ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES, {

The Saturday Review acknowledges that |

‘the circular jast issued by some influential

‘eolonists now in England has appeared at ‘task to separate them, and it did seem to}
history of be at last cruel to disunite their arms, |
in and her colonies. No one ean when they had embraced each other in) of particulars of the great gale of Wednesday
ideath, and lay down upon the bottom of

aw Very tBomentous Cri
“Great Bri
pay What great issues may not come from
the proposed confereutes, in which all the
depenac ueies of the British Crown are in-
¥ited to twke part. And, whatever may be
the result, it is time that the prevading
Jecling which animates our brethern in
every rtofthe world should make itselt
sadible in English cars, Very tew of us at
home ever seriously attempt to regard the
history which we are daily making from
the point of view ofa colonist, proud at
vnce of what he rejoices to call the mother

sin tl

eonntry, and of the large measures of ine |

“dependence which she has aecorded to her
syowiny childern. It the aspirations of the
colonies were better understood at home
there would be less crudeness in the theor
vies of colonial ministers, and less of that
wusympathisingy hardness with which
tuany Would-be prop deliver them-
selves On the future of the great offshoots
ofthe English race, At all times and on
all subjects little narrow school of opinion
are constantly developing themselves, the
leading: characteristic of which is the exal-
‘tation of material over what are scornfally
termed sentimental considerations; and
though the great work of this session hi
heon an act of essentially sentimental leg-

“Gshuion, there has never been atime when
dow material views have been more cyni-
cally paraded, ‘This has been especially
the case with regard to our colonial policy.
There are unboubtedly dificultics, though
there are no impossibilities, to contend
with; but the difliculties will vanish it dis-
cussion should awaken as much enthusi-
usm in the colonies as some of their lead-
ing men confidently expect. On our side
there are no real dificuities at all, and it
should be our own wisdom to meet the
growing aspirations of men who are not

» the less fellow-countrymen in heart be-
cause they have crossed the ocean, with

‘hearty sympathy rather than with a eyni-

ceal ulfcction of indifference and scorn.
The subject is one that concerns the future
of Enghind quite as muchas it does that
of Canada or Australia; and if in the
course of events it should eycr be brought
prominently before the people ot this
«country us the question of the day, we
have no déubt whatever that the verdict
will be all that the most aspiring of our
colonists could desire.

The Leonomist augurs important conse-
- quences from the discussion just begun by
some of our colonists resident in this eoun-
try. They are dissutistied with the colo-
nial policy of the government, and in order
to correct it propose to bring the various
colonies into communication so that they
may act jointly in procuring an adminis-
tration of colonial affairs, in which the in-
terests of the colonists shall be ** adequate-
ly? secured, Stated shortly, this is the
porport of a circular which a committee of
these colonists,nppointed ata meectiag held
in London on the dthinst.,has addressed to
the various colonial governments. Such a
iscussion, it is plain, will not be easily
stopped. Ii the colonists are dis
it cannot be said that the mother country
is quite content with the arrangements;
and to pet them onan intelligible footing,
they must be thoroughly revised and their
principles discussed,

The 'Lervible Coal Mine Disastex,
vor CUR AVR IE RR ET A ire R Re
foal districts of Pennsylvania, nothing less
aban the stopping up of the shatt by burn-
ing debris trom the building and machinery
evceted over its mouth, ‘Lhe results of
this shocking affair have now come to
hand, with the proceedings by which they
have been brought to light, and are as
follows :—

“ Aboutanhour later another squad en-

tered the mine, and after exploring along
the vault and chambers nearly 1500. feet,
a sickcning sizht revealed. At this point
about sixty-five dead bodics were found,
and these were lying literally in a heap.
Fathers were tound locked inthe dying
embrace of their sons, stone-lined and
stone hearted men were discovered with
their limbs entwined about each other. It
was a ghastly spectacle, and when the
inen returned to the pure air aboye, and
stood face to face with the thousands of
anxious souls that were imputiently wait-
sng to hear the result, and announced the
hideous discovery that had been made in
the regions of death, a shudder vibrated
througa the multitude, and a wail went
through Wyoming Valley such as has not
heen heard there since the listoric massa-
ere which Campbell has immortalized in
verse. ‘The news of the discovery of the
Dodies, as shocking as it was, and particu-
larly upon the families so suddenly bereay-
ed, was relieved, of course, of its terri-
bleness by the announcement that the
dead men and dead boys lying down in
the pit would ali be brought to the surface
wot the shaft, and after identification, be
delivered to their friends tor burial.

Athall-past seyen o'clock one of the
gangs which had just: returned said that
they went up the plane, just beyond whic
a barrier was met consisting of a car pack-
ed around with coal, culm and clothing.
‘This was cleared away, and after proceed-
ing alittle further, another barrier, was
met, nearly completed, constructed like
the first. One man was found on the out-
side, where he was at work laying up the
wall, All was complete, save a small
nperture, just suflicient to admit the pas-
sige ofa human body. and it is to be in-
jerred that he had just finished his task and
was preparing to join his fellow sufferers
ou the opposite side of the barricade by
crawling back.

‘This barrier was removed, when a large
portion of the force was found together
and piled one upon another dead,

Up tu 74 o'clock in the evening, 65
bodies were taken from the miae. Tne
faces of the dead looked wondertully natu-
ral, there being but few bruises and few
lncerations of the flesh to be seen upon
them. ‘The miners were hard at work diy-
ing down into the nines, and the bodies
were being removed ab the rate of about
eight or ten per hour,

Hach body is brought up by a fresh squad
of men, all volunteers, who work witha
bravery which is exceeded only by the
sorrow which oppresses them all, Of the
the whole number (203 men and boys) in

_ the mine at the time ol the explosion, mote |

than one-half the men were married and)
had families dependant upon them for
support. As fast as their bodies are iden-|
tifiud they are delivered into the charge ot
their friends to be prepared for burial.

_ SUMMER

unearthed were a tather and his son, their

‘names Jolin Bureb, Se., and doha Bureb, |

Jr. So tigt
others arm

ly were they locked én each
it was found to be a dificult

ithe poisoned pit, kissed each other for the
j list time aud perished,

A horrible tear, itis said, has seized
‘many persons whose residences are 2
ithe sualts which perforate this anthracite
‘region, Almost above the saatt beneath
| which this culamity ocenred, is a row ot
jeottages in’ which many of the miners
‘lived with their families, as near as has

been ascertained, he group ot sixty

| dead bodies were found lying dire: ty un-
der this row of cottages, while the re-

mainder of the victims must lie far dis-
jtant. It istered that some time or auother

+ithe whole will explode and belch forth

tire like a voleano, and destroy every-
| thing within the reach ot its fiery clutch.

There is one thing certain, however,
namely, that uo more shaits will be sunk
jin Penusylyania unless corresponding ones
are also put down, so that in the event ot
un explosion like that of Monday the
miners may have means ol egress.
Aheavy rain has been falling since
hy hing, but the miners are pursu-
ing their work most heroically, Lhey are
determined, if possible, to have the imine
cleared by to-morrow aight, avd trom
prospects itis very likely they will accom-
plish as much.”

Another account of the scene at the
mouth of the mine says:

‘All is confusion about the shalt, and
as each car or basket comes up treighted
with its lifeless cargo there is always sume
one to discover that he is * My husband!
VO, God!) +O, God! he is my brother, he is
my father!’ &e., and after witnessing with
their own eyes What experienced wisdom
tailed to make them beiieve, they tell
prostrate to the ground, worn out and
distracted at the culmimation of the most
agonizing calamity that ever occurred in
this country,

Up to the Jast moment the wives, child-
ren, and relativrs hoped against hope
that the doomed men might be tound alive,
but as one blackened corpse after another
was brought out, the low sobs of the wo-
men broke out into shrieks und wails of
agony as they recognized the remains of
their triends, even men were not un-
moved by the pileous spectacle, and many
an eye was dimmed with tears as the

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were laid side by side upon the grass.

their way into the mine worked with un-

tiring euergy, and, ifany spur was need-
ed, the agouized entreaties of the women
encouraged fem to superhuman exer-
tions,

ing to their mothers, and wailing in sym-
pathy with them, although they were un-
able to understand the full meaning of the
teartul disaster. Some shramk back in
allright from the almost unrecognizable
corpse of a father ora brother, unable to
comprehend that this could be the strong,
active body su full of life and health a
few days ago.

‘The spectacle of these poor creatures
wailing over the mangled remains of
their loved ones would. suflice to till even
the most hardened) with harrowing me-
mors for a lifetime,”

‘Lhe whole number taken up dead was 150
The Cuban Revolution,

Ilavana, Sept. 6.—The foreign residents
of this city, principally the Germans, are
Jenlisting to act as a volunteer reserve
‘talion when the present volunteers take
| the field. The torcigners this morning

presented a letter to Captain-Gereral De
Rodas containing the above offer, and it
wats accepted by him. ght hundred in-
‘surgents surprised four hundred volun-
teers, five miles from Puerto Pridepe, aud
repulsed them, General Pucllo, with 400
troops, marched to the assistance of the
volunteers, but the insurgents refused to
give battle, On the 16th of August the
insurgents, several thousand strong, com-
manded by General Quesada, General Ces-
rvedes being present, made an attack on
tie ‘Tunas, consisting of 450 troops, of
The
The result is not
General Benegasi arrived at Las
He

which 100) were kill and wounded,
fight lasted nine hours,
stated,
‘Tunas the day alter with a convoy,
had skirmishing all along his road,

We are glad to hear t hundreds of
copies of the Halifax Chronicle have lately
been stopped on account of the disloyalty
ofthat paper. Mr. Annaud will soon have
to depend entirely upon his American sub-
scribers for support.—Jlontreal Daily News
An earthquake was felt in the island of
St. Lhomas on the 29th of last month,

Very Latest Telegrams.
London, Sept, 12.
Lady Palmerston, the widow of Lord Pual-
merston died Saturday.
Agreat storm has visited France. The
Republicans are gaining influence and num-
bers in Portugal.
Victor Emmanuel of Italy declines to per-
mit his son totake the Spanish Throne, un-
less by the unanimous call of the Constituent
Chambers.
Gold opened at 135 5-8.
Londen, Sept. 13.
Madrid advices report that twenty-four
thousand troops are to be sent to Cuba,
Rumors say that General Sickles has no-
tifled the Spanish Government that if matters
are notsoon modified in Cuba, the United
States will recognize the belligerency of that
country,
‘Lreasury detectives have arrested a lot of
counterfeited bills in N. York and obtained pos-
session of the lithographic stones by which

‘counterfeited bills were printed.

London, Sept. 13
The Times publishes an editorial on French
governmental affairs, suggested by the health
of the Emperor and the senatus consultum,
arguing that no one can govern in France ex-
cept through a cabinet in sympathy with a
majority ot the people.

New York, 14.

Steamer Ctty of Anterwerp arrived this
morning. ‘The Hlaurvard crew were passen-
gers. ‘They will have a public reception in
New Yorh..
Prince Arthur arrived at Rivier du Loup
last night, and left for Quebee,
Admiral Loi has made a report charac-
terizing the execution of two Americans by
the volunteers in Cuba as a massacre,

London Sept, 14.
Liverpool markets steady. Corn 30s.
A heavy storm prevailed yesterday through-

Cotlins have been sent from Scranton, Pit-
taton, Wilkesbarre and other places to
meet the demand which avondale makes |
upon her sister towne and cities in the)
vulley. Such utter wretchedness was}
yever witnessed anywhere as that which
is manifested by wives and daughters and |
sisters as they recognized in the liteless |
forms betore them the loved ones who
would ever Biulig Upou them again this

pide ol Cleiaas
ry ™ fifty-fourth bodies :

Lhe lity

out England and io various parts of the Con-
tinent. ‘Telegraph Lines were prostrated, and
reports of marine disasters are numerous,

A rumor prevails in Paris that the Emper-
Napoleon seriously contemplates abdicat-
ing in faver of his son the Prince Imperial.

it is said that a Council of Regency will be
created, having the Empress and l'rince Na-
poleon at ite head as provided in the new
Constitution, to endure through lia minority

Napoleon's health remains in avery usger-
tain condition,

bodies of comrades, relatives und friends

The men who were engaged in forcing

It was sad to see the little children cling-

‘The Great Storm.

| From St.John N.B

vews, Monday Sept. 13.

The Portland and Boston papers are full

‘last, and the fearful damage occasioned there-
| by. Although the tele nit were all down,
‘and intelligence trom a distance could not be

obtained, yet sufficient information had beea

"/ received through other sources to show that

the storm was general all along the New
England coast, and that along list of dis-
asters will have to be recorded to. shipping
and otherwise. In Boston the wind was
fearful, and the blowing down of chimneys,
and the unroofing of houses were not the
most serious damage it occasioned. ‘The
steeples of the churches rocked like pen-
dulums, oscillating from 18 inches to 2 feet,
and so gre it was the danger that the inhabi-
tants of houses in the neighborhood of chureh-
les were removed to more secure quarters by
ithe police. Most of them were more or less
damaged, losing minarets, zinc roofing, &c.
‘Trees, both shade and fruit, were every where
rooted up or stripped of their branches.
Many buildings in the course of erevtion or
repairs were entirely dismantled, andinsome
cases the walls were levelled with the ground.
Piles of lumber, and other material oa, or
near the wharves, were blown away by the
wind, or washed away by the tide, which rose
to an unprecedented height, and swept all be-
fore it. At Dorchester the spire of an Epis-
copal Church was blown down, ‘The Unitar-
ian and Episcopal Churches at Somerville
were unroofed. ‘he Baptist Church at Lynn
lost its spire and $7000 worth of roof blown
down. At Malden the Orthodox Society lose
$20,000 by the loss of their house, which was
blown down, the spire in falling smashing a
house near by. At Maplewood the Buptists
lost a new church which was blown down,
and threo of the great Chemical Works at the
same place were damaged many thousands of
dollars. ‘The spire of the Congregational
church at North Bridgewater was blown off,
and in falling capsized striking point down
through a portion ofa fine house near, In
this town an alarm of fire was raised, but it
was fortunately extinguished by an Hadinct-
eur kept upon the premises before it got any
headway, or the whole town would probably
uaye gone. AtSouth Olingdon the spire of
one Baptist church was blown down. Dr.
Starr's church at Braintree lost its spire,
its clock, and got its roof riddled with full-
ing stone. ‘The Monument Boat Club of
Charlestown lost their house and twenty
bea At Swampscott the yachts suflvred
terribly, one of them being u total loss, At
Chelsea one man had a block of 20 wooden
buildings just up, but without the doors and
windows in. ‘Lhey now Jie an inextricable
mass of debris and rubbish. At the same
place a great many other houses were des-
troyed, and the spire of the Universalist
church was so bent from the perpendicular
that it will have tocome down, At Natasket
Beach the storm was so fearful that a party
of twenty men grasping each other for safety,
and escorting in that way afew ladies, were
with difliculty able to save themselves from
being blown into the sea, while another party
at the Sagamore House, fearful of their lives,
rushed oucand sought theshelter of the rocks
to sce the whole building immediately atter
lifted from the earth and carried many rods,
smashing as it struck, and crushing in like an
egg shieil,

Of course much damage must have been
done to shipping along the coust, but as yet
the terrible news could not be obtained by
reason of the wires being al! down. Collisions
iu Boston, Providence, and other harbors
were quite numerous, and more or less dis-
astrous.

In Portland the t Il spire of the new
Catholic Cathedy on Cumberland street fell
directly across the street demolishing a house
ASL COVSTR AE ADE AHS E MYRRH, BP athe
and the spire 108 1-2 feet, of wood, all of
which, together with an immense wooden
cross, is down. Fitteen thousand dollars will
not convey the damage to the building, which
had only that very day been dedicated by the
Bishops and Clergy, who were at dinner at
the Falmouth House when the accident
occured, ‘Lhe ‘Bair Grounds” were a
scene of desolation, everything confusion and
trouble, ‘The cattle pens were blown away,
and in some cuses their contents with them.
Showmen lost their caravang and their fierce
wild beasts attempted to find a more congen-
ial home in the forest, but were captured.
Many vessels went ashore, and in some cases
their crews were lost. ‘The Boston Journal
alone contains particulars of oyer a hundred
vessels wrecked, ashore or in collision, and
when the fullest: information is obtained a
much larger number than this will b rolled
up.

We may regard ourselyes as fortunate in
this Province that so litle damage was done,
secing our neighbors fared so mach worse.

A later account says that atthe Railway
Station in Vortland, during the storm on
Wednesday night, the rovf of the building
was lifted off by the force of the wind and
squirely deposited upon the top of the pas-
senger curs, which had just come in.

The New Hagland lett Portland at 8 o'clock
on ‘Thursday morning, the wind still blowing
hard, At half-past ten the steamer Cambridge
of the Boston and Portland Line, was dis-
covered with her flag union down. ‘The New
Angland at once offered assistance. She was
taken in tow and lett in Rockland harbor,
after parting several cables on the way, At
Rockland there were some thirteen vessels
reported ashore upon the coast in that vicinity

OONVINOED.

One great good that has arisen out of Prince
Arthur's visit to the British possessions in
America, now under process of consolidation,
is that our neighbors haye been completely
disabused of their delusive belief that Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick are annexationist.
‘The leading New York papers sent corres-
pondents to Ifalifax, and these had ample op-
portunities to discover the sentiments of the
people, The New York Times correspon-
dent—by the way a very capable person, and,
as we happen to know, strongly impressed on
his first arrival here with the notion that the
country abounded in Annexationists,—writes
from Montreal to the Z'imes, in this wise about
the Annexationists of the Dominion: ‘In
Ontario they could be counted in your fingers.
In Quebec they are more numerous, but their
influence is contemptibly small, They con-
sist principally of broken down merchants,
disappointed offive-seekers and politicians,
and laboring men gut of employment — men
who have come under the pressure of hard
times and must have something or somebody
to grumble at. Bread and butter is the reme-
dy in this case. In Nova Scotia the Annexa-
tion feeling arises from a different cause.
The Repeal party, that at the last general
election headed the polls in every county,
with one exception, have failed in their object,
and failure is hard to bear, particularly when
you feel you are in the right and have the vor
populi at your back, Our friend wrote this
betore the Colchester election came off.—Ev. )
‘the party is broken up. One wing—of which
doe Uowe, K. M. McDonald and Senator
McLelan are representatives—has bowed to
the invitation and reluctantly ‘accepted the
situation.” The other way is still obstinate
and defiant; the very hopelessness of their
case intensifies their hatred of every one who
had any part in the consummation of Conted-
eration. ‘lhey talk annexation, write it in
their papers, and hint it in public meetings,
not that they love the United States more, but
the Dominion less. In their rage they would
annex the Province to Greenland, if, by so
doing, they could wreak their vengeance on
England and Canada, for having, as they be-
lieve, foreed Confederation upon them,
‘There are some honest Annexationists, but
they are few.— Halifax Reporter.

TH

CORRESPONDENCE.

(OUMENIGAL COUNCILS.

Mn. Eprroz :—

The Theological writer for the Progress has
lately been treating the public to a desserta-
tion on GEcumenival Councils, Uf this writer
is no better versed in other subjects than the
one on which he undertakes to enlighten the
community, he should keep out of print
While the article itself is scarce worthy of
notice, yet if some of its statements, or rather
misstatements, be allowed to pass unquestion-
ed, we may expect to see any amount of mis-
representation and absurdity scattered broad-
cast over the land, Judging from this article,
the reader might suppose that the Chureh of
Rome is the only Church that is now or ever
was.—that all without her paie are heretics or
schismaties,—and that the ine of Rome ever
was, and still is, tie Head of the Universal
Church of Christ on earth.

Now, Sir, as stuffof this kind has lately
been sent forth from Summerside, and been
allowed to pass unrefuted, in my opinion the
interests of truth demand that in future such
stutements should be shown to be what they
really are—utterly groundless.

While discussions of this kind may not be
desirable in a mixed community, those who
commence them must bear the responsibility.

The Progress writer gives the following de-
finition of an GQcumenical Council, which we
shall prove to be utterably untrue dy historie-
al facts. We says an Gicumenical Council is
a General Assembly of all the Bishops uf the
Church, duly summonéy the Pope to con-
sider and detine points of doctrine, Ge. * * *
“The Pope presides.” With this definition
he then enumerates the four C8cumenical
Councils of the early Christian Church, y
that of Nice, held A. D, 325, Constantinople
381, Ephesus 431, and Chatcedon 451,

Now would this writer be kind enough to
inform the public what Dope or Popes sum-
moned all or any of the above Councils, and
presided over them?—or would he be good
enough to tell us the nanes of the personages
who resided at Rome during these centuries,
and who claimed to be the Vicar of Christ,
and sole Head of Mis Church on earth ?

But why need we put these questions when
eyery intelligent reader must know that not
one of the above Councils was either sum-
moned or presided over by a Pope; and for
the very best of reasons—because there were
then no persons residing at Rome or else-
where who assumed the prerogatives of the
Vicar of Christ, and sole Heud of his Church
onearth. ‘The manufacturing of a Pope with
such extraordinary powers (?) was the work
of after years |

And for a person to speak of these four
Councils as if they belonged exclusively to
the Church of Rome,—like the Council of
Florence or ‘Trent,—or that they were sum-
moned by Popes instead of Emperors, either
betrays unpordonable ignorance of Ecclesias-
tical History, or else sumething worse—a de-
sire to deceive the public.

Every intelligent person must know that
the decisions of the above Uicumenical Coun-
cils on the fundamental doctrines uf the Piiu-
ity and Person of Christ, are universally re-
ceived, not mercly by the Greek and Roman
Churches, but that they are also the doctrines
ofthe Protestant Churches of the Reformation,
which the Romish Couucil of Trent afterwards
so * utterly condemned.”

What this writer intends the public to un-
derstand by ‘the Consubstantiality of the
Word and divinity of Clirist, and also by the
“ divine motherhood of Mary,”’ which he says
the above Conncils established, we leave
himself to explain,

While speaking of the Council of Chalcedon,
held in 461, the 2vogvess writer should have
informed his readers that this very Council
solemnly enacted that the Bishop of Constan-
Pyyple shall possess equal pights and privt-
eges wiih iné Dishop 0) L0nte.

Even at this period a rivalry had commenced
between the Bishops of Old and New Rome
(Constantinople), and which continued until
it finally produced a separation between the
Latin and Greek Churches about A. D, 1050.

It is true that some doctrinal differences
arose between the Latin and Greek Churches ;
for instance, the latter Church maintained
that the Ilely Spirit proceeded only from the
Father, instead of the Father and Son,

But the great bone of contention between
these two Churches was the 2vimacy of the
Bishop of Rome. ‘This assumption the Patri-
arch of Constantinople would not admit, and
to this day the Greek Church, which is under
the jurisdiction of the Patriarchs er Bishops
of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and
Jerusalem, and which embraces more terri-
tory than that of the Ronan See, utterly
disowns the authority of the Pope, and denies
that the Church of Mome ts the true Cathole
Church. Mence some of your readers may
remeinber that when the Pope lust year sent
an embassy to the Patriarch of Constantinople,
with a letter of invitation fur him to attend
the present Ecumenical Couucil, the latter
refused to receive the embassy or letter—de-
nied the claims of the Pope to be sole Head
of the Church on earth, and declared he was
prepared to prove the latter was a Schismatic
and worse.

But the Progress writer tells us that at the
Council of Florence in 1489 the * Greek
Church admitted the primacy of the Pope and
doctrines of Rome in reference to the Holy
Ghost.” ‘The reader will see that this state-
ment carries its own contradiction on the face
of it, for if the Greek Church admitted the
Primacy of the Pope and all the dogmas of
the Romish Church, there would be no separ-
ation between them,

The Council of Florence, under Pope Eu-

gene the 4th, [the Bishops of Rome had now
tor several centuries claimed to be the sole
lead of the Church on earth] was chietly
employed in endeavoring to settle the points
of dispute between the Roman and Greek
Churches. This most important matter was
entrusted to a select committee from both
Churches.
Mosheim, the German Church Historian—
himself a Lutheran, and not belonging to
either of the conflicting parties—states that
the Romau Pontiff, having gained over Bes-
sarion, the most distinguished of the Greeks,
employed threats, rewards and promises, to
induce the other Greeks at the Council to
embrace the dogmas of the Church of Rome—
among others purgatory—and especially that
of the Primacy of the Pope.

* But one of the Greeks—Mark of Ephesus
—could not be persuaded by entreaties or
bribes to give hisassent. After all this peace,
which wis extorted by various artifices, did
not prove stable; fur the Greeks, on their re-
turn to Constantinople, stated to their fel-
low citizens that everything had been carried
at Florence by artifice and fraud, and they
resumed their hostility,” and, we may add,
sull continue it.

We hind intended to notice a few other
statements in the Progress article, but ns
your space is valuable it must be omitted for
the present. With your permission, perhaps
we tnay do so shortly,

OBSERVER.
Sept. 14, 1869.

To our Musicat Fainnvs.—Believing that
the musical interests of our neighborhood will
be beneiitted by the introduction of Peters’
Musical Monthly, we have ma le arrangements
with the Publisher to offer as follows — our
paper one year and Deters’ Musical Monthly
for six months, (one volume,) for $1.75; or
any one sending us a Club of two subscribers,
at $1.50 each, will be presented with a half-
yearly subscription to Peters’ Musical Monthly

—and when we tell our friends that this is
equivalent to giving them at least 60 pieces

of Masic, they will see that we wish them all

tu ‘sing, play, and be happy.”

URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,

1869.

Summerside Gournal.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1869.

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

~~ NOTHING IN THE PAPERS.”

Tuts is a complaint which we often
hear, but we must say that it is one which
we seldom make. We, for our part, al-
ways find a great dealin the newspapers,
and the wonder with us is how the edit-
ors continue to collect so much that is
new, instructive and interesting, as we
see in even a rapid glance over our ex-
changes. It must, however, be confessed
that the news by the last English mail is
neither so varied nor so abundant as
usual. ‘Times seem exceedingly dull in
the Old Country just now. ‘There are
no Wars nor rumors of wars —no earth-
quakes, famines or pestilences. Politics
are unnsually flat, trade appears by no
means brisk, and nothing has happened
for the last month or so in the social
world, very much ont of the usual course.
The Harvard and Oxford, or Oxford and
Maryard boat race, created some stir—a
great deal more than its importance de-
served—both in Europe and America.
That sensible people should attach so
much weight to a trial of strength and
endurance between eight men of different
nations, is more than we can comprehend.

people left their work, and submitted to
considerable inconvenience, to sce these
youths row; and in New York and Bos-
ton, while the race was going on, one
might suppose that the fate of the Re-
public depended upon the issue, so anx-
iously did men of all ages and ranks
await the result. What, after all, was
involved in the contest worth a moment's
anxicty? ‘The slightest accident might
have changed the victory into defeat.
‘Those precious six seconds in a four-mile
race — what do they decide? ‘To the
lads immediately concerned, it may be a
matter of great interest that Oxford beat
Harvard in a race on the ‘Thames by four
lengtis of a boat, but why so many sen-
sible people of both nations should care
a button which boat won or which lost,
is what we fail to comprehend. We are
proud to see that the American collegians
were treated by the English people with
the utmost courtooy. Lhe avhuunleds
ment that the most scrupulous justice
was shown to the Harvard crew by their
English opponents, while grateful to us,
is no more than we expected to hear.
John Bull, though sometimes rough and
surly, loves to see fair play shown to all
who struggle for mastery, even to a pair
of fighting dogs. Nothing rises his ire
more quickly than to see an unfair ad-
vantage taken by either of the combat-
ants.

The plucky Americans who crossed
the Atlantic to contend with the champi-

on oarsmen of Hurope, no doubt return
wu thel humivs tu the woot wlth gicatly

increased esteem and respect for their
cousins in the Old World, It is well
known by thinking men tbat the cause of
by far the greater part of the antipathies
and misunderstandings in the world, both
national and personal, is nothing more
nor less than ignorance, ‘Those persons
and nations who know very little of one
another, cherish a hundred prejudices and
dislikes which a closer acquaintance
proves to have been grounded upon mis-
representation.

The Queen's Speech at the prorogation
of Parliament is declared to be a poor
affair, altogether unworthy the talented
British Ministry which must have com-
posed it. It is said to be * dull, un-
grammatical and bombastic’? — faults
enough, surely, to be attributed to the
production of colonial statesmen, It
seems that it is the fate of speeches from
the Throne to be exceedingly poor speci-
mens of composition. ‘The best educated
and the most talented men in Britain
appear to be altogether unable to put a
good specch in the mouth of the Sover-
eign. From the days of Cobbett until
now, speeches from the ‘Throne have been
remarkable for little else than their clum-
sy style and bad grammar.

The Irish Church question is settled at
last. But we very much fear that we
have not heard the last of Irish grievan-
ces. Punch contains a rather significant
cartoun on Irish affaires. Rritannia is
represented as standing by her sister Hi-
bernia, who is passing her fingers across
the strings of her harp. Says Britannia,
“There, my dear, I've tuned the string
for you that made all the discord, and
now I hope we may have something like
harmony.” Hibernia replies, ‘ Ah, thin,
sister darlin’, shure there's another sthring
as ‘Il have to be tuned by and by.” That
other string is, as we all know, the land
question. It is very hard to find out
what reform it is the Irish people want
with respect to their lands. We all know
that the land of Ireland is cultivated by
tenant farmers. We know, too, that the
greater part of these tenunto are tenants
at will, ‘They have no leases, and the
landlord can turn them off whenever it
suits his convenience, without allowing
them a sixpence for improvements. In
parts of Ireland,a custom prevails similar
to what obtains among ourselves. The
outgoing tenant can sell his improvements
to any one who desires to purchase them.
As fur as we can learn, the utmost that
many of the Irish demand is a law in
principle somewhat similar to the Ten-
ant’s Compensation Bill of the Hon, Geo.
Coles, which was refused the Royal al-
lowance some years ago = ‘The Irish ten-
ant demands to be compensated at a fair
rate for whatever improvements he may
make on his holding. ‘This does not ap-
pear to be an unreasonable demand. But
as the landlord class in Great Britain
have hitherto made the laws relating to
the tenure of land, and as the influency
of that class in the House of Lorda is
still paramount, it is very difficult for
tenints in any part of the Kingdom to
have their grievances redressed, It does
seem hard that the Irish tenant who pays
his rent regularly, should be liable to be
turned out any day at the caprice of his

In England hundreds of thousands of

landlord or his landlord's agent, and it is
no doubt a crying injustice that the poor
man should be turned houseless and
homeless into the world, without receiv-
ing any compensation for the improve-
ments he may have made. It is not fair
that his hard labor should go to enrich
his landlord. Mr. Bright's proposal,
which was scouted by the British Land-
ocracy, was for the British Government
to do on a large scale for the Irish ten-
antry what this Island has done on a
small scale for the Island tenantry, ‘That
statesman would introduce into the Im-
perial Parliament, for the relief of the
Irish tenants and for the settlement of
the Trish Land Question, a Bilt similar in
its provisions to our Land Purehase Bill.
For our part, we strongly ineline to the
belief that Mr. Bright’ measure, or one
similar to it, will be the one which will
ultimately settle the Land Question in
Ircland, ‘There is, however, @ strong
prejudice against ** peasant proprietors”
in the Old Country. .

Lord Stanley, aud a number of political
economists, consider that the land should
be tilled as cotton is manufactured, A
capitalist should own the soiland cultivate
it on a grand scale, and on scientifie prin-
ciples, while the aetual cultivators should
have no more interest in it than the horses
that plough it, or the sheep and catile that
graze upon it. That doctrine, however it
inay do in the Old Country, will not be
yery acceptable to farmers in America.
The conviction on this side of the Atlantic
is very deeply rooted, that no one has as
good a right to the soil as the man who, by
the sweat of his brow, causes it to produce
food both for man and beast. If Lord
Stanley would but come to America, and
compare the condition of the peasant pro-
prictors of this continent with that of the
agricultural Inborer at home, his idcas on
that subject—if he be at all open to con-
viction—would be very considerably modi-
fied. ‘Chose who have seen what achange
the possession of a few acres of land in a
few years make upon the English farm la-
borer in America, will not readily subscribe
to the doctrine that it is best for a country
to have its land pareelled out among a
few rich men, while those who really cul-
tivate it are unable to obtain, during their
life time, a single foot of it.

The Dake of Albans has done what the
English people consider a noble act of
gonerosity, Ile has, it seems, a church
living in his gift—that of Redbourne, in
Lincolnshire. ‘Chis living, having become
yaeant, the Dake, instead of sending a
clergyman of his choosing to minister to
the spiritual wants of the good people of
Redbourve. generously told them that
they were at liberty to choose a pastor lor
themselves. ‘The poor ,arishioners are in
ruptures, ‘Tnelr” gratitude knows no
bounds. ‘That they should have a voice
in the choice of their clergyman seems to
them a most valuable priviege. ‘This act
of the Dukes is so rare in England as to
cull forth comments from all the teading
journals, some commendatory, some the
reverse. We, the natives of this country,
can hardly understand such a condition of
things. ‘That one man—and that man
most probable stranger to the parish—
should have the power to set over the
people a clergyman without as much as
consulting a single man of those who
would therealtes be compelled to accept
his ministrations or leave the church of
their fathers, seems to us a& monstrous
plece ul tyrauny. tb scems trou tho Red-
bourne alfuir that the people of England
are quite sensible of the grievance, hey
must indeed be a patient people to: submit
to it so long.

Dr. Cumming has accepted—or wishes
to aceept—the tuvitation of the Pope to at-
tend the CS umenical Council to be held
at Rome. Ile has addressed a letter to
Archbishop Manning, asking, if he attend,
whether he shall have the privilege of
speaking. he Archbishop sends him a
courteous reply, referring him to His Ho-
liness the Pope—at the same time sending
him, for his instruction, certain books,
from which the pugnacious doctor might
learn that before he or any other heretic
would attend the Council, he must submit
to the aut! ority of the Church. ‘The Doe-
tor then wrote a Latin letter to the Pope,
which has not yet been answered, Weare,
wo think, safe in predicting that Dr. Cum-
ming will not attend the Universal Council.

Disasters.

It will be seen in another column that news
has reached us, that a storm of almost un-
precedented severity, has swept along tho
shores of the New England States. ‘The lose
of life and property must be enormous. So
great was the force of the wind that men and
women were, in some places, all but hurled
into the sea, The debris of fallen buildings
marked the track of the storm. Churches
and dwelling-houses that have cost the owners
thousands of dollars, as well asthe mechanics
years of toil, were tossed to and fro, in the
elemental war, as if they were structures of
tinsel nd pasteboard. Almost simultaneous-
ly with this sad news we have accounts from
Pennsylvania that over two hundred men are
supposed to have suffocated ina coal mine,
in consequence of the choking of the shaft
by forty teet of burning coal and rubbish,

Nature has yielded fact after fact and
mystery after mystery to scientific research,
yet how few, comparatively, of her operations
are understood. Science has extorted start-
ling facts from the erust ef the earth; it has
computed with mathematical exactness the
position of the stars and the appointed revo-
lutions of the planets; and it has even pre-
dicted, months beforehand, etartling atmos-
pherie changes consequent upon new positions
of the planets, But notwithstanding all this,
nature not only baffles and forestalls the most
eunningly devised instruments of man, but
also his most eleborate calculations,

We have received a marriage notice,
accompanied by a note bearing the signa-
ture of the Rey. Mr. Richards, We de-
cline publishing it, as we have doubts to
its being genuine,

Tho American papers are still filled with
details of the ravages of the storm. Two
ships were lost in the Gulf during the gale.
‘The crews were saved,

Tue Steamer St. Lawrence has been re-
paired, and is again on the route, She
made her first trip here on Friday night
last, ‘The regular advertised route will
now be carried out, and all the freight de-
livered at the wharf will be taken,

te The barque Salus, of Maitland, N.
S., went ashore on the north side ot this
island, in the storm of Thursday last. We
loarn that she has reevived a great deal of
damage. The hull, materials and cargo
veL. is adverticed to be sold on Thurs-

ay NeXt.

tw Arrived at Richmond Bay, on Sun-
day, the 14th inst., the barque Ocean Mail,
‘Thomas |e, Master, trom Bristol, aiter a
passage ol 30 days, with a general cargo
of merchandize, tor John Yeo, Kaq., Port
Hill. Passengers—Mr, Robert Yeu, Mra,
Leo and daughter,