a"

Pc
we to say
«guid pot do.
ll be determined
wideration of all the
* Meanwhile the first
sour daties is to finish the re
wockade at once, by employing tu
op avd most eficacions means.”

The Times says that it the English Government,
na tee London Times states, admits Capt. Wilkes’
right ty visit and search the Trent, but msists that
he suvould have takeo her into a prize court for ad-
jdeation, “ we are by no means sure that our Go-
rermment will net concur gt ouce iy this opinion,”
The Times adds:

“Iu qur opiaion, Fagland and the world may
rely dpon if, that in this matter, as in every other,
tie public peace will not be disturbed or hazarded
by any persistence of tie American Government
iu a» sujust god unwarranted public act. If the
set of Capt. Wilkes was net in couformity with
Aud in deciding
this point our Gevernmment will not be affected,
ecthey hy the unworthy seutiments so lavishly im-
maw it by the English Press, or by the more
ignehte apprehension lest doing right should be im-
puted toa wrong motive, We see it rumoured
that the Kumperor of France has tendered his me-
diuttiou ia tis instawee. Tf is a case peculiarly
fitted te such a mode of settlement—and we see

public law, it will be disavowed.

yo reason why, if offered, it should not be accept- of every shade of ditterence—social, political and |

#i. But we do not believe it willbe needed. We
have ful faith iy the wisdow and the justice of our
CGioverg gent, and believe that if war with Euglaud

can be avoided with honor, they will have no diffi-

eulty in find ig the means of doing it.—Nor do we
see Anything in this case, in its present aspect, to

render a pacific adjustment pertectly compatible | unexpected termination, have impressed the gene- |

with the honer of both nations.”

P ,
al
—_— — ’ - — . — — oes - nie i acre 7 - memrcorer es me
, ‘=. or : . : : : 4 oo. s «i ' nnited so e ’ 4) Rei? : > ian . oer ‘ ard Meraing or THe LeaisLaTUREe,—/ 7
beet is the chiof street of the city, and was! Britain, or are disappointed that it is not likel, which, we think, is the mest graceful and eloqueat ‘Stil all the day thetrivoy wy els go onward, | ! : '
vt : hs aa weTrRER, ¢ " Go ifiag ite do* ou ty tos ak, tion appears in the lust “ Gazette,” summoning the |

roved in its buildings. Broad street was a very
: important street, containing new -_~ offices,
banks, lusurance offices, stores, &c¢. ‘here is no
evidence of the fire having extended south of the
vost office, in Broad street. East Bay street con-
timed all the offices of the eatton factors and lead-
ing commission merchants. It is fhe nearest street
to Cooper River, running parrallel with it. The
short streets which run down from it te the docks

alse contain important effices and warehouses. |

Meeting street contains the Mills House, Charles-
ton Hotel, Institute Hall, the market and the
theatre. The market stands upon the easterly
side of Meeting street. The different de vartments
are devoted to beef, vegetables, fruit, val fish, and
are separate and commodious, The main build-
ing is of stone, and was erected in IS41.’

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

Tur papers received by the steamship Asia, as
mentioned in another column, are filled with obi
tuary and biographical notices of the late Prince
Consort.

‘

with

plet:

vereign and her people have sustained by the de-

Indeed,

parts of the world from which we have heard, but

mise of his Royal liiwhness, from all

one opinion is expressed,

religious—there has gone forth
“A long low distant murmur of dread sound,
Sach as arises when a nation bleeds
With some deep and immedicable wound.”

| The rapid progress of the fatal malady and its

ral heart with feelings akin te those experienced | of this maligned buy from the pen of a gentleman pee !

the roadway of Charlestou though Wet oncu sue
i

Colonial and foreign papers are also re-

comments on the less the British So-

From men and jeyrnals

‘y oecur. Nove of the Catholic organs in America, tribute to his memory we have yet seen in any of
i that we have seen, breathe anything like the in| the public journals. Though it gives some inconve-
i wane spirit of hostility to England, or the bluster) nience, owing to our limited space, we must make

| and bravado of American prowess, whieh eharac-| room for the following extracts:—

| fociee the journals under the control of pative| The manner in which the death of Rrince Albert
: y : p | has been received leaves a loyal subject nothing to
born citizens of the Northern States. The “ex-! quire. Every shop has been pursiall

’ may not love England too well, | the purchase of mourning by the humbler classes of

: . : : - society (fo say nothing of those who usually follow
}on account of the appressions which drove them | the example of the Court) has bedn universal, far

patriaied villains’

| from theiy native soil; but they have sense enough | beyond precedent. i
back forty-four years, when the heipess of the throne,

has never been forgotten. Tt was caused by the
| natural sympathy of all kindly natures with one cut
it, and that the nation which they might wish to | off ina moments When just entering ryt = every
. Te xe of so brillis a future, and by what wi
see humiliated would only emerge from the con-| eee tthe her i daw fa of Pe
test with and renovated power.| ried life. Perhaps, moreover, the extreme an
With an impression of this kind on their minds, aon by Set weeny =" o) F we mg oe
| we should suppose that the Irish Catholics in the | to the early promise of his child. We have now
| lost n possession, not ahope. The subjects of Queen
| Victoria especially pride themselves upon the prac
tice of the domestic virtues. Many of them go so far
: iis 3S a el - | usto doubt whether real family lite can be found on
As regards the Irish Cathglics in the Colonies, ot tee tote hin of tee Chnwael. . Sevncliy,
it will take an abler man than William H. Pope) therefore, did they rejoice that Her own family cir
cle was the model of an English household.  Per-
sie ‘ ; a pate haps comparatiy ely few have relt till now how much
visit of the Prince of Wales gave rise to remark-| we are indebted for this great benefit tothe persona
r und condnet

to themselves, who would be largely engaged in
faurels

fresh

States rejoice that there is no occasion for a war

with Great Britain.

to prove a charge of disloyalty against them. The

able illustrations of their character in all the Pro-) characte

to knew that a foreign war at tie present time! i. wire of the deceased Prince's ancle, was taken |
would be disastrous to their adopted country and | seareely more suddenly. ‘The impression then tiade |

Ate ¢
And the children’s souls which God is calling
sunward,

Spin on blindly in the dark.,"'

Such sentiments are a slander on nature—a libel
jQqn our common humanity. Why, he would ask,
‘if the useful was the aim, the only good—why was
jnature made so beautiful ?

Every mere necessary |

ly closed, and! ond might have been attained, and yet this fair | gence of the deat

world have presented ae peaiee on which the |
leye might gaze with delight. Why is space hung |
with those brilliant orbs whieh “sparkle in the |

Men's minds havg been thrown | coronet of heaven, each one of whieh is a bright | Battery.

| page in the Baok of Nature, teaching us that the}
Pesutiful as well as the useful was part of the de

sign of the God of Nature?) Why, * would ask, |
| wus this earth made so beautiful; clothed with its |
| lovely untiring green, its majestic forests, its tower- |
| ing mountains, its undulating valleys?) Why does
ithe golden fruit come in so fair a form? Why the
| benutiful blossom heralding its coming! Why the
| vracetul waving fiekis of corm! Why do the rush
| ing rivers present at every turn new beauties and
lan emdiess variety? Why is the ocean at times 80
| grand, so sublime—at times so beautiful. so brilliant
| every crested wive sparkling in the sunbeam like
a vast expanse of molien fire? Why green Niagara,
that avalanche of waters with its never ceasing
| roll—best emblem of eternity! In this HE sees no
i beunty, but only deplores such a waste of wate
| power—thinks it a good “ location’’ for » mill site ;
‘and perhaps with an eye to the main clanee, tht
j eminently practical man would seek to make money
jout of the “Falls,” and set up on its bank a

|
|

|

Legislature to meet for the dispatch of business on
the 20th February next.
ie ee

Respect FOR THE LATE Ponce Avrnentr.—On
Wednesday last, after the receipt of official intelli-
‘ h of the Prince Consort, forty-two
minute guns—-(the number corresponding to the age
of the deceased)— were fired from St. George's
His Excellency the Lieut. Governor en-
joins all Her Majesty’s subjects in this Colony to

put themselves in decent mourning.

e ~ GORRESPONDENCE,

To rue Eprrorn or Tur Proresranxt.

|< Jt is a shame te charge men with what they are

not guilty of in’ order to make the breach wider,

already too wide.”—Dr. Montague, Bishop ot

Norwich.

Mr. Eprror—~My numerous occupations have
prevented me from noticing soeuer your comments
on my letter of the 10th instant. To answer al
the irrelevant questions and objections w hich you

‘may think properto make would render this cor-
of the Prince Consort. | « saavina’’ establishment, and to save the expense | respondence interminable, and would draw me oft

Tose who ean remenber his marriage, need not be | of fuel would think to keep himself supplied with | from the main point at issue between us, namely,

vinces, eminently creditable to them, while the | remipded that, remembering the conduct of the son
same event showed how hollow, selfish and worth-| of George HL, men looked with gloomy furebodings
" a ayy bag ito another series of scandals, vices, and family quar:

less was the loyalty of many of their religious oppo- | pels. Such an expectation skowed nothing cyuical.
i nents. The feelings of the Irish Catholics of Cana-| What was naturally to be looked for in a inwn of
ny ee ay twenty, placed sudde aly qnd without preparation in

| da have been always considered a fair indication | y position of the highest wordly prosperity, with no
causes of anxieiy and care, in the absolute disposal

lof the spirit which animates their brethren in the

other Provinces, and it is fortunate that we can) Gall; with no regudwr business or profession to
new adduce testimony to prove the genuine loyalty te mf
placed at

of an immense income npon Which there was hardly |

his energies and occupy his leisure, and |
the head of a splendid and luxurious |

The Herald thigks there is ne need of getting py individuals who have lost a friend or relation;
exeited ever the newa. Jt mys;

“ All this excitement has been produced in Eng-
land by the agitation ef the cotton merchants, the
politiciang and manufacturers in want of the raw a deservedly beloved Sovereign to the position ot
material, dewanding instant reparation of this al) her husband, bis life in that relation had disarmed
-geal vutrage to the British flag; and the govern-
met, feeling the necessity of doing something in
cousegtence of the pressure of the tory party upen | antipathies, and gained for him the affectionate
than, have taken the strong position reperted in respect of a people not prone to lavish their estecm
this news. Every one who understands the rela-
tioys yf the British Government to tie people will
ut ewe see the reason of this diplomatic move. them.
But on carefully reading over the opinions of the | whole tenor of his wedded lite, while it formed a
leading English newspapers, it is manitest that they
have a very bad case, and that it will be a very
difiienlt (hing for them to establish their right m
the eresaof the world. The right of belligerents | most exalted station, the most ample wealth, are

nor is it to be wondered at that such should be

the case. Elevated by the personal preterence of

jealousies—had conciliated national and personal

This result the deceased achieved, and the

model ef domestic purity and happiness, had the
public benefit of its example to the world, that the

te board seatrals has been conceded by England | y 4 incompatible with the proper discharge of the |

fur mere than # century, awd it is part of ber mari-
tim: code, insisted upow by ber for years; and so
patent is flis fact that the London Post and Lon- cle of those of low estate.
doy Times had already deeited the matter in our) When we consider that the death of the Prince
faver, although the latter journal said that this
event called for a new code.

“The eontiaental powers of Europe, including | flect that far away mid “ regions of thick ribbed
I race and Russia, will exult over this transaction jee,” the fur clad Esquimaux will sorrow, because
with undisguised pleasure. It is a telling blow at
the prestige of England's absulutixin on the sea, ) :
and henee the iudignation in London, Liverpool | Widow's eye upon her children—that the swarth
aud es ay The “os States government, denizen who dwells beyond theIndus will grieve for
im assuming the responsibility attaching to this » after; ih ben On " ,
Sih Gani caleate Us Udseside of 0 conte bag affliction ¥ hich bas fallen to - lot of the
uental domestic war, caunot be weak or doubtful Empress of Hindostan,—who shall depict the an-
of the issue; and such will be the general opinion | guish of her soul as she,
of Earope. We dare say that esseutially we shall
command tae respect ot the sober second thought
of England hersei, We incline to think that her
ragacinys statesmen will svon realize the fact that
England's only route to our sonthern cotton fields
jeads through the city of Washington, and that it
is safer to consent te the restoration of our Union |
thaw to risk the possible European consequences |
ry aa tans — ot wpe yw oe | The shock occasioned by the death of His Royal
tru} of the affairs of North America. Highness has been, of course, intensified by the
_ Meantime we are confident that this Mason-| consideration of the fact that, in the prime of life,
Slidet! alfsir, without iuterrupting our relations of | with no known tendency to disease—with every
wace with England, will have a great moral ef- ‘ A : '
ject iy favor of our goveryment and our | human adjunet to make life last till the three seore
throughout the European coutiuent; but if Eng- and ten—his day and generation should have pass-
lagd ix determined, jy spite of her own code and |. away so early and unexpectedly. Had his
loug practice, to make dewands upen this govern- "
ment such as are indicated by the Lonudou Obser-
ver, she must of course assume all the responsi-| betrayed the ambuch of the spoiler, we might not

virtues which give their lustre to the charmed cir-
is regarded as a national affliction—when we re-

he shall hear that Franklin’s Queen turns a

“___hent her o’er the dead

Ere the first day of death had fled—

The first dark day of nothingness—

The last of danger and distress ;

Before decay’s effacing fingers

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,
And marked the mild, angelic air—

The rapture of repose that’s there.”

years bowed his limbs—had a feeble constitution

upon foreigners raised to a high position among

who might be supposed to encourage sentiments
far different from those that are cherished by

faithful subjects of the Queen.

exactly the same position; but many had been in one

somewhat resembling it, and we doubt whether sn |

instance could have been found of one who had pot

Mr. Thomas) either thrown public affairs into confusion by an ill

regulated ambition, or devoted himself to what is

Darcey McGee, who was conspicuous some years) called a life of pleasure, Moreover, even Kuglish
ago tor his strong attachment to, and his defence | Protestants felt that a German Protestant Courtaud

la German University were not likely to have snp-

. a inei » F . f] . ! he ; . ° os oe
of the principles of the defunct Young Ireland plied a religions raining qualified to” counteract all

Party, and who is now a member of the Canadian
| Parliament—has recently published a letter in
which we find the following remarkable passage :
;
nents of Canada should know the fact in time, that
the Irish inhabitants of this province wiil be fonnd
embattled as one naan in defence of the Canadian
Constitution and the imperial connection. ‘To
who do not know Canada—whe do not know the
ample freedom we enjoy, social, civil and religious ;
who do not know how many institutions sacred to
an Irishman’s worship, and dear to an [rishman’s
sense of equality, are found flourishing on this soil,
the declaration I have made may be deemed doubtful
lorexaggerated. But Lrepeat solemmly, aud most ab

solutely, that 1 know what Tsay to be the literal
and exact truth. There is hardly a group of Lrish

settlers in Upper or Lower Canada that [ have not
wrsonally visited daring the hist four or five years

There ix not a man of note amongst them, hiymen
or cleric, that [have not met, znd [ declare that I

have vet to meet the first man of all those bodies
and orders of mea who does not frankly and loy-
ally prefer our Canadian institutions to those of the

United States. Formerly, I believe, it was differ

ent with many among them (as | own it was some

vears ago with ny self); but since the era of “ the

Know Nothing” movement, the last vestige of poli-

tical preference for the United States has dirappear-

ed among the Irish here. There is, and I tiink
there ought to be, a warm good will toward the
| Federal canse in its integrity; there is a natural
i interest felt in the Irish contingent in the Federa
larmy ; there is a keen and exquisitely painful sense

* Tdeclare inost absolutely, and it is well the oppo- |

i that a war on our frontier with the Northern States

would be for the Lrish, in truth, a fratricidal war;

but for all this no Irishmen in Canada will hold

| back from the defence of his own soil, and if other
Irishmen—misled by false reports of our discontent

—should come here as invaders, their blood be upon leaf.

their own heads, not on ours!”
| As to the loyalty of the Catholies of Ireland

| the present tie, the declarations of their Bishops, tw consider the notice ib, "24rd, the represeu-
and Archbishops—whose mission it is to guide tative-the Migh Churet party in

their flocks in th ~ wi duties to society

} a) sacl ‘ = athe babebee ‘
aw : aa purely spiritual affuirs—will be ac-
i “fs good testimony o% behalf of the Catho-

bility of a war between the two nations. It wili
net probably enter the mind of a single Amercean
for a moment, even aller Peading tle news in our
coluinus to-day, that Mason and Slidell will be sur-
rendered to the English goverment.”
The Boston Herald of the With inst., says ;—
The savage tone of the Englisi: press and people
has aroused a deep and determined tecling through-
o i 3 “ _ edn — —
ee ee M80 tmett KT SasOG Wil
era te Great Britain under any |
oe stances. The arrogant tone of the English |
press will ouly serve ty unite us the more firmly
tegether aud tu prepare the natiou for any emer-
gency.”

- oto em
|

THE AMERICAN HUMBLE PIE.

Tue braggadocia of the Northern Press has |
been so marked and offensive with respect to
the seizure of Mason and Slidell that we can-
not be surprised to see the Federal Govern-'
ment satirized and quizzed is the most un-
werciful manner, until some new cause for
excitement shall arrise ; and we believe there.
are nut wany persons in the Provinces who |

will manifest much sympethy for the vic-| The late Prince was remarkable for the posses.

have been so grieved; but the British pee, ‘
, ple in

reference to this sad event may ador
I

Mjeople of their own country. We are indebted
to the Fredericton “ Head Quarters,” a Protestant |
paper, for the following apropos selection ;—
Loyaury or THe Inisa Hienarcuy.—The Lon

salt ot the lines oi
Scott:

* The hand of the
: Takes th se Peaper
Buttle -e ears that are hoary,
« sue Voice of the weeper
Wuils manhood in glory ;
: The autumn wind rushing
Take the leaves that are searest,
But our flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearest.’

don Tablet gives the subjoined extracts from the ad
| dresses of the Bishops of Ircland to their several
| flocks.

The Apostolic Delegate and Primate of Ireland, |
| the hedhide of Ireland, the Most Key. Dr. Cul
; len, says s—
| “No grievances, no afilictions, will induce us to!
| join in chanting the praises of sedition and rebellion.

through any romantic or absurd sentimentality, but
through principle, and for couscience sake. The
writers in the English press seem to think that we

The youthful heir tothe throne will, we presume,
have his attention turned to the public business
and relations of the Empire more than hitherto,
much asa French invasion. Tam persuaded that
every man in Lreland would look upon any foreign
course more necessary to the Queen than it has invasion as the greatest calamity that could beta!
the country.”

The Primate of All Treland, the Archbishop of
Armach, the Most Rey. Dr. Dixon, says :—

“Of Her Most Gracious Majesty, whom may God
Saf , : , . | long preserve, she has no more loyal subjects than
anticipations of the nation, which asks of their) we are.”

The Archbishop of Cashel, the Most

as his father’s death will render his personal inter-

been; and we shall have canse for thankfulness if
his conduct in the high destiny which we may |

presume awaits hin, shall be found to justify the

future monarch but that he may approve himsel!! Rev. Dr.
eahy, auySs — : :

“We know how to preserve inviolate the alle
them lay to make him fit for the eminent station | giance we owe to the Queen as our only temporal
a Sovercign ; andto none of Her Majesty s subjec ts do
| we vield in obedience to her authority.”

The Bishop of Limerick, the Right Rey. Dr. Ryan,

LYE —

worthy of his parents, who have done all that in

to which he has been born.

We shall ever be good and faithful subjects, not) As regards the namber present, we regret to say

hmembers as compared with its nrtster r ll when first

e i “— ‘i we ra : = BUYER > |
tims under the trying ordeal. The St. John sion of strong practical sense, which was always | The people would prove themselves to be not |

Freeman of the 3rd instant, has the ful-
lowing short bat caustic article on the re-
lease of the Southern Commissioners .—

We have all become accustomed to the an-
pouncewent, in terms the most grandiloquent,
that the Federal army bad wona glorious
victory and hud retreated in good order.

A victory we have already seen celebrated
in the must extravagant style. All the
cities, all the t talkers in the Uniun,
seemed to vie with one another in extolling
the glorious achievement of Capt. Wilkes.

Now we have the retreat and who shall

available to discriminate between the position of a| only good citizens ard loyal subjects, but rincere and |

foreigner, married to the Queen of a country pos pious Christians. Let ho one Taye that it is not
aeerges, ae ies oe part aud parcel of Catholic discipline and Catholic

sessing a constitutional Government, and that of | morality to obey the chief authorities in the State.” |

| The Bishop of Cork, the Right Rev. Dr. Delaney,
SAYS :—

* We need not delay in declaring our loyalty to
the gracious Sovereign beneath whose scepire these
great realins are governed.” i

The Bishop of Oxssory, the Right Rey. Dr. Walsh,

la husband using the influence of his position to
| interfere with the pubic affairs of that country.)
| It is true that several years since a report was |
circulated, and by many believed, that Prince Al-|
~ eee ty. nee . — a veg | © Of Cxutholie Ireland, with five millions of faith-
| important nature to the Prussian Court; and for) fal and loyal subjects, ready to maintain with their
blood andjives, it necessary, their kingdom and their
Queen against foreign invasion.”
The Bishop of Galway, the Right
Evilly, says:
“We will yield to no other portion of our fellow

! . .
}a moment his popularity waned ; but as the moon

| ,
emerges only the brighter from the tefnporary ob- Rev. Dr. Mae-
scuration caused by the passing cloud, his charac-, p SATB Er

j

|

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|

deseribe it? Believe the American chronic- | ter stood higher than before, from the reaction subjects in sentiments of undivided allegiance to the |

lers and the repulse at Big Bethel, and the
rout at Bull's Ran were glorious feats.

lieve Mr. Seward and the surrender of Mason |

wud Slidell is a magnificent success; the
consummation of ‘the wishes of the United
States, the establishment of a great principle
fur which they had long contended.

And yet itis a retreat ; a disgraceful rout ;
an iguominious flight; a total collapse of
brug and blaster and blather. Mr. Seward
can boy — eye a word of it. The

ople of the Uni States; the people of
England ; the people of the whole Gantt will
see in it a concession made by terror to force
uf that which justice would never have con-
ceded to right withouta fleet and an army
atits buck. Better, a thousand times better
tur his own reputation sake, for the honour
of the country that he bad made no such
rilly effurt to cover with idle words the true
character of this surrender.

Bitterly should the United States rue
the day when the miserable faction now in
office got tLe contronl of the country. Leavy
is the price, in division and discurd, debt and
bloodsiied, humiliation and degradation, they
have to pay for their fanaticum and intole-
rance, ther Koow Nothingiem and Black
Republicanism. Exeter Hall has for some
years leen the real seat of government of
sume vf the States, and it extended its
sway Until its minions became the rulers of
the whule land, and lo! the results. Was

ever a proud people sv humiliated? was ever
& great vation brought so low? was ever so
glurivus a destiny sv marred? Swift indeed
hws been the stroke of retributive justice ;
but it may be that this very swiftness will
prove “he greatest mercy.

The people of the Province aceustomed to
the workings of Responsible Government, can
nut understand how, ufter what has happen-
od, Seward and Wilkes and Cameron can re-
main in office; how the people can endure

Tue Berst Districer or Cu fe
hiviailea::

“ This portion of Charleston comprises the most
eqmnyach nul ol the business ports of the city, ex-

sue Wjolesale northward. Nearly
sit the puldie Lyildings

were ; and

xtend in the direction in whieh it

gracious Sovereign of these realms. Froin the dic-
tates of duty we never fail to proclaim, with the
| Apostle, that obedience voluntanly, interior, hearty

i obedience, was to be tendered to all persons who

| His patronage of art—his exertions for the im-)} i - : 2
| I . _ were placed in high authority over them, and this

consequent on the proof of the injustice of the
| aceusation.

|

' provement and extension of education—his devo-! pot only to those who wielded the supreme, but alse |

the subordinate oceupiers of authority, governors,
er : and magistrates, so long as they inculeated nothing
—the dignity and courtesy of his demeanor—have | ¢yj}, and outstripped not the limits of their authority.

made his death a public calamity, and will vindi-| For not ouly is the temporal power from God, but

tion to the mental and moral culture of his children

cate to posterity his right to have his name inseribed,
not in the Valhalla of the destroyers of their kind,
but in that true Temple of Fame where the real
benefactors of their race have their memories en-
shrined.

Although the record of the life of the warrior
who has faced death in all its varied forme, on field
aad wave, takes a strong hold upon the imagina-
tion, by reason of the daring or the suffering it
represents, the advancing intelligence of the age
is appreciating those laurels which are not stained
with blood; and we feel assured that while the
memories of Nelson, Wellington, and her hosts of
military heroes, will be cherished by Britons, as
long as Britain shall last, the souvenirs of Prince
Albert will be fondly cherished as those of one
“Who fell not in climbing the icy steep

Which ambition delights to seale ;

For the deeds of his arn not a widow shall weep,
Nor an orphan her father bewail.”

aE Ee 2 ee
LOYALTY OF IRISH CATHOLICS,

Nor satisfied with having done his best to in-

Seeretary Pope—whom the Catholics help to sup-
port—has, in the last Islander, attempted to fas-
ten the stigma of disloyalty, and something worse,
on Irish Catholics in America. He could not
allude to the liberation of the Southern Commis-
sioners, and the re-establishment of peaceful rela-
tions between Great Britain andthe United States
without making the following foul aspersion on
the whole Catholie community :—

“ The sensible men of the Republic surely ean
have no desire to engage in a war with England.
Those who regret that such a war has been averted,
will, in our estimation, be found among the vilest of
the population of a country which counts amongst
its citizens the expatriated villains of every portion
of the Old World.

“The two millions of Irish Catholics will, we
presyume—judying from the tone of the articles in
some of the United States pers, in the Nation,
and from he par geo at the recent inass meeting
held in Dublin—be most especially disappointed
when they see they will have lonyer to wait for
that day, “which their fathers’ eyes were hot to
ree’’—the day on which they will be atfurded an
opportunity of fighting against England.”

There is no doubt that the choice expressions

# exypatriated villians,” were intended for Catholics
generally, in all parts of the British Amerivan
,as well as for the “ two millions” in

the United States. We have not the shadow of

of

sult and malign the Catholics of this Island, Mr. |

the different gradations and species, and distributions
of governing authority are also arranged by Him,
and exist by his sanction and ordinance.”

| The Bishop of Elphin, the Right Rev. Dr. Gil-

| looley, says :—

|
}

| “Wehave always been dutiful subjects of the}
| British Crown. Allegiance to our gracious Queen |

| is with usaduty prescribed by allegiance and strictly
| enforeed by the Chureh.”’
| The Bishop of Ferns, the Right Rev. Dr. Fur-
long, says :—
| “The history of the Irish people proved that they
} were, as they ever would be, faithful to her gra-
| cious Majesty.”
| These expressions of the Hierarchy of Ireland
are surely worthy of more consideration, as indi-
cating the loyal spirit of the Irish Catholics, than
the silly meeting which was held at the Rotundo
in Dublin, to which the Is!ander has referred, but
in which no man of note or influence appears to
have taken any part. The fact of The O’Dono-
hue being the Chairman of the meeting, manitested
the absurdity of the movement. His ancestral
acres procured for this gentleman a seat in Parlia-
ment, but he has never passed for any thing better
there than a half crazy enthusiast.

Now, let us see how the Irish and English Catho-
lies in England feel under the awful calamity which
has lately fallen upon the Royal Family, an event
which was eminently calculated to bring out the
devotional feelings of all classes of Her Majesty's
subjects. The London “Weekly Register and
Catholic Standard,” is, perhaps, the ablest paper
of the kind published in the world — not even ex-
cepting the Tablet: it represents not merely the
opinions of the Catholics of England, but may be
said to speak the sentiments of the whole body
throughout the Empire. This paper, in noticing
the death of the Prince Consort, for whem all its
columns are in mourning, thus bears testimony to
the sympathy of the Catholic community for Her
Majesty in this hour of her affliction :—

“We are confident that in thizawful hour she will
not want the earnest prayers of ber Catholic subjects.
The Cardinal-Archbighop, making use of the oppor-
tunity which the freedom of our position gives us,
seut out a Pastorai as soon as any anxiety was felt,
calling for their prayers for the recovery of the
Priuce, for the sake alike of Iler Majesty and of
Ilis own virtues, so highly appreciated by the coun-
try. This was read at the earlier Masses on Sunday
As the morning advanced, the fatal terminatwn of
the disease became known. We bave no doubt that
a similar step would have been taken in the Ks-
tablished Church. But the vapid progress of the
disease wade it impossible to obtain au order

the Queen in Council, without which the Protestant

Bishops are not allowed to give such directions.”

iu the same paper, under the edit

these dangers. And yet Prince Albert has conduct
ed himself with so much discretion, that only once
or-twice has he ever been charged with any undue
interference with public affairs, and never has there
been so much as a breath of veandal agai i
domestic virtues, or those of the Royal family.
this head he has received less than >
England is now learning, almost with surprise, how
much of the hich moru#tone of the Court she owes
to the husband of her Queen. We may add thatal
though the education of the Prince had of necessity
imbued him with religious tendencies, which could
not but be disapproved not by Catholics alone, but
by any one who held consistently the doctriues pro

| fexsed even by the Protestant Establishinent Yet
even here the progress of his own wind had been

in a better direction, and it is mentioned as a proof

of this, thathe strongly disapproved the publication,

lately so notorious, of the “* baasays and Reviews.”

his personal character was distinguished by unsul-

lied purity, the faithful discharge of all relative obli

yitions, an unimistakeable love of truth, and a high

sense of duty. Our gountry must sink much lower

lower than it even has, before these qualities will

cease to be highly valued among us. For the rest,

the subjects lo which he has devoted himeelf, and

with which his name is connected, were well and

| wisely selected. The education of his children was
| his most immediate duty; and it is well known that
jhe made it his first object. After this, came the
patronage of Science and Art. The Great Exhibi-

tion of L831 was peculiarly his own; and the testi-

mony of competent judges unanimously declares that

the schools and exhivitions of art, of which he was

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the author, have already changed the character of
* * Bs 7 ro |

English manufactures.

dv far as appears from the public papers, one per- |

son alone seems as yet to have remembered that tue
very existence of the Prince, for whom these Islands

are mourning, has not passed away like a falling

|

af the Prince is said to have drawn tears from the con-
«

gregation at Chelsea on Sunday. Whether we are

blish-

went, a8 another exception, our readers must judge™
It seems to savor of the spirit-rapping doctrine ra- |
ther than of Christianity’ It proposes that we should |
all pray that his mighty shade may still walk |
band in hand with the Koyal. partner whom he
loved so faithfully and so well.’’ 2

We might say much more on Cath lie loyalty, |
but we shall not mar the beauty of the above ex- |

tracts by further remarks of our own. |

Perhaps no one had ever before been in |

tinst his |

Sustice, and |

|“ boiling’? water from its seething cauldron.

|

In the |
j}snowy Alps—in the frowning Drachenfels, whose |
| tops, gray with crumbling ruins, are yet green In the |
} memories of a thousand years -he sees no beauty, |
| because he sees no usefulness. He knows not the |
jcharm of music. In the joyous earol of the birds, |
tuning their hymn of praise to their Maker—in the |
rush of the foaming torrent—the moan of the sea |
shore—the gentle ripple breaking on the silvery |
istrand—the ungry dash of the waves against the |
storm beaten rock—the gentle bum of nature on a |
stilly summer's eve—in the breeze sighing through
the} leatless forests, or in the “night winds,”
las they “ creep frou leaf to Jeaf’’—in all these he
hears no music—he perceives no beauty, becanse
he hears not in all the sweet clink of the dollar.
The God of Nature, when he made this world,
(Mr J. continued) and he spoke it with all reverence,

limity. ‘This fair world was the poetry of God ma-
teriulized. But another objection is, that poetry is
not piety, wrapping himself up in the Nessus robe
of austerity, which, because it deceives himself, he |
fondly imagines will deceive others, and Him also
|“ who searches the heart’ — this “ over righteous”’ |
man tells us there is no religion in poetry, and there-
fore Christians and Christian Associations should
not encourage its growth. This is a libel not on
Nature, Mr. Johnston said, but on his God; for
God's word is full of the loftiest poetry. Listen to
the sublime musings of Job—the maguificent poetry
ot Isaiah—the sweet warblinzs of David—and as
this “ overrighteons’’ man would say, and his fellow
menu, “lam holier than thou,” so in his heart he
lsuys to his Ged, “1 am of better judgment than
thon, to cultivate a love of poetry, in which thou |

‘from the Scotch Settlement who appeared to be |

was a poet—his heart was fullof poetry and sub-|

whether the Popes have used their influence to
repress freedom of thought? However, I will
make a few remarks on your gross and unjust in-
sinnations regarding Indulgences. Ou no other
subject do Protestant writers more outrageoussy
calumniate their Catholic neighbours than on this
same poiut. They unblushingly assert that the
Catholic Church, by Indulgences, permits her fol-
lowers to commit sin, aud many of their readers
believe this to be true. No longer than a couple
of weeks ago I was in conversation with a person

most firmly convinced that Catholic Priests, for a
pecuniary consideration, give permission to the
“ faithful” to commit all manner of crimes. This
poor muiun’s. uncharitable impressions were, with-

unscrupulous manner, against us ** Papists.”” Now,

‘one of two things is eertain. Those who publish
‘those calumnies either know them to be such, or

they do not. If the former is true, then are they
a disgrace to the Christian name, sinee they

‘knowingly aud maliciously rmaligu their neigh-

bours: if the latter is true, then their ignerance
jcannot be invincible, seeing that they have
/numberless opportunities of informing themselves
regarding the doctrines of Catholics trom the de-
crees of the general couneils, from our formularies
of faith, and even from our sruall catechisms, and
consequently their unchristian accusations are
altogether inexcusable. 1 ara willing to give you

hast Feen fit to communi« ate a portion of thy word the benefit of the most charitable construction

to us is a mere waste of time.’ 1 stand here to
night, said Mr. Jobnston, and in the name of our
common nature, Whose best and purest feclings give
the lie to this utter utilitarianism—in the name of
this fair world, whose every spot proclaims the
libel, and with all reverence, in the name of Him
who has implanted those feelings and ereated this
world, so full of beauty—I denounce this doctrine |
as unworthy a man, ignoble, and derogatory, and
insulting to the God of Nature, and of man. Bui
lyon, ladies and gentlemen, he continued, all know
lund feel that there is something higher and nobler
lin our nature, Which cannot be satistied entirely by
|those means which contribute only to our anim!

' . . .
land material comforts, ‘aspirations in each heart

l after a betier, higher bearing’’—things more exalted.
Cherish these sentiments.
elevate your minds—encourage the love even of
poetry, fur though it may not add to your material
wealth, it will add to your wealth of mind. Re-
member in whose image you are made, and thank
your God that he has planted in your breasts feel-
ings which derive pleasure from the contemplation

of the wondrous, the beautiful, and the sublime ; |
}and thank him also that he has made this fair world |
That is the Catholic Bishop of Troy, whose | for you so full of beauty and of poetry. After this! bigne, they are worthless, and would be so were
earnest expressivn of his hopes for the happiness of | address, which was listened to with great attention, |

jand elicited frequent bursts of applause, Mr. Jvhn-
ston occupied half an hour in reading the very
humorous trial from the Pickwick Papers of Bar-
| dell vs. Pickwick, the striking passages in which
| were rendered with mu&{ taste and judgment, call-
ietforth-* “nent peals of laughter.
Mr. Litexe *£ then concluded the evening’s enter-
tainment by re.“ling his well wriiten poem on the
end of the year, Wrresg, bas already been published
in one of oar newspapers,
——
ep" etta

BOOK PEDDLERS.

We have given inanother column a rather long |

Seek to improve, and |

_

——_—_+>— lletter on Bvok-peddling by American travelling |

| SOIREE OF THE CHARLOTTETOWN READ- agents. We doubt if the subject is deserving of |

all the public notice given to it, for the people who)

an-

ING ROOM AND DEBATING CLUB.
The Tea Soiree in aid of the fands of this Institn- | allow themselves to be imposed upon in the y
tion came off on Tuesday evening, the 3lst Dec. last. | ner described, seem to be msensible to the lessons |
of experience or to the words of caution so often |
the Soiree cannot be considered as saccessful; but addressed to them; or—wiat is likely to be the |

this was to be attributed, we think, rather to the | ase with many of them—perhaps they consider |

are all conspirators, and that we desire nothing 86 | eyening chosen, and other canses, than to any want a trashy book as useftl to them as the best that

of interest, in the Wellize Of the Tastitn oe A | was ever printed,—it fills a certain amount of
little after 3 o'clock, the intellectual part of the en-

imment commenced by Mr. W. Munrrany taking

space, and makesa show on the little parlour book

i
ae . lease; and it is for that purpose—and that only—|
the Chair, and addressiag a few very appropriate | |, : :

which hundreds of persons pretend to encourage
literature and science, The author of Hudibras!

|

; 7 $  saet a2.
remarks on the importance of the Insticution—tic
very great increase in the numer of its present
i says:

* Doubtless the pleasure is as great ;
|

started—the advantages which its Reacing Room
offered, being superior to any Reading Room ever In being cheated as to chent,”’
established in the Island—the progress which espe- | and very likely some of the dupes of the Yankee
cially its janior members had mule in the art of |). peddlers are governed by this motive in laying
speaking, eudan apron ornnn fate? pring = out their spare dollars. But we cannot see why
the Gocety. | Sie-gun Samay ue Aan, Fe | the Government should not make a liftle money |

Wuesay, who made a few observations on the im- | : : ilk
}out of the business as well as the Yankee biblio-|

portance and advantages of Debating Societies— | ~~
career | Polists themselves.

‘book which requires hawkers aud peddlers to take |

|

illustrating his remarks by reference to the We have a law on our statute
of some distinguished men, who had laid the foun-
dation of their fame in such institutions. jout and pay fora licence before they can vend |
Mr. W. Mowsx then took the platform, and afforded | their wares along the public highway. Now, a)
the company much amurement by reading the book is no less an article of merchandize than a!
humorous trial of Bullem vs. Boatem and Boateim | — :
vs. Bullem. i few yards of cotton, thread, needles and tape;

Mr. W. A. Jousstoyx then addressed the an-/| and tie latter are often far more serviceable in 2
dience. He commenced by stating the reasens which | po gy 2 7. think ce lg oe
had induced him to accede to the request made to | family than the former. We think, therefore, that
him that he should takea part in the proceedings of | the book peddlers should be made to come under |

the evening, and expressing his conviction that ) the law relating to peddlers generally. If the law, |
was the duty of every one to contribute his quota, ' - . é ?
though that gota migit be a mite, to allobjects hav- | in its present state, will not embrace their case, it |
ing for their aim either the improvement or the | sould be amended; and if such an arrangement |
rational evtertaimment of the conmnunity. Then | :

apologising for iutroducing matters of a somewhat | do not afford the necessary protection to the cre-
personal nature before the company, he in a few | qulous who suffer themselves to be imposed upon
observations, marked by an honest indignation, the | | : F
keenest satire, and most cutting irony, referred to a | in the purchase of worthless books, there will be
slander set on foot with regard to bis lecture, deli
yered at that Hall on the Thursday previous, before
the Y. M. Christian Association. Mr. Johnston, |
anxious not to perpetiite unpleasant feelings, las

with more generosity than was, perhaps, to be ex- |

| at least some gain to the publie revenue.
THE BRITISH REVIEWS AND BLACK-!
WOOD'S MAGAZINE.

_——~<— Poe

| words which may be attributed to Tetzel whe was,

, on this point.

| person, who is versed in the Bible, will deny that

| example, the semteuce of spiritual death and ever-

—y

whcih can be given to your motive in publishing
calumnious insinuations,after taking into consider-
ation that you must have had an opportunity of
‘informing yourself regarding the doctrine of Ca-
tholics, seeing that you appear well versed even
with the decrees of the Congregation of the Index.

If you have not spent several years in aequirmg
a kuowledge of Catholic phraseology, you have
| been, I hope, an assiduous reader of your Bible,
and have noticed the following importent com-
mandment:—* THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE
WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR.” Now,
Sir, itis a matter of some importance for us to
‘consider that we shall all, even the editors olf
Evangelical Witnesses, be examined before the
judgment seat of Christ on our observance of this
commandment, and that the calumnious charges
of idelatory, &c., which now serve the purpose of
rousing popular fury and prejudice against Catho-
lies, shall then only serve to cover their guilty
authors with well merited confusion,

As to your quotations from Motley and D’Au-

they ten times as numerous, for this reason that
the testimony of interested or prejudiced persons
\in favour of their own party or against their ad-
| versaries ix absolutely good for nothing. One
would have thought that you, who seem to say
|that you have not spent any of your time im ac-
‘quiring a knowledge of “important matters,”
| would have known this much of the law of testi-
| mony.

| Itis a doctrine of the Churclugthe’erphpeet ater si ae =

| sell Oyabbne sagredss—.ierilegious crime; ‘and |
lif any clergyman has se far forgotten his duty as |
| to sell Indu/gences, his conduct cannet, with any |
justice, be imputed to the Church. Avarice bas
caused many a crime, it even caused Christ Him-
self to be sold for thirty pieces of silver, aud we
should not be surprised if there have been since
the time of Judas some individuals who have
abused their ministry. It is net in accordance
with sound reasoning to deduce a general conclu-
sion from a particular fact. The teaching of the
Church cannot certainly be infecred from any

in 1518, reprimanded by Carl. Meltitz, in the |
name of Leo X., aud whe is admitted even by |
Protestant writers to have acted contrary to the
doctrines of the Church. In Reinhard, p. 277, t.
1., we read the fullowing:—“ Thus Tetzel’s In-
dulgences produced its effect without interior ex-

| piation, whereas the Indulgences which the Pope |

grants to the faithful avail not unless the siuner |
has wept, confessed his sin and Aone penance. |
Tetzel, then, deceived the Pope, his Bishop and |

| auditory.”

But yeu may ask what is an Indulgence if it is
hot a permission to commit sin! As a knowlpdge
of the rea! doctrine of Catholics on this point nay
be the means of deterring you from attributing to
them practices which they condemn as strongly as
you do, IL will endeavour to explain our teaching
“] suppose, first, that no one will
deny that a sovereign prince, in showing mercy to
a capital convict, may either grant him a remission
of all punishment, or may leave him subject to
some lighter punishment: of course he will allow
that the Almighty may act in either of these ways
with respect to sinners. I also suppose that no

many instances occur there of God’s remittting
the esscntial guilt of sin and the eternal guilt due
te it, and yet leaving a temporary punishment to
Le endured by the penitent sinner. Thus, for

lasting tormeuts was remitted to our first futher,

without control.

| pa

the doctrine that we are poe be by faith as
not by good works, having uo relish for @
(Bucer, De Regn. Chris. 1. 1. ¢. 4,
T have said that the prohibitions of the
are hot in force her. You on the
tain that they are, unless a decree of the By
the contrary has been issued, Now, allow
tell you, without however desiring to hurt
feelings, that what you have written on thet a
ject shows how very little you know rub.
You seem to take it for veuled that a decree
the Congregation of the Index is obligatory
the faithful a# soon as it is issued, In this penal
mistaken, for a law to have effect must
ciently promulgated. The question then 3
the decrees of the Congregation of the Index
sufficiently promulgated in the Di
lottetown? I am not obliged to prove
consequently the onus probandi rests og
you should prove that these decrees
regularly and sufficiently prom
/accordance with the rules of Canon
established ge — Church _ {
in a word, with the conditions red. |
vou are desirous te know what are t .
I would respeetfally refer youto the ‘
Wigers, Boudart, Steyaert, Billuart,
Urban VU, Benedict XIV and other theoloetes.
and canonists. Jf you are not able to rw
those decrees have been sufficiently slat,
in this Diocese, then would I take f
| giving you eee | advice not to
anything in future concerning which you kng
little or nothing. iti.
To prove to you that the Index is net |
everywhere, may refer you to Bouvier’s |
| tones Theologica, where you may read: * Uikgie
| Congregatione Indicis proscripti, apud Wy
ivr sine licentia, siab episcopis non :
(tom. LV., p. 582.) The same auti
p. 118, says:—* Index non |
admittinr quoad omnia. Si post =
in quibusdam conciliis partieularibus Index pu
ceptus fucrit, mox in desnetudinem abit :
probatos austores nostros, Collat. Andeg.
Theol. Pictav., &e. :
Towards the close of your comments
pose two difficulties which are in sul
|a book placed on the Index is a goc

f

out doubt, the result of some of the innumerable, ia the necessity of askis os
| calumnies which are daily published, in the most y ag perunienien Gp

! if it is a dangerous or bad one, how can

be given to any one at any time or place te read

it?) These difficulties vanish when we tees
that the reading of a book is neither good ;
in itself, but may become either by pam :

circumstance connected therewith,

is bad in itself can never be permitted to
That which is indifferent in itself may
mitted to some and prohibited to others,
| permitted at one time or place, and not
other. No one favoured with common
deny this. That which is pe
time may not be so at another,
is lawfcl for Catholics to eat meat at one

and not at another. The eating of meat ix

| sinful in itseH.and yet it becomes sinfal

on which it is prohibited by the Church, Por
sufficient reasons a person can get a di Bis
lor an indulgence as you would have it, to .
even on prohibited days, and certainly te ‘
a permission an indulgeyce to commit sim)

‘be the meanest kind ef quibbling i

| Some one fond of proposing shallow

may say: Is it net wrong to make asin ofthat ~
/which is not sinful in itself? To such a one
would answer that the eating of fruit is not sinfl |
in itself, and pes we fiul that the sin of | ;
parents consisted in eating fruit coutrary
Prohibition of God. Srvile works are not

in se, and yet they bee@ne sinful when
‘ona Sunday without rcessity. :
P emnen fl of instantes might be given te show —
how circumstances may change the morality of
actions. ‘Te excowrag education by giving toa.
Protestant College a Jarge
which “ Papists” conribute ix, ne doubt, in your
opinion, a very praisewothy act; Whereas toe
courage education by givig to a C Calleoe
any assistanee from the nine funds would be, I
presume, in your estimaton, little, if anything,
short of sacrilege. So auch do
change matters. With pgard te “it

except a person of the nest obtuse intellect
deny that a book which pay be harmless,
or even necessary for of individual
tremely dangerous for ajother, and ‘i
pervert his ee corrupt his heart.

miuutely the yp
rts of the human body, and treat of the ;
diseases connected therewith; but few hah!
that it would be proper te place such books in

hands of a young female or indeed of any
person,not because sneh books are j
but beeause they are relatively se. I have"

it said that since you took your seat in the edite
rial chair you have occasionally moralized i
novels, und lectured seme of your contemporaries
regarding seme pi of composition which they

i

2

rinted; in fact, that you have made your

an “Index” on a small seale. Lf this is true, I
may say that before you condemued a bool
piece of writing you are sup tu have
Now, if sucha boek or piece of writing wer
good, why recommend others not to read it? and-
if it were bad, why read it yourself? You will
probably answer, that although you might read it
with impunity, there are many others who
not, and besides it is necessary that some one
read inmeral and erroneouw. books in order
they may be condenmed and refived, se that the
unwary may not be corrupted thereby. “Thesame
may be said of those who get permission to read
bad or dangerous books which are on the

There are other points in your article of
2Ist instant to which 1 would wish te reply in-
this communication, but I find thet Ihave i
exceeded the bounds of an ordinary
that it is time to conclude, which 1 do by
scribing myself

Your very obedient and humble servant, ~
A. MeDONALD,
St. Dunstan's College, Dee. 31, 1361.

socialites
To rue Epitor or rae Examiner.

YANKEE PEDDLERS. =,’

Sim—As the Editor of the most extensively ire

culated paper on the Island, I think it is your daty
to warn those of your country subscribers whe

not yet been swindled by Yankee book

pedd'ers of the * tricks and traps" used by

‘]

upon his repentance, but not that of corporal
death. Thus, also,;when God reversed His severe |
sentence against the idolatrous Israelites, He
added, Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will
visit their sin upon them. Exod. xxxii. 34. Thus

again, when the inspired Nathan said to the model |
| of penitents, David, The Lord hath put away thy |

|} sin, he added, nevertheless the child that is born than useless books, sold at an exorbitant pricey

unto thee shall die. 2 Kings, alias Sam. xii. 14.)
had numbered the people, the Lord in pardoniug |
hin, offered him, by His prophet, Gad, the choice
of three temporal punishments, war, famine, and |
pestilence. /bid xxiv. The Catholic Church |

pected under the ciremmstances, declined to furnish
us with these remarks, thongh, being committed to
paper, they are ready at all times to be referred to
when required. He then gave this short account
of the lecture. It was written by himself, and de-
livered some six years ago in Halifax, to a very in-
telligent audience, who received it in a most grati-
fying manner. It oceupied two evenings in_ its
delivery—was publicly and most favorably criticixed
by Dr. Forrester, a well known scholar and ininister
of the Free Church in Nova Scotia, the Superinten-
dant of Education, and the Principal of the Normal!
School in that Province. It was subsequently pub
lished in the Provincial Wesleyan paperthere. Mr.
J. then read from that paper the heading to the
lecture, when it appeared with his name and as pub-
lished by request, and he then stated that for eon-
venience sake he had cut the lecture ont of the
yaper,and pasted ina book, which he had openly and
without the slightest attempt at concealment, read
from on Thursday evening —the only remarks
which were written for that particular occasion being
those on the Trent affair, which were written on a
distinct sheet of paper. Mr. Johnston here said
that he had written to the Chairman, telling him
that he would refute this slander at this Soiree, and
suggesting his presence if he had cither vindication
or retraction to make—that he had received a reply
from him, adraitting that he had given utterance to
the aspersion, but in his own house, and that others
had said the same thing; and after making some
appropriate observations, regretting that a little
more easwity had not been shown, by which much
mischief a:1d unpleasantness would have been avoid-
ed, and assuring those present that whatey er remarks
he at any time should make as his own, would be
bis own, both as regards sentiment and expression.

Mr. Johnston concluded by the following elo-
quent observations on Poetry. ?

This is a purely literary Luastitution ; its objects
are to promote the cultivation of the 1aind, to en-
courage a taste for reading, a habit of thought, and
an aptitude for clothing thought in ready and yrace-
ful language; but he might be told by some emi-
nently practical man: ‘ Oh, this is a mere waste of
time; it does not ‘encourage the arts, sciences, and
mechanics ; and some of your poets and men with
great brains and lofty genius have committed
suicide.’ Weill, after all, he could only reply that
the blessings of Providence are pretty equally
divided, and if to fall by their own hands is a fate
to which men with brains are subject, they who
indulge in these sentiments, and object to the eulti-
vation of literature on this ground, may reasonably
believe that no such disaster will befall them.
Wi:hout fear of a suicide’s grave for them, they may
well hope to live on to a “green old age,” —truly
green. There are some men, he continued, who
have no pvetry in their souls, and can behold no
beauty in the outer worid—who appreciate not the
expressions beeause they feel not the sentiments
with which genius seeks to pour out its perceptions
of the beautiful, the noble, the onsed the sublime;
aud this is poetry, whether it be in measured verse
or not. They would seck to bring every thing
down to their own standard of true worth. What
will it fetch?) What money can be nude out of it!
And wiile they talk about the arts and mechanics,
the arts and mechanics which will increase wealth
are those only which find any favor in their eyes.
“Cui bono !’” is their continual ery; to add to the
alinighty dollar theie loftiest aim. All high senti-

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than the news by the Asia. The papers furnish
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ments on the Anglo-American question. The
Queen and Royal family had retired to Osborne,
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WE intended to have given in this No. a quid
pro quo in exchange for the compliments lavished
upon us by the Islander and Monitor, a few days
ago, in reference to the petition for a dissolution ;
but we find that all our space is taken up with
much more entertaining matter. We desire to
assure our contemporaries, however, that we shall
take an early opportunity to devote especial atten-
tion if not to themselves, at least to their masters
in the Government.

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[#° Bardell, the American sailor, who was con-
victed of the murder of Policeman Gardner at Hali-
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| teaches that the same is still the common course
, of God’s mercy and wisdom, in the forgiveness of |
| sins committed after baptism. The essential guilt |
and eternal punishment of sin, she declares, can |
only be expiated by the precious merits of our |
Redeemer Jesus Chirist ; but a certain temporal |
| punishment God reserves for the penitent himself
| to endure, ‘lest the easiness of his pardon should
jmake him careless about falling back into sin.’
| (Cone. Trid. Sess. vi., cap. 7, cap. 14, Sess. xiv., |
/cap. 8.) Hence satisfaction for this temporal |
puuishiuent has been instituted by Christ as a part
(of the Sacrament of Penance. This Council at |
| the siane time declares that this very satisfaction |
| for temporal punishment is only eficacious through |
| Jesus Christ. (Sess., xiv., 8.) Nevertheless, as!
| the promise of Christ to the Apostles and to St. |
| Peter in particular, and to their successors, is un-
limited: whatsoever you shall loose upon earth,
shall be loosed also in heaven. (Matt. xvi., 19,
xviii., 18.) the Cluurch believes and teaches that
her jurisdiction extends to this very satistaction,
80 as to be able to remit it wholly or partially, in
certain circumstances, by what is called an Indul-
gence. (Trid. Sess., xxv., De Induig.) St. Paul
exercised this power in behalf of the incestuous
Corinthian, (2 Cor., 11. 10.,) and the Church has
claimed and exercised the same power ever since
the time of the Apostles down to the present.
(Tertul. in lib, ad Martyr., c. 1, St. Cypr., L 3,
Epist. Concil., 1, Nic. Aneyr., &e. Still this
power, like that of absolution, is not arbitrary;
there must be a just reason for the exercise of it,
and there must be a certan proportion between
the punishment remitted and the good work per-
formed, (Bellarm. Lib. 1, De Indulg., ¢. 12.)
Hence ne one can ever be sure that he has gained
the entire benefit of an indulgence though he has
performed all the conditions appointed for this
end; (dbid.) and henee the pastors of che Church
will have to answer for it, if they take upon them-
selves to grant indulgences for unworthy or in-
sufficient purposes.”

‘This explauation ougit to silence your sarcasms
on this pomt. If you write any more on the
matter of indulgences,you will perhaps favor your
readers with your opinions regarding the indul-
genees which patriarch Luther was in the habit
ot granting to himself and others, Thus, for ex-
ample, he dispensed with himself and Catharine
Boren from their vows of a religious life, and par-
ticularly of that of celibacy, and even preached up
adultery in his public sermons. (“ Si nolit Domina,
veniat ancilla,dc.” Martini Lutheri de Matrimo-
nia Serm> habitus Wittemberge Anno 1522 tom
V. Oper. Luth. Wittembergy, 1544, p. 119 et seq.)
He aiso in conjunction with Bucer and Melancthon
granted an inculgence te Phulip, Landgrave ot
Hesse, to marry a second wife, his first being stil!
living. It even appears that more reformers than
these were in the habit of giving and receiving
indulgences, for Bucer tells ws that: “ The greater
part ot the people seem only te have embraced the

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travelling gentry, who invariably nig, 4
their worthless goods to those who possess Tw
to detect the fraud till teo late. :

The first swindler visited our “ Island home” @
few years ago, and he met with such good succes
that a perfect host of his Connecticut triends have
swariwed to our shores, like vultures to their prey,
and the result is, our Island is deluged

| Finally, when David's heart smote him, after he | ry, calculated to deceive the uninformed, and

end
filled with exaggerated accounts of Arcericun bie

poison the minds of the young. Enter an
able farm house on this Island, and the first

| you notice isa large book, gandily orname

* Cottage Cyclopedia,” or * History of the Enstern
World,” in large gilt letters. The girl inthe j
wears 2 brooch worth a ninepence, for
rave the result of two months’ hard labour; the.
ady of the house has » penny ring, for
dozen cows yielded their riches for a week. Ey
am happy to say that through the grent intluence of
the many warnings wiven by the Island Press,
people are being wade sensible of the folly of -
chasing from irresponsible people. ‘
The present representatives of Yankee Book:
a have not degenerated from their
in deception, knavery and meanness.
manly iealing, they do not hesitate a moment
perpetrate any act, however mean, whieh por :
cure to ther the disposal of ancther W
Cyclopedia. People who purchare from book —
ought hard!y to be pitied, if they continue
purchases after being made aware of the faet, that,
almost without an exception, agents :
selected from the worst grades of society.
book publishers advertize for those out of *
ment, or who are unable to find other means i
sistence. Of course nove but worthless oF
people will accept sach an ocenpil
therefore, a strong healthy man, wit
a person capable of anything from piteh
mansk.ughter, sneaks Into a house, and #
scriptions for books, doubts as to bis ,
society will naturally arise. ey
Last spring and summer twe ¢
agents travelled over the Island, #0
scriptions for a trashy, mnreliable book
“Cottage Cyclopedia?” ‘This book should net
allowed a place in any Islander’s house; it is
with elaborately written sketches of Americans a
a few meagre lines on Englishmen - detailed infor
mation on American towns, and not one dame
English cities, save London; numerous pe
on American laws and the Constitation of
United States ; and a few brief and h
ten remarks on the Constitution of o!4.
long columns devoted to the perpetuation of
name and fame of the signers of the “
while the names of never to be fo
men are ignored. Among the list of
arranged in chronological order, from 937 B. :
inserted massacres fulsely alleged to have bee@
committed by the English, and the savages
their commafid; for instance: the
Americanes at Dartmvor in 1815; of the
of Wilkesbarre and Cherry Valley by ine “
and Sav: ,” under the command of Col.
&e. &e. ese miassacres were
Indians, who were entirely be
the English, but they were
treachery and barbarity of the
are but a few of the teristics of
Cyclopedia, as noticed in a a
contents. As regards the t
in this bandle of bound wrapping paper;
989 pages, printed on a very coarse
with extremely wide margins. Of these
622 are devoted to Americzn subjects. AS
the valve of this book, it can be estimated
cost of it per volume, as taken from
folding by job
olding by \
cents ; ing the first
in
only one d
ner way

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