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poor people teexpeet that the members of a Tory

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aie enero > <a Ne ” ae | ; Jogtience ts the ¢ onan santas a ——— —_————— . - : . , » junetion rentlemen whose eloqnence 1 ‘ re . vai ot " ° 7 dite r : .. : _Y , cial aah this, of reception necessary; but still, I hope the pro-| will, without donde, be much surprised at the ac | before the eas wre tg) cy ee aa | ali —(laughiter)- -to propose iA wane ot —— ST des = wae OE ide are compelled to pay biti fir being there a) caine wi may be surprised to hear this, | of recept woery ¢ 7 , a : “3 ce f 4} sdtsamaty low't ‘ f Chareh and Stiie l > iM so ot tdolators miserable, whies our fathers hive not be | would deprive themseive 0 2 that ‘ aud you would be sarprised to see the pumber of | visions of the Bill will he — om _ o a eT ote , i Awe into a lower cone ms .< — _— Bede fally and fairly tried onthe Lrish people. (Hear.) | the aristoeracy of the Island at the expense of the other pattern of dll the virtues, the whale Island, which could be easily done g | morals and the abject slavery of the people of Swe-| jiberty and rights than they . : tried, and insults, and confis

persous Wao are uader the influence of strong drink in this “ity va a market day; I believe, toe, that the driaking cuatem is on the increase, Li- quer lees not appear te have the effeet on people wow that it had rm fermer days; then it made men | merry, but new if makes them madi SU Ppose | it is owing to dillateriews inqretients that ewised with it. Ll asaw an account nut long age of} @man in Halifax, by the name ot Dodd, whe} drank 2 glasses of liquer and was dyad in 2 hours afterwards. Upon examination it was discovered | that he had drank veisen which was the cause of his death. Another provision of this Bill is that} en a renewal of license it requires the same form to be gone through. Thereis one provision ta the Bill which is somewhat nevel, and I de not knew how it will operate. If ts that if a man be a ha- | bitual drunkard, his friends may apply to a Ma-| gistrate for a writ and have him imprisoned, # nd | his property reserved tor the benefit of his family la the United States there are drunkards’ Asylums, aod numbers of the persons confined are elergy- | meu, aud ladies in the higher walks of lite. Phat abows that prohibitiog is the only remedy; but I doubt very wach if it could be carryed out here, for it John will drink, John will get drank; and if Dick will net drink, Dick will not get drunk. |

Hou. Mr DING WELL—This question has been | taker up almost every session since [ had a seat | at this beard; and if there is so much drinking as | his honer represeuts, it is certainly our duty te en-| deavour to prevent it |

lieu. Dr. JOHNSUN — Lbelieve the only ef- | fectual remedy is meral principle. Legislation | will not make gmen sober, therefore the moral | principle is the best to depend upon, That prin | ciple can be increased by moral culture, and it is the duty of every man to set about it; the Govern- ment eet the example. I believe the li- cence system ia not sound policy; I would go to! some ether source for a revenue than the mnmo-| rality of the people. 7

Hea, Mr. HUTCHINSON — I approve of this’ amendment tothe license Act, for there are too suany licensed taverns ia town. If there were | fewer, it would be better, doth for the persons who | keep them, and for the public at large; and 1 believe that for every one that has license, there | are twe that have net. luimy opinion we cannot do | Letter thau to put it in the power of the City Council | to say whe shall have licence, and who shall not. | ‘They have te keep order in the town, and therefore | they should have the management of the licenses; | and I have no doubt but the decision of the Mayor | aad City Council will be equitable, not have I any | doubt but it will tend towards improvement. [| am of opinion that if a man is once convicted of | keeping a disorderly house he should be refused a license,

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This would be a terror to others.

Hon. the PRESIDENT—] think we havea law already to that effect.

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON—Yes, you ean punish | a man but he can get a license again. The law is not suffiviently clear, There must be heuses of | entertainment; some think that one on each street is enough, but that must be left te the City Go- vernment to decide. I will support the Bill.

Hou. Mr. PALMER—I will alse support the Bill, though I do not conceive that it will remedy the

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the Magistrates the same power 4s the City Connei lors.

Ion. Mr. ANDERSON thought there was no necessity for extending the previsions of the Bill to the country. : , :

Ilon. Dr. JOUNSON was of opinion that it

would be very daring for the Policemen to enter |

those bad houses at all times, as they are authorzed te dv by this Bill, without satisfactory proof, as such hanses aré not ostensibly set apert for the purpose ef carry ing ou those evil practises.

Ilon. Mr. DINGWELL—I deo not believe that such places exist in the country, and I would not sit at this Board and hear it insinuated that they de, without raising my voice to disclaim the in- ration Hon the PRESIDENT—I do not suppose for

one moment that they do exist inthe country; but

I said that when they cannot be kept in the city, |

they will be removed just beyond its bounds.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—I am glad that his Honor the President has given that explanation, for l was going to ask whi he wished to have the provisions of the Bill extend to. Lam of opinion that it is unnecessary to ex- tend it beyond the perludes of the City, not even to the Royalty ; but I have ne doubt that the pro- vision is necessary in the City, aud it is a power which may be safely trusted to the Civie autheri- ties, without any fear ot it being abused. The rreat difficulty is to get those laws put into exe- eution; therefore, it is necessary to make them more stringent. I will support the clause, and I hope it will have a salutary effect on the com- munity. j

The House was then resumed, and the Chairman reported the Bill agreed to, without any ameud ment. The House again in Committee on the Elective ouneil Bill. Hon. Mr. PALMER —TIf this Bill serve no other purpose than to introduce the principle of having acrutinies held before one of the Judges of the Sa preme Court, it will be a good measure. One objection tothe Bill was, that members of this House taking offices might cause u number of s« rutinies, as they would have to be re-« lected; bat this objection

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will be removed in a great measure by the mode of

holding serutinies which I have proposed, us they will be held by persons who will be able to keep order and conduct the business properly. 1 hepe the introduction of this principle here will lead to tts option by the House of Assembly.

heavy daty on the Judgos, bat | suppase his Honor has consalted them on thp matter.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—I have not consulted them, I would take esneciul good care not to do so, for they would doubtless throw cold water upon it; but Tam acting upon my own opinion of right and wrong.

The additional clauses, proposed by his Honor Mr. Palmer, were then severally read and agreed to.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—This Bill provides that it shal go into operation inimediately after a Despatch is received from the Colonial Office signifying that it has received the royal contirmation. Now, Sir, if the Bill is passed in that way, the election may

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the Culonial Office under consideration than others ; aud it often bappens that they do not tind their way out here till January or February, or if it came in

at particular parts of the country |

on. Mr. DINGWELL—L think it is imposing a |

den ; but they will be startled when they learn that the Inqnisition is in fall force in this the most Pro testant country in the world. Mr Laing says >-—

“ Hadelse mod Gad,” er contempt of God, is a crime for which, from 1830 to 1836 inclusive, 4 versons have been condemned to death or to slavery in chains for life. In this crime, as in treason, Go vernument must institute the proceedings ; that is, the ecclesiastical department, the minister of state for chureh affairs, orders the prosecution, It is not, | therefore, an old remnant of monkish law, working unobserved by Government in rare cases ; but it is inquisition law working in the hands of a Luthe ran state chureh, as strongly as in Spain or Porta- gal in the hands of a Roman Catholic Church. Between 1830 and 1836, not fewer than’242 persons have been condemned to chains for this crime (mockery of the public service of God,or contemptu ows bebaviour during the same) in Sweden. Who will say that the Inquisition was abolished by Lu ther’s Reformation? It has only been incorporated with the state in Lutheran countries, and exercised by the chureh through the ecclesiastieal departnent of Govertiment in the civil courts, instead of in the chureh courts. The thing itself remains in vigor.” (pp. 324 and 325).

It is not in Sweden and Denmark alone that civil and religious slavery exists. Let us listen to what

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“The Prussians morally are slaves of enslaved minds. Compulsory education, re eg religion, compulsory military service, and the finger of Go vernment interfering in all action and opinion, and leaving nothing to freewill and uncontrolled indi- vidual judgment, produce youths well educated, as it is called, because they can read, write, and sing, well dressed, well drilled, and able-bodied ; and whose selbstvefub], (self-respect or esteem) whose moral sense has not been educated, raised, and cul tivated, even to the extent of making them feel de- based or degraded at running, cap in hand, begging at the side of carriages on the highway.”’ (p. 176).

“If the serf deserted, he was brought back by the military, who patrolled the roads for the pur:

pose of preventing the escape of the peasants lato | the free towns, their only secure asylum; and was |imprisoned, fed on bread and water, in the black alas which existed on every baronial estate, and flogged. The condition of these born serfs was very similar to that of the regro slaves on tne West india estates during the apprenticeship term, before their final emancipation. This systein was in fuil

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pen, Dr NMARK, PRUSSIA, AND ALL THE Protks- TANT STATES OF GERMANY ARE, AT THIS DAY, IN ALL THAT REGARDS FREEDOM IN SOCIAL ACTION, FREEDOM OF MIND AND OPINION, MORE ENSLAVED THAN’ THEY WERKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE sakes. The union of Church and State has estab lished an irresponsible power m the hands of the sovereigns adverse to civil and reliious liberty. This is clearly brought out by the different position of the Protestant and Catholic clergy in these coun tries. In Sweden and Denmark there are few or no Catholic clergy ; but the established Lutheran clergy are employed as government functionaries and overloaded with statistical returns, Inquiries | and local business in their parishes, which however necessary to the State, are incompatible with the | pastoral ‘duties of the clergyman. She Roman Ca thoiic priesthood would not subnit, in any country, to such abuse of their time and proper functions. In Prussian, the two branches of Vrotestantism, the

into one a few years ago by the late sovereign. New forms of worship W ere imposed upon them by royal edict ; coercion, imprisonment, military force, and quartering of troops on the recusant peasants were resorted to in order to force the ministers aud people to receive the new service ; and to resist this monstrous tyranuy and Se there was no Rome, no Vatican, no Pope or Head of the Charech to appeal to. llow different, in the same country, at the siine period, wis the exertion of the antocratie power of the same Prussian monarch over his Roman Catholic subjects! They had pro- tection at Rome, and consequently in the whole Catholie world, against such arbitrary violence to the religious convictions and chureb of his Catholic subjects. He could not even appoint to any clerical oftice independently of Rome, although he could, and actually did, jmprison and distuiss Protestant clergymen, for refusing to adopt a new church ser- vice, which, as head of the Church and State, he composed and promulgated by royal edict,

“ Whoever considers impartially the historical events of ancient and recent times, will admit that the Church of Rome was, for many a dark age and haur, 2 beaeon-light in the puth of civil and re- ligious liberty, shining far ahead through the uni versal gloom ;....it still shows to arbitrary kingly power in Prussia, that there are restraints upon tyrannical interference with religious opinions and convictions.”

Thus it appears from the testimony of a dis- tinguished Scoteh Presbyterian gentleman, that the Protestants of the north of Europe are in a state of abject civil and religious slavery, and that the spirit

vigor up to the beginning of the present century, and not merely in remote unfrequented corners of the continent, but in the centre of her civilization, all around Hamburg and Lubeck; for instance, in| Holstein, Schleswig, Hanover, Brunswick, and over all Prussia.’’ (p. 104.)

Mr. Laing, in comparing the spirit of Hberty of -

the Catholics and of the Protestants of Prussia, | shows very clearly that a much larger share there- | He writes :—

| “Her Rhenish and Westphalian provinces (Ca- | | tholic) are not only wealthy and manufacturing ;4 |} they are liberal, and hang very loosely to the auto- | eratic principle of the Prussian Government. They | retained, when they were handed over to Prussia, | their forwer |aws and law courts...-and have no- | | thing in their laws or courts in commen wich the! | rest of Prussia; suffered no revival or intrusion of

{the old feudal or the Prussian jarisprndence and

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of liberty is kept alive and nourished among Catho- lies by the opposition of their relizion to despotic sway. I would wish to see Mr. Laird’s observa-

Lutheran and Calvanistic Churches, were squeezed

Disabilities have been ! eations, and the sword, and the fire, and the axe, and the gibbet — all have been tried in vain, and what shall we try now! One thing is clear—that it is madness to try any means of the nature of thone things which have so constantly failed. Phen, gen- tlemen, another class of considerations arise in our winds. Why was it, in the sixteenth century, that error and power united yielded to truth? And why is it, in our own times, when truth and power have united, that they have yieided to error 1 Can it be that the addition of secular power may, sometimes, be the subtraction of moral inthuence ? (Great applause.) Can it be that we have degraded and enfeebled truth by help which she disdained? Can it be that, by constantly presenting Protestant ism and misgovernment side by side to the Irish we have taught them to abhor that which they would otherwise have looked upon with reverence and love? (Loud cheers). 1 believe that itis even so; and I believe, farther, if it le your wish, that even at this late period Ireland should be added to the goodly fellowship of the re- formed nations, your first duty is to dissolve the connexion which the misrule of centuries establish- ed in the midst of Ireland between Protestantism and oppression. (Hear and loud cheers). It is be- cause it conceive that no greater blessing could be conferred on any country than the moral ascendancy of Protestantisin in Lreland, that I struggle, with every faculty 1 possess, against every uttempt to give to Protestantism a political ascendancy with which the moral ascendancy is incompatible. (Cheers). It is thus with all truth. The ark of God was never taken captive by unbelievers, wntil worldly-minded persons brought it down from its sanctuary into the camp, and encircled it with wea- pons of w orldly warfare. Alone and deserted, and In captivity, its own virtue was sufficient to lefend it, te strike to the dust the wretches who profanee it, and to lay the hideous idol prostrate on the thres- hold of its own tent. (Great cheering.) It is thus with all truth, and most especially with that so- lemn truth which, in order to produce its full effect, must not only be received by the intellect, but must sink into the heart; therefore I say, maintain the Emancipation Billas you would waintain the Bill of Rights, as you would maintain the Reform Bill— [immense applause]—and execute it according to its integrity and spirit. Treat the Catholics, in all things temporal, as your brethren. Spare not to defend that which you believe to be truth ; but re- member that no man was ever insulted into ortho- doxy. [Renewed applause}.”

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To THE Epiror oF THE EXAMINER.

Sir—In your information to the inhabitants keep then in mind that they are to be governed by the opinions of the men they choose to express their wishes in the Legislature. Now, the present House

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tions on theze telling facts, as well as those others which I brought forward in my last few letters re- garding the state of Edacation in Taly, Austria, England, &c., and the disgusting state of morals in Lutheran Sweden. That gentleman must now find himself ina very unenviable position. However, he has himself to blame for it. Had he refrained from his gross calumnies regarding Catholics, the disagreeable facts contained in this and former let ters would not now be known to many of his friends

and would net be rendering odious and contemptible

of Assembly being in favor of the proprietors in | voting for the Award, they voted that the forfeited | titles should be cout There were only six lwho voted against it. It is not likely that the hn- | perial Goverumeant will decide upon the settlement }of the tenantry until they know the views of the }men returned at the next election to express the | wishes of the people.

‘The tenantry were nearly being settled twenty jyears ago. Mr. Hume, M. P., undertook to act as } our agent, and if he could not vet a satisfactory an- oworn femgmiaionare. agreed to bring the subject |before Parliament. When he handed our petition {to the Colonial Minister, and was desired to call again, and when he called at the time appointed,

| those publie calumniators whe have ever represen- | the Minister told him that he had been informed

poor tenant. Many were simple-minded enough to imagine that the thing called the Palmer-Grey Government would do inuch for the poor man; but the results of the Land Commission show the extent of the political toim-foolery which bas been imposed on the country. It would be against the order of things in this age of political raseality and selfishness to expect that the Palmers, Havilands, Popes, d&ec., would pass measures by which the persecuted tenant might be freed from the tyran- nizing grasp of the hard-hearted proprietor, whe scruples not to deprive his sickly wife and hungry children of the morsel of food necessary for their subsistenee. Sooner might we expect the Southern slaveholders immediately to emancipate their slaves than to suppose that a Proprietary Government, such as ours, would honestly and sincerely desire the tenants to become freeholders. Although we have toe much reason to be displeased at our own sirplicity for ever imagining that the ‘Tory faction would ever benefit the tenantry, yet that will net prevent us from giving our deceivers to understand very plainly the deep-seated indig- nation which eXists in every bonest mind for the political kuavery which has been wractised for three years on this most wretehedly governed Island. The results of the approachiig election will show clearly the estimation in which a free people hold proprietary deceivers and hypochron- driacal jugglers. Lin‘end to return to the subject. A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

~The Examiner,

Charlottetown, May 5th, 1862.

PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE — OR, AN OLD PICTURE SEEN IN A NEW LIGHT.

Wuex the party now in power were in opposi- tion, they never ceased to rail at u.e Goverament for alleged extravagance with the public money and the alarming increase of the publiedebt. The country, they contended, was going to ruin at a fearfully rapid rate. General bankruptcy, they were sure, would overspread the land, and the Colony become the scorn and bye word of the neighbouring Provinces, unless the Liberals were speedily turned out of office, aud the economical Tories put in their places. No party could ma- nage the public finances so well as the Tories-—— they were all well educated people, from the highest to the lowest — they were accustomed to affairs of business and of Government, — in short, | they were the only people who couid save the coun- try from financial ruin. Growing desperate in | the last year of their opposition, 1558—madly im- patient of having the public purse strings with-

Visitor,leaves school teachers and scholars to take care of themselves as best they may—ty

on for want of advice or instruction, Which it ie his business to impart, and perhaps to ROW care: less and negligent in their advocations, while he rambles through the country, drivelling

about what he ealls the errvre of Popery — tending to be mightily coneethed for the welfare of his fellow colonists, and tellj

that the only way of going to seomeaniial _ the portals of an Orange Lodge. No wonder that the editor and some of the of the ‘ Protestant,’ with a degree of j and impartiality that reflect credit upon them, have raised their voices against the Bebool Visitor’, neglect of his proper duties, because vlamiy see that the cause of education is suffering throu) that neglect, while the drain vpon the public purse fur its support is every year becoming greater.

With regard to the public printing, Which shons such a large increase in 1861 over the charge for the same service in 1858, we all remember what a fearful howl was kept up in reference ty that subject while Mr. Whelan held the 0 fice of Queen's Printer. The sum then paid for Printing was declared by the Tories to be large--we Were reminded that, some thirty years ago, Mr. Lfaszard had receive? searcely half the t, and it was declared fo be y ne. cessary to have the whole of the work 6? ip to public competition. The matter wae debated ia the House of Assembly very frequemty, being al ways brought op by the Tory opposition; sed was made the theme of numerous articles in the ‘Islander.’ We showed conclusively, on every occasion, that the charges made by the Queen's Printer under the Liberal Government Were, ina great many cases, considerably leas than those of his predecessor. Nothing, however, would satis. fy the Tories but to have the whole work pat up to tender. Of course, they were expected te do that when they came into office; but they found it convenient to forget that promise as wel] ag many others. It is true, that a few small jobs were put up to tender, or supposed to be put up to tender; but it is remarkable that nope but staunch supporters of the Government ever gut the jobs to do. At all events, the charge for printing and stationery bas greatly increased under the Tory administration. It was £1246 36, 6d. last year—we have no reason to believe that it

{that the people were again paying their rents, and as there was to be an election in tie Island, and he could not give an answer until he was informed whether or not the peeple had chosen men to cyrry out the views pro andl in their petition,

The Colonial Minister had been wel] informed,

will be less this year; under the Liberal Govern. ment it did not exceed on the average £200, We may be told that in 1861, the public printing was considerably increased by the Census returns;

evil, for I think we have had enough to do with November or December, it would be very incouve- | tribunals, and have very clearly indicated that they the license system; we are always changing it, | nient to hold an election in any oe months. | vould not suifer it. They bave shown, in their but do got appear to be bringing it any nearer to The Despatch anne one " po _ a support of the Catholic Bishop of Cologne—arising perfection. Por my part, I am not less alive to, | couvenlug of the Legislature, and of course there | .. 1, ently not from a blind spirit of fanaticism, but and no jess deplore, the evils of intemperance which

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held from their itching paluaas — they went every- where, day and night, Sundays and week days, denouncing the Liberal Government for allowing the public debt to extend to about £39,000—the

daughters of ‘‘ Popery.” I have the honor, &c., A. McDONALD.

could be no Lewislature w ithoyt a Counc il There- f' - os f : ° ; rom as pirit C re to de Ss] one sw ay—that

| fore, I think some discretionary power should be left they are uot @ popu been on the increase daring the last two or three years; but I almost despair of a remedy short of total prohibition ; and if I thought I could carry it, i would stand and advocate the cause till my | legs were exhausted. But I fear there is little’ prospect of carrying it at present, aud the friends of the caase must coutent themselves with endea- vouring to show the country the utility of the | measure; and in the mean time todo what we can by carrying such piecemeal measures as that now before us.

| with the Lieutenant Governar,which would prevent

any inconvenience of this kind; and we might rely npon it that he would select that time which would be most convenjent for holding the election.

Hon. the PRESIDENT thought that a discre- tionary power of six mouths should be given to the Governor.

Hon. Mr. DINGWELL was disposed to agree with Hon. Mr. Palmer, but thought that two mouths would be sufficient, as the party in power might work jt to their own advantage.

Hon. Mr. ANDERSON thought that six months | The facilities for obtaining licenses in| should be allowed and then they might have it in

this country are far teo great. ‘The examinations one if they choosed.

of the accomodations of their houses are so super- | ficial that a man who is too lazy to fullow any other occupation can easily procure a license, and | when be has obtaiosd that he thinks he is duly li- | censed to kill by law. His honor Dr. Johuson

ithe Lieutenant Governor a exceeding six months.

he Clause was accordingly amended by giving discretionary power not The House was then resumed and the thairman reported the Bill agreed to On the question, ‘shall the report of the commit-

thinks it is not seund policy for the Government tee be received,’ being put—

te grant licenses at all. Many persons are of that

opinion ; but I am notone of these.

it is sound policy, but it is the best of two evils; | *

therefore the Government permite licensed houses ' for the sale of these liquers, fur if unbounded li-

at all. The principal

7 more I consider the matter, cense were given we would have no good houses) confident 1 aun

Hon. Mr. WALKER inoved that the Bill be re-

Ide notthink | ferred back to tie Committee for the purpose of |

amending the clause relating to the « he electors by striking out the wor tred,” and substituting the word

poeeees ot “fifty.” The suid his honor, the mere that the high qualifieation will be

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quired every second or third house in some sections ci-ing the eleetive franchise.

ot Charlottetowa would be a house for vending | those liquors. There is some little restriction ia the liceuse. It is compelling them to pay a pen-| alty, rather than deriving a revenue fromit. And | with reference to that part of the Bill which pro-

¥ roper isiou; for when a person becomes aster ceed, I think there is cand & pe who weuld say that he should not be dealt with | in that way. If his propensity runs sorfar, it is | due to his children to provide some remedy of that kind. Theretore I will support that clause, and 1) pegs the day is not far distant when some strong and effective measure will be devised to put a atop to this degrading traffic. 1 do not think our revenue would suffer by such a measure. There might be a temporary shock fora yearor two; but | even if the couutry got in debt to the amount ot

rson | bonor's motion. Charlottetown, and I am aware that a number of n merehunts and others, who are paying 50 or £60 | autocratic sovereign 1s de fucto a home-pope.

benors’ will allow the Bi ; ; mittee for the parpose of recousidering that clause.{ has assamed and. exercised power inconsistently

Hon. Mr. DINGWELL, on rising to second the

If a man roperty, i men ‘a re not without intelligence. Hon-Mr. HUTCHINSON —TI will support his I can speak more particularly for

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reut, will be prohibited from voting. Many of the most intelligent will be pees. I hope your

| to go back to the Com Hoff Mr. PALMER—TI shall adhere to the clause

many Worthy persons from voting; bat I am afraid

will exclade all; for by lowering the qualification

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ation to be governed, like wili- tury serfs, by the will or caprice of a cabinet. It is froin this pobulation of about 4,000,000 that the im | pulse has ie given to the great movement of the |German peeple in the German league. (p. 155) | This population, living under French law, is the | very kernel of the Prassian kingdom—a concentra-

ted population of from three to four millions, the | inost wealthy, commercial and manufacturing, and | } the most enlightened upon their rights and wants |} of any perhaps in Germany.” (pp. 230-31).

“The principle that the civil Government or | state, or church and state united, of a country is entitled to regulate its religious belief, has more of ‘intellectual thraldom in it than the power of the |popish (?) chureh ever exercised in the darkest | ages ; for it had no civil power joined to its religious |power. it only worked through the civil power of jeach country. The Church of Rome was an inde | pendent, distinct, and often an opposing power in every country to the civil power, A CIRCUMSTANCE IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY OF THE MIDDLE AGES, To WHICH, PERHAPS, EUROPE 1S INDEBTED FOR HER |} CIVILIZATION AND FREEDOM—for not being in the | state of barbarism and slavery of the east, and of levery country, ancient and modern, in whieh the |civil and religious power have been united in one | government. Civil liberty is closely connected with

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rofit is in the retail of | the means of preventing many worthy men, who | reli ious liberty—with the church being independent spirituous liquors, and if there was no license re- | have the interest of the country at heart, from exer- | of the state....In Germany the seven Catholic So

vereigns have 12,074,700 Catholic subjects, and 2

541,009 Protestant subjects.

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motion, said—I too have been considering the mat- | testant Sovereigns, meluding the four free cities, | ter, and I am stifl of opinion that it would be the means of keeping back a large number of intelligent | people ee eee I ror ze sorry to inter- fere with their rights and privileges. vides that irreclaimable drunkards, on application jowns £100 weet af a of their friends to the proper authoritics, shall be | not increased by it. A put on the same footing a: lunatics, I think it is a) a

jhave 12,113,000 Protestant subjects, and 4,966,600 | | Catholic. Of these populations in Germany, these | | which have their point of spiritual government | | without their states, and independent of them— as |}

iritual independencey are less exposed to the in-|

Ss comehiiian of the hand of civil power with their| religious concerns, than the Protestant populations, | which, since the reforimation, have had church and | state united in one government, and in which each

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| church affairs of Prussia in this half cfitury, thoee

j of Saxony, Bavaria, and the siualler principalities, sudi—us Aubalt, Kothen, in all of which the state

with the principles, doctrines, observances, and

as itis, though Lam aware that it will prevent| privileges of the Protestant religion, clearly show |

jthat the Protestant Church on the continent, as u |

that if we attempt to give them the privilege we | power, has become an administrative body of cleri

cal functionaries, acting under the orders of the |

| views.

St. Dunstan’s College, April 24, 1862. ———__—_ 0. — To Tue Epirorn oF THE EXAMINER.

Deak Sin,—In an address to his constituents at

sa : eae Edinburgh, Lord MeAulay gave a most withering

rebuke to some bigots who were degrading religion for the purpose of subserving their own selfish As his words may not be inapplicable to several of our Island religio-politico gentlemen, I tuke the liberty of subjeiningthem. Tt must not be supposed that I intend Lord MeAnlay's “ Lecture for the bigots,” to be especially applied to that dis tinguished, gentlemanly and patriotic oficial the Col. Secretary, Whose winazingly increased zeal for Protestantism within the last few years has been most uncharitably attributed to the magic eTecis re

sulting from a taste of the sweets of ollice by those

| who ure not as fully aware as he is of the deep in-

trigues and formidable power of the * impotent old man’ who is prererved from annihilation by fo-

reign bayonets. Those who insinuate that our po-

| honorable motives in his ultra-Protestant zeal should

be reminded of the imminent peril in which stand our Civil and religious liberties, all our most che- rished rights, from the probability of the “ Bishop in Charlottetown” having gone to Rome for the ex-

his intelligence is| the Catholics have at Rowme—enjoy certainly nore | press purpose of inviting the Holy Father to take

up his residence in'P, FE. Island; and be no longer “the Pope of Rome,'" bat “the Pope iu Charlotte- town"! Tie Col. Seeretary may be quite right in thinking that there are quite enough of Popes here

julready, and the public should be ever grateful to

him for his exalted patiiotisin in striving so ener

‘ ut

getically to ward off the dreadful evils Pope ish

domination. VOX. . THE BIGOTS” FRIGNED.

In his address to his constituents, at Edinburgh,

A LECTURE FOR RCAL AND

for a proprietory House was returned at that elec- tion; oe no doubt Mr. Hume was greatly ashamed to think that he had agreed to act as ageut for such ja fickle people. But I hope the preseut generation jare become wiser by experience. I cannot believe that farmers who are settled in freehold would vote for the proprietary interest to | keep their neighbours in bondage. In cases of ship- wreck, if by some fortunate circumstance a few got }safe on shore, | would not expect they would go away and leave the rest to the sharks; but on the |contvary they would be prompted by sympathy to jvet a rope from the onal. and try to save them ul jif possible, without inquiring whether they were | Catholic or Protestant. But Lown it might be dif- | ferent if some of our Island clergy were present to adyise them otherwise. WM. COOPER.

th, 1862. pr BRUNSWICK

Ch. Town, April 26

AFFAIRS.

NEW

j (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEN r.)

| Released from the frozen chains of winter and jthe monotony of dormant trade in all its depaurt- jments, we ure now surrounded with the radiant

and commercial business. Quite a spirited denaund is being made on the services of artivane, Jumber- men and labourers —especially so in regard to the | former, by whose skill and indnstry a large number of ships is in course of construction about St. John. It is geuerally believed that the fortheoming sum- jwer will be a prosperity and enterprise ‘among the laboring¥mechanic and mercantile classes. lndjcationsof this desirable state of things are mani- | festing themselves sinee the approach of spring. The /nstual steam communication between this place and Boston bus been resumed ; and one of last smmmer’s | steamers whieh has been for some mouths past em- vloyed in t® American navy, has just Peturned and lis now ranning between St. John and Digby. | A few days ago a namber of pauper emigrants ‘arrived here from Boston, by the direction of the civie Masters of that place; but on failing to aflord sccnrity against becoming a burtheu bere, they were immediately reshipped to their own cguntry., Most of those destitute creatures are old womenand youug children, whose husbands and fathers are fighting | the battles of their distracted country. And how- /ever retaliative may be the ordinance of St. John

. is . : . . tsmiles of spring and the cheerful bustle of manna! | lite, religious Secretary is ac tuated Ly sellish or dis- , — oe ——e r : 7 of !

“Islander” and * Monitor’ overflowed with the most violent abuse of the ruling party :—* ruin! ruin!” “ public debt!” “extravagance!” “ gene- ral bankruptcy or unbearable taxation !” — were phrases on which they never wearied of ringing the changes. “Turn out the spendthrift Govern- ment!” was their stentorian ery. ‘“ Put in,” was their own modest appeal, “a good God-fearing Government, who will put down Popery — who | will pay off the public debt without increasing the 'burthens of the people—who will greatly reduce | the taxes—who will allow no deputies to be em- ployed in the public offices — who will settle the laid question, establish vote by ballot at elections, pass the Maine Liquor Law, reform every abuse—