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Tux Newsparver. rvs Deries —An influen tial writer complains, ag a yross inconsistency and of baleful results, that the press, while denounsing the prize Byht, prints the full details. So it prints robboriee and murders and denounees the crumes. So it records the | unchristian controversies of Christian men rnd women, and disapproves of them, So it tells you the mereury was down below 4 To) yesterday worning, yet shrugs its sh ynlders! at it. When will all yood people te in tellivent enough to comprehend an yield the

- MISCELLANECUS,

re ee te ee ete ee ee

fun &ixgnooy ov Sia. —Thete is, of courec, no luck of sauvage and predacsoas animale in Siam. The rivers and swamps are populated by erecedilos and rhino tue forests by tigers, bears, and deer of vwartous desertp tions the Siamese chase the latter agumuls energe- tically, and generaily kill them with fire- arms, whieh any inan is allowed te possess Their R in}

roses;

in Spite ot the Buddlisue probibatiops,

weros-hunting ts remarkably

tuct that the d tly newspaper is

\gleaning for the spiritual henefit of his Bul

fust Constituency in this [slaud, the mare vellous conglomerate of polemic theology, to whieh we here adyert, rather than in honestly striving, as an honest sensible mau iw his own approy riate sphere as their chosen political agent, to devise some really useful practical legislative measure for their present temporal comfort or direct material adyvan-

tage, Sut even admitting this supposition |

'ro bs in the first plrce true, and giving Mr. |

Pope the tull benetic of this excuse, of av ne- |

, Seni a but a ‘* map what pungertly plous pr ypensitics fur turn- | among the Rowan Cathalic ex

Sena oe = _ *

he instinetively enspicious of your real gin- eerity? You cannot, Honorable Sir, surely event yourself pretend to be wholly blind to the fuct that you at least s lected a most un- fortunate juneture jn which to eomimence your anti Popish polemic speculations. What now of your ext-zete from ‘Dens?’ Hath} they not been, peradventure, better allowed | by you to remain undisturbed in all their) pristine oblivion, as you seem to imagine, | restricted to the shelves of the Vatican, or | tu the cloistered cells af the more sedentery |

clesiustics? Lo}

But. again, it is exceedingly unfuit that the teacher's journal should lave anything at all to do with his salary. When a teacher en- gages with the trustees of 4 school, he dues uot engage to teas & certyin number o! scholars, and, if the daily attendance fal

lhelow that number, to charge so mach less |

r aah hans No; he engages to teach that school, large attendance or small. ile is as willing to teach fifty ehildren as ten; in short, he ei willing to teach all who are sent tov him. | lyow | ask,

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since that teacher's time is as| ; ; ul valuable, and bis board is as expensive, whe-

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men by whose labor dands had become valuable; ownership se anwisely and und ont itutionnly

or to the rights of these who bad purelus d their ferred Sy the original grants, rest as a IWlot ana farnis before the escheat; they might or would disgrace upon the character of the colonial Policy be disposed of in the sane arbitrary, improvident, of the Imperial Government. The people nowy and unconstitutional manner, in whieh they had) however, seem about to throw off the lethargie been originally granted away by his Majesty confidence, into which they tuinely allowed then. King George the Third. This misapprehension selves to be dosed, by the most arrant Plitieg) concerning what would be the consequences of {ebarlainns that have ever suceeeded in culling g escheat, the proprietors, their agents, and their | country into an teceptaner of their Hestruis and lawyers, have very cunningly endeavoured—and, dependence upon their eflicacy ; aul, We trust,that,

in many cases successfully—to instil inte the | putting far from them that “spirit of incapacity

filty, is it fair to miuds of the tenantry, so as to deter them thew | and maiiguily ” to whieh, fer some time back, they

slarmge aod pee liar Armed with a tadlwo ys : ' as i ; ’ { as Catholic he ‘yes muy be con-| ther the’attendance be five or \ s i .. a shadow ell as , 0 exeentricall ut of the »p sy) 80 tar as Catholics thems-iv Jy | . i ; : i . r i ide rw 6 ake peated and hardened in the fire, they | °! busy life, having it — “ate “ wen 8 6 art “tg oo pwr ‘ ; ' ze i a serned. assuredly they had Were not Paseal) oblige bim to keep @ journal, swear tO IL, ) fy seeking relief for their oppressive bui their | appear to bave been delivered ever, as to their ste ’ ae ve : — ites liehts—tte crimes as well as Denigcences =~) tine Ob bis Omiciai Gu V, t ves 1Ob Seca ft j ve 4 ‘ a Culy i ; . : ci “i E . o of . oes » nortios of hig sa- : # eo ie 2 . " ‘ ’ “* eyil renius ’ thes will mi he St 2 peveens tm parties of three of tour tate She its shames as its glories; and that the paper) little envious that he should bave selected that) and Father Chiniquy Roman Catholics ? and | and be d »priv oe | by such a mode, lest in its eperation they cones genius, ; ‘ i ich united and ua.

jungles, where they starcie the animals with sheuis avd As the Riinocercs duces not fy . Dab PUsheS fofaciousiy Ul Ile dessin with opened jaws, the Draye Sismeye wart lor

yelle.

that does not do this, however valuable as 8

moral or religious agent, 1m noe newspaper.) lic system, if what be himself teils us be eor-| during their wh

und must ever be limited in range and in

| particular department of the Roman Catho-| bave not many such men as they remaines

this moment and thrust their bamboo lances) down the brote’s throat. Then they ran off in rarious directions, and allow the animal! «Tyo young Indies of pleasing manners to beeome exhausted by loss of bluod, wot!) adgertive their ‘desire to correspond with they can approwch without danger and des-!pyo young gentlewen for the porpose of tet it. There are wauy tigers, spotted and) yea] That's what's the striped, and tiger-cnis, but they rarely af- |v. aceer. —Exchange. tuck men, beesuse tliey have no wantul gawe. Yuere ere ulsov two yarieties of the bear. | whieh, huwever, shun the yiinity of man | he wishes biseaws ty be heard. —{[sinee giving Stage and deer are also very numerous, and) vent to the above, the author bas become during the inundstions are brought by hun- raven mad !

dreds to the warket-place of the cap:taul - aa prceenaaga These animals, as the water rises, fly to the i ce 3 x

higher apots on the plain where they are’ CORRESPONDENCE, killed by the Siamese. Apes, with wh eb the ili ccted eae

forests swarm, carry on their trie ks unim-) FUB THE PUBLIC. peded in the uamediate vicinity of Bangkok ss

and impidentiy plunder the gardens. Many) ENO. 4.)

osters live in the rivers; they are frequently | “ Jastum ae teuaceum proponti virum, amed_¢ Com ur: ; tate! Neu civiuia arder pruva ) sbenlium, a a nnd Geoume o0 familiar se dog ne ~ Non vultus iastantis tyraunil

and oe ee SS ee en Amongst Meute quatit sulida.’—ilunar.

ad } p fs mos tract at- . the Siameae birds, the crows most attract at ieee Bosroe:

leust. | _ 2s —————

” idmprovemend.

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Why is a lawyer like w crow? Because

jmunity of people?

tention. They exist in ex:raordinary nam-

bers; and when they seek their night-quarters|

vin Baoskok —the teaplee— they almost darkea the air. Theee birds display an al- met incredible impudence. Before day-break they stalk about the streets in dozens, to steal everything that comes in the way greedy beaks They do not hesitate to snatch

edidles from the hands of children, and even |

| my present analysis.

antecedent to those which J am next about to! this, perbaps, t ac-| Spear’s plays, st might suit them better to

| write, I gave the Puolic a very succine ‘ecvunt of that part of the Bible

of their | in this country which involves in iteelf the

| circumstantisl origta of our existing Tory ad- | jects. iS 'has no doubt *+bceen approved’? by his quon-

ministration under its existing Cum plex cun-

[ have now arrived at a second chapter of} men as our Rey. Secretary to deign to com- [n the few brief letters | municate to us a little enligiteumeat,

Controversy | commanicate aside."’ The

reet, from which almost exclusively can be

fluence —limited, indeed, to those who ueed 1t/| extracted anything really too iminoral to} scious of the existence of such bi

present to the view of any christian e@om- |} Why, manifestly wiv, | if he be personaly such a very plows an | exe quisitely pure minded man, tous rash in the very dawaing of bis religious career ta the | most ‘* morbid’? of all sources from whieh. | by bis own story, he ¢ vuld possibly edace| anything sufficiently disgusting w paralyze ithe moral nostrils of all Her Majesiy’s loyal subjects in this little Province? Surely Me. | Pope's own personal setias of moral probity }ean bardly be so very delivate after all, or else be could never thus so wantonly have | | stirred up such a pes iferous amass of genal! | pntrefaction to outrage the whole popul ition | of this angelically virtuvus little Isiaud || | What any mere politician, unless he bea po- | | litieal speculator im the worst seuse of Lhe | | term, ean siricuy have tu do with the distiac | tive religivus prineipies uf auy s‘ct of ile: Majesty's subjects in this coualry, ia also «| | puzzl-, on the real significance of which it} | might not be unphilantrophic in such gentle- |

But like many things in Shake-

vulgar, of | course, must not be enlightened on all sub- Mr. Pope's * diligence,’? however,

aye’ ; Jes , hat the people . a : | a ; ad 7 ress ee ak aun find a much greater grievance than that from pro s oan for shat purpos, ind that | which they sought to escape ; and be deprived | injustice and oppression te which they hate |

joss of their children’s edacstion is | of all title, and even of every shadow of a title, to | 80 long subjected, and of their deteruination to

inistakeable deuwoustrations of their sense of the

ole lives deeply attached to See, while they were fuily con- yoks ?

the oman

dv you suppose that modern Komanists, with the knowldge of this fact, are going to be | converted by your yon? Do you think they heve much faith in the moral parity of Hon W. H. Pope, ineluding the name, than in| that of Paseal? Roman Catholic laity are’ uot ignorant of the exiztence of such hooks. | Aad then whatol Protestants? Dy they not} all believe that the Rowan Catholic Chareh. | since even before the time of King Pepin—(‘-e Bref*)—has been gradually, tho’ impercep- |

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i tibly to herself, gliding into just such errors | las those to which Mr. Pope so invitingly de-!

mands our attention? Do not the most| intelligent ot them at least entertain this opt- | mon? Whilst litthe or no good could tuus | therefore lave eveu provally resulted to tue | religious state of either sect in this country, | why hazird Lis own reputation as aa hon st

ywn fellow Christinns 7 query for himself to expla. Lt he really desires to convert the Catholics, he should

Ani the

enough for them to bear. A but reasonable tu suppose that any district whieh can afford forty or more children is

justly entitled to the Government ailowance

to teachers ; and, whether the average atten- dance be fifteen or fitty, no redyction what- ever should be made. It is @ matter, whieh shoulda certainly remain exclusively between the trustees and teacher : whether the atten- ance be large or small. The t-acher atwend> daily to the perforaance of his duties, aud if some negligent or poor people should not send their children to school, it is unreason- able to suppese that the teacher should be the loser. It is just as unreasonable to sup- pose that those people, who were antble te send their children tu be taught, will consent tu make up the reduction ia the teacher's salary. Tuey certainly lose enough when

further demonstration.

i el . i | money ' ehh | politician to the natura! suspicions of hie | they lose the education of their children | be certain of securi.g his improvements ;” and |clainung under the original grants, as 4 We chat leave thie Fear whee SHOE oF te8 mas” ae Seal that “ if disposed of at private sale, the practice | through its operation, be deprived of their

, uve Q slaty, have sadly wronged the people; and, if the | would lead to the latter are so blind, or so prejyadiced as to be | ruption.”

Lnen, again, 16 tS | phei¢ farms and improvements. That, under the | be relieved from them—that their attitude shali

rule of Great Britain, the infliction of ifinitely | cunse those t) succumb whe have, hitherto, re. greatey evils upon a people thar those trom | fused te acknowledge the justness of their q. which a Court was specially established to free mands; and ween made knowr to the Impevig) them, should be the result of the proceedings of |Government, shall, it may be, happily prepare such Court, is, we would say, what no man iu his | them for the approval and promotion of suey . right senses could be persaaded to believe, were scheme of justice as shall, by its pers tion—eurrieg it net that, even in the Report of the Roya! | out upou the fairest and most equitable PTincijsfog

! Land Commissioners, we find it declared that if! —put an end forever to the disputes betwepy the | sechont should be carried out, it would be im-! proprictore and cultivators of the soil;

possible to dispose of the escheated lands without | scheme,which, whilst fully recoguising the original domg a gress injustice to all freeholders aud te | right of the people te the vccupancy of the lessees of improved farms; that “if put up at as a public domuin, and laying down the Principles public auction, it dues not follow that the man) iipon Which, as such, it should be allotted whose labor hud made a farm valuable, or whose | (hem—should, at tue same thoe, provide for the bad purchased it belore the escheat, would reasonable compensation of auch Proptitors

grossest favouritism and cor-| Such & scheme, carried into effect, under thy

luonestly duff the lawyer's gowa for that of sanetion and authority of the Linperial Gover. the Clristian wissivliary. Ile migat tien | prevented from perceiving ihe continual Strange, strange indeed, does it seem to us that | ment, would not ouly eflvctually remove the epif stand @ chauuce of yet fidliag St. Peter's Chair, enormities which are committed by the Go- | ji. Royal Laud Commissioners should thas, m | facet which attaches te it, in consequence of thy ae ns at eae ee seating sibides. they oe Ra bear the con- | reporting conceraing what would be the con- | sendy eveeicnange and support which it bas eokvant into his wale’ shoes We might PLAIN TALK. | Seatenees of Exscheat, have entirely lost sight of | always qwen to ** the colon system” ot landlord.

the great object, which alone would be sought by jism, Which here took its vise from ibe Luprovidest

then be the gamers in every way. The ex-| Januaay 28, 13864. on That | and unconstitutwoal original grants; but it Would

| the evtablishment of a Court of Escheat.

vilices—this ** union of Church aod State," |

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j isting interchangeable condition of the two | |

| dam associates in this low game of reitgio-

| ubject would be, not the mere nullificativn of the | render the people of the Colony, always loval,

of elderly persons, ‘oree their way into the | Stitution, aod which at the same time reveals kitehens,kaock off the covers of pots and take | '8 Dv untayourable hight the real relation in out the meat, which, if anable to swallow! whieh the * Liberal Party’? expressly stands | op the spot, they try to eonsesl in sume cor- to buth. These letters were, | imagine, suf-} ner, on a roofor ap & tree. | ficiently copious to show to every Intelligent They fight buldiy with dogs and cate for a) reader, first, that our present G aoa bone, and when eo engaged will hardly get and their supporters actually foisted them-| out of the way of passers-by. lf they are | selves into power oa the back of this disrepu- | Shot af or stones thrown at them, they cullect table religious hobby which they succeded in in hoadreds and make en awful row, which | rousing from the tomb of oblivion as the is quite unendurable. However, they com | Wateh of Eudor did the Prophet, for that bine with she dogs in acting as seavyengers,| Very obvious and peculiar purpose. 2 Clearing the towns and villages trom afl rot- | Puey were sufficiently copious bo show, ip ten substances. ja consequeres of the great) the seevnd place, that in gsmming this on8 or quantity of water and fish in the country, it purpose ta the dissimulative manner in which) | ewarws with aquatic birds. Vultures are) they did, without either any just cause of alev seu in Jocks, especially tho black ones | Complaint against the Catholic Bishop of the} with bare necks, whieh at the same time per- day or the Liberal Government of the time, | form the Guty of sexytons. In Siam, we must as they themselves have positively pretended. | yemar«, in explenatioa, the derd are not ) the same parties must heneetorth be held per-| boried.

The rich and well to-do have their | S89Mally accountable for all the socnal dis- | dead barned, while the eorps:s of the puor, turbance, civil discord and conventional | whuse relations cannot alfurd to pay the animosity to which said Coctroversy _fuay priest fur iuerematiun service, are turn and unhappily be found to give veeasion. They | desour d by vultures and dogs. For this ob-| Were. i conceive abundantly copious, and that ject the corpses ure previously cat into pieces, | by no means indistinetly to evidence that the whjeh are laid out on a stone platform.

Un | Yery parties now specilied must, in short, the trees around hundreds of black vultures | teem the

mselves but too largely responsible keep up & constant wateh, and plump dogs, ft all the past, present and prospective evils Jie about ia the neighbourhood. So soon ws} alike, #hich this country way ever assert the relatives have retired, the animals and

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itself willing to attribute to the identical ia , . > f hie 4 >

birds rush on the corpee, and in a very short) Coutroversy, the propriety of which [ have time only the bones are left, which the rela- | tas so repeatedly and sv bluntly called in tions eventually eullect and keep in an urn question. Nor caa any be ignorant of the —F rum Culbugn’s New Monthly Magazine | Stous amount of those evils which the mis- —_- chievious excitement necessarily incident on FEscttsa Masyeas ix O1o Toses.—In daysof #ll such shamefully d:szusting politico-reli- | gore, lords ard gentlemen lived in the coun-| gives embroglios are almost invariabiy found try like petty kines: had their castles and tv engender. [It were net, indeed, toostrons boroughs. and gallows, within their liberties, language perhaps, yet farther and still more where they could try, condemn, and execute, declaratively tu assume, that the detinitive They never went w Loodow but in poriia- , parties here ineulpated, baving thus trom

| you never reflect on the ridiculous method to

political knavery, for thas striving 3) a luni | rably to imitate or rather counterleit the ‘busy bee,”’ which Dr. Watts, [ think, tells | us, althuugh we dv not believe hia, line) proves each shining hour,’’ by ** gathering | honey all the day from every opening | flower.’ But Mr. Pope’s piety — since We | ean searcely sny modesty—leads bum, unitke | the bee, according tu his own profession, to | extract ethical potson from the most contami- |

he cau iIndnage toy obtain access. verily seem a little peculiar. But as our own ignurance of what should naturally be | the proper esthetical disposition of a pre- eminently pious and refined man, may just pussibly be the only thing really at laale, we shall not dwell on this apparent disere- paney in our Hon. Secretary's religious ex- perier se, but endeavour to examine his ex- tract: ‘som ** Dens’’—this strange result of his pase theological studies—iu the light in which he himself requesis us to view thea Many well-disposed Romin Catholic laity |

' themselves, forsouth, are not aware that such

‘doctrines of devils’ are really traded in by their Clergy! And 80, friend Pope, yours | bas been altogether a self-imposed *tlabor of | love’? Benevolent soul, thus to undertake, | gratuitously, faturally angeaial

piece of work —a piece of work, Eucan, su very unpleassnat tu all your own swoet sera-

pluie feelings —simply tor the sake ul others ! Dear St. Wilham!! what an ex unple of Christian charity thou didst, all of a sudden, 30 unexpectedly beeume ! Thou art ne doubt un evanyelist !

such «#

But, dear friend, did |

whieh you resorted in order to compass the conversion of our poor benrghted Roman Catholic brethren? idostead vi quietly seck-

j earned due.

| this lite, that he may very naturally be)

ithe highest importanes, us he has plainiy

| their scanty mi dicum of propriety, 80, In like

| might eloose to dictate.

ing tiem out, aod kindly expostulaiing with |

‘The meat was served up by wateh words

mmafe their pains

mest time, Or vuee a year to do homage to purely selfish or purty designs raised throagh- their king. They always ate in Gothie halls, Out the country this same socially disruptive at the high table or ortel (a little room at) agitation, witl all its reflex seandals and the upper cad of the Lali, where stan is 4 Supremely _ derogatory reflections on our table.) with the folks at the side tables. hitherto fair local reputation, as a British Province; they have spontaneously drawn | Jacks ase butof late invertion; the poor boys Upon themselves this essencal responsibility did turn the spits, and licked the dripping of sustamiog, in ail time to come, its whole | The beds of the men servants Onus, Whatever that onus may yet discover | and retainers were in the ball, asnow in the | Hself to be, without the slightest ground grand of privy chawier, The bearth was) being left them of a palliative nature, on commonly ra the middle, whence the saying, | whieh to base any excuse to the contrary * Round about our coal fire.’ Before the, Tie simple trath is, no proper extenuation | Reformation there were no poor-rates, the Cin ever he very easily made to appear tor eharitahle diles given #° religious honses, and them. To reveal, in a word, how exeveding- the ehureh-ale in every parish, did the basi- ly little, in any strictly honest sense, either nees [nevery parish there was a church-| Ste Roman Catholics as a body, their late hauge, to whieh tener spits, pots, erocks, | Bishop, or ble la e Libers! Government tad &e., for dresuing provisions Here the tw do with the whole transaction, beyond the housekeepers met and were werry, and gave | "4 ural cischarge of their beset Crate relative their charity, The young peuple came there | duties, was the specrfic obj “ct of these few too, and bad dancing. bowling, and shoting leading epistles. And if the several eonseeu- wt butts. Mr Autony Wood assures me, there “Ve statements which they eontain, be in were few or no alws houses hefore the time of themselves a positively correct representation King Henry Viil; that at Oxford, opposite) Of the radical facts of the case, as they duly, Christ Chareh, 1 one of the most ancient in transpired ; how com pletely adequate, and | England = In every church was a poor man’s ure than adequate, are they tu pl ice beyond box, and the likeatgreatinns. In Seothand,, #9Y possibility ot dispute the absolute credi- espevially among the Uigianders, the women | bility of the object lor wdich they were thus | wake a @ourtesy to the new woon; and our) designed. Now, that these consecutive state- Kinglish wowen in the country, have a touch | ments are in themselves substantially and | of this, some of them sitting astride on a gate | unconditionally true, L have not the smallest | on the first evening the new Moon appears, | inclination to indulge in the least shadow of and saying, ‘* a ine moon, God bless her !’' | exaggeration ; when [ deliberately say, | can! The like | observed in Uerefordshire. From | abundantly prove. the time of Erasmus. [temp lienry VILE till Neither Bishop MeDonald’s celebrated | nbout twenty years fast past, the learning

}suspicions of your tellow celunists should |

letter to the Board of Education, nor the late | was downright pedantry. Poe eouversation and habit of those times were as starched as their hands and square beards, and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The gentry and

citizens had little learning of any kind, and the | way of breeding up their children was suita-|

ble to the rest. They were as severe to their childgen se their sviaclimusters, and their acoul masters as masters of the house of cor- rection. Gentlemen of thirty and forty years old were to stand, lik: mutes and fools, bare- headed before their parents; and the daughters—grown women—were to stand at the copboard-side during the whole time otf the proud mother’s yuit, unless leave was desired, forsocth, that a cushion should be given them to kneel ypon, brought by the verving man, after they had duue sufficient penanee by standing.

Faancencenss Forests tn Sumataa —Tn the

San Franciev builetio, of recent date, we find the following curwus story of one of the tro-

ieal islands of Malaysia :--A gentleman, who little general newspsper altereation whieh nut? Butif you have been the means of ex- | uiquity.’ Perhaps it might be well iur you

ma recently returned here from a visit to Horg-Kong, Singapore (the Queen of the Fur- ther Hust.) and Batavia, bad re ated tu us sume iateresting particulars of his tuar, and,

among other things, of a discoyery which he |

made on the south eart coast of Samatra.

Liberal Goverament, which owned Mr. Coles. for its leader, having, therefore, as we have clearly seen, offered the now dominant Lory | Faction in this Province any really distin- guishable eo for their recent extra- ordinary line of eonduet, in superinducing

| right to complain ?

them, a8 the true spirit of tue G spel directs,

hdid you bot puodliely strive to hold them up

to ridicule aud odlogay?) Did you openly blab throad all the most eontumsacious

and reproaehfal bits of Chevlogical aterature

Bol

is now developed in this Proyince—-may just possibly be thus depriving us of what might otherwise have shown as one of the greatest lights of modern Christendom in the person of the Rev. W. LL. Pope! Every one must teel, however, that as things now are, we are under the sad necessity of takiag Mr. Pope exactly as we find him. returning from stepping aside with him in|

Before, therefore, |

Che Examiner.

Charlottetown, February 8, 1864.

—wew

REVENUE AND TAXATION.

titles oi the proprietary claimants under the original | as couteuted and happy as any other chase of Her grants, but the emancipation of the people from Majesty's subjects can possibly be, how great \ the serf-like vassalage to which they are subjected | soever the political and social advantages which under the vperation of the leasehold system; and | they eujoy ' the bestowal upon thein—in equitable allotments, |

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ee andon conditions which, whilst most easy and fa- THY DELEGATE At LAST. _ vorable to themselves, would be both profitableand |

WE are informed that Mr. W. H. Pope, co-

his eccentric theolosieal peregrinations from We are informed by the Jslander that the re-| beneficial to the State—of the public dowain, ree- delegate trom this Island to the Colonial Office, ating exotics in theological seienve to which | the proper offical duties to winch he has | venue for 1803 amounts to £61,645 t4s. dd, being cued lrow the gripe of these who, althouga they | on the Land Question, came out in the Jast Englieh

This dues | been elected as a civil functionary im thus | €22,306 4s. 3d. more than it was last year,

Island, we must candidly award him tisat | speoral meed of praise waici is lis lvuesily | We cannot deny that he was evidently born to become a great discoverer. | We have some idea, indeed, that he may yet) rival Sir Isaac Newton not seon stop pursuing those theolusical | researches of nis, 16 isvery hard ty say what) new aid Wondrous revelatious he may wot yet iit apon. He bas already dune sy well in|

tempted to prosecute his researches ** a@/ in- finttum.”’ Bat among all his diseavertes, that to which, no doubt, he himself attaches

termed 16, to the greatest practical account, is the brillmot seeret wich he must now, fortunately for this Island, have wade sume | years back—that as Bishop McDonald's sgle banded letter seared our credulous Bory Protestant population, to seare our equally tervor-strickea Goveramental autho- | rites almost, at nut altogether, clear out of

wanner, he, by a litche deX.erous mandouy ring | on the same religious eredulity of the same | Protestant population, Inigat, at any time, 48 might suit bis Own Convenience, scare them into just whatever course of acon he Chis, we presume, | was one of the very echiefest discoveries ot | errant at W Pp ° fr Sevuretary - H. Pope's past life-time. * Den’s Chevlogy’’ amy in itself, be this, or thas, or the Other thing, or what uot, to any viler man eXsmining Win de ordinary eritieal |

which you could possibly manage ty rake up gpSpeet, as a reputed vgluae beluaging bo the

against them ? Did you not adopt tie very best course eligible lor the veri st charlatanist | to wound their natural feelings, and irr tate, | instead of conciliate, their denouinational affections? And did you not do aii this) without, perhaps, even once allowiag vour- self sufficient breathing time to wonjecturs

that, after all, ** ignorance’ many well-disposed Roman Catoulte heity

had most likely, fur wany more reasons then | one, been ** bliss,” In su far as your uncnris- tian method of iustructing Cac inty have

becn in the slightest degree concerned? Did net, for the eredit of religion itself, |

on the part ol

you

} . j | choose «a most unopportane Junccure in which i

to pablish your ane:i-Catholie d.scoveries i} Moral Pheclogy 2?) Searcely had you entcred the primary thresiiold of your active puilit- | cal career in this Province, when you threw down the gauntlet as the pablic champiun of | Protestantisua Roman Cathuliersn lad you even been sincere in your religious pretenstons, what, ia the view of taod-rn 6- ciety —L may even say in the natare of things —could you justly expect but that the worst |

versus

righteously attach themselves to yuur actuat- ing motives? Or, should you yet discover | that such suspicions have really, in any con- | siderable extent, become your practical and | permanent reward, have you sny eunceivable | What better wages lor such a glaring want of common prudence, | not ty mention good taste, can you honestly | deserve 2? Sir, your pubdlie conduct, in this | special respect, depend upon it, Was anyt ing) Your unopportuns as- |

Parchives of tie vld Ladin Cbureh (a great deal about +, and as the world now

' cumplices, in what ain appear

Kev know }

goes, still fewer care, ; Bas Mr. Pope found ifter a little eager research for something ot the kind, that itcoald by bim be transformed | into a 6 s-rate s-are-crow. Wit a siz- uifivant discovery! No sooner thought ot! taan acted on, dod i his hands what ws; lea |

did scare Crow has it Gut proved ? |

We have sometimes observed other old | ladies erecting Just such faise ohj®ets of terror | tw triguten poor silly lowls away from their corn fields. But certain we are that no do- | westic birds ever fled trom sucii old womanish | contrivances, With half the voloeity with | which multitudes of another tribe, who are | sccusioiwwed to accuunt themselves rational | animals, tiockcd tu the povitical lustings ot this country a6 & Feeeut general elecuon. | propelled thituer im their bovest simpdlierty |

| by the inspired dread ol this veritable scare: | !

erow, gotien up by the low cunning of the Hoa. W. H. Pope and his quonda:m ac-| to be any | thing else save strageht, forward, single. |

We stated our opinion, in a late No. of this paper, that the revenue fer the period indicated ought to

be from ninety to one hundred thousand pounds, |

—and we based this opinion on these facts: that

ee f ai Indeed, if he does | (be trade of the country was never more prosper-

ov’ than during the past year (ne thanks te the Government tor that)--that the exports of agri- culfjural produce, especially, were uuprecedentedly large—the prices very good—and that—-as is the

case in all other couutries—the imports might be, | imagined it would; and before we hare dune with | comioes fee somewhat reluctant tocome home. If *

as they were, fairly expected to keep pace with the exports ; — and that there was an enermeus in- the duties levied Seven or eight years ago, when trade was com-

crease in on merchandize. paratively dull — when agricultural produce was

uot in great demand, and prices were low—when

| there was nothing at al) bke the present breadth

of land under cultivation — when there were no land sales to augment the revenue — when the ad valorem duties were about cue third of their preseaot aaount—the Liberal Government had a Now, we pay 25 per cent. wore for our tea and sugar

revenne of nearly fifty theusand pounds.

than we did then — we pay Gd. a gallon on mo-

| had lang possessed it, were unable to shew that | Steamer, and is new mm Halifax, He has ins ‘they had any just claims thereto, either in law or! about six months aw ay, and besides receiving a salary of £350 4 year, ix paid a handsome ava of

If an escheat were fairly carried out, and fairly | money out of the people's taxes to detvay bie tm. followed up, it would not necessitate, in subse-| yelling expenses, He seers to think that he hes quent proceedings, the extinguishment of the | not been away long enough from bis public duties, rights, either of the small proprietors or of the) and therefure loiters for a while in Halifax. tt tenants, and the consequent sale of their lands and | vppears to be perfeetly well understood that he has iuprovemcuis, either at public auction or at | dune nothing towards accomplishing the ostensible private sale, as the Royal Land Counpissien have | .ijects of the Delegativn ; and this, no dowkt

| equity,

| our subject, we shall, in a future number, shew by he had done any thing that was likely to raise what prudent, safe, and constitutional policy such | hi:selt and his party in the estimation of the ten “calamitous consequences” might easily be | autry, be would lose no time on the way home te avoided.

announce the fact, or he would have scut the nist | However, in thas dissenting from the epinions | glow ug accounts in advance of Limselt. There land conclusions of the Royal Land Commission | can be, ne longer, any reason to doubt that tug ‘concerning Escheat, this appears to be the proper | Delegation has been, next to the Laud Commis place for us to say, in further dissenting (rom their | sion, the most worthless aud expensive sham ever ‘dictum anent that qvestion, that, although we are perpetrated ou the country.

well aware that, as they observe, since 1763, | aor ae |

ee

Tue Islander is not pleased with our remarks, \ _— last week, ou the “ comphwentary addresses" to cultivated, and paid we, aoqenes by purchase, or| the Lieut. Governor from certain inhabitants of | passed by inheritance, in some instanees no taint | Yew Loudon apd Murray Harbour. We should

| when the original grants were made, “ the cha-

racter and value of lands have altered ; improved ,

lasses instead of 2Jd.—we pay nearly fifteen pounds of the original ownership remains,” we are very be muuch surprised and disappointed if our eum

on the hundred pound’s (sterling) worth of goods | far trom admitting that here, as in many older of all kinds, instead of five pounds, which we were | countries, in which ceuturies ago individuals were required to pay under the Liberal Government; | unjustly put m possession of estates, wrested by and we get tive or six theusand pounds a year) the violence of power, or passed under the sen- irom the sales of laud, of which the Liberals had) bianee of law, from their proper owners, the not the advautage in their caleulatious: and yet, | interests of justice and utility would be more with all these things in their favoar—with this! offended by dispossessing the present proprictors

enormous increase of taxation, the Tories bave | than they could be advanced by conferring the |

not increased their revenue beyond about fourteen | estates upon the lawful heirs and descendants of | ; ; ois . thousand pounds more than it was eight years age | the original proprietors.

pWwhen “ times’? were dull and taxes ew llight. We say again that the revenue ought to! Edward Island, it is now, indeed, nearly one |

be ninety thousand pounds at least: ard in the | hundred years since it was diverted from its | absence of that sum we are forced to think that | proper and constitutional destination ; but every

very serious frauds must have been committed in the collection of duties, rautable alienation, is still te be as easily aseer | The Islander seys the revenue for 1863 is by | tained as if it were a transaction of only yesterdy ; |

step taken in consequence of its original unwar- |

£22,896 4s. 3d. greater than it was for 1862, and no knots which have bound it, in any of the Willour contemporary shew that the public debt various legal conveyauces which have been made | |

bas been reduced to that amount? Way is he

/of any portions of it, are too intricate to be ex-! silent about the public debt?) Why does he not | amined and honestly and satisfactorily dealt with tell us, if he can, that our income exceeds our by the hands of justice, strengthened and directed

outlay te the extent ef more than twenty-two, by the supreme authority of Parliament.

thousand pounds? Tits is the principal peint to| Wiiere the lands have been improved and be considered.

venue will shew one pound over the expenditure | ness state—by their present occupants, er by |

We do not believe that the, re- | cullivated—reclaimed from their forest or wilder. |