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them, to turn it to advantage, by joining tin anentery, Phey are not oar mem- bers, who yearly call for returns of sin-| ecures, of ‘episcopal ' jncomes; they are! Tot otr people with form (Anti-Caurch! and State Associations: it is not our! Press which sends forth caricatures of ecclesiastical dignataries, or throws rid | cule on clerical avocations, Withusthe cause of truth and of faith has been held, too sacred to be advocated in any but) honourable and religinvs modes. We have avoided the tumult of public as- semblies, and farthing appeals to the Ig- sorance of the multitude, But no sooner has an opportrnity been given for awak- ening every jurking passion against us, than it has heen eagerly seized by the ministers of thatestablishment ‘The pul- pit and the platform, the church and the town hail, have been equally their field of labour; and speeches have been made, and untruths uttered, and calumnies re— peated, and flashing .words of disdain, and anger, and hate, and contempt, and every wunpriestly, and unchristain, and unholy sentiment have been spoken, that could be said against those who al:nost alone have treated them with respect. And jittle care was taken at what tine, erin what circumstances, these things were done. If the spark had fallen upon the infammable materials of a gunpow- der mob, and make it explode, or what was worse, had ignited it, what cared they? [If blood had been inflamed and arms plified, and the torch in thetr grasp, and flames. had been enkindled, what heeded they? If the persons of those whom consecretion makes holy even ac- eordiug to their own belief, had been seized like the Austrian general’s and ill-treated; ard perhaps maimed or worae, what recked they? These very things were, one and all, pointed out as elorions signs, sonld they take place, of high and noble Protestant feeling in the land as prools of the prevalence of an unpersecu- ting, a free inquiring, a tolerant gospel} creed!

ig olla Ri Noripty we . . - “ Thanks to you, brave, and generous, Religion, or the Bible Society —to five! again overflow—our wharfs and bridges

end noble-hearted people of England! who would not be stirred up by those: whose duty it Is to teach you gentleness, meekness, and forbearance, to support

what they call a religions canse, by irre-/ Who empowered the present Assembly to Jamity will be regarded as a vi

ligious means ; and would pot hunt down, when bidden, your unoffending fellow) citizens, tothe hollow ery.of* No Pepe-'

ry,” and onthe pretence of a fabled ag.\ Ys He may fancy he is shout to deal in the country is, thet itiad not gone be-| (in mighty charms and coujurstions when ‘fore, for it is weakly eons!

gression.

“Thanks to you, docile and obedient, children of the Catholic faith!—many of. you I know by nature fervid, but by reli-! gion tnildened, who have felt, indeed—-! who conld help it ?—the indignities that have been cast upon your religion, your, pastors, and your highest chief, but have borne them in the spirit of the great Head, of your Church, in silence and unretorting, forbearance. But whatever has been) @aid in ignorance, or malice, against us. OF against what is more dear to us, com-' mend with me tethe forgiveness of a! mercifil God; to the retribution of his’ kindnees, and to the sword of His justice. | Ajay he not render to others as they would have cone tous; but my fle shower.

down Mia kindness upon them, in propor-| public conduct, or Consistency in the)Securing a place of safety for shipping. —|

tion.as they would have dealt unkindly| in curregard. The storm is fast passing! away; an honest and upright: people will! goon see through the arte that have been| employed to deceive it, and the reaction of generosity will soon set in. [nquiry in nuwakened, the respective. merits of|

THS CRARINER.

aw - oe ro pre fe VP IV LYRIS Dba). (desired change must shortly be effected—

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Satarday, December 28, 1859,

A VOICE FROM THE INTERIOR,

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Tue following letter having come to us as we were about preparing an editorial for our present No., we cheerfully give up our space to its insertion, thinking it too good to be deiayed :—

Mr. Epitor—

I observe, by a late No. of the Islander that the editorof that journal continues his abuse of the Representatives of the people, in consequence of the stand they made to obtain constitutional Govern- ment. ‘Phe loss of a signal post to Char- lottetown-—the stoppage of the Inland Mails, together with tie loss of bridges to the country—are subjects on which he loves to ring the changes, as being those most likely to create dissatisfaction with the Assembly. If the Meal-Man of the islander (as your friend Ebenezer would call him) really hopes that his misrepre- sentations on these or other subjects can have any weight with the honest Anglo. Saxon race whom he addresses, he must surely forget their inherent love of truth and liberty, ard their keen perception in discovering right from wrong. Happily for this Isiand, the Schoolmaster has been abroad, and knowledge is too widely dif- fused-—not merely the knowledge of class. books and horn-books, but sach, too, as relates to the occurrences of our every-

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day life, polities as well as ‘Temperance

the Meal-man the smallest possible chance of proselytizing one solitary individual from amongst the many thousand freemen

destroy the faction that so long exer- cised irresponsible and arbitrary authori-

he descends from the Meal-bags of New London to the sanctum of the Islander ofice, and changes a gaspereaux on the banks of the South West for a mutton- chop in “mine inn” at Charlottetown— but he will assuredly ‘ind more fancy than fact in the reflection; for as we are told that to

“ Paint the lily, gild refined gold, Or ‘« Add perfame to the violet,”

wonld bea very absurd snd ridievlons task, so would it be equa!ly absurd to look for Truth in the writings, Honesty in the

neopets 0 Hier =

‘of controlling at will the Government they aretaxed to uphold; end a further result ia an overflowing Treasury, every

{ & . ‘shilling in which would have been squan- dered ere now, had the people been mad.

enough to give the oligarchy their wonted ascendancy in the Assembly,

Nor has the credit of the House been impaired by the stoppage of the Supplies. As proof of this, witness the rebuilding of, and repairs done to, several Bridges, shattered by late storms, the contracts for which have been taken at moderate rates, on the recommendation alone of gentle- men of the Liberal party—although some of the minority, notwithstanding their professions ofa desire to “benefit the country,” exerted their little influence to defeat the project. The facility with which the same individuals afterwards changed their tune, and applauded the unprovement they could not retard, fur- mshes an instructive commentary on the motives and principles by which they are actuated,

Im the Islander of the 3d instant allu- part of the Selkirk Town wharf, and the

Joss the country bas thereby incurred islaid at the door of the Assembly, because no

abused in fine set phrase if they neglect

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and gaspereaux in his shanty at the South West.

Rervegg, China Point, December 26.

ER RIT ere omenen

What has becomo of the Mec hanieg* Institute? Has this useful institution ceased to exist, or is the present winter fo pass away without a Session? Haye Literature and Science lost their charme for our men of talent, or have they be- come 80 intent upon Christianizing the heathen, and humanizing the inebriate of Charlottetown, by means of prayer meetings and temperance lectures, that intellectual improvement isa thing un worthy of thought, and that Learning may find votaries where she may beyond

the dominion of the Schoolmaster?

ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL8&.

The Courier with the Colonial anéU. States Mails arrived here from Cape Tr. verse last night about half past twelge o'clock. Although we have received twe

sion is made te sweeping off by storm of

weeks Mails by this arrival, our papers are extremely void of interesting matter. Our latest Colonial dates are to the Qlet

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instant ; United States to the 14th inst,

‘and California papers to the 3Ist Oetr

| ; ; 7 . Supply was granted. ‘The insanity of the We select the following items:—

Meal Man will stop at nothing; and by and, ; bye we may expect the House to be Dec. 10:h.—The prisoner Webb, eon-

Execution or Werss.—Kinostow,

vieted at the last assizes, of the murder ot Mr. Brenan, and sentenced to be exe

to. Jegislate for every contingency of ented, anffered the extreme penalty of weather, and provide against every ele- the law this morning, at six minutes after 10. He exhibited the: same stoical ‘firmness which he evinced on bis trial. Rev. Mr. Rogers attended him. A large be carried away—orr fields and pastures concourse of spectatora, about 2,000 as- ‘converted into something that would be sembled around. the jal, and numbera neither sea nor good dry land,” the eg. ocenpied more distinct points, from,

iwhence the execution eonld be witnessed, siltation on)

‘inental war: so that shonid our rivers

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ithe sins of the majority of the House. Aa! (> A disastrous fire occurred jin for the Selkirk Town wharf, the wonder St. Louis, consnming a large number of hoildings stored with dry goods, &e. iThe lose is estimated at $63,000, on. ructed, and €X-\ which there is an insurance ef $53,600. posed on a long sandy point of about 200 yards.in extent to the lashing of the sen The greatest sell of this or any other

‘season within ten years past, is the on the west side from the waters of OF | nurkish Arnbédee die!) sell: Exceeane jwell Bay, and on the enst to the strong from a letter from Consiantinople, just jtides of Orwell River. The site is published in the New York Express, { : : : } » 2 b > ‘evidently ill choaen, and it is doubtfy) that Amin Poy is nothing more than a es dedi fewitt if young officer of the navy, enjoying the ted Sek Qocde tin eee et cenit t OR Oe Kaimakam, which is of no impor lengih of time. It would have been a'tanee whatever. and was sent to this more judicions expenditure of money to country to go through a course of stu

iy ri now

Ihave extended the wharf at Cundall itt the dockvards to acquire a knowledge G, of the recent invention perfected in this street, which would not have cost onelecuntrys By the shrewd manewemeatiol® third of the amount, besides affording a, Mr. Brown, interpreter to the (8. Le great sccommodation to the country, ang gation at Constantinople, the Turk “ was ‘brought out” with great eclat, and several of ovr citizens, from Daniel Webster

principles which distinguish the Man of| Tak A oR. tOReSE, the, Pelye Pow downwards have feasted his * excellency”

Meal from all the politico-literary rapsea!- hhons of this or any otherage.

In the unceasing denunciations of the Islander—and the laborious attempts

{Wharf had not something of the conserva-'at a great expense, and it requires ®

tive character of its portly representative | gifted imegination to “ phansy their lamke

i—he of the ferrets, mean, He is an| Pheelinks.

ememy to al] change (except sinall) —he| Mast DREADFUL CALAMITY.—A tele-

se t <i? FS . re oe Charches will be tried by their teata, ang, constantly made to gull the ignorant few! las breasted every political storm: why, eraphic Despatch was received at the

not by worldly considerations ; and Truth. for which we contend, wi!l calmly tri- wmph. Let your lovalty be unimpeach- able, and your faithfulness to social du- ties above reproach. That thus the mouths of adversaries.may be shut, and gan the higher good-will of your fellow- countrymen who wil] defend in you, as for themse'ves, your constitational rights, in- Juéing full religious liberty.” > Ceres sn

ele aie o> ean

Taisn Practica Wit.—A Tipperary Rock te sends aletter of advice o a neighbour, about taking a certain piece of land or letting it alone; and ends with this pithy question: ‘What's the whole

who permit that paper to be thrust upon thein gratuitously —we recognize the last faint struggle ofthe imbecile and expir- ing oligarchy to retain the sweets of oflice in spite of an overwhelming majority, supported by constitutional Jaw, and backed by intellect aud by the approval of their Sovereign.

The vote of want of confidence passed hy the the present House, and the with- holding of the Supplies which followed— were not idly assumed privileges, The result of these proceedings is now appa-

Sina st eveni ; ick- 'oh why could'’nf his wharf brave a phy-| News Room last evening. from Predert

sical one?. There is something terrifi- cally ominous in this disposition to decay on the part of the Selkirk Town wharf!

Meal Man, * fallof sound and fury, signi. fying nothing,” but the fear of trespsesing on your space admonishes me to conclude for the present. And I beg to wish you both the compliments of the Season, and to him a long continuance of the whole- some fare provided by Mrs. Woods, at the

rent in. the admission which even the

ward to aman if his wife be a widow?’

expense of the Compact, which he wel!

I had designed to notice some of the! other“ tales told by the idtot,” alias the!

ton, stating that the honse of Mr. Joba ‘Conlthard, in Queensbury, was consamed by fire yesterday morning, sbont two 0- clock, with all the family —consisting © ‘Mr. Coulthard, wife and child. Canae of the Bre unknown.

, ities FROM CALIFORNIA.

The Steamship Georgia and Empat City, bring us later intelligence from Ce- lifornia, ‘They were filled with passe? gerg returning to heir homes, and plenty af them, poor enough. I have seen Nr. DeWolfe a young Nova Scotian who just returned from this wonderful Coun- ry: he gives a clawing description

it. The Cholera had made its appearance

enemies of constitutional Government; knows is a consummation devoutly to be in California. and it is feared bundraés. dare forced to meke, namely, that the longiwished after vegetating upon pasrid

| will fall victims tp it. ' y