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opie : F . } . of te ' a : ae ** Louisa !"’ growled her father, now really angry, ‘ IT in-| Maria Monk’s slanders were oviginally concocted there)—but ]

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1¢ is distinguished for an integrity of purpose never for 4 mo-

sist upon your treating my esteemed guest with properrespect.”’ | its eppearance has been hailed by a shout of indignation from | nent doubted hy either the Governments or the peoples with

Louisa answered nothing, but walked pouting to the window, and stood there fanning herself with her handkerchief. Sud- denly she turved and addressed m

the enlightened Protestant press of Canada. The Streetsville Rerrcw of the 8th December, edited by a well-known clergy- man of the Church of England, thus warns its readers agaist

** Are vou a good pistol shot ?”’ , (us tnmoral and disgusting publication :— : ° co ‘ ‘ lt is Some y ‘Ars Sirk l praetusea, I re} lied, wond ring ‘ A ( AY EAT.— VW ® warn our clients not to throw away their

what on carth was coming next.

*Come with me to my gallery; we will sheot a mateh.”’

= But, : mah 7 int Tp ss d the counsellor. ‘Jet our guest rest himself to-day; to-morrow, or the day after, yeu can)

. . ° . ‘ a. luere in purchasing the ‘Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk,

| whieh some unprincipled booksellers have just reprinted. Com-

2 pm by a thief and strumpet, the work was clearly proved to 2 An imposition when it first appeared, and it sovu sunk into

shoot as much us you like.”’ . | merited oblivion.’ “ You are not tired, are you f°’ said Louisa tome. What} Ty , : iderable ir . : » < et 1 - » » © Ane eT > : ‘ra » - could I say but that I was perfectly fresh, and quite at her) | The Leader, another protestant journal of considerable in

' whom and on whose behalf ke has hitherto transaeted business.

Express Marts, &c.—For a number of years back, there has

/been nothing in which we have felt more disposed to envy our |

New Brunswick contemporaries than the facilities whieh they ‘have enjoyed for obtaining late intelligence from the l nited States by means of certain ‘‘ express’’ arrangements, whiek throughout the summer, as we learnt from frequent notices’ in their columns, kept them regularly supplied with the latest ‘news long in advance of that which was received by ordinary | mail conveyance. And without knowing much about this ex- ress business, or how it was made to remunerate those engaged

. . os . . } s ~ : > ‘ THN 00, a ‘ | Py re is ] . . 3 . orders? I added that I should ‘certainly have no chance of | uence, publishe dat Toronto, contains the following remark in it, we could not help regretting occasionally, that some of

equalling her shooting. ‘* Never mind that,’ was her reply,

and she carried off her victim. I had not fired q pistol for |

five years; she handled the weapons with @ practised dexterity that made me look very clumsy. As Ll had foreseen, I had not the slightest chance with the expert markswoman. I con- sidered myself very fortunate when Lhit the target, which was as big as a plate; whereas she put the bullet in the bull's eye atalmost eyery shot. She soon got tired of that, and fired at birds, and at fruit — the trees. At last she produced an

ice of hearts, and bade me hold it out at arm's length. 1) : lives were marked by religious asceticism and retirement only | the boats, and to conyey the regurn mails to Halifax—and then assumed the mask of piety to conceal sensuality. The author-| Colonel Fayor goes to work to put his system into operation all ess was excessively minute. She gave dates and names, with | oyer this province ;

inquired her object. She would shoot the ace eut, she said. [ expostulated ; she was firm. ‘‘ Attention!’’ she cried, “I fire." I threw the accursed card away.

** This is tempting Proyiderce?’ I said. ‘‘I haye not the

Lonisa stood before me, with her pistol cocked, like a des- |

troying angel.

** Will you instantly pick up that card, or I sond a bullet)

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through your hair.’

This was worse than sealping. I tried to smile, and turn it)

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of asa joke. ‘“T do not joke,’ calmly replied the terrib Louisa,“and took a steady aim at my head. I thought I should have fainted. Mechanically I stooped, picked up the eard, and held it by the extreme edge, as far from my body as possible. I felt that my hand trembled, but I preferred a

in reference to the same subject :—

surprise, by the publication of the awful disclosures of Maria

statements it contained. It affected to set forth the economy _of the Roman Catholic establishments at Montreal, and re- | lated seencs of debauchery and crime, in a graphic, imagina- tive way, as typical of convent life. By the evidence of the work, murder was a mitter of common event, and those whose

the plan of the Hoiel Dieu, and appealed to known individuals

| Protestants. Their duty was to examine into the auxiliary facts, the topography of Monk’s adventures. , Not even a re- semblance existed between the plan furnished and the build- ings as they stood; and, it was said at the time, that if the

i statements were true, the nuns of Canada yet retained the

_power of working miracles in masonry. ‘The search was con- tinued, through all the private apartments declared to be the scencs of such villiany. Books were searched, registers looked into, and every examination made that a rigid enquiry could

shot in the arm to one in the head. The pistol went off and | suggest. Each step, however, showed the absurdity of the

Louisa hurried up to me. The bullet had cut out the ace. My patience was at an end.

** Madame,”’ said T very seriously, and rather angrily, ‘I must inform you that I do not relish jests of this kind.”

** All one to me,”’ was her laughing reply. “Ido. But| you are only a Philistine,” she added in university phrase, looking down upon me asa student of five years’ standing might upon some pusillanimous freshman. And away she tripped, diseourteously leaving me by myself. I thought little of the discourtesy, and was glad to be rid of her at any price.

‘« A real blessing would such a wife be,’ thought I to my- self. And I made up my mind that my stay at Wiesenthal

accusation. It only remains for us to say what was the fate of the book in Montreal, the seene of the assumed crimes, and where there would be the fittest jury to judge if they were proven. There was but one feeling in vhe community. The easy Churchman, the strict Methodist, the stern Presbyterian, pro-

tained the volumes to be distributed in Canada, were returned to the bookseller who had sent them. We regret very much to say that we find this book again among us. Booksellers announce it for sale in large bills, calling attention to the work. We have dealt hitherto with its authenticity. We believe that it was never pretended to have been written by

should be of very short duration. Passing through the gar- den, [ met old Frager, who doubtless noticed discomposure on my countenaree.

“I fear,’? he said, ‘* that Nimrod has played you some fresh | trick.”’ |

«The young lady,’’ I replied, ** is undoubtedly an excellent shot; but I am no lover of such military exercises.”’

* Yon really have nothing to fear.”’

« The devil [ haven't !"’ thonght I to myself. “No one,’’ I

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Monk ; on this ground we would not cavil. If the facts were as the¥ represented them, it is of but secondary importance, whether or no, she applied to some other person, to put her narrative in good English. Our remark applies only to the facts. But we have a more serious charge against the work. To our mind, it is not simply the effusion of bigotry and in- tolerance. Were it so, there would be something worthy of respect even in its violence. It would be only another item in the chapter of history recording how the many true creeds

added aloud, ‘* can always answer where a bullet shall strike. have been propagated by fire and the sword; by falsehoods

A quicker throb of the pulse, the sadden sting of an insect, | may alter the dircetion of the weapon.”

The doating father seemed struck by the truth of this; but! he said nothing, and turned the conversation. Strolling | together through the garden, we stupped to look at a gigantic sunflower, which [ thought was the largest I had ever seen. | As we stvod admiring the enormous flower, a gun was fired ¢lose at hand ; the bullet passed less than two feet before us, and went right through the sunflower, severing it from its | sicm. This was teo much for Frager’s endurance. “ By} heavens!’’ he exclaimed, ** you are right; the girl is in-| tolerable !’? and, turning to Louisa, whose lovely laughing | countenanee appeared through the branches of a rosc-laurel, | he ordered her, in an angry tone, to take the gun into the house, | and not to touch it for fuur-and-twenty-hours. Nimrod | forthwith disappeared.

**T hope,’’ said the counsellor, apologisingly, as we walked | back to the house, “that my Emily will efface the bad im- | pression her sister’s pranks have made upon you. If Loursa, with her race for shooting, risks inflicting wounds, Emily, on the other hand, is always ready to heal them.”

In the dining-room the table was spread for five. A servant | asked if he should bring in dinner. j

** Are Emily and Ernestine at home ?”* asked Frager.

«¢ Not yet returned.”

and misrepresentation. But we regard this work as ‘‘ a mere booksellor’s speculation. It is just such a book that the young and unthinking would buy ; full of strong situations and de- licate positions—one that would excite their imagination and bewilder their reason. ‘This is its character; and under the plea of examining into what is faulty in a system, and of ad- vocating truth, we have before us highly wrought seenes to tempt the purchaser. For our part we know no greater in- famy timn thus to pervert young minds. There is but one worse than him who sells such a book—it is he who writes it. Unfortunately it is in secret that the manuscript is perfected, so the law cannot touch the hand which wounds good morals. The name of the writer never passes out of the ledger of the publisher whose hack he is. But the publishers should be held responsible. If they systematically give forth such works, let them have their share in the infamy. Pruriency never benefitted amy creed, or aided any party. The advocates of the Roman Catholic faith need ask no greater aid than is given them in the publication of such miserable libels, as the one we are considering. The falsehood of them,ean be easil

those parties did not consider it adyisable to extend their 7 ‘It is now some 20 years since the world was taken by | rangements to this pe Well, at length, we undestand, arrogant pretensions, and give a verdict for libe )

/readers—we are told is now in the city endeavouring to effect |

‘of mails to St. Jolin, Boston and Canada, from this place.

other places, east and west, will be enabled to come into the Jeast doubt of your skill. On the eontrary—"’ in support of her assertions. A committee was formed to ex-| arrangement. We hope that there will be sufficient liberality | amine into the allegations, Tt eonsisted with one exception of jn the proper quarters to give the project a trial at least.

nounced the work a huge lie—and the bundles which con- | ao

| EK. Palmer, Plaintiff’s Attorney.

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a contract with the government for the tri-weekly conveyance

What we understand he asks of the government is, that they contract for expresses to convey the mails to Windsor to meet

and Pictou, Prince Edward Island and

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‘TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR.” No. 3.

Tue new firm of Bearney & Maclean have at length com- menced business. They have fayoured us with their cards, through their solicitors, Edward and Charles Palmer; and as the cards themselves are interesting things, we beg to present them to our readers, hoping, at the same time, their publicity, through our journal, may promote, if not the popularity, the notoriety of the new co-partnership. Next June, probably, if we be all alive and well, we shall have something further to say about the new firm of Bearney & Maclean :-—

Prince Epwarp Isitanp, Queen’s County.—Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, {u.s.] Defender of the Faith. To the Sheriff of Queen’s County, greeting:

We command you that you take Edward Whelan, if he shal] be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before us in our Supreme Court of Judicature, to be holden at Charlottetown on the twenty-fuurth day of January, instant, to answer Patrick Bearney in a plea wherefore with force and arms he broke the close of the said Pat- | rick Bearney at Charlottetown, and other wrongs to him did, to the great damage of the said Patrick Bearney and against our peace, and have you then there this Writ.

Witness Robert Hodgson, Esquire, at Charlottetown, the fourteenth day of January, in the nineteenth year of our reign. (signed) D. THopeson, C.C. 15th January, 1856.

Epwarp WuHeEtan, Esq.; ‘

Sir,—You are served with this Process to the intent that you may by your Attorney appear in Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature at Charlottetown at the return herent notes twenty-fourth day of January, 1856, in order to your defence in this action. |

ee ; . Eow. Paimer, Plaintif’s Attorney.

Prixce Epwarp Isnanp, Queen’s County.—Victoria, by the Grace of | God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen,

[i.s.] Defender of the Faith. | Yo the Sheriff of Queen’s County, greeting:

We command you that you take Edward Whelan, if he shall be found

in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you have his body before us in our Supreme Court of Judicature, to be holden at Charlottetown on | the twenty-eighth day of January, instant, 1856, to answer Duncan Mac- | lean in a plea wherefore with force and arms he broke the close of the | said Duncan Maclean at Charlottetown, and other wrongs to him did, to |

have you then there this Writ. Witness Robert Hodgson, Esquire, at Charlottetown, the 14th day | of January, in the 19th year of our reign. (signed) Daniet Hopeson, C.C. Chas. Palmer, Plaintiff’s Attorney. 28th January, 1856.

Hon. Eow. WHELAN;

proved. Even if true, there is no need for disclosures, whic outrage delicacy. In the meantime, we hope every respectable | bockseller will banish this new edition from his counter, and | we would recommend to any father or husband, should it | come within his grasp, untesitatingly to commit it to the | flames.”’

your Attorney appear in Her Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature at

Charlottetown at the return thereof, being the twenty-eighth day of January, 1856, in order to your defence in this action.

it trust we 8

I could easily extend the sketch of your public eat this Island, but it is not necessary for me to do so nee promise to give me a better opportunity for doing this the columns of a newspaper can afford, and you may rely is it really possible that a man of your charactor qi | antecedents—can seriously think of going before q jy | to ask for damages against an opposition journalist w have libelied and slandered, in the foulest manner, a¢ or ought to have, a peculiar right and privilege to carry oq! ‘odious system of detraction against your opponents, and 4, ‘anything un epee happens to be said against yourself. :

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hit, that I shall take fall advantage of that opportunity, ‘your country, in “the character of an innocent, injured 2. of ‘thousand times? You evidently seem to think that you ‘ ‘drag any or every one of them into a court of justics ho they be packed to suit your purposes, will dare to e i sm

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e made. Colonel Favor, whose name, “) one of the foulest libellers that ever polluted God's ot / Monk, and there was so much circumstantial narrative about! egnnection with expresses and steamboats, and the rapid con- | the book, that people at a distance gave ready credence to the 'veyance of mails and packages, is familiar to most of oar!

Look at the columns of the Islander for the last five is there one political article there, from your pen, Which dog not reek with slander, *‘ falsehood, vulgarity and personal jn, pertinence’? Have you forgotten how you have ursued, wig a malice and ferocity which a fiend from the infernal might envy, a political opponent, guilty of no other Sin thay that of honestly adhering to his opinions, without ANSWering the attacks made upon him, and persisting in retaining office which his calumniator once hoped to get for hi Have you forgotten how, for many weeks in succession, libelled another oppoaent as a murderer, saying, on one o, casion, that all the waters in the Tlillsborough could wash from his soul the stain of innocent blood? and do not remember that another, and another, and another, Wer accused of the same horrible crime by your false and qm scrupulous pen? and can you forget that others, again, hap been paraded by you before the public as perjurers gy robbers—you not daring to offer a tittle of evidence insu of your charges—because the objects of your hate havell the good fortune to enjoy the public confidence, which them a passport to public employment? But why need & duce individual instances of detraction on ros part? J whole of your political contributions to the ‘slander area a of the most malignant libels inst mysc]f and the pa which I belong, embellished and ornamented in their «ll to us by such polite terms as * pi-oxgaards,”” ‘eo raseals,’? ‘¢ traitors to the people,’” ‘* ignorant pretender, and other choice specimens of ‘ie slang in which you appep to have wallowed all your life, and which even the verieg scold in @ drunken brawl would almost blush to utter. Yq may probably ask, if your accusations were untrue why did we not prosecute you for defamation ? Because we knew th ublie regarded you as a confirmed slanderer and notorigg is. and never placed any reliance on your word. Such the popular estimate of your amiable character, you must mit that it would have been difficult for us to prove that wy had sustained any damage from your attacks.

I have only a few words to offer in reply to the feeler ad dressed ‘‘ to the public”’ in the Islander of the 25th ult. You Canadian reminiscences possess no point of interest for me, and I doubt whether they will very much edify and entertain the Jury for whom they were fabricated. You give us a bit of your autobiography, and you modestiy inform us it is a collee tion of facts, but if I can prove, as I shall do, that there is ong huge falsehood at the very commencement of your narratj the credibility of all the rest will be very seriously shaken, quote the foliowing passage from your letter :—

When the late Mr. Collard edited the Islander, Whelan, unable to reply to him, aud perhaps unable to divest himself of the vices acquired in hisnormal education, insinuated almost weekly that be had been cuilty of a capital offence ina neighbouring Province. Cullard treated thog accusations with contempt, but the consegucuce was that when he died the public mind was undecided.

Such is the singular fatality which follows your panogyrics of all whom you delight to honour, that even the memory ef the dead must suffer in your clumsy hands. © ghost of Collard, couldst thou revisit ‘* the glimuses of the moon,’ bow wouldst thou smite thy predecessor and companion in the flesh for this

the great damage of the said Duncan Maclean and against our peace, and | unfortunate allusion to thy now forgotten name and character! | You profess a fondness for documentary evidence. Here it is,

to prove that it was not I who libclled Collard’s characte, He had no character when he came here. The Journal of the Legislative Council for 1847, page 66, contains the following

| resolution, moved hy the Hon. J. M. Holl—mark you, the lap Sir,—You are served with this Process to the intent that you may by | leader of your party and of the last Government :-—

On motion of Mr. Holl, the House camo to the fullowing Reseletim, viz :— © Resolved, That a Mcessge be sent to Wis Execllorey the Lieutenant

C, Paumen, Piaintifl’s Attorney. { Governor, reqnesting that His Excellency will ecavse to be laid befor | this House copies of any Papers in the Office of the Prothonotary of the | Supreme Court, at Charlottetown, respecting a Criminal charge in the

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** 4nd Louisa ?’’ 3 ao — a aamcmuedinn wiitbled aceeeatas. | Trusting that these extracts, and the few remarks I have | eal, 40-shiiis on aie Witten cians Sqmemad haniing ? buy’ ventured to offer in connection with them, mity have a tenden- | — i a denied ee - S : ’ As cehieks toate eatl OF to restrain the cireulation of the slanders foisted on a credu- | ontinue on w at ourselves down, at is cometo!): as 2 oa | Se dena posed x5, ni are v oul hectitens as to-day.” lous people ** by a thief and strumpet,’’ I remain, Mr. Editor, |

For my part I did not at allregret Nimrod’s absence. Had

she been there, I do not believe 1 could have swallowed a mouthful. [ made no doubt that like the pirate captains of the Spanish Main, she dined with a brace of pistols beside her plate. Notwithstanding the fright she had given me, I was very hungry; the counsellor’s cook was good, and I was passing nearly the first pleasant moments I had had since my arrival at Wiesenthal, when the door opened and the dark- browed Emily entered. The portrait had told the truth. She was, if possible, still handeomer than Louisa. Quite) 0 dazzled »y her beauty, I rose and bowed. Like her sister she | ~~ heeded me not, but hurried to her father, and embraced him. THE REVENUE. **A most successful operation,’’ she eried; ‘ a 18} Norwrrustanpine the gloomy anticipations of many persons, 77 : i ime ti r t; reye Soe 10 - te ~ i eg dhe ma trea aan eacuaiaals Mamata a ease that the revenue for the financial year just ended would be a And as she spoke, she unfolded a linen cloth, and displayed | very small one, owing to the decline of the ship-building trade

the shattered hand with its raw stump. I have always had! jo.¢ Spring, and the consequently meagre importations from

the greatest horror of operations, and aversion for everything |. ceed Reece this tenet eu tik Mme sayouring of the dissecting-room : and the sight of this dead | @*¢%t Britain in the beginning o . ‘PP

hand made me quite sick. It was all up with my appetite fur | announce that the receipts for the past year amount to Forty- that day. 1 : ‘two thousand pounds—a larger sum than ever the revenue at- ‘* But, girl !’’ the counsellor ex-Jaimod, “‘ we are at dinner; |. . 4 f th » how can you bring us such disgusting objects !"’ tained to, previous to that ¢ eae _— ager ~_ ‘* Naturalia non sunt turpia,” replied the female surgeon ;| revenue for 1855 would be considerably larger than that of os ory aia sth and oer about your a 1854, had it not been that all descriptions of West India “es } 99 j Cpe “ec you do not consider me,’’ continued Frager, “ you} |, ee aie ; might my guest. This is Mr. Frank Steinman, the nephew of Produce and, American Spirits commanded = exceedingly my old friend, of whom I have often spoken to you.”” _ | high price, and could only with great difficulty be obtained. Diefenbach regarded me, as I thought with no friendly | Q,+ merchants were obliged to limit themselves to the smallest expression. : ; : eytad [ known,’’ she said, speaking coldly and contempt- supplies of these articles, barely enough to meet the ordinary uously, ‘ that the gentleman s':adders at blood, and cannot | demands of their customers through the winter ; while amongst behold an amputated lim), I would certainly Pe . — ce the importations of the Spring before last West India Produce i: ® Ye : oper ] houg't he had | ip A . the sight of the result of oe _— ae and Spirits were very important items, and realiy gave our been a scientifically educated wan. anid a. i teethiai ae sd eal th (Se uiitinned.) merchants more of = articles than they could sell through- ai giktsinpatianin — out the year. This will fully account for the deficiency in the amount of revenue. All other branches of trade have been

in not only a healthy, but highly prosperous condition.

Your obedient servant, A LOVER OF TRUTH AND TOLERATION. |

| St. Peter’s Buy, January 26, 1856. ' ' | |

CHARLOTTETOWN, FEBRUARY 4, 1856. |

Correspondence.

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Mx. Eprror ; ‘ i ies x . IR eo 1 have been surprised and pained at perceiving, within the EXPRESS BETWEEN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND

7 few days, that that pestilent and poisonous book, known THE UNITED STATES. vy the name of Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures, has found its; Wr take the following paragraph from a late No. of the

ay into this quiet locality through the mischievons agence : : ; ; an DT Teeedinasts diane There ae part of the Coles? Halifax Colonist. 1t will be seen that it refers to the Express where Protestants and Catholics live on moro friendly and social | between New Brunswick and the United States, under the di- terms than they do in this and the surrounding settlements ; | rection, for several years past, of Colonel Favor, -one of the every one freely enjoys his religious opinions, and those of op- site sects are rather mutually reapected than otherwise for the is with which they adhere to their peculiar tenets. he people of New Brunswick, and particularly But how long can this be the eass if incendiary and hideously | Pn pe Rak . E 7 : false, publications, like. the one referred to, be permitted to | the commercial class of St. John, have derived important ad- circulate freely 2? Well-meaning and worthy Protestants may | vantages from Col. Favor’s undertaking ; and we are happy to be imposed upon by its gross libels—their minds may be em- Jeayn that this Colony, as well as the sister one of Nova Scotia bittered and poisoned against their Catholic neighbours, an : ee ee ; a distrust and animosity spring up between them. As we haye| Will shortly participate in its benefits. Col. Favor has been in no law to suppress the circulation of such books as Maria | Charlottetown during the past week, and his proposals were Monk’s vile slanders—which it has been long since proved, romptly and favourably entortaj } is destitute of the smallest particle of trath, and which, in en- | pee avourauly entortained by the Government— lightonod ecthannalties, educated Protestants have no less | the Colonel haying agreed, for a most moderate consideration, strongly condemned than Catholics—aen henest public opinion i rs in hi must be aroused to check or guard against the sonntid infection eee — mewene Sen Express srraqgements, it iscalculated to produce amongst the uninformed and ere- | °° that we will hereafter, as soon at least as the navigation be Le “4 a etme vile woe the oe hawker | opened, receive our letters from the United States two or three Ww ’ t¢ Ste Of @ few shillings, pander to the worst | a. . 4 passions of our natare, by retailing saa’ howrthac “= 1! days sooner than they could come by the ordinary mail route.

most persevering and energetic of American citizens we have

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observe from late Canadian papers that the book has been re- | 1" @ddition to the zeal and activity which Col. Favor brings to y

j public wiiter were worth anything, it would be exercised to

TO DUNCAN MACLEAN. | Province of Nova Seotia against one Frederick Collard,

I have always regarded your employment by the Tories in | 1851 as one of the most fortunate things that could possibly happen to the Liberal party, then in the ascendant. Your mission Was, to write down the new reform government, and | you had conevit enough to think you could accomplish it. You seemed to be the man born to suit the old regime, and to bring them back, if possible, the long-enjoyed and still covetted of- fices. Possessing within themselves no writing talent—their presses wretchedly conducted—(what could be expected from a brainiess blockhead like your present publisher ?)—they were glad to take up with you, as they did shortly before with the unfortunate and unscrupulous Collard, from sheer necessity ; and the readiness you have always shown to hang on to the skirts of any party, and to adapt yourself to any purpose, no matter how unworthy and discreditable, pointed you out as a fit subject to be bought, and cheaply bought. About twelve years ago you professed the most violent radicalism ; it was

palar, as you thought, and so you traded upon it; you ac-

nowledge, in your letter to the public, which appeared in the Islander of the 25th ultimo, that you rather encouraged than restrained the story about your being ‘‘a rebel,’’ because, say you, ‘¢it did me more good than harm.’ Thus you acknow- on to have done twelye years ago, what I and the whole community know you to have done almost ever sinee, viz: traded on public credulity to serve a political end. The party then in power you regarded as your bitterest enemies, and treated them as such, not hesitating to stigmatise them as ‘‘unprincipled robbers,’’ and even going so far as to say that some of them ‘* would be murderers if they dared.’? Now you frequently besmear those men with the most fulsome flattery, attributing to them almost every virtue and excellence, because you nage to depend upon them, to some extent at least, for your daily bread.

In 1846 or °47 you quarrelled with the Liberals, or the Liberals unntiel with you, (I forget which)—you tock the sulks—kept tolerably quiet in the New London bush, and as soon as the people of the first district of Queen’s County could seize the opportunity, they scornfully rejecte€ you as their representative, thus shewing that they believed the Liberals to be right in throwing youaside. In disgrace with the peopie you have remained ever since—in disgrace you will most likely continue to the end of your useless life, hearing, like the fallen angel in Paradise Lost,

“« On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.’’

No sooner was the shadow of your baleful influence with- drawn from the ranks of the Liberals than that party began to acquire great influence and numerical strength, until their | triumph was consummated after the general election in 1851, shortly after which the Leaders of the Liberals superceded the old Tory party, (your present employers) in the Government. This change having taken place, your “ envy, hatred and un- charitableness”’ against your former political associates, knew no bounds. 1 can well believe how readily you acceded to | the proposition to edit the Islander, and I know right well the’ way in which you are paid for performing all the dirty work which belongs to that situation. I said it was a fortunate thing for the Liberals that you were hired to conduct the Is- lander, for your incessant abuse of them has been such as to raise in public esteem every man who has become the object of your malevolence. That you have done no good for your em- ployers, and no injury to your opponents, is clearly proved by the whole course of events within the past five years. Man

elections, general and partial, have been held within that time; and as the hustings affords the surest test of a man’s popularity, one might suppose that if your influence as a

the manifest injury of some Liberal candidate; but not one solitary occasion can be found within the history of the five ears you served the Tories as their literary scavenger, on which your servile and depraved pen left the slightest im-

** Ordered, That Mr. Helland Mr. Hensley be a Committee to walt upon His Excellency with the said Message ”

On page 67 I find the following report :—

“Mr. Hensley, from the Committee appointed to wait upon his Dxeele lency the Lieutenant Governor, with the Message, requesting His Exeel- lency to cause to be laid before this Louse Copies ef papers in the Prothonotary’s Office, respecting a criminal charge against Frederick Collard, reported that they had waited on His Excellency, who had been pleased to say, ho would cause the same te be laid before the Hvuase.” Turning over the leaf of the same Journal, I fnd the follow ing extraordiaary address on page 69 :—

“Tu His Excellency Sr Henry Vere Huntley, Knight, Lieutenant Governth &c.

“* MAY IT PLEASE your EXxcriiency ;

‘‘{tappearing tothe Legislative Council, from certain Document now lodged in the Prothonotary’s Office, copies of which, duly authen ticated, have been laid before it, and which are bereunte annexed, that a certain person, charged with a Criminal offence, is at prosentat large in this Island, having been-liberated from Ucr Majesty's Jailin Halifax, on bis personal Reepgnizance, and afterwards baying fled from Justice ; that it is well known that the said person has been for some time past harbouring in Charlottetown, and that notwithstanding the frequent and easy communication between Halifax end this piace, yet no pursuit has hitherto been made fur the purpose of bringing the person to trial—his residence here being also in the opinion of te

ser @ great scandal to this society, and very offensive to publit morals.

** We therefore pray that your Excellency will be pleased to represent to Her Majesty’s Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Nova Seolit, that the said individual is at large in this Island, and request bis Exec lency’s interference.

** And we further pray that your Excellency will be pleased to represent to Her Majesty’s Principal Seeretary of State for the Colonies, the injury accruing to public morals, as well as the improper facilities Set ed to criminals to defeat and obstruct the due course of Justice, whit results from its being in the power of parties under Criminal prosecution to evade justice, and avoid even the forfeiture of their Recoguizante by passing from one of Her Majesty’s Colonies into another.”

You say [ was Collard’s slanderer. Here is the evidence # the Council’s journal to prove that what you say is not. The view taken of that man’s character by Mr. Holl wa cot curred in by every other member of the Council, apd at least half that body at the time belonged to the Tory party. You are a very fit person, and very welcome from me, to entertail an affectionate regard for the memory of one who was thus unanimously declared to be ‘a great'scandal to this soeiety, and very offensive to public morals.”’

I cannot help noticing a iittle discrepancy between yout let ter and that of Mr. Chas. Palmer, published by me a shot time since. The latter informed me that he inearred youl blame for delaying to bring the prosecution. In your lett you say that Mr. Palmer did perfectly right in delaying ## es Soma Which of you am I to believe? Not you; fi

now your false and malicious nature so well, that | am co vinced you would not delay a prosecution four and twet'f hours, if you thought you had the slightest chance of a v¥ You ask me to make a retraction of something publi Tue Examter. I tell you once for all that I thoroughly & pise what you facetiously call your offer’? to stay ings, should I make the retraction uired by you. I have said nothing regarding you but wins am ready to a again, and [ shall be glad if [ can say it in more forei ani explicit language. :

There is one curious passage in your letter which T had nearly overlooked, in the heap of verbiage that surro ‘“*T informed Mr. Palmer,’’ you observe, “ that with wie ever damages a jury might visit the enormity of his ( offence, I would accept of nothing but the costs, and hand remainder over to charitable institutions.” You are very rous, bat does not this look very much like * counting s chickens,’ &¢.? 1 have often’ heard of persons give at any the amount of a judgment actually recove ie until [ saw your letter I never knew of any one boast s would dispose of his judgment in such a way, when he a no means sure of getting one. I suppose, however, it BT

cently reprinted in that Proviuce—(I need not inform you that | the discharge of the arduous duties he has choser for himself,

pression.

tended asa hint for the Jury, to be mterpreted as _ Gentlemen, give a good stunning verdict against the