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clans very good. Arithmetic, 56; 3 classes ; very good— not the inhabitants of P. KE. Island do the same? Can we ready and correct. 77; tavyht on a most succea-ful manner; the Geography of the : Dictation, 4250 regular. Ovher

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of our common country without some persons hinting at the dranches—Alvebra, 3: Ge ometry, 1 3 Recitation, 53: one propriety of keeping us poor ** Romanists” . satisfied with ' whe reeved Byron's Eiptaph on a Deg did so with much pro- post before the trast,” — res’ rained by the limits of the priery. taste and judgment. Remarks —Mr. Roche's abilines tain hateh,” or without their jeering priests as ** Medes and aaa teacher are clearly of a very high order ; and the ertent and| Persians,” or ridiculing * red stockings,” or any other part wartety of knowledge ac pnired hy Aés puptls are surprising."’ ‘of episcopal or ecclesiastical dress ? anc r k gam ee p eyed dng oe Some may consider it unnecessary for me yo come forward cha 0 = ee, ane aie . oe ee a * now and defend the Temporal Power of the I upe. L know ’ =? that Lam unable to do the subject that justice which is im-

ciation was full and cistinet ; the pronounciation, with sheht d ] ie ot ‘eho ll e . « » ) + . we , Pare ‘ . e e\cep luns, accura'e; and the expression vi spirit and feehng portance Gemanus, even 1 my time Were not almast wholly

leland well understoc:

. - oY > : . ws . Pal in the reevst on of iutere ting pieces of prose and poetry, very kea up with my numerous duties ; but, Sir, | capnet remain

remirkenie. In every department the investigation has been | silent and read your unjust stricture: on the conduct of that carried beyend the t xt book. A searching examination of «| benign Pontilf whom I as well as al! Gatholics revere as large clase an a varmry of subjects—ealled ‘the Genesal bn- Christ's Viear on Kurth. Besides. I hope that my observa- furmation Cines’—shewed that a epirit of inquiry bad been eb | tions may have the effect of removing some of the fa'se cited. Me. Roche his had the pri Gipal management of tes! A otions which prevail regarding the Papal Sovereignty, and Pehoo! for meny vears, the ehildren of the diatrict, with few eres of tt nai. pa ea i ae : ho her *keceptiots, sre Qut-usied to him, avd he bas cous quently en-| is part of the unjust prejudices which exist against Ca j ged pec iar privileges for the exhibition of tact and talent in rh pro.noting the progress and proficiency of his pupils im the p i- OUS [0 US 35 Eitigcna, wery and higher branc ies of educaticn.”

Can anything plainer than the above testimonies be required our most Gracious Queen, who now, by her many virtues, to conviet the wiiverin the Mogiterjvf being @ mean, contemp’- adorns one of the most powerful thrones in the universe ; ible liar, @ moet shameless, barefaced s'anderer? If the other | yet, ary veneration for that august personage whom you are studevte of te Normal School are as ill bred, mendacious, | - ; © - ’ shominably immo a!, aad ae totally devoid of all Christien feel- : : : ‘ae to ee \ x aoe oe . thea would £ ea tha: thie that which I entertain for my temp ve Sovereign as the Jnstiyniion is a deadly coacer, which will herealter be the curse | §pirit is superior to the flesh, or as the things of heaven are efrecuty. | would fain hepe, however, that sach is not the | superior to the things of this world.

| _ | puted the hospital without providing some other suitable ‘employed, and w thout d-trment to the employers, it might be |

, ° E i j 4 : Grammar, 394 very good. Geography, | not all unite in advancing the material aud social interests! place im its stead. ‘The hospital, which has been destrayed, |tried in our small City for one season ; and fur experwment sake, | entertained by the present Government. s : 1 was built by Sir Alexander Bannerman, and fenced off from |if on no other consideriuon. t [t was a mile!have adopted it, but it reqires (0 be a universal sysiem to be |

tbolies in geaeral—~-prejudices which are move or less iajuri- I yield to no man living in the respect and loyalty due to! ‘pleased to call an “ impotent old man,” is as far superior to |

Por thus expressing | : 7 , ay 5 of gossip, a scarcity of news, almost unparaleiled sinee cur |

Ghe Examiner.

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Government Farm, and was public property. and a half from Government House and was considered not | an inconvenience by either Sir Alexander or Sir Dominick |

But it appears tu us that the’subject of a Loan wili Rever be Nearly every mem. ber of the Executive has very strongly repudiated the of teatinat, principle of that measure ; and the President ef the Councit

Hoping you wil pardon my troubling you on this subject, has just publicly declared that he is now more Opposed

One or two of our wnerchants |

Daly wie had a large famity to care for; yet, our present and that the desired system may be forthwith adopted, winch, | to itthanever. If the meesure is to find favour in the Legis

| rulers, haying no family, deem it too near them, and for some |

petty caprice order it to be demolished ! and the City Corpo- the time, Sur, to recommend it,

ration pay twenty-five shillings for doing it. We read of men offering up their lives to save their country ; here the cppes te | ‘preva ls. But thanks to Providence, and not to the wisdom of those at the beta of state, the health of the community was ‘spared. ‘The individuals afficted with the Small Pox who cume here in a schooner were thrown inta a cold mi-<erable | hut, and had nothing to sustain [fe for five days but water and potatoes. In a few days seven persons became infected with the disease, and were it not for the extreme coldness of

[ think, might be more readi'y brought about if you could épare : : lature, it must be under the auspices of new party combing

|tions. Wether any thing of this kind will occur ig the ensuing Session it is impossible fur us to conjecture. This,

/ however, we may fairly assume, that the Government must , pursue a bolder and more liberal policy with Tespect to the Tryon, January 23, 1861. | land tenures than they bave yet indicated, or sheir fate i

| Sealed forever. They have coquetted with the proprietary: The public excitement is greater now t

I resnvin, yours truly,

Charlottetown, 8h Jan., 1801. SARAH.

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TESTIMONIAL TO JOUN CLARK, ESQ., LATE OF TRYON.

To Jous Crank, Esq. : sir, — Being aware of your removal from this community to another part of the Island, and on the eve of your departure, we, the under. | parry too long.

the weather,it would have spread more rapidly. Let us hope signed inbabitants of Tryon and vicinity, cannot permit you, dear Sir, | was even when the Cummissioners wer ° : 7 that there will he a proper inquiry int» this affair when the | finally to depart without expressing to you our deep regret at losing | erhere ; and the increass

House cf As embly meet next month. Verily, Sir, the success- ‘ful eflorts of the Examiner in defeating the emigration scheme inay have been the means, under Providenco, of sparing the poor people of Scotlamd another Durien expedition

Yours truly, / A TRUE BRITON, Charlottetown, January 25, 1861.

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SUMMERSIDE GOSSIP.

For rus Exasrner.

Since the advent of the new year there hag heen a dearth | be effaced from our memories

| #0 worthy @ neighbour, and so useful a member of suciety as you have of feeling is owing to the culpable apathy of the Government | proved yourself to be, and likewise the bigh esteem in which you are, | held amongst us| Your frankness and urbanity of manner, your hospi- | tality and readiness on al! occasions to promote anything of a charita- and agsisiance to, the Froprictors while the Commissioners | ble natare and temdency, has won for you many warnt hearted friends | ‘ “iad :

lin this locality. Your ability and efficiency as a Commissioner of the Were holding their Court in the Island —and the enormous

| Court for the Recovery of Small Debts, for many years, deserves our |number of writs and distraints that have been issued, duri highest commendation. And we trust that your removal may prove con- | . ng ducive to your welfare and happiness, and way you find as many friends | the past three or four months fur the recovery of arrears of

jin your new bome as you leave behind you, and‘may you be blessed |. ee , . s

| with ail that Heaven can send. We shall ulways be pleased to see you, ne mombous and officere of the Government acting as

ie you can make it convenient to pay Tryon a visit, and likewise Attorneys in nearly ali such eases. We understand thata happy to hear of your welfare, and depend upon it, Sir, that the many . hatin. lee .

| Pleasant hours that we have spent ia social company will not readily | well organised agitation originating altogether with the

tenantry themselyes—is about to burst upon us, tle first objecg

And now, dear Sir, we bid you adieu for the present, and that every |

regarding the weliare of the teuantry—their connivance With,

esse, snd that We felid imoral depravity which a * Normal! Nehwol S qlent has exhibited ia confined to he polluted self. Ove would thick that it would be well for Mr. Webster not to

si ow eny af hia students to be bringing odiuin oa the School

of whieh he is the Head Master. If he continue to allew this student of bis to outrage all decency, then shall we hold him revponaidle for these s'anders—then, to, may he prepare him- aelf for a well merited castigation. The midnizht assassin who prowles about, ready io fal! upon his defenceless victim, ig as nob'e a heng ay the cowardly, dastardly wretch whe, in

bis Sstanie ma ice, sh00ts brosdeast his poisoned arrows of

elander and defamation. But I sur pose the work of defamation i# +0 congenial to the ‘ unhanged forger,’ flunkey, * A Norma! Nchool Student,’ ef Loc genus omne, that it would be absurd for us to hepe thet they will be eo nverted from the in qu'y of tueir wars, These worthies will, na doubt, continue their ‘aderie-ons’ employment, But it ie well that we now know where the sewers and the cess-pool are which emt the dis-

eyreenble effuvia of which I before made mention. T'o the sibaldry. cloaca maruna, and to his redolent tridntaries, | ssy—frentiemen,

myself | way be called a“ fanatical Romanist.” an “ extreme | Papis*,” and an ardent defender of “ Popery.” But, Sir, I deny most emphatically the charge of Popery, if by it be understood “that dark spirit of ecclesiastical pride and am- bition which rebels against the law of the land, and tears the hayl of the patron that feeds it. That spirit of wid Pio selytism,per fas et nefas, which pours whole deluges of tracts jand Bibles ou every shore—indiffereat whether they fall ou (he palace or in the gutter—whether they be written in language which excites faith or contempt. We strenuously reject Popery if it’ wean that evangelical zeal which would | Aotet a a tivanlah Uoate neni"

escort its ministers with trains of artillery, and compe! | . a oe “th he F attendance by volleys of grape. We abhor, we reject Po-| Not 89, huwevers we opine, will ee the case wit sore pery if it revile the Lady of England as Jezebel; if it! err by the Collector, in honor of eae wn Count denounce her as deserving of dethrénement ; if it single out UUrrioni, whieh took place me: the evening of Thurad ay lest, the object of her hallowed affections as the butt of its at the “Frog Swamp Villa,” the residence of Professor We loathe, we detest, we snurn Popery, if it Jackanapes. ile awa wring the last miserable penny from the starving peasant,| _ For some days a fautastically dressed ereature, with a cap

ambitious litde town has aspired to the honour of becoming

, the County seat, and that is years since.

| 'Tis true, a few choice spirits ushered in the year of grace L861 with a Ball and Assembly at the * Ballahoe Hall,” where some ardent devotees of Terpsichore enjoyed themselves to their heart's content.

small country town at this season, but it only furaished food for the gossips for a few days, and then

Of course an incident of this kind helps to break the monotony which generally prevails in a |

- l : ” . ah! ; Sy ' . rouse, vility, slande + defame, calummigte your neighbours | a4 ‘ake the tenth blood-stained sheaf from the widow and until you are black in the face.

A CITIZEN, | ‘be orphan—if it leave the father of a family to rot in jail eee for a debt of five shillings and six-pence. If, indeed, such be _Popery—if it loathe the reign of youth and innocence, and

THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE. sigh after the dominion of a hoary tyrant, then, QO Lod, deliver us from Popesy!—If by Popery be meant that doctrine handed. in dying, by the Pope and Apostle Peter Sin—In the Islander of the Tih ultimo appeared an Edi- | 6 Linus, and so to his successors, through every link of the torial on the ‘Temporal Power of the Pope, which contains °°2'D of ages—then, indeed, we admire it, If by t!@ term remarks that cannot {ail to be very offensive to every Catho. be understood that faith which triumphed over the Cyesars, lic, and alao assertions which, I think, should not be allowed | Which confounded the sophists, which softened the barbarians, to pass withaut notice. It ia my present intention to review | which freed the slave, which ransomed the captive, which this Editorial at some length, and to defend the Temporal eulightened ihe ignorant, refined philosophy, and civil’aed the Power of the Pope against your violent attack on it; and J World—then, indeed, are we in love with Pope-y. If it be would have done this some time ago were it not that I have ‘at spirit which instructs childhood in truth and virtee— heen too busily engaged in the discharge of my various duties "Sich restrains the fery passions of youth, and guides to —Advent and a fow weeks after Christmas being for a Ca-. heavenly crowns the ambition of manhood—which makes oid tholis Clergywan one of the busiest seasons of tho whole #g° avaricious of virtues —which guides the footsteps of life, year. land watches by the bed of death—then, indeed, we embrace I wil! not dwell @n the motives whioh aome attribute to Popery. In this sense we sve in it the centre of attraction you in writing the article in question, viz: that finding your- Of all noble natures: the prototype of every generous feeling : self rather unpepylar on aecount of the part which you are the begiun ng and the end of all truly great actions. It gave said to have taken against the tenantry during the sitting of I'S spirit to martyrdom : it gave its heroism to self-denial— the Royal Commission, appointed ta seitle the Land Ques. , its Zeal to charity—its aspiration to art. [a its rays geniu.

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To tuz Epitor og tux Istanven.

shaped after the manner of the Corsacks of the Don, and made of sheared sheep skin, was observed strutting about our streets, twirling his cane with a self-complaisant smile, and adjusting his neck-tie with the nervous consciousness that the eyes of the populace were upon him, Various were | the opinions that were off-red by our aston‘shed towns full, | as to who this doughty stranger could be. Some averred that he was an [talizn Count who had fled his country in | consequence of the troubles of the revolution ; others asserted that Le was only the Junior Clerk of the Executive Council, | who had arrjved here in order to prepare the public accounts of the Coileetor in time for the meeting of the Legislature, ,it being stipulated by his masters that he should pérfore| such work for incompetent effice-holders as he would have | ‘little else to do; and others again insisted that he was none | other than * Edward Fwiskey,” the redoubtable libeller in | the * obseure Movitor;” but certes it is, that whoever he! was, a J¢e was given in his honor that far eclipsed the fes- | tivities at ** Ballaboe Hall,” which ushered in the year of | grace 1861. We had the honour of being present at the Fete, and a larger assemblage of “ fair women and brave | men” we never remember to have seen, with the exception | of the Prince of Wales Bill. =“ All went merry asa mar: | riage bell ;” although at times we fancied that a slight shade |

|all times feel pleased to receive a visit from any of our old friends, | | whenever (hey can possibly make it conveuieut tu call.

of which is to petition the Legis'ature to, pass sume measure

| Llessing both spiritual and temporal be vouclsafed you, Mrs. Clark and f

| family, by the Dispenser of all Good, is the sincere and earnest desire (of relief for the tenantry—aomething that will restrain Pro. ) of your freinds and we'l-wishers, i : ; : . ; (Signed)—Samuel E. Dawaon, J P., John Lord, J.P., Richard Had- | prietary oppression, and relieve the tenantry from the exaction

son, J. P., Alex. Craig, Will'am Callbeck, George S Muttart.” of the arrears of rent.until the award of the Commissioners

But a speedy abvlition of the leasehold

} Henry Howat, Alex Howat, Geo. Mattart, Samuel Thomas, | ; William Loa, sen., William Sobey, Jabez Hudson, John M, Hood, | shall be proclaimed. tenure, whether by the award or by an act of the Legislature,

Albert D Callbeck, Joseph Robblee, Jobn M. Leard, John M. | | Howat, Richard Howat, Henry Howat, Edward Wadman, W. B. Howat, Charles Leard, Colin Campbell, John Cameron, Duncan ig a thing that sust be accomplished. The Government may Cameron, Benj. Webster, Donald 3:. Gambell, Thos. Robinson, | iaicte and til d h hi bed " John McRae, Adam Howat, Dougald Cameron, Samuel McRae, Cajole and pilaver, and say that nothing can one wntil the John Camerou, George Howat, Jaues McRie, Allan Cameron, award of the Commissioners shall be made known. The Jobn Iicliday, Jobn Bell, sen., Hector Metadyen, John Walker, | . : ~% Kae A. E. C, Holland, J. P., Robort Muirhead, J. P, Henry Wad. | award, we understand, will not be given during the | man, Alex. McDonald, W. B. O'Brien, Finlay McFadyen, Arthur | ii Ole | - “9 Irving, William Platt, Win. Muttart, Joseph Staguan.” | ensuing Session, and probably not until the Session of 1862. [REPLY } | Do the Government suppose the tenantry will quietly submit Cuivisinnt; z | to proprietary exactions for another year or more? No, no. | Accept my warmest thanks for the kind and unexpected address | the crisis in the history of the leasehold tenure has come upon which you have just presented me. I sbul] ever value it os one of the! ... > ; > ree | greatest marks of friendship and respect that you could possibly coufer = + the Governmagh, or mers it manfolly od ouceumb + jen me. sistance to the popular feeling will be of no avail ; but will | Your estimate ofmy conduct while among you is higher than it de-! ii : 4 , pr pdicti serves. If Lhave assisted vou in carrying vat any object of a charita- | vather hasten that state * things wheo Mr. Pope . iction | ble nature, it is only what I shall ever take pleasure io doingas fir as will be more than verified—owhen all the civil power of the | my feeble abilities will permit; and I am likewise happy to find that |) ah: : . ‘ : my conduct, while Commissioner, has met with your approval. land will be insufficient to execute the writs of the proprietors, T assure you, gentlemen, that had I consulted my own feelings,I and when it will be impossible to ‘* see how tranquility is to should bave still remained amongst you, for believe me, that after | : . bie, : pial $e ill spending so many years of my life among such kind friends and good | be maintained in the ( olony without strong military uei; hvoura that it is not without feelings of regret that F now leave you. | furce. If the Government are of opinion that they should do I again thank you, gentlemen, for this mark of respect shown tw mo | + 1 i. i and ny family, and can only say that Mrs. Clark, as well as myself, | nothing for the relief of the ten ‘ptry wntil that time shall will carry with us a friendly recuilection of your kindness, aud shall at | have arrived, they may rest aasured that the cares of office _ will not press heavily upon them long after its advent. JOUN CLARK. | [fowever incorrect tho editor of the Jslander may be in his | details regarding the proposed Loan, he is eerteinly correct |in enunciating the opinion that @ general purchase of pro- - beat _prietary estates, waiving all enquiry into the conditions of ; Pi a 4 . _ the original grants, is the most effectual, and indeed the only, Charlottetown, P. E. I., February 4, 1861. means of emancipating the tenantry from proprietary bond- annnannannnannnnnss are, and averting the anarcy which he thinke must result THE LOAN. from an obstinate persistence in the present system. The ; _, | Monitor, act-ng the part of toady to Mr. Palmer, is shocked We do not know of any more remarkable change of opinion ty. think that any journal on the Government side should j gti } i ie! é PCI i . . sos . on a public question than that which has recently marked | manifest more independence of spirit than itself has done,

The Examiner.

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of disappuiptment clouled the features of the Junior Clerk, |

. . a] eile . ' | alias the Count, alias Elward Fwiskey. This, probab'y | Was owing to the disappointment he, no doubt, experienced |

- e ° ° . j e a low + ‘4 Se ‘ ‘ . ? j, ; tion, and wishing to gain popularity with a certain class. you *prang to life—under its hand the Madounas of Raphael resolved to make « * political engine” of the Temporal Power 8? ia their humility to tarones of ¢ oud—and Murillo’s of the Pope. I by no. means affirm or even insinuate that martyrs smiled indying. — Its sweet aud awful voice grew - hichelliidh sb deny naGAUE tiered tn ent boldaahda:’ Jou were actuated by such uaworthy motives, wh'ch you Seusivle in the tones of Allegri, in the strains of Mozart; ™ beholding so many gentle ered. de Ba yeey: oe , -

the conduct of the Js/ander and its patrons in reference to the Loan and Parchase Bills. The late editor used to become

exceed.ngly rabid when writing upon either one of these measures ; and the present editor aduressed some grossly |

or is capable of duing, and tells Mr. Pope and Mr. Ings, that 80 long as they hold Ggvarpment employments, they have no right to express an independent oy inion of theirown. We will quote the exact words of the Monitor, to shew that, in

will, as @ matter of course, repudiate; but [ can say that if Pergolese and Zingarelli Were evhoes of thig spirit’s song. your sole object in writing this article were to inform your At i's command the temple of Peace, crowned with the readers about the important changes now going o» ia Italy, Pantheon, rose in majesty under the name of St Peter's, and especially about the Temporal Power of the Pope, you and the Moses of Michael Angelo, full of the glories of might bave attained the end which you bad in view without >'3i, lives for ever, like the stone tables of the law, eu- giving deep offence to some of your readers by your sarcastic Sotined in the splendors of Jenovau. Yet therc are wonders sueers at the belief of Catholics and the conduct of the Sove- | $t@ater than these, We bave seen palaces in foreiga lauds, reign Pontiff. |which, in our simplicity, we took for the residences of kings ; Betore proceeding further I may remark that you, Sir, are they were only the abode of beggars. In these magic worlds generally believed to be the Colonial Secretary of this all seemed reserved ; the poor, the wretched, crushed _by Colony ; and if you wre, the position which you at present fortune, found an asy!unanl rest, Waited on in the emidat hold does not appear to me to be the most dignitied ; for, of every comfort, by the young, the noble, the beautiful, whilst you are in the reeeipt of Catholic « gold,” you, at the | they seemed to biess the storms that bad driven them to such same time, consider it proper to Outrage the most delicate * bappy port, aud, amidst the calm, succeeding 80 ey’ feeings of Outholies by calling the august head of their | *empests, soothed and yet weaned from life, it seomed us if Chureh an “ impotent old man,” and by attacking with viru-|'¢ Were to them the portal of 1 aradise, and a p'easure to lence both his spiritusl rule and his temporal government. | 7! Ab Catholicity! thou great ens, on court te. I frank'y express it as my humble Opiuion that “ under the 8° persevering, so firm yet gentle, so avar.cious of souls, and most favorable cireumstances, the demand which the “ busi- | PTOd'gal of seif-sacrifice, #0 learned and wise, so ancient yet ness of the Volovia} (flice” “ must necessarily make on the "Vel, 80 splendid and heroic, overflowing with mercy and time and attention” of the Colonial Secretary “are very | *e charities of life; Lord of all things by a universal abue- great ;” and « the purity and dignity” of the Government of | 3*tion. Ah ! ean it be that thou art nothing more than a Prince Edward [sland * cannot fail to be lessened in the | damnable sanenery. 5” estimation of mankind’ by the association of its principal | a offcia! with the elitorisl department of a newspaper which | "0008 to be, Sir, your bumble servaut, wakes ou the Pope attacks that are highly offensive to a large portion of the inhabitunts, and that are caleulated to fan into, a fame the now swou dering embers of religious strife. Some of our journalists appear to labour unneeasingly in | order to propagate throughout this Colony the idea that |

A. McDONALD. St. Dunstan's College, Jan. 22, 1861.

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THE EMIGRATION SCHEMERS.

To tuz Eprror or tur Examiner.

)worch mu-t bave ill-aecerded with his ideas oa the s ihject of |

hall room attire. His mind must have been possesse] of vague ndtions of leveesat Government House; and, perhaps,

he had anticipated a few white clokers and claw-hammer |

coats, in his especial honor. Tired of dancing. the guests ‘found relief in some @xquisite vocal music, furvise! by the host himself, who savg "The Wigwam by the Mill,” with great applause. The Count Currioni Ikewise rendered * The Old Cabin Tlome” with great effeet, which was doubt-

less owing to reminiscences of the log shanty on the West |

River. On the whole, the affiic was considered the most recherche that hus ever taken place in this neighborhoo*. The writer of this has been assured by Captain Richard

Walsh, 2 gentleman of undoubted integrity and great moral | energy, that the statements of Currivni, in the “ obscure | Mon:tor,” are wichout the’ slightest foundation in fact. At)

the time the Junior Cierk refers to, in bis libe) published in the * obscure,” Capt, Walsh commanded the pa ket schooner “Rival;” and he states that Mr. Whelan and another gentleman, having inadvertently missed their passage by the '* Fairy Queen,” took passage with him in the + Rival."” He

further states that being well acquainted at Shediac, he bad |

facilities which no other person from the Island possessed

: ss i Se t i ic : . } : : : Promising to return to the subject next week, I have the for finding out if any such event as Currioni describes had | the interest of which, we were assured, could never be paid-} yjenf tool that ever disgraced a Guvernment.

ever taken place; and that he neither knew por heard of ‘sucha thing. Therefore, he considers Currioni’s insinus- tion, about « tle Messrs. Walsh throwing a flood of light on the subject,” as a mean sabterfage to bolster up a statement, | which is a falsehood from begiuuing to end. Here endeth | the yossip,

i dan. Zs, 1S61,

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cffensive leiters to Sir D. Daly for having recommended and

the opinion of its editor, a public journalist favourable to the The Purchise Bill was derourced asa’ :

Government, and receiving some patronage from it, must never utter a word of censure, no matter what follies and errors tha: Government may commit.

sanctioned them.

palpable swindle, under the operation of which, it was said tie oceupiers of small farms were liable at any time to be

It says :—~ - Yet that Act has nut only been

‘Mr. Pope, as one of the principal officers of the Govern allowed to remain unaltered on the Statute book during the mont and Mr. Ings, as Queen’s Printer, are both, in cur es” two years the Tories have been in power, but they have pur- timation. open to censure for the course they have pursued, and are still pursuing, with regard to this matter; and w® trust that, for the fature, those gentlemen wiil see the pro- | two very extensive est.tes. ‘The Loan Bill, we all know, was! priety of con‘orming their published opinions on public ‘merely iutended to sapplement the powers given to the pg | anrONr to the oe pe GY PNR nn the Gorern- s Ome elt Lae ae aiiag Ment whose servants they are, ley are not prepared to de, vapeur by the Purcuase aes, bat i" _ skews assailed this, their course is plain, —let them resign their olives: and with the most rancurous feeling. While it was under the then we shail bo saved a repetiti m of the anseealy exhisition consideration of the local Legislature, and afterwards before) VW? have —— ae and a Government will, of ei ; | course, no longer be held responsible, in any way, fur the tl mperial Parli: t,. th ander ' seok:|,- ‘ae i i@ Imper al Parliamen ' the Js/ander did n ¢ allow a week political opinions whic they may see fit to Fremulgate to pass without denouncing it as the most ruinous measure through the columns of the Is/ander.”?

that could be devised. We were tuld that it would bring |

ruined by the Government.

chased, and are now selling, in conformity with its provisions,

TLere is no doubt that Mr Cooper would be very well pleased. | endless taxation upor freecholders who could derive no benefit : if Mr Ings reei_ned the Queen's Printership, in order that he, (from it—that the Colony was too poor, and its then existing might obtain it; and if he did, we hava proof in the above | debt too great to borrow the large sum of £150,000 currency, | extract that he would be the most mean, slavish and subser When Mr. | Our public debt at the time the Loan was proposed was about | Clark proposed to vote against theAdministration on an impor- £30,000 ; it is now not far short of £60000, Yet, the edior ‘tant question of finance, while he held a very lucrative offices, of the Is/ander who abused Sir D. Daly and the Liberals for! and he was advised not to do so, the Tories were shocked at advocating a loan of £15,000, modest’y recoumends the Go- the restraint which this advieo was alleged to impose on his. Yernment to borrow Iwo Hundred and Seventy Thousand | personal liberty ; and they kept up an outery against Mr. Pounds, and buy out the estates of his friends, the Proprietors, | (yles for many months afterwards on account of it. Bat here

Catholicity is the enovay of civil liberty, that the Papacy is | synqnomous with pa'tical and religious tyranny, and that |

chegld :+,B.seaniau.esercome.inic power “a dark shadow ) month the Editors and correspondents of the two papers which | jare lashed by the golden chain of corruption to our Govern- |

Crosses over and rests upon our fair home ~liberty of speech and action is restrained. progress, even in so general a matter

Str~—You have doubtless observed that during the Jast | EARLY CLOSING.

Mr. Examingr~Sin—You occasionally tell us of different ment ear, have been exerting their very small share of wit ‘it#rary instiu'ions existing in our midst, and wint that folk and ingenuity to make the public believe that the one thing Seuld support these by tieir preeence and mowey. This is a

as commerce, is retar led —-superstition, Which lays its fetiers| needful to make this Colony an El Dorado of wealth and very fine doctrine to preach to those who have time and means on intellect and con: sence, is fostered, and personal safety happiness, is the immigration among us of a certain class from %t thee command. There is a class of persons in this com- is endangere i” Even you yourself, Sir, are not altogether | the mother country. If one had time to contrast their puerile, monity who, however they might improve either by these or

free from this imputation, for, in the Islander of the 3rd of February last,you say : ~* Experience has proved—and the

. . ail, ° * tH . . } ’ : , prosperity of Englao:l is a marked illustration of the fact— class of emigrants must be possessed of faur or Gee hund-ed Metuings, the Clerks are at their duties, opening and preparing

that countries advance in the arts of civilization, and prosper just in proportion as their inhabivants are free from ecclesi- astica! domination. The inhabitants of the small territory under the immediate goverument of the Head of the Roman Catholic Church are now, and for a jong time past have

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| projects, and expose their dribbling absurdities, it could not teligious Societies, have not the time at their disposal to do

I mean the shop attendants!

fail to afford some amusement, . It is well known that from just efter daylight of these short

q The ds’ander does not want 89. labouring men who have no money to bring with them. Lj!

pounds currency, with which he assures them comfartable Meir respective shops for Customers, and they not only stand houses and cultivated land can be had, and that they willim- 4 their poste, performing their duties during dayliht, but long mediately become independent gentlemen! [a the same papery ia the night have they to be on foot, even atier the houre which Captain Haneock has his. house and sir acres of land adver- (hese respective Societies commence their servic *s (Not because , tised for sale, and instead of a * house and 80 or 100 acres of | Of the 1mmense quantity of business there is to do in the even-

at a much higher figure than was paid for the Worrell PBPr'l so net barefaced attempt to bring the ‘iron rod”’ to beat

perty. And Mr. Secretary Pope says this Loan must be pro-| upon the Islander, which existed long before the present. Go~ :

cured, if we want to preserve the peace of the Island. Le says

; | Yernment came into office—whieh is not subsidized in any way: that ‘* the tenantry throughout the eeey have been induced |\— which has always aimed at independénce in its politi¢al to form extravegant hopes and expectations such as can never views; and which is destined to outlive by many years the

be realized from the award of the Commissioners ; and pale party now in power. If Mr. Pupe has done an improper act.

the scheme of emancipation, by means of an Imperial loan — in advocating a loan, the Council whose Clerk he is should without which,’’ he adds, ‘it cannot be carried out—be| have spirit enough to call him to account for it; but we have taken up and vigorously prosecuted, we caunot see how tran- no proof whatever that the majority of the Council differ from | | quility is tv be maintained in the Colony.” | Mr. Pope on this subject. If Mr. Ings made the Royal Gazette | Now, first, with respect to the ‘ extravagant hopes and! the yehicle of Mr. Pope’s opinions in opposition to the Govern- | exXpeetations’’—tle present Government originated the Coin sant, it would not, perhaps, be out of place to check him; '

mission—they assured the tenantry that all their grievances,

ty : . : ; | arising f tl d Question, would be fully redressed by | . . ; been, in a state of most deplorable disstfection; and the | #94 for £300 or £400,” as the editor states can be had, the | iZ,. but froma bad habit long preserved here, viz: /ate clos- | *rising out of the Land Question, would be fully re Y fere with the Islander, any more than with the Lzaminer, or

Sovereign Pontiff would immediately be driven from his Pa- lace by his Cath lic .u'jeets, were the army of foreign troops, by which they are now kept in subjection, to be withdrawn. Lf the secular rule of the Romish Chareh be intolerable to its own perple, it would, uecessarily, prove more so to Pro- testants.” In your issue of the 7th uals. you say :-- Un- Sortunately for popular tiberty, * The New Zalander’ will. we fear, have completed his sketeh before the hist rian shall have recorded the destrustion of the Papacy.” The eXpres- sion of sentiments such a4 those which [ have mentioned has an undoubted tendency ta ereate against Catholics a very strong prejudice, and to induce the great majority of Prates- tants tc look upan ys with suspicion,us if we were continually plotting against ther liberty, and even against their lives, awd to regard us #s a dangefous and very wicked class of be'ngs.. who should be by «ll means possible kept down by thoxe who value thcit liberty aad their lives. This, Sir, is not only most uujast towards Catholics, but a'so very pre- jadicial to that Cor stian harmony which should exist in this community. Lt is true that there are many Protestants who are sufficiently inst: ucted not ta be influcnoed by misrepre- sentation and virul-at invective; but it is also unfortunately

| price set on it is £1000. | are comparatively few respectable houses and farms to be had | ali the service or business is gone turough? Not only would

| for a much less sum, unless, indeed, we ad ‘pt the only eon- | the meeting be disturbed by the vatimely visit, but the intruder

Now, it is well known that there ig!) And who would like to go to any of these meetings when | that Commission ; and if the tenantry shal! suffer any disap-|

/ : : s . | even the Monitor. a pointmenat in their hopes and expectations, the Government |

clusions which can fairly be drawn—-that the present ocou- | “orld not be able to pick up the thread of discourse, so as to Will be responsible for it all. Secondiy, as regards Mr. | GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICE.

piers are to be driven from their homesteads to make way for | profi thereby,

the ** more respectable clase of emigrants’’—the consideration, A remedy for this etate of things is in the hands of the Mer- being £300 or £400. The Monitor would be satistied with any Chens, vz: early closing! and it is * devoatly to be wished”? , class, provided they came from the Uighlands of Scotland, | they will use 1, so that meir Servants may be able to benefit by , and throws the blame of the last emigration scheme upen the the religious and moral information within thei reach, Per- , shoulders of poor Aberdeen Smith, of noterious memory. You, hsps there is not a town in the Colonies that is blessed with Mr. Editor, come in for a share of the abuse of the pompous greater fac:lines fur informmg ard improving the mind than | pedagogue who fills the editorial columns of the Moador with | eur own; for instanee, the Methodists and Bible Chris iins his inflated verbiaze, for the saccessful manner in which the held two oublic week mght services each week, while the Kirk | Examiner defeated the designs of Aberdeen Sm th’s employers. | *Ud tive Extablished Church hold one each. ‘Then there are But, Sir, you are honored by tho malevolent abuse of the public réliptous serviens two or threr umes ench week in pri- , Monitor men, Is would have been well for our own countty- vale houses; then she Young Men’s Ubristian Association, the men who emigrated not long ago to New Zealand, if some Cathole Young Men's Literary lostitute—different Church | Examiner at the antipodes exposed the deception which was Snging Sceeties—a prospect of the resucitation of the Har- | practised upon them by land jobbers. They would not now | ome Society ; and last, not least, there is the Debating Ciub , have to regret having left P. KE. Island. wit iis Reading Room in full bloo.n and vigour, and