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Colonial Legislature. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Torspay, 23rd February. |

jhave been received from parties resident in other districts, | prove conclusively the general desire of the parties to become | freeholders, on the favorable terms offered by the Government. Hon, COL. SWABEY congratulated the Hon. Commis-

copies of despatches from the Secretary of State for *he/statement, that the balance against the Worrell Estate was Colonies, leaving to their operation several Acts passed! but £5481 5s. 7d., to meet which. there were no less than during the last Session, and one Stating the reasons which 45,000 acres of land. Under these cireamstances, he would prevented the introduction into the [mperiai Parliament of jask what could justify the outcry that had been got up against

the Bil guaranteeing the proposed I oan. ithe management of the property? It was not expected that bi . : Sah = le : : eae Fittei” ; ; Un motion of the Hon, the Attorney General, the Bill | purchasers would pay the fall amounts of their purchase

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latins ! » fe enutnt @ FP neat i . Pie. ; . : 1 reisting to the safe custoly of offenders, &e., was committed, | money at once; and the Legislature acted on that view when

aud agreed to, with an amendment authorizing Justices before | they provided the periods of evedit in the Land Puarehase Bill _whom parties may be brought, as being dangerous, to obtain | His Hioner the PRESIDENT.—The observations which the aid of physicians’ or surgeons’ opinions as td the state of | have been made have hud reference solely to the affairs of the mid of such persons. | Worrell Hstate, and we all participate in the satisfaction which

rapidly taken up. The numerous applications for land which

» |sioner of Public Lands on the satisfactory character of the| Hon. Attorney General, by command, laid on the tablé|statement he had submitted. Tt was apparent, from that)

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paid, will be relinquished ? and if so, has it deteriorated so lorder to have their own chiidren instructed in the principles much in value that it is not worth 25 per cent, less tlian it was |of their religion, let them openly avow that they are two yearsago? But to prove that the purchasers are desirous |determined to do away with our present system of education, | of possessing their deeds of conveyance. I may mention that/and that they are resolved to “have separate schools. | their issue the pust year has doubled, and no objection is ever | Catholice will not be averse to this, Let the money allowed made to their receiving the same 2s soon as they are prepared. | for the encouragement of edacation be divided among tho |The balances now due on deeds issued is £4000, I trust | different religious sects in proportion te their numbers. and your Honors will eredit my statement, when I declare that, | 1 think then that all parties will be satisfied. consi lering the sams paid, [ consider th> balances unsecured) The orthodox admirersof Mr. Fitzgerald have been, I doubt equally as valuable; and, I feel assured, more secure and | not, greatly surprised and alarmed to learn that he warmly ona fide assets eould not be placed to the credit of the sympathizes with the Nestoriaus who blasphemous) y taught Government, that Christ had two persons, and that he appears to consider en ———— ~| 28 Sound Protestants all the heretics that existed from the tima farrres ‘ 3 of Simon Magus down to the time of Joe Swith, including, Correspondence. among others, tae Noetanians, Novatians, Sabelliane Fe ae Donatists, Meletions, Arians, Collachians, Mucedoniaus, Kustachians, Photinians, Collyridians, Hel vidians, Mossilians, | Stn,—Perhaps when the world has come to an end people Pelagians, Euticheans, Menothelites, Paulieians, Stadiags,

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Hon. Attoruey General reported from the committee on | has been expressed at the state in which the property has

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Wepwespar, 24th February.

been represented to be, But [ will ask your Honors’ atten-| tion tu the general stateof our finances, with a view of shewing | that the Island is not so badly off in a financial point of view

of this Island, and particularly those éngaged ia legislation,

will discover that there is not that intelligence amongst us which authorizes our contempt and neglect of those ele-

| mentary laws on which, in all other the most primitive states

Flagellantes, ®ratisilli, Sacramentarians, Ubiguitariavs and Mormons. All these, if [ am not greatly mistaken, founded their doctrine on the Bible. They exercised the right of private judgwent in their interpretation of the Holy

, >"? uate =m " .. . ; 1 1 The Bill for safe custody of offenders, &c., was, on motion|as has been represented, and as might appear from the!

of the Hon. Attorney General, read third time and passed. | classified accounts, as reccived from the Aaditors. Those

Hoa. Col, Secretary, brought a message from the House | officers represent the balanco against the Colony as being of Assembly, announcing the appointment of a committe of | £29,870 4s. 43d, This, however, is not the balance actually goxl correspendence. Qn the part of the Council, Hons. | due, as it embraces the amount of £18,000 paid for the

Messrs. Aldous, Craswell and Attorney General, were} Worrell Estate, and £2000*or £3000 paid for Lot 11, while! y , I

appoiated a committee on the same subject: Tie fsllowing commiittecs were appointed, viz :— ; accounts of the Land Office shew, amount to £15,002 Is. 1d

Roaps Batwess any Waarves.—Hons, Messrs. Aldcus,/ that amount deducted from the alleged debt woald leave |

Divewell and Wright. | £14808 3s. 8$d., from which, if the amouct of Treasury Rovcatton.—Hous. Col. Swabey, Messrs. Forgan and Notes not bearing intorest; viz: £11,500, there wonld appear Aldous. jas the balance, bearing interest, but £3368 3s. 33d. ‘The

Asnicutture.—Hons. Mr. Craswell, Col. Swabey and | Auditors were requested by the Governmeat to examine the Mr. Bagnall Mr. Bagnall.

On Miscettanrovs-Peritions.— Hon, Attorney General jof that department, This they refused to do, and embodied |

and Hon. Mr. Forgan.

i] mn. Mr. Aldous, present “d a petiti n from certain of the pages in the classified accounts :— inhabitants, of Lot 12, praying aid towards the completion " hate of a new line of roads; referred to committe: on Roads | been directed by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor in Bridges and Wiiarves. Also, from John Graham, Cascumpec, | Council to place at the credit of the Colony the amount o

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Hon. COL. SWABEY, would observe, that the subject} Public Lands. Ona attending at that office, the Auditors find of legisiative aid to indigeut individuals, had been frequently | the larger portion of said balances unrepresented by any

ha : , x 0 . x ; ; ° discusseg in the Council, yet no positive line of action had | document, bond or agreement, or other security, and do not

beep j pted. He could assure their Honors that there|think the same should be credited by them as assets. The | J ‘ a ii : ° i > : : tx Ak ‘ wei Charlottetown, an amount of misery and destitution, | total amount of said balances is £15,002 Is. 14.”

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th s } te 1 > £ 3s C. — } ie re ro ea fol » honds in the Tr urvy: nay. mar : td with some iustances of extreme poverty, from the} is secured as safely as bonds in the Treasury; nay, more so

be ease of one poor tan, | remained

’ 4 , ° ° ' : . no family. He instanced t das security for the future insialments. —1t is easy

aude in a garret, with no fuel but that which casual! to shew that the finances of the Island are not in so bad a!

os * : e* ; ae : I } . perArvished. He was not in favor of lezaliz'ne a system {eondiGon as has been represeoted. Now, your Honors, £9 paupers, ss he had seen suflicient of the practical]

aithough the Auditors represent the public debt as being wore 4 of the poor Jaws in Kingleud to induce him to object

| | £29,570 4s. 49d., if from tuat amount there | aclont 3 Sala ; ov p's -.¢ : . } . "TF ‘ to Hie adoption of a similar system here. He was strongly | value of the securities in the Land Ollice, £15,002 Is, 1d, ;

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Executive, the application of which to cases of necessity

a eo . Ro «¢ 92 a6 ‘ the balance will be £14,868 3s. 37d.; of this item the pro- . 7 rr r : . - . 7% % 4 portion of Treasury Notes not bearing interest is £11,500; so

could be guarded against fradulent misrepreseniations of jthat the actual debt on which we are paying interest is parties, whica at present were of very frequent occurrence. | £0368 3s. 834d. Bat [ ask your Llonors’ attention to th

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Under the present depressed state of the commercial com- security the Government holds for the debt, including the

munity, 1t was anreasonable to suppose that private benevo-| Treasury Notes. It appears, from the statement of the Hon lence coud elleviate all the suff: ting and ‘misery which | the Commissioner cf Public Lands, that the Gdvernmen existed in our midst, and it was unfair to tax the benevolent !own 45,000 acres of land, which, at the low estimate of six Gi-positions Of charitable individuals ‘to that extent. | shillings per acre, would fealize £13,500, thus re lucing the |

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accounts of the Commissioners of Public Lands. is not to be supposed that the future sales of the public estate [ ' ; . Y ‘2s 1 : " : fionor spoke to the following effect: In submitting this | ave supposed, but I

put i abstract, L wish to eal] your Honors, attention to one fact of

a 4 ote é ; will not realize a higher price than I hi ; ' . } } Rane os -2e based my calculation ‘on the lowest estimate, but I belive * - wip : ' . > os . ° e . ‘ ‘ 3 1) . : c a very gratifying neture connected with the business of the }that it will realize more, alier Geauctlng ali Cuarges ior } ,

’ o . . ad ¢ . . - > . . : the werking of the Land Purchase Bili will not be attended | records, since the introduction of Responsible Government in with results so disastrous to the country as the opponents of | the year 1851. At that time the Island was in debt to the

1 he Government have so unceasingly asserted. During the; amount of £28,579+11s. Q4d., and there were no public

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receipts for the same period amount to £2000; and [I am|4$d.; in 1853 it amounted to but £8940 8s. 6d; remained |

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sutistied that, had it not been for the heavy outlay which the | about the same in 1854; in the following year it amounted |

farmers bad to incur in the purchase of supplies, at least £500 ‘to £9893 Ss. Sid.; while it was in 1856 £13,101 18s. 14d more would have been received. Yeb, when it is considered | Now, your Honors, this statement shews, when we consider that during a year of such unparalletled commercial depres- the steadily increasing amounts of the annual appropriations siun, so large an amount as £2000 has been paid by furmers|for the periods to which I have referred, that under the towards the purchase of freehold properties, it cannot be} system of Responsible Governmeet, the public resources have dou! ted for an instant that the people generally are auxious}been wisely administered; and when we contempiate the and determined to avail themselves of the benefits offered to|large sum paid for the Worrell Estate, and the ‘egislative

them oy the Land Purchase Bill, the satisfactory working of | contribution to the Patriotic Fund, we can claim for the|

which is clearly established by the statement before your | Government the credit of having reduced «he public burdens Honors. ‘That shews, with reference to the Worrell Estate, |to a mere trifle, and no reasonable maa can doubt that the ibere are lands held by the Government will be sold and settled in a

Due on account sales, few years, without loss to the Treasury, and with great

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in the world, the moral and social structPe of society is| Scriptures; they hated popery (and those of them that still based, I believe, as L have often had oecasiou to remark, | exist do hate it), even gg much as the clerks of the Protector ; (that this is the only portion of Her Majesty’s dominions|and I would be very sorry to deny them the right oi being where there cay exist no territorial subdivisions supplied with | styled right good Protestants, a /a Protectorites.

proper officers on whom the execution of the laws andahe} Mr. Fizerald speaks largely of peace and the practices of | people’s rights and wishes included in the subdivision, devolves. |charity. The idea he entertains of charity can be easily

+ Tam Jed io reiterate this statement by the course which | ascertained by reading a number of the Protector; for [ ro. . ’ *. } @ 4 . ' . ’ . : the debate on the laws respecting bastardy unavoidably took. | consider that he sanctions ail that appears iu tart jouruai,

t * ¢ « . . et | vouchers and securities in the Land Office, with a view of jJ'aupens.—Hons. Alessrs. Walker, Bagnall, and Forgan. | furnishing a proper credit and debit account of the busivess |

| their reason for such refusal in this note, at the bottom of ane ; ;

2 nfnrrad RAM MN} ‘ | : : : } 2 r } ‘mM cet . ey] Ry erred to committee on paur ers, balances appearing thre bo ks of the Commissioner of 4

@ they had very inadeqayte conception. He was} Now, your Honors, the Government says that this amount |

“pace Of the parties having heen relieved by members | as the Innds on which partial payments have been made still

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i jo} 5 ay Tc ° ‘ v1 . 3 1 * . *790 9 »2? } . ° ; : Hon. Mr. ALDOUS, |: pon the table a sumn fiactual debt to the trifling sum of £1868 3s. 32.1; | nis: . 4s , wt Br. Al DOUS, laid upon the table a summary of | actual debt to the trifling sum of £1868 3s. 331.5 but it i | originates in the anomalous condition of a country without |

rablic Land office. I allude to the steadily progressive|management. A gratifying proof ef the Unancial position

lucvease in the number of sales, which goes far to prove that jand resources of the Uolupy is to be found in the public |

r . Py > ; ty : . Cade Tf hy ei last year, no less a quantity than 10,000 acres of Jand have |lauds, In the first year of the system of Responsible Go- | wen sold at an average price of nine shillings per acre ; the | vernment the public debt had been reduced-ta £17,938 17s. |

| An evil was unanimously declared to exist, but no one could Sul

ugost a practical remedy, because there exists, no machinery whatever on which to bang a remedial system. If magis- trates are to be adjudicators in ‘such cases, and they direct the payment of eertain sums, in whose hands are the funds to be placed? diow is the future outlay to be made, and ‘what is to be done? Are private individuals to become

}trustces to these unvfortunates? Or in what way is the o be carried out? I confess it passes my un-

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ri | statute is not at all under-tood, and it is ealled a law to in- demnify femates in eases of seductioa, when the real intent }of all such enactments is to place the aiaintenauce of the ‘child when bora beyond accident. This is the policy of the ; laws Of Gireat Deituin, not to give a premium for the birth of

elik jnatural children, as the expiring statute confessedly does. Cases of seduction are always to be met by civil netions.

uo . > ake + 4 . .| dhe father has been deprived of the child—the master of | 4 i

| the servant, “wallst great cruelty and breach of faith are in- is @hakhié which, if they form wt of the details of such ; 2

my it abies GUS ead OD IN BSSeSKIUe Gainagoce,

| Cab if the now Jaw were required for Charlottetown City

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|and the order of the Mayer’s Court be applied either to the |

|taking a sem of money in lieu of a bond, and charging the Vorperation with th order for weekly subsistence during its life, or till it reached ha ceriaip age. ‘Tuere would be no difficulty in this case, | because there would be some Municipal Officer to whom the

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bond would be made, and to whom the expenditure might-be 1eatrusted. But how is all this to be effected in any other

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| parochial divisions aad wunicipatities. Be it observed, Lam (not using the term ‘ municipalities” in the sense of the bil

rinted and standing over since lest year; but in the sense 1

| naniely, in that of facilituting good government by establish- 'ing such a system as would meet this case, and fifty others, |} and placing the administration of local affairs in the hands, ina yreat degree, of the people themselves—an accession to \ their liberties and comforts to which their appreciation of |Matural rights does not seem to have as yet extended—it | being trae in this c2se, as in many others, that internal im- provement is forever clogged by party maneuvre. | My dong aequaintance with the administration of these laws in Kugland has probably given me, or ought to have | given me, some insight into the subject of the neighbouring | Colonial Statutes, autctis mutandis. I consider something i suitable might easily be framed out of the Nova Scotia pre- }cedenis, But the main stumbling-block is the want of ad- | Hinistrative parties.- I should like to see suggestions on this /point. At present it strikes me that the Deputy Prothono- taries in the Counties might be the holders of bonds, and

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fathers tl% parties to pay weekly allowances, or these duties

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{ Ch. Town, March 9, 1858. 'w. SWABRY Bouds, (amount really due, and advantage to the people who have shewn so lively an! ~ —o ere Wa. SWABEY, os "a. : Monon : ed pie eee an ee acknowledged by the obligors them. appreciation of the benefits to arise from the Laad Lk urchase | sel ves,) . 7 7. Ss Bill. In proof of our increased appropriations for the public | (FOR THE EXAMINER.) Notes of hand for stumpage, &c., 6317 4 services, L will only mention that in the year 1850, while the} The Protector would-fain impose on its readers the belief,

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of Responsible Government, the appropriation for the road

Now this amount, deducted from £20550, being the! services was only £4266 12s, 9d.;' tor education but £2068. |

amount paid for the property, leaves a balance against it o: | 7s. 1$d. In 1852 the grant for roads was £9978 3s. Qd.; that £5,481 5s. 7d., to meet which we have 45,5034 acres; and| for education £2351 14s. 10d.; while for the last year we dis- this land at the low estimate of six shillings per acre would | bursed for roads £9690 4s. L14d.; and for education no Jess produce £13,620 19s. 6d. This, I think your Honors will | a sum than £13 982 Us. 9$d.

agree with me in considering the best evidence of the| Hou. Mr. ALDOUS.—L desire to sabmit to your Honors

satisfactory working of the Estate ; and, although it was con-|a few observations relative to the statement of the Auditors, |

fidently stated last year that all the good lands had been

to which your attention has been drawn by his Honor the then disposed of, the fuct that, since that time, 10,000 acres

President. At it the middle of last month, in au interview

bad been sot for £4,500, thus averaging nine shillings per | with one of those gentlemen, a conversation as to the auditing.

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acre uffords the best refutation of the assertion which can be |of the public accounts occurred; and it was agreed to audit

given, ven the much devried swamp land, which in the | the same at any time before the commencement of the Session.

minds of the opponents of tie Government never bad, nor | Upon the attendance at the Land Office of one of the Auditors, ever would have, an appreciable value, had in a great many | for the purpose of examining into the correctness of the instances, found realy purchasers, who were anxious to unite | secounts submitted, and which, { believe, afforded sutisfaction, portions of it to the more valuable lend of their farms. and proved to be correct, a question was submitted to me,

from ail the information which my official relation to the| whether thé amount of balance due, as showe by the state-

Ptuperty has ensbled me to obtain, L see no reason tg believe | ment, was secured by deeds. 1 explained fully, and as i

that the proportion of unproductive or unsaleable land on the cousidered, satisfactorily, from the balances due in ledgers, that |

@siate will be found to be of safficient magnitude to render ‘the amounts were fully secured by the fact that 25 per cent, the fiual and Seedy settlement a matter of the slightest having been paid by purchasers, and the Commissioucr being ais wiry or douvt; aud the first return of prosperity io the enabled, by virtue of the Land Purchase Act, to re-enter and business of the Island will iucrease the amount of sales in a sell, in case of non-payment. There could be no question as tio beyond the experience of former years. I may mention to the value of the balances due on the pubiic lands ; aud

‘re that the Surveyor General has sarveyed and staked out upon such representation, 1 made no doubt that the: (rovern- Fusds turougis the wilderness lanis, which have been Jaid off, went would receive eredit for the amount. Really, your blocks of 50 acres, and there is no question that, when Houors, the conduct of those gentlemen is, to me, inexplicable, Oace these rouds shal! have. beeu opened out, the lands will be Do they coasider the land on which uear £6000 have beer

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old perty held the reins of power, and before the concession? tha! the Great Protestant Meeting held in Charlottetown on

‘the 19th ult., was all that its most sanguine patrons could desire, . [tf common report is true, it was quite a failure, The great majority of those present at it consisted, as, have ‘been informed, of females and boys, the latter of whom /negatived tle resolutions preposed, and gave no trifling jannoyance to the whole proceedings. The fact that only \nine Ministers attended the meeting, is a sufficient proof ‘that a division exists in the camp, aothwit’ standing the Rev, |My. Fitzgerald's long-winded effusion of cant, endeavouring to convince his audience of the contrary. Agitation for the introduction of the Bible asa class book imto the Academy,

| Normal School «nd Common Schools, was, it seems, the!

| principal object of the meeting. The clerks of the Protector \ disclaim any intention on theig part to infringe the rights of their Catholic fellow-subjects™ If they are determined to introduce ‘the Bible iuto our mized schools, they evidently act contrary to their professions of religious liberty, for they ure aware that Catholics, and many Protestants also, bave 'strong objettions to its introduction into such schools.

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or not, is foreign to the question. ‘That they are, is the firm wnd conscientious convietion of Catholies; and this alone should cause those reverend clerks to cease endeavouring to

involve their just rights, If they wish to force Catholics to,

adopt their erude aud tiliberal ideas of education, thigis what I ca!l an attewpt to dominesr and persecute. Let'them rot imagine that Catholics will coolly allow them to turn the common ¢choo!ls into nests of proselytism. Lf, on the other hand, they want the Bible iatroduced into the schools, in

to point ont what satisfactory arrangement can | \

femele would want to |

fuiure maintenance of the chiid, or an}

nd? There lies the difficulty. And it}

ised it some years ago when L introduced a parish bill, |

Whether these objections are grounded on sound principles |

| Since its first appearance it hgs not ceased to abuse aud malign, ‘in the most unbecoming language, Catholics, their doctrine and uinisters. It has imputed to Catholics doctrines jand designs that they abhor. To condescend to disprove these | silly and malicious imputation: would be but degrading one’s isc!f to the level of the Protector.

The clerks of the Protector unsp2ringly aceuse Catholics (of ignorance and intolerance, wey say that their whols System is foanded oa ignorance and superstition, aud that it is the design of the Pope and the Catholic Hierarchy generally ito enslave the human intellect—to degrade man to the level of the brute beast, in order to keep him under their sp ritual }dominion ; and, again, almost with the same breath, these jaduirable logicians say that these same papists ave persever- jing, and that they are endeavouring to get into their own | hands the education of the youth of this Island as well as /other places, If Catholics are showing them a good example jby the establishing of seminaries, why do the Protectorites |maliciousiy impute their 80 doing to sinister motives? Ly Uatholics are desirous of raising the standard of education among their own body, and of dispelling ignorance, is this 9 reason why they should be accused, by certain bigots, of a deeply laid plot to. subvert the eonstitution—to destroy the Bivie—ig undermine Protestantism—io mo epolige the education of the young—to engraft into the mind darunable | Gogmas and pestiferous doctrines, If Catholics get ladies of a | religious congregation to give a literary, moral and :etigious education to the females of their own commuuion, ure those ladies, strangers as they are, merely because they are Si-ters of la Catholigcommunity, and have copsecrated themselves to God |for their own advancement in the ways of perfectioa, and for the beneiit of society,—are they, I say, for these reasons, to be most shamefully abused and calamniated in the most juucharitable and unchristien maaner by those calling themselves the Ministers of the Prince of Peace aud Truti: ?

Nothwithstanding all the violent abusg and calumny of the Protector, Catholies have conducted themselves with jadmirable forbearance, and [ hope that will continue ta

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|do so for the future. Io all their intercourse with Protestants, jlet them act with that Christian spirit with which they have |heretofore acted. Let them not, as ‘ar as it lies in cheir | power, allew the monster of religious discord to destroy the jbarmouy and good feeling that now prevail among tho inhabitants of this peaceful Isle, Let them remember that ivery few Protestants sympathise with the editers of the | Protector, and that Protestaats generally despise and abhor

|the nonsensical, uncbristian and blasphemou effusions of

‘thay paper, as heartily as do Catholics themselves. Lei them }then, 1 say onee more, continue to practise that christian forbearance which they have manifested during the *past twelve months: if they do this, as | have every reason to hope they will, the Protector will soon strangle itself, and he counted among the things that were and are gone for ever.

As the clerks of the Protector, in their untiring zeal for the reading of the Scriptures, seem to have forgotten that duty themselves, | would beg leave to recall to their remembrance that there is a text of the Bible that says: |** Thou shalt not bear false testimony against thy neighbour.” I would strongly recommend them to meditate on this portion lof Holy Scripture whenever they purpose to write anything

‘for the Protector. Queen’s County, March 8, 1858. LECTOR.

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| | Mancn 9th, 1858,

My Dear Sir, —Seeing that the Protector publishes weekly oue of Kirwan’s Letters to Bishop Haghes, I send you the enclosed, ‘* Kiawan | UNMASKED,’’ in the hope that you might be able to find space in tha | Ewaminer each week for one of the Bishop's Letters, which, yoa will observe, has nothing to do with religious controversy, but with the | material mon bimeeilf, Yours, very wuly,

Hux. E. Waeian, D.

LETTER I.

| TO KIRWAN,

Aus tHE Revereyp Nicnonas Murray, D.D., | Of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

| Dear Sin,— ; # | So long as you wore a mask, which no honest man need ever wear in |a free country like this, I was exeused, om your own admission, from any obligation to notice you. Now that you have cast it aside, I feel so ‘longer bound “te adhere to my first reselation. Veni letters purport to explaim the reasons why you left the Roman

| Catiolie Church and became a Presby-atian. The ehjcet of mine wilh bo

to review those reasons. If I suceced in re gthem, assign. ing others more in accordag@e with the facts of the ease, I will not ‘trouble myself with answering i : sefies the

head of reasons why you do nét . If the deserters from the {American flag in the Mexigan cam ;' bom, I am sorry to /say, were some Irishmen,y gan justify Ives for having fled from 'the ranks of their country, the world will readily dispense with ther ‘reasons for not returuing.—The enemy, no doubt, reecived them with that mingled feeling of joy at the treason, and cortempt for the traitor, which, on the whole, is rather honorable than otherwise iu the character of human natare-—whilst the gallant army they had forsaken bad the consolation to know that after their departcre, it contained in each exéa at least one coward less then before. But friends and foes wouid take it as a mattar of course that such persugs would have good reasons lor not returning.

The Catholic Church ver, bas a mother’s heart, ond not a war. rior’s. If at any time, al by the grace of God, you should knock at her gates, as a penitemt, she would receive you as such, and rejoice at your restoration. Considering the importance whish you attach to your going out from ber communion, thirty years ago, never, never, to return, you must admit that she has borve your absence with great resignation ; in fact, amidst the numerous defections from the faith which loncliucse

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