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THE RECENT PRIZE-FIGHT. PROM AN ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW.

Measured by the degrees of su fering whic! | 3¢ entails, by ‘the bad passions which it ex-| eites, and by the vicious habits it indirectly | promotes, the practices of pogilisim will bear no comparison with some other social evils But that tt is an evil, and one that ought to be put down by puble opinion. we folly ad mit, and cordially agree with Mr. Baron Pigott’s recent prosest against the philoso phical advocates of the prize ring

The logie ol these geotiemen ia preeisel y efmilar w that which justifies war not be- eause it is sometimes just and necessary, but

to the ideas of a considerable class of the} home population. We ean best learn the) strength of their love of prizo-fighting in| Rngland from the fact thatthe Saturday Re- reew, a journal said to he mainly writtea by Chareh of England elergymen, certainly re-

| presenting the educated and refined classes,

published an article in’ favour o! prize- fivhting last year, and supplied an elaborate editorial vu che late contest. expatiating with Justo on the ** punishment’? received, with jut a word of disapproval of the brutality of the affair [¢ ia true that the Review is famous for ita fondness tor the singular and oufre, and that it is the only leading journal which has taken this view of the matter, but

because it may deyelope fine qualities of cha- racter. Tie fallacy of this argament ie eo manifest th at it cannot be etated in ® single

still the fact shows that there is by no means the strong aversion to prize fighting in Naw-

have of Jate given him an advantage which even Lord Chief Justice Cockburn did not postess wile at the bar. The new judge's chiet diffeulty wiil be to subside into a pre- sident. in the court long an orator. Great advocates, it 1s said, make bad judges.

which he will no doubt have many temyte- tions to transyrees.

For some years, Mr. Serjeant Shee has led the Bar, in virtue of bis rank of Queens serjeant and his patent of preeedency. Ui late, his «ppointment to the Boneh bas been almost demanded on the part of the profes- sion. It hus been w growing habit with evancellors to make their appointments to jadgeships serve Parliamentary purposes.

ce OER oan

where be haa been so}

It isto be hoped that Mr... Justice Shee will be an exception to the rule, |

erttee ieee ee

1 TERT TES ETON The New York Herald says it is the inten. tion of the Federal Government to organize un immense cavalry foree ofat least 100,000 men, to be ready for active operations by) next spring. This foree, it is thought, oper-| ating against the South, willsweep everything | before it. ass The value of the exports from the port of Portland in 1863 was $5,018,506 against $4,117,202 in the year previons. The war bas not done Portland much injary.

lurorrs ar New Yorx.—The table of im. | ports ac New York afford am instractive |

ylanee at the movements of commerce during) songols, if, such they can be ealled, were in a St, therefore, appeare to us that, in the first) causes of the prese

/our great rebellion. itn round numbers, tie

7 EEE BS

ably conclude th

nnpending over ourschools, Appearances certain- ly indicate that unless an important chang 18 effected our colonial education will relapse Lito

‘ spieis of serious jmport is | of the original grantee of 1767, if any at @ crisis of sermus hny be, but om Ke purchaser of yesterday, or the orphan whose inheritance fell to haw the day be- fore. The destruction of the primary tithe would carry with it the tithes of the small frecholders

such there! Amertean in | in constant use were of American Manufacty re,

ventions; and numerous other artis.

fromthe “ Needle to the Awebor.”

Amerien furnished the world with ae

antable r hich it has, during sone of the ide Oe eet enh eal ie ee aimee who hold under it, as well ar the prea ere of civil and religions liverty, which have vila of the retrograde wovement is clearly perceptible ; the tenants. If courts and junes could be found | the eguse of true civilization. She . } ideg and it gives unmistakable evidence of the speedy ito werk out such a principle, no free people | sade a “* . #8 tanght extinction of the Free Education System in P. 5. | would endure it long.” . pane & the lecturer, how to rile Island. | Now, in protesting against this most dogmatic Colonies, and he might have odded, that Amerie

We ean elearly perceive what are the more debunciation of the'principle of escheat, we shall, | hus taught the Colonies tw edueste thomesinns :

prominent injuries which the amendinent, | aa Sheed ala (heh ilk tea ) tog

has inflicted upon our educational system. We 5 becomes us in opposing so high an authority, have not yet furgotien that, when teachers re-) proceed to do se with all the wariness whieh

sie ciate ‘ Nien , i ‘i : ceived the enorme eum of Five Pounds, as a prudence and diffidence ic ourself can dictate. Government allowance for their services, our

wretched condition. We still distivetly remember place, it will be well te ground our dissent from

borrowed our system

of Free Schouls—the noblest of our institutions

| After the introduction, he entered vpon the ut civil war, Many colunng

} had been written in the London Tomes, ve siete, ?

| years bave been ws follows: in 18060, plU4,- lowanee of forty-five or fifty pounds, our schools

imports of dry goods during the past four! that, when the teachers received the decent al-

000,000 > in 1861, $43,000,000 ; in L862, began to increase and flourish, and the advan-

their dictum upon adinissiona of their own, if we | attempting te prove that the Tarid Wie the cage

‘ean do so. Letustry. A Jittle farther on, under of the Southern States seceding from the Union,

; land which is needful to secure a determined Men have begun to talk as if a seat in, 000 ittempt on the part of the Government tO) Parliament and success as a debater in the 356 OUU O00 > in putitdown. It is possible that some such | (yu mops were hecessary stepping-stones to! thus have the full mouvement prior to the aeearrence as the death of a man, like that eye bene. Lhe idea is distasteful to the) outbreak, the prostration of the first blow,

1863, $67,000,000. We tages which they confer on our Colony, to be fully | the same heading, they say: Dut the attempts to prove that the high Tarity : realized. aot, of ye Whilst the — - * Constitutionally, a Court of Escheat has | vere the cause of the war are julile, mw ceived an additional sum of five pounds, the always existed. Eschent is incident to the power | come of , a rapidity with which our colouial education pro-, of ‘ie Crown in the adwinistration of the public some of the seceded States ulwaye voted for

sentence {t is an errot G say that war brings out more virtues than it stifles and perrerts. Lt isan error to say that such as,

it dues bring out have no sphere of action in) time of peace, or that those which it dwarts | are lower than courage in the moral seale — It 19 wn error te say that & state of things in itself pernicious acd deplorable ought to be inflicted on mankind for the sake of caltivat- rg beroimw ; for on this principle pestilences should be propagsted, and famines manutac toured, lest the motives of charity should wax cold. When we turn from so magnificent a sophisuy as this to the iudicrous Freasonings by which prizefightias is defended, we find ix difficult to relu'e them gravely. Lleenan and Riog mast have submitted to great priva- | tions in training. and displayed a fortitude m setion worthy of a better cause ; therefore we are required to believe that prize-fighting io the beat way of keeping ep English spirit, that without it we should come to the poatard and stiletto, that under proper regalation it would be an ennubling national sport, and so furth. There ia really no more Gonnection between the prettts and the conclusie Sian tits, and the mere statement ol the two tegether uw reductw ad absurdum. Let us, however. look at the matter a little more closely. Granted blast the combatants are the better, morally and physically, for being brought tate condition and then muled un- wereifuily. that the professiyna! bruisers are not given to excess, are nut brutal in their habits and manners, aod are not short-lived, what is the Droportivn oi effective to non-ef- fective members of the ring, and what is the effet of the system on the latter? Ut would

of MeCoy in New York twenty years ago, may be needed thoroughly to arouse public sentiment, and secure the suppression of the ring. The aystem has declined rapidly of

late years, and though international contests learning are more important qualifications |

beve brought it mto vogae, we trast if 1s only for a brief moment, and will bring about more certainly and more quickiy its final extinction. pig

it bumourously

hw

The Chieago Times thus bauters its countrymen on the deteat of their champion :--

Our Great Humintarion.—The ** goggle’

: is pug’? smitten by the ponderous **mawley ‘’ of av antagonist puts himself in a pesition similar to that of a majority of the ‘taney '’ yesterday upon getting che news from Eegland—** in mourning.’" Woe is them’ Alhama, or rather, tleenan—Heenan, the gallant, chivalrous young Ameriwan (of Italian descent) —representative of the Ame- rican Bagle, democratic mestitutious and a sovereign people, * licked *’ in haif an hour by a * blawsted "* Britisher,—an outgrowth of the effete, tumbling, decaying, rotten des- potisins of Europe! Hereafter let the proud bird of our national ty. no more seek the em- pyrean heights of Katahdin to thrill the universe with its exulcant sereain, but rather let 1¢ come close earthward, and, upon some lowly ra:l-fence of bhumilmtion, bersoan with drooping wings the disgrace of that once proud nation otf whom it has hitherto been

THE AMERICAN OF

, | the

bulk of the profession, which sees some of ite ablest and most learned leaders excluded by cireumstancesat this moment from the Honse They naturally feel that genius and profound

for a judge than political activity and inter- vat. W by are X and Y and Z, and A and B not Judges? ‘They are masters of the kug- lish law, and their character is equal to their experience and talent. Barristers will nata- rally continae to think it a poor answer to

say that these great Jawyers have not had |

the luek to be elected somewhere to serve on other side of Westminster Hall. ‘The honours of the Bar, in their opinion, should be for the Bar alone. t the bottom, accord- ingly, of the enthusiasa: with wate Mr. Shee s elevation bas been welcomed, there 1s & strong sentiment of the kind. indeed, that the Bar intend to signalize the

event by a dinner given to the new judge |

fimself We cannot wonder atit. We can well understand that no. vacant judgeship

could be more popularly bestowed thao on a |

lawyer who is both esteemed for his personal qualities, and who, in # certain sense, is the iather of the profession—the Grand Batonneer of the order of Naylish advocates. —Maylish ? aper.

7.

Deatu or Mr. THackeray.—Suddenly one of our greatest literary wen has departed.

Never more shall the fine head of Mr. Thack- | eray. with its mass of stivery hair, be seen | the late sturm. A woman whose husband | Is was but two days} Was recently killed in the war let her two.

towering among us.

lt is said, |

and the gradual recovery since. It may be | jadded tiat the proportion of goods entered | tor Warehousing and withdrawn during the) | lust three years, is neatly duuble that uf the | same eluss in 1800. The amount of the pre-|

vious years, showing the commerce of the | Noréh tv be quite equal to that of the whole country in 1802, we have already alluded to |

| Phe tuports of seperace articles other than dry goods, exhibit about the same tenor as- the above fizures—that is, very large in 1800, jvery Small in T861, and gradually socreasing | singe. We are glad to see an exception in some articles of luxury, os for instance cigars, footing Up nearly $2,000,000 1a Loud, w tictle | over @ inillion ip tue two years iolluwing, aud ‘talling down to S600,000 lust year, When we consider the mcreased price, the quantity }of imported ¢'gurs must be very much less. | ocher artieles of the same nature that have jfallen of wre eottke and tea (slightly) and | brandy and watehes (very muchy. Books bave remained quite uniform during the last

5.

wool, going up trom less than $5

Tue Conp ar THE Wasr. — ‘the Chicago

jable to suppose, and. the oy

capable of eugaying in business more pleasant

value to over $9,000 000. —Beston Journal. | January 23, 1864.

papers record suine painiul imcidents of suller- | ing and death trom culd im thit city, during |

gressed was truly astonishing. It is but reason-) dumain, It required no particular legislation to inion is universally | put the machinery of eecheat in operation; none conceded to, that a man labours wm proportion to j. required now 7

the wages he reeeives; and that additional | : ‘ ; ee . : : coor ) : -clarative limisxion, payment will secure addijepal Jabour, Such According | to this declarat rrr

sent imports, as compared with those of pre- | being the case, may we not rationally con- | Eacheat, 9s incident to the power ef the Crown } dential Chair were Southern me

clude that, since the teacher's salames have been | in the udininistration of the reduced so very considerably, their zeal in disseminating and promoting the principles of

public domain, be- came incideut to the power of our local Govern-

education will be in a correspouding degree | ent, in 1851, when the transfer of the easua!

lessened. ‘To expect that the people, who have! and territorial 80 jong been exempted from the payment. of teachers, and whe already pay a tax for that : ad : purpos’, will consent to make up such a great ment, by which the Cowmissiovers have arrived deficiency. is simply absurd. It then follows that | at the conclusion that, were the people of this the teacher must either eke out a miserable sub-| Tjand new to declare that they have a right te sistence upon the paliry pittance allowed him for | he Gommedinniiien iii beli wen ede oe lis services, or relinquish the profession, in order | the remedy: Waeh they quay Sebere.9 Hourt o to obtain a more remunerative business. This | Excheat could afford for their grievanees, “ the latter alternative will assuredly be adopted by the most efficient and uselul teachers, who are aft sa .

ont civilized communities of the

rights and revenues of the Crown was wade to our local Government. Vhe argue

j country would cease to be regarded among the world,” ia, in our profitable. Our schools will then be under the | @pinion, avery unsound one. When they based supervision of a very inferior class of teachers, their conclusion on the faet that “the grantees, who, in consequeuce of thew poverty and in-

: , ; ; their heirs: signs’? ‘ rly a centaur competency to ill otber situations, are continually heir heirs and aacigne” have, fur nearly 0 ”

three years ab about hali the figure they | reaming about the country in search of schools, been allowed to retain possession of their lands, | chauge when they found that the negro stood in 1860. Phe arucie which bus shown | Trusting that the people will attend to those | notwithstanding their non-performauce o the greatest rise iu the last four years ig | things. aud the evil has not become so deeply 000,000 in reoted as to be irremediable, [beg leave to remain,

f the conditions of the grants, ‘and notwitstandmg the Yours, &c., existence of the power to enforce their forfeiture PLAIN TALK. slpcintienenentiianiiniaiene ee —— Shen tle Che Gxaminer,

SEZ that, though this power ought to have been in-

| ter such von-performanee, it seems to us that} they aust. have overlooked the additional fact,

herent in the local Legislature, or loeal Govern- j Inent of the Island, their power to exercise it was |

‘The South, for the greater period, Bice formation of the Governmeat of the Viiied state jad control of the Exeeutive of the Country | ‘The larger namber of these who filled the Pregj. MOF WeH reps,

jsenting the Suuthern views of political questions | The South had a far more extensive territory than the North. To what then, asked the Rey | lecturer, are we te attribute the existence ol thd Southern rebetlion 2 Nothing could satj account tor it but slavery. Slavery ex fore the Colonies deelared themselves luidey }Ji was the desire avd intention of W satiigion | Adams, Jefferson and others of the leading

jot the Young Republic to have slavery y

\oF theit Hide of all wen might be tree, pe

of their race or color, But their views jie be entoreed in their days. “Phe lover South Carolina with a handful of Seedy | the poor negro was required te cultivate | Cotton became in great demand, and le progress of slavery in the Southern States, The / notaonus of the slaveholders uuderwent @ striking

proving more remunerative than the horse ass. From being ashamed ut slavery, they tu Jaud it as a glorious metilution,

The lecturer vext eloqueutly deseribed croact ments of the slave power, and thes of the North to resistthem — Though many debates had tasen piace in Congres, | Slavery question, there never had beeu ve | alarm that a dissolution of the Union would

secre

od

i thereky occur, wpb) the question of | Missown inte the Diien took place. Ip

the haughty emblem.

be # strange thing to defend bull-fights on What a tall was there, my countrymen!

the ground that they improve the character

ago that be might be seen at bis club, ra-, little boys, aged five and two years, in the|

diant and buoyant with glee. Yesterday house, to go aud make sume purcuases, but |

ae babii Charlottetown, January 25th, 1864.

alwaysdenied, or rendered nugatory, by the Hoae people of the territory of Missouri preceeded to

of the balls if they demvralize that of the spectators. Now, it notorious that the e.ass [rom which prize fighters are drawo is practically very sunt), S» far from the Champion of England being the picked man among the millions of our youth, he is simp- ly the «*eock’’ of the few hundreds who have tried their hand at sparring, aed are willing | to wake fighting their profession. No man) with anything like a positon in society, no farmer, or tradesman, or tliri'ty artisan, he hia personal prowess what it might, would | think of becoming a pugilist. The virtues, |

is

ne

When Caesar Ueenan fell (over the ropes) there fell the hest brniser of Ameriea! Eheu! Eheu! Republicanism and the grand | Principle of Lluman Liberty have thrown up | the sponge, and Monarchy in tue person of « King is triumphant.

When grand armies meet in the shock of battle, amd one is beaten, it is some consola- tion to the vanquished party to know thatits

oWn losses ure not matertally greater than

these of the vietor—that the victory is a

dear-bonght one—that the enemy wiil have

the exultation of victory dumpened by the griet of his heavy casualties And so inthe

thereture, which that calling is sapp wed tol g , foster are necessarily confined to afew. And) roped arena. But what consolation have we

it will bardiy be contended that these hela. | bur each other pour encourager les aires, or | that the rest of us derive any reflex benefit! from the process. Un the eontrary, the effect upon those whe may he ealled the camp fol- lowere of pugilisim js as bad us it can possibly be. Outrage and disorder, cruelty and cow- |

earth ?

pexcept a binuse

in the defeat of ileenan —in the thrashing of the noble representative of the noblest, perest, most enlightened government on Listen to the mortifying truth ;

* King presented no visible marks of punishment under bis left eye.”

And this is all. For months the press and

ardiee, dishonesty and scoundreliem inevery | the people of two great continents have been

form are the constant attendants of prise- fights. The scene at the London-Bridge station yesterday was infamous, and that in), spite of all that the patrons of the «- noble art’ conld do turongh the woral ageney of the sporting press and the material assistance of su overwhelming police foree. All that can he said is that it bal been worse the lust time, and that the fight itself, although sick- ening to Witness, Was not further disgraced by any lawless violation of fair play on the part of the spectators. To suppose that any husnan being wae the better for it, or that anything but grand settlement of bets, and a great consumption of liquor car result [rou it, is sheer DONBsense.

it must be allowed that this view is very prosaic and unsatisfactory — ‘neither the one thing nor the other.’ We cannot help it, and may as well confess at once to a doubt whether ihe being the one thing or the other | is a merit in an opinion. We take homan) nature as it is, and eee mo use in railing aguinet fighting in the abstract, because we recognias pugnacity 68 an instinet of our species. ~ When two boys quarrel and deter- mine ‘‘to have it out,’’ persvasion may do a goud deal, but prohibition will only post- pone oc aggravate the evil. There is ** a| devil within us, which, if it sleps, sleeps lightly ,"’ and bas not yet been exorcised by civilization ; bat the fact that people well fight in anger in spite of all that we ean do} is the worst possible reason fur encouraging | them to fight in eold blo dd. The existence of such a practice has hitherto been a char- | tered anomaly in our social system ; but it is! surely time that it should cease. The hal- even days of the Ring are long since past . princes of the blood no longer drive pugilists ahout in their carriages, and the majority of | those whom curios #/ tempts to see prize-fights | would vecline the task of defenaing them. | Let society, then, consider whether the plea- | sure of profit derived from them is at all | equal to the mischief they do. Let this be) the last of our great fights We have frown | ed down buil baiting withoat any sensible | Joss of amusement, and preseribed dueling | withoat much relaxing the laws of courtesy | ainong gentlemen. A anited effort on the | part of all elagses would soon pet an end to a sport, which, however ** maniy,”” is more | revolliag than a bull-fight. and has leas ex- | cuse than duelling —London Times.

a COLONIAL YILW CF THE FIGHT.

The Tvronto Globe thus discuourseth on | the event: ;

Phere is mourning in New Y ork cons quent | on the fall of Heenan, and chuckling in} Londen over the vietury ot King. Pav reat | and Christian nations have paused in their, pursaits of business, war, diplomacy, plea- | sure and philantrophy, to read with bated breath how an Americo-lrishman vamed |

| graded im our high esteem,

| coms ulsed at the thoug!tes of the approaching struggle.

Daily we have received bulletins f the condition of oar champion—we have

llearned that he had beeome a two-handed

hitter; that be was a mass of iron frow his

waistup; that his fists had beeome as in- durate as granite ; and yet, atter all these | encouraging assurances, he only punishes bis opponent to the extent of putting a ** mouse

under hiseye!"’ <A little contemptible mouse

—nobody expected, at the very least, less

than a good sized rat on both eyes, while

others, more anlimited in their anticipations, wildly dreamed that the Benecia Boy would |

form an extensive and complete menagerie around the bead and body of his competitor. It would not have surprised usso much had even a number of the pachydermata or-the deinotherium hung upon every teatare ol Heenan’ opponent at an early period in the progress o! the contest.

Truth a8 well as history repeats itself, for in this international mill, as of old, *+ Par- turiunt mountes nascitur ridi-ulus mus “* this case, pot only literally a ridiculous mouse, but a wost ridiculous muss. We fee! aggrieved ia our tational syspathies—de-

jto sit up with him,

morning he was found dead in bis bed. With all tis bigh spirits be did not seem weil ; he complained of illness; but be was often ill, and he langhed off his present attack,

treatment which would’ work a perfect cure

|in his system, and so he made light of bis

malady He was suffering from two distinet complaints, one of which tas now wrousht his death. More than a dozen yeare ago,

while he was writing Peadenais, it will be | that the pablication of that!

He |

remembered work was stopped by his serious illness. was brought to deat?’s door, and he was seved from death by Dr. Elliotson, to whom, in gratitude, he dedieated the novel when he lived to finish it, but ever sinee that ailment he has been subject every month or six

‘weeks to attaeks of sickness attended with

violent retching. He was congratulating himself the otuer day on the faiiure of ois old enemy to return, and then he cheeked himself as if he ought not to be too sure of a release from his plague. On Wednesday morning the complaint returned, and he was m yreat sullering all day. tie was no better in the evening, and his servant, about the time ol leaving him for the night, proposed This he declined. He was heard moving about midnight, and be must have died between 2 and 3 in the morn

ing of yesterday. His medieal attendants lattribute his death to effusion on | tive brain. They add that he had a very

large brain, weighing no less than S84 oz. | Lie thus died of the complaint whiell seemed to trouble him least. Te died full of strength ‘and rejoicing, full of plans and hopes. On | Monday last he was congratulating bimselt jon having finished four nambers of a new novel; he had the manuseript in his pocket,

hand witha boyish frankness showed the last | | pages to a friend, asking him to read them |

jand see what he could make of them. Wieo i bad completed four numbers more be said he | would subject himself to the skill of a very

| In the tuliness of his powers he bas fallen | before a complaint which gave him no alara London T:mes.

We have trained |

}

ourselves for long weeks to secure a victory, |

and after all our preparation and our agree- jable antic!pations,

the whole thing ended Wy our being tremendously thrashed hy a fellow whose only punishment the while is tuo insignificant for dispassionate

| mention.

Trati banners, abase yourselves, ye Stars

and Stripes, ia sympathy with our national |

bumiliacion. re SERJEANT SURE ON TUE BENCH. The recent appointment to the vaeant judgeship bas received the warm approval of the Bar. By hie genius and character Mr Justice Shee has long deserved the prize. To

have refused him it any lonzer would have |

been to Say that ne Roman Cathole lawyer,

however eloquent, however distinguished, |

however fitted for the office, was to be made a judge. This is an announcement weltch no

English Governtacnt would make, and whieb |

the Eaglisi: nacion is uot prepared to receive. In these Gays questivus uf theological mmport are rarely, if ever, mooted before a commun-

jlaw judge: and when the intereste of the | over it.

Chureh of England are not direetly involved,

nv Englishman wishes to see unnee ssiry | early a day to discuss elaburately his eharae- | Sheriff, t | barriers interposed between merit and sue- ter asa scholar, @ thinker, a controversial- | cattle or the neal we had for the winter's support

eess. The only tangible difference between a Catholic and Protestant judge, as fur as the publie are concerned, 1s that it might porsibly be deemed inconvenient for a Catho- hic to attend the Roglisu cathedral service while on cireult. The d eulty will probably be found one rather of theory than practice A year ago Mr. Shee was appotnted to travel one of the cireuits in the south ot England as lt was found that he dia not ob-

has |

Heenan met an Anglo-frishmac vamed King la deputy. a and aiter both bad been brutally beaten, the | ject on religious grounds to open the comnis- one succumbed to the superior strength and | sion and to attend Divine service in the usual skill of the other. The picture is not by any |way. Judges who are Dissenters, or even means @ pleasant one. It awakes as to a| Unitarians, do so without reproach ; and eunscivusness tat, in spite of Sunday and what they may do, a Roman Catholic may Common Schools, Courches and Bibles, there | do also, Were it even otherwise, two Judges js a great deal of the brute left iu the most | invariably travel the sering and sumimer as- civilized of wankind. It is of no use sayng ! sizes ip company, apd ap arrangement would that the newspapers are to blame, and that | easily bave secured the presence of one upon

they pablish report of prize fights. Most of | occasions where the presence of a judge was | tons upon which we have decided opinions, | the High Bank, and are determined to resist the prejudicial to the commonwealth.” And, agreed | but they cannot be wisely discussed in pre- | payment of rent te a party who have deceived | as to this fact, we must also admit,as Blacksione

the newspapers furmish accounts of battles | im the ring just as they pa! lish the reports oi worders and suicides, and are as far from approving one as the other. In general they ive quite as harro

ot the vther. " “Temes’ aceount of the late fight and feel

more in love with prize figiting than le was

made important by sound and ancient cus- tom. Je isa tribute to the diseretion of the Government to be able to say that, while the conscientious feelings of the new judge on

wing a picture of the one | religious subjects need no vindication, no | wains. No one could read the contretemps is ever likely to oceur uuder the | the great men of his church, his ave and bis |

| regeme ot Mr. Justice Shee.

UNITED STATES.

| olin

| Arcusrsnor Hvenks —The death of this ‘eminent American Catholic prelate took place

jon Suaday evening at his howe in New York, |

|at the age of sixty-five vears. He was born jiu the North of Ireland in 1794; and emi- grated to Maryland in this country in 1817 | where he was first employed in the bumble ‘calling of a & rst; but soon abandoned that jealling, and entered Mount St. Mary's | Seminary at Emmetsburg. He was ordained | @ Priest in 1825, and setuled in Philadelphia, | Where he remained until 1838, h. ving while he remained there founded St. Joiun’s Chareh.

tu Bishop Dahois, of New York. The Bishop soon after became disabled trom paralysis, and bis assistant had therefore the principal .echarge ; and in 1839 the Pope appointed bitin administrator of the diocese. The Bishop died in 1842, and the administrator sueceeded to his office. In 1850, New York was raised 'to an Arelepiscopal See, and be was placed Lie duties of this post he continued

j to discharge until bis discease, This is too

| istand a prelate, with accuracy and Satis ac- ‘tion; or tairly Co estimate his services to the | Catholic cause in America, or impartially to | rave his influence on American society and limstitutions. Whether he was a liberal, | humble, pious follower ofthe Prince of Peace, | by iis example pointing the world to better

| works, or & tribulant sectarian. a demagog-

jteal priest or a clerical politician, coveting | place and loving power, are questions not to

| be discussed upon iiliberal party creeds or |

)seetarian animosities, but in the broad spirit lof American toleration, Whether as a

ue duriog value, or whether as 4 pulpit orator

‘he has achieved any triumphs or left any ‘monuments whieh will rank him with the ‘great men of the Roman Chureh, are que@s-

sence of that sharp grief now felt by the /namerous and respectable body of American | Catholies who lament over his unburied re- | Many will claim to elass nim with

adopted country. All will acknowledge these

la bis elevation to the Bench the Bur loses | indisputable tacts; that in his rise trom

before. ‘Ihe people, We are sorry to say, | its greatest orator; and perhaps its only ora-| hamble life and mental toil, he has given

Jove to hear and read of prize fights, and the itor properly so called. Those who bave Hleenan contests have unfortunately added to | heard Mr Justice Shee in bis finest speeches

the jaterest of these events by enlisting on their behalf a considerable amount of natinval jeeloury anil amour propre.

Lhe practical question is—how Jong are these dimgraceiul proceedings tu be suifered gocontinue? We see thatanother Ameriwan doe Coburn by name, has chailenged King to fight. Are we to have another in- sernational will uext year, with extras from all Newspapers, Teyvicings from one side aidan, and wailings frow the other ? We trust not, for the sake of ver civilization.

There ean be no doubt that this fighting can

} wgilist

Ti the Elome Office will give in-

structions, no train will be suffered to leave |

Londoe oo such an errand as that whieh de ted from London Bridge Station at the inning of the month, with one thousand

| bave heard something that is not easily re } produced . speakers at the Bar, whose genius and elo- /quence are of the bighest order. The age | the presence, the dignity, and the fire of Mr | Justice Shee placed him at the head of ali tt is said usually that he was not a success. ful Parliamentary debater. His style, per- haps, 08 too purely Gratorieal for the House of ;Commons in the present day. But at the | Bar, in the conduct of « case of great public

ference when he bad enjoyed full time to’

prepare his line of argument and to rise to the level of the subject, Serjeant Shee “ould

is @ fluent and accomplisied rhetorician, pqualified by his cultivation and his nature to

There are other and younger

hold Westminster Hall breathless with sus- | pense and interest for hours = Mr. Gijadstone |

commanding testimony both to his own energy of character and to the fostering Spirit of our national institutions.

‘in the hour of its recent peril, entitles him in the judgment of us all, to the high charseter olan American patriot,

(to bis chureh, end his sucerssial management

of his great trust leave no doubt of bis vast business capacity. The more marked events of his iatelleetnal life may be brietly stated

His debate, in 1830. with Mr. Breckinridge, |

on the question: * Is the Protestant Religion the Religion of Christ?’’ and another one with the same man in 1532, on the question : ‘sis the Roman Catholic Religion, in any or in all its principles er doctrines, inimical to civil and religious liberty?’ have been pub. bioet ina book form. His labours in be- va

He

jaatid that be was about to undergo some |

)gotdrunk. On returning, during the mght, , both children were found deau. On the floor lay the youngest child in a heap of

dead. The eldest boy lay on the bed too, was dead, but not quite eold. He had built a fire against a trunk whieh stood near

and a hoie was burned in its side, another on tie oor, and the bed clothes had been on fire. He had probably been asleep. door had been left open, the room was filled with snow; and on awakening, perishing

,

‘tie then closed the door, lit a tire on the floor, and sank down benumbed with cold. A svidier was found on the street unable to |} walk, and being taken to # police station both of being badly frozen, and it is expected they will have to be amputated, was picked up insecastble.

lis legs -vere

found to be frozen from tus bips to his feet, |

and it is probable that both his legs must be ‘ampotated. A man who had both bands

frozeu put them into warm water, by whieh |

means they were rendered a mass of putritied flesh, and will probably bave to be ampTta- jted. A Clinton (lowa) despatel says the | Sow drifts along lie raiiroad are irou eigit | to ten feet deep, and half a mile jong, pack- ed hard enough to hold up tems, The | thermometer was thirty degrees below zero. | Phe Pittshurg Chronicle says that two brake- jimen on the Oil Creek Railroad were frozen } to dewth the other niyit, one of whom rolied olf the car and the other was found at his | post, his lrind trogen ty the brake wheel !—~ | Boston Journal.

CHARGE UPON A SNoW-DANK BY A Locomo- rive — Lite ENGiNeeR Loses itis) Lire.— Owing to the heavy hall ot suew on the Racine aud Mississippt Rastrowd last Wednesday, nm was necessary to seud in advanee of the proper train au locomotiye witha show-plaw toclear the track. (Mr. Samuct DD. Valterd was the engineer, and

Faneeting With a huge bank he was obliged to go | clever surgeon, and be no more an invalid. |

per hour. It went through, hut the eliginecr was forced out of a windew and buried about eight feel do the snow, As soon as his abseace was noticed by the tireman the locomotive was siopped

as staied, with but a feeble pulse, and all efforts to resuseiiale lian proved Vinitvantliug, Tle was | evidently siuothered.—— dai, paper.

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Str:—As your paper is the ouly one that ap- pears to advocate the cause of the oppressed Feolumus with seme of the doings of the land agents ou this township for the past three months. Our agent bas always teld us that if we paid