cea er

IRISH AND AMI

RICAN. From a variety of seurces, it is reported that the

rvid will take place between the POth aud the

Prom the Terento Glake 2MR preoximer-the time for holding the Provin-

There: is something pa ss sorrawhd “ll Exbivitien—wher there will be numbers

. Ce meving ou the trains, and the presence of stran- sympathywhieh the New York Pribane and othe gets will attract less attention. A’ Feuian cou

fe Their fectings ov erwreughe by the

the wrengs of vention is to be held at Troy, on the 4th of Sep- tember, When Me lustructious for the movement will probably be given, i Che reports then pre- sented by the delegates are favourable, The} expended on-be-) Attorney-General of the United States has order half of the Seweh, nt iv some direc. | ed the District Aitorney to enter nolle prosequi Wicir caubctndt hile thrust wet be | '™ the cases of the prisoners taken by the Micki- or CEWOCTAN .pHeawurypmy Us gan, aud they have consequently been discharged exercised, aud what better suigect can de found withourtrial, The New York Tribene and Herald than the wrongs Of “Erelend torent! out all the | agree to stating Chat this was done tor the purpose | of showing faveur to the Fenians, but we are un } willing to beliewe that this was the motive. We not tromlle theaea! ves fo partcularige the wrongs hope tat Me. dolnson's Cabinet was influenced | hey shed crocedile tears, wor stggest | more by the certainty Uhat ve conviction could be | , - secured than by a disgraceful willingness to pan-| : ~ : ider to the sielaters of the law. The circum- wholly winecessary, for ev fance<, however, must Weaken our faith tn the knows (hat Treland has ber fidelity of the American Government, and con- Saxon from Umedmmemoria vince es of the urgent necessity for the most active a preparations tor delcuce,

Republican journals fowl Ireland. sad eveats af the late war,

by pacty policy

ma HOW prevented from being ryret fied +

tion.

gushing charity oftheir natares. True, they do

ever Ww hiel tf

thes Lhis is 5 Fer

eppre seed hy the

any rational mx of remo u

ian, at least,

There 183 greater

wealth god more material coovfort amorg the in , AE Oe — TUE ISLAND OF VALENTIA.

habitants of England, and 4pat is a erkve never |

te be forkitten or forgiven. Famine aud pesti-|

The Ileland of Valentia, the Lrish terminus | of the Atlantic Cable, is about six thousand | acres inextent. It has three proprietors, of whem the Knight of Kerry is the chief, the others being Trintty College, Dublin, and | Colonel Llerbert, of Muckross. ‘The popula tion is about two thousand; but although}

lence have At times feea feorfully prevalent in Ireland, and far this, tue, aceording to Fenian Rebellion has freqwently breden out in the Green Ixle during a jew lpnidred years past, 3 fersooth, Cana- édiana—Irish, Canadians too—-niust atone tor might ou themselves

he Saxon le.

ae

logic, the is respons |

ail

thealhethat tasave men have b and others in their niad att) mpts at introducit £ithe Knight isa staunch Protestant, his co-

der the a - 4 religionists do not number more than one vate” tn the Catted) pondered and fifty. The harmony of this conquest of Leeland, r .

little community (says a correspondent ol |

total anarele iute Jicland, + republic The “Litiwh Repub profess to look for the they pretend te aim at the overthrew of the Br

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States

CORRESPONDENCE.

RAR ARRAS INS SIL I A AMAL DNA DE AEN To Tas Evrrok or tHe EXAMINER. the Putriot

stated that| |

|

|

Strn—I have noticed in an! editorial article, in which it is «Pather Angus,” while on missionary service at St. Peter's Bay, used his influence to secure the return of Mr. Whelan at the next election. The statement, I feel satisfied, is a falsehood. | I attended Mass the last time the Rey. Mr. Me- Donald officiated here, and in the course of his instruétions to the people he made not the slivhtest reference to election: matters, and of course did not mention Mr. Whelan’s name as Ir. Whelan is well able to clear his own track whea required ly say for myself and a}

rssured he will be returned at the |

. ‘

a candidate, I presume that }

to do so. I sincere lar

that we fee

se number of the supporters of Mr. Whelan, le forthcoming election as triumphantly as ever. Why not, Lask? It was Mr. W. and his party who gave us Responsible Government, uuder which we have a rizht to manaze our own af- fairs, and we are bound to have the honour of again returnins Mr. Whelan at the next Flec- tion. Yours, &e., TIME-KREEPER. St. Peter's Bay, Sept. 5, 1866,

tm

who had beenduped into joitins the Ornnge 50°) Of exedting the sympathies

lavould have sacrificed everything for him. I have now, from statements made by him, whieh 1 know to be false, gotten up forthe purpose and drawing outahe | lost all eoufidenece in

suring the Bill be w hich it was proposed to ine

corporate those Societies. Well means men

ascendancy, | charities of God's people, need him. : Knowing what [ now do, | feel that I would y the Impevial authorities, he recreant should T not apprise you in Seot- ine, although oue or two Lodses MAY be called Hand, as he is there collecting funds for these ‘young men. The young men have given us | * . . 7 . i sail hia wild Pieine in thid Island. |* paper which is contradictory of the state. | ane 9 7 “ys ay fee ie , fel iment of G. Chiniquy. [Cis painful hevond ex- The “Institution ” cr islengly is not in a Heht | pression to make this announcement to you, ing condition, of wet@MAMd have heard of at-| hut uth and rizhtoousness demand it.

. v oS 3 3 Yours &c..

“unnts STO t ror fo it. It shows how | ’ ; . i tempts to dmypat yrgor fou | a. ers Avain Mr. Staples writes to me nider date

o ae ®

| March 20th :-—*«f hope the public will be saved | political purposes, when they have nothing vps} trons further intposition, both m Europe and America.”

Amon other copies of documents furnished me by Mr. Staplesy is w letter from M. Chini- uy, Waploring a quashing of the contemplated investivation, on the ground that it would

cieties underthe dread of Catholic from them wheu they were denon and now at this

withdrew

tu . tovether occasionally, Qeingcism, cannot be iV

miserably poor ave dhe dyyices of the politica! schemers who work up the religious elcincat for

et

the Catholics

which to base their ery against 3 ° 2 . oe ‘ Pall aia | but the flying visit of an unfortunate Prest,— | ; ee

one who had been ia Holy Ovrders—liviny, where fis home is supposed to be, thousands of ? 7

create a “great scandal, an exposure were to be made that he would not return to Aimeriea, butremaia in Europe. Mr. Staples has fally authorised me to use these

| ;

miles away—who has been expelled from com-

inunion with the Catholic Church—and who, |

; “ae like any other showman or play actor, Imacesa) documents as I please.

1 would wish to add the conduct of the Pres-

; ; : ; byterians appears, as far as lam cupable ot

tour of some portions of the Provinces ard | United States, at perodical seasons, lectaring | } .. “War om 79 rit i h

on what he presumes to call the “errors” ot ijudsing, to have been straightforward and . . : . : i ‘ ar ‘ L we

a Church of whieh he had been for many years} honest throuzhout. They now see that they were too Credujous at the first in g Fee their

arms to M. Chiniquy, and sending him forth im the world to bes for money, with their indorse-

i howe . Sr ae ae cease . . » i j : this individual, and characterized bim as a per-| pent, in spite of the numerous warnings they

apricst. Two of the local newspupers—the

Evaminer and Herall—noticed the arrival of

son who was made a tool of to disturb reli sious | reecived at the time; now, having discovered the imposture practised on them, they have

|keep the Treasury chest still longer at the dis- posal of the party in power, and to check a ;

and threatening if | fair and full enquiry into the manarement of

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH,

; 7 ' ” , nae. | dents “pes away” at us as long as they please.

We do not sect ourselyés up as a defender of | Loxpox, Sept. Ist—evening the Catholic Church—she requires no defence | The

s souden Tacs of toalay, in view of the essed the least concern fur her | questio: |

s avisins between En rinnd and Ameri. in view of such enemies.as Mr. Chiniqiy, We) ea, growing ot of the recent war in the United o—a | States, al the more recent mud hy the Fe: inne \inte Cada, urges the Uiitish Government . take isto serious consideration the fcusibility, if poet the wécessity, of so extending the provi lsione Of the neutrality law as to hold the differ ent Governments to a strict hability for all nets ation of that law committed by the subj a jects

orgs Heart's Convent, N. #., Sept. 2, .

The Atlantic Cable of last year was ap this, Suaday, morning at 4.40 v' clock, in, latitude 51.52 longitude 36.03, The splice wag made and the Cable lowered at Ta, mw Thg Great astern is wow 700 miles from ie;

ing out. Everything was going on weli, New Youk, Sep. 3.

they expect to reach here on Sat ..- Grom 149%,

Six new cases of Cholera were reported in this city vesterday. lu Brooklyn the disease was about the same as on Saturday... ..A fight yesterday, between Ted Bromley of Brook. Ilva, and Johu Cody of Red Hook, near Sheep’ Head Bay, resulted in the defeat of Cody in rounds, lasting one hour and two mitites, Stakes unknown.,...An Ottawa, C. W., des patch says Mike Murphy and five Fenian com. panious escaped from the Common Jail Satur day right.....Gold 144}.

—and if we prof

would be playing the part of a hypocvit role we leave to the more congenial natares of the Patriof office.

the encouragement given here to Mr. Chiniquy,

When we protested azainst

we did so in the inter- le jin viol

| of each. .

for mere party purposes,

. . ster >» . ests of the peace of the whole community. Pro- . Conbols #92; 5220's testants and Catholics have mingled together

es : : as friends end good neighbours since the last | } ’

j |

election —there has been not the slightest at tempt at encroachment on the religious inter- ests of either; and now, forsooth, this happy

state of affairs must be changed in order to

our public affairs. The Catholics of this com-

munity might, indeed, have hoped to be spared from an infliction of such abuse and Sersecution us they suffered in former years, when they call to mind the terrible calamity in which they involyed with their Protestant

have been

neighbours. Charity and good will among

men of all creeds and conditions are generously exercised on behalf of the sufferers; but one . - , - : Serr. 7. class are now sought to be arraigned asraimnst 9 .

: ” Benray, ith.—Sixty thousand Prussian troops

the other, with the view to serve the most selfish} are ordered to the Rhine. The Austrian Am

the London Svar) 1s, however, undisturbed | SOURIS TEA PARTY-~PROTESTANTS AND

tise Goverament and the esta! lishment of a repub he tw Preland.; Were Ireland given te them, the rascals would deluge it in biowd before a sem- blanee of Goverument could be established: the | © Matheny’s aod add the Roberta, instead of fight ing cack ether with foul words alene as they now de, would find actoal fighting for their factions tv engage in. But that any leading Fenian nna- gira The ove rthrow of the Uritish Goverument by Feniai aris tu be possib is simply absurd ‘the directors ef the meveniont entertain ne such adeas «They know full weil that such an absur- | dity will not be allowed even by the rank and file of the-raffians for whom tie; speak. O'Mahony god Stephene where are they!) Even Feniaus have deserted them becouse the sclieme they ur-| ged was plainly and palpably impossible. It of- | tered ne hope of plunder tu the hungry crew, ner; even of fighting or excitement to the desperadoes | whein the close of the war has turned loese tn | the Northern States. thing else must be | devised, and Roberta, Horace Greeley and Swee- | ‘wey have decided that Trend's wrongs are te | be retuedied in Canada. ‘This is the measure of | justice Which aeverds With (he Conscientious ean- | vietions of these whe are | tthe injustice Ireland is sut

hy religious discord. The old priest, who is | now between eighty and ninety years of age, has had charge of the parish for half a cen- tury, and bis watchword bas always been * Peace.’’ The average value of land 13 about fi teen shillings an acre. Much more of it is used fur grazing purposes than for eultiva- ‘tion, the principal article being butter. Most of the cottages are simply feetid hovels; bat there is a consider- able number of w better class, and the pea- santry have a well-fed, comfortable appear- ance. They owe much to the Knight, who spends nearly the whole of the income he de- rives from this property in improvements and in giving employment to the people He is regarded with a feudal reverence tempered by modern mauners. Lis traditional title gives bia no precedence in court, but his ancient lineage places bim far before the mushroom creations of yesterday. The late

. ’

Seu

reah and a distinguished politician, being once addressed as ** my Lord’* by an officious

1 constant ageng at

Sul, lreland

rig.

has her representatives in the Legislature/servitor, impatiently replied, ** Don't cali of the natien—uo “iron clad cath” exeludes| me lord. 1 don't wish to be anything of the any portion of her people frou participa-| kigd.’? Perhans he remembered the Arab tion in the gaverment of the country .

|proverb, ** the dog when he has money must be culled ‘my lord the dog.’”’ ‘sant to be able to reconcile these relics of tre -rigorously exelude the late rebellious States | foudalions, with the bumanizing claims ot fom Congress; Rew! ever “ aubappy Ireland.’ | modern civilization. It is pleasant also to De the Republicans at the United Stetes, who| find that the Racoon has been here three have lavished se moch bloed aud treasure in re months without discovering a single Fenian ; ducing the Soutit ty submission, unagine that the land that although yesterday L saw the Deitish Government can or will wm sliould conseat | Fenian tlag mae Chae harp and the sun ona te the disinemberinent of ibe empire? Surely, it) ground of green— hoisted on a skiff, this was Sala a pa oe Son ev eaeae eal a = }dene more in bravado than in earnest, and

‘duce ‘ “ ep 10 uote wale} : : a. i . that the peable-at be land ; e inl Bivor of whee peor Ry. -~ Gagniarien thet ene anaes fourm of disloyalty is altogether exceptional

suit” as generally as the people of the Southern | °°" 7 : States were—that there are wrongs inherent 1 |! Valentva acd the adjacent mainland, mh

the present system of government which would be | righted by Stephens, Killian, O'Mahoney, and) Terripre INcIpENT.—At the explosion of the Roberts, were they invested with supreme power. | oil train at Narrowsburg, New York, early last But how does the parallel e}aud? —Lreland is sub- | Suuday morning, through a@ collision, the patro- to ne abuses which are not equally the ivt leu was thrown from the tanks in every direc- of envied and hated England. The peculiar ills) tion, and with it the remorseless flame, until it of which she complians are aot the result of Eng- spread on all sides. Directly opposite the fish counection, but of local influences ; and, were | spot where the first explosion occurred, on one her awn representatives united, as were Southers | side, stood three comlortable country cottages. Congreesmen, these grounds ef complaint would | The most distant one was oceupied by Mr. Char- ‘very shortly be removed. flow many of Ireland's | jes C. Williams, his wife and two children, the representative men are in javour ot revolution ! | Jatter aged respectively about two and a half and Net one of them asks tor a dissolution of the | five years. The oil and flame were thrown about ooh ion between the two isleads. How was it in| in such quantities that before Mr. Williams bad the South!) Every represevtative man dewanded | tine te boceme therenghly awakened, the fiery , & separate existence for the Southern States, O; } brands Were falling in his sleeping room in the the industrious, manufacturing, or middle classes j upper part of the house, Mr. Williams sprang iu Ireland, how many want disselation, again, the | trom his bed, seized his two children, and sheut- answer inust be—none. It has been said thatthe | ing to his wile to follow him, rau down the inside South possesses no such elaes, bat the merechauts | stairs te the stoop or porch with steps which led and traders and farmers, # he are the represeanta-| down by the side of the house. In his excite- tives of the middle class in (oe South, were almost | ment he evidently never saw that the whole street universally seeessiguista, Ad yet those whe fought | through which he was plunging was one living te the death te cenquer the upper and middle | yrase of blazing oil half Knee deep, and onward class who wanted secession in Aimeriea, tay thal | be went, dashing inte the fire in almost a nude Ireland stould be allowed to seeede—should be | state, haying vp nething but bis night garweut pushed dut of the unvion—avainst the wishes and | iv traveting through this sheet of fluine, one of convictions ef the most wealthy, the mest intelli | bis cluldeen dropped from his arms, and be wen! gent, the most industrivus, and most moral of her | back and picked it op. Hos determination and people. Who are they that lead the Fenian | strength sustaining hun, he reached a spot where movement? A set ef gaol birds, idle regues and the tire had not yet spread, and feil. He was men of oe character, aud, forseeth, te gratity picked up by tits neighbors, aud with his clildren _ these, American editors, like Horace Greely.) were taken te a hotel near by, where the chil “think that all the loyal, iedustrions, and moral! dren bothdied. Mr. Willlams’ feet and legs were " pulation of Ireland sheuld be cast out of the | horribly burned: so much ao, the flesh peeled rHish Empire and put under the feet of the ras-| from the benes while the doctors were dressing cult whe adorn the gauls of every country where | them. He was better the first part of Sunday, they are tv be found—the pariahs of Britain and | and some hopes were entertained of his recevery, Awerica! but atter liageriug in the utwest turture uot The Seuthern States are forcibly beld in the | four o'clock iu the afternoon, he died. Buion aad devied any share in the government o! | ts the country: strong repressive force is used to| To give strength and tone te the digestive matetaty this position—all (o sustain the Union ; | OFgaris, take Parsous’ Purgative Pills oeeasionally While a conviction of much older date, cherished | Tiey do not wake the weak weaker, but give Ly men ofalier eds and of ail classes, except afew | strengih aud elasticity te the system, ot the worst, must be abandoned to gratily a/ diandial of waleontetts in Ireland, and a host of restivam reucgaiives iu the Uuited States. Cou) Edward Everett, in his memorable oration sistency Should compel our Republican neighbors delivered ut the opening of the Dudley Ob to acknowledge the right of revolution at home| : eck a J

| servats bany, tk two accord freedom of aetion te the South—be- | servatory at Albany, thus spoke of the then

' fore they become the baw ling advocates of the | projected Atlantic telegraph : discontented riffians who pretend to demand the coutrel at a counity row which many of them

“were expelled for offences against the commonest

She is not, os account of past rebellions, pre- eluded frown ber just influeuce in directing the Pegislatiog of the whole empire, and yet Radicals

~o

Mr. Evererr ox tue Cante.—In 1857

*“{ hold in my band a portion of the iden-

Mr. Peabody, which is now in progress of

| your readers that it came off on the day appoint- j " : : manufactured | ed, and that it was “a decided success,” that the

Knight, who was a prodege ot Lord Castle-|

It is plea-|

tical] electrical cable, given me by my friend |

CATHOLICS CORDIALLY UNLPED.

Dear Sirn:— 1 send you 7s Gd, being payment of your Bill for advertising our Tea Party; aud you may tell

| weather was splendid, the ground pleasant, soft and dry—a large grass or pasture field kindly lent by Mr. Edward Kickham—that Daneing com- }imenced about noon aud was carried on with great spirit and glee— “ The piper loud and louder blew, The Dancers quick and quicker flew,” | till a little after sun set, when all quietly dismissed

| —that most of the horses and carriages bad stood

harmony in the community. Any other itin- | erant lectuver would be noticed in the usual | discharge of editorial: duties; but as for Mr. Chinijyuy, the cast-off Pricst, no paper that is} editea by a Catholic should dare to publish al line to his prejudice. , The Patriot, secretly lauvhing at his dapes whose prejaices he ex: |

| |

cites, professes to be horribly indignant at the Priest—tle

Protestants are beseeched to come forward

“insult? offered to the * fallen‘

against their Catholicneighbours--to plunge the | Island again in religious strife, for no other reason than this—that Mr. Chiniquy did not meet with cou: teous treatment at the hands oftwo Was there ever such

The

of our newspaper editors. ”

lin an adjoining field freely given for the purpose by |

| Mr. Thomas Hylaird— that Political Demogogues of the G. S. stamp, who endeavour to stir up re- | ligious strife throughout the dsland, for their own

selfish ends, have no adherents in this section of

the country; in proof of which about nine-tenths of all the people assembled (G00 to 700) at this | Protestant Tea Party were Catholics—that to each and all who were present, the shareholders of the Protestant Church, tender most sincere thanks for their attendence,—and

at Souris,

that the gross amount.of money received ut aud fur the Tea Party was nearly £20. Dear Sir, Yours, & c., A. LESLIE, See’y and Treasurer for the Tea Party. Hon. Evwarp WHELAN, Chitown,

Souris, 4th Sept., 1866.

_ s7oe — To THe Evrror oF THe EXAMINER. Dear Sir :—

A small piece of paper was brought to me a few days ago by Alexander McDonald, son vt Douald McDonald, Esq , St. Margaret’s, on whieh was written in peneil the following words :— * James MeDonald, 2 miles off Pietou Istand—ex- pecting a watery grave.”

The bottle in which the piece of paper was found was picked up at sea on the 29th ult. by two boats from this settlement coming in from fishing. Vague as the few words seem to be, their publication, may convey to some one intell- gence of a missing relative or friend. The paper remains ion my possession to be seen by or furward-

ed to any person feeling interested in it. Yours truly, J.C. UNDERHAY. Bay Fortune, Sept. 4th, 1su6.

Che Gxaniner, ase, September, 10, 1866.

Iv is a matter of no personal consideration to us whether this Colony be politically united to the other Provinces or not; but looking at public affairs irom a purely political point of view, we are convinced that a change of some kind is imperatively demanded. Tt is now a fact that the | party, as a body, cannot or will not go to a

well established Conservative |General Election without raising the relizious

ery. Tt seems to be their only depeudence. | fn 1859, 2 most untruthful story was cireulated pabout the Catholic Bishop seeking to deprive the public schools of the use of the Bible,

| The originators of the calumny—for it was no-

and mest peeessary laws for the preservation of society, But it is idle te discuss such matters éurther. Reason and right are wholly foreign to tae American view of thie subject. The same men whe encourage Fentas depredations in Cana- da, would adept any other course, however insane

| manufacture to connect America with Europe ‘tread it upon the luliowing words: ‘A part of the subwirine electric telegraph cable, wanulacturcd ny Messrs. Glass, Elliot & Co jolt London, tor the Atlantic Telegraph Com-

“at wicked, te secure the assistance of the Fenians | pany, to connect Sc. Jolin’s, Newloundland. in the coming election. Ti ey will probably sue | with Valentia,. [reland, a distance of 1640 ceed in thas case, iu attaching to their party the | aaatical, or 1900 statute miles.’ Does it then whe have hitherto been the object of their! not seem al) bot incr. dible to you that iptelhi- Jatred aud contempt. But the suerifices they | yence should travel for two thousand miles,

patake in doing so, the iguering of all wera) eonsi- alongside those slender copper wires, far derations to gain tempora:s success, will react on idewn in the all but tathomless Atlantic. them infuture. The lawles< and dangerous mass: | never before penetrated by aught pertaining

es that they are eodeavouring te throw against | . =

Canada, are, ond wiist inevitably continue to be,| bemanity, save when su.ne foundering

their own citizens. What preeise forin the evil | Vessel bas plunged with her hapless com-

will assume in their own country it is mipossible | pany to the eternal silence and darkness ol

te foretell, but the prratical spirit and tendency , the abyss 7 Dues it seem, | say, all but a

i) miracle of art, that the thougats of living men |

they are so assiduously fostering How is pregnant | with danger te their future peace. The histery| —the thoughta that we think up here on

af ihe past has shown that national crime is a-| the earth's suriace, in the el.eerful light of

thine but a calumny of the basest kind—had no object in view but a political one. Their lives and antecedents showed that they cared no more for the Bible than they would for a bun- The Jate Bishop Me-

Donald, who was so infamously traduced at

dle ef waste paper.

the time, medtiated no such designas thatwith which he was charged; even if he entertained it, he had sense enough to know that he could not accomplish it, But the ery respecting the Bible served the turn of the political schemers —it aroused the prejudices of their less intelli- vent followers, who rushed in hot haste to the

polis to vote for a party who were supposed to |

xe alone capable of preserving to them their

transparent hypocrisy and humbue as this? }

ination, favoured a swindle—and are they not

the manliness to be the first to come forward themselves and state so to the public, and warn them from further They are ous for their own reputation as Protestants, lest it should for a moment be imagined that they knowingly, through zeal for their denomi-

Mapositious.

e

right?, Who would dave any confidence in Presbyterians or any Other denominations of Protestanism or in Catholicism either, ifa pious fraud, when detected, were to be concealed and hushed up, for fear of injuring the cause, in- stead of being honestly denounced and reject- ed?) Jurelizion above all things in the world, what basis bave we to stand upon, or where is our faith and truth if they be not founded upon truth and righteousness? As to M. Chi- niquy’s college () for which he has made such touching appeals, and from which were to go

and sordid ends. There is another powerful

}

reason for a total avoidance of religious strife, It is well known that the peace of the Colonies is threatened by bands of marauders under the name of Fenians; and Catholics and Protes- tants are expected to make common case ip repelling any attacks that may be made upon them.

their strength made of no avail if the demon ot

Bot their. arms will be paralyzed and

relizious strife be suffered to come between The Bishops aud Priests of the Catho-

lie Church in all parts of America, as well as

them.

in Ireland, have used their immense tnfhience tu put down Fenianism, and to preserve undis

There is

turbed the authority of the Crown.

forth missionarics who were to convert all the

electors throughout the Island are not asked to discuss the- merits of the party in power and ihe conduct of pubife affaiis—there must perfect silence regarding the managenrent o} onr’public finances—the enormous inevease o! our public debt+the creation of a military esta- blishment at great cost, while some of the ruling party and their friguds declare that the Island is and must be indefensilile from its peculiar situa- tion—these matfeys smnst ll be set aside in order to make hiniquy the ‘seapesoat of another religions feud inthe. Colony. Catholics are told to be quict whil@ their religion is reviled— but there must be vg censure on the reviler— no remonstranee atythe injustice of insulting the whole Catholic, population of the Colony through the lips of aman whose mission it is to denounce for lucre the religion in which he was educated, and whose rites he administered for a long period. . The ery that Protestantism isin danger again is sent forth through’ the land because the career of a bad and fallen priest happens to be somewhat severely eviti- cised. It's certainly no compliment to the in this commanity wher the unfortunate ‘ Father” Chiniquy is put in the foreground as_ their champion. But as.we said before, it is an elec- tioncering scheme, and will no doubt be dropp- ed as soon asthe elections beever. It is, how ever, a scheme which prompts the serious en- quiry—are our political institutions worth pre- serving in their present condition if they can be made subservient, every four years, to the

a profound concern for religion, but have very little of it in their hearts ?

the last eizht years convinces us of the necessity

The experience ot

of a change in our constitution if we would pre- serve undisturbed by charlatans the tranquility of the publie mind. | In a union of the several Provinces there would be this advantage, the religious cry could. never be raised to such a pitch in any of them as to affect the poliey o! the General Governmeut. Even a Levis!ative Union with Nova Seotia, much as we dislike it in theory, would be preferable to our present condition. The majority of those who are strongly opposed to Confederation favour an- nexation to the United States. it would be a gredt fiitsfortune if we were annex ed to the United States; but not near so great

a misfortune as to have our political institutions

Now, we think

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i ever the time: fgg jeneral eleetion comes

werverted by a few knaves and hypocrites when-

round. oY ae

We have again mentiomed, with deep reluct anee, the name of Mr. Chiniguy. We have no desire to keep up a controversy about this in- dividuall and refer to him now arost probabiy for the lust time. We stated some weeks aro that the story of his having a Colege at Kankakee, in

lilinois, was a piece of the most flagrant misre-

to shew that Mr. Chiniquy had no institution under his control worthy of the name of a College. The Putiiof says this was a “s!ander,”’ aud that we had net a‘ particle of proof” for our assertion. Now, we will establish our case T!

out the nicest extravavant assertions, unsup-

ce

beyond all cavilling. Patviot may deal

poited by any authority; bet this is not the

telligence and good.sense of the Protestants of |

designs of a handful of schemers, who profess |

presentation, aud we asserted that we had proof

ene ta be followed by retribution as individual,

aud anne recent events inthe bistery of the United |

Stites have turwished a ath King Ulastration of the principle The great crime of the nation has been shatery—leng cherished ai preserved, aud it has brought its punishment. The penalty, too, was apportioned ina measare pccearding to the respon- bility connected with it. The slave States suf- dered meat as most guilty in the matter, and the Northern States secondarily as particeps criminis.

day—about tie markets and the exchanges, and the seasons, and the elections, and the treaties and the wars, and all the fond noth- jings of daily lite, should cloth theimselves | with elemental sparks and shoot with fiery ‘speed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an feye, from hemisphere to hemisphere, far jdown among the uncouth monsters that wal- jlow in the nether seas, along the wreck-

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‘Lhe Demweratic party which treated slavery as | paved floor, through the oozy dungeons of the Republicans new treat Feuianisun, fell with it, | the rayless deep—that the latest imtelligence and are wow trying to rise under the very Repub) fp aye crops, whose dancing tassels will, Heyy leaders whe were the instruments of thet) in a few months, be coquetting with the overthtew. | The Repablivun party sow worms West wind on those boundless prairies, its besmn the Penign viper, avd if their downtell | aa fashi ' a hous of wud diwrace sheuid he the only penalty that fel- shyuld go Hashing along t @ Siimny decks 0 lows their crime against a ufernational avd vid sunken ga sie which have been rot- igoral lags, the pyuighment would be gery slight | Gog for ages; that messages of friendship That tug will be ue e@eet ean hardly be donbi-| and Jove, from warm, living bosoms, should ed, but that national sins will by condoned by the! burn over the, cold green bones of men and destruction of a corrapt party organization is not, women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, te by expeeted. Internal disorder, thett, robbery | hugst as the eternal gaifs closed and ‘roared od murder are among the inevitable concome | yeor them centuries ug 1”?

ante of such a atateé of poblie morality we they ‘aed made

Bible.

servatives or Liberals were the ablest polr

The (uestion was not whether the Con-

ticlans, but whéther the Lible should be ex. cluded from the conmnon schools, when nubody ever thousht of excluding it. Falsehood and reli ious prejudice carried the election in favour of the Conservatives; and when they were comfortably seated in office the Colony was al- lowed to lapse into its former state of tran- quility touching religious affairs. Nota word more about the Bible as soon as it was found that the Conservatives had a majority ia the Assembly.

Again, previous to the general election in 1563, there was a terrille outery raised by the political schemers and their bigot followers to the effect, that the Catholics were seeking to establish an ascendancy in secular affairs, and

course we shall pursue. In the Cork Rraminer (a Protestant paper), of the 19th July, L861, the following appeared. The writers, Mr. 4M. W. Staples”? and « Thomas

correspondence

French in the States as well as in Canada, it ts ja mere district countey school, and the vaunted

M. Chiniquy himself has been likened to Luther, | and even to St. Paul, and now his own Preshy- tery has issuer a trial avainst him for barefaced fulschood and embezzlement of money, &c.

As to the means by which M. Cuiniquy, after being twice excommunicated and almost hope- lessly estranged from his own church for mat: ters eutirely unconnected with faith or doctrine (2) some hundreds (magnified by him into thou- sands) of the French Canadians, settled in Ilin- ois, suffice it to say that an amount of money, nuknown to any one beyond himself and his bro- ther, who, froma poor, suddenly became a rich man—was raised from charity and applied to these people, who were extremely poor and in- tensely ignorant—so much so that the Chicayo Tribune, & journal which at first went in for Chiniquy, stated that a tithe of the sum would have converted them to Mormonism or anything else. One man named Zare gave me as his reason for not being “ converted” that M. Chi- niquy promised him 200 dollars, but that he could never get more than 5 dollars from him.

I found that one result of the proceedings amongst these people—and my statement is confirmed by the Rev. Mr. Williamson, Pro- testant Episcopalian Minister of Kankakee, in | his answer to my original letter, who ascribed the fact to “cirenmstances that ought nol to | have transpired’ (and 1 have found a similar vesult from the operations of the Trish Charch Missions)—to be the creation of a number of infidels.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

“Tuomas Bicés, LL. D.”

Here we have the testimony of a Protestant

of high standing—a Doctor of Laws —to the effect, that Mr. Chiniquy’s story about the Col- lege was ‘a barefaced falsel:gvod,” “an im- posture,” and that he was guilty of **embezzle- ment’

and “swindling” in appropriating to

his own use and that of his brother the funds

which he collected for it. Let it be borne in

mind that this is the languave of Dr. Biggs, a We

re not responsible for it, and if we be abused

| Protestaiut writer of hich authority.

| at |for reproducing it—as we have no doubt we will—the abuse of us will not make the testi- | mony of De. Biggs one particle the weaker.

Tin the Montreal Witness —an over-zealous | Protestant paper from which Mu Laird often quotes with approbation—of the 6th Mar, 1862, there appeared the following note addvessed to the editor by the Clerk of the Ppreshytery of Chicazo, enclosing a copy of some Minutes of the Presbytery, in which Mr. Chiniquy’s beg- ving appeals on behalf of his “Colleve” are