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The Examiner,

Scag ene | Sorte te people. Charlottetown, January 2, 1865.

With fettered steps we left our pleasant land, Envying our fathers in their peaceful graves.

TO THE ELECTORS OF : "The strangers’ bread with bitter tears we steep, SECOND ye OF i ah ope one wenay eres should sabe clog KING'S COUNT ; Neu e mute midnight we steal forth t ,

{t may be that had it not been for the Gentiemex— vacillating policy of Earl Russell, Denmark

| . i’ Tuy vengeance gave ua to the stranger's hand, | t ; : And Potann’s children were led forth for slaves; | was forcibly abdueted by a Northern cruiser, and

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‘one verse of which we think particularly ap-. Another of those disreputable invasions of the | propriate to the circumstances of these un- rights of neutral powers by the Northern comba-

tants bas been perpetrated in the Brazilian port of Bahia, whence the Southern steamer Florida

subsequently sunk by a transport having acci-

dentally come into collision with her. This is

.| more disgraceful than the affair of the Trent—for

that vessel was on the high seas, and flew the flag of a country which had the power to make itself respected. While Brazil is a comparatively

Tn conformity with a statement in my letter to) ang Poland might each have fared better.) yook State, and unable to compete successfully

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you of the 19th altiao, I row beg to you that I will beld FIVE PUBLIC pene But the Dance were encouraged to INS, ot ie and places montjoacd below |assume an attitude of resistance which their

ittine )—f ose of stat: | ; sila —(weather permitting )—for the purpise of tt) assisted efforts could not justify, aud

“toy length, imons on the)” perder tg oie Aries which, nut supported by the material help

Question of Colonial Confederation, and on the | a polineal affairs of the Colony general!) —embrac- | they had reason to expect, had but the effect

ig ary views on the Tenant Union Movement, of rendering their opponents more cneng the Fifteen Years’ Purchase Bill, and (he present | 10 their demands, aud more relentless in en-

condition of the Government, forcing them than they might have been, had

| as .

The First Meeting will be held at Grand River | the victim not relied upon those who

School House, Lot 56, on Wednesday afterneen, *“ Kept the word of promise to the exr, 7 a Lut broke it to the hope. "’ at 4 o'clock, January 11, 1860. ; | '

The Second Meeting at Mr. William Larkin’s, The (same observations apply yo er de- Iisy Fortune Road, on Thursday forenoon, Janu- gree, to the case of Poland, which undoubt- ary 12, at U o'clock. edly expected that the two Western Powers

The. Third Meeting at the House of Jobn| of Europe would not look on and see her Sutherland, Esqr., on Thursday afternoon, Janu-! given up naked to her enemies, after the ary 12, at 4 o'clock. | strong expressions of sympathy for her and

ry & exp ympany

The Fourth Meeting will be held at the house! remonstrances with her oppressor, which ef Mr. Jobo Phelan, Morell, on Fray, 13th) were scouted by him to whom they were ad- January, at 11 o'clock, forenoon. ; _ | dressed, and which but accelerated the fate,

And the Fifth Meeting will be held at Carey’s,| 144 intensified the tortures of the doomed St. Andrew's, oa Friday afternoon, 13:b January, |

rg: ; people. at 5 o'clock. The extinction of Poland is not the only

As, in polities, T ain accountable only to my : :

event of which Russia may boast among. her coastituents, and feel bound to make « xplanations d . re i to them only, 1 shall take, with your permission, eeds 0 1864. The last of the brave Cir- at the several meetings, all the time wich I think | #99408 have deen driven from their strong- may be necessary for that purpose; and if any holds in the Caucasus, which for years they persons — adventurous won-electors, for example held in defiance of the hosts hurled against —wish tv get up a debate afterwards on the) them by their giant and relentless foe. De- opimons advanced by me, that, of course, will de | spite his furce, despite his wiles, these finest a matter fur the exercise of your patience aad specimens of the human race,with all the love judgment. My present purpose, as well as it is | of independence characteristic of the natives wy duty, is, to explain my views to you, aad uot! of mountainous countries —- huve, before

to establish Debating Societies. Schamy! arose as their leader and since his 1 have the honor to be, day, displayed

Gertitlemen, Your obedient Serv't, EDWAKD WHELAN. Charlottetown, Jan. 2, 1260, -_—_—___~~=e-- -—— 1 7 Gc «Ah .

The year which closed on Satur lay last has deposited in the well-filled garners 0: the past the accountsof the due portion of human crime and buman folly, and consequent suffering. It is a sad, but most convincing, proof of the in- herent existence of the principle o/ evil in the human race, that the records of the world from the earliest period of authentic history to the present time ehew no dies e/bu notanda by the whole human family — no one period in which some portion of mankind has not experienced the fact that ‘‘ Man was made to moura.’’

The year 1864 has witnessed in Europe melancholy instances of might overcoming right. The unhallowed spoliation of smal! but gallant Denmark, by the overwhelming strength of Austria and Prussia, aided by the moral influence of Russia, is in sad ac- cordance with the traditions of these three Powers. The associate robbers in the original | partition of Puiand, having made another, ; and, if possible, more disreputable bargain : for seizing the territories of an unofending :

“The strength whereby

The patriot virds himself to die,

Th’ unconquerable power whieh fills

The freeman battling ou his hills,” to @ degree, and under a succession of ad- verse ciroumstances which recalls the time when, with happier fate,

“ Tell disclosed ‘mid peril and alarm,

The might which shumbers ii w peasant’s arm.”

The strange rebellion which has for so many years givea portions of the Chinese empire to the sway of powerful bands of fanatics, has been at length extinguished in the blood of its supporters, who have been made to feel the full weight of their want of success. With true Orjental barba- rism, the imperial fiat bas gone forth that the chiefs of the rebels should be cut into a hundred thousand pieces, and there is little doubt that the mandate will be obeyed, certainly not to the im- possible letter, but at least with a full compliance with its spirit. While the policy and traditions of the Chinese government give but little ground for sympathy on the part of Europeans and Americans, they have cause to rejoice at the final discomfiture of the wretches whose lecal sway gave earnest of the crimes which a more extended rule would have witnessed. It is to be hoped that the experience of the power of Britain, when engaged in hostilities with them, may have taught the Celestials that they will find their advantage in maintaining terms of amity with foreign powers, and that the aid and support extended to them by the British Government against the rebels may induce a state «f feeling which will render future appeals to the ultimo ratio regum unnecessary. ‘The deep rooted spirit of exclu- siveness which generates an insolent idea of their superivrity, and prevents that free intercourse with the outside world that the age in which we live requires, and which it will have, must have received some severe shaking by the events of the last few years; and we can only hope that China aud the neighbouring empire of Japan may have profitied by the lessons they have received in the destruction of their forts and palaces. The latter country, we opine, must undergo a fundamental change in its system of government ere any stable relations with foreign powers can be expected.

The division of authority between the Tycoon and the Damivs, constituting an imperium in unperio, can never work satisfactorily, and con- flicting assertions of severeign rights will evatinue to invulve the country iu successive quarrels, until one governing power be established. It is astrange subject fur reflection—these heirs of a remote and very high civilisation, inhabiting countries of fertility uurivalled—teeming with a population among the most numerous and in- genious on the globe—famous for their industry and natural aptitude for the pursuits of trade— endued with an appreciation of the ‘ Almighty Dollar,” which Jonathan himself might euvy— closing their ports to the keels of the rich argosies of the mercantile world, which have long sought in vain to open up a friendly and mutually beneficia] commerce.

The Mexican Empire has, as generally as rea- sonable men could have expected, acknowledged its new Sovereign, and if the power and prestige of France shall have the effect of putting an end to the institution of revolutions in that distracted country, Napoleon the Third will have done much to make his rule remembered with gratitude. The success of his experiment is, however, very problematical, for a country long torn by con- tending factions, headed by natives, is not like- ly to submit with ready acquiescence to the sway of a foreigner, introduced and maintained upon the throne by foreign bayonets. It cannot be but that Maximilian will be regarded as an in- truder; and the world has eeen more than once that civil strife has been merged, and internal dissensions healed in opposition to the rule of a stranger imposed upon the reluctant people of a previously distracted country. Should the pow- er of the new Emperor be consolidated, and his rule commend itself to the Mexicans, an im por- tant influence will have been formed on this Cun- tinent, which way mould its future for all time to come.

Tie stability of the new Dynasty having been in & manner guaranteed by France, that country will have a locus standi in America which will sadly militate against the celebrated Monroe doctrine, and will limit the flight of the American Bird of Jove in a Southern direction for some time. Ifthe Northern States should succeed in their effurts to crush the South, they will find their Republican Institutions in uncomfortable proximity tou the Freneh species of the same ornithological family, and their expansive ten- dencies will bave tu content theuselves in av- other direetion.

This aubject reminds us that there are a few note-worthy incidents of the civil war claiming a passing reference at our hands, ‘The fight be-

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but weaker Power, carried into effect their upballowed compact witha zeal aid disregard of the opiniva of mankind worthy of a better eause and of purer principles. ‘Che forcible transfer from the jurisdiction of one Crown to that of another of territories such as Denmark was compelled to yield to the German bayonets pointed at her breast — the total disregard of the wishes of the inhabi- tants who were not even favored with Pistol’s question — ‘* Under which king, Betonian? Speak or die,’’ but appropriated by the Moloch of Ambition as so many chattels, with their country, religion, laws, and tra- ditions, — these things, it might have been expected, would not have occurred to disgrace the records of Prussia and Austria at such a period of the Nineteenth Ceutary. The former might well have reflected that another baitie of Jena might be among the fated in- i cidents in her future career, and that ere i ehe sought to wrest from a neighbouring state its hereditary dominions, the time might come when she should bitterly regret the results of her own repression of the rights of her native subjects. Her monarch and his advisers forget the fearful atonement their country was compelled to make for the base seizure of Hanover, by the grace of Napoleon : the First, and the bitterness of the cup which they had to drain at the command of one who used them as his tools, and trampled them under foot when be had no further need of them. Austria is consistently labor- ing in her vocation, for she is but a conglo- merate nationality, made up of the pickings and stealings of fragments of other countries. The day of retribution may be nearer to her than she thinks, and the thunders of Magenta and Solferino muy be re-echoed among the marble halls of the Sea Cybele, and a warrior of the Franks once more dictate terms of peace or submission to the Cassar from the Imperial halls of Schonbrun. While the simple inbabitants of the covetted duchies were to be left at the mercy of the wolves around them, the third Confederate had his feet removed beyond the icy fetters of his northern seas, that it might be ready to make # diversion in favor of his assuciates, in case the great powers of France aod England should interpose to protect the destined victim. In consideration of this good service, he was to be allowed, unmolested, to torture to its dying gasp the lust spark of Polish nationality. Delenda esi Polonia was em- blazoned in blood upon the beavers of the myriad forces of the Cear; aod as true to the cruel motto were the hordes who fullow- : ed such ensigns, as though a repetitioa of . the divine commend against Amalek had been given against the country of the Jagel- “6 Jona. el While we feel deep sympathy for dismem- mt bered Denmark, the heart sickens over the accounts of the total extinetion of the gul- dant Polish people. They are literally no mere. A nation among the oldeatin Europe

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Ss has been swept away, by the most recent,| tween the Alabama and Kearsage off Cherbourg, 3 aod a0 far as bumen judgment cao form an| Which resulted in the sivking of the former, has y opinive, she will never re-appear. Her sua been the first instance of the new elements of the

Naval warfare having been exhibited in such style as to entitle the contest to be considered tbe inauguration of a totally new systern.

There is, it seems, pow to b6 no more of the tacties which our daval herves so long aud so yycevasiully employed. The cluse conflict of ship

ith ship may be considered ubevlete; and the pike of the bearder is iusiguificaut in comparison with the weapon of the stoker, for the ship pus- sessed uf the greater speed can now take up such position with referceace to her opponent that she or retreat with impuuty.

has goue down in darkaovs, while it wae yet noon, and the world bas seen the successors Peak, trate stain with the blood of sl whieh claimed = af

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When we reflect upon the state of mind with which the compulsery ond voluatary exiles from their much loved country must Jcok back upon the past, we are remioded of

or to speak more correctly, have suffered | with the national marine of the North, this is the

only imaginable reason why the Americans pre- sumed to attack and carry off the Florida from Brazilian waters, and from under the guns of Brazilian forts.

In the Southern battle fields the bloody arbi- trament still goes on, and the more recent oecur- rences would seem to indicate that the hour of her greatest need has now arrived ior the South, The supplies of men from Europe to fill up their depleted ranks have enabled these interested in perpetuating the struggle to hurl fresh armies against the war-worn strugglers for independence, and the necessities of their position have com- pelled them to adopt the remarkable expedient of calling into the field 250,000 slaves, to aid is re- pelling an invasion, the originators of which claim that their mission has for its object the manu- mission of those very slaves! If the proposed levies prove true to their colors, our readers may ere long receive accounts of the two bodies of sable heroes, the Free and the Bond, arrayed in adverse ranks, and defacing “‘ God’s image earved in ebony,”’ with as hearty good will as the con- tending whites. Sheuld the proposed additional force act with loyalty to the side on which they will be engaged, their conduct will go far to shew the hypocrisy and humbug of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his school, who could bardly wish to force their philanthropy on “ hereditary bondsmen,” who strike a blow at their very officious liberators.

We had intended to have noticed many ether matters which would properly come within the scope of this article, but finding that space can- not be spared for them, we are compelled to de- fer them for the present. The subject of the Confederation of the Colonies we purposed to have iseussed, but as it is not yet un fait aceompli, and as it has been already, and in all probability will for some time continue to be, tolerably well “ventilated” in the press and at publio mevtings, we shall, if spared, chronicle the result as among the memorabili of 1365.

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Christmas and New Year's Address,

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WOMAN AND HER RIGUTS.

To give society its highest taste ;

Well ordered home, man’s best delight to make ; And, by submissive wisdom, modest skill,

With every gentle care eluding art,

To raise the virtues, animate the bliss,

And sweeten all the toils of human life:

This be the female dignity and praise. ‘THOMSON,

Tired of the ceaseless din of polities, Weary of Union and Disunion too, Sick at the sight of would-be statesmen's tricks, And of the shams of the more odious crew, Whose bold hypocrisy at nothing sticks, Save what would strip them te the public view,

And public suffrages atill cheapest bought, By those, who, Joab and Judas like, betray, Cry, “* Hail!” and kiss, then strike with con cealed sword, Chief Captains hope to be, and not of all ab- horred! (2.)

But turn we, now, where shines the fairest light, The holiest charm, the richest, purest gift, Which, here on earth,—though sad may be our plight, And hourly we engage in feree conflict With adverse fate, and fails cur manhood’s might, And. of our fortune, all be gone adrift,— May still be ours, amidst our prospects drear, In Woman, as or wife, child, sister, mother dear.

Of Woman's Ruicurs, though daily much we hear, Still are their rights unfolded, undefin'd ; Still subject to debate, or heartless sneer, Though deeply felt by every noble wind, To which. as truth they are, and honor dear ; And, to their holy nature, to be blind, Is cause of half the misery we feet, And draws us from the fount, whose streams our hearts would heal.

To those bless’d rights not man alone is blind:

Woman herself too often knows them net; Or, knowing, casts them to the bleakest wind,

And makes, avd shares of wretchedness the lot. O priz’d ste still the virtue te be kind,

With pitying tear to wash away the blot, Win, by forgiveness, e’en of heartless wrong, Still blessing would she be, and bless’d, in weak-

ness strong !

To those bless’d rights all heavenly things pertain, Which here on earth God gives us to enjoy; And his life-giving holy laws ordam, ‘That they, those rights, who injure or destroy, Their peace shall ruin and their honor stain ; Nor shall their art, though much they may employ, E’er shield them from the well-deserved scorn Due to the deeds, which, holiest ties, have torn.

| Her Rucurr, her mission, privilege on earth—

An angel’s—messenger of Heaveu’s—is this: To her last hour, e’en from her day of birth, To teach that social love i# purest bliss ;

And that in hearts there never is a dearth Of joy, or hopeless season of distress, Except when iv them no fond feelings dwell, And, love excluded quite, makes them darkest hell!

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‘Tis hers, a parent’s widow’d heart to cheer ;

A brother, by sweet counsel, to incite ;

To stay a husband frou a false career,

And make his home, his refuge and delight ; To train—Heayen’s sweetest charge—her chil-

dren dear,

And fit them fora fair and upward flight; Around, each holy influence to throw, And be a light to maw through lite’s dark vale af

wae,

Tis hers, an erring sister to protect, ‘To win her back to purity and peace ; ‘To give te epunsel, by kind deeds, effect, Aud cause the war of passions wild to cease ; To thaw the heart, congealed by cold neglect; To give, at once from sin and want, release ; Lead back the wanderer, with the surest hold, Freed from the chains of Vioe, to yest ja Virtue’s fold!

But most in wedded life, her hely power— The power, which in “the law of kindness” lhes— Is felt and honored; in his darkest hour The husband to ber faithful bosom flies ; Into her ear, doth all Lis sorrow pour, And, comforted, ali ontward ill defies ; Her children dear rise up and eall ber blest, And, blessed in ber cure, in peace her household rest. (3)

"Tis hers, wherever sin or sorrow dwells, With heavenly skill te purify and cheer; To carry light into the darkest celis ; To fortify the weak, to banish fear ; To ope, in desert hearts, the long choked wells,

Withdraw the silver veil, and, naked quite, Shew features which would more thau the dread Gorgon's tright;

To those who are not 80, and stil] can find,

Amid the blust’ring, jeering, canting strife, Whereon or wherewith to ewpley the mind,

Apart from selace of domestic life,

And al) the social, sacred ties, which bind,

In Union sweet at home—however rife Contentions be abrouad—the strong and weak, The youthful and the old, the froward aud the

meek;

The hurly-burly, for a time, we leave, With all its little trumpls, torments, hopes, And tears; in placid, thoughtful moud to weave A simple lay, uushackled by such tropes And arts, as often both perplex aud grieve, Not reader only, but the bard who coupes With such uncertain, coy felicities Of speech, by judgmeut deew’d bardic atrocities.

Unshackled too by vain attempts to rise Beyond the sphere in which eur humble muse Finds all the pewer of her weak numbers lies, We shall not aim such polished verse tu use As Pope all sweetly sung, to satirize The vain, and saintly kuaves accuse ; Nor shall we try, with Byron’s sterner art, nee the empyric’s soul to send the flaming art.

Yet, nathless, we may take a random fling At some, whose folly and presumption call, Ev'n in the ear of gentlest muse, to sing A song, whose truth shall all their seuls appal, And, on their baseness aud preteusions bring Such ignominy as can never fall, Save upon those ’gainst whom, to God on high, Ascend the widow's moan, and the reft orphan’s ery.

* Hold, hold, such censure is uneall’d for here!” Perhaps some startled reader here may say. “ Uneall'd for!” we reply, “ No, reader dear, Thy withers may be sound; but hearken, pray: Sow saintly hacks, even here, may shrink with fear When Usury ie named, or we betray The will and power, by lineage and name, For generations tour, to mark their deeds with shame.”

“Yes, there are such amongst us, who look high, Aud madly beast of their ancestral line; Talk of their piety and worth; and sigh, And close the eyes, and shake the head, and whine In saintly phrase—yet not with moisten’d eye, Or sotten’d heart—o’er ev'ry outward sign Of sin and sin-born woe.” “They fairer found?” “Yeu.” “Why?” “ They and their fathers sinned on safer ground.”

Let these, at preseut, from our lash go free, Sleek, tat, and rosy; happy too, if so Their certain knowledge of the kuavery Which lett them wealth, but others steeped in woe, Permits that they can ever Lappy be, Or pride or pleasure iu their treasures take, Until, unto the wrung’d, they restitution make.

Others there are, to whom, were this a time To pay such debts as Justice to them owes, The tull amount of their deserts, in rhyme, We now would shew; and to this brochure’s close, Our verse should only to their merits chime; But sweeter, nobler duties interpose, And leave us only time and space to name Three of Unreason’s hopes, who lovk fur loud acclaim.

HERALD MoNTJOIE shall yet —should Tumuit reign Within our State—at least so he opines, Another MORDAUNT rise ; and, as in Spain, MorRDAUNT with single arm, through her confines Fierce battlea won, and did the war maintain, By ius own wealth, his valour, and designs, So our MONTJOLE, the wouder of the age, Alone, shail all protect — alone, whole hosts engage. (1.)

COLOSSUS too, a puritan indeed,—

A puritan of purest water, be,— Of the true saintly Cromwellian breed,

Of the rude times, may rude Prorectror be ; And still upon etrange gospel manna feed,

In uncouth style, as best doth him become, The band, who love the sound of his fanatic drum.

And shall not also Bovian GeorGeE arise, A light and guardian in such distraught days, Seize on the public wealth, with gloating eyes, Fixancter Cuter ? tor all the wary ways, As well to hold, as gain the worldling’s prize, He knows. But more—should rapine fierce amaze, The slaughtering axe. he would not fail to wield, And stalk, ‘mid slaughter’d beaps, the champion of the field.

But here to Dulness, we a tribute owe, And ber dear sous, who, weekly, weakly shine In Ross’s columns; and with kindred glow, To war with Reason, lovingly combine, And, by their“ Weebly " triumphs o'er ber, shew How well they know, their own distinctive line. Hail, Dulness, hail! Be such as they aloue Chief Flamenus at thy shrine, and guardians of thy throne!

We say the times are out of joiut, distraught ; And well, thus freely libel them, we may,

Aud bid them guah with diving waters clear, To nourish, feed, and richly fruetily Good thoughts, which, else unblessed, would in conception die.

Yes, such are Woman's Kiaurs, pore, bely, high! But ’tis not her's, her graces to unsex, Diseard her fears and winning modesty ; By her attire, our senses to perplex, Unblushingly despise and scout propriety, And her best lovers, mortily and vex ; It is net her's aught masculine to assume: The Orator to play in the full Leeture Root ;

To practise Law or Plysie, or to preach ; To shake the Senate, with ber vehemenco ; In Learning's scientific Halls te teach ; As soldier in the field, seek prominence, O’er slaughtered heaps, to mount the deadly breach, And reach the height of bloed-stained emi. nence; Or, by domestic arbitrary sway, Make all within ber sphere crouch, tremble, and obey.

None, none of these, doth the TRUE WOMAN claim As Right or privilege of her’s; and where Her tmage false thus seeks to rise to fame, All, all is hollow, naked, barren, bare ; True love abhorrent flies, disowns her name, And bliss domestic, she can never share: Hers, as a demon spirit, blights, destroys, O’erthrows the fairest hopes, and blasts the purest joys.

Turn, turn, our soul! from such, disgusted, turn To the pure, gentle beings, who uphold

Their sex’s glory; in whose bosoms burn The lights ot Truth; whose hearts are never

eold;

Who, e’en midst vice, virtues ean discern, And now, at this inclement season, seek

To comfort and to cheer the destitute and weak !

May Heaven pour blessings on them and their deeds! And in our Homes of Gladness, wheresoe’er All, that te grave the board, Contentment needs 1s spread, by their fuir hands, U enliven and to cheer, And e’en where that, abundance far exceeds, May every joy, unto this Season dear,— As bright, before their eyes, the YULE-BLOCK burns, The dance, the gambo!, and the joke, hold revel in their turns!

And, though ‘‘the rigid righteous” (4) may arraign ‘Toe tempting glory of the buskin'd stage, With all that to its mimic powers pertain ; And, in the tury of their saintly rage, Doom, to the regions of eternal pain, All who delight in Shakespeare's living page ; Yet, with good wishes, fear we not to hail All that, ev’n there, may Virtue cheer, or Vice assail :

Hear “ Belvidera pour her soul in love; Dread o'er the scene see Haumlet’s spectre stalk >” (5) Resistless Falstaff all to laughter move ; Pretentious Parolles lose himsei/ in talk; Mark the dark plot by Dionyza wove ; See the shrewd Clown the wise Malvolio balk ; Behold whate’er can sink or raise the wind, Aud prove lasting shame, or honour te mankind.

Such scenes, from Shakespeare, Sheridan, or Knowles, Births of the tragie or the comic muse,— Apart from riet of Circean bowls,— Full well may serve an else dull hour t’ amuse ; ‘Te warm, arouse, or elevate our souls: And well, such strong, impressive parts to choose, Knows the fair lady, who doth now project Thus to invest our souls, and without pain correct, (6)

And now we wish to friends both far and near, ‘To patrons, readers kind, and een to foes, A cheering, bright, and prosperous New Year, Free, as this mortal life can be, from woes;

And tu our Rival Sheets, with heart sincere,

All fair success, which from fair practice flows ; Aud though we trust their views will ne’er prevail, Yet them and all their powers with right good

will we hail!

NOTES.

1. The Herald assures his readers that, if ever the projected Federation be carried into effect, ax respects this Island, it must be at the point of the bayouet. Should sneh a time of Tumuit arise, his will, no doubt, be the partofa Peterborough.

2. Let these in selfish dark cabals delight ; Wreathe the deep bow, diffuse the lying smile, And thread the weary labryrinth of state.

Thomson,

And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health my brother? And Joub took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. “Bat Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand; so he smote him therewith inthe fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not ugain; and he died. JL Sam. ch. xx.

3. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth vot the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, aud call her blessed ; her husbund also, aud he praiseth her. Pro. ch. xxx1.

4. Be not righteous over much; neither make thyselt over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Solomon, Keel. ch. VII, v. 16.

5. Dread o’er the scene, the ghost of Hamlet stalks;

Othello rages; poor Monimia mourns ;

And Beividera pours her soul in love.

THomson.

6. See Mrs. Wentworth Stevenson's announce-

Whe er and confidence to gair, ’tis th

ment of Christmas ** Amateur D; i¢ Perfor-

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CON- SISTENCY AND VERACITY.

Te learned, correct and veracivas Attorney General has delighted us—and all bis other friends, we suppose—by again appearing as a newspaper contributor. His letter in the last Herald, dated Qist ult., was no doubs meant to be a severe thrust at Mr. Whelan on the score of political consistency. This paragon of yerae:ty says:—

“The great measure of Eecheat, for instanee, received his support in all its shapes, as did the old fathers of this question, uniformly, by whose influence Mr Whelan was brought inte political existence, and received the office of Queen's Prin- ter. Ue had enjoyed it buta very few weeks after his last appointment, when his oid friends brought up their escheat question with great hopes of success. The question, however, was met in opposition by a Governwent measure, when Mr. Whelan had either te support it or resign his office. He thought he could serve his country best by retaining the Queen’s Printership. He, there- tore, assisted Mr. Coles’ Government in defeating the escheat question, which that administration did with @ wore fatal blow than it had ever re- ceived before, because it bad came trom those who had formerly been its advocates and profess. ed friends. But Mr. Whelan says this was not incouusistency.”

Mr. Palmer knows that when he penned the above sentences he stated untruths as wilful and deliberate as those he uttered at Toronto, to the shame and disgrace of the whoie Island. “ The great measure of Escheat” never, at any time, received Mr. Whelan’s * support in all its shapes,” and Mr. Whelan was not “ brought into political existenee,” ner did he receive the office of Queeen’s Printer through the “ influenee” of the * old fathers” of that * question.” We make this denial deliberately and advisedly, and we defy Mr. Palmer to prove his statement.

Mr. Palmer alludes to a debate in the Tlouse of Assembly on the Escheat question, in 1855. He says Mr. Whelan had then to oppose that question in order to retain his office. Mr. Whelan opposed it on resolutions framed and moved by himself, without consulting with the Government, but in perfect aczordance with his own principles, in order to test the efficacy of the Land Purchase Bill. It is a dehberate falsehood tor the Attorney General to assert — (and it is only a man of ruined reputation for veracity who would make the assertion), that Mr, W’s. action ou the Escheat Question in 1855 was influenced by a desire to retain his office. He was at perfect liberty to support the Escheat Question; and if he did, the Government would be apt to think twice on the matter before displacing him, Jt was not iutro- duced as a Goyernment question, aud every member was at liberiy-to speak and vote as he pleased regarding it.

Mr. Palmer says that Mr. Whelan was returned to the House through the influence of the “fathers of Escheat,” and by a constituency favourable to that measure, to aid in bringing it toa successful issue. Mr. Whelan never, at any time, supported it in the House. He opposed it, in 1355, as above referred to, with all his ability ; aud his constituents testified their confidence in him by returning him, at two subsequent General Elections, with larger majorities than ever he bad polled on previous occasions. That fact must, we think, be regarded as a sufficient answer to Mr. Palmer’s false accusation of inceusistency.

Mr. Palmer attempts to found a charge of ineonsisteney against Mr. W. by referring to, and quoting from, the speech of the latter im the House of Assembly last Session when the question of appointing Delegates to eonsider the proposal for a Uniew was bebure the House. The Attorney Genera) makes the following quotation :—

“Mr. Whelan stated as follows: “I gare net for the pbature of the Uuien, WHETHER FF RE FEDERAL on Leoistative, vither will be abserd while we remain tied te the apron strings vt ovr venerable nother, Great Britam.”

Mr. W. entertains this opimion still A Union of any kind would be ap absurdity if the Columial Office, whieb represents “our venerable mother,” would continve te possess the power of eoutroll- ing our legislation, as it dees now. But the Con- stitution framed at the Quebee Convention, while it recognises the Impenal convertion veminally, will have the Coluniai office shorn of its authority over these Colonies. That is ope of the reasons why we are disposed to give the plan of Confede- ration our hearty support, and it is one reason

to it,

The incorruptible Attorney General, whe is se ready to impute selfish and corrupt motives te every person opposed to him — who insinuates that Mr. Whelan is controlled by secret and de- basing influence from Canada—makes g sorry at- tept to deny the fact that be pocketed on the sly the salary set apart for the Attorney General, while that office was nomiually filled by another. He says:—~

“T have very little need to notiee in Mr. Whe- lan’s last Examiner his assertion that I pocketed, on the sly, a portion of the salary which apper- tains to the office of Attorney General, and pocket- ed heavy fees as Queen's ‘Counsel. I pocketed nothing but what was fairly and honestly paid me by the Government, or by its officer, the Attorney General, for my public sevices.”

Surely this is admission enough. Mr. Palmer | says he was paid by the Attorney General (Mr. | Brecken) for his “ public services.” Exactly so.

Mr. Brecken drew the quarterly warrants as At-

torney General, and hauded, if not the whole, a| portion of the amounts represented by them over

to Mr. Palmer. Mr. Brecken could not have

been Mr. Palmer's paymaster in any other way.

If Mr. Palmer had claims against the Govern-

ment, they would be met by direct payment to

Mr. Palmer himself, and not through the hands

of anotLer person.

Mr. Palmer denies that he “ crayed " from the

Goverument a salary as President of the Ex-

ecutive Council while he held that office. He

saysi—

“Let me further assure you, Sir, that I am

net the man who ever ‘craved the Executive

Council to give him a salary of three hundred and

fifty pounds a year as President of the Executive

Council,” or craved the Executive Couneil or

any other Council to give him a salary of any amount.”

See how the pompous air of the special pleader appears in harping on the word “craved!” That word may not, perhaps, clearly describe what occurred in the Government in reference to the matter, but we are assured, on good authority, that the question of providing a salary for the President of the Executive Council was mooted in the Government while Mr. Palmer held that positien. That it originated with himself, we have not the shadow of a doubt; but the ques- tion was too ticklish a one to bring before the Legislature. Mr. Palmer will doubtless use more apecial pleading with the view of shewing that he was not interested in the affair, but we ean brush away his special pieading with the greatest ease ; aud the publie now knows what value to attach tu the word of a man who has proclaimed, by his own pen, that he is capable of uttering a falschood to serve even a paltry purpose. Sinn tne THE “HERALD” AND ITs SLLLY THREAILS.

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Tue Boys who scribble nonsense for the Herald seein to be dreadfully incensed against Mr. Whe- lan, and threaten him with the vengeance of his coustituents. One of the Boys—the handsomest of the lot—has addressed a pompous letter to the electors of the Second District of King’s County in which he avows his fearful determination to confront Mr. Whelan betore his constituents at the public meetings which the latter purposes to bold next week. Judging from the tone of the letter, one might suppose that the destinies of the whole Island rested on the well-shaped shoulders of the Boy whose name is appended to it. Mr. Whelan 1s not terrified. He has seen worse-look-

ing fellows in his time; and he assures us that