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the mnewrest trees, and hewing them into logs about eight feel) COARLOTTETOWN, PLE. Te NOVEMBER 22, 1858.

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TILE DISMISSAL OF COUNTRY POSTMASTERS.

in length, ia which operation [ assist wh: is done, and num proud et Jve"s approval of my dawying pe ficiency in wooderalt. Joe He throws his tomahawk |

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7 } . ' bat to see lumbering !

about his head apparcutiy tn the most fantom and flaii-like = the interests of country postmasters, haye given the Islander iagnner possible, but deals every blow as clean and sure 48! gnother opportunity to yent its spite against the Government

at hy were some thriity house! der © nne@a fi oO “it 3 han, | . . s : j if he Were some thriily householder carving a Havourite MAB.) iy and His Excellency in particular. Indeed, it bas Nay, be occasionally uses his fect as an outline for his cuts, ‘

. ' ’ ‘heen the aim and object of our contemporary for several and when some larger pine than ordamry has succumbed to, 28¢ the J } y t,

his prowess, stands on his fallen foe with heels together and toes apart, in a dancing-master's first position, and slices out the intermediate ang'e iuio a notch, bringing down each blow of kis whisling axe within a very few hairbreadths of | Executive Council and do the administrative drudgery, are his moceasins. 1 shudder to behold; but Joe's nerves are of ?

the temper of his towahbawk, which, at the risk of spotiing the romance of the name

‘months past, to give the Lieut. Governor the benefit of its Members of the

especial] consideration on all occasions. Legislature, and all such small fry, who hold seats in the

treated with profound contempt hy the gentleuian who washes

I should state to be a good and the dirty linen of the Opposition. We cannot say what unmistakeable Shefeld axe-he:d, with the maker's name not yet groind out; the haudie, to be sure, is of wild and origi-

nul shape, but the weapon is an axe, Heituer more nor less.

his attacks. Perhaps he thinks it looks more respectable to

squirt bis suds ata gentleman whose position forbids him to > “

Some reeent changes in the Post Office Department, affecting

advantages he proposes to himself by changing the objects of |

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INTOLERANCE. reated i

The Protector of phe 15th inst. publishes a letter addressed | eres to be Sotenmione’ a exciting notice bY the which contains PV blie display of all ite foul and fiendish passions. We harg

‘been 60 long accustomed to read in the Protector, and other ‘this Colony, and seldom, if ever, wo believe, disgraced the similir prints, abuse of the Catholic religion, that we bat | Press of any other country in the dark: st days of religious | Rogues ” regard with supreme indifference tho dia ribes of It purports to treat of the eubject of Emigration | our sanctified contemporary ; but when one of its Contributors

} Sdvises a wholesale system of proscription ~ tells hig fellow

| the indifferonee with which it has boen previously {

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‘to the Editor, cver the signature of ** C. a -yentiments such 98 were mever before given to the public in

‘intolerance. —in aliusion to the vessel now about to leave our shores wit | many of our respected fellow townsmen on board, for the) Protestants that they must not have any dealings, sociay distant Province of New Zealand—and the writer attributes, morally, politically, commercially, or otherwise, with Catho, the desire which actustes those people to two causes : — Ist., lies — that the religion of Catholics is ‘*an abominable and the existence of a Government which he impuden'ly pronounces | inexpressibly cursed thing’? —that they are a “bang of

| ‘bad,’ wihout giving proof thet it is so; and, secondly, | vipers,’’ not fit to be employed by Protestants even as # hows

| the spread of what he is pleased to call * Popery.”” Were of wood and drawers of water,’”’ unless in cases of grewt emer

| we to deseribe this letter in very strong language, we should genoy—and that the Catholics would change their religion if

| fail to conyey an adequate idea of the intense and stolid higo” | the Protestants did not employ them, &e. &c.—when We read

\try of its author, while many readers of the Examiner, into | such advice and such sentiments as these, we have & Tight to

| whose hands the production has not fallen, might be induced | ask what the poor Catholics have done to evoke buch @ bed

to infer that our own religious, if not political, bias, prompted | spirit against them? Have they ever interfered with, op jp. | Us to impart to it a fictitious colouring. To prevent any such | fringed upon the rights of Protestants? Their worst enemics

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\When the trees are cut up, the fire lit, aud the logs placed handy for the aight, Joe boils our tea, and fries our hodge- pode, and by the time that [ have given an additional heivht to the wall of our camp with a kind of chevanx de- frise woven of the loose branclies off the (ex ready.” with a nightcap of grog; roll ourselves in our blankets; lay our feet as near as we can to the fire, which Joe has heaped up afresh, and compose ourselves to sleep, our heads in the dim distance under the wall of snow.

I lay awake a long time this fiest night, musing on my eurious situation. Here was 1, many miles from any human being but the wild figure which snored at my side, deliberately choosing to spend one of the coldest nfghts of a cold climate on a bed of snow (for it was little else.) under no shelter but the trees and the stars. The scene was most extraordiuary and picturesque. The blazing logs backed by the bank of suow, reireating into ivicles scarcely a yard behind thew ; the fantastic masses of trees, all black and white, which peeped forward into our ¢irele of warm glow; the idea of vast darkness and cold beyond; and blacker and colder than all, the s\y seen through the tall gaps abdve, with stars which stood out eveu whiter than the snow for being beyond the ruddy influence of the fire: who could sleep in a scene so novel and exciting? Besides, [ thought, what and if Joe shoul! awake, and take it into his bead to appropriate to his royal use guns and other appurtenances for which he has ulread y expressed by word and look the strongest admiration : he has only to use that knife which lies gleaming by his side ws expertiy on me as [| have just seen him use 1t on smaller meat, and nobly need ever know what bas become of me. Moreover, it is not easy to an inexperieneed bushranger to wocominodate himself to the suceessive cubic feet of tempera- tare in camp, and [ found myself undergoing at onee three different climates with their several gradations. One's fect become very torrid indeed at the fire; it is correspondingly frigid in the high latitudes at the head, and an intermediate

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zone succeeds in achieving a respectably temperate atmos: |

phere, pain of seorehed feet to find my «ye'asbes frozen together. Thus parsing the night, “ ‘tween asleep and awake,” varied eceasionaily by rousing Joc to keep up the fire, who lies as jaanimate aud uuresponsive to shouts as ove of the logs in waiting beyond him ; a poke produces only a drowsy remon- strance of “bery goot fire,” aud it requires a good unmerciful kick or two to rouse him to a due sense of his obligations. |

eur red neighbourhood, though I have never known how much imaginary warmth thera lies ijn darkness till I shudder st the new distances cf eold revealed by daylight. Joe is up, and cooking at once; before [ perfectly comprehend the whole situation [ find myself at bresk-fast, aud by sunrise we ule tramping on again.

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To-day as yesterday, and yet fi

more fatiguing. We cross

some tracks of gable, for which Joe sets traps baited with |

cold bo:led beef, which he sooa knocks up With an ingenious eoliocation of logs aud boughs, on the principle of a falling weight to crush the animal. ‘Iwo or three tines to-day Joe tops with “I guess water.” Why, doe?’ © Oh, ground sink.” { look, but can see votbing more than the same useveness of snow which the buried underwood and fallen tim r cause everywhere; but Joe has * guessed” it, and he is Deve’ wrong when he expresses an opinion co strongly as

that, so he digs a well in the snow with his axe, and there |

sure enough isa trickling stream fur underneath, which we adulierate with braady, drink, and proceed on our way rejoicing.

ee ‘ ‘titata : e! a . . : Wheu Joe says he * thinks” he is mostiy wrong; when | to hold office under a Conservative Government, and doing at | he “sposes,” very nearly always right; when he “ guesses oa

t's gospel, and L shou!d despair of ever reaching the Barrens

many times to-day, if Joe were not passin s bis royal * guess "1

that we are right all the time, so [ toil on in faith of the ipse dixit.

At last, an hour or two before sunset, Joe surprises me by suddeuly proclaiming that we are within a mile of the Barrens. tie can't tell me how he knows; I don’: believe he knows himsvif; he “ guesses” ii.“ This,” he says, “ goot place eamp: if camp too near Harrens, scare Caliboo.” [ am not without my suspicions that Joe thinks that he has had enough of the treboggin for to day; but L defer to his judgment, so we go through yesterday evening's process over again, making this camp, however, rather more elaborate and com- fortable than the last, as we are to spend four nights in it, und roofing the side which is not fire-proof, with about a dozen planks, which Joe, with uo weapon but his axe, cuts and rplits ip about half-an-hour out of the side of a large pine.

All our stores are hard frozen to-night, and meat, potatoes,

he proclaims | We feast; smoke the pipe of peace ; finish |

lawoke several times during the night from the}

“lmeanness in a clearer light.

} ' i | but shot with little ceremony. } ' t

take notice of the nuisance, and who fortunately stands too high to get fouled by the dirt ; or perhaps he finds it a mere waste of time to be scolding incessaniy at subordinate officials, who are provoking enough to remain in oflive in spite of him, while the public are, for the most, indifferent to the nofee he

jmakes, or laugh at his petulence and jjl-temper. Time was 'when the editor of the Js/ander was yain enough to think he icuuld write down any Government he chose to oppose, and ‘even boasted of his ability to accomplish this feat ; but he has ‘now had about seven years constant practice, with all the | influence of the Tory party at his back, and he, at least, has /made no progress towards the consummation of his designs,

| With respect to the removal of three or four country | postmasters, no matter how competert they may have been to . discharge the duties assigned to them—they were not disiniss- They

rnment was likely to have been defeated at

ed one hour sooner than they ought to haye been.

thought the Gove l the last election - and those fellows, who had not the manli- ness to resign, hoped to gain credit with the expected in- }coming Tory Administration by using their little influence and exertions to make way for them. They showed their teeth /and tried to bite, and like other snarling curs, they merited a vigorous application of the “‘rod.’’ It is to no purpose that | their apologist in the Js’ander reminds us that their salaries were small. The principle which applies to the conduct of a low salaried official is, or ought to be, the same as that which If it be not right for the Post-

| master General, or any other important functionary, to oppose

affects a high salaried one.

the Governinent under wicich he is employed—and this principle was fully admitted by the late Postmaster General, | Mr. Owen—we cannot understand why the Postmaster’s | deputies should be allowed to do what he himself is restrained from doing. No one tried to coerce them into support of the

Government, or perhaps ever asked them to support it—but

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‘they wanted to appear as wonderfully clever and high spirt fel]

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! ranks of the enemy. There would have been some manly

m the party that employed them, they appeared in the ~

|}Tesigned their offices befure they went into opposition.

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(Tha fact of their salaries being small only exhibits their

set an inordinately high yalue upon small things, whem they

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sacrifice of furty or fifty shillings a year. Traitors in the naval or military service, when caught in the act of assiat- ing the enemy,are not only deprived of pay and uniform, t is fortunate for the traitors in the civil service that they have nothing worse to complain of than the mild punishment of expulsion. We advocate 2 rigorous use of this punishmen’ in all cases of treachery. There are some petty ollicials yet throaghout the Island who

} reve Laney are

° ° ' . . . deserve it quite as well as those who have had it.

| mistaken if they suppose they cannot be reached, or are for- Forbearance may serve them for a time, but not

| gotten. We should be sorry to sec any true Liberal secking

| always. We know that a Conservative Government would not let him do it; and why should e Liberai Govermment allow a Conserva-

| the same time his best on every occasion to destroy it.

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j tive to do it?

The article in the /s/ander which suggested these remarks |

| concludes with a paragraph which to the subject of the dismissal of country postmasters ; but as

iit is amusing from its grotesque absurdity, we shall give it

the benefit of a wider publication than the columns of the)

Islander can afford. It is as follows :—

‘s A rumour is in circulation, said to have emanated froin | Wightman, and therefore likely to be true, since it is against | himself, to the effect that the Executive Councillors now help

'themselyes to pay, at the public expense. Three pounds, per

| Council meets, is reported tobe the rate. ‘Thus ** Stanislaus”’ will get from £6 to £7 for driving his own waggon to town. | This is no doubt very ‘ Liberal,’ aceording to Snatcher ideas

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ews atan election fight, and te show they did not care a ;

| domestic servants,-as tradesmen or as apprentices, as clerks or as wm not sorry when the pale dawn comes crowding in upon feeling and some sense of decency manifested, if they had! merchants.—and then it would be soon evident who had the | superiority.

| Tt may be supposed harsh to recommend this exclusive dealing with regard to papists, but you haye te remember that Their conduct proves that they jmany of them good and noble in their dispositions) they are were unwilling to purchase their independence at the little!

has no reference whatever |

trip, with travelling expenses, for every day the Executive |

pud ouvions have to be chopped with an axe, and stay a long | of liberality ; and it must be particularly gratifying to suel: as | time in the frying pan before they will begin to cook ; but | Stanislaus, to find that he can live cheaper abroad than he | > €.¢ : . . ’ i iv ikea » © ay} a ele: Ae pe ‘3 Joe's yesources rise with difficulties, and our new-year’s | Cau live at home, like the buarder in @ cheap steamer. dinner is the best I ever tasted. And don’t we relish and | 1 . - . » shia e . . scramble for the tid-bits of the hodge-podge whieh Joe! 4 word of truth in this silly story, and McLean knows, or serves up fresh from the fire in the frying-pan, which is our | guly dish and plate! And don’t our bunting knives—for | we are gu !tless of forks —go quickly backwards and forwards | trom the pan to our mouths, bearing on them the delicious tendance, the Legislature should pass an Act to authorise it, mixture of pork, beef, buiscuit, potatoes, onions, grease, and jand the House of Assembly should vote money sufficient for '; tcl. eee — lose - c " : | ‘ ‘ ‘ aoe ‘Tae , with ereamless tea, forms the orthodox camping | the purpose — neither of which was ever thought of being aiet, ie

greatest contest is for the grease remaining at the | ‘ ; bene 6 e! ‘done. Wowever, if the editor of the Is/ander has been so/d, |

end, whic! we soak up with biscuit, or scrape up with the) ud : : as we suspect he has, (and it is not the first time), we are con- |

, . . We think we need not assure our readers that there is not | , ought to know, that it is untrue; for he must be aware that) before the Executive Councillors could get pay for their at-

a am ' : is , } knife, according to its consi-teney. Verily camping makes one ; Satiod oi nf hers. |fident he will not find it so easy to ‘sell’? the public. W sequainted with strange trencher-men, and stranger trenchers. | fident he wis not Bnd it so easy to “sell” the public. _ Jue is less stolid to-night over our grog aud pipes, and’ have never heard of the ‘‘ rumour’’ until we read the above | tells not very interesting stories of his former haunts and paragraph, and of eourse we cannot say whether Mr. Wight- *. i j ; r } ] Ad } >] ag #? j . . . .

— ‘Se chief point of them ail being the big driuks ‘man is entitled to the honour of its paternity. with which he has concluded days’ huntings, till good humour | ets the better of good judzmwent, aud taking the palpable |

&€ = § jues or ee bint, L allow a bigger drink than u-ua!. And Joe is to-night | ™ wore log-like than before, and more pertinsgious than ever gaping at 9 political canard. If he has succeeded in letting in answering all appeals to make up tue fie by moving the | thems have, on the occasion of his last visit, one of bis usual

i yj ; > . = } } : Y : } } previous (juesiion, as to its present “ goot"'-ness, till Lamy bargains,"’ we congratulate him on the hearty laugh he forced onve snd again tu be stuker my-elf for the dear life, | fur it is no joke letting the fre out when the thermometer is | tweuty-five below zero. (To be continued),

We know, |

however, that this facetious gentleman, almost every visit he

akes to the City, amuses his friends by setting his enemies

wust baye enjoyed at their expense.

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NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

| ‘Tux Mail from England arrived here on Friday morning

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A wan is most properly said to be “ ripe fur anst! ing?” | when he jaa little aia. J ee ‘last, the news by which is not of great importance; but

Toe tellow who lost bis appetite, offers one cout reward oxtracts fiom our latest files of such intelligence as appeared

‘them in your bosom, you need not be surprised if it should

,out from among them, lest ye be partakers of their plagues.’’

| needed occasionally as hewers of waod and drawers of water ;

tuisunderstanding, and to exhibit the contribution of the ‘Christian Witnegs’s’’ Christian correspondent im all its naked deformity, we have resolved to reprint the letter almost in full, Weomitonly three short passages; the first para- graph, part of the second, and partof the third. The remain- der constitutes the animus of the letter, and is as follows. Lhe p»ssages printed in italics are done so by us, to render their atrocity the more conspicugus :—

‘«« Now, how comes this desire on the part of our neighbors and acquaintances to emigrate? It is an a neta question, and may be answered in various ways. The long winters, our isolated position during winter, the want of an outlet for the rising generation, the number of papists, and the bad Goyern- ment of the country, have all been pointed out as causes.

‘+ What, then, is the cause of this upstart notion for imme- diate and sweeping emigration? Pupery,and a bad govern- ment. ‘This is the answer given by many; and certainly these are strong and substantial reasons—the more especially that they are so closely connected as at present. Indeed, this is the great difficulty in this Island. Of course the government ean and will be changed; but popery still remains a terrible obstacle to our prosperity. The severities of the climate we might grapple with in some sort of a way, 60 a8 to overcome ite effects; but popery is an eternal and almost insurmountable barrier in the way of eeaperrty : ’ ever it exists, and it is likely to prove 8o in this Island.

‘* What, then, is to be done? Are Protestants to leave the Island, because papists wish to have the ascendancy? Nay, verily ; let them hold their ground ; it iscowardly to run away. Are we to yield to the influence of foreigners—and we members of the British empire? I think not, Let us petition the Queen for the removal of the Governor,~-for the sending out of a staunch protestant in his stead: and the affairs of the Island will soon take « different shape. It is said that the papists are too strong for this. J do not believe it-—but why aro they strong, if it be go? It is not becauso there is any thing in popery that is superior to protestantism, but because papists go band in hand all over the world in the execution of their diabolical purposes,—and because worthless Protestants lend themselves as the willing tools of these creatures, for the pecuniary or visionary gaing which they confer, Let Pro-

It is a cursed thing wher-,

cannot prove any interference detrimental to the rights of Protestants. Haye they an undue share of influence over the Government of the country? The statistics of the Colony prove tho very reveras. According to the last Census, the population of the Colony stood as follows ‘— Protestant, 39,415; Catholics, 32,081—tutal, 71,476 ,—giving the Catho ing to the natural ratio of increase, by this time the number of Catholics ought, at least, to be equal to all the Protestant sects in the Island. As to their sharo in the patronage of the Government, and their control over our Jocal institutions, let us see how they are served. Jn the Executivs Council there are nine Protestants and éwo Roman Catholics. In the Legis- lative Council, with two vacant seats, there are nine Protes- ‘tants and one Roman Catholic. In the new House of Assembly, out of thir/y members, there are only seven Roman Catholics, and twenty-three Protestants. All the principal offices app filled by Protestants, namely :—Secretary, Assistant Secretary ; Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer ; Attorney General; Land Commissioner ; Registrar of Deeds; Surveyor General; Post. master General ; Collector of Customs, Assistant Colleetor | of Customs; Road Correspondent; Clerk of the Councils; Superintendant of Pub ic Works; one Assistant in the Post Office; making altogether 15. The only Catholics who hold public offices in Charlottetown are — Queen's Printer, 1— Assistant in tho Registrar's Office, 2—and one Assistant in the Post Office, 3—giving the Protestants a clear majority of 12, and all the best offices besides.

Now, let us look to the Magistracy t» see Low Catholics have fared in the distribution of Magisterial honore, especially as the correspondent of the Protector has insinuated that they enjoy too much influence in this line. In Queen's County thero are 100 Magistrates, 85 are Protestants, and the re-

‘testants stand fast, therefury, Jyct it nut be supposed that | there isa necessity for Protestant emigration from this Island, | “becanse of the power of papists, or their nambers; for Pro- | ‘tostunts have the real power in their own hands, if they would

Knowledge is power—and they possers it. ; \They have also energy, and enterprise, and weglth ;—these | ‘are the sinews of war. Let Protestants use these judiciously. | Let thein cease to employ papisis in any form, erther as farm or

jbut employ it.

however good their hearts may be naturally, (and there are

;not their own—they dare not think and act for themaclyes; and hence the terrible danger of universal suffrage among them. No doubt the lower elasses are most easily led by priestly in- ‘fluence; but there are few of them (papists) that are above it. ‘it matters not whether they may be Governors, or Magistrates, (or Editora, or Merchants, or the gmall fry that can be fright- ened with Purgatory at any moment; it is all thesame. For | ‘the same hellish inflaence that can reach the one can generally reach the other,—and thus they are bound band and foot by (afew designing knaves, who are clever in villainy, if they are not so in anything else. Let the policy here suggested he} ladopted generally among the sound thinking and influential ‘of our Protestant populatien, and then you will have fewer to oppose you at elections, and less cause to think of emigration |as a cure for the commercial and political difficulties with which we are surrounded. Do you ask mo why? Because | if the paor papists were not so generally employed by Protestants las the y are, they must see it imperative either to change their faith es they often do in the States, or change the place of their | ‘obode, and go to some other place where they would be less odious. | And what you mean to do, let it be done at once :—for if it be ‘thought necessary to emigrate more on account of the number ,and the power of papists around you, what will it be if they ‘increase and become strong? Remember you see little of thei ‘cursed influence here, compared with what may be seen else- where. You may think you see them at the warst; but you arc awfully mistaken. You must go to Italy, Spain, Portugal, ‘and other priest-ridden countries of the same stamp, before you | ‘ean at all understand the abominable, and inexpressibly cursed thing that popery is. It is the best contrivance for enslaving souls andruining mankind that the devil ever devised ; — but in- | decd it is heli-born as a political evil, as well as a religious one, | —for whersver it goes, the people are enslaved, degraded, and ruined. lynorance follows, then crime, then commercial distres: , then social disiurbances——till the fairest provinces of earth are turned from a heaven to @ hell, ) ** As yet you have liberty—social, civil and religious; but uard them well, for there are agencies afloat that may deprive ‘you of them. You haye liberty to worship God as you please ,in the meantime; but let papists increase by your patronage, ‘and in power by your indifference or connivanee, and you will neither have liberty to speak, nor act, nor even think as you please. Yon may then wish to emigrate, but lack both the means and energy necessary for the enterprise. Act, then, at once in the way pointed out, at least think seriously on the subject. Let no trifling consideration of ease or comfort induce you to hire one of /hese serpents, that may at any moment sting and bite you ; at all events remember if you will nurse one of

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use you aa it has doneothers, Nay if any Protestant with his eyes open to the efforts of popery, gives encouragement in ~ way to its adyancement, he is playing a dangerous game wit

his own mterests and the happiness of the community—‘* Come

As well might you think to put your hand in the fire and re- ceive no damage, as to have dealings with papists and receive no injary—* Wherefore come out from among them.’’ Have no dealings with them, high nor low, rich nor poor, for they are a band of vipers that are not safe to deal with.

‘You will tell me it is easy to talk, but sometimes you cannot do without their assistance. Perhaps so,—ihey may be

but let it be the last extremity that will drive yee to employ a papist. Atall events remember the price of their services in the end—ruin, socially, morally, religiously, commercially, politically, if not also eternally.’

Such an article as the foregoing does not require many ob-

servations in the way ofa commentary. It speaks for itself—

it reveals a disposition on the part of its author which, thank God, is not common amongstus—it is merely the emanation of the Orange spirit, whieh, conscious of its own vileness, jlurks in dark and hidden places. The Protector has the honor of giving it courage to skulk forth oceesionally, but it takes good care that the form it assumes shall be masked. This

for its reevtery. te command intercet will be feund in our present No.

spirit has long been. offensive enough; but, ae if enraged at

mainder, 15, are Catholics. In King’s County there are 57

| Magistrates, 38 of whom are Protestants, and 19 Catholics.

In Prines County there are 62 Magistrates, of whom 41 are Protestants, and only 11 Catholice,—iaking the total num- ber of Magistrates for the whole Island 219, one bundred and seyenty-four of whom are Protestants, and only forty-five Catholics. Wesubmit these figures and facts, in all humility, If the

Catholics constitute one-half, or nearly one-half of the popu-

to our readers, and we ask them to ponder on them.

lation of the Island, and enjoy only au infinitessimal part of the public patronage—if they possess no greater measure of civil and religious liberty than their Protestant fellow-Colo- nists, and haye never infringed, or sought to infringe, on Pro- tostant rights—it is trifling with public patienco too much for any man, supposed to be sane, to be allowed to publish such sentiments as those which diegraced the Protector of the Lith inst., and to be permitted to go at large without a protector of hisown. We may, when wo have more leisure and space at aur dispesal, make further remarks on this subject.

To rus Epiror oy tne Examiner.

Sir,—The leading article of the last Protector contains, as usual, a long tirade against the Catholics, and “fears that the Man of Sin,” as he chooses to designate the Head of the Noman Catholic Church, “ will send his emissaries, and pre-occupy the ground already opened and made ready for the enirance of Christianity in various countries.” It is unnecessary to trouble your readers with his abuse of Great Britain, and the other ab-urditics contained in that article ; it will be enough for me to draw thcir attention to the creain of his argument, which is simply, that we should give him, or his brethren, one-fourth or one-fifth of cur hard-earned incomes to enable them or their friends to live well, travel and seo the world at our expense, under the pretext of being missionaries sent to foreign paris. Allow me to suggest a much more likely and respectable mode of arriving at his wished-for object, and one. which would most materially benefit both the Protestant Church and tke country at large ; it is this:— Ever since the establishment of Christianity ag a religion, in the reign of Constantine, up to this day, there has been but one united Roman Catholic Church ; whereae, on the contrary, since the Reformation, the name of the different seets of the Protestant Church is legion. Even in this small city there are seven different Protestant places of worship to the one Roman Catholic. reverend editors of the I’rotector is, that there should be but one Apostolic Church, into which every other should merge ; we should thus, even in this small city, do away with six !! and by applying the revenues thus beneficially obtained to the-missions advocated by the reverend editors, I agree with him that much might be done even here ; and if this system were carried out in every Protestant country, funds enough might be raised, not only to outdo the emissaries of the Pope, but also of the Mahomedan, of the Jew, and of the Gentile.

[ have only to say one w6rd about the letter headed ** Emigration,” published the same day in the columns of that respectable Journal, and that is merely to request every re- spectable Roman Catbolie to believe, that 1 do not think there is one single Protestant to be found, let him have de- scended almost to the lowest depths of degradation, who would demean himself s0 villainously as to agree to the un- just, tyrannical, persecuting and blackguard propositions re- commended and urged by some donkey siguing bimself

C—— R

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I am, Sir, your obdt. servant,

AN EPISCOPALIAN, wees To rng Epiron ov tae Examiner.

Sim,—Among the correspondents to “ The Protector and Christian Witness” of last week appears a letter under tho head “ Kmigration,”, written by some human being, either minister, man, woman, or youth, which, as propounding a theory of unparalelled atrocity, appears to me strikingly unique. * C—— R.” are the initials adopted by this Chris tian Rajah, who, by great lengths, surpasses in his proposed villainy and brutality his heathen prototype, the Kajah Nena

'Sahib, of woman-defiling, inuocent-slaying notoriety.

lies within 7,334 of their Protestant neighbours; and accords

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