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Charlottetown, July 3, 1876, , PROTESTANT OPINION. i pay according lo re sulis, and (hai he besl syslem.""— Professer Ander- | e yance O Vales Olieye. j Being asked my opinion upon mere | ilar schools, | stated that they did not go! rough "—Kee. Jsaac Murray. ‘ To negiect the cultivation of man’s m nature while we pay attention to the low~ . itellectual is te mistake his position and recnireoments, Rev, J. A. Kiogers. rhe Act was unworkable and the Board }

nent to move In

‘ t get any Govern 1 tter for the last six or seven years WeN Secor Board : Bat why not religious instruction 1 | s edueation is too glorious a thing to i > Surely the facts of the Bible, ’ rds and says (whatever value ris may attach to them) should be ‘ n vo our children.”’--Dr. Norman Me- ‘ i content myself with saying that tl eolution come to in Ontario, after years ¢ strnggle, appears to me the fairest and th fore the wisest,—best for ¢ duecation and rion_-for Protestant and Romanist, for ‘ t neace and mutnal good will which are spensable to progress and patriotism. o | . Y. Grant. « Abstract our reiigion from the State and a Intion would ens the Sabbath day \ i be violated, t marriage contra t would lose its $a i binding power © ‘ vy law based on Christianity would be \ faway. This would be altogether ins consistent with the ! iefs of a Christian } ple" —H Sande Mui “ay, dD. Dus Leclu on Edu

‘The Earl of Shaftesbury sympathised with the Roman Catholics on this matter. * Chey desired something definite and listinetive—distinetive on the great truths of the Gospel on which the Scripture teaching ted. * ° * They wanted the great and saving doctrines of the Gospel under which so large a proportion of the world had lived and died.” In schools truly national the item of

religious teaching, brought into prominence

res

by both the Freo and the Established Charches, in the preliminary struggle, wonld

ert and receive its due place. Scotl&nd wuld possess what it never yet possessed — not even some twenty years after the death of Knox—a system of schools worthy of a Christian country.—Hugh Miller.

«“ In all our ordinary schools no religious instruction of the least practical value is ever given * * Unless secular teaching be vigors ously supplemented by Religious teachings ; our children at large will greatly suffer. I go further. I believe that teaching should

t only be supplemented but peretrated by religion. This question goes far deeper than | questions of particular Governments,or even the ery about Papists or Protestants. It|

s at the foundation of National faith and | National morality."— The Bishop of Freder- Aion.

The Bishop of London said, “ as a church- manu he should be glad to have the children taught church principles ; but unfortunately partly by the fault of our forefathers, we

re divided, and what the church conten‘- | el for was that the truths of the Bible

’

should be taught tothe children of those ’ lid not object to the teaching. The tion we took was that to endeavor to

} denominatienal |

stroy or suspe nd such schools by non-religious State schools, or to piace them, unintentionally it might be, ata |

sadvantage was a violation of the rights of conscience.”

“* At the same time there can be no impro- ] my i el} ressing the pe vnich I emtertain that, as in other British

nmunities, the majority of the population in New Brunswick, which through its res

esentatives controls the educational sys- tem of the Province, may be disposed to adopt such modification of the existing rules as may render them less unacceptable to | iose Who from conscientioits reasons have | elt themselves obliged to protest against @ system now in force.—Eriract from the lespaltch of the Colonial Secretary, Lord | irnarvon, daied Oct. 18ih, 1875.

Don. Attison, Principal of Sackville Acad- | emy, had never seen it necesssary to place a -an on the word of God in Public free ools. He was pleased to see in Philadel~ phia the other day in the magnificent Ex- h:. ilion—intended to shew the working of system of that State—the words ‘ Every | cher in the State of Pennsylvania is par- | ularly requested to attend to the moral gious education of his pupils,’ dis- iyed in various places on the sides cf the ‘hibition building. Dr. A. held thul un- ‘our circumstances there can be no Heller ‘ovizion ih ule | w lhose who desire a libers |

calion tii ng for the uwtional institutions under the care

Ves} isible bodies.”’

As regards denominations, I wouid like to have every parents’ views, as to re instruction, humored as much as p

id would carry out that principle as much ssible. It would be very hard to carry

out this sy in a country would carrv it out wherever practi

difficulty.

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think this ougbt to solve the iot think our small population would yw of this being carried out in the coun- districts. [ should presume this must tage the bitter feelings that exist. I

think the question of the Education of the ‘ iren is @ matter for the parents, and think the parents’ views on religious in- | iction should be carried out as much as possible, and that would be the most just ! way.” —Judge Iensley.

[It were the best state of things, that we

had a Parliament sufficiently theologicai to

discriminate between theright and the wrong | iu religion, and to eudow accordingly. But failing this, it seems to us the next best thing, that in any public measure for help- ing on the education of the people, Govern- ent were to abstain from introducing the lement of religion at all into their partof » scheme; and this not because they heid *matter to be insigniticant,—the contrary ght be strongly expressed in the preamble f their Act, [—but on the ground that, in present divided state of the Christian wid, they would take no cognizance of, just because they would attempt no control over, the religion of applicants for aid,—leav- ing this matler entire lo the parties who had » do with the erection and management of ve sthools which they had been called upon wssisl. A grant by the State on this fool- might be regarded as being appropriately ‘ exclusively the expression of their value va good secuiar education.”—Dr. Chalmers, [it was in relerence to this opinion that Jiugh Milier wrote: “ The large-minded, wise-hearted Knox of the nineteenth century * * has bequeathed, as a precious legacy o the Church, his judgment on this very juestion.”” The people of Scotland have ac- pled this “ precious legacy”’; and out of it has developed the free, equitable, an@ relig- ious system of education now in operation in that country. Our readers will not fail to note how closely the views entertained by lir. Chalmers correspond with those recentiy expressed by Hon. J.C. Pope. At the Sum- imerside meeting, Mr. Pope is reported to have said, that * he would oppose the estab- Jishiment of sectarian schools in the coming ection. But, he said, when we find a school ing good work in giving secular education, vere it Catholic or Protestant, he would pay yw that secular instruction, and did not feel called upon to meddle with any religion that might be taught, so long as the secular in- siruction was given. * * * Hedid not h to pay for religious instruction at all. Iie only thought it was right to pay when they found a proper amount of secular in- struction given.” Under Mr. Pope’s scheme a grant by the State to denominational insti- tutione “ might be regarded as appropriately and exclusively the expression of their value /ur @ good secular education.” Further, no grant would be given unless ‘ results” were actually shown. What could be fairer ? W hat more reasonable or effective solution of the school question could be offered? We trust that the electors of Prince Edward |siand will enable Mr. Pope to develope this ercellent scheme.—Epiron Exaurxgn.} Se PO D> -0O> eet eee IZED.

REORGA!

—_—

Under the Act passed last session, the Public Offices of the Province have been reorganized, The following appointments have been made :-—

Provincial Secretary and Treasurer—lon. T. H. Haviland.

Commissioner of Public Works—Hon. L. C. Owen

Clerk of Executive Council and Assistant Provincial Secretary—W. C. DesBrisay, 1Sq. :

Assistant Provincial Newbery, Esa.

hecretary Public Works—J. W. Morrison, esq.

Registrar of Deeds—Ben)j. DesBrisay, Esq.

Assistant Commissioner Public Lands— Robert Strong, Esq,

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Treasurer — Arthur

| unsound

| not g | . 7 . . re . j COMPTONLSE them hereafter.’ The Patriot | |

j Say, it is right that the State should pa

THE ELECTIO

DAY

d a t! L7th 2

NOMINATION

August;

for pre] ration will |

election

time The friends of Mr. Pope an

ere of his scheme must spe

doing. Organization 1 tial to Uf ’ hus bd (

success, They are undo

| right side of the questi n, Gilt

consistent with reason,t

charity and harmony—th }

if our schools

our laws not to be “ll and qu ne

whi h

net to be misappli

must prevail the side enecting the rights of econscien i

will seeure to the children sound secular education n at

religious instructi

parents living in towns ai side on whic h are Protestants, su

sincere

; ad te have been proved over nd ove! in to | and insincere ier which they

to

were afterward

that

ustrained

Ing 1 ; t the

¢ uphold, hounding on their followers to act as they

dared aot act themselves — carrying around

petitions for signature which they wi uld doing so * the

sien for fear the

their leading organ—is even

against itself—its being

if we may ‘judge by his actions at

believer

editor-in-chief

Ottawa, a strong in

separate s

schools, while his subordinates loudly pro- |

test that by merely permitting religion in

the public schools, our noble system of free |

Education — truly noble in its funda- ’

mental principles—will be overthrown ! !

But despite these elements of strength

on our side, and weakness on the side of our opponents, the closest union, the high We trust

the work of organization may be, forth-

est organization is required.

with, commenced, “ THE OPINIONS OF PROMINENT METHODISTS.”

Ovr courteous contemporary the Pat-

riot says “it isa pity the advocates «

religious education were not ingenuous ant eandid.”” This pitiful expression is «

sequent on our citations of the opinions of Dr. Norman MeLeod and Dr. Alli

In those citations we kept back nothing.

son.

We quoted the opinions just as th 'y were

—the parts opposed to our opinions of the

question as well as those which favour it. |

Our lover of candour and ingenuousness quoted only those parts which seemed to

faver the side espoused by himself! !

PRINCIPAL ALLISON, of the Wesleyan Academy, was contending for State aid to Denominational College s and Acadamies —institutions established and maintained for the purpose, primarily, of trainin; young men to the Ministry, and fitting

| them to uphold and spread the dogmas of

their respective sects. Concede this—ad® mit that the State may aid denominational

sthools—and we have all, and more, than we want. Either the Scotch system, the English system, the ¢ German system, or Dr. Murray's scheme, with oli the minor details, may then fol- Dr. ALLISON ‘ held

‘anadian system, the

low in due course.

that under ovr circumstances’’—the cir- ee . i *

cumstances < W

Island, in respect to educati

.- ise } 1denticai—** fhere can o # 7 sion made jor $ f rion, fnan o t national 4 is 1 "27.7.2? wa . . its sponsiule bodies, What bas the Pa

4

Dr. Allison wants a

to say to this ?

from the State in aid of “ Denominali:

SD OT ENT a ST t2

divide d |

"A were

ORO PLES PRES AP OREN Oo FRO EPO F

ene VELETH | political dominions now require lwo oceans

- ‘to confine them. (Loud cheers.) In consex

The O Mi ae ny quence of its extraordinary gro’ h,the per- Oe a — N » jot the | sonal Administration and Vicergal repre-

31, John do likewise. [ 18 | sentation of the country have been supers : | * ly a : red Z it the seded by the far more — on oe

them that rigt t and if they are | efficacious regime of Parliam: stary Goys

ise it—in Montreal, St. John, | ernment. (Appl hit ‘or sh relieved

her part of th Dominion es " of those arduous responsibiiues which at

ms 13 : ' ered ot Rags aT Gass Guan ‘one time pressed so heavily om previous

are morally wrong, and | occupants of my great office, and brought

' i - i, C Rae | them into such close, no — —

een , ons as insults to | harmonious, intimacy with the community

' gion, While all re spect | they governed, the Viceroys of Canada of

Catholics will respect ‘ie | today are all the better able to cultivate

oe ag | those friendly social relations with the ins

‘ t be restrained by | habitants of the country which it is a duty

istaken zeal for | to maintain, and of which this splendid

ph a ad ao | banquet is so gratifying an exhibition, (Loud

. sullered, there | Cheers.) Glad am | indeed and proud, Mr. » them fight.) Mayor, to find that the great admiration

a ; = ok aan | which | have always entertained for the a ont people, and | beauty of your city (which in my opinion is

produce bitter feelings in| to be rivalled only by two or three capitals

reu he uld ne C eee ig the world), the deep sense felt by other

re te abil an St, | governors and by myself of the kindness, I

i of duly, they will be offers | may almost say of the affectionate regard,

— rr oe : ae with which they have always been met by

of the peace. Is it worth their | YU, Should have upon an occasion of this

) Jo this for a mere sentiment? Sures | kind received so gratifying a recognition at

pores e's a oe Bibi | the hands of such an assembly, [Ap-

{ } if aan a , deakal in this ‘ oa _ plause. Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I Q e demonstration would make |only wish that I could make you some

thei thern to ollend, should they have | adequate return, That, however, I know a Rea args te : ee ~ Harpe _ | to be impossible ; but there 1s one thing at Jn hy ahind a demon- | all events that I can do. I can take this sti they may lly engage opportunity of expressing my warmest and , a Pal f . , ag | deepest sympathy with the efforts which you baly § ue a disturbanee that would | Mr. Mayor, and those who are associates be a discredit to the whole community, with you, and those whom I have the plea

the above from a Protestant contemporary — the Talifax ‘ cl. We would fain hope that the

used might have some effect in

We quote Morning Chronicle. arguments determining the action of the Orangemen

of this Province on the twelfth. Although

there may not be the slightest grounds for such a suspicion, it will, no doubt, be

more than suspected by Catholies that the proposed grand procession in Char- lottetown, was organised with the view of influencing the coming elections, in which they are so deeply and particularly inter, ested. Having this suspicion, ignorant } and hot-headed Catholies (of whom there lare plenty,) will be all the more likely to offend—to break the peace, and ereate a disturbane We think, the refore, that the Orangemen of the city, would show that they possessed not only Christian Charity, but political prudence, were they | to wo quietly to church on the twelfth of this month. If, however, they persist in | parading t h the town, we do hope th Catholic will be so foolish as to

1 7 Oppo tnem. Wi i

cannot retrain from ex;

le on this subject we ressing our astonys vent that the Orangemen of this Pro-

should oppose a settlement of the long-vexed school question much | favorable to Catholies than the settlement

which hus been arrived at with the ap-

proval of the Orangemen of Ontario,—a | concession to Catholies which is not nearly 80 s that granted to Protestants by the Catholic majority of Quebec—ignor.

rant and intolerant as they are supposed to be ; a scheme which was first proposed by the celebrated Chalmers ; which was designated by Huzh Miller “*a preeious legac to the people of Scotland ; and which has largely contributed towards king Scotland the best educated country

| in the world.

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RRA IL IN Q UEBEC.

: IrPpMAartnY opyare GO} / RNOR-GEN iy

ILLIANT SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY AT THE CiViC DINNER IN Hils HONOUR, ] Toronto Mail. Quebec, June 21.— The complimentary ner to his Excellency the Governor-

less |

of addressing to-night, have employed to do justice to the great inheritence which you have received at the hands of those who have preceded you by using your ut~ most endeavors to promote the moral im- provement, the commercial development and the external aad material adornments of your ancient and famous city. [Cheers.]

l can assure you it has been with the greats est pleasure I have learned that there is every prospect of our being able to carry to a success{ul conclusion the scheme which has been set on foot for the reparation and for the embellishment of the ancientfortifie

| cations of Quebec (loud cheers,) a scheme

which combines a due regard for the grows ing exigencies of your increasing tratlic by the widening of your thoroughfares, and the multiplication of your modes of exit and entry. In doing this you are, after all, doing that which has been done by every municipality in Europe which has had the good fortune to find itself placed in similar circumstances, and which are wakening up to the desirability of preserving with pious care the memorials.of the past; and if this duty is imperatiye on tha other side of the Atlantic, how much more is it incumbent on us to maintain the only city upon this continent which has preserved the early characteristics of its early days —a city whose picturesque architecture and whose noble battlements present a spectacle the lixe of which is not to be found between Cape Horn and the North Pole, (Applause).

For, Mr, Mayor and gentlemen of the Town

| Council, let me remind you that you do not

hold Quebec merely for yourselves, you do not hold it in the interests of the people of Canada; but you are the trustees of Quebec an behalf of civilization and of all the insti- tutions of this continent—(loud cheers)— who would regret the ruin and degradation of its walls as an irreparable outrage and as a common and universal loss, But happily there is no danger of any such devastation being perpetrated, Far from laying a sui- cidal hand to those rivals of time, you are preparing to repair, to guard and to adorn them; and sure am I that in future ages when a maturer civilization shall have trans formed Canada into what it is not now possible to imagine or conceive, a grateful posterity will hold in veneration those wise

cediles who have preserved intact the sacred memorials of their country’s history, memo-

ral of Canada was given in Music Hall | rials which the passing century will invest

citizens of Quebec, Shortly after ten o'clock the speeches begun by his Worship the Mayor

rising to propose the health of Her Majesty Institutions.” Te thinks nothing better | the Queen which was duly honored, as also ean be done. We do not want so muce the toast of the Prince of Wales and the If the time of the teachers is altogether | Royal Family.

| taken up in teaching dogma we want no-

thing.

nation, that good sound secular iostruc— |

tion has been imparted in any school

coe iaw,

subject to our educational y for such instruction. y of the State to impart secular education and it taxes the people, indiseriminat ly, for that purpose.

SHALL WE NOT DO RIGHT?

_—--——

THE Argus tacitly admits that it is Wrong to put a large minority of the body politic in the position, with respect to education, of persons, who “ while allowed | perfect freedom to worship where and how they please are yet required to pay rates in support ef an Established Church which they cannot attend,” —for it avoids that important point. The Argus also admits that the scheme for the settlement of the School Question which we advocate is “ the least objectionable.” But it asks: “will it satisfy the Catholics even if it And the it gives to its own question is: ‘‘ we think not. :

Now we submit, that, ifa wrong ex-

were conceded ?”’ answer

”

ists it is right (and expedient because right) that the wrong should be richted. We believe that—

“‘ Because right is right, to follow right

Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.”

What have we todo with the conse- quences of a concession to Roman Catho-~ lies, provided it be right to make the con- cession ? Does not all history teach us that it is better, politically as well as mor- ally, to right a wrong than to maintain a wrong? In this Island the Catholic are in a position, with respect to education, precisely similar to that oceupi ed by the Irish Catholics, with respect to the Church, previous to the abolition of the English Church in Ireland. They are compelled to support established schools to which, though they enjoy the privilege, they say they cannot coascientiously send their children. Shall we not rieht this wrong as well as we can ? And if, as 2 means to right it, a scheme is proposed

Roman

similar to that which, under ike cireums Dr. Chalmers and was afterwards declared by Hugh Miller to be a legacy” —~a scheme which has developed into the splendid school system of Presbyterian and enlightened Seotland, shail we not.do right ?

stances, Was proposed by

“* precious

—-— ee “* ANDROGYNoUs ’~20,000 of these cele= brated Cigars, wholesale and retail, at the Uuion House, 28 Queen Street. Chas. Otto

Provincia) Auditor—not yet appointed,

Winkler, Agent for P.E. Island.

But if it appears, on public exami-

we

For it is the policy

His Worship then offered the toast of

the evening,the health of their distinguish-

ed guests. {t was his

(Loud applause.)

| privilege, he said, to ask them to drink to | the health of the distinguished statesman, | the Governor-General of the Dominion. His | Lordship had special claims upon the citi-

zeus Of Quebec on account of the kindly

}interest he had ever manifested in the welfare of their city. (Cheers.) They owed him a debt, of which this dinner was but

|

| a feeble expression, Never could the citi= | zens of Quebec forget the interest he had manifested in the city. Whatever the | Suture might blot out, his kind interest in | their regard would never be forgotten. As his Lordship was suffering from a head- | ache, he (the Mayor) would be brief, but he wished to mention the practical sympathy which his Excellency and the Countess had manifested on behalf of the suffering poor by the late fire. He would also remark that the conduct of affairs in the Dominion by his Excellency since his arrival had been singularly conducive to the happiness and weffare of the people. In assuring his } Lordship that he stood high in the affees tion and esteem of the Citizens of Quebec. he wished also to assure her Excellency, the countess of Dutferin, that she occupied no second place.

The toast was drunk with all the honours and with the utmost enthusiasm, llis Excellency the Governor-General rose to speak amid long continued aplause, He said :-—

Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—I can assure you that it is with feelings of no ordinary emotion that for the first time since coming to Canada, I find myself called on to ad- dress a public audience in the ancient capital; for at such a moment I cannot | help remembering under what various con- ditions, in how many vital emergencies, at What supreme epochs of its history during the last three hundred years, my illustrious predecessors must have had occasion to ins habit the city of Quebec, in a thousand vi- cissitudes of fortune,and in perpetual alter. nation betwen triumph and despondency. | When savage Indian enemies were lurking | around your palisades ; when famine had | prostrated your strength, and the unacs customed regions of an Arctic winter had benumbed your faculties; when pestilence had devastated your homes; when foreign )enemies threatened your independence, and hostile cannon were brought against | your battlements, the Viceroy has appealed }to your fortitude, your patience, your charity, your loyalty, and whether in good | fortune or ill foyjune—you had your share of | both, as your history tells us—never was | that appeal in vain. (Loud applause.) But, | Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, happily those | days of dramatic history are over. From | the rock on which your city is founded,and | which was once bounded by an interminable ocean of primeval forest and a waste of bar« barism, there now stretches forth to the horizon an almost ideal landscape of agri- cultural wealth and beauty, while your

ht by his Worship the Mayor and with an ever deepening glory of interest and

splendour. (Loud applause.) For, Mr. Mayor, that which you are engaged upon here is observed by our fellow-countrymen at home. No sooner was it known in England that the citizens ot Quebec were about to repair their fortifications than the Secretary of State for War, as the spokesman and re- presentative of the Empire, wrote to inform me that he intended to express his own ad- miration and the admiration of the soldiers of England with what was being done there and was going to the British House of Com- mons to ask them, and they would receive the proposal with the most enthusiastic ac- clamations, to vote a sum of money to be expended in the decoration of whatever point along your wall might best connect itself with the memory of those illustrious heroes. Wolfe and Montcalm, whose deeds and valour and whose noble death in the service of their respective countries, had brought lustre upon the respective nations for which they contended and whose out- works they watered with their blood. But, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, the news of what you are about to do touched the heart of even a more august personage that the Secretary of State of War—the Queen of England herself.—Loud cheers.—No soon~ er had she learned what was undertaken— she who takes as deep aninterest in every. thing that passes in her remotest colonies as she does with what happens within a stone’s throw of her Palace— told me to convey to you, Mr. Mayor, at an early ops portunity —and what better opportunity could I take than the present—her warm- est sympathy and her entire approbation and approval of what you had undertaken; and she further has commanded’ me to ins form you that it is her intention to present your good City of Quebec with one of the new gateways with which your city is to be repaired—enthusiastic applause—in order that sbe may be personally associated with the city of Quebec, and with you and with your colleagues, whose liberality and patriotism have induced you to engage in this work; and she further desires that the gateway question should be connected with the name of her illustrious father, the late Duke of Kent, who retained up to his dy- ing day so grateful a recollection of the kindness and the courtesy he had received at the hands of its inhabitants.— Applause. But, Mr. Mayor, this would not be a proper occasion for me to go into any of the details in connection with this work.

I have the greatest confidence in the good taste, in the discretion and in the architecs tural skill of those with whom the decision of these points must ultimately rest. (Hear hear.) There is one leading idea, however, which I trust will be kept in prominence, and Which, in my opinion, ought to direct and determine all the subordinate arrange. ments, and that is the construction of a continuous pathway for pedestrians, begin-~ ning at Durham terrace and running round the foot of the Citidel; next by the Ess planade, the Artillery Barracks, the Palace Gate, and so kehind the present Parliament Buildings across the street and back again to the Durham terrace. If you succeed in creating such a pathway as I have described, you will then have that which cannot be paralleled, either for commodiousness, for the innumerable points of view which will

be commanded by it, or for its safety and

tranquility, in any other capital in Europe .

and, Mr, Mayor, I must also congratulate

you upon the fact that you have at your

disposal a quarry of smooth and woll cut stone in thosé various and unnecessary out-

works which are to be found beyond the enceinte of your city, This will be found amply suflicient both to repair the dilapi- dated portions of your bastions and as mas

terial for the projected gate-way. But,Mr. Mayor, | trust you will pardom me if I ven ture to convey to you a word of warning— | trust that in using these materials you will not fall into the mistake that was made by a friend of mine in Ireland. A_noble-

man to whom | refer had a castle, which in ruder times had been the residence of his family, but had now become a ruin, Ob-< serving from day to day that it was subject to depredations from mischievous boys and cattle and donkeys, he instructed his agent to protect it with a wall, and having given these orders he left for England. On his return he went to see the result of his orders. The agent assured him that his commands had been properly carried out,

but what was his dismay upon arriving at the site of his castle to find, indeed, a beau- tiful broad new wall, but the castle itself levelled with the ground, (laughter) the agent having pulled down the castle in order to use the material for building the wall, But, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I must détain you no longer, Yet there is one observation which I will ask leave to make before ] sit down. I cannot sufficiently express to you what pride and pleasure | have experienced in observing the applica- tion with which the principal citizens of Quebec—gentlemen whose occupation must be of a most absorbing character—are con- tent to sacrafice their domestic pleasure and the interests of their private business in order that they may apply themselves and give their time and attention to the ad, ministration of ordinary civil affairs; and, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, in paying this compliment to those by whom I am im- mediately surrounded, I am happy to think that I can with equal justice extend it to the municipalities of Canada at large. I must say that there are but few more healthful signs of intellectual life than this, or rather that there could be no more fatal and unsatisfactory explanation of a mean, unworthy and ignoble spirit then that of the business men of the country (that is those persons who by their intelligence, by their high character, by their habits of busi« ness, by the respect and influence which they command) being induced by any con, siderations whatsoever—whether from a disinclination to pre-occupy themselves with interests remote from their immediate engagements, or by a desire to still further aggrandize their fortnne—withdrawing from the honorable and onerous duties which are connected with municipial and Parlia. mentary callings.—Hear, hear.—The sig- nificance of such a withdrawal on the part of persons of the greatest influence and ins telligence in the country, is that the ads ministration of the affairs must inevitably fall into the hands of corrupt politicians and of trading adventurers; and thus there must inevitably ensue a demoralization throughout every strata and ramification of society. Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I will ask you this question: of what good is the largest fortune in the world, what enjoy-~ ment can we get out of those luxurious mansions, or all the amenities of modern civilization, if we begin to neglect the country in which we enjoy them,—cheers— if we have to blush for the infamy of those who rule us; if we feel that we have no part in the progress and with the history of our native land ; if our hearts do not throb with he pulsations of its national life; if we merely cling to it as parasites cling to a growth of an unhealthy character, Of course we do not mean to imply that all of us should insist upon being Prime!Ministers or Secretaries of State, or Lord Mayors, or members of Parliament, or members of the Town Council. Such aspirations on the part of all would cause considerable con- fusion and contestation,—Laughter.—Of course the greater proportion of the ener< gies of the people must necessarily be con~

sumed in bringing up its commercial, its agricultural, and its professional status;

but what I mean to say is this, and it is an

observation which I make in the most earnest manner: that it appears to me that no one, whatever his profession or engage-

ments, particularly in a new country such

as this, could feel himself justified alto» gether in disassociating himself from the political life of his country, —Cheers.—No matter how boyish we may be, we can all

of us take a joyful interest in what is going

on, We can canvass; we can vole; we can

contend for our opinions; we can all act as

though we felt that we are essential mem<

bers of a new and hopeful commonwealth,

whose future prospects and prosperity must

ina great measure depend upon the degree

of zeal and fidelity which each of us apply

to promote its moral, its political and its

material improvement. —Applause. —Hap<

py am [ to find that on this side of the

Atlantic those principles are recognized as

fully as they are at home; and glad am I[ to

think, Mr. Mayor, that persons like yours

self, that persons like those with whom you

are associated, like the two Prime Ministers

of this country, with whom it has been my

good fortune to be intimately connected,

take such a pride in the growth of every

part of this country, and who are willing to

sacrifice money and the opportunity of ad,

vancing their own private ends, of increas,

ing their own private fortune, of advancing

the status of their own individual families,

in order that with a freer heart and a more undivided affection, they may give their time, their talents and their energy to the service of their beloved Canada and of the glorious Empire of which she is the proud~

est offshoot.—Loud cheers.—It is with

these concluding words that I feel I can most appropriately introduce the toast which I now beg to submit to this brilliant Assembly, namely, the health of the Mayor of Quebec, coupling with that toast the sentiment, “ Prosperity to the city of Ques

bec.” His Excellency resumed his seat amid long continued applause.

Turnip Seep, fresh and good, from 25 per cents pound and upwards, at Haszard’s Agricultural Store, Queen Square, —{j 26 2i

The Servian artillery has been moved to the trontier.

The Cretan Assembly have petitioned the Porte to give them a Christian native Govs ernor.

Austrian provinces adjoining Servia and the Herzegovina are to be deelared in a state of siege.

Measures are being adopted by the Turk- ish Government to assure the payment of interest on the national debt.

The first census taken in Ireland was in the year 1821. The population then am. ounted to 6,869.544 souls. Ten years later it amounted to 6,828,347. In 1841 it was 8,196,596. But in 1851 the population had sunk to 6,574,278; that is, in the com- paratively short space of ten years, 1,622, 319 of the Irish people were swept away. Again in 1861, we find the population to be 5,798,967, and in 1871 it was 5,412,377. Thus it will be seen that between 1841 and 1871 the population diminished to the ex- tent of 2,784,229 persons. In the County of Kilkenny alone, there emigrated in 1874 1,319 of its inhabitants: The County of Dublin sent off the largest number, 1,728; Wexford comes next with 1,506; Longford follows third, with 1,438; then comes Kil-

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