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Scriptures, and as in Feance, become infidels. Infidels ore) we want you to carry out our principles, and we dare you '

» Ponery “y » int , » s ‘nv us! Atse Are shitdren, on such rrounrls as aine . made by Popery, and they hate u! It is satd Jesuitism is} deny us! (Applause) Are our eh n, beeen: a of the | into the matters complained of has be

working universally, but it ts a mstake, In 1717 they num the Bishop takes, to be deprived of the Bibl

bered 10,000, now, thev are scarcely 6000. Popery is on the} time? J trust not. he Bible to the voung mind is a living a . mingled with the | eve

decline ; but it ts nerving at-elf for a tinal struggle, This is | fount—giving up golden particles of truth, the opinten of ene of the (athohe pipers in Europe—the Paris | Instre of Heaven, and bec kons the young one Op to eternal Univers. Look at Leland —a country which has been des-' glory. Can you tolerate the reign of the troyed through the influence of Popery—with as fine a race of | sits in his gorgeous palace and attempts to give laws Lo the men as ever the sun shone on; where ignorance and super- | world; who once had princes for his vassals, and kings to wine Stition, crime and outlawry, are so feartully amversal, Look | his foot ? Kven to this day the King of Naples does It; at the Province of Ulsier, (which contains about one third of |(Applause). And the Legislature Is now giving us uP to the the whole popaletion of Lretand), where Protestants are in a}tender mercies of the Pope! Look at Pantheisue oe mech larger majority than im the other Provinces, and you will | from whence infidelity spruog. Look at France, when Socta re find more industry, more weallh, more peace and happiness, and burst apon the Turlleries, and was vot arrested until tt oH to leas crime, than in any other part ot Ire! ind. ‘Torliustrate this | the nation of the north. The philosophers were surprised to tore fully, | will starve that while the whole of treland requires | find those echolars, whom they had taught to despise the Bible, 25,000 soldiers and 13,000 constables, to keep the peace, the | leaders in the sanguimary revolutions. But Germany is: fast Province of Ulster only reqitires 3.000 soldiers and 1.900 con- , coming back to Christianity, and it is fast becoming Protestant. stables. ‘To show that Popery fosters crimé, the number of | ln conclusion, I would second the resolution. mardés€ in Béitsin, to the anilion is 4; ia freland, 19; in| ‘The resolution was then put and carried. France. 31; in Rome, that stronghold of Popery, 100; but 1) poe GEORGE SUTHERLAND. The resolution which I am going tw surprise you more,—in Naples, in Catholic Naples, | have to submit to you, embraces a petition which will be sub- the proportion of murders, ts 200 tothe milion! Are we, then, ‘mitted for signatures, demanding that we have the Bible in wo suspend the ase of the Bible? Ne! No! (Applause) The | our public schools. It is but a,rough draft, and will be modi- Province of Ulster bas more than twice as many national fod hereafter. In its present form it will be submitted for schvols as Leinster, and as many more which are Hot MN | your approval or rejection. There must be something danger- tional schools. it 19 said that moral influsnce should be) jus in the attempt to keep the Bible out of our schools, employed in endeavouring to convert the Catholics ; but iflor it would not be disapproved by you. The books you saw a man standing on the brink of a precipice, would you lganctioned by the Board of Education, for the use of public say, * Tut, mon, stop?” Nov; you would go to him. and catch | schools, do pot include the Bible; and not’ one-fourth of the hoid of him, and drag him away frow the danger. ‘The Bible) sehools have the Bible. The Bible is the great enlightener ia not only the bulwark of right, but it ts laws, It serves 48) of our youth, and it is necessary for the prosperity of the order, and is the means of training the heart to God. It ts not ‘eountry that it shall be in our public schools. (Applause). sectarian! Catholics boast that we are divided, but our differ- | The language of the petition is strong ; but it is necessary that ences upon smaller matters is because we exercise a judgments | jt should be so. I need not impress upon you the necessity of and this | huld to be incontestible evidence that weare right | being united in your demands, and in your determination of Protestants are those who love God and honor the King! (Ap-! resisting the unhallowed attempt made against your rights. plause) If Governments and countries do not shut their eyes | The enemy are united, and we should be united also. It has to a sense of the duty they owe t> God, are they at liberty | heen said we are trying to force our religion upon Catholics. to withhold the Bible from the public schools? If they de, the |] deny it. The first thing ia our schvols after they meet, coming generation will arise with hearts unsanctified avd heads | should be a lesson from the Bible. There is nothing sectarian enlightened. We regard governments as sacred, and shall de-|jn that. And half an hour after, the children should be in- fend them as our fathers did ; but while we defend them, we | structed in the Scriptures, and the good and evil of virtue and are not prepared to support them when they err. Are not! vice, pointed out to them. The necessity of the Bible asa stand- Government bound to give our youth what is suitable for them © | ard of morality is so great,and its lessons so good,that no one can It is not ip India we live, but in a British Colony! (Applause) tas against it. It is said the Covenanters suffered persecution it is svid Government cannot avoid tolerating trath and error. 1) from “the Church of Eng and. It is not true. They were hold with Scotiand’s divines, Government are bound to distin- | perseeuted by a man who bore a Protestant name, but a guish between them, while they are not to use thesword! Gov-| (Catholic heart. It was to the Jesuits, headed by Archbishop ermnent are tocountenance error! 1, for one, can never sanctior | Laud, under Charles II., that we owe the persecation of the euch a sentiment. (Applause) A day is coning when we shall Covenanters. (Applause.) It is said that Calvin ordered «ll appear at another tribunal; and if we do not find justice | Servetas to b* bunt. It is distinctly denied. here we will find it there. | second the resolution. Rev. Mr. LLOYD. I was not aware of the fact that The resolution passed unauimously, Calvin did not condemn Servetus to death. In all the books 1 ‘ have read on the subject, he bears the credit of such an act. Mr. CEPHAS BARKER. [tis well we should know that | “poy GEORGE SUTHERLAND. The magistrates of Gen the Bible says, “there is a time for all things, a time to come) ... bumt Servetus, and it is said Calvin encouragd them to together, and a time to separate,” and as there are three zen} 4,59, 1t has often been disproved, and latterly placed beyond tlemen to follow me, [ will not detain you long. i have been | . houbt by discoveries in the archivesofGeneva. We distinet- asked —* Mr. Barker, why don’t you muke a speech ?”” But if | ly disecountenance such an insinuation against the character of commenced to make a speech I should not know when to leave | ().in that noble man, who did so much for Protestants in off. Asa stranger, ! came from England a short time since ;/ pionee! (Applause). ‘J will read you the petition— but I have had my eyes and ears open, and have a and rie 5. Whereas the time has come for making every effort to prevent the a good deal since | came among _— In coming forward to perpetuity of our present system of instruction, and to plaee the Holy address you, | come as a non-conformist. | question the pro Seriptures on the list of books now in use in the various schools of the priety of much that has been said on this subject; bat have had | {sjand,—It is resolved, that the following petition be adopted by this & thought or two about it myself. I do not mean to be pugna- meeting, and circulated throughout the country, with the view of its cious, | never fuaght but once in my life, and then i conquered. obtaining signatures and of being presented to the Legislature :— Since then I have resolved uot to provoke a quarrel, for fear | PETITION. should come off second best. Mr. Fuzgerald has given mea) We, the undersigned, inhabitants of a Protestant colony, and snbjects resolution to propose. and I find education is the third word that of the British Empire, being convinced that no system of education, occurs in it. To tell the truth, society in this Colony seems National or otherwise, can be good, or suited to the rational and immortal like a sick man—the doctors consult, and after a good deal of | ™8ture of wan, which is not based on the Word of God, and being called

; cati on to pay by far the larger portion of the revenue for the support of the wrangling, they come at last to the conclusion, that education State aud the maintenance ef its public schools, and being unable to

is the panacea for all maladies. Now, to go to England, and | obtain for our children generally any other means of instruction than as other gentiemen go there, allow me to go 100. It was said, that provided by the Government who have taken into their hauds the educate people and the jails will be empty. But has it proved | minagement of, and prescribed the course of instruction that is given 80? Look at the Thurtells, Tawells and Palmers—were they | in, the several schools, of which the Word of God forms no part,—

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9 o( anies educated or not 2 | bumbly beg your Honorable House, now that the Education Act is al

We ene ak ees or otherwise 2? The to expire, to take into consideration our wishes cn this subject, especially cenare ee ese 5 Y | if it be the intention of your Honorable House to frame any new law, or

were great mea. There 1% a certain kind of religion sought | to make any amendment or alteration in the present Act.

for ; but sf we examine it we find it is faulty. You may educate,| We seek not to interfere with the rights or liberties of others, or, in but men will not be moral without you inenicate. Education | any wise to compel others to adopt a coarse of instruction for their is a drawing out of the powers of men. ‘The way they did in children which we think it right to pursue with regard to our own.

[ ormer ‘ ve ; We fee} that we cannot any longer be a consenting party to the ex- ee Gene twine to entind ie © see ae clusion of the Word of God trom our public schools,—a book which is

tem.” Uf they did not learn, it was best into them, und ‘when the standard of our faith, and the source from whence all Christians they could master Marray’s grammar, stumble over the rule Of | derive those doctrines which make man wise unto salvation, and prepare three, and trace a map, they were considered to be educated | jis soul for the kingdom of God; and therefore humbly pray that your (Laughter) But, it is said, this education is a mora! power, and | Honorable House will direet that the holy Scriptures be placed on the

eous i ’ list of books now in use in the publie schools, and that it be introduced an nA el pan ee nate Bam. 9, into the Academy and Normal School; and that the children of those

reading the Bible will not du— precept on precept must be in- parents who desire it, or do not object to its ase, shall have the privilege culeated. In England parties are divided as to the propriety | o¢ pading a portion of Scripture the first exercise of the day after the of reiigious and secular education. It is stiil considered 4 | oponing of the school with prayer to Almighty God, and of being taught debateable matter. You are taxed for education’ Be calm. | therein by such teachers ae the parents or guardians approve of. We Do not throw the blame on the Government. they have a diffi- } beg farther te assure your Honorable House, that, in asking these things,

—_ we are actaated by no political motives, or with no desire to stir up ook Cath a ee ee ee ee ae strife or religious controversy, but simply with the view of promoting

Education Act, | said strife would ensue, and two of three | bie peace and prosperity of the colony, and furthering the real and days after, notices of meetings were issued. But let us turn | ja ting interests of the people. to other scenes. Hush! [am going to lead you toa death-| You will perceive it distinctly states that we want the bed, and a death-bed is a solemn thing. Bible in al our schools. And why should we not? The Whereas, the Elucation Act is about to expire— (Laughter) Central Academy has byt two masters—why has it not a We shall soon see it expire —pains already rack i’, and fever |third? 1t is also said that the present second master of that consumes it. All who hada hand in bringing it into power institution should be head master. It must not be. The wish it a peaceful end. (\.aughter, and a cry of “Go on.’’)| Protestants are the most numerous on this Island, and why It is all very well to say “go on,” butif I were to go on, 1} should not the head master of the Academy be a Protestant? would not know whew to stop. The next part of the resolu-}'The Jesuits wrate & work, about two hundred years ago,— tion speaks of fear, “ What is nervous 2’? said a man to me, | Busenbaum’s Moral Theology,—of such a character that it * is it to be strong nerved ?”’ (Laughter). Icisa sad thing to | was even burnt by the hangman in Franee. That book is now be afraid—it is a most unpleasant feeling. I have been hurry- used in Maynooth College, Ireland, which annually sends forth ing along the road at night—seen something that made my | a number of priests, to prove a curse tothe world. The British hair stick out and bristle up, and when I approached near the | Government gives annually £30,000 sterling for the support object that frightened me, and found what it was, I laughed | of this College, which has for one of its class-hooks, the canon

at my own cowardice. But [ am forgetting the resolution— | law of Devoti—a book that teaches that Protestants should be w Biecstion, Act te cbent ‘to expire this Session, and it punished by losing their goods and their lives! (Sensation). 4. Whereas the Binea : pted injurious to| These are the precepts given by that Church which claims to

stem of Education may be ado ur pg thee ye pest an is resolved, that a petition, ex- | be unchanged and unchanging.

ressive of the wishes of all those who desire the introduction of the} Rey. Mr. LLUYD. 1 do not think the Catholics burn peo- Ecriptures into the public schools, be prepared and laid before the Le-| ple now-a-days for their religion.

gislature at its present Session. Mr. Wm. Heard seconded the resolution, which was put and ‘This reminds me of an anecdote. A Methodist minister went | carried unanimously.

to visit an old lady, who, he had reason to suppose, regarded Rev. JOHN MacMURRAY. [now beg to submit a reso- him with no particular favor. ‘* Well,’’ said he, “ Conference | yp tion —

is at hand ;” thinking, at the same time, he had unparted agree-| ¢ Whereas the interests of Protestantism are not adequately regarded able news. ‘The old lady, however, deemed sorry, and he asked by the Public Press of this Island, and whereas it is of the highest im- her the reason, “1 was thinking,” said she, “ that like all other | portance that those principles which, as Protestants, we hold most sacred, Conferences, where preachers were changed, they would send | and which we believe are identified with the prosperity of this colony,

os 1: and if we get a worse one | Should be prominently brought before the public—this meeting resolves, aan py Bes Paes eb yes d ~ d "? (Lau 2 hter). It often | eat measures be forthwith adopted for the establishment of a Protestant

' 7. ¢ : journal, of such a character as shall be worthy of the hearty support of happens, as a oe Sot Pf the eaten eames ae Presedtant population. y J Suppo without any fourdation e must not anticipate. ‘ . a } : many a fright given me by my ald grandmother when I was a = metatas Ur'e tend Geant ee ere child. “If you are not good,’’ she said, * the bogie will catch eases option) P p*}

ou!’ Many atime have I shrunk back in the corner, and cities : : : held my breath, for fear af that bogie, May we not, then, be Rev. DAVID FITZGERALD, in seconding the resolution, conjuring up a bogie now, of whom we are afraid. (Laugiter), | said—The establishment of « newspaper is of vast importance But it may be otherwise. and if so, we are doing rght. We | to Protestantism, and will, I trust, help the good work along. desire redress. Let us, then, address the Legislature, and tell J am glad to sce a reporter here to-night. We are not ashamed them what we want. They'll say-—*[t won't do to deny them of what we say. We do not work in the dark, but wish what what they ask.” [If not, and, like the old man who caught the | We say to be disseminated throughout the land, that it may boy in his garden, we find grass will not do, we will try what | descend to posterity, that they may learn we dared to do Let us say what we mean modestly, | Tight, and are not under the iron heel of the Pope.

but ip wnmistakeable language. They will not refuse what is; The resvlution was then put and carried unanimously.

just. The time may come when the dunger will seemto have| A collection was then taken—a hymn sung—the benediction been worse in anticipatiun than realization. We may form! pronounced—and the meeting separated at a late hour.

good resolutions, but mm carrying them out, let us go together, Tuomas Kirwan, Reporter.

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Rev. ISAAC MURRAY, The Bishop’s letter is the thing} We give below the Report presented to the Board of Edu- we must act upon. Everything depends upon action. When | gation by the Visitor of Schools, in accordance with their

I petition the Legis'a ure to have the Bible in the Act, it will . , 7 S SS eadeal Ged ec.weil co.mna: And if we are denied the desire, as an answer to the Bishop’s letter, which should have

privilege of haying the Word of God im our schools, and if ir| been read at the public meeting above reported, as well as the isto be purchased by blood, lect come, When King Jesus | letter itself :—

comes, there will be but two parties: those that triumph and a those that perish. Ali sciences must bow to King Jesus. We (corr.) CuaniorrErows, 25th Deer., 1856. «+ Ricut Rev. anp Dear Sir,—

are deliberating toruight an what Christ was deliberating when

he came to save ys. We should approach this matter seriously.| “ T had the honor to intimate, in my letter of the 27th ult., It ia too solewn & question fur facetionsness and quirks. | that the Board of Education had referred to the Visitor of {Applause}. We bave the ease in our hands, and we will carry | Schools the subject matter of your Lordship’s communication it out. What are the principles of Government? fa not the | of the 7th of Nov., with reference to religious teaching in the majorgy to egle? Are we not, then, the majority. I say the | Free Schools of this Colony. I have now to apprise you, that Goyerument are traitors to their principles; and if they trample | that officer has submitted his report thereon—a copy of which

op these principles they do wrong. Letus go,and say tothem,|I am directed to enclose for your information, I am further

virtue there is ta stones.

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with which an investigation

‘tude of the Board, that the rights of conscience should be

rywhere respecte | ce of Free Education should be impartially administered. ‘«T have the honor to be, «* Your Lordship’s obedient bane Saree, « Joun McNeus, See’y Bd. Ed’n.

“Rt. Roy. Bishop McDonald, &e. &e.”’

(cory.) «« CoartorrerowNn, December 22nd, 1856. “ : MceNerit, Esq., :

tom ; veretary aos Board of Education ;

‘*Sin,—I have the honor to convey to you, for the as mation of the Board of Education, the following particu arg relative to the religious element in the schools of the Colony.

‘¢ As my attention has never before been specially directed to this subject, | have not made it a point to put the question to each Teacher, whether or not he used the form of prayer | prescribed by the Board in their code of regulations, and am | therefore, at present, not m a position to give a fall report on

the matter. I have, however, learned incidentally, that, by some of the Teachers, the form is not used, and from personal | enquiry, I know with certainty that ¢we/ve of them do not use it. By four of these twelve an extempore prayer is used ; two recite a form prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church ; one repeats the Lord’s Prayer, while the remaining five omit prayer altogether.

«*| have never once heard of any instance in which a child was threatened with expulsion from a school for refusing to assist at the prayer, except in the case of Crowley versus Por- teus, which was brought before the Board in the early part of 1854.

“In one part of the country, a clergyman advised tivo of the Teachers to discontinue the prescribed form, but without success. In one of these instances, the children of the Roman Catholie parents refused to assist at the prayer; and when appealed to by the Teacher, I recommended him not to enforce their attendance while prayer was being repeated.

‘© Tf the Boaré wish ful} information on this particular, the question must be put to each Teacher as at present located, whether or not the form prescribed by the Board is used by him ; as the actions of a Teacher in this respect are apt to vary according to the tone of feeling m the settlement in which he is situated for the time being.

‘‘In the course of my various visits of inspection, I have found 16 different schools where vocal music is taught, but I have never heard any strictly sectarian hymns sung, except in two French Acadian schools, in one of which the ehildren sang a hymn addressed to the Virgin ; and in the other, part of the Roman Catholic Church service was sung.

‘«In the Normal School the form of prayer prescribed by the Board is regularly used both in the students’ and children’s department ; and no exemption from attendance at the time of its repetition has hitherto been sought for. The Bible is not a elass-book in the Normal Sehool, nor is there any expla- nation given to either students or children of any version of the Seriptures.

school, whether the Bible was used as a class-book, and re- ceived an affirmative answer in 63 schools out of 172 District Schools then in existence. Since then, the excellent series of

schouls where the Bible is to be found, has considerably dimi- nished. ‘The general impression in the country on the subject is, that the Free Education Act does not admit the Bible; while those who do use it, reason thus, that since the Bible is not expressly forbidden, it is tacitly permitted.

‘*] have the honor to be, &. &e. (signed) ‘¢ Joun M. Srark, Inspector of Schools.”

Che Examiner.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P,E.1., FEBRUARY 23, 1857.

THE BIBLE MEETING.

We give to-day our report of the speeches delivered, and

resolutions passed, at the recent Meeting of certain Protestant

Ministers and their friends, at Temperance Hall, for the pur-

pose of introducing the Bible, as a class-hook, into our public

schools. This report we ean commend to our readers as being

an accurate though condensed version of what took place, and

we propose to accompany its publication with a few remarks

of our own on the subject ; and in doing so, we shall endeavour

to ayoid the manifestation of acrimony and uncharitableness

which some of the reverend speakers exhibited in no measured

degree.

The whole state of the case is briefly this. Under the system,

which it is now sought to change, it was optional with the

trustees of each school to sanetion or disallow the use of the

Scriptures in the sehool. Until the present agitation, the

system worked to the satisfaction of Catholic and Protestant,

whose mutual relations, as neighbours and fellow citizens, were

unaffected by the fact that they knelt at different altars. The

youth of the Colony were growing up in intelligence and har-

mony, and were daily becoming qualified to read and understand

their respective religious books. The Island had obtained even

an European renown for the efficiency of its Educational system, | —when a subordinate officer of the Government, a member of the Board of Edueation, publicly stated, without the authority of the Government or the Board, that the system was to be changed—that the Protestant version of the Scriptures was to form a class-book im schools, the pupils attending which were composed of Protestants and Catholics, and in many of which the latter denomination was in a large majority. Such state- ments, proceeding from such a source, naturally had the effect | of inducing the belief in the minds of Catholics, that a secta- rian and proselytising character was to be given to the schools. Under that impression, His Lordship the Bishop of Charlotte- town remonstrated with the Board of Education, in a letter couched in language not calculated to offend the personal or religious feelings of any man. He might have said more, he could not say less. This letter one Reverend Member of the Board eopied — by what right we have yet to Jearn — and straightway the trumpet of discord was blown. The Catholics were denounced as seeking to take away from their Protestant brethren their Bible, and in vain was their denial of the charge.

j. and that the law for the encouragement ,

i aati that your Lordship | calmly, and divesting themselves of prejudice, judge who are

the disturbers of the good feeling which has hitherto charac-

en instituted, the solici- terized the people of the Island.

Colonel Gray’s remarks convey to us the very important in- telligence of his having conversed with an Earl, who told him that the Chinese were to receive copies of the Scriptures. Now, admitting all that to be true, we are left im ignorance of. its application to the question ; for before any argument can be drawn from the fact, it must be shewn that the Celes- tials have the same school system as ourselves. ‘This assertion, that the Government wish to deprive him and his co-religionists of what they yalue more than life, is, we are compelled to state, untrue,——and forms a sad contrast to his previous es- timate of the effects of * reyiling.”” The Government wieh to do nothing of the kind. The Education Act provides tho same privileges to one body of Christians as another; and asa proof of this fact, we may mention that in some of the schools the Trustees sanction the use of the Protestant version of the Seriptures.

The next speaker, the Reverend Mr. Lockhead, indulged in gross personal insult to the Bishop. This may be partially accounted for by his admission that he had not had time to recruit his mind since the previous meeting. In that case he should have treated it as other recruits are served, namely, haye trained it a little before bringing it into action. Had he done 80, it is possible that a spark of that charity “‘ which thinketh no eyil,’’ would have forbidden the utterance of the sentiment, that the Bishop’s second letter was not written im good faith. Where are the evidences of the truth of such an observation? Is this the way in which the reverend speaker understands his mission as a servant of Him who came to preach peace and good will to men? After abusing the Ca- tholies, and attributing to men of the present day a desire to- renew the bad acts of bad times, and carefully ignoring the

credit side of the ledger, he professes his great respect for Ca-

tholics—eulogises their love for the Bible, and expects to meet them in Heaven, taking his own admission for granted. The Rev. David Fitzgerald came next, and after attempting

a justification of his conduct in taking a copy of, and making

public use of the Bishop’s letter, he must repeat the insult of his reverend predecessor, and add the additional statement, for his authority for which we shall feel obliged, that his Lordship thinks that Butler’s Catechism and the Mass Book must be used. Now, we challenge Mr. Fitzgerald to produce any

‘«In my first inspeetorial visit in 1853-4, I inquired in each | authority for his assertion. The Irish National School System —the work of enlightened and liberal statesmen—is denounced as ‘* the most corrupt on the face of the earth.’’ The reverend school books has been introduced, and the proportion of those | gentleman must, we think, have two opinions regarding the National School System —one as a member of the Board of

Education, and one asa public declaimer at ‘*No Popery”’ meet- ings ; for on turning to the report which Mr. Stark, as Inspec- tor of Schools, was instructed to draw up in answer to the Bishop's letter, and which report Mr. Fitzgerald, as a member

saa (of the Board, approved of —we find ‘* the excellent series of school books,’’ used under the National System, referred to in

unmistakeably culogistic terms. Strange that ** Such difference there should be

"Twixt tweedde-dam and tweedle-dee.”” flis Reverence’s idea that he was opposing innovations, while he and his supporters are the only imnoyators, is uncommonly rich. The Bishop and the Catholic community seek to intro- duce no changes in the School System. They are, and -have een willing to let **well enough alone.’’ Mr. Fitzgerald labors under a delusion equal in magnitude to that of the poor fellow,

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who, having been most wofully beaten in a dranken row, con- soled himself by the idea, that he was the victor,and remark- ed that his opponent had * brought it all on bimself.”? His complaints that he had been called a fomentor of discord, &c., &e., are no doubt sincere, as he must have felt conscious that the application of the terms was not entircly unjustifiable. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the Rector of Charlottetown, advocated his views with more moderation than the preceding speakers, and he was consequently stopped from expressing his opinions. He, however, declared his wish that the present school system should be done away with. Is that, after all, the secret motive, the hidden spring of all those troubled waters? We rather think that Mr. Lloyd has, in vulgar parlance, ‘‘ let the cat out of the bag,’’ and betrayed the real objeet of the movement, and for this incautious admission, he was interrupted.

The Rey. Mr. Patterson’s observations are chiefly distin- guished from the other more violent ones, by an admiration of

the character of Joseph, whom, we doubt not, he endeavours to

imitate in his earthly pilgrimage; but if he be sincere in this question, let him take good care that lest, like Joseph, he be sold by his brethren. We regret that his knowledge of Spanish law will render his visit to the land of Ferdinand and Isabella a matter of personal risk to himself, and can only hope that

the many “‘ heretics ’’ in that country may escape its penalties.

The logic of the next speaker, the Rev. Mr. Mackinnon, is doubtless satisfactory to his own mind, but we confess ourselves unable to recognize the force of the reasoning, that, because ‘* Protestants are more numerous than Catholics, they have a right to more privileges,”’ among others, that of driving Catholic children from the public schools. We were not a little amused at this gentleman’s classification of those who would rejoice at the burning of the Bible. It is as follows :—‘* The Atheists and Infidels,—all bad men — and Catholics.’’ There, reader !

paid by the speaker to the Church of his fathers! He says that Catholics are not Atheists, are not Infidels, are not bad

The Bishop’s letter did not mean what it expressed, and this | Reverend Prelate, against whose character for love of peace and good will, even intolerance had never breathed a word, is accused of hypocrisy and something worse. “ The pulpit-drum ecclesiastic Was beat by fist instead of a stick,”’

to the old tune of ‘* No Popery,’’ and attempts have been, and are being made, to introduce into this hitherto happy Colony the héart-hurnings and strife ever attendant on religious discord. One Protestant clergyman at the meeting was not allowed to express his opinion of the Lieutenaat Governor, another buat recently arrived on our shores, not burning with the same red-hot zeal as his brethren, has been treated with not only unchristian, but ungentlemanly, discourtesy ; and the

right to think as think the Reverend David Fitzgerald and his confreres. That no attempt was made, no desire evinced by the Catholics to interfere with the system at present in force in our schools, will appear from the correspondence, and we ask our friends of both denominations to look at this matter

right of private judgment has been narrowed down to the |

men — then why should he impute to them joy over the burn-

‘ing of the Bible?

The next retailer of Christian charity, the Rev. Alexander Sutherland, commenced by stating that more had been said on this subject than he could say. Acting under this impression, he certainly endeavoured to make up in quality for any defi- ciency in quantity, and he served up his meats in a style of very high seasoning. Repeating the oft refuted charge, that the Catholics were seeking an invasion of Protestant rights, he outstripped his Christian friends by the boid assertion, that the Bishop of Charlottetown hated the Bible, and directed it to be burnt! Such a statement we cannot describe in any other language, than as an atrocious and unmitigated false- hood. If there were any use in doing it, we should call upon this reverend calumniator for his proof of the shocking assertion he has made, but we feel convinced he has none to offer. Perhaps, in his zeal, he has confounded the Bible with another work which he holds, no doubt, in equal reverence —viz: the ‘‘ Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk,” and if any ‘authority had been given for the burning of such a pro-

what think you of that? Is it notaninvoluntary compliment _