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a considerable victory, the effect
~~ throughout France would beincaleulable,

a

accident. Already we hear of an army
_ of the south-west. Probably it is being
’

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—_—__—

now formed. It will be massed vear
srrelowse and will combine the Gardes
obiles now at various depots, the
Guard National, and Franc-tireurs from
half a dozen surrounding districts, Gen-
eral Demay, an officer of experience and
distinguished bravery, is named for the
command ; and in this practical work,
following almost the virgin success of
the war, we see the begining of a na-
tivnal resistance. There is not the abso-
lute necessity of relieving Paris of which
6o much is-talked, If # couple of pro-
Vincial armies force the Prussians to
raise the siege at any considerable point,
this is quite enough for Paris, If a
German army is per force withdrawn
trom the seige to do battle in the south-
west or with the Army of the Loire, a
double advantage is gained. There is
more chance of victory for Trochu, aud
there ia the probability of arousing
national enthusiasm, The Prussian line
of siege at present extends for thirty
miles, 1f Gescral de Pala linc @ and Gen-
cral Demay can engage 100,000 men
from the King’s army, that monarch
may have still less cause to vent his
iety, and the Parisians in avy case will |
lave some chance of provision. We have
— of another Freugh victory on the
lth.

Tho telegram said it was ramored that
they had wona battle near Arthenay,
but asserted as a fact that German pris-
oners were coming into Blois by hun-
dreds, The French are observing a
prudent retivence as to their strength
and intentions, and the Orleans despatch
of De Paladines was couched in terms
moderate and Lecoming. Ile acknow-
Jedged 2,000 lost in killed and wounded,
which leads us to place the most confi-
dent reliance on his statement that they
slew 10,000 Prussians. Probably the
great massacre ensued at the final con-
test when the French swept the Prassian
position with the bayonet. A vital in-!
terest now attaches to the movements
of De Paladines. The German force at
Toury rumbers about 60,000 men. If
Prince Charles can come to the rescue of
this force, itis more than possible that
Orleans will be retaken, If De Paladines
can crush this already beaten force,
Prince Charles need not be feared. Tarn-
hing to Pavis,we learn that there is now
being matured a plan to strike a decisive
blow. Three armies are now organised,
and they number in all 250,000 men. = It
in stated that ‘Trochn fntends to at-
tempt the passage of the Prussian line,
makiug feiuts at different points, in order
to distract the enemy. Our advices
irom the city assert that the besieged
cau hold out until the middle of Junnary

The London Spectator thes speake of
the remaining chances of France ;

Outside Paris the prospect is by no
means dishearting. In the North, Gen-
eral Bourbaki has not resigued, and is
scraping together a force, mainly of sol-
diers, which ought to be able, when at-
tacked by General Manteuflel, to main-
tain a defence which will neutralize
the value of the two corps we believe
to be at that oflicer’s disposal. It
may, if General Bourbakiis equal to his
reputation, do much more, bat for the
momeut, wish to state the case almost
as Germans would. We do not hope
for victury there or anywhere, until a
victory has been gained; but there is
a possibility of resistance of a very
verious character, So, also, there is in
avittany. In that great peninsula,
filed with men of a very determined
type, Count, De Keratry, himself a
Breton, as is also Trochu, and ex perienc-
ed in the management of guerilla troops,
is forming at a point west of Le Mans,
an intrenched camp, to which the pea-
santry are flocking up in such numbers
that the Breton army is estimated at
60,000 men, and will be ready, should a
victory be gained anywhere, to raise the
numbers of the victorious general to an
adequate figure. If the commander can

————— so

j have taken Metz and Strasburg; but un-

of their surprise, they call universal
“treachery.” They
haved like that all through their history,
and have always recovered their senses
at the first gleam of victory. It is this
idiosyneracy which, as it seems to us,
the German leaders for the moment fail
tu appreciate. The utter collapse of the
regular French army bas so surprised
them-—so entirely overset all their ideas
and calculations, appears to them so
nearly miraculous, that they have jump-
ed at once tu the most extreme eonclu-
sion, the decadence of the entire people
of Frauce, They have grown suddenly
contemptuous, and begin, unless we
misread mauy signs, to move about in
France like the Butoh in India, who
know that a transport train will go
through the population like a boat
through water, and who never count
their focs, Let a man arise whom go!-
diers will follow to the death, or let one
German corps sustain a severe reverse
in the opeu field, or let despair once
settle upon the French population, and
the German armies will have a rough a-
wakenuing from their dream of utter vic-
tory. The man may be delayed, the
victory may not arrive, the German sol-
diery may take Paris and Lyons, as they

til peace is signed, the triumph of Ger-
many can now never be secure. One
drop of the right agent, and all these
floating, gelatinous, half-liquid masses
of material may solidity intu armies.
Powder is a very harmless substance
until touched by the match.

GERMANY DURING THE WAR.

The suffering among the lower classes
of the population in Germany since the
commencement of the war, is only se-
cond to the dreadlul state of misery to
which the population of the French pro-
vinces overrun by the German forces
have been reduced. For weeks past an
undercurrant of dissatisfaction has been
rising from the distressed multitudes,
in the towns, and accounts from the vil-
lages and rural districts but confirm the
tales of popular suffering and national
discontent. In all the towns and vil-
luges, from the Rhine to the confines of
Poland, Volhynia and Courland, the
voice of distress is heard, and the hand
Of chatity eatended te reliowe the dia.
tress of the multitudes whom the war
bas deprived of those who ministered to
their support. An armed nation, if
terrible to the enemy, is scarcely less
terrible in its consequences to the nation
itself. Bereaved widows and helpless
orphans are, throughout Germany daily
crying for bread. . The Z'imes’ cor-
respoudent, writing from Frankfort,
says that the murmurs of the populace
are daily growing in strength aad in-
tensity, and that distress, bitter and try-

ave always be-

Oe at tt a att att ta a cing

Wednesday, December 14, 1870.

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cx niin emir =e Reereartail

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1870.

———— =

TUE HERALD, CHARLOTIBTOWN, > °-- 28 + fs +:

senor _ape=an eneae eaeleaneacet

It is impossible to believe that a states-

man of Mr. Gladstone's experience does
not clearly see the precedent which will be

>| established by his approval of the act of the

Piedmontese Government in seizing on
Rome. To use the words in this essay,

ing a policy will have to be added.

vey his views to the public.

force argues the Globe.

Mr. GLApsrone gets the credit of having
written the article in the current number of
the Edinburgh Riview entitled, “Germany,
France and Eagland.” The rumor has gone
the round of the Press without being con-
tradicted. It is, therefore, everyway likely,
that to the lengthy list of Mr. Gladstone's
indiscretions, this novel method of announe-
Apart
altogether from the doctrines set forth in
the paper, there is something not a little
undignified in a Prime Minister’ making a
party Review the vehicle by which to con-
Ile cannot be
held responsible for these views, for they
are anonymous, and by allowing it to be
understood that he is, nevertheless, their
author, he communicates to them the sanc-
tion of his official position. So, not without
If, however, we
look to the spirit and sentiments of the arti-
ele, there will be found in it much that is
offensive both to correct taste and just prin-
ciples, The alliance between England and

there will be called into existence “that de-
grading form of human things in which
right is based only on power.” In a mo-
rality ot this cast, treaties are at once de-
prived of their sanctity, and the faith of
uations rendered valueless. As an example
of the indubitable tendency of Mr. Glad-
stone's principle, we may bring the matter
home thus :—There is, in these British North
American Provinces, a certain number of
individuals who favor Annexation. If the
Government of the United States, upon this
pretext, should, without any declaration of
war, cross the frontier with an overwhelm-
ing force, beat down all opposition, and
after a sham plebiscite, decree the annexa-
tion of the Provinces to the Republic, it
would do nothing more than the Piedmon-
tese Governmont did at Rome. And should
Mr, Gladstore be incignan’, the Wa hing-
ton Government has this ready-made ans-
wer:—We have merely followed the policy
you so warmly recommended in 1870, in
your article in the Mdinburgh Review, on
“Germany, France and England,”

wealth by one man at the expense of the
many. Herein is where we differ. To
wink at smuggling and robbery, in the
name of the iaterests of the people, is only
dodging the question and'will not do. So
lons as we are deprived of reciprocity, as
colonists, we should insist on our right to
the fisheries. ‘The fact of the Imperial Go-
vernment relaxing the rigorous enforce-
ment of the fishery regulations, is a weak
concession, yielded only by the presence of
the Alabama and Eastern difliculties. It is,
moreover, on a par with the treatment which
we have ever received from the parent
state, and will inevitably lead to the speed-
jer hoisting . of the stars and stripes over
these colonies. When Ben. Butler's bluster
shapes the policy of the Imperial and Do-
minion Cabinets, averse as we are to union
with the Republic, the sooner it comes to
that point the better. But we are not yet
aware that the fishery regulations will be
less vigorously enforced next season than
they have been during the past. In fact,
we are inclined to the opinion that intima-
tion to that effect given by the Patriot, is
but another draw of the long bow which
belongs to his establishment. ‘The condem-
nation of the Foam, setzed on the coast of
this Island, and of the Wampatuck and other

the late Imperial Government of France
was always most cordial. The rule of the
Emperor was not without grave faults, and
recent events have set these very prominent-
ly before the public eye. But a friend
should bear a friend's infirmities, It was a
piece of very questionable taste for the First
Minister of » friendly people to seize on the
moment of France's disaster, in order to ex-
patiate on her shortcomings, and sneer at
her reverses. Speaking of the Second Em-
pire, Mr, Gladstone says:—We feel that
for France it was a snare, a calamity, a/#
hopeless impediment to solid well-being.”
And again “absolute rule could only subsist |
by the zealous and energetic aid of a body
of satellites, who were compensated for the
unsavoury character of their functions by
the high rate of their wages.” Not content

to the Emperor and his Government, Mr.
Gladstone proceeds to lift the veil from the
domestic life of the Imperial Family, and|¢
tellus that “its luxury was profuse and
enormous.” He even quotes, as applicable
to the inmates of the Tuilleries, a sentence | I
from Sallust descriptive of Pagan Rome, in
the most degenerate days of the Republie. | ©
“While all was thus unsound beneath,” he| ©
continues, “on the surface al] was gorgeous;
and the glare of Parisian gaity and splendor,

tainted the conseience of the world. It was
a close and foul atmosphere, of which the!"
evil odor was only kept down by clouds of

ing, is universal throughout Germany.
A correspondent, writing from ILeidel-|
berg, states that the cry of distress is |
heard on all sides, and that the suffer-
ing in the winter will be terrible, even
should the war be terminated immedi-
ately. Even from Baden and Bavaria,
where the Prussian system docs not
prevail, the forced draft onthe manhood
of the nation, and the general absorption
of all thought in the question of the war,
has stagnated industry that in the towns
the populace are reduced to the narrow-
est straits, and local subventions are in-
stituted to meet the pressure of dis-
tress, A terrible fecling of ‘‘ depression
and apprehension” is reported among
the people. throughout Germany. _ Dis-
tress at home, and the daily bulletins of |
sick and wounded which arrive, awaken-
ing the fear and anxiety of the people at
home, depress the ardent, and furnish
food for the minds of the discontented,
The loudest murniurs are beard in refer-
ence to the hard treatment endured by
the acmy from want of shelter and eloth-
ing essential to the health and comfort
of troops in the field. ‘ They say that
they are willing that their husbands,
sons and brothers should go tu defend

but get time to educate his men, this
army, like that of Bourbaki. may yet be
able to make an ellort for the relief of
Paris, the object to which all the opera-
tions now tend, And, finally, there is
the army of the Loire, commanded by
General d’Aurelles, and the object of
the special care of the Government at
‘ours. There has been an immense
amount of mystification about this army,
some of it kept up, we are convinced,
for a purpose, particularly a statement
that it had been sent off northwerds ;
but a few facts seem abundantly clear
and among them are these :—General
d’Aurelle has collected an army exceed-
inge 100,000 men, of whom one-fourth
aie regular soldiers, brought up from
Algeria, Corsica, and the garrisons of
the South; has kept them for three
weeks in the open, avowedly for reor-
ganization, aud has so far succeeded in
yestoring discipline that his officers are
no longer afraid to inflict punishment.
A ‘correspondent complains with ex-
treme bitterness of his severity, aver-
ring that he orders incessant executions,
but bimself admits that the reason as-
signed for the punishment is always
either insubordination or pillage, both
of which deserve death. Ifa soldier in
the face of the enemy will strike or
menace his officer, he must die, and we
rejoice to find that there is one General
leit in France who knows that trath,
aud army that will bear discipline with-
out mutiny, Twenty years of Imperial
rervility to the preetorians seem to have
orcs cr amongst them the very
first idea of subordination, and it can be
restored only by severity like that of the
Prussian nah in which insubordination
ws never overlooked or punished except
by death. With this army such as he
las made it, General d’ Aurelles is clear-
ly in motion, and without attaching too
much importance to telegrams from
‘Leours—signed, it should be remember-
ed, by Englishmen, not Frenchmen— we
may at least believe that it has met the
a am suffering a surprise or

Should it, even by accident,

have their dear ones dying of typhus
fever and dysentery, brought on by the

their country, and would not murmur
if they should fall victims to the god of
war; bot it is quite another matter to

want of proper clothing and shelter to |
preserve them from the fatal conse-

quences of a winter campaign.”

It is the Landwher, it seems, which

suffers most. ‘The greater part of
them being well-to-do shopkeepers and

mechanics, quite unaccustomed to ex-

posure to bad weather, very soon give

way, and fall sick when, after marching

all day in the rain, they have to rest all

night on the damp ground, with no pro-

tection from the night air bnt their
drenched uniforms.” Poor victims of
an iroa system and a remorseless am-
bition, they are strickeu by the terrible

fever pest, and die in hundreds. An

Officer in the Baden army writes that
for fifty days he has slept in his uniform,
Andif they took off their boots at night,
their swollen feet prevented them from
putting them on again, sv that the men
walked barefovied till they fell from
cold and exhaustion, Ile had seen men,
wheu their fect became tuo sore to bear
the boots longer, having them cat off,
“and knew many cases in which, where
this was attempted, the greater part of
the flesh of the feet came off with the
boots.” Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, writ-
ing of the Prussian hospitals before
Parijs, says that the soldiers during their
illness, have had no covering buat their
blood-stained uniforms, and no change
of raiment when they left, so that they
walked about in the garments worn on
the battle field, with the blood of their
wounds still clotted in the texture, and
many of them without shoes to protect
their fect, as they crawled like ekeletons
through the mud of the encampments,
These tales reach Germany, and add to
the discontent of the populace, who
hail with ‘‘ general satisfaction the rn-
mors of a projected armistice,’’ and de-
spise the shouts of glory which surround
them, while distress and hunger stare
them in the face,

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Management.—Though it is impossibie, in this
climate of changing temperature, to prevent il,
health iher, yet ite form and facquency
may mitigated by the early ot
re measures, W hoarseness, cough,

breathing, anp the attenping slight fever
indicate eritatin a the pope: — chest, Hol-
loway,s Ointment shou ru these
parte without delay, and Iie Wide Soham So ep:
ee doses, to ote ite curative action.
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‘rinted directions envelope every pack-
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sets forth a falsehood.

totter on the withdrawal of the French
prop.
tude, and certainly gave no sign of falling
till it was attacked and bombarded by a

incense and floods of perfume.’ Now, we
have no wish to controvert the statements
here made by Mr. Gladstone.
says and much more may be quite true, but
what we are curious to know is, would he,
as First Minister of the Crown, haye stood
up in his place and told the House of Com-
mons the things which he has told to the
world anonymously in the pages of a Re-
view? We can hardly believe it, and if he
would not have done so, we have a perfect
right to say that Mr, Gladstone has taken a
most unfair advantage of the public. Le
has shrouded himself in darkness to write
sentiments he had not courage to utter in
the light of day, This seems to sully sadly
that stainless reputation for integrity and
honesty hitherto supposed to be enjoyed by
Mr. Gladstone,

tl

What, however, more intimately concerns
us, as Catholics, is the Reviewer's opinion

regarding the late Roman events. He
writes thus:—‘France, as was natural,

found it needful, on the outbreak of the war,
to withdraw her troops fron Rome; the de-
erepit structure of the Pope's Civil Govern-
ment, on the removal of its prop, imme- \
diately began to totter. We may now pro-|”
nounce it level with the ground; there
seems to be scarcely a hope or a fear of its
restoration, and possibly the day may come
when it may be generally believed that the
downfall of the temporal power of the Pope-
dom has, In its ulterior results, been the
greatest and most fruitful of all the great
and fruitful consequences of the war,”
Our first remark upon this passage is that it
The Pope's Civil
yovernment did not “immediately begin to

It never bore any trace of decrepi-

re

friendly power without any declaration of

war. Sixty thousand men overcame some

more than ever imposed upon the eye, and) ow own words.
the stealing of the Clara 7’. Friend was the

ithe Pulriot all summer.
was assured that he was the victim of per-
secution and that he was ruined by the ex- |

not suit Mr. Laird’s purpose.
posed that a little cheap popularity would | ance, although much of the interior work
be gained by taking up the matter in the
way in which it was done; but, like every
scheme based upon illegality, it is sure to | destined for the chancel, is not yet in its
fail in the end, and Mr. Laird now finds | place, and a variety of details still await
himself without the sympathy of the victims | completion.
of his policy and of the honest portion of | is finished, the Church of Fort Augustus,
the community.
honesty, even though thousands agreed with | Will bear an honorable comparison with
Mr. Laird in aflirming the contrary; nor is | @"Y church on the Island. The people are
it any the less reprehensible because perpe- | Proud of it, and they have excellent reasons
trated in the dark or under a cloak.
all know who suffered most by the vexatious

a +
“Tis Summer, Elridge and Frank Ful-

ler, two young men belonging to Souris,
with a boat 13 feet keel, caught 95 barrels
herrings, 9 barrels mackerel and 360 quin-
tals codfish and hake.
fishing about the first of May and left off on
the 26th ult,
and we hope our young friends may live to
do better for many succeeding years.”

They commenced

This is a good season’s work,

We copy the foregoing from the Patriot

of the 8th instant, and in doing so, we have
to express an opinion which we entertained

ll along since the abrogation of the reci-

procity treaty—namely, that if the fishery

egulations had been as rigidly carried out

in previous years as they have been during
the past summer, our contemporary could
have chronicled many more such gratifying
items as the above, and the colony would
with this exposure of his views, with respect! at this time, be able to boast of a thriving
tishing business,
which we quote the above paragraph, is an

Tn the same paper from

ditorial article charging us with making

‘false accusations” against our contempo-
rary, in connection with the fishery question,

tis quite natural for the Puriot, having

taken the side it did upon this subject, to

ry out ‘ filse accusations,” but Mr, Laird
annot suppose that because he has placed

himself ina false position, we are, therefore,
going to surrender our convictions and eat |

What we affirm is, that

atuyal result of the doctrine preached in
Capt. Marshall

All that he! eveise of an illegal and arbitrary power.
Nor was he the only one who receivedencour-
agement from our contemporary, ‘
skipper, who, in defiance of the American,
as well as the British law, enereached upon

Every

1¢ fishing grounds, found a congenial spirit

and sympathising friend in the Patriot. Is
it NOt notorious, that he was the centre of a

ring which had for its object the purchase se ’ ’
of Capt. Marshall's vessel, in order that she | great credit is reflected on him for careful

might be restored to him---a proceeding | ¢X¢cution and correct taste.
which was intended not only as a slap in
the face to the Court, to the officers of the , previous evening having made travelling
Navy and to the Imperial Government--- | agreeable. The number of persons that as-
but which was also a direct encouragement |sembled was over a thousand.
to and premium upon a violation of well- | o'vlock, Tis Lordship proceeded to bless the
known and well-established law, The plea | Church, assisted by the Very Rey. Dr. Me-
that this was done from the dictate of a Donald, of Charlottetown, the Rev. ‘Thomas
laudable desire to help a poor man, who Phelan, and the Rey. Angus McDonald, the
suffered through ignorance of the law and | Parish Priest of Fort Augustus. The con-
through the culpability of some of our own | gregation remained outside during the cere-
officers, will not hold good; for, as we | mony, in compliance with the request of
pointed out some time ago, there was ano- | their Pastor.
ther, and quite an unobjectionable way in | doors were thrown open,and the Parishioners
which to render this assistance to Capt. | with joy and satisfaction entered their new

The right way, however. would
It was sup-

farshall.

Dishonesty is still dis-

We

sgulations of the past summer. It was not

were withdrawn from Belgium.

tottering.

ten thousand, and beat down by brute-force
the oldest monarchy in the world.
for a moment that the ‘prop’ of England
Could not
Prussia, were she so minded, crush her
Government to the earth by the same means
that the Government of the Pope was crush-
ed? Yet not for that would Mr. Gladstone
eall the Belgian Government decrepit or
As it has happened, the earth-
quake which has shaken Europe to its centre,

Suppose

dual who has grown rich at the expense of
the many, «nd who desires to enjoy, from Ais
peculiar position, a monopoly of the busi-
ness. Ask Capt. Foley and other natives
of this Island, who engaged in the fishing
business whilst the license system was in
force, what they think of the matter, and
they will tell you that if the “ vexatious
regulations” against which the Putriot rails,
had been then in force,they would have made
money, and be still in the business, Mr.
{fall can explain the secret to Mr. Laird,

vessels recently captured in Nova Seotia
and New Brunswick waters, by no means
warrant Mr. Laird in the statement he has
hazarded. Time, however, will tell, In
the mean time, he has good reason to clear
his skirts of the charge of entertaining a
maudlin sympathy for lawlessness and
dishonesty, Indeed, our only surprise about
the matter, is that the doctrine of the Patriot
was not more fully exemplified in the pira-
tical abstraction of the S, @. Marshall and
the Foam, as well as the Clara PF, Friend.

ot 08 ee 0

OPENING or THE Cuureu ar Fort Av-
austus.—On Thursday last, the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception, the new Catholic
Church at Fort Augustus was solemnly
blessed, and opened for public worship by
the Right Rey. P. McIntyre, Bishop of Char-
lottetown. The structure ia of brick. Some
months ago, when noticing the ceremony of
laying the corner stone, we gave a brief out-
line of the building, which we may now re-
peat supplemented,

The site of the Church is a somewhat ele-
vated ground on the Fort Augustus Road.
The style of the building pure Gothic, Its
length, over walls,is 112 feet and breadth 51;
the roofis open with groined arches. At
| one side, openitig from the chancel, rans a
| side chapel 35 feet by 20, The large chan-
cel window is very beautiful, both in design
}and execution; its dimensions are 22 feet hy
| 10. ‘Phe tracery and carved wood work are

all in strict keeping with the style of the
| architecture. The Church is lighted by 18
The tower and
A place

| large windows, 17 feet by 4.
| spire rise to the height of 147 feet.
‘for the organ is constructed in*the tower,

land the choir gallery io attached to the
aunt. A Gothie arch spans the choir. The

| plans and works have all been carried out
| by our towugmen Mr, Corbett, and whether
in an architectural point of view, or in’ the
jmanner in which the details are treated,

The day was fine, a slight frost on the

At ten

At its conclusion, the Church

Church. It was neatly fitted up for the oc-
casion, and presented a handsome appear-

'

has yet to be done. The plaster work has
to be finished, the stained glass window,

When everything, however,

whether in external or internal appearance,

| for being so.
The Bishop celebrated High Mass, Dr.
McDonald acting as Deacon, the Rey. ‘Thos.

“Elvidge and Frank Fuller,” nor the peo-| Phelan as Subdeacon, and the Rey. A. Me-
ple of the Island generally, but one indivi- Donald as Master of Ceremonies.

The
ordinary choir of the Church was assisted
on the occasion by Mr. Allan McDonald,
from St. Dunstan's, who presided at the
harmonium, At the conclusion of mass, the
Very Rey. Dr. McDonald preached an elo-
quent sermon on the Festival of the day, in
the course of which he took occasion to
allude in graceful terms to the exertions
made by the late incumbent of the Parish,
the Rey. T. Phelan, in order to erect the
Church which on that day was solemnly
opened. With much assiduity and labor,

has only served to give Belgium a “deeper
and more solid standiug ground.”” I[ad the
arm of a strong power supported the Ponti-
fical Government, the same could have been |}
said of it to-day. h

The Reviewer derives not a little consola-
tion from the fact that he can prononnce the | *
political sovereignty of tHe Popes “level
with the ground,” and he flatters himself
with the thought that there is scarely “a
hope or a fear of its restoration.” If these| ©
words were really written by Mr. Gladstone, | #
he must either be ignorant of the sentiments
of the entire Catholic world, or he must

him to be, and openly to despise Catholic
sentiment and feeling, is 1 rash act which
even Mr. Gladstone may live to deplore.
It will be instructive to watch what recep-
tion Mr. Gladstone's Ministry will give to
the petitions of the British and Irish Catho.
lies, praying the Government to discounten-
ance the great injustice lately perpetrated
in Rome. Will he then openly avow the

his petitioners that he thinks what was done
at Rome was well done? If he does, his
attempts to render Ireland a loyal and con-
tented nation will fail, and the prestige
given to his administration by the removal
of the Church Establishment and the intro-
duction of the Land Bill will bo wofully im-

dinary disease to which humanity is liable,

paired in Catholic Ireland,

competition with Mr. Ifall.
cesses and
Hall, that gentleman was enabled to buy

and perhaps if the latter did not wax fat"
hy the patronage of the former, he would

ave the candor to admit that with a pro-
ibitive duty directed against colonial

caught fish, it would be simply ruinous for

n Islander to engage in the business in
By the pro-
means best known to Mr,
p atavery cheap rate, island caught fish,
nd make a handsome profit on them in

‘the United States---an advantage denied to
Islanders.
despise them. Ignorant we cannot suppose | have fish— particularly mackerel, and as
these are most plentiful and of the best
quality within the disputed limits of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, it follows, that if
foreigners are rigidly kept beyond the
marine league, a remunerative business will
be opened to men of entorprize amongst
ourselves, from which the Island generally
would derive a benefit. At the preseat time,
we defy Mr. Laird to show any benefit the
doctrines contained in this article, and tell| colony has derived from the business. We
believe that our contemporary does not go
deeply enough into the subject. Me merely
takes a superficial view of it, as we ourselves
did at one time.
in the hands of British subjects, so that em-
ployers and employed may receive due re-
muneration for their labor. Mr. Laird ap-
parently desires the rapid acculamution of | pounds,

Now, as the Americans must

We want to see the trade

he had collected the materials and set the
work agoing. When, however, it became
necessary to change the scene of his labors,
the choice of the Pastor who was to succeed
him, became to a certain degree involved in
to the great work he had begun. To
find one who would take up the labor he
left in its commencement, who would sur-
mount the difficulties, and carry it vigorous-
ly onward to its completion, required a wise
and delicate exercise of authority. His
Lordship has accomplished this, for he had
found in the Rev. A. MeDonald that tried
experience and unwearied energy which
had brought the work to a happy termina-
tion,

Ilis Lordship also addressed a few words
to the congregation, congratulating them
on their success with the Church, and en-
couraging them to persevere until it was
completed in all its details. Thus was
brought to « close a ceremony whichwill be
long remembered by the parishioners of Fort
Augustus. They deserve the greatest cre-
dit. Comparatively speaking the settlement
is young, but notwithstanding the difliculties
under which auch a community must labor,
they have found means to erect a noble
building to the service of religion. The
collection made on the day of opening
/amounted to between sixty and seventy

Care Breron Ow AnD Perroteum Com-
PANY are offering 200 shares of their stock
at $10 cach, to develop this valuable article
of general consumption, situated at Lake
Ainslie, C. B., and which is pronounced by
scientific men to be of very great extent and
see eat to anything of the kind yet
discovered. rere have been more fortunes
made from oil speculations in the United
States and Canadas then from any other of
the various mining operations, and Lake
Ainslie Oil Wells is a new opening for men
of capital to speculate upon. From what
we have heard gegarding these Oil Wells,
they promise to be very profitable and pay
a much larger per auptage than any other
description of mining. The holder of each
certificate for one share will be entitled to
one 500th portion of the net profits after all
necessary expenses are defrayed, there being
500 shares in all. Persons wishing to in-
vest, should purchase stock without delay,
as the share list is being rapidly filled up.
Rod’. Munro, Esq., of this town, has been
appointed Agent.—Lastern Advocate.

(Mr. John S, O'Neill, proprietor of the
Union House, is the Agent of the above
Company for Charlottetown. He received
late information from Mr. MeQuarrie, one
of the principal stock-iolders, that Oil has
been struck at Lake Ainslie, at the depth of

800 feet. All information concerning the
company will be readily afforded by Mr.
O'Neill. —Ep. Herap.]}

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Tue weather is remarkably mild and fine
for this season of the year—very much re-
sembling that of this time last year. Navi-
gation is as uninterrupted asin midsummer,
and the streets and roads are as muddy as
they usually have been in the month of Oc-
tober, The weather-wise pretend to say,
that we shall haye another season of the
same kind—in all, a eycle of three years—
after which will succeed five or seven years
of old-fashioned frost and snow. If we sur-
vive the predicted tidal wave of the 22d
inst., we shall endeavor to study up the sub-
ject and give a chapter on the weather and
climatic changes. In the meantime, if any
delinquent subscriber's conscience troubles
him about what he owes us, up to the Ist of
Noy. last, he will be much relieved by pay-
ing up before the 22d inst,

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Tur last Royal Gazette contains a despatch
from the Colonial Minister to Lieut. Gover-
nor Robinson, dated ‘* Downing-street, 7th
Nov., 1870," which, after acknowledging
the receipt of a copy of the Address pre-
sented to the Chief Justice at the termina-
tion of his administration of the govern-
ment of this Colony, says, ‘* It has given
me great pleasure to receive your account
of the estimation in which Sir R. Hodgson's
personal character and conduct, as acting
governor, is held by the inhabitants of the
Colony, whose affairs he has administered
to the entire satisfuction of Iler Majesty.”
This is a well-deserved compliment to Sir
Robert.

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Oreamess.~-The steamer Princess of Wales
will leave for Pictou to-morrow morning
(Thursday), at 5 o'clock, a.m., and the
Steamer St. Lawrence for Summerside and
Shediac, on Friday morning, at 5 a. m.,—
weather permitting.

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One of the latest rumors about the Mar-
quis of Lorne is that, when he becomes
Victoria's son-in-law, there is a prospect of
his being made Governor General of Canada,
Before the marriage takes place, the Mar-
quis will be made a Duke.

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Tue Printers’ Bulletin for Nov. has come
tohand. It contains specimens of several
new styles of type,

Locul Htems,

‘Tiere will be a public Temperance meet-
ing in the Athenwum on Wednesday even-
ing, the 28th inst.

Remember the Wesleyan Bazaar, in the
Market Hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday
next.

Tiere will be three market days during
Christmas week. See advertisement co-
lumns.

Tue Stalls and Cellars of the City Mar-
ket be sold at auction at 5 o'clock on the
evening of Tuesday, the 27th Dee. inst.

Wit.taM Brers (coloured) an old inhabi-
tant of Charlottetown, and for a years,
its only chimney sweep, died on the 12th

inst. His age must have been patriarchal.

Tur Summerside Progress, of Monday
last, reports the sudden death of Mr. John
Whelan, of Freetown, on the 10th inst. Mr.
Whelan was an estimable man.

Donarp C. Carr, the eldest son of Mr.
John Carr, of Lot 12, was accidentally kill-
ed near St. Charles, Missouri, on the 11th
of November last.

Tak Dramatic entertainment, in aid of the
Saguenay sufferers, comes off in the Market
Hall, to-morrow evening. It is under the
ages of the Lieut. Governor, and will

© amore than mediocre entertainment.

Tae Young Men's Christian Association
will openits lecture season in the Atheneum
to-morrow evening, when the Rev. Mr.
Cummings will lecture on “ ‘Tho Brother-
hood of Man.”

Tue Catholic Young Men's Literary In-
stitute met in St. Andrew's Hall or Friday
night last, when the officers for the ensuing
year were appointed, and arrangements
made for the opening of the session of
1870-71.

Tur steamers are very irregular in their
movements just now—no man knowing
whither they goeth or whence they cometh.
The latest mail was, via Shediac, on Mon-
day evening. The latest Nova Scotia dates
are to the 12th inst.

Tie Court of Vice Admiralty met on
Monday last. The business of the Court
was to sjudicate upon the case of the Clara
F. Friend. She was confiscated to the
Crown and ordered to be sold on Monday
next, the 19th inst.

Tur Schr. Foam, condemned last week
by the Court of Viee Admiralty for an in-
fraction of the fishery regulations, was or-
dered to be sold by the Marshall of the
Court on Monday last. The hull and rig-

ng were offered for sale at the same time.

wing to the want of bidders, no sale was
effected,

Genxerat Scammon, U. 8. Consul for F.
E. Island, who has obtained leave of absence
for the winter, was a passenger in the
steamer for Shediac on Friday morning,
en route to the United States. General
is accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Scammon.
Mr.P. 8. MeGowan will act as Vice Consul

for the Island during the General's absence.

Late Telegrams,

New York, Dec. 3, p. m.—Owing to the
press of private business over the French
cable, the ouly one working, no news despatch.
es have been received by the Associated Preys
since morning.

The very latest London despatch says by
sifting the confused and contradictory war
despatehes received up to a late hour this
morning, the fact Is undeniable that the French
forces, yesterday, won a victory near Orleans:
but the Germans certainly repulsed the French
attack before Paris.

It is not true that the French army of the
Loire effected a junction with Trochu, though
the Prussian lines were repeatedly sucecess-
fully pierced during the engagement. ‘The
bayonet charges of the French were exceeding.
'y brilllant,

Germans under Prince Frederick Charles
are retiring before the united armies,

It is said that General Trochu has with him,
outside the wall, 160,000 men and 300 cannon,

All despatches agree that th: loss on both
sides was very heavy, but the French claim a
great victory aud say that loss of the Prus-
sians was much more heavy.

A Tours despatch says General Trochu, be-
fore the sortie, issued a manifesto foreshadow-
ing the attempt to cut the Prussian lines, and
liberate a portion of the garrison of Paris, and
throwing the responsibility for the coming
bloodshed upon those whose detestable ambi-
tion had prolonged the war. Gen. Ducrot also
issued a proclamation to the Parisians, swear-
ing before the whole nation to re-enter Paris
dead or victorious, On ‘Tuesday General
Ducrot, at the head of the second and third
corps of the French army of the forces of
Paris, all regular troops of the line, and num-
bering 100,000 men, defiled under the guns of
forts Vincennes, Charenton, Nogent and De-
Rosny upon the southeast of Paris, leaving
the first corps, under Gen. Vinoy, to omenee
the pres of the Prussian line upon the
south, The army under Gen. Ducrot then
struck the Prussian line at the weakest point,
upon the southeast, and succeeded in crossing
the Marne, The passage was made by eight
bridges of pontoons, under cover of the guns
of forts Charenton and Nogent and castle of
Vincennes. The Prussians opposed their pas-
sage unavalilingly, as they offered but a weak
line of battle. The heaviest fighting was at
Champigny, Brie and Villiers-sur- Marne,
southeast of Paris, The regulars stormed and
captured these places and now hold the posi-
tion taken, Gen. Dacrot is entrenching and
manauvring his forces for ajunction with the
army of the Loire, which was the objcet of the
sortie, His line extends in a semi-circle con-
forming to the bend in the Marne. .

King William sends the following to his
Queen ;—

“The sixth corps repulsed a sortie of the
French, near L'Ilay, on the south of Paris.
Over one hundred French prisoners were
taken, and several hundred dead and wounded
were lett on the field. The French also made
sorties on thé positions of the Wurtemburgers
and Gaxones at Donneuil, Champigny and Villl-
ers, to the east and southeast of Paris. These
positions were taken by the French, but were
subsequently retaken by the Prussians. At
the same time sorties were made north and
west, and at St. Dennis, against the fourth
corps and the guard. The French were re-
pulsed and driven back behind their works in
allcases. I remained at Versailles, as it was
the central point,

(Signed) Wit.”

The German losses In the sorties on Mon-
day, Tuesday and Wednesday were 157 officers
and 5800 men, in killed and wounded.

The London ‘ Teleg aph,"' to-day, says
that the French have won a@ great advantage
in the departments of the Scine and Marne,
and now possess military preponderance
never before enjoyed by them since the open-
ing of the campaign,

Nearly the whole of the French forces are
now concentrated between Blois and Tours.
If defeated, their retreat upon Lyons Is pro-
bable. Lyons is strongly fortified and well
provisioned,

Lonvon, Dec. 4.—There are no new devel-
opments in the Russian question.

Earl Granville’s reply to Gortsehakoff in-
sists that the latter shall acknowledge himsdf
in the wrong as a condition of holding the
Conference,

Odo Russel continues to receive the most
emphatic assurances of the veutrality of Prus-
sin on the Eastern question,

Manteuffel has abandoned Amiens and har-
ried away to Paris, The Prussians blew up
the bridge when they le‘t.

A protest was read, to-day, in the Roman
Catholic Churches of England, against the
Italian oceupation of Rome.

The French forces have recovered, within
the past few days, the following places :—
Bassie, Nogent le Barnard and St, Calais, in
the Department of Sarthe ; Monteire and Mon-
donbleau, iu the Department of Loireet-Cher;
and Montargis, in the Department of Loiret,

An engagement oecured at Gernley, yester-
day. between a body of Franc-Tireurs, from
the Department of Eastern Pyrenees, and a
Prussian column, well supplied with artillery,
In the afternoon the fight was exterded to
the village of Nuits, where the Franc-Tireurs
were supported by the Gardes Mobile from
Vosges, and the French were successfal.
The Prussian loss was severe, their dead
strewing the road in all directions. Only 16
prisoners were taken by the French.

The Falmouth (England), G braltar and
Malta Cable is broken somewhere between
Lisbon and Gibraltar. Messages for India
and the East are now forwarded overland to
the Mediterranean coast and thence to Malta,
to Egypt, down the Red Sea and across the
Indian Ocean,

The Prassians have evacnated Vendome,
Blois,Chateaudun and Chateau Neuf-sur Loire,
‘To-day they twice assaulted Mezicres and were
repulsed, The that lasted nine hours. The
French captured one officer and 345 men. The
French loss was smal!,

All the passengers of the Breman Steamship
“Union,” which recently went ashore off the
coast of Scotland, have been saf-ly landed.

A London despatch gays the Suez Cancl is to
pass into English hands, or at least come un-
der English control. ‘The Duke of Satherland
will probably be chairman of the Company,

Lonpon, Dec. 5.~—A German despatch says
that on Friday last, sixty thousand German
troops recaptured Champigny and Brie. The
particulars of the engagement have been re-
ceived. The fight wasdesperate. The attack
was made with great spirit, and as spiritedly
resisted. General Ducrot received constantly
from the city of Paris heavy reinforcements,
and the utmost determination was manifested
by the Parisian troops to hold both Brie and
Champginy. General Ducrot retreated, and
uow O:cuples & position on the Eust side of
the Marne, In the bend of the river. The ac.
counts received show that the carnage was
frightful Many thousands were killed and
wonnded on both sides,

General Manuteuffel, after retreating from
Amiens, surprised the French troops at Rouen
and captured the city.

The French forces before Vincennes have
been heavily reinforced from Paris.

The German army under the Duke of Meck-
lenbarg attacked two of the five corps under
General Palodines, on Saturday. The Bavari-
ans stormed the towns of Petay, Arteuay, Ar-
goes and Ponpey, along the Eastern side of
the French lines. In the latter place they
bayoneted hundreds of the French soldiers.
The fighting was from house to house, every
inch of the ground being hotly contested. The
Germans succeeded in capturing eleven guns,
The French were defeated,

A despatch just received from Tours ac-
knowledges the retreat of General Paladine’s
army. Iteays: “He now occuyles strongly
intrenched camps near Orleans. The German
losses amounted to seven thousand killed
wounded and prisoners, and several Field
guns. There are still five siege lines of cir-
cumvallation between the camps of Paladines
and Tours.”

Prince Charles Frederick has driven the
French from Chierldy, after a severe battle,
back upon Orleans,

In the South-East, Garibaldi has gained an-
other victory, Particulars yet unknown.

Eugenie visited the Queen at Windsor Castle,
to-day.

King William announces the recapture of
Orleans, with 1,000 prisoners and 30 guns.

A French report of Friday's fighting at Brie

and Champiany says, Prassians retreated after
losing 146,000 men, and that Ducrot took up
Marne, and a special says

4 position on the