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er ee

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ever she would be likely to go, and we have ohmbed the cliff upon the cape.’

‘De you find any tra::s of her?’

* No, Senor.’

‘Then you must look farther.’

‘Would it rot be well, Senor, to call aid from the town Ihe Senorita was well knowe by the people, and much beloved They would help ue wi-lingly.’

‘NX not vet, Baptiste Let ovr own People search aw ele langer But I see no esuse for alerom Estelle may Ve reading for

her own pleasure '

Ah, Senor, replied the woodman, shak- ing bs head, * ebe would got wander alone in the forest at this how.’

*sh: is not alane

‘Ooly Ninais with her; and they know thar tl e Gipsies are in the neighborhood.’

‘Curajo! What care they for Gipsies Go, bapuste, and take anether tarn ip the beaten track.’

Toe woodman departed. and Don Rernardo pacel up aad down the room as before. By and by he sat down by the lamp and opened a bovk It was o large v lume, with leaves of parchment, and bore upon ite pages an illuminated history af the family of d Acosta Je was studying this when ove of the female servanta entered, aad with the announce ment toat a may wished te s;eak with fon Berne d€.

° Who is he ?°

* | know not, Senor.’

+ Llawe you never seen

* Never.’

+ What does he say ?’

‘VUnly tuat he wishes to speak with Don Berpardo d' Acyeta.’

‘le be alone ’

* He is Senor.’

* You may conduct bie to me

- Who can #& be,’ muttered the elealde, alter hia servante had guue “it may be sume one on judicig) bo sness, and it may be eome one who waots @ Liuwever, ib is wafe to be preparad '

Thus speaking he we tto an oaker cabinet, in one corner of the rvom, and irom a drawer he took a pair of 6 ver-mounted pietols which, when he had examined the primings and tried the fiots, he placed in bis bosom.

(To be ec

him before ?*

~AVOE.

tinued )

INCIDENTS STEAMBOAT

OF THE OHIO CALAMITY.

RIVER

A ton hing appeal wes mace by Miss Jones! to a zentieman on’b rard As the wood work

was becoming too heated to bear, até the flames were forcing their way gradually into the cabin, she went to &m saying, “* Oh, Mr o=-, you have talked to me this even-

you know wh

me! Oh, her

guy, you have danced with we, where I came from; anve He A id he

could not save her.

Zam and save me! O

dind a wife to save, and }vor girl she is beyond earthly help now.

save me

One of the geytiemen ou board had the pre sence of mind to unhinze a door, which he threw into the river; and, after his wife and he had jumped in, he placed her in a position du reach shure. ‘Now stay here, dear," was his request. ‘+ antil | can fix myself some way. and we can beth be saved.””) Imasine the husband's agony, just as he bad procured sumething that would floet, to see a man swim toward the frail suppors of hia wife and kyock her away trom it, She was drowned.

dene gentleman and wife eseaped in gather a yomautic manner, Fastening life-preservers tu both of their persons he tied her right arin tu hus left, then took as utter, over which they placed buth arms. 4 Now. one, two, ghree, jump '** pe cried, when both jumped, ggd alter @® Lule mandeuvmng tiey arrived safely on shore, minus, several articles of apparel weeded to wake them preseudabie.

huwever

A iady on board the States relates that she and her husband were meyigg towserd the shore, in the water, she saw one of the life boats filled with people who kad escaped.

But all at ence the America begins backing toward shore, aud mere: essly the rude rudder, strikes the wuat, erushing and ypsettin None of those passengers were saved. A escaping owe dauger only to meet death avother form.

be seen women with but their rebes de nuit to protect thei, rushing absut ia the flames, screaming for help; mothers, with their children in their arms, most of them frantically.

From the shore cou!

nothing

shies, rushing about

Que mother, bo!lding her baby in her arms, yan ty the guards, but the water seemed to ber only a chilly grave; then she jumped in the cabin azain, then tothe ruards Ihe last that was seen of ber she was standing up with her baby hugged clused tu ler, in her awful death, byuruig up.

The seene at Warsaw beyzars description Relatives bunting for each other, the woynded screaming with pain; pevpe, who at home were blessed with wealiu, bemoaned their sad plight. The ladies geverally had preforce to goto bed while their linen was being dried Clothing was Bbroyzht by the open-handed and warm hearted citizens of Warsaw. and every, thing wae done to reuder em us comfortabie as possible puder the circumsiances

The badal parties on board lost everything but thsir sleeping apparel. Calicoes took the |

lace of elezani vestments. Red worsted | at or bounets, or anything that would) cover their feet an@ nakedness. Clothing was: gone, elegant trousseaus, which bad cost so} sauch time and trouble jn getting together, | were lapped - inthe jangry dames, Money Was yone, an

penniless, nearly naked, three | ot the wewly married couples changed their warm beds for the iey water im the river, and lalf dead with fright, and two-tbirds frozen, | they auly reached the friendly shore to be|

; ‘ eenals ou account of the threatened war.

(a Provisional Guveruwent has

RUTHLESS POLICY OF RUSsIA_ IN POLAND.

M. Batousel koff, Curator of the Educational

Distriet of Vilwa, in Lithuania, hes

‘ oft ial \

a series OF impal, rious indications of the gpirit of

articles in the local yoving some « Rus

at tre ste

mn winery in that eaurntry He declares ws hitherto taken tor R Lithuan.a, by forbidding the use ot |

& schools and eontiscat ig all Pohen raya books, are not sufficient for the purpose, and that ‘unless the Pohsh vouths are entirely re

oved from the inflaence of their parents there

* The pupils,”

the day in

can be no real Kussitication.”’ he adds, “pass only five hours ot the schools; daring the remainder of the time in contact with the pernicious Polish element. All.the good prin ‘ pies which are inculcated into them at sx hool are lost in conversing with their fathers ana mothers in Palish. These imprudent parents go nat understand what a demoralizing influ nee they exercise on their children. He there fore ree mmends, as a preliminary measure, that all children, except thase who hive wah

and on holidays they are

' } 4 } . ats thei parents, should, witer tue hours of u ly, be placed under the surveillance of Committees and Sion

educational othcris, j wid 1

mmposed of

mivy be allowed to board with persons p with certificates from the authurmies ¥ of pas : w “ ood condact. ! The official urna! of the Government ot Kie?® cives some interesting parti ulars relative

to the acquisition by Russians of land in the

7 : :

south-eastern provinces of Poland. Thenum

her of Russian fand-owners in those province {t savs, is now 920, which ts 40 per cent mor

Before the insurrection, ‘ )0-

than in 1865. 000 dessiatins of land were in the possession of Poles, whereas they now ho d 3,800,000 only, the vemainder having beea contin sated by th Government, aid sold by publie auction to persons of Russian extraction. ~~ HONOURS TO GEN. DOYLE AND CHIEF JUSTICE YOUNG.

The Queen has sanctioned two statutes and an extension on an altered basis, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, as an order of reward for colonia} servies, or service ia con- necyon with the Colonies, and we have much pleasure in bewyg able to notity that the name of our Lieut-Gevernor has been included in the hist of Bui f that Order, as

an Apprecietion Sint

rht Commanders ¢

f his service se Colonies

in coanection with his judicious management the Treut and Chesapeake affairs, inistering the voverument ot Nova Scotia. The order was established in ISIS) for na tives aud with Corfu and Malta, and is probably based uvon an old Ven tian order of the former place, It now, as has been often talked of, been extend- ed to be a colonial ordet of the Cc lonies of Great Britain ail It consists of three classes, viz: Kuischts Grand,G C M.G ; Kuizhts Commanders, K. C. M. G.; and Com jr ions, C M. G

We have ulso to congratulate Chief Young, who has had the honor of Kniszhthood eonterred upon him.—//z. Reporter, Jan. 4.

wh le ad

oticials connected

' Has

over the world.

Latest News by Telegraph. FROM EUROPE. London, Dee 30

The new House of Commona met yeaterday for preliminary business only The Ministers Whe were reelected look the oath of office

Write were issued tor elections to fill the Facunt seats, attur which the tlouse adjourued ty 6th of February.

Rererdy Jobowon, the American Minister, ju a speech yesterday toa deputation of the Lon- dou Workingmen's Society, exid that the Natury)- ization Treaty between he United States and Great Britain was certain of ratitication by the United States Senate. The Prealy provides (hat a i5.iUsb subjcel whe has been yetyralized in the! United Btates, shall have the came rights fo pro- tection on his returw to Englaud asa uative beru Agierican

It is the general impression that the Conserva- tives willbe succeaxtul in the election of uig ip bere of Parl aujecut tu §ll tacancies.

London, Dee. 31

A despateh from Wigan save that a terrible

explosion ceeurred in Haydock Colliery to day,

i ava tna 22 dead bodies Lave already been taken

OUL of ibe rule { Cole Bates, Justice of the Peace at Tipperary, has been shet dead in that ety by unkuown par- ties. Nou arrests have been made. London. Dee 30 The following despateh from Constantinople comprises the latest oy the Eastern question ; “igreat preparations are being made in the ar ‘lran- sports loaded with supplies bave been seut to Hobart Pasua's tloet.”’ Lendon, Dee 3) One day's later news has been received from Constantinople. —The insurgents in Crete have all wade submission te the Turkish authority. and been establi- hed «here. London, Dee 3 The meeting of the Conference of th: Great Powers on the Oriental question, whieh was fixed tor the 2nd of January, bas been pe stponed, and the date of ite assemblage, if indeed 4 ie convened at all, is new quite yucertaim Constantinople Dee 31 Tt is officially announced that the lastof the in- |

to the Porte. The Turque newspaper says that

the Porte hae not yet accepted and probably will Judges ruling that the authorities quoted by Caw- | erou did oot apply, the prisouer bad received hin | | right of peremptory challenge in Sparks, by con-| Heaminer that the Liberais of St. Peter's) senting to challenge for cause,

nol approve of the propositiea of w European Cou. ference. Madrid Dee. 30, via London, Dee. 31

There was a demonstration at Seville seme days ago, and Gen. Cabalero Deroda was ordered there with @ bedy of ngtivnaltroaps = “The people were disarmed, boweser, before the General's ar- rival. The country is entirely quiet.

For the purpose of reducing the budget for the | coming year the suppression of 37 Captain Gen- |

}

been suggested Marebul Pavia, recently Goversor Genera! of Madrid, 1« dead.

publ shed

greetea by @ piercing cold wind But at least} London, Dee 31 they were saved, aal they fell into the hands | A despatch frow Suez in anticipation ofthe Au of good Samaritans. One coupe, a iar | etratian nails atate Chat intelligenee bas been re- | ried, have fulfilled their hdly vow to lure each | ceived at Melbourne from New Zealand that filty | wther yutil death shoy'd part them; but de ati | Europea families haye beeu uurdered by Ma- | souk them both — & th together — frugen, { vries, drowned, dead, in their beautiful youth, with | | the kiss of their pure love f.ozeu on their lips Telegraphic reperts have been received trom : eke slates Mian Bl lexandria of au earthquake gt or in the neigh-| A yentleman with his , J & © borhoud ot Tabriz, a Persian city, of about

sccumplished young lady, were passenvers on | Gy O00 people. on Sunday lest. “Though the the United Stats. At the firat shock the | ghocks were described as very viulent, no ee gentleman was thrown from his bed on the |rivus disaster or loss of life is so far kuewu to! four. Hastily pulliug on bis pantaloons he | have beeu caused by the phenomenon rushed to the stateroom of bis sister, burst | Londeu, Jao. 1. | opan the door, and, sexing her in hisaims,| The Times to-day in @ leading editorial de. | carried ber down on the main deck, where, | veunees the prejects of the Liberals for the abu. | procuring a door shutter, be threw it overboard | Wn ion of primegeniture, &e., and says that and leaped after it, wits his eister in his arms. | Ragland js caseuliully ariwiveralie aud conserve- | He placed her securely a1 the shutter, and was) om ities thin 0 swimming behind, pussing it, with his precious There wee a targe Fevien dae in joad, toward the shure, when to his horror, 94 Gork yesterday, at which Mr. O'Sullivan msde s tig, burly and able bodied man swam up, | strong speech pushed hw sister of the board and cliybed| Tbe Directors of Bank of Overend, Gurney upon i bimecJ, | & Co., whieh failed some time ago, and whose The young girl sank with a scream, and if! affaira have been in process of liguidstion, have she came t> the surface it was so dark and the | Stem arrested and beld tu bail ww a charge vt ecilietinn Ge epeet thet be cul’ wet Gad hee | fraud in the management of te affairs

Mr. Ashbury, in his note to Mesare Bennett Maddewed at the dasturdly act he made after! % ‘Stebbire of New York, relative tu the pro

the author, and seizing him by the throat a ‘posed Yacht Race, after objecting to the tonnage struggle to the death engued. They rose and pot the * Dauntless,” says he will race the” Phaw- | sank together, still strazyling, and when last! tom” across the Atlantic—he will go in any event. | seen were grappling with each other, Whether | and thus give the * Shapbo” aud otger uglish either was saved or both went down together yachte a chance Lo accept is not known, The sister sank beneath the | } London, Jan, 2 waves and was lost, but she was terribly | Government of Greece is actively eugaged in avenged by her brother. Two ladies, whose periecting and completing ihe armament of the) ames are unreported, placed on board the | mMtisael troupe a Sates by Mr. Townsend Whelan, 8 ‘anker of} om po. oan Be : Philedelphin, cine teeded tent. «Bho code! . Phe Emperor Napoleon, at the usual New ; 3 a war's reception of the Diplowie Corps, in re- passaze tor New Orleans Mr. Whelan came | plying to the addresses of the represeatatives of | down yesterday in search of thems, bwt could | foreign powers, sa'd that be realized with muck | obtain no clue to their fate. | pleasure the conciliatory spirit animating the | Wr. George ZLeigier, of Nashville, end wife, | European Goverumeuta whieh enables them to | who egeaped so utiraculously, were mecried at quiet animesities and swooth imternational dit-| ‘ : ee oe Kaardey might preceding jeoutinnance of peace He confidently hoped that ' bike gear 1569 would prove as salistaciory ue the | At the piace, gear florence, where the boats pear which bad just closed, aud that the ccures| eollided the river 4s0k a bend, though there is! of eveuts wight diseipate unfavorable apprehe- over twenty feet gi woter, which allowed them! bensious and couselidate the pewee a aeeessary plenty of room. jte the welfgre aud progress of givilwed natious | Fraug gud g§.N. Price, brothers, of this | aud the people, city, made their escape tozyger, and had a)

London. Jan, 5.

Paris, Jan 2

boat it was almost entizely weppped up in! flames, andl searly a) whoo could bgg fed the the various Powers of Europe.

- = ,

rely jigiou the lopalty and patriotiam of the army ) to sustaiy bim fo guaintaiuing peace aud (he a>

Veugl hover, London, Jan 4

In veiw of Preadent Jolnosoo’s Atnesty Pro clamation of the Voth of December Jeflersen John Shdell, Jawes M. Maron, A. Duldley

. een

. “ity *

. t, or any other of our celebrities.

C 0 R R L S P 0 N D E N 0 E ; oo the Distt Heads of Department, and Heads of Bureaus, descend from their ae oF

| al . : 2 (BR. | dhe d meet the clerks in their respective To ruk Kvtror oF THB Ic XAMINBR 0 be the common level of yentlemen. Tne ane vitaticne are, indeed, sent around previously te

A writer in the last Herald, signing himsell) ti. gentlemen in the various reems, be a | Head of their Bureau at his residence and partake

|

On these | GRANTS TO DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

Ed. Progress :

| Althonwh yon and I differ im onr political opin

jos, still asa public journalist, I trast, you will not consicer it intrasive on my part, to request a epace in the columns of your widely circalated journal to wire expression te my views relative to that important question, now under yueideration

) ; . ” ‘ } (yster Sup- . * ene , J adber ex Revels are prepaung to re- | Fabiola, brings up again ae? 7 of b'e hospitality. For mysell, however, I take! of an enlightened. and, T trust. a just public, viz: at nd mber « veyed ’ } - | . ] . , : : wer @ tos t = t ies Uinted United Siales per us a kind of tutroduction to & slap as you ao pleasure wm auch pubhe entertainments. Dur-' the viving of a Grant, by the In pietatars > St. Phe M aa of London generally approve of the” those wi f your opinion. Oys-|ing two years and a bail that { have been in{ Dunstan's College and othe r efficient schoo pe

sis . ; bhon sid recentiy cou sell and noe wa ee : ? Washin ito » Lhave never onee attended a public the towns of PE sland In discnasing the Preaty between China aud “eu : their element a a hinglo] , ” merit of this Question, | wish to deseo exlmly and t er q ’

lavgeudgeu aad Mr. Burhngaime Landen. Jan 3

an the Bastern difficulty will

Oth of Junuary

wluld ite delWerations prave

i demand strict non mterven-

cluded by Lowd

The Center pee weet at Paris on the It is suid that abortive, Ruesia wil thon on the part el Lhe quarrel between Greece Durbey. Athens, Jan 4. It is stated that the Turkish Admiral Hobart Pacha bas formally dewanded the surrender of the Great Steamer Erosis. The despatch adds that war is cousidered wevitable at Athens. Paris, Jan. 3 It ie reported that several French irouclads are eT Paris, Jan. 4 Mr. Burlingame and the other members ot the Obinese Embassy have arrived in Pary : Phe J mperor Napoleon has aubseribed SQ00 frances tor @ monument to be erec ted tu Che late

ft ’ JL peel Maaxiuuiiian : Madrid, Jan 3

A special despateh from Magala yesterday re |

ports that the tnsurgents there tired on a boat of

the American steamer Swartara, while Cien.

conveying

} Se ne au American family to the ship. Serran

vret atthe act, and assured the

]

expre ssed much re United States minister that the guilty ones woul be punished. A short time after the troope attack ed the insurgents in the streets and carned their barricades and dispersed the rebels with lore

A Loudon despatch ceo Malaga by Gea Keda, The to 100 walled and GUU prisovere. Ih Provisional Government eoutemplate a by placing Montpensier oo the throne ef Spain as a iu the Prosinve of Malaga ure

Higenis’ ios Was is beheved the

oup d etat

soun asthe citgeo disarwed and before the:;Cortes has a chance to as semble Generale Serrano and Reda suppert but Gen. Prim opposes the movement The Span- ish people generally favor a republic, but wall be overpowered by the military Official reporte state the loas of the insurgents during the fighting at Malaga was 400 men. Tue city is pow pertegtly trangu’l New York, Jan. 4. A pretwalure ex; losion occurred yeaterday poon, at the wreck of the steamer Seotiand, off Sandy lock, which reeu ted in the death of four men ‘and the severe wounding of several others. Mouey easy FROM CANADA. Mauntresl, Dec Se Much destitution existe amegg the people of this cily, and seup kitchens have agai beeu gpen ed One hundred and eseventy-four frea oeenrred in this city up te date the pressut year, aud one hundred and fourteen last year Montreal, Dee 31 Whelan ease came up before full Court of Err or and Appeal Draper presiding Cameron said it wars doubttul whether the gage should be

Justice | brought before Court by a Writ of Error iesned |

by Queen's Beceh, or by a Writ of Appeal weacd by Court of Error and Appeal. To be certain he adopted both methods fle preferred to poocer d by Court of Writ, as under that Writ be could assign vew grounds of error not argued belore the Lower Court, which be could tot do by a suuple tranater of record on Writ of Appeal

Robertson and Auderaoy, for the Crown, ar- gued that the prisoner was not properly before the Court; that the Writ of Error did not lie in criminal cases; that beth Write were no beiter than waste paper, that jn order to bring the prisover before the Court, epeeial ordera woul have to be wade.

‘Tue President eaid there must be some way to bring the cause before them. The firat question to be settled wae that'ef juriadiction, aud under which process proceedings were to be taken Phey would adjouru the case wutil Mouday to de cide the point,

Whelan was remanded to the custody of the Sherif of York, aud the Court adjourned.

The opinion gerucrally prevails that the case is eo intricate, aod eurrounded with su legal point. and technica! degs which will eecugy so long a time in that Wheiga ueseor will be executed.

vetllemecayl,

Muutresl, Jan 2 The new Governor ia to be insted by pro- minent citigeus to a grand banquet io Montreal this week Serious differences are reported in the account of the Ontario Board of Agriculture In the libel ense of Price va, Beattie of tho Tereuto * Leader,” the Jury could not agree. New Year's Day passed off quietty. There wae little visiting It waa intensely cold. A man dropped dead while waking calis Montreal, Jan. 4. The ease of Whelan wae taken at lla om, te day, betore the Court of Error and Appeal Judge Draper presiding The Court decided that the tuuet come belore it by Woy und that a Writ of Appeal could not The Court sustained th-

proceedings ot Error stand in criminal cases,

d-cision of the Judgesot the Court of Queen's |

Bench, to the effect that the prisoner had no right to chalienge for cause belore the twenty por-mp- tory challenge swallowed by law were exhane ed

Cameron, ou belalf of Whelan, aseigned errors

with reepeet te the disallowance of ¢)) lenge for} eruse of Sparks, and of peremptory challenge of | Hodgins, the sume as be did before the Court of | . Queen's Bene, and went into a leugthy argument, | Island would have a better chance of being jelected than the same chap

queting bumerous authorities, chiefly American iu @upportet lia pesition Rebinseu and Auderson replied for the Crown

to the prisover

The Judge's decision will be given un the 22ad | ghe Government, and feel assured that, when

instant. Montreal. Jan 5th

Between four and fire hundred deaths froan | | small pos vecurred in Muntreal during the pesi | year | ‘ ; Governor Was freely admitted, would only serve to in- ‘eaiships, Goveruorships und Lishopries have) YOUR sbuut 24th instant, at whiek feur Lieuten- | {ivence anew the passions and awakey the pre- j aut Governore, and the whole of the Dominion | judices of sectarianism, Woick until this change | ad with lectures trom Horace Greely, E. P.

A Grand Banquet will be given to

and Loca) Cabinets are expected to be present. | Nelavn, the author of the pamphlet agninat the | Grand Tryoe Railway Company, waste day com. | mitted by a Toronto Magistrate to take his trial ona charge of vbiaining moary yonder tale pre tenes. : ; Fiour 5 cents dearer. active demand. Ata meeting of the board of Trade, today, the } feeling Was Unanimons in favor of a change in the Act relating to Luspeciors of Flour, go as te make itagree with the New York syatew, and thus se- cure w greater share of the Maratime Trade. Toronto. Jan. 5. The Whelan case came up yesterday before the Court of Error and Appeal

i t }

per course to bring tbe prisoner belore tbe Court. | Hon. J. H. Cauervo made aa able aud elaborate argument og the side ef the prisoucr, Messrs Kebiusou & Andersou replied for the Crows

Phe prigouer was rewauded yniil 22nd just., when a decision will be given,

FROM THE STATES,

: New York, Dee 31.

The Livery Stable of Briggs Brothers in this City wasdestroyed by Gre last night with one hundred ang filly hurses and pumerous Carriages. Phe lows is § 2,000,000.

A fire in Providence to day deateoyed the Daily Press Newspaper vilice, and other valu- able property.

No quetable change in either money or Gould warket to-day.

Now York. Jan. 2

A evere soow-storm yesterday extended over a Wide tract of country at the uerth gud east iG iw badly dritted, causieg delay Lo railroad trains.

Fire in Bangor, Maine, last eight, destroyed property to the amount ef & quarter milieu dul- hon dollars Several of the largest werohants ou Broad street wore burued eut.

Now York, Jan. 6.

Lurepean power® li the

tics the oceupation of |

| ‘ isentence,which is sufficiently long-winded, and | surgentein the Island of Crete bave surrendered | EBS that ne substastial Injustice bad beeu done which T will give tor the edification of Jour They also clauned that by the | readers :ex |

‘ The Judges yuan-| | imously decided that a Writ of Errer was the pro | tyrants ; while the latter are treated in this

when they ave gut al und when not well preserved, like

not quite as pleasing

meeption, thamgh tre quently and urgeatly r quest- ed te do so by iny friends

ters, certain time, \

jother decaying matter,are terenrat te the Secitich eitlevne of Wadiadive

to the nasal organs a3 the perfume fF On Wednesday night David Kennedy, the cele- |

to| brated Scottieh Vocalixt gave a public concert } | for the benedit of Bt. Andrew's Saviety, in Met zerott Elall, which waa filled to even wing ]

aud [I may venture

sweet thyme;

say that the crustacivus innocents, devourec

more than # mouth ago by Messry Jusird, Mac | jaye heard tim sing now--akagether about a}

Mulan, Care, As ate wot wow relent older time ba edn a lagreeable pertume, and for this regson J thjuk | Every song was followed by Ue ost rapturous ap- ‘that “Fabiola” (a venerable ‘stance, a nom de plume, stolen from a Cardinal) ‘might serve up for tue public taste a dish more

public men of the nation.

sayory tian the well digested * Oyster Supper.

ridieule en you for havins alluded to the * sup-} Congress from Ohio, Judge Loughridge. Member F bef Congress from Towa, Mr Alexander,

per.’? He wugt not allempt to throw dust in

‘rnorant man, if be cannot | wen f have nawed aud wany others 4 at « ails ‘ ie

or otherwise & very

perceive a dillerence between a private enter trial, aud whe, since Thad Stevens ia gone, will

tainment and a pudlic or quast public one. | probably be regarded as the leader of the radical

Measrs. Laird, McMillan and Currie might live ‘and privately ou oysters from January, L509,

itill February, 1900, acd I don’tthink that you, | literature go!

familiarity with the history and

or any one else, would be justilic doin finding | growed upon Scotland and Scotchmen by all the tuult with their peculiar tastes ; but if they vive | Speakers, must have made ali the natives of * Aas ‘ . - “86 7 ‘ ” ‘ land 0’ cakes” present, feel like thanking Divine a supper, or a dinner, or why thing else, on the

| )

veeasion of what they consider a victory, and | of the Tweed. Senator Cameron, who was al

} lif the same becomes public, he must be an

jignoramus of the fiest class,or a born fool,that

Jwijl deny any man the rizht of eviticising the “that our couniry owed its greatness and glory in | oat ge png: Hd }agrest weasure, to the influevee of the Se: ttis. | propriety of such » * feed. lecmenut in eur population. The writer alluded to, like a cunning law- jyer, introduces his subject by means of the noW | Seotiish descent. He paid glowing tributes to

over stale oysters. He then lets out ‘ unounst,’ | the character of the nat on for piety, mtelligence,

fas aome of us eastern barbarians call it, a }quantum of the animus which predominates. |The policy of the Hon Jas. Pope is that which | lis the source of trouble. Mr. Pope is accused | loracting the part of a double dealer, He was Leader of u G vernipent for several years ; he never, when be was in power, manifested any sizns of fair play to Catholics. Perhaps, Mr. | Editor, you will not regard me ag presumptuous | ig f sent if I offer a sincere and humble ciate = this | re rie ‘ a a cae ae subject, which I know is shared in by three Boros Reon ores ae ie alae : jtourths of the independent electors ‘of this | Country, For some tweuly years or more the | jelectors of this County gave their support to Liberals, 30 called, at least ; duriny that period | they rejected, over and over, some of the most respectable Catholics ia the County, merely because they called themselves Conservatives. Having given our cordial support to the so- , called “Liberals,” we asked them for fair play | |some twelve yearsago. Atthe period to which |we advert, the Rev. Angus McDonald, then and, jnow Rector of St. Dunstan's College, petitioned }the Government tor a grant to St. Dunstan's | HCollege, The ‘Rector’ was then very young, jandcertainly he would uot have presumed to | address a Petition to the Legislature were he }not hacked by the Catholic community. His Petition was treated with the same disdain by the “Liberals’’ as was the very moderate me-_ [morial of His Lordship Bishop Melnutrre treae! hy the present Government. The ine | broduction of our preseut system of Edueation | | caused dissensions which have, vot yet, by any |meang didappeared. | may aifely say that’ jnever would such bitter animosities have been [puennes in our little Colony bad it not been for the introduction of our present system of! | Education. Ther@ animosities caused the great | {bulk of Catholics to oppose Mr. Pope and bis | party, and,such being the ease, how could they, }during his administration, expect or ask any-, thing from him. But the case was quite differ jené with Mr. Hensley ang the ‘iberals.’’ We supported them for the last twenty years jand more, and from them we expected fair jplay They not only refused justice when ithey had it im their power to diapense it, but they actually vioientiy oppose those who even }whisper of doing justice to Catholics. Mr. | Pope has been abused like a pick-pocket on ithis score; Mr. Haviland has been vilitied fur the same reason, and Cul, Gray hig been held yp for publig contempt. i

hope that the tide of immigration would coutinue to br ng thousands of them annually te our shores. At the same time, he could wet refrain from git Ing expression to fis intensely American pre-

no individual of any other nationality should ever cross the ecean te this couutry, When Senator Cameron expressed Chis partiality tor Scotchiwen,

of foreigners. gerate their virtues.

couleur de rose riers and ber modern piilosuphers and poets, blinds him to the miner vices of religious bigetry

in modern Cigea, marred the character of her

peep ..

people (themselves pre-emineuiiy wachhe , while the beauty aud tenderness of ber nanonal lyric

captivate their imayination, The rawes ot

ot George Washington. lu far western homes where (be nawes of Byron, Shelley, or Colernige

theusands of Americans that have read and ad- mired Tam O° Shanter, the Cottar’s Saturdsy Night, the Lady of the Lake, and Marmion, who lave never read the seng of Firewater, by their own greatest poet, although it has beeu called their only ualional poens.

The only drink that we had at the banquet was “the juice Scots bear oan geak us’ in the form of bot punch ed guests, beng evidently uoused toe Bo potent a beverage, Were -to Use al eXpressien Common io

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Your correspondent, baying on one memorable oveasios, that you knew of engsged ina contest with Joho Barleycorn. and came off coneiderabiy second best, pradeuily reselved nel te renew the couflict. Lb eticlose an eriginal poem, read by the writer on the eceasion Your readers will be

Mo reeeived were merited,

Noue of your own ci izens conld feel greater i dyoaion than | did, at the urjust strictures Upel Your chatacter ae a poople hat appeared mm ti Boston Adcertiser.

gone lesding Aierican Jourual to correct the iisrepresenlations of euch inerant, prejudiced and emphirical observers ae that * Berwick ” but habitual indel-nce, together with the pressure ot more unperative dutier, tustrated my demgn The Examiner ia tar too medest in its estimate of the characier of your young ten, when it clans jor them only a superiorly over the young men of the west. Since I lett P. E Island 1 bave traversed nearly every State east ot the Rocky

Tt hus been rumored here that a few of the “Lberuls’’ Charlotietown have returned the Bramener because it did not abuse the | Bishop and Catholics in general. Several names are mentioned, but I will no: write them }for fear the report is not correct in all cases ; {if at is correct the present Government is | doomed. |

of

had the impudence to defend the leading Oraneman on the

“Fabiola’’ Mr. Ciark ;

character of yous young men will cowpare taver ably w'th that of the young menu in auy part of the American Uniew. Let any man yourceuntry to this whose own knowledge is ewplirtcal or superficial, and on finding that

But the richest part of “‘Fabiola’s’’ letter is the winding up|

vantage he will at once Chrow up the sponge. and | | return te you deeply impressed with the superior-

‘We can also assure the Editor of the! ty of everythmy that pertains to America Let | him be a manu of cultivated jntellect, and be will

oyly laugh at the Yaukee’s preteasions to superi- | rity, f ehaill wrile you further on this subject at

sume future time.

have, as they always hed, full contidence in

the proper time comea, it will accord to the Cutholica that measure of justice which, even uow, enlightened Protestants are bevinuing to a ivocate; but which,if pressed before its justice

| We are well suppled in Washington this winter } with theatrics! aud other sources of public enter: |

jactresers already thie seeson We have had tragedy, comedy, French and German Opera, | Black Crook, &e ,&c. We have aleo been taver

is the public sentiment has pr-duced some | Whipple, Petroleum V. Naeby, the celebrated fruit, might have rushed forward with a force) humorist, and just, though not least, Joho is. s) resistiess ad to carry the majority of the | Gough, beyend question the greatest of living ora-

Last week was a week of care triumph and en |

) Sco land. The praises wich were so liberally be. | jection is, the want of tunds / there ds a stad of officials in our Colonial Building the | receiving in alf, [ believe, thousand six handred and seventeen pou dea year |

Providence for having placed their vativity north |

lo support of his} }®otement, be referer d te the bamwes of many of | hour greatest soldiers and statesmen to prove their |

ey, industry, and thnft; and expressed the | but Lam well aware and indeed

judices, by declaring that be would not care if |

he but expressed the general rentiment of the |

Scotland appears to the average American in| and every The tame of her ancient war-| bat perce

and ictolerance which, bistery julerais him, has, |

Sowe of our wost distinguisb- |

this country —seul home © walking en their oars.” |

able te judge for themselves Whether Whe plaudits |

It Was my purpose atone | tine lowriie a series of letters on Pb. Island te!

| dispussion steely, withont harting the feelings of any Chrixtinn denomination on BP, KE fstand.

| Some of our public jonrnalists have endeavored lto show the unreasonuableness of the question by cuutionuing the Protestants of P BE [siaud to emer | their solemmm protest avainst a society of christians who had lit the fires of Smithfield, &e Now, cir T eonsider this mode of argument to be by no means proper, or tangible in its logic and cannot lf.ilto recoil on ite author with that indelible jodium, which alf such arguments so highly and | justly deserves- -and which is always the teats lof. unnecessarily arousing personal animosities

but, in this in-| plause and many of them were repeatedly encored. ‘and exciting religions strife thronghout the length On Tuesday night we gave bin a supper, whieh | and breadth of the land Give the question, Ieav. them well. was attended by some of the most distinguished | a calor and dispassionate eowsiderution. and let i} We bad Senator | be argued in an honorable and ehrietinj-like nuan-