THE HERALD, WE DNESDAY,

MAY 13, 1868.

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LEGISLATIVE, SUMMARY,
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

(Contioaed from last Weratn.>

; Wroxesmey, April 2nd. 1868.

Hon Mr Davies—The fact that overtares had heen
fewle to the Government by one or two Proprietors,
relative to theaale of their Extates, remiered it neces-
mre te place at the disyosal of the KE xeentive, the means
of poretas any lands that may be offered at a low
figure. He then reviewed the genern! question of land
terares, and in reply ta hem lealer of the Opnosition,
rewarked that the Kachent party, at the time alladed to,
Were powerless, hecanse that the Governor in Council.
head, at that tine, the prerogative te reject any measure

they Tt was, therefore, folly to think that ander

the tution ee: as it then stood, that the
party could obtain their objert.

Hon Leader of the Gocernnyent Watcest, that the

Principle of purchasing Proprietary Estates, ander the
: : shor ye er a met with ne ral
: approval, been adopter the Conservative as
it well as the Liberal party. There were, however, a few
; small Estates well settled, that could vot be purchased
at the limited price fixed by the Land Purchase Act.
i Shonald any gach Estates be offered, the Government
world he placed, by the bill ander consideration, ina
_ Position to purchase. He then proceeded to show the:
- propriety of ascertaining the views of the Home Govern
t ment, relative toa compulsory measnre, previons to its
introdnetion, in order to prevent any misconception on
the pnbject. He concluded by expressing the hope, that
the owners of the remaining Township Lands on this
{sland wou'd follow the example of others. and yield to
the wish of the people, by selling their Estates on fair

4 ’ Mr Brecken—The bill under consideration was hased
4 pn precisely the same principle as that much abnaed so
led Tory Bill—the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Act. If
latter was so very unjnet, and so adverse to the in-
perests of the tenantry, what he would ask would be
aiid by the snpporters of the pr sent Government of the
ill now hefore the House. placing unlimited power in

@ hatids of the Execntive to purchase lands at an nn-
restricted price. He would offer no opposition to the
bill, but would merely remark that it was in his opinion
an abandonment of the coercive policy alluded to inthe
Minute of Gonncil already referred to, and a repadi-
ation of any effort to secure a compulsory measare, He
‘would, therefore, willingly give the bill his snpport,
‘Mr MeNeill said that the effort made to secore the
consent of the Home Government to a coereive measure,

‘as nat accompanied by any declared or implied inten-
tion, to give op the policy of the Liberal party, relative
to the Land Purchase Act, The prmeiple of purchasing
‘on equitable terms was closely adhered to, and even
‘ander the provisions of a compnisory measare, There

ae no desire to deprive rightful owners of a fair valu-
ation for their lands, ‘The main object was to secnre to
the hard-working sons of toil the fee simple of their
farm, on jnst and reasonable terms. The principal
Proprietors having consented to part with their Estates,
‘and thereby a large majority of the tenantry of the Co-
‘ony being placed ina position to hecome free-holders,
it was but nataral, he said, to expect that the remaining
He er of the people would eagerly aeck like privileges.
eo ‘And if the owners of remaining Extates would persiat in
resisting the well understood wishes of the people, it
‘was but reasonable to expect that coercive measures
would be applied for, and if possible, obtained. In other
Colonies obnoxious systems hail yielded to public op-
inion, end he hoped that here, also, the remnant of an
‘oppressive and baneful system of land tenure, sneh as
pahdom disgraces the anvals of any country, would soon
‘be wiped away.

Hon Mr MeAolay said that extreme agitators and
quack politicians were the greatest enemies to any coun-
‘try, All ultra attempts at settling any question always
ended in disappointment and defeat. Such had been
the fate of the promoters of compulsory legislation. rel-
ative to the land tenures in the Colony ; aud he hoped
that the country would now see the fully of all such ex-
travagant and groundless efforts.

Hon Mr Henderson said that it appeared the present
Government had taken precedent from the mach abused
‘Fifteen Years’ Purchase Act. That was, in his opinion,
proof ot the fact, that parties were disposed to view
measures more by their preconceived prejudices, than by
‘the exercise ot impartial, matnre judgment, He was,

owever, prepared to support the bill now before the

douse, or any other reasonable measure, having for its
object the releasing of the people from Proprietory bond-

ae Cameron said he was happy to give his hearty
support to the bill. If during the recess lands were ol-
fered for sale to the Government on reasonable terma,
it would he extremely impolitic not to allow the Ex-
‘veutive the exercise of discretionary power. The Gov-
ernment, he said, would be heid responsible to the
‘people, and he did not fear that they would be guilty of
any undue or extravagant misappropriation of the pub-
tic fands. There was no departure from the general
inciple of purchasing under the provisions of the Land
rchase Bill, contemplated by seeking for a compulsory
measure Proprietors who presistently rejected every
‘offer made to them. should be made to feel the force of
public opinion, and he wonld, therefore, still urge the
propriety of agitation on the qnestion. It was humili-
ating to reflect on the position in which a few emall
Proprietors placed the country, by the defiant attivude
assumed, relative to what they termed—vested
rights. It was indeed high time that the Home Govern-
ment was urgently appealed to for « coercive measure,
having for ite ydject the amelioration of the people. and
the advancement and prosperity of the whole Island,

throwing together a few of the principal facts jn his very
remarkable career, Our space will here permit but a
very brief and Lapertect sketels of this truly great Irish-
man,

Themes TY’ Arey McGee was born on the oth day of
Ami}, in the vear 1825, inthe pleasant town of Carling-
ford, on the cast af Louth. His father was Mr. James
McGee, a Custom Howse offieer, his mether, Mise Dorcas
Morgan, the former a good, honest man of ordinary
capacity, the latter, a women fir above the common lev-
e}, from whoer her eldest and most beloved son received,
as he was foad of smyine, the higher gifts ofbis bich and
neble nature. His first and second names, Thomas
Iv Arcy, were those of his godfather. a respeetal'e resi-
dent In that neighbertrood, and a friend of the McGce
family. When the little Thongas was yet but a child,
is father was romeved to Wexford, and in that anclent
ate! bistoric town the futere poet, historian, orator, mpd
‘statesman grew op to early manhood, with no bigher or
more exteasive education than that which the ordinary
day-schools afforded. A collegiate education was then
bevond the reach of the elder Mr, MeGee for his sons. It
wits the reisfortene of the fnily to lose the amiable and
gifted wife and mother white her children were still
young, Her loss was, Indeed, an irreparable one, judg-
ing by the way in whieh her memory was cherished, and
the indelible fruopression her superior wind and esthnable

malities made on the hearts of her citldren: a good
Christian mother she must have been, for, with other
endowments of mind and heart wherewith she enriched
her favorite son, the mebject of our sketch, she instilled
into lis young mind a love for religion, a reverence for
its ministers, a deep and lively fhith that remained with
him all his life through, and ander the most adverse cir-
cumstances,

‘The chief tte that bornd him to home once broken, it
was not surprising that, even in his boyhood, Thomas
D’Arey McGee, with his broad, e ive natore, his
consetonsness of vast mental , his yearnings after
the brilliant futore of which h dreamed, should
extend his thoughts beyond the limits of his native is-
land, away to the home of freedom, as he, perhaps not
wrongly, deemed {t, in the great iblic of the West.
Fame and fortune he probably looked for in this Ei Dor-
ade of modern Europe, but beyond fame and fortune, we
can well believe, rose before his enthusiastic mind the
dream of working for Ireland in the new home of the ekl
race beyond the Atlantic wave. Love of his native Jand

his fervid nature.

It was in the year 1842 that Thomas D'Arcy McGee
landed on the const of America, in the old Buy State.
On the 4th of July of that year, some few weeks after his
arrival, a Repeal meeting was held in the old Marl-
borough Chapel, and at that meeting the young emi-
grant of seventeen electrified the Boston audience to
such a degree that the chairman, Mr. James, an Ameri-
can gentleman, while expressing bis admiration of the
young stranger's wondrous eloquence, emphatically re-
marked, “If such are the Wexford boys what must the
Dublin men be!” That first triamph of Mr. McGee's on
American soil was followed by an engagement in the
office of the Boston Pilot, with which paper he was con-
nected in one way or another till his return to Ireland,
three years later. Those years were busy years, memo-
rable years, during which he laid the foundation of mach
that was remarkable in his subsequent career. Those
were the days when the lecturing system was being in-
augurated ; and, in addition to Mr. McGee's already ex-
tensive stock of knowledge, he acquired much from the
great minds who were then high above the horizon in the
intellectual capital of New England. Even amongst that
galaxy of stars, including such men as Longfellow,
Emerson, Brownson and Giles, the young Irish lad, with
his self-taught genius, and his spontaneous gift of glori-
ous speech, attracted no small attention. He had taken
to lecturing, and to journalizing, and by the time he was
eighteen, was associated with the late Walter J. Walsh
in the editorial management of the Pilot, to the extensive
popularity of which his ready witand brilliant genius
gave, perhaps, the first and most powerful impetus.
They were stirring days those,—they were the days of
the Native American excitement, of the Philadelphia
church-burning, when to be a foreigner and a Catholic
was deemed a legitimate cause for persecution; Trish of
the Irish himself, and Catholic to the heart’s core, it was
natural that our young editor should rush headlong into
the prevailing excitement, and he said and wrote words
so keen and bitter that they long rankled in the jaundiced
minds of the Nativists, as they were called. They were
the first enemies he made as a public man. As a lector-
er, he made a name for himself, extending over the New
England States; whilst as a journolist bis fame went
back to the old land, and obtained for him an offer from
the editor of the Dublin Freeman's Journal to write for
that old and highly respectable paper, which offer he
gladly accepted — His heart sti 1 clung the funder to his
native land for the years he had been away.

In 1845 Mr. MeGee returned to Ireland, and the three
years which followed were amongst the most memorable
of his chequered life. From the stormy excitement of
the Native movement in America, he passed to the equal-
ly stirring and still more momentous struggle between
Old and Young Ireland, between wise old heads and calm,
cool judgment, on the one hand, and the bot heads and
fervid enthusiasm. and Eutopian schemes of flery, fervid
youth, many of whom were more than ordinarily endow-
ed with genius and with learning, while the hearts of all
burned with patriotic ardor. O’Connell’s wise and
eminently successful policy was too slow in its operation
for the men of the young generation, and in an evil hour
they seceded from the old national party, of which he
was the leader and the representative, and formed what
was called the Young Ireland party. No one is ignorant
that Thomas D'Arcy McGee was one of the first, as he
was one of the foremost, in this new party, or coufedera-
tion, as it soon hecame They were a brilliant band of
proud, bold spirits, those founders and chiefs of Young
Ireland. There was Wm. Smith O'Brien, who, from age
and position (as scion of the noble family of the O’Briens
of Thomond of Inchiquin), took the lead in the move-
ment; there were Thomas Francis Meagher, and Thomas
Davis, and Richard O'Gorman, and Charles Gavan Duffy,
and John #. Dillon, and John Mitchel, and Kevin Izod
O'Dogherty, and John O'Donoghoe, and Terence Bellew
McManus, and Michael Doheny, and Thomas D’ \rey Me-
Gee, scarce less brilliant than the brightest, and with

‘Phe Bill was — read a third time and 1
ouse adjourned,
ie A. McNILL, Reporter,

[From the New York Tablet.)
THOMAS DARCY McGEE.

Said a Canadian writer on ‘The Statesmen of Canada,”
some few years ago. while the subject of his remarks
was still living, and likely to live many years—“Had the
: Thomas D'Arcy McGee lived in the middle of
the sixth century he would very probably have been a
member, and a very distinguished one, too, of that all-

werful ‘Bardic Order,’ before whose awful anger, he
Rimseit informs us in his History of Ireland, + Kings

7”

trembled and warriors succumbed in superstitious

a The remark is an apt one, although it was neither an
Trishman nor a Catholic who made it, neither a country-
nora co-religionist of Mr. McGee, and none but
pne of his own race and his own religion could thoroagh-
understand his character. Itistrue that he was en-
with all the qualities of mind and heart that were
‘ conspicuous in the bards of old,—he had all their
th of imagination, all their fire and fervor, all their
 angetng tenderness of nature, all their passionate love
the old race, their fond and proud remembrance of its
ancient glories, and their glorious gift of expressing a’!
feelings and emotions in sane: Soe verse.

more than the bards of old had he: a deep, ever-
faith, a profound homility, truly ad-
in one so rarcly-gifted, and a high and broad
iy, With an almost universal
things in this and preceding ages,
to wield over all who really knew
his latest years, a power and an influ.
euch as few men, or few women ever command.
a wonderfal character, comprising the very
With ail his beiiliant talents, his amaz-

-|about that time that the Nation, the able o

of eerie nearly all have now passed

r and judgment more matured, despite his extreme
youth, for was but a year or two over twenty when
he became secretary to the new organization.* ‘It was
of the
Young Irelanders, sprang into existence, with Charles
Gavan Duffy as chief editor, Thomas D'Arcy McGee,
eecond in command, and all the others mentioned above
as regular contributors, Others there were, too, who
came gradually into the ranks, giving the ald of voice
and pen to the fast-spreading movement. © ‘The writers
of the Nation" were a power in themselves, In addition
to those already mentioned there was Father Meehan,
and John Campion (the Kilkenny man), and John Frazer,
and two ladies who wrote respectively under the names
of “ Eva” and “ Speranza,”"+ who were considered by the
young enthusiasts whose cause they did much to advance,
as the highest priestesses of their powerful party. A
combination of geuius, of high poetic talent, and of glow-
ing patriotism that illumined its every page, the Nation
of that day was one of the most brilliant and all-etfective
journals ever published tn — country, and we well re-
member the potent spell it wielded over all classes of the
Irish people.
The first object of those ardent young patriots was to
educate the people, and so prepare them for the self-
government they dreamed of in no distant future. The
publication of the Nation was the first step they took in
this direction. The next was the issuing of a series of
shilling volumes, on every subject that could improve
and elevate the masses, this series, known from the
name of the publisher, as “ Duffy's Library of Ireland,”
tvo volumes Were written by Mr. McGee, amid all his
arduons labors; these were the “Gallery of Irish Wri-
tera of the Seventeenth Century,” and the “Life of Art
MeMurrogh.” a great but too little known king of Lein-
ster in the fourteenth pope of whose character and
achtevements he had all his life a high appreciation.
It was daring those memorable days that the gifted
young secretary ofthe Young Irelanders wooed and won
the faithfal partuer of his life, Miss Mary Teresa Caffry,
his life-long devotion to whom red some of his
sweetest lays as all muxtknow who are familiar with his
poetical compositions. B: was the dawning of their
married life, but the dark ir came all too soon; the
British Government, alarmed at the growing Inflacnce of
the Confederacy, made a descent on the several
nelnding Duffy, Meagher,
were arrested and thrown into prison. Mr. McGee, for-
tunately for himself, as it then seemed, had been
of which he hnd faith ieaontty ackersd. os
w as
Mr. Duffy and others of the party have again and again

S ecaneniamnenl
*it is sad to think that ofall this noble band of
Irish patriots, whose career opened
away. Only three,
we know of, now remain to note the gradual ex-

+“ Eva" ( Miss Mary Eva ) afterwards became
Se eee Kavi Izod Wiogherty “ Speranza ” is now

and her chequered story were even then the passion of

| testifigd; hearing of the arrests iu Deblin, Mr ‘eGee
was enabled by a priest te escape from Scothaned, first to
the North of Intand, and thence to America. Doering
his short stay be Fretand on that occasion, he was be-
friended and skeMered by the late eminent Bishop of
Dervy, Right. Rev. br, Maginn, anda reverend geutle-
man, who is now the esteewed pastor ofa New York
church, gave bim the cassock, In whieh, disgnized as 4
priest, he was enabled te cross the Atlamtic, Uis young
wife journeyed to the fer North to see him before his de-
parture ; and were it all told m detail, the story of their
loves, and thelr vicissitudes, would make a volume in
itself. They parted; the young wife returned to her
widowed mother ia Deblin, and Thomas D'Arey MeGee
went a second time to seck his fortene fn the New
Woelkl, Separated from his wife in the first year of
thelr marviage, his feelings of wornded patriotism and
agonized affection were expressed ti the wellknown
stanzas entitled ‘Home Memories,” with which we shall
close this portion of our brief sketch, hoping next week
tw ounchede tt with «a mpi survey ofhis American careet.

T left two loves on a distant strand

One voung, and fond, and fale, and bland;

One fair, and off, amd sadly grand,—

My wedicd wife and my native hand.

One tarrieth sad and seriously
Beneath the rooftlrat mine should be ;
Ome sitteth sybil-ike, by the sea,
Chanting a grave song mwoarnfully.

A little life I have not seen

Lies by the heart that mine hath been;
A cypress wreath darktes now, f weew,
Upon the brow of my love in green.
The mother and wife shal? pass away,
Her hands be dust, ber lips be clay ;
But my other love on earth shall stay,
And live in the life ofa better day.

Ere we were born my first love was,
My sires were heirs to her holy cause;
And she yet shall sit in the world's applause,
A mother of inen and blessed hiws.

1 hope and strive the while I sigh,

Yor [ know my first love cannot die:
From the chain of woos that loom so bigh
Her reign shall reach to eternity,

News by Telegraph.

nt i NE AI Nt tt tn Nt it ane ata ae

Orrawa, May 4.—The investigation into the McGee as-
sassination case continues, The mis-ing links in the chain
of evidence are almost completed, A strong force of Con-
stables has been sworn in to take snecial charge of the pub-
lic buildings here. Private letters state that Mr Lowe had
a formal interview with the Colonial Seeretary, who re-
ceived him favorably, and promised to take the subject of
Kepeul into consideration, Discount on American invoices
is 28 per cent.

Orrawa, May 6, 1948,—The estimates of 1868, and part
of 1869, passed yesterday the House of Commons, The
Government has decided to discontinue bounties to fisher.
men, The Penitentiary Bill passed through the House of
Commons yesterduy, and was read first time in the Senate
to-day. On motion made to go into Committee of supply.
Mr. Holton moved amendment, setting forth that greater
economy be exercised in the public expenditure. The Goy-
ernment regarded. this as a vote of want of confidence, and
the motion was lost, 94 to 36. In Committee an amend
mert moved by Mr. Dufresne, that the Governor General's
salary be reduced to thirty-two thousand dollars, earried by
a vote of 90 to 45, All the Nova Scotia members, except
Stewart Campbell, were absent and did not vote, Several
arrests have been mude throughout Canada of suspected
Feniane.

‘Toronto. May 5th.—The parties arrested here yesterday
are Patrick Boyle, Editor of the Irish Canadian and Pre-
sident of the Hibernian Society ; Owen Cosgrove, ‘Tavern-
keeper, and Marshall of the Hibernian Society ; John Nolan,
Seerctary; and Edward Hines, Printer, on charge of
Fenianism. All the papers and books of the Secretary
were seized, The arrests were not mentioned in last even-
ing or the morning papers by order ot the Government, as
other arrests in the neighborhood and in Western towns will
be made to-day. Su-picions characters are leaving for the
States, and considerable exei*ement is manifested throughou'
the city

Ortawa, May 8.—A vote took place this morning in the
House of Commons on the Fortification resolutions, and the
Government was sustained by two to one, the figures heing
102 to 51. There is considerable excitement over recent
arrests in Western cittes, The MeGee testimonial! fund is
being liberally subseribed to here. The Ontario Govern.
ment has refused to issue a special commission for the trial
of Whelan and others, and they will hold over until the
Fall assizesin September. This enuses much dissatisfaction
here. The Toronto press cautions the Local Governments
to view drains and air ducts of public buildings, and have
them protected by large doubie iron gratings of great
strength, and to have them inspected every fiftteen minutes
during the night, by watchmen. Several Criminal Law
Bills have passed a third reading in the Commons. A Will
has been introduced by Mr. Savary, providing for the issue
by Nova Scotia Banks of notes of smaller denomination than
they isane rt present. The British Government will allow
Dominion Government to place a license of two dollars per
ton on American fishermen,

Loxnowx, May 5, midnight.—In the House of Commons
this evening, Mr. Gladstone referred to the Duke of Rich-
mond’s assertion in the House of Lords last night, that Her
Majesty the (jueen had intrusted to the Ministry to dissolve
Parliament whenever they pleased. Such a power, said Mr,
Gladstone, was unconstitutional as it left the Ministry at
liberty to deal with cases which had not yet arisen, He
asked for an explanation of the statement, and contradicted
the one made in the House of Commons by the Premier.
Mr. Disraeli, in reply, said that there was not a discrepancy
between the two Houses, He had offered to resign, but the
tender was declined by Her Majesty, His advice to the
Queer was to dissolve Pasliament when the state of public
business permits ; this was without any reference to the new
constituencies, but if the work of the House was «oon com-
pleted, anew House would be elected by them, Sir Stafford
Northeote made some remarks to the effeet that the Ministry
had no intention to menace the House. Mr. Disracli, in
again rising, said that the right to dissolve Parliament only
wax reserved by the Ministry in case an issue upon the Tris
Church question was presséd to a division. After speeches
by other members the dehate ended.

Loxpox, Mav 6.— Advices from St. Petersburg speak of
Russian and French mediation in the Turco-Cretan
question.

Lonpox, Mav 6 (eve).—The entire domain belonging
tothe Hudson Bay Company is to be added to the
Crown,

A division is expected to take place in the House of
Commons to-morrow night. 7th inst., on remainder of the
resolves prepared by Mr. Gladstone, in reference to the
Trish Church. A meeting was held m St. James’
Hall to-day in favor of continuance of Trish Church.
The attendance was immense, proceedings noisy
and turbnlent. The Arehbishop of Canterbury oe-
enpied the chair, and the platform was crowded
with most prominent of tory party. The Arehivobap of
Canterbury, on taking hie position, made a speech in
furtherance of objects of the meeting. The Lord Mayor
then rare and moved a series of resolutions in favor of
the continnance of Union of State and Chareh, whieh
war seconded by the Bishop of Oxfird. The Archbishop
of York also preserted resolutions to the effect that an
attempt to overthrow the Trish Church, was an attack
upon the Church of England, and a movement towards
the establishment of Papacy upon the country, There
was much tomult and confusion at this point of proceed-
ings. The resolutions were finally adopted, and the
meeting adjourned,

Lonpon, May 7, eve.—-There was a large attendance at
the session of the House of Commons, and great interest
taken in the ings. Soon after the House came to
order, Mr, Gladaton> rose and said that he proposed, after
the House had acted upon the resolves relative to the Insh
Church Establishment introduced by himself, to offer a sus-
pensory act. which should, if passed, remain in force until
the first of August, 1869, He then proceeded to explain the

urport and intent of thie second resolve, and moved that it
put on its parsage, Mr, Gathorne Hardy said that the
Opposition intended to destroy the Irish Church, and that
the Ministry wishes to alter for a better, but that after the
recent yote on the first resolve they would make no re-
for division on its

it

| Donna mma the grant to Presbyterians after the disestablish-

ment of the Insh Church, which was agreed to. The Ke-
form Bill for Lreland was read a second time.

New Yorn, May 5.—Near Galesburg, Ill, om Sanday,
fourteen houses were blewn down, tw@ churches anroofed,
four persons kQjed and forty injured by a tornado,

New York, May 8.—The House of Representatives
spent the larger part of yesterday's Session in debating
a joint resolution requesting the President to send a
fleet of war vessela to the Gulf ef St. Lawrenee for the
parpose of protecting our fishermen from the tax im-
posed by the Canadian anthorities. The resobation was
finally passed by vote of 92 to 30,

LATE NEWS FROM ENGLAND.

R. M.S. City of New York, Hulerow, master, from
Liverpoo} 25th uls., arrived at Halifax on the 7tlr iret.
‘The principal features of the news have been atutieipated
by telegraph.

This steamer has a large namber of gore for
New York, and a considerable quantity of merehandize
for this port.

The Ponce and Prineess of Wales, on their retarn
from Ireland to Bogland, exiled at Carnarvon, where a
Welsh welcome was aceorded them.

On the 23rd ult., the House of Lords assembled for
the first time after the Easter recess, The re-appear-
ance of the Earl of Derby, after his severe illness, wae
specially noticed. He took his seat on the Ministerial
sile immediately below the gangway next to Lord
Chebostord, and, as might have been expected, reeenved
the hearty congratulations of his friends on bis restora-
tion tahealth and the House of Peers. The Duke of
Buckingham, in confirming the news as to the aseassin-
ation of Mr. D'Arcy MeGee, took oeeasion to eulogise
the character and ability of the deewased gentleman,
Lord Carnarvon alse paid a graceful tribute to the
character and ability al the late Mr. MeGee.

THE BUDORT,

The broad results of the bodget, which was anfolded
by the Chaneellor of the Exchequer, may be stated as
tollows:—The revenne of last year amounted to £69-
600,000, the expenditore to £71.236.242, an exeess
(owing to the Abyssinian war and the oncollexed tax
upon this aceount) of £1.656,242. This amount is
brought forward into the estimates for 1868-9, which
thos amoennts to £70,428.000, while the expenditore ir
estimated at £71,350,000, which figures give a snyplus
of £922.00), Bat then there is the extraordinary ex-
penditure of the Abyssinian expedition to be eonsidered,
and this amounts to a tetal of £5,.000,000, OF this sam.
however, £2,000,000 were provided for in the sapple-
mentary estimate of November last, by an extra penny
of income tax and frem certain other sonress, The
sum remaining to be dealt with is thus £3,000 000, which
the Chancellor of the Excheqner proposes to previ le
for as follows :—Balance as above, £922,000; extra in-
come tax (Gd, is to be levied, but 4d. ia to be taken
credit for in the regular estimates), £1,900.0.0; ex-
chequer bonds, 21,000,000; total, £8,722,000, whieh
figures will give a sorplas upon the year of £372,000.

The Herntd, :

Wednesday, May 173,

1s.

Titerw are two questions now before the public which
claim «lmost universal attention. These are, the im-
peachment of President Johnston and the resolutions of
Mr. Gladstone to disendow the Irish Church. ‘The im-
peachment ease is now nearly ended, and there seems to
be little doubt upon the public mind that President
Johuston will be removed from office. This will be a
new chapter in American history, although examples
are common enough in Europe of exalted persons being
tried for violations of authority vested in them. Whe-
ther owing to the respective forms of Government pre-
valling in the countries where those impeachments
take place, or not, we are not prepared to say; but, at all
events, it is evident that these State prosecutions have
much more significance and aré much more serious in
their character and consequences in Eurepean countries
than the case of President Johnston promises to be in
America. The people of the United States feel deeply
interested in the linpeachment, As a free and intelligent
people, they attach all due importance to the “ misde-
meanors ” of thelr Chief Magistrate. They closely
watch the progress of his trial, and anticipate the re-
sult; yet they pursue their ordinary avocations with as
much assiduity as if no such man as Andrew Johnston
lived; and when, by the process of law, he shall, in a few
days, have passed into the obscurity of private life, the
people will pursue the even tenor of their way, undis-
turbed by the mighty event which marks an epoch in
the history of the United States. How different the
circumstances and the consequences attending the trial
and beheading of Charles the First of England! The
wildest revolution, the most frenzied political and re-
ligious excitement, the iron rule of the usurper and the
despot, followed by the lax morality and the vindictive
retaliation of the restoration! These are the surround.
ings of the impeachment of the first Charles; and it is
fortunate that either the simplicity of a Republican form
of Government, or the advanced intelligence of the pre-
sent day, saves those consequences to the United
States. As it is, the Chief Magistrate of a great Na-
tion, dignified, by his position and the power which he
wields, with the first monarch in the world, will, in all
probability, be removed from office, without the functions
of Government or the various forms of industry being
in the least disturbed. The immediate cause of the
President's impeachment was his attempt to remove
Secretary Stanton from the War Office, in violation of
the Tenure of OMce Bill. This bill was passed by the
Senate over the President's veto, and provides that cer-
tain officers shall hold office during the term of the
President by whom they were appointed. ‘The Svere-
taryship of War is one of these offices, and the present
incumbent, having been appointed by the late President
Lincoln, was not liable to be removed until the term for
which Mr. Lincoln was elected expired. There appears
to be no doubt of President Johnston's violation of
the Law in this matter, and his removal from office will
cause but slight sensation either in the United States or
throughout the world at large, for it cannot be said of
him, as it was, we believe, of Aristides, that whilst
some men were dignifled by office, he added dignity to
the office which he held.

With respect to the Irish Church question, it is assum-
ing greater proportions every day, and will shortly be
decided by the people at the polls, Mr, Gladstone has
taken the matter in hands, In a series of Resolutions
he has declared that the Irish Church Establishment
shall cease to exist any longer in Ireland as a State
Church, and he has been supported in his Resolutions
by a majority of over sixty in the British House of
Commons. In a closing speech on the first of his Re-
solutions, Mr, Gladstony stated that those eleven nights
of discussion, in which the [rish Church was before the
House, had fully demonstrated that the Irish Church es-
tablishmant never did and never could fulfll the end of
its creation. It was not the church of the natior, |t was
not the church of the poor, nor was It 1 missionary
church, Tt existed only for the purpose of sustaining
political supremacy In a form most patafal to the peo-
ple upon which it was imposed. ‘This was anendurable.
No Minister dared to say that it should continue to ex-
ist. Now waa the time to apply the remedy, Ministers

gard to it, upon which they subsequently failed to agree.
He would say nothing concerning the disposal of the
church property In Ireland, for more and better Infor-

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had ralsed a question, and had broached a policy In re- | guished

Ireland. Mr. Gladstone, then alluding to the personal

attaeks which had been made upon him, denied, ia the

most explicit inanner, that he Ind any connection with,

or fnterests In the policy or plans of cither the Ritual-
ists on one hand, or the Roman Catholics on the other.

Discussing the argaments made against his propositions,
he said’ two leading objections had beer made against
his plan for the disestablishment of the Irish Choreh.—
One was, that it hmperilled the existence of the Estah-
lished Churel:, and the time was inopportune. Ten
years ago, sald Mr. Glactstone, the people of Great Bri-

tain were indifferent, and the tutroductien of this great
reform would lave been untimely, bat now the

were aroused, and the opportanity presented itself for
an earfy and seamnd settlement of the question. The
strength of the Church of England lay in her own
merits and voluntary zeal; in her votaries, more than
in her connection with the State. He expressed the be~
lief that the Church of England would lose none of her
strength when parted from the State. She had more to
take from her partisans than from her foes, and the re-
form of the Trish Established Charch would strengthen
the Church of Engfand. Mr. Disraelf, on the other
hand, affected to deplore the act of injustice contem-
plated by Mr. Gladstone’s Resolutions. It was, in his
opinion, an aet which involves wide confisestion of pro-
perty, and menaced the rights of every corporation and
every person in the United Kingdom. It inevitably
mast prodispose the public mind for a similar attack
apon the Church of Engtamt, and it andoubtedly was in-
tended to have such an intluence, but in spite of the vio-
Tene of the press, and the pressure brought to bear by’
the advocates of the change, he believed the Englisli
people would never sanction the sacrifice of sneered
things to party necessities, leading, a it was sure to
lead,to results only to be described as revolationary. Mr.
Disraeli, however, having been defeated, he tendered his
resignation to the Queen, who refased to receive the same,
and coansetied an election on the question. laranticipa-
tion of the coming struggle, both parties are actively
employed in the press and on the platforne in preparing
the people to give a just and intelligent vote on the
subject, So far, Mr. Gladstone has curried not only a
majority of the members of the Llouse of Commons,
but also a majority of the leading papers and of the
people of the Empire, with him. In the interests of jns-
tice and of the peace of the Empire, we express the
hope and belltef that the resalt of an election will be
such as is desired by the friends of civil and religious
liberty. In no other light can the present struggle bu
looked upon; but it is not to be supposed that an Es-
tablisluaent, which has existed for centuries at the éx-
pense of an oppressed people—the emblem of an odious
ascendancy-——and fed and pampered by the State, will
sutanit to be disencowed withont a severe struggle.
Mr. Disraeli, accordingly, with the tact of a clever po-
litiefan, raises the ery of “the Church in danger!”
whilst his followers impute all sorts of motives to
Mr. Disraeli, with the view of promoting an
anth-Popery blast which shall again waft the Conserva-
tives into power. Our despatches give some faint idea
of the spirit in which the contest is being carried on, and
of the excitement throughout the Empire on the sub-
ject. It is plain to us, from the discussion now going on,
that the principles of religions and political equality, as
well as of that sound statesmanship which moulds into
one loyal and harmonious whole, people of different races
and of different creeds, have made vast strides in Eng-
land within the past fifty years, and that Ireland, after
long ages of injustice, will now have removed from lier one
of those evils which have greviously aMlicted her—one
which has been freely condemned by the leading inte'-
lects of the present centnry, and one to which no spirit-
ed people, having the power, wonld submit for a day.

The Summerside Progress very justly praises the excel-
ent co-operative society Bill introduced into the Legisla-
ture last session by J. O. Arsneault, Esq. The farmers
generally of the Island, more especially the poorer
class, should make themselves acquainted with the pro-
visions of this bill, which sécures them in twenty bash-

els of grain and of potatoes for seed purposes, whatever
thetr debts or liabilities may be. ‘The Progress gives a
very good outline ofthe Bill in the following remarks :—

“Phe Society, it seems, was first started for the pur-
pose of securing to farmers a sure supply of seed grain
inthe Spring. At first, a deposit of a certain number
of bushels of oats, barley, &c., was made by each mem-
ber of the society; and if any of them ran short in the
Spring of the quantities required for seed they drew on
the general stores, If not, the amount contributed!
xtood over to their credit. But the party drawing ont
seed grain agreed to return, for each bushel taken out,
one and a half bushels in the Fall, but was not required
to give it in return, for the fifty per cent. returned was
credited to him, and remained on deposit to. his credit,
‘Thus—if a farmer had only ten bushels to his credit, and
in the Spring drew out that amount and ten bushels ad-
ditional, (making twenty bushels in all), he would have
to return thirty bushels in the Fall, twenty of which,
(after returning the ten bushels he borrowed), would be
placed to his credit. This plan has been found to work
so well that, at the last session of the Legislature, an
Act of Incorporation was applied for and obtained by
the representative of the Western portion of the dis-
trict, Joseph O. Arsenault, Esq., (from whom we de-
rive our information of the matter.) This Act, we
learn, is general in its character, and, under its pro-
visions, societies for the distribution of seed grain can
be formed in any district throughout the Island. And
hot only this, but such societies are allowed to own w
certain amount of real estate, and personal to
an unlimited amourt. In this way, then, we begin to
see an opening for a prospect of obtaining the onl
means that will make farming profitable in this Istend.
That is, the ways and means for obtaining expensive
labor-saving machinery. Societies, like the one in Eg-
mont Bay, must soon save enough of a surplus fund on
hand to be able to lnport, for the use of its members,
reapers, mowers, and, in time, steam plougts; and all
these things, obtained in this way, while they will in-
crease and cheapen the cost of productions will not en-
tail a sacrifice upon any of those who may have contri-
buted to their purchase.

Success to our Acadian co-operatives, and may thetr
example spread into every community on the Istand,
and prove the source of good as yet undreamed of.”

Tite submarine cable connecting this Island with the
Mainland, and which was severed early in the winter, is
still onrepaired. Mr. Chas. Hyndman, the Superinten-
dent of the Telegraph lines on this Island, has been at
work endeavoring to repair the breaks and nearly sue.
ceeded on Wednekday last. A heavy wind and sea, how-
ever, having sprang up. the Steamer Heather Belle was
forced to seek shelter, since which time, no new attempt
has been made at the work. Mr. Hyndman intends re-
seag osther rebrint ign Soom
to the Island. We wish tn success, — xT
Wr have received from Ottawa a “ Memorandum on
the Sugar Question,” which is commanding some atten-
tion In the Dominion just now. Down here we do not
feel particularly interested In it.

Carr. Evans and other offloers of the Princess of Wales
wore feasted at the “ Clifton Mouse,” Summerside, on
the first visit of the Steamer to that Port this season,
namely, the 2nd instant. They deserved it,

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i. M. 8. Constance, whilst lying in Halifax harbor
took fire on the 2nd inst., in the coal-bunkers, and sus-
tained considerable damage befere the fire was extin-

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A Mas named McDonald recently died in New Glasgow,
N. §., from the effects of two glasses of gin.

Gatonartit’s Band, will, weather permitting, fort

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