hs sedate ee

from Europe.

Latest

ARRIVAL

HE “CHINA?

‘Parliament will be nmoned (9 mect
on the igth of November,

Prince Arthur, who is at the Banger’s
house, Greenwich park, has a very mild

tack of modified small-pox, and is pro-
evessing satistuctorily,

The Adhencum hears that Her Majesty,
of her own proper motion, has written to
Lord Derby, suggesting that a fitting pro-
vision should: be made for the widow o.
Professor Paraday.

Something like 2 panie was caused in
London on Friday night by the receipt of
** priviute information” of an intended at-
tack by Fenians on volunteer armouries.
Guards were placed in seyeral storehous:
until Saturday morning, when the arms
were remoyed to the ‘Tower.

The rumor that the Earl of Berby i
tends to retire from the Premiership Let
the re-assembling of Parliament isrevived,
and the Sundéeg Gazette hears that the
Duke of Richmond will probably be placed
ut the head of the Ministry, as bath Lord
Stanley and Mr. Dis prefer to retain
tivir present positions. A  semi-official

| the Royal 1

in the bagardcus work were found to have
beea trightfully burnt by the explosion of
the pellets, and 13 werein such a danger-
ous state that they were at once ordered
by Mr. Mallieu to be removed to the sur-
gery, Where they were taken on stretchers,
and were attended N directly by Drs,
Driscoll aad Temple, who swathed their
eulcined bodies and limbs in layers of

form.
A MILITARY INNOVATION.

one novelty connected with the expedition

pier, the commander, isan engineer.
rule is not to choose generals in chief from
the ranks of the scientiflecorps. Infantry
and cavalry officers have alw
our armies, but the monepoly is unjust.

best generals. Napoleon was an artillery-
man; Lee was a topographical exgineer;
the best liv
tions of war

iment of Artillery
stuntialiy, our artillerymeu and er

that we have,
arms, unless they pz
College, have any

wool or cotton steeped in oil or chlora.

The London Velegraph calls attention to

to Abyssinia, the fact that Sir Robert Na-
The

ys directed

The scientific services ought to furnish the

iv commentator ou the opera-
Colonel Hanley, belongs to
Sub-
neers
are the only thoroughly trained soldiers
No officers of the other
ss through the Stall
ystematic education,

¥H™ Mis Excellency Sir Fenwick Wal: |
Hains, left for England on ‘Thursday the 24th
instant. On his departure from Halifax, he
was waited upon by about three thousand of
the most influential inhabitants of the country,
and a very appropriate address was presented
tohim. {lis Honor the Chief Justice read the
decument, and before doing so remarked that
-, the address was signed by the Archbishop and
Clergy of the R.C Church, by Dean Bullock,
and Clergy of the Chureh of England, by the
Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Baptist Minis-
ters, and by the Judges, Merchants and
others,

Goop Freieuts.—The Steamer ‘ Princes
of Wales” took from this port, during the
past week, 800 sheep. 20 head cattle, 20
horses, about G00 barrels oysters, 20 barrels
eggs, and 30 tubs of butter, :

here was considerable stir in the city
this week among young men in search of em-
ployment and high wages. Groups of them
attracted by the prospect of getting £15 2
month at lumbering in South Carolina, might
be seen daily in close communication with a
person who gave his name as Bancroft, and
represented himself as the agent of a Beston
Lumber Company. Without waiting to think
that there aye hundreds of laborers in the
United States, who, if the climate were fit to
live in, would gladly work during the winter
for £15 a month in the forests of South Caro-
lina, several verdant Islanders entered into
agreement with Mr. Bogus Baneroft, and

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1867.

No notice can be taken of anonymous 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.

THE PATRIOT! AGA }

We devote the space alotted to us this
week to a short review of the heavy four-
column article that appeared in the two
last numbers of the Patriot. We may
say at the outset that we are much dis-
appointed in our contemporary. We ex-
pected to find him a much abler and a
much honester opponent than he has
proved himself to be. He has labored
hard to misrepresent the position assumed
by the Summerside Jow:nal with regard
to Confederation, and he has used argu-
ments in fayor of isolation which it would
be an insult to his understanding to sup-
pose that he himself believes to be sound,
We have seldom or never scen such dis-

DAY, OCTOBER

CF aa 7

ing a number of small communities com-
posed of the same race, speaking the
same language, of like habits of thought,
enjoying a common literature and living
under similar political institutions, ‘To
show the real opinions of Napoleon
and the English statesmen did not the
former go to war with Austria to ensure
the unification of Italy ? and is not every
one of the latter a strong advocate for the
Confederation of the British American
Colonies? That the Greeks received
sympathy and aid from Muropean powers
to achieve their independence is quite
true. But we also believe that if the
statesmen of that day could foresee the
barren result of their exertions they
would haye thought twice betore they
added another to the quasi independent
states of Europe which exist merely by
the sufferance of their stronger neighbors.
We question very much if independent
Greece is cither richer, happier, or freer
than Greece under Turkish domination.
One thing is certain, and that is, were
the Greek Christians of the ‘Turkish pen-
insula properly consolidated, the inde-
pendent existence of Greece would be

for nearly 400 years of any real progress in
civilisation.”

That Scotland did not vault from this
state of deplorable wretchedness into one
of prosperity or even of comfort is not at
all to be wondered at, ‘The great won-
der is that a merely political change could
effect even a partial mitigation of this
misery in twice forty years. ‘The writer
in the Putriot has ample means in Char-
lottetown of procuring information on any
subject, and we dare say that he does
not want for industry, we may safely
conclude that since he does not produce
any respectable authority to prove the
evils which union has brought upon
Scotland that no such authority is attain-
able. We cheerfully admit that Scotland
does not enjoy her fair share of repre-
sentation in Parliament, and we dare say
a great many Scotchmen think that a
proportionate share of their revenue is
not spent among them, but these are
very small matters. ‘The whole repre-
sentative system of Great Britain is a
heap of anamolies. But the sturdy
British nation has continued to grow and
prosper in spite of this and quite a form-

‘Tne social influence of the Artillery and ingenuous statements or more transparent.

journal states that the report of impending | 42°, Buen! : sein ‘ reas eA Ep ‘ . ‘ cue ayy . file tot RETR UA AA id
changes in the Cinner “is tlle: mereay| Engineers is far exceeded by that of the} prepared to go inthe * Princess of Wales!’ on ly fallacious argumentation. ‘The editor neither possible nor desirable. Belgium idable number of other grievances, What
i Guards and the line; and perhaps that fact Pucsday night. hey assembled on the and Holland are not inhabited by men of} Scotland would have been had the Union

gossip, aid has not the slightest foundation
in fret.”

We are requested to contradict, on au-
thority, the report that Lord Derby  in-
tends:o retire immediately from oflice.—
Limes, Aug. 12.

‘The transports with the Abyssinian
pioneer expedition, under Colonel Mere-
wether, sailed from Aden for Massowah
@n the 28th ultimo,

News fvom Athens officially confirms
the denial already given of the reported
abdication of King George. It is at the
same time announced that this Sovereign
will open the Hellenic Parliament in’ per-
son, No fewer than 40,000 Cretans, old
men, Women, and children, have sought
refuge in Greece, and the immigration
continies,

On Wednesday, the Marquis of West-
minster formerly tendered to the Chester
town council a spacious park which he
has appropriated us a pleasure round for
inhabitunts of that city, in which he
s so large an interest. Ilis Lordship

has also set aside £100 a year towards de-

fraying expenses connected with the park.

The council unanimously voted its best

thanks to his lordship for ‘* the princely

tind munilicent boon.”

The London Daily Express announces
that a monster meeting is about to be held
in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland,
to express their sentiments respecting the
threatened attack upon the Church “stab-
lishinent, and tuke measures for vindicat-
ing their rights, It is expected to be a
tormidable demonstration as regards. the;
character and numbers who will attend
A meeting was held in the same place,
183, when the Appropriation Clause w
proposed, and itis intended to hold thr
on the 30th inst., which is the anniversary
of that rémarkable assembly.

A Penrith correspondent of the Glasgow
Flevald writes—* You will no doubt have
seen Lord Brougham’s letter in the Globe.
dam sorry to say that Ihave good ground
for stating that the brilliant faculties of the
famous old ‘Lord are now giving way to
the pressure ofage. Ie has, Lain inform-
ed, a mania for writing letters, especially
to Lord Derby, Mr, Gladstone, and Earl
tussel, fulbof his latest ideas; but the
bulk of these are * burked? by his relatives
{cfore they reach the postman.”

An important cirenlar has been issued
from the War Oflice to commanding ofli-
cers of volunteer corps, respecting the
sulety of armouries, It authorises com-
manding officers to distribute the rifles
among the members of the corps, if they
should think it a safer course; but it rep-
resents that a commander will not there-
by get vid of his responsibility for the sate
custody of the rilles. In case of serious
danger the commanding officer is to. rep-
resent the particulars to the War Office,
whi-h may order the rifles to be received
into a government store. Oflicers are
warned not to demand a greater quantity
of ammunition for the use of the corps than
they are prepared to keep safely.

A correspondent of the Times writing
from St. Juan de Luz, on Friday, says :—
“Were last night happened an accident
which involved the lite of one poor fellow,
Dut which might haye been politically
more disastrous, Lhe Empress aad the;
Prince Imperial had been cruising towards
the Spanish coast; but, finding the sea
would be too high to land at Biarritz, the
royal yacht took shelter behind the break-
water, and the royal party, instead of
Janding at Socon, started in the yacht's
hoats for St. Poan de Luz. ‘Vhe pilot who
had charge of the leading boat, in whieh
were the Empress and the Prince, missed
the entrance of the harbor, ran the boats
among the rocks, somehow fell overboard,
smd was drowned, ‘The Royal purty woie
carried through the surt and safely landed.
‘Lhe boats in which were the suite Lit the
entrance of the harbor, following, as they
supposed, the royal gig. Great was their
consternation when they found what had
betallen the Empress and her boy,”

‘The London Herald looks for the entry
of the Italian troops into the Papal domiu-
ions—the city of Rome perhaps excepted
—nt no very distant date, and with the
consent, coy or churlish, sinecre or affect-
ed, as it may happen, ot the Eldest Son of
the Chureb. Ie has long been known in
the precincts of the Vatiean by another
und less favorable title, and it is scarcely
probable that he is i it of the loving
terms in which he ys spoken of by
the extreme partisans of Pius 1X, Le will
raise unto himself no bitter enemies by his
new complaisance to Italy than he already
has among the reaction of Burope, and
he will, at least, put Italy ina better frame
of wind towards him than she has been in
since he gratuitously intervened to make
the recovery of Venetia so strongly dashed
with a sense of humiliation. Italy cannot
afford to guard the Papal frontiers any
Jonger, and the Euviperor of the Freneh
cannot afford to attempt to guard them
from her. Under these cirevmstances w
iy look for an early solution of the dilli-
culty. a“

On Saturday morning a frightful explo-
sion took place in the filling department
in the Royal Arsen, No. 6 shed, by which
nearly 30 lauds were all move or less seri-
ously iniured, and some cases will, doubt-
less, terminale fatally. About half-past
a.m. the first alaraa was given to Chie
Juspector Connelly, of the Royal Arsenal
police, that a flre had broken out in the
east laboratory, when he anda detachment
of police at onee hastened to the spot with
the engine and four hose reels. ‘They were
ull in readiness tn the course of a few mi
nutes. bnt antortunately the conflageation |
had lwen pat out with | a ater by |
the workmen near at nae » On entering
the shed, whiehas a square building with
un iron root haying four windows, and a

table fur filling pellets al around the in-
ide, a dreadful sight was revealed, for no
3 than 27 poor ids out of 30 engaged |

ve

jinay account for the injustice done them,
But the selection for the Abyssinian com-
mand breaks through the iron rule; and

man tor the work to be done will be taken,

may have learned his trade,
7
Latest by Telegraph.
London, Oct, 24,
Tt is reported that the Emperor Napole-
on has requested the European powers to
join Prance in conference for the seitle-
ment of the Roman question, and to. pre-

vent the recurrence of the recent events in
Italy.

London, Oct. 25,

Additional advices received from Rome
acknowledge that the Garibaldians have
not all retired from the territory of the
Church, but repr nt thatthe Pontifical
troops have recently had skirmishes with
remuants of the insurgent bands, in which
they have been unilormly successful.
About two weeks ago Mr. O'Donnell was
shot in this city under cireumstances which
led to the belief that the outrage was per-
petrated by Fenians, ‘The police suceced-
ed in tracing the crime to a person named
Uhrgridge, who, when examined, acknow-
ledged his guilt, and was found to haye
no connection with any Fenian organiza-
tion, :
Gen, Garibaldi has again been heard
from. Without regarding the prohibition
the Italian authorities, he left Voligne
pushed on towards the south. Atlast
rounts he had auwived at Riati, » town
in the southern district of Umbria, not far
from the Papal fronticr and within 42 miles
of the city ot Rome,

TIavana, Oct. 26.

Steamer Mirella from Vera Cruz has ar-
rived, Dates from the city of Mexico to
the 1ith inst. are received, A majority
for Convocation is improbable, The Aus-
trian Admiral ‘Pegethotfis still waiti
decision on his application for the
of Maximilian, Dhere is no proba
obtaining his remains,

The Mirella bring the captain and crew
of the British schr, Village Belle from
Carmel for New Orleans, where she was
wrecked,

London, Oct. 25.
Tntelligence has been received from
China that a great battle has been fought
between the army of invasion and the Tar-
tar forces of the Emperor of China; the
Imperialists were defeated. The battle
took place within thirty miles of Pekin,
and that city wasin great danger of falling
into the hands of the notorious invaders.
Paris, Oct. 25.

The reception of the Emperor of Aus-

tris most cordial and

vin Paris has been
tilying; his visit is populur with the
siuns, and whenever he appears in
public he mects with an enthusiastic and
overwhelming welcome from {he people. |
A protound feeling of sympathy fur his
brother (the mistortunate Maximilian)
heightens the esteem and respect with
which the Emperor is regarded by all
classes,

London, Sunday, Oct. 27.
The semi-official press were «almost
unanimously of opivion that Italian affairs
e now worse than when the Emperor
voleon planned the first. expedition in
the interest of the Poge. The Paris Afoni-
teu, in an oflici rticle, sys the fleet at
Loulon has received positive orders to sail
fiveta Vechia,
n. Cialdini, to whom was entrusted
the formation of a new ministry for Italy,
has taken decided grounds against fis pre-
sené coustruction, In an oflicial commu-
nication he says he regards the relation of
Rattazzi in the prime ministership as con-
ducive to the Lest intere of the nation,
Despatches state that Garibaldi has suc-
ceeded in gathering a force around him,
and is ready to pass the Papal frontier,
Civetta Vecchia is in a state of sieg
News from Italy are startling, “Dis-
patches were reccived on Saturday, stating
that Garibaldi marching’ on Rome.
Hlis command was divided into two
columns, which were taken different di
rectiot The column under Garibaldi
had arrived at Monterstando, only a few
miles from, and in sight of, the Holy City.
The Papal oops were retiring slowly be-
fore the victorious march of the insurgents,
but contesting the ground as they retreat-
ed. Bagwarty was again captured, and is
now held by the Garibaldians,
Gold 142,

Jeppo.—Jdeddo, the capital of Japan, is
the | and most populous city in the
world. It contains 1,500,000 dwellings,
and 6,000,000 human beings. Many ot
the streets are nineteen janaseriesin length,
which is equal to twenty-two Roglish
miles. ‘The commerce of Jeddo far’ ex-
ceeds that of any other city in the world,
and the sea along the evast is constaatly
white with tne sails of ships.—Their yes-
sels sail to the southern portion of the em-
pire, where they are laden with rice, t
seu-coul, tobacco, silk, cotton, and tropi
tuits, all of which can find a ready market
in the north, «nd then return freighted with
corn, salt, isinglass, and various other
products of the north, which hayé a mar-
ket in the south.

A Woxperrut Guxpoat.—An English
shipbuilder has devised a gunboat. 75 teet
long, which will nevertheless carry aw 124
ton Yinch gun, with ammunition. It is
provided with machinery by which the
wan ean be lowered below the water ir
when notin use, while sixteen of these
little hornets ean be put together tor £100,-
O00; that is to say Uhat 80 of these gun-
boats, collectively ing 80, 200, and
300 pounders can be built for the cost ol
one Hercules now on the stucks.

in future itmay be hoped that the best

ho matter ia what arm of the service he

wharf at the hour of sailing, but lo! the agent
of the enterprising Lumbering firm, who
promised to provide his lupes with through
‘Tickets to Boston, if they would only advance
one half the fare, was capiassed fur the price
of a new suit of clothes, and pretending to be
out of funds cleared out minus the clothes,
his watch, and laborers.
faras Mr, Bancroft was concerned, the lum-
ber speculation in P. I Isand was not a
total failure. We don’t pity the dupes. —Vat,

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

We give below a few extracts from a
letter received from our old friend,
Josiah McLeod, Msq., since his return to
Washington :—

Washington, Oct. 4, 1867.

I was greatly pleased to see the eyidences
of increased prosperity all over your country.
So striking was the change in some settle-
ments, by the improving of new farms, the

substantial houses and barns, that I could
scarcely recognize the face of the country.
Inno part of the Island is this change more
remarkable than in your own little town.
When I was there last, almost nine years
ago, it was but a straggling little village,
embedded in mud and sea-weed. Now it
almost rivals Charlottetown in its trade and
commerce, and boasts of two weekly iews-
papers. Who ever dreamed of a newspaper
outside of Charlottetown cight years ago?
‘Lo entitle you to rank with American towns
of the same population, you need «a barber's
shop, one ice-cream saloon, at least in the
summer season, good substantial side-walks,
and last though not least, you need an Incor-
poration Act, to enable you to control those
mercurial spirits that ‘split the ear of night”
at times, with their hideous howling along
your streets. I am sure if these gay and
festive youths could only hear some of the
serenades that we have in Washington some-
times they would become heartily ashamed of
their own performances, and cease them in
future.

My friends here were greatly astonished
when I informed them of the price of whiskey
and other necessaries of life, in P. i. Island.
They could scarcely believe me when L in-
formed them that a fine suitof grey homespun
that I had brought out with me would cost
but fourteen or fitteen dollars in your coun-
try, and that L had boarded at the best hotel
at the rate of a dollar a day, which was con-
sidered by many there an exorbitant charge.

You have probably read an after-dinner
speech of Daniel Webster to the people of
Rochester, closing: ‘*Go on, men of Roch-
ester! No people ever lost their liberties
with a waserfill a hundred and fifty fect high.”
In like manner I would say to you, ‘*Go on,
men of P. KE. Island! No people ever lost
their liberties with whiskey at three pence
per glass!” With us whiskey, warranted to
kill at forty rods, costs fifteen cents, and
brandy from forty to fifty cents per glass;
and the consequence is that we have ten
mighty states divested of all civil and political
liberty.

We had an exciting time here a few nights
ago, serenading Generals Sheridan, Sickles
and Hancock. I never saw such a vast con-
course of people assembled together in the
streets of Washiagton. Rockets ascended
on high, and burst over the city. Red,white
and blue lights blazed from the top of Willard’s
ILotel, and rows of chinese lanterns hung out
in front. As the form of the dashing little
raider—the greatest cavalry leader of the age
—appeared on the balcony, the cheers that
greeted him from the assembled thousands
were perfectly deafening, while the bands of
the Marine Brigade and Twelfth Infantry
discoursed triumphant music. From the
noise and tumult of that scene my mind was
irresistibly carried back to the time when the
issue of a great battle depended upon the
speed with which Sheridan and his gallant
steed passed over the twenty miles interven-
ing between him and the scene of strite, when

“The affrighted air, with a shudder bore,
Like wt herald in haste, to the cheiftain’s door,
The terrible grumble,and rumble,and roar,
‘Lelling the battle was on once more,

And Sheridan twenty miles away.”

Tsuppose you have heard the spirited verses
on this subject by T. Buchanan Read, fro
which I quote. In rapid and animated flow
of description, as well as in metrical cadence,
they resemble somewhat Tennyson's Charge
of the Light Brigade.” I enclose them to
you for publication,
Gen. Sickles made a powerful speech from
the balcony of the Everit House in defe ice of
the Congressional plan of Reconstruction.
As he is still an officer in the army, military
etiquette restrained him from animadverting
en President Johnston's character. Wen 1
gazed upon his cold, stern, impassive  fea-
tures, I thought not upoa his military record—
although he had lost a leg in the service—but
upon his memorable words after having shot
the seducer of his wife: ** He and I could not
live together on the same planct!” I may
mention here that the tree against which Key
leaned when he was shot has been all carr
away by curiosity seekers, so that nothing is
left of it now but the bare stump, on a level
with the ground, His unfortunate wife, who
was as beautiful and accomplished as she was
frail, has lately passed away from the scene
of her shame and suffering—the best thing
she could do under the circunstances.
We have just entered upon the theatrical
season in Washington. Miss Caroline Rich-
ings’ English Opera has been drawing croy d-
ed and fashionable audiences to the National
Theatre nightly for several weeks. She was
the first that introduced the Nnglish Opera
into this country; and this city has been the
scene of her greatest reward and triumph.
Some of their qnartettes are magnificent.
The tenor, Mr. Castle, surpasses in power
and sweetness of tone all the tenor singers I
ever heard, excepting Brignoli. © Mr. Camp-
bell, asa baratone, stands unrivalled. I wish
you could hear a good opera once. I know
that you would be enraptured, Although I
made it a point to hear this troupe once in
each of their leading operas [do not attend
with anything approaching regularity, simply
because J can't afford it. Lhe opera is too
expensive a luxury for me.

Believing that Ihave gossiped enough for
one letter, I make haste to subscribe myself,

Fraternally Usine,
‘ Josmm McLeop.

It is said that so

clearing away of forests, and the building of

of the Patriot does not, at his time of life,
need to be told that to suppress the truth
is frequently as heinous an offense as to
assert a falsehood. In his review of our
articles he labors with a most perverse
ingenuity to make us say what we did
not say, and quotes just enough of those
articles to create a false impression in the
minds of his readers. We are exceed-
ingly sorry that we are, in self defence,
compelled to prefer this accusation against
the writer of the articles to which we
make allusion, We expected better
things of him. He will yet find that
candor and fair play are more admired
and more highly appreciated by the news-
paper reading public of this Island than
controversial dishonesty and logical leger-
demain. We wonder indeed that experi-
ence has not taught him this lesson long
ago.

We stated in the most explicit terms
the attitude assumed by us towards the
Confederation of the British American
Colonies as established on the Continent.
If the Patriot had fairly advised his read-
ers of that attitude we would have been
perfectly satisfied, Instead of pursuing
this straightforward course, he accuses us
of attempting to inveigle the people of
this Island into Confederation, to use his
own words, of covertly trying to aid a
cause which we dare not manfully espouse
We ask him for the proof of this railing
accusation. It is not in our nature to
endeayor to accomplish our ends by cun-
ning and treachery. We hate anid despise
sneak. Our advocacy of our views has
ever been open and _ straightforward.
We wish well to the Dominion of Cana-
da. We look upon it with friendly in-
terest. We will watch attentively the
endeavors of the Statesmen of British
America to create a new nationality on
this continent. We will throw no im-
pediment inits way. We will do every-
thing that within us lies to ensure the
success of the experiment. We will
judge the tree by its fruits. Weask the
people of this Island to do the same.
We are not at all disposed to pursue the
course of the Patriot, which, according
to the proverb, is the course that none
but children and feols adopt, and judge
the work half finished, and for that mat-
ter the work scarce begun. We do not
ask the people of this Island to join the
Confederacy, we ask them simply to ob-
serve its progress. We do not even ask
them to judge favorably of Confederation,
we only want them not to misjudge or
to prejudge it. Is this an unreasonable
course? Isitanunpatrioticone? Sup-
pose one of our farmers essayed an ex-
eriment, the success of which would
undoubtedly benefit every agriculturist
on the Island, and the failure of which
would injure no one but himself. What
would reasonable and christian men think
of that neighbor of his who would not
only endeavor to discourage him by per-
petual predictions of failure, but would |
take a wicked pleasure in repeating every
slander that had ever been raised against
him by the most malicious of his enemies,
and in annoying and insulting bim when-
ever he happened to mect him, and who_
would also ridicule and misrepresent any |
one who presumed to wish the courage-
ous experimentalist God speed, or would
dare in his hearing to say a single word
in his favor, Who among us would look
with approbation on the narrow-minded
wretch capable of such conduct, We have
seen men act in this malicious, narrow-
minded, pig-headed manner, but fortu-
nately for the credit of humanity, persons
capable of such wanton malice and un-
reasoning intolerance are exceedingly
rare,

We have argued in favor of the ab-
stract question of union as we hada per-
fect right to do, and our contemporary
has found our arguments exceedingly
difficult to answer. Witness his clabor-
ate article of four columns. We defied,
him to name a single statesman of note,
cither on this side or on the other side
of the Atlantic who does not advocate
the consolidation of pefty states and the |
renunciation of the hurtful individuality
of small and weak communities. He
has not been able after a fortnight’s re-
search to hunt up the name of one such
i atesman! His dodging, and twisting,
and turning, shows that the poor man
has been at his wit's end. ‘To prove that
some statesmen of Murope are opposed to
\the consolidation of polly states and the
renunciation of the hurtful individuality
of small and weak communitics, he in
a round-about-way, states that when
Russia attempted to scize upon ‘Turkey
the Emperor of Trance and the
Statesmen of England interfered to pre-
vent such consolidation! ‘The irre-
levancy of this example may be seen at
a glance. In the first place Turkey is
nota small nor a petty state, though a
weak one. In the next place, none but a
man determined to fill two columns with
something and was not particular what,
would for a moment suppose, that eon-
quest and the consolidation about which
we aro writing are one and the same-
thing. Worcibly to annex an alien State
jis a very different thing from consolidat-

the same race, but by men of very differ-
ent races. But what does the indepen-
dence of cither of these states really
amount to? Belgium has been pitched
about from one great power to another like
a base ball, and owes its independenc cn-
tirely to the jealousy of its neighbors,
When Germany becomes united and
powerful enough to bid defiance to France
Belgium will be again the bone of con-
tention. Its fate is not, humanly speak-
ing, in its own hands. It cannot take
its own part. Every day's expericnee is
proving to the statesmen of Murope that
nature makes States, and not Conzresses
or Conventions. ‘The fate of small and
weak states is well shadowed forth in the
results of the late Danish and Austrian
wars. ‘The weaker go to the wall. ‘The
larger and more powerful absorb the
smaller and weaker. Whatis the watch-
word in Germany? Union, What is
the great need of Austria? Consolida-
tion. What is the fervent aspiration of
every Italian patriot? ‘The unification
of his beloved countr: Hor what did
the patriots of the neighboring Republic
spill their blood like water, and strain
their material resourees te the utmost
tension? ‘The preservation of the Union.
What constitutes the strength of power-
ful empires? 'Theirunity. What is the
first indication of failing power and the
sure precursor of their fall? ‘Their want
of unity. ‘hat some statesmen dislike
to sce the union and consequent increase
of the power of rival states, so far from
proving that these statesmen disapprove
of union, is the strongest evidence that
could be adduced of their belief in the:
virtues of national unity. Napoleon,

solidation of Germany, is strong proof
that Napoleon believes thet that consoli-
dation will convert a harmless and insig-
nificant neighbor into a formidable and
important one. We are quite aware of
the fact that some statesmen desired to
sce the dissolution of the American
Union, but this was not because they
disbelieved in union, but because they
believed in it. Like the Demons, they
believed and trembled. The Republic
united was to be respected and fear
the Republic disunited might safely be
treated with disregard and contempt,
We really think that our contemporary
should for his own credit’s sake hand
over Scotland to the Unionists. Some
men we know will strain hard to gain a
point, but it is going a little too far to
sacrifice what little reputation one has
earned for candor and intelligence for the
very poor satisfaction of imposing on a
very few unthinking and ignorant people. |)
To prove that Scotland does not owe her) |
almost unparalleled growth in population | {

the writer in the Patriot docs not quote} i
Robertson, MeAulay, Burton, or any
other historian of established reputation,
but with all the parade that small caps
can give, quotes his political Gamaliel, ;
the late Duncan McLee Well,though |

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what was worthy of admiration in that}!
really clever man, we feel by no means
disposed to defer to him in a matter j
where authorities better informed and of) ;
immeasurably greater weight are readily |
attainable. — Besides, experience has) |

trust the quotations of the Patriot. We
will bring forward an authority which
even the editor of the Paériot will not
presume to question, to show that
the state of Scotland immediately previ-
ous to Union was miserable in the ex-
treme,

. From the article on Burton's History of
Scotland, in the Mdinburgh Review, we
take the following extract. Our Sedttish
readers must remember that the dismal
picture has not been drawn by our hand:—

* Ttis a terrible thing to say of a nation
that, during a period of four centuries, it
retrogated in material well-being. Yet this
may wih truth be said of Scotland.
Mr. Innes, in his ‘Sketches of Scottish
llistory’ (p. 158), lays it down as beyond dis-
pute that at the death of Alexander JIL. (in
1285) Scotland was more civilized and more
prosperous than at any period of her exist-
tence, until the time when she ceased to be a
separate kingdom in 1707.”

“Very different was the state of Scotland
at the close of the 17thcentury. he nobility,
far too numerous for the country, were poor
place hunters; the gentry wandering adyen-
iurors. ‘There was no agriculture worthy of
the name; no trade save what was carried on
by petty pedlars. Prices were high; severe
scarcities frequent. Slavery, though in t'eory
illegal, was really enforced. All colliers and
salt-makers were regarded as predial serts.
Kidnapping was a regular trade, Donacha
Dha iu the ‘Ileart of Midlothian’ is nv exay-
geration. There were almost no magistrates
—roads only between t te large cities—rarely
bridges—a greater number of idiots than in
any other country—and finally in all times a
tenth, in evil days a fifth, of fe whole popu-
lution, begging trom door to door, living in
the constant commission of every kind of
crimea state of things so appalling that (as
is well known) a regular system of slavery
seemed to Fletcher of Saltoun the only effi-
cient remedy for miseries so deeply rooted.
In a word, Scotland bought her independence
ut the cost of inconceivable material wretch-
ness, the Joss of constitutional liberty, the ut-
ter disorganization of society, and the arrest

viewing with fear and jealousy the con- |j

and in wealth to the union with Mngland, | 1

we believe in treading lightly o’er the | dishonesty go further?
ashes of the dead, and though we admire | ?etiot knows that the public safety de-

Corpus Act,
sion was intended to protect the lives and

never been consummated it is quite im~
possible for us or for any other mere
mortal to tell, It is quite suilicient for
us to know that she was ina very bad
condition for very many years before
Union, and that she became happy and
prosperous after that event.

We now approach the Irish question,
and we can hardly trust ourselves to
animadyert on the manner in which the
’utriot has handled it. All the worst
fuults in the J’udriot’s style of argumenta-
tion are disgustingly visible in the man-
ner in which he has written on this ques-
tion, Tis disingenuousness approaches
nearer to Dold, unveiled dishonesty, and
his ill-nature to cool dcliberate malice,
than in any other portion of his long
article.

Knowing well that Ireland is more wisely
and justly governed to-day than she was
any time since the conque thousand
times more so thin when she had a Par-
iiament of her own on College Green, he
has not the manliness to admit the fact,
but without directly asserting it, labors
hard to impress his readers with the idea
that the greater part of the eyils under
which that unfortunate country labors are
the fruits of the Lrish Union of 1800, No-
thing can be further from the truth than
this, While Ireland had a Parliament of
her own the most wnnical and the most
Sy ee restrictions were placed
upon trade. The most odious laws that
ever disgraced the statute book of any
civilized nation were enacted against those
who professed the religion in which nine-
tenths of the people devoutly believed, —
‘Vhe Catholies of that unfortunate country
labored under the most galling and insult-
ing disabilities that were ¢
against any people, From
honorable ambition was the Lrish Catholic
he chureh, the bar,
th and the civil and ailitury ser-
vices of the +. Allthis was whil
was a mockery of a Parliament in College

Green. Is such the ¢ how? Do we
not see Irish Catholics distinguishing

themselves in every field—except the es-
tablished church of their own country—
accessible to Englishmen or Seotchmen ?
Do we not see Irish Catholic judges on the
English Bench, Lrish Catholic members of
varliament, Irish Oatholic ofiicers, high in
the naval and military services of the state ?
Does not our beloved queen delight to

{promote Catholic Irishmen to places of

high trast and splendid emolument? Taye
we notin this out of the way part of Her
Majesty’s dominions had an Lrish Catholic
tor a Governor? Is not Irish trade now
as free from restrictions as that of England
or Scotland? Aud yet in the face of all
this our candid opponent accuses us of
ignorance and a desire to insult Lrishmen,
when we dety him to point out the year
in which the people of Ireland enjoyed
more rights aid privileges than they do
now. Ile does not name the year, simply
yecituse he cannot do so, But what does
re do% ‘To proye that Lreland is not free,
hat its peopie are oppressed, he tells his
eaders that while the peace of Treland,
s threatened by a most formidable con-

spiracy, while every day adventurers are

anding in that country, who are the sworn
snemies of British rule in Ireland ind after

wv wide-spread insurrection has just been

juclled, the act of Labeas Corpus has been
uspended in Ireland,

Can controversial
‘Lhe writer in the

nanded the suspension of the Habeas
Ile knows that that suspen-

roperty of the Queen's Trish subjects,and
rot Lo oppress theu,. Ile ought to know
hat at a time when the danger to the
mublic peace was much less imminent the

taught us to view with considerable dis-| Habeas Corpus Aes was suspended in

England, But we do not think so meanly
of the editor's understanding as to imagine
that he was for a single moment deceived
hy his own sophistries. Mada hall-crazed
Fenian fanatic written the paragraph under
review, we would haye considered the
effusion quite in character; but tor the
editorot the Dalriot!! Wo seo queer
changes in this world of ours sometimes,
Will the editor tell us when this Island
Was governed according, to the ' wells
undersivod wishes of its people?”

Ea

toa" The Ladies Benevolent Society of
Summerside, in connection with St. Mary's
Npiscopal Church, since its inauguration,
only a tew menths since, have relieved some
nine families, of different denominations,
namely + Roman Catholic, 3 Presbyteri-
an, oud L Episcopalian. — ‘They have dis-
tributed 36. articles of clothing and paid ous
for provisions the suin of £8 2s.44d. The
above goes to prove that this society is not
confined to any one denomination, but that
wherever it meets with the deserving poor, is
always ready to afford relief, without any re-
ference to creed, We wish it success, and
hope it may continue to prosper «nd extefil
its usefulness in our midst.—Com.

t@* The fellow who tle other day suc-
ceeded in deluding so many men under tho
pretence of hiring them to go to Maryland to
lumber, made his appearance here yesterday
with a horse and carriage. He put up at
Ilibbet's Lotel, und a short time, aéveehis ar-
rival took passage in a schooner for Shedine,
carrying off with him a revolver belonging to
Mr. Hibbet, leaving the horse and waggoh
behind, which no doubt was stolen property,
A boat put atter the schooner and overhauled
her about a mile from the harbor, and the
rascal was fougd stowed away in the cabin,
and the revolv#taken from him. He should
have been brought back and imprisoned.
‘Phe horse and waygun is advertised in another
column,

ga@™= ‘The wharves present just now a busy
scene, Several lurge vessels are discharging
and loading, and wso a number of small
crafts.