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them. After some discussion, it was proposed that [ should act as leader, which my pride prevented me fram rofusing ; wlthough, to tell the truth, the apecimen which L had en- joyed that night of the hunour to be derive) from such an expedition did not much encourage m2. ‘To decline, how- ever, would have argued cowardice.

But how were we to be arranged? My knowledge of the lvcalities about bere pow came to my assistance. | re- membered that there was a projecting rock about a pisto!-slot

from the mocth of the cavern, and from which it would be |

distinctly covered. large enough to allow one man to stand Upon ityend Wiech, provided Ke could maintain himself in the position with ove hand, would enable bim to observe dis- tinetiy the proveedings be'ow, and to fire upon any person coming out of it with a ; gtol or carbine. then, who would venture there 2?) The oMfieer couid not leave his meo. After some cousultation, ii was agreed that Mr. R——, a young gentleman of considerable activity and bodily streugth, who had joine! our party on the eveaing before, should undertake it. Some presewee of mind and coolness, as well as strength, were required for this part of the under- taking, as the rock stood more than two hundred feet directly over the sea, and a glan-e downwards was quite sufficient to satiofy any reasona le person of the practicability of break- ing bis neck. He wudertok to act his part, aod with much thé sgme sort of gratefu! feelings to my considerate friends, I prepared for mine. Jour soldiers, with the officer, were to he my escort ; s:vea more, with a corporal, and the remain- derot the volunteering party, were to stop ou the cliff and watch the proceedings above. Just as we were about to des- vend, the officer calied tue corporal aside, and whispered ia his ear, as he afterwards told me, to keep a close watch on their guide, whom he had every reason to suspect was uot a true man.

I them began to leal the way. Ae we should deseend with our faces to the rock, it was resolved that our guas should be fixed bebiud our backs until we reached the turn jn the path. On we went, and had just descended a little below the turn, wher, as I was taking my gun rightly in my hand, a shrill whistle from above rang among the rocks. In % moment we had our guns fixed, and every eye below the jurn was directed towaris the mouth of the cavern. In about half a miou’e we observed the head of a man extended from behind a piece of jutting rock ; and almost at the same instant we heard the report of 2 gun above us, and saw the slate and dusty gravel of the rock dashed about the fuec, which disap-

before we could learn whether or not it was hit.

' No sooner had | heard the shot, when the officer cried, * Now, my lads, down upon them.’ We rolled, tumbled, slid, jamped, down the remainder of the path, and were at the mouth of the cavern b./ore we could have thought it possi- ble the minute before. ‘l'o cock our guns, to pres nt bayonets, and charge, was the work cfa momeat-—we were ia the centre of the cavern.

* Holy Vargin and b! essed S.ints deGad us!" cried a shrill,

neaking, voice, from one side of the strange retreat. * Biessid Mother keep us—what’s this at all at ali ?”

* Holloa, my old lady!" eried the officer; who are you ? (ome out, wy old damsel, and let us get a glimpse of you.’ And so sayiug, he, with one or two of the soldiers, groped his way towards the side fram whence the voice proceeded.

* Oa, what are yees, at all at all? Sure, an’ I thought it wae my own Mick tha: was coming home to me, and driving the cows before him—(jod bless him! Oh, thin, what !'——

* Cows! my good frieud,’ said the officer. + How the devil could cows get here; unless they were sea-ealves you mean ?

* Ovb, thin, sure enough, but [ thought [ was at home ;

* where am [, my jewel; an’ who are yees ?’

* Why, first and foremost, you are in possession of his

Majesty the king's troops; and we are come here to take and

ourselves of the person of a man called Shawn Buie, yf you kaow such an ono.’ *Shawa Buie! Is it him that was drownded at the cliffs af Mohir you mean #—.n' it’) be long before yees find him 7’ * Iodeed [I'm thinking so, with you for our guide !” said pne of the mon, ‘so | think we must put you out of our way for a while.’ ‘

*Taur a mon diou! !' said a voice from behind; and at the same moment the soldicr stag sered back beneath a blow from the direction in which the voice came. A figure darted to the mouth of the cavern ; several shots were fired after him ; but the darkness and the smoke prevented correct uim. A

lunge into the the sea was beard, and we all rushed out.

Je had dived, and the direction whiel he bad taken under water we could not at once perecive. The noise of the sho's be.ow had awakened the attention of thoxe above, and now every eye was strained to mark the spot when he rose.

Partly from horror, and partly from fright, 1 lost the re- collection of my situation, and uttered an involuntary groan. Se unexpected a sound, in such a place, produced an ularm- ing eflect upon my auslitors. Whether it was compunction for the deed which ha: seized the guilty pair, or terror, com- bined with a sense of guilt. [ cannot uow pretend to deter- mine; but they stood xotionless for upwards of a minute. By lying close to the surface of the ground I succeeded in escaping their sight. ‘I'hey stood for a time utterly confound- ed. Kucouraged by the effect which it produced, and now so far collected as to perceive the danger of my position, | repeated the groan, with a more mournful, and at the same time less natural tone.

* Blessed Virgio, save us!’ said Shawn's companion, dread- fully alarmed,

* What are yees frightened at!" said the other, evidently as much terrified, but endeavouring to brave it out. * Are yees a divil or a chri-thian—tell us that @ said he, roaring out, trying with the e‘lort to drown his fears.

A then collected a\| my energies, and uttered one of the most auearthly and violent shrieks that was ever heard under similar circumstances. The effect was instantaneous; the next momeut saw them sliding, or rather rolling down the pathway, and allowing me time sufficicut to escape in perfect palfety.

* Warrah sthru, waerg’) shru! will yees kill my, child yees wurthering vilins, thet never did hurt nor harm to baste nor Christhan? Let him sone, 1 say agin; or L'il be the death of yees—yo! red lobster!’ said the old bag, whe, et tie first alarn, had sprung up, and following us out, bad seized hold of the officer by the turaat. One of the sold.ers struck her with the butt end of his muske’, to make her let go ter liold ; and in return Feceived a bow trom a stone on the bead waich leve!- Jed bim with theearth. The ;ow now became general. Seve- sal soldiers fired tutu ‘he cavern at once. A cry was heard, followed by adeep groan. Fora moment I felt worried; and would have given my dest Rigby that we had not fired. The next thing, however, was to see what work we had done. We groped our way in, un nolested by the poor old woman, whom the violence of the blow and the ery of the wounded pesrou had quite overcome —she tad fainted. Atver a short ime we found the body of a little boy, Whe wos sent with the fugitive froin the dancing party afew Suadays bere, Tse poor little fel- low was quite dead—e had been 81,0) through the heart.

The question was | | Sir—I have no desire to enter into a * religious contro- | ** wih you, but 1 purpose to continue my observations | on tue temipora. pewer of the Pope; and as the subject is of |

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/aBCe remained, eive the ruff ng of the water where he had ‘been. We looked unnl one eyes stramned again. that a shark must have carried the body down; but that negatived at once. Orhers said that he dived again; but i seen d impadsible that he could be alive. We suggesied ; we contradected; we looked ; we strained; but afl to Mo pue- {pose—the body of Shawn Buie had vanished ; and wos never heatd of more.

| Corviespondeuce,

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TIL TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE. |

To tet Epiror or Tak [stanper.

versy

& historical end political nature, rather than of a religious one, and as you commenced the attack on the Pope, | presame

you will be honourable enough to give my correspondence a |

place in your paper. Anything that 1 may have hitherto suid sayouring of religious controversy, bas been said on the

defensive. I have not, | believe, written one word calculated |

religious feel ngs of those who differ from me in I do not wish to assail or ridicule, in your columns,

to hurt the religion.

fect liberty to believe Catvolie doctrines to be ** the master-

ieve of Sutan,’’ as you inform us they do.

In justification of your attacks, you say that ‘* anything | that we have ever written calculated to displease Cathoiics, }

has been written in answer to attacks made in the Lraminer.”’ If my memory serves me well, | do not think that Mr. Whelan

attucked any of the dogmas of Protestants, or spoke stightly |

thereof. Ife did, indeed, allude, in condemnatory terms, to the vidlence of a portion of the press when writing on the italian question, and in doing so he was perfectly justified ;

for the virulence displayed against the Pope by many journal- |

ists is nothing less tian disgraceful. Allow,me, Sir, to ask you was it in unswer to attacks made in the Hraminer that you, in the last Js/ander, represented the claims of the Church of Qome as ** monstrous pretensiens?’* Whilst you say that you entertain sentiments of the highest respect towards Dr.

Melntyre and his clergy, why do you outrage their feelings

by unnecessarily stigmatizing portions of their “ belief’ in a|

style more worthy uf a fanatical street~preacher than of a gentleman? You say that * religion isa matter between every man and his God.’’ Why, then, do you endeavor to heap odium on the religion of Catholies, by calling portions of that relig on ** monstrous pretensions?’’ Is this language dignified, is it becoming the first official of the Government of this Colony ? Is it to insult Catholics thus that you are paid a large salary from the public funds of this Island? Do you imagine that there are not Catholies, including ** the fearless, independent and liberty-loving MontaLempert,.’’? who are as capable as Protestants are of Judging what claims constitute ** monstrous pretensions ?"’

In your last issue you say :—‘* We know of no more sadden- ing reilection than this, that the history of the religion of Jesus, who declared the great and comprehensive eommand-

ment, ‘ thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,’ is the record |

ot the fuulest crimes and atrocities ever committed by man against his fellow. Its pages teil of cruelties at the mention of whieh the seul sickens, and which exceed the hellish bar- barities of Pagan savages.”’ These expressions are altogether unworthy of a Christian—they are 4 most gross calumuy on Christianity.

Your assertion that “the Roman Catholic Church is chargeable with having caused the death of thousands of here- vies in nameless ways,’’ is simply untrue. 1 do not deny that some Catholics may have ‘* caused the death of thousands of

heretics ;"’ but in this they were carried away by pussion, |

and acted contrary to the ductrines and precepts of the Catho- lic Chureh, which now, as she has ever done, commands her children to love their enemies, to do good to those thai hate

'them, and to pray for those who persecute and calumniate |

| them.

Your puerile sophism regarding the figurative expression, ** Christ by unction,”’ is alt gether anworthy of serious con- sideration.

trifling on your part to descend to a mere play upon words. This childish ruse, together with your insinuation, that I re- }presented tue Pope as having ‘** ali power in heaven and

earth,’ are calculated to induce the belief that your position | temporal power of tae Pope ts not of yesterday 5 tnatit was not whe. - is rather untenable, when you are obliged to employ such founded by violenee or userpatien, intrigue or bioodshed; Lut on | tion, wh.” make any purchase at all? to comply In appear-| Mes:rs. Polver ;

questionable means to sustain it.

The excommunication of Elizabeth, the life of Alexander VL., Dr. Cahill, «+ Protestant Bibles,” &c., are all foreign to my subject; and as areply to your remarks thereon would

any of the tenets of the belief of Protestants, who are at per- |

was A vasi advan'ave i

been abandoned to pure material force. ‘Vhe Church alone ex-

erciged a moral poser. But she did more; 81% kept up and

diffused the idea of a rule, of a fiw euperior to al) bnman laws ; |

jshe professed the belief, essential to the safety ef humunity, that there iz, @>ove ali human laws, a law called, according to times and Cusiom:, sonnets ?eason so nelines the divine law, Lunt whi ch, in atl umes ani places, is (he sane law under dil- t ferent names,” : htiau and civilized men, who thas detroduced inso Europe the ‘first seeds of Christian cwilast.on aud freedom. ‘The modera- tion and mdeulszeace with which the Popes treated their depen- dens made men desirous of enj-y nz their protection. M. Guz t says :—* [tis easy t> understand why people were at that time eager to plz@? themselves ander the dominion of the Courch ; lay proprietors Were ceriainly far trom shewing like

wn-.” bt appears there was no Bishop Plouket ia these days. Gibbon says :—"* Tne want of laws could Only be supplied by he iuniluewce of religion, and their sovereign and domestie counc: s were woderated by the authority of the Bishop. His alms, his sermons, bis Correspondence with the kings of the west, fia recent services, their gratitude and orth, accustomed the Komans to consider bim as the first magistrate or prices of the city.’ ‘Vhe same historian still speaking of the Popes,

oe reverence of a thousard yeas; and their noblest title ts slavery.” Sismondi, why is as tree frou prual vy as Gibbon, says that “tho increasing power of these Pontiffs in the city lof Rome was founded on the most respectadle of all utes, vir- ftucs ant benefits.”

When t:e Ronan empire was declining, and the numerous

fire

| nordes of burbarians from the nota Were destroying, wih

and swor!, everything befiure them, the ouly power wh ch see n- |

ed capable of saving the wreck of civilization fom utter ruin was the l’apacy. tion the meg iaatmnity displived by the plovs Lev when Le weni

furth alune tu contrent the barbarian king, and, by dont of his |

energetic protestution, checked the t-de of vorthern invasion, hand saved Rowe from destruction. Toe infidel G:bbon records } Pope in these words : * Aud Loo, Bishop of Ro ae, consented t» expose his life tor the satety of his flock. ‘Tue genius of Leo was exercised and disp ayed in the ;udlic misfortunes, and he has deserved the app Lacou of ** great” by tue successtul zeal wi h which (he laboured to establish his opimons and his authority under }the venerable names of orthodox faith and eeclesiastical d:s- cipline. ‘The pressing elequere: of Leo, his majespe appear- ance, and sacerdota! robes, ¢xc.ted the veneration of Atiuila for the sp rvual father of the Christians.” Ina few years after the death of Aula, Rome was again saved by Leo, Vhe sine nis'Ovien says : —** Genseric buldly advanced from tie pert of Ostia to the gites of the defenceless city. Insiead of a sally lof the KResau youth, there issued from the gates av unarmed and venerable proeession of ine Bishop, atthe head of ais clergy. Vie ferriess spirittof Leo, is aathoriy and eloquence again initigaied the here-ness of a barbarian conqueror. he k ng of the Vandais prouteed to spare the unresisting u.ulitade, to protect the bu.lJings fiow fire, and to exeaspt the Captives from corture.”? In the eighth century the Lombards, then a ba barous nation, ‘invaded & pertion of the Papal dommions—but Pepa le Bref, king of France, crossed the Alps, drove them out of the Pope's domigions, and restored the invaded terri ory to the Holy Father. Towards the ond of the came cemt ry the Lombards again in- vaded the same territory, but they were svon expelled therefrom by Charlemagne, wid, not content with ceufirming the dona- tions of his tather, Pepin, went to Rome, gave the Pope the

rius, draw up a far more anple ect of donation, by which he secured forever to the Hely See ihe exaichate of Ravenna, the {sland of Corsica, the provinces of Varina, Mintua, Venice,

nud Istria, with the duchies of Spoleto acd Beneventun. * | King egned this donation with its own hand, and caused it to be sigued also Sy the Bishops, Abbots, Dukes, aod Counts who ‘accompaned hun; after which he laid it on the Altar of St.

You know very well that no Catholie believes) Peter, ond, with all the French chefs, took an oath to preserve | land purchase and a loan; but Mr. Palmer's letter shows the Pope, who is only a creature, to be equal in power to) to the Holy See tie states which he had sulemply restored to | that the Governme Christ, who is the Son of God ; and it s,to say the least, very /it.”’ ‘Thus to Cuarlemagre beiongs the glory of tound.ng des | Whee a 1.

| finuively, under Providence, the temporal sovereignty of the | Lluly See. | F.om the ske ch which [ have given you m-y see that the

\the Contrary tist mus, accerding ty the avyowul even of avye.- | saries, one of the a03t veneraale govern veais in existence ;

hat it has the very b st of tit-es, end that the Popes ruled in the affections of their people.

1 the midst of the deluze of material What renewing a census may mean, not knowing, can’t say ; Some siid | foree winch at that epoch inundated society. Lf the Christian, it may possibly come under the same cafegory as “ loan bills | was Church had not been in existence, the whole world would have | and |ike visionary schemes,’’ (vide the L eut. Governor's answer | munication from New Brunswick to this part of the Island, the

Tue Cnurer placed on her es'ates ber own colonists, chris-!

solicitude for the well being of the occupants of theie d nine |

declares that “ Their temporal dominion 8 now confirmed by |

the free choice of a people whom they had redeemed from |

La connection wih this assertion | may men- |

he heroic couduct aad successful appeal of the siustrious |

ost touching marks of resect, ** made his chaplain Ethe-)

The

Aud iis this senerab e sove- |

vecupy tov much space, aud draw we into a religious contro-| renguty, epparently estaulished by Provilence, ‘hut aenagogues, versy, which you appear sv desirous of avoiding. I will pro- | auarGiists, aasassine, aud their numerous trends ard abettors, ceed tu give a short account of the origin and growth of the are strenuously endeavouring to com, letely ds stroy. | parpo Papal > overeignty. lio vive, on &@ fulure occasion, tie reasons way C holes Wish ‘lo borrow the words of an illustrious Sardinian of our cen-| it tu be preserved. Jn the meen t met remain, dir,

jtury: ** There is no suvereiguiy in Europe more justifiable Your hu.sble servan’,

than that of the Sovereign Pontiff. But what is truly A. MACDONALD. astonishing is to see the Pupes becoming sovereigns without) St. Du retan’s College, Feb. 13, 1861.

their knowledge, and even in spite of themselves. The See ol . Rome seemed elevated by an invisible law, and the head of | the universal Church grew into a sovereign. From the! martyr’s seaffuld he ascended a threne, which at first was not) perceptible bat which insensibly became consolidated like all

To tne Eprror or tuk Examiner. Sin,—Hlaving observed an article in the last /raminer, where John Kely, of Georgetown, Shoemaker, trics tu stab his awl with much vindictiveness aguinst mein particular, as

great institations.’ The Church possessed property in the earliest ages. We read in the New Testament that the early Christians sold houses and lands. and laid the purchase money

| oue of tue (Commissioners of Small Debes for Lot 49.

Ile says, * Hav.ng been doing a small business in George- |

{ 4th. Moved by Strang [lart, seconded by Samuel Dunyville Resvotrev, That toe great foe liy offered for sieam con,

to an address from some inhabitants of Belfast, some few days distance being about 25 miles from She lic Railroad terminus

| since.) l1@ West Point, bas already clanmed the a tention of direciory Fancy if a decent but dogepoor, wood-hewing, water-draw ng, | of steamers, insomuch that tiey are most desirous that a safe

| Priest-ridden ignoranna son of a Monaghan were to propose to | landing may be erected, and wou'd read.ly co-operare with ug ‘his fellow beings to assist hin in supporing the peer in carrying forward tis wo thy object.

| movement. and thus add toa Military force, in the same sen- oh. Movee by Jeremish short,» conded by Jog. Danviles ltence in which he announced the fact that tne said force nad | Resorvep, That tie forego} g Re-clutrons be sent ww the no existence, it might be exeusavie to playfully ask bim—) Islander and Examiner neways pers for pubheation.

'** holloa Pat, which way did your ball run??? but fora high-| Mr. Milleage Beckwith, the frst speaker, ruse and estas

| bora, genile-bred, Kirk-attendiog son of a pue Scotch Laird | that as he had lately bid »n interview w.ta the Directors of to b: forced by one of his Island bred louts of Councilors to} the Steamer * Princess Royal.’? who expressed their des. ‘perpetrate in pudlie such an error, «8 po-iively unpardonable. | that a Wharf would shortly be built on the Western Shore of © | What the amount of the * patrio ic feeling’’ as regards the | this Island, it being so advaningeously situated for 5 Camers ta

| Volunteer movemen’, what prevaile at home may be, we msy) ply from the New Brunswn k | wisely leave inthe bands of our next new Scotch Professor, | willingly co-operate with us in cerrying out this much to ba.

| when be comes, and oar Executive ** Councilior whatever’’ to! desired obj et, by subscribing aR smguot t wards © eeting @ ™ define. But all these gross inacouracies and nngranmnatical | slio slops are tottily eclipsed by the somewhat equivocal compl.- | of the North part of the Island woul! derive trom baying a safe ment paid to those “honest mandy” yeomin of Belfast who | ianding at the West Point. We would immed ately have s

have so ‘creditably”* paid the deposit of the r just debts to the | communica'ion be-ween this part and New Brunswick and, Government they purchased, or rather agreed to purchase, | trade would be created, and farmers would find ready sale for their farms fron, and failmg the due piyment of which the; their produce at a fair remuneration ; and instead of being, wg? said subject of adm ration and praise could not legally, at this} we are at pr-sent, far removed from anything tke a market, moment, call their holiings their own, or clear or crop their | there would be resdy 8:'e fur produce at our doors?

‘acres next spring. O happy Colonist! O fuany Couneiilor! The Chairman then ruse, aad m order to ebeut information who can swallow this preity compliment, and cause your Lieut. lin regerd to the procucabili y of buidinga Wharf on the South

| Governor to breathe such high-toned seatiments. j side of West Point, enquired of many of the oldest residena

Tue touching delicacy of the consideration in not allading to) whether they considered the scheme practicable the visit of i] RK. ). the Prince of Wales to our shores last | expressed their opimon in the affirmative, |summer Ul! the e ose of the speech, 1s quite worthy ofthe loyal,| Capt. Neil MePhersoa, a man of g-eat practical experience Gol-fearing scholar who deems it necessary to laud a few bonest | ia sailing round the West-rn shore, gave as his opinion, that | Seotchmen sky bigh for payiog pert of their just debts. and is | a good substanial Wharf migi: be buit at the cost of ebowy

blind t> the fool he 1s making ot Aemse/f :n causing our Queen's | £1000, and that there is good nolding ground, and a god depth | Representative to utter such sup bulls, laughaladle errors, | of water a short distance from shore on Souch side West Pou - false complies, and childish ebsurdivies as gruee the speech | and during the heavy gale that occurred last Fall, be rode tent of Geo. Dundas, qr. | gale out ia sife y with one anchor and 40 fathoms chen. } Mr. Srang Lha;t them rose and said, that as tt app-ared by }what had already been stated, aid the information elicired, |iLat the precticaviluy of budding a Wharf at We-t Po nt wag undisputed ; and we have had the opinion of Mr. Nei Me- Pierson, a practical man, who stut’s thata Wharf would stand, nye Now, baving esiabl shed these facts, he would show to ths To tue Epiror cr tar Exawiner. | meeting our geograph cal position, which gives us advantages, ‘ : re ; _) that can never be possessed by the opposite side of the Island WESLEY'S ESTiIMAT# OF + GOOD QUEEN —vascumpec. At the place whieh you, gentlemen, coniens | BESS.” plate building the Wharf at the South side of West Point, on Extracted from his Journal, Vol. 4th, page 352, April, ¥768. | felerence to corarts, you will fim | that its i gated only about Friday 20th—1 read over an extremely sensible book, but = ave poe Oe oar ac Railroad te Sames : whereas the ee es . ne : : : 3 5 ‘ iitroad terminus to Cascumpec, is a out one that surprised me much. It is, ** an inquiry into the gs ice which route koto oti would tae ; proofs of the charges commonly advanced against Mary Queen | 1.4 wou'd also be very dae oat ae? aean oe of Scotland ’’ By means of original papers, be has made it ae oe cir Mt MS a e as fe re 7 season of the more clear thon one would imagine it possible at tiis distance : y ee. . © trum this part of the telamd wish a . lw take passage, or ship any produce by Steamer, we hove first —Ist, That she was altogether innocent of the murder of Lord ‘nik ies Si ante eee ae 15 . Darnley, and no way privy to it :—2nd, Thatshe married Lord that sleee. aad Rhea a yt! i a a ‘ea or 16 miles to. Bothwell, (chen ne.rly seventy-years old, herself but four-and- | 60 on _ ae back he aaa P th —s eee — (twenty) from the pressing instance of the nobi ity in a body, | Whefl: whee as ad had ome i — ee one | who at the same time assured her. ** He was innocent of the cide we he ne li a - a — ge pein anes | King’s murder :’’—3rd, That Murrsy, Morton and Lethington need a b ais a He nai ng " be — sete, Outen, ane | themselves contrived that murder, in order to charge it upon ho allie . os or eB eT he. rte stint adxoniogs }bher, as well as forged those vile letters and sonnets, which re toil mca - ant a aa tae peeps: © uate they palmed upon the world for hers.’’ ‘ But how then can Po eee See ee a veding trom Cacoupey ss Wie ‘we account for the quite contrary story which has been almost | 1"? by the ahortam papel ¢ Wey. i ’ y 7 : A Committee was then appointed to so! b ions j ppoin 0 sOeit subscriptions in

universally reeeived ?’? Must easily. It was penned and ; ; , . “, . " ff ale “ "a d ulids Is > i published in French, English and Latin, (by Queen Elizabeth's nS af SENG oa " harf, aud aiso to Petuion the Louse of, ; Assembiy 10 uid in this virject.

order). by George Buchanan, who was Secretary to Lord! : Meas : a and in Gots Elizabeth's pay. So he ‘ahs sure to 4 ’ oe of thanks Vemng qupe: to the Lpeieman, ae ee A ; : . dismissed. t.row dirt enough; nor was she at liberty to snswer for herself. ** But what then was Queen Elizabeth ?’" As just | and merciful as Nero, and as good a Christian as Mahomet.” | The above is particularly recommended to the candid con- | jsideratioa of J. B. Cooper and his yellow cor espondents, | under the idea that he and they will admit that the Keverend THE LAND QUESTION ,and venerable author is, ot the least, a **respectable Protestant | authority.’” 1. £

*€ Blosh Caledonia, sach thy son could be, Englon i, | joy no child he was of tyme

Yours, AN ENGLISHMAN,

Monday, February 25, 1301. |

JOUN

Signed on behalf of the meeting, ROBERT MeDONALD, Chairman, February, 1861.

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—PUBLIC MEETING at TIGNIsti. At a Bumerous meeting of the tenants and other residen's of s ‘Lot Oue and Two, teid at tue house of Mr Joseph Richard To rue Eprror or rar Examiner. }on the Ita imst., dir. Prencis Buotte bn the See ie folleam | ing resclutions were unani uvusly agreed to >

Sir—A good deal has appeared in the papers late}y about | Moved by Mr. Tuomas J. Cuie, and seconded by Mr. Patrick

Pace: Resolved, That whereas the tenamtry im ths peighbou ~

san could not be o!tained from Kngland to pur- 4 “why wily a Py 0 frou 7 eemarenears y — : : oe ‘ . ° ‘ “ wiirission, Uiat bu action wou ¢tuken the “ase forfeited land without investigating the titles ‘ 7

\¢ stigating the titles, it was | Proprietors for arrears of sent; bar the aasd reco ninencanen

jhigh thme for our Government to stop purchasing here. But |uas not been carried un’, ae several disirarms have been mace we asked for a Commission to settie the Land Ques-/in ths Licaity tor cont Cuieg the preseut wooier, by the fod that no less than tue ba f of the arrears junce with »be wishes of Ministers, and show them by acts would be token WY Wie Baril; and toe tenawtey are of opmmion ihat the Comm,.:*on was not wanted. j that un'ees tie tieu-e of Assenib ¥ Vil the seme ccuun ig elev Waen we agreed 0 have a Commission, that agreement alt Pension ee m lundic 34 and tenant, ua i: the Cons meant to place the wu? 5 ttlement of the Hand Question | cage carieant ie ae igh paeguaarpasdea sate in the kands of the lmpeia! Government. I1t is true, we Resolved, :herefsce,sh.6 a Peiiion be sent &) the iouce a ‘nominated one Commissioner, 20d the proprietors anoher; Assemoiy in vs next Session peay ing the House to p Sia lia, | but the three were equally ap pois ted by the Luperia! t30- oF tuke 50 ne achion sOnus Io prevent the propretors Oislfainng lvernmeot without any such d stinetion ¢ aad to that Govern- fer rent or arrears ob seul, preeediwgs the award ef the Couml= weut they are answerable to return their whole proceedings es | As to what report the Commissioners may give in, or what | py anachi j decision they may come to, I could not bazird an opinion. | | But L may state some of the questions waich wil! engage ltheir atten ion, aud for a satisfactory solution of which 1>ey ‘may have to apply to the Luperial Goversment for furthe-

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| by Mr. Lbibert Giule, and seeonted by Mr.

Pro-prere Galo : Resolved, Vuata ettronto tve Huse of Avcom’y be pre= ) pared in accordaice wih the abowe Tesulvtion, and semt by ihe members for the distri. t for pr-sent ton. Proposed by Mr. dose ot Kisaaid, and seconded by Mr, for it is not likely that any | Fidel: G.daat: , Resolved, Vhat the foregpiag sesolwions be sent to th

fevidence, and for law advice ; jdecision will be given which might be disputed hereafter, Esai at The original grants declare that unless they are settled “74ve"er and dslander newspspers for pub: estion.

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PRAN¢ BS BUOTTE, Chairman.

shores, ond that they would ay

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all of whom

town, for the past year, | had vceasion to sue some parties to | with foreign Protestants the lands shall revert to the Crown :

at the feet of the Apostles to form from it a common fund tor the genersl necessities: and no person could take away any | of tuis secretly or forcibly without sacrilege.

The Roman Cbarch, being the pincipal of al! the other

cha. ches, received a share of the alins of tre faithfal, sufi-

the last Small Debt Coart at Lut 49, at which Coert Messrs. J R. Bourke, Haszard und MeRae preside. During the | sitting of the Court one of the defendants went forward to ' ra : : | not allow the confessioi, and expressly said it was not fair ; ciently large to render the Pope equa’ to the immense calls of | thereby meaning, | suppose, that he would luse his share of | his eptritual administration. Even during the persecutions | 4,4 judgment fee. 1 stuted it was customary in the George- of the Pagan Emperors, the Roman Church possessed consider- | town Court to wake confession, and I believe it was legal and able landed property. ‘* She supported,’’ says the historian v9

F seenes os “e: . ‘le i rs | : Eusebius, ** a great number of clerks, widows and orphans, | who was a poor man; on which Mr. Relies: endested ene and

and of the poor, while she propagated the faith and founde | oF Céart; aba ordered one of the Builiffs of the Court to put jnew Caurches in the most distant countries.”” When Con-| 1.4 out. stantine became Emperor, he gave orders to restore to the) Jp the first place, I would beg to remark, that the Commis- . . { , ‘ - clergy, Saye the same historian, ** the houses, the a ee ‘sioners and Clerk sit at one table; the Ci-rk being occupied the Reidy, the gariem, aad other goods of which they bad |i, taking down a judgment, when Mr. Kelly and Mr. Sabine | heen unjustly Cops ived."” The Church then held the right of | 0, me up, one on each side of the Clerk, and were drawing the | eee es and this right is inberent in her and in-) Qierk’s attention from what he was engaged with. I said it jalicnable, and continues to the present day. To refuse the | was not fair to interrupt the Court when engaged on other | |Chureh the right of possessing is to refuse her the right of | Bisdineas + 1 told Mies 00 0t¢0086:to the -basiness he bed ia. hand. | existing ; and the latter impious and deadly design inspires| 9.4 "és 40 be interrapted. My reason being, that siiee 1 : ial ie “ i ” =? more or le-s ull the systems hystile to ecclesi stical property. | nistake having heretolore arisen through taking off the Co stantine bestowed throughout the whole empire, lands, | ohicutinen of thn Cake dee coeeilinn A ae » : he 2 .< sf shiec ‘ : i 7 ° bd : ; i houses, and rn cape ee on the Chureh, which | Similar instance the Court before, when there was time given | multiplied her me re ities in proportion as her re- | to defendant, which time was not recorded in consequence of | | Sources increased. The Kuperor, in 340, removed the seat of) interruption. When the legal time was elapsed, execution | empire from Rome to Byzantium—called after him, Constan-| yo, oranted to plaintiff, whieh pat the defendant to eost and | tinople. ** The same precincts could not contain the Emperor} trouble. he not been prepared and did not consider it due at | 2 iff : Y : i >} » ° ‘ . if . } oe ee eee eee aa Rome 10 the Pope. | the time, and wishing to yrevent a like occurrence was the ‘ro mh in observe tha ve emperors seeM NO} ,.,. . . ; she todeme | longer at home in Rome; they resemble saahapes assing |e) . pee $ 8: wan Sar any shave of She sedasens, 20 | shesegh and lodging there ‘ina ine to time. But wias is | arated by 2hr. Rally. 2 positively deny mentioning 9 werd of | i ie a. Gieeak ta bie He: ti : | refusing to take confession; theretore, what Mr. Kelly | — . or ; P ™ weet te ee ee | thought L meant, and he supposed, falls to the ground, to the as em} 7 in 575. Soon afterwards, the Heruli) pit ag he has mentioned it was customary in Georgetown disappear before the Goths, and they in their turn give place | 4, tap. confessions, this | know, that when I was lost there, | to the Lombards, who take possession of the kingdom of Italy. 1 joard one of the late Commissioners publickly state from | ‘ ‘a i thie bine » : | | What force was it which, for more than t'iree centuries, | 444 Bench, that no centessions would be taken aiter the Court | | prevented all these princes from fixing durably their throne

at ome? Whose was the arm which drove them to Milan,

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lsat, and which the late Clerk is well aware of.

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eredibly informed that the Cemmissioners of the >mull Debt |

confes ‘ ’ de od for. w) Mr. r id} - 7 . : . onfess the amount of debt sued for, when Mr. Bourke wou'd | ip, comply with the petitions of the inkabitants sent home,

(the King in Council, ia 1802, ordered the forfeited Jands to | ibe escheated ; and accordingly an Act was passed by oar | | Legislature in 1803 for that purpose. did not wish any unnece-sary expenses put on the defendant, ‘said to have -margina) note in our Statute Book anent that Act falsified

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, F i Tignish, Lot One, Feo. 12, bau and the question will be, bas the length of time elapsed, or re Rae Sh

jany actofl authority taken place since, which would anuul or alter the conditions of the grants ?

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PUBLIC MEETING AT CASCUMPEC.

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A large and respectable meeting was held in the Temperance ull, at Cascumpec, on the 7th inst., to Petition the Legis But as this Act is ie Se aeresiatieane to enabie the steamer + 7 Ew 2 ~-8 hoya o call in Jase 2 been mislaid at the Cvlouial Office, and the — - with ube ports in Now Beonteish and ehte tall Mr. Buchertield, sen., wz ; : i Doctor by the Attorney General of tbat day, the question arises, O'Leary elected as aalieape ete Tease will the negligence at the Colonial Office, and the corruption Mr. G. W. tlowlan, as Seeretary to the Committee that of the Crown Law Officer here deprive the inhabitants of the’ called the meeting, explained the ubject of it, and previous beelit of that law ? | proceedings. Mr. J. Forsyth, as a member of the Committee, But in the event of a compromise with the proprietors, = ke Meehan . a “maei Exq., and Patrick Doyle, the arrears of Quit Rent aud proprietors’right to the Fishery —° we oF the District, attended. ani explained

« their views on the subject. The Mon. S. F. Perry also Reserves will be considered, and then the terms of settlement | attended, and gave his opinions in favor of the object io wea tor the tenantry adjusted.

| Other gentlemen also address -d the Meeting, and the follow- The people should bear in mind that the whole question | ing Resolutions and Petition were agreed to :— for the settlement of the tenantry is in the hands of the im- | Moved by G. W. Llowlan, Esqr., seconded by Adam Fife,. perial Government; and they may rest assured that the Act Exsqr. : which was passed last session, to confirm the award of the) esolved, That as Alex. Wright, Esq., of New Brunswick, Commissioners, will uot receive the Royal assent until the bas tendered the services of the ** Princess Royal’’ to connect award is iuvestigated and approved of by the Imperial | this Port with the neivhbouring Cotomes, that this meeting is Government. aan thata petition be forwarded, praying the Govera~ Tbe proprietors knew well before the last election that gg og aoa aoe ded by Robert Gordes M‘nisters had made up their minds to bave the Land Ques- | pea. - ; > MASTneme, eeconded SF mepert Coraae