CORRESPONDENCE,

EPGCATION AND THE CHURCH No 4 To tie Error or THe PROTESTANT.

\sayaa monk of Wessobrum in Bavaria, “many vo \Jomes both for divine service and for the public li- brart ofthe monastery,” It may bere be remarked that the art of writing with golden and i

* dark" ages.

ne

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the arts and engines of hostility, the blind hatred of | word than “enabled” where he has it. The word)\ a blogkade of St. Pierre inthe port itself. Being half barbarian kings, the fanatical fury of their sub. | * somewhere” does not relate to Lme at all, and is | jects, or the reckleas antipathy of the popes. I do| not ouly improper bat superiluous Iver ink,| mot recollect any instance in which ii is recorded | following seutence from “Clanticleer's” letter, now disused if not wholle lost, WRe common in the | that the Seriptures, or any part of them, weretreated | viz., and the finale is au indiguant assertion that! 4 cross breach of neutrality, and now tel

* Who that hate visited the ancient} with indignity, or with less than profound respect.| the man who can write in sdeh an elegant style) world in Li ; t . muat

sane —_— ~—— — oa

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By reading the |

Hbraries bax net admired the beautiful pentnanship, | I know of nothing which ebould lead me to suppose | would never do anything towards feathering my

» misunderstood

Sin—In my last T showed that there is nothing |)),,, tasty marginal decorations, and the eplendid | that any human craft or power was exercised to} nest,” you will perceive that he

in the teaching of the Church inimieal to the cul-} > ocorial Mustrations of many of the old illurainated | prevent the reading, the multiplication, the ¢iffasion i Moeorver tivation of the mind. In the presentand subsequent | nu geripts? Inmany of there exgaisite ¢rnaments | of the Word of God,” (Ibid. p, 220 and 22.) The | pot likely feather his nest, bat that Mr. I fact, however, to which I have so repeatedly alluded would not likely do go.

otters T purpose to give some facts Pelative to what } the mach dhused Popes, and the Roman Cathohe | Chureh generally, have done for edacation.

No man, who is acquainted with the history of letters, can deny that the Church has been at all times the zealous friend of education, and has pos- seened, in all ages, men illustrious for their acientitic |

util literary acquirements; and that the men who, Hilary enriched the F teran palace with two libra-| strong proof of their familiarity with them—but IL) only mention some of the words it contained

the deMeate hand of woman is readily traced.”

“ The diligence with which the Popes gatbered | iw simply thia—the writings of the dark ages are, if

admirable letter of Leo thet@reat to Leo Angustus, we per

osetia a tor > »}} aati i ‘ £ is (he icleer’’ were r *wLEK ti on ceive that there must have beena large collection of | thorities on all occasions, as other writers have don | heanalyzes them! If‘ Chanticleer’ were requested | Hou

the writings of the Fathers at his command. St

ibook for the promotion of sacred studies, is truly | I may uae the expression, made up of the Scriptures. | proper to analyze our letteps. Let us see how he From the number of quotations in'the I do not merely mean that the writers constantly | has succeeded. Tle quotes some ‘ terms’ which | so completely:

since their day — though they did this, and it ia a | t

” «Obsaerver’ did not say that I would | song worth | }

Again, “ Chanticleer,” alias A—— E——, thought

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quoted the Scriptures, and appealed to them as au-} appeared imour letters, and thinks that by doing so)

» analyze a lesson how wonld he do it? Wouldhe ta

Parued off, he bribes some person to let him know

'y signals the hour of the Sumfer’s departure,

‘and he practically blockades the harbour by cruis ing three miles oif land for ten days

He carniuiits lls the that “the French that the

in favor o. the

ia oficial despatehe it?” He aeknow people ot Martinique were i! Sumter, because of her connexion with iouisiana, formerly a Freneh possession. He insults France iu the presenee of Frenchmen, and in a port of a Freveh colony. And having done so, be boasts ot having acted with great self-denial, and writes to ‘whether he is any

to observean international! ”* whieh bafiles Lim

por ket ear

his Government lo know ongel

Law Fraree must, and most assuredly will, take ae i The parties who have eaten / k will, we dare RaV, be ready to swallow another. But apologies wil net always disarm re sentment for a wrong, and it is quite possible that

s matter

Ole int

during the middle ages, preserved the bible and the | pin. Stephen V. towards the close of the ninth mean that they thought and spoke and wrote the | secins to me that he does not kuow the weaning of | 1. Eiaperor of the Preneh may think that the

works ef Greek and Roman literature from utter jeentury, gave hooks to the library of St. Paul's | thoughts and words and phrases of the Bible, and! common English words | From a letter of Lupus, abbot of Ferrieres, to Be-| that they did this constantly and habitually as the |

annihilation, were Catholic clergymen.

It is almost intpoasible for ws, Mt the present day, edict II1,, it is seen that Rome was considered a } natural mode of expressing themselves. They did

to form an adequate idea of all the difficulties with | which our forefathers had to contend in matters ap- '

pertaining to education. We should remember that | com nentary of St. Jerome on the Prophet Jeremiah, | letters, legal instraments and docaments of every on the breaking ap of the Roman Empire, all the | which was wanting in the libraries of France ; us| description.”

aiarces of learning were almost wholly destroyed.

The i . . institutes of -omn- » Protest: i Tanner, who in “ An ac- | t barbaria f the North, one after another, | books of the institutes of Guintilian, and the com-| of the Protestant Bishop, ‘Tanner, w 1 nm wn < ; Which appeared in the ‘ Examiner’ of the 27th instant, above the signature “ Dreamer.” This calumny you will yourself, Mr. Whelan, I be-/

broke in upon the doomed empire, destroying every | mentary of Donatus on the comedies of Terentius. | count of all the Abbeys, Priories and Friaries, for- | thing befort them with fire and sword. Franks and | From this request it appears that the monks of the | merly existing in England and Wales,” tells usthat | Goths, Vandals and Alans, Huns and Lombards, ininth century could relish the beauties of the classi-|‘‘in every great Abbey there was a large room | | Danese and Normans, swept like torrents over the jeal authors, aud that the Pontiff was thought likely | called the ‘Seriptorium,’ where several writers made | % il also, through your journal, give publicity OP i ccctteedetiininnhidtee: ghate Menten tndieke th Gerbert, who} it their whole business to transcribe books for (he) this my owu unequivocal disavowal of the pater-| They sometimes, mdeed, wrote | nity imputed, adding my declaration that, I had, , land have no knewledge whatever of that comun-

mont beautiful provinces of Europe, “ masaacring

. { . the inhabitants, aud «weeping away in their resist- | was afterwards Pope, at the close of the following use of the library. leas course almost all the landmarks of civilization, ! age,in a letter toa friend, assures him that the desire | the Leger books of the house, and the Missals, and uad involving in a common ruin the mest splendid of books was great in every city of Italy, and that a} other books used in divine service; but they were it

good place to obtain rare and valuable books. The | it, too, not exclusively in theological or ecclesiasti-! Canoe Cove, Jauuary 20, 1862.

abbot asks the Pope to send him a portion of the |

| alae the books of Cicero de Oratore, the twelve |

to afford facilities for studying them.

cal matters, but in histories, biographies, familiar |

(Ibid. p. 470.) \

Law, yours, &e

JAMES McNEILL

}

To tne Eprror ov THE EXAMINER. { My pear Str—Some thoughtless people in this

I shall now invite your attention to the evidence | comununity, have been assiduous in their exertions

if

monuments of ancient genius and wisdom.” This | large number of persous were employed in transerib- | generally upon otber works: the Fathers, Classics, |

js an important fact which we should pompeaber | when examining what the Popes and the “lazy | monke” bave done for learning.

ing. Victor I[[., whenabbot of Monte Cassino, oc- | eupied his monks in this useful labor, and sought |

whieh We must not forget is, that the art of printing | Kenrick.)

sequently that the immumerabdle facilities for multi- the world for old manuscripts, is the result of the plying books which that invention has afforded | efforts of successive Popes, from the time of St. Ri- |

were unkndwn before that time. The method of

jlary, who founded it im the sixth century. “ At}

Histories, &c.” (Pref. p. 1 and 264.) | The great Protestant Philosopher, Lerryrrz,

Another fact after rare books to add them to his collection,” | says :—‘* For it is manifest that both books and let- | ters have been preserved by the aid of the monaste chell did not write the article referred to.—Ep. |

* 4s + . : . om ” ‘ ; ibr ite rior not invented till the fifteenth century, andcon-| The Vatican library, which is the most famous in| ries.’ “ Constat enim libroset literas monasteriorum | EX’

ope faisse conservatos.”” (Tom, v. Opp. Ep. 14.)

o fix upon me the authorship of a communication

ieve, do me the justice to refute publicty ; and

vieation, excepting exly as I saw and read it in he ‘ Examiner.’ Your obd’t servant, |

A. MITCHELL. Ch. Town, Saturday Ist Feb., le02.

{ We have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Mi

K- = eed

| ; . , see od Phe same author, speaking of the monastry of ( - beia, saya: “ Which, through its monks, excelling

producing copies of books, which existed previous to | present the Vatican library contains 3,685 Gryek,| not less in learning than in piety, spread the light

the date mentioned, was to transcribe them with the 18,108 Latin, 726 Hebrew, 787 Arabic, 65 Persian, | of the faith throughout the entire North.” (Fbid.) ceaiealias

Che Examiner.

pence except on paper,

jugain set our merry

pen; and to form an idea ofthe immense labor con 64 Turkish, 459 Syriac, 71 Ethiopian, 18 Sclavonic,| To this splendid testimony in favour of the monks, nected with thie manner of naltiplving books, we |22 Indian, 10 Chinese, 80 Coptic, 18 Armenian, and | I may add the testimony of another distinguishes | have only to consider that an expert copyirt would 2 Goeegen mianoseripts, amounting in all to 24,11, } Protestant, ELLENporr, who testifies that without | have to be very basily engaged for at least ten ove fiuest collection in the world; which, with 2%5,- the clergy, and chivtly without the monks, we would | months to transeribe one single copy of the Bible! | 383 duplicates, and 100,000 printed volumes, make al not have now the werks of the fathers, nor of the Rooks were then, as a matter of course, searee and | toral of 149,494 volamew’” (Rome, An. and Mod. by | classies.’’ (De Hierarehia, tom. 1. e. 4.) ; exeeedingiy dear. Remembering these facts, we | V, Rev. J. Donovan, vol. 2. p. 491.) The North American Review, S40, nen Hallam'’s will now proceed to consider how libraries were | Tothe evidence of the original documents,’to which Middle Ages, has the following :—‘* ‘I he erent ae | formed in the face of these great difficulties. I have referred, I will add the strong and favorable | cendancy of the papal power, and the influence of |

For the preservation of the treasures of acience | testimony of the most respectable Protestant autho- | Italian genius on the literature and the fine arts of and literature, we are mach indebted to the “ lazy | rities—testimony which will be rather disagreeable | all countries, made Italy essentially the centre of monke of the dark ages,’ whom certain gentlemen often misrepresent and calamniate in no measured

tianity and. Literatare by representing the Catholie| civilization” !

to those gentlemen who labor to advance Chris-| light —the sovereign of thought—the capital of | night, 25th inst.

terms. “ When all was trouble and turmoil and confusion in society; when the arta of peace and the refinements of literature were treated with dis- dain by the barbarians, the much abused monasteries beeame the places where the sacred flame of learn:

Church as holding that “ Ignorauce is the mother of devotion,” and testimony which will induce those whose credulity has been too long imposed on to en- tertain no very high esteem for the individuals who have been exhausting the category of their strongest and vilest epithets in abusing the Popes and the

Drake assares as, on the authority of Warton, “that the monks of Monte Cassino (in Italy) were distinguished, not only for their knowleege of sci-

‘ ‘ ‘ ; ehh! ts { their acquaintance with the classics. Their learned |

abbot, Desiderius, collected the best Greek and Ro- |

Charlottetown, February 3, 1862.

eer es

News by the British, Colonial:

2nd Foreign Mails.

ENGLISH NEWS. Tue Courier arrived here en Wednesday even- ing last with the usual American and Colonial Mails, together with an English Mail, which! reached Halifax per R. M.S. Europa on Saturday Latest dates by the latter are to | the JIth inst. Thea yews furvished by this arrival

| is comprised in the following items. |

‘The news respecting the release of Messrs. Ma- |

ence, but for their attention to polite ‘earning, and} son and Slidell was received with great joy in|

England. Several of the leading English papers | are pretty hard on Brother Jonathan,—sneering |

iug was kept alive and flourished. It wax in these retreate of prayer that men, free from the bustle and turmoil of the world, betook themselves to the study of the remains of ancient genius, and labored inde- fatigadly to raise men from that state of ignorance which waa the inevitable consequence of the pro- longed and destructive strife that followed the dis memberment of the Roman Empire.” To prove this I shall adduce abundant and irrefragable testi-

To monastery had a seriptorium, or hall, set apart for topying books, and all the monastic orders had copyiste among their inmates. The monks of t. Martin of Tours had no other manual Inbor than that of copying. (Ree Anlpit Rev. vita ®. Mar.) &e. Ferreol laid down this § monks —“* Pagi- nam pingat digito, qui terram non proseindit aratro:"”

“let him paint the page with his hand who does |‘ them for the preservation of many classical re- | the useful arts, as well as to religion, seems in those | not eultivate the earth with the plough.” The | mains of inestimable value, for instance, of the whole | days like a green Oasis amid the desert. Like stars monks were not alwaya selected for this | OF the greater portion of the works of Pliny, Sal- | on a moonless night, they shine upon us with a

monks of the ‘dark ages,’ and who have labored incessantly to instil into their minds the most unjust

reighbours.

Mrs. Jameson, a Protestant authoress of our day, says :—“ Before the invention of printing every Be- nedietine Abbey had its own library, and its ‘ serip- torium,’ or writiug chamber, where silent monks were employed from day to day, from month to month, in making transcripts of valuable works, PARTICULARLY OF THE Sckiptcres, (read this, O ye defamers of the “ monks,” ye who in the face of history, accuse the Chureh of having ever been op- posed to the diffusion of God’s holy word.) * Not

only do we owe them the multiplication and diffusion row were in the ages of our Heptareby.

of copies of the Holy Scriptures, but we are indebted

man authors. The fraternity not only composed

and unchristian prejudices against their Catholic | Vitruvian architecture, but likewise employed a

learned treatises on music, logic, astronomy, and the

portion of their time in transeribing Tacitus, &c. &c. This laudable example was, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, followed with great apirit and emulation,by many English monasteries.’ (Lite- rary Hours, vol. 11. p. 435.

The Quarterly Review for December, 1811, has the following beautiful passage :—'* The world has never been so much indebted to any other body of men as to the illustrious order of Benedictme monks. Tinian and Juan Fernandez are not more beautiful spots on | the ocean, than Malmesbury, Lindisfarne, and Jar- |

} A com- }

munity of pious men devoted to literature, and to)

|

sometimes thone of greater age ani celebrity, j lust and Cicero. They were the fathers of Gothic | tranquil ray. If ever there was a man who could | each as Alcuin and Deustan, were chosen. Yee, | *tchitecture, they were the earliest illuminators | truly be called venerable, it was he to whom the | even St. Dunsteo WAS oeenpied at thia ‘“ monkish"’ ‘and lisnners ; and lo crown their deservings under | appellation is constantly fixed, Bede, whose life was |

nainess, and it ie not improbable that had he been

| thie head, the inventor of the gamut, and the first

passed in instructing bis own generation, and pre: |

at his ready submission after such vain boasting.

and condemn any attempts at ontraging the feel- ings of the American people by exciting the pud- lie mind in England against them.

The ‘Times’ says the talk is that Government | has already spent over £2,000,000 on the prepar- | ations for hostilities with America.

The Earl ot Elgin is shortly to leave for India, | baving been appointed Goveruor General of that, vast depeudeucy.

H. M.S. ‘Ranger,’ in Noveinber last, captured | asiaver, with 850 slaves on board, and took her | to St. Helena. The same and nation of vessel | unknown.

Several large vessels have been taken up at Li-| verpool to convey cotten to New York.

Others of the leading papers take an opposite view, '

Dr. Durrant, of the Niger Expedition, haa just | arrived in England, He reports having seen the long-lost Dr. Baikie, the African traveller, at the cocthaence of the Niger late last November, in good health,

A Naples correspondent, writing to Enyland under date of the 12h ult., says the eruption of Mount Vesuvins has destroyed the city of Torre de! Greeo. The suffering produced is bnmense.—

distarbed from bis work by the intrusion of the devil | who instituted a school of music, was a Benedictine | paring records for posterity. In those days the

endeavouring to conceal his cloven feet under | mouk, Guido @’Arezzo.”” She says further that the Church offered the only asylum from the evils to!

| . the garb of an Onlooker,” he would have wrung Benedictines were “the first agriculturists who | which every country was exposed,—amidst continual the “ olfactory orgnn’’ of his sable majesty in such | brought intellectual resources, calculation and | wars, the Church enjoyed pésce,—it was regarded & mannbP’ns to eanse him to “back out” in a trice, science to bear on the cultivation of the soil ; to as a sacred realm by men, who, though they hated

and bray as loud at least as a stupid “ assy” does |

j and the introduction of a variety of new vegetables, |* * The wise as well us the timid and gentle fled to! Aj2x are loading with heavy stores from Wool

when receiving a disagreeable currying.

whom we owe experimental farming and gardening,

| ; s | one another, believed in and feared the same God.

The monks were not mere blind copyists; they | fruits, &e. M. Guizot (one of the most illustrious | the ‘Goshen’ of God, which enjoyed its own light aleo collated the manuscripts which they were tran. &%d learned Protestants iu France) styles the Bene- | and calm amidst darkness and storms.”

. Even in the sixth , a monk of the | dictines “les defricheursde I’ Euro »,”’ (the clearers | century pe

You will be pleased to remember that this mase

monastery of Mesmin, near Orleans, arranged and ot Europe), wherever they carried the cross they | of unexceptionable testimony, in proof of what the { collated the books of the monastic library. (See | carried the plough. * * Sir James Stephen thus | Chureh has done for education, is not the “ yeliing| Disturbances have broken out amongst the biacks | Peti) Rade}, Bibliotheq. p. 46.) Charlemagne ew- | mms up their highest claims upon the gratitude of | of illiterate agitators,” but the sober, candid, un- | on the West Coast of Africa,near Sierra Leone and |

ployed Aleuin in the ninth century to collate manu- scripts of the Bible, and be devoted some of hisown time to the comparing of various manuscripts of the fonr Gospels. Lupus, abbot of Ferrieres, emploved his leisnre hours in tranacribing and collating the manneeripts of bis monastery. He mentions Sallust and other elassieul works on whieh ho was thus la- boring. In his Jetters be thanks Ansbald, abbot of Pram, for a copy of Cicero's Epiaiies, and Adalpard for a revised copy of Macrobius. (See Epiat. ad Re- gimbert, 104,and Spal. Mis.) Throughout the whole period of the middle ages, Ituly was the centre of literature, a8 well as the grand repository of books. The zeal of the Roman Pontiily for the diffusion of

the Christian world, cannot be sofliciently appre- cinczed and admired. &t. Gregory the Great was re- peatedly written to on this subject from Gaul, and even from Alexandria, (8. Greg. Epiet. x1. 56.) 8t. Martin [. received petitions for books from Belgium and from Spain. (Bar. Annal. ad Ann. 649). Pope Paal I. was asked by Pepin for Greek works, to be placed in the library of St. Dennis: among them were Aristotle, a treatise on Geometry, and many others. Gerbert wrote no fewer than thirteen epix- tles, some of them to Popes, asking for books. (Ep.

136, et aliw.) Among the works which he most de- sired were ‘‘ Mamilius de Astronomia,” “ Victorinus de Rhetorica” and thow of Lupitus of Barcelona. (See Spal. Mie.)

“ Religion and literature were always cultivated together; the library grew up with the school under the shadow of the Church.” There were extensive libraries connected with the cathedrals of Hamburg, Bumberg, Cologne, Paderbora, &., in Germany, and with many of the cathedrals in England. (Hee- rea, opp.f. 65.) The library of Spanheim contained two thousand volumes, in the fifteenth century ; that of Novalaixe contained, in the tenth century, more than six thousand books, (See Eugenii de Levis, Anecdota Sacra, pref. xxviii.)

The great Cassiodorus who, in hia nivety-third year, wrote in his cloister of Virarium a special treatiaeou orthography bequeathed his library, which he had collected with immense labor, to the Sojite ies, knowing “that among them alone could the faint rays of :ience be gathered together, increase, and fora great light to enlighten the nations.” St. Ben, <: Biscop, whe founded the famous abbey of Weremonth in England, traversed Europe no fewer than five times, in order to collect books for the library of his monastery. The Venerable Bede tells ws that, by means of these peregrinations, ** he brought into England wn atwost innumerable quan- tity of books of every kind.”

The abbot of the monastery of Beaugency said in the twelfth century—" Libraries ure as essential to Monasteries es armories are to armies in time of wur.”’ Towards the clone of the fifteenth century Trithe- mins collected two thousand volumes of valuable manuseripts, [n his leurned chronicles of the abbeys of Rpanheim end Hirseheau, he shows how much we are indebted to the monks for the preservation of ancient learning Leland, the librarian of Henry VIIL., ventifies that there were one thousand seven

manuecripta iu the abbey of Peterborough, sleo states that the library of the Franciscans in

| Succeeding times: ‘The greatness of the Benedic- tines did not, however, consist either in their agri-

(cultural skill, their prodizies of architecture, ov their

| PRICELESS LivkaRtes, but in their parentage of | have alleged cannot be blotted ont from the pages |

| couutless men and women illustrious for active piety, for wixdom in the government of mankind, for rre- FOUND LEARNING, and for that contemplative spirit which diseovers, within the soul itself, things be- yond the limits of the perceptible creation,’ (Essays 1. 371). The annalists of the Benedictine order proudly reckon ap the worthies it has produced since its foundation in 529, viz. 40 popes, 200 cardinals, 50 patriarchs, 1600 archbishops, 4600 bishops, and 3600 canonized saints, It isa more legitimate source of pride that by their order were either aid or pre- served the foundations of all the eminent schools of

2nd Ed. Londen, 152, pp.3, 4and 5.) If you desire peruse this work I shall be happy to give you the loan of it.

The next testimony which I shall adduce ix that of a distingnixbed Protestant Clergyman, the Rev. 8. R. Maitland,D. D. F. R. 8S. & F. S. A., sometime librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury and

studied in a special manner the bistory of the middle

enemy of the Catholic Church, is certainly of the greatest weight and importance. This Protestant author says:—“ It is quite impossible to touch the subject of Monasticism without rubbing off some of the dirt whieh has been heaped upon it. It is

greatly the world of that period was indebted tothe Monastic Orders; und feeling whether they were good or bad in other matters. Monasteries were be. yond ail price in those days of misrule and turbu- lence, as places where (it may be imperfectly, yet better than elsewhere) God was worshipped—as a quiet and religious refuge for he:pless infuney and old age, a shelter of respectful sympathy for the or- phan maiden and the desolate widow—as central points whence agriculture was to spread over bleak hills, and barren downs, and marshy plains, and deal bread to millions perishing with hunger und its pestilential train—as repositories of the learning which then was, and well-aprings for the learning which was to be—as nurseries of art and science, wiving the stimulus, the means, and the reward to invention, and aggregating around them every head i that could devire, and every hand that eould execute —as the nucleus of the city which in after-days of pride should crown its palaces and bulwarks with the towering cross of ita Cathedral.”

“ This, I think, no man ean deny. I believe it ix true, and I love to think of it. 1 hope that I see the good hand of God in it, and the visible trace of his merey that is over all bis works. But if it is only a dream, however grateful, I shall be glad to be awakened from it; not, indeed, by the yelling of il- literate agitators, but by a quiet and sober proof that I have misunderstood the matter. In the mean- time, let me thankfully believe that thousands of the persons at whom Kobertson, and lortin, and other SUCH VERY MISERABLE SECOND-HAND WRITERS,

long affections, and hely lives—that they were justly re-

verenced by men—and, above ull, favourably ac- cepted by God, and distinguished by ihe highest honor which He youchsufes to those whom He has called into existence, that of being the channels of His love and merey to their fellow-creatures.” (Maitland’s Dark Ages, 3nd Ed. Pref. vi & v.)

1 may remark that Mr. Maitland pays your favour- ite historian, Robertson, no very high compliment n clamsing. him among “ very miserable second-band writers,” although you have severely censured the Popes for placing on the “Index” the works of this same “very niiserable second-hand” writer, who “sneered” at “ thousands’ of persons in- finitely superior to himself ia every respect.

Mr. Maitland, after giving numerous proofs of the

thee

extensive use of the Holy Seriptures in the “ dark

learning of modern Europe,” (Leg. of Mod. Ord. |

| biassed evidence of Protestant divines, philosophers | historians, and reviewers of great learning. I would also remind you that the historical facts which I

| of bistory by the vulgar abuse and scurrility of all ‘the anonymous and other writers who may fill your columns with their own low sneers and the fanatical ‘exuvie of Robertson and “other such very mise- | rable second-hand writers.” I have the honor to remain, * Your very obedient and humble servant, A. MACDONALD. St. Dunstan's College, Jan. 28th, 1862. dhl aailllali ils OE i To THE Eprror oF THE EXAMINER.

Sir—Through your eolumne allow me to direct | attention to a letter from “ Chanticleer,” which ap-

peared in the ‘Islander’ of the 19th of January inst.

| It will be sufficient to inform you pretty clearly who |

| he is, and then his scribbling or anything he says | will not have much force. *“* Chanticleer” says that “a correspondent should

| have a subject of sutticient public intersst to write

for a person may be obliged to write about a subject ; to himself. But did “ Chanticleer” choose such a | subject as he has spoken of? He did not; but im- | ° “

| pradently interfered between “ Observer’ and my | self in what he considers a personal squabble; and }.

if he considers that our correspondence is untit for }

impoevible to get even a superficial knowledge of | the Camis * a newspaper, why should he write | the medieval history of Europe, without sncing how | what is certainly useless 2 What does he intend to| is not expected that the public

gain by his interference? There are some who, } when others surpass them in every respect, will get | envious and offer as much opposition as possible. | 1 may inform him that if “ Observer’ and I have a quarrel, we can do without his interference. And

if he considers “ Observer's’ first letter “ uncalled | for,’ much Jess was his, as he was not provoked by any previous communication. ‘ Chanticleer’s” only } reason for writing is, THAT I WAS NOT FOOLISH

| not forget,he is displeased with * Observer’ because he alvo was too clever for him.

“ Chanticleer’ thinks I did not atick to my subject, and that I proved myself “‘an adept at writing in- | coherently.’’ What could you expect from ** Chan- |ticleer?” And if he only crows loudly in that man- | ner, without showing where or how I departed from my subject, or written incoherently, it will not suffice. Mr.** Chanticleer,’ it is very easy tc speak bat te prove indisputably that what yon say is un- doubtedly true, is diilieult. Your attempt to repre- sent my composition as “ miserable,” “ incoherent’’ and not “to the purpose,”’ is but feeble without proof. You did not even sHow if I made a mistake in spelling, punctuation, or if I expressed myself improperly. You simply say that I wrote incohe- rently. Prove it. And that is what you should have done before you gave your opinion of it, and what you would have done if you could. But did I not stick to my subject? Certainly I did. He must know that I did not choose any particular subject of | publie interest at first: I simply defended myself

have sneered, were menof enlarged minds, purified agaiust the unprovoked attacks of an unprincipled

}individnal. Will he deny that privilege? Were he | 80 attacked would he succumb to it? A man’s repu- jtation may aufferif he will allow any person to ridicule him with impunity. Yet I have devoted « short space to a subject which engrosses the public mind, and which is considered of “ suflicient public interest”’ to be discussed in the columns of news-

opinion, but it is beyond bis ability to prove that I have written incoherently, or that I was not master of my subject.

I will now direct attention to some parts of “ Chantieleer’s” letter, which will show plainly that he can neither write properly nor “ to the purpose.”’ In the second paragraph he uses the word either. Now, al] know thatcither means“ one or the other,” and cannot properly be used in speaking of five or

ages,” says: Ihave sor found any thing about’ more individuale. He might have weed a better

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ENOUGH TO ALLOW HIM TO CHEAT ME; and, if I do}

pipers. “Chanticleer” may differ with me in}

The American frigate ‘Tuscarora’ was at South ampton on the J0th ind., watching the “Nashville.” A boat from the trigaf® had been discovered the | previous night in tite dock wear the Nashviile, aud | ordered off. a i Warlike preparations continue niabated in|

| Engiand. ‘Tho ste@mers Spartan, Sf. Andrew and

i wich Arsenal for Halifax and Jamaica. The Morn- | ing Post says that the British possessions in North | America will be permanently occupied by a strong | juvilitary furee, iu which the Royal Artillery will preponderate. j

| there was some sharp fighting between the British jand the natives; bu€ we wait for more reliable | | detuils, | CLOTHING or Tie Troops IN Canspa.—! Every man is to be supplied with two pairs of | woollea drawers, one sheepskin overcoat, one pair | | of sealskin mits, one pair of Cauadiau boots, two | pairs of worsted hed. one sealskin cap with lear mufflers, one chamois leather waistcoast, one | | comforter, one jersey, and two merino under vests. Distkess IN LANcAsuHiRne.—Aeccounts frem |

| Soares manufacturing towns in Laueashire con- | Vey information as to the rapid spread of the dis- | tress, which was for-seme time prevalent. The) | support by whieh many families sustain themselves | | Soom day to day during this inclement season is | said to be of the mosf meagre description. Inj Manchester itself things are no worse than they |} were rome weeks ago, although much cannot be | | said touching their improvement. At the present | | moment (aceording tothe chief constable’s recurn), | | there are of the 46,700 operatives at Manclester, 28,553 working full time; 11,869 working short | tame; and 6,178 wholly unemployed. Telegraphic despateh at Paris from Alexandria, Sth inst., states that the Turks had maltreated | several Christians at Tripoli. An indemnity de-| manded by French Gonsal. The frigate Mago-|

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Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth. This gentleman | about.” I beg to differ with you, Mr. “ Chanticleer,” | dore had arrived at Tripoli.

| The ‘@zas’ of Craepw states that the Russian

ages; and his testimony, coming ax it does from an | uninteresting not ouly to the public in general, but; Government has presented Cardinal Antonelli ao | . “

ultimatum extremely embaraassing for the Court | lof tome, to the effect that if the Pope will not i condeum the conduct of the Polish clergy, Russia | A violent shock of ag earthquake was felt on the 10th imst., at Drerden.

A notice from the Herald's College states that it | should appear in| mourning after Sunday, the 9th February. | The Spanish Government have granted the uln- | | quitons Confederate steamer Sumter sancutary ou | | condition of her forty two captured prisoners being | | given into their custody, a decision which threat-| } ens to result in the departure ef the American | Consul trom Cadiz.

Corron To New Yor«k.—The demand for | steamers to carry cotton from Liverpool to New | York still continues, atid on the 7th the steamer | Bahiana was taken up for the conveyance of cotton |

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' to America.

EARTHQUAKE AT GREECE.— Trieste, Jan. 7.— | Advices receeived here from Atheus ta the 25th | ulf,. states that a violent shock of anearthquake had | oecurred along the northern coast of the Pelopon-| nesux.— Athens wes uninjured, but new and eld!

Corinth, Algion, and Patras had been damaged. |

000 drachmas to relieve the sufferers by the catastrophe. }

Cuma.—Canton, Dee. 30.—A coup d'etat has | taken place at Pekin.~The members ef the Ca- | binet have been imprisoned. A new ministry has | been formed under the presidency of Prinee Kung, |

The news of the hawee which the Sumter is | causing amoug the Federal merchant vessels in European waters shows that at the time the |

sweep British commerce from the seas by swarms |

—London Times.

Tn an article on Ameriean affairs the Liverpoot | ‘Courier’ ssys:—- |

“ Tt is well known that a proposition for break- | ing the blockade was laid betore the Brilish by the } French Cabinet at least three months since. | France suffers more than we have yet suffered | from the want of cotton. She bad nv India to! send her a supply, and she has fewer trades to} compensate for the loss of one. The policy of| the Bnglish Cabinet all throngh has been directed | to check the impulsiveness of France, until, at) last, Franee actually sugpects England of a design | to destroy the cotton manufacture of France in)

it is intended to erect the Southern States into a, mouareky, with Prince Alfred as king. However, | it must be entertained. Some circumstances, how- ever, have receutly come to light which compel action ou the part of France, and we are much

istaken if that action be as geutle as the course > ted by England. The Swnter took refuge in the Whoa of St. Pierre, at Martinique, and the Federal frigate adhapaanes herthither. ‘The

captain of the Iroquois

ithe building Wtself rendered comparatively

rereEn

The Chambers at Athens had voted a sum of 10,-} -

best way of preventing siniiar outrages in fiutre

oO bre ak al which really HAS toe xist- We find im the American official correspondence that the same hostility which is manifested towards us is exhibited to- wards France. The same threats, though in milder language, are directed agaigst her. J rapee is not | tied down by the connexious of kith, and kin, and lanyuage, which influence us, though the Ameri- | cans forget them. Free and impulsive in her ae-|

t lockade

| tion, France may adopt short and decisive measures

in requital for the wreng committed against her.

Should this ba se, and we believe that it js in-

| tended, immediately upon the complete settlement | of the Mason and Slidell affair, to lay a formal re-

Federal Cabinet, the cotton of the South will Wheels agoing, instead of darkening the air along the shores of Carolina. FEDERALS WATCHING THE NASHVILLE.— Southampton, Jan. 10.—Three are armed men aud an officer trom the Federal corvette Tusearora | were found last night in the dock Nashville. They were discovered by Mr. Philip iledge, the dock superintendent, close to the Nashville’a bews. ‘They had dark lanterns, and combustibles for the purpose of signalling the Tnscarora should the Nashville attenpt to leave | the docks. Mr. Hedge stated the docks were pri-|

watching the

| vate property, that they had no right there for such | purpose, and insisted upon their leaving imme- i diately, whieh they eventually did. i ville is now getting up steam to leave the docks

x a be il-