the efficieney af the eustoms of the authorities at
Liverpoel, we can searcely eredit the story that

the crew were allowed to escape without the tn-
structions of Geternment being taken, If thia
plunder has been added tothe wany already cum-
mitted in connection Wilh these privateers, it only
unpeses upou the Goverament the duty of more
energetically setting abeuwt their recapture

. =" &@ Earl Russel hae already, tn the
Phe following letter, without date or stynat rey} Correspondence with Mr. Adams lately published, |
wae written by Wira’s own hand to President ezcveed himeelf for vot taking steps agaiiet the |
she has dene nothing te |

THE EXSCUTIGN OF WIRZ.

Wirs protested tu the last that he was not guilty

of the crimes of whieh be was charged. Even on

the ecaff.dd be retused te admit that he was tie

ruthless, atrecious ruffian the evidence adduced

ou the trial would make him appear to be

Johnson four days befure hie execution, but hia| Skenandoah, wot pe cid bape sar” ray
} 5 , 9 J s v0 etu ¥

Mr Schade, deemed - inadvisabl: tol oo tenon ahen i. ane She now comes |

present ite— hack after having committed the crimes she eras
“With a trembling hand, with a heart filled | then only suspected of meditating, and the evide nce |
with the mest cor flieting emotions, and with a| ef them is in the Bureau of the Foreign Office. in
spirit hepetal ene moment and despairing the | the shape of the depositions of those a
next, L have takeu the liberty of addressing you.| were burned by this English vessel and English |
Whea [ consider your exalted position; when L| crew. Those whe tail tu apply English law to wd
think fur a wement that in yeur haud rests the! punishment of these mast uusEngtah crimes rel
weul er woe of mnihoens— yea, the peace of the | lncur a most serious responsibility.” — London |
world—well may I pause te call to my aid cour. | Stor, Sth
age enough to lay before you my hamble petition.| —« If. for the sake of vengeance on the
L have heard you spoken of as a man willing at | destroyers of his country, Capt. Waddell had ae-
wll times and under #1! circumstances to do justice, | complished this work, his crime weuld have
and that mo man, however humble he may be,| been essentially a political one; and Englishmen

’
crap ue,

lbers of the Cabinet would be present,

need jear te approach yen, and therefore I have
cone te the conclusion that you will allow me (he
same privilege ag ia extended to huudreds and|
thousands of all. It ie wot my intention to enter
iote an argument aa to the merits ol my case. le
yeur hauds, if 1 am rightly informed, are all be |
Tecurds aud evidences bearing upon this point, |
avd it would be prestimption on my part te say |
ene word about it. There is only ene thing that
I ask, and it is expressed in a few words — pass |
your seutence. For sia weary mouths I have
been & priaener; fer xX menthe my name las
been in the mouth of every one; by thousands |
ai ¢Coneldered &@ monster of crieily, & wreteb
that ought not te pellute the earth any longer
“Truly, whea L pase in my wind over the
testimony given. | sometimes almost doubt my
own existence. | doubt that I am the Captain
Wirt epuker of. 1 doubt that a wan ever
ived such as he ie said te be, and [am inelined!
te call on the mountains to fall upon .and bury
me and my shame. Butoh! sir, while 1 wring
my hands in uiute and bepeless despair, th re |
speaks a sinall but unmistakeable voice within me
that saj*, “ Cousele thyself Thou knowest hy |
inaveence. Fear net. If man holds thee gu ty. |
Ged dees not, and a new life will pervade your
being.” Such has been the state of my mind for|
weeks and mon’ bs, aud ne puushment that hunan |
ingenelty cau inflict could increase my distress
fhe paogs ef death are ebort, aud theretore, 1)
humbly pray that yeu will pags your sentence
without delay. Gire me dearth or liberty Lhe |
ene I do uot fear; the ether Lerave. If you be
liewe me guilty of the ternble charges chat have
been heaped upon me, deliver me te the execu-|

tener f net guilty in your estimation, restore |
we to liberty aud lite. A life such as lam now}
living is we bite. I breathe, sleep, eat; but it is
wooly the mechanical tunctions [ pertorm aud

nothing mere. Whatever you decide I shall ac-
cept Lf evodemued to death [ shall auffer with-
eut & marner It restored to liberty, I will)
thank avd bless you for it. I would not convey |
te your mind, Mr. President, that I court death ;
lite fe aeweet. However lowly or humble mwoan’'s
station may be, fe clings to lite. His sout is fi led
with awe wien he contemplates the future, that}
unknewa jiand where the judgment ia, before
which be will have te give an account of his
words, theaghts, and deeds. Well may I rewem-|
ber, tow, that L have erred like all other huinan
Demag, Gut lor tings wineh L may perhaps 8» ifer
a vieleut death Las net guilty, aud God judge
me. I have said ali that L wished to say. Ex-|
cuse wy belduess in addressing you, but I eouid
net help it. Leaunet bear this suspense much
loager. May God bless you and be with you. |
Your task is a great and fearful one. In lite or
death [ shall pray tor you, and for the prosperity
of the country in which [ have passed iny liap-
piest wud darkest days.”

THE EXECUTION.

His arms were drawn back and pinioned closely |
behind hun, sad the noose was thrown over the
head avd drawn loosely up, with the knot resting |
beneath the lube of the left ear, Au officer was)
about te produce and adjust the black cap, when
those vearest him saw a slight tremor of the lower |
jaw, whieh a it increased, gave the whole face
a ghastly grin; but the black cap speedily cur-
tamed ihe face from turther view and lett the!
cowled and sombre shape standing rigid for the
tail. Ail but the officer who wus charged with
@pringing the trap retired from the scaffeld, and
as the laticr passed swiftly to either side of the!
drop, withdrawing the bolts that were naed to
sustuin it in addition to the spring, Wirz, who |
seemed te have expected the fall immedia'ely, |
was seen te away slightly, bat even then there
appeared to be a determined recovery of exuili-|

brium, and he became motionless, standing cus)
eight of teu secouds, when the officer below raised
bis cap as a signal, and there was a eraah of the!
talung trap, a suaden jerk and extension of the
rope, and a dark and lengthened form swung con-
Vuisively beueath the scaffold. For a moment
there was a hush uson the multitude within and
the people upon adjacent house tops as all eyes
neted the spasmodic twitching of the lower parts
of the criminal’s bedy, and seme strong nerved
man in the ercowd made an andible calculation of |
the number of tremors that passed through the
frame before life became totally extinet.  ‘Uhen
came sumething like a cheer trow beyond the
prism walle, where all available objects com-
manding a view of the scene within were crow ded
with citizens and seldiers, and gradually there!
was lifted from the nearer spectators the awe oe-|
casioned from seeing a life pass violently (rom)
most tofaineut manhood to the darkest valley of |
the shadow of death, and there was a hui of
comment accompanied with a general crow ding
neerer the seaflold. At the same time a photo-|
arapber adjusted bis instrument upon the rect of )
au adpriiing shed, with its lens covering the |
scaffold aud the wretch that quivered tres its
bean.
material event.

The people who had been on the ronfsof houses |
aud in the branches of trees, together with con-|
siderable numbers from the prison, retired from |
the contemplation of the seene, leaving 8 few |
Offierrs and a large greup of the members of the |
press, to witness the last of the tragedy. About |
a quarter tu eleven, a surgeon approached the
peadant body, caretully raised the lower part ot
the heed and peered for a moment inte the dead |
man's lace and telt for the flutter of the pulse.
There wes vo spark of anuuation remaining.
The repe was made to loosen its trettle, and the |
body was lowered upon an hospital stretcher and
carried past the crowd tnte the dead-house of the

1 Tae guard was brought to au “attention” |
and fled out of the court, leaving the spectators
in wedisturbed poesession of the tield, quarreiling
aud elbowing each other tor fragments of the
Tepe thet performed the sacrifice. Not five
minutes elapsed before the executionary cable |
Was severed inte inen bits that aecumpauied the |
Evlighted possessurs from the field.

eer
THE SHENANDOAH AFFAIR— RUMORS.)
AND INCIDENTS.

——

From the Boston Journal.

Itappears that Cap . Waddell cf the Shenandoah |
run his veseri inte the Tague, discharged bis crew |
and shipped a new ove, before he proceeded to
Liverpool, When the pilot boarded him at that
port he wos asked by Waddell whether the war
in the United Sto’ vs waa ever or not—informa
thon he certarnly ¢id not require, as, undoubtedly,
he must have beard the news, if news it was to
him, at Lisbou, where he bad previously been,
It ie reported in Liverpool that the erew of the
Shenandoah suffered wuen from waut of supplies |
before touching the evast of Europe, and that |
three of their number died. Searvy prevailed
A Liverpool paper says that Waddell had a eon-
siderable sams of money on board, but did not de.
sign using it, as he held it to be the property ot!
the United States Government. He and his offi-|
cere were said to be without pecuniary resources
A despateh, dated Liverpool, 9th instant, says
Waddell and the crew of the pirate had becu re: |
leased oo parule.
The Engli-b papers are variously impressed re-|
lative te what ought to be the duty of the Go-|
Yerument ieward the pirate. We wake a few |
extenets showing their diflerent opimeons ov this
and subjects in the sawe couneetion.
“ Capt. Waddell and his men either are pirates’
or they are vet. They have undoubtedly been, |
for the leet three mouths, burning. sinking and!
i American whalera in the uname of a)
Goeermment that did not exist, atid Whee neon. |
esis ruse they might have ascertained hy refer.
ence tw the newrest port. Ji is for thean te prove |
their ignurance that the war in which they pers!

siefed in carrying on had terminated every where |
where the Stengad ah was wot. Meantine there
is prima facto evidence against them of having |
wuuly od piracy on the bigh seus. Why are.
wet Rept te cusiody until a grand Jury has
Whether they ought or onght net to take |

pirates !"—Pall Mall (Leiden)

|
|
|
|

i

i

iat as
, Mth.
“The questions involved is the surrender of the
Shenandoth ave ditticult and perplexing, bat we
Trest ie " wt will net, om teat account, |
th shirk the resensibility of de iding

thee: Of the country aud the <upre-
mmary «7 the law alike demand that the Captein and
ree be put on their trial. Although we!
have bad, during the war, abundant evidence of

i

lmunistry which should resoive to haad over the

jmust have made up its mind te an iumediate

|ofthe 8th inst. says it is possible that the expec-

| ram Stonewall of Spain—not under the ridiculous

|appretend we shall have ne material difficulty

ourselves knowing bim as auch, we have ouly te

| rendition ef all criminal offenders against the laws

} unlikely to arise out of this matter, and further

| public press of the nation.

‘that the ticket bore an jnscription on the back

will never consent to give up political offenders. A

Captaiu of the Shenandoah to « Yankee hangman

downfall and te indeviable intamy.’— Lendon
Hera d, ( Tory’, Sth.

The Daily News ia very suspicious that Brother
Jonathan has been playing a sirewd game with
England in the matter of the pirate.

The paper

| tation of recovering, from this country, compensa-

tion fur the luases resulting from ber capture causes |
the United States to be less eager for her capture

than they otherwise would have been; and if the

world generally could bave come to that conclu-

| sion, from observing the latpunity which Waddell

| had av long enjoyed, it would be the very strongest |

practical argument against American claims in
English responsibility for her depredations and
those of a kindred character.

Pr
THE SHENANDOAH.

The leading American journals lay hold upon
the circumstance of the delivering up by Capt.
Waddel of this cruiser tu the British Govern-
ment, to excite and foment more angry feeling
between the two countries.

The followin: is a list given of the whaling
ships destroyed by the Shenandoah during her
cruise on the Arctic Seas: |

-|
P . Date of
Vessels. Belonging to capture
tarque Edward Carey Sen Francisco April 1
| Harqne Harvest Honolain April 1
Baraue Pearl New London = April 1
Suip tleetor New Bedford April |
Barqne Abigull do May 27
Ship Euphrates do June 21
Ship Wm Thompson do June <2
Barque Jireh Swift do June 22
Ship 3 Thernton do June v3
| Barqae Sasun Abigall New London Jane 23
Ship Gen. Williams San Franciseo June 25
Barqne Nimrod New Bedford June 25 |
Barque Wm ©. Nye do June 26)
Baurque Catherine do June 2
Barque Gipsey do dune 2
Darque Isabella do June 27
Ship Hillman do June 27
Ship John Howland do June 28
Ship Nassau do June 28
turque Beinswick do June 28
Barqne Waverley do June 28
Barqne Martha do June 28
Barque Congress do June Wk
Barqne Favorite Fairhaven Jnne WX
Barqne Coxiagton Warre!! June 2s
| Ship Milo New Bedford June 23
| Burqne Gen. Pike do nue 2
Baurque Nile New London Jane 27
| Barque Jas. Maury New Hedford Jute 28

Upon this subject the New York Herald
remarks :-—

“What our government has now to de is te
demand the unconditional surrender of the Shen-
andoah, just as we deesanded and obtained the

asstinption that we are the heira of rebel effects,
but a8 property covfixcated to us by acts of luw-
leseness committed against eur commerce, and of
outrage against our flag. We do not believe
England will refuse te coneede our unconditional
right te the pirate now in her waters any more
than we at one time conceived it prudent to sur-
render Mason and Slideli to her. The caaes ave
net precisely parrallel, but the differen e ia all in
eur faveur. In regard to Captain Waddell, we

Being regarded as a pirate by Great Britain, and

remind the Britisn Government that we have an
extradition treaty with them which reqmres the

of either Power. On this ground the United
States will aémand Waddell, and punish him as
the law and courts of our country shall decide.
England cannot deny this claim, or refuse to grant
it; or, if she de, she may find in an ineredibly
short time Fenn Shenandoaha «nthe St. Law-
rence and Fenian Alabamas on the seas.”

The Tribune observes as follows :—

“The unweleowe apparition of this uneasy
ghost in British waters is not to be added to the
catalogue of John Bail’s many and grievous of
fences againat the rights of this country. John |
would rather bave paid three times her cust than |
see her steaming up the Mersey. “ Curses, like
chickens, come heme te reost,” says avery old

The Graminer,
ccna EDL ELE LE OE
Charlottetown, December 4, 1865.

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

EARL RUSSEL ON MINISTERIAL AFFAIRS.
The banquet of the Lord Mayor of L nd n,
on the oth, wes looked to with considerable |
interest, as it was known that the leading mem- |
and |
some of them, it was surmised, might give an)
indication of the Ministerial policy at the |
present crisis. This duty devolved on Earl}
Russel. He said enough to excite curiosity |

without gratifying it

said quite enough for the occasion.
peech was ingenuous and yet reticent—dwell.
ing on facts which every one admitted, but
leaving to the future the solution of questions
respecting which people were most anxious to
know something. He spoke of the confidence
which had been reposed in him by his collea-
rues, — dwelt on the fact that fifty years had
elapsed since the last treaty of peace had been
sizned between France and England—referred
to the civil war in America, and hoped that
the future of the great Republic would be all
that its best friends could wish, — rejoiced,
above all, that the great “guilt and stain of
slavery’ had been cancelled there, aud de-
clared that he would never abandon the great

st

srinciples of progress in which the best yea:s| *” selves, seek for a remedy or miti-
I I i In conclusion, he | Say, to themselves, seek for a remedy)

of his life were associated.
professed his readiness to abide by the verdict
of the country, and finished by a personal com-
pliment to the Lord Mayor. The speech seems
to have given satisfaction to the newspaper
which, professing to be Liberal, has for many
years shown itself so hostile to Lord Russell.
Tn its issue of yesterday, it says: ‘+ Lord. Rus-
sell is Stoo old aj politician to satisfy public
euriosity ali at once. A man in office, even if
he has something to tell, ought not to say
more than is needed, and, consequently, as he
must make speeches, the power of uttering
acceptable generalities is one of the most valu-
able that he can possess. Those who expected
that the new Premier, a fortuight after accept-
ing office, would give indications of his poliey,
and either inform the nation whether or not
there is to be a Reform Bill, deserve to be dis
appoiuted for their pains.”
FROM SPAIN.

The recent accounts from Madrid represent
the feeling in the city to be very hostile to the
Queen, and some of the oflicers in the Spanish
army do not hesitate to indulge in open ribald-
ries of her and her Court. So unpopular is

her Majesty declared to be, that the populace |

have expressed their intention of giving her a
reception the reverse of complimentary the
next time she appears in her own capital. It
is believed in some quarters that the Queen
will allow this ill-feeling to subside before she
herself at Madvid; and one writer
rues the leneth of declaring that if she were
now to appear, the royal carriazes would meet
with obstructions that would probably produce
very serluus conse yuences. This, however, is
speculative ; but there is no d mbt of the fact
that all the European capitals resemble each
other in this—they contain the most democra-
tie portion of the people, are the most easily
excited, aud allow their anvzer to cool as
readily as it is warmed. London has from
time to time immemorial returned to the House
of Commons the most Radical members that
have found their way theve.

presents
i

Tue CnHorera at Varencta.—The Boston
Advertiser publishes the following extract from
a private letter received from a gentleman now
resident at Valentia, SAain:—

“We have had an awful season here with the
rea! Asiatic cholera, in a very aygravated and
iatal form.
during the sickness, thereby reducin,s our popu-
lation to perhaps from fifiy to seventy thousand ;
but with this reductior. it is estimated that we
have had ten thousand deaths within the city
and its precincts.

My own family have remained here during |

the whole sickness, residins on a strect vely
sadly visited, with almost entire families dyin»
around us; but, thanks to a kind Providence,
we have been preserved from the ‘ pestilence
that walketh in darkness, and the destruction
that wasteth at noonday.’ I was atacked by

the incipient stage of the disease—called by the |

doctor cholerine—but it was checked and sub-
dued seasonably, leaving me, however, quite

jof the government.

|
, and yet he seems to have |

The }

Many of our people lett their homes |

ferences. betweett the two houses ,
“ . ; . |
Land active le zislation resumed. ;
Verdon announced

way vic-

existing di
would be adjustec
Tuesday, the Sth inst., Mr. \e!
to the Assembly that without 1m ¥ ‘ie
lating the law, arrangements had — = 4
for meeting the inevitable pecuniary liabi ites |
The arrangement made is |
Loans, #3 necessary, are
London Chartered Bank,
and the claims on the government paid from |
the funds thus available. The bank then su |
for the amount, judzment is confessed, and the |
warrant being signed by the governor, the
amount, by virtue of the Act 21 Vict., No, 86,
becomes legally available out of the public ac-
count, and is paid aceordingly. Thus the pub-
lic business is carried on independently of the
Council, and no inconvenience is experienced.

MISCELLANEOUS.

| Tue Cuorera at Jervsarem. — A letter
from Jerusalem, dated the 25rd October, says:
—‘ The cholera is at the present moment com-
mitting great ravages here, and it is scarcely
possible to form an idea of the deplorable
aspect of our unfortunate city,
and bazaars are deserted, the shops are closed,
and the well-doing portion of the population
‘are taking flight in all directions. The Pasha,
the various Tarkish officials, and, what
more sad, the foreign consular agents, with the
exception of the French consul, have been the
first to give the example of deseition, and there
now only remain at Jerusalem those inhabi-
tauts who are too poor to afford to leave.
'Those unfortunate people, abandoned, so to

biiefy as follows :—
contracted with the

The streets

is

gation of their distress in excesses, which only
‘tend to argravate it, and to increase the num-
ber of victims.”

Herr Ulex, a chemist of Hamburg, has
lately discovered copper, and, in some cases,
lead in the remains of animals. He has found
copper and lead in human flesh, and copper in
the intestines of beasts of prey, in beef, in
poultry, in hens’ egzs, in fish, crustacea, in-
sects, spiders, and snails.

Ata recent review of about 3000 troops, near
Belgrade, several casualties occurred ; among
others, one man was killed and two dangerously
wounded by the discharge of a cannon, caused
by the word of command being given by the
officer before the loading was completed. Se-
veral men, also, in the excitement caused by
the evolutions, received bayonet wounds.
Last year, on a similar occasion, seven men
were wounded.

COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO THE
HON. THOMAS DARCY McGEE.

A Public Dinner was given to the Hon. Mr.

| McGee by his constituents of Montreal West,
lat the St. Lawrence Hall, on Wednesday even-
jing, 15th November. The Dinner was given
ia acknowled sment of Mr. MeGee’s services
to the whole Province of Canada asa very able
Statesman, and as anshonoured and faithful
representative of Moutreal. All nationalities
combined to do honour to our excellent friend ;
and it is needless to say that the entertainment
| Was in the highest degree brilliant and suecess-

Tul, if we may judze from the accounts of it in

the various newspapers. | Nearly all the Cabinet
Ministers were present, and addressed the large
and distinguished audience on public affairs.
Mr. McGee's speech was, as mizht be expected,
an admirable effort. We give the report of it,
without curtailment, from the Montreal Gazette

| —a very able paper, which, we believe, reflects
’

| the views of Mr. MceGe
|doubt that the report of this eloquent speech

e—and we have no

has received revision at his own hands :-—

HON. MR. McGEFE’S SPEECH.

Hon. Mr. McGee suid: Hackneyed as I may
|} be thought, Mr. Chairman, in public speaking,
rise to acknowledge these cheers, and the toast
| you have proposed, with an oterpewering sense
of your goodness, and my own shertcomings
} There are some unusual circumstances observable
lin this room, well calculated to fill me with eu-
| barrassment. 1 have been long accustomed, Mr.
| Chairman, to your own kindsess ; you have stood
sponser for ve on the hustings more than once;
I have been long accustomed to the Kindness of
my friends, the Vice-Chairmen and the Stewards;
but the presence hereof so many friends from a
| long distance—(cheers)—of so many gentlemen

f the city whose names are synonymous with

—

| eon hatic. If this be your will, gentlemen, you! nothirg ought and nothing ean (if the facts alone

————

will graut me the latitude Montreal has always | are heeded) shake our mutual confidence in each

allowed me, and
your indulgence. [
speeches made at Lendon or at Wexford, I ean

have nothing to say; I thought it necessary to

show my countrymen the reverse of the American

medal always glistening before their eyes; 1 en-

deavored to set the truth clearly before my own

mind, and equally se betore them; my intentions

were the best, whatever the result. (Cheers.)

It wae not a pleasant report for me te make, or
for an Mother Country to beat, that for so many

of her emigrants democracy and degeneracy

had proved identical terms. It was not a plea-
sant subject to sketch these seaport dema-
gogues, native and Irish, who have made them-
selves the masters of the passions of so many

of the Irish in the United States, who are at

this moment coining their prejudices, if not into
gold, certainly into greenbacks, to the astonish-
ment and derision of all sensible men. But | was
careful not te permit the impression that this de-
generate class, though unfortunately too numer:
ous, included all my countrymen in the United
States; I was careful to do justice both to the
domestic and public virtues of a very different

class, (cheers), against whom the worst reproach
we cau wake ts, that they fail in a robust resist-
ance to the demagogues and there dupes; that
they allow the lowest and least worthy among
them to speak for all; that content with avoid

ing the contamination themselves, they wake no
concerted effort to keep therr less intelligent

compatriots out of the jaws of those who daily

devour them as their prey. If any justification
were needed by any one of the severity with
which I spoke of the Yankee-Irish demagogues,
they may find it in the shameful farce now played
before our eyes under the tithe of the “ Irish Re-
public.” (Laughter ) We have bad on the boards
before “the Irish Ambassador,” and ‘ King
O'Neill,” but these performances are all eclipsed
by “the Irish Republic” and President O'Ma-
homy. (Laughter.) An Irish Republic on Man-
hattan Island, with Senators from Tennessee
and Senators from Massachusetts, with a Presi-
dent taken from the Lunatic Asylum, and in “a
concatentation accordingly,” Mr. ‘Train—if there
really be such a person as Mr. ‘Train — as its
orator—I say if there really be such a person, for
I always suspected that Train was a work of fic-
tion, hke Orphens C. Kerr or Bird-o'-Freedom
Sawin. (Great laughter.) As an extravaganza
on American oratory, the character is not badly
sustained; a little too improbable perhaps; but
if there be really such a person, and if he really
made the mad speech he is reported to have
made, “in lavender colored gloves,” to the Fenian
Congress at Philadelphia, only fancy what a
Congress it must have been! (Laughter.) Only
tancy the Congress that_sat nearly a century ago
at Philadelohia: — grave men conscious of their
work—inviled to listen to some earher Train—
in the midst of their deliberations! What would
have been their disgust? and what must be the
disgust of every sensible man, who has heard or
read of these saviours of their country, showing
their capacity for their work, by shouting them-
selves hoarse at the crazy periods of poor Mr.
Train! Mr. Chairman, as IT have introduced
this subject, which not indireetly concerns
ourselves, perhaps you will further bear with me
if I say something additional in relation to the
attitude of the Irish at home and abroad to
the Empire under which much the larger half ot
them still live, including, in that Eupire, these
Provinces, of course. This late exhibition of
mingled knavery and folly at Philadelphia, I ad-
mit, is chiefly calculated to inspire disgust; but
it also excites comimisseration for the dupes, and
indignagion against the demagognes concerned
init. When we see how delusion at this side the
Atlantic begets delusion at the other—bhow the
astute “ organizers” profit by the plunder of the
confiding ignorant,—when we see how the dupes
who really run risks are egged on in Treland to
their ruin by knaves whe lie up in clover on Man-
hattan Island—when we see Irish patriotisin
paying for a palace in Union Square — when we
see the treachery that betrays the sworn brother
to the outraged law,—what else can we feel but
indignation against the authors of such madness.
and misery, and infamy?) (Cheers.) They! the
authors of a liberation of Ireland. They liberate
Ireland! Why don’t they liberate the Ireland at
their own doors, from the poisonous and murder-
ous surroundings of the tenement houses of New
York and Boston?) (Cheers.) Why don’t they
liberate their own young Ireland from samtary
destruction—that Ireland in America, which, ac
cording to the New York Times, contributes 88
per cent of the deaths of children, on the whole
number of dvaths in that great city? They libe-
rate Treland! Why den’t they liberate those
children of a larger growth, worse than fatherless,
whe are swept daily from ameng them to the far
West, there to undergo the fate of changelings
and apostates, among an alien people? Cheers.)
The New York Proteetory, established by sane
and goed men, to dimimsh the swollen voluine of
Irish sagrancy and juvenile crime, bas asked the
other day for $28,000 to carry on their work—
there is a chance to liberate a part of Ireland at
allevents. (Cheers.) Why dou’t these insatiate
patriots lend a hand there, where they can be of
use?) Why don't they try to liberate the Trish

reduced in strength and confined to the house | Montreal honour and Montreal enterprise — the | labourers in New England, where they rank in

for an entire month.”

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Piymovrn, Nov. 7.—By the arrival of Her
Majesty's ship Tamar, from Simon’s Bay, news
has been received from the Cape of Good
lope to the 23d ult., being eleven days later
than that brought by the mail. The Basuto
war was not settled.
ever, tired of their campaign, and some of
them were talking of retiring to their farms.

saw, aud bere is a tresh illustration of its truth.

The Shenandoah is where she ought to be; and | through want of confidence in their officers. | covld feel that all my triends had the same dis-
we trust our Goverument will neither claim ner) The secoud Whitworth cannon. had burst. | position to be satisfied with my course, for I

accept her
* But it tries our patience to note the sugges. |

Fifteen minutes wore passed without | ten in a British journal that our Government has North,

eft the corsair to pursue ber desolating career |
unchecked, in order to swell our claims ter da-
mages against the country which built, armed,
and subsisted her. If we eould bave known
where to find her, ber carrer would have been a
shertene. But the world is very wide, and mosi
of t covered by salt water; and by theetune we |
had beard of ber in one eeean, she was sure to
be in another. tar, far away. The British know
by sore experience in the war of 1312 how a
cruiser may elude pursuers, and pursue for months
a career of devastation. Llappily, the Shenan-
doah’s is at last ended.”

We apprehend that grave difficulties are not

complications between the two countries which
are needless. Not that we imazine that the
British Government will for a moment recog-
nize any claim on account of the Shenandoah,
nor ought to do so, but the heavy loss inflicted
upon so many unoffending pa:ties is well
adapted to rankie in the minds of a people sen-
sitive in the extreme, and worked upon by the
Heavy Oxpnaxce.—There is surely good
cause to demand that a decision shall be suvn
arrived at, and based on sound practical reason-
ing, backed by the results of proper €xperi-
meats, as to what is to be the heavy gun of the
future. We are, as a nation, pretty tired of
indecisive experiments in guns, and we cannot
help thinking, with all deference to those by
whom tlese len rthened trials have been carried
on, that they must have been working in a
wrony direction. We mean by this, that in-
stead of trying suns against guns for accuracy
of rane, and measuring the most minute “ reet-
angles de tir,”’ it would have been better had |
they long azo made up their minds to consider}
that gun the best which appeared to possess the |
most general advantazes; in fact, the one!
which, under circumstances of actual war, would |
he likely to be the most zenerally useful. One
gun ona particular plan, will shine forth in a
certain way, another will eclipse all comers in
some other quality, and a third will beat both,
perhaps in a total y different but more import-
ant qualification. We have always considered
the question could never be settled except by
actnal experiments, and those continued and
various, but had the matter rested even in the
hands of some commercial company, totally
ignorant of the subject, or with a great contrac-
tor, it is oar unbiassed opinion that they would
save taken steps to arrive at conclusions in a
shorter time than her Majesty's Government.—
British Army and Navy Review.
ae
An action azainst a railway company for
had grammar is the last novelty reported from
Italy. A eager from Voltri to Genoa re-
fused to deliver up his ticket, and demanded to
be paid the price of his journey, on the ground

which literally translated runs thus: “If one
does not present this ticket on arrival, one may
demand the price of the entire journey.”” The
Movimento, which tel!s this story, states that
already many enjinent advocates have given
their adhesion to this view of the matter.
I
Tr you Have A SurrERiNG Cuitp.—Do not
let your prejudices of others, stand between it
and the relief that will be absolutly enre ta fol |
low the use of MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING |

SYRUP. Milliows of mothers cau test fy hat it ted a messaze to both houses, also stating that |

it @ perfeetly sate and reliable remedy. Tt ree
lieves the ehild from pain, and cures dysentery and |
diarrhea. It softens the cums, reduces inflawnn- |
tion, cures wind colic, and carries the infant safely |
throagh the teething period. ’

and divisions had taken place among them

President Braund has been sent for to nezotiate
with Moshesh. George Moshesh was at Aliwal
with despatches for the Governor. He
acknowledzed that the Basutos were beaten,
hut said they would not give over their ecuntry
to the Boers, although they would to the Eng-
lish. He remained awaitiig the Governor's
reply. A scheme was afloat in the Eastern
Province for colonizing Basutos with English
setters. The speculation was expected to turn
out very profitable. Parliament was to be
prorogued on the 15th of October. Business
continued dull. Merchants were, however,
looking hopefully towards the wool season, but
unless there was an inerease in price, a thorough
revival of trade was scarcely expected.
NEW ZEALAND.

Me! Bourne, Sept. 26.—Advices from New
Zealand state that severe fighting has taken
jlace at Waitapa, on the east coast, resultinz
in the defeat of the natives. The Opetiki ex-
pedition has effected a successful landing.
The colonial troops were victorious in the first
skirmish, captured the native pah, and occupied
the town. Martial law has been proclaimed.
The official Guzette announces that the war in
Ockurna (Waikato?) is at an end Sir G.
(rrey, by advice of his ministry, has confiscated
land in Taranaki, and has issued a peace and
aninesty proclamation.

AUSTRALIA.

The following is from the Melbourne Age
of Sept. 25 :—

* We are still in the midst of a political
crisis, unparalleled in the history of the colony.
The Council persists in its obstructive poliey,
and in its futile attempts to seize the supreme

| control of affairs, and render the Assembly en-

tirely subservient to its will, even in matters of
supply and taxation. The Assembly, in the
meantime, nobly fulfils its mission. With the
exception of a few factious individuals, possess.
ing little or no inflence, party politics appear
to be entirely forgotten, aud the house stands
united and determined to resist the aggressions
made on its privileges and on the liberties of
the people by the other branch of the Lezisla-
ture. in our last summary we stated the fact

| of the Appropriation Bill, together with the

schedule containing the new tariff, having been
laid aside by the Council, and of the Assembly
having passed a series of resolutions declaratory
of its privileges, and asserting that it would
pass no other biil for the appropriation of sup-
plies until that already submitted by it to the
Council had been passed. Accordingly, for
upwares ofa month, all payments were stopped.
The withdrawal, however, of such a large sum
of money from circulation was found to be in-
jurious to the colony, and, in some cases, pro-
ductive of a considerable amount of individual
hardship; and, on the 24th ult., on the motion
of Mr. MeGrezor, a resolution was azreed to in
the Assembly by a majority of 40 to 16, asking
his Exceliency to take such measures as, in the
opinion of his responsible advisers, should be
expedient and necessary to discharge the public
liabilities. During the debate, th® hon. the
Treasurer pointed out that no funds could he
taken from the public account for this purpose,
pending the passing of the fot Semone Bill,
and at the same time stated the

of the ministry to resort to no illezal means of
remedying the ills caused by the unconstitu-
tional conduct of the Legislative Council. On
the following Tuesday his Exceilency transmit-

funds of the peblie account were not available

until an approp:iation bill had been agreed to

by the three branches of the legislature, and
at the sime time expressing a hope that the

See werre e -

The Boers were, how- |

etermination |

presence of my hoenourable colleagues, right aud
lleft, my seniors and betters in the public service
| _these are unusual circumstances, and not with-
lout embarrassment. You have been good enough
lto see to-night, Mr. Chairman, only favourable
traits in my character; but by the very contrast
with the picture you have drawn, the colors of
lwhich you borrow from your own good heart,
‘rather than frem my actions, I feel, aud I ean
see clearly, how very far [ have failed and
fallen short of the services you aseribe to me, and
fhow much I must endeavour to do hereatier to
jmake up for so many deficiencies. 1 wish |

‘must often, 1 know, have disappointed their par-
| ticular expectations, I may say, however, for
myself that [ have never done so willingly, that
I never disappointed them without experiencing
greater pain myself; but what can one do, at
times, associated, like the infallible juryman, with
eleven unreasonable men, though they are His
Excellency’s advisers—(laughter)—but grumble
and give way, aud hope tor inprovement? You
have said, Mr. Chairman, that last July you ten-
dered me this honour on my return howe, but
that 1 “begged off.” Lt L bad my own way, I
should still continue to beg my friends not to go
ou with so costly a compliment; but when the
Committee renewed their invitation — when the
former excuse no longer existed— when so many
of our fellow-citizens approved your course — |
thought it would hardly be decent, or commonly
gratetul of me, to renew my refusal, What,
then, can I say, in accepting this great honour,
more than this, that from the bettem of my
heart I thauk you for having made this 15th of
November a memorable day for me and mine.
(Cheers.) You have given my health, as Minis-
ter of Agriculture and Emigration; as Minister
of Agriculture, my duties, as at present defined,
are, to see to the Administration of the Agricul-
tural and Patent laws, as they stand on the Sta-
tute Books — which, I believe, the Department
dees promptly and «ficiently, but the sphere ot
he Minister’s duty, whether I occupy it er an-
ether, would bear, [ think, corside able enlarge-
ment. As the Minster charged with Emigration
affairs, all that I can do, at present, is rather dis-
cretionary than defined, and theref re, the more
a matter of anxiety. It is satisfactory to be able
to say on this head, that the number of immigrants
using our route in 1865, was rather over than
under the average of late years; but it is the re-
verse of satisfactory to see the larger balf of the
arrivals, allured by the reported high wages, but
uninformed as to the equally high cost of living,
making their way to the United States. (Hear,
hear.) L think wegeught, and [ believe we shall,
liberalize our system of disposing of the public
jands; I think we ought to have some substitute
for the Homestead law, which attracts so many
setilers to the States; but so far as the tide of
mere labour is concerned, I coufess 1 can discover
ne prospect of seriously diminishing this annual
efflux, until we see begun, or about to begin, those
great works of public utility which we all ex-
pect to accompany the advent of a closer umon
of the Proviners  (Cheers.) In reterenee tethe
official toast, Mr. Chairman, let me also say that
I ean hardly reciprocate the satsfaction you
have expressed at the result of the Canadian re-
presentation at the Dublin Extubition. Although
we had very little time for preparation, and vuly
a thousand pounds sterling to start with, [ think
it ought to gratify those who took a much larger
share in the preparations than T did—my indeta-
tigable Dep ty, Dr. Tache, the two Boarda of
|Arte and Agriculture, and Dr. Hunt, of the
Geological Survey, acung in the absence of Sir
Win. Logaun—to know that Canada attained se
honourable a place —the ninth place anoug all
vations —at that Exhibition. (Cheeis) We
were honered iv our Departweut there, with the
presence of many tholsasas of visitors, from His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales—(cheers)—
and the Vieeroy of Treland, down to the intend-
ing emigrant laborer; and so far as T could learn
from the press on the spet, ard from private re-
port, the umpression lett on all our visitors was
favourable to this Province, its prospects and re-
sonrees, Tf, however, we are to be represented
at Paris in 1867, as we hope to be. and uf I should
have anything efficiaily to say to the arrange-
wients, | should eudeaver to get tune enough aud
inowey enough fo put the country in the beat
| possible poiut ef view before the myriads who
) will fluck to that Exhibition. (Hear, hear.) I
| feel, Mr. Chairman, in the presence of se many |
gentlemen to Whom we hepe to listen, that 7
jought te reiterate my thanks and resiine my
ject which has eceupied
a good deal of public atiention, with whieh ny
bame has been much mixed up, at home and
abroad, and upon which, 1 hope, you will allow

bseat: but there is a sul

| the social scale below the negro, and hardly above
the beast they drive for their Yankee bosses ?
There is a work for them to do if they were only
honest, and if they tried; but I admit there is one
ebjvetion te it, insuperable to the Feniau mind ;
itis practicable, it is possible; therefore it is avoided
and despised. (Loud cheers.) These liberators,
Mr. Chairman, are held out out by a pertion of
the American press asa menace to us here, in
Canada; and it is alleged, moreover, that they
have many sympathizers, if not actual associates,
among the Irish population settled on this side of
the line; T think they set down their foree in
British America at the exact figure of 45,000
men. Well, Sir, all I can say is, that if the rest
of their figures are as near the mark as these,
they are a very formidable body of enemies—te
the Truth! My reverend friend, the Archbishop
of Halifax, (cheers), who was here the other day,
assured me that Fenianism was entirely unknown
within his jurisdiction. In Lower Canada it has
neither a local habitation nor a name; and
though, as I said at Wexford, there may be some
of the species somewhere among us, since the
number of fools, we are assured on good autho-
rity, is infinite, (laughter,) yet compared to the
great, orderly, law-abiding, religious mass of the
Provincial Irish, they are rot a drop in’ the
bucket, nor a bucket in Lake Ontario. (Cheers.)
Our friends from a distance, if they think it
worth while, ean speak for their own sections.
[ speak in presence of irish gentlemen from
almost every section of the country, and I say as
to the alleged sympathy existing bere, in the
City and District of Montreal, I say all the state-
ments that have appeared are shameful falsifiea-
tions (Cheers) What, I ask is the character
and position of the Trish Catholic inhabitants of
this city and distriet?) I do not flatter them,—I
respect them to much to flatter them, but I be-
lieve every administrator of the law in this
vieinity will bear me out when I say there is
generally ne more orderly or law-abiding portion
of our population. (Cheers.) Like the western
wheat ween shipped throngh our cooler northern
waters, they avoided fermentation by taking the
Canadian route. (Langhter.) But if they are
not so easily fermented as they are in New York,
neither are they so apt to get damaged. They
are & religions people, blessed with an exemplary
clergy whom they honor and obey. (Loud
cheers.) No good cause appeals te them in vuin,
and I question if ther are congregations in the
city which, aceerding to their means, more
liberally respond at the call of every charity.
(Cheers) Large numbers of them—about 7,000
in this city alone — ere tax-paying proprietors
Another portion bave stock in our Banks or de-
posits in the Savings Banks; still another are
what we callin Canada, where no man denies
his nativity, “ Irishinen born here.” (Cheers. )
And these are the people—industrious, gainful,
and generally respected—who ure expected by
the speculators in disaffection te enange their
nature in a sight, to desirey trade, to stop employ-
ment, aud rush intoa general pillage and massacre
of their friends and neighbors. We who know
them, kuow that, baving made their homes by
hard labor, they will be found ready to defend
them, if need be, by hard blowa: that having a
large and growing interest in Canada, they feel it
to be their own country, and will guard it as their
own, (Cheers) We know that, having full
freedom in all matters, civil and religious, they
need no vew light from the dark lantern of the
Fenian Know-Nothings. (Cheera.) [ call the
Feuian Knew-Nothings, for they are, so far as
we are coucerved, genuine duplicate of the ori-
ginal Know-Nothings, And they wonld, no doubt,
be backed up in their designs on Canada by the
other Kuow-Nothings for purposes of their own.
“To the Banks” would be the ery of one set;
“To the Couvents” of the other. [Sensation.]
The hate of Cain and the cupidity of Judas, and
the lust of Beliel, would be the inspiration of
these well serted allies, for the objects of all
would be pluuder, and ail kinds ofoutrage. Who
for a mement supposes that any man dwelling
among us, buying, selling, and mingling freely
wih his telluw-citizens, would lend himself te
such villainy? (Cheers) I repeat, for the Irish
inhabitants of this seetion of Canada, that there
are no grounds for so foul a slander, and L am
lappy in this respect to echo the declaration ot
our tational Society at its last monthly meeting,
in the resolution preposed hy our Seeretary, Mr.
Clarke, and seconded by Mr. O'Meara, * Phat
the Trish Catholies of this Provinee, in. the event
of any emergency re quirteg their assistance, will
be found in the future, as they have been in the
past, ever ready and willin

of law and order.”

he class repre.

me te be, as these tines demaud, explicit and |

sented by the Society. (Loud cheers.) It is!

well the true state of feeling should be elle

I will endeavour not to abuse) otber.
As to the usefulness of the] time, by sect or clase, or race, of society—(cheers)

Let no man attempt te embedy uz, at any

—such distinctions will and must exist, but inthe
presence of those whe speculate on our divided
interests,—of those whe would be the ouly gainers
by such divisions,—let such distinctions be buried
and forgotten, (Loud cheers.) The care ot
Canada is no man’s monopoly, but every man’s
equal and bounden duty; in the discharge of that
duty, if called upon actively to discharge it, w-
shall know, till it is over, neither Orangemen nor
Catholies—(cheers)—nor any other distinction
but one, whe are, and who are not, ready to de-
fend their country. (Enthusiastic cheers.) I
am sorry that there has been some needless die-
cussion couched in a different spirit; let it pass;
let it be furgotten. (Loudcheers.) The Fevians
in the United States, feeling in their hearts for all
their fustian about the glorions republic, that they
are not really at home there; feeling that they
ave net Conquered for themselves a pew countrys
in the New World, may try tesolace themselves
with a conspiracy in lieu of a country; but the
Irish in Canada, who [looking back to their small
beginnings a few years ago) have already made
such headway—who have already acquired se
much property —who aiready exercise by common
consent so large a share of legitimate influence—
they have a position vo guard, and guard it they
wil, with national ardor and resolution. [Loud
cheers.} Mr. Chairman, in bolding this lan-
guage Lam morally certain I spenk for 999 out
of a thousand of all my countrymen in Canada;
for all the old and known residents; for all but a
banaful of thuse Who are kuown a8 skeddadlers—
(laughter)—runawaye from the first and second
American draft, whe would net fight for the
United States when they were in it, and whe
would be satisfied nowhere, ander any form of
government, that required duties to be discharged,
in return for rights conceded. If there are any
Fenian sympathizers among us, they are altogethes
of this class, and the Americans ought to know by
this time what rehance to place upon them and
their reports. (lear, hear.) But with all dur
respect for our American neighbours, [ think it
must be admitted that the levity with which so
many of their leading men have spoken of letting
loose this lawless element upon these Provinces
is little to their honor. (lear, hear.) No doubt
something is allowable to the exuberance of spirits
consequent on escape from civil war; something,
too, for the teelng that E.glish neutrality war
vot fairly or fully observed on the high seas
Putting aside—but net for a moment admitting
that allegation —[hear, hear] — what pessible
complaint can they bave against Canada?l Has
not their government officially acknowledged the
bona fide efforts of our government to enforee the
laws of goed neighborhood, and to prevent raids
across the frontier? We knew that, and they
know it, and the truth is, that although so many
of ther leading men and organs bold the language
ww which we object, if the Femans were to violate
the Neutrality Act to-morrow, by any public move,
the United States authorities would, for their
own sakes, pounce upon them at once. { Hear,
hear.) It is unfair, then, I say, to us, it is un-
worthy of themselves, and it is cruel to those
foolish Fenians as well, to bold a language they
would be obliged to abandon, to coquetie with
questions of peace and war, which they will find
tine enough to take up seriously, when they have
reconstructed their Usien, and readjusted their
finances, (Cheers)  Havitg looked so long
across the line, let me now loo. across the water.
Iu the mouth of May last I took the liberty of ex-
plaining in Ireland the true relation ef the Lrish at
home to Republican and Colonial America, as |
had learned io know it, atter twenty years expe-
nievee. Those who held coutrary opinions, and
acted on them, have bad reason lately to rewem-
ber, as they may yet have still greater reason to
remember, my well-nent warning. I told thew
reliance ov American national syawpathy was all
an idle and distemmpered dream; and have they
not fonnd it se?) ‘The Yankee laugis in his sleeve
at all these mock Senators and Presidents and
Generaliasimoa, fabricated in New York; he doe-
not conceal his contempt of the whole farcia’
affair from his English correspondents, and pre-
cisely because he despises Irish intelligence and
Irish position, he laughs and letsitgoon. But let it
imperil to the extent of one per cent American
credit, and see how mercilessly be will pounce
| down ou these Lrish disturbers of bis commercial
and political relations! Bat some of my good
friends in Lieland and Canada, and in the United
States too, who detest Feuianism as eandidly as
I do, are of opimion that I should have balanced
the severity of my strictures at Wexford by a
strenuous statement of Irish grievanees, and a
loud eall for their redress, Now, I will be frank
in saying that [ recognise the existence of cer
lain grievances as fully as they do, and I held
tha’ they are remediabie by the action of Govern
ment, and that it is te the shame of suecessive
Tmperil administrations that they have never been
honestly grappled with. Ireland, at the opening
of this century, coming for the first time direetiy
under the laws of England, ought always to have
been regarded and treated as a peculiar field ot
legislation,
regation of old abuses, such as the Catholie Reliet
Bill of 1829, have, indeed, been passed; but ex-
cept within the sphere of the corporate towns.
there has been little or no reconstructive legisla-
tion applied to Ireland. Franehises were taken
away trom whole classes, and new frapchises
were bestowed on them; the Irish tariffs were
assimilated to the Imperial; but the interests
created under the aid state of the law were nei-
ther considered nor indemnified. ‘The Cathohe
Church bad quasi recognition, as at Maynooth.
but another Church remained the sole “ estab-
lished” religion, according to law; a system of
education, nominally national, because in spirit,
essendally anti vational; the old agrarian ulcer
was seither treated nor touched; in short, a
half completed work of emancipation has left
Ireland the laud of anamoles and unsettlement
and disturbance, which we still find it is in the
Goth year vf the Union. So far as the University
question is concerned, I am glad to see that,
what seems at this distance, a fair and reason-
able proposition has been, the other day, made
by Government to the Catholic Bishops—a_pro-
position which, for all sakes, it is te b> hoped,
may be adopted. (Cheers.) But three or four
other questions—social rather than purely politi-
cal—remain to be solved, and call for some firm
Minister's hand, like Sir Robert Peel, when be
undertook to repeal the Corn Laws, or to throw
into market the encumbered Irish estates, As
upon these other grievances there have been
abundance of Parliamentary Committees granted,
but no really earnest attempt te embody into law
the reinedies which were recommended. I say
this state of things is a reproach to the Empire,
and if any of my friends can devise any National,
constitutional effort, by which we ean help to im-
press the necessity of reconstructive and remedial
legislation for Ireland on the Ministers or people
of the Empire at large, I will go as far as any
man awongst them for that object, by those
means. I would willingly be one, for instance, to
lay any proper representation Gn behalf of [re-
land, from Her Majesty's loyal subjects in British
America, at the foot of the throne; and if it were
thought inconsistent with my official position in
Canada to do so, T declare here, in the presence
of iny colleagues and constituents, that | would
not allow that impediment to stand in the way
twenty-four heure, [Loud cheers] Phia, or
any other common-sense course, L will be found
always ready to take; but just as ready will I al-
ways be to oppose the mad and eruel councils of
those who teach a misguided portion of the Lrish
people at home and abroad to cultivate no other
polities but “undyimg hatred toe England.”
Apart from the anti-Christian blindness and
guilliness of such a popular creed, its folly alone
enght te condemn it. Itis dashing the earthen
pot against the pot of iron; it is the weak defy-
Ing the strong; it is the powerless challenging
the powerful. To English reason, and justice
and policy, | would appeal; and there is no
man living more open to reason. if you do not
first provuke his pride, than the Englishman.
(Cheers.] Bat I know full well that a rich
Empire will not be bullied by a poor people; that
from a first rate power first rate abuse will
extort nothing. [ speak these words in sober
earnestness, to my contemporaries in’ [reland
and in America, who have been sitting im judg-
ment, and condemuing my own course, seme-
times with very slender knowledge of the facts
which have delermined its direetion, {'lear,
hear.] God. He knows, the Ireland E loved in
my youth, is near and dear to my heart; ehe
was a fair and radiant vision, full of the poetry
and seit-sacritice of the elder time; but this bil-
lingsgate bellona, reeling out all dishevelled from
the purlieus of New York, with blasphemy on
her lips, and all uncleannees in her breast—this
shameless importer [resist with detestation
and scorn. [Cheers.} Her manners and her
morals were unknown to our fathers, and long
may they remain odious or unknown in the
land of our fathers.—[ return now, Mr. Chnir-
man, from Irish affairs, on which I might enlarge
if the eecasion Was proper, to conclude with the
consideration of our own situation; [ return te
conelnde with a subject which I have never fost
an oeceasion to serve — Lmean the ek *
of the British American Provinces, herd a mA
of this subject, L wish first te acquit ae
of an obligation due at once to the eause
itself, and to a gitted and esteemed friend
of mine—Dr. Charles Mackay. [Hear, hear
When T last spoke in public on this sublvet
I referred, with some bitterness, ota to
personal feeling except regret, te what [ om
sidered the unfair, exaggerated, and, to us here.
the most disereditable allegations Lif they wree
true) which certain Montreal anti-Unionists
had induced Dr. Mackay to incorporate inte bis
correspondence for the Times, from this city
could not conceive of Dr. Mackay as an enemy
of @ British Union on this continent, and I feel
pes aan that having followed carefully
ery able letters from the Maritime Province

Some great and salutary acts in ab-_

a
since he left ete, thet I am satisfied his ani
was the reverse of unfriendly, and that he

not himself to blonye, except for giving the sane
tion of his name, and the benefit of the Times’ eine
culation to the invidious and exparte stat

with which he was supplied when in Montreg}
[ make this admission with siucere pleasure, fp
1 cannot but lovk on Dr. Mackay, both asa Writer
and aman, a8 an honor tothe profession of letters,
{cheers}, if [ may call it a profession, and nate
rally I should desire to see his name, where |
believe it belongs, on the side of the good cauge
Colonial Union. Only six weeks age, Mr. Chaip.
man, we entertained in this room above 100 wf
our fellow-subjects from the Maritime Provinces,
who had, thanks to Mr. Ferrier and Mr. Bry dyes,
more or less opportunity of seeing what Canady
was like — what she prodnced — how her

lived — and how they really felt as tou

their own institutions. Among that hundred, sume
were new acquaintanecs to myselt aud others, bug
all were bailed as bene guests among ug,
[Cheers.]} What Irishman would not regret,
(speaking only of the Irisa portion of those via

Whelan of Charlottetown, Mr. Lyneh of Halifax,
and Mr. Parks of St. John, by the dear nawe of
countrymen — in every meaning of the word?
(Cheers.] [aay 1 was proud in every acewune
to eee Such men among our guests, and not less ae
to welcome the Donaldsons and Macfarlanes, and
men of other origins, whe were of that party?
But I was particularly pleased sud proud to see
the Lrish of the Maritime Provinces so well repre.
sented here, because [| was aware that a

had been made to them—which ought vever have
been made — to enlist all their fevlings against
British American Union. The Orangeiin of
Western Canada has been beld up to them agg:
bngbear; the crimes and errors of the Irish Union
had been artfully placed before them, as a

of what they might expeet in a Union with Canad,
It, Mr. Chairman, those inflammatory and up.
founded appeals to their hereditary pre’

had taken root, the Irish of the Maritime Pro.
vinees would at this moment have been as hostile
to their fellow countrymen in Canada aa the
deniented Fenians of New York. But the intely
ligence of the Jobins and Lynches, the eloquence
both with voice and pen of such men as Mr,
Whelan, distipated these clouds of prejudice, and
[ have every hope that that portion ot the Lower
Province people will be found as ready as any
other to consider the merits, aud te approve, on

Colonies. [Loud cheers.] Since the Maritime
visitors were here, a cheering omen has reached

the County of York, in New Brunewick,
[Cheers ] Surely, if ever, now ia a time when
all British subjects in these Provinees should ree
sulve te draw closer the bonds of Colonial Union,
so as to defeat the machinations of conspirators
agatust us, and te demonstrate the hope

of attempting to force us into Annexation, either
by commercial coercion, or by more violent weana
(Cheers.j] Now is the time — of all others—for
these Provinees to take a step in advance, in ere
der to weet the express Wishes of our Sovereign,
aud to avert, by a timely unanimity, all possible
dangers. The text of Union is taken up for us
not so much by men as by events; every thrill of
the telegraphic wire gives us a reminder not te
delay our Union. I speak on this subject with-
out exaggeration when I say, that in my delibe-
rate, settled opinion, the question before all Bri-
tish Americans at this moment is, “ Will you
unite, or will you give up your country te an-
other people and avotber form of government 1"
(Cheers.] I impeach no man’s motives whe
differs trom us i this conviction, but while I
see our situation so clearly as I do, I cannot
cease to ery out, unite, unite, unite! I have
been charged by anti-Umonists with saying that
the late negociations in England had b
these Provinces “to the threshold of indepen.
dence.” Well, sir, I did use that term in a eer.
tain sense, which I explained at the moment
when I used it, but which the anti-Unionists
have found as convenient net to take as part of
the quotation. I was ees with referener te.
that delegation te England last summer, whieh
resulted so much to the honour of my friend Dee-
tor McDonald, and my other henourable col-
leagues who are present, and toe that of Mr.
Brown, whew absence from the Province to-day
L sincerely regret, for [ know he wished to be
with us. [Cheers.] I said the Queen's Imperial
Government had treated with us as a power;
that they bad unpressed upon us our own duties
and obligations, as if we stood on the thresheld
of independence. And if we were ripe tor that
condition — if there was no likelihood of our re
peating here at the North the experience of Texas
at the South—prewmature independence followed
by inevitable annexation — I de net think, if we
were really anxious to go alone, that there would
be any decided hostility to eur doing se shewn
in England. But that these great Provinees
should be wrested or filehed from the Empire,
ouly to be added to the extent and reaources of
the Repuohe—ouly te obliterate England from
this colony—only to hasten the establishment of
an exclusive Continental system of trade : This ie
what, | think, no patriot of any party here er “ at
| home” cares to contemplate as the future of these
Provinces. (Cheers.) There are now three
North American. powers, (four if we include
Mexico), the United States, England and Russia.
England holds still, notarthstanding all her for-
mer losses, the second place as an American
power, aud Russia the thied. It is for the states-
men of the Empire to say whether—notwithstand-
ing that by their act, not ours, we have ceased te

be peculiurly advantageous to them—whether
there are not strong motives of political strategy
felt at St. Petersburg aud Wastington, and not
unfelt at London, why they should ching to the
convexion for England's sake, as well as we for
ours. (Cheers.] We also desire to maintain on
our side that connection—to do our part manfully
by it; but that we should do so with the best pos-
sible effect, it is essential, it seems to me, that
these Provinces should be placed under one ge-
neral government. Withvut Unien we eannet
have the Loter-Colonial road, and without the
road we cannot have direct intercourse with the
mother Country, acd, without boih, we are at the
inerey of another Government and another people.
(Hear bear.J I repeat again, all events address
this questiog: “ Will you unite, or will you give
up your country toe another government and
another people! Will you consider your situation
and the proposed Unieo, net from any sectional
or sectarian point of view, but weighing all the
arguments, decide for the general good !”". | Hear
bear, and cheers] The issue is made up; the
question ie, do we prefer for ourselves and our
children, British Connection or Annexation ; do we
prefer the British system, purged of every tradi.
tional abuse; do we prefer our ample self govern:
ment, Ministerial responsibility, judicial indepen-
dance, and executive stability, over and above in-
dissoluble administrations, eleetive judges, and a
chief magistracy turned out of that wheel of for-
tune called a Convention, every fourth year?
[Cheers] ‘These are the alternatives from which
it is the high and svlemu privilege of this genera-
tion to choose for themselves; and I cannot fora
moment conceive how any man can hesitate
as to the choice he should make. Let us
unite then, to meet the express wishes of
our Sovereign; that we may extinguish the
wild hopes of those who count on finding,
us a divided peuple, let us unite. Let us
unite, te draw to ourselves a larger share of the
world. Let us unite, that by the enhanced credit
Union alone ean give, we may undertake these
enterprises which wilt help to keep our native
population of both sexes progperously =e
athome, (Cheers.] Union has no terrora
for bigotry and mediverity. For the upright and
trae of heart it is full of promise and inspiration,
(Loud Cheers.) Mr. Chairman—one final word.
You have dwelt, in what yeu so generously
of me, on the good feeling and good taith which
we all flatter ourselves characterizes this com
munity, and some share of which you have been
good enough to aceredit to me. say sincerely
that IT can pretend to none but a very hu
part, in that happily existing state of things. But
that it may be lasting among us—as I am sare
we all heartily desire—that it may become pre
verbial of all Canada. and of all British America,
let each of us, in his own sub-division of society,
do what is possible, that the reign of
tolerance may be firmly established aumoug @#-
Men are born divided by nations and by ‘
far be it from me to affect indifference to these
vatural and necessary distinetions; but surely &
tan inay be earnest without being offensive,
honest without being overbearing For the
great and general suciety of which we all are
tugmibers we sacrifice something of our liberties,
+ of our self-will; if, alee, we oe
ti something of the jon to impreve
opinions on others, which, long indulged, hardens
into intolerance, we need not on that acces
the worse member of eur own particular
hations, Such, | know, are your convictions, fr.
Chairman; and such you know to be mine;
therefore we agree so well together. _If this, it
your opiuion, is the service in which | can be
most use to the community, all I will promise »
that never did Canadian Volunteers go mere
cheerfully to the froutier than I sliall be ready 1
go, Whenever these priuciples may require WY
presence,
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THE INSURRECTION iN JAMAICA. .

Notwithstanding the :eredulity with which the
news was at first received, the insurrection ofthe
negroes in Jamaica is a terrible revlity. This
we know and nothing more. Troops have =
summoned frou Halifax and Nassau, bat thie
fact tells us nothing. There is no reason to MP
pose, on this account, that the fidelity of the Weet
India regiments is distrusted. There are twa, oF
detachinents of two regiments, in the i
their number is uot sufficient te enable

them te

tors, not to be able to call such men as Mp

considezation, the plan of Union now betore thess) ”

us, in the triumphant election of Mr. Fisher for