a

hs

= ———— ; en, Ea the incorrecthess of what I said about | spend most of my time in foture in this new obser-) NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS. For tut Examiner.
lof April. The Government denied the right! Ax nuns are too often the object of the malignant, Lie pee a “ their rae Mr. Rowe not ne heard ae ‘ i he vatory, making my calculations onthe movementof; _ — (FROM_OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE YOUNG BUD OF SPRING
a Mr. Douse, at be ia anid to have done | ynmaniy, unchristian, and I may ndd, bhutal attacks | ructer and ability.” (pp. 342, °43, '44.) read the resolution, I say again that Leould the planets, atd at intervals can observe what im-| We have had a long spell of weather lately—fine 5

#0, to grant te occupy

“the land; bat he (Col. G.) had it in Mr. Douse’.

haudwriting that sach permission had not been
iven. The hou. member alse read a minute of

tremble in the case. He explained that the pet-

\of certain sanctimonious gentlemen whose vile de- |

ne word of the reseln ; and I have never been
uiicted with deafness; nor does Mr. Rowe « k
in so low a tone as not to be heard if the * silence
which reigned was perfectly musical. So rude was
the conduct of those who tre upon Mr. Wight-
man’s warehouse, that I was pushed from my place
whilst taking notes of the meeting, and obliged to

Recommending Mr. Laird and his assistants to
consider well this maas of unexceptionable Protes-
tant testimony iv favor of ** Popish** Austria,

I remain your obed’t and hambie serv't,
A. MeDONALD.

famation of others is, very prowably. a mere retlex
of the deplomble state of their own impure goule
and bodies, I shall vive Mr. Kay's testimony re-
garding the admirable exertions of the nuns of
Switzerland to ditfuse among the female portion of

To Tue Eptros oF THE EXAMINER.

provements I have eflected in the African race.
And I shall make you, Mr. Byres, keeper and lieu-
tenant of the Tower."

“ And, Massa,” replied Mr. Byres, “shall I den
hab any chimneys toxweep?’’ This amusing ques-

sunny weather, I should have stated; and a brief,
but premature enjoyment of some of tlie resplendant
harbingers of spring. Golden sunshine, balmy at-
mosphere, cerulean heavens, have alternately and
unitedly lent their respective influences to dispel the

Air — “ Saint Patrick's Day.”
I

Th Bud * a 1

coi of Spring — like the frst hope of
ee the winter — bright “ promiies
And the heart of each songster grows

< he St n Ne M arch 26 862 ) v \ end of th e uildi refusing pa f =
ty ad rittea to the Governinent, statin, . . : — Du estan 8 Co ye, , . .
£ . at they had recommended the con- neat on, as we as to miuisterto e Wants th w x A

gegation to that amount in order to settle the
Inatter, whieh be (Col. G.) understood was a very

lace this Hercules of newspaper correspondence
oald have the public believe that I did injustice to

r. :
"% Mr. McAulay's speech. Mr. McAalay, like a good

Sm,—Your observations on my letter published
Mr. Kay writes :—" The education of the girlsis,

in the Examiner of the 19th, and in the Islander

_

To THe Epiror or THE Examiner.

livening for the congealed latitude of St. John, and

must have mistaken its proper situation. While

Then who could be sad ‘
raises — Whilst nature up.

The blessings of springtide, our hearts 10 refoice ;

\ ‘ 4 ng ‘ . my : Whilst all things abroad lad
: : ticl 7 Ww xcite the passions of aon liy realizing this delightful oasis in the midst . d utter 1 their praises
tender for wiat was done on the place,as very | perhaps, in a move satisfactory condition in the Ko- | of the 30th Jinuary, imply that I put an improper | Weteen, yw ie a Siccodaite ices bie: |  eeregeae Sen,— Ave we te 5 oe 9 go nat tod eo : ; To Spring, lovely Spring, with owe soul ted
ttle i ats could bs seen. He moved | nanist cantons than in the Protestant. It is conti-| wongtraction on that paragraph which I considered ee ae oe jofty janatintion pictured the emp 1 it true oi e sone t a of a wintry and unvaried region—the more estimable yuice ! one
~ soy sa : ssn Mey - —n wee " : “hi , “. | his fertile brain and kk easing” vised the Governor to dissolve the House of As- : .
that the " leader of the Opposition have leave | ded to the ape ial tt of ee oy wary I one a : *xceluded me from expressing my opiuien through ancestry of the Highlanders present, stragylin with sembly ? are questions that have been asked me by from its unfrequeut appearance. we are suddenly =
to withdraw the pe:ition. , } eae my = eo on ai Ce eee tthe columas of your Jouroal, the foe at Bannockburn, Sherif Muir, or Culloden ; | oh vost every person I have conversed with siuce forced to retire into the grim and inhospitable deserts ‘
See. Sir. CORRS cass Gat Hie wee 0 +. , hei oaenenall the pwc vita. ‘The a lfdenvinw life} 1 now avail myself of yourexplanation. I shall | and he knew well too that to recal such age *\ the Award of the Royal Commission has been pub-! of a furious snow storm. Come, come to yen Sount, whenp the Elad stream ig
summary way to deal with the petition, when, by which the Bomentes ian tend and the excellent not at the preseyt time take up your time by | to rekindle expiring fire in Scottish. breasts, when jy: og Sir, perhaps you can answer these ques- inging

the bon. member's own showing, the petitigner |

“hed been unfairly treated. He (Mr. C.) main-

tained that Mr. Douse had power to give pet) carve in these Cantons

mission to occupy the land as long as the de

when he received his first deposit
aad.
petitioner, stating that he had sown a quantity

esta! # Ol the schools conducted by some of the nuns ia Fri
the te were not handed over to the Govern- pourg, the Abbess of one of the Convents allowed
meat. He considered that the Commissioger of me to visit her house, in company with a very in
Public Lands was the best jadge ia the matter, | tellivent priest, with whom I had been spending

ave ht the petitioner’s claim | some days. —
aid he must hav> thoug ie pe +5 rr ph ole hl

He (Mr. C.) then read a letter from the

diseussing whether you did or not convey a strong | their leaders tell them that their liberties os =
ed by opposing politicians; therefore Mr. McAulay
paved the way for his friends, who were to follow,
by exciting the passions, instead of appealing to the
sense of tue meeting, by discussing tue Award, ws
the oceasion demanded. The next charge brought
against me in this extalogue of crime, is, that I sap-
sd the Hon. EK. Palmer's speech. If I wronged
-almer, I am extremely sorry, for his cali,

education they receive in the nunneries, admirably |
suit them for the important daties contided to the ir} limit in that way when you made use of this |
After having examined | language; * We sincerely Lope that all persons of
ithe first class (the Liberal Reform Association, )
similarly ‘eircumstanced with Mr. Davies, will
wot follow his exemple in writiag such letters for
We went over to it in company with | the newspapers, as the one we have received from
We were ushered first ihto the | hitn.
entrance hall, where we found about twenty of the} Allow me to express my views more fully on
nuns, wider the direction of a vanerable old Abbess; your opinion as the assumed «exponent of the
of about eighty veurs of age, seated at a long table,! Liberal Association aud of the Liberal party

re
| Mr
| ventlemanly demeanour stood out in bold contrast
w the overbearing and domineering manner of many
of his political friends ; but I have yet to learn that

tions. Although notin the confidence of the Gover-
aor, you are in contact with the Government ; and
if instractions have been received from the Colonial
Otlice in London, you, in your capacity as one of the
representatives of the people, must have seen it, as
as we in the country cannot believe that the present
Government would be guilty of so mean an act as
not to allow you to see all public Despatches after
the fuss they made about the late Government with-
holding one. But, Mr. Editor, if we are to have a
dissolution of the Assembly, God help the Govern-
ment, for the people will not. The grand bubble,

Meinbers of the Hibernian Society and their guests
intend celebrating the anniversary of St. Patrick,
by participating, this evening, in a sumptuous busti-
fication atone of the hotels. Itisa little unfortanate
for some who would join in the proposed ovation
that the propriety of deferring it until] to-morrow
never entered into the minds of the conductors of
the undertaking ; but objections that find their reality
in the approbation of one's conscience are immaterial

Its light spray, in dew drops, all o'er the y

Let us spend there some ioments to list tothe aingieg

The ae 80 aay awakes as it flows

Ye will think—whilst we number each gem
cending, hight, f iam.

All dancing to light, from its liquid repore—

Of the young thoughts that ever fresh glory
lending, ad

Thy looks, as thy blue eves cheir secrets dinclosg

For who would be ead, whilst nature

The blessings of springtide, our hearts to Teiciee ;

heat on the land : : Seah ‘ Whilst all things abroad utter gladly their

or wheat the land, and that the offer of £12, engaged ia making clothes and heusehold linen for! jayerally, in recommending to the latter not te { ote Na or suppressed the real pita of Mr. the Commission, has exploded, and the supporters in the estimation of those whose feelings are per- To Spring, lovely Speing, wi Prine

wher made, was altogether unreasouable. He the poor. ‘The apartments of the Sisters were of the - tition for » dle prtayrtea of the ae enitt belere Palmer's speech. ; ; , arts ef the Government (or what was left of them) are | mitted to “ flow on, unbounded, unfettered and free.” valaat ng ope soul and on

(Mr. C.) thoaght the least the House could do! plainest possible description. They — on. its prosent Session, as being ill-advised : s uae ae i dhe pablic that eT Havi. | Horror struck at the Report, and stand bewildered,| 4 ohare of moral delinquency, consisting in a NEMO.
vi ; t i : order, and exquisitely clean; but furnished | ** BERL 1085 +4 en sek : : var e » te at Mr. T.H. g y

was to appoint a special Committee to inquire into tiful order, and exquyisitels rge EM

the subject, and he wou'd make that motion.

believed that if the peisiouer had money to take that was not absolutely necessary
his case beture 3 Court, se jury would give a ver-|

dict aguinst him

How. Mr. HAVILAND thought he would be |
better to keep the money in his pocket, for ne jury,! ties of domestic servants.
unless biassed, would give a decisien ia bis favor. | excellent educniign to the young persons destined |

Tue whole case is contained in a nut shell.

says himself that he did not apply for the land
anti} some time in June, and the vtfer to the Ear!

of Selkirk was accepted by the Government to
wards the last of April.

He | very meagerly, and iiterally destitute of everything |

He | to take the veil, comprising reading,

The only course which
toe House could pursue, if desirous to favor the they are accustomed during
petitiouer, was to grant him a sum to enable Lim) ciate, and during the rest of their lives, makes thew | 1)

Ist. Because the geutlemen of the Legislature | jand’s speech was falsitied and misrepresented
The Sisters had | Who pledged themselves to sustain any Award the | Phat Mr. Haviland, ina boisterous manner, told the
no servants and no assistants Y ; ve \
pared their own food, cleaned their own chambers, | known, could not retract that decision after it was | with the proprietors—that it would injare bim
took charye of the dining-room, hall, and ' hamber | laid before them. freee Altwnow: pry poe Poop se
Pf the ' + verformet all ' j nilew i " “ _ ihe ten: ry at ie cos » |y :

nn Thee nb at Ph | _ 2nd. Because not ouly the tenantry had the | interested he did not wish that—and trembling in
right to he appealed to, to confirm that part Of | 135 shoes for fear he might lose his ownership er
writing, arith- | “He Award waich relates to the troubles between | ugeucy, he would not speak freely apon the topic
metic, history, geography, grammar and singing \them and their Landlords, but more particulary | uader discassion—that they might revad for them-
Che noviciates are therefore, in every way, adui-| the public. and the tenantry had the undoubted jselves—but beware of the fiilse teachings emitted
rably prepared far teaching in the primary “schools. | right to proaounee an opinion gt the hustings on | from the * bxumiuer ottice—is wporrbe yn

| Phis they undertake in the female schools, afier| the Report and the Award, on the settlemeat of | 1 will frp over the paragraph bean doy Chat
having taken the veil. The h | Mr. W. EL. Pope is in a position to correct * lying

i

_ae8 uble life t » which | those important public questions, which, according
the years ot their novi-| , gp ROHS ee . Assam) slides ‘ :
: to the resolution ot _the Assembly, were no jas beyond doubt that Jas. MeDonald allowed his
delegated to the Cominissioners to settle, *

[n tarn they pre-| Commissioners might agree to before it became | assembled crowd that his interests were bound up!

| fuerubations,”’ and come to the next, which informs

aud look as if — sun was disappearipg
behind a dismal and unknown future. They, the
lackeys of the corrupt and contemptible excuse of a
thing calling itself a Government, look and act as
if their time is come, and stand aloof from the tor-

where bursting from an’ insulted and deceived peo-
ole. Te arbitration clause, as our deceivers called
the last prop on which they rested their miserable
scheme, has been snatched from their grasp by

Newcastle. Where, sir, isthe inthuence, the boasted
influence of the Tory and Proprietory Government !
Where, I would ask, is the promise made by Colo-

stuted in his place on the tloor of the House that the
Commission would do in eight months what the late

rent of just and merited indignation that is every: |

one dash from the pen of his Grace “the Duke of

nel Gray, the originator of tais scheme, when he

misappropriation of about two hundred pounds of
civic revenue, has been alleged against the chief of
| the Police department, by a Committee of Alder-
men. Its final investigation is now pending before
| the Executive authority at Fredericton ; and if the
recommendation of the committee be carried out, and
the diserepancy between receipts and disbursements
be found to exist, the further tenure of office by the
Aldermanic Police incumbents will cease to exist.

Muck speculation is being indulged in respecting
the disposal of the Provincial Secretary’s Budget by
the Legislature. Many of the proposals introduced

Note.—*‘ Saint Patrick's Day” being
tivel of Spring,” the spirit of “the day”
blended with that of the season. The
too, which that festival commemorates — “1,./
chilled by the winter” of adversity—is awaiting ite
springtide of bloom and There is some.
thing, therefore, pecaliarly appropriate ia this union
of sentiment.

For rie Examiner.
Bie Care Youxsc Mes's Literary
—A meeting of the above i wee
Saturday evening, the 8th inst. Subjeet fot ase
“Which was the most voseful member of a com’
munity, a miller or a blacksmith?” Afier @ long
discussion it was decided in favor of the latter. Cn

Isstitete,

everal) admirably i qualities uterce , the } name to be appended to a‘ lying lucrabation’”’ when | Goy ile “C ish ineight y ? The in Revenue are calculated to awaken urday the Lith, the Institute
2 hw: hens tral rere Rhee nal ees eel re werk necompaad "peale aad peeeeee- rd. Beeause the Award - toate known to US | he tells us m1 peat 3 wus published which Coney diaedendas iti: aaa aan hie camaananda tion the lic . Saat rea Li A : tet tO Ciscusy
om ed iw rite of the petition, if was set aside bs ,| ring in their efforts in the schools They certainly | by Mr. Howe in relatiunte the interest comprised | was " neither moved, secouded, nor even read before sentiments of opposition to policy about to be ether nore va existed in a
ee ¥ u, ey a) nin i n ne) t vie

tuvtion made by the Hon. Mr. MeAulay aad car-| °° living examples of the class of teachers a good

pied, that the House do adjourn.

CORRESPONDENGE,

——— —

in the Land Question, viz: ‘That of the validity of | the meeting.’
; training is capable of producing.”” pp. 399, 400, &
| aol.

; Mr. Laird may say that in those portions of Ger- |

. ‘ Ft | conditions, under promise of which they ebtained | |
| many which I huve mentioned, and in Switaerland | shoe estates, the fishery Reserves question and |

mut interruption !’’

awe

——

EDUCATION AND THE CHURCH.
Ne. 9,
To tugs Enrron or tur Examiner.

Sin,—There is no subject on which certain gen- | ‘ 7
tle.nen deeluim so eloqueutly aud so often as on the | pulation, and yor will see how benizhted and de- | Assembly before its preseut Session, thereby
ivnorunce, superstition glever? and degradation of | graded the inhabitants of that priest-ridden, enslaved | allowing the constituencies to chouse representa-
; . No letter to | COMBtry are, and how they tyrannize over “here

*Romish ’ countries. i purpose in this

wane | Catholics and Protestants are mised, aud the for-| (he Loyalist claims, were not agitated by the | que

| latter in matters relating to education, but go to
| Assembly to be settled.
| petitions set on foot, praying Hia Excellency the

Lieut. Governor to dissolve the present House of

| Austria where Romanists rule with an iron red, and I, therefore, conceive the | report was * liceutious and libellous."” Poor M
Zz z u uj me sts c t n iron ® .

| where Protestants are but a mere fraction of the po :
| our duty to make the most candid allowance for

. a : . ; , | most favourable construction it cau possibly adinit
tives holding their confidence, for the purpose 0! | of? and the base character alone allows his imagi

This was the resolution Mr. Rowe
i the Original Grants,the liability of the proprietary | attempted to read. and more, writteu by Mr. Wighit-
estates to forfeiture fur non-peyment of the Quit | man; certainly then it: eontained his Somme;
| Rents, as well as for the non-fulfilment of other | 41 ty antagonist admits that i Was read with-

‘ U, consistency, thou urt a

The most wonderful part of thie wonderful pro-
, ion, to which Jas. McDonald allows bis name
| mer endeavour, for shame’s suke, to keep up to the | candidates or trusted by the people—previous to | tu be signed, is when the writer works up his imn-
the late elections, to the party now raling the | vination to believe that the coucluding part of ae
r. Mic-
Donald—do you not know thata virtuous man could
never think so iil of his fellow man? and that it is

| their apparent deviations, and give every action the

Award, and the Duke te

receive the Imperial allowance.
the

and give up the quitrents, crown reserves, &c.
Now, Sir, as there is every reason to believe that

vourable to the Land holders, the peeple reasonably

tenant and his landlerd to value the land.

House of Assembly will omy a Bill contirming the

ls the Governor thai tne
Loan and arbitration clauses of the Award cannot
In this dilemna
ople naturally ask, what is the House of As-
eembly going to confirm —the Land holders’ titles,

the Colonial Minister will adhere to his instructions
to Governor Dandas, and as there is nuthing in the

Despatch about the clause in the Award and fa-} through the impending crisis; their tact and skill
coticlude that the Government will wake a law
binding the peeple to abide by the noble Duke's

Despatch, which declares that he will not give a
loan, or allow the arbitration chosen + a by the

Under these circumstances, it is the duty of the

adopted by the Government in endeavoring to heal
its financial consumption. Increased duties are to
be levied on the commodities in most constant de-
mand for the sustenance of the great masses of the
population, The political stability of the ruling
‘power will require to strain every nerve and em-
ploy every ingenuity to steer themselves safely

in state navigation will be rigidly tested, before al-
lowed to drop the anchor of their ambition in the
haven of safety.

During the past weck, the musical portion of this
community has had several opportunities of feasting

or single life?” It was gratifying to behold ‘the
nuamerons attendance of both sexes—the te.
served seats were fairly and
After o——- of ue three hours,
ed on sides, on a division there
a decided majority in invor of the a ”
Subject of next meeting's debute—> Was Capt
Wilkes justified in taking the Southern
ers, Slideii and Mason, out of the British steaner
Pe — ee ——ae
ily, two respectable New uew
m4 been subscribed for.

Ciement McDonatop, See'y,
March 17, 1862. Ae

a EeC——s——SSC‘=PSECC

Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, March 3ist, 1862,

PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF ag.
SEMBTY — THE AWARD.

" oW 1 ; ‘epresenting their opinions on these most im-| gation to run riot und. endeavour to conjare up a
; . i tics."" Well, we will consider the state of eduea- | ™°P &. "a - | ws © a : I
prodace such figures and fucts as will prove these °°" sabi einem or portant public questions—ought to have beea not | phantom plot upon the character of others,
declaimers to be either malicious calumniators, or | 407 19 Austria, a country which, uextto Naplesand jy pecommeuded but strongly supported. It | Before taking leave of J. McDonald, I mast tell
* jlliterate ayitatora,” and will have, at least te some the Papal States, has received the largest share of appears to me from the discussion which took | him that he bas acted very auw isely to allow his
° . : ; ak teh Ee ee ee One Tee Se a ee ay gS PR Ri +. | name to be dragyed before the public at the instiga
‘ hin ofect of “clinvi ‘ li | foul abuse from certain “no Popery”’ gontlemen | place in the Assembly on the Reselution parport-| © : ot }
oper at™etigping theis erdtayien! winge.” | " ' oie de lime -oufirm the Award, that the opini its | Hon of others; and be should be ashamed to be one
> $ : w: ve, u mviv ien ralsed toaei ve -7) ia t d » bith. the imi
1! i b 10 have, most probubly, ofte nd their eyesto- | ug to coufirm the Award, t ne Opinion of its
Aly temimony will, iu this case, be takea from the | pia ee ; Tevanteens ta talie os aah atid tee a
le ? hed |) Waris heaven, exclaiming in advantages is being narrowed down toa sma
tavst respectable source as fur as orthodox Protes- ye oteec Sua

Governor to dissolve the House immediately, and
give the people an opportunity to express themselves
constitutionally on tuis all important question ; and
in expressing an opinion, I um confident I state the
opinion of three-fourths of the electors in the Co
lony. Ihave conversed with men of all shades of
vpinion aince the publication of the Award, and all
adinit that a dissolution is the only constitutional
ineans for the Governor to adopt.

-

their appreciation for the sublime and the beautiful
the pathetic and the marvellous, in enjoying the
“flow of soal’’ emanating from vocal and instramen-
tal concerts. The Institute has been filled with admi-
rers of the enchanting art, invited there by the ope-
rations of a fine military band—a rare kind of thing
in St. John—and by the less assuming but attractive

of a namber, or in anywise assist to spread ani
benefit, and that as the obnoxious instrument

accents of enraptured | Mosities a vouget peaceful -veighbours, by stirring
taiutiom ie concerned, namely frou “The Social Con- | 4™#titude—O God we give thee thanks that we are| porns explained, that its friends confess it is |

ap religious strife—sendiug letters to adjacent settle-
ments, inviting Volunieer Companies to attend

ditiva aud Education of the People iu England and | °°! # the rest of men, not like unto the ttt not ail they expected—not nearly so favorable as |
Earope ; showing the results of the primary schools |

aod of the division of landed property in foreign
couutries by Joseph Ruy, Exq., M. A. of Trinity

Cullege, Cambridge, Barrister ut iaw, and late tra
velliag Bachelor of the University of Cambridge

In two volumes. London: Longman, Brown, &c., |

1350."

Mr. Kay is an uncompromising Protestant of the

meetings to quash discussion, when a question can
| berighted * Papiats’’ of Austria ! uever be so fairly settled as wiren diacussed freely

Mr. Howe represented, inasmuch as that part |
| which relates toa Loan, under wiich payment! : we : , : :
‘the value of land is fixed at 2a. 6d. sty. peracre as eas — atrouy Sao, sae. en mentine to their
the suin which the proprietors ought to receive for | Pubeneaekeaiear an, an y Cat ues and
| &* . : rotes sin early aves. It is not necessary in the
* | tria made to educate the peorest classes of its citi-| tt, should be ae cepted by them, or abide by the | present age that the adherents of either faith should
.} wens. In thatgreat empire....a system of education | consequence, forms no part of the Award. It is} potain any feeling of displeasure against the other
bas been for many yeurs in operation, whieh, in its | clear the arbitration clause is only intended to be | on account of barbarities Which took their rise in
vastness and in its ejects, far excegds the eilurtx put in eperation,providing the land cannot be pid | ihe ignorance and rad neas of a former period, and
ear ee Huxland * It is s fact, of tor under the Loun scheme, in common with ihe of which the enlightened of both parties have long
whieh the old government of Austria may well be) 7 ang Purchase Act, no very difficult thing to do | siace disapproved. Needless irritation should be

Mr. Kay, the Protestant Travelling Bachelor,
says :—'* tis very remarkable to observe what gi-
j guntic efforts the late despotic government of Aus-

Chureh of Euyland, and labors net to conceal hia pre- proud, that thrungbont the vast territorial extent of | at the fixed price of 2s. Gd. per acre, even without | f" ever sank ia an abyss from whence it would

judices aguivat Catholics, which cau be seeu even
fro:n the fact that be frequently applies to Catholics
the vulgar nickname “Romanists."’ His testimory
a ua this account, a well as because it is based on
mature investigation, entitledio great weight. This
Writer gives the following account of bis travels,
and the object thereof :—

In 18M the Senate of the University of Cam.
bridce Lvaored me by appointing me Travelliug Ba-
eelor of tae University, and by commissioning me

t travel througu Western Europe in order to ex-,
s-nine the social coudition of the poorer classes of |

t .e diferent countries. During the last eight years

, d bave travelled through Pruasia, Suxeny, the Aus

trisa K.apire, Bavaria, Wirtembarg, the Dueby of
Basen, Hanover, Oldenbary, Lombardy, Switzer-

laid, Prance, Belyium and Holland, us well as!

throagh England, Wales, and parts of Scotland and
[relund. 1 uudertook the greater part of these jour-
beys iu order tv eXamine tue comparative condition

of the ats aad yperacives iu tnese several cuun-

tereut wede of leyisluting for thew, and
the e‘fects of tuese disierent wodes of leyislativn up-
ou their character, babits and social conditiou.”
Vol. f. pp. 4 a 5.

Mr. Kay, writing of the state of education in Ba-
Faria, a Popish Kingdom, says :—

“ | bad ao interview with the head inspector of
Bavaria, sudasked hiw whether he was certain,
that all the youag wen beluw thirty years of ave
ould read aad writexndu
suid ‘I am certaia of more than that;
toe
all Know something of yeograply aud of
ineuts of natural hiztory.’

I know that

: »rie ©. ame oa tienes Beawes ak, nmen | Paeae ‘ = i }
all know their Scripture History, and that they | S#erland and other Orange Clergymen, of the proprietors; even the Fisnery Resorves which our | whom I had thethonor of being acquainted with,
pt apa the ele- | Honble. Col. Gray and Mr. Palwer, of

that part of this immense empire, waich is compos- > ‘ , “te
ed of the regal province of Bol:emia, a part of Po- the Imperial guarantee to Tulse maney by loaa for |
land, the great province of Moravia, the ancient | the purpose, bat uafertunately this forms no part,
territories of Styria and Lliyria, the provinces of | of the Awerd, and if so how can the Arbitration |
Daknatia, Caryuthia, and Curuiola, the Ducaies of clause be sv? It appears to ine the conuexion |
| Upper and Lower Austria, aad the Tyrol; varviag | between the two schemes is so close, that if the |
Fetes nt ga oP gn harbiye deer tie hag pres plan of purchase forms no part of the Award, |
oe oe powell they are of Ko- neither can the schewe for arbitrating on the |
manists and Lutherans, Moravians, Gicecks, Jews, val F tea tenda te be waraineed Gy tes tounat |
jand Cuiturians; every child betweeu the aves of | be os. Se oe oe , c + oe i] |
| ai a ; we » ££ ther ; evident he le nial |
| six and tex, ~ alinost every child betwee the! Mi a = th us evident that the  sasucam hope yourself, or some of your very numerona cor-
|awes of etx and thirteen, is receiving daily instruc. | “muster Views the aroiration ciause in tae Sasie | ’ . i ' Z a :
tion in the traths of Revelation and Scieuce, and in| light when he sais there are “ insunerable | ss er will belp me out of some diifleulty
the duties of a citizen and aman.” Vol. 11 3i4, ‘io. | objections” to both; but this by no means applies | which Ihave met with iu my endesvours to solve
Will the reading of this extract bring a blush to| #8 2 refusal on his part to recommend fo Her | the philosophy of dreams, with which I have ofien
the cheek of Mr. Laird? Can it be possible that! secon ‘the naa ~ eo coutirmiag the Award, | been seriously perplexed. Some anthors —and, I
j the Austrians hold that “Ignorance is the mother > the ogjecuouable parts furm no pari}
of devotion’’? :

uever arise, fortruth. and justice have no need of
support from folly and false rood.

Yours,
W. D. STEWART.
March 17, 1892.

aa
Ea

To tae Enrror or THe Examiner.
Sin, — As a patron of science and philosophy, 1

e

think, not without some degree of reason — think
t appears the Assembiy are nearly unanimous | ee ‘te state of thonght or contemplation with
in the vpivion that the Award and the recommenda-} W4ich the rind may be oceupied previous to sleep,
i { understand education too well! tious accompanying it gre separate and indepeudent | continues to exercise a kind of involuntary ocenpa-
jh Austria to attempt to edueate two clasa+s ip the) of each other. Tae Award betog hore than éver | ,
seme room and at the same time, as we do in Eug-| the proprietors looked for, will be accepted. Thiet
land, und the consequence is, that the children vi i i beg a “epee ahah es ad
| learn much more in Austriain tree hours thea recommendation of fixing the period of Land at
j do here in the whole day. I eften used to cuiuk | : 2 ;
jhow a German teacher would iaagh, if he could; ’cessary to carry it out, will be rejected,

Mr. Kay farther on aaye:—" They ( beuighted
| Papists’’ remember)

eu bedy.

What | After an evening's occupauion in reading tbe e:furre

| leok into one of our crowded schoyi-roois where! Advantages, I ask, are to be ex pected, whut i af the éelebratdCW ilberforce for the abolition pe and traders, a season's supply of household neces-

a —- classes, and sometimes waren 233 and —— in the Award fur the Tenautry atter | negro slavere,-I getired to réstas neual; and after I’
children, are pretending ty lexru, aud are shout-| these substractions? Scarcely aw expectation. } : ‘nal ¥ ’ Ms, |
; . ‘ “ge Pogo Pathe | ‘ ot age te Y Te’. eet as \ fc f going down
| ag together confusing and cunfused.” (317, '13.)° | Op the other hand—we find the proprietors con- | Seuaeniy fey rage Ae ‘
Kent-street towerds Government Horse; and after |

| To the following extracts from Mr. Kay's work, | firmed in their titles; the Quit Reats, transferred |

| I would most respectfully direct the special attention | to the colonial public, enumerated at £150,000, | paseing Rochfort Square, on 2 vacant plot of land to

writhaetic. ite | of Mr. Laird and hig assistants, of the Rev. George | 2U! in reality a neh larger sun, given up to the ‘the right hand, I observed two gentlemen, one of |

|

courts declared in right belonged to tite crown, 4 y- ‘ : . |
4] oa * Loto oe! ’| Wm. Byres, Esq,; the other I ascertained to be the |
the gallast/ are handed over also; the Loyalists’ claims are | Tree, Ht}

—-iransforining men into dercé brutes by intoxicating |

| uudoubtedly adopt the pay down system, and the

I might quote precedents innumerable to bearthe
| people out in asking, nay, in demanding, a dissola-
| tion; but if the voice of reason and justice, the
voice of the down-trodden and oppressed tenantry,
will nut move the representative of Her Majesty te
| govern the people of this colony according to the
i yl eal ae wishes of themselves, precedents
| will not. Now, Sir, itis morally certain that the
people are rampant at the Government. I feel con-
tident if the House of. Assembly take action on the
| Award, and not inelnde the arbitration and loan
clauses, and if t ey shoald contirm the proprietors’
claims to the land, that there willrise a burst of in-
| dignation, from the East Point to the North Cape,

| Even here, where Government support was so
j strony, no person can be found who will stoop so
| low as to defend a party who only three ydars ago
j} would have indured crucifixion to be put at tie
| head of atfuira ;
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
| Freetown, March 18, 1852.
ee

To THE Eprror or ‘THE EXAMINER.
| Str— As proprietor of newspaper, aud the
| representative of a populous, wealthy and intelli-
jgent District, ] wish to bring to your notice a

tew facis relating to the 41st section of the“ Small
| Debt Act.”
| Before alluding to this section, I will direct
| Your attention to what appears to be the unaveid-
able, though much to be regretted, mods of deal-

i

|

ee | ing of almost the total population of this Island,
Hon of the mind after sleep takes possession of the |‘and the condition of those most affected by it.

This hypothesis would almost. favour a| -From the scarcity of cash in circulation, and
p< peep anata oo a .., | strange but vivid dream which I lately dreaned.| the consequent uncertainty of & cash market,even
| 3. Od. per acre, and the Guarantee of the Loan | ‘ ee | what may be termed independent farmers and

tradesmen preter Wiking o7 Cree, ur merchants

Sities, payable in agricultural produce at ‘ shipping
time.’ Were there a certainty of obtaining cash
for this produce at any season, this clase could |

credit system, adopted through prudent motives
by these, beeomes an act of necessity in others
less turtunate and wealthy. Thia node of dealing
is therefore continaed, and seems, as it were, a!
part of the machinery of our mercantile and secial |

; such asthe oldest menou the Island never witnessed. |

charms of a group of fair youngamateurs. I canne!

doubtless, arranged with jadgment, executed with
accuracy, and received with approval. The most

nerally eulogised, has been the Sacred Concert per-

under the superintendence of Prof. Cohnan. On

roftwoth d. Thechoir consists of Mr.
Cohnan and his family, recently from Philadelphia,
and some members of the Cathedral congregation—
one of whom is my learned friend Mr. Grattan Clif.
fore, a most worthy young man, bat one whom I
would humbly rec ito ¢
in self-sufficiency and importance to be tolerably
well completed. Vons yous-noyez en vanitie. The
music at this concert came from the grand solemn
sounds of the organ, and from the exquisite voices
of the talented performers attached tothe choir. The
interior of the edifice was brilliantly illuminated ;
the seats were all crowded, but in such a manner as
not to incommode the occupiers. The grandeur of.
| the building, and the sacred associations that seize
| the mind while seated within its spacions precincts,
made the music and the occasion doubly impressive,
land willingly checked eternal expressions of ap-
plause, which in other places would irresistibly
force themselves upon the feelings of the delighted

andilors. Were the silentapproval of the heart, and

the benignity that-shone upon the countenances of

the assembled haudreds, were the grateful substi-

tutes for the plandits and panegyrics that have riuce

beén showered upon Professor Colman = his ac
. 2:

ider his education

complished choir.
St. John, 17th March, 1862.

<> 6 oe

To Tur FEprror oF Tuc Examiner.

Str,—It appears that Irishmen are always to be
the subjects of the venom and sarcasm ef the stu-

enumerate any part of the programme, but it was.

successful of those entertainments, and the most ge-
formed in the Cathedral by its celebrated choir,

this occasion the audience has been computed at the

THE most prominent teature in the proceedings
of the House during the past week was the de
cision given in favour of the vbnoxious Award of
the Land Commission. That decision is pretty
well known through the Island now, except in
remote settiemnents ; aud as we fully prepared our
readers to expect that the prest Proprietary
House of Assembly would confirm an Award that
is calculated to secure advantages to none but
the proprietors, very little surprise will be felt.
The debate on this subject commenced on Monday
morning, and was continued down to Tuesday
evening; and we think it is unnecessary to ob-
serve that no successful attempt was made to
show that the tenantry can possibly derive much
advantage from the Award, even should it go inte
operation, which is extremely improbable, if we
are to place any dependence on the letter and
spirit of the Colonial Minister's despatch which
accompanied the priated document. The Go
vernment and their old supporters dealt if terms
of general commendation thronghout the debate
—using vagne exprersions about the benefite
which the tenants would derive from the arbiira-
tien clause, but which the Dake of Neweastls
considers cannot be carried out; aod praixing up
the elause relating to the remission of old arrears
—which, even if it were intended to have a gone-
ral application, could produce sentcely any beneit
worth noticing; but as it is designed to affect
only the five proprietors. who are at. present
parties to the Commission, and can be turned te
account by none but those tenants under such
proprietors, who may be silly enough te offer
t buy their farms on the 20 years’ purchase pian

—we believe there are not a dozen of such indi-
viduals in the Colony who would derive any ad
vantage trom that clause. The view taken by eae

Westen thedeots por alee se Heng T Visved | gentleman who is said vccasiunally to flaunt an! mocked at, by recommendiag them to be recom- {J ily god Bacchus, ee ee , life; the comfortable farmer always the least! pidly ignorant, or the instinctively prejudiced of
ter, bowever, showed the green Willingness to | Orange handkerchief on the Moor of the Assembly, pensed out of crown lands where nore exist; the | menting Wika p- Very curious machine or instrument aifected by it. It is, therefore, the poor man's) other nationalities. This remark 1s called forth by

5 'e t p a . ‘ ‘ ° — a < . 3 ™ . ae . % . . . . : : =
furnish me with ali tve information I required, and! for the purpose of promoting peace and good will, | French claims are thrown to the wind; and the | called a diviningrod; and as I was not skilled in! condition under it that deserves consideration. | the publication of a poetical lampoon in the iast

supplied me with all the statistics and documents 1. ; } . * seinen, | Usual display of humane words for the welfare of) ustrato y, I theught of the gold diggings of other! Experience daily teaches that to a want of the | ‘Islander’ and ‘Ross's Weekly,’ over the signature or two of the new supporters of the Government,
one to procure. I visited 4 priest, who directed | I ayynete a word, of allt ose who are desirous | the Indians complete the hambug. het oe and was curious to kaow whether or not | Peoper kutowledge, and a due appreciation of | of “ Paddy the Piper.” Now, this “ Paddy the Pi-
ene of the large educational establishments in the *° “ perfect’ our system of edneation :— ie

eity. He told me that they had established eizht|
borma!

colleges in Havana for the education of the Austridn system is the great
teachers, and that two of these had been specially |

Set apart for the education of Protestant teachers.” |
Let our “ Protestant Government” “ put this)
dows,’ snd leara therefrom a lesson of justice. Mr.
Kay continues thus :— ; |
Pt Michaes of ~ Interior for Bavaria sup-
4 '

ae edacatioual \eiiedbenl ak the sense he |
laws have been most carefully compiled aud coci- |

fed; sud perbaps there is no country in Europe | #vermment understands how to raise the nation in ‘

whieh such au admirable and minutely |
considered series of enuctwents on the subject of
natioual education.” Vol. 2, pp. 293 & 294. :
From these extracta it would appear thet the
**Popish” people of Bavaria are not so intolerant, |
iguoram, and degraded as “ Papists’’ are frequeutly |
represeuted to be.
Writing of Wirtemberg,the majority of the popa- |
lation of which is Protestant, Mr. Kay says:—|
“ Three norm colievea bad been founded ; two for |
the education of Protestaut teachers, and one for |
the edavativu of Romunist teachers.’ p. 200.
irom this it appears that there is a wide differ.)

of the couity inagistrates, is required to visit and in-

“The most interesting and satiefactory feature of
_ Aus liberality, with |
which the govemtment, althon:zh so staunch an ad- |
beretit aad supporter of the Romanist priesthood,
has treated the religious parties, who ditfer from it-

self iu their religious dogmas. It has been entirely |
owiny to this iberality, that neither the great num- |

|

ber of the sects in Austria, nor the great difference | PTogtess confirming the Award, thus setting the | ‘"94ry mortals—and approached acd cies iieas possible
of their religious texets, have hindered the work of | question at rest. In doing so we are parties con-| to the scene of operations, unperceived by the ope-

Here, as elsewhere, it bas beeu demoustrated, that |

such diificulties may eusily be overcome, when a|

civilization, aud wishes earnestly to do so.

‘In those parishes of the Austrian empire whe
there are any dissenters from the Romanisi Church, |
the education of theirchildren is not directed by the |
priests, but is committed to the care of the dissenting
aiiuisters. These latternure enipowered und required |
by government to provide for, to wate! over, und}
to promote the education of the cliildr n oftheir own |
sects, in the saine manner ae the priesteare required |
to do fur the education of their children. |

* In each county, a dissenting uiinister is choren
by the mayistrates, as the general superintendent
and inspector of the education of all the dissenters |
of hiscounty. This nrinister, accompanied by one |

spect all the dissenting schools in his cvanty, at least

Theee injustices would have been avoided if we
bad obtained a general election, if the country is
not overwhelmed with religious fear,

| his godship bad discovered any new “ digging" in|

| right and wrong, may be traced must of the evils) per” is known to be Mr. John LePage; and I, as |
” ‘ /* | that beset ns in life; and this lack of knowledge!
which, in| that locality, which was well known to bea fuvourite | is found to be most common in the ueedy aud) to my countrymen at home and abroad are insult-

my opivion, hus been got up for the express’ resort of his godship for some years. I accordinyly | destitute.

purpose of drawing th public mind from these
important questions. There is not the slightest
doubt that Her Majesty will assent to the Bill in

the education of the poor thronghout the empire.! seuting to it through our Representatives, which I) pators. After several evolutions or movements of a

consider sacrificing the public rights to private
euds, by leaving the adjusiment of this great
question te the nominees of the Proprietors. ler
my own part, I feel I have done my duty to the

re cyuntry, having repeatedly cautioned the con-| spot; you mnst sink here eight feet three and one

stitnencies previous to the late election, both in
private and public, against the wiles of the leading
men in the proprietary interests, showing that
their object in attaining power was tor the pur-
pose of confirming the claims of the Proprietors,
und releasing them from every tie and every
obligation to the Culonial Government. This I
consider nearly effected, and the ills arising there-
from must be patiently endured.

I desired to express my opinion on the Report,

) on which it appeared to we tie Colonial Minister leaning to one side more than to the other; and

expected a review ou the part of the Legislature ;

eave between the Protestants of Wirtemberg and| once in every yeur, and to report thereon to the| but as the Award is confirmed it is useless to say

tuose of PE. Ieland. The former must be “ jesuiti- |

of Orangemen, und they must necessarily be very

county magistrates. He is also required aud em-!

y dmsmoxiapl Bp “a ager . doen «lh ; . dicular to the plane of the horizon; a setting up-
« wered to euforce the building of schvolsin districts! conclusion as to the invalidity of the Quit Rent} P 6°?
eal” Protestauts; they certainly can zotbaveauycon | f) ahired by disseutera aloue . °

; but unsupplied with |

either to send their children to sowe school, or to!

Lection with the peace-loving, blessed confreternity | schools; to oblige all the dissenters of his county,
'

ignorant of the wiles and abomiaations of “ Roman-
few,’ otherwise they would not encourage iguoraoce

aod superstition, immorality aud idolatry to such a| ters, who attend Romanist schools, receive regular

berribie extent as to endow # Catholic educational
iustitution of any description!

Our traveling Bachelor, treating of the schools of
Baden, gouut two-thirds of the population of which
ie Cutheisc, says >— °

“ Singe L33u the school buildingeand apparatus of
the Duchy of Baden bave been very much impro-
vel. At preseut there is, perhaps, no couutry in
Germany where the material of education is so per-
Ject.... luere are three large uormai colleges for
sue jou of teachers iu the Duchy of n.
One of tem is for the educution
tue Prevestant schools, contains soveuly-six
siudeats, six of whom are Jews ; aud the other two
are fux the education of Romanijst teachers, and con-

neate them efficiently at home; to punish them |
when they neglect to conform to the educational
regulations; to take cure that the children of dissen-

| Pelisieas iastruction from some miuister of theirown
; eect.

“In those parishes where dissenters reside, but
| where there is ouly 4 Romanist school, the dissen-
| tere are obliged either to educate their children at
| bome, or to send them to the school; and the Com- |
| mittee and managers of the sclool ure obliged to re- |

| ceive them into the classes of the scheol, to give}

| them education in all the subjects of secular instrne-
| tion, and to allow them to leave the school during

much about the former, more than to abserve thei

act as unjustitiable.

I trust, Sir, that the foreguing statement will
prove to you that the Liberal Party ought to have
gone for a dissolution.

Yours respectfully,
ENJAMIN DAVIES.
March 27, 1852.

————— oe -
For THE EXAMINER.

Hoy. Eowanp WaEtax—Sin,—It has been eaid
by Pope that the life of a writer ts “a warfare upon
earth." As faras my own experience hae gone, I
have nothing to say againat the proposition, an!
having once taken up arms, must, however nnwi!

| the hours when religions instruction is given to the

. . |
; bulted—as I etpposed, under the influence which
| gold exercises more or less on the minds of all sub-

;

| mysterious nature — at least to me —his godship
| marked out a square figure of thirty-one and a half
| feet each side, and said, “ Here, William, this is the

| quarter inches perpendicnlarly until you come to the
| solid rock, as the foundation of an erection which I
| must have here.” ' ;

“Gosh! Massa, very hard words dese—* perpen-
dickler rackshun ''-——whatde meaning of dese words,
| Massa ?"’ ejaculated Mr. Byres.
| “ Why, Mr. Byres,” said his godship, “a perpen-
| dicular means any thing standing upright, and not

| Webster's dictiovary explains what an erection is:
| he says—‘ It is the act of raising and setting perpen-
j
right; the act of raising or building as an editice or
fortification, as the erection of a wall orof a house;
the state of being raised, built, or elevated; estab-
lishment, settlement; formation, as the erection of a
commonwealth, or of any new system; the erection
of a bishopric or an earldom; elevation, exaltation
of sentiments; act of raising; excitement, as the
erection of the épirits; anything erected; a build-
ing of any kind.’”’
‘Den, Massa, when I go on de top of a chimney,
;am I den an erection?”
“No, no, William,” replied his godship, ‘the

of the teachers of | ditlerent religious sects the religious instruction mnet | writer,

i

(of these liberal and excellent regulations, a law bas |

| daily school hours.’’ (pp.
tun respectively eighty-five and eighty students. |

ling, carry a net ee . satan ae My ames ia chimney itself is an erection, but you would not be

" | the town ecition of the ‘ Islander,’ dated March ith , . hf to,

the carrying out | purporting to correct several ** fulee statements” ia oath, even w aoe = Sete “ lta ye jon cheum

! uta || may Feport of the Montague Meeting, which bas been | N0t ask such foolish questions, William, because you

been made, that in schools containing members of | so full of the war spirit on the part of the alleged | are a good orthodox Protestant, and you know Mr.
Pope, the Colonial Secretary, said that wherever

c 4 é " as to require some observation from me.

iven either in the first or last of the | In the first place, Jas. MeDonald is altovether un . P A
Protestants are, there will be found information,
yood judgment and intelligence, and therefore you

Romanist children. ‘To facilitate

ibe always
222 and '23.) | fit to write for the press, on account of. his early
The following extracts showing how landlords | ed"cation being wofully neglected; therefore his

What wonder then that many are found want. |
ing integrity, and who treat ungratefully and
dishonestly those who have compassionately re-
lieved them when in want? It is a lamentable
fact that not a few are wanting in foresight in the!
management of their domestic affairs; and when !
no dread of improvement exists, squander in
finery, and perhaps debauchery, any weaus at
their disposal, which a due regard to honesty and
the necessities of life would not warrant. Besides,
those who give and recsive the produce of the
labour of the peasantry may be termed, in the |
economy of buman life, but custodians and |
managers forthe less prudent of their species.
No person, as the law now stands, can supply any
man whose means are not above suspicion with
what are most generally needed by a poor man in
the Spring—sved and provision ; and in the absence
ot poor laws, @ poor man has no alternative but
to starve or beg.

The jail records of each County are the best
proofs of the unjust and oppressive tendency of
this section. These show how few, in proportion
to the number committed, have remaived in jail
for the term tor which they have been imprisoned,
and whose property, through their friends, did
not come to their relief. As a general thing, it 1s
to make property be forthcoming, and not to de-
prive of liberty or punish in any way, that debtors
are ipprisoned. A person known to have no pro-
perty is rarely committed to jail.

It the coucoctors of this section had given it a}
prospective, aud not 4 retrospective tendency, the |
evil would be less. Had it been framed so as ‘not
te affect debts already contracted, it would’ not
have so much distressed the poor man. Hundreds
in this and the surrounding Courts have been put
to expenses by suits, lest debts might be affected
by the section in question, who otherwise would
not have been troubled since in a legal way.
Many notes of hand, taken before the present Act
came into operation, are rendered valueless by
this direct interference between debtor and credi-
tor. As an instance, one person in the autumn of
1860 gave three notes for £3 10s. each, payable
at three, six and nine mouths, who transterred his
property to bis friends, went to the States until
the following spring, aud then returned, bidding

of the Small Debt Act; but if petitions were not

an Irishman, beg to tell him that his lines addressed

ing in the highest degree; and call for a severer
castigation than I feel disposed to inflict. Irish-
men in this community have heretofore patronized
Mr. LePage in purchasing his poetical wares; but
f consider that they would be as devoid of that
propriety and manly spirit as Mr. LePage grossly
implies them to be, if they have anything to do
with him hereafter. The wound inflicted on the
national sensibilities of Irishmen is the more
grievous in this instance, because unexpected from
the soutce whence the hiow came. It is net at
the phraseology in which * Paddy the Piper's”
production is ciothed, that we feel insulted; but
at the sentiment which pervades it. Any one who
asserts or insinuates that Irishmen know no other
method of honoring the birth-day of Ireland’s
Christian civilizer, than in participating in scenes
of drunken beastiality and rivtousness, deserves
the title of a base slanderer. I would particularly
call the attention of your Irish subscribers—whom
Mr. LePage sneeringly terms self-eriles — to the
following verses, to show the estimation in which
he wishes their character to be held :—

“Tis meself that remembers the days I have seen,
When the whisky was plenty and shamrocks were

green;

And the boys, in the hoith o’ respect for the day,
Ruis'd a row in a minit! ‘the mischief to pay!”

Again—

“’Tis thus that the exile, made blind by the blast,
Since he can't see before, looks behind on the past,
And his‘ bright and clear eye’ without lustre must

weep,
Compell'd without fighting, St. Patrick's to keep.”
This insult contained in the foregoing is pal-
pable: and it may be neediess to add, that this
attack hasbeen a wanton and unprovoked one u
a high-spirited people,— a. people keenly alive to
any slurs cast upon their nativval character, and
which will be resented, I hope, in a proper man-
ner by holding in therough contempt the author
of it. Ibis neediess to inquire what motives in-
duced Mr. LePage to compose and address his
linesto Irishmen. Certainly it was not the promp-
ting of genius; for the most skilful critic amongst
us will search in vain for oue ray of genius, or one
spark of wit in the nine verses which Fave been
copied into twoof the city papers. It must, there-

last production of Mr. LePage to have been con-

was, that if the Award would do no good,it would
do no harm. From this proposition we wholly
dissent. If the Award should go into operation
—which we again say we doubt—it would do-
great barm to make such valuable concessions (>
the proprietors as it proposes, without any equi-
valent from them. It confirms the disputed titles
—it gives up the landlords the fishery reserves,
the quit rents, the loyalist lands, and establishes
avery high price asa basis fur the fee simple
value of the lands; and we defy any one to prove
by facts, that it will confer the smallest benefit on
any considerable portion of the tenautry. We
believe that one or two others among the new
allies of the Government considered themselves
bound to vote for the Award, because they had
voted for the Commission. If this argament were
used, it is worse than the one noticed in the pre
vious sentence, because no man voting for a
measure on general principles is bound te votefer
it in all its details, if the details are bad; andwe
believe the people generally — not merely the
Liberal party —will couvinee the advocates of the
Government that they, the people, regard the
principles embodied in this measure as bighly de.
trimental to the best interests of the Colony.

We shail now give, without further preface, the
resolutions offered in the House, with the votes
recorded thereon, for which we are indebted te
the Protestant of Saturday last. Hon. Col, Gray,
having opened the debate, proposed the following
resolution :—

“Whereas, The House of Assembly in session
convened in accordance with the ch Te
ceived from His Grace the Seeretary of Stale,
dated Downing Street, 2ist of March, 1860, 08
the subject of the proposed appointinent of a Com
uission of Eoquiry for the arrangement of the long
pending disputes between Landiords and Tenants
in thir Island. did, on the loth day of April, inthe
same year, agree and bind themselves, on the
of the Tenautry, to concur in the Award of te

Her Royal si

Ti F wtions are, like those of the rest of Ger- . : tri i : ; | letter bears a lie on its face—as I am.led to believe aia se defiance to his creditor. tore, have been solely tu gratify his own * vitiated Commissioners, to be appointed by Her Majesty,
sane == alike in their qnddesaeet ond in ‘the rt at nen, ay ant Se me amecragone to} that the letter in review was written by Jas. Me- agp hese oretrey, Many are of opinion that petitions should be taste,” and that of kindred spirits; but every person | OF the majority of them ; and whereas

on ative given in thea. The teachers who leave | politicians, especially at the present time :— | Donald's verbore friend and mystic brother, who} “ Ob! Massa; Massa, me be bery angry at being presented to the Legislature for the amendment whom I have heard speaking of it, declares this “Her Majesty was graciously pleased, undet
their walls, after three years’ residence there, to| ‘In Austria, aa in England, great tracts of land | cireulated its coutents as widely as he could before compared to ‘ Bill Pope; me may be black, my a ; Manual, on the zoth June, 1900,

take the munayement of the peasant schools, ure fit,) belong to individuals, and many villages and small | it appeared in print. by reading the manuscript to

from their character and

Mr. Laird and bis friends cau learn from this ex-

tract the sificieucy of the educational system in “Ro-| velyes....T
wish” Bulen, aud ele the liberality wad fair play | the materials necessary for the erection of the schoo!

with wiieb “ benighted Papists” treat the Protes-
tant minority.
We can judge of the state of eduestion in the
“ Romania” portion of Switzerland from the follow.
. dng extract. At page 396 Mr. Kay, our Protesiant
Travelling Bachelor, says —-
“In the cauton cf Lucerne, every parent is ob-

liged to send nis children to school. trom the age of |
wix to the aye of «ixteen. There isa normal Col-!

lewe iu this canton, where all the teachers are edu.
py The studeuts remaiu in the College three

the pri selools ia eetly
the Suet ond cngenttce ts the different cantons
are open Ww all oe a Sg eee rag in
tiem is . Every ¢ is obli to

throagh — ular course of edneution in the Ad

acquiremeuts, to educate | towns belong exclusively to one or two sroprictors. | all whom he thought it would please ; so that Jus
the richer classes of any couatry.’’ pp. 3u7 U8 & Juv. | In these cases, the whole f

hands may be sutty, but dese same hands hab neber
been sullied or disgraced by handling de plunder of
a Bank. No, no, Massa, me hab noting to do wid
dat dare Bill Pope ; me honest, Massa; me honest.’

‘‘Never mind, Mr. Byres,” said Bacchus; “ it is
not honesty that thrives best in these degenerate
times; you must set about this foundation for the
erection immediately, and be sure you don’t allow

In expense of educating the | MeDovaid must be conscious of palming off a fraud
| children of the peasants residing as laborers on these | OT ™position on the world, xs
| estates is oy by law upon the landlords them-! ‘‘ All fame is foreign but of true desert,

be landlords are obliged to furnish all | Plays round the bead, but comes not to the beart.”

| In the first paragraph which rises above low per
“ | soudlities, the writers endeavour to exeulpate J.B
rovide in most cases, all the! Cooper f Meal yrts Gap eile
; : : By : Jooper from “a charge of which,” they say, “ he
enone Ba crag ag bs : the buildings and elas) was certainly innocent.’ The charge 1 brought
aaatiieg er} eA ape oe mg of the funds re. against Mr. Cooper was this—tbat he visited New i
pneee the Gaal ae coon phys to — Perth—lectured to a small audience at the school. |#ny person abont it, only such as are wholly or
: i class rooms ap d th: . : ighly offepsiy > of th : ; ; fri
lenchers’ dwellings.” (pp. 22 und '29.) ae a re wus highly offensive to | partly of the African race, because I wish to befriend
Mr. Kay after giving some particulars regarding| Tie writer of this urtiele does not deay the priming | an, SEND Syeete Shaws to he gaetel souk of we
Ma Pigg ae on ne we peatry fag perm 4 eo of) procese, but freely admits that those twojOrangemen | OWn station; agd while I am a member of “a God-
é , & tt ’ Oi “i > % i ay eo } - on

. B . 7? ? J e ‘at ! Di .

“my S ° : ." S . 4 ba) . . : we
ae ee —? = schools bad been founded, | their load. [am aware that common mi ids cannot | my desire to have this erection completed within the
----tegides Lt L0 repetition or evening clase schools. | perceive Leyoud their eyes and ears, as the pulinge | shortest possible period bef 1 electi
For these 20,293 ew pee schools, 41,80) teachers | of the park of sense enthrall their captured roebuck | *"°"* ee Pt eee
had beennppointed and sularied....It(atable which | and consequently Jas. McDonald and his giddy | ©" take place. Itis to consist of a quadrangular

,’ | tower or pillar 365 feet high, that is a foot for every
day in the year. The base or Jower part, to the ex-

buildings; to give the Ignd on which t! @ buildings
ure to be erected ; to +

he gives) is well worthy of consideration, us it will) friend who wrote“ the long letter” ‘ '
show how very universal the diffusion of knowledge ureedily tenet every wend whieh Ser Comser
and intelligeace wust be among the youth of the! suid on the occasion.

empire, and how very few persons are now left to

presented to have imprisonment for debt abolished
(and [ never heard of any), there should be none
required to have this 41st section repealed, when
it is found to be productive of so much mixery to
the country. As the prunary object for having
this section made and inserted was to gain popu-
larity, whieh was a motion certainly in the wrong
direction, it is to be hoped experience has taught
the propricty of adopting au opposite course, by
repealing it, or at least deferring the period ot
abolishing imprisonment for debt for at least six
years.
Tam, yours, &c.,

A POOR MAN.
Souris, March 1862.

Oe
To THe Eovitor oF THe EXAMINER.
Sir,—I see by the ‘Islander,’ that the Editor ad-
vises the Board of Health to impose on us—with
the view, | suppose, of assisting some needy rela-
tive—the cheating tax of Health olficer fees. Last
year there was none, yet the small pox wus in Ha-
litax and elsewhere.

ceived iu bad taste and written in worse spirit.
AN IRISHMAN.

To THE Eprror or THe EXAMINER.

S1r,—In the reportof the debate onthe Address,
on the afternoon of Friday, the 23th ult., Hon. Mr.
Haviland 1s misrepresented as having stated his
or of “all the Commissioners had done.”
That is erroneous. He said that thy appointment
of Mr. Wightman, which had been referred to,
was au act with which be and the other members
of the Government had no concern. In a speech
of bis, previously reported, be expressly stated,
that “it would have been better if the Commis-
sioners bad, instead of employing Mr. Wightman,
come back te the Island aud judged for themselves,”

Tu the same debate the Hon. Mr. Longworth is
reported as having characterized a statement of
Hon. Mr. Whelan as “false.” The words used
were, “ It is incorrect.”

By inserting the above corrections you will
oblige yours, W. M. HOWE, Rep.

to issue Her Royal Commission appointing Com
missioners, weet proceeded to this Island snd
opened their Court, and having discharged te
duties confided to them under Her Majesty's Cow
mission, did make their Award and submit de
same to Her Majesty; and whercas

“His Grace the Secretary of State having fer
warded a copy of the aforesaid Award w His
Excelleney the Lieut. Governor, for the
of being laid betore tse Legislature as sven 84
possible aiter its meeting:

“Therefore, Resolved That the House in fulfl-
ment of its pledge, du pow introduce a Bil
contirm the Award in all its provisions.”

During the course of the debate Hon. Mr. Coles
pre the following in addition to Col. Gras’
resvlution:—

“And also a Bill to secure the interest 08 #
Loon of £100,000, as reeciumeaded by the Com
G @ ners in their rep ri.”

ywoen the questiva was put on Mr. Coles’
amendment, there tor it—Hons. Messrs.
Coles, Kelly, Whelan; Messrs, Cooper, Conrey,

; afterwards, pare snd 3 In th f this le i |. | teut or height of 87} feet, is to be of Asiatic porph : : » Sir, you will raise} House of Assembly, March 31, Is62. lofi 5 aie Gray,
wilh opal sara the higher Pa a _ wa, | kFow up in ignorauee and brutality. It will leo, m..< ye nenmee deed sakes an bapa vem pe weeny? te sk eee en eae ata Mh yry yous voice aguiust our captains being thus treated, pt cf eR aaa = Be nae ~e - Hons. oS
iss. f bave sven suns of the ite | ive @atitl clearer idea of the vast character of the| space, Mr. Rowe has lis share of flagellation. His | “ ae oer cae nn Ou ceneee may eels etpensee. Uy the NEW MARKE' J Deeks, een ke eee Wight
ead laborers, workiug in the co i hee eiforts made to educate the luboring classes of this| crime was that he called the meetiug, and because “St 0f black and white carrara marble; the black | City wants protection, let the City pay for it. “Tf HOUSE, Speaker, Heusley, MeAulay, Pepe,
eu by neces und big empire....Frow the table it will he seu that || ; and impotently taken | tide sball face the east, and the white th ; Sour wien eveuns, man; Messrs. Sinclair, Owen, Douss, Resell
sos shlowonel the ts of Knowledye with | in 1342...,all the children i tit 5a tacmepauarcant wae Fedely aad impotentiy taken | silechell Sacn:tbe east, aud. the white the wast; t0 A MERCHANT. |, MR. WHELax,—Sin—It is reported that the Cit Neill, Hewst,
Sao oh of he — —— ~ bl " ne 7 revurn | the day waheole toroughont pbdens wed ein. wae be hes Sh Rida ! opens Ses —~ be sur ted by a pagoda dome, toserve as anob-| Charlottetown, March 23, 1862. ‘ | Couneil have petitioned the Legislature for a a4 ne gn : = J: You, Mele,
afterwards to their of 4 ty ; ~ ‘ Ase 4 Wt t , ing audacity to do so, who ‘ . ’ ET , » les—
Bast, opt mobo tg oy eee tie ae ee we Bow ont Attending | assumed to themselves the exclusive right to rule | SeTvatory, with a warble statue of a black Venuson| | —_—- ete ry A al Mod mascndty otal r —_! Hon. Mr. Whelan then moved to amend Hen.
Tats is, that education unfits no | | be i ae eae igh Recely-| such meeting, ouly wished to instigate the crowd .o | one side, and a.white Venus on the other, with two reseut debt of £1300, how is the i with | Col. Gray's resolution by striking out all after and
ug a careful education from wen of high character | }oot him, and considered it the bette : ‘ ’ ‘ Cu. Town, 29th March, 1862. | preset of £1300, how is the City to pay the |‘ 4 ” apd
sisaation, however huwble. Lucerss | uy 5 ble attainwente. But in additi Mil usidered it the better part of wisdom | Ewe lambs between, one blackish and the other 1 : luterest of the £0000, say £300 per ani including the words “Therefore resvlved,
wa Canvos. (Mr. Kay hue this seu-) cost gumber of Yout ite a tothe | to decline intruding himself on their patience, dreud-| oy irigh to dhe dt tntek at thet in| p SIRI have inadvertently omitted in ny report} Allow me, Sit, to ‘point out alwar to ubtai this| substituting the following: -
woe | tee Sie re: | fr the pet abe poeple coutaing dastruction | jing the barbarous aepect of the mobus valgus. Mr, | W584, ute ng of the two races in| of Mr. Doyle's remarks on the Address the follow-| interest. Set the yor'ssulary at £50, shelvethe| “ Bu vy Bem = to be the intention of
. Reed wu m as the young wien at Our} | @, eddies the speciul ved j highe ad vo hy aed wt ee oad ° — public & sngueter ga harmouious amalgamation. I sball have the whole | ing passage referring to Mr. Wightman, the agent | Recorder £75, the Marshal ‘£6, Teens “ey? ae the tit “te sire a Colonies that the
y waiversities, and often # wuch wore | soed there were in the Austrian ewpire, not includi : ca : say as Wo his wore “than | out sbortly in my own sbips, all marked, numbered | of the Coummiasioners :—* I can hardly cal) | cartail the expenses of the Poli i t | ani ; the basis
ou te 6 1 aba Me diy pire, bot including | niseruble existence," as pens, ink and : a ! ree a : P y . nee ¢ Police establishment | said copy of the Award should be made
What will Mr. Dovid Leird end: hie aovistuntal ty en cpa colleye truth tellers, and the Productions, of a writer ae | and registered, it to be placed in position om arrival. corde Eauttenieene cnameaion I - A ont os come hs Mma A — you! of any Peialation for the present,inasmuch ae
e» _ it : ;| more reliable than -any amount of hearsay or sple-| I have so many ships at sea that the true method of ays? “s. ntry telling lies, © th ‘hi : i 4nd / His Grace has not subinitted the original,
myteiik?l A” Pupist” Swiss pearaut 188 126 ! » 1252 private and! netic ling to : , : ; ‘ ; rpose of getting iuformation based A hen prohibit the street gas, and you will ave some ‘ “ee the
geceving “otter 8 rub wore Wierd” education than .. These inetitntions were re.| Rowe to defend Paalagee 5 5 J a jw Reyes finding the longitude isa great object with me; and S aueitiaml - o0 bis misre- | £350 toward reducing the present City debt. official copy, nor intimated any desire to have
wag , larly attended by 155,746 young peop! Va 1842! the pen.” ax i a ; as I know it never van be discover i i - “ bide Yours y confirmed by, local legisiation :
R pen," as T opine be can foil Mr. MeDonald, al- ted until the ques Y &e. wy ; ,
ted insopert.¢ in Ox ford or Cambridge !! ‘there were in the Aw iax empire, tot including the ugh not dubbed with a cs -. fnew en, te i ill dealt ey a 8. SC -M. HOWE. ” OBSERVER “ And whereas, the retary
¢ t h w captaincy. tion of the perpetual motion be solved, Tintendte! Editor of ‘ Examiner, Charlotuetown, 25th March, 1862, ' Thie despatch of the Gth February,

ee —-~ — samen an i