efforts to step, and when it has learned to walk, a hobby-horse attached instead of the eradle, affords healthful exeroises and amus- ing pastime. The machine is also capable of | being transmuted into a nursery chgir or 9 From an interesting letter from Grant's, high chair for a table, and when not in use ‘for babies becomes a handsome ottoman. | tts cost is modergte—from $25 to $150, ac-

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THE ARMY OF THER PUTOMAC-~—A MOVEMENT BEGUN, BUT STOFPrRD BY THE RAIN — THE PORTIFICATIONS AROUND PRTPRERURG,

army, dated Noy. 19, in the New York Com-

mercial, we select the following :—

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if our teachers negiect this important oppor- tunity, it will certainly be their own fauit ,if they never be emancipated from the miser- , able Sadeal and the virtual serfdom in | which they are now placed.

| ‘There is little doubt in the opinion that | the confederation of the Colonies would be | materially heneficial to the welfare and pro.

‘** A movement of the army hase at last begun. Yesterday, while among the Ninth corps, On our extreme left, | learned that orders had been issued to prepare eight d ays’ rations, with one hundred rounds of ammua- nition, and be ready to march at any mo-

cording to style and finish ; its construction gress of colonial education. It is quite evi- is entirely safe; when packed it oceupies dent that an intercolopial Government, in nine cubic feet, and it weighs from 50 to 74! its attempts to re-organize and re-model the pounds. Few families, of even moderate public institutions of the Provinces, will means, can afford to be without a baby-| make buge alterations and amendments in j tender, and in the course of a few years | the squeamish, humbugging laws now in we expect to see it in general use. — New| force in reference to School Education. In-

i #¢ & point two and a half miles higher up, to | 4 ‘the James, below Fort Pobattan, been pro-| *

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ment. The artillery of that eorps, which is again under Burnside, set out again on the! march, and by sunset encamped about eight! miles nearer City Point, om the line of the raidcoad. The infantry fol! afterwards and reaching Haneuck’s Station,/ giedle ri about ten miles hence. I learned that simi-

York Tribune. _- - - Tue Prorcess or true Tececrapy.—The lines ol

vund the earth,’’ are progressing with " ' jareat success, The line between England gdne With esepn, al eee ord ts and the East Indies, by way of Bagdad and ginwel dling <f ethan fer i. a sam ee) Bussorah, is reported to be finished and in Just as ill lack would have it, however, it | Working order, with the exception of one began to. rain aboot 8 o'slosh vw ; - : = | eecalg and sixty miles of land telegraph, The highways are sim “ d : med ae ree Diwanyeh and Korneh, where the macadamised as in the V sey 7 th: Pr siver Tigringnd Raphroies meet. __ The whole <aoablt chtid tagheditte . 7 Th * ” re length of the other route to Jnddia, through except towards the contre ef our plat a te | Russia, to meet the cable under the | ersian bine of eneneh 9 ional dale a i - | Gulf, will be completed ina few weeks. The epenntih hi - : . . _ Aad ‘ i i P| lines, land and submarine, running south to cae - vu . t . 7 a cee strike} China and Austrajig, and Singapore and al ? » . : aesiaaian es eneen aes hang Qa. eee dave, present eo mee aeentey, Sa: out. - . quence of the shallowness of the water to be em crossed, thatit is not doubted that within Gina ebb atte tnd Caen ete en three years daily telegrams may be received hereabouts. Without going into lars, it wit not be treasonable to stgte) Kastern Hemisphere, and will be justin time that they consist of three lines of defen- | to meet our Atlantic telegraph on the shores ‘ces. The Uirst extends around the garrigon | of the Western, which will be then complet- hero, end consists of & breastwork and deep} ed ; and we shall have the whole world in the ‘ditch, aided *Y, the railroad cutting and a} gtasp of the electric fluid—a fact waich will ‘deay ravine. The second in the course of represent the greatest triumph of science in ‘construction, extends from the Appomattox, ! the present age.—New York Herald,

Particu- | Sydney.

_— oe, . In describing the disaffection of the Missourians bably fifteen miles long, and supported by } to the rule of Mr. Lincoln, Dr. Mackay has given ferts on the principal height, on which ar-| some additional instances of the brutal ferocity of some of the Northern generals. Ata place front,) begins on the Appomg!tox, about one | called Palmyra, General McNeill had set up his mile below Petersburg, (in t}e yalley,) and headquarters, and was informed that a Unionist, pasees alon , at one place bar ly two thirds) for whom he entertained some special regard, of a mile (‘om that place, gnd siz hundred had been shot by Southern guerillas. yards from the rebel lines. \long this line! ation he ordered ten suspected inhabitants of the of well nigh twenty miles, ae many forts or nn. eam te Hagen to ae league ways the . ’ : - veruias, to De snot. ne 0 2e8e Was aD eidery batteries have been erected. [hese are more | a married, aud having a large family. or leas large and heavy, hay og embrasures younger man named Syduor generously offered to tor from four w sixteen ggne. Some of them} take his place, and McNeill had the inconceivable cover two acres, and haye parapets ten feet) brutality to accept his offer, aud to marder him high, and ditches as many feet broad andj instead. In Kentucky, under Paine, another deep, with screws and draw-bridges. ease nearly or quite as horrible has occurred. A ‘. The forts are connected, except in swamps, y breastworks of various beights and de- grees of strength. In front of these is g line ot ned stakes driyen into the ground,

the fences owned by a man suspected of Southern sympathy. When Paine was informed of the circumstance he gave his orders, and the farmer

telegraph which are destined one! owed shortly | day—and tha: not far distant—to * put a|

orks) jn Loadon from Hong Kong, Melbourne and! This will complete the circle of the |

In retali-|

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Federal soldier was shot by a rifle ball in front of

deed it is but reasonable to suppose that the | consideration of this most valuable and im- | portant institation will be about the first on the list of general matters, to engage their attention; and there is no reason to doubt jthat when men and not minions, when ta- lented, noble-minded statesmen and not ‘puny, politicians, take these matters in- ito consideration, they will treat them | with fairness and equity, and establish the institution on a satisfactory basis.

| Ilaving now given the question a brief and ‘very imperfect investigation, and having at- | tempted to convey to the intelligent reader a fair idea of the miserable state of our pub- ilie schools, and of the immediate necessity | of an extensive educational reformation, | | heg to submit the matter to his earnest con- sideration, hoping that he will be led to see | the error of the opinion which he may have entertained before he perused these lines, and to lend his assistance in establishing | TRUTH AND JUSTICE.

Yours respectfully.

A ‘TEACHER

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To toe Eptror oF tur Examiner.

Dear Sir: — A wise and tolerably good man of the olden time has said—** There 1s nothing new under the sun;’’ but in my humble opinion our world —even the most remote parts of it, sueh as Souris and East Point — is bringing forth new things every day. Instance, no longer ago than Jast even- ing, a lecture was delivered in the Schvol House, Souris East, by a woman! subject, ** Woman's Rights.’’ Since the pussing of | the ** Souris Liquor Law’’ there has been searcely anything transpiring here caculated to elevate the peaceful minds of our villagers above the monotonous jog-trot of life. Last) night, however, was an exception to the gen-| | eral rele that gauges our sprriiless, unsophis- ticated lives. An esteemed lady friend of ‘ours’? ¢reated us last evening, not with that which cheers and comforts for a season and

| seconding the resolution, 1, in my delegated capa-

direct their attention. It is really a matter of no very great importance whether you seconded the resolution oy not, but when I saw it pompously | proclaimed that you were the our Tenantry at the Quebec Conference—that yoy were entitled to their gratitude for your emir nent services on thejr behglf, and that, by impli- cation, every other member of the P. E. Island Delegation was re niss in the performance of his duty towards the ‘enantry of this Colony—my at- tention was given tothe subject. Itwas, no doubt, very agreeable to you, in the budding of your as- pirations for popular applause, to be placed in a position entirely new to you, that of friendship to- wards the leaseholders of this Island. 1 saw by your silence when the statement was made in one paper,and repeated inseveral others,that you were willing to swallow this small bit of flattery, to the apparent disparagement of your co-Delegates. I see now by your letter that you are determined to make 9 struggle in asserting your supposed right to it. But the right cannot be allowed.

You insinuate that because I did not hear you

city, Was inattentive to the interests of the Island. Suppose I convince you that three other Dele- gates from the Island beside myselt did not know you tado what you say you did, will you say that they, too, were inattentive to the interests ot the Colony?) Now, I bring to support my state- ment the testimony of Mr. Coles, the mover of the resolution, and that of Mr. McDonald, our co-Delegate; besides the unreservedly expressed words to me, in Charlottetown, ef Mr. Secretary Pope, to whom T put the question the other day : “ Whether he heard you seeouding the resolu- tion?” and he promptly answered me, “ that he did not hear you doing so.”

But as regards Mr. Coles’s testimony, if is more importaut, as it comes directly from his ewn hand Ou Monday I addressed that gentleman the fol- lowing note, aud received the subjoined reply :—

Monday, Dec. 5, 1364. DeAR SiR;

Will you be kind enough to state to me in writing whether you Aeard Mr. Palmer second your resolution at the Quebee Conference, in re- lation to the subsidy for the purehase of lands in this Istand; and whether the resolution proposed to set apart for the object contemplated the in- terest or the vrincipal of £200,000 ?

Yours truly, Epwarbd WHELAN.

leaves behind it, in the ordinary course of events, a very bad headache in the morning, but with a real good, sober-sensed, lift-me up discourse upon the rights and wrongs of wo- man. This is the first lecture of the kind

The Hon. G. CoLes. Monday, 5th December, 1264. | Dear Sir;

In answer to your note of this morning, re- | questing to know whether I “ heard Mr. Palmer

ness, or to want of

your brother Delegates, But, indeed, we all |

zealous friend of know that there was not much occasion for | They would be leas prone to jump te rash and

speaking on behalf of the Island. Its sectional interests were only three or four times brought inte special notice ; for ivetance, as regarded re-

; eee sa —T whether that was attributable to your own dull | trathfally eay he hae mastered the whole question, courtesy on the part ef If the Herald writers would engage in the study concerns all religions and all

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of it too, it would be more to their advantage.

groundless conclusions, and to assert silly and ridiculous falsehoods.

“The Editor of the Examiner,” a8 again false- ly stated in the Herald, has not been “ author-

presentation by population in the Lower House. You admitted that principle before you went to Canada, as the Canadian Convention was basedj upon it. Again, whether there should be four or five representatives from the Island in the Upper House, and whether they should be

ised to compile and print” the proceedings of the Convention. He may print and compile what he likes, in any way that he likes, and if persons in all the Provinces have confidence enough in him to take his compilation, we think it will be admitted

with points projecting towards Petersbarg. Io places the trees have been cut down tw form an adettis. Beyond these obstructions

and his son, a lad of sixteen, were immediately | shot. No defence, no leave-taking, simply a de- | liberate murder ot two poor wretches as amatter |of retaliation. ‘The atrocities of Paine have.

that has ever been given here, and we trast | second my resolution at the Quebec Conference that the large and respectable audience which | i" relation to the subsidy for the purchase of patronised our fair lectarer—Miss Me(own | lands in this Island:” also “ whether the resolu- —will be an inducement to some others of | U0" Prepesed to set apart for the object contem-

our picket lines extend usually from a quar-| however, become too great even for the toleration ter to half a mile distant. of the Federal Goverument, and he has been

By leaving the forts well garrisoned it will | compelled to flee into a neighbouring State to be seen that this line is now so strong that| escape the punishment of his crimes. * It may Grant can hurl the main body of bis force | be deplorable,” adds Dr. Mackay, and most

agai rebel | | people will agree in the sentiment, “but it is not ey $ of the Li.ues he may se- | surprising that the Confederates should retaliate

Jeet ; while it is unpossible to dank him or! upon the Federals when they have the opportu- cut his communications with any forca short) pity, and that the war should rapidly degenerate of the whole rebel army, whieh would natur-! jato a war of savages.”

ally Sone he where we want it. -——

Gae who has not beea here can form no! It is stated that everything is in readiness for idea of the dgsolation, the drearinese of the! the issue of a new call for 300,000 more men, scene, after tha country thus wasted has/ and that the draft will be enforeed in pursuance been abandoned by our troops. On that se-| of the provisions of the Conscription Act, about ries of lateral or cross roads, you see a man ‘Me beginning of the New Year. Gen. Grant

foot here, or on horseback _| wants the men in camp long enough to make on a9 7 there, wander | them well-disciplined esters before the campaign

ing apparently, ‘ ia the Geld,’ like Joseph ,| © thy pe re é "7 : “g May. The last call for that has extension in every direction without five hundred thousaud mea was a failure, not- limit, es, the dark lines of woods | withstanding its enormous cost, as it did not the distance. he house which presents it-! more thaa supply the places of the men whose self now and then is certain to be occupied by | term of service was out, or who fell in battle. @ group of "Union officers, or, as general's) The next draft will be rigidly entoreed. It is headquacters, perhaps by a band of music estimated that the term cf service of two handred engaged ia piping where others do not dance. tousand of the veteran truops will expire this Gray lines of earthworks, gray lines of road, | W™ter. trasns of army Wagons, every ‘hing tora up,

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me women, so children, no cattle lowing or) put gold down to 150 and keep it there. One fevcudiy doge barhiwg, no chanticleer sounds | would suppose it has had enough of this kind of ja the morning. fiuanciering. The New York Commercial, allud-

Two lines of telegraph connect Gen.| ing to the rumor, says:—* Is it possible that Grant's headquarters here with the front. after all the experience of the past—after the un- Lines aleo connect with Gien, Butler's depart-| ment. These commanders have fast steamers for their own accommodation, always ready | to leave atany moment. The Sanitary Com-| mission have w depot well stocked near the) exireme left. The men all speak in high | terma of the good dove by suel: noble institu-| tious as the Christian and Sanitary Commis-

gold from 200 to 255 within nine days, and whose repeal did not place gold anywhere near the

esactment of the bul wodermied the public eon- fidence in regard te the future action of Congress —is it possible that our wiseacres in Washington still believe that Government ean control the | price of gold?) They might as well attempt to BI0Ds. } make water run up hill by virtue of an enactment

. - lil — spyrg| of Congress. Every interference on the part of DISASTROUS ae — i MOSBY S| the Government and of Congress will only aggra-

| vate the evil intended to be corrected.” The Philadelphia /aguirer’s correspondent aprvillin<tncipilegilindanneist tio at Harper's Ferry sends the f\lowing :—

Parzes THEM Hienty.—Mnrs. 8. A. ALLEN’S

«In my lact, despatch 1 mentioned the) World’s Hair Restorer and Zylobalsamum or Hair |

faex that a party of guerilla: made an at-| Dressing are prized highly by all who use them tack on 4 cavalry escort near Winchester, : i B = ” e./ ° . few days since. Por the perpose, if i reaible, | they are acknowledged to be in foreign countries 0: intercepting and capturing the attacking) ~ party, Capt. Brasher’s Independent Scouts as well a at home, the only valuable preparation attached tu General Crook's scouting com- | for restoring, invigorating, beautifying and dress- maand, started through Lond county on/ ing the hair. Those who use them have no grey sade all day een Seen wie ™ pi hair or bald spots. Every Druggist sells them saddle got, @ inally reache —— — » > '. Cabletown, on the Shenandoa!l: River, about W. BR. -Watnoa, eee: E. Island. sixteen miles from Harper's } erry, WHO CARES?

“pee. Beat errs. Capt Brasher wd Who cares for the haat anath rose? tured two of Mosby $ men, and received in- Or the flowers of last year’s May ? formation from them that «a small party Or the leaf dried eweet in a mouldy book

s Careful study and experience has made them what

; : It is reported that the Washington Administra- smashed, destroyed or going to destruction, | tj, proposes to “inaugurate proceedings” to|

fortunate gold bill, which raised the premium on |

from the guerilla chieftain’s outlaws were about two miles from Cabletown. Captain Brasher started with two of his men on a Teconnoitering expedition, and discovered between thirty or forty of the enemy. He quickly returned to bis main bedy, consist- ing of sixty-two men, and proceeded at once

to meet them. As soun as the enemy were in sight, Capt. Brasher drew up his men in| line aad ¢' them.

Of the love who is away?

Who cares for the cloud gone by ? Or last week s rain a Wind? Or a golden cresent of folded carl

The dead one left belind?

A treas and a faded leaf Slight things to a cynic’s eyes ;

But to me they are keys that open the gates Ufa heaven of memories.

our ‘fairest and best’’ to come forward and do likewise. CORN COL. Souris, Dec. 9th, 1864.

Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, December 12, 1864.

EXAMINER.”

To rue Eprror or THE EXAMINER. Sir ;

copied frem the Herald a paragraph, communi- cated to that paper by whom I do not know, relative to Mr. Coles’ motion at the Union Con-

interests ; and have commented on that paragraph | in the following words, “ Ist. Mr. Palwer did not | second the resvlution mentioned: if he did, uo} one heard him. He certainly did not offer ene | remark upon it, which, at least, might have been | }expected from the seconder of so important a} resolution. 2nd. The resolution was not laughed | at by the Canadians. 3rd. Mr. Coles did xot ask for a grant of £200,000.”

I beg leave to correct your statements by in- forming you that I did seeond that motion; and | | further, that before the Conference met on the | morning the motion was made Mr. Coles, at our |

point from which it bad raised it, because the| Hotel, subuitted to me the furm of it in writing: j) at variance on this point.

| that I suggested a few words of alteration which | | Mr. Coles immediately concurred in, Whereupon | | 1 told him 1 would second it and accordingly 1 did | iso. That you did not, hear me, is very probable: | | the little interest you took on behalf of the Island | while sitting at the Board may well account for | ithat. You were, in fact, nearly the whole time | joccupied in writing something, which I suspect }more immediately concerued yourself, or your | | Paper. Your motive for misrepresenting me is

| too transparent to eall for comment on my part: | The tenor of your logic in domng so is such, | dare say, a8 would answer the purpose of Some of the | | readers of the Examiner exceedingly. It would | enable them to quote the first sevtence of your | paragraph No. 1, as the Devil is said to quote | Scripture. Might you not, by the same rule, assert | as follows: “Oo the morning of the 25th Novem- | ber last, the sun did not tise at Quebec. If it did, neither I ner any other member of the Con-| ference saw itrise.” Thus you might have proved | | to the public that the sun never rose at Quebec | on that morning jest as trathfuliy and logically as | you bave proved that I did not second the motion | alluded to.

You have stated that I did not offer one remark | on that “important” resolution. 1 did not, as! [ soon saw from the manner Mr. Coles’ remarks | were received that the minds of the Members of | the Conference were decidedly made up vn the | question. |

Pray did it occur te you, when you were penn- } ing your animadversions on me, to state what you | said yourself in support of this “important” | resolution, or 1n support of any other reselution or | motion in which our Island interest was ie. | | diately concerned? You say Mr. Coles’ resolution |

was not laughed at by the Canadians: my impres- | | sion is that it was. It was certainly laughed |

/HON. EDWARD PALMER vs, « THE!

In your paper of the 28th ultimo, you have |

) sum of $50,000 (kifty Thousand Dollars) annual-

ference for £200,000 to buy up the proprietory by the Federal Government to the Local Govern-

| he sat nearly opposite you, not more than three or

| plated the interest or the principal of £200,000 :” | in the first place, I have no recollection who se- conded my resolution at the Conference Board ; but Mr. Palmer, at a private meeting of the Delegates, who met in the P. E. Island room in the St. Louis Hotel, at my request, to consult on the resolution, said lie would support it. As to your second en- quiry, I herewith encloze you the resolution proposed by me at the said Conference. Yours truly,

Geornce COoLes. | The Mon. E. Wuevayn.

* Whereas, Prince Edward Island has no Crown lands, mines or minerals, whereby to raise any ioeal revenue, all its lands having been granted to large proprietors on certain conditions, which, in nest instances, were not fulfilled; and Her Ma- jesty’s Government having decided that an Escheat of those Townships was inexpedient, but in lieu thereof recommended a purchase of those lands

by the Government: Therefore Resolved, that the

ly, eras much thereof as may be required, be paid

ment to enable it to pay the interest on any amount that may be expended in the purchase of the ‘Township lands of the said Island.”

Is it possible that Mr. Coles could have mistaken the nature of the “support” you gave his reso- He does not say that you promised to “second” it. Hesays you promised to give it jour “ support” — WHICH EVERY ONE OF THE ISLAND DELEGATES DID AS WELL AS you.

lutivn ?

nominated by the Crown or elected by the people. You supported nomination by the Crown in- stead of election by the people, although you have been a strenuous advocate of the latter principle ia this Island. However, this Colony will not be injured by the adoption of that princi- ple any more than the other Provinces. There were a great many other things in which all the Provinces were alike concerned, and particularly the allowance for local Government of 30 cents per head of the population ; and the assimilation of the several tariffs. These are matters concern-

ing whieh we are vitally iuterested, and which are

now resorted tu by you for denunciations against

the measure which, at Toronto, you expressed

your determination to recommend to the people of this country, and for the accomplishment of

which you declared your ardent desire, As re- gards the capitation allowance and the tariff, we will not be worse off than the other Maritime Provinces; and [ am not aware that you made any special complaint on behalf of P. E. Island with regard to these affairs. Another matter in which we are most specially concerned was Mr. Coles’s application for a separate grant. T have already shown the extent of your “ support” of that application. You ask what did I say in sup- port of the resolution when it was moved? 1 have the eandor to admit that 1 said only just as mach as you did—but T claim to have been as good a supporter of it as you. I voted for it, and you did nothing more. It was your duty, or the duty of some other member of the Governinent to speak on behalf of it, and not mine. Would it not have been extreme folly and pre- sumption for two members of the Opposition to have led off, one after another, in advocating a measure of this kind, while three members of the Government sat by, as silent as the grave? It was the especial duty of the Government to have urged, in the first instance, the subsidy for the purchase of our Township lands; but the other Provincial Delegates were undoubtedly led to be- lieve, from your ominous silence and that of your colleagues, that the Government did net favour the measure proposed by Mr. Coles; and that it was merely a political ruse of the Leader of the Opposition. 1t will be of ne use for you to make the flimsy excuse, that you had bo time to speak before the question was put upon the reselution because there is undoubted testimony, that of Mr. MeDonald, to show that while Mr. Galt was speaking on the subject, you had time to review within your own miod the arguments you should offer in favour of it; and you know very well that no Delegate was, at any time, prevented from saying what he pleased on the subject of a reso- lution; if he had no opportunity of doing so before the question was put, he could do so afterwards by moving for its reconsideration. But it was clear to me that the measure was not acceptable to the Island Government, and it appeared hopeless fur the Opposition to make any attempt to carry it.

You say that nearly my whole time in the Con- ference Room was “occupied in writing some- thing.” Quite true. Did you want me to be talking all the time? But you add: “ which I suspect more immediately concerned yourself or your paper.” J] will let your suspicion pass. Minds like yours affurd a congenial habitation for suspicion. The “something” which I did write there were only notes of the proceedings, and you can inspect them, if you please; other members

You say you seconded it. You and Mr. Coles are Was he inattentive to the. matter under consideration? He states that he did not hear you second his resolu- tion. Mr. Coles hasa very keen sense of hearing—

four feet apart; and he could not possibly be uris- taken op a matter of this kind. Had you distin- guished yourself by the very slightest manifesta- tion ef zeal for the tenantry, I think it could! scarcely have escaped his observation.

Now, let us come to Mr. MeDonald’s testimony ; and allow me here to state that no gentleman at the Conference was a more attentive listener to He was always in his place, day and night, and took, as 1 understood from himself,

its proceedings.

of the Conference did the same. I thought I was not erring in following their example. I wrote scarcely one line for my paper in the Conference Room; but if you had delivered yourself of any startling dialectics there concerning, for example, the rising of the sun at Quebee on a certain day, or any other heavenly object to which a snail-like being might attempt to soar, you may depend that the phenomenen weuld have been too great for my pen to resist reporting it for my own or any other paper.

I think I Lave now knocked from under your feet the worse than fragile structure from which you and your Herald friends have been pro- claiming the Hon. Edward Palmer as the especial

ample notes of the proceedings. His chair Was | close alongside of yours, and I think he must have | heard yeu seconding the resolution, if you had | To} ascertain Mr. MeDonald’s ki-owledge or recollee- | tien of the affair, I addressed him a short note |

pronounced the formula merely in a whisper.

by Tuesday's Mail, and received the following | answer :—

| and I oppose it to yours in this matter.

champion of the Tenantry.

The other two matters are easily disposed of. First—-that the Canadians laughed at Mr. Coles’s | application. I said that they did not. You reply |

— my impression is, that they did.” Well, my |

j i

impression " is, I think, quite as good as yours, |

Neva Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland |

that it is much more to his credit than otherwise. The allusion to a “plank Road” from 8t. Peter’s Bay to the Head of the Hillsborough, is very small and contemptible. The mean and ma- licious motive which prompted such an allusion is evidently to convey an impression that Mr. Whelan promised his constituents such a public work, and that he is more likely te urge it now in order to gain support fur Confederation. Mr. Whelan never entertained such a project, and is never likely to entertain it in any contingency ; and be may assure the writers for the Herald, not for their comfurt but their mortification, that he is not in the least alarmed regarding an adverse opinion amongst his constituents, especially if that opinion has no better basis than the puny hostility of such writers as those of the Jierald, who shew that they are not greatly troubled with a keen seuse of honour when they make it a practise to visit the house of the man they vilify, and then make use of part of lis conversativn as material for their scribblings.

AnorugeR Fatsenocp — That Col. Gray signed the Report of the Convention at Montreal “On Sunpay, 30th day of October last” — Vide *“ Werald.”

SO

FENCING,

As an admirable specimen of “ English unde- filed,” we reproduce from a letter in the last Herald, which was meant te be a very severe attack on the Editor of the Examiner, the follow- ing “ elegant extract.” The writer is no other than the Jearned Attorney General of this Istand He alludes to our remark, that we were “ studying the question of Confederation :”

‘- In other words, be is standing onthe fence. It would be very anfortunate, if, while be is making ap his mind, and balancing himself so carefully on the top-louger, the agitation which my letters have produced on bim would have toppled him off into the field on one side or the other and put him to the necessity of backing over imto the opposite side whence he originally started from before he receiv- ed the weleome appointment on the Delegation.”

If any ingenivus person, skilled in the use of words, will tell us what the learned Attorney General means by “ toppling frem one side of a field or the other,” and then “ backing over into the opposite side whenee he originally started,” we shall be much obliged fer the favour. There is a mighty confusion of ideas about the thing. One part of the blundering and ungrammatical sentence we can inake out,—it is this: that we are “ agitated” by Mr. Paimer’s writings. ‘ Agi- tation’ is not the proper word—he should have said we are Lothered by them. We recommend Mr. Palmer to go on cultivating the style of writ- ing of which the above extract is a spectmen- It will be his best shield in amy “ Geld” of eon- troversy. Every opponent, in sheer despair to uaderstand what be is about, will kare “ fence and field "’ te binnself, exclaiming with Sir An- drew Ague-check: ‘ Plagee on’t; an I bad thought he had beew valawt, and so cunning in fence, Vd have seen bin damned ere I'd have challenged bi.”

Here is a fine question for the exercise of Mr. Palmer’s peculiar talent for writing the Baglish language in a way that cappet be endersteed - “ What is the value of a man’s word whe declares at a public dinner bis determination te support a certain political measure, and afterwards says that the declaration did net contain a word of truth, but was only made to cajole and bumbug

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to do 80, on

2 great national

question which peoples alike: tirely repudiate, sensible man will nl

THE UNION QUESTION.

Tue Uston oF ScoTLaNn axp F

SIDERED AS ANALAGOUS To THE PRO . JECTED

Union op Pausck Epwarp -

IsLanp w THE OTHER Bririsn Norry Asmneral PROVINCES,

That is a doctrine which we en and which we are sure bo accept,

NGLAND Coy,

That a matrimonial union between a rich and powerful family and one possessed of neither wealth nor influence, generally tends to the éle- vation, ina secular point of view, of the latter especially as respects its rising members, ig ‘C fact of which not only family histories but the annals of vations affurd most striking Proof. And not only is this true in private life, Its equally so as regards the wnion of a rich ang powerful state with a poor and feeble one, of which the Union of England and Seotland aflords the most undeniable evidence. Yet—obvias ay the advantages of this union were te both the parties, in the estimation of mem Who weg pabie of judging without prejudice, and for the true and permanent in conntry—throughout Scotland, amongst al) and classes of her people, notwit balanee of profit evidently inclined to that try, the idea of a union was held in abborrence ; and net only whilst the treaty was pending weng addresses against it presented by several of the counties, burghs, presbyteries and parishes ; but when it was first baid betore the Scottish Parlig. ment, long and violent debates took place, and protests were recorded against every Vote in it, favor. ‘To this wnion—which, in spite of all the opposition eneountered by the treaty in the coursy of its progress i» beth kingdoms, was, happily for the domestic peace and the accumulated force of the two nations, agreed to by their respective Le gislatures, and ratified by the royal assent — we now refer, on accomnt of the many points of simi- larity existing between it and that by the Report of our Sate lahin-aslenct Gee tion, especially as yespects this Island and Co- nada, which may be segarded ae the Scotland and England thereof. 7

As in Scotland, during the time of tne agitation of the Union with England, the iwerease of aud the ruin of trade were srged as ubjections to it, and the baukroptey aud depopulation of the country gloomily predieszed as certain consequences of the Union showlg @ take place; so now, in Prince Edward Island, we are threatened by the

the inevitable consequences of our becoming a party in the comtemplated Federation of the Vrovinees. The ealculativas, the and inconsistencies ef these men of evib set forth by ovr leeal presv, clashing, av they with the eaperience of the past, will, ever, we donbt net, before long -- for it is our faith that the projected Federation must and will place—be referred to ouly, if referred to af ‘as specimens of the illiberality of their pripe- ples, and the imbecility of their arguments.” — The condition of the people of Prinee Edwand Islard, althomgh healthy and prosperone we adwit it to be, renders them susceptible of nefits frem a eases with the oger aad vi proviness. By it they will share im importance, the mese extended erce, and the greater aaters! wealth of these provinces, exactly a* Seotland bas done with respect to England, by ber union with: whieh country, all the resources of English opulepee, prosperity and independence were thrown open toe her. Soe seusible of these benefite — nebwithetanding her having bees im a mamaes fereed into the. union against bey will—had Scotland become lo the short perwd of nime years, whieb bod betweea the ratificaten of the Unien and the rebellion of 1715, thet the Pretendvs was Wlged to abbey that past of hie proclamation whith pro mised 2 repeal ef i6, and to express hie intention

his feeders?” Of course, his essay would be the more admired if every sentence of it were quite incomprehensible and abounded with bad gram- mar. We should like to publish the essay im a neat book form, with a frontispiece representing an old politician dancing the top-longer jig be-

of leaving it to the determination of a free Par- toment. Before that brief expesience of it—as phantoms of a diseased mind dispelled by the returning light and streagth of reasen—bad bees completely swept away all fears of the misery and depopulation of the enamtvy a» the certain

fore a Banquetting party, masked on both sides of his head — one turned to the banquetters, all smiles and blandishments; the other frowning and making hideous grimaces to a erowd in the distance, who are supposed to be shouting, in the words of Philip Faulcoubridge :

“ Teach us some fence, Sirrab !"’

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