_ s Seuntr

Ddvnmesace eet Wh

SUM)

[ERSIDE JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1868.

wi eetacnanent anaes

—
two armed attendants, entered the room,
and approached with due caution to the
place where I stood.

Major Dalton opened the conversation
by inquiring, ** If I had not arrived by the
coach that evening ?” a bowed. ey
was sport?” ‘* Forgotten’ “Whe
wasl Ag te ro Core” Had Lbcen
long in the country?” ‘+ No: only a few
days.” **I was a French ollicer?": I was
an English officer.” ** Impossible!” and
he pulled ont a paper which contained By
supposed description; ** Dark eyes—sal-
low con: lexion—tall—stout— soldierly—
blue frock—dark stock.” I was the man,
and I must accompany him instantly to
Mr. Hilson, the justice. Again I assured
him I was not a French oilicer; but my
protestations were not believed; and, in
& few minutes, I found mys If in close
custody proceeding to my kinsman’s house,
and » crowd of ragged boys running after,
to grt a sight of ** Genearl Bonaparte, how
was just taken at the inn by Major Dalton.”

It was quite dark when I entered the
courtyard of the Glebe House, where my
cousia resided. The capture of the sup-
posed general had occasioned a wondertul
sensation, and | was ushered into Arthur's
mansion with suitable formality, My
cousin was absent, and I was left a pris-
oner in the parlor until a messenger should
be despatched to apprise him of the sup-
posed important event,

{To be continued. }

House of Assembly,

Turspay, April 14th,

Hoase in' Committee on Pauper Grants.

Alter some time spent in said Commit-
tee, the Chairman, Mr, Bell, reported
progress.

House in Committee on the Tduacatien
Bill, upon which the greatest portion otf
the qay wasoccupied. Several clauses of
the bill were adopted With but very little
debate, and progress was reported,

‘The greater portion of the day was oc-
eupied by the House in Conferences with
the Legislative Council.

Hon. Mr. Henderson, agreeably to no-
tice, asked the Government what action
they intended taking on certain petitions
relating to anew line of road trom St.
Mary's Road, Lot 61,to Burnt Point Bridge,
Lot 63.

Hon. Leader of the Government, in re-
ply, said that no definite course had yet
been. determined upon relative to the snb-
ject.

: Hon. Mr. Ilenderson then gaye notice
that he would, to-morrow, move for a
Special Committee to report on said peti-
tions, and said that he wished to bring to
the notice of the House, in connection
with the question, the fact that the plan
drawn by the Surveyor General, tracing
the different lines in question, had been
tamapered with, as might be seen on refer-
ence to it; and, also, that seperate plans
representing the mutilated parts alluded
to, had been placed in the hands of hon.
tmemb rs not acquainted with the locality
in question, nor with the condition of the
people moro immediately interested in
the matter. He did not believe that the
Government had recourse to such unfair
means, but there were those who, through
aclfish motives,had been unfairly meddling
with the question. ‘There were a tew in-
slividuals at Montague Bridge eagerly

ressing for aiong central line of road,
which could not be completed without very
extraordinary grants for twenty years to
come; whereas the road so earnestly pray-
ed for by the petition in question was al-
ready open from the Sturgeon to St.Mary’s
Road, and the remaining portion of’ it
could be opened at a very reasonable cost,
and when open, would be easily kept in
repair.

On motion of Mr. Yeo, it was resolved
that the petitions and papers relating to
the West Point Whart be referred to a
Special Committee, to report thereon,

Ordered, That Messrs. Yeo, Prowse aud
Bell do compose the said Committee.

The Revenue Bill was submitted to a
Committee of the whole, and progress
thereon reported,

The Bill relating to Alewives Fisheries
was read @ second time, and reported

_ agreed to.
House adjourned.

|

Wepnespay, April 15,

Mr. Jolin Yeo, from the Committee to
whom was referred the petition of Arthur
Ramsay and others, relating to West Point
Whart, presented to the House the report
of said Committee, which was received
and read. Said Report was to the effect,
that the said Committee were of opinion
iat from the very great advantages that
the erection of & whart at West Point
would be to a large number of the people
of the Western part of Prince County, the
Government should take such action as
would cause the construction of said
Wharf to be proceeded with, with as little
alelay as possible.

lion. Leader of the Government said
that it appeared from the exposed position
of that Wharf, it would bo with great dif-
ficulty, and at a heavy cost tothe country,

that a wharf could be constructed with!

wafety at the place referred to. It might,
perhaps, be better to expend the money
in some other adjacent shipping place.

Mr. Yeo said that the Committee in
drawing up their report, lett the course
best to be adopted open for the Govern-
ment He then proceeded to show the
hardships under which the people in that
part of the country labored, in not getting
their duc shars of the ordinary appropria-
tion for roads, &e . of which they were
willing to be, to some extent, deprived,

provided the Wharf at West Point had
been constructed according to coutract.
Many of those who subscribed to the work
had paid in their shares; it was, therefore,
extremely uniair to deprive them of their
just eights. The report of Mr. Boyd, he
said, would show that the wharf could be
permanently built. There were no less
than four Popnious Townships in. the
Weatern part of the Island, destitute of «
shipping plac’; they surely had a claim
on that House and the Government, and
hie hoped the subject would receive that
attention which its importance demanded.

Hon. Mr. Howlan said he accompanied
the Engincer allnded to, when he went to
the West Point Wharf. That whart, he
anid, was from the first built on a bad
principle, and proceeded to show that the
whart in being rebuilt should be different-
jy constructed. He was in favor of secur-
ing to the people in that part of the coun-
try, the privileges alluded to by the hon.
member, Mr. Yeo,

Hon, Mr. Davies saidthat the Committee
should have particularized more fully in
their report than an opinion of the stability
of the Wotk.

Hon. Leader of the Opposition said that
Boyd's report should be the best authority
on that point, from which it appeared
there would be no difficulty in erecting
the Wharf in question. It was indeed

Tnurspay, April 16th,

Mr. Bell, from the Committee to whom
was referred the petition of George Meg-
gieson, of Lot 52, presented to the House
the report of said Committee, to the effect.
that said Committee had investigated, so
far as they possibly could, the claims of
the petitioner, and that whilst they deeply
sympathized with him, they regretted that
hey could not recommend the prayer of
the petition.
Mr. Geo. Sinclair, Chairman of the Com-
mittee of the whole House, on the Lill to
consolidate and amend the several laws
relating to Education, reported said bill
agreed to, with amendments.
When the House in Committee had gone
through the bill, the honorable the Speak-
er a that he could not refrain from say-
tng a few words on the important subject
ot the bill, betore it lett Committee. His
honor then reviewed the progress of Edu-
eation in the Colony since the first intro-
duction of the Free School system, and
aid a high compliment to the hon.
Leader of the Government, whom, he said
was the father of that Act, that had given
sueh general satistaction in the country.
‘The tact that in two years trom the passing
ot the Actan increase of some 219 Schools,
and 190 Teachers followed, was proof of
its appreciation. Ie also alluded to the
establishment ef the Normal School, having
for its objacta uniform system of training
‘Teachers, Ilo (Hon, Mr. Speaker) then
referred to petitions presented to the Leg-
islature some two years alter the free sys-

some other alterations, which, he said,
were on his motion, relerred to a Special
Committee. of whom the late lamented

tem was put in operation, praying for an}
linerease of the Teachers’ salaries, and |

NEWS SUMMARY.

In the House of Commons on the 28th
ult., comments were made upon the news
trom Abyssinia. It apears that King
Theodore, * finding his cause made hope-
less by the assault of Napier’s stormers,
committed suigide by a pistol shot as the
British approached his last stand point.

Mr. Disraeli, in reply to question by Mr.
Layard, made some remarks on tho sub-
ject of the Abyssinian War, in which he
spoke in congratulatory language of the
achievements of Gen. Napier and his ar-
my, which gave aid to expedition for the
rescue of English prisoners in the hands
of King Theodorus. The conquest in
Abyssinia, said the Premier, was only
equalled by that in Mexico by Cortez.
The House subsequently went into com-
mittee on the Irish Chureh question, The
first of Gladstone's series of resolutions was
debated at length, but none of the most
prominent members took part in the dis-
cussion.
In the House of Lords the Resolutions
of Mr. Gladstone on the Ivish Church were
made the subject of attack by Lord Derby,
who, in the course of his remarks, accused
Lord Russel of vacilating ia his opinions
on that question, Lord Russel replied :—
Ie said that he was amazed to see Lord
Derby opening this question here, while
it was proceeding in the Lower House ; he
declares with earnestness that the peace
of Ireland was to the aim of his life, de-
fended his course of the charge of incon-
sistency that the means was not incompa-/
tible with consistency in the end sought. |

| He acknowledged he preferred his own

a clause which gives power to the
“to order the arrest and detention
person feand within the jurisdiction
United States.”

still continues to engross much attention, ‘I te
“ Colonial Presbyterian” devotes a portion 0

its columns to the report of the conversation
overheard by the detectives i
Ottawa; but the statements as
such as we cannot reproduce.

used shows him to be a miserably de
person, and is summarised by the ** Montreal

President
of any
of the

NEW DOMINION.

The assassination of the Hon. Mr. McGee

the cells at
reported are
The language
graded

Witness” thus:— :
“The important testimony of Whelan's
own confession of his guilt has been obtained
in Ottawa jail. Whalen and Doyle are con-
fined in adjoining cells, and their conversa-
tion which, in its naked depravity, is not fit
for publication, was overheard by two persons
—Detective Cullen and a prisoner namet
Hess. Theavowal, ‘I shot that fellow—I
shot him like a dog,’ was made with the reck-
lessness of desparation. He gloried in the
idea that he was ‘a great fellow,’ and that his
name would go down to posterity. With equal
bragadocio he professed to be indifferent whe-
ther he should ‘swing for it,’ or go to the
penitentiary. Accepting Whalen’s own state-
ment, he belongs to a bad family. One of
his brothers was shot at the firing of the ‘Tul-
lough barracks in Ireland; one is in prison
for being engaged in the same outrage, and
he himself was also in prison for 18 months,
for Fenianism, inthe West of England, It
must have been very gratifying to the detee-
tive, Cullen, to hear Whelin say in the course
of this somewhat remarkable dialogue, ‘1
saved Cullen's life one time; a fellow had
him covered at fiteen yards!’”

plan tor solution of dificulties in Ireland ;
but he accepted the plan of Mr. Gladstone |
as the most practicable under the circum: |

Hon. Mr. Ifuviland, and the then Attorney
General, Hon. KE. Palmer, were among
others, efficient members. ‘That said
Committee held meetings for several days
in the Library, eliciting all the available
information possible, from old and ex-
perienced ‘Teachers and others interested
in the cause of Education. ‘The result of
the labors of that Committee, of which he
was Chairman, was the introduction of a

filty sections. Ile alluded to the subse-
quent change effected by the Conservative
party, imposing on the parents the pay-
ment of a portion of the salaries of the
‘Loachers, against whom complaints arose
from all parts of the country, and that by

Teachers wholly from the Treasury. The
whole laws relating to Education had now,
he said, by the Lill under consideration,
been consolidated, and several important
amendments had, he was glad to observe,
been agreed to by the Committee; and
from the thorough and searching investi-
gation entered into on every paragraph in
the bill, he hoped it would not be neces-
| sary to submit the subject to the Legisla-
ture again for some years to come. The
bill, as amended, he trusted would meet
the approval of the public, prove increas-
ingly beneficial to the best educational in-
| wrosts of the Colozy, snd redound to the
credit of the Legislature,

The principal amcudmonts to the Bill,
in addition to the changes relative to the
Normal School; the appointment of three
visitors, two examiners, and other altera-
tions already given in the summary reports
of the House, are the following, namely—
The salaries of Female Teachers in Char-
lottetown, are fixed at £19 10s. per an-
num. Those of sail Teachers in County
Districts Schools raised to £40, Assistant
Male Teachers of City $-hools £66. Scales
of salaries paid to Male Teachers in ordi-
nary District Schools remain the same as
provided for by the Act of last Session,
with the proviso that the number ot Gram-
mar Schools in each County is limited to—
three in Prince, three in King’s, and five
in Queen’s County, over and above those
Grammar Schools already established in
the county towns.

The school vacations are extended from
one month to six weess, namely—three
weeks in spring, and three weeks in the
autumn. The School Assessment clauses
are, to some extent, changed. ‘The assess-
ment for building school houses, furniture,
And repairs, will extend to all household-
ers in each School District, the trustees,
however, in levying the rate must have
due regard to the circumstances of each.

Several of the foregoing amendments
olicited some discussion, though not of a
very prolonged nor party character,

It was stated by an hon, member that
Trustees of District Schools refusing to
serve should be visited with a penalty for
\non-acceptance of office, or for refusal to
act; a suggestion, however, which did not
tind favor with hon. members, generally,
on both sides. Ifon, Attorney General re-
marking, in course of discussion, that it
had been brought to his knowledge, that
the oflice of Trustee was, in some cases,
an object of ambition, some Teachers hay-
ing offered themselves to act in the double
capacity of ‘Trustee and Teacher, although
such a combination of ofices was not le-
gil. In cases where two Districts may be
united and formed into a Grammar School,
the area of school houses. herealter, to be
ereeted for such Grammar Schools shall be
609 feet. Ordinary District school houses,
saine area as before passing the bill, but
height of post between the floor and. ceil-
ing to be raised from 9 ft., as formerly, to
10 feet. In cases where the Board of Edu-
cation mry be dissatisfied with the condi-
tion of School Rooms, in Charlottetown,
they shall have power to receive the School
Assessments, and rent more suitable,com-
modious, and well ventilated School
Rooms, and to increase the quarterly as-
sessment from 3s to ds, for each scholar
attending such schools, and to exercise
such other control over said Charlottetown
District Schools as said Buard of Educa-
tion may deem advisable.

Progress was repoited on the bill for
the relief of unfortunate debtors; and also
on the bill to amend the Sinall Debt Act.

Ifon, Keader of the Government pre-
sented Supplementary Estimates extra,for
Three Thousand Pounds, to be appropri-
ated equally between the three Counties,
for the purpose of aiding poor and desti-
tute settlers to procure Seed grain,

House adjourned,

Penne eesti Reanmentetn

Mrs. A. Allen's Worlds Hair Restorer and
Zylobalsalum or Worlds Hair Dressing are
unequalled, and so acknowledged by all who
use them for restoring, invigorating and
dressing the hair, rendering it soft, silky and
glossy,and disposing it to remain in any desi-
red position; quickly cleansing the scalp, ar-
resting the fall and imparting a healthy and
natural color to the hair. ‘They never fail to
restore grey hair to its original youthful col-
or. Thoy act directly upon the roots of tho
hair giving the natural nourishment required.
No lady's toilet is complete without the Zylo-
balsamum or hair dressing. It cleanses the
i nd imparts to ita most delightfnl frag-
rancepand ig suited to both young and old.

uy storer Reproduces, The Hair
maltivates and beautifies.

bill, based on their Resolutions,comprising |

the amendment of last Session, the system |
was again restored, to the payment of:

|stynce. If the resolves pass the House he |
should submit an appropriate bill, He}
' would be sustained by the [louse of Com-
{mons and by tue Neate opinion of the
}country, and would without doubt com-!
‘mand the assent of the House of Lords. |
He expressed hope that the ministry would |
not attempt to influence the crown ad-|
versely to the House of Commons, as col-
lision between Crown and House of Com-
mons would be deplorable. In the House |
of Commons Mr. Disracliin answer to a}

that the ministry wished for the fullest
discussion of the Trish question, Mr.
| lay business of the House and in that light
deplored the time wasted last night’ in
| party recrimiuations.

Warlike apprehensions again prevail in
France, despite the improbabilities of such
an issue which are to be tound in the pre-
sent condition of Europe. Onno part of
the continent is public opinion in tavor of
wir; the Cabinets of Europe offer each
other assurances of the most pacitic inten-
tions; every Power his the most powerfel
reasons for desiring peace; and there ex-
ists no Cause, motive, or international
quarrel likely to lead to hostilities. Kug-
land, as usual, is pacilic; Prussia is en-
gaged in organizing her reecent conquests,
ahd Austria in consolidating her new in-
stitutions; Italy, it is thought, has quite
as much as she can manage to orranise
her finances; Spain counts for nothing;
Russia still covets the Empire of the Sul-
tap and keeps up agitation there, but she
cannot Jook for any satisfactory solution
in an appeal to arms, France alone re-
mains; and itis believed by those most
acquainted with the ccustry and Govern-
m nt, that France thinks more of develop-
ing her liberties, regulating hier finances,
and promuting her industry, than of é@x-
tending her frontiers, ‘The Paris corres:
pondent of the Zimes verve pointedly asks : |
“Tf, on one hund, peace is as well secured |
as one is tempted cr desirous to beligve,!
why do + ¢ sce on all sides in France those
prodigious armaments, disquieting the pre-
sent and threatening to press heavily on
the future?” Seeing the activity” and
earnestness with which military prepara-
tions are urged on (the same writer re-
miuwks), people naturally conclude that if!
peace is certain all this expenditure is use-
less; and that if war is inevitable, or only
probable, the pacific assurances of the

question from Opposition benches, said!

Gladstone hoped the debate would not de- |

We subjoin the following extracts from the
New Tarif!:—Antmals, viz., per head, Ior-
ses 915; horned cattle $10; Sheep $1: Swine
$2.—The following ure to be the fiee list: —
Plush for batters, flour (wheator rye), Indian
corn, Indian meal, fish bait, grain of all

Gorrespondence.

To tue Epiron or tae Jounal,
Dear Sin:—
Will you permi' !

0 notice an #tiack upon
ie Thomas Kirwan, publisher of the Sum-
merside Progress. Why he has selected
my ‘devoted head” to pour upon it alone
the stream of his wrath, ¢ know not, ee
cept it be that he hopes to give vent to his
unenviable feelings, and at the same time
escape a severe handlingin teruis common to
newspaper correspondents, and galling his
vulgar mind, but which he is well assured,
will not proceed from my pen, I Bones
however, while carefully abstaining from al
Progress phraseology, to try the effect of a
few plain and calm English words, on the
watter in question, Had I had any idea that
a biographical notice,dating from last August,

through your columns
hg! eee made LY

1] was being prepared by Mr. Kirwan, I might

have supplied him with a few facts for publi-
cation that he is not in possession of; but as
it is, my object is now simply to refer to cer-
tain untruthful representations in the last
issue of the Droyress. ‘The first charge
brought against me is to the effect that in last
September I published a letter in the Journal
assailing ‘Yankees, Yankee Institutions,
Democracy, &c., beneath all of which ram a
vein of personal abuse teo ploinly pointed at
our luckless self to be mistaken.” ‘The facts
of the case are really these, Having been
solicited to send an article occasionally to the
* Journal,” and noticing that the editor of
that paper had copied from  Blackwood's
Magazine a review of the life of Sir Archibald
! Allison—a prince among modern historians—
| Laddressed a letter to the ‘ Journal” over
| the signature of **Briton,” complimenting him
on his selection of the article, and referring
to the necessity of combatting, as subjects of
the British Crown, the tide of republican
feeling which naturally tlowed over to us from
the United States,who had proved themselves
among the deadliest of ourcountry’s enemies.
‘This was the sum and substance of my offend-

kinds, &c,

Nova Scotia has two claimants before the
British Parliament. Canada, who wish to re-
tain her in the Dominion, and in the second
place by a gentleman in England, who has
pressed his suitin the House of Commons,

-and claims that Province ‘tas his own peculi-

ar property.” From an article in the Halifax
** Morning Chronicle” we take the following
extract :—

“The claimant states thit he is descended
from Sir Willinm Alexander, (afterwards
Karl of Stirling) who, in the reign of James
I. explored and colonized Nova Scotia and
Canada, and who, in return for these services
‘to the Empire, obtained a Royal Charter, be-
| stowing upon him the territory of Nova Sco-
tia, with part of Canada, aad giving him
“power and authority over the inhabitants al-
almost regul in its nature and extent.”

Very Latest Telegrams.

Particulars of the Fall
OF MAGDALA !

Death of King Theodore
Confirmed !

Farrel, the Assassin of Prince Alfred
Tried, Convictedand Sentenced!

BARRATT CONVICTED!

Ottawa, April 28.
Baptiste Langlin Lacroix, the French
Canadian who saw the murder commit-
ted, was taken to jail this morning to see
whether he could identify among the
prisoners the man who fired the shor.
All the prisoners wers brought out to-
gether. Whelan having previously been
dressed in the clothing which he was
supposed to wear on the night of the
murder, As soon as Lacroix was admit-
ted to where the prisoners were, he ran
his eye among them, and 4s soon as his
eye rested upon Whalen, he pointed to

Whalen, and said ‘* He was the man."
House by a vote of 91 to 31 refused to

consider the Nova Sebtia resolutions, after
a debate which continued till two o'clock

European powers are hollow, insincere,
and dangerous,” An expression of the!
pacific desires of the people themselves, |
and an extensive disarmament, are con-|
tended for, as the only means of dissipat-|
ing warlike rumors and restoring public |
confidence in France,

It is officially stated that the reduction
heratofore announced as to be made in the
Prussian army will consist of 120,000 men.

UNITE) STATES,

Tho Impeachment of President Johnson
largely engages the attention of the public |
in that country, Lhe Wayne County (Pa,)
Herald says :—

“The President's counsel have brought
their examination of witnesses to a close. |
—The fat ol the President's cabinet
would not be admitted; and, in fact the!
most important witnesses for the delence,
from the beginning of the examination to
its close, have been studiously denied a
hearing, To call such a proceeding a
al” isnot much better than Applying
| that name to the summary proceedings ot
| the vigilance committees ot Colerado or
| Nevada,—But notwithstanding this injus-
tice, the managers of the impeachment
have signally failed to show, by their wit-
nesses, any cause for arrainging the Presi-
denttor * high crimes and misdemeanors,”
before the bar ct tde Senate. The argu
ments in the case will last a week at least.
| Tae Radicals have spent a good deal ot
time since the close of the examination
trial, in canvassing the situation,and seem
to be full of contidence in the conviction
of the President. ‘The most tremendous
pressure for conviction is brought to bear
indireetly on those Senators who are sup-
posed to be doubttul. ‘They dare not do
otherwise than cenvict the President.
With his acquittal would fall the last pillar
that supports the tottering tabric of their
organization, Let no one suppose for an
instant that the * High Court” was organ-
ized to do justice to Andrew Jehnson,
His conviction was certain the day the
resolution that he ** he impeached" was
drawn up by Thaddeus Stevens; there
would have been no trial else.”

The Speech of Manager Boutwell is regard-
ed ns an extraordinary effort, and ovcupics
sixteen columns of the Boston Journal. It
concluded thus :—

“ Senators, as far as I am concerned, the
ease is now in your hands, and it is seun lo
be closed by my associate. The House of
Representatives have presented this criminal
at your bar with equal confidence in his guilt
and in your disposition to administer exact
justice between him and thé United States.
ilis conviction is the triumph of law, of order,
of justice. I do not contemplate his acquittal
—itisimpossible. Therefore I do not look
beyond. But, Senators, the people of Am-
erica will never permitan usurping Executive
to break down tho securities for liberty pro-
vided by the Constitution, The cause of the
country isin your hands. Your verdict of

(splendor. The British troops plundered |

the Clerkenwell explosion closed

acquitted,

this morning, Fisher. Renaud and ‘Tilley
voted in majority.
London, April 30.

Details of the Abyssinian news report
that the enemies work were carried alter
vigorous resistance. ‘Theodorus lost dur-
ing the engagement, sixty men killed and
two hundred wounded. ‘The English had
fifteen rank and ile wounded, «iter the
works were completely carried. Theo-
dorus was found dead by the English sol-
diers in the centre of his stronghold, he
had been shot through the head. Some
sity he was kiJled during one of the battles,
others incline to the opinion that he com-
mitted suicide when he found the fortunes |
of day rgainst him. ‘The Kings body was
recognized by the British captives when |
released,

Theodorus’ two sons were taken prison-
ers, and all European prisoners set free,
The interior of the tort of Magdala pre
sented an extraordinary and splendid
sight, the place was glowing with barbaric |

in at once, The men found fonr royal |
Crowns made of solid gold. twenty thou-

ing. As tothe ‘'Progress,” with its Yankee
| proclivities, I knew nothing, nor so much
jas ever thought of it, Through the unac-
|countable forgetfulness of the townspeople,
| L iad never received the least information of
{this wonderful paper, and therefore, when
| Mr. Kirwan presumes that I * did not know
| anything of the * Piogress’ or its Editor,”—

(think of that!) he is perteetly correct. Such
a benighted condition was mine, that though
I had been in several parts of t!@ world,not a
whisper respecting the Summerside Progress
had ever reached my ears. But when Mr.
Kirwan states that a vein of personal abuse
pointed at him ran through that letter he
states what is not the case. With much
more probability might it be said that there
was a reference to MeAula ew Zealander
on London Bridge,” for the writer kuew much
more about the one than the other!

No sooner, hiowover, had this letter, ex-
pressed in most general terms, and referring
to no individual in Summerside, or anywhere
else, appeared, than there was made a most

who, by lis own confession Mr. Kirwan
knew—in the columns of the ‘ Vrogress,”
and because he had presumed in a land of
British liberty to give an expression of pre-
ference for monarchial institutions, he was
assailed by such epithets as ‘A disciple of
Sir A. Allison,” ** A flunkey,” &c., &c. Then
it was, and not till then, that I began to hear

can proclivities. Without making any reter-
ence to my opponent who it afterwards tran:
spired, was Mr. Lawson, and who as editor of
the * Journal,” instead of commenting edito-
rially on the matter, went over to the *Pro-
gress” oflice as acorrespondent to person:
abuse a correspondent ot his own pa
then reviewed in another letter whatever of
argument had been adduced on the other side.
‘To my surprise, a still more violent epistle
followed, couched in yalgar and insulting
language, when dropping the matter for afew
weeks, in hopes that all effervescence of wrath
might die away, L resumed the argument in a
third letter, to which any attempt atan an-
swer was never made! ‘Then it was suddenly
discovered, when the democratic side had
exhausted itself in) presence — of views
long pondered and defended by some of the
most profound publicists. that “the game
was not worth the powder If this discovery
had been made on the publication of *Briton’s"
first letter, it would’not have looked so sus-
picious. The pain of that humiliating retreat
would have been spared to Messrs. Lawson
and Kirwan, if they had not been so anxious
to attack a writer on general subjects. ‘They
evidently had reckoned on ‘a good time,”
and pertect impunity in personally assuiling
one who had scarcely heard, much less ever
thought of them; and when they found that
their opponent cited authority, and appealed
to principles that could not be overthrown,
their mortification was correspondingly great.
In this case the ‘!attdck and persecution”
came from the ** Progress” office, but made
hone so sore as those that used them, By
way of friendly admonition, L advise the
* Progress" men to abstain in future from
attacking strangers just coming to Summer-
sile, unless they are a little more sure of the
result!

The charge of political meddling is also
made! But this is not a case of that in the
ge. eral sense of the term. No question of
local politics or party strife calls usually for
the interference of clergymen; but in a na-
tional point of view the Wesleyan Methodist
clergymen, in Englind and her colonies,hive
ever been noted for loyalty to the throne;
and for the expression and maintenance of
opinions loyal to the British Constitution, 1
claim the right of any freeman. Butit seems
that this cannot be done in an English colony
without rendering one's self liavle to taunts
and opprobrigus naues !

sand in silver, thousands of silver’ plates,
several lots y rich jewels, anda num.)
ber of other articles of great value. Gen.
Napier took by his victory the 28 large
guns used against him, five thousand stand
of small arms, ten thousand swords, ten.
thousand spears, and many other articles |
of war,

The British captives started for home!
on the Lith April. |

London, April 28, eve.

Great joy prevails throughout the nation
on the glorious news from British troops
in Abyssinia, and safety of Prince Allred,
To-day has been observed as a sort of im-
promptu holiday, At the stock exchange
to-day national hymns were sung and on-
thusiastic cheers for the Queen given
The press and people every where exultant.

Suilliater advices have been received
trom Sydney, Australia, today. Farrel
whoattempted Lo assassinate Prince Alired,
was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sen-
tenced to death,

London, April 20, 2, a. m.

Both Houses of Parliament, with a dis-
senting voice, voted an address to the
Queen, upon tho recent attempt to assas-
sinate Prince Altred at Sydney, expressing
the sympathy of tho British nation with
the Koyal lee in the untoward state
which has filled them with soriow, and
the country with horror; and hope that

the Prince may soon bo established to
health,
The trial of tho Fenians oharged with
to-day,
all the others were

’

Barret was convicted ;

See to it, all ye nice young men,

The lecture which was delivered on “Bap-
tism rs Dipping” is next attacked by this
self-constituted censor of the clergy, who
would, perhaps, like some of his imniersion-
ist friends, have fain become a missionary to |
the Wesleyan Church. The necessity’ for}
that lecture was apparent to the public.” Ene
couraged by my silence on the subject of
Baptism, produced in great measure by an
unwillingness to see the agitation which a
defensive stand would call forth.the members
of a certain sect, not content with despoiling
my predecessor of some ot his flock, com-
menced again their usual underhand work of
uunrettling the opinions of the young and un-
learned, Upon iny ren onstrance and protest
against this, L was offered the Imumorsionist
Chapel if I would come forth boldly and
publicly on the subject of Baptism; andat the
same time was told that L dare not doit!
The result of this challenge was the lecture
in question, which I believe no immersionist
present wishes to hear again, and which most
effectually Py 4 stop to all proselyting pro-
ceedings. admit that it was couched in
very plain language, as I intended it to be
understood by persons whose acquaintance
with works of theology and general literature
is so slight as to render them extremely liable
to inisunderstand and misrepresent what is
said tothem. Plain as were the words, they
were, howerer, never designed even as an
a Approach to id et in which immersion.
ate are accustomed to epeak of the subj

infant baptism, Mr, Kireon saw ft" tee
lish a letter reflecting on the lecture, written
I believe. (1 am not sure,) by a Universalist,
He had a perfect right to do this, and if Mr.
Kirwan supposes that the fact of his doing so
ever dwelt for a moment in my mind, as
worthy of notice, or as producing * hostility”
to him, he lays far too flattering an unction
tohis soul. Such a letter was far too much
i consonance with the general spirit ef un-

called for attac!

personal and violent attack upon the author, |

of the ** Progress,” and to suspect its Amvri- |

me! And it might have been supposed that
an individual so closely connected with the
press as Mr.Kirwan is, would have had capa-
tity enough to notice that the style which is
peculiar to every writer was in the case of the
two * Britons” very dissimilar; and that he
might also have remembered the fact that it
js just possible that two writers sight have
hit upon the same nom ce plume. Instead of
calling in thus the aid of his wits,he publishes
a violent driicle from his editorial pen, and a
letter from a correspondent, * bemeath all of
which ran a vein of personal abuse too plainly
pointed atour luckless self to be mistaken rid
ile relied upon the incorrect ‘testimony of a
gentleman from New London,” whoever he
may be! This is going away frout Hnié to
hear the news, indeed! Perhaps it meyer oc-
curred to him that the gentlepian frath New
London might have been as fend o practical
joking os avertain gentieman i» Summerside,
whose exploits in ine line are so well known
Cape ‘Traverse
gir yoncittsion I would remind Mr. Kirwan
that Ihave never assume) the position of
editor of the “Journal.” Whatever assist-
ance might or might not have been given to
Mr Bertram, the honor or responsibility of
the editurship has never been assumed by me.
Mr. Bertram is, in my opinion, a very able
judge himself of what should or should not go
into his editorial and other columns; and as
sole proprietor of that paper,is not very likely
to ask another to take the office of judging
out of his hands; a fact which, I think, was.
ashort time ago fully estabiished. If Mr.
Kirwan wishes to know anything more res-
pecting the late editorials and correspondence
of the Journal,” instead of **p:esuming,” and
relying upon the testimony of a gentleman
from New London, he had better appeal to
Mr Bertram, himself! Asa second word of
friendly advice, I would counsel Mr ‘Thomas
Kirwan,editor of the “Summerside Progress,”
if he does not wish to place himseifin another
such foolish position before the public, to
look well the next time before he leaps. A
little less readiness in calling American
nicknames, in the abusing of those who ditler
from him, and in falsely accusing i: ministers
of the gospel, will go very farin improving
his character, and extending his influence
with gentlemen,
Thanking youesir, for so mueh space,
Lim, yours respecttully,
A.nent 8, DesBrisar.

May 5, 1868.

To tug Evirog or tux Jounnate
Sini—

As my letter of the 6th ult has cansed some
little stir in this hitherto quiet community
I may state that my object in appearing in
print was not for the purpose of controversy,
or because I had any feelings of personal
hatred against the Progress editor,but merely
to contradict a statementin his paj er thas I
regarded us an insult to my own loyalty, as
well as that of my fellow colonists. When I
wrote my first letter, I did so under the im-
pression that I had to deal with a gentleman,
who would either treat me with silence, or
would answer in a gentlemanly spirit of fair-
ness, but instead of doing so he has week
atter week launched forth in the lowest lan-
guage and the most vulgar slang terms,with-
out once denying the accusation broughu
aginst him. He, the Progress editor, is
evidently under a cloud ali the time, believ-
ing that a gentleman whom he supposes hae
some connection with your paper is the writer
cf those obnoxious letters signed * Briton,’ and,
on that gentleman's devoted head the vials of
| Progress wrath are unsparingly poured out!
He at last admits thathe may have been mis
intorimed, and that he received his informa-
tion from a gentleman in New London. f
would advise the Progress man in future to
be more careful in receiving any information.
from: that place, as his credulity has been
sadly imposed upon in this case.

Th his last issue he states that in my first
letter he was grossly abused, or words to that

r ‘This is simply untrue. And that he
nyited to leave the country, he having
no stake init,” is positively fulse; and I now
call upon him to show anything in my letter
that can be twisted to convey any such mean-
ing; and if he fails to do so 1 will not hold
him up to publie gaze asa lying ** contempti-
ble charlatan,” but will merely say that such
willul perversions of truth are in keepi g
with the charicter of the Progress editox-

Ife has from the beginning of the cone
troversy cudeavored to make it’ appear
that he is ¢ much injured person, and has
been made the butt of the envy of his oppon-
ents, and that the article which calied forth:
my first letter contained nothing objection-
able to the lovers of British connection, or
that threw a doubton his own loyalty. For the
benefit of the public in general, and the Pro-
gress man in particular, I will now quote
from the article referred to. After speaking
of the certain failure of the Dominion scheme
and stating that there are many who are:
looking to Annexation as a remedy for the
ills they see in Confederation, he says:
"In this Island the natural consequence of
a conviction of the failure of Contederation
cannot failto be the search after a refuge
elsewhere,and thatelsewhere can be nowhere
than the United States. Our intercourse with
the people of this Island, for years p: st, fully
justites us, we think, in making this state-
iment, We do not say we rejoice atit, nor
do we mourn such a state of things. We
wish merely to give it asa matter of fact,
vutside of all personal hopes, wishes or ap-
prehevsions.”
Ilere I notice the people of this Island aro
in effect told that they are plotting the dis-
memberment of the British Empire—that they
are traitors to the flag that protects them—
and that they are (desirous of having this Co-
lony annexed to the United States! With re-
gard to the -* Progress” editors own opinions,
If merely say that I very much question his
loyalty when he says that “we do not ray that
we rejoice at it,” and then positively says,
“nor dy we mourn such a state of things.”
We leave the reader ty come to his own con-
clusions as to the loyalty of the person who
gives exvression to such statements, The
Progress editor is evidently still much per-
plexed to know, who ‘Briton’ is. As the writer
of these lines has no claiar to the tithe of Rey.
and as bis name dues not happen to be Des-
Brisay, the Progress man is still astray, not-
withstanding his cuteness in guessing, and
that with the aid of his New London intorm-
ant. ‘Try it again, Mr. Progress, you will
find the chap out yet, if you follow it uy, and
then the reward will be yours,

BRITON.

|

May 5, 1868. °
_ See

Albert D, Degree Temple, No, 13, 1.0.4.7.

On Friday, 24th April, (regular night). the
above Temple met at North Ster Lodge
Room, Miminegash, Lot 8. In accordance
with the Degree Constitution, the first item
of * New Business” was the election of offi-
cers for the ensuing year. ‘The following
list was announced as the result of the ballot:

D.T., Bro. Thomas Costain, re-elected ;

D.V.'T. Sister Esther Sturgeon;

D.8., Bro. John Gavin, re-elected;

D.C, James McNeill, do.;

D.F-.S., ‘* George Sturgeon;

D.Tr., ‘* Thomas Burns, re-elected;

D.M., * George Green;

ae fae we

Sentinel, + Willi.m Costai-
P.D.T., Bro. John Rix,
Immediately after the electi-‘ the officers
were duly installed, and aa upon their
duties forthwith. hia i ple consists of the
Degree Members of tv, North Star Lodge,
No.45, and Victoriyz0dBe. No. 60, 1.0.6.5"
‘These Lodges, coo? ising neurly 100 Geon
‘Templars, are in A shag pte condition, and
are caerting a helthy inflaence on the North

desirable that a public work so earnestly | Drossin;

uilty is peace to our beloved land.
prayed for by so large a sectin of the "The pies

k and invective seen already
The ‘Boston Daily Advertisor” says :—

Ww The D. PD. system has al-
If your hair isthin try it, if aeurfy try jt, When Corns your feet carr ide, to pervade | is columns, to cause any ayrpriee estern Shore D. D. syste

, ready, by ing the members ¢f the sister
country, should be entertained by the/itharse gry it, if luetreloss try it, if none of | ‘ Tho naturalisation bill passed the House by That Grace's Balyo you surcly get Ol cari Pa ser eenition that thet letter Lodges or icy: gett, strengthen-
Government, : these ¢ for all who use it will preserva | a majority so great that it might be almost And take to your abode, letter fel cis 0 with the late and last) ed the hands of both, and, thus likely to

Mr. Green also urged the necoasity of/ their hair through life, For vaje hy all Drug! regarded us equivalent to unanimity.” but re- If well applied there is no deubs * Bri ry ” ‘ Wedd k the signature of| gogire for them still lap“? prosperity apd
eumpleting the West Point Whar, gists. gtots oxmoedingly to seg retained im that pill But what It will the nuisance rout, sta.” Veew ad ae sate rh pesevercnce, So mote4 be.—Com. fe Jour-

pel by onder,

»