parties enzaged in the business intend to prosecute

it ona larger seale than they have hitherto done. We wish
them all success,

it roe clan ohare tacnnnenibdiia

A Quebee paper says:—The Committee on fisherves
have prepared a list of questious relating to ea and
fluvial fisheries, and ‘navigation. The members will
take a number of copies of these questions home with

them and distribate them to-partize from whom infor:
mation may be expected. Anawers are to be sunt during
recessto Mr. McCready, Clerk of the Commiteee. Next
session of Committee will consider the answers and make

their basis of recommendation to the goverament,

A Lerrer from the Magdaten Islands, dated May 1,
say :—“Among the fishing vessels arrived, is one from
Prince Edward Island, and the master of which is going
to put up herring for the Scotch market (Glasgow.) He
requires 600 barrels for this yoar, and he has his own
men to pack the fish. He will take the fish to Prince
Edward Island, and from there he will ship them by

some large vessel bound home.” Who can this be? Our
friend Cairns.

To Cornesronpents.—We have received from a
famillar correspondent, Augustine Callaghan, Esq., of
Lot 11, a biographical sketch and eulogy of the late Hon,
Thomas D'Arcy MeGee. The article ts well-written,
and, as far as we are acquainted with the public acts of
the martyred statesman, is a falthful record of his fe,
We have, howcver, already published a longhty
biogpraphy of Mr. MeGce, and, from the limited extent
of our space, we are reluctantly compelled to decline tho
clever contribution of our correspondent. ,

Tne conviction and execution of the man who fired
at the Dake of Edinburg has followed swiftly on his
crime. the attempt to murder Is still a capital offence
in Australia; it was classed among capital offences In
England till within a few years ago, when it was taken
out of that category by special Act of Parllament.
Why the colonial law lias remained analtered is not very
eugy te say. ‘ti may be because murders are more fre-
quently attempted among the lawless bushrangers of
Australia than amidst other populations,

Tur Moniteur Ac utien, a papor published at Shediac,
N. B., la the French language, and in the Interests of
the Acadian French of the Maritime Provinces, after be-
ing suspended for some months,has again resumed pub~

Heation under diferent Editors and Proprietors, Under
its new management, the Acedicn has greatly a ye
in tone and spirit, and we hail its reap n our

sanctum with pleasure, Sueces, mon ,€t voyage de
tong cours!

Tur Edinburgh Review for April is an interesting No.
Among the articles is a Review of Montalembert's
“ Monk's of the West.” We must say, however, that a

be peri otro wit te progres of th Col | Bory work iis aowieags of Wwe Gece aay

plane ons sadly pe Te nie ae the theetew thelt | from this review of It iMiiteson's Wrench in Tndia; the
ny # y ®! mes, con

template the proposed ‘disendowment’ and dlerstablish- — abroad, and Western China, are also very interest

tmeut of the Irish Church, the coming settlement of the
Irish land tenures, and not to forget the allusion of
their wily supporter, the Editor of the Islander, to the
fable of the Camean Sybill !—Conrninuren.

Juparne from appearances, the Summerside Progress

says it greatly fears that “ steamer-nights ” and “ sko-
daddling ” will soon

that interesting Town

come to be synonymons terms in

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Tuts Island has been honored by receiving, through
His Excellency the Licutenant Governor, sumpteously
bound coptes of “ The Early Years of the Prince Con-

sort,” and “ Leaves from the Journal of our Lives In the
Highlands,” as a donation to the Legislative from

Her Majesty the Queen, and besting Aer Majesty's ember

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