SNS Ee Pea “ fumed, Twking the three dials in conneec- CORRESPONDENCE, tiem. the etest emount of cubic ToeQee) nn nnnnndnnmennannn ewer

thos be ascertained, commencing anew every time 100,000 feet bave run thre ugh the ne'er and been « yusunied.,

Now, to ascertain ‘the exch amount of

gas which will be consumed during the month of Jenaary, inspect the dials of the meter on the Jst of the mouth; the pointer on the left band perhaps stands be- tween the Gvures 6 and 7, indicating O0,- 000 feet. The powter on the widdle dia! stands between 7 avd 8, indicating 700 You thas have a total of 65 7U0 feet of gas previously consumed, Sot the Ggures dowa, and at the ead of the movth ayaa imspect the dixl. ‘Tre right band dial s ands, per- hap: nearly as before, and still imdicates G0 000 feet. Tne middie ove has moved on. and stands between 7 and 8, indieating Fou, The rght hand one has made a nawber of revolutions, and stands b tween Yand 2, indicating 100 feet. We then bave a total of 67,100 feet. Sabrract from

tect,

this number set down at the beginuing of

the month, and you have 1400 foet of gus consumed, Maltiply this by the price per cubic foot, and you bave your gas hill for the mouth. Lf housekeepers would take the tsouble to do this themselves, they would satisty themselves and be sure to guard bgeivet unstakes —Cirxinatti Enguirer.

a LIFE iN NEW ORLEANS, [Correspondenee ot the New York World]

U! private reception parties and the like there are enough. Everybody who sets foot in New Orleans becomes ietected with the prevailing desire to be hivienly happy. Al- ihou.t oar army and ite offers be not na- tives and to the manor born, yet is it ** more }ionored in the breach than in the observance.” To love im confiseated howsea and to ride in contixeated carriages, drink confiscated (not condemned) wines, is pleasant, natural, amd ant to loose the rems of puritanical restraint. Oh pubtie assemblages there is nething like the ofd times. Of the private entertainments we will not staltify oursel ves a8 Go report the

FOR THE PUBLIC.

(No. 6.) Justom ag tenaceum propoutl viram, Nop civinm ardor pruva yobentium, Non valtus inatantis tyruini Mente quatit eulaa.”"—Dhon at Me. Eprron:

Laying all this aside, however, there may still be some in our midst whe atleet to be even yel skeptical as te what the Bishop's actual meaning really was, We have heuestly shown that if he oply stipolated for secular education a» it hew exists in our own educational institutions — tree trom any possibile rebligious sevtarion bias, oreven | trom any porlhive rej eos piiflie nee whatever— he may have asked for nothing in anywise either necessarily paproper or even, under all the eir- cumstances of the case, necessary sudesirable, all the pretentious viriings of our present sworn

Goverument advocates to the contrary notwith- |

standing. But there may be seme, when they tind the ground net necessarily very firm under them in one respect, ready te ehilt ther relative position to another — there may be some realy now to Insinwate that the Bishop really meant “a godless education” ia the must profane siguitica- tion which the term can be made te imply. OF course We all know right well tnat he did not. but for the special benefit of Those skeptical tolks, and of our Tory friends in general, let us simply suppose he did. And what then?

prove their circumstances i the least? No;

but if we de net mistake our own basis of argu- |

ment very much indecd, it will owly tend to eu lharraxs them exceedingly, and reuder the whole course of their subsequent procedure m the case very far more repceheusitle and ineattulably tar

Hess wise than it might have otherwise appeared |

jin the eyes of any civilized, not to speak of ew | lightened, community. The Bishop's Letter was surely nelhing more, wither any cireustanees or construction which cau ever be placed upon it, than the insulated act of asingle mau. And what

wae the circumstantial oceasion of this act! |

What was its real primacy, well aceredited and distinetively originating cause, whieh by the way

Git) ss eee

Will this tm-!

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we enquire in all solemnity——-was this or was this not the certain faet of the case! For if it was then all we have tosny is, “Well done Sista MeDowald! ‘Phon ceuldst surely wor | atter all: shave been a far greater man than St. Peter bim, self! For we never tind him at any time repre-

}sent as having achieved any auch teat ef pure , offende We are not aware | trustees we

perroual romance as this. that he ever ence overawed, after this fashion,

the existing civil Goverument of even any ef these | had enough. t : eo- | good many things muddling

comparatively Pagan States w hich flourished temporary with hiweelt. ebasing a thousand’ with a vengeanee. Thou couldst thus, O Bishop, with the slightest serateh at thy pen—mae wand—perpetrate oue ot the inmost wimitigatedly toolish acts that ever, perhaps,

any ratiennt! bedy ef ervilized men have been | / ' ‘them no how. Hf you're not the right metal its

guilty of performing! And what renders this thy

k miracles te give him wnpidence, mid toe Thou mwuet. a/ all events, at this rate- | the p

|

‘This is certainly © one |

|

‘miracle still were nete-werthy is, that theu haet |

compelled these tien to do the very kind of thing iwhich, above all others, they protess the mest to abominate. For, neotwitletanding their noisy -avowal or rather disavewal ef all these doctrines more properly peculiar te thy church, we opine that we can unquestionably prove that thou last. lin this case, at least, fereed them te pertora one ‘of the greatest works of ‘ suvererogation” which any set of living tiovtals Were ever kuewn to lave been gouded jute; and if we shall ultimately suc- eced iu making this point clear to the unsoplus- ticated apprehension of the good Tory inhabitants of this Colony, we shall even, it we effect nothing else, have made at least twe very pertinent dis-

! some modern instances, and the absolute neces- sity of works of supereregation being sometimes performed. Are our Conservative friends in this

that they were thus wbselutely driven, us by a juniversal panie, throngh the single werd—and

hthat werd a palpable © lapsus penade” —ol a single individual to adopt the executive line of

/you're worth, ne mere nor ne less. " i with the new master: he wasn’t their superior,

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to hold a condle te the eld master. That thoneh he'd been to town, ant had passed the Paaard, he was'nt a better seholor than them. They began all him names, spd vor fellow had a bad time of it, He was forced to get eroas, and to beat some of the young- sters pretty bad. ue dl, and keeps their children away. The re called in toeexamine the sebool, and strate again. We found matters Though the new master could doa well, yet whea he

to put things

came to hear classes that lad be drilled by a clever man, they saw that he was shallow, and as far as real downright mind work went, that they yras better up te it than he was, It is wonderful, Mr. Editer, how soon boys can take the weight of & wan. You can't deecive

ho manner of use te look big, and te pat on airs— | they see right through them and take you for what | So it was

land they knew it. As 7 was saying, our orderly

| eivility.

‘looked awful serious, and gave the scholars a

sehool had turned inte a very diserderly one, and onr evil boys and girls into the most nnpident set) of young vegubouds that was ever bieked inte What was we te dos We could'nt | give brains und knowledge te the teacher, and |

| without then we saw well enough he could never | vet along with that bateb of youngsters. Wetsutherland. He says our statement i flee. | sted tebe paid; but at the lowest price which |

hearing about their ondutifal cendvet, and we |

j

| threatened to turn a whole grist of thea eut of)

coveries for their special benetit, viz: the possi | bility of miracles really having been wronght in |

province, then, willing te adiit this alternative, |

conduct which they have pursned in relation to |

this lamentable religious controversy which they

iust kuew they lave now, for such a length of | 1

Well. if net, for their own credit never |

time, been the chief instruments in exciting ! trow not, let us hear them agam | Bishop's Letter,

harping abeut the

ay o ave vo . ri ’ 3 “ thie, | . 7 am a ee meri — ae * a But avother excuse for the eccentric conduct cummparativery fergattos Sy may Wir | I “is brought forward by some ot the advecates of |

school if they didnt mend their ways. did'nt mind for all that, and there reg'lar row tn the distriet — some the trustees, more the teacher, and others again the scholars. One or wrong, but it would’t mend matters to speak out. As 1 said before, people grew carebess about sending their children to school, and when the Journal tor the second quarter came te be made out, it was a long ways short of the lawful avevedge. This made matters worse. The tras tees was obliged to assess, aud there was no end to the grumbling. ‘They sald, what waa true enough, ther’ was never no want of scholars be- fore, and if things was done right, there would be more now Folks that wos trends all their hfe began to find tault with eaeh other, and they swore they would not hold such a thankless effice any longer. So yon see, Mr. Editer, under the

Wits ay

blamed |

With that the old folk gets)

“eu pretty well |

sent—and ber prospects were never se bright ar bnow. Te this the secret cname of the present rage ! It they ean guete Darbes, we shal) quote Davin: ” Our Ged whe isthe Lord of hosts, Ia stilt uges our aide. The God ot dacob aur refuge Forever wall wbide.”’ All we want is the presence of God with ns sand we care not'whe belie or oppose us. We will prove reve than a toateh for bhein,

lam, youre Jan. 13, 186A.

Mr. Movriaon setting an example in that line; but much as we differ from him and Lis party in our politica) views, Wwe commisserate him and | thew ifthey are ebligedto put up with the insolence and over-bearing effreatery of an empty, sootelh | tious upstart like George Sutherland,

| And this same Mr. Geo, Sutherland, in a letter

to the editor of the Islander, on Friday last, asserts

‘that we have publistied a tissue of falsehoods in

our statefuent abeut bis bullying Mr. Deputy

| Secretary Morrison, and says, moreover, that we

thare defamed him. Defamed hin! Only faney

| it, good reader! Black Bill Byers may accuse us

\ of defaming him if we say that he is a werthless,

&e., GG. SUTHERLAND.

~<a o- —

TUE LAND QUESTION,

~_——

As is declared by the Land Commissioners, in

which actually exists at the present tine would

their Report, “the mest simple remedy for the evils |

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‘toe lead them te a conchision Fes peeting hs ies ster grie\anre of this ('wlons, semilar to that sf whieb the Homse of Commons of 1233 arrived

touching the slates aad ibemr masters jn Britis Colores. Tt could surely be ne dificult task ty prove to them that the granting of Whole

| Colony iu a single day, in huge blacks of 20,009

| acres each, was,” not only “ un inprerident and

| unwise exercise vf the prorogative of the Crow hn,” | but that it Was mererver, a positive eVasion, or violation, of the rights of the people. Nor would it, we think, be more difhentt to prove ty them, that * the proprivtess,” se eutled, in Opposing, as | they have invariably done with all their tuight, the remoustrances, and petitions for redress of

useless, dirty reunant of mortality. Defaming an individual necessarily involves a sacrifice of truth, principle, and honowr, o the part of the dejamer. Mr.-S. must. still consider himselt great if he thinks that he is worthy of such a sacrifice; but we hasten to assure Lin that we

“wnake ne sacrifice at all, except it be in the way

of a sinall compromiae of pur henenr in having

even to notice a person of the stamp of George |

Why does he not prove it ae? Tt is easy for

him to de it, if he can. We declare this fer a

But they | positive fact, that this same George Sutherland

attempted to intimidate Mr. Morrisou, as the

| Seerctary of the Temperance Hall Company— tvs)» of ns saw What was | wanted Mr. Morrison to cancel the engagement ‘jocal Government, te be hereafter disposed of in |

in regard to the Catholic Concert ; and when he found that Mr. Morrison would not do g dis- honourable act, he—George Suiherlandthreat- «ped Mr. Morrison that he would bring his pGlitical influence te bear agaivet bua. Will Mr. Sutherland deny this?

less as he is of bis integrity will say anything; and

knowing that, we must have some witness locerre- |

berate his testimony. Let Mr. Morrison, then, be

Hemay. A man so care |

seem to be suggested by the operation of the | srievancrs, of the people, to the Crown, ies Land Purchase Act.” “ By this system,” they i, jaye forgotten, “that though the rights of say, ‘it is apparent that three sigoad advantages | property have ever been sacredly guarded by whe | are secured, Which are prevented by no ather. | jit tennis the aie onal of : | Vist. The proprietors are dispossessed by their lied sudiral to the publi vr own consent gh nrc ~t Aas rs latetteme, the . rights a judiees individuals “Qndly. The tenants are enabled to purchase | nema tur the public a eon. | their holdings ad huprovemeuts, not aeevannrily that, therefore, seeing that them ia a the re at a price so high ws te represent the rents stipu- privtors — notwithstanding the excessive ind enee Which has, tine after time, indeed brouge ‘the expenses of management, added to the aggre- yr the whole period of their oe gate cost of the estate, will warrant. tended te them by the C rn, ha a tne “srdly, The wild lands are at once resened e CO ee ee are Sead , | their power, as landlords, in a wauner most op. | from the operation of the leasehold system, and pressive to individuals, and injurious to the pub. ‘tic interests; the thie is acrived when concilig

‘are subjected te the wholesome eentrol of the

| tery policy must be abandowed, when, forbear. | anee must cease; and when by an exereixe of ms ; en | constitutional control, an end must be pat fo Then they (the Land Commissioners) after | ,, that vicious system,” whieb, for nearly aap

| having stated that they bave unanaoonsly agreed \, red yearn, bas | io ite eect ‘to recommend the application to the whole Island ih ae. vaaliion nineties pout By

} | fee-simple, at moderate prices, as they are in all !

| the ether North American Provinces.”

i

lof the principles embodied in the Land Purchase | Colony—ns having taid the foundation of all'the

, Act, proceed te observe : ? : ; ; | evils by which, in commen, they have beep “ [t is clear that the Local Government cannot h flee 4

| venerally apply the principles of the Land Pur- |

ted.

F * bar ’ublie Opini i : ; ‘ > brongtet pp Wie bese a pane § years and . he chase Act without the assistance of the Luiperial will say that Mr Sutherland did not use inti- |

of it in a general way in this Ishind Were not ithe succinet facts of the case precisely these : dia phot Mr. Stark, the late educational superintendent lot this Provinee, during the term of office hk held by the late Liberal Government, of whom Mr. Coles was the achuowledged leader, poulelisti & programime ol his own views in relation to the method of practical commen school education,

new law all hands is worse off. ‘The people has

Poryism. ‘Phey affirm that the course whieh the to pay more taxes—they have te pay more to the

} | present Government has pursued, was net itsti- |

idati i threats in tl tt f lt | Government.” i eats i » Hus ‘terred to, | ; ‘il ee ee ere ee eee What the Commissioners mean “by the as-

teacher, and they dou't get as much for their money. The teachers get ainich less tuan they used te. ‘This makes then leave the bisness as soo as they can; and the people are ebliged te put up with fellows that work for a ploughman’s wages, and ore ouly fit for a ploughiau'’s work.

gated by the Bishop's letier at all—but it arose j tres the fact that the Bible was excluded trem | | the list of text books specified by the Board of Edueation which beld office mider Mr. Colos’s ad- tinistration of the Governmeut. Now, it the last excuse was bad—this is pitifully worse. What!

manners and tastes of oar hosts and hostesses | iui he intended proposing’ for the adoption ot

were the facts!) Were they net simply these !

L dou't mean by this to cast any slur on such

re shi justice hat indi ee ; : . we shall de ample justice to that individual 1 | cetenes: of the Imperial Government,” is the TI eres ‘ ob Met guaranteeing of a loan of £100,000 to the Island ; ren gs re "1 ’ } ‘ ‘ > “ we oy a eS ee © ee F and this assistance our joco! Liberal Government | Sutherland's want of common sense and disere- ; ae ; was once in wu fair way of procurmg; and would,

| the premises,

{ . . ° ‘ rvinced short lette ; ; | teen than: i ostheet Oy Gls: ahart tetter in the indeed, have procured, had not their endeavours

aad their company. although such prattte is eommon enough. It ie sufficient to say that the receptions of the seasoa are splendid and quite beeoming te a Viewrious poople. Avother sad evidence of the deworadaation of the city, not attributable tu the war, is the large number of gaudy whisky shops pein. woder the name of saloons. These, jor whe the city has always been noted, are of the most spacious and elaborate kind. Sheeted wit mirrors, decoreted with fresco stuce», and some of them hung thick with Cupuls and Venuses, both in canvas and in marble. There is the long range vf marble counter, the elegantly dressed boor who hands out the bottl s; bat ao comfort amid ev much splendor, [ao fact, it 19 rather ex- pected that the customer shal) walk up to the bur, pour down his liquor rapidly, and hold on to the counter antl he gets beastly drunk, when be is summarily kicked cut. From the style of these groggeries and their

proprictors, we svould suppose drinking to questing a timely explanation ot the proposed |

he an exceedingly valgar practice in New Urieans.

Ou the boulevards, or the fashionable Canal street, plenty of fasion may be seen. The ladies are gay, and evidently squander pin-mouey easier than their male friends make it. The stores are crammed with fine merchandize. and the side-walks are thronged ev day with a gay concourse of shoppers. The ladies are far ahead of their northern sisters —or fur behind, which ?—having dis- curded hoops, and, to contess honestly, look very attractive without them. ‘The milliners must grieve at a habit [ perceive of part of the population in going bare-headed, with their hair plaited and otherwise elegantly

cvuffee. ——_—-

our local Legislature; and did net a certain specitieal course of Biblical lessons, which were to be given daily by all teachers who should he lheensed by the Board of Education te coudnes these schools, enier expressly inte the rationale of this proposed system! Was net this, P ask in plam faglish, the first authentic tact ot the cuse ? Most nadeubtedly it wus; and. if se, was not this clearly contemplating a very great tanovation on the old method which bad previeusly obtained ‘trom the earliest history of the country in which the use of the Bible in the school was altogether an optional elemeat? Most manitestly and most assuredly it was. Well, then, what was the al- mest necessary and natural result? Lick toot this place all conscientious Renan C'athebes i the eulire provinee ina prospective position, te which, as a body, they could have ne natural right te submit! Most selt-evidently wo did And what again was the tnacoidatie resalt?! Did not Bishop McDonald (at the instigation I believe of some of bis own friends i Nova Seotta), at onee write the celebrated Jetter to the Board of Edvea'ion, then existing in this Province, re-

scheme of the superintendent, and protesting af the same time, in the name of the whole Catho- lie population, agaimst any change in the then present system which should in any way compre- tmise the Catholics themselves ina cheertul sup- port of the general or mixed prospective educa- cational interests ef the coantry ? Was not this,

] repeat, the substantial tact ef the event as it)

then oeeurred !) Most decidedly, and iu the briet- est verity, such was the unconditional and abse-

{lute aud unalterable truth of the whele watter.

Aud did Bishay MeDonald do anything “ worthy of” all the “stripes” wiuch he has siuce sus- tained tor pursuing the preeise course which he then did? Eimphatically ne! more than his daty te his own peaple imperatively

required; and if some of our own clergymen whe |

pride thetuselves so cauel: ou their extreme tor wardnuess in * watching the signs of the times” aod forewarning all Protestants to allow no in-

”

He did nething |

f Toe Retep Crriss ov Tee MIsstsstPPt ~~ oiorance to be assumed otrthe part of * Renu,

) Phe Board of Education which existed under ' Mr. Coles’s administration did specity a list of text books for use in common sehools in this island in pwhieb they did not include a direet mention of bthe Bible. Was net this the simple fact! Most eaple itly itwas! Vhere was ne erclasion about it. ‘Phey vever mentioned the Bible one way or avether, They just left it where it was and always had been—eptional with all parties te use hit er net as they pleased—aud they did right, jmost inevilebly they did right. hotherwise they would have dene wrong. And What is mere, we have ue hesitation in asserting our positive conviction that bad the prescut parts tellowed their example in this respect, they would have dope right alse. But this they have tet done, and consequently under all the existing circumstances of the euse, we say decidedly they

| wood than to pretend to teach our children what

schoohwasters as are fit for their work. I knew | Islander, to which we have already alluded. That

te obtain it been defeated by false and seeret re-

some of them, but TL kuow they won't teach one day longer than they ean help. What [mean to say ix, that the men whe teach for fifty pounds a

lletter betras > ark » aoe. . ’ i , ! tter Tata ae =z ae oe “ a presentations of the fiance! condition of the jan or scholar—it is intensely spiteful aud mali- Colony. At piveout, to expect any enn Coles

year, or a trifle over, as many do, are much | CHU 5 and if we bad any ill teeling against the

better fitted to clean stabies and to chop etere } man, we could not wish hima greater injury than : . that he would write another such letter. they don’t Know theuselves But it this law | ’ . yong gong : .

| palmed himself off~or attempted te de it—tor a

He hae |

‘the recommendation of the Coaunissioners on thin head, would be folly. As we said, on a former

| wecasion, “the present Government caanot

Had they done |

i have done wrovg. “Vhis we shall, however, esteem |

tour daty deliverately to prove. We have now terminated the first series of our iteuded course ot letters.

They have been, every one must see, e ‘

concerned principally in throwing up seme pro- |

unhent poluts, and stating seme prominent facts tor the general observation ef all, which we shortly design to bring to bear on still more im- portant fopies of present pracheal mterest, while

al the same tine we shall take good care to prove, | as we go along, all those points tiewmeselves as this |

already advauced which may seem te require any ) particular elucidation. All we shall, therefore, add in the meantime is, that we are perteetly as- laured of all the statements we have new mate, jand if they can be clearly demonstrated in due season, as We advance, amy we tet here enqtire, | pointedly, of Thase whe wrote some months since such articles as “our secend great Protestant ) trumeph,” d&e., whether or not the un jawed wa tives of Nowa Scotia and New Brunswick may not have very streng reasons te doubt the truth ot the assertioa that the Liberal Party lave ever really attempted “ to thrast Popish doguas upon | the whole community’ of this Island! We may be wreng, but we certainly are willing te coujec- ture that our neighbours acrosa the Strait may |

Further down as you go, stacks of ruined ebimnies, burned houses, fields destroyed, tell of the rebellion and its consequences. Groups of contra bands gather together under the banks im the neighbourhood of the gun- boate, waiting for employment, while rejure- ing in their trecdor, hg protect by the gouboats from roving hands of gueri!las, who seek to destroy and kill them. Vick burg soon appears, with but little mark of the July bombardment, from the river, but go you into the city, and the terrible marks of the bloody and destructive seige meet you at

~ every point, in dilapidated buildings, houses |

and stores torn by shot and shell, caves and barricades in the sireets, and an immense line of entrenchments of every style of engineer- jag in the rear. The presence of death is visible in the mourning costumes of the wo- men, for almost every family telle you of a vacant ebair at the hearthstone. At Grand Gulf you see only a pile of ruins, and a solitary house perched high upon, the bluffs among the cedars, yet if you logk you will sea that it is tenantless, and used only as a) habitagion for owls and bats. Natchez has eaca the fire and destruction of the war, and so has Bayou Sara, hut come you to Baton Rouge and see the monument of Louisians's justice in her dilapidated State Hyuse, whose hollow, blackened and crumbl- ing walls are fit type of seceszion. houses and eburches torn with shot and shell. and go with me to the grave yard or cemetery and there see the marks of battle on the broken tombsteres an fences penetrated with the etrife of bloody war. Observe yonder those groups of women, strewing fresh gaz- lands of ** immortelies "’ on the tombs of the loved and lost. Oh, woman, how holy 13 thy miseion—** Last at the cross and earliest at

the graye.”

|

bullets which tell of

Bayou La Fourche, the heart of the great Bishop MeDonald had er even enn have tor | would make it alinost Useless to the peopie has only its uturket house to this characteristically suprineipled line of proce-| raise the money, they taxes the poor Tne hotel is barned. | dure on their ewo purt, may be very easily gu-) molasses and the poor uiau’s Whiskey, and lets) yames associated with an institution proved to

pugar region, mark its former site. the dwellings are marked hy piles of barned brick, charred timbers and half broken ehinn- neve, and this is all that is left of the once pretty village. Napoleonville has shared the same fate, and many of the plantery: down the bayou have been destroyed. Such are the ruined sites of the Mississippi delta é —Nerthern paper. ae -

Axorner Conrepedate PaiyaTeeR IN THE ArianticOcean.~-tn addition tu the notortuus Confederate cruiseted, Florida, &c., authentic information has been received of the movements of vessels chiefly under sail, eruising in the Scuth Atlantic Geaan—some in the track of the homeward- bound East Indrawen, and others in the direct route ol those outward bound on the Southern Jutitudes. Another addition hag been made te those cruising gader the ** ‘ars and bars” of the Covfederate States, and was on the Lith of August spoken off the Brazilian coast. When last she was seen in latitude tour south, longituce thirty west, near the Island of Fernandy Norhona. and quite ig the course of vessels bourst for East India, China, or

Australian ports.

eo Strremes ty a Suint.—The following i3 ®) che profane sense of the term. lativa of stitehes in & pJ2iD | make this gut, they wight, of course, inhale as) school was vacant tor a short time, but we found spare change and the leisure of the public. four rows 3.000 ; | well as exhale “the vital air of heaven” with aj it would never do te have the childrea ranaing

singular eales shirt ;—Stitehing the evllar, sewing the ends, 500; batton-oles, and sowing buttons, 150. sewing the collar and

athering the neck, 1,204; stitching wrist as 1 228; sewing the ends, 63, hutton holes, 148; hemming the slits, 204; gather- jng the sleeves, S40; setting on wristbands, 1.468 ; atitehing on shoulder straps, three rows each, 1889; hemming the busom 393 ¢ sewing the sleeves, 2.0

-.*%

526. sewing the seams, S48; setting side

ysacts in, 424: hemming the bottom, 1,04, miserable staie ot cowardly alarm, verging on,

‘J Focal pumber of stitches, 2

The poorer classes vi women in England as late us the beginning of the present century, were employed in many towns in carrying Dricks and mortar on their heads to the masons at work on even the highest buildings, Wowea stripped from shoulder to loins, may even now be seem picking up Inups of coal ftom the Tyne wad, when the water is low.

0 645.

| very justly bave, af this meant, seme very grave |

keeps in operation much longer, this is the only

bsertet teachers that wall be lett in: the country.

The Government may think that they are saving a great deal by starving the minds of the children tn tos way, but they'll find out one at these days that they have been doing what vulgar people like me culls xuving at the bung and wasting at the gpile, Ne more at present from Yours, &e. Ke. TUMPHREY HOMESIUM. Vree Ifill Farm, Jan. )2, 1864.

The Examiner.

sprain caennearonemaaaaannamranamerentcertanen manny

wh, January 15th, 1864.

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Charlotteto

MR. GEORGE SUTHERLAND.

Mr. George Satherland—sometimes called the

Rey.—does not often crovs our path—and per-

haps it is well for himself that he does not—but | when an ill wind blows him along we feel that we | ought te treat him with a littl more considera- | tien than is due to an ordinary mortal, on account | of the position into which he has ferced himselt | in this community, and the extravagant estimate | whieh he himself sets upon his abilities as a

Je have noticed for | seine time great resthessnessgen the part of this individual, clearly indicating a desire to get up a row in which he might take.a prominent. part. |

preacher and politician.

| poerite like George Suthertand. There is no honour

Lassertion disproved—that no man of sucha email,

ihe i hentertain it without the most fagrant betrayal long time, as a Mivister of the Gespel of eur) oo. . w | wf principles that have ever disgraced a party ; and now, perhaps, it will be better for the future prospects of the people, if that part of the Com- iissioners’ Report in which “the recommenda

with him always—one would suppose that he | ahem’? he,seidi, eae tie silane aneen ales edule would try to keep up the deception. Bat te has!

thrown dewn the mash; he bas shown that he is) untruthful, that he barbeurs the direst ill will | against some of his fellow creatures, that he is, vepemous as an adder; and we will shew him that he may be rendered as impotent as an adder when we take the trouble to put him under our

Redeemer — as an advocate of righteousness and Cliistian charity.

peace, truth, For the) sake of his poeket—which is the first consideration

letter. We have certainly, as we have before expressed ourselves, heen much gratified to find that the Commissioners have se freely admitted — the _wisdem of the policy pursued by the Liberal | Party, when in power, with respect to the Land heel | Question ; a policy, be it observed, of which the : : . Tories, when out of power, were moet liberal in He save we have dene much to * disseminate | : : ’ ‘ : a ‘ their abuse; but, in their partial adeption of slander and falsehood’? on this Island. : : sae vet going to bands werds with ap unscrupulous by- } whiok are to be Gund the auly, tr ae o i ac ve y~ : ” * wisdom te be discovered in the whole course of their administrative career. may say—withoat the slighest fear of having the = any yan ™ oe _— ~T missioners freely admit “that the onginal grants

were iniprovident and ought never te have passed ;

We are

in having such a persen for au antagonist; but we

mean, valgar intelleet as God, in kis irs¢rutable : if : . : 4 thatthe grants were liable toforteiture for breach Vrevidence has given te Mr. Sutherland, lias done , of the conditiens with respect to settherment, and

more, aecording to his sphere ef action, to eveate : : might have been practically annulled by the en-

strife and uncharitableness, with all theiraiteudant

e . cement of quit reuts ;”" and so far we fully agree evils of slander and falsehood, than has been ae- cvananers. : , 7 96

“ , ; ith thera; but, the same time, we as tully emmplished by this clerical charlatan frow the 7 ehoginaplae - o : ' ; dissent from their opinion “ that the lauds,” had ‘the grants been so annulled, “ could have been

eee ee nat Se Se seized snd-seld-by the Crowe ut various tues,

time that an evil hour sent him bere to exude his mental poison.

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houses |

Alabama, Georgiz, |

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in relation to our civil econeimy, really presume themselves fairly entitled to any special credit for their extreme vigilance — surely they will not, they cannot, condemn Bishop MeWonald for a similar discharge of his duty i a case se simply plain as the one new betore as. The Bishop,

‘then, mm the letter whieh he wrote to the Board | of Education in the special jostance of seeking to |

i discharge bis persoual duty, to which we here allude, happened, as Mr. Ailan has expressed i,

unfortunately to say that nothing sort of a“ god- |

less” system, maniiesty meaning, as we have al-

ready shown, and as we are all vow fully satisfied, |

“secular” system ef education would satisty the Catholics. Allan in this respeet by any means. We diifer very mueb with that Kev. gentleman in sippos- ing that tits *laepsus lingan” was in any wise, on the part of the Bishop, * unfurtunate.” We re gard it, on the contrary, as oue of the inest fyrtu- nate mistakes which any wan ever wade i Chis country. Aud for why!

Yory Hydra of this little Island to the indignant vaze of the universal public. [ft shows, forever shows. and ferever must show the whele world

that the Lory conscienes of this Colony is an ex- |

ceedingly perverse and perverting aftair. But did the Tories really take advantage of this acei-

| dental and te be sure rather clumsy labial slip of

the Bishop to foist themselves inte power over his devoted head? They did.

diately recand to the different Protestant Ministers lof the Provinee “te start the ball,” and how | boisterously and incessantly and Indicrously have | they kept shouting and kicking at it ever since,

d searred trees, and !as in ite different: strategelic revolutions it has.

| wew for nearly six years — this mean ‘Tory toot- | ball — been roting aronnd the land, completely

| erushing, as they vainly imagine, every vestige of j liberal sewtimeot and liberal hope aud liberal | vitality trom the fated scene of its unsalutery de- | predations! Thus, then, bern in dishonesty aud

ithered by all who really waut te Know, tro the | fact that oe sooner did Mr. Coles write hin that

ithe Govyerument had no intention of acting upon land makes the poor map make it up; and if. Superintendent Suark's suggestions, in se tar as) ewin’ te sickness, or a busy time, or bad wether, community which may have the misfortune te | the pappesed systewatic Bible lessons were con-| there is'nt a large average kept up, the people's harbour it—Mr. 8. ean no longer arouse any |

1, than he expreveed himself pertectly satis- |

; cere He wished fo make no intevation on his}

| fied. vwnh pa

with avy alteration or improvement which time wight suggest, without any novation being at- tempted by any religious seet in the community | whieh might invelve the religions principles of vany other. Such then was the whole “ head and trout” of poor Bishop McDonald's crime against ‘the awfully outraged Tory clique of this identical Hapless Bishop! Thine was surely a monstrous transgression! Walt thou ever ob(eim }parden for such an offence? Phe Tories, we | | knew, especially the more honest among them, | are new at the eleveuti hour, when they are be-|

| doubts of the true character of some other party } with which this Islaud has a slight aequaintance. | We shad see. W. KEIR. Malpeque, January, 1964

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} (FOR THE EXAMINER.) | Mr. Eprror;: As | got a little time to-day, T take up my pon

When, at the time ef the lat® general elections, will come when we shall be sent to our last ne-| there wae great ‘excitemcut te the land—wheo | count; avd, in the fullness of his condescension, | ‘eh and vigorous, and he says, he will leave us te “an awakened con-