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ments came up, we all marched out, drove the insurg the erty, took possession of it, and the station, where we have remained ever since tn the Collector's house — about 20 of us; othere are in the punka (brick-built) houses that were not borat: and the Fusileers and 89h (Queen’s) in the church. Every day we have had expeditions to burn and destroy dis- affected villages, and we have taken our revenge. I have been appointed chief of a commission for the trial of all natives charged with offences against Government and persons ; day by day we have strung wo eight and ten men, We have the power of life and death «our hands, and | assure you we spare nor, A very summary trial is all that takes place ; the con- dewned culprit is placed under a tree wish a rope round his neck on the top of a carriage, and when it is pulled away «ff he swings. All is now well and quiet, but where smiling houses once existed are now only blackened walls and desola- tion. My old house is in rums—it had just been repaired for me—and my tittle house into which { had moved for a season is in the same state. I have lost nearly everything, though my servants behaved splendidly, and saved all they could. Two tables, a few chairs, three beds, a few odd volumes of my dear old books and wy silver, is ail | have in the world ; however, my life has been mercifully spared, thank God! My horses I have saved; I sent them to poor Alexander for safety and for use before the fearful night of the 6th, when tis Sowars rode two of them, and Old Smuggler saved Harward’s life. When he ran up to his camp he mounted him, and he dashed through the Sepoys like an old trump, as he is. I have the good old beast under me everywhere, carrying on the work of retribution. Now that we have plenty of men a force is to be moved up to Cawnpore to relieve the poor fellows there, who are hard pressed, being intrenched in a kind of made-up fort.

LETTER FROM A CLERGYMAN HORRIBLE CRUELTIES.

Bancatore, Jory 4.—I began writing you an account by the lust mail of this terrible outbreak in the Bengal Pre- sidency, and [ have determined to give you a brief outtine of what further has been perpetrated, as Englishmen ought to be in possession of facts, lest there should be any squeainishness about the punishment in store for the brutal and diabolical mutineers. We have had an awful time of it, | can assure you, though we ourselves have been mercifully kept from alarin or danger. No words can express the feeling of horror which

des society in India, we hear so many private accounts of the tragedy which are too sickening to repeat. The cruelties committed by the wretches exceed al! belief. ‘They took 48 females, most of them girls of from 10 to 14, many delicately nurtured ladies,—violated them, and kept them for the base purposes of the heads of the insurrection for a whole week. At the end 7 time they made them strip themselves, and gave them up to the lowest of the people, to abuse in broad daylight in the streets of Delhi. They then commenced the work of torturing them to death, cutting off their breasts, fingers and noses, and leaving them to die. One lady was three days dying. They flayed the face of another lady ond made her walk naked through the streets. Poor Mrs. ——, the wife of an officer of tne — Regiment, at Meerut, was soon expecting her confinement. ‘Shey violated her, then ripped her up, and, taking from her the unborn child, cast 1 and her into the lames. No European man, woman, or child has had the slightest mercy shown them. I do not believe that the world ever witnessed more hellish torments than have been inflicted on our poor feilow-countrywomen. At Allahabad they have rivalled the atrocities of Delhi. | really cannot tell you the fearful cruelties these demons have been guilty of—cutiing off the fingers and toes of little children, joint by joint, in sight of their parents, who were reserved for similar treatment afterwards. | told you how gallantly our Madras Fusileers — poor J ——’s regiment— has behaved ; 100 men of them, vader Colonel Neil, killed 650 mutineers. {saw a letter from one of the officers yesterday. He says that no imagination cen depict the scenes he witnessed when he arrived at Benares. Ali the troops were in a state of revolt. They saved Benares. The whole of the Bengal officers were peralyzed with terror and astonishment ; 80 Colonel Neil assumed command and proceeded to the most summary measures, curting off whole regiments. Ail the ladies were crowded into one’room, with wounded and dying men, and from the window the sight that greeted his eye was a row of gailowses, on which the energetic colonel was hanging mutiveer after mutineer, as they were brought in. A‘ier restoring some litle order at Benares, on went the gallant Pusileers towards Allahabad, thermometer above 100 deg; 30 aud even 40 miles marches; no supplies to be had ; living on flour and water. On reaching Allahabad at night the whole cantosment was ina blaze. The regiments had already mutimied, and slaughtered theor officers with unbeaid of cruelty. The Sikhs had not actually mutinied, but they assisted the rebel regiments in pillaging the houses of the Europeans, his Sikh regiment p!ied the fatigued Fusileers with liquor, and the scene of dirt, drunkenness, and wreichedness baffled-all description. ‘he officers of the Fusileers went to the Sikh lines and bought up al! the liquor they could, to prevent the men from getting it, and they bought chests of champagne, beer, &e., at four and eight annas (6d and Is) a-bottle. Now } hear the indefatigable Colone) Newl is beginning to bring about some degree of order, and is hanging scores and scores of prisoners. But we get very little official tidings yet. 1 am longing to hear more, for | do not hesitate to affirm that each day of delay pisces ail our lives in some jeopardy. 1 know from the very best authority that the Mahommedans are plotting at this place, but whether they dare rise will depend on how things go on in other places. The events of the next three weeke will be the most momentous. At Madras the panic has been intense. I believe, too, that the fears are reasonable. eralore a strong force, and the Madras Sepoys ed loyal. There is one circumstance in our

favour. ail our regiments te have their women and children wi am in their lines, whereas in Bengal the Sepoy leaves his “his village. and is allowed to visit her for a

__certain period every year. Our system, doubtless, is a great ~theck on the Sepoys, as they know that, in the event of their rising, their families are in our power, but the Bengal soldiers cao roam at wiil.

DISARMING THE MUTINEERS.

Came Seeranutpes, Jury 5.—There isa lull here just now, and everything in the city of Nagpoor is quiet, and at Kamptee, though everybody is in great fright—I mean the civilians. We have disarmed the Rissiliah of Irregular Cavalry who niutinied. They were ordered to parade, and my troop and two squadrons of Regular Cavalry, with half an infantry regiment from Kamptee, parade with them. They were brought in front of my guns, which were prepared for action, and loaded with two rounds of canister shot (a canister shot is a tin ease filled with iron balls, and is mur- derous ata short range) in each piece. They were then ordered to give up their arms, which, luckily for them, they did, or they would have been blown to atoms, for I had orders to fire on them if they they hesitated a second, My men had their matches lighted, and, as they are all highly exas- perated at the fearful atrocities that have been committed everywhere, they would not have spareda soul. We have

taken all their arms, and also their saddles, so that they |}

are now comparatively harmless—their teeth are drawn. We have arrested the principal ringleaders both amongst the Sepoys and also the city people. We have hanged three of the native officers, men of the highest family, and the trials are now going on. A great many more will be hanged ; but it is difficult to get evidence, as all are so much implicated. It certainly was a most providential eseape forthe residents at this station on Saturday night, the 18th ult. The w hole plan of the mutiny in the Rissillah and the insurrection In the city is now on record, and it is fearful to think what a loss of life might have taken place had it not been for the timely discovery, and for the succour from Kamptee ; for had it not been for our arrival on Sunday morning, it was their intention still to attempt a rising. The spies that we em- ploy in the city say that the people are dreadfully afraid of our troops aad .our guns, We certainly could read them a lesson that they would not forget ina hurry. I have had very hard work since Ihave been out here. [ have not been one whole night in bed. There are constant alarms, I have to get under arms frequently during the night with my whole troop, wet through to the skin, my tent like a sieve, for the rain is so heavy. It rained on the 24th and 25th incessaatly for thirty-six hours, and teu inches fell. My camp was like a large luke, and the whole of the horses were vp ty their knees in mud and water; everybody drenched

ents out of | and no dry clothes.

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[ was consoling my men the other day, ood hot sun, when it does come ‘out, to warm us aad dry our clothes on our backs, whereas

‘in the Crimea the men’s clothes were frozen on their backs,

} jand they had no fires after to thaw them! I wish to goodness I hate all this dilly-dallying.

we could have a good fight.

|Here all is suspicion, and after what has taken place, 00 dependence can be placed on any One except our countrymen. Our poor countrywomen have suffered most, and death was a blessing to many of them. The whole is a mystery, and to most it appears like adream. Colonel Cumberledge, who t heard of the murder of his son-in-law and daughter, and two children, at Jhansi. The mutineers left the house after murdering the father, mother, and eldest child, but, hearing the baby erying, went back and killed it also. At a place called Shah Jebanpoor they waited till all the English were assembled in church, and then went, and shutting the doors, murdered all. W e have very imperfect information—the communication with the north-west is quite cut off. I hope the heme government will send troops overland, or they may be too late.

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the British empire in the East has never been in such jeopardy as it is at present. If the Sikhs or Affghaus were to turn against us, the whole north is gone. We way hold the south, bat only so long as our troops are trae, We have only one European regiment in the Madras presideney at the

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«Tt is substantially a repetition of a calumny uttered in the hearing of Several members of the House of Assembly, by no less @ personage than the Honorable James Warburton, Colonial Treasurer, who also knew the same to be false!”

To rue Eprror or THE EXAMINER.

Sir,—The above quotation from the leading article in the Monitor of the 17th inst., having reference to certain state- ments alleged to have been made by me on the floor of the House of Assembly last winter, renders it necessary that I should state the facts of the case with reference to Mr. Cooper. and I shall do so without any comment, premising only that my informant was to other person than Mrs. Gullen, mother of the individual who has accused me of a deliberate falsehood.

A few years ago, I think in 1852, I happened to be at the house of the lady in question. She told me that during a severe fit of illness, her son, J. B. Cooper, persuaded her that her property—on which there was a debt of £150—would be sold to pay off the incumbrance, unless it was satisfied within a certain time; and that if she made it over to him he would secure her from loss, and become responsible for the payment of the interest as it became due. Unfortunately she acceded to the proposal, thinking, as she told me, that she was per- fectly safe in her son’s hands, Mrs. Cullen recovered from her illness, and shortly afterwards a person of the name of Webster offered her £450 for the property. It was, of course, necessary to have her son’s consent to the sale; this he ab- solutely refused to give. The consequence was, she was un able to dispose of it for the sum of £300 over and above the amount of the debt. Subsequently Mr. George Cooper, bro- ther to J. B. Cooper, wished me to hand over to his brother the title deeds of some property which I had promised to give him on Lot 11. I refused to do this; and wrote to Mr. G. Cooper to the effect, that I thought his property was much safer in my hands than in the possession of a man who had deprived his mother of her small means of support. Mr. G. Cooper, who knew nothing of the former transaction, wrote to his mother for au explanation. Mr. J. B. Cooper got possession of the letter, I believe, at the Post Office ; read it, and called on me, at the Secretary’s Office, to know if I had written such a letter to his brother. 1 told him I had done so, and that I believed I had stated nothing & truth. He then entered into an explanation, which ful vinced me of the above fact; stated that, under the law of this Island, he would be compelled to support his mother should she be likely to become a burden to the publie, 1 remarked, that depriving her of her property was rather a strange way of providing for her ; and suggested to him the propriety of his purchasing an annuity for her with the £300 she was offered for her property over and above the amount of the debt with which it was charged. Mr. J. B. Cooper told me he had not thought of that expedient, and left the office, I am not aware that he has acted upon it up to the present moment.

Mr. Editor, I regret very much troubling you with this statement, but I do not wish to let Mr. Cooper's assertions zo uncontradicted, although they can have but little weight in this community. 1 am, sir, yours, &c.,

Sept. 19, 1897. JAMES WARBURTON.

(¥OR TIE EXAMINER.) To rut Epirror or THE ISLANDER.

Srr,—In the Islander of the 1st inst., under the heading of * DanctnG AN OLD BEAR ON A HOT GRIDDLE,” you say, * Lf Mr. Cooper feel aggrieved, why does he not, as we suggested, procure a testimonial from Messrs. Laird and Melntosh, that he never said a word to the effect, that he consulted his own interest in voting for the £100,000 sterling swindle, and we will give it every publicity. We never spoke to either of those representatives on the subject, and the rumour may or may not have a foundation.”

if I could see that it was either necessary or proper for me to elicit a truth to serve any good purpose, 1 would willingly follow such suggestions. You admit that the gentlemen above named are the only persons in possession of the fact, as to whether or not 1 was to receive some considera- tion for my vote in favour of the Loan Bill. ‘Therefore you knew where to find the truth, but never enquired for it; consequently you created and publish a report without any foundation, that [ was bribed for my vote In favor of the Loan Bill, which for my own reputation I would have to take notice of ; and this would give you an oppurtunity to apply scurrilous epithets and to ask impertivent and insulting questions.

I am not aware that the freedom of the press allows the

editor of a newspaper to publish a defamatory rumour against any person, without some foundation; or that the editor should call upon the party he has implicated to give up wrivate, conversation for publication, under the penalty of the defamation being continued in circulation. And until [ am better informed in such matters, 1 could not ask for the testimony you desire, lest I should set a bad example.

Your remarks on the way I did vote on the Loan Bill, and the way which you say I ought to have voted, is to mis- lead the people and support the defamation. In my letter of the 28th July, I explained that the only constitutional remedy to dispossess usurpers, who are wrongfully in posses- sion of the public land, was to have their titles investigated in a Court of Escheats and Forfeitures, and that any other method of settling such matters depended on the will of parties. Therefore, if I desired the settlement of the Land (Question by compromise, I must either have expeeted the Government to agree with my proposal, or I must have made up my mind to aecept of any reasonable proposal from the Government. My proposal for the ministers tu purchase the land and sell to the tenantry, has been before the Govern- ment, first and last, sixteen years—a time sufficient to con- vince me that for some reason the Government could not agree to it. And as you say I ought to have stuck to my own proposal, that is as much as to say that I should not agree to any settlement, but allow the usurpers to swindle the tenantry out of £20,000 a year!—a sum sufficient to | detray the Civil List of the Colony, or the salaries of Go-

veroment cflicers four times over.

‘thee amalgamated into three, and the two and three Town-

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osal for the ministers to purchase the land and d be well to find out why the agreed to lend money instead, to make the purchase. Butas they keep their reasons secret, we can only infer from their actions and the position in which they are placed. The ministers could not ask Parliament for money to purchase the land without exposing the parties whose misconduct brought such a debt upon the Government, aud that exposure would bring the Colonial Office and all parties concerned into disgrace with the British public. But a minister could ask Parliament to guarantee 4 Loan for our Government to pur- chase the land without any such exposure, especially when it was made to appear by the Loan Bill that the money would be returned with interest. Thus if the ministers had asked for money for themselves to purchase, the blame would have fallen on the Colonial Office and the English land- holders ; but under the Loan Bill, if the land will not yield the money, a minister has only to say in Parliament that the Colony is too poor to pay. For if a minister were to de- mand returns according to the letter of the Loan Bill, it would then be time to bring the whole matter before Parlia- ment, and show that the Loan Bill was passed to save the Colonial Office from disgrace, and that ave ought not to pay for the delinquency of ministers.

My objections to the Loan Bill have been before the public already. It was not one of those straightforward trans- actions fit to pass a Legislature, if it could have been avoided, because it is open to mischievous persons to abuse the public mind with misrepresentations, But it is my belief that the Loan Bill can be made as beneficial to this Colony as if the ministers had purchased the land according to my pro- posal, AND IT 18 BQUALLY MY BELIEF THAT IT CAN BE GREATLY Anusep. Consequently, if you can sueceed by scurrillity and defamation to get the management of it into the bands of men who agree with you, you can then make your prophesy come true, and make a swindling concern of the Loan Bill ; but that shall not be through any fault of

WILLIAM COOPER. Sailor's Hope, Sept. 15, 1857.

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REVIEW OF THE ISLANDER ON “RURAL MUNICL PALITIES.”’

BY CANADIENNE,

In the Islander of the 4th inst., the editor terms “ the authority conceded to the Governor and Council by the Mu- nicipal Bill of last session, of interfering in the business and management of the Municipalities, a most improper authority.” ‘ No satisfactory reason whatever,” says the positive editor, “can be given why the Executive should have the power of setting aside the verdict of the Municipality ; and it should be a sine qua non that the elected Councillors should not be interfered with during their year of service. If avy Coun- cillors pass a Bye-Law disagreeable to the people of their Municipality, they have the remedy in their own hands, by electing Councillors next year to repeal it.”

You might with as much reason, Mr. Maclean, term the authority conceded to her Majesty of disallowing any Law passed by any of the numerous Legislatures in ber extensive dominions, “ a most improper authority.” One “ satisfactory reason why the Executive should have the authority of setting aside the verdict of the Municipality” is when they find ig conflict with the * verdict” of the Legislature.

A precedent: The first Municipal Bill for Canada pro- vided no remuneration for Councillors for their official ser- vices, Subsequently the Council for the Eastern District of Canada West passed a Bye-law providing the sum of 6s. 3d. to each Councillor for every day he would be employed about the affairs of the Municipality. That Bye-Law being sub- mitted to the Governor and Council was disallowed, because its provisions were not warranted by the Municipal Act. That * the Councillors should not be interfered with during their year of service,” is tantamount to perpetual exemption from interference, rendering them more independent than any elected body of men that has ever existed.

The remedy of ‘electing Councillors next year to repeal a disagreeable Bye-Law” is analogous to “ locking the stable door when the steed is stolen.” It would be the height of folly to apply a remedy after the disease had proved fatal. lf « executive interference” be so objectionable a feature, why does the sagacious editor wink at the same defect in his mode! Canadian Municips: Act ?

The prescient editor goes on to predict, “ Only let the principles of the present Bill pass into a law, and a short supplementary Act will eaable the Councils to raise the as- sessment to any rate that may please the Governor and Council.” © sapient seer of New London! what oracle hath inspired thee to predict that such a supplementary Act will be passed 2? And if it should, what occasion of astonish- ment would it be? Is not every Act liable to alterations and amendments ? Then why should the Municipal Act form ‘an exception? But, pray what pleasure could it afford to the Governor and Council to raise the rate of an assessment” ‘every farthing of which was intended to be applied in the

Municipality in which it were levied ¢

But hearken once more to this prophetic scribe. “If the objectionable provisions which the Bill contains be once es- tablished, the people need not expect the present majority, nor any other majority to amend them.” Do the antecedents of ** the present majority” bear thee out in that presumptuous prediction, O sage seer of New London? Have they never condescended to amend any defective Bill? And, alas! art thou sure that no “ other majority” will amend none either ? Then what comfort could the return of a Tory majority afford thee? © seer, what a dull, unprogressive future dost thou predict for us! Art thou sure, sage diviuer, that it was no false oracle which inspired thee to predict that “ we shall yet have to pay £50 taxation for every 100 acres of land ?” Admitting that we shall, we too venture to predict that it | will yield us at least 100 per cent. in the form of local im- 'provements. But © short-sighted seer! thou constrainest ‘us to lose faith in thy predictions when we find thy vision so ‘much minified between this and Canada, that the five Coun- cillors who compose the Council of each Township appear to

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‘ships which compose some Municipalities, seem to thy failing Instances: ‘Townships of Longueil and Alfred—i Municipality ; Clarence, Cumberland and Russel, ‘in the County of RKussel—1 do., and many more such in- ‘stances might be given, where Townships are but sparsely imbabited. Again, O seer! thine oracle deceiveth thee in | persuading thee that each County Council is composed of twelve Councillors, whereas some are composed of more and 4 of fewer than that number,.in proportion to the number of Township Councils in each County, the Reeves or Chair- men of which compose the County Councils. Instances : In the United Municipality of Glengarry, Dundas and Stormont, twelve Couuscillors; but in the adjoining one of Rescott and Russel only eight. Here thou mayest observe, if thy failing vision still enables thee to see so far, that instead of each County in Canada having a Council of twelve, in many instances two or three Counties are united to form one Municipality. Again thine oracle hath misled thee when it “led thee to understand that the County Councils are elected by the Township Councils from among themselves,” whereas the Reeves or Chairmen of the several Township Councils in a County ex officio constitute the County Councils, thus pre-

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o be opened by the joint funds of such Townships, quiring more mouey to complete it in one Township another, or when a costly bridge, Court House or Town is to be built, to accommodate the Municipality generally then, of course, the most of the money must be appropriated where the labor is performed, . We agree that * the size of the Municipalities an objectiou—tnat they should be reduced to no more thay, single Township,” exeept in the case of Townships that gy thinly inhabited. But in the event of such small Municins ities being established, in our opinion there should be alg County Councils established, to review, revise, receive appeals, . and confer about general improvements. "herd We further agree that authorising “the Go el Council to dissolve any Council when elected,” is vi A take the Municipal elections out of the hands of the and throw them into those of the Government. This. to us in the light of a glaring mockery of self-gover Should this article appear in print, | intend in to point out some otf’ the benefits that may accrue from nicipal Institutions. Bedeque, September 14, 1857.

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THE PROTECTOR rvs. SYNTAX. «No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”

Jon. «* Orthodox! orthodox! wha believe in John Knox, . Let me sound an alarm to your conscience, oe There’s a heretic blast has been blawn in the wast, . That what is no sense must be nonsense,”’—

To rue Evtror or Tue Examiner.

Sir,—In my present letter I purpose to administer the cag. tigation, which I announced in my last, to the literary ehar- latans who conduct the editorial de of the Protector, and to expose their inability to write sensibly or gramma The public must bear in mind that it is not the immedig writer of each article alone who is to be held sible all the ridiculous nonsense and bad rwhich may from — time to time appear in the columns of the Protector, but. alm the whole editorial committee, whose duty it is to supervis Sor -soyrane it is pe ae oS. A sid grossly presumptuous for a an, Ww inedall § his knowled of y grammar ond guild literature by reading to the light of a pitch-pine torch by his father’s fire. side, to find fault with the composition of col trained gentlemen, who

“ean speak Greek As naturaliy as pigs squeak.”’.

An ignorant old fogy of the clergy told myself in diseussion, a few days ago, that he considered it the heighth of presump- roductions of men— who were good classical scholars—that they were not to be considered subject to our common rules of grammar, &e. Strange, indeed, if a knowledge of classics can Coos a sub- stitute for common sense and correct writing! The readers of - the Protector will remember that when I charged the reverend editors with incompetency, they never once Enicd the trath of my assertion, but rather acknowledged it by giving their motive for writing bad grammar, viz: that it ‘‘ enra enemy of all good,”’ and ‘* did injery to his kingdom.”’ W if his sable majesty is posse of very delicate s nthesiedd ; sensibilities, they must indeed suffer inconceivable torture — every time the Protector is issued. But if we are to believe + one of the most distinguished of Protestant writers, Satap has his time of rejoicing also, for he says that ** such are the dis- gracefal contentions’? amongst the clergy of the ehurch to which he belonged, that **no doubt there is a jubilee in hell every year about the time of the meeting of the general As- sembly.’ Satan will have his day of rejoicing shortly,

I shall take, as the subject of my present critique, an article which appeared in the Protector a few weeks ago, on * lm~ provement,’’ not because it contains a greater number of absurdities than many others which I have seen in the sme paper, but because it is the only one that I have at h now. It isa rather lengthy article, and yet I do wt bale a it wee a wing sentence of correct English. Letus ook at the ver sentence: ** To ho things . this vy” and or how many ? Sams 2 eek needed.’? To talk of aan referring to any ‘ absolute nonsense. The last part of the sentence is so obscure and so much lower than ordinary incorreet writing, that 7°

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that any school-boy who, after a few months” practice in ietfe lish composition, would write such intolerable. trash, ric deserved to have his cars boxed, ‘In enamerating all things that needed improvement, the writer begins with the human mind, and apparently struggling beneath the burden of his ‘<thick-coming fancies,"’ by @ sublime and beautiful climax which none but college-trained gentlemen can fully appreciate, without halting even to take reath, he progresses upward, ane upward, till he arrives at—the lighting and swee

of streets. He begins by suggesting improvement to the chief Artificer in nature’s workshop—to the Almighty. He says that improvement is needed ‘in the formation — pe the human mind.’’ The inhabitants in portions of Lots

23 and 67 have cause to regret that the Protectors had not existed before their part of the country was created, then it would not have been so stony and hilly. Judging from the mental calibre of some of the reverend gentlemen themeclies, we would be led to conclude that

« Nature’s journeymen had made These bunglers when their mistress left off trade.” *

The only loop-hole that is left for the rev. committee to escape, a charge of blasphemy, is to plead extreme ignorance; it is to be hoped they will do so, to saye at least their character for pitty. The writer states that improvement is needed “‘ inthe. strengthening of man’s social habits.’’ His habits are to be, strengthened whether ee have a tendency to good orgvil. If he is virtuously inclined, let him improve till Fe become sanctified as—as—as—the Protector. On the other hand, he has a proclivity to cheating or pilfering. let him become ® bold rogue or thief at once ; if he is a tippler, let him become a confirmed, degraded drunkard ; if he is somewhat loose im, his ideas of the moral relations of the sexes, let him become ® thorough libertine! Well done ye pious Protectors of publie morals! You are likely to be the originators of a system ol, moral philosophy so well suited to the popular taste, that Paley and all former writers on the subject will shortly be em tombed amid the vast and cumbrous tomes of theol literature which the modern improvements in Christi have rendered unreadable, there to lie ‘* unwept, unh and unsung.’’ ‘In all these things,’’ continues the wi ‘*and much more,” (i.e., much more things), “ there is as well as room for improvement.”’ ‘‘ Need for improv Mis ae suits my taste. ‘‘ The Creator has placed us here be low that we might advance from one stage of moral e ce to another, and that we might progress from step wep a improve,’’&¢e. More outrageous tautology I never saw.

is ‘‘ advancing from one stage to another,’’ but ** pr

from step to step,’’ and what is ‘* progressing from step @ step’? but ‘‘improving?’’ Passing over about a score grammatical blunders (indeed we have ceased to expect grammar from the Protector), we come to the following: where we will, we will find other places in a variety of culars going ahead of us.’ Could any more appropriate than ‘particulars’ be placed here, and how classic the pression ‘‘ going ahead of us?’ ‘*Are we then,”’ he ass — ** forever to stand still in the onward march of improv: forever to goon in the same jog-trot that our fathers satisfied with ; forever to be behind our neighbours ; to keep back the Island,’? (Where does it want to go?) “808. give it not full and unfettered scope”’ (i.¢., plenty o mn ‘* for the exercise of its numberless resources, either

our indifference of a better state of things, or because of our petty squabbles among ourselves?’’ 1 doubt whether ever 887 writer succeeded so well before in compressing so much DOR. sense into such a small compass. Overlooking, again, half a dozen grammatical inaccuracies in the above sen and looking only to the sense of it, I would, with all deference to the college-training of the writer, and a consciousness

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cluding all necessity of being elected.

_ At is true that “ sometimes only a part of the money raised in a Township is appropriated to its use ;” but in that case it. is the interest of that Township to allow the greatest part of the money to be appropriated in an adjoining Township; as_ when a new road traversing two or more adjoining Townships |

own comparative igndrance, ask him—How can we stand sti | and at the same time go on ina jog-trot? Perhaps he cane plain it on some mathematical hypothesis of which I am igh?” rant. Whete can our squabbles be but among ourselves? io the meantime I fully concur in the opinion that if this ‘ desires to move out of this stormy Gulf of St. Lawrenee, it is , very wrong, nay tyrranical, to keep it back! ‘If we sali