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a ae Rogie i . jo. 8 the same. | youershut your bible, says i? No, says he, i :

Mx. Epiton j= ‘they Saw at. Don't you find the Catholies The meeting was then opened by Colonel \ good long while ago yoo printed a letter | wood neighbours, says 1? Well, sayshe, I'll | Watlles, the Chairman, who said that he hoped the

i meeting would take jute cousideration the ane You may depend upon it) say that for them, that I neow they - as expected honour which was conferred on him, and There "

| good Reighbboars as aman could wish ' "the fact that he was but a short time eonnected it want a helping hand, and when [I'm in with the parish, in drder to wake allowance for j trouble, [ find them as good as Protestants, | his shortcomings. "The objeet of the present He cm fiad out merit in spite of) wand better chau agood many, But then, says! meeting, as they were aware, was to arrive at he, they hate us in their hearts, and its only | some conelusion respecting the right of pew-holders ithe fear of the law that hinders them from|to dispose of their seats. Ile would be most | alli J say ’ niece | happy to hear any suggestion which might be ; killing us. Now, says f, ain’t you @ nice | "pp ei j ne Leheubovtll horritly grammatised, yet be could find out| Christian. By your own tell the Catholiva| Prepesed. The preseat Shick e ; adie I ue a 1 ‘the ; | Court avese from a parishioner, to whe : That there letter was what} are as good as the are ef nee was let, refusing to pay the owner of the pew the fulks call an era in my existence ; ever since they are ready to help you im your need, stipulated sum, although he was willing to give it, | they feel for you in you troubles, and although

then [ paid more attention to what I saw in and offered it to him as a voluntary contribution.

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from me to you. 1 was proad when I sow it in print. says [to myself, is a man with some sense ai him all kinds of disadvantages. ter wae badly wrote and badly spelled, and

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the sense of it.

they have ten thousand chances to hurt you | ‘pis the owner retused to accept, and hence the the papers, and what I read in books, and without you ever knowin (t, yet your property j present action. In consequence ot this dispute what | heard from the pulpit and other | is as safe, and you sleep as sound in your ee ee ee | be } ds rojo etirst Sunday atfer aster. glace. Felke te beginning tolangh atm. and} ee — eee ee i. tenaiatel tothe churchwardens to be reinstated say | am getting mighty wise and conceited, | dence that they are kind nabours and feelin| i# the pew held by ~~ me wires Peat toss and all the rost. For all ¢hat they seem to| trienda, yet you take it upon yourself oe ee = ee a el mind what I say more than they used to. 1) judge their hearts, and say they really hate| 7) of, favettel: especially in relation to owners tim afraid that if the newspaper editors knew | you, and are only waitin for a chance to do | of other pews, did not Dooun it eiuinabhietn tells what ase my neighboure make of me that| harm to you and yours This is'nt a hit like | upon themselves the responsibility of deciding the they would try to put me down. Why, sir,| the chagity that thinketh no evil. And if! question. In consequence of this the matter was I gives owt all the news second hand; I've | you're so suspicious of them, have'nt they as} brought before the Consisterial Court on last fought ofer and over all the battles in the | good reason to be as suspicious of you? 1} Saturday, when the churchwardeus were cited to States. I've been to Poland, and if it wasn't; know you, Mae, and I know that you would nt | attend, but Dr. LDattersby post poned the hearing for them blamed hard rames, I do believe! hurt the hair of the rankest Catholic alive ;/ till next Saturday week, so as to give time to the

Ilave they ever tried to hurt | possessing pews in the churehi to let or dispose of |

I'd make my friends believe [ was privy | and more than that, | believe, that you would | parishioners to convene a meeting, and give ex-

eounsellyr to the Rooshan Emperor. And | go as far, and do as much to help your Catho thea about our own politics, though my po-| lie neighbour as any man, buat does the) tions don’t suit a great many, yet they make | Catholic know that? Has nt he just as good | seme impression upon a few. Folks is con-| reasan to believe that your kind words and | tinually asking me questions what 1 think | friendly acts is all 4 piece of policy—a beaut. | about this, and what [ think about that, and/ ful coat to cover a black and rotten heart. what this will come to, and how that will Ilas’nt he a better reason? When he sees a} end. Sometimes [ get cross and answer! society starting up among us, which has all | mighty short, for you know, Mr. Editor,/ along been the bitter enemy, and sometimes | common people like me is made great fools| the unmerciful ruler of Catholics, when he, of these times. Ard what's worse, the big-| sees our young men and our old men, and est fools think themselves the wisest people. | even the ministers of our holy religion flock-' Tow, ace for one instance, there's neighbour) ing to join it, bas'nt he a good reaser to| Mac,—well, I won't meation no names—he's | believe that we bate him, and that only for| & poor fellow, who, @ long time ago, stuck) policy, and because we want the power that) into the middle of the hardwood forest, and| we allow him the rights ef a tree man ?) bas been grabbing and toiling ever since to! Every body does'nt think much about things raise @ family and pay his reat. lis family | —most of people see what's onthe top. The is growing up, bat the poor man is wore ap; bulk of the Catholic people only see the act, too, and basa whole of back reat erush-| they don’t enquire into the motive. They ing him to the earth. Well, he hates the|see people hke Donald ¢here joining the Toprietors; he says they have takea his, society, they know the Society is against the veart’s blood from bim, aod snatched his) Uatholics, and they think that those who join children’s bread from thaje mouthe and their | itare the enemies ef Catholics. You andme, clothes from their backs, and is going to Mac, has been very good nabours, yet there jeave him in his old age withouta root to cover! wag a time before we got into one another's fie. Ho's a religions man, is Mac—none of | ways that we had some pretty hard talk. | your canting, whinimg bypecrites, but a de-| You did some things that | did not think was) cent, honest, Christian man. Weill, before! right, and I, no doubt, did and sed many the election, he comes to me, and says : | things you did'nt think wasright. Suppose ** Neighbour Homespun, I don’t know what them times, when there was hard feelins be-| todo. I don't believe that them Tories will) tween us, I locked my door, and broug)t in ever do us tenants éne bit of good ; it ain't in| all my boys, and got them to take an oath their natore to de it. Why, when | count) not to allow you to move the big stone at the| them over em my fingers, I get completely | line, and not to marry your daughter, and| outolheart. Look, 20%, there’s Yeoand two a heap of other things; and suppose L was | Popes and Paimer and Longworth and Havi- continually finding fault with you in my own | land, them's the bead and heart and soul of | family, and puttin on my spectacles to find | the Tory party. What can we expect from | out the holes in your coat, and suppose now, them ?” than acthing,”’ says 1. + It ain't in their suppose, then, [ set apart one day in every | mature that they should help you.’’ ‘I see year to keep in memory my victory over you | that,’’ says he, shaxing his head. ‘About in that trespass case, and suppose [ kept a that Award, now,’’ says he, ‘do you think) picture of Squire Straitedge in my house, | ps will come of it?"’ ‘+ Now,’’ says| and ended every meetin for the last twenty | 7, ‘don't put me out of temper. After what years by burraing for Squire Straitedge. Do| you said just now, you must be simpler than | you think, under these circumstances, we| baby not to see that no good will ever come | would ever got to be the friends and nabours | of it. Just count over them men that has the tbat we arenow? Don't you think that in- hatehing of it, and see where the place to! stead of our families being as they are, like} hepe is.’’ ** Bat,’’ says he, ‘afterall, some-| one family, and you comin here when your! thing may be done; | can't give it up yet.’ | lonesome and out of heart, and me goin over I suid nothing, for I felt a kind of sorry for| to your place for every little tuing | wanted, | the poor fellow. ‘If it wasn’t fur that | and both of us tryin bard to help each other, | Award, I think ['d vote for the Liberals,’’ | and both of us understandin one another, | tays he, after abit. *‘* But,’ saysbe again, and havin confidence in one another, we **the Catholies is all on that side.”” **What would be the blackest enemies in the world? of that,” says 1; **what has that got to do It ain’t in reason that it would be otherways, | with it?’ “If the Catholics is all on one| I don’t believe, if I acted that way, we could side, it stands to reason that the Protestants| live in the settlement. Both of us would get) should all join on the other,’ says he. a mighty sight worse every year, and you ** What for?” says I. He seemed something would get yourself to believe that | was the ae. You know,” saya he, ** that the| biggest scoundrel in the whole world, and ‘atholies want to get the upper hand, and my opinion of you and your family would, if they do there'll be awful times."’ **What/ not be much better, I bet a dollars Phere! makes you think the Catholics want to get! would be no end to the quarrels and lawsuits | the apets hand, as you call it?’ Why,’’| that would be between us. Why, we would) says he, ‘that’s what they're always trying | be the curse of the settiemens. Mac says, | for; 1 just heard a chap reading a letter, I'm most frightened at that picture, hat 1 from the Ministers in Town, and they say | believe in myheart that you are rite, I kuows | that if Protestants ain't true this election,| what I knows, and 1 know that one time it} our liberty will be all gone, and the Roman. | would'nt been a very hard job to make me_ ists will ride over us rough shod. And Bill | bleeve that you would a’most cut my ttitoat, Pope's been eee the horriblest things | if you only dared ta. [ don’t doubt it, old, out of Catholic books that ever you heard.’’| friond,says 1. Now, says I, the Orangemen, ** [don't see that it’s any particular business | is just doin what it would have been so wrong | of mine what the Catholics believe or what and foolish for me to have done, they are| they don't telieve,”’ says 1. ‘* Can't you see) keepin alive oid quarrels, and hinderin them- wane that Bill is playing? Hesaid over| selves irom understandin their Catholic’ in New Brunswick, I heard, that theonly way nabours. As for all that staff about our’

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pression to their opinions on the subject.

In reply te & question, the chairman further observed that the object of the present meeting was to determine the rights of the owners of pews in the Church whose claims would seem to be established by time and prescriptive right. ~*~ *

The Chairman said it was the opinion of Dr Battersby that when a parishioner left the parish lus wight toe the pew ceased, after which it would be allucated by the churchwardens. “~ * * *

Mr. Clay proposed that a committee be appointed to decide what steps should be taken in the matter,

Mr. Collins then said—Mr. Chairman, as nothing practical has as yet been done, and conversation earried on which seems to me to lead to much misconception, I would ask leave to say a few words. In the first place, I consider it wholly irregular and inexpedient to introduce the name of the rector in this meeting. No responsibility rests upon him. ‘The law has wisely and properly shielded him from any trouble in the distribution of pews, and has fixed his private and sacred duties by placing between him and the parish officers eleetea oy the people, on the widest fran- chise known to them, viz., the churchwardens with whom the whole duty rests Now, sir, 1 think much misconception is likely to arise fram the conversation that has taken place, and from Mr. Williqms’s statemeut. There are two rights claimed and affected by this transaction. One the law reeognizes, the other the law utterly ignores. ‘The first is the oecupation of pews, the second is the right of transter, ‘The pews are unassailable, and the churchwardens cannot dis- place an vecupying member to make way for auother; and if he exeretses any capriciows au- thority, the gourt will andv his acts. The second the law properly repudiates that a man ceasing to require a pew may sell it to another, and name his own successor. Such aright neither does nor ought tu exist. Coufusion and difficulty would follow. Nor ean any effort of ours alter the law.

‘a musical car might ¢ Be | errors in the playing of the Band on S| day evening Jast. ‘The chief ones observable |

| that’s what they want? Not that I ever |Consistorial Court, as to the right of parties | o| heard, says he.

. ° 99 harsh.’ Somuch forthe *‘ attentiveleader’s”’ | bass performance, The reed instraments can-|

other instrument, heeause they do form any part. The E flat clarionet 18 a) leading instrument , but when the ‘* attentive leader’? is not capable of teachin, playing. or arranging music for it, it 18 useless. When the B flat Clarionets were introduced into the Volunteer Band, the ‘* attentive leader’? then and there condemned them, and had them offered for public sale, they being at the same time the very best deserip- tion of Clarionets, and without fault, being Mr. Pask’s make, one of the best makers in the United Kingdom. So much for the * at- tentive leader's’ knowledge of Clarionets. If the leader is not clever at arranging music, there is one thing be is particularly clever at, that is weighing biscuit. If to have the pleasure of listening to good music and arrangement — of seeing anvther instrmental Band started in the city, and that no religious bickering or ill feeling will be;tolerated by its members, or that no person, on aceount of his religious opinions, will be prohibited from being a member. Thank:ng for the space afforded in your valuable journal, lam, Mr. Editor, Yours truly, BASS.

— To rue Eprror o THE Examiner. Dear Epiror ; Would you be kind enough, both for the benefit of your readers and the writer, to give

the following epistle a place in your journal, and oblige A TEACHER.

To ruz Hon. K. Henperson.

Str,—Not seeing the Examiner very often is a sufficient excuse why I did not write the following sooner. 1 was not aware, until lately, that you had, in your legislative ca- pacity, asserted that the statements made by the Teachers, ata meeting in Graham's Road School House, concerning Mr. Arbuckle, were uotrue. I consider if there is any untruth about it, you are the one who has tola it— at the same time not accusing you of stating a known falsehood. Four teachers were pre- sent at that meeting, who, by request of the meeting, stated how often their respective schools had been examined. ‘I'wo of these, at least, you aceuse of making false state- ments, but which two you allude to is not! pointed out, consequently the public may | charge any of the four with falsehood. Now. Sir, this is a grave charge, and ought not to have been so lightly made. You have wounded the feelings of those persons who convened the meeting, by making such un-

a — asily detect several NU : Z t Poland is still the theatre of frightfal iroe | men 1 batred agaiaat the

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~ €Srare OF POLAND.

cities; and all the power and ferocity of

° | ° » > C. . - i on 7 were in the bass instruments being hard and | ¢)e Russians cannot put dowa the insurrec-) jyeyt in the worst of times!

tion. : The news from there is most harrowing.

not be ** drowned '’ by the corner | We know 00 parallel in modern history to) o not per-|the atrocities eommitted by the Russians)

upon the Poles, except the barbarities per- petrated by the Orangemen and the Hessians in Ireland in 1798. One infamous Russian General sends three Polish prisoners to the slaughter every day, by way of striking terror into the people. General Mouraviell has ordered that all Polisn ladies who shall dare to wear mourning shall be subjected to the knout — the most brutal punishgnent known in Russia;—and has seized upon a number of married ladies as hostages, whom he threatens with death if their husbands do not surrender to be hanged or shot the next hour. The Archbishop of Warsaw has been summoned to St. Petersburg tor presuming to claim for Christian sepulture the body ot a Priest who was hanged lor sympathising tov warmly with hiscountrymenin theirefforts to regain their guaranteed rights,—and the barbarities perpetrated on the remains of an- other ecclesiastic are absolutely sickening. The victim, a young Monk, gave bis services us chaplain to a division of the insurgent forces. For this the Prior of his house was arrested and threatened with death unless the young Clergyman delivered himself up. Hearing of the perilous position of the Prior, the brave young Monk immediately pro- ceeded to the nearest Russian outpost and gave himself up, whereupon he was ordered tu be executed ; but the Russian soldiers, in carrying the sentence into effect, twice fired over the victim's head to prolong his agony. W hen at last they killed bia, they flung his body, with his monastic robe and crucifix, into a hole, which they filled up with filth, and having covered it with sand, they made their horses trample it down, 80 as to complete their barbarity and glut their ven- geance. Lf this be the spirit in which the agents of the Czar are authorized or directed to act towards the Poles, we fear there is not much chance of his agreeing without pressure to the terms proposed by Austria, England, and France, for the pae:fication of Poland. But when the three Great Powers have agreed upon @ line of conduct with regard to « great European question, and bave in a joint note submitted the terms upon which they conceive that that question should be settled, we have aright to presume that they have taken into account the possibility of the Czar’s declining to accept those terms, and prepared their measures accordingly. It is net to be supposed that such powers as Great Britain, France, and Austria would devote months to deliberation on the Polish question, and after much interchange of dip-

founded assertions respecting it. ‘hey were | persons who used their influence to place you

| in authority who convened that meeting, not)

| for the purpose of weakening or injuring, bat!

peace, without being prepared to enforce the weceptance of their terms, if the obduracy of the Autocrat should compel them to do so.

[ must, sir, regret that any such course as bas | for assisting and strengthening your party. | fjaying taken the matter in hand they musi

It has had the result that always attends illegality and irregularity. 1 believe also such a course was wholly unnecessary. I do not believe that the Protestunt gentlemen whe then resided in Monkstown were behind their fellow-worshippers in Ireland or England, or that of an appeal had been properly made to them that their hearts would have veeu so turned against God, and steeled against the wants of their poorer neigh- bours, that an appeal could only reach them through Ainerica, and that their only principle of action would have been selfisbness. I do not beheve that this church would have raised its head as lugh and spread its walls as wide if ite foundation had not “axe laid in errer and wrong. Sir, the best answer to such a charge is, that some of thase men and the successors of others, when an appeal had heen made, gave a differeyt reply. L call on the Church of St. John, handsome and capacious, finished and completed, and handed over without owing one farthing of debt, as the best answer to a slander upon the living and a calumny upon the dead, Lut, sir, a different

/ course was adopted at that time, and hence we } are to reap its bitter fruits and consider how to | deal with them.

The oceupation of pews should be peremptorily confined in the hands of ali proper

) eccupants ; the right of barter deeidedly stopped, | As to the)

being both illegal and most disastrous. latter, in the first place the law wholly forbids it. In the seoand place, the purchasers became purchasers of that which cannot be sold, and took conveyance of that which cannotbe the subject of conveyance. Surely there 1s no eqnity as against either third parties or the public. 3rd—Siry I am not aware that these purchasers suffered any loss. They and their families have occupied pews un- disturbed, which they valued at least at two or three pounds a year. Others have received rents till they have been more than overpaid. But the ame still returns, what is proposed te us to do? Are we to resolve that the law laid down by that able lawyer, and sound, right-thinking gentleman, is unsound law, or to resolve that

to govern this Island was by settin the Pres-| rites, its what folks now a days call bosh. | because we do not like it we will not obey it. It

byterians and Catholics fighting. What he! There ain’t the least danger of Protestants | has been thrown out that the question has been | contimues with little abatement; and there ap-

meant by goveraing the Island was, keeping| sleepin over their rites. You know human-_| '2'8¢d by those who have no interest in the matter.

the Tories in power and drawing four hun-|

dred a year for himself out of the Treasury. | enough to stick up for their rites any time. |

He's a eute fellow, that Bill ; he knew well

nature well enuf to kuow that folks is ready

Now suppose Catholics was foolish enough

Sir, I have an interest, for I purchased a pew and paid a large price for it, but shali never dream of otlering such a thing for sale. I valued my pew at £5a year. If Land my family oceupy it

enough that the Tories would not do any- | and wicked enough, to try to take eway any- | sufficiently long I will be repaid, if not the chureh-

thing for the tenantry. fle knew well enough that after a little while the people | would get tired of them and send them off about their business ; so he thinks to himself | if he could get up this religious question, and| set the tenants jawing and fighting about that, they would not think about their in- | terests. The proprietors would then live in peace, and he would get fat on a big salary, | with very little to do. So he commences! writing, and the Catholics write back again ; then Jobnny Arbuckle, J. B. Cooper, Donald | Carrie, and a whole parcel more, whose bread depended upon the Tories remaining) in office, took up the cry. I don’t want to gay anythi srespectful of ministers,”’ | sayel, ** but | will say that Pope & Co. found some of them their readiest and blindest tools. | Some of them thinks aa are doing their) daty, and more again thinks if religion is the | question to divide the people, they will be) beggarmen. Don't you see that ministers is only men like you and me, and almost every man likes to get power and to feel important

hats to them, and thinks a heap of them for being pious and well-learned men, they likes | all this well enough ; that’s no more than! what's their due, and what they're used to ;| but when such men as Col. Grey and the other big bugs in Government.bows to them and axes them to dinner, and listens to them as if they was 9 wise as appossel Paul, and when they gets the power to put this man in office and keep that man out, why itsa great snare. They'li be very apt to stretch their consciences a bit, and do aud say many things | that aint quite the thing. For m part, 1!

k wpon # political parson something like 1 look upon a smokin woman. I can't abear to see a big black pipe stuck in a woman's mouth, no more nor I like to see a clergymen mixin up in party squabbles like self-seekin stamp orators.” ith that Mac holds up both his hands. and says, * Them’s danger- ous opinions of yours, neéghbour. You reads too many books those days. It won't do to

say anything agin the clergy.’’ ‘* No more I do,’’ says l. ‘* There isn’t a man in this lsiand a clergyman more’n i do, as

as he is a clergyman, but when he gets to be a pollytisian, | finds my respect coolin very considerable. And when I see them sidim with the enemies of the people, and | tryia all they ean to make people think hard of one another, I don't think they are fol- lowing close in the tracks of their great Master, who told them and me and you that it was no thanks to us if we loved our friends, but that we ought to love our ene- mies, to do good to them that hurt us, and to pray for them that ase us bad and do all the m they can to us. And Ile didn't say it a bat he did it.’’ ** Well,’’ says Mae, “if we all did that, whata different world it would be, wouldn't it?’’ * You may say s0,”’ says I.

After a bit, Mae says, my Donald is dread- fully taken up with them Orangemen. I think he's goin to join them, if he hasnt done it already, he says a whole lot of the boys hae joined and he was awful curious to find out the seercts. He is'nt much given to tiiukin, that's @ faet, but you see the boy ia potty ae luke the sheep, what they see others doin they like todo. For my part, I am gettin too old for them sort of things, but ff they keers the Catholics down, I've nothing @gen it. What do you mean by keeping | down Catholies, says 1? Why, says he, to hender them from takin away our rights, and shuttin our bibles, and all that. Who Rays they want to take away our rights. and shat, our bibles, says 1; do the Catholics say that’

thing from us that we call a rite, don’t you think that every Protestant in the land

would stand up and manfully tell them t p that they need‘nt try that, fur we'd die be-| Its resolution can bind no one, and I wish merely | 4 In case they would, | f° state that I believe any man knows as well,

fore we'd give one inch. I bet a dollar if we ever came to that pinch, |

that some who talk so mighty big now | {anster of pews is uot only illegal io itselt but

would feel mighty like skedaddling, for all |

their Orange oath ; "md many who now sing | out for fair play, would be in the first rank | to defend what we hold dear. I would dis-| own a son of mine who would slink away like a coward when there was real danger | bat | would be heartily ashamed of one who | would do another an injury just for fear that | that other would hurt nim some day. Fear| makes more tyrants than cruelty. As long as the Catholics are peaceable people and| good nabours, it is wrong and foolish to treat) them any way bat like our Protestant na- bours. What they believe,or what the dis- believe, is no business of ours. If any one feels inclined, and wants to harm them, better

les them go, and talk to them and not to us, : ; if poor men oe ae and me takes off dee | cbous their creed. There’s no fear of us| pypchened the pew, dub upon the, Hepensontation

turning Catholics. 1 always find that those who are always finding fault with other peo ple’s religion, hav'nt got a bit too much of their own. If we wants to see faults, let us look at our own, and we'll find enough to make us sick of that employment for one while. If you’l) just look at the thing strate in the face, nabour Mae, you'll see that all this fuss, and all this bad feelin ia just to keep in office a few fellows who has not got the brains, nor yet the inclination to govern us well, and they find it much easier to set simple Protestants and Catholics fightin, than to look after the business of the country. I've writ so much that L can only sign my- self, your obliged friend HUMPHREY HOMESPUN. Free Hill Farm, July, 13863. --- +--+ oe____- Cuarottetown, July 2nd, 1863.

Sir,--1 beg to express my thanks for your kindness in iaserting my letters of 18th March and 9th April, on the subject of the improper management, &e., &e., of the Pews in St. Paol’s Chureh. As there appears no dis- position tu remedy the evil brought forward, will you allow me to trespass on your kind- ness in requesting you to give an insertion to the accompanying article, received by the last mail, as appearing in the Irish Times, 12th June, 1865. J. P. BEETE.

The resolution passed at a large and influential meeting of the pewholders in Monkstown Chureh appears to meet with the law and the equity of the matter in question. The meeting unanimously resolved that “ while they acknowledged the claims of the original subseribers for the completion of the church and their descendants to the pews allocated to them on account of such contributions, the meeting wholly disapproves of any rents being charged by such or any other owners of pews for the oceupation thereof.” Equity requires that they who subscribed on the understanding that they should have a sitting in the church tor them- selves and their families, but the law, we believe, does not acknowledge the right of any individual to sell his pew or charge rent for it. Indeed, io some cases, as in that recently tried with respect to the sittings in the Cathedrai of Derry, it has been decided that the ordinary can re-allot the pews upou the enlargemeut or alteration of a eburch.

MONKSTOWN CHURCH—IMPORTANT MEETING.

Pursuant to notice, a meeting of ihe parishioners and pew-holders of Monkstown Chureh was held this evening in the Parochial School-honse, tor the purpose of taking into eousideration and adopting such measures as might be deemed advisable wit! respect to a question now pending belure the

| wardens will find a better successor.

Sir, I have trespassed too long. I consider it not meet for any legitimate purpose, or able to do any good.

and might have expressed better, that the sale and

disastrons in its consequences.

After some further conversation, Mr. Saunders proposed the following resolution :—

Resolved—“ That whilst this meeting will ac- knowledge the elaims of the original subscribers for the completion of the church, and their descendants, to the pews allocated to them on account of such contributions, the meeting wholly disapproves of any rent being charged by such or any other owners of pews for the occupation thereof.” 7 * * * * * *

Mr. Downs—It was generally known that he was the party to whom the matter referred. Wishing to dispose ot the pew, and having nothing further to do with the sale of sittings, he offered the pew for sale. He had a right to do this, as he purchased the pew for his tenants, and had a notice to that eflect posted up. Mr. Garnett

of Mr. Evans he gave up his claims in his favour. He (Mr. Downs) requested Mr. Garnett to do this in dtder to accommodate Mr. Evans, but the latter gentleman, instead of purchasing the pew or paying the usual rent, enclosed a cheek to Mr. Downs as a “ voluntary contribution.” This he refused to accept, and, in accordance with his rights, disposed of the pew. (Hear, hear.) He was willing to accommodate Mr. Evans in every possible manner had be met hun in a proper spirit, but he could not consent to receive asa voluntary contribution what le regarded as a right. He had purchaaed the pews on the faith that he would have a vested interest in them, and some of the rectors informed him that it was not illegal te dispose of them. He had given Mr. Evans a month's warning of his intention to dispose of the pew, but of this he appeared to take no notice. When the pew was disposed of, Mr. Evans wrote to him saying that he was a tenant of his for four years, and that he should have given him an opportunity of purchasing it betore another person. Upov this he (Mr. Downs) communicated with Mr. Garnett, who kindly withdrew his claim, but Mr. Evans afterwards refused to purchase or pay for the pew except in the shape of a vuluntary contribution.

—--—- see —— To tue Epitor or THe Examiggr.

Sir ;—In your issue of the 2Uth ultimo, Sppener a letter over the signature of ** X

L,”’ headed “ the fortnightly performance of the Volunteer Band,"’ wherein it is stated by the writer that if ** Miss Bird were amongst the large assemblage of persons who listened to the performance of several pieces of music by the Vuiunteer Band on Thursday evening last, on the Barrack Square, she would have to admit that we have made a musical step in advance siuce the period” she visited our Island home. Miss Bird is in error when she stated that Prince Edward Island eould not afford an instrumental Band. Now, lL beg leave to tell the writer ** X Y Z.’’ and Miss Bird also, that there was an instru- mental Band orf the Island, at the period she ‘**s0 graphically deseribes,’’ and discoursed sweeter and better music than the ‘* musical ear’? of the writer ‘“*X Y Z’’ listened to on Thursday evening last. 1 presume ‘* X YZ’’ at the expense of the ‘ attentive jeader,’’ is too satirical in his remarks, when he advises the citizens ‘* thata pleasant hour could be passed in walking on the Larrack Square, and inhaling the refreshing breeze floating from the Hillsborough,’’ &e. I have no Goubt but the citizens will feel much obliged for “*X Y Z's’ kindly ad- vice. The writer “ X Y Z’’ farther states that the music *‘ was remarkably good on

’| immigrants leaving its unhappy shores.—The ease |

“Why nothing at all, and worse! I don't want to burt your feelins you know, | been stated here has been adopted to ruin many.) And now we may consider this the modern |

_way of acknowledging a favour: instead of | | saying, asin the daya of old, ** Thank you, | sir,’’ 1t is now, ** You're a liar.”’ | The statements made by the Teachers at’ ‘that meefing, as appeared in the public | papers, are still maintained, notwithstanding | your assertions to the contrary. So we lay | | the onus probandi upon you. You may not| 'be altogether blan able, but certainly you | are to be held accountable for what you have | ‘said. Trusting, however, that you will not) \consider it beneath your dignity to answer this, that the accusation of untruth may not ‘lie at the door of the innocent, I remain, Sir, your obdt. servant, ONE OF THE TEACHERS.

July Tth, 1863.

Che Examiner,

Charlottetown, July 13th, 1863.

BRITISH ANY FOREIGN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH M AIL, — PROGRESS OF THE INSURKECTION | IN POLAND.

By the English Mail, per Steamship Asia, which arrived at Halifax on ‘Tuesday last, we | have news from Great Britain to the 25th ult.— | The English news is of a quiet aspect. We are | | glad to learn that there are fair prospects of a) bountiful harvest.—The distress in the Cotton dis- | triets is not much noticed, and, it is to be hoped, is

pears to be no great falling off in the number of |

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° | of the ship “ Alexandra,” which had been pet

| some considerable time ago, by the Custom House

| authorities at Liverpool, on a charge of having | been built and fitted vut for the Confederate

States contrary to the provisions of the Foreign

Enlistment Act, was at length brought to trial in

the Court of Exchequer, and resulted in a verdict | for the owners, or assumed owners, of the vessel. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up the evi- | dence, expressed his opinion that the case of the | suspected ship did net come within the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and by this opinion the jury were iafluenced in giving their verdict fer the defendants.—-The Prince and Princess of Wales had honoured Oxford with a visit, where a magnificent entertainment had been given to their Royal Highnesses. The festivities extended over two days, and it is said that the ancient and classic seat of learning never exhibited more enthusiasm at a reyal visit.—The annual Feast by the Lord Mayor of London is the only other noticeable event of a domestic character. It differed in nothing from preceding ones. Lord Palmerston, in replying to the teast in honour of Her Majesty’s Ministers, chaffed with his audience | in his usually pleasant way, and alluded in vague generalities to the foreign relations of the Empire.

As regards the foreign news, the state of Poland claims the first attention. Aa article on that sub- ject will be found below. The Poles continue to maintain their ground, and are victorious on small occasions. The intense hatred which their ep- position to Russian authority has excited, is manifest in the diabolieal cruelty with which the Russian General treats Polish prisoners who fall into his hands.

It will be seen that France is preparing for warlike movements in some quarter of the world, whether in Europe or America, it is yet impossible to tell. At one time, the Emperor is represented as being anxious for armed intervention in the Polish struggle; and at another time, it is said that he is chafing «t the neutral policy of England with regard to United States affairs, and is ready to take a part in the Civil War on this side of the Atlantic. The expensive warlike prepara- tions, it is not likely, have been undertaken with- out a settled purpose; and that, we may rely upon it, will soon be inade known.

Alluding to the diplomacy of the English Cabinet | on the Polish question, an English paper states that “Lord Palmerston has not waited for the answer of the Czar to the six prepositions of Austria, England, and France, before divulging their na- ture. It is proposed to the Emperor of Russia to grant at once a complete amnesty and to cease hostilities—to restore the kingdom of Poland (the Duchy of Warsaw), and the representative system guaranteed by the constitution granted by Alex- ander and swept away by Nichvlas~te establish a seperate Polish administration, to employ Poles alone in the public offices, to use the Polish lav- guage in all official and judicial documenta and functions, and to establish perfect religious free- dom. Will the Czar accede to all this? And it he refuse — what then? Have not France and England gone too far if they do not mean to go further, should the Autocrat be obdurate? Ifthey go farther, it is a war—and what a war! and if they stand or retreat, it isa disgrace. Most sin- cerely do we hope, in the interests of humanity