Che Ervaminer.

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a considerable loss to them, which, at the lowest calculation, | any one should waste his time and beat bis head about the

will be between five and ten pounds. But behold, when they | Latin Grammar, who does not intend to be or or se ye advantages

LTTE —_— re. eee ; as pilegea to have been forwarded to the Queen by certain mem- ———— eT es oe : > xaMINER. silat , il against the increase to the | but every town and city in the New World is flooded with on ses bers of the Legislative Council ag

number of that body. We assure the editor of the Islander tion when he attempts to

He cannot raise a

SALMAGUNDI.

lawyers, and in this place many of them are nearly briefless, ' ; BY SNOOKS. that he has quite mistaken his yoca

as numerous and as useless as militia officers. Lt is not

. . J . . ” presented themselves before the Board last week for exami- speeches, and write despatches in it.

pation, they were told that those only could be examined whose time had expired, no(withstanding that the Act ex- pressly says that Teachers can present themselves for re- exawination immediately alter the passing thereof. Now, | will put the question to the good sense ot the public—Have pot the Board acted towards 'hose whom they refused to ex- amine with the greatest injustice? Just consider the idea of us poor schoolmasters sponding three or four weeks, this time of year, on very heavy expenses, preparing ourselves to pass the Board according to aw; and then to be told that we could not be examined, because the time for which we @greed to teach had not expired. If our time will not expire for nine or ton months hence, and if we are now qualitied to pass the Board, are we to be defrauded of the increase of sulary, Alas! we are not as ‘ortunate as Mr. Dona!d Currie, of Charlottetown, who is receiving, I believe, four times as much as any of us, for doing perhaps less. Buy we should remember that we never were ecclesiastical studerts of the

which are derived from classical learning, says Rev. Sydney Smith, involye a serious and doubiful question. “ We will venture to say, that there never was a more complete in- ' stance in any country of such extravagant and overacted

‘attachment teany branch of knowledge as that which obtains | A young |

‘in this country in regard to classical knowledge. | Englishman goes to school at six or seven years old, and be remains in a course of education till twenty-three or twerty- ‘four yeara of age. In all that time his sole and exclusive | occupation is learning Latin and Greek ; he has scarcely a notion that there is any other kind of excellence ; and the ;great system of facts with which he is the most perfectly acquainted, are the intrigues of the heathen gods, with ‘whom Pan slept with whom Jupiter ?—whom Apollo ravished @ These facts the Haglish youth get by heart the }moment they quit the nursery ; and are most sedulously and

| industriously instructed in them till the best and most active Now, this long career of classi-

| part of life is passed away,

ithen for our young men to qualily themselves to become | doctors or lawyers that we want a ‘College, but that they 'may be skilful mechanics, agricul turists, mevvhants, manu- ‘facturers, engineers, and architects, But it will be said we

\tians, a knowledge of Greek and Latin is certainly indis- ‘pensable, A great part of the Holy Scriptures has come down to usin the Greek language, which is a reason why ‘divinity students should stady that language. Besides being ‘necessary for the study of the Old and New Testaments, to the Catholic it is further required in order to read the | Fathers, and to derive proper fruit from the courses of phi- | losopby*and theology'which are taught in the Latin language. | Bat Catholies having a College of their own wherein a su | perior education, at a mere nominal charge, can be obtained, ‘ean receive no benefit from the establishment of a New | College; while a large portion of our Protestant population ido not require their ministers to be classically educated—

inew live Major—and a Governme

Mile ‘low devree wi , nero , ai imse i want the new College to prepare young men for the Church. | some of low degree will get the ger Sir Jerry MeTrifle, Kt. | against himself Hor ecclesiastics, at least, of some denominations of Chris-| typ the interesting announce

| Alexander

e—clearing out the gutters—a | play the humourist. It is not his forte.

t gift uniform tor tae Aa- : nieal coneniaie: we i!! Great are ibis anticipations un His laugh by his caricatures of political ”" 7 f ee e ires It is whispered, in high circles, that) making it patent 10 ail the world that the ang

qs handle! Look out He has no genus for painting, such as Hogarth delighted in ; but if there were a Hogarth who used

| <« eval tar and other ingredients,’ the editor of the Islander

Preparations for the Prine

jutant Genera = Royal Highness’s visit!

ment ! .o ates the : the Byre: Sir John Rhodes, Kt. of Oyster Pe : of the S770 3 Kt. of the Gray [forse ; Sir Joha Poeor-

buckle, Kt. of the Halter ; Sir John Straw, Kt. of Cardigan ; might be considered his match.

| ‘* : »s ¢ . tl 3 Ewe, ke. ~ . ‘ “— sn saenee Lae, Se gtk a Hon. I. H. Haviland, now) After stating what the memorial ‘* no doubt sets forth,’’ umo =e ;

. . . e » n . i a in England, will have the order of Knighthood conferred upo Mr. Pope seems to think that there are doubts about its con

j . a ight Bache- » leavi vince Edward Island. Knig : : : i a him a —- co ve weeds, now a-days. In other’ tents, for be says: ‘* The memorial, whatever it may have lors are ecoml g we ,

» whom deeds of | ‘ned. has called forth from the editor of the Examiner a | 3 rder was bestowed only on those wh | contained, winer aaee ssaees— whet science called her distinguished sons— | lengthy comment upon the Election Bill.” The Islander is quite

: ned whom literature acknowledged | : : . ; whom art as 2 90m ar oss th res had reached the height! mistaken. We never saw anyGing of the a referred to as ane oe seen aenaie shines afar ;’’ or those who bad) we do not know that such a thing asa memorial was prepared where ame ,

done their country or their kind some oe Fa tees ef about the violation done to the Legislative Council. That ‘some faithful pablie servant, whose talent claime . ‘arbitrary act was the only matter that called forth our com-

Free Church, as I uaderstand he was. How am [ to cha- Feal learning, we may, if we please, denominste a foundation ; ra‘terize the manver in which we have been treated—is it | but it is - ow 7 not injustice and tyranny # L think that any jury of bonest | sulutely no room to put anything upon it. If you occu; men would make the members of the Board reimbarse the | ale Seemed expenses incurred by the teachers, thus treated with the! have exhausted all his leisure time; he is ec: most flayrant injustice. I will now say a few words about favoritism. I dare say, hon st reader, that you will be startled when you read the] | | : word favoritism, after just seeing that the majority of the) if you have fed him only with words, he will remain @ nar- Board are M nisters of the Gospel, who should be models | row and limited being to the end of his existence, of every christian virtue, porticularly of justice. Whether) The brilliant and witty essayist adds, what nearly every | eome of these Revd. gentlemen were guilty of favoritism | one who has studied the classical languages will acknowledge | or nef, let (he reader jaige trom the following facts. "| to be ina greater or less degree true :—** Another misfortune Thursiay last several Teachers came before the Board for | of classical learuing, as taught in England, is, that scholars | exemivation. The bystanders—some thirty District Teachers | come in process of time, and from the effects of association, aol pupils from the Norma! School—were told by the mem-/ 19 jove the instrument better than the end —not the luxury | bers of the Board that this was to be a model examination, | which the difficalty encloses, but the difficulty—not the | and that they might form therefrom an idea of the manuer | Gipert, but tae sbell—not what may be read in Greek, but | io which they themselves woald be examined. Of those | Greek trnalf, examined Messrs MeKionon, John and Edward Roche, | tye wisdom of the ancients that is valued, as he who displays passed as Teachers of the highest class with much honor. | jis knowledge of the vehicle in which that wisdom is con- The prompt and correct auswers of the latter to a series o!| veyed. Tne glory is to show [ama scholar, The good | questions ig Astronomy attracted great attention, No one} sense and ingenuity | may gain by my acquaistance with |

and thinks and reads no more.

[It is not so much the man who has mastered |

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who hag been acquainted with the Messrs. Roche fora moment} neient au:hors is matter of opinion; bat if [ bestow an im- doubted that they would pass without any dificulty—and| ,onsity of pains upon a point of accent or quantity, this is| the same may be said of Mr. McKinnon, who was lately something positive; I establish my pretensions to the name under the able tutorship of Mr. Kenny, and who also acquit-| of scholar, and gain the credit of learning, while I sacrifice ted himself yery honorably in Freach, The examination ) 4) jts yiility,” which these gentlemen underwent was a very good searching one—indeed, [ might add severe. But no one will blame the Board for its being such. For it is well known that many of our fraternity are a disgrace to the profession, and the only good way of getting clear of them is to subject them to a thorough examination. But all should be subjected to a strict examination, without favor or partiality ; and if any | members of the Board forget their duty in this respect, they | will b: guilty of injustice and dishonesty, and should be | forthwith dismissed from their office. Now, let us see what | took place on last Friday. Three gentlemen, who, if they | were not overburthened with knowledge and intellect, presented at least a formidable looking appearance, in conse- | quence of the very abunduat crop of beard which graced the lower and lateral portions of their face, were cxamined this | day before the Board, which, on this occasion, consisted only of treo Rer. gentlemen, and Mr. McNeill, the Secretary | Oue of the candidates presented a certificate from the Rev. Mr. Crawford, a Presbyterian Mivister, which certificate | was read aloud before all present, and favorably commented | on by the Rev. George Sutherland. Now, I believe that | this certificate was unnecessary, for the candidate had passed | the Board before ; but the sequel will show that it proved to | ae 7 Siar tie tetas toaees aan boldness of youthful discussion. He would augur nothing errors. dé all : ; ee oo a these siesta would be subjected to an examination some- | from it but impiety to - and aun to king». And y mi hing ike the moe samintion ch tok pace te| th io bth re tan te bel pln wip ei revious day. Three sentences from aa article in the)“ & “—? s , :. : e tant ” 5 iia 1 oo ans See ee | tirpating the finest qualities and habits of the mind ? 0 Oe ee aan inne bilan ation tedhaae| oar Government is bad, it should.be amended. over the slates, one of the candidates must have made po fewer than nine mistakes, and yet he passed. Now, those | exadidates for the same class, who had been examined the} game week, got for dictution about thirty lines from the} * Uonstitation of Greece.” Bat the latter bad no certideate | from the Rev. Mr. Crawford. The questiuns ia Arithmetic | which were proposed, were the following :

The following, and concluding extract from the same pen, | seems to me to be as applicable to our meddiers with the | education of he Colony, and to their contemplated tmprove- ments, as it was when directed aguinst the system of educa-

Country :—‘* Another evil in the present system of classical education is the extraordinary perfection which is aimed at

euracy which is sought for in nothing else*¥** The Kug’ish

first young men of the country as if they were al! to keep grammar schools in little country towns; anda nobleman, upon whose knowledge and liberality the honour and welfare | of his country may depend, is diligently worried for half his life with the small pedantry of longs and shorts. There is a timid and absurd apprehension, on the part of ecclesiastical | tutors, of letting out the minds of youth upon difficult and important subjects, end in religicus scepticism, and to preserve the principles of their pupils, they confine them to the safe and elegaut imbe- cility of classieal learning. A genuine Oxford tutor would shudder to hear his young men disputing upon political truth, forming avd pulling down theories, and indulging in a'l the

the investigation of truth. At present we act with the mind: of our young menas the Datch did with their exuberant spices, in the Universities of Hngland by the miserable jealousy and

«© What is the duty on 112 Ibs. of Opium, at 9s 6d per Ib ?1| ‘ittlencss of ecclesiastical instructors. It is’ in vain to say

, ; Cd e have produced great men under this system. “Tlow many revolutions would a Cart-wheel, 13% feet in | tee Teak . ica nallind n : ag E _ Encliel

4 ° rec a , Bt systems, ver SNehsnm: circumference, make in 2 mile?! iP 2 y uvery Englishman

> » Or | mus ; is life in le i i ( Y naale Extract the square root of 256. | must pass balf his life in learning Latin and Gree and

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* Divide 1 by 10.25.’ be ppwrege : oes ;

I am not imi about the figures in the last two questions. | ——— has sot were on It is scarcely Tu Geography, they were asked What was the Capital | at j a ab oe aa rom rising up under any sys- of Ireland? Whaat were the boundaries of New Brunswick ?" | ee ee ee The last question nove of them could answer! Is General | Information, they could sot tell who was the Governor ot |

; | in I alt Since ©: Sica wees | Oe eee Serie annt aus Kap em ' £ bave marked other extracts from several authors which

: . ; | Cam unable to give, as they would requi only one of them could tell the title of the Empress of | g y a Cequise gore apace thas

exiination pased the Based"!!! 0, tempora? O marer | lasice ate concerned, we have no veed of a New College Usinam gentium gums? Will the B:v. George Sucher. | #04 that Se —_ ie attention, if not too lad, any one afi Trlumtrate wo composed the Bord wh the Cevtral Academy, | At prowat ws wll noe on last Friday, have the kindness to tell the public the), ,, Seah: ; — reason why those three joung gentlemen were not examined =

I feel assured that it deserves the consider- : : ation of those persons who may think ot sending their s with the candidates of the same class who were examined P J 1g their sons on Thursday ; for, be it remembered, these same three persons

'to receive a classical education in the New College :—** The were then present? Perhaps you, Mr. Editor, will be kind |

sons of a!] our noblest families, and of the most estimable enough to let the public know whether the three who com-|

in spite of these or any other branches of ignorance and i ,

people in the country, are, afier certain preparations, even- ' | tually sent to those slaughter-houses of the unde i posed the Hoard will receive any extra pay for that appa-| J hii ' 4 : ee lerstanding, ; yea! ‘our public schools, where, weaned from the charms of the rently unnegessary meet)og— all the circumstances connected |... : Z . : > : a. jliving world, they are nailed to the stuly of two dead with which appear very su-picion-. | may add, that one ot he : ; . . |languages—like galley slaves, they are chained to these the persons who passed on this occasion was in ecstacy at bis | HA : jours, and are actually flogged if they negiect to labour. In- success, aml was heard to say that he did we}! that day,—he | ie oe 7 . ie ' stead of imbiving knowledge suited to their youthful age.

had gained five pounds one shilling—the latter being the! : ih. my a oe a 6 | they are made to learn the names of Actseon’s hounds--to price of his dianer whick be missed, "

I think he has great | reason to thank his * certificate.”

jstudy the life of Alexander's horse—to know the fate of ; : . sean Alcibiades’ dog; in short, it is too well known that Dr, [f the Board of Elucaiion continue to act as it did at the | L “4

empriere made £3000 a-year by the sale of a dictionary,

: a a ‘eee er slergy.in whose hands education entirely rests, bring up the | ar I ; ‘ : : clergy J ~~. | Island, considering that nearly two-thirds of our population | Seythe Rifles, and minor Major of all live Majors.

. . . . ’ a foundation so far above ground, that there is ab-|00r indeed—~and [ say it not with disrespect—to be pos- | jonour ; but now, © tempora: ya \sessed of any but the most ordivary education. It must be ér shadow af desert, . . . ; a° . » - * . one - . ’ . ;

‘man with one thing till he is twenty-four years of age, you 9bY ious, then, that this Prinee of W ales College cannot * | wled into the | meet the wants of any but a very inconsiderable few. — In-| i if. ; F v re | world and compelled to act; or is surrounded with pleasures, | deed, it seems manifist, that the establishment of the College If you have neglected to| Will be of manifold disadvantages to the middle class who | ie r } i 4 N © “ . : her things'in him, chey will never get in afterwards; | 8¢24 their sons to the Academy, They do not want, nor ‘ ion, obliging and courteous in hours and out of) woting more tham ence ten election, and te bones aials

pat other thingsin 9 (HCY § >| ee -. and attention, ging a spt to the eous-| 0 2 /have they the means. to have their children encumbered with office hours,—in truth, giving utmost satisfaction to > fs lak | mataphysics and such * bigher” branches, which have been munity, which awards him a high meed of praise for his! p ‘aptly designated by an American writer “ antiquated trash.” | efficiency and obliging ¢

'forsooth the Academy esal® not previde, and for which a! remptorily fro ‘new College must be established, is the study of the German language! Within the last half century the German | merc | language has been considerably cultivated in many of the | \smmunity, by whieh it is condemned and the dismissal of |

lof splendid lustre. | things !

| trymen learn to read their mother tongue.

tion and its supporters, nearly fifty years ago, in the Mother |

in teaching those languages; a needless perfection ; an ac-|

They faney that mental exertion must |

O mores! without a claim

tis, Rise, Sir Knight! | ments, and we shall have many more to offer before we finally , , Pp

The thing’s a drag, the honor past away, dismiss the subject.

oon Dechele Ee ee ing to the Election Bill, for the rejection of which the

Ave madeal d undeserving clay Alluding j

Are made of mean and unde y. , : ne eae

| Mr. Cornelins Little, who for a long time has filled the | Council were so uncerem y ped, ys,

office of Warehouse-Keeper, with much assiduity, capacity that «it was intended, if possible, to prevent dishonest persons

rsons to their proper districts.” This is all nonsense. The onduet in offico—has, without any | present law furnishes ample checks against such fraud. The ause, or fault of any kind, beon dieminsed per’) oa) object of the new Bill was, to fritter away the franchise,

; ; 2 : f his post; and is superseded by a partizan o mepiten 4 : the Gov aah aah fitness for the office, owing to early | by placing its exercise under the controul of Government of. ithe Gove . b

‘habits and occupations, there is every reason to doubt. al ficials, who were to be paid for thus interfering with the was a bad appointment, and very displeasing to the mercantile | rights of the subject.

States of Europe, and also im the United States of America, | Mr. Little ceneured, hi ‘‘ It is well known.”’ says the Islander, ** that numbers of and deservedly, for its literature has been enriched by the; Messrs. Lord and Treneman, worthy and excellent Commis: | Mr. Whelan’s supporters, at the lust election, travelled from

Another of the contemplated improvements, for which! plea, or ¢

: 7 j ‘ , af “ovat . , xd from 4 / genius, and research and brilliant wit of such men as Goethe, sioners for the Recovery of Small Debts, were displaced fro | Aicisich to Giatatins, votlag ot esch gelling place * 60 thalnitaaal

’ a ing Morris have ie enri¢c 2} al; * lesser stars | t office, and Mesers. T. B. Tremain and John 3 psa ew aid th iwi ots an j fo an been appointed in their stead. These gentlemen, if they were chise,’ and as they disregarded an oath, there was no means ould that we were prepare br tnese | “ee * . ae +s ae j ats) . : ‘ y But we must not ae he Faget ated to | Not such prejudiced political partizans, might fill the seats) |» preventing them from recording their votes.’ Now, we t ig t

' , * in, Snooks says, : : ; : F land do the daty well enough. Of Mr. Tremain, Thies ; ‘ , swell himself as large as the ox. The machinery which is) wee lone looked for office, and it is hoped he will rest easier | Will venture to say that we have never read, even in the

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-adwirable to work the “Great Eustern” would swamp the for the future. and that the little ‘* brief authority’? with Js/andér, a more foul and deliberate calumny than the above

. v . . . . . i . “loo,” our little river boaty We should remain content | whieh he is endowed. will give an pan og gr was a) extract contains. Mr. Pope knows that he has stated a wilful with the KMoglish translations of these authors until our coun-| outward man. Of Mr. Morris, Snooks will but observe, that) | | yiten of A i , : n of h a It is notorious | he knows how many black beans will make a white oae, and, | falsehoed, and that he hae ae a mt pe oa ~ : ott . i ick ya ists ; he is unable to prove that even one indi- that hundreds of Kaglishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen in | moreover. he isa Brick, r O'Ge® whe. honest beod andl fellow-colonists ; for he is u e top ’ his Col annot read; the mo ich is to be expend-| Mr. Thingamy beate Larry O'Uad, eta . .| vidual practised the fraud referred to. We challenge him to this Golony cannot read; the money which is to be expen | mortar man, went up the ladder, step by step to promotion ; y . . 0 ‘ . - 7s 9 m j > » ° ° . ed uselessly on the New College would, with a trifling as-| 1) \ty. Thingamy, only a lance corporal’s comrade, under-’ give us a solitary instance in support of this most unwarrant- sistance, establish in connexion with the district schools— | aalnd 6 eodden metamorphosis, barst out in lizbtening speed ‘able assertion. Mr. Whelan’s election was not based upon Free Night Schools throughout the Island, wherein the| from the shell, all cock-a-hoop plumed and cap-a-pie from | och ticklish grounds as to require surreptitious means of any adult population, neediag and desiring it, would receive the | crown to toe, with spurs at heel, a Major chicken. bevefits to be derived from the education which they were | unable to acquire in earlier days, And hail him Cock-a-doodle doo. | If this be too practical for our magnificent quixotic legis- | Here is a fine model officer manufactory from full flat foot | lators,J hesitate not to say that they should have the Gaelic | privates, for you, soldats, where sooner than you could say | language to be taught in the New College in licu of German. ‘ever. out pops, like Jack from the coaljbox, a fally eapar- | —— vm) = .* | trigger, pops, : : ° ra Would it not confer a greater benefit upon the people of this | jsoned Major, constituted Major of all the Rifles including the witnessed on the floor of the yresent House of Assembly. NI . . . . E Ceilti =, 2 th , . “a Vol : <8 ee | «s Occasionally,’ in this instance, means nearly every day. are oO eitic origin, and that, at least, one-fifth speak the; ‘The Charlottetown Volunteers, at a meeting held by them | ‘gale : aaa Erse? The gallant Colonel who proposed German would have | Jas¢ week, expressed their dissatisfaction and disapproval ot ‘* All this,’’ adds the Is/ander, ** while it is to be deprecated, immortalized himself, and emdeared himself to his ** intelli- ‘the appointment of the Ilon. T. H. Hayiland, jr. as Major | js proof that members of the Government are, at least, inde- gent cunstitaents,’’ had he stood out more bravely fur the | egmmanding the Volunteers. : Gaelic. The Little Grand Turk had more sense than bis} The discourteous, impolitic and unpalatable appointment of | . " i illustrious colleagues in the Executive when he declared, that Mr. Haviland, bronght out remarks and sentiments at the | House, and Mr. Longworth, or Mr. J. C. Pope way differ in

‘kind for securing it. He can, as he has heretofore done,

“ 0 cour tails, ye birds of gout, ; ; : vd bail bisa C ois 20% | beat his opponent by hundreds, without canvassing a vote.

Our contemporary admits that ‘‘ personal altercations"’ between members of the Government have been * occasionally”

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pendent .... There are no office holders on the floor of the

/** be could not see what good was to come of German, mata- meeting which could not be gratifying to the feelings or pre- opinion from Col. Gray or Mr. Haviland, without being

physics, and such outlandish things whatever.’’ But on his! tensions of that gentleman. The odor in which he is held

: . . : threatened with the loss of office.’” When we remind our friend —the Alexander of dead languag:s, using his persuasive | amongst those who buckle on the armour of defence, was the |

|eloquence, he exclaimed :—* Oh! ho! as it be for a whales antipodes of flattery to a man of his importance, and the feel- | readers of the significant fact, that the brother of one of the

College, I vote for it however.’’ Were it not for the opposi-| jing exhibited at the meeting must unmistakeably convince éi¢| mombers who indulge in the ‘ altercations’’ deprecated and tion of the Grand Turk to the new College Bill--which, by-the- Major uf the estimation he obtains with the Volunteers. A | bye,was the reason whyit was produced s» late in the Session--| Jarve number of the meeting declared their determination not : : the great Colonel would bave tuought of the Gaelic. How Po- | to ‘caren wade Major ifaviland, and Captains Rankin and tary—that the brother of another is Collector of Excise —that pular it ee ~— made ere to whom be said last’ Pollard signified their intention to resign as Captains “ the the cousin aud partner of another is Attorney General—and Session of Assembly he ** conferred an honour by consenting | eorpy, There is every appearance of a breaking up of the | : Ae ; to allow himself to be their representative !” “By taking a a psoas Fras that injadicious and a naraliy that in consequence of these connexions, to say nothing of few lessons in Gaclic he could expound to them the beauties distasteful appointment, unless Mr. Haviland bas the prudence | minor ones, the quarrels are speedily patched up, we think

condemned by the Jslander, holds the office of Colcnial Secre-

no better method of teaching the highest duties than by ex- farms fur nine hundred aud nine:y-nine years at a nameless gtnoxious, and make room for some able chieftain with whom | If our | rent! | religion is a fable, the sooner it is exploded the better. I hy pochondriac, and that sometimes he thought himself a hare, | Bat we bave | and ranged his noble park foie place to place with wonderful | plessurr. storm had lulled a litte, he made rather a schoolboy | let us ask, are there not three Commissioners of Small Debts tno doubt of the truth of the one or of the exeecllence of the | *6''Y: Now, |other ; and are convineed that both will be placed on a firmer | has’s in proportion as the minds of men are more trained to |

An infinite quantity of talent is annually destroyed |

jelassica) Jearning is supposed to have produced the talents | Catholic College.

Teach men demonolozy or | factory. In the meantime the Government, as they have es- | dest oys confidence in the economy, and stabs the integrity of astrology, aud you will still have a portion of orizinal genius, |

is available, which would further show, that so far as the |

of his ** Land Commission,’’ which is 10 bestow on them free | and good judgment to retire from a post where his presence is the ** altercations”’ may be held to indicate more pugnaéity

uke ea. . : shne inde pende ess. It is related of the Prince of Burbon that he was a! the corps would play the soldier, or could meet the foe. and peevishness than independence or disinterestedness. As

Mr. Hayiland was present at the meeting. and after the dis- | regards the alleged absence of office holders from the House,

hetga <5 nei mt haye theught himself | whinj ; senting what he had done as a member |

: © ge? : “ ght | | whining appeal, representing what he had done as 4 member) . e nt 4 c

)a Hessian toate proposed ae Gerntan ia the College Bill, | of Government for tue Vulonteers—the money whiehte (like |’? the Amembly two - and-out ppt of the Govern | leading on an army of mercenaries, which certainly would be | good fellow) had obtained, behind the curtain, for them | ment, and one in the minority, who sometimes divides his af- | & less ridiculous figare than that ofa certain great hero when | from the Treasury, and insinuated how grateful they ought) fections between his old friends and his new ones ?—and there jhe made his first military debut in this city, by leading the | to be for bis patronage and solicitade, but aof a man threw | | Gael to the Ind'gnation Meesiag held here sume two ycars ago. up his cap'and said, ** Long live the Major.’’ In the course |. : F ; In conclusion, will werely advert to the refusal of the Go- of his speech, Mr. H. inadvert ntly toid the meeting how he | County, in the upper House, all supporters of the Government. | Yerninent to grant @ pawportidaate sum towards St. Dunstan's, had thrust his fingers into the public contingent fund, and had | The late appointmént of Commissioners for revising the Statutes the Catholic Colk ge. The « atholies will not receive any taken therefrom £00 of the publre money lor private apprepr- | ineludes two members of the Leg:slature—one in the Assembly

are three more Commissioners including the Sheriff for Prince

} ‘ } ¥ ; . J “a*,° . We have | benefit from the new College; they contribute nearly one- | ation, namely, the purchase of a full dress militia uniform, ‘ ‘ .

| balf the amount expended on education. The simplest rules of | sword and all equi;ments—this glittering toggery to be pre- | and one in the Council. They will both receive very hand-

| equity a the ee common ee ret ry sented to the Adjutant General, or, in other words, to dress some pay for their services ; while one of them has been in the |obuge a fair grant to be given towards the support of the! that officer in uniform cap-a-pie, to the pleasant tune of £30,| ,.; : : : :

ve er a “?| enjoyment, since his party attained office, of con ‘ Before many years elapse the people of at the public expense. This was an unwarrant,ble and un-| Joy oe seca P 7 ge onsiderable this Colony may decide that the denominational system of ealledfor application of public money for a private purpose,— | emoluments in his cayacity of Queen’s Counsel. As Law

| education is the fairest, most economical, and the most satis- jt was a gross misappropriation of the people’s money, and) Commissioners, they may discharge their duties in a satisfac- If the tory manner; but, at the same time, it is undeniable that

| not evince dog-in-the-mangerism by refusiny support to other Government were anxious to have the Adjutant General ap- | they owe their appointment to their parliamentary position, |institations. In the mother gountry. where Catholics are not pear full figure in military costume, not at his own expense, | and they will put up with many affronts rather than break

/up @ party which keeps them in pay.

| tablished a College, which will be virtually sectarian, should! the Government that permitted and sanctioned it.

as humerous in proportion T the Protestant population as they should have arrayed him in soldier’s garb at their own | they are here, their Colleges dre supported by the Imperial | individual cost, or by private subscription.

iGovernment, In Austria, where Protestants are not a tithe | Salmagundi Liall, June, 1860.

of the population, schools and Colleges of Protestants are | - | maintained by the Guvernment, though these schools and Col-| — hin Wave aerate ee Bee eer ars | leges are under the immediate contro) of Protestant ecclesias- € ht t & x a ni i i tc t ities. In this Island twenty years since, when the annual ‘ oe

{grant for education was somewhat like £4000, the Catholic, —————— oreo acme ea

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The editor of the Islander informs us that our representations

————— with regard to the * altercations"’ between members of the Government ‘* will be entitled to notice’? when we can shew

_ that a member of the Executive ‘+ has been compelled to support

oe /a measure which, on the flocr of the House, he had opposed.” 1860. Our contemporary has been rather incautious in giving this challenge, for we can shew that not one, but two members of the Government had been obliged to support a measure which “ | m4 had Peupaagg! Rasps When the Elective Council jnot a Denomi : ee ' = . ill was before the House in the Session before the last, Mr. {igentomen wach an fer. Alowee-Pasgorld and Suthertand,|SUch Hit Exolncy the Lut. Governor was «restrain cul more, at an amendment tothe Bil, that candidate fr il feel convinced ; and that the new institution will be closed destroying the independence of the upper House, was the goats in the upper House should hold their property qualifica-

tou Catholic professors, and Catholie students who do not de- | presentation to him of a document, signed by the majority of tions in the Counties for which they offered. Three members rnment supported this motion—viz: Messrs. Long-

| a > 2Pre > a ‘ apt « nor taj ‘ if ‘ ’ . 2 ; : ‘uae we may expect as certainly as if Dante's _the House of Assembly, with one or two exceptions, in which of the Gove

| they declared their determination to do no business with ie worth, Pope and Laird. But their leader no sooner saw this | Council as it was then constructed. | defection in bis ranks than he manifested his displeasure by

What a commentary on our boasted ‘‘ representative insti- | the utmost irritability, threatening to vote against the whole

| College, St. Andrew’s, then impexistence, received £75; now, |

| when the annual grant is £15,000, St. Dunstan's College re- Char ottetown, F. E. | June 12, | coves nothing! Some persons not remarkable for modesty - }assert that the Prince of Wales College is not to be sectarian, | | but is to be open to all. Now, St. Dunstan's College is open | | to all who may desire to enter it, yet no one asserts that it is

}not a Denominational institution. That the Catholic College

TUK SWAMPING OF THE COUNCIL.

Ir has just leaked out that one of the © cireamstances’

** Turk, Jew, or Atheist Is welcome here, but net a Papist,”’

| were posted in larye letters—speaking the desire of the Go- | , tutions’ is furnished by this undeniable fact! How well it

time referred to, we may expect very little improvement in |

those Teachers who will be provided with a certificate from |rubbish of this description, The poor boy at last * gets’, as

the Rev. Mr. Craw‘ord, oy any other Presbyterian Minister ;

aud hence stolid iguorauce will continue in too many instan- |

i 4 . » ° ‘ ce r > qi “3° > r z | . . ces to disgrace the character of the Teachers of the Island. | and ruin the mind of a young person.

Indeed, | have heard several candidates say that when they will present themselves befure ihe Board they will be careful

to have a good long certificate of character from their Miuis- |

ter. Anything which | have said regarding favoritism is

spoken af by Protestant Teachers as most faithful god im- pertisl in the discharge of bis duties as a member of the Board.

bence this hurriedly wi itten letter will not be without mis- takes. of calling public atteniion to what I consider a great injus- tice, and also to that which appears to me to be a shameful act of favoriti-m on the part of those whose judgment and action shouli be characterized by justice aud the strictest

bupartiality. June 2, 1860. A TEACHER.

To tug Evrror or tux Exaurnar. “ When evil strives the worst hare greatest pames.”’ THE NEW COLLEGE

Sin—The study of the Greek gud Latin languages ia to take @ more promingp: plage in the New CoVege, than it did in the Oegizal Academy. fnstead of this being an improve- went for the studeyt, cr an advantage to the tax-payer, the sequel will show jt to be an evil, entailing loss of valuable time to the one, and « hurthen, involving expense—giviag

go return to the other. _The fully of makiog a young person waste the spriog of bis manhood in learniug the Greek and Latin classics. would

' [ have not been accustomed to write for the press, sad | PTPgs earthly as well as unearthly.

I trust, however, that it will be the hamble means |

in which he had amassed, ‘ for the use of schools,’ tales and

/it is termed, ‘into Ovid,’ where he is made to study every thing which human ingenuity could invent to sully, degrade. The Almighty Cre- ator of the universe is caricatured Ly a set of grotesque per- sonages termed gods and goddesses, so grossly sensual, so | inordinately licentious, that were they to-day to appear in

| London, before synset they would probably be every one of not to be applied to Mess:s, Hensley and Kenny—the latter | : es te ;

; , 3 y Ought t ~—at th ad- = of whom, although a Roman Catholic, I have always heard | eae ehere they ngs te'Seaah the trend-enill