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New Vork Cress, furnishes the following inter | cesses of calculations in the loftiest contempt. is yet tocome. The editor of the Islander de- was true ; and I most respectfully beg to con-| mously, we believe, for Mr Davies, while the |Ta the same work I found an illustration which| which we have received by Seturday night's ot He arrives at his conclusions in & manner pecu- forms his article, already sufficiently captious gratulate the Tory party, the instigators of this Protestants of Souris and the East Point polled | : To keep you longer in suspense | and iil-tempered, by the silliest and most pue- despicable act, and their supporters, on what against him. BRempeorvr Maxieiiion ts deciaced free from Ame- | would be cruel, so I will give you the basis of| rile thing that can be found in the whole range they conceive to be a master stroke of policy, | friends of Mr, MeEachen had recourse to the! rung unon them—would take seventy-four years, his caleulatious uearly in his owm words. The | of newspaper literature. 1 asserted that there | in securing the aid of g semi-religious party by College

C ho ¥ “Bacher | Tinging on continuously. The Protestants who voted for Mr. McEachen will orb son wnctldh of the infinite variety

toation <—" Pravate intermation trom the city Mearcw from a reliable source says that tbe | : : Preach Crrewrpee Wort d net be withdrawn avta the har to himself.

rican interveatwwo. Lt te declared that Maximilian will certainly eet give any position in the Mexican ; urmy te any ex rebel commander.—The com- | editor of the Islander bases his calculations on |

wmandee of the French fleet off Bagdad, in the | the estimated cost of a projected railroad. 1 | the winter to pay for the coals consumed by the another four years the proprietary faction.

vame of bts Goveroment, protected against the : i occupation «f that place by the U. States troope ;2m serious, I assure you, “A Proser” does| aad those which bed been sent over fur the p.o- | not make his calculations iu this original and tection ef the town and of American interests. iil aieatel It is ei They were cousequently withdrawn. Many fa- exceedingly transcendental manner, ws milies living in Matamoras were fearful of fur- | according to his nature. He dves not derive | ther acte of pemneege «Al |his data from the anticipated cust of projected

: © as } Boston Trape wrru Tue B. N. A. Pro- |" lways, but from the actual cost of existing |

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would not be sufficient work forthe railroad in|

engine. The editor af the Islander, unable to |

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promises of mouetary support, to bolster up for i would not vote for him if they thought there

comes a little more home to ordinary ca - : . |—viaz., that the changes in twelve belis—the | Some few scheming Catholic} jigrent varieties of changes that might be,

| magical sound.

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cry merely as an electioneering dodge. | ten months, one week, and four days, to ring, |

(Cheers.)

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That} of

But I was going ou to say that

Refore concluding, [ would embrace the | was the least chance of his getting a-grant for| Scotland was a musical nation, and has been

know that| during the whole of its history; and I believe

Mail, All the obnoxious details are brought fally out in the report of the Secretary of the United States Treasury, and some new features are developed, making the proposals more ob- jectionable to the Provincials. The New York Herald farnishes an abstract of the statement made by the Secretary of the Treasury, through Mr. E. H. Derby, g member of Congress, as

impugn the truth of the statement, with a pert-| opportunity to thank the gentlemen who meen the St. Dunstan's College. They

ness that would be disgusting in a schvol-girh— | replies that wood, not coal, is used as friel for the engine iu the neighbouring Provinces. That a grown up man should bring himself to

sented me at the Polls, as well as the consistent | and unflinching friends of the people who man- | fully supported me throughout the strife of the |

election.

ho G ae any | ‘hat now it is only endeavouring to recover the eS See ie * | ground which it has lost during two centuries. such measure, and would not entertain it for) {t has geuerally been said by writers on music

five minutes in their secret councils. They that the real cause of the decay of musical taste

voted for Mr. McEachen because they|im Scotland was the somewhat austere and a * | Puritannic view that was taken of such matters

follows :—

“He LE. H. Derby at the request of the See- retary of the Treasury ) the draft of a bill to extend the present treaty for the further term of one year from the 17th of March next, on the condition that Canada shall repeal ail -

make such a reply is to me incomprehensible.

vences. — A writer in the Boston Commercial | 'imes, making due allowance for the ponies }

Bautictin thus calls attention to the interest of the | ties of our situation. We now find, after all

chief city of New England ia the Provincial |the Islander’s assumption of superior know- | cause, better arguments, and a better temper,

Wishing the Editor of the Islander a better

I am, dear Sir, Yours very respectfully, BENJ. DAVIES.

know he will support a Government that! obtained office on the “ No-Popery” ery— that inaagurated and fostered the infamous

at the Reformation. I believe they do great injustice to the Fathers of the Reformation who hold such a view. It may be quite true that the style of songs that were current before the

duties and taxes on salt, cars, locomotives, ve-

hicles of all kinds, machinery, furniture, toule, im-

plements, soap, starch, boots, shoes, leather, horee - instruments,

trode :— ledge, that the editor’s estimate of the cost of Tam, yours, S Charlottetown, Beb's. At, 2056. — os Se ee Reformation received little sanction from those | watches, musie and musical i clocks,

The fuilowing facts. taken from the official | the railway is as visionary as the railway itself. A PROSER, =| on Catholic rights, should these be urged ever} reat men who were at its head; but the science = — pre ol — muslin oe coarse returns of the Boston Custom House, are com- : aleuleti : thi _——_-4ao————— - so moderately. We cannot believe that the} of music as a great and harmonising science , sa sheetings, shirtinge, mended to the atteation of those puliticians who | fF a eae se 8 Sill THE EAST POINT ELECTION. Che Oxaminer. East Point District has become a convert to| ¥83 not neglected, but was extensively culti- eT or nbdar een ative het desire that there ® ould be no Treaty of Recipro- | exceedingly uusu sam vated by the men who were at the head of ee coulis per gatieny Otis a ee

city whatever hetween the British Provinces and the United States:—Imports from the Lower Provinces to Boston in 1565, two and a half mil- wu of dollars. Exports during the aawe time, three and a half wulliens. Outtite in Hoaton for eod and mackerel Gshery, four miilions. Returne m fish, seven miliene Total amount of trade. seventeen millions of dullars per annum. Of long or lustre wool, we received last year over five

cost of a projected railway partake of the pro- verbially uncertain and deceptive nature 0% 4)) estimates of projected enterprises. ‘No sane man ought to place the least yeliance upon these airy nothings which br ye emanated from | the fertile imagination of the Islander’ s editor.

To rue Epiror or tHe Exawiven. Dear Sir :— I have been requested by several of our friends to put forward a statement for the purpose of shewing my opinion of the cause of the defeat of the Liberal Party of the First

Charlottetowz, February 12, 1866.

THE AMERICAN PROPOSALS FOR RECIPROCITY.

Toryism—especially in view of the recent acts of the present Government, and their deceitful policy on the Land Question. We will not be- lieve that the District has forgotten its ancient attachment to Liberal principles ; but we be-| lieve that Mr. McEachen is now, as he was iu

Seotch society after the Reformation. I have here a pamphlet which | have not seen for some time, written by a friend of mine im 1855—at the time when those education bills which I endeavored—I am sorry to say as yet without success—to pass into law, were brought before the public, and which, 1 trust, though they tailed at the time, will net be without their use in

tinue her free ports on Lakes Huzon and Superior. ‘The said treaty for extension shall also i that the United States may impose any taxes on the productions Co ae — t levy upon their own fame kine. Ther President is authorised to

two commissioners or env treaty with the United Ki

be

the Pro. vinees, either jointly or severally, te regulate the

s : : : , ‘ oi . : The following telegram appeared in most of | 1853, a suecessful candidate by means of gross . —s ; 7 millions five huadred thousand ods, chiefly So eager is this advocate of milways in P. District of King’s County, in effecting the re- " : ? - ec leavening the public mind on the subject, and lay- y or . . . : e ° i p av ils i 7 i » * =c at i i ° for Besten er Low ell account, equal in value}. Island to Fd funds to par the interest of| tarp of « member to serve in the Assembly, at the Colonial newspapers received by the mails trickery on the part of his canvassers, and by | ing the foundation of pst nner = soovtaaeies a ron spon betwren the respective

te three millions of dollars; grain and animals, ever two willions of dellars’ worth. Our returns

the mone”, to be expended on his darling pro-

ae aan agee ow five a \ject. (hat he proposes to take from our high- Ve ke Sum | uv ‘on trade wi j f the al ates a be ted Provinces, twenty-seven millions of dollars pe- , “55 Partof t ready inadequate sum grante annum — The general imports of Besten for the | by Government to improve them. He supposes yaar a ae ates + that the line will at least pay its working ex- pate twenty-one, a total of forty-six millions |penses- He even goes further. He supposes Veace, therefore, that the trade with the Vre-|that it ought to pay £3000 over and above its Vinees ie mere than one-half of the etire general i ” ‘ ‘ exports and imports of this port for that year—a |working expenses. He might, while he was statistical feet worthy the 3*ientioa of treaty- | about it, have supposed that his railway would munoes gas. guliictons. immediately earn not only enough to pay its

The Washingtur correspondent of the New | working expenses, and a paltry £3000 over, York News acev.ce Mrs. Lincoln of having plun- but enough to yield a handsome dividend on |

the recent election.

On arriving there, some days previous to the election, I met the leading politicians of the party, with many others of the constituency, who assured me of the certainty of my return, and that there was no doubt of the Liberals

during the past week. Although somewhat

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the most culpable negligence, blundering and

| Vague, it may enable us to conclude that if the |supineness on the part of the majority of the | proposals are such as reported there is very | electors in the District who are, we believe, little prospect of a new treaty being entered | strongly opposed to the Government which Mr. into between the Provinces and the United) MeEachen has declared it his intention to sup- States. Canada is the only Province mention-| port. It is, however, a comfort to think that

ed, but there is no doubt that the Maritime Co-

‘ting tog ral imit f aoe ae Pose tone lonies would have to be included in any new oe a x | arrangement that might be‘ decided upon. Whe-

return, since they had decided_upon call- - sai glee “ae | ther Canada could afford to abandon, at such a ing me out in preference to choosing a) ; = 7 = as clin " |sweeping rate, protection to her rising manu- gentleman residing in the District holding the | : 4: . | factories, and lose an enormous revenue on the same political opinions.

he has only one Session to experiment through ; and the probability is, that he will often be ina tight place before that Session shall come to a close.

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SCOTTISH MUSIC,

mphiet my friend smsitted clause in the Education Bill,” and the was—“ Be it enacted by authority of the aforesaid that the said Board ot Education shall make provision for the daily in- struction of children in domestic economy, gym- nastics, and music.” (Applause.) I thoroughly agree with my friend in that respect ; aud if we did so we should only be doing what our ancestors of the Reformation had previously done—for in 1579, about twenty years after the Reformation, an Act of Parliament was passed, enjoining the patrons and Provoste of burghs where schools were founded to make sufficient provision for insiruction in music. I think that is a very sufficient answer to those that say that in the early days ofthe Re- formation music was neglected. (Applause )

clause he pro

United States, on terme reciprocally beneficial, —

tree interchange of the chief products of manufacture, as well as the products of ibe fore

and agriculture, and other produets between the

pulsory pilotage, aud ali the di and duties; and for i ed navigation between

Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, sreund the Vals of Miagsen, ond Ustucen Laie Suaiiie:

cuuntries, and the removal of all charges for lights and cow- discriminating tolls

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/ f | re . . : : ‘i land Lake Champlain. All articles : dered e , : a : “ ai ie | many articles e e tele; —is d that Act of Parliament was not a dead let Montreal a ! ‘ pro- Ye close an bie Tue joven ta |the money invested in its construction. It| Jt was not until after the nomination of can-| sce a Pe rR a en 4 Be republish from a late Edinburgh paper | ree ace tines wedded schools set up in almost | duced in any of the Provinces, which, ander the " i " i cw . * P " . . z ekenld refrain from speaking of what has been | would only have cost him a few strokes more | didates at Georgetown that any defection from | ee eee - een ee reer the following address made by the Lord Advo-| all the early burghs in Scotland. There were | provisions of the treaty for extension, pe made, - wpenly talked of bere ever tinee New Year's day, | of his pen, and would have appeared nearly as/|the Liberal ranks was anticipated. At that | but we fecl morally certain that the younger cate of Resthad, on 0 secant Sckedion, verentinn |ta a itoandaen, Reweoneen, Denton Aes psetery freely admitted oe the = é . d om: * . 7 ’ - : m . ’ > s s Cu r, Dur bar, E in, rvine, Lanark . States, shall during ” year ension, ‘ = aed ae ieee ee err jreasonable. The calculations of the editor) place I learned from one of the opposition that ope roe _ oe oe one | the power of Music, and the claims of Scotsmen Apianane iol se schoole—at least soune at | be freely admitted into the United States trom of the death of the last, and its occupation by the | may be given correctly in a single sentence. | certain questions would be put to me at the’ not, and will not do anything of the kind. | to eminence in the cultivation of the art. We) them—eubsisted till withia avery recent peried ; Canada, i produced we that country. present, executive. Noone would have said a y¢ . . : . si s | That clause, however, which provides that : q ; nga j and they were only allowed to languish because,]| We are indebted to the St. John Morning . : : |If the line be of the exact length predicated ublic meeting which was to take place at) v és d his Lordsh J] o fi : ; J word against » few soucenirs having been taken | : ore P 7 : '«‘the United States may impose any internal |“"* not surprised at his Lordship claiming for | ai sorry te say, the public taete or the public spirit Nears of Wednesday last for the foregoing, as away; but to despoil the whole house of the best by the editor of the Islander —if his cal-) Souris on the Friday following, in relation 501 ae Taisen his countrymen the harp, the tabor, lute, and | of Seotland had degenerated from that of our * ; slow! trac he : of everything—te send off by railroad more than | culations as to the cost of construction, based, | my opinions as to the impropriety of expending | taxes on the productions of the Provinces | other delicate instruments of music, as the| rcmteers._ (Applacse.) 1 Gnd—and it is ore- well as for the following extract on the sump seventy large packing cases filled with the new- | gut we ‘walted deidecmibies:: ek thi Gathanaed déct Of] ait i ; ae th E r Ritalin “| which they “—(meaning the United States Cs x ” : oer vf | ditable to our northern sister—that Aberdeen was subject from the Scoftish American :— — carpets, ae and —— of art which | oo ' - c € ost Of | public money for the purpose of fostering sec-| sheer ein Sanaa pitelathiten oi the ania national and ancient instruments of Scotland,— ee eee a ite — Be hee aol otaen tse tame or ied thenesi j had beew provaied for the adornment of the|a projected railroad in another country, are} tarian institutions, which opinions were pub-| “? “I ones 7 etensi f Seo i sical line | 2"4 the first musical work known to have ee a goods named . i hwuse, and vot for the use of any one family—| rect if the moner be sper goat, i * » I I ” | kind” —would completely render the whole | the pretensions of Scotsmen in the mu: ical | ine} printed in Seutland was by the Master of the| missivn into ager pemaery ere ey : this was felt to be not exactly in goud taste. It ney Tro at the rate | lished by me about four years ago, on the eve} .. | are equal to any stretch of the imagination: | sung Schoal of Aberdeen in 1662. He called it, | schedule, which will suggest to nglieh wool- is no longer any wonder that the house looks | Per cent. which he allows—if one of our priu-| of the late general election, in the Protestant | ee ae aan ome vst ge ees but we were certainly stunned at reading his |“ Songs and fancies on several music pore beth yomancer Bee ape wie mon pe > — 5 d ¥ ” ie } - arkets, w t ss lil ya ™ J = ; : ial : . t tiem a : . i empty, dingy and shabby. | cipal highroads be defrauded out of the money newspaper, and I was then, at Georgetown, | ee ee : oe oe i oe | wholesale, sepedintion-of the bagpipes os'0 na-| ee ak — eee in lice ease. naenapel aneae sae . j ao Si = SCRE ato » e - . o * . subpjyec axes— a i . Leet Sg ’ CORRESPONDENCE Sak See ee Fe eee ete amt re Sees an ood CS me our own would cade to any such | tional Scottish instrument of music. Some two/the marie scheal of Aberdeen.” (Applasse.) ou Soo ilo Sad sbictiogl “ak j . °° : ° 1 _ . “2 . | -su » yuid be s§ e y 1; an ‘ ¥ . ic : = eneeee | east, en enon een ae ant chen (eam satiotaetocily : may : setare “ae — Z while our manufactures rs n sent to the or three years ago we ventured to state—(and a Fee ae etek ee less than owe dollar a pound The fact that these ; ‘2 & men 2c ( 2 3 . é e ¥ , ; , - , ‘2 . “ - ‘. = £ $HE RAILWAY QUESTION, i its working expenses—then the moderate sum | more than doubtful. | United Stat ea Qu of 151° supported our statement by a great authority, | patrons of Heriot’s Hospital, requesting that they |arete go in free, while English and a — of £10,000 annually will be required to be} The meeting at Souris took place according| “ND 8 © ne : hilo to my off the fou, |i! “Mooney’s History of Ireland,”) that the | might be allowed to instruct the Herioters in | twerde, se; ave Ue CANAAN Oh UO emeet- x Mn Error -“? jtaken from the public chest to pay the interest | ro notice onthe 25th ultimo. Notwithstanding | Se ee ee er »” eee: | bag-pipes was an Irish and not a Scotch instru-|— Soo gueteds fein, one oo roel a I’) ly the establishment of dmcriminating duties, bus * The editor of the Islander, lik | : . |handred thousand millions which the Ameri-| “2? jof the Psalms.” (Laughter) and app doubt whether the echrme will act have that 2 itor & stander, ike most persons /on the sum borrowed to construct this short a furious snu0w storm, about 150 persons were | ment. The Caledonia Club of this City—then think it would be very well, indeed, if these mat- we cou w e ®

whose dreams bare been suddenly and rudely ‘line of railway! O, the magic of that little interrupted, is very unreasonable and not par- “if! What mountains of difficulties disap- tiealarly civil. [ am, however, quite willing pear before it! The editor of the Is/ander, to te make every ¢ lowance for the irritable and | do him but bare justice, knows how to conjure disordered state of mind of persons in his pe-| with it as well as any writer, public or private, caliar situation, and charitably hope that when | in the country. he is suificiently awakened he will argue like a| The candid editor admits that neither the ratioual being, nad write like a gentleman. Yova Scotia nor the New Brunswick railroads it is amusing to see the seif-complacency | pay—that they are only now beginning to earn with which he speaks of the stir lately made in | sufficient to pay their working expenses. The Summerside, caused, as be thinks, by his in-| people of these two countries have hitherto been comparable railway and tunnel article. If he | obliged to pay out of the public chest not only knew all about cat little tempest in a tea-pot | theinterest on the money borrowed to construct he would find that he had small cause for self-| their railways, but also to draw annually upon glorification. The inglorious end tu which | the revenue for very considerable sums to keep the spiendid schemes of the Summerside Rail-|them in repair. How would our people like to way agitators come may well serve §to point | see, in addition to the large sum sent off the |

present. Edward Kiekham, Esq., was chosen can Gorernment now qe. ,. It 4.20 use to say

ao Gh the shake - Rta tate cil ‘on y| that the American manufacturers would have to . Having , i addressed the meeting, endeavouring to shew the many advantages which had accrued to the Colony during the administration of the Go-| ; vernment by the Liberals, and I summed up|™°C* "esources which a great and wealthy the deceptions practised by the ruling power| country canact fail to afford ; and if they have ee eS ea | to pay the cost of transportation on their goods g ' .

The Hon. Mr. MeEachen then spoke. He

never attempted to defend the actions of his

|long established at their doors—have enor-

political party, or deny the advantages derived | a Hine aad ee eer * from the measures enacted by the Liberals. | °°" and the internal taxes besides. Vf this

He referred more particularly to the evnts of| | at s the time when he held a seat in the Assembly ; | ee oe ne ethene — and, in the most straightforward manner, said | Again, the propesal:to. saise the internal. or

he would, in return for the promises made on | : s : cents, (4s. 6d. P. E. I. currency,) cannot fail,

| pay the duty on their products as well as the | Colonial ones; but the former have a trade!

down to us, we have to pay the cost of trans-| | portation on the products of our infant indus- | | be called free trade, it appears to us that the’

Provincial tax on spirits to at least seventy-five |

| ters were more attended to in the present day, i : jand if instruction in “the four parte of the pipes — was nearly disposed to mob us for at-| Pealms”—that is to say, in the part-singing of itempting to deny to Scotland the honor of| the Psalms—were made a matter of ordimary in- T= . : dt Se _ | struction in ail c'asees of society. (Applause. ) j having inaugurated the pipes. NOW, We AFC We have great discussions as to what music ‘quite willing that the English, when in their! ought to be in divine serrice, inte which I do net a es us state, should have the ¢ ac.) CBter; but I ain certain ot thie, that t would be | SEMNDARDATOUS SHALE, Soule Have the Merit AC. great deal better than it is now if the instruction | knowledged of having introduced the bag-pipes, | in part-singing were as universal as it used to be,

as the Lord Advocate sars they did: but if the | 3d 98 it was intended to be by the Act wf 1759

jin all the glory of tartan, and exhilirated by the

Caledonian Club are still sensitive on the point, ; yatronived by the Faculty of Advocates. 1 do and are determined to hug the chauter as ex-| not knew whether the Faculty submitted to his instructions or net. I think it is very likely they did; and I wish that in that respect also we foi- lowed the example of our forefathers. (Applause. ) | positively against the bag-pipes as a national There are some matters connected with old i 5 to . | Scotch masie which, it 1 were not unwilling to Here is the | detain you, would be interesting to go inte. (Ap- | plause.) Most people think that the bagpipe is a Scetch instrument. Some are proud of the bag- pipe. others are afraid of it—(laughter)—but,

jclusively their own —let them, we say, bring |

ithe Lord Advocate to book for declaring so

| musical instrument of his country. speech which his Lordship delivered :—

| THE LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAXD ON THE

lowk in Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, and Dun- dee.— Perhaps the proposed arrangewent, how- ever, is susceptible ef an explanation which wilb allay suspicions in the free sections of the Mother Country. Mr. Galt and Mr. Henry may argue as long as they do not increase the duty on Britieh stuffs—they apply uo discriminating principle

| I find that this Lows de France was greatly |

againet the British manufacturer; but these | tlemen are net unlikely to be wet in return by the largument that the diff-rent Britwh American | tariffs are presumably established for purely fiscal | reaseus, and for ne other; and that the protectioa | these tariffs afford to Provincial manufacturers | is alleged to be altogether incidental m its cha- racter, From this premise the British free-trader {wil further reason that if the Provincial revenaes at the present time are such ae to permit the re- |mission of duties on American satinets, cheap sheetings, &c., these revenues ought to be able | to bear a remission of some porticn at lesst of the | beavier duty on British weollens, &e., unless the delegates now in Washington and the respeciive Goveraments fron: which they bat desire it to be

the part of the Government, support them if! POWER AND CHARM OF MUSIC : ine jg | Understood that they ail purchase reciproeit ne .. : Paes . ot ; WER A} AR sie. whether by its friends or our foes, the bagpipe is ? a y a moral and adorn a tale.’ The magnificent | Island every year in the shape of rent to non-! returned, and he also stated that he could not | ““ -_ = et mr ae. ee At the first annual concert of the Drapers’ looked upon by us as something national. Now, veven at the expenss of discriminating against ‘in all the Colonies. We are pretty certain it) »“ [ am not at all sure that we are entitled to any | the Mother Couutry.

project of a Railroad all the way from George- | resident proprietors, an equally large, or per-

town to Alberton, of Satarday night, dwindled j haps larger sum annually, sent way as interest in @ few short doys to what? to a paltry tram | of money borrowed to pay for the construction | way between the Richmond an@ Bedeque Bays! | of unneeded and unworked lines of railroad ?

support the Liberals, because of the variances | existing between them and himself, | vould net he accepted here.

J then shewed how inconsistent it would be| There is a coolness, eminently characteristic | for the constituency to retarn a candidate who of American finesse, in another proposal, that

| Early Closing Association in the Masonic Hall, jon Tuesday night, the Lor» Apvocates, after }some preliminary remarks on the object of the

I believe it could be de-

such praise or blame.

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of the Tweed weuld be excessively indignant—]

' é | The Colonial Press, generally, regard with monstrated—though our friends on the other side | givat disfavour the American proposals. TI

|mecting, said—There is a charm and power in |b jieye it could be demoustrated that the bagpipe aie only two Colonial papers we have seen—(and

| music, and I am delighted to see, having taken | jg ay English instrument—essentially English—

| our exchange list embraces nearly all)— which

PS ee

So much for second thouchts. The editor of the Islander, if he take the trouble of ili ieiemmead The gentleman who edits the Js- iug, will have the extreme dissatisfaction of | lander seems to think that two assertions make finding that Sammerside, if ® does contain a | proof. In answer to my first objection, few visionaries, also contains & goodly nuniter | grounded on the limited extent of our terntory, of meu of plain, practical common sense. | and the fewness of our resources, he contents

Will be silow me to inform him that some of | himself with stating that “our statement was| nomination, and to vilify its Clergy, without | ships in the United States, or a participation by |

the most intelfize at and enterprising inhabitants “correct and our deduction sound.” He asks, ef Summerside look upon his pet railway |‘ How is the travel of the road from Halifax scheme as one of the ¥absurdities?” The ma-}io Truro affected by the population of Cape jority of two hundred is a capital joke. The | Breton and the western counties?” I answer, number of persons, I am informed, did not | that not only does the general population of amount to 120, sll told. There was no divi- | Cape Breton affect the travel on the Nova

sion. The nays, as the event proved, formed | Scotia lines of railroad, but that of Prince Ed-

This brings me to the famous population | could not attempt to defend the public actions is the one which declares that the United States | an interest in the social and educational progress

of his party, and how degrading it would be to | — ¥" Willing to enter into even the most disad- that coustituency, in particular, to support a | antageous treaty for more than one year—shall

| of the country, that the science of and the taste | the original pagpipers ; and I find in confirmati ;

| for music is growing and spreading rapidly in| | Scotland. (Appleuse.) It ought to do so, for)

Goverument whose Secretary had applied the | be provided with the “ permanent security of formerly Scotland was a very musical country. |

most filthy charges a depraved nature could | the fisheries" of the Provinces. There is not draw on, to traduce the character of their de-| 4 word about our claim to the registry of our

any foundation whatever. |the Colonists in their coasting trade. The Mr. McEachen, or Mr. Campion, then, Americans want the use of our fisheries 1x ealled on Mr. MeWade to come forward. After | PERPETUITY; and they will be civil and obliging

| We have fallen away from the attainments of | jour forefathers in that respect, and therefore | for that among other reasons I am glad to be | called upon to preside here to-night. (Applause.)

| The taste fer music is certainly one of the most | | humanising upon which the mind can dwell, and | | it is one which is not confined to class—it is not | | confined to station. Nature disposes her gifts |

| (laughter and applause)—that the English were

ion | COURtenance—and not with much beartiness

of this that Shakespeare, who was an authority | ¢ither—the unreasonable proposals of the

in music, refers to the bagpipes constantly, but . aoa ae he does not introduce them inte Macbeth. The| American Goverument, and the papers referred

armies in Macbeth den’t march from Dunsinane | to have strong annexation tendencies. But the

to the sound of the bagpipe—(laughter)—and be | Colonial Legislatures are the bodies to deal speaks of the drone of the Lincolnshire and the) —. : ‘ Yorkshire bagpipe. He speaks of a persen! with the matter after Congress has pronounced

“laughing like a parrot at a bagpiper,” but all) upon it. There is not the slightest reason to

without the slightest Caledonian reference. And | i Alan shins os tnaly ah the eeahein the takes ete. | hope that Congress will offer better terms than

which show how our former monarchs spent their | the Secretary recommends ; and we feel morally income, we find their expenditure for music put} certain that not one of the Provincial Legisia-

speaking for some time very fluently, he brought to us for one short year, and after their own in that respect indiscriminately altogether of | down in such entries as the fullowing :—* To the |

forward a paper which he said was cut from | Shion, and with an eye to the main chance, the Protestant newspaper, and would read over | ender the belief that we, Provincial people, can-

to the assembly by leave of the Chairman.

| rank, or position, or wealth. The poor man as | well as the rich may have the natural gift, and

| can enjoy and cultivate it. (Applause.) It was)

English piper, 38 Gd.” (Laughterand applause.) | tures will agree to these terms, apart from the And Scotemen were not the pipers —they were insuperable objections which Great Britain barpere. The harp was the old Seetch instru

| ment, and I believe continued to be the old Seatch

would make to the discriminating pelicy indi-

not possibly live without them. We hope they | <4 by Shak in li cell known— a een a ‘ pe they | said by Shakspeare in lines —- well known | instrument till within a very recent period. There | cated in the proposed new arrangement.. So il diseovera great mistake in pursuing such al « The man who hath not music in his soul, ! is an old ballad — “ The Silly Old Harper — the l rect oe auleti sh the United narrow-minded and unneighbourly policy. It) a * io manel wo oa sounds, | Harper of Lochinaben.” Sir Walter Scott says |? a re oe, we t hav iT alah | re ee of that ballad that it was the last appearance of | 5ttes may be said to be at an end; and all che eanno ve a new Treaty on conditions | I bh hink that Shek — i : : : : i ‘tana

. — ? : rather think that Shakspeare was a littie too | the Seottish harp in minstresly. But through all | Colonists have got for their abject supphications

character in the estimation of the Protestant | 0t less favourable to us than those contained | Severe upon those who had no music in their | the collection in the Register House of these ac- Washi 7 h aah eat Liberals. It was written in December, 1862, | in the one about to expire, we had better have Souls, for I have known great and good men | counts of eur former artnet is constant | eS a pee we such terms as would only be ay | who were not in the least moved by the concord | reference to the harp; and I find that King James | offered to abject beggars. no Treaty at all. The Colonists must then of sweet sounds. If I don’t mistake, the Rev. | the Firet, who was both a poet and a musician, | ra =

a verr formidable minority. 1 very much fear ward Island,and all contiguous countries,does so| Now, this paper contained a letter of mine : that some of the Sumunerside people have Geen |too. To make this apparent, even to the editor | in reply to some questions put to me through poking fun af the edjtor of the Islander andj of the Islander, suppose that the population of|the Protestant with the view of injuring my

his darling scheme. Cape Breton were 500,000 and that of this Is- ‘

Is the editor of the Islander a civil enzincer? | land 400,000 — suppose that they contained

It seams so, For who but a man professionally cities as large as Quebec—would there then not

previous to the General Election which follow- ca

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acquainted with the whole business of railway | be a great increase iu the railway traffic on the construction coyld, in the short space of two | line mentioned by the editor? would it not be

or three weeks, decide upon the route which very greatly extended? Who doubts it? If

the proposed line is to take? Wonderful as it | then the railway traflic of a country is affected may appear to the unprofessional man, the | by the condition of countries not connected whole traek js laid down in the columns of last | with it by land, will it not be affected in a much week's Islander-—-not merely indicated in gene-| sreater degree by the population of places, ral terms, but minutely deseribed. The names | however remote, within its own territory? It of localities, and even of individuals, are men- is often necessary, aud it often pays, to con- tioned, The line is to start from McKinnon’s | nect distant points of a large and rich country tannery, to follow the course of the North | by railway, evea though the intervening coun- KRiver—to cross the stream above Moore's mill |try be barren and sparsely peopled ; while the — to intersect the Johnson Road, near A. |trailic of a country of limited extent, however Munro's; and so on till it reaches its termiua- | populous, would not warrant the construction of tion at Summersile. There is no hesitation— | railways in it. This I believe to be our situa- the writer pronounces with decision—he speaks |tion. “A Proser” is perfectly aware of the as one having authority. He must be either a |fact that the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick man of wonderful engineering skill and great | Railways are all internal, but he is also fully experience, or one of the silliest and most pre- _convineed that they will never—at least not for

ed. The question being:—Is Mr. Benj.

stan’s.""

the political party with whom I was associated to do so—that my past conduct im the Assem- bly unmistakably proved, so far as I was con- cerned—that I had then opposed applying the public mones towards any sectarian purpose, on any pretence whatever—that I was still of the same opinion—and that my past actions ought to be s gaurantee for my future conduct.

This is the substance of the letter referred to by Mr. MeWade, which appears to be equally jas obnoxious to him as it is to the clerical poli- ticians uf the day. He dilated on it as unpar- donabdiy chjectionable. Mr. McWade then put