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thout their religious instraction. I can suppose ie over a Catholic School, which 18 tl Island,—and | am proud that atholic teachers in tle Island , t harmony to prevail :

not entirely wi sir a Catholie Teacher presidtt the case in many parts of the

be the judges what books are to be used in school, and that

childvea should there use whatever books their parents think

proper. Well, sir, what a hodge-podge it would be with the | ove ane boumvery eumuent{)

. . . -"e ere * sol er) } matter; every boy bringing his catechism, Xc., to school. and in such circumstances we May exper I,as a member of the Church of Kogiand, would as s00f | yecanse I ean very readily imagine ¢ ‘ nts would » . . . > i re . aaah a 2 rObCsE arent

prefer having wy children taoght in the Church of England | Poacher presides over th school, “ | Sean. shines to : : . ‘oht , . € it. ’ ake effo 80 |

entechism as in the Bible. I think, therefore, that the prin-| rather put up with it, on yen Bible. than to disturb the

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cipal argument of the hon. member on this point cannot be _ their 5 _ ng popularechoo! If, however, they

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carried out; Vough he may wow ace the neveseity “ bev colt sroper to entrast it to the Yeacher, to give @ few

religious comined with seeular education. Though much ie Asi vl Scriptures in school, 1 would leave all to the

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has been said on education since I had a seat in the House good sense of the people under the circumstanc <a am

with him, yet there has not been much on religious | something in the Cn when they a to pense ° 7 . . » . e¢ " : . . » conve nee ;

struction; but I think it would be a blessing in this country} matters, that lead them tu yield to one another 8 co ‘he aun

: htai : p heir childre I il sure we ought to have that reliance on the g

is pesple ehteatnnd "a ceculer ‘edacation for Heir Chere ee ott le that they would not raise up a difference

‘ a -~;| > 3 » ’ ‘ we ‘ , without a religious one. I contend, however, that there is | sense of the people tha

oa 8 ; vhere the majority largely ign j : — ye ‘between two parties In & ool whe ; y religious education to a great extent in this country ; the pam oe we might allow a clause such as you have

wchools are opened and closed with prayer, an-l some cate- ‘before you to go into operation, end which does not at all force chisms and other religious books are used in them ; thus | religious instruction upon the people as the Hon. Col. Secre- religious instruction to a great extent is carried out. IL | sary says it does. With respect to the manner natlryr ry ste contend, further, that the Education Act has worked very act operates upon the Normal School, ure, t thy well so fur; and it is much better to let well enough alone. | reason for the Normal School being named now. :

. ici » exhibited in the time of Sir} all v j . . sker’s nt. and | have forgotten the solicitude exhibi I shall vote against the Hon. the Speaker's amendment, and | eae Bannerman to introduce the Normal system into

rive eason for doing so; which is, as I said before, | Alexa ‘ ane ao poston

nat oe ld a like ‘hel a Se ee be boand to teach eek ‘this Colony. We know that Governor entere cl inte a oul 4 at é é 8 > < | vs

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versions of the Scriptures, if the parents did not wish it. | Pie spread system,

Mr. T. H. HAVILAND.—In reply to a few observations | ..taplished in this Island; and | think if the

made by the Hon. Col. Secretary, who wishes to know how | that took y peo bebwese

it is th: as not an advocate for the use of the Bible in| were produced—and which pe uy reae

ohne hier The i s that Bivabied—ife would there see that it was uniformly the wish

school when the Act formerly passed, I answer, it was that) ( “endirapinwesentary! +: y: flere er

I was never aware till this winter that the Bible was in-| of the Government and their very gre:

i i } y : rhat is that ed Fr , ~ leystem established in the Colony. And upon wha tha tendgd to be excluded from school. I always thought at system based ? The most uninformed person knows that it is | 8}

the Bible was there, and my reason for acting in the a ‘entirely based upon striptural education ; and that is the reason now, is ia consequence of the Roman Catholic Bishop's | why it is 80 much approved of in many countries, and in letter ; because he there stated that he was opposed to having | xcotland where it originated. The people of the Island are the Bible in school for any party, and that he would be | told that this system shall be introduced in the a s they satisfied with nothing but a godless system of education. | import a gentleman from the very re hot-bet <r That is the reason why L wish now to have the Bible in system, and set him forth — folanc : . : eee a school. I wish e& - srivilezes in religion, and equal pri- | # YeTy formal and celebrated manner, anc ’ a great soiree . ea equa: pr = oo» qua: p vileges in political matters.

that was given here, and made a very celebrated—an important

Hon. COL. SECRETARY.—1 he understood that day in the annals of Prince Edward Island, as must be in the on. COL. SECKET. .—I presume h dersto §

the Bible was not permitted by Act of Parliament. But the

minds of hon. members. The people were congratulated on aa ov as . /the benefits that they were about to receive by that system,

hon. member has pat it in this light, that he wishes the same

freedom in religion as in polities.

a) a itl jand that it was set agoing at last. Individuals who were so : i ; id vs W e ro ; iaaae es | zealous on the education - vs ( nes — me the amendment proposed docs notaliow Coat, 2 ss i ae vidi ‘ » hi > dav had arrive vrhic at system auendnaet am lies a portion of the children from echvol. | a h PTY = 1 a eee er nee 7 the OOPER eaid the Education Bill had been passed | WS 10 0° Pit. Ope the : —

Mr. COUPER enid the Education Sul bad ie the vq | Building echoing with the applause of persons praising the before he came into the House ef Assembly, and he had hear ‘system, and looking upon it as one of the happiest days of no objections to it till lately. A party now wished tu introduce | their lives. Well, sir, the system was commcnoed,—the Bible ehanges into the Act, and a party wished it to remain as it was, | was introduced in the School,—the School was opened with

With regard to a he ae ee not much | prayer,—-afterwards the Government take a new view of things, religious impression made in school; the first impressions on .

2, : ; . * S ‘and they conceive that it must not be Stow’s system at all now religion were made upon the child at its mother's kuecs. Same | —that the Bible must be excluded from the Sehool. 1 think wf the ablest men had mentioned having such impressions made | under this new state of affairs, it must be regulated by statue, on them, which liad never been effaced. He would not support —that it must not be dependent on the breath of the Govern- any of the amendinente proposed. meut of this Colony or the Board of Edueation either, but on

Hon. Mr. PALMER.—As I understand the amendment something more than a mere arbitrary rule of that Board. offered by the hon. member for Princetown (Hon. T. H. Thus, | think there is a necessity for introducing the words Haviland), it admits the Scriptures tu be read in all the schools | ,, Normal Sehool”? im the clause now before you. Many in this Ictand deriving public eid, whenein he pasente oe } observations have been made by hon. members, and no less by guardians of children there, wish, seek, or ask for it. Now, | ’ ’

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“sanctified,” should say such things. t ears of the Government that he had not visited § ‘for sixteen months, and they would not pay him till the Iboa of Education made inquiries and gave him a certificate, ‘aecordance with the Act. ‘visit the schools twice in ‘that be had not been in some 0 | months, the Government thought perhaps he might bh some reason for that neglect, ‘before paying bim;

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is no reason to say suc to. What is the state of affairs now ¢ ‘work unfinished. g during the year, and we find fifty schools not visited at all; | and I think it is high time there were some inquiries made into the matter. The Government relieved him of his duties only five or six days before the time that he gave in his report last year. He was in town on Saturday, and as he would not travel on Sunday, only three or four days of his ‘time remained, so that he could not visit all the schools unvisited ; but it isa very poor excuse that the schools should

Mr. Stow, the originator of this celebrated and ‘not be visited, because the Government had relieved him of in order to assist him in having I)ii. guties,

Now, too, it is said he is dismissed; but the

.... Government thought it better to relieve him at once, when lace between Governor Bannerman and Mr. Stow | 4° gh :

rhaps is followed up by the present |

he tendered his resignation; yet there was no desire on the part of the Government to treat him harshly, for it would be a poor Government that would require to take means to get rid of a gentleman in that way. Again, the hon. member for Charlottetown has said, that religious instruetion is now the scheme of education approved by parties in all countries. But what is the conclusion of Lord Palmerston? That public religious education cannot be carried out. Then the hon. member goes on with a great deal of feeling for the poor man’s children. What! is he to pay and cannot have his children taught the Bible? In the case of a person that cannot read, of cowrse he is a liberal minded man, and will, perhaps, get a person to read for him; and if we tcach his children, he would be able to get a little instruction from the children at home. But remember in this case there is not a word about clergymen there. He (Hon. Mr. Palmer) forgot that there are Sunday Schools im this Island. But he goes on a little further aud them says, the Catholic children are

ligious instruction, they could go to Chapel on a Sunday, but does not seem to think that the Protestant children could do the same. Now, it is the duty of the clergyman, in my opinion, to assist a little in religious instruction, as it cannot be given in sehool without raising strong feelings ; and if the proposed amendment is carried out, [ anr satisfied it will eause a great deal of disturbance; but if left to the good sense of the people, this House may rest satisfied that they would make arrangements to suit themselves. Well, that is what he (the mover of the amendment) wanted to do; he did not want to have it forced by law, but left to the good

that is plain, sir, and unequivocal, and the amendment | ‘he Hon. Col. Secretary throwing out accusations ages: a ae : al ‘certain parties to whom he attributes a desire of raising |

OM .9 s : is i eed proposed by the hon. Speaker, adding both versions, by no ie Pre Keo ae ite iter. weans defeats it in my mind; but I will accord with that |U2MCCeSty Comp aints and religious feelings, an ote g)

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amendment, and to both I will give my support. From the political capital of them ; and that those parties have og ebatrtaitions meatio by the Hun. Col. Secretary. who hes takes | invited also to the discussions of the other Previnees. Now, | ies tee . aS ~ «>| L do not know that he is warranted in making an assertion of

the lead in the opposition to this amendment, I distinctly | ; : . 1 : : i i. Socreti i ay that; L said

understood him to say that he goes for the total exclusion of | that kind fion. ~—_ aoe yp . ag = r ve P ea tin Rislintabeniiens Ge oabeale [No, No! by Hon. Col. Seere- | no such thing. What I said was that in the other Province, tary] that no version would be th re read atan time ; Very | they had called upon &e.] \ \ — well, sir, Ht 1s not by the ee —— i Y } entreaties of members on this side of the House that is done ;

well, he has advanced opinions to that effect. and certainly E have very little authority for saying that there

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; 3 i - > i wo oo 23 r } . Sori » i - . . voaay, it was impossible tw imsroduce a vesaion of the Deriptares | have not been such invitations ; for no person perhaps has had with the wish of one pasty, without giving offence ” the other | less communication with them and know their intentions less | party, and that it was the duty of the state to give attention) 1) pao. But Lam prepared to stand up and defend those | to secular education and not to religious education. Still, if rights | profess to claim ; yet Iam not desirious of waking . € ini 4 ; > 5 ' . omg 77 . . the hon. member, has changed his opinions from anything he up sectarian differences between the people of this community, heard from this side of the House, lam so mueh the more

: . : : ‘but I only stand here to defend that large body of this Colony roud of those with whom I[ associate. Well, sir, 1 think the | Prone ea - ; laa dhatn puunan diane of the la calls ae. = sianeiintent such as that | who have petitioned that their rights may . be protected ; ~ you now hold ip your band, Mr. Chairman. I am one of those | [ enn v7 — — ey ee 5 pore oo.

. a «© . i i ¢ re ine >t » - whe think that it is the duty of the representatives of ee ae ask

: : | resolution before the Committee people to attend mot only to the secular instruction, but also ; Qe Re eae ts } 0 tha religious instruction of the people I quite agree with Hon. COL. SECRETARY .—TI am sorry to trouble you,

the hon. member for Georgetown (Mr. T. Heath Haviland) Mr. Chairman, but the non. and learned membes endeavoured that education te be useful and safe to the people, should be | to wake an impression, whieh was not intended for your ears, based upon the christian religion. For proof of this position, | but for those of the constituents of P. E. Island, namely— we need only look at the state of Great Britaim at the present | that the Colonial Secretary was opposed to the Scriptures day. Look at her statesmen, philosophers, and philantlxopists, | heing used in the schools altogether. Now, I made no such searching out the cause of crime &c. What are the conclusions statement; I was in favour of the Scriptures being used in

sense of the people, which he is willing to do, even if he should carry that amendment. Well, sir, let us leave it to them altogether. I am not opposed to the Bible in school ; [ have made a motion ona former occasion, to have it there ; but I am opposed to introduce it ina manner that would give offence to the country. But he must get something to say, that Coles is opposed to Bible instruction in the schools of the Island; but, sir, 1 do not dread the hon. member’s stutements at all. As to his allusion to the great show at the opening of the Normal School, it is hardly worth noticing. The country are well satisfied with it; and hon. members who have visited it are very well satisfied with it,

‘und think the money laid out for it the best expended money

in the country. {To be continued.)

(POR THE EXAMINER.) THE SANCTIFIED PRESS. AN APPEAL TO THE FAITHFUL. Long clouded has been this fair Isle of the Sea,

° - Too long have its sons to the Pope bent the knee— Arise, fellow bondmen! we will soon get redress ;

A Deliverer has come! ‘tis the Sanctified Press.

What's the use thus in living forever at peace, W hile our wealth and our power are on the decrease ?

Now, the law required him to| the year; and when it turned out be so unfair as to pen the above, after having read the f the schools for sixteen of my lecture ave had | tinetly stated t which they desired to know | character. but now, because they had to comply ‘with the request of the Royal Agricultural Society and with | for some hon. members would vote against the d for it last year—I think, therefore, there h things as those in the article alluded | of his position. We find Mr. Stark’s

He has been engaged visiting the schools | interest in the works of the most distinguished poet of the 19th

not to be turned out in the snow; but if they wanted re- |

at which the generality of those persons have arrived, who are devoting their time and attention to the subject? It is, that there is a defect in the religious education of the youth of the kingdom. That is what they attribute it to; and they are watching the best means of curing that evil. Now, sir, I think that as a Legislature we should not trust that very i nportant and sacred duty merely to the parents of the youth who are sent to senoul ; fur tho’ there may be a very laudable und proper desire in the minds of parents to bring up their children to the practice of the religion to which they belong, yet it may be wholly out of the power of many of those parents to attend to their religious instruction. We know there are miny who have not the means of sending their children to private schools, nor have such —— of imparting religious instruction as those who, from their education, and

from the time at their command, can devote as many hours of

the day and week as they please to the religious instruction of their children. But this is the case with too few. Look at the poor man who does not knaw the letters of the Bible. What means has that poor man to give religious instruction t» his children? Look again at the vast body of men whose time is employed at hard labor during the whole day, and who eannot sit down to impart religious instruction to their children. From what source are they to expect that their religious education is to be derived? They expect it from that institution where their children are sent to have a good

education, and for which the tax—money is dragged out of

their pockets to pay. If we are more advanced in education, than formerly, we are still as far behind in edacation and intelligence as any of Her Majesty’s Colonies at least. It would be deplorable to exclude from our common schools religious inatraction to the vast body of the children of the Island, But that instruction is what those persons are desiring whose aay are here to-day. I say it would be unjustifiable in us if we were to turn a deaf ear to their request and say, e shall get religious instruction where you may, and pay

wit whether or not. No, sir, that is a very improper view w take of the case. Now, the objection that is urged against such a law is, its going into operation so very unfairly ; but there is very little weigitin that. The petitioners may sound their requests in the ears of those who are not disposed to give them due cousideration ; yet | conceive religious instruction, or the use of the Bible in school, might be given without off:nece or trouble ta either party. 1! am very sensible that a lagze body of persons, the Roman Catholics, have an objection te placing the mspired volame in the hands of laymen ; and I fed no fault with them for that. They hold it as a sacred principle that it shall not be expounded by any but those

wimitted to be qualified for that purpose. But that is not the opinion of all ebristians, Many hold quite a different

opinion ; they conceive that any person who is capable olf reading the Seriptures, may do so, and judge for himself, without the aid of a clergyman. Now, sir, 1 do not see any necessity that a large body of scholars should be turned out in the days alluded to ; round, and if they did there is no occasiun for adopting such a course. [| think in the first wajority of the scholars are of the

stormy days do not last all the year any inteution of interfering in politics,

plese. that where the large | Catholic denomination, | |

the schools, but not to be compulsory. 1 stated the reasons that they should not be used in some schools. He says it should be compulsory. I shall shew that his reasons show it must be compulsory. I said the Bible should not be used in seheols in many parts of the [sland, without leaving it in the hands of the Board of Education to settle disputes ; because if in the school, it is better to leave it in their hands, and it is bettter to insert nothing in the Act which would convey such an impression as that it will be compu'sory. Alluding to the Normal School, he says the Scriptures were there. He does not know enough about this Normal. Not one of his party were at the opening of it, though invited. No, Sir, they would not give their countenance to that School. He says the Seriptures were there, and excluded; and hence the necessity of putting it ip this clause of the Act. What is the use of putting it there if not compulsory? Bat the argument of the hon. member was, that because they had excluded the Bible from the Normal School, it was necessary to bave that school mentioned in this clause. If that was not the intention of it, I do not understand what reasoning is. The hon. member also laid a great deal of stress on this, that the new educational system was to be on Mr. Stow’s system. Well, so it is to be on his system, but not en his religious system; by that is understood that the Bible was not to be a class-book in the system. That is the system of teaching that is intended to be adopted; and the hon. member is quite astray when he says it was perfectly understood it was to be a religious system of education. ‘When Mr. Stark was sent out to this Colony, he quite understood that the Seriptures would not be introduced into the schools, as he states in his answer to the Bishop's letter, that he found only sixty-three public schools where the Scriptures were read, showing very well that Mr. Stark knew quite well that the Scriptures were not to be introduced into the public schools of the Colony. The hon. member proceeds further to say, that this gentle- man, the Teacher of the Normal School, was got out from Mr. Stow’s school for the express purpose of imparting religious instruction. No such thing, Sir; and there is the question. ‘There has never been any intention either to pro- hibit the reading of the Bible, or that its use was to be enforced in any of the schools of the Island. The hon. and ‘learned member may take up Mr. Stark’s ease now, but when the consideration of that gentleman’s salary was before the House last session, he and his party opposed the grant for his salary. They have been pleased to say, in their last number Jast Protector, appeared the following amongst other editorial of the Protector, that, he has been harshly treated. In that remarks :— .

number there is an article on politics, though they disclaimed | *‘And we do it’’ (i.e., publish the article) ‘‘ the more es- comparing him with | ‘‘ pecially because one of the characters,’”’ (Byron), ** spoken i of here in terms of disapprobatian, has been held u

Let us rally like men in the days of Queen Bess, Qur watchword—The Bible and Sanctified Press. Our commander has mastered the seience of Kant ; Our captains are skilled in Assertion and Rant; Our army’s well drilled, and we likewise possess That terror to Papists—a Sanctified Press,

We don’t want your money—O no, on my word ; And as for your yotes—why, the thought is absurd ; "Tis your souls, so long bound by a eruel duress, That we seek to set free with our Sanctified Press.

We seek not for place, nor sigh we for power— They are vanities all—the mere toys of an hour— But ye who do wish them, and hope for success, Ought at once to subscribe to the Sanctified Press.

Its columns are filled with the choicest tit-bits, And weekly it gives the Pope’s myrmidons Fitz / O Davy’s the boy all their sore spots to dress, With his new Tory plaster—the Sanctified Press.

And Thomas and George, too—both established and free— Flay ‘‘Cawtholics’’ weekly with gusto and glee ;

While from Patterson’s pool (*twould nat do to say cess) Flows a stream that enriches the Sanctified Press.

«Speech was given to man his real thoughts to conceal,”’ Said the sage Talleyrand ; ‘tis a truth which we feed, And, acting upon it, have donned both the dress And the sanctified whine of a Sanctified Press.

But to you, my dear friends, the whole truth will I speak— "Tis bodies, not souls, we so urgently seek ;

But the Tory frown ’s laughed at, and spurned the earess— What remained for us then but a Sanetified Press?

Dear brethren assist us. Let each man, give his mite *

Of cash, scandal and lies, to help onward the fight ;

And soon shall Pope, Snatchers, and all who transgress,

Fall—erushed by the weight of the Sanctified Press. April 30, 1857. D. Firzrooze. . —

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(vOR THE EXAMINER.) BYRON AND “THE PROTECTOR.” At the head of a certain article which was pablished in the

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Mr. Condon of Halifax, and making it appear that he has suffered harsh treatment. Every hon. member knows what |

: 29 a debate we had last session on the salary of the School | *¢ Que poette papers:

may oy it would be yery unlikly that the parents of halfa'* © ae :

dozen Protestant children would press upon the others the | Visitor, and the minority, to a man, voted against the amount

uecessity of remaining there and hearing the Scriptures read. named; and the Royal Agricultural Society wished to have

But to take even an extreme view, I can see no objections to that portion of his salary derived from their funds withdrawn ; |

one class being set apart in one partof a school for a ee t VOW

desson, while the athers age going on with their task : : :

; seg : ; notte" . +, to give him th: I arm fi hic ‘ I think itis drawing too nice 4 distinction to suppose tliat TI - G. _ — on ae ae ae. wiiile that class is reading a lesson in one part of the school, | 1¢ Government then, at the end of the ome iuformed Mr.

that che other class should be at all affected in their religious S:ark, that after the next quarter, he could not expect more |

principles at hearing lessons on a subject they were told they than the law allowed; and what is it construed into now ?

peed not attend to. No, sir, they are supposed to have religious Why, that the Government have done it to drive him from a thay. w@ pot af ee 4 spel a Taoaw Ctheanale « . 1

teachers, if uot at school, at least at their Chapels, aud se are ,the Colony! L am surprised that such gentlemen, called

This refers, of course, to my lecture on Byron, delivered

before the Mechanics’ Institute. Now I may state, asa pre-| 7 liminary remark, that his being ‘here spoken of in terms of 40, Sir,

disapprobation,’’ does not affect his character any more than

that many of a certain class of men have spoken of him in terms of disaporobation, but that proves nothing against him beyond the fact of his being an object of dislike to them. Men like him who have dared to think for themselves, and have, in con- sequence, deviated a little from the beaten track, have always

been subjected to persecution from those who can boast of no) originality of thought themselyes—who have no ideas beyond |

Lut it eame to the | those crammed into them in schools and colleges—“* who get A dame schools ‘ali their opinions in religion and philosophy aa they

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t their real estate—by inheritance. For the one they never labores | . ”

‘and for the other they never thought.” (I quote, from me” the emphatic language of Dr, Dods.)

1 cun hardly believe that any respectable clergyman Would

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uublished in the papers. There the writer dj fiat [ had * admittes the weak points of Sea I never intended to hold him up as a paragon of I did and will maintain that he had map noble traits of character, although their lustre was rtially Proton

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(morality or piety.

obscured by many bad ones; and if the writer in the deny this, Iam ready to discuss the matter with him, ang] nee I will be able to convince him of the utter untenablenegg

My object in choosing the subject I did, was to awaken an

century. There is, in my opinion, — in which our y

| Men are more generally deficient than a literary taste and an acquaintance with the classic writers of the English lan Were their works more generally read and studied, low ning and quibbles would not pass current amongst us for wit. infantile cavilling at words would not pass for solid criticism : silly, vulgar ba!lads without rhyme or grammar, would not bg sung with such eclat at our convivial parties ; inflated bombast without either sense or sentiment or mere prosaic rhyme, would not satisfy the popular taste, instead of good poetry ; nor would the bulk ofwur public writing be the poor, marrowless, wishy-

washy stuff that it is. New Glasgow, April 29, 1857. JOSIAH McLEOD,

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To tne Evrvon or tae Examiner.

Sir,—I observe in the Supplement to the Islander of Monday last, an intended reply to a letter which previously appeared in the Examiner, signed “ Cephas Barker.” Had the writer confined his remarks to that gentleman and the question at issue, [ should have left him to Mr, Barker, from a conviction that he is im good hands, and will be tolerably well cared for ; but as he has seen fit to introduce extraneous matter, [ have to solicit from you the favor of inserting the following remarks :—

In the first place, the writer, who is no less@ personage than Mr. Wm. Heard, manifests some anxiety for the en- | lightenment of the public, as to who this Mr. Barker is, and then sets him down as public property. In what sense he | intends to make it appear that such is the case, I am ata ‘lossto know. Surely the sage must have been dreaming cf ‘some joint stock concern, and awoke imagining he had share in this part’cular property. Has he outrivalled the Slave States of America? they only claim the right to buy, sell er hold as property, the negro population; but Mr, Heard seems disposed to go further, and I doubt not (ad. mitting his philosophy to be sound), but that if the other shareholders were agreeable, ne would soon be found making arrangemeuts to sell by auction or otherwise this very valuable portion of the stock, and sending him down south, as he seems anxious to rid the Colony of such a pest as soon as possible. Hold on, sir, the other shareholders are not of the same mind, and think he is not sufficiently used up yet, don’t forget the five years to begin with. Then, sir, as re- gards his doings, he has done just what the Conference and Committee commissioned him todo. le has dared to ex- ercise every Hnglishman’s birthright—that of thinking for himself and acting accordingly—an offence of an unpardonable character, judging from the treatment he has received since the large gathering at the Temperance Hal} a short time since. Another thing he has done, and which seems equally offensive is, the formation of a society in this City, in con- nection with Bible Christianism. Fad he been content to labor in the poor and Pgmote parts of this Island, as Mr. H. calls it, he undoubtedly would have shared bountifully in the soft seap so liberally bestowed on Mr. Metheral and bis colleagues. Mr. H. speaks of temperance, and immediately carries off his vituperstion ina naost intemperate manner, (Oh? consistency, whither art thou fled!) It has been reservedysays Mr. H., for Mr. B. to break these hallowed ties, &c., a most unwarrantable assertion, and bears a striking resemblance to a fabrication ; and first I challenge Mr. H. to produce logical evidence in support of his assertions, and’ then repel the charge, (if such really existed.)

Then, Sir, as regards the dimensions, &c., this part of the work is done so sophistically, and savours so much of vin- dictiveness, that one scarcely likes to stoop so low as to pass a remark on it; certainly it goes to prove to all discerning readers the barrenness of the writer’s mind, and to what shifts the poor fellow was driven to collect sufficient rubbish to fill his paper. But, Sir, first look at the position he has taken; does he not imagine the readers of the journals of this Island to be an ignorant class of persons? and very kindly attempts to instruct them. Mark with what a dignified air he assumes the seat of instructor general, and proceeds to define the term deputation, which, in effect, amounts to this :—Just listen to me, ye men of ordinary minds—I can tell you what it means, { just as though uo one else knew its meaning,) and what Mr. B. ought to have done. I am Mr. Heard, of the Queen's Square House, and understand all such matters as these. And yet taunts Mr. B. about dimensions, Just try to take Mr. H.’s dimensions—now he seems rather large, does he not? Really, Sir, it reminds one of the old story of the frog,

happened to burst, and, as a matter of course, allowed his ambition to bring on him premature death. I hope this aspirant will take timely warning, and avoid the consequences attendant on such an occurrence. Sir, there isso much con- fusion, that one grows sick vnd tired of following out this wiseacre. Mr. Barker, he says, must have disobeyed his in- structions, or the Bible Christians must have adopted a new course, &c. Does the Bible Christian Conference stand in need of his assistance? I trow not. If, bowever, it should so happen, he will have timely notice, and be expected to set them perfectly right. After some further remarks, to which I shall not now refer, he speaks of the memorable Bible meeting, and says many left said meeting convinced that the story of his g andmother frightening him with old Bogie, formed no inconsiderable portion of his early education. (Doubtful.) If it be true that Mr. Heard was educated for the ministry, and was not worthy to discharge the sacred functions connected therewith, and Mr. Barker, without aca- demical assistance, discharges the duties of that office alike houorable to God and to man, Lask where is the strong ground for Mr. Heard’s boasting on the one hand, or his sarcasm 0a the other? Let the public decide that matter. 1 would inform Mr. UH. that the treat of old Bogie has lost its effect on Mr. B. long since; and if the B. at the Queen Square House intends to frighten him in the present instance, he will be disappointed. Mr. Heard has manifested, for some time past, a desire for notoriety, but has not reached the altitude to which his ambition aspires as yet. Perhaps his object will soon be accomplished ; and then, for aught I know, be will be as happy as the man alluded to in his very inappro- priate quotation—* I am monarch of all I survey.” Now, (Sir, cab any Man even imagine what could induce him to quote from such a publication, (which has no bearing what-

p to ever on the subject,) unless he is fumiliar with trash, ‘approbation by a public lecturer in this City, and in one of ee erence ae ae

and was not so ready in quoting from someting more to the ‘point. One would have thought, as a teacher of a Bible class, he would have quoted from that best of volumes; but that would not do, the man would not be in his owa

element. Had he made Mr. Barker say—* I am a stranget

but the Government felt that they were under an engagement | my speaking of him in terms of approbation. Iam well aware and sojourner with you” — had he been iufluenced by that

charity “ which thinketh no evil,” &c., and paid proper re gard to the truth—he might (having.a taste for poetry), #8 a member of that body, have given a quotation from the Wee leyan hymn-book, much more appropriate and truthful :— ‘* No foot of land do | possess, No cottage in the wilderness,

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