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the bors, sed thus provialon wos ma‘w by the.

GuARESPOWICACE, EPrcation AND THE CHURCH. Ne. 5.

~ | The Latin Iangoage was studied and well ander-

the aofventa, but aleo by many of the ludies of the | ( Comtvarwed..) world, whoSften wrote and received letters in that | Tu tye Rorrok of tue ProreetaytT language: In the tenth century Hroswetha, a nnn Moewtthetaeding that pou are obliged both of Grandersheim, wrote Latin poems, st)!l extant, Wy Domot ats!) active to publish We whole of my re | of the foundation of ber convent, and on the life of pty te your unjnet attack on St. Dunstan's College | Otho the Greet and also six dramas on ecclesiasti and the Popes, yet you have not pabished the two/ tal history. (See Annales de la Philosophie Chre- leat letters whic’, I sent you, although you ineert! tiepmes) St. Gertrude of Saxony wrote in Latin weekly i yoar jouras! communications againet me. ) wome pious historical worka (Inainuations D. The- vehich appear to be written by some low rabidtha. Us) ‘The abbeas Herrada of Alsace wrote in the racter who holds tue sume position in (b> lierary | me language an extensive Encyclopedia (Hortus | world that a rowdy, ‘lackey. or tip does in the deliciarom) which is still preserved. We are in excia) one. “The position fa which you have placed | formed by the author ofthe “Anglo Saxon Church, Tourrelf, is not, in me humnle opinion, the most en. 07 the uuthority of the Veaeruble Bede, that the} viable, and is Kittie caleniated to raise your charac. | Anglo-Saxon clergy of all ranks exerted themselves | tor as 8 genilemar «ad & Christian in the estimation | in the cause of literature in the most laudable man- eren of your miends, many of whom will, 1 think, | Ber, and that “their exhortations and example ex- agree with me in saying that your refusal to insert | cited an ardour for improvement which was uot| my “Ge rather dishonorable, not to | confined to the cloister, but extended its influence to

say unchristian. It te more than probable that you

fee\ conacions that stould vou publish al! my letters | The children of the thanes educated in the neigh- | former compeers, while lamenting thix promotion.

. ra will be conviaced of the injustice and bouring monasteries, imbibed an early respect, if | ure left to reyret the abseuce of such well disciplined ae vende :

malighity of many ofthe namerous ealumnies which "Ot a& paseion for literature; and seyeral of the Lave been #0 chen repented against “ Papists,” and) princes condeacended to study those sciences on

wil] consider in its trae light the character of the, Which their tarbaroas, but victorious fuihers, had | Possessed of commanding talents and gentlemanly

. ‘ ' ; t ; others by rewards and} y calunivinior#. As you do not appear to “ have lei | trampled with eat othe me : a alia | cannes of parliamentary discnssion; and oft has sure to reply” to my communications, perhaps it} donations endeavoured to dietinguish themise VeS &S| he made those halle from which he has been driven | sn (Bed. Hist. I. iv. 2 | Sat with the echo of his chaste and finent elo-| written in several papers about “ Dreamer’s Cc

weald be well fur you to oblain the assistance of | the patrons of the learned,

three or four more b-erary " blacklegs’’ or pimps’; Albat. Wirem. p 300 We Even the women one tobuse " Father Angus” in the most “ Evangel | the general entbusinem : seminaries of learning were | ria) for the reward which it was his object to) for the ‘Islander’ to be silent on the matter. | * * 7 . 7 * .

established in their convents: they conversed with

cal’ style of modern mes. ; ' their absent friends inthe language of ancient Rome

If one were to crevit certain gemtiemen who think | to raise themselves by striving tolower their neigh. (What many of their revilers cannot do at the pre poars, be would believe that the Catholic Church | *eut day); and frequeatly exchanged the labors ot bas ever Inbored to keep those within ber fold in a| the distaff and the needie for the more pleasing state of mental slavery and degradation. In the! and more elegant beauties of the Latin poets Bt * Protestant’ of the 24th ult. is published a Report | Aldhelm wrote histreatixe De landibus Virginitatis,

of the “ Young Men’e Christinn Association and | for the use of the Abbess Hildelitt and her nuns. |

Literary Institute,” which saye:—“ Shall we try | The style in which it is composed shows that if he to dauieh them (science and literature)? That! Wished them to understand it, he must have con Svuid be tuo much like the Chareh that holds, that! dered them as no mean proficients in the Latin * iguerance w the mother of devotion ;’ and then sets language. From thia treatise we learn that nuns forth her ludex Expurgatorious, enforcing ber ex-, Were accustomed to read the Pentateuch, the books purgations as far as sbe can." | of the Proph.ts and the New Testament, with the

L have seldom reads calaumnions insinuation more | Commentaries of the ancient fathers: and to study barefaced than that which is contained in the above | the bistorical, tropological, allegorical, and anayog extract. The “ Young Men's Christian Association ical senses ofthe different passages ; profane history, and Literary Inatitute’’ te under the patronage of chronology, grammar, orthography and poetry, alae Ifie Fixcetieucy the Lieut. Governor, and hes con.| employed their attention. St. Aldbel. de laude uected with it severui other gentlemen of high! Virg. p. 24. The lives of Si. Willibald and Sc sandiog in the commonity, among whom is Profes Waunebald were bet) wiittenin Letin by an Anylo-

sor luglis, LL.D. Itis not surprisingthat it sbould | Saxon nun. Several letters in the same language, |

be insinnsted by “ illiternte agitators’ af «mall minds! Written by English ladies, are preserved among the and contracted idees thai the Catholic Church helds! epiaties of St. Boniface. In some of them are alla that © Ignorance is the mother of devotion ;” but it | sions to the Roman poets ; and in one, a few verses is certainiy not s little “mange that the insinvation| Composed by Leobgytha, who was then leurning should receive the apparent approval of a person | the rules of metre from her mistress, Eadburga. whom the pnblic hitherto regarded as a gentleman | Ep. Bonif. 36. p 46. (Antiq. Ang. Sax. Chureh, pp of expanded ideas sud extensive information. 1! 189 & 190.) For further interesting detuils regard- would be very sorry to maiutain positively that Dr. | ieg the learned females of the middle ages, I may Loubs bas endorsed the seutiv.ente of that portion ef , fer you to the 6th art. of the Ann. de la Philosop the Report to which I bave alinded, but as he has (bret. vbewn for some tine oneset the oflice-bearers of the! Whilst writing of the schools of the middle ages, aleve nawed Assuciation, | think that, if be does | I may add the just observations of a recent American por desire the public to understand that he has en. | Wer, who says that Ireland took a prominent part dorsed them, he would be only doing an act of jus '““im the cultivation and promotion of literature tiee ty his own character to mako a public disclaimer | From the middle of the fifih to the middle of the whereuf lo my last letter I proved ceonclusiv ' ; mest expectable Protestatt «uthorities that the Ca the tide of barbarian invasion was rushing over the

from the | # crusade of learning throughout all Europe. While

tholic cieryymen of the “dark ues’ did much for | continent, burying under its tarbid waves the relics | the possession of what Mr. Wottera regards as the

, ° . 2 tht > . E-dneation by copying and collecting books and es | Of ancient literature and civilization, the Emerald

tabiishing libraries, in fact that were it not for them Isle was devoting the repose which Providence made ber his bride. then. indeed. there might he, o'-day Boys, vie with each other in OX pressions the sources of aucient wisdom sud learning would then granted her to the practice of religion, the | #0™me€ mercy extended to himn ; but look at the naked j aud acts of loyalty; and, if ever the North should bave been altogether lest. 1 presume thet had the founding of schools, and the cultivation of letters, | found’ a jnetifiention }

Chareb for the education of children of both sone doct ine of polilliiibthich’ be ox renee =. And “ oupnete the religious ladies of | wi 80 at the sacrifice of hin: mood, not only by mifiny of the religious 50 me ro

1 be disclosed

the castles of the nobility, and the courts of kings | of the Couservative party—having been kindly ap-

| eighth century she carried on what might be called |

d li ap al See doa cae —— : o % te a re +" KA ste Oe. ' iecam’2-Sa ‘\eineamnimenalnaet whamenmaiels satin Ath Sa ref hai cue i teyone Te . : ba'tivecf going to je fur «ix montbe, whe r i jectore;’ BK. That ie all fi.dge; we never the of auc none ie om an tne tivordauntts ae oc cofd Ui Wing. That address was manip by prone — er the moet ansjous wieh of my . dted that be will| roner Sandy, and a certain minister, who crammed | esteem

any words they pleased iuto it, and uot five persone oul of every one hundred whose names were to that document either knewor cared whallieausye was made use of therein. Tam quite surprised that you or any honest man could form so diareapectdble an opinion of the Belfasters; that after haviny suf fere? all the privations of immigrant life in t!.e de- solate wilderness for #9 many yeurs, we sbould, on the day-of achieving our = epepdence frow ae gorous t # of landlordivm, Eocene ai, and I took the position of managing partner, every than eavages or Turks-to ferociously offer ont thing being bought and sold in my name; Mr. b cousenen 69 SED De vere ee oer eee! come occasionally to tue store after he joived in the | [ere cer eels Ss eee Ie , | bueinese, but latterly be seemed to avoid it wud took of other sattlements, who may earnestly endeavour yput tat ait tee hn ool to accomplish their freedom as wellus ourselves. 1 | Re /pverest in wha wee 473 “Bene Sebkcs. juve bave no ill-will tothe. Goverament; I wish them | tire management {© ysl | the, laoks, ives well; but I regret that they so desperately cling to} 2°) iy baseoen “ams 46 Ge ant tions that were entertained respecting it some weeks | the interests of the proprietary claimante. 1 don't wee auttties waannes anu one a i | previous to his retarn. Tuia xecount of his proceed. | see how it ix possible for them to expect support at Jorenned $0'nn pgety patted when Leight net enly ings was exclnsive of the pedantic orations Ne made | the next Election from those tenants whom they make © oven ttt y oe eanll, bai witimately be ort to Manchester audiences, upon the invincible bar- | now try to induce to be satisfied with the Land Com- wicks execiie-t> Uhr. Pellets Sourgihing bows subi eraabeseapmalinertet Stadmeeacs|iemameannie Sania ae ene ed ohh | ever, was brought to a stand, witvout a moment’s ready to make to an sssailing foe. Th other subject | tunutes to pay more than doub e the prssen at) | Serting. sondiebios being put in che air ae for the dissection of the men of state would be that | the best lands on the Worrell or Selkir et psec rmage nner. ype periodical formula the Governor's Speech, which | have been sold for, If wo lands had ee be ot no S-spdevos's cub Guals Rave tondBea She seemnen | oO) OO Ceseteee rake her Mr, Desles Mr. Desbrisay what was going on. He came into the} horizon, will have assumed typographical proper for them. Then what right has a — = emaemagion Phere ee oo teerations die he tions. Wilmot and Gray—the two principal chiefs enema an Cnaer _ Sapeets naan none Peer Sloe, Whe hel Gn fatomaity : MA Debhetiay

7 , was kind enough to gay that he would see Mr. lands than those which belonged to the Government | Fehon dod deoivtaie’ bie views

i : fore proceeding further, I will take this oppor-

i a a. of fenkinge Mr. Fellowes for giving pub of correcting contir:ning many erroneous reports in circulation.

The “ Agricultural Warehoure” had been open | some four or five ne ager to Mr. Fellowes taking an interest ip the business by advancing | money to perchase stock in Englund and the States, |

egude, This last course 1 believe be will adopt, and evidence of it will first at the eleetion of er, or more poy i. ons the answer to the Goyer nor's ech.

The Gevernment boast of having seven of a ma. jority after making a present of three or four to the opposition, bat I doubt the correctness of the reason. ing upon which this calculation is based. ‘Bre & week goes by we shall have a precty accurate knowledge of the relative atrength of the tworides.

Twe subjects were brought before the considera- tion of the Council last week. was Mr. Tilley’s report of his Delegation to England, and which, it is supposed, falla fur short of the expecta-

i

surprised, |

ruinted to manage the Home Department, their

tenants also answer What? i

superiors, and to make the beat of a bad cause ip (To b¢ continued in che next Examiner ) devising expedients to embarrass the Government.

Poor Mr. Gray, I wm realiy sorry for his situation

taken for that purpose, an absoract account would be given to each of us and the books returned to Mr. Desbrieay ; and that if the business was not fonnd to be in ‘uw satisfactory state,or Mr. F. wished to t withdraw from the concern, some arrangement might be entered into between us for the future manwrement of the busiuess,which waste be carried nence. He beurs his fate with cheerfuiness aud! dream, and the reasou is because the dream was | on by myself as usual unti] this was carried ont. ortitude becoming an msnecessful but hononrable | tug true. It would have been much more prudent | This investigation [agreed to at once, amd there *jand thea handed over to Mr. Desbrisay all the ») books, invoices, &c., taleouing w the business. ; : , . | Surely, then bad there beeu any attecpt on my part J. B. Cooper oe a = oan ' to etubezzle any of the mone vin my eden J this mana well merited castigation forimmoratity, | ould not bave acted in this straighttorward man- ‘said, if I mistake net, to have been practised against hismother, The * Monitor’ of the 4th inst. | While this arrangement was pending Mr. Fel- has un extract which is filthy and obscene iu its lowes, or the constables in bie nasué, again entered sentiments, and which must be the production ot | the premises, with instructions to remove the goods a person very loathsome and immoral in bis cha-! at once, and if I resisted, to sweep Away not ouly racter. I would think that a man who would the goods in the store, but my furniture, dyer which

For tne Examiner.

MORAL LEPERS. Mr. WHELAN—Str—A good deal has been

deportment, he was well qualified to take part in

| altuin \* | There are three new members for this Connty | jand City—-Anglin, Skinner, and Jordan. The first | j named will, most assuredly, make a etand in the

Assembly at onre independent end brilliant. With | @ scrutinizing eye will he watch the doings of the | Government, und if Mr. ‘filley’s well arranged j atratagema escape from exposure he shall have | rearon to deem himself one of the best Provincial | diplomatiates

licity to thie p= as it affords me en opportan:ty | judge tor

7 | sould: but advised them not to read the “Fxami-

lave been sold for? Eebo answers What! andthe he told me that all Mr. Fellowes wanted was to, though it might net be worth one shilling.

know how things stood, and that if I would hand! admitted that the Islander was the organ of the! ders in their behalf; aud, if Lea ht bib vated ger

| by legislation, some benefit might accrue from it.

n of Drops not ihe to Ree any ' not

Agent, and i that he

ed that would benefit the tenantry at the cost of

Proprietors. He would uot then, Mies toon the wiue-—the pple mich at

vea as to ite merita; Vat , lieved that the snare large ri- etors would not agree tip sundipded ite speed by flaunting # golive | handkerehiet, appealing to his hearers, as Protes- tants and Urangemen, to rely upon their own in- telligence, and to gain all the information the

ner.” “ Protestants,” he said, “ have intelligence at least. Irishmen could live upon nothing; but Seotchmen such as those before him could not do so; and they should be grateful to the Government for having purchased for them the Selkirk estate. W. I. Pope, Esqr., was the next speaker. He said he was the most liberally abused man in the Colony, but as a Protestant he would never sub- mit to be enthralled by “ P the Liberals were all Catholies, and that the es- tablishment of the Catholie religion was all that Whelan & Co. wanted and laboured for. He ad-

bardly knowing what to do; 1, however, told Mr.) | itted that he had done the Government of this! though backed by an Csi Pp Yeabi jones et odded to, moreover, by purchased Mc

Island out of a large sum of money in the Worrell | Estate transaction, but he the act jus- tifiable, as much so as fora fariner to sell a bushel |

On his return of cate for three’ shillings, if be eould get it, al-|

He

\teresta, The Examiner,he said, fidsitied and mix represented the acts of the Government ; and was sv vulgar aod indecent thet ne one should read it. The Hon. Joseph Wightinan next addressed the meeting. He read a great part of the exposition of the Award as given by the Hon. Mr. Howe, and eommented in very severe terms upon the em- luyment of the Spy. Ife thought that if the ar- bitestion clause in the Award could be improved

He head come to the meeting for the purpose of learning the views of his cousti(vents respecting the important question under discussion, in order that he might kuow what course to adopt in the House of Assembly. Fer his own part, his views were embodied in the following resolution —

{The Secretary dues not say whether this reso- lution was put to vote.—EbD, ExrR.}

aS pl na 7 bi asain fell — ‘print sueb an extract must be an inspure wretch,! be bad held a bill of sale for some years, but for j i | i i wroople wz r) ’ - san » behold in their chosen re presentative. He ig not, | lust te all nenae of moral decency. ; : however, without some fitting qualifieations for en- | enemies of Pias IX., with the exception of those | | tering upon tis new eareer, and by guarding w ell | cuteasts of society who have lost all oe “ | have beea left for about three weeke of the most | his entrance inte the lottery ef politica, anecess will ‘shame, and who spend wostof their time in stews | piercing weather experienced last winter without # jattend his early ambition. Reing a Barrister of | and brothels, however much they condemm bik | opaiy to sit upon, a bed to lie upon, or a blanket to xrowing importance, sand withal as shrewd ar ®! political acts, give him credit for all the moral! gover us! © An atrangement was subsequently ae a he is likely to evince eon virtues Which can adorn the Christian. This) entered into, and by giving up the stock, as takeu siderable tactin the Legisiature, if the practice of being the ease, the man who could place before | by Mr. Mancey, and accounting for the voods sold his profession hag not circumscribed his intellect 5 ‘ received #i pedi d Ys : tet : ’ his readers such an extract as did J. B. Cooper | aud money ived since proceedings conumenced, the cread of which seemed to have prevailed upon , 18 reades | J got back my furniture in a very dilapiduted state Henry (rattan to abandon ite arbitrary and stern , last Week about-the Pope, should be looked upon | by bending for it, ’ _realities, Mr. Skinner has acqnired that monotonous not only as iniaxmously uncharitable, but as ant’ I found that havi t hold of th k | style of oratory that emanated from the * Division | unchaste, beastly fellow, who should be shunned | he ee ; : adi ee ~ f t . ee oe | Room,” and the palpits of a moderna religions deno- | by all decent people as a piece of moral filth. J) a me =) cb ag: eo ft PEM. © eee ninnti whl naantity of whieh o s |? : . ¥ coats, which was part of the agreement, and i bad , Bunation, a smal quantity of which suffices for the! understand that this manu Cooper goes to the ly to Mr. Charles Pal he t of the | taste of a promisenous audience. j : ; A J don't to apply to Mr. Coaries Palmer on the part of t | Levee at Goverament House sometimes. on't |

ithe oth " —_ Tillew se $

Waters, Caipane derdan shea eel cred Aoewe Hf he haw the consummate ‘mpudence to rereeaton bogus by reeipt oF & sess: : in political education, thoroughly hackneyed in the visit Jady Dundas, but there is oething I know, | the Mayor's Court to nitend on the foilo..og morn | tays of men; and have long siice gradated with 3nd it is this, if J were Governor Daydas, or Mr.) ing, to reply to 4 charge of emberclement brought | the honors and rewards which a p-cressfal conflict | Atkinson, avd if a nasty, filthy fellow, wio wonld | against me by Mr. Fellowes. Lappeared,of course, | for place and emolument was competent to confer. | print anything tike what appeared in last week's | oad eae ae oe oe ang a oe | ‘Tilley is the first champion for the order of the * Monitor,’should presume to come about Gotecn- | Sateen rong Type sacs cael ve poe ~ oy pene in New Bronswick ; and the! ment House premises, I would take him by the ori teh y oe thie Mr. ce was oo inno qu0vinniet ahi eee oll v4 scruff of the neck and give him a cowhiding that | ques’ ioued by Mr. Puliner, whe elicited that 1 was i Se eee a a. aeres would teach him not to print any more filth fora not ouly maaging clerk but had a share in the Government. To him, too, jadne the rare and while. It is to put decent people on their guard ' business.

honorable praise of illustrgting bis temperance pre- against “ moral lepers” that jou have been troubled | Shortly after ryis [ wae arrested by Mr. Fellowes cepts by his own exainple. | with this short epistles trom ‘on a baifable writter 20200, but how he arrived at

Watters. the witty and facetione Solicitor Gene- i | this exact sum, a6 being a Lalanee of account due by

ral, deserves more attention than Jean afford to , me to him, 1 have been unabis to tind out!

vive him in this place. A voune widower and the | best looking man in the Government, he has many attractions for the fair spectators that throng the ' galleries of the Legielutive hulle, looking softly te 24th January jast :—

patriotic npem the array of oratorato whomare “Weare rejsiced.to hear of the safe arrival of committed the doctrines of the country. Thisis the Parana (with the Scotch Fusileers on beard), During my incarceration, when not able to protect the gentleman, too, who has heen impeached with at Sydney, C. B., on the 6th, two days after the myself, M c Rosert Alston FeLLow¥s, not being = iwtentetion wisdtateehor of having, by ae, Aicn page yal paperted luo, isthe St. Lawrenee, | Stiatied with the rebuif he got at the Mavor’s Court Og ita Me % y 4 > +, ; , ’ . " .@ 7 etry re gars root * 7 ia Cer Aenciarineth of tee een ol Nothing can be more admirable than the tone and tried the embezzlement dodye aguin witl the Grand

: . ; acai aes Jury, Who,being busicess mien, saw at once that the leanles 2 } or * F a . >? oS spirit of the whole population of British America. chutge ‘Was vindictive and frivoluns, and diamissed

| bil of sale was actually put in force, and bad it not been for some kind friends myself and family would

10D

CAVE. teil thi

Mr. WuHeLax—Sin—I beg to hand you the 7 : : ng the usual time necessary to ge through the dilfe-

< : re! i following extract from the Sunderland Herald of | rent forme, I wae relensed threagh: the Sindeess of

| Mesers. W. B. Dean and J.C. Hall, whe became

saving doctrines of Catholicitvy. Was thie not

his oars for six months be tried the Grana Jury aguin on the 13th of January last, and by, I pre sue, u string of false representations, succeeded in getting them to send down a presentime it against me, Very much to the astonishment of every one.

ernel in Her Majesty's Solicitor General? Had he, Protestants and Catholics, Orangemen and Peep-

faet--you who are parente—and where can be

H ; ; | Venture to invade Canada, it will be encountered ere ia a vourg girl, an

by @ population as united and loyal, by good go-

‘Tne bitterest} which 1 never received any consideration! ‘This |

} i had no alternative but to go to prison, and after spend. |

bail for me—a kindness which I shall never terget. | i » Desk Sim—Having availed myself of an oppor-| Lacheur ax one who wea desirous to

Popes and other celery ymen of the Church acted on) both sacred and profane. iv ’ r thg principle that * Ignorance ia the mother of devo. ‘¢ flourishing conditivn of her instivutions of learn. | *™!!/9& Msn to forsake the fnith of

ton,” they would set bave given themselves ag /*94.during the period in question, it is well known, jmeane of exclusive sa! vation.

mueb tronble as they did to preserve books and

that the monaatery of Benchor, or Bangor, contained

To give one instance of | only child, fair, lovely, accomplished, induced by a

doating parents, | erament and sound institutions, as if they had never been split into factions and arrayed againat each other in civil war. Nothing has se wueh surprised the North as this loyalty of both Cana- das. The work of housing the troops already |

‘and embrace that represented ae containing the. Rut, bold, I must | proveed no further inthis strain of censure. When I reflect it is not diffienlt to find cousiderable palli

By these persecutions Mr. Fellowes knows well that he can obtaiu no pecuniary advantage, so that ‘is sole and eviire object is to ruin my credit und begyar my wife und chiidren, and proceeds from a vindictive and maligna it feeling perfectly unjust

“ Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meet- ing that when the Award of the Land Commis- | Sloners is. received, and made known to the Le- | gislature, if approved of by the constituencies of the Island, after public meetings have been called | for that purpose—then the Represeutatives of the | Colony will be authorised tosanction the Award.”

* * * *

i+ * W. D. STEWART, Sec'y. (‘The remainder of Mr. Stewart's letter gives a description of the seenes which oceurred towards | | the conclusion of the meeting, when Mr. Le La-! | cheur attempted to addrers the people, and was |

creditors, to compel hint to do so. After this, my | prevented from dving so, and when Mr. John Goff | against cpaners piscry dl agriust Lin i wt)

| abruptiy and arbitrarily closed the proceedings, | by urging the multitude to separate, although | , Thomas Owen, Esg., and the Hon, Edward Thorn-| | tov, the members for the Distriet, attempted in| | vain to address their constituents. Mr. Stewart | | adds, that while Mr. Goff was advising the people | | to go away, the Bagpipers from Belfast sevt forth | ' their discordant yotes, and all was confusion.— j Aud such waa the end of the Great Moutague | Meeting !] i

' spugentiiibiaianares

THE MONTAGUE MEETING, Audi alieram partem.

To THe Eprron or rue EXaMIner. |

'

_tauity of attending the politienl meeting held ai)

| Moutagne Bridge on Thursday, the 13:b instant, | Oder having been restared, Mr. John G

and surmising that you, a# a publie journalist, |

Sritis have not received any deseription of the rather the day was far aan hour The French habituns and the Irish immigrauts, |\,35, fa avery sulnmary manner. After laying upon | extraordinary Tory fashion in whieh it was con-| 3p. m.)—be said be placed a

| dueted, and the rather ordinary Tery speeches thereat delivered, [ venture for the first time in my life to attempt the part of reporter. The _ readier method of reporting the speeches is to take | | them serlatim and ic order. I regret that I was | too lat eto hear Mr. MeAalay’s epeech, except at (such a distance fram the seeve ef action as en-, , abled me to recognize only the well known “ ore rotundo”’ style and sonorous tene so peculisrly his | own, but imagined that he was informing his

¢: and hin Gd ihe bo lived

jon cinwee. | j

ish plotters ""—that | posed

| Colonial ewe calling him

noder s flag

Ageut. Having nasu confident tbat when

v2 F th E

they were Protcstants,—defenden bimselt frore

charge that might be brought land speeculator in his iavchane “<a estate, and bis sale thereof to the jy.

cal Goverament, by t

and taking . of any of his hearere Delon fools eos beni their potatoes for 2s. a bushel =e °

realize 3s. for them. crowd's nnd

from the Werrell estate—were the freedom of the tenantry, or an their condition ; and. that be waa. the present Government would

over the books to Mr. Desbriexy, and have stock ; Government, and that it would advecate its in- words aright, be said that the above

Hewes did net care one whether they all We the devi Ee gained office and emelument. We thea

the Protestants -present, on bis wird of writ they pe pe or not ; tiou with the Government—that his pritate bee ness Was more than be could taueh deereased by

: bis labours im their . and that he only entered the politi : the sole parse ot aera Seay Tae

from a Komish ascendaney. . The Hon. Jose Ves os on the pethent eat ving a

i hie friend, informed the multitude that the on his mind was, that that official had, purebase of the Worrell Estate and ite sale to the local authorities, for an advamsecetet original purchase of some ten thousand pox

the same amount most directly devs aud iapatipe i abe Saeed, i offieial rather abruptly, ae " then procesded to read, by leave of bis the yn eng of the Award sioner Howe, regretting very auch bat the Award itself wae not before » that he might receive their opinion as bis constituents, and aet thereon as their sentative ul the meeting of lature. He deseanted strongly on the by the announcement of Mr. Howe, ay in bis exposition, all hopes of » Court of were at an end, Ife mainiained bis own

had fearlessly cdvoc Facheat, and favor of the Commission on the a positive reservation of bis until its arrival, [le next the su tnerits of ae Whitman—tegretting be nearly tate ax bunscit—and expressed his eurprive asd disgust that the Laud Commissi the veracity of ype total T to the of 40,000 ithe vitaute of this Colony, rebuked the Government tor ailowhag te access to our public records. Mr. Wigh wented fally on the various clauses of the and their prohable effects, ex opi lon, that the Award, anhen we petit, aceepted in ts entivety,and bis ardeut hope thatit wight benefit the tenantry. > The Chairman next intreduced Mr. J. W Le meeting. This gentleman could obtain ne

forward, and having declared it as

n in the Government, but as dinner tine had arrived, he proposed three cheers for the moved that the Chairman leave the Chair, and that ano. ther gentleman take bis place, All this being conducted amid vociferous Mr. Thomas Owen ortene ote onl “his great surprise and indignation should ~ been closed se , ash a Thornton, and others, were desironsof i the peopke. He charteterised the finale ana

frm libraries. But you may ssy that the Priests [0 fewer than three thousand monks, besides scho- tdeed did mach w educate hemselves, but they lareinnumerable. Fired with enthusiasm, Lrishmen | did vothing to educate the people, whom they kept Visited almost every couutry in Europe, leaving be- | in & stare of ignorance, in order the betser to ty-| bind them splendid institutions of iearning and re- rauize over them. I shall show inthis communica. !igion. Irishmen established the monasiery and tuov that the Church, by the establishmentof schools, **hoo! of Lindisforne, in England, of Bobbio, in colleges, aud universities, did, even in the “ dark sly, of Verdien, in France, and of Wartzdurg, ues, ¥for the promotion of learning, much more Ratisbon Erfarth,Cologne and Vienna in Germany.” tan her malignere arm wiilirg to give her credit (Spal. Mia.) For farther particulars on this sub- for. | ject you may read Annal. de lu Philos. Chret. 7 Throughout the Christian world during the mid. | One of the causes which contributed most to the dle ages the episcopal Seee became the special nur- developement of the mind was the creation of great series of learning, Wherever there was a Cathe. °e?tres of instruction, whence the light of science dral, tuere also was @ school. This waa not the WW diffused ever modern Kurope. Al! the celebra edecs of chance, but the natura! result of the spirit “ed European Universities were founded in the. of wwe Church, whieh by provincial, national and ™!ddle ages by Popes, bishops, ain! religious princes, | 1! Goaneile enconraged the establishment of 224 many of these educational esinblicshments, such

schools forthe rich and poor. Ishball refer toa few #8 those cf Rome, Bologna, Padua, Naples, Pavia, only of the numerous deerees of Councils on this Pisa, Salamanca, Valladslid, Vulencia, Alcala, Paris. | eadject. Lonavain, &e., &c., &c., relied on some papal docu

Iu the rear 900 it was enacted by the Council of ment for their prerogatives. Boniface VIII opened Orleuns that the clergy should erect schools in, 2 university at Fermo; Clement V opened one at towns and villages for the elementary education of Perugia; and Boniface IX. another at Ferrara. children. “ Let them receive,” says this Council, Many of the colleges attacked to the universities of “end teach these litle children with the utmost Europe were founded by Caibolie clergyinen in the charity, that they theuelves may shine like stare “dark ages." History tells us that Pope Urbain V. furever. Let theui receive uo remuneration from *4pported more than a thousand students at various tucir schools, uvlessa what the parents, through universities, and even supplied them with books churity, may voltnturily offer.” (See Council] Aure- | (See Spal. Mis. p. 229). It is almost unnecessary haw. An. SW, Can Xx.)

The Coaneit of Mayeuce, ia £13, ordered priesta | Universities, xford and Cambridge, were establish to adug@nish the parents ander their charge regard. | ¢¢ by “ Papiste” in the “dark ages,” and tbat all jug the daty of -euding their children to the schoole the balls, and twelve of the twenty colleges of the established, “either in the monasteries, or in the former, and twelve of the seventeen colleges of the users of the paruciial clerzy."’ (Cencil. Mogan- latter, were founded before the so-called Reforma- Gaom, Cun. x.) ! tion.

Temporal princes wed the ecclesiantical authori- Jet it be remembered that many of the great

ties in carry img into cifect the benign intentions ef “2iversities which I bave mentioned were frequent: |

the Chureb, for we read in history that Charle-| ¢d not by hundreds, uor by thousands, but by tens mange, ‘a one of hie Capitulare, initio schools to | of thousunds of students from every part of Europe. Le erected throughout bis vast empire. In Eng-, We learn from Anthony Wood, the Protestant his. lewd, Aiived the Great enacted laws of a similar, (Tian of the University of Oxford, that, during the nasere. | reign of Henry IL. this celebrated institution count Tie Usird general Council of Constantinople, beld © thirty thousned students! ia the seventh century, commands priests to open It is quite unnecessary, at the present time, to echouls iw country places.and to receive gratuitously | enter into further details regarding the enco: .rage- wll those who eould be induced to frequent them. | ment given by the Chureh to Education. 1 have The third general Counej! of Lateran, convened | proved most conclusively that clergymen of the in 1:79 by Alexander III. passed the following | Catholic Church, did, even in the middle ages, ex- canon :—‘ Siuce the Church of God, like a tender! ertthemeelves in the most praiseworthy manner to mother, is bouud to provide for the poor, both in| preserve and pooew learning by every possible these things which appertain to the aid of the bedy| means. Catholic clergymen copied und collected and in those which belong to the advancement of | books, established libraries, founded schools, col- the soul ; lest the opportnuity for such improvement | leges and universities, wany of which are supported should be wanting to those poor pereons whe can-! ut this day by the munificent legacies left by Popes, uot be aided by the wealth of their parents; let «| bishops and kings, who desired no recowpense but coiapeteut benefice be assigned in each cathedrai | the smiliog approva) of Heaven, and who ere now cbarch to # teacher, whose duty it shall be to teach | sneered at for being ignorant aud superstitions by the clerks and poor scholars of the sume church self-euilicient, self sanctified, loug-visaged “ illiterate gratuitously; by which means the necessity of the | @gitators, who would fain wake others believe that teacher umy be relieved, aud the way to instrection | they are honoring God whilst vilifying those who way be opened to learners. Let this practice be} ever served Him in charity and treth. asivo restored i» other clourcbes und wonasteries, jf} For the last three bundred years bistory hasbeen iu times past, avytbing was set apart in them for one bage plot against truth, and by the frequent this purpose.’ (Ree Cabarsutine, Notitia Concil. in| repetition of lies has made tbat which was true ap- j .) This decree wae renewed in 1215 by Inno. pear falee, and that which was false appear true cent IfL., who extended the law to parish churches. 1 ¢m aware that in consequence of thie being the Thus it appears that the eystemof Education which | axe, wauy of the facts which I have brought for- obtained iu the days of “ Popith ignorance and su. Ward are not in accordance with what you have peretition” was wuch wore entitled to the name of | Seen taught to believe from your infancy; yet I trust Frés than that which now exists in this eolony. that now you will candidly admit that the Church Tt would be too tedious to enter into particulars} bas not been that tyrannjcal enemy of intellectual regarding the alwost innumerable schools which | culture whieb she has often heen represented. If Were opeued by mouke, particularly by we Fraacie- | Yeu do not do this, but choose rather to be intinenced cuos, Dominicans aud lenedictines whose services| ¥Y the predjudices which you imbibed with your to literatare cannot be overestimated. Hallam be-| other's milk, I entertain the hope that the addi stows on the cathedral and conventual schools of | tional facts which I sual! hereafter bring forward the middle ayes the following qualitied praise —_ will couvince you that whatever haa been said of ““ The praise of having originally established schools | ihe tendency of the Catholic Church to enslave and belongs to some bishops and abbots of the vixth| eodwink the mind is but calumny. “That century. They came in place of the imperial schools which is born of light cannot produce darkness : overthrown by the barbarians. In the downfall of thai temporal dominion, a spiritual aristocracy was pryyaepually raised up, tu save from extinction the temuine of learning aud of relizion itself. Some of tees schools teem to have been preserved in the evath of Luly, though mereiy, perlaps, for elemen- tury iustruction. The eatbedral and conventual seboole, crented of restored by Clurlemange, b t the menus of preserving the small portion of learn. ing which coutinued toexiat. They flourished most, having had time w produce their fruits, under his euccensors, Louis the Debwiiair, Luthuire aud Char.