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LOYALTY.

The ‘Dobli. Irishman’ pyblishes the fol lowing extra ‘te from the Protestant press o! Ireland. and from the spe-enes of Protestant Ministers denoune ng the Qieen, the Mine try, and the Britwh Empice, because of the Irish Church Bill

UNPUNISHABLE ‘ CRIMES.’

Tf * * (che Queen consents to d'sestub

lishment (we * will kick the Queen's crown into the Buyne.’— Parson Fians gan.

* The fee! inze of Irish Protestants, exasper- ated by wr ong, are in & transition stage.

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They owe 00 allegiance to a treaty-vio'ating|

minister. England had once to look to Hol. land‘ for e deliverer,” and Protestant Lreland * may also find [riends in some sympatiising country.” Mr. Giadstone’s reward from those he has served will be more ultramon tane clam our, and [rish Procestants * may yet bave their revenge “—Londouderry Sen tinel, quoted ia L. Siandard, May 5. Writ. ten * just before the arrival of the Prince in Derry '—» hose visit was ‘welcomed’ with pistol shot: aad rit.

* Jt wisl be well to look for friends elee- where, In seli def noe, [I woeld siy let us form @ Union with the Untied Sates ot America * J tear ‘ tis tov true th tthe Raglish Government has becom~, to all ar. ten’s and purposes, a republie, and that. « crags has come over the poaple. Ant might be better off under President Grant than under Bright, Gladstene, and Ce. Ty Amerca «ve benefit would be se wamense that L wee! d nope the aarva woul, be loyally carried outs * tt would give Fer a foothold jo Borope, and with her fleets at Cork and Lough Swilly, give her exch command at sea that Bogland dare not fire a shot im this country. nor farther wijece nor tasult the loyal inhabitants of bretand’ The men o! the North will hardly allow their charehe- amt the beases of theer clergy to be pulled dowa. [U sesnhishment and D sendow- ment) belure Brew eves ‘without a fight for ww’ There are thousinds of Irish in Ameri ea, ‘the yrestest country in the world, on one side, we might laugh at the English and Sexeh revulutionssts.’'—Duaily Express Cor- respondenve, May 6,

* We are well aware that the idea of an- nexation with America has been very pre- valent nce the unwasking of a Jesuit policy in Ireland andthe unquestionable evidence thas the full power of Englund 1 committed to its suppert. The tdea ts duly gaining sirength.--Evenmg Mail, May 6.

* T cannot believe it possible that the Glad

stone of jo day could be born or that the! did not allow it to pass wholly ninoticed. | go send to the Giard Jury.

Creator would permit the ¢ trathfulness ’

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ocecpied io deciphering the correspond nce and arranging the evidence for the trials of , the conspirators, A letier | have just receiv: | jed from Paris s:atee thatthe revelations are | jeuch that M. N ogra has though: it his duty | } to warn the Feeneh police of the numerous refugees in Paris, as an attempt on the Kme) | peror’s life formed part of the plot. Voietor | Emmanuel was alev to bave been assussin- ; ae” — Tablet The Catholie revival in Italy iteelf is such as to surprise every one, and two of the Pre lates of the Vatican, who have just returned from a journey in the Marches and Legations Were usionished at their reception, evea the j troops saluting and presenting arms to them. ' This is the re-action of the Mazzintan eon aptracies on the authorities, and on the faith jot the people of the deputation to Pius IX. | by the return of which @ most extraordipary | change hus been effecte i. ' —_———<p eo A Destevcrive Wrapon.—The new rifle

invented by Meyhoter in East Pruss a, seems to be by far the wos: formid ible weapon in resistence, Charge and diecharze appear to | take place-alo.ost simultaneously, and it is said thirty sr ots can be fired from atin a } Mainate, At the mom nt when the barrel is jclused by a valve the cartridge is exploded by merns of a etpall kale. A> pactiouler appecacos prevents the escape of gases unless | OY the proper vent. This rifle weighs 84 ba., wd the barrel hus a length of 36 inches; the cartridges are of paper, whish, besides being | vheap, cannot ex and, and stick fast in the { barrel, as with "he case with the Amer can rfletriedin St Perersburg. Thelony arrow jshaped projectile of the Mevhofer rifle is fatal at '800 paees, and weil es only 1 24th of « pound, go that every soldier in the fie'd jean carry with him 100 eartridves The pris is loaded with a gentle blow of the fut }ot the hundon the handle of the valve, which

lopens the powder chimber for the entanee of ithe cartridge. . The inventor, who ts himself jnot practically ekilled in firerarms has on } several oecusions fired 13 shots in 36 seconds, and 24 shots m one minute.—North German | Currespond nt {From the New York Albion |

THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY.

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The Qneen of England was born on the 24th of May, 181°, in Kensington Palace, London, j and her fiftieth birthday on Wednesday last j was celebrated with rogal honours through feut the British Dominions, over which she ; has held cona(tutional sway for nearly thirty- lone vears, her coronation having taken place }in Westminster Abhey on the 22th of June,

1838. Nor was the event forgotten by her | subjects in foreign lands, particularly in the | United States, while the Americans themselves

RECIPROCITY. The return asked fur by Mr Dorion, in the House of Commons, regarding Reerprocity,

were brou,ht down on the 2oth inst. The |

fist part consisis of a jong correspond nce b tween the Prince Edward Island, Dominion and Imperial Governments. relative to the duty imposed by Prince Edward Islard on Amer ean breadstoffs, and the admission tree of Canadien Breadstu'ta through Amerean territory. The Colonial Seervtary and the Lords of the Treasury beheve the disertvinat ing duty unwise at the prescot time, aa it is ik ly to lead to @ retaliatory policy, The accounts providing for this were not, how- ever, divallowed. Prince Edward Island showing that the duty was not regard d as hostile by the Americans, as it ufforded en couragement to their line of steamers trom Portland to the Island The Lords of the Tressury point out that the eff-et of each e policy, it exte ded, would tend to bring sbout a disertminating duty against the mother country. The nex! documents are petitions from the coal interests in Nova Scotia, and communications or the subj et from the Im- pertal te Mr Thornton and the Canadsan Gov- ernment A minute of the Privy Coune:l dated 4th Jannary 1869 considers the re newal of negotiations by Canada not advis- able but that if proposals came from the United States a delegation from Canada would proceed to Washington to deliberate on the terms of renewal, On the 9th Jan- vary, 1869, Mr, Thornton, Mimeter at Washin ston, sends a jomt resolution of Con gress agreeing to recomend access to navi- gation of Amerecan and Canadian wat re on ‘the same terms to ships of both countrics land the free transit of goods across t! e soil of jeach @ountry, to be agreed tu by Congress: and also recommended negotiations to secure if possible, the construction of a ship-canal connecting Lake Cramplain and the St Liwrence ; and in case the State of New York wr'l consent to off r in exchange to en large the Champlain C.nsl to the same pro- portions as the one to connect the St Lawrence and Champlain, allowing the use thereof on the same terms as to American

shipp'ng A grant of land is asked from Congress for this purpose. fi iS al a ti

FROM NEWFOUNDLAND.

Hatiras, June l.

The RM S City of Halifax, Jumeison mas ter. from St Johu’s, N F, arrived here at 8 io'clock, p m, on Sunday, bringing pape s t ilate date, but they contaia no news of any im |pertince, The suryeying steamer Gulnare. trom Charlottet wn, P E I, arrived at St | John's on the 23 dalt| The Spring term of , the Supreme Court for St John’s opened on the 190ch ult. There were no criminal indictments A sricuitural

WP . . . . ' of} The American papers, both in this city and | operati yng throuzshout the Island have beer

imfemy to be sullied by euch a egtastruphe e'sewhere, made kindly remarks commemora-| retarded by unfavorable weather, The papers We must lisve recourse to the development! tive of the natal day, and epoke of her life as! speak hopefully of the prospect of the colony

theory fur the ‘ hidsvus phenomenon ~

eppearanceashe ts That ‘he w a fa'se

own reward. So good a monarch. take her

of bis|a beautiful lesson, showing that virtue is its | being admitied into the Ca: adian Confedera

}tion. The steamer Laon sailed from $t John's

hearted Jra:tor’ to the religion he onge pro |all in all, has never reizned in England be | on the Isth ult, on a whaling voyage, Several feased, thet ‘he bas betrayed the anerent con | fore, whether viewed as wife, moth r, or s0-/ sealing veesels are yet to arrive from the ice,

Stitutions of sis countr? im Chure., and State,’ that he is about ‘io force a revolution on the Queen,’ vod ‘compel her to break the gath

she swore ' at her Uvronatio:, no Protestant not confined to her own realms, but extends) t is a waste of time te prove it’ —|throurhout the wide domain of civihzation, |

doubts ; Irish Loyalty und English Gratitude, or Re-

peal of tus Union; by Robert Staples, D. &.)sonally respeeted. Phe history ef Enzland| eventful during the time she has!

J.P * Gladstone, if he fell into the hands of the Provestant mothers of U ster, would receive the treatiaent Agtmsn got frou Deana s hounds, Protestont Chnurchwariens hav already been heard to declare they will stout duwn the intraders on their gruve-yards’ **Broght, as Prima Minister over the Prime Miaister, ‘repeated in the piatnest thle terms ina INVITATION to the land + Ronan Cathoties to K(LL andtaxe PUS

SESSION .’—Dublin Evening Mail, May 3. |

“<: of births rezistered during the

The nu

avier eo. «31st December last, were 35, $2; the deathe 20,525; and the number of |

emizgtasts 3.779 ay jucrease of 4,755 would |

therefore, enpear to have taken place in the F gx populatio. of Ireland Curing that period.

Ate mecting held near Newry, the Rev. Stokes is reported to have observed that ‘it had heen edly proposed that some of the Protestant cathedrals should be handed over to the Cutholics; but he be jeved it was the ferliag of 200.090 Orangemen of Ulster that

if @ singe Protestast cathedral, Protestant |

ehurch, ov Protestant parsonage house in the m03t Fen, ote or distant parts of Connaught or Munst+r was haided over to the

find cathedrals that were just as good ws the eathedra!. hand- 1! over. They know where to find the Catholic catvedral of Armizh, and they felt that their 290,090 stout arms would be able to held it. They would gay to the pa-tors of every Protestant church that, be- fore they gave it up to any apostate system, barrel of gunpowder and a box of matches would send it to the winds of henvea.’

Prises Aztacr Paraicc's Homace to Careouwe Ireraxv.—It is a pleasure to be able te chronicle the followins visits to Con- ventaal Estaltishments by Prince Arihur Before quitting Lismore, his Noval Hizhness

honored the good ladies of the Presentation |

Convent with a visit. The youthful Prince, who is the very essence of courtesy and geutle- ess, was received at the principal entrance to.the convent by the ladies of the community. The children of the schools, al! dressed in their holiday ettire, and bearing green branches,

were at the entrance gate, and escorted his!

Royal Hi chness to the convent, singing es they weit sloug ‘God Save the Queen’ and * Patrick's Day.’ The Prince having beeu introduced to the good sisters by the Rev. Mother, conversed most kiudly with them for asborttime. At Killarney Railway Ssation the adiecss of welcome from the inhabitants was read by tae Most Rev. Dr. Moriariy, Lord Bishop of Kerry. At Kenmare the Princ-

visited the heautiful new Cathohe Charch aad | ceynad, Convent of the Sisterhood of Poor Ciares. }

of which Madame Mary O'Hasan is the Mother Sapertoress.—Atter having visited the Chareh, which is a speaking witness of the

spiety aud monificence of the Catholic com

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muvity of Kenmare, the Prince proceeded to he Convent, where he was met by the Rever- end Miuther and the Sisterhood. On the ap-

ee of the Priace, the children of the schools, exeeilently trained, sang with the most sweet pleasing eff-ct a set of compli mentaty verses by a member of the Sisterhood, of wuich the following is the Chorus.

The Knight saws penret sans reproche ;

Ged viess Prinee Arthur; miy he be,

For \ eara to come, our comniry's pride, The flower of English chivalry.

This trstefal tribute was warmly and grace fully acknowledged by the Prince. The visit to the chureh and convent, awakened addition- al enthusiasm among the peo le, especially as it was thou rsht that the Royal visit to the con- vent wes dictated by a desire to eompliment the Lord Chancellor who, is brother of the Gistinguisaed Abbess,

ITALY.

The Mavzinian c nspiracy at Milan ap- pears to have been merely one phase of a vast organization extending all over Ltaly, and having for ite ebjeet wholesule assasein. ation «The Opinion Perseveranza and Pvn- gole are ananimous in staring that the let. ters in avfograph of Mazzims ani the key to the civher whieh bas been fownd prove that the entire direction came from Luyano. Three Sieitran es eonspir. tors aro among those ar . and Menotsi’s pre- sence in Naples. and his subsequent journey to Lugano immediately before the dose very of the plot belie the assertions uf innocence pat forth by the Garibaldiana That the section called ‘ Nuova italia,’ of which Maz- aini ie the immediate ehtef, was the prime agent tere is vo doubt, for thesimple reason that ihe was too well organized to be ed to blunders like the voluntecrs. town in Italy was connected with it, simultaneous rising mn Milao, Florence, es was to have taken pluce. Crit une principal partisans, botn of nent and the Chureh, were to have , and a wholesale massacre of Orsini bombs, deg-

a revdlvers, were found im ense The funds are sad to have heen furnished by the United States.

the ish and Scottwh friends of i. The

Italiano Goverment is busily

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| vereign, and her career will contrast brightly lin the pages of history with most of her pre

| decessors on the throne. Her popularity is

for wherever her name is known she ig per has h en |worn the crown, hut the country has passed }sufely and prosperously through the various oe > ‘ | with whieh it threatened

has heen from time to politically, financially, and ether | wisv, have either never taken place, or h iafterwards retrieved. The social influence of | the pri ate life of the English Court has mean. | | while heen cf the best kind, and Victoria her | iself has always heen a lofty example for the | women of Rog'and to follow andadmire Poe} llitieally, until the dark clond of widowhcod | eo sizned her to long years of vrief, she ex-| }erted a salutary influence upon the pooes-d

jings of her Cabinet Mi isters, through the

ly wise coaonsels of Prince | Albert, a man of many virtues, stric: integrity, | and rave cultivation; but althouzrh she kas. of

late vears ta“en a fassa ,iife than previous'y, she is none the less loved | by her subject:, and hardly second to that feel: | ing is the warm admivation which the people! fof the. United States entertuin for her and thers We saw evilences of this regard in the 'enthusiastie recention given to the Prince of | Wales in this country, end he ought to make |

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ithe best of kins if pare:tal exam: le is power- ful for good or evil. That it may he Iony be- ‘fore he ascends the throne which Victoria adorns is, however, a cher'shed hope where- | ever the Eaglish lanzuage ia snoken. Lng | lish to: gues thro uzhout the world stil! sing in| | sincerity—= * God save onr graciona Queen, Long live ver noble Queen, God save the Queen, Send her vic torions, Happy and glorions, Long to reign over na, God save the Queen.” a THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The New York Herald's Washington cor- respondent telegraphs on the l6th the follow-|

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} i } | ee ; oh ‘ j given to Mr. Motley, the new minister to Eng land :—

White House to day in consultation with the, | President over the isstructions of Minister} Motley. The question us to whether Mr. | Matley should have written instructions, or whether he would be sent out with a sort of | | general anderstanding to do as he pleased, is | iat iast settled, The Secretary of State read | | the instructions carefully to the President and | received his xssent to them prior to their berg | sent to Mr. Motley at New York. What the | | precise nature of them is eannot be made | |publie. That part of them which relates to| ithe Alabama claims is undetstoed to be found. ;e?, sibstartially, ou the speech of Senator | Sumner so far a3 material indemnity is con. Mr. Fish does not agree with the sentiments of Mr. Sumner with regard to a de- mand upon Great Britain for a national apolo- gy in addition to payment in full for damages to our commerce. He considers this would be | treated by great Britain as equivalent to a de- | elaration of war, and, therefore, would not be! entertained if presented by Minister Motley. Me Fish was seareely ia favor of going so far as Mr. Sumer in other matters connected with the Alabama claims, but the President was of jthe opinion that the people demanded a firm poliey towards Great Britain on this subject, and, therefore, over ruled the Secretary. A spocial messenger from the State Department left here this eveniug for New York with the instructions for Mr. Motley.

The New York Posts Washington epecia! says President Grant has taken into his own handa the management of our relations with Eegland. Is is ascertained from most trust- wort’ y sources that the President considers that Kogland established a precedent during the late war, which eannot be regarded other wise than exceed nyly favorable to the United Stat-s. ft is, therefore, us+les’ to ask Eny- land to retrace her steps. so long as she con siders herveff in the right and with nothing to fear from the United States in case she should go to war with any other power. [he President believes that these are matters which eonecern England rather than the United States; but that, on the other hand, if Eng!and sees that she was wrong, and that the same neutrality prineivles she applied to the United States would prove very disastrous if applred to herse’f in some future emergen ey. then it is for her to open the 80-called old matter, and make propositions for new nezotiations,

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oo Johnson's Anodywe Liniment will give more re- lief so cases of Chronie Roeamatiam, no matter

ichanges that have occurred, and the disasters | time |

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| from some of which good reports have been | received. The steamers Howk and Nimrod jarrived from their third tip on the 19th ult. with about 500 seala each. The merchants are dealing out supplies for the fisheries with ja liberal hand. Conside able quantities of salmon have been takeu along the coast this spring, and at is reported that codfish are plentiful. The foliowing letter is published iu the St John’s Ledyer:

Sr Perrie, Sth May. 1869—We have had very stormy weather here ldatterly. A great many crafts are reported ashore at Miquelon, Dansie, Fortune, Long Harbor, &c, and we fear with loss of life Upto the time of the Ariel s leaving no pert culars of the wrecked vessels have been received, with the exception f one Jarge French bark lost at Lamailin: rocks—-crew saved Several French bankers have arvived here, bein oblized to run off the Banks with loss of men, cables lines, &c. The steamer Greenwood (Enylish) has already London with sund:ies for the French Cable Company: she leaves two Enge lish operators here We lor k for the Greet

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Londou. May 30. Mr. Motley, Minister of the United States, ar-

The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce will

Secretary Fish spent some time at the! present au address to the new Minister to-mor- | for justice ; we ask for nothing mor2

row, Paris, May 31.

Jules Favre haa been declored not elected to the French Corps .Legisiat ff, but will contest the election of his opponent.

Tt is officially denied that there is any founda- tiow for tue rumors that the French Troops are tu evacuate Rome.

Madrid, May 30.

General Cabellero De Roda will sail on the 1Dth June for Havana, to assume the Governor- ship of Cuba, in place of Gen Dalee, resigned.

London, May 31.

In the Mouse of Commons, to-night, Mr, Glad atone moved the third reading of the Bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church.

A large number of petitions against its passage were then presented, atter which James Maden Holt, the wember for North-east Laneasiire moved, and Lerd Elcho,. from Haddingtonshire, seconded the motion that the Bill be rejected A long, but uniateresting debate followed, ter- minating in the refusal of the House to accept Mr. Holt’s resolution, and the Bll was parsed by a vote of 361 against 247. The result was reeeiv- ed with uprearoua cheers from the Ministerial benches. ‘The House shortly afterwards adjourt- ed.

London, June 1,

Mr. Motley, the newly arrived American Min ister closed bis address in the Awerican Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool yesterday ae follows ¢

“My most strenuous efforts shall be devoted to further a good unders.anding en the basis of en- during friendship and kindly refations in aecord- ance with the great principles of justice and hover, which are the imuwtable and the only safe, vuerring guides in the’ couduct of nations ”

In answer to the address of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Motley expressed high appreciation of their triendly sentuneuts to- wards Ameniea, and assured them that during the period of his office be should endeavor to promote a goed understanding beiweeu the two nations, ‘The best ard bighest purposes of both were fulfill- ed by fastbiul friendship The American people and Awerican Government desired amicable re- lations with Great Britain on the basis of juetice and dispassionate regard for the rights and dativs of both. Me Moetley’s pacific rewarks gave firin hess lo vational securities,

Londen June 1, midnight.

The Irish Church Bill was read for the first time in the House of Lords to-night. It was agreed that it should come up tor the seeond reading on the 4ib inst.

It is said that Earl Spencer, Loid Lieutenant of lrejand, is about to resign

Nearly all the journals have articles to day on the presentation of the address to Mr Motley, and discuss the peacetul future relations between Great Britain and the United States, The vew Ambassador is assured tbat both the Government and the people of tbe nation will reciprocate his friendly expressions,

London. June 2.

The Emperor of Russia has signified his in- tention of sending an envoy, extraordinary, to Wasiington, for the purpose of congratulating President Granf, also to express the value that His Majesty sets on the maintenance of triendly relatiuns between the two countries.

THE STATES.

FROM a . New York June 2. Late advices fraw Cuba mdicates the growing

strength of the insurcection The Spanish authorities are charged with being corrupt and

how severe, than any ether article known to

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| CORRESPONDERCE. AR ARR AAR nna

fo THE CUMRMAN OF THE BusnD OF HeaLTa, Sir,

I beg to report having inapected the premises of W. C. Haris and a)se thoge of Mesars Blake. The pigstye of tbe latter ia on the line between the two properties. and being higher than Mr Harris’ yard the refuse overflows and runs into the yard and down the gangway Inte the aireef, / thus forming a uulsance, Which in warm weather, | would be pestilential and is now highly offensive and injurious to the bealthof Mr. Harris lamily. Ido net consider the preuiises of Mesara, Blake any worse than other extablishments of the sawe kind ; but | am of opinion that it ie impossible to bave slaughter houses in the cily ee conducted or artanged as te prevent, ia warm weather the iormation of a nuisance, bighly detrimental te the public health

J uave the honor te be,

ae &e, J. 'T. JENKINS. Heaito Officer

The Graminer.

Charlottetown, June 7, 1859.

OUR “NOBLE sYsTEM OF LDU- CATLUN.”

Turne are certain parties in our community

wno have so often called our educational

Ch'town. Mey 9 1s

system a “noble” one that we would nét be surprised should they convince themselves that it is such, aud boldly maintain that it is beyond the power of human lezislativn te improve it. We have ventured to differ in opivion with these gentlemen, and we bave been souudly abused for our temerity. Now we should like to learn in what the great superiority of our system consists. It lavish expenditure for miserably meagre results is a proof of excel- lence, then we acknowl dye that we bave been in the wronz, and that our system is truly a “noble” one. But no person who is a true fiiend of education will be satisfied that our system is all that can be desired, merely be- cause it draws from the pockets of our people the sum of twenty thousa’d pounds annuatly. We have reason to believe that the state of our schools is much worse, comparatively speakmg, ;than it was thirty years ago, notwithstanding The reason of this 1s, we think, because the State u dertook to do tiat which waturally belonzed We approve of a Government

our enormous expenditure fur education.

to parents. evcuuraging education; but at the same time we protest against its infringing on the sacred rights of parents. Ina mixed community like ours, we regard it as usdisguised tyranuy and persecution for the majority to force their peculiar views, in educational matters, on the minority. If the majority of our population were Catholics, we would consider it very un- just and tyrannical were they to force on the Protestant minority a system of education hostile to their re igious convictions, and com- pel them to support Cat olic schools, Justice is not one sided; and what we believe wou!d be injustice and tyranny in this case is the same when the proportion is reversed. Many respectable Protestants know this principle and act on it; but it would be folly to expect that such narrow minded fanatics asthe writers forthe Patriot would or could helong to thie enlightened class

College, we are told that the State will never

support or foster Popery. Now when the

the much-abused Papists. it will be time enough

Andrew's Tall, ta St. Patrick’s Hall, and to the Convent of Note Dame; to what eduva- tional estabishinent of his in our city ean David Lai:d point? establishments in our metropolis can even the Goveriment poiit? To the Academy, which was built before David was born, and to the Normal School, which a

To what educationa!

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gentleman from the “old country,”? as he w s passing it the other day, thought was a * Por- ter’a Lodge!’ And yet modest David has the coi impertinence to insinuate that Catholics are encouraging ignora ce. But, says the Elder, you want to subsert our whole system;

jing particulars with respect to the instructions | rived at Liverpool to-day aud was received by | if not, for what do you contend ? Now we heg | the Mayor of the Cry and the American Consul. |

lto inform David once more that we contend

; we shall be contented withrothing less. If Protestant parents establish bona fide, permanent schools in towns or villages, and cause their children to be taught therein, hy those in whom they have confidenes, those branches of secular and and religious education which they d-em neces- sary for their temporal and eternal welfare, we think that they are justly entitled to a proper- tionate amount of the sum expended by the Government for education. If Catholic parents establish schools for their children, we think that, in justice, they are, in like manner, en- titled to, at least, a share of what they them- selves pay towards the education fund. We don’t wart Protestants to pay for Catholics, nor Cathclics to pay for Protestants; but we want Protestants to have their own mney for their own schools, and Papists to have their money for their schools. No honest man ca» object to these principles, whiclr may be sum

med up in those few words; “ Just:ce to all; favor tonone.”? The Patriot gentlemen think that justice should be one-sided ; they consider. it all right for ** Romanists ’ to pay their hard eash for a Protestant College ; but, by Jove, if these simple-minded Romanists have the temerity to ask for a share of the eash which they themselves pay, the saintly David, and the individuals of the same religious. tolerant spirit, ery out ** Protestantism is in danger!"’ We have the majority and co mat

ter whether Papists are right er not, we shall make them do just as we please; we shall make them contribute towards the support of our College, and sneer at them in the mean- time; m a word, we shall make them Ick the dust, and cause them to be convinced that

they exist here only on sufferance. This is about the sum total of the arguments

our covtemporary that neither Protestants nor Catholics paid anything towards the education fund; that al! was by ‘an old lady. called Dame State. We need not remind our readers that this respectable madam has no resourees of ber own, although she is very proud and ostentatious, and besides she is very long fing- ered, and 1s ever ready to grasp os much as she can of the property of those who pay their respects to her. The Eider wishes to throw dust in people’s eyes, The State is nothing else than a Government carried on by the peopie who are, in our community, composed of Protestants and Catholics. Take away the people, and where would the Stite be? No- where. Should the Protestants and the * Popish idolators’”? cease to pay taxes, where. would Madam State find her twenty thousand pounds for educational purposes? Answer me that Master David, The fact of the matter is this: the days of intolera:.ce have p-ssed. The holy

Elder is mistaken if he thinks that Protestants | architecture that will be:at the same time an are going to combine to crash Catholics merely ornament to our growing city and a eredit to \ because they happen vo differ from him ia re-, the taste and public spirit o” the community.

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rd argument won't take; our comnunity is composed of Protes- tants and Cuthoties, and in relixious matters we must agree to differ. Protestants will be Protestants and Catholics will be Catholics, They will educate their own children with their own money just as they please, and not as the Patriot may dictate. We are for perfect equality, perfect liberty of conscience in the matter of education When practicable, we think that education should be christian, should ; be religious We believe that we have on our side three fourths of our population. Why do Protestants desive to have the Bible in their schools? Is it not because they consider it the basis of their religion? We think so Dues the pious Elder wish to banish trow all the Schools the sacred volume ? Let him ans- wer this question openly and honestly if he is not for excluding the Bible from our schools, is he not in favor of religious education ? This isa knotty question for t e Elder to solve He has placed himself in a false position and we dou't pity him Ho, a Presbyterian Eider, has come out as strong as he can against reli- giour education and consequently, azainet the itible in ou schools; we are in favor of religious education,and consequent y in favor of the Bible for those parents who desire it, in favor of the Catechism for those who prefer it as a medium of instruction. Weare n favor of Protestant- jsm fo: Protesta: ts, Catholicism for Catholics; it is eheer nonsense to try to amalzamate the two religions. Mr David Laird and his friends may be extreme in their views regard int the Catholie religion; but we are quite content that they should teach their childsen in their own schools, supported by their own mouey, whatever they may deem proper. I they are sincere in believmg that the Catholic religion ig rank idolatry, the Pope * Auti- Christ,” the ¢ Beast,’ Rome the Scarlet Lady,’ the *W——e of Babylon,” &c., tet them do so; we can’t help it; let them, with their own money, teach their children these sacred truths, as they regard them, aud many more of the same kind; let them teach their young ones, if they will, that it is a great and vlovious thing for priests ard nuns to break their own solemn vows; let them shew thei: encourayement of perjury by encouraging ouicast Chiniquies and others by liberal con tributions. This is a land of liberty, and they are free for aught we care, to teach their young ones that the mooy is made of green cheese, and the planet Jupiter of fat pork ; but we make the modest demand that Catholies und respectable Protestants be permitted to educate their little ones with ther own money just as they may deem proper. We do not, wish tur two schools where there is now only one; but we would wish that where all the pups ae Cathelics, the schools should be Catholic; and where all the pupils are Pro testaunta, the school shoud be Protestant. It is no use for the Patriot to try to arouse higotey and bitter feeli_ ys; the people of this Is.and have had @ little too much of that thing already, and their go.d sense will not again toleratethe No Pope:y vowl. Itis zratifying to learn that the Patriot is writing itself down whist the principles which we advocate, viz: those of religion agatust the infidel system ot edacation, as supported by his Reverence the Eider, are finding acceptance with three fourths, if not wits nive-teuths. of our popu'a- tien. The reason of this is obvious: although our people ditfer widely in religions dog a, yet they are, on the whole, a religious people, and they regard in the proper light the inex- plicable attempts which are being made to fasten on our necks a godless or infidel system of education, aud to bautsh from our schoois everything tending to iepress on the ouihful mind the fear of God and a reverence und love for His holy commandments.

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NOT TOO LATE YET.

Some five or six weeks ago, it was currently

Jevause we contend for) Qoum House and Post Office, was to he erect the sacred rights of: parents iu the matter of ed in our city; that a distinguished architect education we are accused of encouraging igavre| on ance ; because we protest against the injustior | of compelling Catholics to support a Protestant building was to be erected forthwith.

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saintly Elder and his No-Popery admirers sha!l the contemplated buildings erected th reon. have done one half as much for eduestion as) We understand that three different plans have

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reported that a new building, suitable for a

had heen employed trom Nova Seotia to pre pare plans and specifications, a:d that tle We heard, with no little regret, that Queen Square was tv be still further encu:nbered by having