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Delivered in St. Dunstan's Cathedral in Charlottetown, for jt had been dedicated ag a Obureh. P. ©. Istand, in aid of the Fands of the Irish Volans

teers, on Thgrsday evening, 16th August, 1860, BY TUB RIGHT REV. DR. MULLOCK, Bisuor OF ST. JOUN'S, N. PF.

( Concluded.)

The administration of justice, I acknowledge, labours | tion commenced. nnder one defect. As faras I could learn, it is too mereiful. Trials are too long, it is said; but, after all, mercy is an

error on the right side, though [ think it is better for society that justice should be sharp and quick. Political offences,

including high treason, are, | may say, never punished with |

death in the Papal States; and if the Mazzinians were not

peflariously protected by governments, who, by this system |

of fostering rebellion, are working out their own speedy ruin,—and if they were not assured of an amnesty, if de- feated, but had to pay the penalty of their treason with their lives, as is invariably the case in England—witness Ireland and India—there would be less revolution, and honest men could sleep in peace. However, we must now pass through the erisis. I say we, for once this revolutionary epidemic attacks one or two nations, like the cholera it is sure to spread ; and it is only a questioa of time bow soon the seed we are sowing will germinate.

Whatever defects there may be in the Roman Government, there is no doubt bat that if the Pope and his people were deft to themselves, they would te eliminated; but the inter- ference of foreign powers, and the encouragement given to revoluationists, paralyse the Pope in the power of ameliorating the condition of his people. However, I have never heard of any formal grievance put forward by the Pope's enemies. We hear of no tithe question—no land question—no Irish

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Jews of their Synagogue. They complained to the Pope, and | ' ‘ se fforn—countries which, a century | he at once nat only re d the indiscreet zeal of his ser- ‘!¢ Plains of the Misgouri and Cope lation as large as that which e Qt anly reprove : e ; Indiscree zeal © 8 sere | hence, may not im bly contain # popu'a won 6 Be salnl vant, but ordered that the building should be immediately now inhabits Europe. The members of ber community are cer Jy

ty millions; and it will be dificult to | restored to its former oat, first removing the sacred images, not fewer than & naseres aad a waa cana to a hundred and | show that all the other Christian sects Uns ili i hich indicates that the term rn twenty millions, Nor do we see any sign Ww =. : Thus, from the earhest ayes the Pope has been always al of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the ee ae establishments, i

reat power. He was the father aud the civiliger of the bar- ‘all the governments, and of all the ecclesiastical

ee 7 ie. i i } ist i + and we feel no assurance that she is not a ircus people who settled in the provinces of the Roman | now oxia ee aes ie ant cemented eungatiel tite

Cuantorrerown, 5th Sept., 1860. Steamship America intercepted off Cape Race yesterday at 4 p.m. Brirain.—Lord Palmerston stated in the House of Com- mons that British subjects had been wronyfally im rieoned

at Paragcay, and pending compensation demanded. ‘Lhe — : ountrivs continue uninterrupted.

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' Empire. He was either a Sovereign-or the father of Sove-| ; Britain—before the Frank had passed the|¢igong between the two ¢ ' ‘sa i , & — | the Saxon had set fovt on — flourished at Antive»—when idols >, pst also referred in disparaging terms to the reigns. He alone survived the wreck of the Roman Empire, | Khine—when Grecian eloquence still flourishe eae Lord Palmerston a Ser eettibie ealen ie

| were still worshipped in the temple of Mecea, And she may ull exist) 307 (anal scheme, and the large number of 9h

and the fierce contests of the Middle Ages. The Reformation ,lefe his power even greater than it was before the Reforma) the midst of @ vast solitude, take bis stand cna bri Though he suffered great losses in Eyrope, | Bridge to sketeh the ruins of “t eT ae Ranke’s History ‘his spiritual subjects in the New Worid more than counter- | Peper, Edenburgh Review, October, _—

' balanced the losses in the Old.

No one ean afford to despise the Pope. The French Bo- ‘eyclopaedists attempted it, bat the shaft of their wit fell pointless. Le passed through all the upheaving of the great Prench Revolution unscathed. For the thousand time, the! The interesting account of the consecration of the New infidels clapped their hands, and said, the Popedom is dead| Church of Tignish, which appeared in a late No. of the am sure, with pleasure, by ‘

m New Zealand shall, in| ¢ . ben arch of London | it by thet ” edie iiare (meat have declared that th

with the scheme. House was counted out for lac Jesse Hartley, Engineer, and co Liverpool docks, dead. France.—The Emperor and Empress gone to Savoy and Nice. Me A decree orening the French ports for the admission duty free of all foreign grain and flour, irrespective of flag ; and Is laden with breadstuffs exempted from tonnage. This the French harvest.

2 nade eee a none in asha of Egypt, and stated that the French Govern- ey had nothing whatever to do k of requisite (40) members. nstructor of nearly all the

CHURCH OF TIGNISH.

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or | considered an admission ef deficiency in Sicity. —Invasion of Calabria, and commencement of cam-

| pai taribaldi -onfirmed.

| paign, by Garibaldi, fully con “pee :

Town of Reggio attacked and taken by Garibaldi. Four

| thomenied Calabrian insurgents joined Garibaldians in this | attack. ! ‘Lhe Royal Intendant of Polinesa was at the head of an im

at last—it was huried with Pius VI. in the prison of Va-| £raminer, has been perused, | : . >. e e ° ‘ > | ‘ . " ¢ ‘ ave "Cy lenciennes. Still it survived. It perished when lius VIL. | your Catholic readers. That was an oven oceasion f ' . . Ve j shie } a scure c 5 t 8ea-¢ was dragged from Nome a prisoner by Radet. Pius returned | as ve, es me F Me 0 “and set : ; ' ‘ i Isle “cup t prominent position, z ‘ onz to Rome triumphant, while Napo : i 5) ee ee Oe . a ’ umplant, whi e N spoloon, his jailor, was on bis ithe furemost of the Catholic Parishes in the Keclesiastical , Way to the dreary prison of St. Helena. Provinge of ialiiax J aor ar ae i : ” " =e s : jj | No, people may hate the Pope with an unutterable hatred | The elegant Chureh erected by the Catholics of the parish they cannot despise him. He is ealled by two hundred | of ‘Lignish, hae spread the name and fame of that locality far | millions of people the Vicar of Christ—the Head of the| aid wide. It cum now show something grand to all who come | surrection in the Province of Basilitia. Church. Millions knash their teeth with rage at what they | to visit it. It can show tiem a Church whose elegant propor-| qo ehiefs of the National Guard of Naples tendered their , . . ° . |e) ‘ ¢ shitve + ae ws j » . eet ne i | ° it ‘ a lic i call this blasphemous assumption,—their terror breaks out | tons and Sea beduty er aah respects, Vie With | posivnations in cons-quence of the foreign battalion not being ‘in the most violent invectives aguinst him > but they cannot | eo raised by Catholic ee = 3 New Nhereh f Tiwalel disbanded. “ f saribaldi d laesh athim. The Greck Patriarch ealls himself like the! do not presume to cumpare the New Church o ignish A general battle imminent between the Garibalcians an 2

: ; | with the venerable Cathedrals built in the ** ages of faith.’? | yy, Pope, the Keumenical Bishop—in other words, the Head of : | Ne ’ . . . Except among his own followers, this lofty title} be denied but that it is a beautiful building, charming the eye | Undying love from two bundred millions, aud undying hatred | appearance.

© | Though much inferior to them in many respects, yet it cannot | the Church. }only provokes a smile of contempt. Not so with the Pope. | with its uniformxsyminetry, and presenting a lofty and bold | Fis built in the early English or Gothic style, | trom some millions ef separtists—eitber is his portion—con- | whieh prevailed from the year 1189 to 1307. : tempt never | ‘Lhe length of the building, including the chancel, is one

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apolitans, LATER. Prince Albert at St. John’s F., at noon to-day. Briraiwn.—In the House of Commous ‘on the 24th, Lord Palmerston acknowledged the services rendered the Christians \in Syria by Abd el-Kader, said that the British ¢ onsul bad |been instrueted to tender thanks of British G vernment.

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| hundred and forty feet. [ts height from the floor to the top |

; : ‘ eh : 7 | of the roof is sixty-five feet. Its principal entrance is in front, ; a > : alify—a union of all Ltaly to become what it never can be in is stronger now among Catholics than it has been for ages. | , yor which is a Rear i: a cask a a gon epire that rises | Prorogation takes place.-—Mr. Lindsay, M, P, authorized to a é | proceed to Washington to lay before the American Govern-

the present state of the world—a first-rate power—this is all! The universal manifestatiou of feeling through Europe and | to the height of 180 f-et, and is eurmoanted witha finial and | he views of the Btitish Government selative to Nevige- they require or complain of. The millions are happy and) America was quite unexpected by the enemies of St. Peter. | cross. There is on each side of the tower an octagon staircase ee = Bellic r a shits, &c., and to enter into negotia- ° : nm x ® Se . | . ° ° ° » | i sAws 72 were ‘ - &C., & i C i ‘ ‘ contented, or have been so, till they fell under tie dagger; The French Emperor, commanding six bun jred thousand | or turret sixty feet high, terminating ina bevutiful roof, orna- | : os res a ae > annie &e. Lindsay sails on the Sth 3 a4 > : ante j . a sista ‘he C »} » snver. | ns lur ope g coas wade, ° - 7 government of the Mazzinians—men who alloy no Opposition; men, marks out a new map of Italy, covered with the blood mented ee and finials. i lie Church 18, moreover, Se oeiee . . . . . o . ‘ ‘ ° . . » > i » asty porches. We Pe! " ° under pain of assassination. The hundreds of briefiges bar-| of thousands in Solferino and Magenta. Everything appears | eo é. , ae Oe aed | a Pasiec,--Ltieiiaees made yery pacific speech in Lyons, ° ® . ° . Sie 7 . . | oe ee ohare ride O§ é arge g .

risters, unfeed doytgrs, and the idle and beggarly scions of a | to yield to bis power. Austria is defeated, and for a time | prolettinn Sea which ave Gniahed coe set-offs and | C2¥sing funds to advance. - Constilutionel says perenne debased and decayed nm bility these are the agitators; and paralysed ‘England, or rather the Knglisa Government, | pediments. Between each buttress is a rich tracery window, L-between France and aveein 9 excellent, and congratulate the mobs of the great cities—these are their abettors, | cucourage him——stupidly hoping to put down by his aid the | fijled with enamelled and stained glass, embellished with em- | !#tter power oa its reform tendency,

Remember, also, that the Pope has no Qolonies where the! Papacy. Pius, when certain propositions are made to bim, | blematie figures and devices from Scripture history. On the| Narres.—Garibaldi took fort of Reggio by capitulation on adventurcus may push their fortunes—no great army to ab-| replies by zon possumus, and arms and diplomacy fait befure| north side is a ehapel 50 feet by 20, corresponding with the | the 2lst. Garrison allowed tu leave pepe ote and —— sorb a large portion of the idle population at the expense of the venerable old man of the Vatican. The Lpiseopacy of | other parts of the building. : eer ere a ot SP ee the industrious—no penal Colonies to banish his convicts to,| France speak out in favour of their father, and join their, Lhe roof of the Church is covered over with felt cloth, on ja short fight also occupied Villa San - a v ae

“* : : . . | which are laid purple and green siates, adding additional) Eng ish Ship Orfal, from Mull from Messina, was seized by

who, therefore, must be discharged once more on society when | voices to those of the Bishops of the world. In vain does oS Z o.. ok : oe oe

a» of : ; : t 7 ' lustce to the extarnal appearance of the building. ‘The leaders | the passengers while the Captain was ashore at Genoa,—sup- their time of imprisonment has expired, and you may see | brute force attempt to silence them. They are the mouth- or. xy ppear: nai. : I 2

; ti : la: : : ess and gutters running along the curnices are of double block | posed that the passengers were friends of Garibaldi, aud that a - re difficulties to contend with that we have no! pieces of thirty-six millions of Freoch Catholies—the men | tin, executed im a workmanlike manner by Mr. W. B. Allin, | she was designed for hum vee OF.”

question—no Ionic or l|adian question. A sickly sentiment-| t is undubitable that the feeling in fuvour of the Papacy | House virtually concluded its labor adjourned, till 23th, when

| who placed the Sovereign on the throne—-and [mperial power | of Charlottetows. Syria quiet.

IT have now given you a rapid sketch of the advantages of | finds that conscience will not be restrained by police regula-| On entering into the interior of this handsome Church, the | Breadstuffs very firm. the Papal Government, and the weak points of it also. Any tions. No, thank God, there is something yet in the world | most indifferent obser ver even cannot but fix his admiring | impartial man — with a knowledge of the governments of superior to brute foree—the power of mind and conscience | §44° on its noble ground ceiling, the crown of which stands | dtarope, with their heavy taxes, conscription, continual press | represented by the successor of St. Peter. eo feet irom the fluor. fits eye Mae am ey with prosecutions, personal restraints, aud all other pecu'iartram-| What was the material power of the Roman Empire in its| 5 '° “© aaneeny Peepereenes aeremnes Wen cere Se Bare

B. HYNDMAN. ow = . ; ; > 4 4 i which divide the nave Che Examiner, ° . . e ' ‘ te ‘ the aisle z suppoO 3 , . The > oO” $8 the} inels, which, perhaps, England can at present dispense with, palmiest days compared to the spiritual power exercised by | i Sheth in ae Ae eee evithe ee epiiein _ beigg protected from foreign invasion by the sea, and having the Pope? Have you not yesterday seen a proof of -it here |

| which springs a pow of intersecting arcade arches. + to deal with an unarmed populace—will, I am sure, prefer| in this Cathedral? With what willing obedience twas not| At the weat ond of the Chure Charlottetown, P.E.I., September 11

At the weet ead of the Church is a magnificent chancel the paternal government of the Pope, whose defect is want of | the apostolic mandate, appointing your venerable Bishop, | witidow, remarkable for its rich carved tracery and stained | energy, while the others exhibit too much of it ia regard to| received! Peter speaks, aud ali obey. “ Go,’’ he says to | glass, with life-sig» figures of Jesus, Mary and Joseph stand-) pyiy) pesULT OF AGITATION ON TUE LAND their own subjects. ‘your Bishop, “take charge of the flick of Prince Edward | 8 0" pedestals of gracetul design. with gorgeous canopies : UESTION Leaving on one s de the spiritual power of the Pope, which, | [sland. You are their Pastor, and your name and title is ae ar The tracery Pa oe ee QUE vai e . o e i “ ‘ ; i y 8 7 : ri 2 vs @ > a , ri a of a s 2 on ste ¢ . - al as given by Carist to $t. Peter and his successors to the end heaceforward to be that of their capital City, Charlottetown.” | BUTS, VIE: Bie ski openings are Dtted with gazelle overn®,| Tas Islander of Friday last quotes some extracts from epeech es delivered by Messrs. Coles, Whelan and others, to show how

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; | bearing monograms of ornamented 1. H.S., M., Cross, Chalice, | of time, we know, as an article of faith, cannot be interfered | Tue decision is accepted as coming irom God himself. ‘+ Go, | Lilly and bunch of Pomegranates. The tracery in the head

with—TI have not the least doubt of the permanency of his| he suys to another youthful prelate, * to you I assiga a new has the Dove, Lam) and Pellican. All the side and front | much opposed they were to escheat in 1855. Those persons temporal power, and sp edy reoceupation of those provinces | flock,” traciag, as it were, with his fiager, the limits of his} windows are of stained glass, with ornamental borders, enamel! | yeyer denied their opposition to escheat at the time referred which haze been temporarily occupied by the King of Sar-| jurisdiction. Chatbam and its surroanding dis'rict is now a centres, and Jead sash. The heads of these windows are filled din'@h-one df the most’ vicious end’ wiorally degraded moe isin af tic Gitalie Chureh ; and, in all probability, | in with emblematic figures of Catholic worship. Al these | in nie dis sraced serown. This js not the place to speak | uiiiiendin al years will pass away, and Chatham, like the| wind »ws have double wrought trow ventilators . the sashes are promiced to settle t! - of thas man’s character, and E wou!d blush to relate before! a.cient ‘Dioceses of Europe, which date from almost the ween bets se pear wive.Seh. They are all| and at less cost than escheat could. They erred no doubt in the audience even a part of what I have beard years ago from apostolic times, will continue the seat of a Bishop, because | of rh York a ae or oe ee bis own subjects regardiag him. Peter has so traced it out and spoken the word. LKighty! The Altar, placed in the west end of the Chareh But the people of the Komagna—cowardly as they are. or | years ago but one Diocese existed in the whole American. piece of art. It is of Florentine marble, exce;t the Table, they would not Jet themselves be trampled on by adventurers | continent north of Mexico. Since, they have increased at| Which is of white marble. The centre niche is filled with a|. “at - have always inculeated the doctrine from other provinces—will at last rise up against their op-! the rate of vearly one a year. Such is apostolic power as'| bronze figure of the Virgin, holding in her Jap our Lord, after |*" practising, for they we a pare 0 ca ° 1€ doctrine pressors. Their taxes ure more than doubled —conseription, | exercised by the Pope. : Pf his being taken down f.om the cross. The side*niches are thit a despatch from a Minister of State is entitled to a3 much uoknown before, isrintroduced—their holiest feclings are in-| We bnew, thet, thet eae Divine Iestitatife, the Papaey filled with bronze figures, likewise, of the Nativity and Resur- consideration as an Act of Parliament. The Liberals, how- sulted—their clergy imprisoned and fined. Such is Sardinian’ never ean perish. Fouuded on a rock, the gates of hell cever Pn. = a ~~. — , jever, lo8t their respect fur Minixterial despatches when, in liberty, because they will not insult God by praising Him for | ean prevatl against‘it; and wherever the sp ritual throne of | mach ane a ‘Zs: Kole at Sel ee ea C the success of their revo utionery scoundrel masters! Surely. Peter is raised, temporal power accompanies it. For gigiteen | ‘+ the Pugin of America.” "The plans furnished by tlite srehis | Proprieturs, violated its sulemn engagement with this Colony if the very wor will turn when trodden on, the i mmagnoles | centuries, that throne has been shaken by rebellions, by re. | teet of world-wid« fame have been faithfully car ied into exe- | to give eff-ct to the Loan Bill, which was passed here at the will, unless they haye lost all manly spirit, rise agaiust their | volutions, by persecutions; thé roya! mantle of the Popes | cution by Mr. Owen Hamill, of Boston. “This latter named | : . . . > as at he lead echene. es y ‘has been over and over dyed in their blood ; but still there gentleman merits every praise for his unremitted attention in | Suggestion of a Colonial Min oer. From that time the lead- But | will teli you the eyrse of Italy, want of self-reliance : | it stauds, the only living monument among us of the days of | ee eting tle work from its commencement. ‘The skill ing Liberals declared their determination to treat as so much always looking to others, the French cr the English, to assist the begioning of the Cbureh, All the Kmpires which ex-| 1. eae em 8 7 sy ths nos ae dopa tmeuts con- | waste paper all the despatches which had been falm nated them. \isted in the world when that throne was placed in Rome, me hile a oe Sn ae, ene for, although It is a remarkable fact which we can trace through the have passe] away. Not alone empires and kingdoms, but| te whole course of history. that al! who have opposed. oppressed the very people themselves, the very nations tien known, or injured the Pope have been made examples of Go's ven- have pa:sd away, and other raves have taken their place. geance even in this world. What became of the Emperors’ The languages then spoken are spoken no longer. Britain, of ancient Rome, the first_persecutors of the Church? A! | as known to ancient times, no longer ex sts; it has become perished in some dreadful way. Where are the Hohenstau- ‘the home of a Saxon nation. Its name, its language, every fens of Germany—that race of emperors who alwaysoppressed | thing connected with it has changed. It is wow Kngland,| Jn closing this eommunication I cannot find words to express | and opposed the Popes? Their kingdom passed away—they | cotiverted aud civilized by the great Gregory. Gau! has} my admiration at the generosity and magnanimity displayed of the agitation which assumed formidable proportions when withered under the blight of the Papal malediction, and his-| become France; Sarmatia, Poland; Paunonia, Hungary ; | by the Catholics of Tignish parish in erecting amongst them-| th» TL <. Bill wan'itet tory hag fewer, sadder pages than those which record the fate Thrace, Turkey. Is fact, tke whole world, nations and selves so superb amonument of their zeal and piety. May | . of these German Caesars. See the Bourbons—the defenders | peoples, haye been changed, but the throne of Peier has God reward them for their devotion in His sacred eause. May of the Church for ages—led on by the false glare of what! remained standing amidst the wreck. It has not only sur- | _ ees] “see a ar ona agp eps eee: * lll es “6 > ee , . 0 i a « ircug Fhose indelatigahbie jadours and | ee ee eee eer en el , ares ~_ wend but - is —_ powerful te under he seed of activity the splendid Church of Tignish has been erected. g 2 subsequent | adversity which temporarily overshadows it than it was in! May he be preserved long to see many like it in his Divcese ones. But let us come down to the most modern instance,! any former age. Centuries of centuries will pass away ; | his native land. * that which I dare say is known to you all. The greatest | those wonderful revolutions which change the name, the man of modern times, the greatest conqueror the world ever. language, the people of nations, may occur again; but the saw since Alexander, sprang up from the dregs of the Revo- Pope, seated on the throne of St. Peter, will still be the lution. Crushing the hydra with one hand, with tho other! great and only permanent power in the world, until the this city, R. B Irving, Esquire, delivered a Lesture upon |

to, because the purchase system was then in operation, and »e township lands in freehold more speedily

attaching soinuch importance as they did to the despatches

lerror is one which te Tory party have spent most of their lives

j against escheat, and to agitate that question ;

,and by no means capah e of giving your readers an adequate | | idea of the Gothie beauty end magnificence of the New Charch | jof Tignish. But I mast gay, from the sitisfaction which 1 | myself received from beho'ding it, that any person having any | kind ; and the Court of Enquiry, which is virtuality a Court ' taste fur Eeclesiastical architecture would be well repaid in

| . ° | coming from any part of the Island to see so grand a Church. |

something else—it was believed that the agitation would be | the means of procuring concessions fur the tenantry of some

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of Escheat, now in operation, is the offspring, not of sympathy

on the part of the pre-ent Government for the tenantry, but

If the tenantry and their leaders had quietly submitted to their fate—if there had been no conten- ie landlords, no complain s abott defective titles, |

no murmuring at the exaction of the arrears of rent, no resist- |

| ance to the arbitrary will of the landhalders when they at-|

tempted to control the consciences of the tenants with regard

to political affairs, and if the rents had been regularly paid— | THE LAND QUESTION, P , s had been regularly pai

P a _ | We are quite sure we should never have heard of Col. Gray's | Qn Wednesday evening last, at the Temperance Hall, in |

resulutions, nor of the present Land Commission. The in-|

been revived to any extent, and the contention alout the original titles would have been confined, no doubt, within the narrowest limits. Now, the Proprietors must sell in spite of themselves, fora transfer by sale will undoubtedly be a pro-

minent subject in the award of the Commissioners, by which

isa sperb | from the Colou‘al Office condemnatory of escheat; bat this |

1858, the Colonial Offve, misled by false statements from the | Government on the subject ; but that, at all events, the Court

| The foregoing description, I must confess, is very imperfect, it might not be brought to a successful issue, it would lead to} appeared to prevail on the minds of many proprieters, that

original grants, there is no good titl on the part of persons who assume the rights of ow: ershi,—.ind ther ee several—it will be the duty of the Commis-ioners to recoy. nrend an escheat, which must be carried into effect. 'Phese are some of the advantages which followed a ch

of opinion in the minds of the Jeading members of the Libera} party with respect to a general agitation of the land tenures ; and that change would never have occurred but for the stupid obstinacy of the Proprietors and their Agents.

THE LAND COMMISSION.

Her Majesty's High Court of Commissioners appointed tg settle on equitable principles all differences arising out of the land tenures, commenced ite sitting in the Colonial Build; on Wednesday last. The Court consists of the following gentlemen :—The Honorable J. H. Gray, of New Brunswick, nominee of the Crown, and Chairmasa of t!:e Commission ; the Honorable Joseph Howe, Provincial Seere tary of Nova Seotia, nominee of the House of Assembly of this Island ; aad Joby William Ritchie, Esquire, of Halifax, nominee of the Ppo. prietors. Benjamin DesBrisay, Esqr., was appointed Clerk or Secretary to the Commissioners. The Hon. Joseph Hensley, and Samuel Thomson, Esqr., of St. John, N. B., Appeared ag Couftsel for the Tenantry, retained by the Government; aed G. R. Maliburton, Fsqr., of Halifax, and Charles Palmer, _Esqr., appeared on behalf of the Proprietors. lion. Mr. Wensley first addressed the Court, stating thas the resolutions on the Land Question generally which the House of Assembly had passed in the Session of 1859, hag been placed in bis hands by the Government, as declaratory | of the views which the Executive desire to have carried out by the Commission. r. Hensley expressed himself with great caution and deliberation. and placed the claims of the Tenantry, so far as | his instructions served, in the best possible light. [We did not hear the whole of Mr. Hensley’s speech, but

| bee writing this notice, we have been furnished with some | what lengthy notes of it, which we will endeavour to make use o! for our next No.]}

Mr. Thomson next addressed the Court, and for about half /an hour chaimed the attention of all present by the earnest jand eluquent style of his address, -the broad, nay altes liberal principles he enunciated and defended touching the | duties of landholders, the claims of the suffering tenantry, the | deception which had been practised in inveigling many of (we to commence life in the furest, the false promises by which they were allured, and the usurpations and grinding tyranny of land speculators—created a general feeling of surprise in the Court, which made a ludicrous and the very reverse of a pleasing impression on the countenances of the | Proprietors present, who saw plainly enough that the counsel retained by a Proprietary Governiitent had no sympathies for the proprietors as a class. Mr. Thomeon combatted the opinion expressed in this paper last week with respect to the powers of the Commission. It appeared to us, from the views pat forth by the Government in their organ, that the Court

award the Proprietors ae bound by law t» abide. Nor is it likely that the prige will be higher than that which the Government have paid for other public lands. The terms of Lord Selkirk’s offer will probably be taken as the standard price at which the township lands should be sold, for his Lordship, having agreed to the Commission at the time he made the offer to sell his estates at two shillings and four pence sterling per acre, and he being one of the principal landholders connected with the Colony —considered that this was a fair price for township lands. It is very reasonable to suppose that he did not arrive at this conclusion without con- sulting Sir Samuel Cunard. The latter named gentleman is the most influential of all the proprietors. His consent was, in the first instance, deemed necessary to the institution of the Commission, By his influence Lord Selkirk and others were induced to accede to it, and it is more than probable that when Lord Selkirk made the offer to gell his estates at 2s. 4d. an acre, he did so with the knowledge and coneurrence of Sir Samuel Cunard ; and it is equally probable that Sir Samuel is prepared to follow his example. If, then, the properties held by two such proprietors as those named can be procured on the liberal terms offered by one of them, we say now, as we said last Session in the Assembly, that the acceptance of the offer will be attended with more advantages than escheat, and

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he raised the prostrate altars of Prance; and as if God wished | world itself shall come to an end—until the Coureh itself! this—to our community—all-important, and, just now, all-| ‘rigues of the Proprietors in defeating the Loan Bill, and | ™ reward him, a on —> most splendid crown in has finished its course on carth, and the la t Pope will join | — questidn: Lon. George Bagnall in the chair. | thereby preventing the Purchase System from taking deep | the universe. @ Pope himself crowned him, as did his| the long series of his predecessors in heaven |, Phe Lecture vag conceived in a spirit of fairness and modera- | itati , s sso! . : Pee age: om _ : r . | root in the Colony, are at the bottom ot all the agitation which | predecessor Leo crown Uharlemagne one thousand years be-| I thank you, Ladies and Geutlemen, for the at‘ention you | oe? b. toee pointedly, and without any concealment of the | hein aenamemnell salable ah. h ace. UC the! | fore. Pride and ambition, however, blinded him. Though == given to the Lesture. Tbad no resources but memory ; ~—- ~ aid a ape as gs tlie landlords | a8 occurred within the last two or three years. the Loan . OS aa . , 4 . . , an 1eir tenants, direc stuted the evi F rietaryi j > , ‘ 2 i re he at first tojd his fencrals to treat with the Pope as with a | to draw on; and it was only during the spare hours I could and plainly iidicntad the ails at sholiunne a See Bill bai been allowed to — and the British Government | aie eee if “"s had ‘we hundred thousand armed Snatch from the important dut’es we had to perform in the simple possession of their farms, as the on.y remedy which can had thereby kept good faith with this Colony, some of the | men, he soon forgot his obligations to him—imprisoned him | consecration of the Bishops that I could throw a few thoughts be devised fur these evile ;—evils which, wholly unmitigated, | best estates in the Island might have been settled in freehold | . 4 - 3 . . p = * . : ° ik for 4 lg 2 08 his estates, and Was exXcommuni- | together. This, I hope, will plead my excuse with you. | have, ever since this beautivul and fertile Island became a aie this—the proprietors would have obtained fair prices for | cated. What,” said cae Lord of Kings, “ will an excom-| Aguin thanking you, I wish you every blessing and happiness. dependency of thé British Crown, been the bane of its progress their lands, the Quit Rent question would not, probably, have munication mgke the atms drop from the hands of my! Addressing a Society of Irishinen, I know L speak to the Pad mmaprorpaapilt aad prosperity 7 a soldiers?” He, perhaps, forgot the word, but it was remem-| most ardent defenders of the See of St. Peter. For three | ‘canals ie not only vee ee but well read ; and, bered in heaven and earth. He dragged half a million of centuries your forefathers suffered every persecution on| ins eae bell eee ree ee | men to Russia—bis army perished by thousands, aye, by account of their undying attachment to the Pope. It is that, | truly respectable and ose allintion Sey maEgpaly, +} handreds of thousands, in the snow, and he publishes a bul- principally, which Catholicised America—which has covered! After the close of the lecture, the autinte were addressed letin to the world in which he says: “ We could do nothing, | the continent with at least ten millioas of men of [rish blood by the Honbls, G. Coles and E. Whelan; and also by Mr for the arms fell from tbe hands of my soldiers, such was the: —which, in another century, will have enlivened the so-called | McNeill, of Cavendish, and Mr Archd. McNeill of this city intensity of the cold.” D.vine Providence dictatcd that, Anglo-Saxon population of North Amevica with one hundred | !he Hon Mr. Cotes, in a very able and interesting speec’, bulletin, that under his own hand Napoleon might proclaim | miliions of the Celtie race. Had the Irish people, at the | 4!SP*ssionately, bat yet firmly advocated the cause of the to the world the dreadful power of a Papal excoumunication. | great defection of the sixteenth ceutury, renounced their oe attest — a o en a a. Even the bigotted Sir Archibald Alison is obliged to register | allegiance to the Pope, there would be but few Catholics, | eee: Chine _ Tears see gata the fact. Wall he dispose, as he thought, of the Papal power | indeed, in this portion of the Western Hemisphere. See! ty the views of the learned and very ialonted gentlemen, the forever. He was Emperor of the West, and his son was how nobly from their poverty the Lrish people responded fo| Hon. Joseph Henley and Samuel Thomson, Esquire, the r of Rome--a faval kingdom, The Emperor, gs you | the call on them to contribute to the support of their spiritual | counsel for the tenantry, appointed by our local Govern- know, died a querulous prisover under the jailorsbip of an Father; and not alone with money, but sce the youth of | ment, and whose vidws and opinions seémed to be fully English Colongi at St. lleleoa ; and the King of Rome, after {reland enrolling themselyes in the ranks of the defenders of | 2¢dviesced in by the honorable Commissioners—they, the au inzloriops life of whout twenty years, died in \ jenna, | ‘he Papacy ; and [ shall be very much djsappomted, if ever Con ee ee er - _ — eerete of Passing through tae vaults of the Capuchin Convent in they are brought face to face with the rabble of Mazzini or | will is ulfphobalillity "a acl sap Shy gee ieee Het resting pene eet rt beew | Garibaldi, or even the brave hut misled Sardinian army, if satisfaction uf the conantry and that of their best friends. — out the oe a we the young a. of Rome, they will not show them what stuff the [righ race is made of,| ‘The Hom. Mr. Wiolan addressed the audience in a very on ees at Uitlannss oo y, * Napoleon, Duke and prove themselves worthy of the glorious Irish Brigade eloquent —and, towards 10s conclusion, impassioned and im- of Ric istad. L have no doubt but that those who now | which so often turnel the tide of battle in Europe, which | pressive speech. Iu the course of it, he threw out many persecute Pius 1X. will figure ia bistory hereafter I:ke those | never fouglit but to conquer, and whose offshoots, the | Yt valuable hints ior the guidance of the tenantry and their who persecu'ed his predecessors, | MeMahons, the O"Donne!ls; and the Nugents, are the first | (°S*tes eA the pyesent crisis; and depicted. with much : . he > ‘ : aes ; , ; © ‘ ° @e ‘ i - owi es vor bo We, ee heard, over oe eee and | soldiers of Kurope at the present day. I am delighted to prone sal poorey seat ote oF poocrientytle gfien ys uctation frm an essay of the late Lord Macaulay, | sons of Jiri j a isi str : i ee . : gh mes sod 4 ae f _— y ed lacaal ty, | see the sons of Mrin here in this Island practising the noble under which the farmers of this, otherwise muble colony ne g’of the traveller from New Gealand taking his | art ef self-defence. Every tree man has a right to bear! hevze so long been doomed to toil and struggle. stand on a broken arel. of jendon Bridge to ske'ch the ruins|arms, and Lam sure ‘the weapons you cdrry never will be) Mr. McNeill, of Cavendish, declared his entire concurrence i pe ~ wile ‘he ee wz be still flourishing * | used but in defeace of your Fuith, your Country, and your in the ae and conclusions, of the lectu- ‘aneiful as the idea is, it is perfectly borne out by historical | Queen |rer: and expressed a wish that—on account of the great analogy. Wherever.}’eter resides, there is power—not ma- | a amount of information, concerning the proprietary system terial power, but idea!, spiritual, inteliectual power, which| ** There is not, and there never was, on this eirth, a work of amen | oo ite origin. Which the lecture cqntained—it might be piways draws materia! power after it. Even iu the days of | policy so weil deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church, | delivered ee awey ttlement a district 7 the Island. . ~eurly persecution the P opes possessed ‘ ae j i | The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human | Mr. Arehd. McNeill, in addressing the audience, which he ¢ pe ra z po- #§ great power, and that civilization. No other institution is left standing which carrics the mind | did in a very ¢nergetic and effective manner, pointed out the was une of the prineip. rea-ous alse why the pagin Cogsars back tothe times when the sinoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, | necessity of astivity, caution, energy, and demonstration of perser uted thes. : Si. Xy stus was offered his life if he gave | ad tees poi? ‘owe wa a Tiavton pn yp coinbined actipn, op the part of the people and their delegates, oo wealth, which, through «he hands of his deagon St. tie line of the eetdan Rican eee is ee a. oe | for the p.rpos of having their wrongs and their rights faliy awrenge, be had already couvurted into treasures in heaven | broken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth tnade kaowe b the Comaiissioners. This speech well merited by distrivuting it to he poor. We read of a pagan actor i saa to eg who crowned Pepin in the eighth ; and far be-| the approbation which it received ; and the cautious, watchful, Fae as a : ; a | youd tue time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost ia the | uncumpromishg policy, which it recom led to t! eople es a 2 ’ - oO jtwilight of fable. Zhe republic of Venice came next in antiquity. Bat! wi r a acti oe : on a ridiculing the Cbristiaa reliziqn on the stage, but off:ring to ; eit will ae A y a mended people, i ; : of, yoy ‘ ope, be practised by them, to the furtherance — a Coristian if the Christians would meke him their | cue republic of Venice was modera when eompared with tle Bapacy ; nay, to the reslizat of thei : ab} j ‘ Pontiff. We read in the Epistles of st. Gre sory the Great j and the republic of Venice is gune, and the Papacy rewains. Tue Pa-| + ye i di in oe ee and sat he had such enormous estates unde "ha “it i | pacy reiwaus, nutiu detay, nut a were antique ; but tull of lite and Just demauds.— Com. E. Asi Te Beek MS COUTFOU! IM | youthful vigour. The Cathlic Churen is still sending forth to the fur-| : urope, Sia and Africa, that he Was all but in name a Qv- thest ends of the wotld missionaries as zealous as those who landed in | The Ki . r ? ’ Vereiga prince. Auld | wish io meutiong ove curivus fact [Kent with Augustin ; andstiil confronting hostile kings with the saine | e Kinzstin Daily Nelos understands that the Orangemen bave read iu these Epis | One of the Mag’ strates whom | *eirit — she confronted Attia. The number of her children of oo wal = Cae to the namber of 100,000 men, with the Pope had placed over one of bie tow ig greater than in auy former age. Her acquisitions in the New World | &t least J agsand banners, will form part of the procession ns, dispossgssed the beve more than compepsated her for what she bas lost in the Old, Wor i iyal i i Old, Wer op the Princes arrival in that cit a | y-