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CORRESPODIENCH. ** Georgicum,’? ehal! arpive the time tor the! Juying already exceeded my limits, and EN RNR ALAA OBfederation Qf the Celunies. Js ** Georgie only made an Iptroductiyn tg the subject, | PO THE HON. JOUN HAMILTUN GAY. com “really so sugpie, ev agourant, yt sv shall here draw to a close, promising, with preou@ piucue as ly ftufee duwa our threats your perinissiog,to review wore particularly, ‘huge isise, erroneous, and absurd exhal | the condition of our public sehovuls atthe pres

Saaz ;

ln the dsiaader of the 18th inst. you ad. |

Greased w letter Ww tlie peuple vb Pk leleud,! replete with questions tovclépg the * gTeat Luwa”™’ of the Cuivnies, aad foreshadowing & magoifivent future ter this Island, soul the people coite IA the evorummativn ol thie great scheme wi Cv@iedesativa vs the Britwh Provinces. A suould tcei tery much gratified, Sir, by beimg seusiagivciiy salurmed ea muny vi! those “‘imporual guestivus,”” and beg upust| rotpectiuily te submit, Chiat at Gest syive yi thus? Queeiivns assume positiobs untzOalde, howd we jug the Loolederation liow or by What messs the cublew Laced | Wutee Bal opeh w waiket tu us, by ter! Lofee guiwus ul. poupis, to beaefic our tar.) suerte ty aby material egtent, requires ant) demands iavestigutiva. We enjoy every ta-| ematy at predeot, 18 @Bebuoye vf murkets wth Mew Brunswick, Nove Youtss, aod New- tuwadicad. Catads does aut require any ovenimodity that we have ty spare, or at least ws pooduced by our evi | neither du we rey aire ayy vi tee pruduets of Canada, they being! suullar te vit own. —Query, from whom, | Chem, come thuse imaginary adfurtuges ut a) great market? “et L presume, dit, the Tenantaof ?. FB. Island ate bedrtily sick god disgusted at being Ruled su Irequeatiy saboyt the fuir pret ites | shet these jeaschyig tenures would ba con-| verted 19te frechulds, fe The Land Com wis-| sive bubble, followed dy the Delegation to! boagieod, and the grand climax to the land | question, by the passage of your famous fil- seem years’ purchase Bill of last Session, sully demonmrates to the Tenantry what they are bu expect, god it yet rewains ty be | eeten snowebew far the euutederstion would! Benefit their copditiun in that reapect, us the | Report uf the Quebec U_nlerenee js silent on | thie must of all unportant points really effect.| pag our very vifauty? it may be, Sir, wo the advantage of Nova Seotia and New Mrugéwick to unite witli |

that afe)

jshowid we desgfe a Union at all?

; Out Cows preciwely the mode gl seting vi

j ‘feguently told, apd the farmers are repeat-

ediy eautwoed tv beware ui the Luin —

, $00 ootling to lose,

ations of bis vbtuwe ang craay brain ? Would mut Qe tor the greater igereage of gyr re-| sourcesand coumuierese, the grewter eucgurage- weot yl emigration, and the prvmvtiga ol ver inlernal prosperity? ‘Ubey let us duiay get the hour vl) tue Uniun, ueless tuere be sulue Cogent drgdwments Wilituciby against it Lt wrultugetber illugical to’endeayour tu te- ‘ute any statewent or proposition by paltry, | unconnected wand ibevus quent arguments ; |

petsuns opposed ty the Unwn. We are

tw eOlicipate the ipereased tuculivu that wust be ste inevitable result. But bas not Mr. Whelso pluinly aod clearly shuwo tu Os toac by the Univn we will be oppressed with: no grest additional tax and:that we wall there. by sustain. no fxcal disudyaantuge. lo fact, ugited ty the vther Provinces, we will be constituted ig the game positive us ure poor wives united in Wedivel ty rich hushands, or queens of ‘apall principalities .to kings of targe kengdvww—thet as, we have al) ty gain |

in the turd paragraph of his article, * Georgrcam'! dwells with touching ewotian vB the iact, that ip case of union the Mother Country will sever its connection with aa, and expose us, destitute and forlorn, unpre. pared and undefended, to the encroachments and invasion of Yankee legiuns, who, pro-| feasing but little natural predilection tor us, | will probably frst honotr usc with a donatioa| of grape-shot and polistied steel. If this bathe ease (us **Ge orgicum’’ would have us believe) that England bas lost all her affection and regard tur her suckling Culumis, so us tu expose them naked and wesponless to the darts and shafts of the enemy, the time,! then, I say, shall have arrived fur separation | from the Mother Country; and, instead 01 | opposing the legions of the nenghbouring |

Why sept time, ina Bubseyuent ComMmuUDegtion,

Yours respeetfully,

A TEACHER. November Sth, 1864.

(FOR THE ERAMINEK.) UNTON DREAMS. When we went into Unjon, Sue, } was dreaming but of tage,

And did'ut visionite our taxes A cumumpin fur to be.

Cots, cradlee, flannels, diapera, Pap spoons and cutnip tes,

Gam couiers, sowks and ewadlinga, Pur buliees goin to be.

Aad ove 1 didn't dream then Tt lessot was to me,

That I shoald dream of taxes now A ghoetio them tu be,

Ours was a blessed union, Sue, “Aa ever cumm'd to be:

Bat this air Colenini Union Ja x cussed cuse to me,

Rajlronde and home defences, Jack-tare and mil-itre,

Big ships chuck fall of big guns - Teo sail about the sea.

EnSelds, blunderbusses, part ia, All sorts of gun-e-re,

And canon slots and cartridges To shoot tue ene me.

Build barracks to put sogers in, Sugera’ feed und fussem, Hospitals for sogers, Sue, Aud uusees, tuo, to puss ‘em.

These, and some Union babies, Sue, We'd have to get, I know,

Wacads, their geographical pusition lene! Kepublie, let us, on theother hand hasten and |

heat i ste deaee eee ‘| Siiduld we go into Union, chuck, - i , ; i ) ate 3, " favure the idea. Tue building ot the Juter- iroW oursely o her hands, seek her in- |

With Kennedy and Co.

: tercession, and implore her in ber boun'y to! @viearal Buiirvod, bein st vb of I : . J & # Stipulation ¢! th» receive usin ber arms, and. to oceupy that |

noble acd tender charge of mother, which | England has refused any longer to be, Then) and then only cun we expect to become a great, prosperous and enterprising people ; then shall var resources be developed ; then shall coumerce and emigration bo encourag: | ed aud carried on a more extensive scale

Vur willages will become towns; our bays! will beeome harbours; the Island throughout will exhibit eymptome of taste and sm prove-

Contederation, would most unguestionably | be beneficial to those Provinces. Qo the other| hand, the geographies! position of fF. EJs.) dand precludes its partierpsiigg iv similar or | equal advantages. itis isolated, and sur-. rounded by ice, and cut off from the conti-| eent for ix munthe in the year, gnd it is, therefore, phyecally impossible to place it! upon an equitsble dusimewith the wether Pro- #inees wW tie Conlederation seheme.

[ thunk 1 shall be tree trom contradiction fo state thet abe people ef PE. Island are tuted quite as much us their circuwrtances will permit. dt requires little ewlew!stion sv devermige that we are largely taxed us a) people by aa abseotee Propricturyism, tw-| gether with lveuil taxes, &c., amounting tu! Wiinitely much more per head than any | other British Colony, and if the people shal/| veluatarily asseot ty assimilate their taritt! with the other Colupics tugether with their! preseat Gurtems, aad a direct tar fer naval und maisary defences," they shall probubly | Fegret 1 when tuw late.

4v aspirants to offices of honor and em lu-| meut, the ides of belonging to such a govern-| ment ae tae Confeueration contemplates, no} dyubt mould be gery acceptable; and, Sir,} Jour Government, representing vnly eighty Bhuusacd people, having appointed nearly | wae fourth of the namber ot Delegates as- eew led at the Quebec Uonference, that re- | presented three millions uf people, probubly | snduced the Canadians and uthers tu conc ade) shat you were very anxious that they would take you onder their wing, irrespective of |

ulteter evaseguences.

My ead the mural aecessity of a

}ment, and our people will reeeive and enjoy

the boon of wa excellent and superior educa tional teaigiag. Then shall cease the reign | vf bigotry and religious hickerings; then | shall subside national prejudices ; then, in fine, shall P. E. Island indirectly through the Contederation of the Colonies, attain a | degree of prosperity and sup riority which: | it C4O Never expect to attain ender the pre-| sent system of Government. Lioping that you will continge ta impress | on the wiads of your readers the practicabil- | elo

{ rewuin yours, &e., WILLOCKS. |

Charlottetown, Nog. 18, 1864.

——- wom -- - -— OUR COMMON SCHOOLS. Me. Evitor:

In an able articie on Education in the last issue of the Ervaminer, wherein the subrject ut | Sehuol Education is diseussed in an impartial | and masterly manner, an important sugyes- | tion is thrown out to the oppressed and ne- | gleetd teachers of our common Sehuols, |

namely, to momediately adopt active measures

"Tie dreadful fur to dream, my dear, Of this Union hambug-re ;

To ruin run by the arch tiend, That's Mister Kennedy.

1 am dreaming, talking, dreaming ; And there is no mistake, This dreaming is.a dreaming, Sue,

Eyes open and awake.

Now, Sue, she yot her blister up With her own bilen hear— Bavage as a buzz bumble With tar upon his feet ;

And openin out the blister, Sue, She riley suys, suis she—

“You're bata silly humbug bus, A talkiog so to me.

Ours was « blessed anion, Through taxes, you admit—

So will anion with the Provinces, Though taxes come with it.

Have you no far seeing vision— Will you rival stil] the snail ;

And shall Lilipat be Liliput Till the rubbit-grows u tail?

Have yon no heart nobiliry, Of public pride no thrill ;

De wrov ling thoughts bind meanly down Ly petty visivus still?

Shall we resiat progression’s march, In wisdom well contrived,

And in yoar de-nothiny policy,

iuat Canada is 4 great and magnificent) for the purpose of obtaining more ample re- | Think the time has not arrived 7

evaniry,any perso having an oppurturity| muneration fer their useful and ardent Ja-| of seemmyg ber throwing Cites, ber extenvive| bours thanthey at present receive. Ltis hoped | Meilreade, Canale, and varied resources, wii]| that our sehovl teachers are fully sensible! Sully admit, and ut the same time the cun-| of the value of this important suggestion, and | vection must ;cess closely upon every wad, | shat oe will nut be slow io carrying it inte | chat P. E. d. with her five mewbers in a/| practical effect. Purtiiment of one hundred and ninety four As it is a subject apon which little has hi- io Canada, would scarcely be recognize as| thertu been written, it may, sir, afford inter- oelyaging Ww the ‘great univa.”’ | est te your numeruus readers to know sume- | I observe by the reported speeches in the! thing about the actual conditivn of oar pub-| Canada papers that all the Delegates piedged lie eehouls at the present tume ; and, indeed, chemeelves at the Conference to support the | the information may bave a very salutary ef-. Confederation at the next meeting of the se-| fect upon our educational matters, by awak- veral Assewhblics. Reviewing the expressions, ening the sympathy of those who are im-| vf aome of our Delegates made on the fuor pressed with very mistaken notivus about our | of the Asséwbly lust spring, moat certainly | schools. & great change cauie over the spirit of there} Having ‘‘ swayed the birchen eceptre’’ fur | deeows; and shuuld they go to the people tu‘ 4 periodof two years, and being thusin a po-|

Oar bright’ning future shall we blast, By coward apirit now, See sightleas spots apon our sun,

’

Ghostly halo round his brow

Neo; ours shall be the eagle's flight — A.xlorious course and high ;

Of vigorous purpose —daring point, Unflinching aim and eye.

Oar active cotumerce, awollen suile, Our tlag on stalwart mast ; And ships shall sweep o'er every deep— * Dure every clime and blast.

We'll cover o'er with emigrants This fertile land and fuir,

sustain shem in & cunfirmation of their! pledges, as they unduubtedly should, an) eStraurdinery change shall be the result, /| dave not the least doubt. lam, Sir, Your obedient servant, ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

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sition to forma pretty fair opinion in regard | to the duties and difficulties of school teuch- |

i

ing. [am free to confess that of the multi-|

| farious ogcppations to which industrious and | | talented young men can turn their attention |

these ** aard times,”’ that of schoul teaching is the most unwholesome, difficult, thank!ess, and the least enviable or remanerative. The)

veracity of this opinion will be abundantly |

The wide wilderness shall topple, And the cotter’s home be there

A million fertile fields shall amile Where. now frowning forests stand, Aad froctify and multip!y By indu-try’s stern bund.

Extended commerce, and our Tale,

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jority of thea late Hougs of Ausembly, ip which ** the fourgh generative ’ played 1s Adenh dou bie by poeritical part, thougut ita grand aflup fu labye sugh a periectly trained Jackal’? gs Popeto carry out ther wile wWachinalions if) BesHllipg their poliucal a ponents the Liberals te vility the Bishop, | tv sow the seeds uf religiods discord amungst | their telgw sabjecws, to establish Oruage Lodges, and to persuude the uplortunere | tevauiry that it is better tur theuy tu be thie | slaves ui thdic dwdlords all their lbves that | tu vote furs George Colds aod the Liberals, because at is Well known that the said Li- berals are striving to relieve the tenantry irom thé burshéo ul rents, and to make thew trechyulders, aod because the Catholics were yeoeraily hoywa to support Mr. Coles i such moasutes | the dé of telgigus bigotry shuld be cused, wud dps Ul bao miata regivns be soughs ty wid and assist in estab- lisuing thé present order of things; aud us it ie uuly am ert genus that cau carry out such dirty evil designs, the work could not have been entrusted to better hands tuo Che + ynclean dands’’ of W. di. Pope. Well, | the fourb geperativu’’ now fod that W. \ II. Pope, having eatablisied, under then dureetjun, the **God-tearsng Goverawent,

| he will exact, Ai8 * pownd of flesh,”’ and any

| one of them dare nut give wo indey@ iden

I yote in the Agwembly without lis peruission

| Here L interrupted Mr. Birch, and uskeu him what influep-e Mr. Pope could exercis over the learced member lur this ety if be were gy indepencent as be had already re- presented him to be. Why, sir, replied | Mr. Birch, the ‘*fourth generation’ and al) ‘the old Tury compact bad been kept out lof office by the Liberals for several years, ‘and just previous to the general electiun be- | fore the lust, they (the Luries) passed a res.- jlusion that pooe of them would accept or |hold office under the Government if again | returned to the Huuse of Assembly, and they published the said resolution io all cue news papers in the Island, by which they wisheo to shew how pure aod independent they were as alao haw rich they were that they did not want office; all they wanted, they said, was to serve their country. But, sir, if the ten- antry knew them as well as I did, very lite credence would be given to their resolution ; | but by bawd lying and scheming of divere |sorts, in Which W. HL. Pope played all bir ‘+ biack atts,"’ the old Tory party gained a | majority, and next came the division of | vllives which they so lately said they did not

lof Brazil.

derstandayt and feels it. We hope this mone atrous propositign will reeeive such a blow as will couyince its authgp that there is Ho yee in pro- longing its existenee op experimenting with pt any further upon the docilit® of Congress. — —— oP CAPTURE OF THE FLORIDA,

The seigure of the Florida appears tu have beeg

avery gross siviation of the neutral righte

culeulated that as Brazil is comparatively a weuk power, his government wouldappryve of lis dis- regardigg ber rights, or that they weuld apphave of an act Witch rendered thé Florida hariless

ought te be by all wawriuie powers.

The Florida at first auchored in the offing, but at the cguynaod of the Brazilian Aduiral she went in bd anghored by the Brazilian theet, au- der the guus of the ciludel. Several partes on shore strove to induce the cuptain-et the Florian to go out to demeand Hye the Wachusett, which was in the port Wher the Florida arrived. “This the anuster refused to do, althgugh he suid if be happened to mavet the Wachusett at sca he would willingly engage ip a contest with ber. All these artifices failed. The muster of the Federal gun- boat wt length held a council of war, at whiek iL wee deterintned to seize the Florida at ber atnche- rage, because there were three openings frow the bay to the sea, by one of which the Florida may esCepe, aud because, as they themselves allege p— “They were also possessed of information (hat the Florida had repeatedly seized and burved Americun shipa within three wiles of the coast o! Brazil, in defiance of every law of aeutrality je iti vul the slightest objecUou of any sort being made vy the Brazilian authorities

The preparations for the encounter were made with great celerity and complete secresy, and at about three u'clock ia the morning of Friday, October 7th, the cables were slipped, and the Wachusett bore down upon the rebel vessel un- der full head of steain. So little expectation was there of such a proceeding, that ove half the officera and crew of the Florida, seveuty in num- ber, and including Captain Morris, were carous- ing on shore, and the remainder, having just returned frum a similar absence, Were i ne -cou- dition to repel an assault. The Florida’s officer of the deck supposed the collision which he saw to be ewinent tv be merely accidental, aud cried out, “* You will run inte us it you duu’t look out.” Phe design of Captain Collins was simply to strike the Flevidu auidships with full steauw on, crush in ber side, and send her at once to the bottom beyond the possibility of causing further trouble. ‘The Wachusett, however, did not strike her udversary fairly, but hit ber in the stern, carrying away the mizzen wast and main yard.

Che Florida was not seriously injured by the coli- sion, but the broken spar fell across) the awning over ber hatchway in such a manner as to prevent

want. The present learned mewber for the | city was not then a member, but in order tu |help his friends, it is said, he became the | tool or cat's pave of the then learned member | for the city, assumed the title of ‘Attorney { General’ for and on behalf of his ** learned \ friend,” and handed over very quietly, at the ‘end of each quarter during the foar years | the pay of salary of the Attorney General to his ** learned friend ’’ the then member for the city, who bad previously pledged himsel! nut to accep! office, which pledge he kept by taking the sweets of the office, which the present learned member held i trust and in name for him. Now, sir, continued Mr Birch, amongst you Americans, perhaps you would not consider such deceptious |madeuvring much of a crime; but [au an Englishman, and like to see fair play, and no shabhy uhder-banded shuffling to deceive the public ; and always heard that ‘*the receiver is a8 bud as the thief,’ which, I suppose, is mostly applied to stulen property. Well, if

pay an Attorney General, who did not earn it, the person who received it from the trea- }sury received it ** under false pretences,”’ | which 1 always beard was a crime in the eye | of the law. Now, you know, sir, when any gang of feilows jom together fur the purpose | .f deeeption ot any kind, if there be} }any one amongst them, or in secret, who | | s not only a greater deceiver than the rest, | | but the most **notorqus’’ in the Colony, all the rest ure in danger that He **wil/ ted/ ;*

and if he do, he exposes them without wak- ing himself worse, and hence the influence o! js anclean hands’? over certain parties. | (Tu be continued ) | {

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~ AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

. orga PRESIDENT DAVIS'S ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE LINCOLN. (From the Richmond Whig, Nov. 10.) The proposition of Presideut Davis, in his late

THE PRESS—HE QUTDOES

message, to place editors and priuters of news-pa- |

| pers under the thumb of the Executive, so that that departinent may have the absolute and en- | | tire control of the whole press of the country, | | meets with no favor out of doora, whatever may be the disposition of Congress. It is no novelty, having been tried once or twice betore by his Ex | cellency and been rejected, almost without con. | | sideration, by the Congress of the Confederate | | States. tis the boldest attempt to muzzle the | | press, or to make it speak only such language as! the supreme bead may like to hear, that has been | made on this continent. Even in the Yankee | Congress no such thing bas ever been attempted | In the Yankee nation. whenever an editor says

the revenue of the people was not stolen to)

| ber crew from getting on deck froin below. ‘The | reco: which followed the shock carried the Wa |chuseit back several yards. In the confusion | Which eusued several pistul shots were fred from both vessels, chiefly at random, andentirely with- vut effect. Two of the guns of the Wachusett were also discharged, by necident, aceerding te }one report, and as anether version has it, by or- der of one of the Union lieutenants.

Captain Collins of the Wachusett immediately thundered out a demand to the rebel craft, * Sur- render, or I will blow you ont of the water.” The lieutenant in charge of the Florida may be excused for considerable amuzemeut, but lad still the pfe- sence of mind to reply, * Under the circumstances 1 surrender.” Without the delay of an instant dozens of gallant tars boarded the prize and made fast a hawser connecting ber with theirown vessel, and the Wachasets turned her course seaward, moving at the top of her speed and towing the Florida in her wake

The fleet of Brazihan vessels, which entirely surrounded the little spnee of water on which the brief battle had been fonght, was so situated that the two Americun steamers were obliged to pass under the steru of one of the Jargest, in order to | penetrate the line. The Wachusett was challenged

Dut did not deizn a word of reply, and the Florida, when hailed and commanded to halt a moment lafter, replicd that a punse war impossible, as she | was towed by the vessel in front. The Brazilians ! sooh vueseed the state of affairs, and in another | | |

momeérnt or two, the heavy guns of the fort, under the muzzles of Which the cuptnre had been nade | vpened fire un the Wachusett, as she disappeared in the morning darkness. Three shots were fired

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fiunncial part of the question, if opposing figures! Now, asthe don. and learned gentleman cae do not so far perplex Us es to make an under! to have beew/as it were fore d out of himeril ther stapling impossibie,—but we think the question a fiaue, by this ou-generalling, we certainly ean

shiyuld be viewed mé@inly fromem Ligh political bawe no just groauds of opposition te bis resump-

ee

| stand pyint, and considered with respect to ils! tion of bis former self and character — to hia

Perhaps the Federal commander |

for a while, eyen if they had to surrender her | wien demanded by Brazil backed a3 such demaud |

influence on the destiny of all the Provinces com- bined, and wot merely in relafivo to the tariff of this particular Proyiuge, or any other Be =That the Junpost dyties jp the several sectiona of the Conteteragy i be increabed by Union, we cdubdently believe ; but as an wffset to that in- crease We ebould not lose sight of the enormous advantages to be gained by fvee trade with all the Colinies in every article grown, produced, ot manufactured by them,—the advantages in having vur Custouns regulations, postal regulations, and currency, all equalised, — the adyautage uf bass ing a warket to bring our wares tu, thronged b) nearly four iui!lions of pesple, instead of a few thousands,—our intercourse with each other made rapid und frequent by steamships aud reilways,— and the very great advantage of having our lands, that are now in @ Wilderuess and unproductive 3 ute, settled by hardy and enterprising emigrants. Such boons will, we honestly believe, be sume of —ualid not, by any meuns, all—the results of Con- tedurutiun. Are they such as tv warrant us in wuking some sacrifices, smal! cougessivnsy and paying a trifling price fur their attainment?

This is a question which the people of Prince Edward Island wall bave ainple time to consider We hope and believe the Government here will subinit it to the peopl» in a constitutional furm at the hustings, after it shall have been discussed in the Legislature next Session. We have no doubt, however, that before the meeting of the Legis- lature, aud as sven as the state of the roads and the weather wil] permit—thuse who were engaged on the Delegativn will bold meetings amongsi their constituents, and explain to them all the features of the Cunfederation Question. In the meantime, we feel assured that there is good sensé enough in the people of this Colony not to allow themselves to be hurried to erroneoua con- clusions on this question by sensational articles in any paper, characterised more by want of infor-

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mation than sound judgment, or by preposterous town-talk, which no intelligent persou wouid ep- gage in, except to laugh at it.

ee The Hox. Epwarb PALMER, A VERITABLE

ANTI-UNIONIST—DECIDEDLY RETARDATIVE. IN our last week's issue, “it was our bint to speak” of the Ilon. Edward Palmer, ia the ehar- acter in whica be portrayed himself in his speech at the Dejeuner given to the Delegates of the Maritime Provinces at Toronto, that is, as a warm

,

advocate of “ the great uniow” and a friend of

progress. In sospeaking of hita, we wrote under the impression—although rather a doubtful one, we must confess—that the sweeping progress ot the mighty events, the sanatery concussions of the whole political atmosphere of the eivilized world, the awakening of dormant minds in high places, the rending of the rocky ‘barriers of pent-up public spit —the universal phenomena of the present tiues—had, at length, happily dis turbed the Dead Sea of his mind, broken forever its fruitless and hfe-denying cali, and imparted jto its hitherto motionless aud heavy waters the himpulse, the energy, and the utility of those iimighty streams, which, laden with the wealth land abundance of the earth, have hitherto rolled, i and, to the end of time, will roll on, for the benefit jof wan——blessing and blessed by him, as one 0}

it her, all paxsiug harmlessly fur above her pen-} Heaven's appointed and pever-failing means of striking rater beyond.’ ‘ ; wut, and striking the water beyond : | bestowing health, wealth, prosperity, and peace

| we are coolly told that—

All this eceupied, it is said, only 20 iniuntes, and |

upon states and kingdoms happily xeeted or drawn

* Certainly no page of history can show a more towards evel other by the bonds of their common

daring xehievement, or one executed with more

| brilliant rapidity or more complete success.

| ww . . . There certainly was not much darfng in it, 98

there was no danger. The affair is in the same

} account called a battle :—

|} * The Brazilian naval commander in Bahia har- |

| : : bour xeted with all the promptness which could have been expected, aud in a few moments the

duwn of day discivsed two vessels of the Beazilixn |

eet doing their utwost to pursue aud overhaul the

Wachusett and her prize. They were a heavy | sloop-of-war and a small armed steamer, neithes of them any match in point of speed for the diandi work of New England mecheuics, and soon gave ap the chase as the Union and rebel steamers d's appeared below the horizon.”

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msterests.

But, alas! this pleasing prospect, we suddenly jound, was oly a deevittul wirage. The “ glitter: | ing delusion” bas quickly pessed awar; and, iv its stead, our eye rests upon vething bwt a barren

jand dreary waste ef sand, encompassing a stag- juant, bitter, and pitchy pool In spite ef ou | better liopes, we find the Hon. Edward Paliner of to-day to be the unchanged, the veritable Hon | Edward Palmer of dhe era of Reeponsible Go. )vernment. He is still the steadfast apostle of \the stand-still, the do-nothing, the Sleepy-Hollow | school ; and our real patriots must, as they have heretofore done, labour for the elevation of ow

| country, for its emancipation from proprietary

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g cena: moana ~ | bonds, and its deliverance from the control of | selfish and narrow-minded cliques and compacts, }not ouly independently of all pulitieal connexion

PUBLIC OPINION IN THE COLONIES with that hon. and learned gentleman; but, what ON THE UNION QUESTION is tore, agaiust all the weight of his vis inertia ; p 4 UNION QUES N.

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oy the fastening of which upon the wheels of pro- THE press of Canada aud that of the adjoining | gress, he will, we doubt net, with all the determi-

Ts tae Eorros or tue Exauiven. evident to any individaal who bas devoted |

Sin: —In perusing the columns of a late| even one year of his precious existence to the | nuwier of che Herald, I observed a some-| mstruction uf a scure or two of irascible ju- | whatienzthy article sutagonietic to the Union| veniles, at the rate of about as many’ pounds | wt the Colonies under the signature of ¢ Geors | per annum. It will readily occur tu his mind gicum,”’ bailing from Lot 67, Who, bursts| that the rigid s-rictness of the law and the | jweth in eruptions uf wonder und indignativo , amazing laxity and negligence of the people. | egeinat thuee politicians who advotate so | together with the miserable pittance alluw-

Under universal till, With qaadrapell'd consumers, shall The public coffers fill.

And palaces of industry, Shope of the artizan, And manufactories vigerous grow,

any peng whict con tien or ban aa con | Provinees of Nova Seotia and New Brunswick, | nation ofa martyr, attempt tostay their revolution sider objectionable, he is taken at onee inte custe- | UE ER EA ed ; Pe SF dee leet ue i i mite vas | dy, his types are’ distributed or diapersed, his| are largely ved oe ' with the discussion of the | or to re tard their onward motiun. Butas, in Spite presses broken or banded over to some loyalist, | Union question. The feeling in Upper Canada | of him and all the banded enemies of progress in

and he — left to at in a bastile upon | 8 unmistakeably in favour of it—in Lower Canada | our widst, we obtained the boon of Responsible the grandeur of the great Republic, and the ten-| aol caanetay bee Sor Ca ctennien if Sb Pa cieeteiiitiea . : der mercies of the best government under the sua. | the public feeling is in favour of it too, but not eo | Government, so, we confidently trust, shall we see

But be is not insulted with the reproach of having jenthusiastically as in the Western Province. | accomplished—notwithstanding all the retardative

nobly, sc vnunimeusly, and se philantiroric- ed bisa for his constant labours, all com! ined ally the Contederation af the Britwh I’ro-| to wake him one of the must dissatisfied and | vineess’ **Georgidum'* appears to be en-| wretched mortals in the community. And | «ulfed in a padlvend sbyss uf ignorance und yet, in the face of all these fucts, 1t is a ge-|

vbreurity, whenee becdanet sudr fo order. ta) heraliy' reegived iapresmon that he Knights). * :

untold tothe public the reasun of the grea: of the Bireben Rod"’ are the woet fortutiate | sentimental revolution, whieh lias, during | clase of individuals that exists. Verily they the just yeut, taken place among the advu- enjoy a dog's buppinese—Aun ger and ease cates ot the’ Umon. Yea, 1 beheve thar) le often argued by those why should know | ** Georgicum’’ is-smeapacituied to explain better, that af the occupativn of a school- why it uw that not only our meghbourimg but! master were sv bad as some maintain, there likewise our icland legwlaturs have under-| would nut be se many of the * precious gue s thorough refurmation with regard to| tribe drifting about’’ in search of situations. | the Caivn, because he, ** Georgicum,’’ re-| fo any person who has given the matter the scmbles too much w certain class of Jittle-| slightest constderation, it is well known there minded and unaspiring people, who never are many ambitious youngsters who, to be yearn after any thing higher, pybler, or| even ealied School- masters, would sacrifice worthier than what present circumstances, —I had nearly said their lives,—at least they | afford them; and sbyuld they at any time | would throw away their time and energies |

entertein the desire, they would not have) the courage, energy, nor the perseverance to advance frum ignorance to knowledge, from poveryy to riches, and from @ small to a grand and illustrious people. Why then should we be sstonmhed-—iar jesse to find) censure—that puliticings ‘ geeond to. none but England s own,"’ who, deeusng wo have discovered a fresh soured. of greater emvlu- ment to themselves, of procuring more gen-

eral advantag « and idereased prosperity to ness of teaching be so unpleasant and unpro- : ficable' as this, why do not teachera, who

their conatiiuents, and of placing their ro spective Provinces in such & position, as to ‘ im extent, wealth, and respectaly ity can the more ancient Kingdoms vt Eur pe. Yeo, | repeat, why tien should we stigme uae with the most abject inconsistency these men, whe huge the courage, and, | siiwuld udd, the feapkness to relinquish those opinions

once go fqndly dundied, to adopt others ore | ject of this kind. It w supposed that he bas

and wore csleulated ty jrowoute the true mtereste of their native suis Every evuntry and every succeeding age, fulluwing the netdral order of things, tends to advance in the path of perleetion ; and shall we hold i the reins while our fellow-courterd exer: their utmost tu attain the upiversally desired goal -- jbysical, social and morsel tujprov - went? Let us not then el arge ovr | gislators with incupsisteney and treachery ; but on the contrary, rather opine that they, unier- standing the nature and disposition of the question mock more accurately than we, act wich the greatest prudence and honesty if the successiul terwinstion of ‘this ail im- portast subj et—the Union of the Colomes —whieh wil, { preseme, be the greatest boon ever Gunterred upon us. Dom im perivet accurd with ‘* Georgicum™ and every other ne-upivnem adyucate, (hut & Legielasive Usien would ental on ue an immense number of evils of d verious nature. and that P. E. [eland, analogeue to lre'und with rewpect to Englund. wuuld be un ¢ver- fowiag source of resourers’ for the central fiomerogent, wivie, én thevother hand, ¢ would be tie sad und permanent receptuele of sundry mistuccunes, infieted upon it by the other Provinees.~ But, Mr. Editor, 1 must ertiewiy with * Gedrgieun * —jmenmyels 42 the tune for uniting the Pro- wines by & Confederation hus nut

ar-\t _writi a 6 e “ é _ rived. But whem will ¢ arrive? Shait id Sait st wens te wisdom in them to be re-

geet one, &

the matter.

Su arerdmrgaienc, tes wily Bea 1 weer eure: ith the thraldom in which ‘ the fourth Fee eae apne “fin feta’ of gonteation ” the Majoties Wega’ pa

in the attempt to attain an office which they | are scurcely into belore they wbandon it. | They rust wboat wildly in search of situa-| tions; and. after they have obtained them, | and discovered that thevccupation is not so. vieasant as they bad suppored, their judy-) ment suggests to- them the propriety of get | ting inte a more profitable business, even if it | be tanning sheep skins, or shuvting wild)’ ducks. But, it 1s often inquired, if the busi-|

ought to possess the ability to-du-so, speak and write more wbeut the matter than they do? This “question is easly answered. [i must be plamly evident to any individual who hug thuught a syllable about the mat. er, that the teacher 1 about the last person. vn earth that would be listened to un a sub-

a little of the haman taint about him, and will never be satiefied, get what he will. 1. ould, therefure, be wbhout as useless for a wacher to try w prove the inadequacy of his support, as it would be to prove that Shak

apeare was a (roel. But even if oue of the oppressed ** Knights’? did attemyt to venti

ate the subject through the medium of sume literary per.odical, 16 is extremely questiun- able whether the editor will deem nis humble deliberations to be sufficiently interesting to & pampered publig, which is engaged in other mureé important business, to merit in- sértion. And if the friendly edigor, in ‘his | tender smeroics, should fuvor them with» con- | specucus pluce in his jauroul, the prubability is that they will be esther cast aside with uo broad grin, Or sarcastically jested upon a an ebslition of furor scribendi from some

FRAGMENTARY NOTES OF A TRAVELLER.

There, (said Mr Birch), that fair-haired,

With acience in the van.

Where we it present shillings bonst, Some dollars we tay then;

Or cannot pay a pound tax now, Then easily pay ten.

As greater stream than rivulet A greater wheel revolves, So yreater fields und enterprise The Union problem solves.

On prosperity's keen pinion Our Isle improving svar,

And iudustry, with plenty crown, The drone be ouly poor.

From shackle of the landlord, now, The country flouri#h free,