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among my own constituents te Montreal, and guard will be left here, and the base of sup- Ut have no doubt you would like mo to en-, plies will be changed to Florence. OF this large upon it as the point most iwm diately 1 bave no doubt.

lateresting to ourselves. * * **The Tennessee jis navigable for small boats from Chattanooga to ite mouth, at all seasons, and for large ones from Florence to its mouth, in high water, the only exception being between Dacatur and Bainbridge, over

me, by the cut of his jib to belong to the liberal ranks; but what got into his old head I don’t know; but as this is a time of coat-| turning | began to think maybe the old fel-| low is going to turn hie coat too; or anyhow to conciliate and please the Tories, and get) the muscle shoals. Around these, there is a some office from them: orto let them see the!

f ' railroad of oaly forty-five miles in length, burlesque they were meking of their Gov-| sieges the good people of these colonies, | aad this could be kept open with compara-|erninont; but says i to myself, my old chup, gatly, & systew of government which will tively fow men. About the shoals there are) whoever you are, you better mind your own | secure to them ample means of pr serving : 7

© pnamereus boats which ran to Chattanooga,! business. Bat, my dear Sir, did not he! external and internal peace ; we offer to them

the common profits of a trade, which was re- preseated tn 1863, by imports and exporta, tv the gross value of 131 millions of dollars, |

THE SCUEMI 4S A WHOLE

This is the frame of government we have to offer you, and to this system, when fully understood, | am certain you wi! give a cheerful and hearty adherence. [' beers].

keep the river open. to the independent and patriotie Attorney |

** We shall then have the advantage of! General a resolution as follows: — ‘* That!

; 4 ® Water base and» river line of defence. I this meeting do signify their disapproba- aod by the sea-going and lake tonnage or 12 have often wondered that this has not been tion of the duplicity resorted to by the Hon. millions of tons! We offer to cash other! bofore adjusted; but 1 feel eertain that it) Gentleman alluded to while in Canada.’’! : cial advantages in detail, The M +ribime | will now be employed asa base. With an} And, Sir, if he moved that resolution to con- | Provinces give us a right of way and free) of iene cavalry force, properly supported by | ciliate the Tories, they served him right— | outports for five months out of every year; infantry and light artillery,Selma and Mont-| not a soul voted for tis impertinent amend- | we give them what they need, direct onnee- | vomery will speedily fall into our bands.) ment but himself and two or three more.—| tion with the great producing regions of the! Tose towns would be no further from Flo-| But, my dear man, when the resolution was | North-West ali the year round. This con-| rence than Nuashyille is from Louisville; and | put you'd hear the 4 yes at the dreary | heetivm, sf they do not get through ¢ inada, | Louisville was our base in 1861-62; and/ waters of Babylon, and to demonstrate their | they a ustultimately get through the United! p) ronce is to day more securely ours than/disapprobation of said amendment, subse- | Sune SES eee SeReEN Way" 2,88 deme, U8 Frits was then.”’ }quent to the resolution and amendment be- perhaps out of season, had continued an ad- ae | ing disposed of, a worthy J. P. of the yellow waren we ee Interool mial Railway was, | BERMUDA AND THE WEST INDIES. | order chastises the Chairman for submitting that the first and closest, and most lasting ce aperR F a : | said amendment, because the mover being

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eoanection of these Lower Provinces, witb | tha continental trade system, might be estab-| lished by, and through, and in union with} Cancda. (Cheers). [do not pretead that mere railway connection will make trade between us aod them, bat Lam quite sure we ean have | nv considerable intercourse, no exchanges or aecounts pre or cen, without euch a con

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complains that the rights of the port of| the paper in his hand and read it himself. _ Nassau asa neutral one are now being in- | fringed by the Federal Government, and re- | grets that there is no British man-of-war on that station to enforce observance of Interna-! neetion, both for postal and travelling pur- ee ms > it a oe aoe ” oo | posss. i rejoice, moreover, that we, men of| por )) ot erat aqua ro " i ingular origin, are about to reeover one of | on ee ae sp poree. * —, ge _— on ' ‘ | Jacen ayes Cua epo no Ore v0} cur lost o Ohae, tae eee thet comprehends | ee ain 4 , Charlottetown, January 30, 1865. the eR —-4 Capea) nk eo We are pot now! The schooner Orville, (American) from| about to subside inte a character so loreign Philadelphia to New Orleans, called off St.}

al "ede ‘ re i , to all our angecedents, that of a mere inland George's on the Ist, to land Capt. Know, | | officers, crew, and passengers of the steam-| ——

people. The Union of the Provinces restores us ps i takes ne back to a aor ship Talisman, which vessel foundered at} I? is rather singular that nearly all the anti- | Sancta hy mad es 2 Al sea about 300 miles to the west of Bermuda. | Unionist controversialists readily admit Union in} western world, (Cheers). But it is not fa! [he Orvilie aauennine aes in sight je} the abstract to be a very good thing. They do not | its material advantages, by which we may, “send ” gg re crew and passengers. The} seem to be aware of the importance of this ad-| enrich each other, nor its joint politieal ae- Talisman =e from W mington, bound to| mission to their antagonists. They do not appear ak hee a! eat antes tah, thee | Bermuda with a cargo of 450 bales of cotton. | Oe ld ha etl ak, fu | ne

sig AP tos ogg y - wee Oaeh) O8NCE.| ‘The steamer Charlotte, which arrived at | te kuow that by grauting this they yield almost | es me § Noi an only to te valved, it is be-| 5. George's from Wilmington, on the 23rd! everything worth contending for. We are rather | See et a ae Oy O88 Hen. & dio-| ultimo, had 1015 bales of eotton on board ;! of opinion that this concession has been wade un- | the Owl, which arrived on the 24th, has 700!

tinct historical existence to British America.

if it should be fortunately safely este lished bales; and the Colonel Lamb, which arrived

and wisely upheld, mankind will fin 1 here, the same day, 1760 bales. ' '

standing side by side on this half cleared) The Bermuda Royal Gazette, of the 4th} Comsistent and more logical position that Mr.|

continent, the British and American forms! inst. says the fever has about diced out. In} Beer already occupies. That gentleman cannot

of free Government ; here we shall bave the| summing up the ravages of the epidemic, | now see his way into the Union on any terms. the same paper says .— | He, in effvet, denies that the principle of Unio

means of comparison and contrast in the| ** What has been the total number of cases, | - in The rest of the

greatest affairs; here we shall have princi-|

: te ay aati , ' >| in the abstract is a sound one.

pals tested to their last results, and maxims and what the exact proportion of deaths, it| me 3 a sound one , | anti-Union arty, fromthe Hon. Edward Palmer |

tuspected and systems guaged, and selivolsof'! ; . . i

theeght os eli + ae cinta. oofeamedi extremely difficult to determine with ac- °°" ' and revised,founded and refounded. (Cheers) | °2°2¢Y—4t least as far as the civilian part| down to Mr. Joseph Murphy, of Lot 11, appear] All that See oe mien vf the population is concerned. The cases) to think that if a Unien of these North American | mae Wanting to the intellect of R me ander! among the military may be roundly stated | Provinces could be effecte the Grat emperors will be abundantly supplied | at close upon 500, of which abuut one-third |

, | proved futal—a rough calculation, based on|. .. . : , 5 sutof our own circumstances and thse of our| & Fuug jindividual in those Provinces, such an Umon

j : atisti al i ; sible, neighbuurs, s that no Cicero need ever, oe obtained as far as was possible, |

se | 50) in all among other | Wight possibly be productive of good. ‘They pro- ronal consideration, enter into in lefensi-| © ae Se Seee eae . | 2 consistencies, and no Tacitus be toureed to

classes, and furnishes a yrand approximate | fess te be very willing to see the field ploughed : : : , tutal of within a few of 2000 cases and 670) ; arrowed j rimson-tippe dae a

diagnise bis virtuous indignation a¢ public! _—_ 2 - ie . ™ a oe = and harrowed if no erimson-tipped flower would corruption, ander the thin veil of an vutlan.| ee Fo (REO Gee Sony o P| be buried beneath the sod, or nu mouse’s nest dish aliegory. (Cheers). 1 may be sanguine | Po f toru and seattered-by the unrelenting plough- for the future of this country, butif ic be an ~| share. “ Your theory of cultivation,” say they, error of judgment to expect great things of} | “is, for aught we can see to the contrary, sound; | but,” they add in tones most melancholy, “ if it!

young countries, as well as of young people} who are richly endowed by nature and gener-' oats

| be carried into effect, what is to become of the daisies, and the

1 remain, yours respectfully A SPECTATOR.

Che Cxraminey.

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{ LOLOL ELLE |

UNION IN THE ABSTRACT.

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advisedly, and we would not be surprised to see

| all our anti-Union writers soon teking the more |

-d without injuring the interests or lessening the importance of any single

CORRESPONDENCE.

To tux Evrror or tue Examiner.

ously natured, then it is an error | aeveri.§ «... .» . hope to amend. And here, let me say, that|,, Sm‘ Peay permit me, through the co- it us for the young men of all the Provinces) lattes a aeaaanae a be tel husbandry consistent with the preservation of that we who labour to being about the Cun-, G t J : pe aud having a due regard for the rights and federation, ave especially working; it is to) @°°°S° Beer, which you did me the favour | Gah mevING # Guo regare ior the rigate ap : : So ; to ventilate, has been read and unfortunately | interests of mice, and the time may, perhaps, ar- give them a country wide enough and diyer-| “.' 4 od bn. thas ff ble Genti hg Le ; : ified enough to content them all, that wel misan erstor y that Lonorabdle Gentleman. | rive in Which we will give it our faverable con- , to his regretful tact I learn from the spirit of | | Levtion:* labour ; it is to erect a standard worthy to @ very severe. but reined commenitation—-| ‘ ° pip 4 i ‘ -_ engage their affections and ambition ; it ist o| J. 3 . bli On | orators place the feather in one scale against the | frame @ system which shall biend the best in-| 2% bis polished pen, published in your "al ae e & syst e e best in-| j al of 1 The diffe 2. bh | mountain in the other, aud scream with delight | a val) jy, Journal of last week. ‘The difference, how-| on | terests with the best manners, which s!all in- a. : : . 3 lat coe te , | ever, existing between us is easily explaived | When in imagination they behold the beam incline | fuse the epirit of honor into the pursuit of| 1" . i | 7 a Rene cor pst ee sata 20d settled. The Hosorable “Gentleman | towards the inealculably lighter weight. ities, that we base steivea—and who ean) 5000. that ‘bh west i hin at , 6 x2 More interested in our success thaa the} cereea t om a ‘ah el "Ede a . c >» rhic : ‘ _ 4 young meo of the Provyinees, who are to ear-| woald oe cannes ee eal every race of men, whether savage or civilized, | bs ais , ry om ths affairs of the country inte aa- | the Coloni I aces his denial. Who! the earliest times. Modern experience has | other cemtury? (Cheers). vionies, aavept this denial. ho | eer would doubt the Hunvoravle Gentleman’s| proved union to be not only strength, but e1vili- | #8 THE PLAN GENERALLY TO BE APPROVED. ,word? And gonceding the demal, I admit! zation, prosperity, and even nativoal existence | * * * And now, gentlemen, that the | that he, the Honorable George Beer, has yet! itself. architeets have completed their plan, it is) not determined on the precise or exact con- all but independence of an insignificant © for you and for your representatives in Par-| ditions upon whieh Prince Edward Island)” Tore pane. AP Ses. cme liament—for my friend Mr. Pope nal the | would formally ge into the Union. The | nity of ouene eighty thousand souls, try to pmoging | other Towaship members,—for the pr ple oi | ultimatum final, then, is yet on an undevelo- | the state of the civilized world — if indeed there | the Maritime Provinces and their reprusenta- ped page of the volume of the Honorable would be a eivilized world~in the year of grace | tives bed say whether this great work is to be | Gentleman's \arge mind, and doubtless will) 1865, if every petty community on the face of the | carried, with all due diligence, to its ¢ umple-| be revealed when the proper time slall| slobe had for the last thousand years pura tion. if the design should seem to you as/demand the revelation. In doing me the|* $3 - a - ta Bhs years pursued i wise and fit as it seems to us, then Bing all| honor of noticing my complimentary letter, | jealous exclusive policy which they prouulgate | maisgivings far behind you, and go abead 2) I observe that the characteristic bane of the| With such untiring industry, and with so great Let no local prejudice impede—iet no perso-| Honorable George Beer— modesty—forbade | an expenditure of sound and fury. But if this bej - : ata o ay sferone i r | . . ie . . nal ambition impede the great Work. Why, any reference whatever to the gist of my! toy high a flight fer their jmagination—and I can | the very aborigines of the land might have communication, which eagerly sought special | easily believe that it is — let them endeavour to| instructed the sceptics among ourselyes that! information on the important point, inyolying | ; b ee a ’ Te ri union was strength. What was it gave at| the future of Prince Rdward Island, namely, | patare tot eer ree nepens ul the world i one time the balance of power on thie sol ty| upon what consideration or conditions he, | day if mutual jealousies and antipathies had kept) the *‘six nations,’’ so that England, France| the Honorable George Beer would bimsellf | the various peoples uf the British Islands estranged | a ee = Sr = oe ee oe oleae. in the Executive Guvergment | and apart. IHad not the necessities of their situ-| eu-skinitied statesmen vu nondago 7 gat) Of th viunhy. was it made the name of Brant and Puntiae, Yours respectfully, and Tecumseh so formidable im their day ? PRO BONO PUBLICO. Because they, too, had conceived the idea— ——_—_—_~<~e—___—. ao immense stride for the suvage inte! lect to| For tHe Examiner. waake-—that Union was strength. (C beers) | | that empire would, in all probability, have long Let the personalities and partizansi:p of our | ** Pro Bono Publico ’’ presents his high | fatien a prey to their more powertul because times stand abushed in the presence of these! consideration to ** Serutatur,’? und regrets | : ted neighbours and rivals. Str forest-burn Federalists, who rose superior to| his, P. B. P.’s, seeming neglect to notice| were - od veigh pours au rivale. Strike the all tribal prejudices in endeavouring tu save| ** Serutatur’s ” nice letter published in the | British Ewpire trom off the roll of watinns, and a whole pevple. (Loud cheers) lam,Ido| Monifor. + P. B. P.’’ assures * Scrutatur ’’| What a blank would be created! Eliminate from assure you, persuaded in my inmost mind) that neither slight nor slur was present, but | the problem of modern civilization the effects of , : . ‘ a | ‘ " ‘ hat these are the days of destiny for Lritist, the truth is bhat we B P.’s*’ silence Up to) British euterprise aud the influence of British in- Amejica ; that our opportunity to determine) this period, which might be construed into. tellect, and what would be the result ? our owe future, yonder the favour of Divine ungentlemany reticence, was the result of ey : : ae as Providence, is ypoo us; that there is a tide| entire ignorance of the existence of his, | 2? 20ou, tongue or people whose condition would

mice? Make your system of

* These anti-Unionist writers and |

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That Union 1s strength, has been admitted by

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ation and the wisdom of their sages drawn toge- | ther the divided and reluctant population of these | Islands, the greatest of all moderna ewpires would wever lave existed. The parts which compose |

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1 the affairs of nations, as well as o! men, | and that we are now at the flood of that} tide. (Loud cheers). Whether the men | who have this great duty in charge may he) found equal to the task, rewains to be proved |

hy their votes; but for wy part. | am hope- | the satisfaction to link his own Opinion with | does not already perceive, the importance of na-

** Scrutator's ’’ conviction, to the effect, that, ienal union. England, Scotland aud Ireland, toned status—the great influence | separate, and uufriendly, were and would always in this colony, and the general statesnjunly | coutinue to be e

ful for the early and muiually advantageous |

union of all the Provinces — for the early |

and firm establishment of our monarchical | Confederativn on this continent. _— oe _—

THE AMERICAN WAR—THE CAMPAIGN.

(Prom the New York Trivane )

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| ‘There is a momentary lull, not in military operations, but ig those brijliant displays of | genius aod courage resulting in grand suc-| eosses whieh all last month rivetted public’ attention. The single effort against Wilming- ton, which did not result in a grand success, | searcely rufiled the eusy temper of a people | grown used tu good fortune and able tu cudure_ an o¢gasional failure. As it fades from view | interest is renewed in the operations which | Gien Sherwan is expected to undertake from | Savannah, and Gen Thomas from Tennessee. From the former we aye nothing later than the return of Kilpatrick already referred to but it now appears that that enter; rising eaveiry leader was not sent hunging yfter! wrisoners, but had a specific work tw do jn! he destruction of the Savannah and Gulf) Railroad, which runs south-westerly from! Pavarnah to tle border @ Florida, and which has been one main source of supplies for) Lee's army in Virginia. Sixty miles of this’ road Kilpatrick angiilyted, and his cavalr a4 wigeady tar to the nopth Feconnoitering oa | the road ty Charleston [tg activity indigutes | un early movement by the main body of | Shersian's army. The eseape of the remnante of Hood's ar. | my across the Tennessee has ceaed tw he rs matter of controversy. Llood passed th: river) ep the 23rd by ponivuns at Bainbridge, eight) miles above Florence. A Nashville COrres- | pondent, apparently well-informed, says that the Rebel Army, when it left Tennessee, numbered not mure than 18 000 mep al! wuld; | fas ths pumber of deserters was enormous, and that im 4!) the army there remain not moore than |.G00 Mepiyckians and four thou-| sand Tonnesseeans. (1 the 2,000 men whom Hood kidnapped while in Tenpessee not 100! grossed the river with him. Lhe tojlowing indication of future polewmes js, tu gey fhe jeast, plausible.

i: Pennegsce is now perfeetly safe : no fu- ye

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will be made by the rebels w, oveupy hold it. Puereigre, » pew buge vf supplies will be found. The line of rai}- road trom Ngghyille, south, is vepy Jung. and. hence requirey the detachment of x great number of trugpe to guard it, and from thin. point perth the Louipviile Kasdroad js often

cut, ard the Cugberlund Kiver ig uniy bayi- le ia winter.

fuse gijem

} believe, though, that ville will soon gease to be of 2 iua-

portapee 4¢ © mel.tery ventze, A strong:

| Uunorable George Beer, would appear tu

** Serutator’s’’ amiable communication.

** Pro Runo Publicy,”” noy, however, has | The itelligent reader, when he reflects on the |

the honor of bowing sespesttully tu his friend | ‘* Serutetor,’’ aod thanks him for his excel- | lent note and notice; and “ P. B. P.”’ bas

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the high

ability, attended by extraordinary singleness | of mind and unselfish purpose of the Honora- | ble (L give, as due, the prefix in full), George Beer, dewand for that patriotic and talented gentleman the first position under Lis Ex- cellency Lieutenant Governur Dundas, ip the Government of this Colony.

** Pro Bono Publico ”’ feels, with ** Seruta- tor.”’ assured that in consideration of the publio and private claims of the Lonurabie Geogge bver, a mere wink of a desire ov the pert of that modest gentleman to wield the destinies of this Isiand, would be eagerly caught, and prove sufficient to msure the ap- pulotment of the Llonorable gentleman to the Presidency gf the Executive Council and Leadersip of the Government.

But in view of the material and moral interes of the evlony, it is matter of pru- found regret, that the modesty, even ty a fault (as observed in most great men), of the

preelude the possibility of the objective wink; aad yet Lope —persuasive Hope the gentle

latteser, eee that the persistent bash- |

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fulness ui the [ouurable yenticiman might be |

Uvnorable gentleman, and determine the destiny of this cvlony.

** Pro Bono Publico,”’ continuing his high regard for his friend ** Serutatur,’’ that whea he, * P. B. P.,”’ shail be put up) at ** Gidey’s Brick Hotel,’ rugh act of ** Serutatur’’ to visit ** B. B. Po? |

suysrests |

10 that lodging, inasmuch as ** Serutator,”’| of Union this day ¢ walls and bolts and bars of | much the

being withm Gidley’s house, be might, in the language of

the cuged atarling, ery: ** I can’t yet wut.” 24th January, Pao5- "

itt ete

A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNO?P STAND.

Mr. Epiror.—

Wonders never cease. Iaying, on the 20th instant, atteaded a meeting at New Perth, consisting mostly of ultra Tories, a rt of which will no doubt be transyitted w the respective periodicals of the day for jnsertion, | was quite amused to see all the Tories change places with the Liberals pre- sent—the toryer in & resolution passed a) yote of thanks ty 3fr. Palmer for the inde-.

adent and patrivug wanner in which he opposed the Union, bush in Canada and. (Charlottetown, which, in my opinion,

amounted in substance tu a yote yf nu confi- dence in the Goyernment uf which they pre-

net be very materially modified by the process.

influential.

| g¥eat measure untried and unknown.

| intervening two hundred years to assist our judg-

overcome, and the important wink be miveh,| in admitting the priveiple of union, but exceed: | Y) which would dsewe the elevation vt the | '!y fovlish in allowing what appears ta us to be

, dureasonable prejudices, groundless fears, and an

great and manifold advantages that would most certainly acerue to the native land of each of

end fo be the strenuvus supportery. But,

stupendous influence exercised Ly the British na- tion over human affuirs, will begin to see, if he

ouparatively powerless and un-

The material resources of these countries would have ever remained but imper- tectly developed, and the energies and capabilities

of their inhabitants would always have been in a

It will not, we think. be yery difficult for the reader to go back in thought some two hundred years, and imagiye au Englishiwan, a Scotchman and au Irishinan discyssing the desirability of a Union of their several coyntries inty one great empire. ‘They readily adunt that the abstract idea of union reg ommends itself to their minds, byt their ujutual distrysts and dislikes induce them unanimously to decide that, however beau- tilul Union may appear in theory, it is practically an impossibility. They see not only lions in the path of Union, but dragons and “chimeras dire,” and every lowling and yelpiug creature known or thought of. We, having the experience of the

ment, see clearly that the disputants were wise

unenlightened seli-interest to blind them to the

It strikes us very furcibly thgt the opponents | ou this Islaod are iu pretty same situation as that in which we have placed our imaginary discussjguists. ‘Their oppo- sition to Union is, in our opinjen, caused by fears equally groundless, aud by pyejudices equally un- reasonable. It may be that hereafter some writer, perhaps the coutemporayy of Macaulay's New Zealander, will cite their objections to Union a8 an example of the nayrow-mindedness and short-sighteduess of Prince Edward Islanders in the nineteenth century.

The rise and pregress of the Unjted States of America should convinee our opponents that the preject of Union is based upou yo feautiful but untried theory, and should induce the reasonable aud disinterested amoug them ag carefully to weigh the arguments for, as the argumeuts against, a Union of the Colonies, ‘The condition of those Colonies, which have singe expauded into the American Republic, was ju many respects | siuilar to ours. They were, as we are, separated

‘Sir, what amuse? me most was to see a into isolated communities, without any general | will 7 nT

white headed fo resent who, appeared to bond of union. Tbeir enormous material re- pabulum, ’ oh i : hh mg iain were undevaloped.+ The people that ine) Mr. McCully’s forced retirement from his late great question of Confederation, Nothing could Carey's, St. Andrew’s, on the same ey hal it d them, though possessed of many and; editorial chair is a very small transaction that| be more epportune than Dr. Connolly’s letter | Friday, the 20th. jadbite , F .

sh their new literary|

at the progress of Fenianism, from the clear and unequivocal testimony it gives in support of the |

MEETING AT 8T. ANDREWS. Mr. Whelan held bis fifth and Jast Meeting af

-~ vebing, William Sw abey, Esq, J. Pp ”

| . a great virtues, were unenergetic and unenterpms-| reflects no credit on the proprietor of the Chroni-| after Mr. Cardwell’s despatch. He argues the was appointed Chairman. After a lengthy ex.

ing. In the world their influence was unfelt, but no sooner was the breath of national existence breathed into the sluggish masses of the popula- tion than they spratg into national importance with almost miraculous rapidity, A nation was, indeed, born ina day. This hitherto unknown

and there are also several smail gunboats to) move as an amendwent to the vote of thanks) people soon caused ts influence to be felt in the | with the dictates of his own contracted judgment.

councils of nations. ‘The United States increased in wealth, in population, and in extent of terri- tery in a manner wiparalleled. Who will have the temerity to say that had those communities, which now form the United States, each main- tained a separate existence, their prosperity and importance would have been this day anything like what it now is? Would they, in that case, have possessed a tithe of the wealth with which the Republic abounds? Would their aggregate population in 1865 have exceeded that of the

Mother Country? Would they have possessed | ‘cities in population and riehes at all to be com-| change—(we suppose either form of expression | pared with those of which the United States can | will do)— is the bringing of round Connolly

The steamship Ci/y of Petersburg, at Mali-| in a hurry did not subscribe his name to it | now boast? Would these disunited Colonies, | into the front ranks of the € onfederetes. If the fax, has late dates. ‘I'he Bahama /lera/d| Myself thought it made no odds, as he had! with their limited sphere of action, and their| Chronicle had remained unchanged, it is more | petty aims, have predyced such men as adorn the) than probable that His Grace would have kept | pages of the history of the United Nation? What} his thoughts within his Archiepiscopal Palace. | would now be their status in the family of nations ? | Yet, the internal resources and external advan-| in the field, where there is such au immense army tages would have been the same in both states of | of Catholics to be led and encouraged, than a pa- | existence. The soil would have been as tertile, | per ten times more influential than the Chronicle

the earth as rich in taineral treasures, their rivers

| - j} us broad and deep, and the saine seas would have

washed their shores. But wanting union aud

{national Jife, the riches of nature would have

beeu spread before them in vain. They possessed ueither the euergy ner the means to benefit: by her generosity. And why cau not the British American Colonies, to the extent of their natural advantages, prosper as the United States have prospered? We have no wasting war to wage before we can reap the fruits of Union. This exhausting trial, this severe discipline is spared us by the parent country. We can begin life under much mere favorable auspices than they did ; and why, we ask again, will not their suc- cess be proportionately great?) Who doubts it?

| Statesmen in Britain do not—those in the United

States do not—the leading minds in the Colonies predict a most briliant future for British Ame- rica. Who, then, are the prophets of ill?) A number of very small people in a very smal! Co- They fear that a Upiep, which will enrich the principal countries that compose the Conte- This is like granting the body to be in excellent condition, yet dreading that the little finger may perish for lack of nourishment. Is this reasenable ? << »-

’ROGRESS OF CONFEDERATION.

lony.

deration, will impoverish them.

Tug St. John Colonial Presbyterian, of the 19th instant, alluding to the state of public opinion in regard te the question of Cunfe- deration, truthfully shows, in the following lines, how that question stands in four of the Provinces :—

‘*We assume that the confederation of the Provinces wili be effected. Prince Edward Island will probably not enter the confede- ration at present; there will be an influential and compact minority in Nova Scotia against it; some of the monied classes in St. John, and politicians in opposition throughout the Province, will oppose it, but i¢ will be carried wn Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by large majorities, and the sqme will prove true in Canada,”’

As for this [sland she will, no doubt, do her little possible to keep aloof from the general arrangement; but it would be absurd to Suppose that her contumacy would, for

p 2 lg » ine > | let bi ss fur the present. The Moutreal Gaz Let those who advocate the isolation, and | iny length of time, be countenanced by the let him pass for the presen The Moutreal Ga

lmperial Government, when we know that that Government are exceedingly anxious to see all the Celonies consvlidated, and be thereby better prepared to protect them- selves. Ic is not at all likely that Prince Ed- ward Island would be allowed to form an exception to a general plan of Confederation, and continue to be a burthen and annoyance to the Lritish Government. Think, and talk, and write as we please about it, this conviction must force itself on every well in- formed mind, that if the other Provinces in British America be united, Prince Edward Island must speedily cast in her lot with them. This cannot be tortured into the form of atbreat. very sensible man knows right-well that if four millions of British subjects in our neighbourhood adupt a uni- form plan of government, 80,000 people here cannot, if they wished, be suffered to have a little sovereignty of their own, requiring the special protection of Great Britain; or, without that protection, be ullowed to drift into the condition of a wretched appendage of a foreign country, and be thereby a source of weakness to the loyal Provinces on the mainland, who cheerfully embrace the Jm- perial policy in regard to Confederation. Our trust, then, centres in seeing the battle uf Confederation manfully and successfully fought oa the main land. Ifvictorious there, the furtune of war will extort an acquies- cence — whether it be reluctant or peevish, we will not say—from this now discontented Island.

Our contemporary, the Colonial Presby- ferian, sus made no allusion to Newfuund- land. We are happy to be able to state, on information of the must trustworthy charac- ter, that the Colony mentioned is earnestly desirous of eutering the proposed Union. The opposition to it in the capital city of St. John’s ia scarcely perceptible; whilst all creeds and classes-Catholics and Protestants, merchants, professional men, mechanics and laborers-—seem to be holding up both hands for & measure that will help to develope their gregt resoprees to an incalculable ex- tent, and open up extensive fields foz their

lubouy and enterpriso.

— ~~ ———_—_—_— THE NOVA SCOTIA PRESS FOR AND AGAINST CONFEDERATION.

SOME of the anti-Uuion papers appeay to be mightily pleased at the change whi¢h has recent- ly taken place in the character of the Halifax Morning Chronicle. ‘That paper has been, for | about two months, a very able advocate of Con-

federation, the Hon. J. McCully, one of the Nova ‘it might prove al them from carryivg that principle into practice. }

Scotia Delegates, being the editor. it appears, however, that Wim. Atnaud, Esq , was the real owney of the paper, and not the sou of that gen- tleman, in Whose name it was published, and who was the only party with whom Mr. McCully held business relations. Mr. Wim. Aunand informs Mr. McCully that be must quit the edityyial chair, because he (Mr. Anuand) does not believe in the Union project. Mr. McCully retires with- out hesitation, and immediately finds a field for the exereise of his great abilities jn another jour- nal. The opponents of Confederation really gain nothing by the occurrence. They get, to be sure, the Moruing Chronicle qn their side, but they get the Morning Journal dead against them. The Journal occupied, heretufyre, in regard to the question of Confederation something uke a veptral positivn. It will not shock its readers by declar- lng in faver of Confederation ; while the rpaders of the Chronicle, why were apparently pleased with the toue of Mr. MeQylly's editorials on the Uuiou question, will now have to beat time to different music, or bid theiy Chronicle good bye. Time

‘cle. We will not pity the honorable and learned |geutleman. Perhaps he ought to be congratulat- ped on being relieved from a servitude wherein a | master, moiling in the dark — not wishing to be | known as master — expected that the brains of the labourer should be so worked as to accord Daily life presents pictures of drudgery in many forms, in view of which most of us shudder; but we think we could not possibly find it more repul- sive than in that aspect wherein a man of brains is, on pain of dismissal from service, required to think and write down to the level of an inferior, and to give up every healthy andmanly opinion he thought fit to cherish and propagate. May the Lord nuble hearted men from drudgery so debasing !

One good thing effected by the “ change of base’? on the part of the Chronicle —or the base

preserve all

| But we would rather see a Richmond of his stamp

is now likely to be. - +r -

ANOTHER CANADIAN OPINION OF MR

PALMER — THE SO-CALLED * MASTER

OF TILE SITUATION.” e

We copy from the Moutreal Gazette of the 11th inst., the tollowing telling article in reference to Col. Gray’s resignation of bis place in the Coun- cil on account of Mr. Attorney General Palmer's duplicity. What will our contemporaries in the other Provinces say when they learn that Mr. Palmer has the ineffable meanness to cling to the office of Attorney General after being quietly wedged out of the Exeeutive Council? He may prate as long as he pleases, through the columns of the Monitor, about bis retirement from the Council being a “ voluntary act.” Nobody be- lieves him. He has destroved any little reputa- tion he ever had fur veracity by his wretched ex- cuse for his Toronto deceitful speech. If there were a necessity for lim to resign his place in the Council, what necessity existed for bin to retain his office as Attorney General? Could no other competent person be found to fill that office? If he were a man of commanding influenve—if he were the boasted “ master of the situation” —he would have resigned his place at the Council, his office as Attorney General, and have induced all his colleagues in the Couneil to do likewise, as svon as Col. Gray’s resignation was received ; and then, if he had any influence, he might, with some propriety, be called upon to reconstruct or re-form the Government. But it was evident he

question in the most persuasive style, and in the

scholarship and eminent ability could supply. No one can suspect dis motives—no one can al- lege that he is actuated by ambitious aims—no ove can assert that he has been deluded by Cana- dian sophistry, or dazzled by Canadian gold—or ihat the Confederacy can offer anything more alluring to dia than the high position which he holds as a Prince of the Catholie Church. En- dowed with such a character, moral, religious and intellectual, and holding such a position, his clear and forcible arguments cannot fail to have immense weight with all classes in the communi- ty. No one can believe that he would recom- mend a project, such as that under consideration, unless he knew, in his inmost soul, that it weuld be eminently advantageous to our now scattered colonial communities. His open declarations on behalf of Union are opportune, too, as they will relieve the doubt which has, fur some time, been casting its dark shadow en the minds of the Insh Catholic people of this Colony, which has made them fear that the Union now proposed would be somewhat similar to the Union ef Englaud and Ireland. ‘The Colonial Union dues not bear the faintest resemblance to the Irish Union. His Grace of Halifax well Knows this, aud reassures his Catholic fellow countrymen from Freland, by urging them to support the plan of Confederation.