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: : 4 eonisiel “ee , “itis wis i ublin. tures, when Lthought they did not take the progi@ metgod | purpore whieh exists, under the British Legislature, in D

to settle the Jand question, | never gave any maf, or party of men, reason to believe that [ would supporé them to

fo it asebject of the Crown will naturally turn for instruction. It is, as is well known, a mixed board of selected learned men, Protestants and Roman Catholies, to whom was eftrusted the

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ch Lnge the form of Geovernment, or deptive the peopie of } construetion of a syatem “by which the poor of Ireland, of both ieir rights, which they had obtained by years of agitation } | yoligions, might receive instruction in the same schools. Great

aud gs L have not deceived any party, your saying that l have thrown off the mask, does not affect me, if it is no in- jury to yourselfy for while T any allowed space to justify what L have seat to the Jslander for pubdlication, 1 shall

leave it to the public to judge of my motives; and the public |

wii) no doubt give both our motives due cous eration.

prejudice accompanied this undertaking—the leaders of both parties, as they do here in a few instances, deeming their own wisdom a higher standard than our Saviour’s benevolent teach- ing, met it with insane resistance. It has survived their ‘unchristian animosity, and is daily enlarging its sphere and roducing the best effects. So far as its details are practicable 'here, T would be and am guided by them. Of all things, re-

As a person who willfully states a falsehood is not to | jigious dissension is the most unebristian pursuit. To give it

he credited when he speaks the truth, the assertion that a part of my second letter is not true, goes to invalidate the

its death-blow, I think nothing will more conduce than the | bringing the youth of all denominations into the guileless in-

whole. L heve, therefore, thought it necessary to send a | tereourse which belongs to their years; and T humbly hope

copy of my vindication to all the papers; and as I believe many would like to see the first-letter, which was written to fivdeout if the edftorial in the Islander of the 28th October, for the investigation of titles, had the authority ef the

that, in promoting this object, 1 am doing the will of Him ‘under whose providence [am permitted a share in this business ; | nor can I, in spite of malignant preaching, divest 7 of the belief, as well as the hope, that He who governs all things has something more in view, in promoting general education, to

Alliance, for if it had no such authority it was deceiving | be imparted in the manner so long peacefully in use amongst

the people. Sailor’s Hope, Jan. 26, 1857. Wa. COOPER, For first letter see Islander 13th Nov., 2d page, 34 column.

us, than the adaptation of the youthful mind to secular pursuits. But Tam now come to a point when all the ignorant and fiery bigots will exclaim that 1 am willing to compromise the faith ‘of my fathers. Softly, good people, the great Judge of all

| In giving publicity to the foregoing letter, we must remind | men has not placed me under your jurisdiction ; and in a mat-

Mr. Cooper that we do not approve of, nor are we disposed to | follow, as a general rule, the practise of publishing communi:

‘ter of so serious a character, | care not to plead before a human much less a self-constituted tribunal. 1 was, whem young, In a public school in England several years, and I have watched

cations at second hand, no matter how ably they may be | education a great deal. T, too, have tanght in Sunday schools. written. Mr. Cooper must, therefore, in future, learn to con-| and nothing is more strongly impressed on my mind than the

fine his lucubrations to the ether papers, if their editors think

‘utter futility of attempting to teach religion in day schools.

‘It is at the feet of the pious mother, from the lips of the clergy

proper to make usa of them. If he be satisfied with a fair | and the Sunday school teacher, from the example and confirmed share of celebrity, to be obtained exclusively through the prneipies of the anxious father, that these lessons will be im-

columns of The Examiner, this journal will be open to hin, |

whenever he does not think proper to write too much nonsense ;

vibed. The clergy and parents of all sects are responsible for it, and not the district school teacher. If, indeed, the children ‘taught at our schools did not every day return to the parental

but he will please to remember that we do not feel inclined to | roof, and one day in seven hear the instruction of their church

copy from our Charlottetown cotemporaries anything but ad- |

pastors, then there would be an awful responsibility on ‘the rulers of the land, if they provided them no other than

vet ’ ve » ‘a ive { ° . . . > vertisements and scraps of local news. Our only motive for ‘secular education, as it is and will be, the schoolmasters of giving insertion to his present letter, is, that the widest pub- this Island are brought up in many variations of creed. Are

> hebhindl Praiesi dimilar | Central Academy, if applie 1 OF aN nee, Beli wane prevent SI dissatisfaction or ill feeling on the part of acted upon

licity may be given tothe political opinions of an old sapporter | parents of so many different forms of religion, and + RAY

: : eases of belief, to submit to their children aang taught by any : : | of them, of whose competency they know nothing, and from sorting his principles and his political associates, and on whose | whom they differ; and if by ‘any, let me and every one ask

adhesion to their views the Obstructive faction have. for months | himself by which? The thing is preposterous ; the offspring of

of the Liberal party, who has been unjustly accused of de-

| the Catholics. I informed his Lordship that Mr. Stark had ‘made the statement referred to, without the authority of the Board of Education; and that it would be seen by reference | to-the printed regulations for the management ef the Normal School, as agreed to by the Board, that that institution was conducted on the same principle as the mixed district schools. The Bishop immediately said he was glad he met me; and re- ‘ceived the explanation offered, with which he was fully satis- ‘fied. He was only afraid that our system of education, which | has met with such general approval, was about to be disturbed by new and irritating regulations; and that the community, wherein hitherto there was so much good feeling between all denominations, might be agitated by religious prejudices and animosities. . Shortly after this interview, I received a note from his Lord- stip, which appears to have been intended for other oybe'an well as my own, a copy of which is hereto attached ; an ! trust its perusal will have the effect of removing a good dea of that misunderstanding which has been so artfully and in- dustriously created, especially amongst country people, many of whom have been led to believe that the Catholic Bishop was the first to interfere with the Board of Education in the ex- ercise of their duties, and to insist upon the introduction of new and unsatisfactory regulations for the management of our

mixed Schools. : ; ele omain, yours, &c., Feb. 6, 1857. . , GEORGE COLES.

Letter from the Right Rev. Dr. McDonald to Hon. G. Coles.

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“ ledge, not only to you, but also to all whom it may aad perfectly amas with the explanations you have given in reference to the masner in which the Normal Sehool and other Schools are conducted, and also to state that my misunderstanding re- specting them, arose from what I had read in the public papers, and had not seen corrected, especially in reference to the manner in which the Normal School was to be conducted.

«T have the honor to be, “Honorable and dear Sir, “ Your very obedient and devoted servant, “+B. D, McDONALD, «Rusties, 16th Nov., 1856,”’

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SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS., To tue Eorron or tux Examiner.

Sin, —As the existing School Act will shortly expire, and the Legislature at its approaching Session is expected to legislate again on the subject of popular education, the pre- sent seems to me a suitable occasion for humbly laying

d to all the other mixed schools, | with grace and force. We have read few articles which, if

would conduce more to the improvement of their readers.. We yenture to predict that no reader can pemase a ‘single issue of this beautiful and valuable periodical without meeting with one or more articles which may be of practical utility tohim. It is republican and abolitionary in politics ; jhilosophical and physiological rather tian theological, and highly liberal and progressive on most subjects.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1L, FEBRUARY 98, 1857.

Wr think it is scarcely necessary to direct the attention of our readers to the letters which appear in our. present No. from the Hon. Col. Swabey and the Hon. Mr. Coles, imure- ference to the agitation at present going on the subject of the in- troduction of the Bible, as a class-book, into our public schools. The former takes a yery comprehensive, and, we might add, | philosophical view of the general question ; while the latter contains a plain statement of facts, such as cannot fail to set aside much of the misunderstanding that prevails. It is quite clear that a very improper use has been made of the letter ad- dressed to the Board of Education by the Right Rev. the Catholic Bishop, and this by persons whose assumed Christian character would lead us to expect better things from them. That his Lordship was in error in supposing, and acting on the supposition, that arrangements had been made to impart a sectarian character to our mixed schools —no one who knows anything of the correspondence, as explained by Mr. Coles, will attempt to deny ; and no one could have confessed his error more promptly and candidly than his Lordship has done. Why, then, should any one amongst us be encouraged to en- kindle the flame of religious bigotry in a community where so much harmony has hitherto prevailed? Is this the way to inculeate and practise that most sublime of Christian pre- cepts —‘* Peace on earth and good will to men’’? The Catholic Bishop does not want to interfere with the rights of his Protestant fellow-subjects— he does not seek to force his religion upon those who are beyond the pale of his Church.

so confidently relied, without having any good reason for doing

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THE SCRIPTURES IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,

To tue Eprrox or rae Examiner.

| intolerance, and involves the question—** Shall we or shall we ‘not have any instraction provided by the State ?”” If our bigotry and intolerance towards each other is so great—which, I thank God, I believe, in a general sense, they are not—we mast then shut up our schools, for 1 can hardly anticipate that the Legislature of the Colony will all at once, with the scene before them of unraffied harmony, subvert a system

Sin,—Finding a disposition abroad to renew the question of which has been long acquiesced in, long before the new Act,

introducing the authorised version of the Holy Seriptures as a class-look into our publie schools, | think it may not be untime- ly to review this matter in a Christian and fair spirit. Let me begin by denouncing the charge or insinuation brought against the Board of Education, of an intention to give way to certain Tepresentations made to them in a letter which has been read at several public meetings, by members of the Board itself, without those members feeling it theirdaty toexplain to those present either how the Board had acted, were acting and in- tended to act in the matter. This want of candour deserves the highest censure, whether the charges or insinuations were made by themselves or in their presence, and uncontradicted by them ; but let me now proceed to the general question. _ In doing so, it is highly probable that I may pat myself in collision with parties, for some of whom I may have entertained respect ; but with whose views, seriptaral as well as social, I do not accord. ‘These are backed up and excited by many others, who are not unwilling to avail themselves of any means of making a political outery. I am not of an age to have thought lightly of my Christian responsibility in this matter; and unless I were en- tirely satisfied that I am evineing a right judgment in a parely

religious sonse, I might hesitate before Lacted. This, however, |

is not the first time that the subject has been debated in my mind, and [ feel satisfied that the movement now making will tend rather to contract than increase the reading of the Holy Scriptures. I will willingly, however, put the dispute, without mentioning now ancharitable denunciations thundered even from the pulpit against those with whom I agree on that issue. Ave we or are wenot forwarding the extension of the Redeemer’s kingdom by the gourse which we, as a Christian Legislature, are taking in this matter? I will begin at the foundation. Religion, to be sound and binding oa @ man’s conscience, must have its strongholds in minds so far at least instructed that they can read and inform themselves in all respects as to the merits of the different forms in which the word of God is pro- walgated. Are we not, therefore, in our district schools, ena- Liing the youth of the Island to read, mark and inwardly digest the written word, and to study all the comments and writing which learned and pious. men have given to the world in aid of

religious truth, whether Hooker or Paley, or the Fathers or |

Roman Catholic writers, with whose names f am nnacquainted? Can it be said, then, that the instruction imparted is inconsistent with the acquirement of religions knowledge, or, as it is urged, often opposed to it? No one will deny that if religion could be interwoven in the lessons of the child, it would be desirable ; but because, in the peculiar circamstances of the case, in a mixed population, that cannot be done, are we to precipitate ourselyes into the depths of secular ignorance, and forego all education, and thereby incapacitate our youth from receiving from those of their own Charehes, respectively, such lessons in religion as we may hope will follow, and so refase to place their steps in those paths which we may hope will lead to eternal life? Such an idea is not that of any well thinking Christian. The consideration, however, in the second place, resents itself to my mind, that the course we are pursuing by len is not only the wisest, humanly speaking, but what is o far more importance, the most consonant to the revealed will ot the Almighty. Benevolence, education and charity, are prominent in every line of holy writ; nay, they are put before every other duty; duty to God is to be made manifest by love to man. Some of the early Christians submitted to the rite of circumcision; others were supported by the gentile Apostles, in viewing it at best as but an indifferent thing. The Seven Churches were not precisely uniform in their institutions ; and subsequently those of Alexandria, Carthage and Rome, to say nothing of other celebrated Episeopates, differed ots in many material doctrines, iLiad their proselytes, therefure, been brought together in one school, would they not have been taught to read? But look at our own day ; we have the Greek, Protestant and Roman Catholie Churches, with all their rami- fieations, deverging, in their several systems, (as they each atlege) from the staple Apostolic forms and rituals; nay, the Apostles themselves did not agree in all matters, yet they all believed and preached the eflicaey of the Cross of Christ, to purehase man’s redemption. 1 confess that whilst I have no trith in the wisdom, to say the least. of those who are always vapouring on these subjects, and who do not seruple to apply to their fellow men, who do not agree with them, motives the most uacharitable and unjust, and thunder forth the vilest anathe- mas, even in the temple of peaceful worship. This I know, twat | have no desire to be insincere; and | conceive nothing is

by the very same parties who are now engaged — some from

one motive and some from another — in attempting to disturb

it; nor can they provide for partial or separate education. 1 | do not hesitate to declare my belief that such a course would ‘be contrary to the revealed will of the Almighty, and adverse to the precepts of that Benevolent Being who came on earth to | bring peace and good will to man.

It would be easy for me, as it is for any one, to illustrate | from Holy Writ all I have said ; but I have no desire to sup- | port a plain duty by an ostentatious display of sacred reading.

It is sufficient for me if | can see may own way through what I consider a plain and evident duty. If Seriptural truth, and /more especially that brotherly love so frequently inculeated by ithe blessed Redeemer himself, be taken as a guide, and if we /ean consent to sacrifice our inherent prejudices at the shrine of } duty and of reason, we shall at onee reeognise that the course ‘laid down. and so long successfully practised, embraces neither / an unworthy compromise of our several religions tenets, nor any

hindrance to the formation of the Christian character. That | the Almighty nay forward this latter process, is the prayer of Your obedient servant,

Feb. 4, 1857. WILLIAM SWABBY.

P.S —I wish it to be understood that the ahove. letter was written before that of the Bishop was in existence, and has undergone no farther alteration than the addition of a few _ words refleeting on the conduct of some members of the Board of Education towarde their fellows. :

In regard to the Bishop's letter, such is the disingenuous manner, in respect to the Board of Education, in which it has been used, that the publie will hardly believe that the facts are neither more nor less than these: ‘The letter was received ; ‘laid before the Board; and the School Visitor was directed to | report on certain allegations therein contained. Hlis report was approved, and furwarded ; and there ended the correspondence. if correspondence it may be called. If Messrs. Stark and Fitz- gerald thought it was no violation of their ppbttc trust to pro- i duce the private papers of the Board at public meetings, with the view to create discontent, why was not Mr. Stark’s report also produced and read, s9 that the whole trath might be made known? There are some cases in which the suppression of trath is far more criminal than the assertion of falsehood. W.S.

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THE BISHOP’S LETTER. To rus Eprror or tHe Examiner.

Sm,—I would not, at this time, trouble you with any observations on a question which is causing some ill-feeling and much misapprehension, were it not that several public meet- ings have been called by Protestant Ministers, at which statements have been made calculated to mislead the public mind. A letter addressed by the Roman Catholic Bishop to the Board of Edueation, has, as I have been informed, beeu made the subject of mach discussion at those meetings, and sen- timents expressed in reference to it, which but ill accord with that spirit of Christian charity generally supposed to govern the conductof Ministers of the Gospel.

When his Lordship wrote the letter so much talked of, he laboured under the impression that new regulations had been prescribed by the Board of Education for the management of our distriet schools; and these regulations were such, he thought, as would be sure to give them a sectarian bias, and thereby destroy the efficacy of the Free Education Act, and interrupt that good understanding between all classes of Christians which has so happily and so long prevailed. Now, Sir, I trust that a few plain facts will show to the public, if not to the Reverend Gentlemen who have been so active in getting up the public

raised about the letter in question.

Soon after the Bishop’s letter was laid before the Board of Edueation, I was apprised of its contents, and perceived that his Lordship was sadly misinformed as to there being any new regulations for our mixed public schools. Anxious to correct ' the error into which he had fallen, and desirous that our free education system should give universal satisfaction, I took an early upportunity personally to communicate with his Lord- ship, and found that he had been strongly impressed with the belief, that new regulations had been made for the schools, and

furms of prayer Ie of which the Catholic portion of the | population could not approve ; and that ho lad been informed respecting the conduct of a certain teacher at Malpeque, who turned some Catholic children out of his school for refusing to

more frequently emforced on me, in Holy Seripture, than an | kneel while prayers were being said. I informed his Lordship sindeviating spire of toleration. | have adopted it asarule of that this latter circumstance had occurred a considerable time

meetings alluded to, that a most unnecessary outcry has been },

before your numerous readers what I conceive to be the re-| 17, harboured the opinion, indeed, that certain over-zealous quisite amendments of the said Act.

In the first place, I woud propose that there be a Board poeple ciaed af pramy tizing the Catholic youth of the of Education in each County. This would be more con-|°¥ntry by converting our public schools into nurseries of venient for Teachers, Trustees and all parties interested jn | sectarianism ; and he believed the aim was encouraged by attending the meetings of the Board, as well as for members | those who were entrusted with the administration of our edu- eer ; oe —e —— Or eoand t per herr cational system. In one respect his Lordship may be right — to attend than when there 1s onty one board in the UolODy. | 1. over-veal 1 : om Cunada West bas not only a Board of Education in every abet ail 2 wa nee describes them Jounty, but where the County is too extensive, two alternate Bi the aping fanatics thet talk places of meeting, in order to accommodate residents at both Ail cant and rant and rhapsodies bigh-flown”’— extremes of the County. evidently did aim at doinga small business in the proselytizing

There should be a School Inspector ineach County. Then line ; but it has been shown, to the satisfaction of the Bishop,

schools would be more minutely and thoroughly examined, th . a : ‘ t tl ted as the Inspector would have much more leisure than when he| | '** ©'° constituted authorities had no hand in the matter.

is obliged to visit all the schools in the Colony. In the His Lordship, it appears, was led into the error by some silly

event of the establishment. of Municipal Councils, perhaps and presumptuous remarks from the Inspector of Schools —

the best course would be for every Council to appoint its own | who has been always a sort of loose screw in the State eoach—

Luspector. who took upon himself the task of propounding regulations on . . . , 8

; ae el om wwe hanay ie teigiloes ok d for the management of the Normal School, without consulting

UROWR, NO Ee ; his colleagues in the Board of Education. The Bishop having,

he obliged to report ; or, until such shall have been appointed, the Trustees of each school. however, been made aware of the important fact, that Mr.

School Registers should be retained permanently in the | Stark does not combine in his own person all the powers and school-houses, for the inspection of all persons interested in | responsibilities of the Board, and that he is not permitted to the progress of the respective schools, and abstracts of them, | or. out the Free Education Act according to his own

ee a. ee Tet ae very pious and peculiar notions —is quite content that our A eortifieate of qualification to teach, signed by the Head | P¥blic schools should be conducted as they haye heretofore

Master of the Normal School, should be sufficient license, |been—and that the compulsory principle in religious in-

unless the Trustees who may engage the holder of such cer- | struction should be unknown to them. The Scriptures are now,

tificate insist on his being examined by the Board of Edu- | a1 have long been, used in many of our public schools. There cation. :

Should dhs’ Humber ef ‘School Trastées be Hiniited td dhese: isno prohibition. The saered volume is not a sealed book to we might expect more efficient ones than when we have to the children of Protestant parents, where it is desired that elect five, as it is impossible in many of the rural districts to | its pages should be unfolded-to them. All the Bishop asked, find so many edueational y qualified, _ .,., {and all the Catholies expect, is, that the children of Catholic Trustees should have authority to collect of their district parents shall not be compelled to read a version of the Bible

such sum as they may have engaged to pay the Teacher for |. ; ; : ' his boarding, without soliciting every resident householder |™ which they haye no faith, accompanied by the erade in-

to subscribe what he chooses ; and it should be imperative on terpretation of persons unskilled in elucidating its solemn all Trustees to pay their respective Teachers such amount for | precepts. Surely this is no unreasonable demand ; and we hoarding as is commonly paid for that purpose in their | have no doubt that so soon as the public understands the real vicinity. state of the case, as it is pow very generally beginning to do,

Property shouldbe the basis of taxation for all school pur- ae oa poses, fantead of the number of children a man has. This the attempt to arouse religious prejadiecs will be everywliero

has always been the Canadian practice ; it is also consistent | frowned down.

with the spirit of the Free Education Act. viz: that the] We are not disposed to deny to some individ

poor man, who is the father of many children, be enabled to y ¢ individuals who are at

send them all to school as easily as he who has only one to : >

send. Taxing men in proportion to the number of their and we are quite willing they should cherish the consoling

children, may throw the heaviest burden on him who is least | belief that nobody is so sure of heaven as they are themselves ;

able to bear it, since the podtest man in the district may have | but all history teaches us that ** pseudo Privy Councillors of

the greatest number of children of any in it. God,’ who strive to degenerate the worship of the Creator No Teacher should be prohibited from having a shop, pro-| +145 mere statute labour, by coerci q td

vided he wiil employ another person to attend to it, until ; as Garr chety een tiem

such time as Teachers’ salaries be sufficiently augmented to | Y°TY worst instruments that can be employed in the salvation

enable them to keep house decently, without the precarious |0f souls. But when we see others engaged in the mischievous

income of a grocery. 7 ; attempt to get up a religious warfare, who have no sincerity Your insertion of the foregoing hasty hints may prove of |in the matter—whose only object ‘ts to create 5 distarbuules

some little service to some of our liberal legislators, and will! 4.34 may end j widest .

highly oblige and gratify your most humble servant, oe ee unpopular the party in power—who

would be just as ready to get up an excitement in fayour of

MENTOR. Head St. Peter’s Bay, January 28, 1857. the Koran as of the Bible, if they thought the former would

aie better subserve their political designs, and who go about [FOR THE EXAMINER. ] professing saintship, because saintship appears to be com- ‘Of the making of esr y there 2 no end,”’ it, te mig mendable and popular—we cannot better indicate our contempt man. If Solomon saw good and sufficient cause, in his day o “i . no printing presses, to make such an assertion, what would he Pte Se a by applying to them the language of say were he now to visit Europe or America? For since the | ne of England’s favorite Poets, though it may seem somewhat invention of those wonderful presses, every succeeding age de- | coarse— mands the making of more books than any previous one. But have we not nearly as good a cause now for asserting—‘* Of making newspapers there is no end?’’ The present age is far more prolific of this sort ob paadenion than any previous one ; and future ages will exceed the present in this enterprise in- finitely more than this oa any pastage. But of the in- finite number of periodicals now teeming from the press, onl . . L a certain portion is calculated to improve their seudein. ’Some vue lesen have committed a very grave mistake. A s0- are amusing, but not instructive ; others are entertaining, but | called religious crusade might do them a little service if we

not profitable; yet a judicious reader might easily make | were on the eve of a general election. We arenot. We are

the head of this religious movement, the virtue of sincerity ;

‘‘ For men may pious text repeat,

And yet religion have no inward seat; *Tis not so plain as the old Hill of Howth,

A man has got his belly full of meat Because he talks with victuals in his mouth.”

condact, not merely as convenient in the actual state of the | since, and that when the Board of Education became aware of word. wot SO 9 same i m7 re et vee Syren me it, they took steps to prevent the annoyance from being re- Apostics , an o Vor purty iniringed on Sirs principle, Woul | peated. I also assured the Bishop that no new form of prayer meovt from me the most Seno Se [could bring. Thad been adopted since the Education Act came into operation, € ynceive the mankgemony o: our schoo s,asat present condueted, the one in use remaining unchanged for several years past. is the bust that can be thought of uader the cireamstances ; His Lordship referred me to the reported speech of Mr. Stark, and it is a falsehood, vile and uncharitable, to impute to me| delivered at the inauguration of oa Normal School. wherein (or any one els 7 as pu as | ane); any intention of aieains he states that a Bible lesson was to be given in that school every it, at the r qQussiGog o auy party or person—a report which | da and the truths of Seri ture illu -*

bas been circulated with the most malignant intentions. Pe ea se ae and hyrmony have prevaijed up to this time, and I feel satisfied |

thaty one. o yey ow ave ¢ . rH ‘ » 1. es a ~ tes 4 ‘ i f ee ee the oe opinion that all the schools would be conducted on the same a wre ae WS Bhe Hess lur the management Of OUFr Cduca-| principle ; and remarked tt : i ed i tional estyblishinents, open as they are to all denominations of | P P md, EO, Pee engnlatione, shear red te. thy (‘hy iathi 4 3 : ‘eNneca a ope f, » » : : : nate jane My corms ience on the subject 18, therefore, per-| * The following are the injudicious and unauthorised observations fx uy at ease in this watter. I have no desire fur a sickly ; made use of by Mr. Stark it the speech referred to by the Bishop:— nytoriety, Dos do I appeal to man’s judgment. ‘ : * The moral department wil) be carried on by the opening and closing here is a sceondary poiat of view in which this subject must | of the institution with prayer, according to the regulation of the Board be examined, and on all points the convietions must be serious! y | of Education; by a daily Bible lesson (the first exercise of the day after engiged; and } om got too proad, nor dol entertain so high panne nt ema Coane mak ety oF Sanger GM be Toenyht an opinion of my own attaiuments, as tu be above looking to aioe are omate be: Miapieations and eprtng ont fo weet,

' : c (in langua impl d to be : sock preecdonts as way afford some instruction ; and I aiiecor: | scetarian o controvertaad shall be carefully excladed.” everything

ers, as well as children, of all denominations, the Bishop was of

&€C as the Normal School was intended for the instruction of teach- |

goodly selection of such as are, at the same time, entertaining and useful. Among this latter class we would humbly, yet confidently call the special attention of the patrons of periodi- cal literature to ‘‘ Life Ilustrated,” a r published every Saturday, in New York, by Fowler & W ells. Mr. John Mac- Donald is agent for itin Charlottetown. This paper is devoted to entertainment, improvement and progress in Politics, Arts, Sciences, Morals, Hygiene, Manufactures, Architecture, Agri- culture ond Horticulture. It is a neat quarto, printed on un- usually clear and white paper, with very neat typography, and occasionally some elegant illustrations. It is on account of its tendency to human improvement that we specially recommend this periodical. Although every issue of it is rendered more or less entertaining by recent explorations, voyages and adyen- tures, with an occasional affair d’amour, and choice budgets of wit—yet it is mainly devoted to articles on individual and social improvement. In confirmation of this remark, we would call the reader’s attention to a series of highly practical arti- cles to be found in a single number, that of the 27th Dee., 1856. Those articles are—*‘ Whom have you elected?’’ ‘* Work or die.” ‘* Forefathers’ Days.’’ And ‘‘ How shall we spend our

evenings?”’ All these are original editorial articles, replete

along way in the reat of that apparently much hoped-for trial of strength. The saints are, therefore, too fast in their movements for the religious politicians ; and these may rest assured, that long before the day of trial shall come, an honest public opinion will strip from the sanctimonious phiz of every charlatan who now assumes it, the flimsy veil of cant and hypocrisy.

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‘““THE LATE LIBEL CASE”

Acatn figures in the Islander of Friday last, to the extent of about a column of that valuable journal. Our readers need not suppose that we intend to exhaust their patience by any lengthy repetition of this thrice-told tale. In fact, when Mac- lean got all the damage to his character which he received from the Court and Jury, we felt quite confident that he would

continue, for some weeks at least, to prove by his acts that he

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