WHAT THE ADMIRALTY THINKS OF TIE MIANTONOMAH, Tn the house of Lords ov the 8th inst., the Duke 0: Somerset, iu risiug to move for a return of the uumber of ships added to the royal navy by building or purchase, stating the toovnage of each vessel, from the year 1860 to 1862, iuclusive, said :—My Lords, T have thought it right to bring forward this motion because there has been, as it appears to me; grew miscogeeption throughout the country as to the state in Whieb the uapy has beeu left. 1 do net know whether T can ascribe that opivion to a few words which fell from the present First Lord-of the Admiral- ty ia avother place at the end of last session, Cer- taiuly the notion has spread uutil it has been statec iu ditfereut parts of the country, and has been re- peated for many moaths, that wo have at the present moment no uavy Whatever, although there has beeu daring the last six yearsa large expeuditure devoted to that portion of the public marysies amounting to nearly $/J,000,000,. Your lordships will see that I have Jost uo opportunity therefore iu ealling for returns showing what has really been dove during the last six years iu the way ot building ships. As many ships, I believe, have atleast been constructed during that period as duriug any other six years of peace. In those six yeaca we built 240 vessels of diferent kinds, That is a considerable amount of shipbuildiag, Not ouly have we done this, but it should be remembered that our path has been beset with difficulties. A great change hes taken place both a3 regards wooden ships aud irou ships. aod wheo the trausition ia all departments was so great 1 felt some degree of respousibility in regard to the amount of money which was being expended on shipbuilding, I telt, on the ove band, that it was necessary to be prepared for auy emergency ; while oo the other hand I recoguized the folly of builting a vast number of ships which, though they miglit be usetul for the momeat, would probably ba superseded ina few years. bd ° ng . a 1 cannot see, therefore, that there is anything to Llame as far as the construction of our ironclacs is concerned, *. ° * * » . Before the arrival of the Miantonomah, we were compression, and so the traveller is compelled to go The Herwta, ‘Weaneaday, April 3, 1807. “EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN. EDUCATION.” emia ~ We gommend to our readers the following admirable Lecture delivered in New York on the 12th ultimo, by iJ. F. Magaire, Esq., a gentleman in every way qualified \to deal with so important a subject as Education :— lam rather taken aback at the solemnity of my in- troduction to you. It is very true that Ihave been ar- rested by the command of the Archbishop, but Lam not inclined to sue out a writ of Aabeas corpus, but shall simply pray for a geod delivery on this oveasion. Coyrecspondence, se at ei hy ey To tux Epiron or 1H ALD. Dear Herald,—Through the falsehood and double- lealing of my enemies, and the treachery of some of ny friends (save the mark !) Jam not im thepposition to speak and act as I would like in betalf of the destitite people around me, and for the good of the Island gen- vrally; but the confidence I have in my friends—I mean the victorious Liberals who have been more for- tunate, or, perhaps, unfortunate, than myself--prompts mie to sayen word to them in behalf of the people whose representatives may not be aware of the state of the country, 1 think 1 am safe in asserting that there /FLaughter and applause.) -Now, my-time and-yours is ave hundreds in thiy district (and I presume that this is too yaluable to trifle with. It is not my intention to not the only part of the Island where the weevil, the speak to you on the general question of education, In ; fact, it would be a very idle and bootless mission on my rue and the rot bave rendered the people see) part if Leame to New York for the purpose of telling without the weans to obtain a little seed and 00d thy people of New Yurk, which is the brain of America, necessary for the coming Spring. Now, Sir, perhaps chat education was necessary, was useful and beneficial, you think that Lam going to advocate running the Is- I am not going to indulge ina epoken essay on the be- land in debt in order to buy bread and seed for the Pefits of edavation. You understand those quite sullir : : ciently, ‘Lhe mauy noble institutions which are a glor people, Ob, no; it is possible, and even probable, that), this country, pe which are the pride of all SPAN hg such a course will be necessary before harvest ; Lut, at! ations that go to form this great vation, which is, per- present, T only want the public means husbanded, as T)haps, now one of the greatest and vastust in the world, sould like 10 see the people husband their resources in- 444 Which bas the mightiest and i andest future before dividually, and ‘expevded in that manner and at that i-—theep spwak with a sulivivntly eloquent tongue of ume most certain to benefit them. I would recommend the appreciation by the American people of the value a very liberal grant for the road service. ‘This can be and the advantages of Education, [Applause.] Therefore, 1 sball rather endeavor to point out to you (lone if our friends will fulfill the great Tory promise of Retrenchaent, and the labor to be performed as soon what is the principle upon which education is based in as the frost is sufficiently out of the ground, in order to S26 sau sary.. .. | Lp gamen ) _|derful campaign which changed the whole surface of| From « perusal of evra corivopanii-uce convained in the last Islander, it appears to usthat Major l'ollard has been very unfairly dealt with by his mihtary superiors, We are not prepared to give the corres- pondence in this day's paper; but the facts of the case are, that upon one oceasion when Col, Smith was absent from the Military School, Major Pollard was requested by one of the Drill instructors, who com- tide of battle in favor of Prussia as the needle gun. plained of sore throat, to drill the men for that night, Let us now go to another Pretestant count If Major Pollard complied, bat, on the fact being com- there be any country in the world that boasts it is & municated to Col, Smith, he declared it to be a violation Protestant country it is England, on I have heard of orders, and as such reported it to the Commander- pep she Me eeseta) hitien pres hear of in-chief. A General Order shortly afterwards speared, Oxford converts? You may perhaps have heard of seme posted ap in the Drill Shod, eensuring Major Pollord's Europe and raised Prussia to the very culmmating point of European power; for now, agi with the exeep- tion of pa 2 she is ‘the first military power in Europe, asT veuture to say America is the greatest military power on the face of the earth. We did not hear of any treavhery on the part of Catholics in those terrible confligts where they were arrayed against a Caholic monarchy and Catholic soldiers. o; they fought shoulder to shouldef, and did quite as much to turn the gradual tendency among them Romewards, and of action, without directly mentioning bis pawe. Major some ow and holy men going out of that 6ld cloister pyjard very naturally felt indignant, that for havin g and adoring God in’ the same manner as great an o system simply, and upon invitation, taken Command of the in “England? Purely denominational. Why, in battalion to relleve a drill iustructor who was indis- London, under the very shadows of the towers of posed, he should be dealt with so sumnatily by an Westminster, L know a Catholic school, with crucifixes officer who received £3002 year fromébe Government, eo walls, aan lamb. ‘There is an idee that we must be pampered, 4'ay and Haviland, for a Court of Inquiry to investi and nursed and treated in some extraordinary way in gute into the alleged vivlation of urders, Lu reply to this order to prevent our cutting each other's throats. It is application, Major Pollard reecived a communivation holy men centuries age. But what is Europe, and slightly refer‘to the system as I understand it in this country, and 1 shall then address myself for a give the people an opportunity of getting seed and food enough to eat while sowing and planting it, and thus we short time to the object which more immediately con- eerns us here, and whieh is the impelling motive of your should receive more benefit in one year than is now ef- fected in five; for I consider that it would be better in charitable presenge on this occasion, [A age Now, I myself have been a member of the Meuts of nine cases out of ten to allow the roads to go unrepair- ed than to follow the old (and should be obsolete) Commons for fifteen, years, and during that time the! subject of Education bas forced itself oc my mind far’ practice of merding the roads with dry dust and sods, to the great anncyance any inconvenience of the travel- more than it ever did.at any previous period of my life. I have beard the question debated by the most eloquent lug public through the whole of the suceeeding summer for, when first laid on, itis tov dry and hard to admit of men, and I have seen the manner in which different men have endeavored to deal with that difficult question, . But I believe most solemnly vow, from a thorough con- viction arising from observation and experience, that there is ouly one system that is consonant with justice, and that eventually must be acceptable to all classes in the community who really respect treedom of thought, jolting over this apology for repairing until the falljand who also desire to respect the consciences of singular, however, that the only part of Ireland which fon Lieut.-Col. Stewart. informing ‘him that His has been disgraced by the deadly conflict of her own... em : " aie ia thes so in which the mixed systents obtains Excellency regretted that an officer of Majer Pollard’s That part of the country is not, at any rate, a very Standing * should have committed the very serious peaceable or loving part of the yng mek and we find breach of all wilitury usages waich rendered necessary that there are men. in other parts of Ireland that love the General Order affixed iu the Drill Shed.” Major each other quite as well, if not better, than in Ulster. ,, ), ce ‘ te " The evil of tho wixed system’ was aol 46 apparent, Pollard perceived, from the Adjutant-General’s letter, however, in Ireland as that which might arise under that the offenee of which he was charged in the General more favorable circumstances. ‘The reason is thatthe Order was much more “ serious” than at first sight mass of the population is Catholic, ‘The last census appeared, and, as bé was in total ignorance y! the rule, showed that of its pepulation of 5,600,000, 4,500,000 order, of + military usage ” of which he had committed were still of that faith, In Leinster, Munster and i : » Connaught, three of her provinces, of the 400,000, breach, again demanded a Court of Enquiry to con- children who attend the schools, 338,000 were Catholics vict him if guilty, or to acquit him if inneeent, The coutinually being asked why we did vot build au reine cect im, whepr it ie all at once turned into = quag- impregnable vessel, whose sides should be but ttle poe ey shite i ate be I have “ — si nbove the level of the water, of great speed, carry-/*0Me WIN Say, nA ett le gored 908 arate ing one or two heavy guns, atid requiring but a few the roads in seed time. Not 50 fast, my dear sir; 1 men for her management. I was very glad when|Prepese no such athing. There is always from a week that vassel arrived at these shores ; because it at once |'0 ten days, and longer, in the Spring, before seed became appa ent to every oue conversant with ‘the time, before the land has dried sufficiently, to do any- subject that it was impossible to make a crew com-|thing in the way of cultivation, when it is just in the fortable on board suck a ship. The crew of the/fight state or condition to repair the roads with, when Miavtonomah were not only exposed to every dis- there is what evan igy § — a — spell, when " ; : A poor men are waiting for the land to dry up. This is comfort, bar they ‘gon liable to be smothered iq the the time that such men should have an Bates of event of anything happening to the veutilating en- : Y . 7 repairing the highways, and, by so doing, prepare seed gine 80 as to preveut its working for a few minuets.|(or their land. If something of this sort is not done in I was iutormed by one of the officers on board that/order to assist the destitute torthwith, 1 aa positive ship that on one occasion the egine had been stopped |that hundreds of acres will go unseuded this Spring in accidautally for a short time, and that the erew were! King’s County alone, : F ; : The above may appear to those who care little and saitig: Y's Wee betacal hat Mk wtwed nine A Mg know less about the condition of the country, far-fetched : . {and overdrawn; it is, indeed, gloomy, but nevertheless possible to send such a ship ou a three years cruiselirue, See to it, then, you with whom rests the respon to auy part of the werld, and therefore we could not sibility. Yours truly, have obtuined any great reduetion of the number of : CUARLES CLAY. seamen required for mauning the wavy by the em-| Dundas, King’n County, , March 26, 1867, this country. And those who are the advocates of that|#’¢ committed tothe care of the dissenting ministers. can offend no man and give justice to all men Now, leaving these counties for a moment, let me come to Austria, which is by enlightened Englishmen and enlightened I'rotestant lrishmen, and perhaps enlightened no-church Americans, manirs as a, priest-ridden country, where there is no liberty for the | Vrotestant. Austria is a Catholic country, with a small minority of Protestants. Does it interfere with the education of Protestants? Does it offend the. con- sciences of thé minority? Does it despotically say to Now, l ini . inati . them, * Such a’ system of education you shall have, ow, Lam of opinion that the denominational sys Nothing: of the Seok de thea tem is the right system. (Applause:) It is the one, aud none sosher.' ’ in my opinion, most consistent with the principles of Parishes of the Austrian ‘nih Cl where there are any liberty. I believe it should be eventually the system “issenters from the Romanish Chureh the education ot ibat experience and a sense of justice will force upon, their children is not directed by the priests, but they others, (Applause.) Ihave myself, in the House of Commons, Witnessed the most absurd, and, I would al-' most venture to say, ridiculous contradictions exhibited within the course of one night. For instance, I have heard the Minister of Instruction, as I will call him, for he represents that departinent in England, advocate the denominational system, and the very same night the Irish Secretary assured them that a mixed system, was alone the salvatioti of Ireland, systent here have only to look to Earope in order to fonl| These latter are empowered and required by govern- the ground arene under their feet and to derive from) ment to provide for, to watch over, and te promote experience and the practice of Murope the best just ifica- the educvtion of the children of their own srct, in the tion for their advocacy of a’system of education whick|S&aMe Manner as the priests are required to do in the Now, education of the children of their faith, That is all this country is, so called, a Protestant country, though] We want in Ireland. Austria 1s now marching in the I heg leave to have some litle difference on that point; tue path, and has recently given Hungary a free consti- for L have heard-rof course Linight be badly informed | tution. [Apphuuse.) As to the liberality in other States, —that there are some few Catholics in this great Re- the Rhenrish provinces and others, all the children public, (Laughter and applause.) But those who are; (vere have been brought up under denominational the majority are yery much inclined to Europe for; *4ucation, and without any offence to any sect. It ix only reply he received to this last demand, so just and reasoua ble m itself, was a verbal one, informing him that the Commuander-in-Chief would not continue the correspondence any further, Now. the belief is general throughout the community, specially amopg Voluntecra and Militiamen, that the Major has been guilty of no offence against Military usages, and that he has received foul play in being coudemned without a hearing. Why should he be denied a Court of Enquiry? 1 the luspector of Militia had a good case, why should he hesitate to have Major Pollard legally condemned? ‘be faet appears to be that there is some imean pique at the bottom of the whole proceeding, and, in order to graufy it, the aitempt has been made to sacritice the Major upen the merest pretenee. In whatever light we look at the affair, it seems mean and contemptible. It is contrary to the principles of British justice and fair play to condemn a man without informing him of his offence ; and itiv injudicious ynd ungratetul to treat an officer like Major Pollard, who has dune so mueh gratuitously to intuse a spivit of miliary ardor into the young meu ie ili gue ployment of vessels of that description, With re- gard to avy general reduction in the expenditure upon the navy, I may remark that out of the seventy millions there were at least forty millions expended upon objects with which nogovernment could in- terfere, ST. PATRICK'S DAY, 1867. Wuitr we write, the Irishmen of New York are marching in procession through iis streets, with banners flving and drums beativg aud music filling theair. Their civic societies, and military societies, and charitable and benevolent societies, and tempe- rauce societies parade their thousands and teos of -thousands before the eyes of the stranger in this great semi-Irish city o: the New World. Their banvers , with names aig; devices dear and familiar to themselves, but strange and meaningless to others, flutter gaily in the sun-bright air, aud the music that thrilled the hearts uf bygone geacratious of their race, ' “———— in the green valleys of their native land,” echo to-day far and wide through the populous thor- oughfares of the Empire City, aud away over the broad bosom of the waters that gird Manhattan Island. Many an Irish sailor climbs the rigging of his ship to-day on the beautiful Hudson or the mag: nificent Bay of New York to catch the far-off melod- ies that his mother used to sing milking her cow or spionieg her wigel iu the home of his innocent child- hood. The anwon.ed tear moistens his eyes as he caiches faint and tar sozve notes of “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” * Patrick's Day,” or ‘* Molly Asthore,” or “The Fxile of Kriy,” better kuown to him as * Savouruces Dhee'ish.” o | And when the evening shades cover ihe earth, around many a festive board in this and other v.ties, the sons Of Ireland will meet to talk and sing o. “Auld Lang Syne,” and the dear Old Land to which all look back with undying affection. Every sue- cessive recurreree of the patroual festival of the Irish race brings the same rejo cing, the same tacit agser- tign of Ireland's undying uationality—the same pub- lic profession of her Christian faith, her everbiving hope that-the God of nations will one day restore her to her place amongst the nations of the earth. What St. Patrick's Day shall witness her triumph, her1eurrection ? Who may tell.save Him who holds io His Almighty land, the destivies of vations as of men! It is worthy of remark that the procession in New York o4 this particular anniversary is larger than jt has been for many years. It was two hours and a half in passing the City Hall. —N. ¥. Tablet. “The Lo Times says that the grogtest misfor- * tune w eniasisin has brought on Ireland is the destruction of coufidence amoug the landlords aud py roman For nearly two years, gloom or. hension has been settling on all that is industrious aud enterprising in Ireland. “ Aquatic..We see by a New York paper that the Ward boat crew of New York challenges any four- oared crew in America or the British Proviaces toa race for any sam from $1,000 to £2,500 a side. A His Grace the Archbishop of dulifex arrived here by the R. M.S. China from England en Monday General of this Province, mg +f ring New Brunswick, were e ‘s" : ew Bru ah | oo. 8 il ot paper. Mureh tt, aibenoniee cot eae t so viele is guidance or lessons derived from the experience of Eu-|W"ong to work out a base triumph atthe expense of ropean countries, Then America is very much inclined to take a lesson either from England or from Prussia, two orthodox Protestant countries, These will just answer my purpose for the present moment. Now, in the year 1850, there was a certain constitution—the constitution of the kingdom of Prussia—which was pro- mulgated in that year, arid in that constitution, among other things, was laid Jown what was called "the rights of I'russian citizens in reference to education,” It was distinctly understood that the educational system of that country ought to be, should be, and must be de- nominational, In fact there was a provision (article 21) providing that the youth must be educated by public school that if the father did not educate lis child, the State should educate him. In fact, the people of Amer- icon never held a more exalted opinion of the value of education than the people of Protestant Prussia did, An adequate provision was to be made for the education of all classes by public schools. But by article 24, in the management of these public schools ‘the confes- sional relations were to be kept in view as much as pos- sible.” By these ‘* confessional relations” were meant the religious denominations of the parties, Now let us see bow this was carried out. There were three classes of schools in Prussia, Iam now rather speaking of Prussia up to the year 1859. ‘The population of Prussia was under 18,009,000 at the time. There were about 7,000,000 Catholics and 10,000,000 .or 11,000,400 Pro- testants. Well, there were three descriptions ot schools—the elementary schools, the gymnasiums and the normal schools, The elementary, of course you can ensily Understand what these mean, were for giving the elements or rudiments of education to the younger portion of the population, The gymnasiums or gymnasia were of a higher class. They affurded a more advanced character of instruction, and the normal schools were for the traning of teachers. All those schools were strictly denominational. Now, let us say something, for instance, of the normal. There were at that time, and there are now, Catholie norwal schools for the training of Catholic teachers, and Protestant normal schools for the training of Protestant teachers, In the Catholic school, all the teachers were Catholic, and the president of that school was the parish priest. He wae appointed by the King through the minister, but unless approved by the bishop of the diocese no a intment was made, for no recommendation wou Gon been ventured upon. —( gen Now, the re- ligious books were prescribed by the bishop. All the class Looks in which anything might appear dangerous to faith or morals were examined by the b/shop, and he had the veto upon their selection. And the pupils, al- though successiul in eowpetition, would not receive their parents or diplomas, unless with the concurrent ap- probation of the minister representing the crown and tie bishop of the diocese, (Applause.) Now, as for the effmentary schools, there 1s no mixed sehool in Prussia, on Ve in 29 instance of this kind, where the lo- cality is thiniy populated or there is not a sufficient To the Editor of the Herald, Dear Sir,—On. taking my usual rounds on election day, Lacrived at Montague Bridge in the afternoon of that day, I found the squire and Sam at their post. L observed many beardless boys. recording their votes. Any person could sve that they were no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age. Strange that such a pious Christian as Kenneth Henderson could see such wrong and fraud practised even although in his favor! I drew near the wustings and beard the returning officer whom all said was a very impartial pony express bis surprise ata boy who came forward. ‘+ Ly it possivle you have a vote?” said he. The boy said ** Yes.” At the same time, a squire’s son (and who sometimes calls hunself’ @ squire) said that “ she was going on her 22nd year,” and without any more ado, the boy’s vote was taken, and that without any one demanding his road certificate, This excited my euriosity. I enquired how this cane, as 1 had visited other polling places and saw the election laws carried out very minutely. I was told that **Self-Rowe ind Sam” were GC urnish men, and would not oppose, no matter who was sacrificed ; and further, that Mr. Henderson and the above party entered into an agreement that all the bad vutes should be divided between the opposing candidutes present. low ig it that between 20 and 30 bad votes are recorded for Rowe and Uenderson? and what is the reason that Thomas Annear—Mr, Fletcher's representative—did not even object to one solitary vote during the live long day? Poor, honest Fletcher, you are an ill-used man; and well might you say, ‘save me from my friends.” Every honest Liberal in the district felt proud of you; you fought a manly battle; the weapon of logic laid up- wards of one hundred Conservatives prostrate at your feet, the Conservatives acknowledged ywur ability and worth; but you are defeated, for no fault of yours— the treachery:of friends, Now, Mr. Editor, it ie very evident that if Mr. J. H. Fletcher was properly represented, even at this division, Mr, Henderson would have been defeated; or had Mr. Fletcher's man been half as active as the squire, (who never failed to sing out "she is a goot vote for ler "arty !") the case might have been different. But the Lu, crals of this district have missed their aim. Probably 3s. F. will never offer here again, and I defy them to get a 4.% who will poll the same number of votes The’ Libera’ Were either careless or deceitful, soe yess Cigar A THAVELLER, King’s County, 1867. = . ee POLITICAL MEETING AT. OLD SA,VMILL BRIDGE, COVEHEAD ROAD. Pursuant to public notive, Hon. Mr. Coles met a large number of bis constituents at the Old Sawmill Bridge, on Tuesday, 28:b inst, The meeting was or-/number of people or of children to form separate genioetl by appowting Geo. Law i be ty ha chair, ne ae schoot has a local inspeetor and a and the undersigned as retary. Mr, Coles then ad-/ychool commitice, The lovai {vapector is invariably the dre the meeting. plained the nature and parish privet. Thoreare districts of schools, and forty formation of the present Goverument, the offivial ap-|or fifty schools in @ district, These districts are identi- he consciences of other people. same here as | that is to let each denomination have a right to its own element prevails, the superintendent writes; * Five school and elect trustees, even though the teacher of the common school be Roman Catholic.” also relieved from (ie payment of all common school intellectual] of this community, ia the summary and upjust manner indicated. If officers of merit and long-standing are to be treated thus, what hope can be entertained of securing that esprit du corps so essential to efficiency in military organizations? We do not uphold Major Pollard if he is wrong; but we do assert that neither to himself,his companious in arms, ner to the public at large, has it been shown that he has violated any military rule, or order, or usage which ho ought to have observed. In the interests of the Volunteer, movement Major Pollard’s cuse ought to be thorough! Investigated and made as public as possible. iG wrong, his past services might plead in mitigation of « harsh sentence, but, if right, some reparation is due him, Will not the Volunteers endorse this view? If so, they ought to manifest it by demanding a Court of Enquiry, as desired by Major Pollard. Let justice be done, and our military organization will be all the gainer by it. If I was a legislator in this country I would ask the ‘lia in Lreland or weuld in England, and means of education, and yet be so tenced round as to be intact in us purposes. [Applause.] In Upper Canada the l’rotestant element predominates, and in Lower Canada the Catholic. ‘The laws of the latter, uaranteed by Act of Parliament, never oppressed the ‘rotestanis. In Upper Canada, where the Orange Roman Catholic heads of faniies may at. their pleasure cail a meeting and establish ‘a rate They are rates. A boy should be trained religiously as well as y in order to withstand trials and tempta- tions. Lsvpenes.) lMlere there were more trials and tep)ptations to be encountered than in any other country, and therefore there was special need of the denominational system to give religious culture. They educated thirty thousand boys in Ireland, and there are two thousand three buadred boys educated in the Christian. Brothers’ schools of Cork, and the highest estimate is placed on the valae of this denominational instruction there, There is an attendance of 350,000 of those educated in Ireland at the schools there per year, Of 2,300 children on the rolls of the Monk schools in Cork, 2,100 are in actual attendance, Their education is of the highest character. Te Protestant Cominissioners bore testimony to the efficiency of the teaching in these schools of the Christian Brothers. Catholics in this country might have, as well, the same system, and the Sta.es might well consider the strong claims of the Catholics. Until that time Catholics, for the honor of themselves and their religion, will have to pay State taxes and make large pecuniary sacrifices in order to preserve the faith of the Catholic children of this country. [Applause.] There are mean enemies who strike those who are down, those who are oppressed by poverty, They had met here to assist the dis- tinguished prelate of this arehdiocese—[great applause} —in his grand and successful effort to stem the tide of proselytivm and to baffle the wickedness of kidvapper: and child stealers, [Loud eed I have visited’ the institution of the Reformatury and was well pleased, *Conreperation Consiperep oN 17s Menirs.°— This is the title ot a pamphict of 35 pages which we have recently received from Halifax. It contains nothing new upon the subject that we can perceive, ahd why it has been published, unless to gratify the vanity of its unknown author, we are ata loss to know, It is a pity that all the pamphlets that have beon written within the last two years in favor of Confed- eration, could not be collected into one volume, and preserved in the archives of the new ‘ Kingdom,” for future reference, Some of their authors might then learn to blush at the false premises and falser conclusions with which they attempted to impose upon-an incredulous people, The roseate hues in which they love to paint the future of the Confederacy, may dckle our imagination, but they do not appeal to our reason, nor have we the remotest idea that these taney sketches will ever be realised. Upon the main- land, the introduction aid employment of a large amount of British capital in building the Inter- with its iaahapelval, with the hearty merriment of the Colonial Railway, will, undoubtedly, stimulate industry” immense number of fads there. The noble prelate has ‘in all its branches, and inaugurate an éra-of prosperity Riven up his energies to the moulding of the minds of of several year's duration. But, in the ¢ourse of time, rie Magda is ming pga when the increased and ever-increasing butdens'and _ severe manner the Gaon of prostlytising PH eneg difficulties implied in a * New Nationality,” come to which he understood was practised to a great extent in be fully experienced, our pamphleteers will baye litle this city, Children, he had learned, were gathered up reason to congratutate themselves upon their attempts upon the screets, taken into these homes for little: at propheey. United Lraly, with a homegenous popu- wanderers, and when their anfertunate, drunken, de- . i \e based, yet still loving parents came te svek for them, lation of twenty millions, has found the task of self they were lost to them forever, their names changed and ZoVernment NO easy one, The difficulties of the new they sent fur away into the West. He related several Kingdoui will be more Complicated than those ot italy. stories of shost painful character in illustration of the With Nova Scotia betrayed and dissatisfied, with an fanaticism, if it even deserved that title, to which the’ men were animated who perpetrated these foul wren yo SBingonians: om. FOR Sarena eee Serie & in the name of religion. Having mercilessly handled J¢alous and powertul neighbor upon our border, even polntments, etc, All present seemed perfuctly satistied with the explanations given. The Hon Mr, Haythorne was then ‘upen to address the ing. He spoke at considerable length, very ably reviewing -the rinvipal pablic topics now before the Publics ag vat arly the ee estion, Free Education, ee , the Road Service, etc. He gave some excellent ideas on those momentous questions, Mr. Bovyer and others also addrewyed the meeting. All seemed well pleased with the policy porsued by the Hon. Mr. Coles; The follow. ing resdlations were then put from the chair and carrivd unanimously. ' us Emit ‘Proposed by David Lawson, Evq., and weconded by cal with the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the dean, and the Catholic dean isthe head inspector of the virele o! Catholic schools. Now, as for gymnasia, it is only ne- vessary for me to say that they are still more strictly Catholic than the others. In 1858 there were og or ninery Protestant gymnasia and forty Catholic. At) that time there were something like seventeen normal schools for the training of Catholw teachers, masiers and mistresses, with an attendance of between fifteen and weventeen hundredy etl out ‘There is a defect in the Prussian system, no doubt, that is, flat theré are not separate universities; at any jrate, there were hot at that time. But jf there be de- fects in the system, or if the system be not fully carried : : - ge vy. fotit, Catholics may well hope in the wisdom and benefi- Resolved, That we highly apptove of the Won. Geo!lCN.. ar that euunety for giving then full nod ‘ample Coles accepting the office of Col. Seeretary and Leader init ce, #ueh as'are acceptible to the libetty and con- ol shia Government, andl pledge ourselves to support bim tutes of Catholics af well as Protewtante, "(A at the coming election. o qo ce plauae.) Foe. Bt ws ped avk vee you nave pied M Mr, Geo. and sevonded Mr. jof any e rom prev . or t Le enn ener ain of he devamiatin : system — re That the procwediogs of thie mecting be published ia t teve an ig 4 =the Sh the: and Herald wewtpapers.; >. leat there | “no lags So invovfletng? We pues \6 this kidnapping system as an unworthy institution of a the consolidated resourecs of the new Kingdom will jreat city like New York, he concluded by making an be scarcely sufficient to keep the complicated and earnest appeal to the audience to protect these unba ent machitde waits, there children of brutalized and walorbodete cr tyy cag ne take - ta Prt i parents, victims of poverty and sin, from almost worse Oder. However, g than death, the ie ria arn n yy toa home, granted, and, if we are to credit our anonymous where, however weil it might provide for them, they |phampleteer, we are nearer the mileoniam than is were taught to despise the meniories of their unhappy generally anticipated. In faet, with the emancipated gored, | ae ne OF By giving op Abele means contraband, we must come to the conclusion that, with to aid the ress of the aad work initiated in the beh nth of the Corkebe Reformatory, the dawn of Confederation, Tt mutat be now the Kingdom's coming, wre "And the year of Jubilo.” Tue Patriot of Thursday last contained a short edi- a : torial article filled with gross misrepresentations of| Iris gratifying to novice the change for the better A sermon pfeached in St. Dunstan's Cathedral on the| which has come over the Conservative 6 sincd Vth March. Aathe Very Rev. Dr. MeDanald has|they have been driven into opposition, and no longer taken thé matter in hand, by addressing a letter there »njenjoy the patronage of Government. From being to the editor of the Patriot, we deom it unecessary to|the apologists of extravagance, corruption and op- say anything upon the subject until his letter appears— | pression, ie et suddenly become the purest of further than this, that the article in question, i so far as| patriots and the most unselfish of mortals, They now it imputes ** Fenian” or ‘disloyal ‘utterances to the) advocate for a reduction of taxation, which was raised Moved and seconded that Guo. Bovyer do take the ian the ceutre of five thousand miles of railroad track a. chair, aad that a vote-of thanks veo to the chair- OF ¢ None. Take the Inst March 98, 1867, nae oe hntaithfal to their fag, * young” preacher, y Inks the * essential ele-| while thelr friends were in power, and they are equally ment,” truth. Witieat reported otherwise, either|clamorons for an incredde of the teacher's salary, na disloyal orcould not understand the English lanjcsye, or is aj which was reduced by the Government thvag consistent ¥y you all know the won-|knave and toady at heart. organs supported. Free land, a bounty on fishing, the i