ne seditious

Mr in doing 80 - : acintion Wee 60 construed, whether fairly or re"hiat ie .

but vefertanatels Howe's de- he not. we eaunot at present say, as to include the uy ‘ ”

pupulation of Nova Scotia, This was

whele Lrish

the first cause party, the Liberal Protestants, and the Catholics ;

et quarrel between Mr Howe's

and the qual rel wae prosecuted with great bitter

neas on beth sides About the same time, a row

eceurred on the Railwas line, ata place called | in which Irishmen were by far| i

the more numerous party of combatants against |

‘ sourlay ‘* Shaatv °

' ether nationalities, whe unfortunately came to}

7 oters we ‘ad | grief in the melee. The Irish rioters were tried | and were acquitted. Me. Howe's party contend. |

'

ed that their acquittal was procured by the direct

inflwence ef Catholic ceclesiastics, under w hieb |

! . . the Jury who tried the rioters were made to per- | honour which it might have derived from its! t j : eeiue 6 ; ; J ; | 4: , : }—but for national existence, for emancipation! ; st, heing on subjects which engage the atten- jure themselves. — There may have been other | distant relationship to the old Liseral Party ot ut to tior xistence, for emancip: interest, heing or je ch engage the en

cawees of quarrel, but if there were, we have for- 1S47.

, > ; - and perhaps he was not far wrong | of the Liberals, who nobly fought for, and nobly}

won Responsible Government in 147. The Bill is| calewated to impose an tinjust restriction en the | liberty ef the subject. It will, unless repealed, | deprive thousands of loyal men of the privitege of |

giving @ voiee in the making of the laws wader |

which they are to be governed, simply because |

they are poor, while they contribute by tneir| labour far more to the maintenance of well regu: lated society than some of their more privileged | richer neighbours ean by a small tax on property. | Phe passing of such a Bill was quite enough to} estrange the Catholics trom the Government of | Nova Scotia, even if there had been nothing in the | previous history of the Government to justify the |

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sufficient to deprive the Administration of any |

Tt the new Franchise Bill of the Nova

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gotten them. However, these two were quite | Seotia Government can be styled a Liberal

sufficient to make a wide breach between the} easure, and worthy of a Liberal party,

Irish party, Who Were almost exclusively Catho- lees, ond Mr. Huwe's adherents, whe were ex- clusively Protestants. The newspaper war waged fiercely on both sides, and the Catholic members in the Assembly left Mr. Howe's standard and joined the Conservatives, who tovk possession of the Government.

From this time nothing could exceed the viru- lenee aud folly with which the Catholics were assailed, The Government were styled the “ Remwo-Johneton Admiuistvation,” the “Red Stocking Administration,” in allusion to the red stockings worn by the Catholic Archbishop Every offensive epithet which malice and bigotry could suggest was hurled against the Catholics— every lie of the No-Popery school was revived But the Catholics remained firm in their new al lianee; and were treated, like all new converts, with more than respectful consideration by thei: Couservative allies.

Then the general election came on, four years ago. A Society called the Protestant Alliance was ushered into existence. Thix Society inelud- ed all the worst bigots and fanatics of the Province

—persons of precisely the same stamp as Messrs. | Cogender strife and uncharitableness—retard the |

Fitzgerald and George Sutherland—w hose mission it was te preach stupid sermons, and fill the Op- position papers with stupid lies against the Catho- hes and the Government. The No-Popery ehar- jatans of the “ Alliance” were incessant ia their atiacks ou the Catholic Church, and on the Clergy of the Arch-Diocese of Halifax. Nearly every act of the Government was alleged to have originated at the Arch-episcopal Palace, and to have been framed with a view of enhancing the power of “the Church.” No appointment, no matter how iusiguitieant, could be made, but his Grace who Wore the red stockings was held accountable for it. If a Catholic were appuinted to the place of & tide-waiter in sume out of the way corner of the Proviace, where no ous else could be found competent to perform the service, there was a how! from the “Alliance” about the dominancy of the priesthood, and the dangerous encroach- ments of “Popery.” We don't know whether any of the bigots stumbled on the works of Peter Deus, to be falsified and perverted as they were here by the Orange Secretary, but books, pam-

we must regard in the same light the Bill that was secretly sent to England for legislation there by the Holl and Palmer Government of this Isiand in 1849 or 1850, under which all poor tenants iu the Colony would be deprived of the franchise.

foul, false, and infamous pretences under which they seeured the last general election in their | favour—of the proscription and unmerited abuse of the Catholics, by which their policy has been degraded — we certainly cannot entertain any sympathy for the Government af Nova Seotia in their humiljating defeat. We are sure that the interests of every community are served by the overthrow of a Government established upon | tulee pretences, and which struggles to keep | itself alive by a retrograde policy. The pure and universal principles of civil and religious liberty receive new lustre whenever orgavized Hy- pocrisy, that aims at the enslavement of man in the name of religion, is thoroughly trampled in the dust. We rejoice at the downfall of all associations of fanatics, whether they assume the name of a Government or of an Orange Lodge, because they

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principles, moral, industrial and political, which ennobly mankind, and make this world a place werth living in. We rejoice at any event that is | caleulated to warn the overgrown narslings of | Bigotry in this Island of the frail tenure by which

| they enjoy their power. Turning to the map of |

Nova Scotia, we can say tothe Bigots who surround us—* Here in this beautiful Provinee the public mind became diseased through the pestilential breath of people like you; but, thank Heaven, Reason has again aaserted her influence and dis- pelled the pestilence, aud now the public mind is clearer and more vigorous than ever it was. This salutary change will influence the public mind of this Isiand—it will humble your intolerant spirit, and expase the wickeduess gf the arta by which you imposed on the ignorance, credulity and prejudices of your fellow colonists for the purpose of pocketing their money in the name of public salaries.” Humbug of any kind, when carried tuo far, is abominable ; but religious humbug is uot only abeminable, but it may become infinitely mis-

Iu view of the passing of this measure—of the |

progress of society and the development of those |

NEWS FROM EUROPE.

Tne English Mail fer this Island reached here on Friday morning last. The British Mail Steamer Asia arrived at Halifax on the previous Monday evening, after a yery shart passage.

Tho Polish Insurrection—or Revolution, as it is now being called — is the all-absorbing topic of interest with European journals. English papers, however, do uot seem to be as much interested in the struggle of the gallant Poles as they were in the organized system of brigandage carried on by the followers of Garibaldi against the Papal territories. The reaspe, no doybt, is, that the Poles, or the great majority of them, are

| ¢: ar thee ; mr Se estrangement; and moreover, it was more than | atholics — fighting, not for plunder, lust, and

| Wicked ampbitilion — not against the venerable

successor of St. Peter and the Catholic religion

from a eruel and barbarous tyranny, which

crushes their bodies, and aims at destroying their /souls. If a civil war broke out in Spain, there is }no doubt that English journalists would sbow

} sympathy enough for the insurgents; er if the

| Emperor Alexander were a Catholic like the |

King of the Two Sicilies, it is equally certain that a tremendous blast would long eye this have lissned frova Exeter Hall against His Majesty; | and arms and ammunition would have been largely subscribed to strengthen the hands of his refrac- tory subjects. If England will, however, observe a strict peutrality—as her Foreign Minister pledges her to do,—and winle France and Austria are keenly vigilant of the movements of the Czar, aud unmistakeably sympathetic in their relations with the Polee—the latter may yet win back that glorious place in the community of nations, illus- trated by a long line of the most heroic kings, who lived in the hearts of au ancient, noble and chi- valrous race, and fram which proud position a combination of European despots had driven them, when— “Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime.”

In the meanwhile, the Diplomacy of Russia, France, Eugland, and Austria is plying its inge- | nious arts regarding the Polish question; Russia

| will not abate its pretensions to supremacy over the Poles—it may make some hollow promises of Reform; but the Poles will be satisfied with no- thing short of a restoration of their ancient na- tionality, if the European Powers new in diplo- matic jnteycourse with Russia do net join the latter in putting down the revolution. That such an event may not arise to mar the fair prospects

freedom, even though a European war should be the result of the insurrection. The stupid and tyrannical policy of the King of Prussia, who is vainly labouring to stifle every spark of liberty in his own Kingdom, whose subjects are on the eve of revolt, who is ready to pick a quarrel with France, and who has given agtive aid to Russia in the arrest of fugitives from Poland—may hasten the coming of the hour when the whole European continent shall again tremble under the tread and shock of hostile squadrons in mortal feud. —------<ame- - | THE WAR IN THE STATES.

| Sr. JouN papers as late as Saturday morning

phleis and uewspapers of all kinds were ransacked | “Mi@"OUs- There is g species of humbug which we | !ast, received by the Westmoreland that night,

tur tuel still further to inflame the “ No-Popery”

enjoy amazingly for a short time, such aa the|

| contain telegrams from the seat of war as late as

fever. Of course, it was given out, ina thousand | article of that name dealt out by diverting vaga-| Friday, but they represent. no important change different forms, that Protestantism was not only | ¥°%48 like Baraum ; but though we laugh at the | in the aspect of affairs peire rene, ene im danger, but that if the Catholics were hand! pleasantries for which we have given our small| defence of that devoted City was still maintained allowed to rule, or to influence Administration, | !*°S* ¥@ know they aye an impysition en our} with eennts ralegr ond aguinst re there would be a cross upon every Protestant | Understanding, and we hojd the author of the; The Confederate General offered to surrender the

Chureh—every Protestant Bible in the land would be cast inte the fire—every Protestant would be deemed ineligible for office; we are net sure whether it was said that brass money and wooden

; humbug in merited contempt. Such humbugs, | however, as the leaders of the No-Popery party

place if he waquld be allowed tq march out with his army, but this was refused by the Federals

| in this place, and their congenial brethren of the| Whose army was receiving nomense reinforce-

”

| * Alliance” on whose shoulders the Government |

ments. It is reported that President Davis

shoes would be again brought into fashion, bur it | Of Nov Scotia has rested for the last four years, | promised to throw 100,000 men into the place, if

was strongly hinted that there would be a trewen-

fare not diverting vagabends, but arrant and!

it would hold out a fortnight longer. But this is

dows trade iu red stockings, and that those who ¢#°S¢Tous impostors, whose speedy expy!sion from | Very improbable. So large a foree is not so easily had a predilection for stockings of any othe | suciety it a matter which concerns oyery lover of | raised with so heavy a drain on the resources of - '

colour would kage io give up their predilection aad be earelled jn the party of the Reds.

peace, good order, and rational liberty; and we | cuntot over-e timate the storm of papular opinion,

the South ; and even if it could be raised, it could not be made ayailabie fur the purposes of defence

It furnishes a melancholy comment on the jn-| Meh as was witnessod in Nova Scotia the other | while Vieksburg is so closely hemmed in on every firmity of human reason that nousense of this sort | 24¥: When and by which such huinbugs are now | Side by the besieging army. Immense slaughter really prevailed over the minds of a majority of | aud theu providentially blown out of existence. | bas occurred on beth sides. The spectacle which

the people of Nova Scotia. The Government led | by Mr. Jobuston was defeated at the hustings by | exactly the same means that defeated the Gov ern ment under Mr. Coles ip this Isiand ig 1059, and whieh agaia seeured a majority for our present | Orange Government ia 1363. Political principles | there, as well as here, were kept aloof frum the | coutest by the Opposition. The No-Popery how! deafened the land. The poison of intolerance was | dutilled inte every ear that could be approached | by the treacherous and jying bigots. The Suther- lands, Arbuekles, and Popes of the “ Protestant Alliance” spread themselees pyer the Province, and left the slime of their baleful influence where- ever the mora! soil waa found rotten enough to seak it in, aod amalgainate with it.

‘The Party whe gained this vietory have been and are stili called Libergls Some of the leading men of the party, now grown old, were indeed Liberals of the truest metal; we sincerely hope they are Liberals still; but we could pot help thinking that their political reputation was ship- weeecked forever, when, eniternig the perfidious barque manned by paalio-singing pirates from the “ Alliauee,” they eountenanced the hypocrisy under which a pretence was made to carry the Gospel of Peace to “ benighted Papists,” while only the designs of the devil were carried into practice. The designation of “ Liberal” is an infamous mockery when assumed by a party who would abuse, defame, and proscribe their fellow beings because they happen to profess a religion different from their own

The Goveroment which succeeded Mr. John- ston's, and whieh bas just been so signally punished at the hustings, did not abate much of their in- tolerance until within a yar ago. Mr. Howe then began to see not only the injustice done to the Catholics, but the impossibility of steering the ship of state by the old land marks, while the Catholies were in chase of her, and as eager to sink her as the most ancient of her enemies, when they ought te be before the mast and on the quarter deck. He offered some places in the Government to Catholie gentlemen, and we believe the offer was made upon his own responsibility, for we saw by 4 statement of the Financial Secretary the other | day, that he, as a member ef the Cabinet, was | ignorant of Mr. Howe's overtures until after they had been made ; aad he said if Catholics had been taken into the Government, that he. the Financial Seeretary, would retive from it. However, the ofer came too late. The Catholica had been pelted as long a8 an ounee of ammunition could be found oa board of the old sinking ship, and they felt it would be foolish for any of them to go inte her then, when they would only stand an ex- cellent chance of being made food for the fishes, like the vest of the erow, in the course of a very few montis.

If the Government really had any desire to do justice tu the Cathoties, they would not have intro-

duced their new Franchise Bill last Session, under whieh, had it been allowed to go inte operation, thousands of Catholics would have been deprived of 4 vote at the late elections. Indeed, we under- stand that the first object of the Bill was to secure the retura of Government supporters in the West Riding of Halifax, where there is a very large number of poor Erish peopie, who would be dis- franchised under the new Act, and who, under the old Act, could easily tura the seale jn favour | of the Opposition. The Bill, thongh agreed to, | was fyrtunately suppressed for the present, on a| motion in the Legislative Coupeil to defer its|

©peration until after the Plection. This motion’ was carried on the casting vote of the President, | pouse every pane of which is made of the thinnest

the Hon. Mr.

of Halifax, Now, the very principle of the Bill indicates a

great departure from the vld well defined policy

Keuny—one of the first Catholics

‘charge of official duties, for which they have

Government; and we are very touch mistaken if the

We have said a great deal more about the affairs | of our sistey Provinces than we intended to Bay, but we cannot help sgying another word or two. We often admired the exemplary fyrbearance with which the Catholics of Nova Seotig sub- mitted to the attacks of their enemies. There have been no publications that we have seen for the last fiye or six years, in which the Catholics retaliated fur the insults they had received. The most thin-ekinaed follower of the No-Popery party las had nothing to complain of in the way of an attack upon his religion. ‘The Catholics of the Provinee haye liyed down the calumnies against their creed, as they can do every where else, by an honest practice of all the Christian virtues, and a strict regard for the laws and usages of the comnaunity. The good old Charch would not be worth their love and veneration, if they considered it in danger from the attacks of paltry charlatans, like some of our officials, who would as soon practise the ductriues of Mahomet as the dvctrines of any Christian sect, if money were to be inade by them. Such imposters are embaldened in the pursuit of their iniquiteas career by every word that is ut- tered against Protestantism in any form. Let Catholics here practise humility and forbearance like their brethren in Nova Scotia—let them suf- fer in silence, though it may be against the grain, and hard to check the flow of the hot Celtic blood, while fools and rascals are spouting non- sense io Parliament, and publishing dreary twaddle in their newspapers,—and they may rest assured that we will soon see an end of the unread and unreadable letters “ to the people of Prince Edward Island” — we shall soon again be left in our former blissful ignorance af Dens’ Theology. Rascals and fools, who have luxuriated ov Bawk peculations and official plunder, must then betake themselves to honest callings, if honest men can be found to trust them. There will be an end to shamleess jobs in the peddling and sale of worth- less books, at the public expense; — we will not, suffer the disgust we now feel at the pretence of individuals whe ais allowed to assume the dis-

neither character, competency, nor industry ; and religion and decency will no longer be outraged by an affectation of piety and charity at the moru- ing orisons offered for our Legislature, while hatred and uncharitableness rankle in the heart and bubble at the lips which pronounce the saered formula. -—— -—--~eee— - =

Taar meek Christin, Deacon Laird, indulges in some gross personalities, in the Protestant of Saturday last, against the editor of this paper, insinuating that he has a “ vitiated appetite, a corrupt heart, and a perverted understanding,” and then the fellow has the impudence to make the following queer dis- claimer as to the use of personalities: —

“If we were disposed to descend to such person- alities as the editor of the Examiner delights in, we could find ample materials to retaliate on one who is

not a paragon of perfection cither in bodily appear- ance, manners or morals.”’

Let Chuckle-head put his implied threat in execu- tion as soon ashe likes. Our fingers are itching (not with the Seotch fiddle) to draw full length portraits of him and all his tribe, beginning with the “ Gray Horse ” that kicked himself out of the Liberal party, and wag kicked a few months ago out of the Palmer

“bodily appearance, manners and morals” of the animal don’t fnrnish the richest subject for a pen- and-ink sketch that was eyer pregepted to the public. We caation Dauvy to eschew porsonalities —they are _dungerous in the bands of a person who lives ina

_and brittlest of glass. It might be amasiag, but it

the place presents must be horrifying in the ex- treme. ‘The doamed city is crowded with women and children, who have fled there for protection from the surrounding country; and one shudders to contaimplate the still mare horrible seenes that will be enacted when the brutal and exasperated soldiery who now surround the city will become masters of all its defences, as no one doubts they speedily will, if they are not so already. Soutb- era journals of the latest date speak despairingly of Vicksburg as virtually lost to the Confederacy.

Wé insert below from the St. John Morning Telegraph the two latest telegrams received up to Saturday morning last.

Baneor, May 29.

Another report of Friday's fight at Vicksburg is, that Grant took some fortifications, but Confederates re-took them.

Federal loss that day was five thousand.

Letters from Vieksdury express opinion that one or two weeks are requisite to reduce the place.

Part of Banks’ force reported arrived at Warren- town. ,

Southern papers speak more enconragingly of situation of affairs at Vicksburg, that inyestment is imperfegt. ; 3

Jobneton is in Grant's rear with large force daily accumulating, and reduction will pone weeks or months, and chances of war ailord abundant hopes of raising siege.

Bancor, May 29.

Reported Federals have prion greatly reduced foree on the Rappahannock.

Special despatch to Tribune from Murfreesboro’ 28th saya report reached there that Breckenridge | and Brothers’ division of Bragy’s army are on their! way South.

Special from Memphis says Jobneton is rapidly receiving rejnforcements.

Ho is reported as saying if Vicksburg holds out fifteen days, he will throw a hundred thousand troops into it.

Again asgerted ag true that Grant sent President Linvoln 4 despatch that he had intereepted a des- oe from Confederate Secretary of War to Pem-

verton, that he would send him 4 hundred thousand men if he could hold out fifteen days.

Latest reperts to 25th say Grant was making progress.

Reported the Confederate army of Virginia is in motion. .

Lee issugd an address foreshadowing a raid into Maryland, promising long marches.

tree iielia tener,

tS’ Rereraive to the notices of our Island affairs in Colonia! and British papers, the Monitor says that a certain medical gentleman is our locum tenens, aud ig the writer of some of those notices. Whether the learned Doctor amuses himself or not in writing an occasional letter to the Tablet, is certainly nobody’s business here. His correspondence must be regarded with very great interest when the Post Office has to be watched to ascertain when he sends a letter through that de- partment. As for ourselves, we have never had the honour of having the learned Doctor for a locum tenens. We have no doubt he employs his time more advantageously by attending to his professional duties than he possibly could do by writing paragraphs for the Charlottetown news- papers; and if the clerks in the public offices would follow his example, there would be less waste of the publie stationery, and some small service would be rendered for the salaries received.

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Tue Bazaan.—The Bazaar for Saint Dunstan's College will be beld at the College on Wednesday, and Thursday, the 8th and 9th July next. Besides the articles mentioned elsewhere in this paper, another splendid chair will be disposed of by lottery. Further particulars will be given hereafter.

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Catnouic Insrrrute.—The Committee of this Insti(ute have decided upon having a debate once a fortnight, during the summer months, to which the public as woll as al] fhe members will be admitted. On Friday evening next the following subject will be discussed, viz: Had the Crusades a beneticial

influence on Europe?’ Subject to be opened by Mr. W. Sullivan, Law-Stadent.

The largest and best assoviment of Scotch

| would be painful to send if shivering about his ears; yet, we shall have to doit, if he is not jess impudent, and does not stop making ugly faces at passers-by.

Tweeds, Cloths, Coatings, and Poeskins in the | City, for gentlemen's wear, ean be found at Bell's

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of the Poles, must be the wish of every lover of

‘dock on the 16th, With a general cargo for our

THE QUARTERLY REVIEWS. We have received the April Nos. of the “ Edin- ; burgh "and ‘! Weatminster'’ Quarterly Reviews. The former contains the following articles :— 1. Kinglake’s invasion of the Crimea; 2. Worsley’s Translation of the Odyssey ; 3. Tithe Impropriation; 4. Simanca’s Regords of the Reigu of Henry VIL; | 9. The Black Country ; 6. India under Lord Canning ; 17. The Bible and the Church; 8. Sir Rutherford Alcock’s Japan; 9. Professor Huxley on Man's place in Nature; 10. The Greek Revolution. The articles inthe Westmineter are entitled:—1. Austrian Constitutionalism ; 2. The Reformation arrested ; 3. Jews of Western 5. Lady Morgan; 6. Yruth versys Editica

The Resources of India; 4. The Europe ; tion; 7. the Antiquity of Man ; and 8. Contemporary | Literature.

The greater number of the articles in these | Reviews far the present quarter are of the highest

tion of the ablest injnds pf Egrope, while, indeed, all the articles are written with the ability for which the Quarterly Reviews deservedly hold the highest literary reputation. We may notice longthily hereafter one or more of the above articles, but, in the meantime, must observe that both Reviews have many able and elaborate pages devoted to the dis cussion of the views brought so prominently before the world by Bishop Colenso, and which seem to be the chief question at present engaging the minds of the writers of the Mother Country. The popular notions regarding the plenary inspiration of the Bible, ans of the effects of binding the Clergy to the articles of the Anglican Church, are receiving some terrible shocks. Whilst reading the followmg opinion of a Westminster Reviewer as to the in- fluence of the Anglican Charch on promoting human progress, we could not but feel that some of our local divines who delight so much in the pastime of throwing stones, would be as well, if not better, employed jn watching the large panes of their own establishments: It is to be found on pagé 202 of the April No. of the Westminster Review:

“ Long experience proves undeniably that the posidion of the Anglican bishops (and of the clergy in proportion to their dignity) tends to emasculate good en. To stand up for ceremonies, for sanc- umony, fur church fees, or other gains, far church power or episcopal privilege, is not at all unconge- nial to the Episcopate; but how many bishops ever yet have been the chainpions of righteousness ? To humanize and christianize the nation, was, as Dr. Arnold judged, the proper function of judges in the House of Lords; and on this account he defended the principle of lord prelates. But when we look back through the last two centuries (a time long enough to test an institution), we find a tcrrible contrast of fact to theory. Inthis period the nation has been afflicted by profligate courts, Venal states- men, Hagitious drunkenness-in all classes, corrupt constituencies, oaths multiplied so as to insure per- jury, aud, worst of all, very many unjust wars. The criminal code was long crue! in the extreme, the prisons were a torture, and a fountain of moral leprosy—as we fear they still are; lotteries demo- ralized the people ; the tuirs and wakes were scenes of profligacy. Must we allude to other estublistied protligacies? An inhuman slave-trade shipped off captive negroes as unceremoniously and as regularly as cargoes of cattle. Colonial slavery was in vigor, and its horrors were no secret. In india our arms and our government were stained with cruelty, avarice, and treachery. But we are not aware that the bench of Bishops ever distinguished themselves by zealous exertion against these things: nay, not that so much as one bishop has ever become signal for active zeal against even one of all these glaring moral evils. ‘To fix leas, take two topics—War and Slavery. What unjust wars have they collec- tively opposed?) What part against the slave-trade or against slavery have they played, whether in re gard to oar own colonial struggles, or now in the crisis of America? Aud yet a Wilberfore is on the bench. We are aware that it isa hereditary rule of statecraft to appoint a timid mun to be Archbishop of Canterbury ; but among the lords all are peers. Experience seems to prove that as the man who becomes a slave loses, aceording to Homer, half his virtue, 80 the mau who is enslaved to articles gene rally loses half his courege.”

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cy’ We commend to our readers an admirably written and arguinentative letter in this week's EXAMINER, from a Protestant in Prince County, on the true position which Liberal Protestants should held, in convection with their Catholic fellow Colonists, in opposition to the Orange So- ciely. Our opponents, who are too indolent or too incompetent te argue on any question, will doubtless say that this leiter was written by a Catholic in Charlottetown, and that noimportance should, therefore, be attached to it; but we can

j only aseuve our readers that the writer is a bona |

Aide Protestant, sounder in his religious faith than the Orange gealots; and that he has more taleat than the whole of them put together, his letter will abundantly prove. a

THE CONDITION OF NEWFOUNDLAND,

After the long time ef depression and hard trial through which the colony has passed, it is more than ordinarily gratifying to feel that the day of relief has at length really come, and that the pros- pects of the future begin to look cheering. The condition of large numbers of our people had be- come 8o low, owing to successive failures of the fisheries and other causes that this year’s Sealing voyage was looked to by many alinost as anxiously as is the last plank by the shipwrecked to save them from an impending fate. Well, thank Heaven, the result of this fishery has been such as cannot disappoint renaonable expectations. The voyage is now over, aud though it has not proved as abundant as we could desire, it must still be accounted an average voyage for the number of vessels engaged in it. This number has, however, been many short of that of former years, and as we have had no very heavy trips, the total catch of seals will also be deticicut, when compared with that of past good seasons. Lut the vessels gen- erally have brought in saving and fair trips, a moderate success having been apportioned through- out their number. This has been the rule in ap- plication to se many, that those who have missed at least a saving voyage will make but a small list of excepticns. The price given for seals has been higher than we have ever known before, having gone as high as between 44s. and 45s. aewt. We sincerely hope that the enterprising capitalists who have given this value to the produce and in- dustry of the country will be amply recompensed in the results of the markets. Naturally enough, the fair success of the se: fishery makes itself felt and visible through the whe system of our trade and general business. Merchants are in good spirits once again, and the operative classes having carned more or less of provision for themselves and fumulies, find employ- ment for their present and future labour, and all the necessaries of life abundant and cheap iu our market. Preparations for the summer fishery are being made too with a stir and animation which we have not witnessed of late years. It appears to be generally anticipated that we shall have a good cod fishery ; and this expectation seems just when we look to recent short catches, and remem- ber that in the natural order of things there is usually a period of compensation for such deficien- cies. We accordingly find that — are being liberally issued and we should think that none who deserve credit are at all likely to be refused it.

It now behoves our industrial population who have long suffered so severely, to set about the work before them in right earnest, and employ all their energies and economy in retrieving their po- sition. They are likely, as we trust, to havea fair field once mere open to them, and we can wish them nothing better than that they may turn to profitable accpunt these bitter experierces which have recently been their portion.—New- foundland Express.

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EXPEDITIOUS.—Sailed on Monday, 25th inst., W. W. Lord & Co's Bark Gazelle, R. Cameron, Master, for Liverpool, England, laden with Tun- ber, Deals and Lathwood by her owners. Pas- sengers; Mrs. MeMullen; Mr. Stockman, Sen.; Mr. Stockman, Jr.. wife and child; Mr. and Mrs. Treneman; Messrs. James Peake and Martin Dunn.

The Gazelle was the first Spring ship to arrive, and the first to sail, after being expeditiously dis- charged of her freight of goods and receiving her eargo oflumber. For time of sailing on her re- turn voyage see advertisement.—R. IW.

SatLep.—The Bark Theresa sailed on Tuesday last, the 26th inst., for Liverpeol, Great Britain, with a cargo consisting of 730 pieces Deal; 209 pieces ‘Timber ; 232 quintals Codfish, and 106 bar- rels Pork. ‘The Mi Fitzgerald went passen- gers. Her enterprising owners made quick despatch with the vessel. She only hauled into

merchants, and was discharged and loaded again in ten days.—IJb. _ _

AccompeNT.—On Monday morning last, while the workmen were engaged in rene the plat- form to secommodate the Cheir and Sunday School ehildren during the laying of the corner- stone of the new Wesleyan Chapel, a son of Mr. Bertram|Moore, aged five years, had bis leg broken below the knee, by the accidental displacement of a seantling which precipitated the little fellow and some of the planks ef the platform into the

notwithstanding the severity of his wound—a

cellar. We learn that he is getting along finely

Died,

At Lot 14, on Friday evening, the let inst., after a long and tedious illness, which he bore with great pegignation to the Divine Will, Mr. Donald | Mclutosh, sen., in the 8b year of his age.

At New York, on the 27th ultimo, Charles Demp- sey, Esq., a native of Dublin, Ireland, and for many years a resident of Chartotteiown.

SHIPPING NEWS. PORT OF CHARLOTTETOWN.

ENTERED:

| May 21-—Schr. Tribune, McDonald, Wallace ; | beards, &c. Hope, Spinnings, Tatmagouche ; do. | —George, Boudrot, Boston; goods. 23 -——- Wan i dever, Weeks, Bay Verte; do. Teazer, Sprague, ido.; do. Weetern Packet, Macpherson, Halifax ; | goods. 25—Providence, Desjardine, Quebec ; flour.

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{| May 22-—Carrie, Chasson, Bay Verte; ballast Mars, Pollard, Shediac , do. Three Brothers, De | wolte, Pictou; do. Challenge, LeBlanc, Philadel }phia; oats. 23-— Vietory, Thompson, Baltimore ; joats. Woodbine, Robertson, Picton; bal. Kit Carson Smith, Baltimore; oats. Enterprise, Mc Donald, Antigonish; produce. Hope, Spinnings, ; Tatmagouche ; do. 25—Harque Gazelle, Cameron, | Liverpool; timberand deals, 26—Barque Thergaa, | Fraser, Liverpool; timber, deals, fish, pork, &e 1M. C. Rowe, Thurston, Boston; oats. Neptune, Foster, Richibuctou; bal. ‘Teazer, Sprague, Bay Verte; goods.

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| The Brig ¢ British Lady,’ Capt. Thomas Gorvin, |

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| from P. E. Island, for Bristol, was lost on the Mag- lal en Iglands, on the 7th December last, during a violent tempest and suow storm. The sufferings of | the crew were most intense. From 11 p. m. of the | 7th, till 5 a. m. of the Sth, they were lashed to the | vessel, the sea breaking over them, and everything | around them a mass of ice. The crew consisted of 11 persons, two of whom were washed overboard, | otber two frozen to death, and subsequently washed off the wreck, six reached the shore by means of some of the deals which composed the vessel’s cargo, and one (the Captain) was washed off a plank on which he hoped to reach land and was drowned. Severely frost-bitten and overcome with exhaustion, the surviving safferers had still to travel seyen miles

where they were kindly received and sheltered by the inhabitants, and subsequently taken care of by the Customs officer. The names of those sayed are: Ww, Pellipaut (mate), Nenry Naylor, John Stewart, John Lawrence, Wm. Heddon, Thomas Hammon Lost: Thomas Gorvin (captain), Charles Balkwall (carpenter), Francis Bennet (covuk), Peter Vandal- lam, Alfred Cole (boy)—allot Kagland. The bodies of P. Yandallam and C. Balkwall were picked up a day or two afterwards, and respectably interred by the Key. Felix Byle, minister cf the Chyrch of Eng- land. Nothing belonging to the Brig could be saved, except & small portion of the rigging. The wrecked materiel: were taken charge of by Lioyd’s Agent, and gold atauction. The mate, from whom we learn these particulars, left in the Westmorland last night for P. E. Islamd.

[The British Lady was built by Thomas Simpson, Ksq., of Lot 15, last summer, and was the property of the Hon. James Yeo, of Port Hill.—Ep. Isu.j

( The Bark Atlantic, Sargent, from Bristo!, with Goods, Ship Chandlery, Salt, &c., for the Hon. James Yeo, arrived at Kichmond Bay on the }7th inet.

ke By Telegram we are pleased to learn that the Bark Prioress and Brig Uranus, the one from Liverpool and the other from London, with Goods for this port, have arrived in the Gut of Canso. The Brigt. Ellen Davies, from the West Indies, for this port, has also arrived here. All the.e vessels are overdue for some time, and consequently much anxiety was felt for their safety.

3" Launched on Thursday, the 21st instant, from the shipyard of Mr. Edwin Coffin, Mount Stewart, a very handsome modelled seven years, copper-fastened Brigt. of 198 tons, called the Prin- cess of Wales, built for the Executors of the late Mr. Peake.

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Passengers.

In the Steamer Westmoriaxud from Shediac, May 23—Capt. & Mrs. King, Madam Mignauit, Madam Belanger, Mrs. Curtes, Mrs. Dempsey, Miss Woods, Miss Gillies, Messrs K. MeLeod, James McLeod, N. MeLeod, Hicks, Stewart, McGregor, McKinnon, Cockran, Briyws, M’Connell, Anderson.

From Pictou en the 25th — Miss McKay, Miss Fraser, Messrs. Cummings, Noonan, Sweeney, Pal- mer, Cameron, Dunphy, Small, Pelatin, Bent

From Shediac, May 27th—James Dunean, Esqr., Messrs. W. Ross, Bentley, Ramsay.

From Pictou, May 28th—Mrs. Middlewood and 2 children, Mrs. White, Miss Carnish, J. Purdie, B. McKay, Driscoll, Tay}or.