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Tnroporr’s Barna:
Gazetle publishes a com
Lieut. Prideaux, ene ef the Abyssinian |
captives, which shows a degree of bir |
barity in King ‘Theodore, it isto be hoped, |
without paralell at the present day, even)
in uncivilized countries. Licut, Prideaux |
writes :—

‘Ilis Majusty seems now to set no}
bounds to Is lty and ferocity. When |
Tlast wrote he was on a plundering expe- |
dition against the small island at Matraho,
in the » ‘Tana, Lvery inhabitant of
that place he consigned to the flames, with
the exception of three Gondar merchants,

yho had tled thither for security, but who

nluckily reckoned without their host, for
they were plundered of their property,and
are now lying in chains in the camp of the
tyraut and are frequently tortured for
money.—Shortly afterwards the King made
a trip to Ifug, one of the most flouri hing
little towns in Foggara, on the northwesi-
ern portion of Begemmeder. ‘Lhe place
was surrounded and 1500 of the peasants
captured, ‘These were burned alive in five
furge houses selected for the purpose:

Tt is suid there is not a single man,
woman or child alive oetween Debra 'Ta-
bor and Eimfras on che borders of Dembea.
In the camp his Majesty has been playing
the same game, It was reported to him
that two thousand of his soldiers wished to
desert; they were surrounded by the

* others, and their throats cut like cattle.
Yor two days the camp resounded with the
‘ -yeports of fire arms; the mothers, wives,
‘wehildven, and nearest relations of these
“ wretched men were being pistolled by the
soldiery. Ladies of good family, the wives
of the Chie{s, were stripped naked and tied
to posts, where they were exposed to the
noontide glare of the sun; afterwards they
were tortured with rops, ete., until a pis-
tol shot put an end to theirsuiferings. Un-
mentionable barbarities have been perpe-
trated on the miserable women ; 295 chicts
of districts have had their hands and feet
eut off, and then been left to die of starva-
tion.—Still the King’s position does not
improve; desertions continue daily.”

To be a prisoner in the hands of such a
monarch as this is certainly not an enyi-
able position.

American Fisurrmen caucur.— The
Essex Record, published at Windsor, gives
an account of a descent by the Canadian
fishery oficers on American fishermen in
Lake Eric. There is a cluster of Islands
near the mouth of the Detroit River, some
of which are in Canada and others in the
United States. From the shelter of these
latter places Americans sally forth and set
labyrinths of nets in the channels among
tho British islands, and the,track of fish
sceking the river about spawning time. It
ja stated by our contemporary that there
sometimes are thirty miles of nets down,
owned and worked by Americans, This
raiding business has been going on for
sometime. ‘The fisheries on the Detroit
and St. Clair Rivers are said to have been
much injured by it, But the adventurers
have at last burnt their fingers. Having
ascertained how they were situated, Mr.
Whitcher, of the fisherics office, took steps
to secure them, and a heavy seizure Was
effecte! We doubt, however, if even
this lesson will deter muurauders, and
think there is foree in the suggestion of
the Record that the Minister of Marine and
Fisheries:might employ the gunboat on
that station to pay occasional visits to the
grounds trespassed upon, and protect the
fishermen of Oatario from such wholesale
depradations,

An extensive fire took place at Otlawa
on the night of the 15th wilt, It broke out
in the warehouse of Bates, Bros, on the
canal bason, and destroyed property to the
yalue of nearly one hundred thousand dol-
lars. ‘The building was filled with the
winter stock of groccries #4d liquors,
nearly all of which was consumed. ‘I'he
fire raged fiercely for several hours and
was extinguished only when everything
combustible in the building had been des-
troyed, lvaving the stone walls alone
standing. ‘The building was constructed
with great care, so 13 to be proof against
fire, and the origin of the conilagration is
a matter of uncertainty. Bates, Bros., al-
though insured fora considerable amount,
are heavy losers,

A Goop Srorr—-The Duke of Argyll
tells a good story. Ile was travelling with
the Duke of Northumberland in a first-class
carriage on the North-eastern railway. At
one of the stations a little commercial
traveller got in, ‘The three chatted famil-
jarly until the train stopped at Alnwick
junction, Here the Duk f Northumber-
Jand got our, and wis met*by a train of
flunkeys and servants. Zhe commercial
traveller said to his remaining companion,
+« That must be some great swell.” ** Yes,”
said the Duke of Argyll, ‘‘he is the Duke
of Northumberland.” ‘* Bless me,” ex-
claimed the bagman, ‘and to think that
he should have been so affable to two lit-
tle snobs like ee

Great Sart WELL.—Godtrich, Nov. 21.
There is great excitemen® in this city,
caused by the complete success of the new
salt well near the Station. The boring
was suspended at the depth of 1,100 feet,
where they came upon twenty-three feet
of salt, and three layers of shale, and ten
fect pure salt. ‘The value of this well to
Goderich can hardly be over-estimated, as
it proves that the whole sit® of the town
overlies a formation of the purest salt in
the world. Capitalists and land-owners
are on the qui vive to-day, and salt territory
has risen filty per cent.

Inaeniovs.—The only grocer in Ins-
tings, Michigan, that bat the selling
ot intoxicating beverages, his fixed a sort
of wheel lettered with tho initials of the
liquors desired, as B for brandy. W_ for
whiskey, and so on, ad inflniium. The
drinker places his tumbler upon the lettter
of the drink he desires—not forgetting to
place theymonoy there np then turns the
wheel. It goes behind th®gcreen, is filled,
rolls round to the drinker, md no one is
seen to sell or take pay, and the law is
evaded, .

Consucat Arrection IN THE MINING
Disrnicrs.—We learn trom the Neweastle
Daily Journal, that a man, 79 years of age,
died suddenly at a public-house, and an
inquest was held on his hoy. His widow
was not present; one ol Vk witnesses said
sho had been asked to cOme, but replied
that tho distance was tvo far to travel,and
«+ besides, What's the use of a dead man to
me?”

Tho Maine ship yards are nearly all idle.
The Boston Advertiser says the Jong list of
launches we were formerly accustomed to
regard with pleasure wi evidence ot the
rapid growth of our merchant marine no
longer ie ted in our exchanges from that
State, and we now find only oceasional
announcements ¢hat here and there a yes-

Lis on the stocks, Jt ishardly too much
at the extraordinary depression is
emp ill-considered taxation of articles

\S the construction of vessels,

goollaneecus, |}

UMME

A celebrated dentist says thy
United States in a population of thirty mil-
lions of teeth lost annually. by deci) are |
caused by the use of bolted wheai, which
deprives the system of the lime needed in
the human teeth,

Sad revelations are being nade in Paris
ofthe Mexican expedition, he second
regiment of Zounyves was four days with-
out food, Out of 21,800 composing it,
only 11,000 returned to France. Of a
company of the 90th regiment Vera Craz, |
all but 12 men perished of yellow fever.

« A New Way To ray Op Dets."—A
man at Lindsay, Canada, was fined $5 for
cursing the Queen, Whata tremendous
internal revenue,” says the Chicago Post,
“would accrue tothe United States if this
sum could be coliceted from every man
(Demoeratic and rebels included) who
shoukl vent a curse upon the President!
T'hg proceeds of a single day's swearing at
Andy would well nigh extinguish the na-
tional dubt.”

Fisrcr Sancasm.—The seeret of Dante's
struggle through life was in the reckless
sarcasm of his answer to the Prince of Ve-
rona, who asked him how he could account
for the fact thatin the household of princes
the court fool was in greater favor than
the philosopher. —* Similarity of minds,
said the fierce genius, ‘¢is all over the
world a test of friendship,”

Tootiacne. —For the benefit of the
whole family of toothachers, it may be
useful for us to state that at 2 meeting of
the London Medical Society, Dr. Blake, a
distinguished practioner, said that he was
able to cure the most desperate ease of the
toothache, unless the disease was connect-
ed with rheumatism, by the application of
the following remedy: Alum, redueed to
an impalpable powder, two drachms; ni-
trous spirit of ether, seven drachms; mix
and apply to the tooth.—/urtland Press,

A Romance or Dirtomacy. — Baron
Henri Van Havre, Secretarty to the Belgi-
an Legation at Washington, a member of
an old, wealthy and aristocratic Belgian
family, has married a Washington Trea-
sury Clerk in the persoy of Miss Cemilla
Webb. ‘The event has made quite a sen-
sation in Washington. An exchange pa-
per says:

“Three days ago the wealthy and aris-
toeratic Bason, accompanied by his intend-
ed bride, Miss Webb, attended by party a
of friends, proceeded to the Catho, Church
of St. Aloysius and had the nuptial cere-
mony performed, ‘The Baron is a Catholic
and his wife an Episcopalian. ‘To-day the
Episcopal ceremony of marriage was
completed, in presence of a select and
fashionable congregation, The bride,
who is about twenty years of age, was
dressed in pearl colored silk, and, with
her wreath of golden tresses, bright blonde
complexion, and delicately chiselled fea-
tures, created no small degree of adinira-
tion.” :

We were not aware that the absurdity
of two nuptial ceremonies, arising out of
denominational differences, was required
or practised in the United States.

Tue Proposep INcREAsn OF THE House
or ComMons—Tur Mysticar NumBer 666.
—A correspondent writes; *t Mr Disraeli’s
reference at the recent banquet to the cab-
alistical charm in the number of 658 re-
minds me of an anecdote related by the
Pall Mall Gazelle, which I quote for the
benefit of your renders: ‘ Whenever the
subject of scriptural fortune-telling came
up in Lord Macaulay’s presence, he was
pretty sure to relate an anecdote of his
sojourn in India, He arrived one night,
late and tired, at the house of the chaplain
of A somewunr BUfyequonted district, anc
desired to get to bed as soon as possible.
But his host was not going to throw away
the rare opportunity of eliciting some vyal-
uable information trom a guest of such
rare ability and scholarship. ‘*Mr. Mac-
aulay,” said he, ‘* I positively cannot let
you retire till you state your opinion as
to the Number of tho Beast.” ‘+I was
driven into a corner,” said the statesman
rather than theologian, ‘‘and I answered
on the spot, ‘I haye no doubt as to what
was foreshadowed by the mystical num-
ber—the British House of Commons! ‘The
members clected (658) the three clerks at
tho table, the sereant-at-arms, and the
deputy-sergeant, the librarian and the two
doorkeepers, making 666,’ and I rushedto
my couch,

The Spanish government lias made its an-
nual estimate of the revenues of Cuba; in
other words, the estimate of how much bleed-
ing Cuba can stand this year. It is taken for
granted that the island will produce $31,162,-
653 while the expenditure will be $25,659,834,
having a snug little balance of $5,502,819.
The total revenue from Cuba and Porto Rico
is estimated at $84,558,188, and total estimat-

A merchant who was absent from home,
received a telegram informing him of his
wife’s safe delivery of a little girl; at the
sametime a letter from his partner advised
him that a draft had been presented for $5,000
and the signature seemed rather doubtfal.
‘The merchant replied to both letters, but
misdirected them.—The astonishment of the
wife may be imagined when she read: ‘+1
know nothing about it: it’s a swindle.” The
pariner received a hearty congratulation upon
his safe deliverance.

Te.ecrarn Broxpgrs.—A gentleman at
Albany, N. W., who is somewhat envied for
his social culture and chivalry recently has
occasion to telegraph to some lady friends in
New York city, as fullows.—‘* Miss —— goes
down this evening to complete her bridal
trousseau.” Instead of rendering it as above,
the carcless operator makes it read in this
way: ‘! Miss —— goes down this evening to
complete her bridal trowsers.”” The scene
among the ladies on receiving this despatch,
can be better imagined than described.

Apventisina .—lorney’s Press, one of the
shrewdest and ablest of newspapers, has the
following sensible idea on advertising: ** We
have for many years studied the art of adver-
tising, and still it remains to us a marvel that
there is not one hundred times more of it.
We never [knew a man to advertise his wares
liberally and steadily, that it did not pay.
yet there are thousands of inanufacturers and
tens of thousands of men having articles
which they declare ought to be,*in every
household in the country who advertise as
nigerly and closely as though they had at
heart no faith in it at all, How can they ex-
pect to get their goods everywhere, unless
some knowledge of the articles gets into the
family first, through the family newspaper?
Ifwe waited till people loarned from their
neighbors, we might wait for years before the
most wonderful and useful inventions became
shown.

Mr. McKenzie, the proprictor of the Prince
Alvert Confectionary, died on Sunday morn-
ing. ‘Though in ill-health for some time from
a wasting disease, his death was very sudden.
Mr. McKenzie will be much regretted in the
city and throughout the Province. as he en-
joyed the friendship and esteem of a ver;
large circle, who will deeply sympathise wit!
his family in their bereavement. His remains
will be interred to-morrow afternoon, when
the Caledonian Society will assist in the ob-
sequics.—-I1z. Col.

(The deceased was an uncle of Mr. Alex.
McKenzie, Confectioner, of Charlottetown.)
—En. Jove,

in the| HORRIBLE NURDER 1N NEW YORK.

The courtesan Fauny Wright who killed
officer McChesney on the 20th October, is
said to have come from Lowell originally.—
The decd was one of great horror. ‘The
woman was drunk, and flourishing the knife
over her head at the corner of Mercer and
Canal streets. As McChesney approaehed
her he said, ‘ You have got a knite.” '* No
Laint’—and with t'is reply she sprang with
the rage of a maniac at the officer, plunging
the blade of the knife into his neck one inch
below the left ear. The blow, driven by the
arm of the desperate and inturjated woman,
maddened by drink, severed the jugular yein.4
Evidently frightened, but still with presence
of mind, oficer McChesney immediately gave
the alarm rattle, when officer Seaman, of that
post, instantly urrived upon the spot. ** Sea-
man,” said the wounded man—the blood gurg-
ling from the ghastly cut,—" Ihave been sts
bed by this woman; arresther.” Ollicers
man then turned to the woman, who at this
time was surrounded by an excited crowd, and
attempted to take herinto custody, but she
quickly drew back, raised her hand, in which
she held the bloady knife, and attempted to
renew the deadly aesault; stepping bac dg,
oftiger seaman quickly struck her on the wrist
with his club, and the knife fell upon the side-
walk. Pinioning her arms, he, with the as-
sistance of the citizens, conveyed her to the
eighth precinct station house, where she was
ai once 4ncarcerated in the darkest cell. Me-
Chesney, with a feeling that his life was fast
ebbing away, the blood spurting in a thick
red stream over his coat and saturating his
shirt, rushed frantically up Canal street to
Broadway, through that street to the upper
side of [foward street, and a block beyond,
followed by an excited crowd, and, on stop-
ping a moment, begen to sink upon the side-
walk, when officers Kane and Dickman, hear-
ing that aman had been stabbed, rushed to
the spot and prevented the dying man from
falling. While taking himin a carriage to
the hospital McChesney died, and his body
was taken to the station house.—Ho had been
appointed to the force only on the 11th of last
month, and had just been commissioned a
patrolman in the 8th precinct. Ie was a fine-
looking man, six feet in’ height and well pro-
portioned; he had been married buta few
days previous to his being placed on the police
force,

An interesting literary project is proposed
inthe South. A picked corps of the most
gallant officers and soldiers in the late rebel
army is organised for the purpose of exposing
the Shortcomings of those in authority. ‘They
intend to prick many a bubble reputation, to
show how quarterimasters and conimissaries
plundered, how generals exhibited the utmost
favoritism, how the southern army was weak-
ened by absenteeism, and how high officers
sheltered themse in bomb-proofs. It is
sitid that the projectors of this history are
“thorough rebels.” but they mean neverthe-
less to expose in the most unmerciful manner
the way in which certain men obtained posi-
tions of howor in the army, and the:r behavior
when they had got their places. It will be
‘‘spicy” reading, and if the work is done
thoroughly and no favors shown, it will bea
yolume of considerable bulk.—Loston Adver-
tiser’. *

A young lady of extreme beauty drowned
herself in the river Loire the week before
last. She Jefta letter to a young man to
whom she was much attached, saying that she
would not marry him because he was sudject
to epileptic fits. She had therefore done the
next best thing, drowned herself!

Tur Porn in tun Fortress.—The Pall
Mall Gazeéte, of October 28th, says: ‘ Yes-
terday (October 10) the Pope went to Fort
St. Angelo, and presented himself to the
Garibaldian prisoners, who received him on
their knees in profound silence. Looking
round on the party, about two hundred in
number, the Holy Father said—* Behold him
whom your general calls the vampire of Italy.
It is against me you have all taken up arms?
And what do you see? A poor old man,’
‘gne Pope then dew Bearer gnd addressed
several of tho prisoners personally, saying—
‘You, my friegd, have lost your shoes, and
you your shift, and you your coat, and you
your hat. Ah, well, I shall see you are pro-
vided, and then I shall send you away to your
own homes; only I shall ask you first, as
Satholics, to make a spiritual retirement, for
my svke. You, know, my dear friends, that
itis the Pope himself who asks you this.’
‘The Garibaldians werd deeply moved by this
address, and pressed forward to kiss the cross
bordering the Pope’s robe, when the lloly
Vather gaye them his benediction,”

A German named Ellerhausen, who a few
yours ago erected large ertablishments on the
line of railway near Windsor for the manu-
facture of lumber, which resulted in the foun-
dation of qnite a village there bearing his
name,—recently discovered means by which
iron ore could be converted into cast steel,
by a simple process, making it cost no more
than refined iron. A company has been
formed in Montreal, and patents are being
taken out, the company preferring to do so
rather than accept the millions of dollars offer-
ed for the discovery by a New York firm.
This will, to a great extent, revolutionise one
of the greatest trades in the world. —Aimherst
Gazelle.

Ai the burning of - two story house in
Montreal on the 16th inst., four persons were
burned to death,—a man named Shaw, his
wife, and two children, one aged three years
the other aged nine months. When the
bodies were rescued from the flames, they
were burned to a crisp, and presented a sick-
ening sight. Shaw and his wife had been in-
toxicuted,

* The Bridgewater Zimes learns that the
gold-bearing quartz from the mines at Gold
River, Lunenburg County, are exceedingly
rich. Fourteen men are employed night and
day at the diggings, and a steam crusher is
to be erected and in operation by next spring.
Silver has also been discovered. Itis pro-
buble that these mines will rank among the
richest in the Province, as it is impossible to
break some of the quartz in any direction
without finding gold.

An cditor says his attention was first drawn
to matrimony by the skillful manner in which
a pretty girl handled a broom, whereat a
brother editor says, the manner in which his
wife handles a broom is not co very pleasant.

Charles Dickens docs not use any scenic
auxili: ries in his readings; but he has a pe-
culiar arrangement of lights, and carries with
him his own gasflttings. Uo has bis own plan
of lighting the platform on which he reads;
and in the United Kingdom a gasfitter always
travels in his suite for the purpose of fixing
these lights.

An individual who advertised for the caries-
de-visite of ladies, with « view to matrimony,
received the following reply froma spirited
young lady + ‘I do not, as requested, enclose
my carte, for though we are told there is an
excuse for putting a carte before a horse, I
know of none for placing one before an ass.”

The correspondent of the New York 7Zri-
bune concludes his description of the Dickens’
farewell banquet with these words—testitying
tothe extent of the great novelist’s popu-
larity :—'' I saw « noble Lord shake his hand
at the door as he was departing, and I saw,
too, when he had got outside the door, an old
woman ot the people grasp his hand, and,
stooping she kissed it.”

Some ingenious student of figuresin Eng-
land discovered some nronths since thatevery
ten years there was a recurrence of a financial
panic, as, for instance, in 1837, 1847, and
1857. As 1867 draws to a close, and trade is
fearfully dull, though there are no signs of a
panic, the Inglis paperr note, ax a remark-
able fact, that an unusual session of Parlia-
ment, which is sometimes a ealamity, oveurs
every ten years. There was one in 1837,
1847, and 1857, and there will be ono this

Latest from ~ Europe.

London, Noy. 26,
Mucll excitement among the Fenians
throughout England and Ireland on Sun-
day. No open riots,
Several formidable bread riots in Belfast
recenty.
Reported prisoner Kelly recaptured,
Garibaldi’s health is improving; des-
pitches state that hisillness was caused by
harsh treatment of Italian prison officials,
who took that course with a view of driy~
ing him to the United States. :
London, Nov. 26ih—eve.
Advicesfrom Shanghai stating addition-
al particulars of the disastrous inundation
with which the Island of Lugon was visit-
ed last month are received, besides the

great damage done to the shipping and
crops.—Whole villages were overwhelm-
ed, and the loss of hyp e iscomputed

at 10,000

Tn the House of Comnions this evening
Hon, Mr. D'tsracli, Chancellor of the x-
cheqner, moved 2 yote to supply £2,000,-
000 tor the expenses of the Abyssinian war,
He supported his motion with a Specch,in
which he recalled the yavious pacihe ef-
forts made in vain by England to obtain
the release of the British captives, and
justified the final action of the Government
in sending a Military Expedition to Abys-
sinja, Ile thought that should it be found
necessary to replace the Indian troops sent
on the expedition, the amount of supply
required by the Government might be in-
creased to £3,500,000. I

A debate ensued, Mr. Lowe made an
attack upon the Ministers, to which Lord
Stanley replied.

Jacob Bright has been elected to Par-
liament from Manchester,

Garibaldi has so far reeovered from his
recent illness as to be considered by his
medical advisers able to support the fa-
tigue of travel, and by permission .of the
Government he will immediately set out
fron Varigno for his home at Caprera,

Reports that Italy had agreed for the
proposition for a General Conference are
premature.

The Itwian Government has not yet
signified in any way its intention of join-
ing the proposed Congress,

Consols 944; 5'20’s 704; Corn 48s. 31 3
Peas 50s. Gd.; Wheat 13s. 3. to 16s. Yel. 5
other articles unchanged,

Gold (N.Y.) 1403.

London, Noy. 26.

Late despatches received here {rom
Shanghai announced that several vessels
of the United States squadron had depart-
ed for the Island of Formosa to punirh the
perpetrators of the outrage on the erew of
the Ameriean Bark Rove. The United
States Consul General at Amber was to
accompany the expedition with a body of
Imperial Troops which had been tendered
for the occasion,

The merchants of Berlin interested in
American securities*propuse to send an
address to Mr. McCulloch, Secretary of
the Treasury, making inquiry in regard to
the payment of bonds in gold by the U.S.
Government.

Gold 1398.

Address to Mr. D, A. Cameron,

Dear Sir: We take much pleasure in ex-
pressing our utmost satisfaction with your
conduct, and the high appreciation we enter-
tain of your valuable services as ‘Teacher of
our School; and though we deeply regret that
circumstances should have conduced to sep,
erate you from us, yet we most sincerely hope
and wish that the lines of your future lot may
bee: stin pleasant places, and that you may
lone enjoy those noble powers of mind and
amiable traits of character which so aptly fit
you for an educator and instructor of the
youthful mind,
And you may be assured that we remain
your friends in truth and sincerity.

SAMUEL WAUGH,

GEORGE M. CLARK,

ROBT, MC. STAVERT,

THOMAS CAIRNS,

JOUN HECKBERT,

and others.

Wilmot Creek, Nov 28, 1867

REPLY:

To Messrs. Samuel Waugh, Geo. M. Price,
Robert MC. Siavert, Thomas Catrns,
John Meckbert and others,—

GENTLEMEN, :

1 thank you sincerely for the very flattering
Address which L have received at your hands,
altogether unexpected and unsolicited on my
part. Itis indeed a matter of much pleasare
to me to learn the friendly feelings which
exist between us, on the eve of discontinuing
my engagements with you. as teacher of your
school; and regret-very much that cireum-
stances could haye induced me to leave. It
affords me great pleasure to learn that my
services, however imperfect, huye been so well
appreciated by you.

Tam not ignorant of the fact that the pro-
fession of a teacher may be regarded by some
as being a very humble one, still 1 trust that
Lam notinsensible to its high responsibility
and importance, While we readily acknow-
ledge the benefits conferred on a country by
Colleges and Universities, we should not lose
sight of the fact that the masses of the people
constituting the bone and sinew of socicty,ure
educated in our connnon schools. Lf such
then be the case, educating the youth docs
not imply merely the cramming of the intellect
with so many pages of book knowledge, but
that of educating them physically, intellec-
tually and morally. ‘The intellectual and
moral training willin a great measure depend
on the character of the teacher. Eis wordis
considered law, and his actions protection by
the scholars. He stands as a model for them
to follow, and the impressions daily made on
the minds of our youths, while at school,
should arouse the teacher to a deep sense of
his duty and position.

In conclusion, my dear friends, allow me
again to thank you for the very friendly ex-
pressions which yon have uttered respecti ig
my future career; and be assured wherever
Providence may cast my lot, that I shail not
soon forget the kindness which I experienced
at your hands during my stay among you,and
trust also that my successor will be a more
competent man,

I remain, dear friends,
Yours very truly,
D. A, Camenon,

Wilmot Creek, Nov 28, 1867.

ADDRESS

Of the Catholic People of Grand River, Lot
14, to Very Rev. James McDonald, on the
occasion of his retirement from the Office
of their Pastor.

Reverend Sir:

We, the undersigned, on behalf of the
pa'ishioners belonging to St. Vatrick’s Church,
Lot 14, being aware that you are about to be
succeeded as our Lastor, take this opportunity
of tendering you our avowal of the love and
respect we feel towarda you for the Christian,
charitable and gentlemanly manner in which
you have discharged your duties as our spirit-
ual adviser.

Twenty-five years have passed since your
ministry began among us, und happy, indeed,
are we to say that never have we had reason
to censure your conduct in any respect.

In order that we gay show, by more than
words, the luve anc respect wo bear towards

year.

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you, we present the accompanying purse,

SDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1867.

which is but a small tribute compared with
what we would willingly give,were our mcans
more ample.

In conclusion, dear Father Janies, we sin-
cerely thank you for the many trials and
troubles through which you have passed in
serving our spiritual wants and in ministering
to our sick and dying. Rest assured, Rey.
Sir, that you will carry with yeu our warniest
wishes tur your future welfare.

We remain, Reverend Sir,
Yours with the most profound respect,
Menpecu McKrxyon,
Janes L. Gintis,
James Gorman,
Wa. A. McDonaup,
Doxarp McLeaa
Grand River, Lot 14, Noy. 4, 186

REPLY:
My Duar Fatenps,—

Allow me to thank you for the expression
regard and attachment contained in your Ad-
dress. I ce: to be your Pastor with ming-
led feelings of pleasure and regret,—pleasure
at seeing you have a regular Clergy man; re-
gret at severing those ties that have so long
and intimately bound us together, It affords
me real pleasure to think «that my ministry,

however imperteet, has not been unaccepiable

toyou. Inattendisg the sivk and serving
your spiritual wants, forthe Ist twenty-t
years, I have only fecbly endeagored to ¢
charge duties trecly Uieriawent and I woul
feel happy, indeed, could I resign
the conviction that I
them, ay of

Ta aceeptirg this purse, generously tender-
ed by warm-hearted friends, rather than meri
ted by any deserts of mine, I need scarcely
assure you that I prize itmore ter the senti-
ments it symbolizes, than for its intrinsic
yilue, and that 1 shall ever chgrish it as a
memo ‘inl of parting friends.

In bidding you farewell, my dear friends,
allow me again to thank you for the many
acts of courtesy received at your lands dire
ing Qe last quarter of a century, and to ex-
press my best wishes for your future welfare
—temporal and spiritual, :

Tremiin, gentlemen,
Your obdt. and humole servant,
James McDonarp.
To Messrs. Murdoch McKinnon, James L.
Gil is, James Gorman Win. A McDonald,
Donald MeLelian,

no wil
had fuithfally discharged
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return conmiutnications that are not used,

THE DOMINION PARLIAMEN. —

Tut Parliament of the New Dominion
has now been sitting for some time.
‘There has not as yet been a great deal of
work done. ‘The address in answer to
the Governor General's Speech was made
the occasion of a good deal of talking on
agreat many subjects. It is said that
the speaking on both sides of the Iouse
and from all parts of the Dominion was
very good. ‘he men of the Maritime
Provinces as we fully expected, are not
one whit behind those of Ontario and
Quebec. As long as those Provinces
send to the genéral Parliament such men
as Ilowe, ‘Tupper, Campbell, Savary,
Tilley, Gray, Anglin, and Smith, there is
not the slightest fear of their being slight-
ed or treated with injustice by the Goy-
ernment of the Dominion, ‘The Statesmen
of Ontario and Quebee dare not treat
such men with contempt. ‘They will
make themselves heard and respected.
Mr. Ilowe and the Nova Scotia members
do not act like men who went tv Ottawa
merely to protest against their country
being included -in the Confederation.
One would imagine that men who took
their seats in Parliament under protest,
and whose sole business it was to show
the people of Canada that they had no
right to sit there at all, would, after hav-
ing said their say, stand or sit aloof and
take no further part in its deliberations.
If, as the anti-unionists of Nova Scotia
deslare, their country has been sold, be-
trayed, and in a most unconstitutional
manner has been dragged into the Con-
federacy ; it follows in strict logical se-
quence that the members elected under
this unconstitutional act of Confederation
are quite as constitutionally unsound as
the act itself, It strikes us forcibly that
the unsoundness of the act of Confedera-
tion vitiates all proceedings taken under
thatact. We are nota lawyer, however,
and state our opinien with considerable
difidence. We wouldlike to hear what
the great legal luminary Martin 1. Wil-
kins, has to say on this point. What
does he think of Mr. Howe's going to
Ottawa, not mercly to tuke his seat in
the Dominion Parliament to declare that
heand his eighteen or nineteen followers.
have been brought there against their
will, and to demand that they should be
sent home again free men to a free coun-
try with as little delay as possible, but
actually to busy himself in the affairs of
the Dominion, to take an active part in
all its debates, and to identity himself
with such a traitor as ‘Tupper, and with
such tyrants as MeDonald and McGee?
He and others of the Anti-union Party
of Nova Scotia, to be consistent, should
be horrified at the conduct of their leader,
and should forthwith denounce him as
the falsest of political Judases, But the
fact is that Mr. Howe is too much in his
element in the Domimion Parliament to
play the part of a sulky obstructionist.
He no doubt feels that there is the proper
field in which to exercise his splendid
talents, and in his heart regrets that it
was not years ago open to him, when he
was in vigor of manhood, when a long
and a glorious career would have been
before him. In the questions there to be
delibera'ed upon, he finds subjects worthy
his great powers of mind, and when con-
tending in debate with the best men of
British America, he must be fired by

The stern joy which warriors feel,

In foemen worthy of their steel.”
While Mr. Howe by his acts and ina
great measure by his language, indirectly
accepts the situation, Mr.Stewart Camp-
bell docs so without hesitation or dis-
guise. Ile is determined to make the
best of Confederation, and in our opin-
ion he is. very wise and very patriotic in
so doing. Allthe able men of the Con-
federacy, and a great many of those who
cannot by the greatest stretch of charity
be called able, have made speeches in
the Parliament. As is usual in such
cases cach party thinks that its cham-
pions have won the day. Tho Anti-

iLing in the General Parliament.

confident that Howe has given Tupper
fits, while the Unionists of that Proviuce
declare that Tuy per hus not left Nowe a

leg to stand on, One party says that
Anglin and Sinith have altogether cclips-
ed ‘Tifley and Gray, while the other party
boasts that Tilley and Gray have knocked
Anglin and Smith into a cocked hat,
The champions themselves in the mean-
while bear their fate, whether it be vic-
tory or defeat, with commendable philoso-
phy, and are quite as ready for the fray
tu-day as they were three weeks ago.

There was a very lively debate in the
Hlouse of Commons about members who
are ministers of the Crown holding scats
in. Parliament. It scems that many
members of the local governments hokt
seats also in the Gencral Parliament.
There is alaw in Canada stillin force
that no Minister of the Crown is cligi-
lde to sit in Varliament unless he
te is w® member of the LExccutive
Government. By this law itis contended
many of the members of the local Iegis-
latures are excluded from sitting and vot-
The
controversy is somewhat like that carried
on on this Island about admitting oflice
holders on the floor of the House of As-
sembly. ‘Phere was also a sharp debate
about a very small matter, It appears
that in some official document the mem-
bers of the Legislative Council of Ontario
or Quebec, we forget which, received
the title of ** Honorable.” ‘This some
declared to be an infringement on the
prerogative, as by the lcderal Constitu-
tion the only dignitaries who had a right
to be called TLonorable are the Senators
of the Dominion. It will be an awful
thing if the future legislative councillors
of the provinces are to haye 1o_ finer
handle to their names than plain Mister.
We hope that with-holding honor in this
erucl way, where honor has hitherto been
due, will not be the cause of an untimely
dissolution of the Union. While on the
subject of titles we may as well state
that it came out in debate that a large
party in Canada think Mr. Cartier sligh.-
ed by the Imperial Government, because
as Iigh a title was not given him as was
bestowed upon Sir J. A. McDonald.
From what we read in the Canadian
newspapers we conclude that Mr. Cartier
merits qnite as much at the hands of the
Queen as Sir J. A, McDonald or uny
other Canadian Statesman.

There is a good deal of work to be
done by Parliament cre it close. Among
other matters which are to claim its at-
tention is a Postage Bill. It is proposedt
to lower the postage on letters trom five
to three cents, and to charge a postage
ofone half a cent per copy on news-
papers. Every one is of course pleased
to hear that the postage on letters is to
be lowered, but a gi unay others,
newspaper proprictors in pascicular, are
very much displeased to find that postage
will hereafter have to be paid on news-
papers. The Press of St. John have
cnergetically protested against the new
tax on knowledge, and it is most likely
that the Press of Halifax have by this
time done the same thing. We hope
that the Dominion Ministry will not carry
out their design of charging even the
most trifling postage on newspapers.
Very little money will be raised by the
proposed rate and a great many poor
people whose only literature is the weekly
newspaper, will, if the tax be put on, be
obliged to forego their solitary means of
instruction. ‘The spread of knowledge,
so fur from being checked Ly the Goy-
ernment, should be by them facilitated
in every possible way. An intelligent
newspaper reading nation is much more
casily governed than one whichis ignorant
and uneducated.

A numerous, well compacted, and an
able Opposition is what is most. wanted
in the Dominion Parliament. It never
does for any government to remain long
without this salutary check. That such an
opposition will be organized before the
second session is over we have no
doubt. Economy in the public ex-
penditure, and fairness in the distri-
bution of government patronage, are
two things that would be forced on the
attention of the Ministry by a strong op-
position, anda strict and careful attention
to these is of the first importance to the
infant Dominion.

MR. HOGG'S LEOTURE ON PALESTINE,

As announced in our last issue, the
Roy. Mr. Ifloge gave an address on his
travels in the Holy Land, in the Presby-
terian Church here-on Monday evening
last. Though the evening was somewhat
unfavorable, yet there was a large and
attentive audience present. ‘The lecturer,
who appears to be a close observer of
many things, gave very interesting
sketches of the places of interest which
he visited in Palestine. Ile had stood
at Jacob's well where the woman of Sa-
maria conversed with the Saviour. The
lecturer remarked that this is the only
spot on which the traveller can feel with
certainty that he is now standing where
the Son of God once stood. ‘The well is
nine fect in diameter and akout seventy-
five feet deep. ‘Lhe top is covered with
largé stones containing a very small
aperture, through which the water is
drawn by means of a string and pitcher.
Ie had also stood on the Mount of Olives
which overlooks Jerusalem on the Mast
where the Saviour often retired, and
from whose summit, which is about 700
fect high, nearly every house and street
in the city can be seen. Ile had like-
wise walked beside the sea of Galilee,
which is associated with so many events
in the Saviour’s life, had bathed in the
Jordan and Dead Sea, and had tasted
the *¢ Apples of Sodom,” which grow on
the shores of the latter, and which turn
to ashes on the lips.

Tho lecturer remarked that the travel-
ler who visited these countries must bs
forcibly struck with the exact fulfillment
of the many of, the prophecies of the
Divine Word. Ages ago ithad been
predicted that Mount Zion should be
ploughed like a field, that Tyre should be
as the top of a rock, a place for fishers to
spread nets on, these prophecies he had’
seen literally fulfilled. THe concluded by