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(From the Pretou Eastern Chronicle, January 17.)

DISASTROUS FIRE IN HALIFAX,

ONE MAN KILLED — SEVERAL INJURED.

FIV Y-NINE PLACES OF BUSINESS DESTROYED, INCLUDING SIX PRINTING OFFICES.

On Saturdsy aight last the city of Halifax was visited by another serious cauflagration, which resulted in the loss of one life, serious |ujary to a number of others, and the destruc- | tion of nearly 4a/f a million of dollars worth of property. Among the sufferers we regret to observe the names of six, of our contemporaries, including the Royal Gazette Office, | and also of one or two firms who were heavy losers by the | fice in G.anville Street a year ago. Most of the buildings destroyed, were oveu ied either as shops or offices,rnJ contained only two dwelling houses; otherwise the fire might have been |

tion of the Hali ax Suv, containing the following particulars of this calamity, was issued early on Monday morning. It isthe ouly ove of tue city papers which coutains any notice of it.

“ [tis our painful duty to record, this morning, another dsastrous fire in our city, accompanied with the loss of one life, and serious injury to several other persons.

On Saturday vight, about 10 minutes past 10 o’clock, we ‘heard the ery of fire, and almost immediately after, heard the sound of one of the fire bells.

On proceeding to the south side of Market Square we ob- served the sm ke issuing from the grocery store oceupied by Mr. J. Garvie, in [lare’s Building. The store was then closed, one of Mr. Garvie's sous having shut up for the night about half an hour previously.

The door was at once broken open, when an immense yo- lume of smoke and flame ixsued out.

The night was bitterly cold, and the roads pretty heavy for the engines.

Considerable time elapsed before the first hose was laid from a plaz to the fire, and when the water was let on por- | tous of the hose were so ‘lefective that the streams from the | bursts were grester than that from the branch. The time | Jost in endeavoring to remedy this defeet gave the fire time | to make headway thruzh the building. The flames were) soon seen issuing through the upper portion of the south point,

‘ands old Halifax offices—the former inthe aggregate about | that even the vital q

‘duties, and the city Marshal had two of his ribs broken, and | am not aware that they were

. a‘ : -onfine j 5 sev ays. produstive even of more sufecing than it has. An extra edi- | er, that he will be confined to his house for several days

: — Ghe Graminer.

——_— aE tern — r against a friend and ally in the hour of her calamity and

From private and other sources we gather the Tilowtng ountry is filled with British |

information, which may be considered reliable The total | distress—at a moment when owr c : : loss i3 variously eotinnatea of from £80, 000 to £100,000, | troops, when the Joyal mea of. Ireland are fatigned ate 8 John Lithgow is probably the heaviest sufferer. Ilis stock, hausted by their efforts to subdue me re ee taal worth from £6000 to £8@00 was uninsured.—Black and) which they had succeeded before a sow ie | Bros. lose largely —probably £8000 or £10,000 having little | the Hadeas Corpus Act was suspende 7 ae sina == insured on either buildings orstock. Silver, burnt out with-| martial are carrying on : wont Te ack out insurance at the previous fire, was insured previously, but whilst the people are taug at ir eck bed * of feat ere | his policy expired at 12 o'clock on Saturday.and was not re-| meet or to deliberate ; and whils ie * “he ee The losses are principally borae by the American | so palsied by their fears, or worn CX y

newed. nestion is scarcely able to rouse them

‘from their lethargy at a mome nsions—dissensions artfully sent subjugation and the insirument of our

These are all great authorities ; and |

£70.000 to £80,000—the latter £7 to £8000. | heir

The druukenness, plundering and disorderly conduct on domestic disse the streets appears to have been thoroughly disgraceful. | pretext of our pre Some of the firewards were assaulted in the discharge of their future thraidom.

r- cross floating over them, or that they received ‘a gold medal’

was 80 severely beaten in endeavoring to arrest some plunder- | ‘ A from the Pope.

. : a gentleman who was present writes as follows—* The stock \ .* % orsian.’ \in Harringtou’s and Lithgow’s Grocery and Liquor establish- |‘ foreign government, oreign,

- . ‘ ‘ . , st | . > enNNsS 22 * not of the country 12 which one re sides. It mus ments were amoog the first to le saved, and the conser uences | ncans, : “ we ; . ‘be remembered that before the Union [re'and had her own

arliament and Government, and heace, that the British ent, made up of British Statesmen, who were ‘ not untry in which’ the Lrish resided, was foreign to

‘you can imagine. Brandy, old Jamaica, Port, Sherry, fine ; old Madeira in wood and bottles, Champagne and light wines, | P | were freely distributed, the latter being as a general thing Governm preferred. Lo fact a regular business of looting was carried on | of the cou ‘and in the course of a few hours I saw more druvkenness the inhabitants of Ireland.

I cannot understand how it is

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the College. Though the Government have in their employ a corrupt party of dependents, whose tongues are ever loosed, | and whose pens are ever pointed to abuse any argument, and |

defame any person who may question the acts or the conduct of the Government, yet so indefensible has been the estab- lishment of the New College, and the folly attending it, that the scribes have dcemed it more prudent to remain silent. As

« Truth can never be confirm’d enough Though doubts did ever sleep;”’

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land, moreover, as Professor Inglis has been led into some

mistakes in his inaugural address, the present 1s not an ua-,

. ; : : : . os vase 2 nt when we are distracted by | suitable'time to offer a few reflections upon the opening of) each for a new lease ?

‘that W. Hi. Pope would not be able to endorse to himself g A

a a rT woefully betrayed the trust reposed in them at the last Geng. ral Election, to get a large Loan to divide amongst them, 9 selves. Uan there be a doubt on any honest man’s mj ‘3

handsome number of thonsands of pounds out cf the loap—, _ if obtained by the present excuse for a Government—the same as it is said he endorsed the uofortunate Bank of Pp K. Island out of the shareho'ders’ money to the tune of soma £14,000 ? Would he not like to be settling with and paying himself out of the loan fand for the Westmorland properry, whose teuantry be would fain exdorse out of two gui

Would he not like to be paying @

kept alive as the | the new College, and the evils existing in our system ol, handsome price for the property of Capt. and Mrs. Camber.

‘disloyal,’ that they had the} forming the Academy into a College became law.

‘A Normal Schoo! Student’ harps on the expression, | jnstitution, where the sons o according to Webster, |

education. land? Weuld he not like to be paying his brother James” It is eight months since the Bill for the purpose of trans- Pope for the Lot 26 property ?- Would noi the Hon. Ed "i Kight | Palmer, the Leader of the Government, like to be paying |

hundred pounds was to be the Alladin’s lamp which could himself for his share of Lot One? — Would not Mr. Yeo change the residence of the “ bovine species” iuto a princely “* whatever” like to get cash for those lands for which he ig r f our svil—or, move correctly, , agent, or of which he may be owner, now after all the timber

the proprietors’ soil—are to dwel gentlemen. ' libel on the College which is to bear the title of the heir) hands to pay for the lands which he represents as agent ? ‘apparent to the British throne. Rome rose from a few rude huts. sufficient time—eig

{ for a season, and walk cut | has been p!uadered off them? Would not Mr. T. HW. Haye Sure'y the tale of the lowing cattle is but a land, the younger, like to get a good round sum into bis ; It matters not; imperial And would not the same gentleman like to give “a good Z The Government haye had | penny” to his father for Lot 56? and to his cousin, Daniei ht months—consequently the hammer of | Hodgson, for his Rustico and Cavendish property ? and to

the artisan has resounded on the building, and the brush | his cousins of Tracadie for that well-managed property ? and

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‘than I have witnessed for years, AJarge amount of property has been saved, mostly deposited in the Province Build ing, where it lies to-day in glorious confusion ; medicines and muslins, hata and hardware, silks, stationery, &c.

‘treason for an Irishman to say that Eng!ishmen are not in- ‘habitants of Ireland. Small minds like the writer in the Monitor are always apt to distort facts which do not agree with their own prejudiced notions, and their mental vision

We are informed by private advides that Mr. Carey, who becomes so disordered that they ve msec 7 ce true i “meani i iti 2 t has always had his leg broken, and afterwards auzputated, died oa Mon- | meaning of things. The British Goveramen : - day ‘ast ‘treated the Irish as foreigners—it has not even extended — ; alee ea A correspondent says,— The strects in the vicinity of the Voluateer movement to Ireland, because it views the Irish the burnt district presented a most melancholy appearance | 4S foreigners ; it would, therefore, be me gone Supers — on Sunday morning. Goods, all more or less damaged, of the [rich to reciprocate, and regard the English Governmen i ivable variety, we i! i ary direction, | a8 2 ‘ foreign’ government. every imagivable variety, were piled up in every direction, gu’ govel : : and the Province Building, which, from its being built of L have neither time nor space to enter re —_ stone, and its distance from the street, afforded some protec- regarding the inhuman cruelty and tyranny eXercise against tion against the destroying element, was almost full.” Lreland by El'zabeth, Cromwell, and other tyrants ; L will 7 ‘not give particulars regarding the military armaments, per- 'secuting laws, confiscations and new systems of religion by

CAPTURE OF A SLAVER BY HER MAJESTY’S which this country has beea oppressed, nor regarding the | | blood-staived penal laws which disgraced the Briush statute | ; HI +r Majesty’s Shp Brisk has recently captured a slaver, | book for centuries; but I shall give, from the most anti-| and made such rapid progress that the goods aud materials | ¢),. Sunny South inthe Mozambique Channel. A correspon-| (atholic and anti-[rish source , a faint idea of the uuspeak- |

SHrP « BRISK.”

in the third stories could uot, in most parts of this building, | dent ou board ihe Brisk eupplics us with the following par- ‘ably barbarous and infamous manner in which the inuch

be got at.

In a short time the fire extended to the shops on either |

side, and also through the building to the northern store oc-

eupied by Lordly & Stimpson, Mr. W. Wilson and others, |

—and then it ran cast and west, until the whole pile was in fla nes.

When the fire broke out the night was calm, but the wind rose with the flames, and blew quite a breeze fron the north- west, carrying a large quantity of burniog cinders over the lower centre o* the city.

By the exertions of the firemen, and other citizens, the buildings on the northern side of George s reet were saved. On the southern side of the Market square the buildings were less fortunate. The wind tending in shat direction, carried euch a vast bo!y of flame with it that it was impossibie for the firemen, ot others, for any length of time to contend with the heats. ho front of Mr. Hamilton's building, lately oc- eupied by EK. (2. Faller, soon caught, and the fire very rapidly extended east, west and south, destroying that entire block, @nod a nutmber of buildings On the bloek to the southward.

By the falling of 3 chimney in Bedford Row, one young meo named Llarvey, was killed, and another, named Major,

‘ was dreadfully braised. A number of other persons received

injuries. It was difficult in the confusion to get at full par- ticulars, Mr. ?. J. A’bro, Mr. J. Rolis, and Mr, Carey, had each a leg broken, the latter has since had the broken limb amputated. 1, Coleman, J. MeNe‘ll, and P. Power, were eonsiderably bruised.

The fire was not got fully under until about 4 o’clock,

Fortwaately for the city, the roofs of the houses were mostly covered with snow, which greatly checked the fire where it raged, and prevented it igniting dwellings in the Vieinity.

About half-past four o'clock the interior of Avery, Brown & Uo’s buiiding was discovered to be on fire: this being seen in time, was promptly put out by the exertions of Mr. J. Longard, and a few persons who agsisted him.

While sym athiz ng with those who have suffer6] by this eatastrophe, a:uong whom are six of our contemporaries, some of whow suffer very severely, we feel thankful that Providence hus again spared us from the ravages of the de- vastating element.

The following is a list of the persons burnt out :—

HOLLIS STREET.

James Donohee, Stationer; J. W. Farquharson, Clothing Store ; Morton & Cogswell, Drug Store ; J. B. Strong, Sta- tioner—Store and Dwelling; W. & J. Campbell, Merchant Tailors; A. f. Pilsbury, American Consul; Mr. Margeson, Paotographist ; Bauld & Macdonald, Dry Goods: N. Silver, Dry Goods; \Wetmore, Vaux & McCulloch, Dry Goods; A. Harshaw, Fur Store and Dwelling; E.G. Faller, Book Store; Alexander Forsyth, Druggist; George Alexander, Dry Goods; \V. M. Uarrington & Co,, Grocery Store.

GuORGE STREET.

Express Printing Office and Bindery ; Lordly & Stimpson, Grocery Store; William Wilson, Hat Store ; Casket Printing Office; William Cununabell, Printer; D. Thom, Liquor Dealer.

CHEAPSIDE.

John Garvie, Grocery Store; Journal Printing Offiee ; John Bowers, Book Binder; Heary Brown, Watchmaker ; Thomag Martin, Hair Dresser; Unodéeupied Store, owned by W. LB. Hamilton.

PRINCE STREET.

Chronic'e Printing Office; George Whidden, Lnsurance Agency ; J. H. Liddell’s Office; Mr. Elliot, Architect ; Reyal Gazeite Offive; William Howe, Lawyer ; Colonist Printing Office ; Stewart's Saloon ; Pavilion Saloon; 8. L. Shannon ; J. W. Johuston & Sons ; Charles Twinning & Son; J, U. Swith, Pootograph:st; John Pugh, Grocery Store ; Trieh Voluaivers Orderly Room; Halifax Library; J. W. Ryehie, Lawyer.

BEDFORD Row.

Il. H. Fuller, Hardware Store; D.Walsh, Clothing Store ; Black, Brothers & Co., Hardware Store; {alifax Fire In- surance Offic: ; Union Marine Insurance Office ; the Sheriff's Office ; Alexander l’rimrose, Lawyer; M. Hl. Richey, Law-

er; RK. G. Halliburton, Lawyer; Apartment occupied by ae Waiters; dd Fellows’ Hall; Nova Scotia Marine

Insurance Office and Dwelling House above ; John Lithgow, Grocery Store ; Exchange Reading Koom ; John M. Geldert, Grocery Store and Dwetliog House above ; William Town- ee id's Office.

We do uot wish to be severe on any particular portion of the Fire Department,—but we must suy there was evidently ® great want shown on Saturday night of some better system for managwy fires than we have at present.

One thing we always observed at fires in this city not very creditable. Thousands congregate, but a very small propor- tion work. ‘The Military do good service at fires, but it is scarcely fair to expect them to work steadily while sa many idle citizeus gather round.

‘Avother ching we were pained to see at the late fire, which Wes, 4 vast amount of drankeune§’s. We never remomber, bere or elsewhere, to hate seen anything like it, and trust We aever sholl again.

FURTHER PARTICULAR,

The most disgraeeful feature. patoliy evident throughout the progress of the ‘fire, was the prevailiag drunkenness. Liquor was easily procured from the stores of the various

ries. Not ouly low individuals, but also those who should have bad more respect for themselves, partook freely of what intoxigating liquors they could find, until many of them beosume beastly drunk. For those who were hard worked, au! almost prostrated by,the intense cold, there was vome need, perhaps, of stimulayt, and we would have less reason to express owr disapprobation. Bat when men went round and sought liquor for the mere pleasure of drinking, it is bat proper that some notice should be taken. The pre- valeut drunkenness was a spectucle fur which no respectable citizen ean fiud an apulogy. We hope never to see similar despicable qualities evidenced in this city on a like occasion, it it shouts ever be the m sfortune of this city to witness a..other such sad calamity.

Many persons inciud'ng soldiers, were found prostrated on

utider the tutluence of liquor; aud some were thus severe! y trust bitten.

~ Whilet ‘ue fire was progressing several fights took place, “und several respeyiable perssue were attacked by individuals exvited by sirius, Lhe Urry Marshal, we regrut tw say, was, pevercly mpured by some ot these rufijgns.

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; , 2 Si S — ; : ; Prana ae wens ~ ae Setaitie iiadaits ‘maligned Irish have been maltreated and nee by Land. é a . o ‘ = ast, a: ee es si i ee 8 we : + N 3 . hoo Ship Brisk, Captain Ve Horsey, bearing the flag of Rear-Ad- | lords and by the British Government A 4 er “a Student” may say, “my own humble opinion is, that the

miral the Hon, Sir tlenry Keppel, K..C. B., was running to tude ‘ : } ; \the northward in the Mozambique Channel, a sail was reported |‘ famine’ arises in a great measure from the indolence and (as 8 en from the masthead, Steam was got ap without delxy, |improvidence of th> Lrish themselves, and that the * pesti- jandsail made in chase, It being hazy, the st-anger was shor =| Jence’ is the merited punishment of their national sins ;” but ly afterwards lost sight of. W ae weather had athe if he were not tho veriest ignoramus, or the most debased | cleared, the stranger was reported four points on our starboard) Crotch, bereft of every fecling of sympathy and chiistian | bow, and the ehip’s course was alvered in that direct on. . We} ae ade bg ee re ala Atel te Ghie | were now going eleven knots and a half an hour, and the Cap- | sentiment, surely he would not have ez} ae

tain, feeling convinced that it must be something oat of the } wost iuhuman and unfeeling manner.

| common that could alter bearings at that distance in so shorta ; : }time, proceeded himself, with his g’ass, to the fore-topmast-)have a history, but only a creature with consciousness a | head, officers mounting the rigging. destiny.” Kvery acre of the land of Ireland has a history,

| Peet o genera! excitement prevailed was evident from the | in its triple confiscation ; and what has been the sad destiny | manner in which sails were trimmed, t:ken in, and set again.

| as i . d | of its people through the repeated misconduct of the English | Hottentots and. bands nen, who on other oceasions only looked | . wi . . ee : ‘ : ». | ant ? ; aune th Eeglish go at ropes, now laid hold of them with a will, The Captain a | Government . Look to the 2 a ” aoe i 6. ” . order from the masthead to keep away two points,siowed tnat | Veruments have dealt with the u e land— isplacing the | he had observed something suspicious—in fact, he had noticed | vatives to make rcom for the foreigner—refusing to recog-

It is said by a clever German authoress, ‘ A stone may ae exiremely high.

| of the artist has covered its walls with fresco work. It is) ‘now capable of making the youthful students feel “ animated | by the glowing instiuets of the mind, characteristic of those | | whose vision is just expanded to behold the distant tops of lofty thoughts and the golden tints of burning aspirations.’ ‘There they will be “cheered by the prospect of drinking ‘at the fountain heads of knowledge ;” and can * scale the | ‘heights of fame and honorable distinction.” Nay more. lean « revel in the sunny dreams of a fervid imagination, aud | ‘pieture in vivid colours the schemes which fancy loves to} |pourtray.” They are to “ bid adieu to the more menial and | plodding walks of life.” In a word, “ they have only to vow and deeper vow, to be renowned, and each like another | Ceesar, shall attain, if not the blood-stained tiara of the conqueror, the perennial laurel that encircles the brow of honor nobly won.” These are the anticipations set forth in the inaugural address, After these words from a sober canny Scotsman, it would be permitted an imaginative son of rin, to say, that the mortals who shall have the folicity to enter | the Princely Callege are to be fed with nectar—to be ravished | with delicious music, wafted on the wings of marmuring} 'genii. and after a brief probation,they will be allowed to walk | ‘the earth, endowed with all the gifts and dignities of the | gods ; '” Tet us descend from the fanciful to the practical. The | Prince of Wales College is a spacious building—its rooms | ‘are warm and clean. ‘The students, in addition to a good | edienttou; will have comfortable beds and wholesome fare—| and will, therefore, be constantly under the eye of their) teachers. It is to be lawented that there has been such delay in opening it; bat then workmen were scarce and wages | It would not answer the|

resent Government to be extravagant, and thereby involve the Colony in debt, after the promises which were made last | ‘General Election. What a lesson in economy the public” ‘accounts will teach the * Great Liberals” when they are. ‘submitted next session of the House of Assembly! Some) lene may remark on the £100 paid to the new professor for | ‘doing nothing; and the money given to Mr. Donald Currie)

well as theirduties. WE Pope—who speaks the sentiments

‘you, Sir, to keep elear of such characters as you value your

;a sodden alteration in the course of the chase, and pronouned her t be a long, rakieh-looking sh'p, too large for a slaver, | but that there was someth ng very suspicious in the sudden | alteration of her course, the crowd of sail, and the unusual | number of staysails.

At about 3 p. m., we eould see her hull from the deck, and, | carrying with us a fresh breeze, while she was in the doldrums, | we closed her rapidly. Wheo within half a mile we ho.sied our colours, when every glass Was pointed towards her peak, | and oll sort of conj ctures were made ag to what colours sie

would show. No one could imagine that so large a vessel icould be a sinver. | Onclosing under her lee, and within a cable’s !ength, a white

nize the right of natives to live on what had been their own | while be was being transformed from Second Master into | lands; and when planting Knglishmen on lands in Ireland, | Clerk of the Executive Council, as the caterpillar into the | ‘not binding them by the laws of England. Even the penal butterfly ; but then whit are these trifling amounts when the’ | laws were land laws; and so were the Whiteboy Acts, in- coffers of the treasury are overflowing with rolls of bank | 'surrection Acts, and Coercion Bills, !

If the conduct of the | notes, heaps of shining silver, and piles of glistening gold !) | Landlords in Ireland be the constant iheme of execration A little inconvenience aside, here at last we have an insti-

‘in every English journal—if their name has become a bye- | tution which is an honour to the Culony.

the laws which that government proposed or sanctioned, have | respective avocations in life. The College contains an ex- ‘rendered them ‘the wretches’ which they are now declared | tensive library, numerous maps, and necessary philosophical to be, by inducing them to believe that their acts were to he | apparatus, not to speak of proper class bouks, and this, too,

In a respectable | word of scorn and a term of reproach in every civilized state | building, the sous of oar merchants, farmers, and mechanics | |—let it be remembered that the Koglish government, and ican receive a suitable education, fitting them for their |

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Goad. sax cheaeoaiaier Teen ok | without responsibility, and their crimes without punishment few minutes more, and we sheered up aleng side to leeward of | V hat, then, is the cause of the state of Ireland? Ijet us as beautiful model of a ship as ever wae seen. Some forty de listen to Kane Frregwittiam.

| jected individuals, apparently a m:xture of all nations, stood) tHe asked why was the rural population of [relan] what va her dock ; still no colours, nor did she appear inclined to! jt was? He asked wealthy London—he asked wealthy

| shorten sail oF heave to. The Captain then determined to rn’) 9)and—why Ireland was poor? Who had been the cause ahead and lower the quarter boats to drop down and board ; of the poverty of Ireland? He said that ENGLAND HAD

| and as this manceavre was being carried out a blank gun caused | 11... . cP oan aka ence Sa | her to square the mainyard, which she did with studding-sails | BEEN THR CAUSE TUE ORIGINAL TY RANNY hanging to the yards, and luffed up into the wind. OF ENGLAND.” (Debate in the House of Lords, dJan'y.

| Lt was an anxious five m nutes to those on buard while the 2oth, 1847— Morning Hera/d report.) boats were away. A sinall white ensign run up ather peak) The Times of Feb. 25-h, 1847, bas the following : —“ The

slaves on board!”* Ske proved to be the Sunny South, of 702 — ya . . St, ard sold at the Havannah in 1899, velued at)... ; : 'chaep oan ~ ssaihiidemed, deg isiinet eeelil’ to Shei: Geet: | iniquity. Not to go farther back than the Union, for now | She sailed from the Hasannsh, on the Sth of March, under at least half a century Kogland has had a collateral voice in the Chilian flag and name of Manuela, having cleared for Horg- Irish affairs. It has been notorious a!] that time that Ireland Kong. Her slave deck is seven feet high, and although there was the victim of uncxampled crimes. Besides lesser evils, were 846 siaves on bord, she was not atall crowded incom- there existed no publi¢ provisios for the poor, Property parison with other vessels so employed, In addition, she car-| yled with savage and tyrannical sway. It exercised its

Deak tea naes tien Sa aL aS techie irigths with a hand of iron. and renounced its duties with : a a ; Aye, infirmity, disease, and every form of

breadth, 34 fee: 4 inches; depth, 16 feet 6 inches. She was a front of brass. : : imtendedtoriginally as a New York and Riv packet—London | Weakness and berearement were cast out to perish. The Jil. News. * fat of the land,’ the.‘ flour of its wheat,’ its ‘ milk and its a honey,’ flowed from ha shores, in tribute to the ruthless ab- sentee, or his guilty cousin, the usurious lender. It was all

drain and no return, But if strength and industry fared (bat ill in a@ land where capital was in a perpetual flux and |decay, how much more poverty and weakness? In an in- ENGLISH MISRULE IN IRELAND. tegral part of the British ideie. on soil trodden by a or British Sovereign, the land-owner was allowed te sweep

To taz Eprror or tux Examrver. away the produce of the earth, without leaving even a

Sm—I now come to those extracts from the ‘ Outlines of | gleaning for them that were ready to perish. And they

| expected that it would come to this. The people of England

Correspondence,

History,’ relating to lreland. The writer in the Monitor says:—* At page 215 we are assured that ‘ the heinous op- pression and injustice of the British Government towards

period of the American Revolution,” At page 217 the Re- bellion of 1798 is characterized as a ‘ gallant but ineffectual | effort to obtain independence.’ ‘ It was speedi!y crushed by the British bayonets, and two years afterwards, 1800, through the influence of fraud, bribery, corruption and intimidation,

the people of Ireland continued without restraint up to the |

did perish year by year continually, from their destitution The whole L[rish people were debased by the spectacle and contaet of licensed mendicancy and recognized starvation. ENGLAND STUPIDLY WINKED AY THIs TY- RANNY. Realy enongh to vindicate political rights, it did not avenge the poor. It is now paying for that conni- vance. The dreadiul consequences of the crime have rer ‘coiled both om the immediate agents and on the consenting

| , Pig : : bystanders. We are now beginning to wipe off the score of

the infamous Act of Union passed the Irish Parliament; at} a long neglect. Such is the usual law of retribution. If it is once aunihilating the independent nationality of [reland—/| asked why we have now to support half the population of reducing her to the degrading position of a province; and Ireland, the question answers itself—because with ovR exposing the noblest rights of her people to the arbitrary | EYES OPEN WE HAYE DFLIBERATELY ALLOWED THEM TO Bx ‘control of a foreign government, and an unfecling and deg- CRUgHED INTO A NATION OF BEGGARS.”

potic ministry.’ At page 217 will be found the following} ‘Ifrese passages will, I presume, dispel a little of the language :—-* The ery for justice, which, from the impoverish- |‘ simplicity and ignorance’ of the writer in the Monitor, and

ed ao‘ starving millions of Ireland has continually risen to! make him understand that England is responsible for the |

have stalked through the devoted land—~the terrible fruits of British cruelty and injustice—have failed to softea the stony heart, or awaken a feeling of sympathy in the bosom of that remorecless Government,”

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an ‘iufamous’ one, and that it was passed by ‘ fraud, bri- bery, gorruption and intimidation.’ That such was the case I can prove by many writers of the highest authority ; for the present I will give only a few extracts,

Charles James [ox, in 1806, says: “The union was

It was a measure the most disgraceful to the goternment of the country that was ever carried or proposed.” Lord Chief Justice Bushe, no Young Irclander [ presume, says : — The basest corruption and artifice were exerted to pro- mote the Union. All the worst passions of the human heart were enlisted tn the service; and all the most de- praved ingenuity of the human intellect tortured to devise new contrivances for fraud.’ [Lord Castlereagh, who was not one of the * fahful,’ in reference to the corruption which

in the lobby, in the streets, on the steps, and at the door of every parliamentary leader, offering titles to some, offive to others, corruption to all.’

Lord Chaveellor Piunket, no mean authority, says ;—* I accuse the government of fomenting the embers of a linger- ig rebel!ion—of hallooing the | rotestant against the Ca- tholic, aud the Catholic against the Protestant—of artfully keeping alive domestic di-sensions for the purposes of subs jugation.' ‘1 “will be bold to say that ligentious and impious France, in all the unrestrained excesses to which auarchy and atheism have given birgh, has not committed a more jusidious act against her eaemy than is now attempted

[by the prefuswd ebampion of the enuse of civilizad Lyrope’

aTROCIOUa in its principle, and ABoMINABLE in its means. |

might become necessary to carry the Union, said :—* Half a million, or more, wore expended some years sinee to break | an Opposition—the same, or a greater sum, may be necessary | now ;’ and Grattan says: * The threat was proceeded in— the peerage sold—the caitiffs of corruption were every whero, |

the British throne, bas been constantly disregarded ; and wretchedness which has existed in Ireland, beeause she hereabouts, that you and Mr. Coles are about to join the) famine and pestilence, with all their attendant horrors, which | neither ruled her as a province, cared for her as a colony, |present Government. J cannot ascertain how, or with whom

{nor respected her as a naton.

Mr. Lester, and intelligent Protestant gentleman, in his

,“* Gondition and fate of Kugland,” vol. 2, p. 74, shews;— “By a rapid survey of the past history of Ireland, that

Every one, except a yery ignorant person like th8 writer | she is an invaded ard plundered nation—that her degradation | Islander, has been triumphantly cited. in the Monttor, knows full well that the Act of Union was: and her servitude are direetly chargeable on Koyland—that | well “ in the way of trade” for the proprietors, whose humble B

tish cupidity and British pride have been the a/pAa and omega of Lrish saffering.” | Dr. Smiles, an Engiish Protestant. in the preface of his | Higtery of Irelaod, says:—* The records of religious perse- | cutions m all countries hive nothing more hideous to offer to our notice than tie Protestant persecutions of the Irsh Ca- i tholics. On them all the devices of crueliy were exhausted. Ingenuity was taxed to devise new plans of persecution, tll the machinery of penal iniquity might almost be pronounced perfect” (40 be continued.)

| Jan. 16, 1861.

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A TEACHER.

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* When evil strives the worst have greatest names.”?

OPENING OF THE PRINCELY COLLEGE! THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS—OUR EDUCATLONAL SYSTEM.

To tan Eprror oy Tue Examen. Sin,—Shortly after the provisions of the Bill for the estab- | lishment of the Prince ot Wales College” becoming public, [I gave through the columns of your journal certain yiews |concerning it, which appeared to be incontrovertible, and ‘which L had the satisfaction te fiud, on conversing with not ‘a few of the friends of the Government, were coucurred in by them. [t was then shown that the new College was un- called for by the people—that ouly a few over zealous per- ‘sons projected it, in order to subserve their own petty ‘interests, and to gratify their owa prejudices, which bad

been previously adverted to by the late Editor of the Islander, Mr. Duncan McLean. | It was further proven that jo Central Academy could be made to answer the present requirements of the Uolovy at one-half theexpense attending

|idea how well it wou'd answer a Government, who have so

lata mere nominal charge. All this is uot tov much to ex- | pest from a Government which, twelve months sinee, vowed | to perfect our system of education ; besides, these things are ‘realised in St. Danstan’s College, which does not receive a ) farthing from the public funds ; whereas the Prince of Wales Uollege, for the first year, is to have nearly one thousand Alas! the vanity of human expectations! Tae) labove is only imagination. Sober trath obliges us to state| ‘that, in appearance, the Prince of Wales College is in the | ‘same dirty, dveary, dilapidated condition as it was in ¥ hess | Profe-sor Arbuck'e is said to have made it the place of re-|

, pounds,

showed that sh» was a prize, and then a voice huiled us * 850) [rish ulcer is exhausting the resources of the empire. It was sort for his animals of the useful, if not ornamental, © bovine | than to hear children c: y; nor does anything raixe my daadet

species.” Not to incur the ri-k of being considered dull in |

‘the College on tho 7th instant, the only repairs done to the|

So

Academy to be seen were some half dozen stepe to the front) door; while, on the inside, any quantity cf red fags had to) ‘be used to hide the cobwebs! The rest is the direct opposite | ‘of what a College should be. Not a library, not a map, not | even a proper class book have the Government provided ; | ‘and for this winter, at least, the Pringe of W ales College is’ ‘but another name for a district school. But what romains| to complete the picture caps the climax—the Collegiate fee | is to be £10 per annum!

Thus much for the Ocllege. The course of studies pro- | posed to be taught are somewhat obscurely defined by Professor | Inglis. He gives the first place to classical learning. Indeed, | his over estimaie of the classics has led him into an important error. As Professor Inglis will, for some time at least, have | considerable influence from his position on our system of edu- | cation,we shall submit a few observations in contradistinction | to those in reference to the classics, set forth in his inaugural | address. If he be proved wrong, no one in this community, it is presumed, will undertake to shew that classical education should be the first object to be sought for by the young men of P. KE. Island. When Hector was dragged round the walls, of Troy, the doom of Troy was sealed.

Some epigrammatist assures us that long speeches are in-| tolerable, both to gods and men; so, journalists tell us, are long letters to editors and readers, Prudence as well as. convenience, therefore, dictates that instead of treating the subject under discussivn in one letter, it will be wiser to de- vote a shorter one to each of the texts plaved at the head of our discourse.

CONSERVATIVE. Charlottetown, Jan. 15, 1861.

To rune Epitox or tue Examiner,

Sirn—For some days past a story has been in circy)lation

| the report originated, but it is said to be believed by some of the Ewes (Yeos) and Lambs, and ather animals in this | uarter ; and as a confirmation of the statement being true, | the advocacy of the Loan Bill, to purchase the lands, by the It may be all very

servants our Government are, and ever have been, to wish, while the lackeys are in power,to borrow money to pay) themsalves for the lands to which they know they have no, honest claim, and for which they glso know the tenantry are not such foo!s as to pay them any rent in future. Aud there | ean be no doubt but that the present Government, on the | principle of “ a drowning man grasping a straw,” would be , happy to get any person or persons tq join them, who might | be the mgans of prolonging their tenure of office ; because they | know well they are doomed so soon as ever the electors get an opportunity of treating them with the seorn which their, base, bad deceptious proprietary leanings have merited ; and, Sir, in order ¢o undeceive you and Mr. Coles, I caution you, that, however popular you may faney yourselves to be, any juneticn with the present wretched party in power will for! |ever annihilate your good names with the great bulk of the electors of Prince Kdward Island. No matter what terms |

| you may be offered, any connection whatever with a faction

who would reward W. EH. Pope with a plurality of offices, to | the extent of some £450 per year, the better to enable him | to wrong the poor tenantry, and help the proprietors to exact their cruel and unlawful claims, and who employed the same W. LI. Pope to seerete the public documents from the Land Coumissioners and the Counsel for the tenantry, and to aid and abet the proprietors and their agents before the said Commissioners. Your slightest participation in such a Go- vernment would be considered 3 sanction on your part of all the cunning machinations of the said W. 4 Pope, and be the means of raising a “ No Popery” ery against you, as it has against the present party—whose views and designs he so /inimitably indicates—throughout the length aud breadth of ‘the land. ‘The electors of this county have a pretty clear