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Ch’town, Jan. 20, 15

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CHARLOT E LA JOSEPH CREAMER, Physician & Surgeon, Cit? HOTEL, CHARLOTPrETOW NN,

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SALE. QEVERAL Build Y nish, Township No. 1,

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next, at 11 o'clock. down, and the

JOHN BALL, MI

larch 16, 1874,—tf

FOR SALE.

-, 8000 FARM WEST,

rHE CURRY FARM,

INTAINING 120 ACRES, the West

q* > we

Cedar, balancet

situate on s clea IL cultivated and fenced with covered with hardwood and DWELLING

14}

HOUSE,

l iroughout, with Kit- 12x 17, Barn 34 x 41, with is | Sheep-] There

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IWELEING Houser, e sold with or without

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GEORGE

VY, HOWLAN,

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I ] i. Witt Gb Tt Mul PROPERTY AND LANDS ’ FO SALE OR TO LET. riber offers for Sale, or will let i uterm of years,a Shingleand Saw Mill. situated No. o1,together with about 80 acres of wel!- 1 Land. There

- Stable.

‘ to drive both within 10 miles of the City. 5 f land, with

+} Viltch? South Wiltshire

mills, and is Also for sale, buildings, sitnated on

mt City, (near Fowle’s Mills.) Property is well

w chains ofa Chureh,School house, Black- : *, and Mills, there are about ltivation, remainder cover- rdwood, Spruce, Longers, &c. For further particulars, apply to the Sub- harlottetown,

HENRY C. DOUSE.

May 12, 1874.—3in

This

es un recul

To Carriage Builders ! Hotel-keepers, Blacksmiths, TANNERS, AND MECHANICS OF ALL TRADES,

As well as Business Men.

j TOM, # tere Z mene

CHURCHES, MILLS, &C. y be seen at the offices of Ronert sq., Attorney at Law, Charlottetown, L, Esq., and at the Subscriber's. 15 per cent. down, or by approved months; balance in four years. soTs unsold will be offered at AUCTION I lay, the Eighteenth June next, at 11

Lo

The land is high,

ry, and well SCHOOLS, Plans maj

Suaw, E

GEORGE W. HOWLAN l j ne till June 18

n, April 13, 1874.—-s j

QUEEN SQUARE

Company FURNITURE

WAREROOMS |!

Our premises h ven greatly enlarged and are now the

ive

decison 5020000 DARED and BEY ARRANGED

iN THE CITY,

1 to any in the Lower Provinces.

eqga

: Lots situate in Tig- Prince County. ition, are offered by ’ ts remaining ynsold

\ tion, on Wednesday,

re-

nuually for 4 erest. Forplans

rn Road, 10 chains front, 70

Road, Lot 31, 8 miles

situated, being within a

Village of ALBER-

, immediately |

POETRY.

iti itn tin in tp tn th, tn, to, in

|

|

DAVID LIVINGSTONE (Died on the shores of Lake Bemba,May 4,1873— Landed at Southampton, April 15—Buried in | Westminster Abbey, April 18, 1874.)

Droop half-mast colors,bow bareheaded crowds, As this plain coftin o'er the side is slung,

To pass by woods of masts and ratlined shrouds As erst by Afric’s trunks Liana hung

’Tis the last mile, of many thousands trod, With failing strength, but never-failing will,

By the worn trame now at its rest with God, That never rested from its fight with ill.

Or if the ache of travel and of toil. Would sometimes wring a short, sharp ery of pain, From agony of fever blain and boil, Twas but to crush it down and on again!

He knew not that the trumpet he had blown, Out of the darkness of that dismal land, Had reached and roused an army of its own, To strike the chains from the slave's fettered hands. Now we believe he knows—sees all is well— How God had stayed his will and shapea sis way, To bring the light to those that darkling dwell, With gains that life’s devotion will repay.

Open the Abbey doors and bear him in, ®

To sleep with king and stateman,chiet and sage, The missionary came of weaver kin,

But great by work that brooks no lower wage.

He needs no epitaph to guard a name Which men shall prize while worthy work is known ; He lived and died for good—be that his fame— Let marble crumble, this is Living-stone !

LITERATURE.

THE SWEDES IN PRAGUE.

CHAPIBR XXIy,

On entering the city, the friends beheld with surpiise,the populace, as well as the garrison, in lively activity upon the walls— as also round the gates. Now, as the ene:ny wus d'stant, and no immediate danger to be

pee anticipated, these appearances looked very

on Howl's Brook, Townsbip | |

singular. Tha young men, however, hasien- ed, Wulden to his father, and Wallenstein

| to Plachy, iu order to ease both of a'l anxi-

are on the premises | The Stream is excel- | we : | necessity of the incraaged activity alluded

ALL WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE PERFECT SATISFACTION.

I have 200,000 feet Seasoned Lumber under cover, for manufacturing purposes.

[have 20,000 feet Gilt and Walnut Picture I M ling, $0 different patterns | ( )

Oval, Gothic and Square Picture Frames, in G 1W 1

AL Styles of Rustic Frames Heavy ( i Pictures, Cheap.

and American

la and Mirror Plates.

A few Large Mantle Mirrors and Pier Glass- es, Che ap.

German,

Window Furniture, Ke. Poles. Rings and Cornices, Rollers, Shades Biinds, Tassels, Cords, &c. Upholstery Goods. Hair Seating, Bedding. Xe.

om me

New tterns, in Damask, Repps, Terry, Plusie Poplins, Brocatells, Fringes, Gimps, Buttons, Tufts, &c., cheap. Bedding-—-Feather, Hair and Flock Beds, lil ows and Bolsters, constant-

ly on hand, cheap.

iKON a Great Varicty, Cheap.

cele

A few of the brated Iron Bed CHAIRS, it makes a Bed, an Easy Chair, and in- valid Chair.and a Lounge ina few seconds, very durable. No house should be with- out one.

Q4n siock is the Lar est in the (ity, and the very Cheapst

Strongest CHAIRS and BEDSTEADS.

Most beautifal and durable Drawing Room, Dining Room and Chamber Furniture, in have customers come

pleasure to

ee oe

George Woods & COS. CELEBRATED

CABINET ORGANS

FOR SALE-—-CHEAP.

JOHN AEWSON.

Queen Square, Mareb 10, 1873.

BEDSTEADS AND CRIBS,

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ety. They learnt then the occasion, and to. Bad news had arrived, General Wurt- mburg, it was reported, had overt:ken and beaten Buchheim, and therefore Geveral Conti considered it his duty to put himself and the garrison inthe greatest activity. Albert and Leopold betook themselves to their posts, and were soon in the thick of business. Everything went on spiritedly ; and in a few days, the fortifications were in uch forward progrese, that the advance of the Swedish force under Wurtemberg might | be awaited with tolerable confidence. Wallenstein, under these circumstances found abundant occupation to divert his mind from thoughts of Joanna. Le diss closed her retreat to noone, and thereby cut himself off from ali chance of receiving ins telligence respecting her welfare, and as to either he or Loopold leaving the garrison, even for a single day, it was not to be| thought of.

Meanwhile Wurtemberg, contrary to ex: | pectation, engaged himeelf with the siege of | Tabor, and this event rendered the communs | ication between Prague and the adjacent country more tree. Henc:, to his surprise, Wallenstein one morning received a visit in his tower from the o!d Baron von Zelstow, who embraced him with true paternal joy, | and mede him relate circumstantially all | that bad happened to him and the town. | This account fi: ished, Wallenstein inquired, | in return, how it had gone with h’s friends at Troy?

* Alas, badly, nephew, badly!’ answered | the od man; ‘for awhile we were almust har:assed to death; but, thank God, we are, | for the present, at least, freed from our pers s*cutors.’

‘How so? Havethe Swedes retired also | on that side ?

* Not exactly, but our party has withdrawn | iteelf.’

‘ What! is the Colonel no longer at Troy? Ilow comes that ?’

‘ Many things have occurred, ard affairs stand not now as they did some weeks azo. You, of course, know of the matter respects ind your sieward’s Qiughter.”

‘ Yes, indeed !’ replied Wallenstein, some- what start’ed ; ‘she was to have been ex- ecuted.’

‘Ay, they did mdeéd meditate that most shameful act of injustice, and Colonel Streits | berg was foremost in urging its completion. It was this which irritated my niece ; they quarrelled several times about it ; and Helen at length determined to free the unfortunate | girl from the fate that awaited her.’

* Helen!’ exclaimed Wallenstein,

|

}

‘she

| determined to act in direct and public ops |

position to her betrothed ?’

‘Not public! The whole was arranged privately. Butit seems her effort was too late.’

‘Too late!’ great surprise.

‘ Even 80, when the jailor, who had | been bribed by Helen, unlocked the prizon | door, and was going to lead out the girl. he |

repeated Albert, affecting |

did not find her, though he found, both at! 51,

the wirdow and the walls, marks ofa forcible | entrance.

steep.’

‘True, it could not have been an easy | enterprise, Whoever liberated ber ventured | his neck.’

‘T heard, and gladly, that the girl had} disappeared,’ said his nephew, ‘ but nobody | could tel! me how.’

Wallenstein paused ; and the Bar n res sumed. * This disappointment in ber expe- | dition grieved my niece sadly, for she told | me (to whom she confided the whole affai-) | that she had undertaken it principilly on your account.’ H

‘On my account!’ exclaimed Albert, now really astonished, and looking incredus lous.

Yes ; I can assure you,’ added the Baron, smiling, ‘that there seems a considerable revolution in the young lady’s heart. Your character as deliverer of the Old Town, and the heroic defender of the bridge tower, appears to the high~souled * Helen of Troy» in a very glorious light.’

To Wallenstein, this communication, so far from being agreeable, was decidedly the

reverss. ‘ He can assure me! thought our hero, * What is this, then, a message?

And does she imagine me eo frail as to be thus lightly caught again.’

The loquacious baron, finding Albert main~ tained si'ence, and conceiving thst still plainer speaking was advisable, went rambl~ ing on, when the latter interrupted him by abruptly asking, ‘ And are these greetings, and this late attempt to rescue the Bohemian victim, known to the lady’s betrothed ?’

* Why, not to bim, certainly. Low can you ask each a question? Lesides, he is no longer in Prague.’

‘Not in Prague!

No doubt, then, busis

ed in scenting out the track Oo

| place, as the criminal h

WA PORTS TR ee ie TA tended secrifies to his passion of revenge.’ ‘No; oe Liat

project, but not so Konigsm 1k, whieh very stranze. The same night that maiden escaped, came

he seems to have abandoned that 7

the |

a eouriet from Leips

nded -

to Less .

sie, ordering the execution er

’ Ts 7. } t was teld to the Field Marshal, it could not taken

1 yanished, ho i

and whe: have hay

that at any rate

| said to have becn quite frantic, and to have |made search for her everywhere He ather is with bim in Leipsiec.’ *What, Pertram !’ cried Waller tein cited to the utmost by this information;

ancholy aspect of of conts':

| Wurtemburg found the

| the adjacent castles of the nobili

‘Bertram with Konigsmork ?) And Kosizs mark intent upon fin ling the maiden, 1] though anxious, bef her examination, io get cut of the way! What does all thi mean? It seems ineonce'va)'e.’

‘It did so to Odowa'sky. He was

in tho worst of humors, as he sowed t

everybody, not even execpting h’s botrothes,

| remarks of te Leader of the Onposition to |

D ISLAND, MONDAY JUNE 1, 1874.

7H tL GO ns

Hon, Mr. Bircxen could not allow the

pass without a reply. If one half of what he hid said was true, he (Mr. Brecken)

| was not half so respectable as Titus Oake. | Where was the pity which the hon. mem-

bs@ Ql |

'no one was

icept P

| | } } }

; complicating hi

ber now expressed for Roman Catholics when he rose the Protestant ery in Char- lottetown. had been he'd in the Odd Fellow s Hall, to which tickets were issued, and which was got up by the party of the hon. member. i o added that though the opponents of himselfand Mr. Pope were Protestants, asked to pledge himself ex.

I peand Brecken. This Protestant howl had been got up for the purpose of (Mr. B.’s) position. Pros testants, on the same side as the hon, racmber were to be left free to express their lip sympathy, bnt where was that hon.

| gontleman’s sympathy when he repudiated,

| as he had done, having anything to do wtth

Teatt 3 | city ? ithis. His ¢}

In fact, the prospect of this illy:sscrted | covnecticn Jooks altogether unhappy; and] was heartily giad when I saw the Colonel's

preparations to be eff.’ ‘But has hea left at his own instance, o by command ?

‘lincline to think tha forme replied Von Zelstow ; ‘T tell you, Albert, matters

do not stand between this covple otght between betrethed jartics, end | tell you candid'y that I guess you are in part of the cause.’

They wer stiin was obliged to proce d down the ins

use,

trenchments of the Moldavia panied by the B

hore, accoms

ron, who examined, with

now interrapted, and Wallens |

interest, as an old soldier, the completed las |

bore. with Wallsnstei: with the promise of repeatins his

long as the tow: remained free of access.

He then parted

visits 8

What some d.ys before had been feared —the return of the troops unier Wuriems

burz to Prazue— took place but too soon, |

and was preceded by the melancholy news of the storming of the city of Tabor, within whose walls, sti] strong from their origin in the period of the Hussites, many noble fams

end inhabitan's of tha surrounding

country had deposiied thi

ilies

and effects, and which, onthat veryaccount,

presented allurements to the rapacious en- emy.

Shortly after this discouraging event was, as a certainty, known in Pragae, the colors

and ensigns of the Swedes were observed one

morning

g, ty the eentinels ‘stationed apo the Klein and Heinrich’s towers, v a distance behind the hills which surroun? the Bobemian Capital. In a couple of hour: afterward the vanguard of the Swedes wa perceived advancing, divided into parti:

upon the adjacent heights hus every-

Poaey Ww sooair sat } Prague wow again that

avine at aving a

thing around

g meis

aint and priva-

tion which it had co recently thrown off.

walls and garricon | State, takins of the city wuld his absence had

in a@ proper defensible and acknows | ledged that the

owing to the works which

; allowed the citizens to effect, b: extremely

difficult. Still he hoped for the arrival o! the Palatine, who was expected very short- ly, and then it was resolved to attack Prague

y side with sich violenes as to make it impossible for the which was in almo:t total want of artillery, to hold out long. '

at once from every

arrison

This, thon, was ti.e moment, for s:rious |combat and defence. Before each gate of Prague another corps was stationed, Th

Palatine at the New Gate, Konigsmark t the left in tte vineyard, and Wurter before the Wissehraker and Ros3-gate

The Pragueze mai

bu

tained thsmselves roically ; they even ma versal salli which they did consideratle mischief enemy, though their own danzer increased

with each day ; for alr

several parts in ashes, and the towers razed

Greatly incensed at the obstinacy of tha bes

seged, who ventared

to of pos !

before a city, the taking of nity, and the flattery of others, had painted te him as easy, the Palatine bore this un¢x- pected opposition with great impatience. in order to cheer and divert him, his adjas tants and courtiers proposed cxcursious to

which, ¥v

curred to the besiegin

these the Swedes believe

any day of repose o: the first of Hore th

welcome than anywher » dwelt the betrothed of one of

forces ; among was Castle of Tr ry, themselves else; for he their most distinguished officers; a:d in

re

that House, where he who had delivered over Prazve i: to their band yready looked upon a nept v Sau ber ci the fam | ily—the pcince of only rec! up

dutifal and hon :abl u oupona joyful reecept

i diaie

One side of a street in Glasgow has been Christianed *“‘ Coomasie place.’

A titled Englishman, a graduate of Cam- bridge University, draws beer in Des 1es saloon,

The

Greenock sugar refiners have sus-

| pended work until the abolition of the sugs ‘But the tower is there very high and | ar duties comes into eflect.

Over 2,000 men have thus been thrown idle.

Thomas Carlyle, who is now very feeble, has taken a residence in Wales, where he is to spend part of the summer with Mr. Froude. companion.

found in the river Loa, whica divides Peru from Bolivia. The quality of guano is said to equal that of the Chincha: Islands, and the quantity is computed to exceed 8,000~ GOO tons.

Advices from famine strikea districts of India say that 1,342,009 persons are em- ployed in relief works, 200 U00 are receiving

| charity ; and 450 000 supported by advances | or sales of grain.

The condition of affairs has improved since February.

In the treaty for the esta r British protectorate over the Fiji Islands is stipulated that Great Britain shall assun all financial liabulit pay the King $15,00 per im, with other pensions to variot

native chiefs, and recognize the rulia as owner of the lands, which are to be open to foreigners within the year

Another Anglo-Russian alliance matri-

The prospective high contracting parties are the Grand Duke Alexis and Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. Alexis is about 24 yaars old. and the Prin- cess 17, The matter is seriously discussed in the political world.

Chinamen are as imitative as monkeys, and Scotchmen prevade the distant British colonies. A Mr. Macpherson was, upon the opening of sealed proposals for some public work in Otago, New Zeland, found to bethe successful competitor for it. The sup posed Scotchman, who was unknown, Was invited to attend to complete the contract. To the amazement of all the officials,a China- man, with an noble pigstail, put in an ap» pearance. ‘ Where is Mr. Macpherson?” asked the clerk. “Me!” replied John. ‘How came you to be called a Macpherson?’ ‘Oh, nobody get nothing in Otago if he be not a Mac,’ replied the unabashed Celestial. |

themee!vee |

to his keroie course, and detrin him long |

ty, Wuenever | they did when the Pastorals were issued, | the result might have been different.

party view of this matter, |

the nomination of Mr. McDonald for the i Did the Roman Catholics remember vr B.’s) Roman Catholic con- tituents, had given him less trouble than the Protestants. He had never by them beea asked to give a pledge. It was uns kinc, ungenerous, and unfair in the ex- reme, for the hon. member to speak as he

| had after a victory, in getting up the Protess

tantery against him (Mr B.)and ¢ausing him to le pledged. But for the action of the Pro.estant corabination, in the Odd Fel- low's Hall, he would tosday have been in a positon to have assisted the Bishop's ; and he believed that but for it, a large portion of his Protestant constituents would find no fault with him for doing so.

’ } schoci

| The time when the Bishop’s claims would

| ance of the

| ed,

be recognized, would come, just as cer- tainlyas that jnstice must finally prevail.

| Would the Leader of the Opposition, some

twoor three months ago, when the assist» Bishop was necessaay in order to carry on his political policy, have said, as he had lately done, that before he would give grants to their schools his locks would grow gray.

Mr. L. H. Davirs—!Had never said anys thingof the kind. He had said that when he wes convinced that the claim was just, he would go for it.

Ion. Mr. Barcken had no desire to mis~ represent him. It was, however, the one- sided agitation which had been got up, which had placed him (Mr. B.)in sucha position that he could not vote as he wish- If the resolution now under considers

} ation was passed by the committee, he

wonld ask his constituents to meet him in the Market Hall, and if they did not agree with him, he would place his seat at their

| disposal. He had every respect for the

|

Lishop, with whom he had never exchang- ed a word upon political questions. He did not know that the Biskop was respon- sible for the vile slanders which had been hurled against hls (Mr. B.'s) political friends. He had intended no allusion to

| the Bishop when he spoke of licking the

| hand which smote them.

|

} my faiends.’

He had referred

| to the party which had blackguarded and traduced them,

The Leader of the Oppos~ ition might yet have to say ‘save me from He had, in speaking thus,

) alluded to the #era/d newspaper, and that

kindred combination. He did not know that the Bishop countenanced or authorized it. There was never a Titus Oakes that

| had done more to delay justice than had the

man that ran the //crald newspaper. ion. McEacuen.—No greater lie

Mr.

jhad ever been belched from the depths of hell,

than the statement of the Leader of

| the Opposition, that he had spoken in in-

}

| } | |

sulting terms regarding the Bishop. He had mentioned his name with fear, and had no desire to introduce it into this discuss sion. The statement made by the hon. member for Tignish, that hon. members on this side should show their sincerity on this matter by throwing up their offices, came with a bad grace from him, for he had a few days ago said that he would not vote for the clauses in the Purificarion Bill, excluding Collectors of Customs, from seats in the House. heeause that would incapa~ citste himself. He did not deny the cors rectness of the principle, but weuld not vote for it because he would, by its action, ] a £15 office!

Mr. Coxraory.—His constituents did not

lose

| suppose, when he was elected, that he

,would throw up his effice. a

He had no

| fe ur regarding his justification’of his action before them.

dy the walls were ic |

| had been misrepresented

~

Progress reported, and House adjourned. EVENING SrEssion

April

a. House in Committee on School Ques-

on. Mr. Jenkins.—'lis remarks last evening not wilfully, he thought, by the Leader of the Opposition. He had, in his remarks. been particularly

| careful to make no allusion to the elections.

What he had stated was that if the Bishop and the Catholic hierarchy of the Lower Provinces, had not taken the high ground

Ile had not taken a for he would have, had he gone to King’s County to vote, voted for one on each side.

Mr, L. H.. Davies accepted the explanas tion. He had understood differently.

Mr. McHacuen,—The Leader of the Ops

i +e ° . | position had also misrepresented him, in |

| stating that he had used the Bishop’s name

}

| spectfully of any clergyman.

insultingly. Me had never spoken disre-

Was there

| anything disrespectful in saying that if the

|

| question such as this. | narrowed itself down to a fine point.

Mr. Froude is now his constant |

| Bishop had supported McDonald instead of

Davies, he might have fared better?

Mr. Srewarr felt his inability to treat this question as it should be treated. He was pleased that the Solicitor General, who had last evening addressed the Committee with good effect, had done so in the tems perate manner and spirit which he had. It was a matter for rejoicing, that party bitterness could be laid aside on a great The main question Those who took a different view from that held by himself and those with. him who supported the present system, opposed that system on the ground that it was a Protestant institu-

| tion to allintents and purposes, The Roman A new and valuable deposit has been |

| rived no benetit

a Pres | ances monial is placed among the probabilities.

Catholics complained that while they con- stituted 4).000 of the population of this Island, and contributed largely to the revenue, there was a portion of the Gov- ernment expenditure from which they de- They pointed the cham- pion of the common school system to the commodious schools erected by the Bishop with good teachers, and all the necessary appliances, and contrasted them with the disreputable state of the common schools ia the city, which they said were a reproach and a disgrace. While he admitted that it was a disgrace to the town that its people were not more alive to their true interests in this matter, he would not permit res proach te be cast upon his constituents in this matter. Noreproach could be laid at their door. They had taxed themselves, and built commodious schoolhouses, and furnished them with the necessary appli- Reproach could be laid only at the door of the citizens of Charlottetown, not of the people of the Island generally. The Solicitor General had pointed out those facts, and had pleaded with a great degree of ability and calmness, and sought partis cularly to induce this side of the House to

| go to his rescue upon this question, and

right the wrong which he thought was ims posed upon the Bishop, and the religious bo ly to which he belonged. He had also alluded to the school taught by Mr. Roche some years ago, a school which he (Mr. Stewart) had attended himself, and from the teacher of which he had acquired any- thing which he knew of mathematics. was true that that school had received £250 per2nnum. Mr, Roche had a male and female assistant. But where the Solicitor General and he differed was here. Had the Bishop tested the present system fairly ups on its merits? The grant to Mr. Roche’s

| V.| grant to a

r : . } Ife alluded to a mecting which

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Roman Catholic school. The | children who attendea there received a very good education from the teacher, and would the Solicitor General say that they were any worse children than those who attended the Christian Brothers’ school ? Did they make any worse citizens? The argument of the Solicitor General was th’'s —if Edward Roche conducted a Roman | Catholie school in the old Chapel, and re- ceived £250 per annum. what was to pre- vent the Cnsistian Brothers’. witha large building, receiving aid from the Treasury ? But this resolution went further; it’asked that a class of teachers should be y ermitted to come from abroad and assume the man agement of schools receiving Government aid, without being compelled to undergo an examination ; and it also asked that religious education should be permitted in schools where all were of one denominas tion, and when the parents desired it. It was in the first place, his belief that it was a duty imposed upon the State to educate the youth of the country, that every man, woman and child was the property of the State, and that the State was bound to utilize that property and make it as pro~ ductive as possible. If, therefore, the State failed to give education, it did not fulfil its duty. But any power which took the people’s money and expended it for any purpose which it did not control, acted in an unwise and impolitic manner. He would refer to an authority on this matter, to show that to pay money to any institus tion not under public control was a bluns der :—

“To pay public money to any institution which is not under public control, is a blunder of economical policy ; but to pay it to sectarian institutions for instruction in religious creed, is an outrage on the princi- ple of modern society which makes relis gion an affair of the individual conscience, and not a question of the State.”

This referred to the demands that were now made by the Roman Catholic body for greater privivileges than they received unr der the Ontario system. They were not satisfied with what they had, but sought for high schools, exclusively under their own control, at the following places :—

Ottawa, Kinston, Toronto London, Ham- ilton and Cornwall, and a Normal School at Ottawa.

The Solicitor General had complained of injustice being done by the taxes of Ros man Catholics keing taken and no equiva- lent being given, but he failed to see the force of the argument, though he had exs amined the evidence on both sides, and had read everything which had been pubs lished in favor of and against the demand since the question had come up. He had read the pastoral and the counterblast. There was much in the former which he admired, much which was truthful and good, and would recommend itself to all right~thinking persons. It was the duty of those who had children enirusted to their care to so educate them that they would grow up moral and religious men and women. It was their duty to God, their country, and themselves. He ad. mitted the truth of the pastoral when it said

“ Education consists in the perfection of our faculties ; it is therefore a developing of the intelligence to enable it to grasp truth, and a training of the will to induce it to follow truth.”

But he could not agree with it when it said

‘Education, then, has for its object the cultivation of the spiritual powers of man, and consequently it is a spiritual function. Hence, there is no such thing as Secular Education. From this it is evident that the State has no right to control education. Education being a spiritual function, its direction belong to to the spiritual kingdom of Christ upon earth, that is, the Church. Ilence, when the state introduced a system of education, independent of the Church, it wandered beyond its sphere, and usurp. ed the right of another. What wonder, then, thatit failed to give satisfaction, or that the effects of its efforts should be dis - astrous to society ?”’

If this was a fact—if education was nota secular matter—if the State should have no control over it—if it was purely religious and denominational—then he contended that no body of men holding those views | should come to the Treasury and demand |; money for the maintenance of a system | which they believed did not come within | the province of the State. He would re- | fer the Attorney General to an able review by Lord Macaulay in reply to Gladstone’s | doctrine of the division of labor; that dis | vision of labor which threw part of the training of citizens upon the State, but left

the moral and religious education for the clergyman, He admired what the Bishop | had done, and was only sorry that those who held opposite views had not done as he had. Ue had, by his action, however, done much to interfere with the Common School system. He had withdrawn a large number from the schools. Had he set to work as industriously to improve the Com- mon Schools, the complaints now made of the state in which they were would never have been called for, The amount requir. ed to disburse the the Christian Brothers’ | Schools was, he understood, £250 a year, | This amount had been given to the school | taught by Mr. Roche without a word of

complaint, but it would be unwise and im-

politic to give money to an institution over | whieh the Government had no control or | supervision. The Solicitor General had re- ferred to the Prussian system, but under that system the inspection of schools was rigidly enforced. Dr. Ryerson, after a |

careful, personal observation of the school |

systems of the Continent, said :—

‘Butif the regulations were admirable jin regard to the examination of teachers, | protecting the people in regard to both public and private schools against unworthy and unqualfied teachers, the regulations | in respect to the inspection of schools were no less practical and effective This is, in- deed, the corner-stone. the life, the soul of | the Dutch school system, as it must be of

any efficient system of public instruction. Too much importance cannot be attached to an active and vigilant superintendence

spectful reference for both teachers and trustees, sttmulating them in _ their noble work, suggesting the best methods of experience for promotion.

“ Inspectors of Schools.—I have, in pres ceding pages, sated the manner of selecting and appointing inspectors, the importance attached to their office, as also some of their duties. ernment avcompanying the School Law of