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THURSDAY, MARCH

dad caused me to be brough
educated a3 a lady, in order that be might!
Apeculate on me when | grew up. Le
Look great credit to bimsell for what he!
had done, but said he expected to be well}

aid for his investment. It was his plr-
pose, he declared, that 1 should mary

some rick man, who would be, able and |

willing to take care of him, so that /he
might spend the remainder ol his jife ia
ease pnd comfort.’

“It was ‘useless, then, to speak to him
of me, as [xm by no means rich.”

¥ OF course it was, especially as he went
to mention the name of the man whom he
dad picked outtor my husband, and whom
he intended that I should marry. Who
Mo you think it was, Hert?”

“Not knowing your Jather or his ac-
quaintances, Lean not even guess.”

* Give me your arm, Henri, and let us
walk out toward the suburbs. Of all the
mien in the world,who do you think it was?

‘Lean think of no one but the President
,of the United States, or Mr, Astor.”

+ Nearer home than that, Uenri Labar-
die; it was James Musson !”

* My God exclaimed the young gentle-
man, Wnoso interest seemed to be sudden-
dy excited, ++ This is a serious matter,
Jeanette.” That scoundrel James Musson ?
He is,reputed to be rich; but he is known
tobe a forger, and no gentleman will as-
soeinte with him,’

+L know it. You haye told me what
he, is, and the man is hateful to me.’

What did you say to this proposal,
Jeoanctte ??

“Nothing about you, you may be sure,
for that would only have made the matter
worse. <As svon as I could recover from
the panic into which I was thrown by the
mention of the name of James Musson,
_pyy resolution was taken, and [ pretended
to assent to his plain. ‘This pleased him,
and he said that he would not hurry me
to the marriage, but would come to-mor-
row morning to take me from Madame
Pinnette’s. ‘Then he was kind enough to
gouway, and I noticed, Henri, that he
had been drinking rum,’ :

*‘A fine speculation, truly! It is no
awonder, Jeanette, that you can not regard
im as your father. What resolution was
jit that you say you had formed?”

-“ That I would not be sold to any man,
and least of all to James Musson, 1 de-
cided that I could not go with my father—
if he is my father—to be used by him for
any such purpose, I resolved that I would
marry no one, if 1 can not marry the man

of ny choice, When Mr, Barteau comes
for me in the morning, he will not lind me
at Madame Pinette’s. I must fly from him
gad must hide from him.”

[To be continued.]

The Proposed Cession of Gibraltar
by the British.

We gave recently several of the argu-
ments urged in tavour of the proposition,
English Press; “nr qivaly liscussed
Gibraltar to Spain in exetauge oS" Ol
of Ceuta opposite. It may now be intercst-
_ing to note some of the arguments used on
the other side, Since wooden sailing
Steamers gave place to iron-clad steamers,
‘the value of the British nation of a navel

station close to the enterance of the Medi-
terrancan has been?much enhanced. The
-old port vfretuge has now becomea calling
‘station, and so long us England holds India
the must have naval stations at intervals

#8 stepping-stoncs on the way, ‘The advo-
cates, however, who urge the English}

people to yield up Gibraltar, asserts that
‘n better position miht be found equally
near to the mouth of the Mediterranean,
in Ceuta.—But cyen they acknowledge
‘that Ceuta is notnowa port. They assert
that five years and a million and a ball of
“amoney would be required to muke the se-
eure harbour and the defensible fortresses
weeded. Even this estimate is probably
below, rather than beyond, the mark,
Cevta would require to be newly fortified,
the old works being of little or no value;
find every oue knows what new fortitica-
tions are apt to cost. It cannot be sur-
posed that Great Britain would be willing
to give up Gibraltar before Ceuta is pre-
pared, and, in the meantime, who is to
dlesign and build the new works? Will]
Spain permit such a temporary occupation
ot both places as would be necessary, on
“is the construction of the fortification to be
taken on trust? These difficulties would
stand in the way even if Ceuta were proved
to Ls superior to Gibraltar as a naval sta-
“ids is also taken for granted that
rer. at the “lanmes only the peninsula,
Spain Would res.,5 pede 7
but sufficient of the mainliduc
space for the construction of sutli du-
vanced works as are necessary to keep
an enemy’s batteries ata sufficient distance
from the port. This is exactly the diffi-
culty that stands in the way of making
Gibralter perfect for its intended office.
Still, mature destined Gibraltar to be a
stronghold, whether possessed by Eagland
or some other Power. The place is nat-
uraly more defensible than Ceuta. The
garrison is more than ordinarily protected,
A large number ot guns are in such ele-
vated positions that they can attack the
vonly weak part of iron-clads—their decks.
Whe one thing needful appears to be the
erection of a high and solid mote, behind
which ships could supply themselves with
fuel and stores. Much time and money
vvould be required before Ceuta would
assess cither a harbour or sufficient de-
fences. Again, in retaining Gibraltar,
Great Britain would prevent its occupation
by any other naval Power, and probably
4or the sake of Spain, as well as the pro-
(tection of her own commerce, it is woll
that a fortress so much coveted should be
in the hands of a peaceabls-disposed na-
tion.—N. Y. Albion.

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A RELIGIOUS TOPSY.

SED OF TNE DEVIL,

From tho Cincinnati Gazette.

At the St. Elizabeth Hospital, on Ele
yonth street, in this city, there is confined
a girl about twelve years of age, who is
very singularly affected. For nearly «
;month now she has been apparently pos-
sessed of the devil, She is a resident of
Cincinnati, and after suffering for three
weeks at home, requested to be brought
;to the above hospital, probably thinking
that the demon of [is Satanic Majesty did
‘not extend south of the Ohio River. When
placed in a carriage for removal, every-
thing went smoothly enough until the
horses reached the suspension bridjre, when
jthey halted, and for a considerable length
ot time steadily refused to go any further.
Finally they allowed themselves to be led
across the bridge, and having reached the
other side they manifested no contrariness
until they arrived in front of the hospital,
when it was found to be utter! Amal
to get them to enter the yard. The girl
had to be lifted out of the carriage by main
force, and carried into the hospital. It
was proposed to take her into the chapel
,to see if prayers and the sanctuary would
have any influence over the evil spirit, but
“on reachivg the door her body became as
rigid as a statue,and the combined strength

of soveral men Was Dot sulligient to force |

A GINL Posse

a

t up and! her in,

mittee on Monday aext.
Union of the Colony with
Canada,

night, nearer twelye o'clock
London poverty is best seer
gin palaces have thrustout
parks, others in the niches/
ings, and others still in th

kets. The only living pers
the streets are the wretche

ing wretches are stretc)—

xa) to afford | Stone and mounds of
~ =a / yard where the ( Re#

although she tessed perfect wil- |
lingdessy and Soamed a istielsae Neb her in-
ability 10 comply With theid wishes,
Father Rotter, the priest in charge, then
suggested that she be taken into: the sae-
risky or vestry-rogm, and alter considei-
jable effort they sdeeceded in getting her
io there and from there into the chapel,
| Where, utter sume of the spirits had been
| exercised, she seemed somewhat to re oy-
: t svssion, But she appeared
fain an aversion to. holy things,
being unable to recite her prayers. Whew
asked Lo pronounce the name of Christ she
was unable to articulate, and whei she at-
tempted to write the peueil dropped trom
her hand, and her-arui became pertectly
motionless, but she wrote and pronounced
without didiculty the word *devil.” When
the Sisters offered her ** holy water” she
became violently agitated, and almost
went iuto convulsions, while a glass ol
plain water was accepted by her and
drank freely. Upon one occasion Sister
Amelia, the Mother Superior of the insti-
tutions, went into the girl's room, wearing
a piece of the * true cross,” when the girl
was thrown violently across the room) by
some invisible forcesund went into convul-
sions, and remained so until the holy relic
Was tiken from the room, when her agita-
tion ceased immediately. The girl has a
very iuniablo disposition, aud her strange
wlliction svems to trouble her in mind as
much asin body. She declares that she
is controlled by some mysterious but irre-
sistible power that is always forcing her
toevil. We understand that under the
kind attention of the Sisters she is recov:
ring, and bids fair sven to recover her
*possession, though she requires the
Glosest attention aud cannot see company.
Truly, the age of miracles is not yet pass-
ed,

Tra.y anp Rome.—The Ttuian Goyern-
ant, itis said, now proposes to adopt a
new attitude with respect to Rome, and
to ignore, so far as possible, the existence
of both the city and the Pope, which
governs it. The Vatican has wind of the
intention, and is much annoyed in antici-
pation, All attempts to arrange triendly
terms will henceforward be abandoned as
utterly useless, on account of the dogged
immobility of the Papal counsellors. The
Italian Government will try to do without
Rome in every way, and to await events.
So far as it is possible, they will tobae the
small piece of the Peninsular still con-
demned to Papal rule. They will leave
it to its priests and its mercenaries, its
Zouaves and Antibians, its Freneh divi-
sions, its dealers in pictures and moszics.
Henceforward the Papal States are to be
considered non-existent as an independent
power, and to be thought of only as a de-
pendency of France. ‘oavoid the passage
through them, and the various delays and
inconyeniences it details upon persons
journeying between the north and south
of the Kingdom, the ftalian goverment
intends to bring in a bill authorizing the

|

ed by the} construction of a railway from Florence
seco of) to Naples, outside of the Roman f+

ao
nas nr ca

~ PeSULTA ey
dander of the 17th suysi thie yy
in reply to the Goveraor's opening y
passed through Committee in they veech
of Assembly last evening—third 5 louse
to-day, ‘Lhe discussions of the lay sading
or four days were exclusively up & three
cliuse of the Address which aff/on that
duty of immediate Legislative arms the
tu the terme on which the Ca) -cision, as
become a sort of the Union, 7), vy ought to
tion moved an amendme ‘Lhe Opposi-
that the Quebee Conventiogt to the effect
ready rejected, and that sh bad been al-
postponed until alter next}? question be
tion” ‘Lhe amendment was g8¢heral elee-
transparent a fraud deservepcouted asso
the Confederation clause wag! t° pe) cee
vote of eighteen against cigé 5 Settled by a

et Ay ht iuguibere
vill go into com-
pn the subject of
the Dominion of

und-
lress

The House of Assembly

Lonpon at Mipyicur.—
tis, perhaps, at
Juring the three
leous aspect of
The hum of

ce closed, ‘The
ae beastly crowd,
the benches in the
of the public build-
‘e litter of the mar-
ons that still haunt

nunths of winter, that the h
ife has ceased. The shops

ome to seek shelter under!

doorsteps crouch homeless, Mtgdulenes. On

dust heaps are burrowed children. In the

where the main is being ‘y us-pickers. And,
aunts its vagged flantes,

ended. and the gas
a crowd of shiver-

acd among piles of
fearth. In playhouse
| : luge” gives gratuitously
to Gach or the first six hundred applicants,
after Bow Bells has gone midnight, « bed for
rest, and a loaf for breakfast, more than
twice that number is assembled. ‘L..e blue,
shoeless feet of the children; pale infants on
the breasts of half-starved mothers ; the wrang-
ling of greedy men and boys for places near-
est the bar that guards the door: beggars of
every race and calling—the friendless and
penniless, the imposter and_ the unfortun:te,
the Lascar and the Vole seeking elemosynary
shelter and bread with the savage craving of
starving wolves—are events as certain to
come as midnight.

It is now generally admitted by honest
Physicians, that when once the Consumption
is fairly fastened upon the lungs, no human
power can save the patient from the death.
They also say that about fifty per cent. of
those who die from this disease can trace the
cause toa neglected cough or cold, which
might have been cured by a small bottle of
Liquid Opodeidoe, or what is the same thing,
Jolinson’s Anodyne Liuiment,

‘ Healing on its wings,” say all who have
made use of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild
Cherry, and by such use cured themselves of
coughs, colds, and consumption. ‘The pru-
dent will always keep this remedy by them.

PUBLIO MEETING AT LOT 14.

A numerously attended meeting of the in-
habitants of the above township was held at
the Cross River School House, on Saturday
last, 20th inst., the same being called by one
of the representatives of the District, Joseph
O. Arsenault, sq., for the purpose of learning
the local wants and grievences of that section,
The meeting was organized by calling Mr.
Roderick McDonald to the chair, and appoint-
ing the undersigned secretary,

Mr. Arseneault addressed the meeting. He
referred to several important local matters,
among other things calling special att-ntion
to the necessity of adopting some improved
system of keeping our highways iu proper re-
pair. He advocated the aboliion of the
present system of statute labor, and the levy-
ing of a moderate tax to be judiciously laid
out in keeping the roads in repair. His views
about these sensible reforms seemed to be re-
ceived with general favor by the whole meet-
ing.

Messrs. Murdoch McKinnon, senr.. and
Donal l McLellan, Mardoch McKinnon, Ksq.,
and others, severally addressed the meeting
recommending the appointment of a superin-
tendent of Public Works for each County, and
that district commissioners should be paid a
sulary that would warrant them in devoting a
sufficient time to the proper discharge of their
duties.

After giving a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, the mecting adjourned,

Neri McKixnan, Seely

Very Latest Telegrams.

Ottawa, Feb. 22nd.
It is expected that Parliament will meet
bout the'tirst week in April. The session
will be a short one, not more than. six or
seven weeks, ‘The estimates will be
brought down the first week of the ses-
sion. A a
Montreal, Feb. 22.
The Dominion Parliament has been fur-
ther prorogued until 3ist Mar.h,
The Gazette of this morning says: ‘* One
can hardly tind terms strong enough to
denounce those who now urge opposition

to Mr. Howe, based on purely personal
grounds, built up of spite and jealousy,

forgettul of their country so their own
Nee are full, and their own faction sery-
ed.

The Gazette states that Hennessy & Co.
have notified the Intercolonial Commis-
sioners that they will net go on with their
contract, on the ground that they made
some errors in calculating earth work,and
did not feel satisfied with precision ot plans
in other respects, and the providing ol
proposed contract,

A recent letter from Charles Muir shows
that 6000 Red River settlers will not yet
require relief, and calls upon Canadians to
render assistance,

London, Feb. 21

The Standard regrets the rejection of
the Alabama Convention after protraet-
ed and laborious negotiations, It says the
advances for anew Treaty must come from
the United States. England is now unfet-
tered from concessions, and will only treat
hereafter on terms of absolute equality.

‘The Times says that the present treaty
has testified the amity of England; its
failure does not endanger the friendly re-
ations between the two countries, but will
rather serve as a warning in arranging
the points of a new convention.

The Post regrets the rejection of the
treaty on account of the delay it will og-
sion in the restoration of fricudly relations
between Great Britain and the United
States,

4
New York, Feb. 23.

The following amendment to the Consti-
tution passed the House of Representatives
Saturday by a two third vote: ** The right
of citizens of the United States to yote and
hold oftice shall not be denied or abridged
by any State on account of race, color,
nativity, property, creed or previous con-
dition of yitude.” Lt goes to thes$enate
for concurrence.

Anniversary of Washington’s Bitth day,
and business generally suspended,
Montreal, Feb 23.

Ion. Mr. Rose has gone to Washington
in an official capacity, as British Comyy's
sioner in the San Juan and Oreger.? gun-
dary question, He will be 9 “i about a
fortnight.

i London, Feb, 23rd.
Tn. tho7ifouse of Commons to-day, in

‘/veply to an enquiry of the O'Connor Don,

Mr. Fortescue said that the Government
proposed to release from imprisonment 45
Venians, who were convicted of treason
last year in England and Ireland, inelud-
ing several of the leaders,

Baron Lionel De Rotehschild (liberal)
has been elected to Parliament from Lon-
don city, in’placo of Mr, Bell (conserva-
tive).

Costello and Warren, Fenian prisoners,
have been set Iree.

Trieste, Feb. 21.

A terrible disaster occurred yesterday on
board the frigate ‘* Radtesky,” while eruis-
ing on the Adriatic, An explosion took
plaice in the powder magazine, making a
complete wreck of the ship, and causing
great loss of life. Most of the officers and
crew were instantly killed or blown into
the water and drowned.

Madrid, Feb, 21.

The ironclad ‘ Victoria” is under or-
ders to sail for Hayana. By a recent de:
erce of the Colonial Minister, all restric-
tions are removed from the offices of
commercial brokers in the islunds of Porto

Rico,
London, Feb, 22.

Madrid adyices state that the Press of
the country urge upon the Provisional
Government the necessity of preserving
the friendship of the United States,
New York, Feb, 22.
The Alabama treaty is likely to be dis-
cussed at some length in the Senate, and
its consideration will probably be post-
poned until after the 4th of March, —
New York, Feb, 23.
President Johnson has yetoed the tariff
Bill on Copp-r, which reeently passed
Congress.

Mr. Punshon in the Provinces,

Wa. Mortuy Ponsuon has been writing
letters to the Editor of the London Metho-
dist Recorder, on his tour last summer
through the Maritime Provinces. We
give below an extract from the “ Eighth
Series,” in which he says :—

“While in the lower provinces,I visited
Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.
The Island, called after the Queen's father,
is about 46 miles square, or rather that
would be the measurement if it was regu-
larly shaped, It is fertile and healthy, in
form something like a crescent, and’ sep-
arated by the Northumberland Strait from
the mainland, It was ceded to the British
Crown by the Treaty of 1763, and curiously
divided, like a good-sized hot cross bun,
into lots or sections, which were distribut-
ed by lottery amongst oflicers and others
who had claims upon the home Govern-
ment. ‘These seignorial rights hindered
the growth and enterprise of the popula-
tion for some years, but every effort is now
made to develope both their physical and
industrial resources, There is a local
Legislature, and a Governor, and all the
appliances of Government on the Island,
and they do not feel disposed to enter into
Confederation, having, as they shrewdly
say, nothing to gain and littie to loose, and
actually boasting themselves of their in-
signilicance territorially considered, be-
cause they think they offer no temptations
to the greed of any covetous neighbor.
Charlottetown is a pleasant place, and con-
tains about 7,000 people, Some of the
bays are very fine, und the sail to Pictou,
in Nova Scotia, especially so. The steam-
ers engaged on these services are built
with saloons on deck, after the fashion of
the St. Lawrence and Hudson River steam-
ers, Forariver service these answer well,
but one would hardly think them suitable
to traverse stormy seas,”

The Evening Star isthe nome of anew
daily paper started in Montreal, price “ one
copper.” It is well filled with a great var
iety (f general reading, commercial, financial
and news matter. Printed in good clear type,
on excellent paper, and ita articles cleverly
written and admirably arranged, the Beening
Star bids fair to star. on a carver of prosperity.
second to none inthe Dominion. It is out-
spoken. asks no favors, determines to succeed,
and hence has struck from its copy of Wor-
coster, the words **Subserviency.” + Fear,”

Lot 14, Feb, 22, 1869,

and * Failure,”

CORRESPONDENCE.

er a

" ADDRESS
| Of the Members and adherents of the Presby-
| terian Congregation of Bedeque, to their

Pastor. Lev. &. 8. Patlerson, accompany-

ing a presentation of a Purse containing

thesumof $111.
Reverenp axyp Dear Sir:—

We the members and adherents of the Pres-
byterian Chureh of Bedeque, beg leave to
approach you, Rey. Sir, with feelings of pro-
found respect, while we embrace this oppor-
tunity of conveying to you a faint expression
of the high esteem in which we, as a congrega-
tion, hold you as our pastor.

When we reflect on the great length of time,
stretching over a period of more than forty
years, during which you haye been permitted
by tho great head of the church, to go in and
out among us, ministering to our spiritual
necessities ; when we remember your fortitude
and resignation under afflictions and priva-
tions; your untiring and earnest zeal in the
cause of the great redeemer; your anxious
solicitude for the salvation of immorta} souls ;
the lively interest you have ever manifested
in the cause of education ;the kind and friendly
bearing you have uniformly maintained to-
wards us. as your flock, and your’ earnest
advocacy ofevery project calculated to elevate
or improve the mind; we feel our hearts rise
in gratitude to the bountiful giver of all g: od,
who has cast our lot under your ministrations.
At the same time we humbly confess that we
‘have not duly ‘appreciated those privileges,
or fulfilled our duty toward you in things
pertaining to the comforts of this lifo, .

And now Reverend and dear sit, whilé we
congratulate you on the success which has
attended your ministry—for we are conscious
that your labor -hag not been in vain. in the
Lord, and on that day when the secrets of all.
hearts shall be reyealed, you will have many
souls for a crown of rejoicing from this por-
tion of the Lord’s vineyard—we deeply sym-
pathize with you in the many trials with which
it has pleased the Lord to visit you.

Please accept the accompanying purse con-
taining the sum of $111, as a token of the
high esteem in which you are held by us, and
likewise, convey to your respected partner
our sympathies in her afflictions, and we trust
that ere long she may be restored to healt! and
usefulness. And that you may be spared yet
many years among us to proclaim the glad
tidings of the gospel, from this watch tower
of zion, and that you may in time to come be
eminently instrumental in bringing souls to a
knowledge of the truth, as it is in Jesus, and
that it may be said of you, as it was of holy
Job, that the Lord blessed his latter end more
than the beginning, shall be the burden of our
supplications to the throne of grace.

Signed on behalf of the Congregation.
Tuo%tas Moyrcomeny,
THomas Townsenn,
ALrrep Craia,

“ANS. MonncOmunre—.
Ann Townsenp,
Many Waker,

Jane Cainys,
Vebruary 24, 1869,

REPLY.

To Messrs. Thomas Montgomery, Thomas
Townsend. AYred Craig, Miss Ann Mout-
gomery, Miss Ann Townsend, Miss Mary
Walker, and Miss Jane Cairns.

My Dsar Curistian Frienps :—

I sincerely thank you for the kind Address,
accompanied by a handsome donation, which
you, on behilf of the members and adhe-
rents of the congregation, of which I have
been privileged to have the spiritual charge,
have presented to me. I fear I can scarcely
liy claim to the high encomiams which you,
in your fond partiality, have bestowed upon
me. Iam sensible of many deficiencies with
which you have indulgently borne. As to the
donation it is valuable in itself, but incaleu-
lably more so, on account of the kind feeling
of which itis the proof. The attachment of
his people is gratifying to a minister, as it en-
ables him more efficiently to promote their
spiritual beneflt, which is the earnest desire
of every faithful pastor.

It is not on the present occasion alone that
my congregation have given me an expression
of their kindness. Under a domestic trial
which subjected me to heavy expenditure,
several individuals in it,unknown tothe public,
afforded me material pecuniary assistance.
Nor has aid come only from my own people.
Christian friends of other denominations have
shewn their sympathy in the same substantial
way, and I take this opportunity of tendering
them my thanks.

For forty-three years I have been spared
to labor among yous During this lengthened
period £ have seen many changes. Of the
ministers of the Presbytery, [ am. the only
one living of which it consisted when I joined
it. Many of'thosé to Whom I ministered when
I was inducted into this congregation, have
closed their earthly career, and a consider-
able number, I trust, have gone to the better
land. A few still remain, bearing the marks
of declining years, the feeble step, and the
silvered hair. Others have entered upon life
and are grown up to mateur years, Instead
of the fathers there are the children, and al-
though as many have not been spiritually born
as we most earnestly desire to see, yet we
trust, thatin a goodly number of cases, they
are a seed to serve God.

Between few pastors and their people has
the connection been so long and sv harpy.
Peace has been within our walls. If there
have been, at any time, slight breaches they
have been speedily and happily healed. Under
the trials, through which it has pleased God
to cause me to pass, the undiminished attach-
ment of my congregation, and the kind sym-
pathy of christian triends of other denomina-
tions, have been, under God, not the least
grounds of support.

Should it please God to spare me to labor
for some time longer among you, [trust, that
through your prayers, for which L earnestly
ask you, and through the supply of the spirit
of Jesus Christ, it may be to be more z.alous
in seeking to promote the glory of God and
your best interests,

Mrs. Patterson joins me in heartfelt thank-
fulness to you for the sympathy which you
express toward her in her affliction, and the
wish for her recovery to health which you
cherish, For your sympathy with myself,
and the trials with which it has pleased my
Ileavenly F ther to visit me, accept of my
unfeigned gratitude,

And now, my dear friends in Christ, that
your souls may prosper and be in health; that
you may have that inetlable peace which flows
from a sense of interest in the divine favor in
this world; and that at the great day we may
be found at the right hand of Christ, is the
sincere wish and curnest prayer of your
affectionate pastor.

ROBERT 8, PATTERSON,
Lc A

Snockine Accipent.—At Dog River, on
Tuesday last, Mr, Jhomas Howard was
dreadfally injured by the bursting of the fly.
wheel of a Threshing Machine in operation,
a fragment of which while whirling through

— Sammerside Journal.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1869.

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“No notice can be taken of annonymous com-
munications. We must know the names and
addresses of our correspondents as a guaraity
of their good taith. We cannot undertake to
return communications that are not used,

EDUOATION IN ENGLAND,

We hear a great deal in these days’ of
the relative merits of the-denominational
and undenominational systems of educa-
tion. In England the denominational
system. was established) by Goyern-
ment in 1829, It would perhaps be
more correct to say that the Government
of Great Britain adopted that system.
Previous to that time the principal schools
of England, besides private educational
establishments, were ‘either what “are

called endowed schgols or schools for the |,

poor, supported bythe subscriptions. of
living private individuals, ‘The value of
the charities or endowed schools is im-
mense. In 1850 it was estimated that
‘the value of those reported on by Gov-
ernment Commission was~ seventy-five
millions of pounds sterling, capable under
proper management of yielding an income
for the purposes of education of four
millions of pounds, ‘The number of these
charities, great and ‘small, is 28,840:
Notwithstanding this liberal provision
for the education of the poor, the great
mass of the people of England were in a
state of the most, deplorable ignorance.
Chiefly through the exertions of the late
Lord Brougham, the state became a sub-
scriber to the voluntary schools already
established and to be established in Eng-
land. Like every other subscriber, the
state was anxious to see that the money
given by it was not misappropriated. Tor
this purpose a number of School Inspec-
tors were appointed, whose duty it is to
see that the government requirements are
in every case complied with. . It must
be remembered that in England in no
case does the government take the initia-
tive. It does not séek out those localities
in which the means of educating the poor
are most defectiye, and there establish
schools, but it merely gives grants in aid
of those schools which, by private yolun-
tary effort, are already established, or are
in the course of being established. We
iil brere’stato some of the conditions on
which government aid is granted to
schools in England, copied from what is
called the Ruvisep Cope, 1867, of Min-

the Privg Council on Hducation in Eng-
land ;—

4. The object of the grant fs to promote
the education of the children belonging to
the clusses who support themselves by
manual labour, ‘

5. ‘The means to consist in aiding volun-
tary local exertion under certain conditions
to establish or maintain schools which are
either,

(a) For the instruction of children (éle-
mentary) ; or

(¥) For training schoolmasters and
schoolmistresses (normal).

8. Every school aided from the grant
must be either

(a) A-school in connexion with some
recognized religious dcnomination; or

(b) Aschoolin which, besides secular
instruction, the scriptures are read daily
from the authorized version.

16. No annual grant is paid except ona
report from the inspector atter a periodical
visit, showing that the conditions of the
grant have been fulfilled,

40, The managers of schools may. elaim
at the end of each year

(a) the sum of 4s. per scholar, accord-
ing to the average number in attendance
throughout the year at the morning and
aflernoon meetings not being less than 400
of their school, and 2s. 6. per scholar
according to the averagenumber in attend-

school,

(6) For every scholar who has attend-
ed more than 200 morning or afternoon
meetings of their school; :

1: It more than six years of age 8s.,
subject to examination,

2. If under six years of age, and present
except in united schools on the day of ex-
amination, 63.6d, * * * .

(c) For every scholar who has attend-
ed more than 24 evening meetings of their
school, 5s:, subject to examination,

‘The above aré the main features of the
Privy Council system, ‘The first sum
granted by Parliament was £20,000; the
annual grant is now £800,000. It costs
very nearly ‘one-tenth of the whole grant
to oversee its proper distribution. Our
readers will sec that under such a system,
those localities which are too poor or too
careless to set up schools, are entitled to
no share of the grant. Yet these people
pay their taxes as well as the others.
Suppose the system were in force on this
Island. Let us see how it would work
in Summerside, for instance. ‘The Ro-
man Catholics would, of course, immedi-
ately avail themselves of its privileges.
as they have already a denominational
school established in this town, ‘Lhe
Presbyterians, let us say, would next
make an exertion to establish a school of
their own; they might or might not be
assisted by the other denominations of
Protestants. It is not likely that their
co-operation would be very hearty or long
continued. ‘The Presbyterian school is
established and a Vresbyterian teacher
employed. ‘The Wesleyans, Episcopali-
ans, Baptists and other denominations
would be forced, under these circumstan-
ces, to send their children either to the
Roman Catholic or the Presbyterian
school, each being too werk to support a
school of its own. ‘These schools, de-
pending mainly for existence on voluntary

the air, struck Mr. Howard on the breast,
crushing it in, and passed over his shoulder, |
breaking one side of his jaw and dislocatiug
the other, and knocking out two teeth. Yes-,
terday we learned that he was not likely to |
recover,—N. Star, |
Marxrts.—This week the country market |
was better supplied than it was for the pre-
vious fortnight. Eggs are looking down, and
plenty considering the seasons. Flour was
scarce on Friday, but meal and meatas usual.
The supply and quantity of pork continue |
good, and quotations remain firm and un-
changed. Oats, which are coming in in small}
lots; show an upward tendency, There was |
a good supply of hay in yesterday, and we
believe the selling price may be quoted at
£3 10.—L'at, ‘

support, would not, it is probable, be
long in a very flourishing condition, In
the country places there would be but
three courses left for the people to pur-
sue: cither to agree to sink the
differences, establish undenominational
schools, or to set up more schools, or the

| minority would be obliged to suffer their | ”

children to remain uneducated, or send
them to schools taught and controlled by
a religious sect of whose leading distinc.
tive tenets they highly disapprove. The
cost of such a system would be very
great, and experience has proved that in
Great Britain it has not effected the ob-

ject designed. At the end of 1866 there
were in England 14,877, of these 10,404
.parishes were not aided by grants. These
10,404 parishes are precisely those which.
most required government assistance,
They. are poor, and inhabited chiefly by
the “ classes who support themselves by
manual labor.” ‘The-consequence, as the
reader may readily infer, is that the la-
boring classes in England are extremely:
ignorant. ‘‘ There were in 1850,” says
Mr. Roas, ‘nearly 8,000,000 persons who:
cannot read and write.” In. Lordon. ,
alone, it is stated on-excellent authority’
that there are 150,000 children not under
any instruction. ‘t James Cowan, L.L D.,
of Scotland, in his written evidence to
the Royal Commissioners,1867, remarks ;
‘The Privy Council system offers advan--
tages only to’thdse who can help them)
selves, while it leaves those districts
which most require assistance wholly
unprovided for.” The remark applies
with equal force to remote Highland
parishes.”

A writer in the Edinburgh Review
says :—*' very plan which has yet been
devised for aiding voluntary contributions,
for the support of schoois from the pub-.
lic purse has been open to one of two fa-.
tal objections, It has either provided
fora lavish expenditure of the public
money on schools which do not want it,
to the neglect/of those that do + or for the
absorption of those local resources which
it was intended only to supplement.

‘If Government aid continues as at
present to be strictly proportioned to lo-
cal effort, a large contribution: from the
friends of every school being required to
meet a small grant from the state, then
only those schools will be helped which,
having zealous and opulent friends, could.
do best without help; friendless places
—which are as yet nine-tenths, and will
always be a large proportion of the
whole—will remain unaided.”

We have stated sufficient to show our
readers that the Mducation in England is
in by no means a satisfactory condition.
The peyple are not generally educated,
and ‘those whom it is the duty of the
state to instruct, are left to live and dic
in ignorance.

Opening of the Legislature.

utes and Regulations of the Committee of

ance throughout the year at the evening!
meetings not being less than 40 of their)

importance, a me

ir religious |
| meet the different exige

Yesterday, at 3 o'clock, His Honor
the Administrator of the Government,
escorted by Capt. Holman’s troop of
Cavalry, came down to the Colonial
Building, where he was received by a
guard ot honor composed of Capt. Morris's
Artillery Company. Having proceeded
to the Councii Chamber (which was
crowded with ladies and gentlemen) the
the Members of the House of Assembly
were summoned thither, when His Honor
opened the present Session with the
following

SPEECH:

Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council:

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of
Assembly:

In the absence of the Lieutenant Governor,
the duty of the Administering the Government
having, by Her Majesty’s appointment, devol-
ved upon me, it atlords me great sutistaction
to meet you on this occasion,

Your Address to Her Majesty, adopted in
the last Session, on the subjectof the payment,
| by the Colony, of the Lieutenant Governor's
Salary, was duly forwarded, but as yet, no
answer has been received to it.

‘The money appropriated by you. inyour last’
Session, to assist the destitute Settlers in the
| purchase of seed grain, under the grave appre-
hension that without some such assistance,
much land would remain untilled, was ju-
diciously expended, and, no doubt, under
God's blessing, has been the means of averting
much destitution,

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of
Assembly:

_ The Accounts of the past yerr and the es-
timates for the present year will be laid before
you, The estimates have been prepared with
the view of combining a due regard to econo-
my with the efficiency of the severai branches
of the Public Service .

_ The Revenue for 1868 evidences a steady
increase in the trade of the Colony, although
the expenditure is in excess ofthe Receipts,
caused, in & great measure, by the purchesy
of Lands and the advances for seed grain,
which have as yet been only partially repaid.

Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of
the Legislative Council:

Mr, Speaker and Gentlemen of
Assembly.

_A period of Eight years having elapsed
since the last census was taken, 1 now call
your attention to the necessity of adopting
measures to renew it.

A measure will be laid before you providing
for the appointinent of a Board ot Works, to
take the charge and supervision ofthe Roads,
Bridges, Wharyes and Publie Buildings of
the Colony. By means of such a Board it is
believed that the efficiency of the Public
Works Service will be much increased and
economy greatly promoted. ‘The present sys-
tem has been found inadequate to the public
wants, and unsatisfactory in its results.

_ In connection with this subject, your atten-
tion will be called to the propriety of appro-
priating a sum of money, to be expended un-
der the direction of the Board of Works, for
the purpose of making permanent improve-
ments in the Highways.

Totersexted as this Colony is in so man
parts by navigable waters, the want of Rail-
road Communications may,to a certain extent,
be remedied by a judicious encouragement of
Steam Navigation, I invite your attention w
this subject, and feel confident it will receive
from you that consideration which its import-
ance demands,

The rapid increase of business in every de-
partment of the Public Service demands in-
creased accommodation, ‘he present General
Post Office is quite inadequate to the require-
menis of the service,

The Supreme Court Room, in the Colonial
Building, is not sufficient for the purpose.and
serious inconvenience has been felt from this.

Additional space is required forthe Customs
and other Public Departnents. ‘lhe Records
and Public Securities in the Office of the Re-
gistrar of Deeds, and those in the Prothono-
tury’s, ‘Treasurer's and Lrobate Offices, are
be sufficiently protected trum accidents by

re.

Impressed with the conviction that no timo
should be lost in a matter of so much public

} “sure will be submitted to
you to provide for the erection of a Building
in Charlottetown, Which shall be adapted tu
neies alluded to, and
mutter to your serious con-

the House of

the House of

| IT recommend this
leration.
Representations have been made to me on
| the necessity of appointing an additional Judge
in the Supreme Court. Papers on this subject
| will be laid before you, to which I invite your
attention,
| ‘Telegraphic Communication between this
| Colony and the Continent has been suspended
since August last, in consequence of the
breaking of the submarine Cuble, Steps have