é a Fi Ne mete CSG S scald didiee-tiliitnas aeaapeteed agente s nal tgp mann pelcnctae denon. ve Sa ee < -en eeat a ee at ™ ei gs " " f ' , , a 4 ‘ ice ' . ———— : we " ‘ : ‘ im we shall, we confers, be glad, if we : ” : . 4 a . . Pi _SUROPE | the citizens prompt them to action. All that ‘The censures of the Lrpress on the Colony gene-| did not act the part of a friend towards - thing mere to do with her, it che wil weet? ADERNSS TO THE PENLANS. dela There is thu ne cick dr making the tive | INFANTICIDE IN EUROPE. en uired 13 for some one to act, but who i8 pally, we wholly repudiate, — its remarks about) jn reviving the recoiledtion of it. | gentlemen who know and can explain — 1 or trom Riviere du Loup te Woodstock. Should the | In ecurse of an article onsthis subject, the pel a > | would euggest, Sir, that the the militia, volunteer force, and constabulary, we As to the Montreal Herald's assertions, minds better than those Whom we have fs. ; AN PPENEST REVONS TRANG T TO THE IRISH direct ine etee Oe vl i . = ae leon Edinburgh Scetsman of the 30th September / Ma yor eall a meeting of the citizens gt once have, We thoauk, fully answered; and its appre: | ‘ ; se W he-| had the honour of receiving us her rep 1 CHTIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OUR eg ty Loup will da @ large measure tov pays: : “pevside in the first place, for the case a ssh’ . vi ei ee 7 iu : | that as regards Confederation, ‘* even \atives. We recently had occasion te ai wne FOLr.y | part of i -. jto pri ‘ , ae iensions regarding the probable and proximate i and that | sire With respect ; ‘ ‘ i pote on eee asl sls Spex ' the imtercolonial tadlway mow suggested, via) ++ A very borr‘ble instance has naturally ‘ander consideration ; and in the next place, to Lene of curs ihe : Se ee ale lan bas fallen from the true faith,’ a d fend tow pas oni 8 pied. n Pro aie Li ome : ~) Woodetuck, St. Andeew's aud St. Jutu, would turned tie excitability of the public towards | devine come permanent scheme by Which in- losso ont << i ri * a ; én etut au hile lately in Canada, in company with the| sie ne (Aber Geos: Bard yo = be th . N ‘ Oet. Wib, 1865 certainly not be very direct trom Riviere du Loup yytauticide in Bogland ; but how mueb of (68) giyiduals may be protected in fature from) by the writer of this article, who does not believe Hon. George Brown, he, ** Whelan was me- | ,, opinions than the Hon, Willam po" sabiley New York { s to Haltax, but & weald doubtless be the best is there ia other countries? A friend who | similar annoyanee, and whereby persons COM>) that the vagabondism: of a few shall be allowed di : 1 abandonment of the cause ’’| our Prince Edward Island fellow subi Pulte wf ‘ Pellow Cuticns and bellow Countrymen commercial line, and the great object of OPER) was visiting the penitentiary for fewale con- ‘eerved in exposing infants may be effectually dr como te euel & heed'ns tu bring dire eflliction itating @ crue ' know that Mr. Palmer, for example aa We As this great city has been, and still is, con- Cavada te communication with bagland, ae re victs in Prague was struck by a collective latecovered and punished. very one feels | ileal ” —there is much foolish twaddle. us we shall moment he was writing a protest coated very ; d — : “i stil of i " sea ay | ? “ . -” : 1 4 ‘ stuntly represented to you us the head quarters a ye rt eulively in Beitiel ter | expression used by the Sister ot Mercy i®|ghat when caseg of this nature arise, they | ; ae presently show. The ground on which the! of the articles of the Quebee Confer te ‘ nan “ yhes Ae . eran “ y ‘ ed. : . . — ° sich 8 Fs se articles i ; os oo “onan. Po wm pram place na tance, for a letter trom Eugland could reach the! tive portion of the population ; aundasked how lor philanthrophy to set the public good will Phe Mother Couatry just vow is deeply inter- following extract from a —— w signing pone In BUC ~ rr us to ‘ mos y stacil . 5 : : ea : , J Cn seal - : — : a ‘eae ah . e ee J " i a money and your lives at the drapes ei Tlie oF larthestexiremity of Westerns Canada before the | maby might be convicted in a year in the in action. Cases of this nature _ Bre well ested tu the Fenian wmovewenut—the United States| Whelan wrote or * meditated,’’ not in Cana —~ Resear "aula hie aioe —_ be tue ganization we fed compelled, ia commoence, to steamer made the passage trom iulitax to New | country to which the Scotch vieitur belunged? adapt d to call forth the good services of the in the great work of Kecoustt uction; Canada ad da, but in Shediac, several hundred miles this Fo gener end be ea We enema really , address you publicly ou thie weomentous subject vert. 5 |} When told that there might be one in the clergy and benevolent societies, and the public’ the Lower Provinors in the luportaut quesiien of |” fi time in September last :— | all through this country speaking ag itn f We weed hardly say that we yield mot te any) Yue Goverament would lose not a sixpence by | courge of two Or three years, she lifted up the naturally expect all or some of them to move | Coutederation; and the Island, or to give r ull ites side of it, some tim P ; ipproved ol the articles, and did approy a ; 7 me Al . “ advavcing cupital sufficient to ensure the eon-} —- A ’ F ahi honors, Prince Ldward Island, is agitated to its “we sbee acheme,”’ he wrote from | * ’ e ‘ ] toeasher woe a sapaeses ol = en | avediinn vf tive comaining line trom Woodstock | pends of Sempement, Ae Orinainis sons aay in this matter a reg ] j seats With the sayings aud duings wt the Tenant | ~ ne aa pce othe journal which he aud yet he had no sooner get beck to } se ‘ , ta Pn et eT anal tiviewe d sa piti | expressed « suspiciva that we must be a bar-| | hope you will give thie letter © piece 10) ee raw attitude at absuate sd eoanibine oper eiog : coetionable in| Ldward Island than he openly and at Irish cause baa been wade to asin van. And) te Riviewe du Loup, and this capital amounts to a | Id P | en League. The attitude of organized resistance to edits, ‘there is no doubt that it is objec tionable in . } rongly 4 : a. lactones, aoe tebe the tune mere traction of var aunual pational income. A barous people whe tuok the crime of chi yourcolumns, and that youand the ot a e b. law aud order which has been assumed by a c0n-| wwne of ite parts, especially to the small and poor elared against the wbule plan But if our ¢: “ oti — of cheering, on the propoded | tine from Halifax to join the Grand Trunk would, | murder very lightly. She had 400 women | jjemen of the press in the vity will Call pud-) i serable portion of the agricultural population o!| Colonies —/ am not at all sorry that it has-deen whe pip ot a ny ever Lad an ally qutemrut—it we take counsel of prudence rather | among other advantages, rendet our trade with| under her charge, und ol these the proportivn lic attention to the subject of which it treats. | oi iis little Provinee in our immediate neigh | gid aside?” on Ww bea wh cou Whe uly trust, it w, { Than of paasion -—~ it we appeal te your common Canada entirely tree trom the fiseul enactments | onder sentence tur child murder was 120. In Yours, &e., widens he bourhood, las attracted a very great deal of at-| ,, M. 1 Herald is singulariy unfor- yi. 7 1 roe t vy ey fell ‘ sease, nut to your over-exciied expectations, you | ol lie Uuited States, Scotland, which was about two-thirds of the A CITIZEN. tention outside its ewu limits. The reason is The Montres: is 6 d a Whe red on ‘ie ‘ and when Palmer , ' » ¢ i ‘ spt A ih . if " o, p will de us the justice lo respect our uslives, aid SS a | population of Bohemia, the number of women | Oharlottetown. 2ist Oct, 1865, obvious, ‘The Island is but a small place, aud its| tunate in its reference to affairs connected | this year ee 6 Pe Pence will j pe = c é pop i, . Whelan showed his cordiality by eatin ; weigh well our words, Some of the Northern papers—chiefly de-| sentenced to penal servitude ip each year ll SS | altairs have been managed hithertoin a smalland| with the Lower Provinces. The editor pre- dianave go eumee hn. bik Sees. Gent nahin 8 many J ¥ ; ee . . ; ey j ae ; j ore ee ee ee 7 or ree er : osphyenale a tle: . ' i 7 Phe greaiest aulbertty ow military suijects of) mocratic organs—are publistiing accounts ol j about St; and if nearly a third of these were {> B : : rather odd way —not always ealenlated te ele vate tends to be well versed in those affairs, but| os many Contederation eprethie me ‘ modern times, Napoleon Ll, writmg to tis bro- extravrdinary outrages by the negroes on! convicted of ehiid murder, we should be ona x ie yy Naye ry. them, particularly in the estimation of seusible ’ re tt se > Whelan any maps called ther Joseph, when hug ot Naples, used these | white citizens in the Southern States. ‘Lhe! social parallel with that department of the aud moderate peuple, Its Government, too, have he never writes an articie touching them the true faith. Even white he was sitting at po penne raat * Nothing nha «2 £0") sories may be literally trae, or they may! well ordered Austrian empire. —————————— —= : a ——- a a eee a = enone +9 without committing himself to several blun- elbow of our Minister of Ageicultures the set \ ! suiccesstu 8 c . ee c on : . i atea sell linportasee the P > # habl : : : ; . > 7; Saubietie oe dentists rae rr . a fe the | valy be Per ten... pen published with the| * The Germans themselves are not aware ol Charlottetown, October 30, 1865. of lng i yo" = "cetaks Eedd. ian ee ders, which, though not always very import. | w hile he was listening to those lively dirg seit , dil af bietaey And on ally add, that in| Yew vf exciting Northern sentiment uga@inst) this sucial phenomenon, and they never will : ee State which may perhaps, be all right and very t ti lves, nevertheless show the loose |" tho tired kon tumios Kreatuen, with ' inn ory. At . uy ‘ Fi i} ; YR ns ‘i t ‘ : . ei oli ’ { y, ° i ght an Y | ant in themse . ee » mdrstonal Mr Cc g the negrues the rightul suffrage. Av! be aware of it. 1) you should teil it to a ei : , , which we under » Carter view ot humanity and of religion, nothing ean be | 8!¥'8S 4 4 | De ; s a = the (uleuios telus spirited, but it bas the effect of reminding ove vt , . | see ‘ * . : , D. » Ww nase: 2 : y every M: t , . ; : riting fur the : . more criminal than inadequate aud il-cousidered | eXchange Bays :— tizen of Prague, who passes the door of the | NEARLY eve "Y M . from paspaerne te i the fable of the cock-sparrow aud the eagle. and careless way in which the “ 4 ig: ee egg Sir Bulwer ‘ altempia at insurrection, The authors of such! «Southervers look forward tothe approach- | penitentiary every d ty. he woald werely Say i= seme papers Lu which we find refleeticus on Phia, however, is a small matter; we have ail our) Herald is done, and must materially damage rats Daven Tidwee usd elete Fo eae as ( attempls, Whatever their infeutions may be, “re ling Christmas with much anxiety, and ap| tt is some mistake, and resume bis pipe ; DOT | ine state of affairs in this Island; and the reflee-| little failings, and should not, therefore, be too its general character fur veracity. In the 2a ed even while bowing when a aes ay wap base pba aud be ly " *") universal desire prevails that the Federal gar | would tie ever take +4 trouble oe. ‘tions, in no case, are complimentary to ihe charac- “ena phe mages a es Semnees hanger satirist aloes geste is’ pee, tallhing: oh all. te his banged to Mr. Geo. Brown, Wh edge of | ae fruitless Guw wf Sivud [hal may louw their roug hou : : >-| whether it is a mistake or not, ad we such i en vusiness, though not a matter directly of any | extrac , 5 : lay . riguns, throughout the country, ma be in-| Whe ; as i i 2 generally » country is repre- “Be Wip iRi : st i meditating a cruel abandonment o attempte: for all the misery, crime and perdition creased and sirengilened by 5 eg yps. | a social evil among us, not only would it be ter of our people er Pas cous 2 4 fepte great consequence te other people, is of very justify the assertion, that Mr. Wheian has} (, Aa te a Quebee echeme,” Fag Monn Cauee, | that uray fellow. They deserve te be accounted | © “ corded ur blue-books and debated jin | sented tu be in a state of insurrection; whereas | serious importance to the Islanders themselves. ° bh i : " rote the deadliest enemies, vot only of their own) be rebels are, for the most part, unarmed, | recorded 10 0 Rags f . ‘amis ‘| They are now, to a certain exteut, upon their] #bandoned, or thinks of abandoning, the} Canada to the Charlottetown journal Which he | al or pa all poner ie : land there is vo telling tu whut excesses the) Parliament, but the press would take it up|the actual disturbance, or insubordination, is ? tn - : on seh oad |< desaen ah Chathdeadenien? alias bende edita, “ there is no doubt that it is objectionabis perenppee®, . ie. : : . : ' , rhal, ¢ , H ’ j ‘y ule] se : : ' K d how seldom bave the conditions which in-| negroes may be driven by want and disap- | with the exulting spirit of finding something | confined to two or three sections of Queen’s |“ aa ait tole ettied. aa i seiastalindie ; . carey mm some of its parts, expecially to the small rs - : O° eh fr pk gl ne append nape ; ae pee worthy © g emte wih he Teepoustol’ | fallen one iota from the ‘true faith ”’ that! jor Culonieo—Jam not ef ell , sure success attended auy insurrection’ These|pointment. Already, in Anderson, 8. U.,| really Wein AIG, 22° Gane a yee 6 | County only, in which the inhabitants have here- duty of self-government. . } laid aside.” It is eid ack Me L conditions are, equal resources on the part ef the! which bas been garrisoned by negro troops, | all over Europe. [tis to he much regretted no thats arin advance of their neigh-| As a question of law or equity, of principle or| was in him, twelve months ago, when | been laid aside.” It is laid aside, he ways, writing r ; . : ‘ “ tofore claimed to be farin advance 1 g } ty, trum bead-quarters, in epite of oll the : jusurgents avd the goverument, distavce ef the! the freed men bave Leen committing feartu!| that, full as we are of minute statistics ip ; Sd ..| common sense, the foolish and infatuated * Leag-| he aecepted the Quebee plan of Confeder- 4 : 4 : rloqueace revedted provinecs trom the wagaziues of the outrages. A lady fricnd of mine says that | this country, we should not have the means | bors as regards the possession of property, iatelli- vers” have not a leg to stand on. Still wedon't| en : } l er a St => hg 1 * . . « § a » . ° + > share power ia possession, elfectual receguition and | they entered her mother’s house three besne! of comparison with others. We may @epend | gence and respect for the laws. It is teo bad that | tix. the manuer in which the Island Government |asion a8 the best compromise t — could Weck. Whibaetir cuaseiahet ite ‘ ese eae akg: Lag tt yo Ati purah a ma +—how | in one night and shot her brother in the head | on it, there are points on which it would not) the honest and peaceful yeomaury of King’s and | have gone to work to put the nuisance dewn, and} be eSected tp reconcile the conflisting ..in- from other quarters, we should wot Hove, al ‘ ett ge po dacpeed fogaaray aye pang The reign of terror was so great, that for! be entirely in our favor, and he which we Prince Counties should tave to bear any part of atill sot “- pct me etn td wd fle terests of the several Provinees. It was} jt from the confident tone of the opanile Z an * ; ; wa ” Velned 5 > fs are jw ght d ex: : se Ol A : ’ jan Fernment newspi any ayonets ate ar ‘ J rt ie : “ Ireland? We eballenge the promoters of the eleven nights none of the family dared to un-| would be tought a good example ny. these on the odium which the misconduct of the Tenant nie bullets and British soldiers.” There is no ser- im possible to adopt any plan without mu-| But if any one ought to knew all about it, it we ‘ Jel before they begin t | dress, and the experience of other households) whom we look down condescendingly from : : ‘a 2s : the Hon. George Brown, and we find a preseut delusion, before they begin to play with . : , o liken Satan a tae cemiiene olaien Leaguers in Queen's County bas brought upon the | view so disagreeable, so hateful indeed to the | cual sacrifice of opivion and concessions. |) 5. i, es siits: ah Bils *peech of | honest meus lives like gamblers, to prove that} was equally terrible. Toe citizens were| the beights of our suprem ; : oe ter Legislature ehall | British soldier as te be brought out against an b sis bis, in Upper Cauada, yubliched as a most om any eve of the above-aawed ‘conditions exists, in| driven to utter desperation, and resolved to| ** Ready as we are to call on all mankind to whole Colouy: and, after the Legislature sha unarmed mob, or a crowd of foolish and riot-| Lhe Quebec plan appeared to be tie best that} cournging sign of progress, ina New Brunswick | the cause of Ireland, in ISS | attack the Garrison, who winked at these | inspect the unseemly parts of our system— | have met, and the financial statewent for the} ))). people. He dislikes it, becauae, in the first | could be framed after the three weeks deliber- journal, which began by being a redhot portigns And if any country wader the sun had dear) outrages, but it was wisely removed before | Widely as we proclaim our sins and vur cala- | ..4, presented, the tax-payers of the peace abid-| place, the contest is altogether unequal, and also |. iven toit: but Mé. Whelan never'anid of the Quebee sreulutins; then declared aa reasun to remember the price paid tor an uncet| the eyilision took place. Lt would be well it | mities—it is yet wonderful Low @ source of |” Counties will be apt te have their patience | because the rioters are bis fellow-countrymen ep altel ae MP Bela never Bald, | people of New Brunswick would not tave them fain loreign alliance aud an wusuccesaty| iasurs | negro troops were removed from every post | mischiel will go creeping on to formidable ‘4 las et Ms adel hat thuk: thes It has generally happened accordingly, that a] at any time, that it was not ** objectionable ul swamp a remap guy: anything more ‘on the rection, it is Ireland. Seven times, in three cen-| is tee Maat, mlenn wa eich taandentote the meqniete. and, though duly recorded all | ® temper disturbed when they ~ vat y British regiment or company will bear a gtvat| in some of ite parts.”? be oft public places su _* es vow prelvpove to be for Unien, but furies, have the wost chivalrous and Catholic | world with the tragedies of Cawnpore and| the while in the proper pablic register, yet | aust pay, as well as others, according to their) deal before it will yield to the extreme of tiring | | ‘ 1 os a oe agreed to at Quebec. These nations failed Ireland, threugh tault or default,| *%*" Gece we “is p . , into a promiscuous crowd. They will do tQet indeed, where he had an Opportunity of giv-| are the words in which Mr. Brown spoke of us allies of insurrection. And every failure bas, /ackoow enacted apon aa American theatre, | Pass almost unnoticed just because 16 goes on | means and numbers, for the devilwent of those Seer heel mieiility Seiden teal Sth y dislike: ¢h k : | fatveil ; that selewn treaty, which no member even uf a Sol tse cHiew. And ever wiiure has) “‘ . “ ee " . Ads ‘i ‘ ° : duty, but no ie jes , ey dislike the wor Bil : : 7m { | uty, ied to w fresh exile, and a turther “dejn rulation | aud we would think the lust four years had | doing its mischief 1 1s Ore: quae uniform refractory fellows — the leyal Orangemen, the None of us would like to hear that an infatuated Vine er Papas eonnrat y othe the Canadian Legislature was to dare to touch ot the old inkabitauts of the Island. And this is|aforded enough of such representations to) WAY withont petragong Heel. by os a ae wealthy freeholders aud leasebolders, who have | assewbly of these deluded creatures—the Leag- *parts’’ that were the mostobjectionable tothe} in one jet or tithe, “ Let Mr. Wilmot,” said the geveral es perieuce of ail uations: because au | satiate the must worbid appetite fur the hor- |" eruptian. Tie other day the breakfast been pawning themselves off as pinks of pro- | uers—had been fired into, and sowe of thea, as | Maritime Provinces, but especially to this Co- Mr. George Brown, “tell the people of New estavlished government, aa recent events among | rible."’ | table of Cockneydom must have been some- er i a matter of course, either kiled or wounded. | Brunswiek, and especially his able colleage, Mr, eurecives might base ehewn every one, soust al | w treated. ¢ the : te of tt » | what fluttered by an announcement in the | priety heretofore, and who have been making The gatlant tegiinent tteelf would feel a sort of lony. He referred to the peculiar case of this Smith, that the Government of Canada wal wars have immense advantages over any inaur- SAE SOSRIEW Ue: Sener ' aeeeaae: © ©) Times that the inhabitants of London were | auch an uproar through the conutry with their} degradation, and an indignant feeling that they} Colony, openly and plainly, at London, and | ready and willing to sit down with them : * sufferings of ex-rebels, as tullows : : t ; leg ' g ¢ that they penly i y ’ j ‘ Feetiowary subject state, whatever Way tae sya Bo ' ‘ _ | getting killed at the rate of three handred a jcoutemptible two-peuny tin trumpets. Prince | should ever have been eatled upou tor such work. | [amilton, and Kingston, in Upper Canada, consider any proposition they might make as te pathies oi lurenguers may lean. Now ot the great if the stories that come ty us from East }year, and that merely by street necidents | (.. fe soa aa Chane Rina ecis iieia, Nor should they. Either Prince Edward is fit “6 i the details of the scheine ; and if they responded Catholic states of the old world, in the palonest; Tennessee are correct, it is hig's time that! typo vehicles. These deaths were an abso- boene: y ahd Ang 6 Vou ee OVO ANP PHY» | for self-government, or it is vet. Tf itis, then it} few weeks ago, in the presence of the Ca-| trankly the Union of these Provinces would be days, when, for exituple, thie revenue of Spain| che Federal aathorities did something to put | lute tact, for they stood on record in the Re- | stestly, discouraged the Tenant League mated ought to possess within orm the means of quell-| padian Ministers. There was no secresy, no ee sg" A hoped Mr. Wilmot Was mizteew tunes cased ot E igland 5 me Ware me in end to the reign of terror which seems to| gister-General’s returns. The namber of | meut. But had they gone te the extent ef loudly j eg such disurdera, and at bringing to punishment private meditations, no hobnobbing over the| * pene bed New srunswick, the assur Christendom was marshalled in twe cam pa, with i | fl A A | ‘ Pe j ‘ lithe vielaters of law and ordet Iv the blie “ rance that t roveriment of Canada were pre- hy ag . rpee we exist there. Old rebels and young rebels, | 5. rious injures could oaly be inferred, but) and emphatically denouncing it at public meet. |e Ses : ye © publi ee" ? sahd id Sty > | Eaglead eorolled in one and [reland in the other; | eave Revtelow’l panet wha took » leedina | A ' ai 4 Sid ? ; | sympathy is so strougin favor ot disturbersot the |** buusper’’? with Mr. Brown or any one else, | puree torconaider with respect and sincerity why it, when the mighty voice of Urban VILL pre | ay the petper, ; i re &/ the proportion said ty ruie in sneh tua btters | ings, they would have rendered a service to them- | public peace, and destroyers of the good name of when ib Céebiedd chiké thd Glide bee stiggestion that might be made by the Govern claimed the cause of the Irish insurrection a pri- es a ie .Aeiada, ae . r ° sais i ts one death out of five such injuries, and 80 | selves aud to their cuuutey generally ; and they their native place, that the Government of the ‘ OlIDY OUZHE CO) ont of his Provinee for the removal of the eK Seemann ay Oi alt Wate Tetign beete- pont oheliagt add usatblaie mea oe eee eens Wem this Gunes engN lmight have cheeked the mad career of the fools | Jay fiuds itsevif mpoteut, then it is clear that such have had more favourable terms proposed to | isurg difficulties, That touch about Mr. Wik + 5 » g ’ Te ee | C fives fo msurrection, all hopes founded ou them tailed our tathers. what possible grounds bave this Feuian brotherhood for pretending that they have lowed an alliance in Lreiand based on better priaciples, or of motives more potent, ‘eo keep our statesmen tu their promises, even if they bad made preiises ! We say our recent experience at howe bas taught us how all but impossible it i ter msur- rectionary states to combat au estublisiied go- | Verament withent the concurrence of one or more of the before-imeutioned conditions of success We saw, four years age, twelve states of this Uaien, with a rare degree of unanimity, led by Matesmen and suldiere of established reputation, | ussuine the arwed attitude of resistance with a inarvellously cowplete ergavization; we knew | the result to-day; the South mourna its desolate | ficids, ite banished or unprisoned chiets, aud | cherishes ae other bope but such as may be de- rived trom the moderation and clemency of her | conquerora = Will wot even Fevians find the Ju thia age, by the ageney ot steam, Loudon is | asuesrtoe Dublio as Washington te Richmond. | Two-thirds of the great interual lines ot Hnglish | raliveud terminate ou the Lrish channel. Freus | Milived, from Bristol, from Liverpool, fron: Gias- | | fiereeness, and searcely abandoned cannibal-_ : f the olf Ft rT d ' , wural of that great struggle legible and readable? | ism can make hiw 8, he is one ; butno being | erate every vestige of Che elects of the war | a pracess fur reut could be served, say, about New | Cox, & well-| be reckoned at 1500 in each year.” known * rebel” aud spy for Longstreet, was| shot down in the streets of Knoxville the other day by # young woman whose father! y j : | had been killed by the Confederates. /York paper, whe has traveiled extensively saps A Washington correspondent of a New Brown- | : ’ low says ‘while we regret the necessity of | in Virginia and North Carolina, says the ‘such acts, society loses little by despatehing | waste of war bas not in any respect been so jsuch men as Cox’ Such Janguage from a! | paper, the editor of which is Governor of the} : : Stute, no less than the acts above recorded, | he writes as follows :— ishows to what a fearful condition society | must be reduce? in Teunessee.’’ —_— lll Al itm bud as might be imag:ved. On this subject ** Exee;ting only the scenes of the great foe vieinities, which in the aggregate were but a spot on the map, the ¢ suntry appears al- Tue New Zearanper.—The Times says, val ’ most unharmed. The houses and fences have that the New Zeulander must certainly be the most remarkable creature in existence. | He combines every characteristic of the wild | beast with the taculties of civilized man. | We call him a savage, and as jar as nudity. | agriculture, it is dificult to see the hand of war. Matters are generally assum- ing greater activity than they ever betore pre- sented and a few years only will serve to ob- of neglected He| #8 they bave reference to the physical appear- anee of the country. The writer does not speak so eneouragingly of North Carolina, but says the evidences of dilapidation and neglect of farms, and stagnation of industry vf the human race is wore intelligent, can live on the mountains or in the bush like! a wolf; but be meets his pursueis with all} the resourees of miiitary art. He manufae-| tures excellent rifles Out of old sitps’ mus- ) encampments, sieges or battle-fields and their | who were rushing with their silly tin trumpets to jfrighten away from their settlements every euc | who was suspected to be an officer of the law. The Tenant Leaguers suy—and their sympa- (thisers and apologists echo the assertion—that I there was not sufficient disturbance in the land to call fur the bringing of troops here. This may be a difficuit point to settle. What constitutes a sfi- ciency of disturbance to justify the employment of | jtroops? Itis true there has beeu no great rew —uo bloodshed, except the few drops shed at) Curtisdale—not even has the sport been culiven- | standing all this, can auy one assert that the law be- | tween landlord and tenant has any practical effect | jin Queen's County? Will any one assert that} | | Glasgow ; or ou the Princetown road, near Bag-| | nall’s; or at Lot 49; erat the West River--(all sound | lin heir veneration for the “inmmortal memory” | lof the Dutch King, and full of sound in their | | a place is totally wofit te be trusted with the pi i+ her than the Quebee Report guarantees ; but | vilege of self-government, and should at once be | : Acne iintie ld eile l tacked on as a pendicle or portion of a larger and | as it turned out that they could not be had, more advanced state. There have been formid-| he was W illing to acce pt Confederation on the jable organized combinations of Barn Burners and | | Auti-Renters in the State of New York—people | 4 ; i ) who held, like the * Leaguers,” thet they had a! agreed to it, as being some improvement on [common right to other's proper y without any | the present political condition of all the dis- | preliminary industry or outlay ev their part. The}. . ae |doctrine, however, was not a palatable one to /Jvinted Provinces. ) property-holders, though they used pretty much Mr. Wheiaa was always well aware that the same argument as the Island tenants, and gt li Alas : public opimon put them down without the aid of the QueLec plan of Confederation was one soldiers. How has it happened that the local! Which rested with the people themselves to tniilitia or volunteer force bas not been called iste play ! or why Were not three or four lundred Spe- j acceptor rej-ct. le never, at any time, or been Jett untouched, and only in the matter | ug by the ducking of a bailiff. But, notwith-| etal constables sworn in te keep the peace aud }in any place, promulgated the doctrine that} enforce the law?!) [tis a disgrace to modern ci-! it should be forced upon them — no matter Vilization that a Sherif should be Vielently as-/ sauited in the pertormance ot a duty which he| what may have been written to the contrary could not avaid doing; that the officers of the law | in this place or elsewhere by lame, ¢ CeIn Pee | should be maltreated with impuuity, and that | even the ermine of a Judge could uot protect his | person from gross insult. ible, and lying seribblers. The proof of his hay- | ing suid that it could be **ferced’’ must bé sub- All these things, it seems, have happened in! stantiate Prince Edward Island,—and for what! Be-! cause Certain land-owners, having leased their | d by particular and correct quota- tions before the charge can be entertained scheme propounded, if the other Colonies mot’s able colleague, Mr. Smith, and the anxiety felt by the speaker te quiet Mr. Swith’s appre bensions, is admirable, when we remewber the terms in @®hich Mr. Smith and all his ex were assailed last spring in our Parliament, by Mr. Brown and his colieagues, as Yankee Aunes salonists, Whose sole intention in preventing New ; Brauswick trem acceding to Confederation was i their wish for the other alternative. The com plimentary Gt cowes admirably after the vituper alive, from & geutleman so weil able to blow bet and cold; bat the personal is after all of fess | consequence than the public, and if Mr. Brow. [was net “exagyerating” again, he adwitted | When be used the above language that the Que | bee scheme must be abandoned. —- has never studied at) Convention could bave | Where is the unanimity of Ireland, we saw iy | professional academy ; but he is a greater} the Seuth? Where are the ekilled eaptacus and statennes ? Can, then, Ireland hope to suceeed With these circumstances ugainet ber, whea the Seuth tailed though she bad them ull in her! jawer? As to this country or Franee going to war with Eaglaad for the sake of a Fensan Ke public, the idea is tee absurd even for children The} French and English deets have just been (rate: | wiging at Cherbourg and Vortamouth; the b reneh Eauperor, ii bis fifty-aeveuth year, is only auxious | te establivh fies dyuasty. Our goverumenut when : i gees te war with England, will choose its own ' fuue, and ite own cause of quarrel; but assuredly ua will net be dragged inte such a strugule as an appendix toa silly Fenian fillibusteriog ex-| peditics, | Ths movement, then, of Femanism, ia ae un-! Wise as if ts wupracticabie ; it is not only a delu- | si but an enormous sin, denounced by high au-! thetities oi the Church having the eoufidence ot | irishineu whe here declare it to be imuwral And | when, instead of aiding Ireland tu rise and to rid | hereett of that misgovernment whick vecasions these anti-Euglish associations, the tendency ot | thie Peviaw fillibustering is to defeat the great ob- | jrete ot reform tor Ireland—tenant rights avd abo- | ition ef the Church esiablishinent—it must ail to wie the support of the masses of the Irish people. Theretore, fellow citizens and fellow country: | ten, because we kouw the insufficiency of men | who pretend to organize in New York thia Irish | : ‘ $400] to learn that New Jersey is a slave State, eapedition ; because we know tie futility of sueh) Paraguayans. ‘The jatter were summoned to! badly as her polities oo sympathized with ekpeetations of federal aid they hold out te you; | surrender, when they replied by shooting the mes- | J P : becaune we feel how reckiessiy cruel it is to en-| deavour te pit Ireland aygaiuet England in the ex- isting condition of the two populations: because We lovesee that anether “ uosuccessful ineurree- cavalry, When a slaughter took place, whieh was | thing more than a curious coincidence that | View” wuat strengthen the British Govericaent aud still fucther weaken and deerease the | eople | of Iveland—tor all these reasous we respec itully | recommend you to invest neither your money nor deur ives 1 an expedition whieh can end euly iv leaders, an accelerated exodus of tie native pupu- Jation, and tve lasting dishonour of our cou unen | walionality Your countrymen and friends, MANY CITIZENS OF NEW YORK. | portant battles were daily expected. | Sin :— — nae na acne iineceneinetnt (From Herepath's Railway Journal.) INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY. | £9,.0UU00U was said te be Mr. Fleming's es- | thuated cost of this line by those who are sup-| Jeet of all this?) The object Las been simply projeet.| and solely to discuss an arrangement with peed to be net very favourable te the Mr. Nelson, the Secretary of the Committees for Ss He construction, hat recently stated | tr. Fleming's estimate to be £4,000 ,W0U0— a little diffevent trom 29,000,0U0 ! ‘The course of the line would be, it appears, trem the enstern end of the Graud Truck at) Riviere du Loup toe Woodstock, iss wiles, parse | ing through a west beautitul and fertile valley, the sine alse Detng easy in gradicuts, and laviug light | works ail the way. It the line is only 188 miles long, and traverses | au easy route all the way, surely £4,000,000 would | be very wuple for ite construction. especiaily as il Weald be £4,000,000 in mowy, not bonds. At Woodstock it would meet the existiny Tine te St. Andrew's. From St Andrew's to St, Jobin he ie is wader e-atract. Lt then proceed» from St. Jobe te Mone.on, a line that ia made. brew Moueton te Vruro the line is under contract From Truro to Haliiax it is made. Takiug thie route, which would utilize the ex- iv iey line gud Chee waking, av intercolenial rail | way evuld be completed by making only Ise miles | of wow live trom Woodsteck to Riviere du Loup, wud thear 133 wiles are stated io be easy in con struction, sad te traverse one ef tie most lovely | aud tertile alleys in the world Let it be borne be and that the greater port of the whole line trem Halifax to Riviere du Loup is suade and making, aud the J35 wiles te be made! would be easy work; that when made, its traffic would doubtless be large, wise ibe politics! ium- portauer of the line is evident. i Tie gwat direct intereulonial lise wou!d be | from Riviere du Loup to Halifax via the gicater | art ef the length of the Riviere du Leup aud | Vewdstock line, then striking scrosa New| Brugewick via Bolestowy, direct to a Junction! with the existing Lue trou Moneton to Sr. Joho, | atrikiag this made hue at about @ third of ito dis tence from Moncton to st. Join; then from Mone-| fw to Malitex Via Truro by the dines made and soaking. ws qew proposed. Lf, thereiore, the line | from Woudeturkh to Riviere dy Loup be now werde, aud fara the intereolomal sailway via St. | Antrew’s and a Johu, the direet iatereolunial | Railway coutl, of aay future time, be formed by | aecitral jine conmog of from the Riviere du lwu : and Woodstock line at a poitt betore Wovajutonrk | je reeched, (from Kiviere du Loup) and runging salu Che esieting line betweey Moucton and St. , | | ; ja Muaort pah untenable ; but the Maori sap- | talk as fight—sowetimes even rather, and | | soners, together with all their stores. ' | #tute that their loss ix euly 250 killed and wound- shamety) disaster, bitter recriumination among the | ed, jatrorg, on the opposite side of the river, were | hemmed m by a vastly superior force. | ton, tobaeco, &e The people in both States average British engineer. If there was one }are more comfortable, to appearance, than In dress and in thing that might have been expected ot | *¢ the close of the war. ssw modern artillery, 1t was that it would render | other respecte the improvement of their con- dition is very marked. The ladies are al- pers and minere counterplotted us in a my-| 'ady up with the Northern fashions, re went, added # work to their redoubts which | [°™esPan is thrown aside. What is yet completely defeated our Armstrong guns | etter, the general temper of the people is Our soldiers actually respect them for their Proved. und their political ideas more extraordinary talent and eminent valor | on Every body accepts the reouls wt With all this, tuo, they are singularly given. the war as final, and although the people are to rheturie and debate. They would a soon | Mt S#Aguine in regard to the working uf the ifree lubor system, there is a general dispusi- they display ineredible proficiency in nego- tion ty make the most of it.” tiations and covferences. We must add to hy et : this sketch of the New Zealander that though In an article on the slave states. contained hig real conceptions of religion would be | '? # late Boston jonrnal, the following para- probably sati-fied by the African Fetish, he | graph cecurs :—* It should not be forgotten bas contrived to make a conques: of Chris. tha, notwithstanding the emancipation pro- tian bishops and missionaries, ingomach that, clamation and its com plete extension by the these good people support him with devout, sword throughout the States in rebellion, fidelity, even against ther own fellow-| Svery still exists in the Union. The pro- countrymen and friends — London Times, bor sas did not apply to Kentucky and ed | Deleware, and those States, having taken no The war between Paragaay and Brazil and its| #¢tion on the subject, remain slave States to allies appears by late accounts to have com-| the present moment, although the system menced in earnest. A battle tad been fought at) there is hopelessly broken up In 1860, Gayty, details of whieh shew it to have been a! Deleware had about 1800 slaves, and Ken- moestsanguinary struggle. Ou the 17th of August, | tacky over 225.000. It may surprise some the allied forces, 3,500 strong, encountered master of the science of furtification than the —_—- oii, Wee tn boo d ; i the institation. Bat, by the eensus of 13860, rigger. _) ‘ i ‘ urie e . i : “ ra * without papa Sad = pals meee jshe had eighteen slaves, being the only ones longt an ee oe areet | recorded in the Northern States. It is some- At length the Paraguayaus fled, pursued by the! a perfect butchery. The Paraguayans leit 1,500 | these three States alone, ot those not Com- dead on the field, and only 300 wounded. Tueir mitted to the rebellion, stiil continue to re- leader, Duarte, and 1,200 troops were made pri-| ject the constitutional amendment for the ‘The allies! national abolition of slavery.’’ | | sides all this, these very tenants, when they leased pexample 2) Ne, no-those places bave been the | their farms, bound themselves voluutarily to abide labadoe of lawlessness—they are the nurseries of | by the bargain. Were the reuts burdenseue, | que infatuated people who gather in tumul-| here might be an excuse for complaining ; bur eee re ee , 6 they are in fact all but nominal; and if public | tuous crowds when the tin trampets are made to) opmion cannot put these unreasovable peuple blow their discordant blasts; and who—witbout | down, ~ it ig very ve ~~ et ee a . . spirit and public principle are ata shockingly low | offering any personal vivlence to anofcer charged | a inet aa’ wie ot hast os trae | with Her Majesty's writ — piaiuly tell him that) wiatever for the Tenant Leaguers, and uo re- ihe must leave the settlement without performing | speet for those who countenance them, we think ‘the duty for which he entered it. Perhaps we | "at, upon the Whole, the sending for a company : jot soldiers was a rather questionable policy. jsball be told that there should be no troops lover the Island —that the few Orange districts | ete a as itis, they hi act te open anid w Out Vigour, iless i ers are riv i wX- which chose to disgrace themselves by terrorism | enero orks ieee iéitiod ‘oleae the quiet laud intimidation, should be allowed to cultivate but determined, enforcement of the law by the their characteristic pastimes, and should be | civil power, with a temporary constabulary ot sufficient strength, sworn in, as te make resist- ance hopeless, Let recusancy have the coumou siniled upon them, uatil they carried their pas-| Jaw te deal with, and Jet violence find relief in times a little too far, by smashing the heads of | he penieeney . hand leer. If pe onset soe 4 edad . . . ve done, let the Island Government notify the half a dozen bailiffs, and by giving Curtis bis fact at head-quariers, aud confess that, being gruel for all time te come, too small to take care of themselves, they would petition to be annexed either to New Bruns- wick or Nova Scotia. winked at by that eye of authority which once | Special constables — there were nove of sufficient number; besides, the attempt to eurol special constables out of the rauks of orderly people, in districts the least disturbed, fur the — pur- pose of suppressing violeuce ata distance—is al- SE SENT : We noticed in the Patriot of the 21st inst. part of an editorial article taken from the not in it) jthe soldiers had fighting waterial before them, | | brought here until there was actual rebellion all | they would doubtless render a good aecount of } | Was but one remedy, and that remedy was union. any eff-ct. The article is as follows :—- | “ The sanction of the Imperial and Local Par- fiaments shall be sought ter the Union of the Provinces, ou the vriuciples adopted by the Cou- ference.” And mindfal of the respectful consider- | ation fur public opinion which the foregoing | article of the Convention clearly indicates, | Mr. Whelan used the following language in) his speech at Mortreal, on the 29th Octuber, 1864, when, at the public banquet in that} city, he had the honour of addressing one of | the largest assemblages he had seen on a) festive occasion in Caneda -— “The union proposed by the Conference, in| which there were mutual concessions of small sectional claima, and a unanimous desire for econ- ciliation, Will net, when its deliberations are more fully known, alarm any mau. Large seetional riylits aud interes{s are proposed to be preserved. | The counection with the British Crown will not! only be not impaired, but will be strengthened; and for the preservation of those free institutions which we all value so much, and which we hope tu transmit to future generations, he thought there But let no man imagine that this much de- sired object can be effected at Quebee or Mon- ways sure to create much heart-buruing that! Mentreal Herald of the 14th instant, reflect- might lead to serious discontent in places that|/ing on the conduct of ** Lower Province would be otherwise well disposed. A Militia we have not, except on paper; the Volunteer Politicians,’’ touching the question of Con- federation. Mr. intro- duced with some sneering —and what was intended to be, perhaps, disparaging—re- Whelan's name is Force are exempted by law froin acting in the suppression of local disturbance ; and if they were not su exempt, it would be folly for the Govern- CORRESPONDENCE, } Auother detachment of Paraguayans, in" prevented from re-intereing their friends by the Bragiian guuboats, wand at last accounlis were More im- To tue Epiror oy Tus Examiner. 4 yim er: . I wis’ to call the attention of oar citizens The Florence correspondent ofa New York | pledged their allegiance to the Queen! But there . i marks ; and the Patriot, anxious to pick up ment to give thein arms and aimmunition—te do | halls of the sereral local Legislatures, the consti- jtucncies wf each Province in public meeiings as-| treal. Tne great work is but commenced. The sembled, and at the hustings, are the places in awhich the great question must be settied,” These views plainly shewed that the re- sponsibility of uwceepting or rejecting the) Quebee Report belonged to the people them. | selves, garbage of that kind, readily copied such: | what?—to put down the tin trumpetters, who tj f ae i ( icle as sui } ‘ were, many of them, the valiant Voluiteers that ages os ad - arsine be — one Some of the pious editor. But, as the sequel will) We see no, reason why the whole article may not be re-| published here. is really no Volunteer Force in the country,—it was | Sow, he made a great mistake. knocked inte worse than a cocked hat when the Government withdrew the arms from the Foree If there is any thing really If it be ** objectionable *’ in some of | its parts, as Mr. Whelan affirmed on many) Occasions, WHY SHOULD HE BE SORRY AT SEEING IT LAID ASIDE, a8 be said he was Nut in his! letter from Shediac?) That expression of | i want of sorrow in the matter of the public, |} in the publie mind. | have mistaken the course which due regard for | the principles of our party required us to pursue, They say that the League has bad ite ofigin in, the bitter feeling of disappointment to whieh the” crooked and deceitiul poliey of the Goverament party, teuching the Land Question, has given nae They aver that no Govern. ment, how obnoxious soever, which has previous ly had existence in this Island, has been held ino such thorough detestation as the present. They |) maintain that the great majority of the people are determined upon its overthrow; and assert that they who are loudest in their execrations of it parties by whom, in the Legislature, itis sustained, for the betrayal of the public trust re- posed in them — are the very men who were the 1st zealous in supporting them, at the last gene- ral election, And, moreover, they declare that: the atiempts of the Goverument to suppress the League, and te strengthen the hands of the pro-- prictors, will have ne effect so certain as that of increasing the od-am in which it is at present held, and of rendering its downfall, if possible. more rapid aud complete; and that, therefore, if true te our professed political ereed, and really desirous for the reaccession ef the Liberals to and the power, and the re-establishmeut of genuine Res ponsible Government, we ought not to have inter- fered, in any way, to check the progress of that discontent and disaffection, which give such full assurance of the happy disruption of the Tory » party, aud an early termination of their intolerant rule. To the political morality of such reasoning a8 this, we must strongly demur. If we mistake not, — it intimates the propriety of setting material ende above moral means: and such a doctrine we beld to be one of the must dangerous and indefensible that can be inculcated in society, paper states that the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Italy recently had a secret meeting, and adds :——** Do yon ask the ob- the Pope, which shall ,ut an end to the oc- enpation of Rome by the Freneh, sod bring | about a reconciliation of the Papaey with | the kingdom of Italy, and lastly to effeet the | commercial treaty with Austria, of which [| bave already written, which implies a direct reeognttion of the kingdow of Italy on the) part of Austria.”’ : adie na A Seems or Tracepiss.—A few wonke! ago two citizens of Pickens county, Georgia, | went to church during service, and called for! two men, agtipst whom they had some! grudge. The wen refusing to come out they | went in, and at once commenced firing, kill to a cause which every une adimits to be one of great hardship, but in which no one seems disposed to move. It appears that some four or tive weeks ago, about 11 or 12 o'clock at night, an infant was deposited by some un- known person at the door of a house in Pow- nal Street belonging to Mr. Boswell, at pre- sent occupied a8 & Boarding House. Upon ite discovery the police were immediately sent for, but they hesitated to do anything. At last one of them went for and brought a woman — Mrs. Dibbins-— for nurse, The Boarding house keeper tuld the wowan to take charge of the infant ull the opening of the Police Court next morning — thinking that, as a matter of course, the City Fathers would make inquiries afler the person who was guilty of exposing the infant, and would take charge of it for the present, asa perish. ing fuundling. But the City Council would do no such thing, or anything elye concerning ; i's infant, meanwhile, was on Mr Vo Wednesday toliowmg. Dr. L. Harper! Dibbies'e inl Wid, belng'k past Rouah went, with tiree citizens and three soldiers, | neg ane ries R ‘ for ite support The i eemen trems pedis yr ao oe | latter, of course, believes that, having paid her ing one wan and mortally wounding « lady —suspeeting, perhaps, that the oath of allegiauce would not be kept by the gallaut fellows, and that they might use their rifles improperly, (not to the comfort of bailiffs im the civil ser- vice of the Crown,) and that tin trumpets had more dulcet notes tor their ears than the rattle of tusketry, Now, then, let us see what our position was: Smovth it over as we may, there was unmistak- abie resistance to the lawa,—it was authoritat- ively proclaimed by the Tenant League Society, in one of their rales, that such resistance would be offered,—there was no local Constabulary to enforce respect for the laws—no Militia—no Volunteer Force. In such plight was it proper for the Goveriment to let anarchy stride over the land, or tu call in a small portion of the regular army? Let those who p ease answer the question. We must honestly confess we did not like to see the troops coming—we du vot like to see them continued here as a uiere police—we (A general tight ensued, lasting half an hour, | pee | for the night, until the opening of the Police Iwo citizeps approached the house to entreat next morning. she is no more lable for the support of foundlings and paupers than ang other member of the community. Yet, strange to say, the Police Court gave judgment ayainat her, thus miking her the | 1 | them to surrender, when they were shot dead. | two desperadoes being then killed and a third | mortally wounded. The other two rushed | vut of the house, and attempted to escape by | Une was immediately killed, and | rupning. the other sad he would surrender, when be, was dispatched by bayonets. The Army and Navy Gazette has @ good | story about the French at Portsmouth. They took the greatest imterest in the cricket, maich betweea the one-legged and one-armed | pensioners, but were horrilied by the state. ment in the report shat when the latter had) finished their innings fhe stumps (metgnons) were drawn, The trapsiator’s error led tu the belief that the drawing of the stumps) was 4 punishment inflicted on the **gpe ara’ for having lost the match. ce : The Aibany Evening Journal denies pomtedly, | and us if by authority, the report that Secretary | Seward has given iuformation to the British Go-, vernment of the movements aud planus of the Peuiaue in this couutry. oe ey — | ¢@=}]i.—<_,°—-. 5 , Court the victim of all other eitizens for the support of this object of common charity. This decision was, of course, appealed from the sitting Ma- gistrates—who were guided by the Reeord- er’s opiaion—feeling the case to be one of ernel hardship,and formally memorialized the Administratur of the Government in Coun- eil, The Couneil, ehary of establishing a precedent, refused to interfere. Surely, Sir, it is time that some act was passed t» provide for guch cases as this. Will the citizens of Charlottetown stand still and see an infant exposed to perish, or have one or two innocent women victimized for its support? Every one cries shame! yet there is no one todo anything. And, mark you, what is the case of these parties may be that of any other bousedolder in the enty to- morrow. Let the appeal in this case be de- termised as it may, ope of two innocent cr > Be some~w eH «we ~ - pen Ne RE i capnot patiently indulge the thought that the well behaved farmers at East Point, St. Peter's or Tignish, must help to bear the evst of Orange Queen's County; but rather than see the law set at defiance, and rowdyisim. ia the bad example of very bad people allowed to spread to other parts — we are not now dis- posed to scrutinise too closely the means whieh the Government have thought proper to use in the faw,~— and if possible, to bring back some little portion of that respeet and covfidence witb which we were regarded by our tellow Colonists on the main laud before the Tenant League pes- tilence came to throw a blight upon our geueral character. Those observations hase been suggested by the perusal of an article in the Halifax Lzeving Express of the 20th inst.. which we reproduce here, in order to shew the light in which a por- ‘parties wast suffer, unless the good sense of tion of the press of another Colony regards us. Palwer, if anythiag can be; and Mr. Jaly wy oes. offensive and hurtful in it, the Llon. Edward Palmer is the sufferer. [1+ is, or was, the champion of the anti-Confed+ration party in this Island; and his duplicity and ineon- sistency are well exposed in the remark about his going ** all through the eoantry ’’ (Cana- da,) ** speaking as if he had approved of the articles’’ [of the Qachee Convention], * and did approve of them; and yet he had no sooner got baek to Prince Edward Island than he openly and strongly declared against .the whole plan.”’ There is a quiet sarcasm in the allusion to Mr. Palmer being ‘ seduced into signing the Quebee Report ’’ ** in such a way as to make the world believe that he approv- jed’’ of the articles it contained, ** while the affirmation which his signature at- tested really did nothing of the eort.’’ | What @ poor, green, aoft, innocent ran he )is to be hood-winked in this way! What a shocking thing it was for the Delegates at Montreal, on that fine Sunday morning that we wot of, to impose upon the disingenuous nature of the P. E Island Attorney General! But it seems he was a pliant tool fur decep. tiun—that be took it kindly and naturally ; for, according to the Montreal Herald, be | order to restore qutetucss to the country —| went ubout Canada practising deception, trust jn the ability of the authorities to enforce | leading people to believe that he** approved"’ of that to which be had put his signature in ‘his abnormal state of innoccuey, when no such *pproval wasintended. The Montreal Herald | evidently refers to Mr. Palmer's most unfor. ‘tunate Toronto speech, in which he strongly | eulogised the project of au union of the Pro. _vinces, bat which he afterwards in this Island disapproval of the Quebee Report, does not | Political parties and rival statesmen, when con- | pended upon public favour—to whieh he was 'never much attached from the first — and. f | tending for power, are not always found to be aa. prove that he is unfavourable ty some) scrupulous about the uature ef the means which plan of Confederation. Tie Canadian they employ for the attainment of their ends, as Ministers are well disposed to revise the they would be were they influenced by notbing plan of last year, a8 may be seen by) but a desire for the well-being and happiness of Mr. Brown's speech, (which the Patriet ‘the people over whom they aspire to rule. But most disingenaousiy omitted), and they are seldom, we believe, either in our Parent State, wiliag to receive suggestions from the Mari-| or in any of its dependencies, can public men be time Provinces touching the details, so as, if found so vile as to be willing to accomplish the. possible, to make a better plan. Now, then, overthrow of a Government, at the expense of why ehould Mr, Whelan be rebuked because | ‘h® constitutional liberties of the people; and, ' thank God, none, whe have the honor to be ac. _knowledged as leading men among the Liberals, would, we are certain, be so base as te endeasor f | to compass the depreasion of their political oppo-~ nents at so ruinous and damaging a price; and he happens to say that he is not sorry for the rejection of a scheme which clearly de- which the people in all the Provinces —| (Canada included) —have agreed to set aside for some better scheme ? We will, without further delay, give the whole article from the Montreal Herald, and such of the liberal party as have stood aloof from al! connexion with the Tenant Leagne, and yet censure-us for our denunciations of it, are, wey fee] persuaded, blind to the nature and extent ot the real danger and calamity which, as conse we hope it will not lose any little effect it was intended to have fruia this long preface :— (From the Montreal Herald, Oct. 14.] The Lower Province PoLrricians on CONFEDERATION.—Light ovcasionally comes to us from unexpected quarters, and if some of us bave been ineiined semewhat to contemu the dimeusiona of Prince Edward Island, we cannot | refuse to admit that we have gained a good deal of political information from that quarter. | It was from thence that we first ascertained the real value of the unavimity which we had pre- viously supposed had prevailed at the Quebee Couvention, and that instead, as had been given out, ofall the members of that self-constituted body having agreed to the resolutions adopted, they had only agreed to “ authenticate,”—in other words to certify—he genuineness of the minytes of their proceedings, while some, gt all eveuts, dissented trom the conclusions arrived at. Whetier this very clever trick to get the names of all the parties fo a set of agreements te which they did not agree, would ever have become 80 emphatically condemned. ‘The least alla- | kuown te others beside the first contrivers, il tion to this incident must he painfal te Mr. Prince Edward {sland had not lighted up the jotherwise obscure transaction, we shall uever Laird‘ know. But while thanking her for this service, quences of its existence, are now impending overt Yes, blinded as they are by their antipathy to the ruling party, whom they regard as the sel- fish betrayers of the interests of the people, the, only consequence which they apprehend as likely to ensue from the existence and machinations of that organization—at least the only consequence worthy of their consideration — ia the overthrow” of that intolerant and tyrannie party. Thus blinded as they are, they cannot, however, be unconscious of the Joss and misery which wany of the tenants are now called upon te endure, it consequence of their having enrolled pany as members of the League. The sufferings J such men, however, they may, and ably de, regord as nothing more than the just punishment ot their folly, which bas made them the , victins of the erafty apostles of that illegal asse” us. ciation; aad, in thei¢ estimation, per aa overthrow of the Tories and. the reviviscence Self- Goserument from ite long entombine’’® , would be cheaply purchased, could it be at no geeater cost than the endurauce partial distress among the peopje,