TUE STATE OF EUROPE. | There are many sources of anxiety in Rurape at present, which the friends of po- litical liberty and of peace will do well to| onsider with earnest attention. {t is not tinlikely that cur interest in the eyents of the} «vil Warde America, languid as it is com-

paratively, may be soon altogether ex- tinguished be the sharp but portentous

fevents nearer home. Englishmen, give but superficial attention te Continental politics. It ia only when an sneurreection against established authority

reatens to expand into a revolution that we rouse up to something like an appearance of interest tefore we are roused, sometimes, the opportunity for timely expression of *, and an opponen? has gained | advantage which political prevision might | have prevented. The state of affairs in Potand, in Pressia, in Rossia, and in Den- mark, all call for consideration, but they also call for careful inquiry in their incidence upon French policy and Austrian diplomacy. ! it is well ever to bear in mind that the Emperor of the French is Emperor, because he has proclaimed it bis mission to tear to| shreds the Treaty of Vienna. Not much of! thét Treaty now remains to be tora up, and what shreds remain are shreds in which | France, more than any other country, is in- terested. Frenchmen may appear to be a good deal divided amongst themselves; but

utte rence ¢

renerally,

OpPNnion ie gon

so far as the external policy of theie country im-|

and | States White Weed.”

is concerned, they are united to a man. perialists, Orleanists, Bourbonists, Republicans all hold that France has a right to aek for the ‘rectification’ of the boundaries

of France. Emperors, Kings, and Presidents |

te , . mast carry Out « policy which will favour the | season will appear next year, wnd in the year

aequisition of the Rhenish Provinces, and, at! some future time, Belgium. M. de Persigny ts not more pledged te this pelicy than are| M. Thiers or M. Jules Favre.” In every! entanglement France will oaly move su as to serve her own interests, fur if ehe is the only | countey readg te “‘ go te war for an idoa,’’ | she is also the only country willing to! bargain for substantial gratitude. Freneh- | men are agitated by the sufferings of the! soles, and Pariscalis lowdly for action against | tie oppressor ; and as it to make a display of | her displeasure, Paris retarns to the Cerps| Jegisiaty all th men known to be pledged | ngainst imperiviism. The Emperor must | neutralige the intellectual power ef the men | receatly returne 1 to the Chamber, and he | can only do it by leading France to prosper- | ous glory. A man ef sv mach skill, and so, little moved by censideration for others) when his dynasty is in question, will not! scruple to take advaatage of circumstances | us they rise. For the Emperor there never | was 4 moment so propitious as the present. | It is easy to see how the Emperor may use| the preseat position of Poland. All Europe | hus galled owt m romonstrance te '* the rugged | Russian bear,”’ yet France has only appeared | to foliow the dictates of humanity, and the | lead of England in these remonstranees. We| already kuow from experience bow the Em peror can act in a tripartite engagement, as we saw in Mexico. have joined in ** recoufmendations’’ and | ** suggestions’’ to Russia, and either way,|

England aad Austria |

whether they are accepted or rejected, | France must reap the reward. If the con- ditions are accepted, then the Emperor will have the eredit of the amelioration of the! Poles. If they are rejected, he will be able! to make & demonstration against Russia in the Baltic, and probably, by co-operation with Sweden, do sowething to rectify the, frontiers of Finland. Io any event Russia, | as one of the Great Powers, wil] be weakened, | and in proportion to her weakness so will be | ihe ascendancy of Frauce in the Councils of | Europe. This could not bave happened if it! were not for the isolation of Prussia. ‘The political madness of King William, and the | vahappy relations between bim and his sub- Jeets, prevent Prussia playing the great part | wie ix eatitled to fili in Karopean policy. If | Hrassia is allied with Russia, then, indeed, | Napoleon ILL. will have a great opportunity, and Austria may also be stirred up to action | in order £0 obtatn the leadership of Germany. | An obstinate King misruling a sullen people, | who may refuse ta pay taxes when most they are wanted, may as effectually blot Prussm out of the political wap as a legion of armed men. Austria, which fourteen years ago wrestled | for her very life against foes within, and! only fear years ago azaingt foes without, | surprises Earope by her steady improvement | and the elasticity of her resources since she, entered upon the paths of consticutional Go- | vernment. The day may come whenshe will | give up Venetia, but it will not be upon the | terms upon which she surrendered Lom- hardy. The Kaiser has not only learnt bis | lesson, but he steadfastly reduces it to prac-| tice} and his Government now ventures to | rewgastrate with the very Power which | saved Austria from the death-grip of revolu- | tion in 1849. Austria can well afford to. art with Galicia, if Prussia is to part with | ‘osen, in order to make up a new Kingdom of Poland. Russia may consent to the inde- pendence of Poland, it the Poles will con-| sent to accept the Grand Duke Constantine | as their King; but how if Austria is to be!

Dear Sir;

_GORRESPONDENCE,

Te ruse Eprror or tux Examiner.

ty

The Government have grossly deceived and humbugged the country on the Land Question.

i Their Leader declared It was observed by aneminent agriculturist, | that eight months should

| canthemum,’’

| following it wall come inte blossom, the root

many years ago, that the man who, by an} suffice for its settlement. improved system of farming, could make two! Four years have passed, blades of grass grow where only one grew | #"d itis yet further from

formerly, was a public benefacter. may be said of any one who invents imple- ments or muchinery for the destruction of noxious weeds, which, existiag as they do

| |

i

The same | settlement than ever.

But itia absurd to ex- pect a satistietory set- tlement of it trom the present Government, tor

in large quantities in some localities, usurp | they are partly com- the place of more valuable plants, are Ta- | posed of Proprietors and

pidly on the increase, and bid fair to defy every exertion of the farmer to eradicate

|

Agents, who have a di- reet interest in uphold-

them. The fact that weeds of a large growth | 1g the leasehold tenure,

rob the soil of @ great proportion of its ferti- lizing properties, is so well understood in Kugland, and their destruction prosecuted with so much restless vigor, that on many

energetic farmers in Britain, some years ago |offered a sovereign to any one who would) a blind to cover their find a really noxious plant apon his farm of Lt is almost impossible, for many | | Teasons, that such a complete system could | cleetoral franchise has

Triptree !

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as it keeps up the price

lof lands tor the ene, and

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secures rich livings tor the others from ecom- missions andtees. Their

, 'arms not one is to be found, and Mr. Meehi, pretended regard tor of Razor strop celebrity, and one of the most} jo

worthless Land Commission was inere ly

real designs The privilege of a free

be adopted ia P. E. Island ; but by care and| been most shamefully

| attention muck may be dose to prevent the {spread of any of the taller weeds.

Many years ago a quantity of seed was im- | ported from the United States, which, instead of being that of a valuable grass, turned out to be the **Ox-eye daisy,’ called in the This plant is known to Botanists as the ““Chyreanthemam Lea- aad is a diennia/, that is to say : the young plant from the seed shed this

afterwards dying a natural death, so that if you can prevent the daisy maturing its seed, -t will im time be got quit of.

From want of proper attention this pest has epread far and wide, and in the neigh- bourhood of Town it has become such a nui- sance that unless some method can be devised to eradicate it, the Is!and will very soon be overrun. Taking this view of the evil, and thinking that a machine might be invented for the purpose of destroying the daisy, the Hon. Mr. Coles commenced a series of expe- riments last season, which be has this year brought to a euccessiul termination by the introduction of a regular ** daisy header.”’ Chis machine, which will be patented, is drawn by a horse, and to save the expense of new wheels, a pair from a gig or waggon may beused. Theaxle, which is made pretty strong, supports a horizontal bar, which can be raised or lowered at pleasure; upon this bar the teeth are fixed, to clear which, when

| they become laden with daisy heads, a flat- tened piece of iron, worked by a handle at- tached to a crank, sweeps them off in a mo- ment, at the pleasure of the driver. Ina point | ot this Bar there is a fly- wheel or reel, driven by a belt from the carriage wheel. which | keeps the daisy heads up to the teeth. |machine clears a surface of about 18 feet jeach bout, without injuring the grass; and fields which in the morning appeared to suffer from a heavy fall of snow, look green and | beautiful in the evening, after having been *| operated upon by this famous ‘+ Decapitator.”’

It can be seen in front of my Store, and |when properly finished will form a light, elegant, and most useful implement. boon conferred on the farming public, by the successful result of Mr. Coles’s exertions, can scarcely be estimated.

Iam, dear Sir, your obdt. servant, WM. W. IRVING, Ch. Town, 10th July, 1863. 2 ———— (FOR THE EXAMINER.) Adieu, sweet Paradise, adjeu! Our bitter doom is sealed ; No more pare joy we'll share with you,

The

The

} granting

crippled by the present Government, by their placing the power of certificates,

|} without whieh a large

We now must till the field.

Then come, dear Eve, I'll love thee atill,

For He eOmmands it eo,

That as with me thou sharedst the ill,

You nevds must share the wae,

O, Innocence !—w hat

purity

Is in that simple word

O, how I dread futarity, My sins 1 must record, Amidst my offspring, what a sight Of fallacy and crime ; Now few will follow in the right, , for an eud to time. Look back, dear Eve, baw blest were we, How blest we might remain, Ijad we but shunned that noted Ture, We still were free from pain. Look hence far countless days to come, O'er Earth's great fertile face ; On every side the eye doth roam, sehald our wandering race. Behold the tempter bere and there, All spangled with deceit, Spreading presumption and despair, Even mercy to defeat Yet welcome to my heart, kind hope, "Midst eraft and vice behold, Men with the snare fit to cope, Defying pride and gold. Men thinking, speaking, acting right, Led by substantial Love ; Ali! Merey, how I love that sight ; © thanks to thee, kind Jove.

Then, welcome trial time, and night, Of life, and death, and pain ; Faith, Love and Merey show ight

Of Paradise again.

7-1

compensated by the elevation of the Arch-! Mr. Eprror,—

duke Maximilian, for the loss of Galicia to}

of territory in order to ** reotify ’’ her fron-| tiers’ All this could not happen but for the | position of Prussia ; and if the foliy of King |

in & conjancture with a people so cultivated | might have met by boldness. King William thinks he is playing a farce, but it may turn | out a tragedy. He has lost his head; for if it is still on his shoulders, it 1s of little use even to the owner. ed to quiet if the Prussians would rudely hiut that the King need not trouble himself to re- tarn from the baths of Carlsbad. Prussia has now a King who does not fill the Throne ; and Prussiang might cause it to be occupied by a constitutional Prince. —_— —_-—ro———_

Tux Derenper or Lucknow anv als Faxity.—Sir. William William’s defence of Kars was a feat in many respects similar to Sir Jobn Inglis’ defence of Lucknow, though

tainly no one felt that the hero of it was) over-rewarded by a baronetey with a pension of £1000 a year attached to it. The com-

who can hardly be said te have relieved Lucknow, though the name of that city is’ appended to the baroretey, were awarded | respectively pensions of £1,000 ayear, We! are far from saying that the inferior bonors bestowed on Sir John loglis was a shabby | @ quittal of his deserts, but we wish to point) out that they were inferior, and not only in-| ferivr, but—what is of greater importance— | tar more precarious. Having teen made @ major-general he wae afterwards appointed to the command in Corfu. Llad he lived he might here, perhaps have saved a considerable sum in the course of time. but hip health was shattered by the Indian service, and be un- happily died of lonian fever a few months ago, leaving a widow and five children to whom a sixth was added but a few weeks since. The worth of his commission having been Met by the very fact of his promotion, | & share of prize money amounting to less than £200, a widow's pension of £140 8 year, und an allotment of £25 each for all the children so long a8 they are under age, ia all

tow

Europe might be restor- | _

Che Examiner.

NOVEL MODE

It ia remarkable how carefully the Governinent serikes avoid the discussion of local political questions. Whenever the policy of the Admims- tration is assailed on any point, a side issue on some it must he recorded, in fairness to the latter, | religious topic, based on the most absurd and im- that it was not equally successfal ; yet cer-| probable assumptions, is at once raised to divert public attention from the short-comings of our The following may be taken as a fair out- mand of the garrison at Woolwich and the| line of the mode of attack and defence adopted in command of the troops in Canada were|our local party discussions.

additional marks of her Majesty's favour. | the defence is best shown by being placed in juxta- ‘To the widow and son of Sir Henry Havelock, position with the facts

rulers,

Opposition ;—-

ATTACKS OF THE OP- POSITION PRESS. When the present

Government came into office the debt of the Colony was less than £40 ,000— it is now con- siderably more than £30,000 — having been more than doubled in four years, without any advantages to shew for it.

The great increase of the public debt is espe- cially censurable in view of the fact that the pub- lic taxes have been pear- ly doubled in some cases, and in others more than doubled: the ad-ralorem duties have been raised from 64 to 10 per cent; the duty on molasses has

the acknowledgment that remains to the | been raised from 2d to representatives of 2 man to whow our Indiaa| td; and the duties on

empire owes 80 mucl.— Times.

Tue Canapian Epecrions.—It is very dif- fieult to form @ correct idea of the state in whiely the elections will leave parties in Cftada. No two papers seem to agree in the returns so far made ; the Toronto Leader tums them ap as follows; Mi ialists 51, Opposition 59, and Independent 9; the (luebec News gives the ministry 58, the Op- position 62, and 5 mdependent; acvording to the Hamilton Times the Ministry has 76, the Upposition 56, and 4 independent. Other Canadian papers give different versions of the story, and we will robably not know what elfect the final resylt will have on the fate of the Ministry until the new parliament assem- bles, and the vote is taken. Everything de-

some other necessaries indispensable to the poor man's table, have been raised in like proportion.

Responsible Govern- ment vo longer exists ig this Island, as it does in the other Colenies. A mongre! syst has been substituted for it, which bears no resem- blance to the British Constitution. Official] responsibility, in several inpertant ees, has been ignored, to serve the interests of a few in- dividuals, who could not, by any possibility, get

pends on the course taken by the independents,

seats in the Legislature

Charlottetown, July 20th, 1863.

OF THE GOVERNMENT.

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Hoping you will

H. HOMESPUN.

DEFENDING

The weakness of and arguments of the

DEFENCE BY THE Go- VERNMENT PRESS. This is a Protestant

country; Catholics should not be allowed to have any control over tue administration of affairs; the religion and liberties of Protestants are endangered by giv- ing power to the Catho- lies.

If the Government of this Colony should ever fall into the hands of the Catholies, or into those of liberal Protestants, who are much worse than the Catholics, there is every reason to fear that the Treasury will be emptied to enrich St. Dunstan's College and the Convent; and the land will be covered With popish schools and nunneries endowed at the public expense.

Protestantism is in very great danger, for one Peter Dens, jn a Latin book written by him, has declared it to be ‘a damuable sect.”

| hundre

| publie | that purpose.

(of Messrs.

i class of electors cannot

vote, in the hands of tools and partizans of the Government, whe will most certainly use their power to obstruct the exercise of the fran- chise in constituencies where the Government may be stronglyopposed.

The Free System of Education has been all but destroyed. ‘Ie sa- laries of schoolmasters have been greatly re- duced, and every ob- stacle is thrown in the way of getting schvol- houses opened = = and schoolinasters passed. We are rapidly return- ing to “the days of comparative ignorance and darkness.”

The persons who compose the present Go- vernment, when in op- position, objected to the appointinent of deputies in the public depart- ments, as involving an unnecessary expendi- ture of the public money. They promised that that grievance should be re- dressed under a Tory Government, and that the work of the public offices should be dune by the principals, Now, however, the deputies are more Qumeraus than they were at any former time, and the people's money is squandered accordingly iu providing saluries fur them. Se- cretary Pope, who never spends an hour in his office, has his work done altogether by deputies, at the people's expense ; while he is travelling about the Provinces, scheming for his own advantage under pre- tence of serving the public, and getting his travelling expenses paid

lout of the Treasury. | Donald Currie, one of

the Deputies, is paid a pounds @ year for ding part of Pope's

; Work, but he employs

most of his time in writ- ing silly editorials tor the Monitor, and uses the stationery for

Official patronage was never lwre — grossly abused than in the ap- pointment of Mr. John Arbuckle, as School Vi- sitor, No one has ever defended the appoint- ment on its own merits —no one pretends to say that Mr. Arbuckle performs the duties for the discharge of which he receives a large sa- lary. Indeed, Conser- vatives have more fre- quently condemned the appointment than the Liberals. All that can be said for Mr. Arbuckle —and this has been said by Mr. Palliser in the Legislative Council—is, that the School Visitor has been serviceable to the Government as a

| travelling politician, and jin no other way.

Will you please tell the printer, or composer, ’ Poland, and of Venetia to Italy, whilst, or whatever you likes to call him, wha tixed up France takes payment in Rhenish Provinces | ™y letter, that he made a first-rate job of it, and

for her services, and Sweden receives a slice | tel! him that I feels much obliged to him; but bein in & hurry | suppose he made one or two mistakes.

In place of putiin bigger men, he must have mis- [ my pot-books and put heggar men, which is, tae : = | as we say in the country, quite a harse of another William lowers the external prestige of hie| color; and where [ meaut to rite larn them country, the Prussians may blame themselves | better, he puts harm them better. for the politica] torpidity they have shown | find a corner somewhere for this, I remain with thanks, Yours,

Tnetances of gross and palpable jobbery with the public money are very numerous, The grant for the Volunteer service is frittered away to promote the interests of individuals in connec- tion with the Govern- ment, as giving £40, for instance, for the rent of an unfinished room in Mr. Pope's warehouse wherein a few Volun- teers are occasivnally drilled. — The money voted for the Mail Ser- vice is alsu often used te serve private inte- rests. But one of the nest scandalous pieces of jobbery was giving £75 to Mr. George Su- therland for some copies of the worthless book that he calls a History of the Island, on pre- tence that they might be read ae a class book in the publie schools; while they are, to this hour, laying on the hands Laird & Harvie as so much worthless waste paper. And another scandalous job was in smuggling the price of a silk gown for the said Mr. George Sutherland, out of the contingent money of the Ilouse of Assembly. When the Rev. George, enwrapped in this silk gown, prayed that “ ho- nourab members ”’ might be endowed with an inerease of virtue and holiness, we pre- sume that honesty did not enter inte his pious reflections as one of the virtues necessary in public men.

The Latin book of | Bishop ef Charlottetown for presuming to

Peter Dans, from which Mr. Pope has translated several passages, is really very immoral. In the Confessional, priests are instructed or itn powered to put extraor- divary questions to te- wales, Mr. Pope chal- lenges the Reetor of St. Dunstan's to prove that such is not the case Judeed, Mr. Pope is

wrepared to shew,betore

Ir. David Laird, or any other high authority, that he (Mr. P.) has not falsified or perverted

the Latin text of Peter

Dens

The doctrine of Con- ferxsion is the worst thing “ever devised by devils or priests ’’ — so saith W.H. Pope. A woman who goes to confession ~—~(saith the same indi- vidual, in the coarsest language he could use) —inust be regarded as unchaste. We are in- tormed that Peter Deus’ Theology corrupts the morals of the priests, and the priests corrupt the morals of the peui- tents.

The Bishop of Char- lottetown does not ad minister the affairs of ins diverse to the satis-

faction of Denald Currie. His Lordship sends Irish — priests

where Scotch ones were formerly stationed; and the Lrish people are very much annoyed at this proceeding — at least Donald Currie says so.

The Catholie religion iw terribly idolatrous. There was a procession of the Sacred Host at Bedeque, some years ago. Pope says it was a great offence to Pro- testants; and Mr. Pope is prepared to prove that the Catholies wor- ship “a wheaten god.” (s r. Pope admits that

e once tried very hard to get a large grant of the public money for an institution in which this * idolatrous religion” ix inculeated and prac- tised ; but the dear in- hecent man never dis- covered the “ idolatry,” atier living more than furty years in the world, until the last general election wae about to take place, wheu he found that the “ idola- tors” would not give his party any political sep- port,—when he learned, te his mortification, that his promised bribery would be of no avail,— that his persevering fluukeyism at the Epis- copal Residence, — his syeuphancy and cajolery with the Cathelic mew- bers in the House of Assembly, would not subdue the opposition ot the Catholies to the Governmeut party. It was only then he dis- covered the * idola- trous’’ nature of the Catholie religion. ]

“A good deal has been said or written about the intamous work of Peter Dens, but the worst that has been ever said or written res- pecting it, falls far short ot the truth.”—Junior Clerk of the Executice Council in the Monitor.

The junior Clerk of the Executive Council is again very vehement in his condemnation ot Dens’ Theology. He challenges the Rector ot St. Dunstan's College to dispute the correctness ot Mr. Pope’s transla- tion. “Mr. Pope,” he says, “is prepared to give page, paragraph, and chapter tor his quo- tations. If they are not correctly given, let Fa- ther Angus, in order to show the discrepancies between the text of the ‘spurious’ and the au- thorized version, place beside them quotations from the same page, pa- ragraph, and chapter of the standard edition.” Hurrah for Peter Dens!

Persons unacquainted with our lucal politics will, no doubt, be surprised to learn that such is

regu- That “gentleman” did not compe

‘ate the affairs of the diocese wi'hout regard to

has, no doubt, created an immense sensation ; but we dre stcungly disposed to disbelieve the report that it has had such an effect in the Monaghan Set- tlement as to suggest the preseutation of a basket of eggs of a peculiarly odoriferous character.

Donald the Exquisite giveth proof of his devu- tion to religious theologieal reading. Psalin-sing- ing, after hours, in the Council Chamber. has made jsome impression upon him ; and Dens’ Theology, | Translated with notes and Emendations by the | Hon. W.H. Pope,” has fully awakened his moral | susceptibilities. He seems to labour under great | mental excitement in the perusal of this work— j challenging any body and every body to dispute the correctness of the version from which he takes his | inspiration,—from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. he may be seen in the Council Office his eye in a fine phren- zy rolling, (minus hat and cane ), flourishing Peter Dens over his head—reading, or rather spelling, a line in Latin here and there, and then cunning off in a violent tangent, exclaiming about the abuses of popery — pulling our old friend Mr, Charles Desbrisay by the shoulder—seattering public pa- pers about; and questioning every comer to the Council Office whether he has ever read the works of Peter Dens?

Donald complains that we have cast “ national reflections’ upon him, by hinting that he some- times uses porridge and sulphur. Donald was born in thisf{{sland,we understand, on the beautiful banke of the West River, and we cannot understand why he should be ashamed of an imputed fondness for outmeal, which is relished by us all, and of which may a kind Providence always send us a bountiful supply. We are sorry if we have hurt his feelings on the sulphur question. As oue of our Provin- cial warriors, he ought to be pleased when charged with an extravagant use ef this article, since it is known to form so large an ingredient in the com- position of gunpowder. If he has an “ itching palin” for it, as Cassius — a far greater warrior of ancient times — bad for another mineral sub- stance of a much more attractive character — let him use it to his heart’s content, as long as he stays in this world; but let us hope that he will know nothing of sulphur in the next world, where no indignant Brutus shall sneeringly advert to his “itching palms,”

Donald has been somewhat impressed by our historical illustration touching the drunkenness of the Spartan slaves, but he has wade a bad use of it, a8 we shall presently shew him. He says that ‘some members of the Opposition” — and he points to Mr. Whelan as the most prominent one of the “some ”—are, during the Legislative Ses- sion, 48 regards intemperance, much worse than the Spartan slaves. If Donald had made frequent visits to the House of Assembly, during the last Session, especially in the evenings, his mind would be filled with images of drunken “slaves” belong- ing to the Government. Donald is very much in the habit of putting questions to others, and, of course, 26 will not be displeased if we follow his example in this respect. Does he know that all the bacchanalian orgies celebrated in the ante- rooms of the House of Assembly, last Seasion, were under the leadership of the Government party, at the head of whom was the pious Col. Secretary? Does he not know that the seenes there enacted sometimes ended in rows, in which the pious Secretary was one of the belligerants? Is he iguerant of the fact that the “ drink” used at those orgies was procured, in mast cases, by commuting the fees on private Bills inta 90 many gallons of wine for each? Will he believe that about one hundred and thirty gallens af wine was the moderate quantity consumed, ta say nothing of other liquors? Is he not aware that if the fees had been collected in money, as they could have been, they would amount to a considerable sum in the aggregate, and that this was lust to the public Treasury through the influence of the high- toned, moral, and temperate majority of the House of Assembly? Look at the legislation of the whole Session, aud say how far it has benfiited the public. It bears about the same proportion to the 130 gallons of wine as Falstaff’s half-penny worth of bread bore to the “ intolerable deal ot sack” with which he washed it down.

Donald has named one member of the Opposi- tion in connection with his clumsy falsehood. How would his masters in the Executive Council like to have the portraits drawn of some of their fellows there, when on a desperate spree, such as the Hen. Mr. Yeo and the Hon. Mr. Laird know how to enjoy? And if Donald loves to be- hold a picture of stolid and stupid drunkenness, let him revisit his natal scenes on the banks of the West River. ‘There, in an old shanty, vegetates the wreck of encient sobriety, hight Malcolm Currie, whose fame fills the surrounding country as the best absorbent of his time for any quantity of liquid fire — whose potutions unly cease with an exhaustion of the domestic treasury; but who scorns to relinquish a booze without enjoying the luxury of a free fight with any person who comes in his way, and is generally honoured with a pair of black eyes as mementos of bis valour. But, Donald, we beseech thee, go not again to the Weat River to study the picture we baye called to your recollection. Resist the influence of boyish reminiscences that would direct thy footsteps thither. While engaged in the flankey business for Mr. Dundas and his Councillors, you will be apt to consider yourself ax great as any of them; and inflated with that conceit, common sense will have but littie control over your actions—in which statd, friend Donald, we shall continue to admire thee as the Exquisite Executive Fool.

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TO OUR COUNTRY SUBSCRIBERS.

WE desire to inform our Sabseribers in Prince County, and in the western sections of Queen’s County, that Mr. F. W. Hughes, our confidential Travelling Agent aud geueral Superintendent, is now on his annual collecting tour, and will call upon them all, in the course of the present and following month, for the amounts severally due by them. Weearnestly hope they will be prepared to respond to his call in a most satisfactory manner. We have so often used, te very little purpose, words ot entreaty when asking delinquent sub- seribers to discharge their obligations to as, that we deem it futile to indulge again in sucha strain. We now epeak to them in very plain words. We faithfully keep our engagements with them, in regularly supplying them, from week to week, with a newspaper which costa us a great deal of money to publish+-the labour, paper, and materials for which are all paid for in cash—we are determined they shall keep their engagements with us, or we shall have nothing to do with them. We cannot give long credit without serious injury to ourselves. We have, therefore, concluded upon

ithe opinions of so important a person as Donald |

Currie. Donald's sympathy for the Irish people, With characteristic weakness he bas appropriated ; si

se the sentence | all intent

upon a pleasant pilgrimage of charity to! enjoys all the comforts of a country town, ana

in question; neither lis head ner his heart is sunny Summerside, that eo fair a scene and serene | the advantages of a sea-port city. Say What wy

eapable of producing anything comparable to it, }@

as his own the property of another. ‘That other was one whose brilliant humour, caustie wit, and

one pair of lovely lips lisped the kind assurance,

may of Yankeedom, we have only to vinit this most northern ove of its thousand Cities ty perceive the unrivalled advance of that peuple ig agriculture and commerce, and ir all the :

heaveus were vouchsafed unto us, unworthy

nners, on the occasion. One can never beheve it, althcagh more than

provide a remedy. professional man by a trial of his skill. the trial may sometimes be the death of us; but it is hard to say whether the quacks kill more patients than some of the regularly educated practitioners.

If our spirited friends of the Vindicator are disposed to chase the humbugs out of the medical

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crushing argument were the terror of the No- Popery rogues and tools of his day and generation The passage will be found in a letier on the Catholic Question written by the Rev. Sydney Smith, and reads as follows :—** The true spirit is to search after God and another life with low- liness of heart-—-to fling down no man’s altar, to punish no man’s prayer, to heap vo penalties and no pains on those solemn supplieations, which, in divers tongues, and in varied forme, and in temples of a thousand shaper, but with one deep sense of human dependence, men pour forth to

In publishing the communication signed “ P. ’ which appears in another column, we trust our friends of the Vindicator, to whom it refers, will understand that we do not endorse a single word which it coutaias. that while we have a free press we should deny to no man the privilege of being heard in selt- defence when his professional reputation is made the subject of a newspaper attack. our friends of the Vindicator committed an error in refusing Mr. Brenan’s advertisement, on the mere assumption of the editor that the Professor— as he is pleased to call himself—is a “ medical it would be a most onerous task for an editor to perforin, to discriminate between the Simon Pures and the Humbugs. don’t tvel ourselves equal te it; and we do think it would be particularly uofair to denounce any individual as a quack or a humbug, when that term might apply, with equal propriety, to a thousand others, in the very same profession, whom the public delight to favour with their siniles and patronage. ‘The public must determine for themselves who they shall encourage in the practice of medicine,—if the encouragement be greatly abused, it isthe duty of the Legislature to We can only judge of any

It appears to us

We certainly

We think

It is true,

that te that best of commanders and most courteous of gentlemanly companions, Captain Evans, we were indebted for the extremely good humor of that capricious old spinster, Dame Nature, whieh we experienced.

Certainly there are times when one can say of this hyperboreaun Berbadoes, bad as may be its present ethics in relation to civil Government, and though its statesmen be but placemen, and that the solemn questions appertaining to the domain of conscience are not well distinguished from the evanescent ones incidental to our civil state, that it does compare very favorably with its flowerier namesake at the tropics.

But these few reflections have not, even for a a moment, withdrawn us from our pleasant eom- pany; and having very soon arrived at pretty little Summerside, that little ambitious place which already rejoices in numerous churches, and fine stures, and sume shipping afloat and on the stocks, together with any amount of aggressive dust, we surrendered our sacred freight to a laughing multitude of lovely consignees, or rather holiday devotees, at the head of whom were our friends the Hon. J. C. Pope and J. A. McDonald, Esq., attending to affairs generally. Steering

oaks, but where no ouks have grown ever since Carvell's railway whistle frightened the fairies aod the aerial friends of “ Evangeline” from the place—we there descended from the ocean, and

New Brunswick for that break-neck city of the Evangelist, St. John.

And as we fly along the rail as noiselessly almost aud as rapidly as the eagle, our first thought, drawo from past experience in railway travelling, was our conductor—(the gentleman's wame is Dicker, we believe)—whom at a glance we contided in, notwithstanding the bandaged state of his left arm, which told a tale of humanity, as we heard, con-

ourselves to a quiet survey of the passing scene, vanishing like 4 vision past the view, we quickly left Shediae and the Bend in our rear, and entered the pleasant vale of Sussex, at the head of which stands the villa of the “ blue-nosed” hero of Kars, not far from the illustrious field of Hickey’s fame,

thence away for Point du Chene—that point of

took passage in the georgeous state carriages of