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endowments than by title and possessions, that the late
ter did not tend in the least to exalt him in the estima-
tion of the learned over Europe, who oaly jadged bim

THE HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, 1867.

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regarded not as a leading Catholic, although he is a
very upright and sincere one, but as a leading politician.

by the result of Lis labors, the extent ef his accomplish-| His intlucnce is due to his character and abil ty, not to : “
ments tod by (he wieugth and vigor of his philosophig. bis religion, or conneetion with persons of high Ecelesi- intellect on the part of the audience. It is to be re

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So fav as New Binoswick is concerned, Mr. Anglin is|intellectual enjoyment. We rejoice to see a large and Lieutenant Governor, &e.,
from his late residence to St, Dunstaa’s Cathedral

punctual attendanee at all literary entertainments, be-
cause such attendance bespeaks a certain cultivation of

ily loved scievce wisely and well, and he was asticul rank, although he iw soconnected. ‘ Mr. Anglin membered, however, that the mere attendance at lec-

niways ready to mid its progress by Munificient outlays isan honest man,” sai’ a New Branswick M. P. P. to, tures and debates of a miscellaneous crowd, effects but

from hiv princely tortune. This 19 illustrated in the
“rand telescope, erected in the family demespe at Birr
Voule, whieh has been regarded as one of the wonders
ut the age in which we live. His lordship was the son
of Lawrence, the second Earl, and Alice, daughter of
the late John Lloyd, of Gloster, King’s County, He
was Lorn June 17, in the year 1800. He entered the
Dublin University in 1918, and in the following year
Magdalen College, Oxford, where he distinguished hins-
sell in mathematics, As Lord Oxmantown, he repre=
sented King’s County io Parliament from 182 till
tas endl of the first reformed Parliament, when he retived
from political lite for the purpose of devoting bimself
mare completely to philosuphieal study, lu [Stl, on
his feiher’s death, he succeeded to the honors of the
Pverage, but as his Trish coronet did not give him a seat
in the Mouse of Lords, he was still enabled to follow the
bent of bis tastes and inclinations until February, 1845

“when he was electod one of thy representative peers for

Ireland, aw office which is always leld for life. During
the yreatest part of these years, Lord Rosse resided
chiefly ut Birr Castle, where be act up his first telescope
in the year 1831.
teet diameter, a focal distance of twenty-seven feet, was
so mcely balanced by means of weights over pulleys,

that it could be raised or lawered to any angle, with the N

greatest ease, whilst it was made to sweep the horigon
by mhoans of wheels running ga a graduated ivon circle,
It is deseribed m the Alagazine of Scrence:—The suc-'
cess of this instrument, every portion of whieh he bad)
himself superintended, and a cuusiderable part of which
he had worked upon with his own hand, encourage
to further effort. Ele had proved the best admixture
for specu'um metal, to be tin 126-4, copper 58-9. The
castings Were commonly made in moulds of sand, through)
which, on pouring the meval, the heated air rapidly es-
caped, but in the use of sand Lord Rosse found a main
c.use of the failure of Jarge speculu:ns.—The sand, a,
slow conducter of heat, allowed the inctal to cool with
comparitive slowness, but more rapidly —_ the surface
than at the centre, while the alter cooling tended *,
crack and warp the face, Lis first effurt to conunsr
this difficulty was to make the casting on aniron sould.
Tue iron being a rapid beat-conducter, the heat, he
argued, would pass from the top down ards, the whole
eovl equaily, and so the warpage, ol necessity arising
ivom the contraction of the centsr in cooling when the
suriaces were already cool. Le prevented. Experiments
proved the correctnsss of the supposition, but the air,
having No escape tarough the mou'd, rose through the
mutal, and the great speculum so cast was useless, A
step had, however, been gained, and Lord Rosse set
himselt to overcome the remaining difficulty. Iron was
clearly the proper mould; the problem remained so to
construct the spyculum that the air might pass as freely
from it as from a mould of sand. Te this end he made
a mould of iron hoops, bound together, placed edgewise.
The spaces proved large enough to allow the escape of
air, but not of molten metal. ‘This make ef mould was
ready for a casting on the 18th of April 1842. Minor
difficulties as to crucib'es had been overcome, three held-
ing each a ton glowed in the furnaces. The crane
heaved them from their bed of fire, and poured the
molten metal-like light liquid upon the mould. It was
to form no giant statue, no great gates of bronze, but a
vast eye to look out upon the heavens, and bring their
Secrets into view of men.—The speculum thus cast was
placed for sixteen weeks in an annealing oven, 80 regu-
lated thas it should cool slowly and equally. At the
end of the period there was no blemish, no flaw, no
warp throughout ite cirewmference of eighteen fevt ;
in 18 rough state it was perfect. Several ingenious ad-
justments of motion were contrived by Lord Rosse to
grind the surface to the true parabolic form; the opera-
tion required six weeks; as many hours was sufficient
to give the polish; and at length the little watch-dial on
the top of thy flag staff onthe tower of the work-
shop was seen mirrored with the most minute distinct-
nesa in the finished six feet speculum, the firet of such
diameter that had ever been produced. The tube of the
telescope is filly-two feet in length and seven in diam-
eter; the machinery is supported on massive walls, and
the imstraracut, notwithstanding its great size and
weight, ia moved with the utmost ease. With this in-
strument many of the nebulw. previously seen as mere
‘uunous patches, were resolved into stars, and in others
a spiral form and arrangement wae detected. New
nebui® were discevered in considerable numbers, and
wherever the instrument was directed new stars were
sven in immense profusion, Speculations as to the
structure of the remote regions of the universe have
been founded upon these facts, but more information
wiil probably be required before it will be possible to
effect mach in that direction, Sketches of some of the
most remarkaole nebula have been published in the
Philosophical Transactions for 1850, but as yet there has
been no detailed account of the construction of the in-
struinent, or of the ebservations made with it. Lord
Rosse was elected in 1849, President of the Royal So-
ciety (of which he had been a fellow since 1824) in suc-
cession to the late Marquis of Northampton ; this post he
heid for the usual term of five yeare, and resigned in
1864, In 1842 the University of Cambridge conferred
on Lord Rosse the honorary degree of L. LL. D., and in
the following year be presided over the meeting of the
British Assoc...ion at Cork, In 1853 his lordship was
elected one of the members of the Imperial Academy of
Sciences at St. Petersburgh, and his scientific attain

ments were further recognized by the bestowal of the
Knighthood of the Legion of Honor from the Emperor
of the French in 18565. Lord Rosse was a memder of
very many learnéd societiee on the continent of Europe;
be was also a Knight of 8t. Patrick, Lord Lieutenant
and Custos Rotulorum of King's County, and Colonel
ol! that county militia. On the death of the Lord Pri-
mate Beresford be was elected Chancellor of Trinity
Coitege. For some time past his lorvdship’s health had
been failing. He was ordered to the neighborhood of
Monkstown, where he expired in the 68th year of bis
age. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his
eidest son, Lord Oxmantown, now Karl of Rosse.—
Dublin Freeman's Journal,

T, W. Avnowtn, Esqr., M. P.—Few men in pul l'c live
im tho Dominion, enjoy u more extensive portion of fa
vorable estimationthan Mr. Anglin. As the editor of
the St. John Freeman, the ablest political journal in
New Branswick, and, perhaps, in all the N. A. Provin-
cea, he had, ed to the passage of the Union Act,
attained a distinguished place in the confldenve of the
coumry at large. Ne threw all his influence into the
anti-Union seale during the whole course of the Union
agitation, and, although unsuccessful in the issue, still

ourselves; ‘the isnot only the ablest Catholic in the
, Province, he is the ablest man in it, and, povsibly, he is
ithe ablest man in the whole Dominion ; he can read the
future, and, if he ever err in his reading, the case is so
rare, tat wo never remember the circuinstance.” This
was said to us by a man whose opportunities of knowing
the subject of his discourse were as good, to say the
least, as those of the writer in the Express.

For our ewn part, we would like to see more men
like Mr. Anglin in Ottawa; we would feel proud of them
as being fellow brethern in religion, nor would we care
very much whether they would be Confederates like
Cartier and MvGee, or wmti-Confederates like Anglin
and the five existing Nova Scotia M. P's of the same
jreligivus persuasion. We have always denounced at-
tempts ty get up religious distinctions in politics; we
ever will denounce them and their abettors; for if we
wish to live in peace, the best way to prevent future dis-
turbances is neither to originate sectional quarrels our-
selves, nor give any countenance whatever, to those who
do se now, or bave formeily done so, The attempt to
jparade an Irish Catholic party where there is no such

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jeither Anglin or McGee, deserves no higher commend-
lation than & similar attempt made afew years ago in
ova Scotia, to create a purely Protestant party, which,
however, politically ruined all its supporters. If Mr.

jAuglin would, without reason, unite the Catholic against]

the Protestant portion of the House, we would agree
with the Kapress, and never trust him more. We never
tructa traflicker in religion a second time.

still, as an honest politician,—Antigonish Casket,

___ Gorvespontince,

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To Tux Eprror or tue Henan.

Afr, Editor ;

Tn your issue of the 2nd October last, I observed
janother letter from the pen of Mr. Manoa Rowe, on
lthe subject of that most extraordioary letter of Sheriff
| Dodd's, to the Administrator of the Government.
dosed 15th August, 1855. I was not aware, Sir, until

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some short time ago, that such a document was on the
records of the Colony, and do not feel surprised that
Mr, Rowe should feel indignant that such a foul slander
should be fastened on the people of the Colony by the
action of its Legislature st the instance of Thos. Dodd,
Now, whit was the course the late Government and
Legislature should have taken before they should allow
such a charge to be inserted in the Journale? They
might have very easily ascertained if there was the
slightest foundation for such a charge, viz: ‘That
such # system of terrorism prevailed by which they in-
timidated the well-disposed under threats of burning
their houses and taking their lives"! Well, there were
two magistrates living in the locality spoken of; Mr.
Matheson, not a quarter of a mile from Joseph
Doucette’s, on one side, and Mr. M.utch, not more than
baif a mile on the other. Why not write to those gen-
tlemen, to know :{ such a state of affairs prevailed as
Sheriff Dedd stated in his letter to the Administrator
of the Government? Surely some persons under such
terrorism had applied to the magistrates for protectien.

Now, when Mr. Rewe’s first letter appeared, few
persons believed that Mr. Dodd wrote the letter referred
to, but merely appended his name to something drawn
out by another party to justify the employment of
troops on account of the excited state of the Colony,
but Mr. Dodd has been silent and left no doubt on the
subject.

I am not surprised that the Government ef 1865
should eagerly take hold of such a foul libel as that
contained im Mr. Dodd's report, but [ am at a loss to
conceive how a House of thirty members could pass it
over without vindicating the injured reputation of their
fellow-colonists, But for you, Mr. Editor, this letter
would never have been made public, as few persons
see the Journals of the House o Assembly, and other
papers refused to — Mr. Rowe’s letter, or to take
any notice of the libel on the people by Sheriff Dodd.
But I trust there is independence enough left in the Le-
gislature to have the matter investigated, and to exoner-
ate the people of tho Colony from such a charge.
When Mr. Dodd endeavored to obtain a seat in the Le-
gislature last wiater, few persons knew that he had
written such a letter; but should he attempt it again,
he may probably hear about it, I challenge Mr. Dodd

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dhim! ini icker ~ a
jAnglin is not a trafficker, and, therefore, we trust bim

litle good, as far as mentai improvement is concerned.
'The illustrious Fenelon, when be first announced the
'now accepted proverb that there is uo royal read to
|unowledge, amazed bis royal pupil. We greatly fear
ithat the modern lectdrer and debater, from the pert
glibness which they exhibit, fancy that they have dis-
covered some royal road to knowledge not discovered
{by Fenclon and those other eminent scholars who have
preceded and succeeded him. The midnight oil of
Erasmus, and the severe study of Pascal's hours of
solituds and sickness, are altogether dispensed with by
many modern oecupants of the literary tribune. We
do not wish to apply these remarks to this community
in particular, but if they possess any force or pungency,
we truat they will be taxen to heart where most re-
quired.

We notice that the Charlottetown Dubating Society

It had 4 concave speculum of three distinctively organized party, under the leadership of and the Young Mens’ Christian Association have already

commenced their session. Of the former, we will say
[eaching further than is implied in the general tenor of
jour remarks, Of the Christian Association, we beg to
|direct attentiop to one paragraph which occurs in an
opening address delivered before that Associatien by
‘ite President, Mr, Meard, which, as foreshadowing
the programme of the Association, betrays cither a
pean of knowledge of the construction of the English
language, or a ead lack of Christian charity and liber-
ality. The paragraph which has attracted eur attention
is the following:

** Do you ask me now, How is the Association te be
governed in future? I reply, the yearly tickets for
members are 5s., which will admit to all the priviloges
of the Lecture, Reading Room, &c.; with one excep-
tion, namely, in order to preserve the Christian char-
acter of the Institution, only members of Protestant
Churches will be eligible for office. In al! other res-
pects there will be no distinction, so long as tho rules of
the Association are observed. There are also single
tickets at 1.. 6d. each for admission to the Lectures,
aad family tickets at 3s. each.

Now, if the learned President meant by the foregoing
that Protestant Churches alone are deserving of the
title of **Cbristian character,” he is possessed of a
narrower disposition than we gave nim credit for;
but if he meant, as we fancy he did, that members
alone, in contradistinction to mere adherents of Pro-
testant Churches, were entitled to the privileges of the
Association, we leave the public to judge of the quali-
fications required for the position of President of a
Literary Association. With all due deference to the
talent and position of the various Literary Institutions
at present existing in Charlottetown, we wou!d hint
that there is not sufficient learning and talent in the
whole community to sustain respeetably one first-class
Literary Association, and the experience of the past
few years bas fully shown the folly of attempting
ing to keep in a sickly state of oxistence four or five
different institutions, pretending to have one object in
view, namely—a diffusion of knowledge, and the form-
ing w correct literary taste. The old Mechanics’ Inati-
tute, we have no hesitation in saying, was by far the
most comprehensive and useful literary Association
ever formed in this Colony. Based upon a broad plat-
form, it commanded the services ef every educated
man in the Colony, irrespective of his religious or po-
litical creed, and from them, as might naturally be ex-
pected, the young and inquiring mind received an im-
petus and direction which have been of the utmost ad-
vantage up to the present hour. ‘To deseribe the man-
ner in which one of the later Literary Institutions is
conducted, is at onco to expose its futility for all useful
purposes. A lot of rather ancient geatlemen, with
elongated visages, and presuming upon their member-
ship with some Christian Church, meet tegether, and,

for a particle of proof for his assertion that the people
of the locality where Joseph Doucette resides, or any)
other locality im the Island, were attempting one)
another's lives or property, and I trust, when the Le-
gislature meets, he will be called on to do so, and if he
cannot, he must stand convicted of uttering a malicious
and wilful libel on his fellow-countrymen, whose patron-
age has left him what he is.

In conclusion, Mr, Editor, I trust, as you are a mem-
ber of the Legislature, and have always spoken out
freely as a public journalist in favor of the working
classes, that you will use your influence to have this
stain removed from the character of your countrymen.

A Resipent or Quemn’s Counry.

December 10, 1867.

To raw Epiror or tae Heratp,

Dear Sir ;—I must trouble you with a few lines
on a paragraph which I saw lately in the Patriot, in
which a short account is given of the barque that Mr.
Joho McLean built for the Hon. Benjamin Davies
The writer says that she got stuck on St. Peter's Bar
for a few bours, after which time she was got off, and
went to Georgetown to finish loading, but was found
so leaky that she had to be taken to Pictou for re-
airs, and that the amount of damage was unknown,—
eading the public to believe that she received her in-
ee on the bar. Now, Sir, the inhabitants of Bt.
oter’s wish that report to be contradicted as utterly
untrue. I can prove that the vessel was leaky before
she left the whart, and that Mr. McLean offered three
pounde to any man who would find the leak. And
more than that, she did uot receive any hardship on the
bar, for the water was smooth, and vessels that drew
more watcr than she did got out the same day. Now,
Sir, you can judge for yourself of the correctness of
the paregraph in question. You can look in the Patriot
of the 50th ult., and take your own meaning out of it.
Iam prepared to prove what I have stated in this let-
ter, Perhaps you have received this-information be-
fore, but we feel dissatisfied with the Patrtot, because
very little will burt our harbor with ship masters, on
account of the bad name it got before now. Sir, it is

eame cut of the contest perhaps more honored and in-
fluen'ial than ever. Mr. Anglin is an henvet man, and
to this fact, fally ae much asta first-class abilities, is
due the almost universal esteem ta which he tw held by
the publie. In O:tawa. when be made his trenchant re-
ply to the invendoes of bis talented countryman and ¢o-
religionist. Mr. McGee, his former great reputation

too bad that a whole district should be hurt to satisfy
the selfish enda of one private indivicual.

Tt you would be kind enough to contradiet the Pa-
triot’s paragraph in your next issue, you will much
oblige your constituents at the lead of the Bay.

Yours very traly,
OBSERVER.

ingtantly waxed immensely greater; for it had been pre-
viously feared that bis prowess would compare jut ffer-

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@ tegtetiod to observe that the usually judicious!
editor of the Halifax Express, has chosen to admit a
most unscrepulous attack upon Mr. Anglin into his!
columns. According te our contemporary Mr. Anglin|
is vindictive, selfish, ambitious, dovilisL, and Lord!
knows what besides. No act of his life, however, is
adduced to sustain these furious charges, which are
harnilves only because they are general and unsupported. |
Tt may, Or it may not be true, that Mr. Anglin iv bid!
ding for the leadership of the Irivh Catholic party in the
Dominion, We do not belove it ourselves; for we do!
not believe that there ig any such distinctive party, any.
more than there is an English Catholic party, er Metho-'
dist party, or Seotiish yyterian party. It ever!
their religious rights come intu dy, then we shall!
gh fap ed eo
sh ill very likely devolve on Mr. Anglin, as bein
ng he most able, conmstent and gifted of its nem’
bers, 80 #6 parely politica! questions are agi-'
tated, we do not bel Other Irish Catholics, or,
Englwh Catholics, of Catholica will ever thi
unitormly on any political question — it is not
that they will.

with that of his erratic though brilliant antagonist.) —

Lead St. Peter's Bay, Dec, 11, 1867.

The Berala.
Wednenday, December 18, 1807.

LITERARY.

Witn the approach and reign of winter, Literary
and Debating Societies without number spring up all
over the Island, Thre is all very right and proper; for
if these societies do nut tend to diffuse knowledge and
awaken a literary spirit, they serve, at all events, to
while away a long and dreary wimter. The social ele.
ment is so largely developed in man, that if the Du-
bating or Lecture Room dows not draw a crowd, the
Bar-room and its accompanying sedactions will, Par.
ticularly is thie the case in a frozen region like Prince

ward Island, where, cut off for five months in the
year from all intercourse wiih the rest of the world, we

night after night, with all the circumstances attending
an oracle, retail to the same miscellaneous crowd of
ancient spinsters and whistling boys, their unvarying
platitudes and twaddle. Perhaps if undertaken from a
religious conviction, and with the view of crucifying the
spirit, these exercises may serve some good purpose—
though Heaven knows what; but to suppose that they
give any healthy action te the inte!lect, is a wild, ex-
travagant, Quixotic idea.

As for eur mere Debating Societies, so-called, we
saould classify them as necessary evilse—serving the
purpose of salety-valves for the escape of the superfluous
gas of vain young men, about whom the less that is
said the better. There is a want, therefore, in the
community that ought te be supplied, unless we wish to
imitate the example of the native bears and foxes, and
burrow ourselves in solitude and torpor for the wirter,
—sowme literary society like the old Mechanics’ Insti-
tute, with a broad and liberal platform, and embracing
whatever talent there is in the community. With
such an institution, the mind of the Colony might rea-
sonably be expected to be galvanized and enlarged so
as to subserve the noblest public and social duties, and
the tediens months of winter passed with pleasure and
advantage to ourselves. Is there any enterprising
gentleman of enlarged views iu our midst capable of
moving in this matter, or shall the winter be passed io
mental lethargy until Spring shall present the usual sad
spectacle of our native land, !amenting like Calypso,
and gazing with eyes bedimmed with tears, upon the re-
treating vessel which carries with joy many a beloved
Ulysses from her shores? We fear so.

THE LATE HON E. WHELAN’S FUNERAL.

The funeral of the late How, Edward Whelan took
place at two o’clock on Friday evening last, and
notwithstanding the severity of the weather,—a
heavy siorm of wind and snow prevailing at the
time,—it was attended by one of the most numerous
aud respectable concourses of people thet we have
ever witnessed since the funeral of the late lamented
Mayor Haviland, Several devoted friends from
Morell and vieinity attended, and we regret te learn
that their attachment to the deceased should have
led them to the unnecessary and unprovoked
task ef maligning us. Hereafter, when they come
to know us better, they will regret the hour in which
they expressed harsh and ungenerous feelings to-
ward us. The Benevolent Irish Society, of which
the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in
force, as did also thie Trish Volunteer Compavy, un-
der command of Capt, McIatyre, and of whieh the

follewed in the cortege

(where the Very Rev. Dr. McDoaald officiated,) and,
thence to the Catholic Cemetery. It is gratifyivg to
know that the distinguished services of the deceased
and the unaided force of superior gevias command-
ed these tokeus of respect from what we regard as
a cold and phlegmatic community, aad we consider
that the solemn pageant of Wednesday last reflects
honor upos the community itself—as expressive of
an appreciaton of important services rendered by a
man of genius to his adopted country.

sananinnnetenmanmataemennsttntie _—s

MORE SWINDLING CONCERNS.

Tux local papers have, during the past fall, given the’pub-
lic an idea of the manner in which a swindling, bogus ‘ In-
telligence Bureau’’ in the United States, attempted to
raise money ameng the neople of the British Provinces, Some
of the Charlottetown merchants were green enough to be
taken in by the precious scheme, and probably some few
others may be duped by the * Grand Distribution & Present-
ation Association,” of Messrs. Clark, Webster & Co., Bank-
ers and Actuaries, 62 Broadway, New York, one of whos
circulars found its way into our Sanctum Inst week. This
magnificent concern offers prizes, ranging from $300,000 in
gold, down to $10, for the small sum of four shillings ster-
ling; and they arked us te act as their Agents. We do so,
but in a way different to what they expected: We give
their advertisement all the honors of an editorial notic®
“free gratis, for nothing,” and to show them the extent of
eur confidence and zeal, we send them a copy ef this pape’
at our owacost. To the people of this Island, all we hay°
to say is, that ifthey allow themselves to be taken in te the
extent of an old button by the sensation circulars and sharp
schemes of these lottery gentry and quack medicine men
why, they deserve to be fleeced, and we have little sym-
pathy for them.

We have received from the publisher, Mr. David
Laird, a copy of the Prince Edward Island Alman-
ac for the year 1868, Wereiuro him our thanks
for his consideration. The Almazac appears to
have been carefully prepared with regard to astro-
uomical calculations, (a few of whith we have test-
ed,) although we do not wish to speak positively
on the subject. Upon local affairs and institutions the
Almanac is very full and explicit, aud the printing
and general arrangement reflect credit upon Mr.
Laird’s establishment. The Almauac cae be had
at all the bookstores.

Mr. Lepage, our Island Bard, par excellence, will
have to excuse us for not noticing a very handsome
volume of his later poems (printed and bound by
Mr. W. 1. Bremner,) which bas been laid upon
our table. Want of time and space thus far is our
only excuse, but we shall not forget to discharge our
vbligations at au early day.

Our esteemed East Point correspondent, ‘ Observer,”
will please take notice that we would mot be justified in pub.
lishing his last favors, We fear we would unnecessarily
wound the feelings of parties who may be on friendly terms
with ourselves, without effecting any good object.

Carr. Rawxin on :etirirg from the command of the
Prince of Wales Volunteer Company, and on his prometion
toa Lieutenant Coloneley of Militia, was presented with a
complimentary address by the officers and non-commissioned
officers of that Compaay. °

The Hon. J. C. Pope, with an energy and pluck
characteristic of the man, is actively engaged with a
large number of men in cutting the barque Prioress out
of this Harbor, where, after completing her eargo for
Europe, she has been frozen since the first of last week.
We have no doubt he will succced in getting her into
clear water. Mr. Pope is one of our inest extensive

ship owners, and active buisness men, and as a con-

sequence, he is ce | held in generalesteem. We
sincerely hepe that he will receive such prices upon the
cargo nd freights of the Prioress, as will more than
repay him for his present trouble and expense.

Some remarks which we intended to offer in to-day's
paper upon the Jslander's scheme of repudiation with
regard to the Selkirk Esiate, have been deferred until
next week.

We are glad to hear that several young ladies of the
city are making preparations to give the poor a dinner in
Scott's Hall, on Christmas Day. At such a season it is but
right that amid therr festivities the rich should remember the
destitute, and, out of their abundance, warm the home of
* cheerless poverty’ into harmony with universal gladness.
We should like to make this laudable enterprise subserve
the necessities of the poorer classes farther than is contem-
plated by its fair and thoughtful promoters. 1f one of the
underground apartments of the new Market House were set
apart by the City Fathers, and fitted up with a cooking
stove, tables, &c., we feel certain that, if they would only
undertake the work—and what work of charity has ever ap-
pealed to them in vain ?—the ladies coué provide the poor
with a good hot dinner every day through the winter, The
wages cf a cook, and the price of food would be the two
largest items of the expenses. Ladies what do you think of
such a charitable institution ?— Pat,

WHAT THEY ARE DOIN@ IN OTTAWA.

Hon. Mr. Anglin, in his editorial correspondence
te his paper, the St. John Freeman, under date of
Nov. 26, gives the following lively account of what
they are (net) doing in Ottawa:

The Parliament has now been twenty days in
Session, and the Government have nothing ready
yet for their consideration, save ooly the Bill for
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Such a
atate of enforced idlenees iu any of our Local Legie-
Jatures, iu the good old times when men valued their
rights, and expected their representatives to do their
duty, would have excited « storm which humbug
aud evasion could not allay ; but here it seems to be
submitted to as inevitable. Questions, it is true,
are put every day in great numbers, but the an-
|Swors usually mean nothing, We were promised be-
fore Confederation that great improvements would
jimmediately be made in all our harbors, and man
‘silly persons believed these assurances, and caleul-
ated quite confidently on all the vast benefits that
would accrue to themselves and the ceuntry from
these great works. But when the Ministry are ask-
ed if they intend to proceed with the promised im-
provements, they answer that the whele subject is
under consideration, and that as these works weuld
cost a t deal of money, an appropriation must
be made by the Leginiature betore ye ae 3 can be
done. The plain conclusion from the almost un-

Mon. Mr. Whelan was an honorary member. The
public offices were closed in respect of his obsequies,
and the flags on the public buildings were lowered
to half-mast. Every leading man im the commu-

nity, from the Chief Justice downwards, attended

are forced to fall back upon ourselves (or all social and, the funeral, acd the carriages of His Excellency the Government intend to payt
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varying aoswers they make, is that they have not the
slightest idea of making any of the promised im-
provements if they cau aviod dcing so, and that in-

|this respect, as ia so many others, the Confederate
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leaders’ in the Lower Provinces will find themselves
deceived. Mr. Smith asked aro t if the Federal
¢ salaries of the County!

Judges lately established in Now Brunswick, and
Mr. Cartier answered that they are bound to pay all
the law says they must pay—an answer which like
many others caused much laughter, One of the
Ministers afterwards wentto the other side of the
House to tell Mr. Smith imprivate that the drat
quarter's salary has actually been paid, but Mr,
Smith determined to take no private explanations,
gave notice he would move an address for papers,
&e., and so bring the subject fully for diseussion
before the House.

From a telegram in another column, we gather some
idea of what isto be the New Dominion Tariff. That
it will be largely in exeess of the taxation ef this Is-
land is evident, Frem the inception of the Confedera-
tion Scheme, we think there could be no doubt on this
point. Under the new regime, the people will pay
about one shilling a pound cn Tobacco; here the dut
is sixpence, making a difference to us of £1300 on last
year's importation, a Hing in the Dominion ate to be
taxed bs. a gallon; here the article is charged 2s.
Molasses for refining is to pay 73 cents per 100 pounds,
or 6 pence per gallon, and for general use 44d per gal-
lon; here the duty is 4d., and poor people think it
quite high enough. On this article, the extra taxation
to us would amount to £400 a year. Tea, in Canada,
is to pay 34 cents per lb., and 15 per cent advalorem,
or about 54d. of owr money; here the duty is 4d. per
Ib., making a difference of £2000 to the people of this
Island, On flour, the tax is the same as itis here. It
will be abolished altogether whenever we get recipro-
city with the United States. By the way, the Dominion
Parliament will adjourn in a few days. Can the editor
of the Jslander, whose sympathies have lately been so
strongly aroused in behalf of the Tenautry, and whose
promises of Canadian gold were on such a magnificent
scale, if they would only accept the blessings of Confed-
eration—ean he, we sny, give his readers any informa-
tion about that $800,000 ** free gift" which was going
to be offered this Island? Was the whole thing a delu-
sion and a snare to catch the ‘‘ unwary” tenantry ?-Pat,

We are glad to learn that there are to be a num-
ber of vessels built here during the winter, as we
koow there are mavy men in waut of employment.
—S.J.

A Debating Club has just been started in Sum.
merside. If properly conducted, it will relieve the
tedium of many # long winter eveniug, and serve
as @ training school for young speakers.

Hoa Rarsixe.—Mr. Robert Glover, in the viein-
ity of Summerside, killed a yonug pig last week six
menths and twenty days old, which weighed 230
pounds: ‘This is one of three pigs which Mr.
Glover intended to show at the Exhibition in Char-
lottetown in October last, but owing to the steamer
not ruuning from Summerside on that occasion, he
was debarred from competing for a prize.—S. J.

Ne mails have “bees received from abroad sinee
our last issue, which accounts for the dearth of news
iu our columas to-day,

CHARLOTTETOWN DEBATING CLUB.

The debate on Friday evening last, on the ques-
tion ** Whether a knowledge of the Classics isa
vecesssary part of a good Education,” was opened
in a masterly manner by Mr. R. D,. Shaw. After
a spirited discussion, the question was decided in the
affirmative.

The subject of debate next Friday evening will

o-—‘'Is man the creature of circumstances?”
Opener Mr. Seth D. Shaw.
P. S. Macaowan, Sec’y.

Dac. 13, 1867.

St. Dowsran’s Denatina Crus.—On Monday
evening next, the 28rd _iust., the following subject
will be debated: Was the Emperor Napoleon jus-
tfied in abandoning Maximilian ?

The Debate will take place in St. Andrew's Hall,
commencing at 8 oslock, p. m. An admission fee
of three peace will be charged at the deor te detray
expenses.

The Debates will be kept up every Monday nig ht
during the Winter, with the exception of the first
Monday in each mouth, which will be devoted to a
ecture,

W. C. Grant, Secy.

Dec. 18, 1867.

Drownep.—A gentleman, named D. H. Calboun,
writing from Dorchester, N. B., on the 30th Novem-
ber, acquaints the Postmaster General of thie Islax¢,
Thomas Owen, Esq., that a man named Wm. Murph:,
a native ef Prines Kawaed Island, was drowned oe
on the 27th ofthat month. LHe had been in the employ
of Mr. Calhoun from the Ist of November until the time
of hi» death, which happened in this way, He was
sent with a Scow-load of deals to a vessel belonging to
Mr. Calhoun, and reached the schooner in safety, but in
attempting to get on board he rip se between the scow
and the schooner into the water during the night time,
and although he was immediately rescued from drown-
ing, yet bis body was so chilled that he died about five
hours afterwards.—lIt will be satisfactory to his friends
who may read these lines, to know that he was decent-
ly buried, and that Mr. Calhoun speaks very highly of
him whilst in his employ went.

Mr. William McPhail, Secretary and Treasurer of
the fund for erecting a Memorial to the late Rey. Den-
ald McDonald, begs to acknowledge the receipt of the
paid up subscriptions of the Church at Murray Mar-
bor, and Lots 63 and 64, from the bands of Mr. Samuel
McLeod, Elder, In connection wtth the above, it is
respectfully requested that all subseriptions be paid up
and banded in imimediately, in order that a committee
may be formed, to act in pursuance of a resolution pass-
ed to that effect, at the meeting held at Orwell Head,
on the 22nd day of July last.

The Prince of Wales Rifles held a Company Shooting
Match at the Model Farm on Thursday. ‘The day was
rather cold and competitors had to fire without shelter.
The regulation iron pets hay'ng been removed from
the shooting ground, Lieut. Newson provided wooden
ones for the ocoasion, The ranges were 200, 400 and
500 yards, with 5 rounds ateach. We give the result
below: is
1si prize,

Capt. F. S. Longworth, 40 points,

tu L. sag D. McKinnon, 36

$4 ** Ya eil McNeil, 3

4th * L, Corp. Jas, Stewart, as

bth * Lieut. Newson, si *

Gh * Corp. Houston, 2%

wh * Sergt. Robertson, _

The prizes were distributed on agar = | evening
Jast, at which time the address to Lieut. Col. Rankin

was also be presented, Pat,
GOVERNMENT NOTICES.
Councit Orrice, Dee. 11, 1867.

It having been brought to the notice of His Excel-
lency the Lieut. Governor in Council, bat the Honor-
able Edward Whelan, who held the olice of Her Ma-
jesty's Printer in this Island, departed this life on the
Tenth day of December, inst., and that it was there-
fore neeessary to make some provision for the issuing
under authority, the ‘‘ Royal Gazette’ newspaper, un-
til the appointment of a successor to Mr. Whelan in
the above office: It is ordered that the Executors of the
Will of the Hon, Edward Whelan, namely—the Hons.
Daniel Breman and James,Warburton, or either of them
be requested and authorised to issue the ‘ Royal Ga-
zette” newspaper, from the office of the Iate Hon, Ed-
ward Whelan, until the appointment, as aforesaid, of
his successor; and that the same, when so issued, shall
be the ** Royal Gazette” newspaper of this Island.
Ordered, that a copy of the above Order be, forth-
with, furnished to the Hons. Daniel Brenan and James
Warburton, and that the same shall be eufficient autho-
rity in reapect of the said Royal Gazette.

Also, Ordered that a copy of the above Order be
— in the Royal Gazette newspaper of this Ie-
‘annd,