members on the Government side of the , Telatiye to a questien that might be Confessional as to the ‘ purity of!

Now, such language as this was not only dis- | good to

: I the Colony; and the less religious

ful, but immediately calculated to dis-| strife was started and encouraged amongst | Arehd. Alison.

ath the peace of the Colony. Why, it wae, them, the bester it would be for the whole |

the Colonial Seoretary wrote a letter to| ‘(After a few further remarks from other tt Hutchinson, Beq., the then Mayor of! members, the question for the second reading thia City of Charlottetown. The letter bears of the Bill was put, and carried on a division date August 15th, 1856. [An extract from of 14 to 10 ] whieh was pablisbed ina speech of Mr. It's. | im the Islander of Ist May.}] He (Mr. H.) told the hon. Colonial Secretary that if he| would come to Vascumpec he would te pleased) ~~ to show him plenty of Bibles in the neighour-| hood. tle was sorry he sheuld have so far . a nm himeelf ne to have so grossly in-/ THE TRUE POSITION AND DUTY OF sulted Uatbolic ladies, he hed given the hon. | LIBERAL PROTESTANTS. credit for more pleck. | Ma. Eprror; ‘ oon ens oe | Your strictures on a letter that recently ap-| Me. fowrax again a ained that the peated in the Protestant excited my curivsity. A

CORRESPONDENCE,

(COR THE EXAMINER.)

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religids of Catholics had been insulted in all! friend was kind enough to lend me the pumber i testant” fiuds with the Pefition js its intolerant I read it) spirit. || morialists pray that Her Majesty wall be pleased to withhold her Royal assent from the Bill to in- corporate the Orange Lodges of this Island. the prayer of this Petition * A Liberal Protestant” approves; but he doesn’t iike the way in which this favour is asked. Orangemen the alleged right of incorporation, but he would couch his denial in good set terms He says to the Orangemen, ‘I would not grant you this been, if it were in my gift. ' ‘ impolitic and irexpedient to extend the sanetion , Wpon the subject of the | sentence of bis letter he statex that “the Protes-| ot Government tothe Institution to which you be- long; really, ab! eh! I cannot recognise yqu ofti- cially, but since you are fond of tie amusement, | will treat you toa dish of abuse of those con founded Papists." meu would be infinitely obliged to our polite po- litician. eatuuate of his judgment gud his religion.

that they ted most dear, by One who fed which contained the communicatioa ertdenvoured to gain, ly intrigae, theic carefully, and if you wall allow 9 sincere, wel

bene ree oe denied that he had meaning, and, I trust, honest Liberal Protestant

as gia: . | space in your columns, J intend to make a few

Mr Howtay—There could bend doubt in| rewarks or its contents.

wny reasonable mind but that tho bon. the It is very unfortunate that ‘‘ A Liberal Protes- | Colonial Secretary tad compromised his im-| tant'’s” firet assertion je 9 falsehood. We more ehat had’! Seana ~ augue the abject of| than suspect the wan who begins his story by the hon. Colonial Secretary's visits to His | Stating what we know to be untrue, In the first ‘Lordebip the Kis! ‘endowment of Se. Dunstan's College, might) tant Liberale of Priage Bdward Island have no feitty be tele fo the judgment of the people) Every one of the Colimy. “Tf this bill were passed, he could Hot iter fel that his religion had been : pi assailed ; thétr tiere had been wasted by long | beral party. Every Liberal who can wr ite decent and weary discussious on this Act of Incor-| English, and who wishes to give publigity to his

iin when it might have been much more! yjews on any subject of general interest, can do profitably employed for the benefit of the 80 through the columns of that paper. J never country. tn fact, if they did not accelerate | heard of any distinction being made between

ee & om Se —— ml ere Protestant and Catholic. I believe such distine-

‘Seen much better emploved than in attacking | tion to be an invention of the enemy, esiculated to ‘the reli gious opinions of their fellow-colonists. | divide the Liberal Party. I know, and every “He would yield to no man in defence of his) Liberal Protestant who has written for the press ‘OEs, and, on the a band, he would al knows, that his communications have met with Tbe ccehtee” re ° ol the most favourable considergtion trom the editor strenuously opposed the seoond reading of | of the Examiner. |i is with great pleasure that ahe Bill. I take this opportunity of bearing testimony to fon. Mr. Coirs was very doubtful where | the promptness with which that gentleman has Seulent ? ‘The pr band dan ot tecceeere: published the hicubrations of at least one Liberal end. : prepe Ag mC >}

tion, while giving cuales great heart- Seaton | Protestant, a and trouble in the community, would not | Whelan should meet with the unqualified appro- remove a single one of the aileged grievances | bation of Liberal Protestants or Liberal Catholics, against Catholicism. The prayer bovk of! is more than could be expected. I have little the Rtg tr England iteelf wight be per-| doubt that he gives offence to the one class quite taser that ths Ho. Colon Serstary had % eu as be doe tothe her, le must bp used in respect to the books from whieh he| peculiarly fortunate public journalist who ean kad, durirg the session, favoured the House! please everybody at all times. ‘I'bat none of the with so many quotations. It was worse than | editorial fraternity among us does so, 1 am very | useless to rake up old grievances ; they did 1 will venture to say that even

po good, but when they eompared the noto-| aad ; aeons bang al. ee el Mr. Laird himself now and then gets a sharp rap | {

rious njpassacre at G with that of} a Seallabogue, the Glencoe massacre, ordered | over the knuckles administered by one or other | I have no doubt but that the |

by William of Orange himself, would be found to have been one of the worst recorded | in history. No reasonable argument had been adduced to show why such a Soeiety should be incorporated. It was argued that. the Roman Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown | had endeavoured to obtain “an Act of [n- by-the-bye, the public have nothing ta do—of the corporation,’’ aud that the only question | editor of the former paper will Gud as much fa- wpon the matter was the simple difference | your with the great majority of his Protestant between ** of’ and ** in.”’ That was gaid to} ead sae he | : ill with hi be an erter of the Queen's Printer, who, it| readers as those of the latter wil with hia. geemed to him, was either always making) “ A Liberal Protestant" writes, that Liheral mistakes or boing blamed for those of some-| Protestants are ag sheep withgut a shepherd. 1 body else. He could not, nor would not, suppose he wishes the Libers| Party to follow the believe that the Priests of any religion Were | exampie af the Conservatives, by submitting to wo bad as the hon. the Col. Seeretary BEpre- | sno leadeyship of a pair of McNabe—a Protestant sented ihe Priests of the Roman Cath: lic) . ore te # paiy at 4 ws ane papa Church to be. It had been stated im the) MeNab and a Cathoilc McNak. ‘Phat being the Mouse that the Roman Catholic Bishop was! case, what is to hinder the Liberal Episcopalians Editor of one of the newspapers published in| from having their McNab, Liberal Presbyterians, = City. Ae well known that the Methodists, Baptists, and Uaiversaliats from each ony mag too mach power and in- We would then be ia no want of

: , | having theirs 3 fluence over the news rs published > a nd shepherds, gach asserting his claim tothe premier-

the | island ; they should mind their own business, | ’ and not willingly give offence to others. The ship on the soundness of bia faith and the purity duty of every Minister, mo matter to what, of his doctrine, and not an the vulgar common — or — ceed was to preach | seuse ground af his possessing the hecessary qua- ai Ge Gacterne aF'the faith, accordia . © | lifieations af a good political party leader. Such is Own Opinions; at the same time taking | folly b: ‘ ; special care not to attack the religiovs faith | '""'¥ Herds but ta be exposed fo be rondemned. of his neighbors, but to allow them tho game|! always undorstood, until I read ‘A Liberal b t . . ? if! Pratee le’t latte . «3 = are liber y Hah be claimed for bimestf 5 and iti} ratectant 8" letter, fat, Mi, Coles wes the me ' ) d, aud prac-| gagnised leaders of the Liberal party. On his tically carried out,they could notexpect peace | cians tu that position jt is quite peediess for me or harmony in the Colony. Several objections | hers ta say one word. The part that he has had been raised, and questions asked by hon. | *""* Do ene ae taken with regard to the anti-Orange Petition is ane that meets with the approbation of the Li-

organ to represent their views.” knows that the Examiner ia the organ of the Li- |

That everything written by Mr.

well convineed.

encve

of his readers. Examiner is as faithtul an exponent of the politi-!

is of those of the Conservatives; and Tam well | ny : ; f ; your Majesty to upheld the majesty of law by |

withholding your cousent from an Aet whieh in- } corporates a Seciety that puts itself in the place | of law, and which, in certain ewergencies, bas | been knawn to dispense with law altogether. It | the prayer of the Petition be granted, Orangemen | will then be in precisely the same situation they ; now oecupy. They will be neither better nor worse off. ‘They will receive exactly the same amount of toleration that is now extended to them. The fun of the thing is, that this is the exact position that “ A Liberal Protestant” would keep them in, notwithstanding his senseless prate about intolerance.

That worthy, in his zeal for the cause of Orangeism, invests himself with the mantle of the prophet. Ho says, in effect, that he knows that Orangemen will in future act the part of peaceable citizens. Whence he receives bis in- spiration it is hard to tell; but as we ordinary and unfavowred mortals Lave no other means of judg- ing the future bat by the past. we sce every rease to dread that Orangemen will seize on the flimisiest pretext to inflict injury on their Catholic fellow citizens. Indeed, let any one, whether Orange- man or not, be smitten with the No-Popery dis- ease, and there is no folly and no crime that he is not ready to commit. If history teaches any lesson it teaches this. Though the law and an enlightened public opinion will net permit bim to

ut the flock.”” He (Hon. Mr. C.) believed that if the question were put, as he believed they were put, nobody but the culprit could take offence. Why, it was too well known here, in thie City of Charlottetown, that Orange- men when the opportunity offered—and he believed that in many cases the opportunity had been deliberately planned—bad never hesitated to defile Catholic girls; and it would certainly be well that the Orangemen should obey the Scriptural injanction :-— «Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam of thine own eye, sud then shalt thau seg clearly | to cast out the mote that js in thy brother’s|

he took any other part. I consider that every patriotic and intelligent Protestant, whether Li- bergl or Conservative, should sign it. This anti- Orguge Petition, in the opinion of “A Liberal Protestant," is going to do the Liberal party a great deal of injury, because, to use his own words, “it pieces the Liberals of the Island in a falee position by identifying them with the Catho-

lie party, and again, those who sign the Petition strike a deadly blow at the Liberal party by identifying Liberaliam with Roman Catholicism.” This identifying Liberalism with Catholicism is the great bugbear of this zealous Protestant and consistent Liberal writer. He no doubt is igno- rant of the fact that this is the position in which Orangemen avd Tories wish to place Liberai Protestants. He is not aware of how industrious

eye.”” There had been nv sufficient pegeuns adduced for the passing of this bill, which, not only from its framing but from the prin- ciples it laid down, could not be bug most

obnoxivas to every Roman Catholig. ‘The | they have heen in proclaiming that all Catholics O , the body which this Bill sought| were Liberals, and all Liberals Catholics or worse. ont to, it wae well known, were a He, sweet innocent, has never heard the epithets violent political faction. Now the Catholics disguised Catholic, peendo Protestant and rotten

° : 1’! Protestant, applied to these Protestants who take al/bough they had been often charged with |i. Literal side in polities. When he and his the crime of being Liberals, had no wish to} friends ean prove that Liberalism and Catholicism

interfere with eithes the political or religious opinionsel others. {t wasa well known fact that Orangemen were peaceahle only when it suited their own purposes. Not long sinee, a clergyman had been grossly insulted at Brackley Point by Orangemen ; and the imcorporsation of this secret Society, with the reales and regulations, from which extracts had been read by the hon. the Col. Secretary, would be aa ineult to every Catholic in the Isiand. It was generally reported that whan the present members for the City were brought forward, one for re-election, the other for election, that the Orangemen had put certain questions to them.

ion. Mr. Daytes.—Seme questions had been put, but an answer had been declined. both c his colleague and himself.

Hon. Mr. Cotcs knew that the question had been put to the hon. members, and was satisfied with the explanation. If this Bill passed, they would have party processions,

rty banners, and « strony increase of party ieeling. In fact, it was bigh time that the hen. the leadear of the Government shonld

Orangeisin and Protestantism are terms, then he and they will have proving our identity with Catholics. good Protestants as themselves; I can aasure him

Protestant, and though I intend to sign this bor- fly to that of Rome. ed

who sign the petition in selves with the Catholics.

in Ipeland it was absolutely required to supple

made this adinission in Parliament.

some prompt steps in the matter. it, that Orangeism, and something stronger than

itlon t Cotes bre read & letter from | Ovangeism, was necessary to enforce the execu-

the Exéanitier yelatiye to the Orange asgoci- ion of some of the most unjust, iniquitous and ’

ation J

Hon. Cor. Srcrrrary.—Those weye by- laws, not imterrogatries.

lon. Mr. Cotxs.—Neither Catholics nor Protestanta should tiv themselves to the tai! of any party, but use their Lest efforts for the common good of the Colony. This could not be brought about by attacking Catholics, ## the hon. the Colonia! Secretary had done. In England, no Protestant constituency had ever returned ¢ Roman Catholic mem as its re tative; while the Catholics io this Istand had acted in a different manner, a8 might he noticed in one instance, at least,

that every English statesman, worthy the name

fantry and eayalry are now in Poland.

Island. Were you to publish some of the most prominent features of this code you would, no doubt, be accused of the most malicious and ey- iravagant exaggeration. To give your readers

55 works of that historian without being disgusted a ee eee eS wore with the intensjty of his toryism. Compared with Sir Archibald our Attorney General is a liberal, and his bouor the Speaker an out-and-out radical, With a tenacity truly wondertul, he holda to every exploded theory, and advocates every hoary abuse. He is the eontemner of General Edueation, the opponent of Political Reform and Free Trade, of Catholie Emancipation; in short, he is the champion of old togyism in all its ramificatiqns. An eminent Edinburgh Reviewer pyonvunces his last volume to be a book of fallacies. | tainly a queer authority to be produced by a Li- | beral on the Catholic Question

puted points.

not at al} jndjcative of good will, bluntly telling

are productive of evil wherever they are tolerated. |

j fuss about the Liberals doing what he himselt | hesitate to say that he has strong political feelings ;

ee ey eer

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEFENCE. OF THE SCHOOL VISITOR!

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Tt is amusing to see a liberal swearing by Sir I defy any one who has the least park of liberalism in his composition to read the

To THE Eprror of Tuk EX sMINER. Sik :—In the last number of the Examiner I ‘read, with some surprise, the speech which the Hon. Attorney Genoral delivered, during the de- bate on KEduestion, in the Leyislative Council, inasmuch as the speech contains sentiments and statements which I consider are unworthy ot any gentleman of bogyr, prudenee or independence. Hon. Mr. Palmer is the first person who has attempted to defend the conduct or apologise for ar lig, Rec | the incompetency of the individual who chemetelty jand notoriously diagraces the office of School Visiter in this Colony. The supporters of the Government, in the Legislature and in the press, have had the decency at least not to deny the ‘charges which have been so ivequently made against Mr. John Arbuckle, not only by embers of the Opposition, but also by many friends of the Government. Put J think jt would have been |more fortunate fur the School Visiter, as well as foy the Attorney General's good pame, il the speech made by Hon. Edward Palmer had never been spoken or reported. If the elegant orator of the Legislative Couacil is nat on the eve of entering the stage of his segond elitdhood, ha surely must regret haying given utterance to the words to which T now eal] public atiention, as they only | require to be reproduced in order to have them 1} am sure that the Orange- reprobated,’-In the conseo of hie epeech be enid: \** Fault has been found with the present Visiter | fow wasting his time talking politics; that way er jmay not be the case; bat will auy ef your honors | point out & government officer who is not a poli- }tician, oy a law to prevent him from being one. I think you will find the reverse, for if theve is not a law, there is a rule that no man bus a claiin tu 3 public office unless he is a politician. I have a dislike to political drones. We live in 4 free eouptry, and I like to see persons take ay interest

he advocate of Protection, and the disapprover

He is cer-

mus well known facts, turn out to be, after all, by ‘A Liberal Protestant’s’’ own confession, dis-

One of the great faults that “ A Liberal Pro-

What is intoleragt about it? The me- Of

He would deny to the

I think it

They would, no doubt, form a yery high Stull, L think { hear ¢ sturdy Orangeman, with a look

him that ‘fair words butter no Sr. He would not tolerate Orange Societies, yet he blames tho petitioners for saying that Orange Societies |

lt he considers Orange Societies harmless, whence his opposition? I can see some sense in opposing ,

and discountenancing what I consider ap unmiti- jin the Government of the Colony. [tis an uinder- gated evil, but po oye but a fool ur a capricious | standing that every vfijcer appointed by the Go- tyrant wil] crus what he believes to be harmless. | vernmeut should sympathise with and take an * A Liberal Protestant” seems dreadfully afraid |iuterest ju that Government; and so far as that of members of his party stultifying themselves. 1 | complaint has been brought against the present presume that he had not the remotest suspicion | School Visitor, I think there is {ttle ground for that he in his letter ta the Protestant was furnish- it. I believe he has been more sinned against than ing the world with as bright an example of stulti-| inning; aud I thnk he has discharged his duty fication as could be afforded. He makes a mighty | abs well as it was possible for him to do. 1 donot

would haye dune in a more offensive manner. It | but 1 do not think it is proper for friends of the would have been much more to his credit if he | Government to make charges aguiust him, for I had thrawn off his mask of gauze, and macfully | believe he has contributed as much as any public detended the policy of the Government, and openly | officer to the succesy of the Gaverament, and I adyocated the incorporgtyon of Orange Lodges. - nut ashamed to say so,"

He yery cunningly, a8 he thinks, fastens &} Now, Sir, this language obviously means that charge ao intolerance - Mr. Coles and the | the Attorney General believes that all the public signers of the petition. He finds in that petition ‘ . at : inne the werd “ jihenie * and makes a tremendous | officers “waste their time talkivg polities; but eackling over it. Had the Liberal party peti-| that they having helped to win the * spoils,” have tioned Her Majesty to give the Orangemen a taste of thase penal laws and civil disabilities by , : ; . Whose assistance they, at one time, ground down | publie plander ; and further, that no friend of the the Irish Catholics, he could net have set up a | Government should censure a publie officer, no greater clamor. But the memorialists do uot pre-

a right to enjoy, undisturbed, their share of the

| In consequence of the long drought the Thames has become offensive. _ Zz

| We regret to learn that Garibaldi is still great deal from rheumatism, and are

Mr. WalLtyc,— Will yer prent this for the Decun in yer paper? Dear Decun,— A man over tu the Post OMis) thing x mati tother day was puttin a letier thro the hole in the | quite unable to write at all. His friends : wall, jist belo the winder, and sais be aturnin tu) anxious for his removal to som rotering | } ad"? will k | place ineral bathing establishtnent. ne, “I spose “ Chuckle-head” will kno I maled | pla e or mineral th , 2 this or letter, fur be amest knoes evere thing} Panis, May 15.—The successes obtained at ' thro the intes-| Puebla unhappily were purchased by severe: about the corrvespondens agoin on thro the intes- | Fite clicors -adbouy whem Gene. |

; | losses. . tionals of this ar Offis.” I sais tu him, who on} ral Laumiere, and 56 privates were killed |

airth does you sinuate by that ar aprobium epitaf,| add 30 officers and 443 privates wounded | “ Chuckle-head.” “Why, the Deeun,” sais he ics latter, ai pe he pela ad P ise $4 ‘libberty | amopualances.— rench Ag

a —_— ’ _— pee ) eden that the meadows of that country are Gibbett,” sais he. “ Aint you ashamec on your | at present of an usexceptionsble beonty and self,” sais 1, “‘to implie that ugly gaborkit tu the | have not for many years been 80 abeamaehes Decun? He's a burnin lamp an a blazin fine} phe same poriod. The alternation of rain’ Christisp,” sais I. * No Sur,” sais he, “not a) and sun have been ve ae pena pin’s pint is I ashamed of it. Why shud I? It’s the Senpennnaee con sonee in the am wg true as powder and polly woggs, an pnt 2 oats ce satis Wie to donee | Aut Sally's got » babie. "He's s ralo. Chae e-| vears,—From West Africa we learn that the | head, and shud be a diggin drains or drivin teams, | King of Ashantee has invaded the British or choppin wood, or a picken isters, er oakum, or! protected countries on the Gold Coast in con- dandelions, or sum oiler of them fine arts, insted} sequence of the English authorities having of swettin evere week and perspirin like a nigger, vereees mas aa to the sow! purpis of blagarding desent people pase Se .

.,... | pulse the invaders. about ther religin, an makin bad blud, an gittin| " yyegyy, May 15. — The General Corres- fights up smung nabors, evere whar, so fur as he

peodeng of to-day says:—In order to avert

kin, the everlastin gooney as he is, and aukard as | an Nuropean conflict, Austria inter.ds pro-

a two yar old stier. But after all, he’s a larfin | POPs the adoption of more coercive hd

; ; . sures than a Federal execution towards Den

post, an I never hears him drawlin out his words mark. ‘The object of those measures will be

but f thinks he must be hide-bound, or bin drinkin | ¢9 pucrantee the execution of the stipulations

sour sider, or got the belly inflamables, or swal-!| of the London protocols of 1851 and 1852,

ler’d a dose of stickin plaster, or some other| relative to the succession of the Danish sweet megts; but whea I happens to see hima

stridin over the squar, I sees at wouce, a3 it was,

Throne.—The village of Damerbam on the borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire was nearly destroyed all by fire om the [Uth inst. a long-leg wash-hen a steppia full stretch over a ef

Ile’s a most perti-

THE POLISH INSURRECTION, elar pietur of that ar foul. CONSPIRACY AT WARSAW. letters, IT aint exacly sure “Chuchle-head” id! gone days ago an order was issued by the jist like tu hev a notice pf he’s own letters faluted Revolutionary Committee that the inhabi- about in the newspapers; no, he wud’ut praps| tants of the Praga suburb, numbering some . 7 +2 . » > > 7 . > feel percisily eymfortable if I was to arsk him, 12,000 souls, were to remove to another por : tion of the town, Suspicion being thereby if o : aroused, search was made, leading to the dis- up like bullet duks tu Whilerminar, Zepheriinder, covery ig the evening of workmen occupied Sofire——, but I won't sai the rest, owin tu the | in forming a mine beneath the fort upon the internil spirits of cavelry or nite arantree an fire | right bank of the Vistula, apposite the Citadel. |The miners were arrested. They stated, | Upon interrogation, that upon the 13th of the ; : month. it was intended to blow ap the fort, go; but he jumpt slap from the platturm, and | containing a garriaon of 800 men, and Jarge skowered awa amost allmity fast, as if he’d seed) stores of Powder. The bridge carrying the my boot ris to 45, and got skarred. Well, 1 | Railwey aceross is to be built up to this fort, thinks tu myself he’s jist clared in time, anyhow | and wiil be commenced in the course of the he’s # exusy fellah, and desarvs toe leather, and shud year. Many reports are in virculation as to a had his hose drawd ; an I had a notion tn do it) What is intended to happen on the 12th, the = a — w Pane = pee: = no ng 't) day when the amnesty expires; but na one | ae — 2: SEP Se BiG natera y, DUC! Enows for certain whenee the dreaded blow because we was rite slap up agin the Pelise Offis ; weil the deligueas and them ar fellaks with the City close on might | Wil De Geltverec a es iin: oe aarshed me into their logins, so I didn’t du it;| | The Osidert sc he Zeitung sys :— Upon but 1 jist thot ita kind of respectful and rite to| the Sth inst., 15 companies of Russian infan- let you kno the perticklers, and whisper in yer | try, with 8 guns and 5 squadrons of cavalry, ear that the oudacious reducer of yer bame an | attacked Taczanowski, in Ignacewo, near

swomp on a hunt fur a frog.

But agin about the

how it kims of hig a sendin them gir gots fixed |

infu my bussum.” Jist as he finished off, my dander was ris tu

convinced that the religious opinions—with which, |

heral party. He would nat be a true Liberal if

are gne and the same thing, and that the words syhonymous ’ some hope of the subject of study.” : Till then they will excuse us if we consider ourselves as

that though I have been now some years a Liberal

rid Petition when it is presented to me, I have not yet been to confession, nor do I feel the least inclination to forsake the Church of England and Although our writer does not attempt te prove either of the above mention-

Bp prom he has, by a very convenient mode of reasoning, and in a very peculiar style of English, arrived at the conclusion that those question identify them- Hie says it is notorious, and well known to every candid reader of the history of Orangeism, that when first established

ment the weakness of the laws, and preserve the British rule and policy in that country. What is very ridiculous, he adds that Lord Palmerston T can assure him that Lord Palmerston never talked such noneense since he cut his eye teeth. Tie truth

oppressive laws that were ever enacted — laws

(although there were others) the return of the hon. member for Kast Point, who, al- thoogh a good Protestant, and whe did not *uppert the grant to St. Dunstan's College,

+e had been returned by what is termed a Ro-

man Catholie district. ‘The Roman Catholics in the Island had, ip fact, thrown out the olive branch, but it was sot accepted, and the question arose as tu what should be done. Was it enfe or politic to keep this poliuecal,

religious contioually before the public ? Ari d to the matter of prayers, and the allusions that had been

made with respect to absent members at the

ning of the House, or members leaving the House, Le (Mr. C.) was of opinion that no member could feel hime If bound to hear the prayers of a politica! agitator, who had obtained bis si through the mflueoces

brought to bear upon the Government by the Society it was Sow Sy this Bill, proposed to Rectpurate. He (Mr. C.) bi

that the stn to his own Minister, if he felt Queated Was going wrong, or re- with em to act in oaera inbansiotans

“4 member of the House;

tater what, : bee ani we teet degusion bad

one; it.could not

some idea of the laws of which the first Orange- men constituted themeslves the miuisters, I will quote the words of the great and eloquent Edmund Burke. Speaking of the irish code be says: “It is truly a barbarous system, where all the parts are an outrage on the laws of humanity and the Jaws of nature; it is a system of elaborate con- trivance, as well fitted for the oppression, inpri- sommment, degradation of a people and the debuse-

ter so unreasonable a request. What they say is, that though Orange Societies have been productive |

cal convictions of the Liberal party as the Islagder | of incalculable mischief wherever they have been | may have “contributed to the success” of the

tolerated by the civil authorities, yet we ouly ask |

or te swear away the lives of his Catholie tellow-

citizens, they dv not hinder him fiom annoying

Catholies by a narrew-minded proscriptive policy, and from bering his friends and the public by

preaching stupid sermons, by making violent

speeches, and by writing dreary essays on the truitful subject ot Popery.

“A Liberal Protestant ’ cannot finish his letter without having a fling at the Roman Cathohe re- ligion. ‘This abuse of Catholicism is a luxury in which, in these days, a great many persons in- dulge. No matter how slender his qualifications, every pigmy politician considers hiinself in reli

gious controversy more than a match for the combined talent and learning of the whole Roman | Cathohe Church. Those who never hear but one side of an argument are not the very best judges of its merits; and those who form their concep- tion of a Charch from the prejudiced deseriptions of its most bitter enemies, will wot be likely to possess the most correct idea of its true charae- ter. This is precisely the case with the whole herd of Lilliputian controversialists who nauseate the public with their weakened, windy polemics. The greater part of them are about as competent to make a fair statement of the questions in dis- pute between Catholic and Protestant as a New England soldier is to give a just decision on the merits of the quarrel between the North and South. A little modesty is a most becoming thing. 1 cannat help thinking it a little presump- tuous in a “ Liberal Protestant’s’’ pronouncing dogmatically on “questions which the greatest and best intormed minds hare at all times differ- ed (?)— questions on which that Protestant is, perhaps, uninformed, and which he has not made The intense denomina- tionalism which some among us seem bent upon fostering cannot fail of having a bad effect upon the most important interests of the country. Its inevitable tendeney is to disturb the harmony and good feeling that should —xigt among all classes of a Christian community — to sybstitute a lopd advocacy of peculiar tenets for purity of heart, and vivlent denunciation of these who differ from us for holiness of life; to make us better Protestants and Catholics than Christians. It is a soil much more favourable to the growth of the self-right- eourness of the Pharisee and the spiritual pride of the fanatic than to the humility aud charity of the true Christian.

Belore I close, I must say a word or two by way of protest against the apologetic and detrac- tive manner in which “A Liberal Protestant,” charitably supposing him to be really a Liberal Protestant, speaks of Libera) Protestants. He writes of the “ honest and well-meaning” among them as if there were not as many honest, well- meaning Liberal Protestants as of any class of politieians eu the Island. THe stigmatizes this party—ot the existence of which I had noidea un- til L read his letter—* as a despised and cringing faction at the heels of priests.” This party Judas expects, I suppose, to earn his forty pieces of silver by libelling as respectable and as indepen- dent a class of men as this Island ean produce.

has Jong since been ashamed of. Orangemen may | Liberal Protestants, as a class, are far more inde- have been 28 neceesary in Ireland as Indians and Hessians were in America, and as masses of in- I don’t kuow what “A Liberal Protestant” means by weak laws, or how Orangemen wanaged to sup- plement them; but I do know that the code under which Ireland groaned for more than a hundred yeare was hard, beyond the belief of diuety-njne hundredths of the Orangemen of this

pendent, and much freer from priestly influence than their opponents. Talk of their cringing!! Their stiffness of backbone is the very quality which Tories and bigots most hate, and most tear, and which they punish most severely when- ever opportunity offers. ar seorn to cringe to priest or minister, te landlord or merebant: ean as much be said of the rank and file of the Tory party! So far from feeling ashamed of being as- sociated with such men, lam proud of the eun- nection. He whom the bigots ean force to speak with bated breath of bis connection with the Li- beral party,is no true Liberal. Beeause forsooth the greater part of the Catholics agree with me in polities 1 must abandon my principles, and either form a new party on a religious basis or basely desert to the ranks of the enemy! Would not that man make a laughing stock of himself who refused to ride on a certain high road beeause seven-sixteenths of those who travelled on it pro- fessed to be of the Roman Cathelie religion? What would be thought of the Church of England

| slightest claims to just or enlightened views of civil

| hang Cathohe priests, to burn Catholic chapels, |

amount of of the origin of Orangemen.

ment ot human nature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Sydney Smith says: “So great and so long has been the misgovernment of that country (Ireland) that we verily believe the empire would be much stronger if everything was sea between England and the Atlantic, and if skate and codfish swam over the fair land of Ulster.” The same writer says

soldier who would refuse to fight because his right-hand man was Roman Catholic, his left hand man a deserter, and he in his rear a seeptie ? Just as the English soldier recognises as a friend and an ally every one who fights for the liberties of Old England, so every true Liberal will frankly give his hand to any one, whatever bis creed, who does battle by bis side for the rights and jiberties again: * The great misfortune of dreland is, that | of the people. ‘This attempt to divide the Liberal the mass of a hare been given up for a| Party into Protestant and Catholie sections js century toa ful of Protestants, by whom they | foolish and inconsistent in the extreme. Politics have been treated as belots, and subjected to| are the bond of union among Liberals, and not every species of persecution and disgrace. The| religion. We welcome all to our ranks, even true state of the case is this, the British Parliament { Orangemen, not because they belong to this or

were a di to humanity, and, being unable! We are determined to submit to vo ecélesiastical

to execute them, Orangemen constituted them- | dictativn, to cringe at no priest’s heels; and white

selves the instrumeats of oppression. Not the | our ranks are recruited from all devominations of

whole standing army of Britain, aided by all the! Christians, we are resoived to permit favouritism

iron clad ships afloat, could, in those days, enforce | to none.

obedience to those Jaws. I only wonder that} Apviogising for the length of this letter,

were svpegtied to for one pour.” This, I I am, &e.

think, your readers will find to be the true theory : A PROTESTANT Prince County, May 25th, 1863.

Government which appotated hin. Mare infamous doctrines Concerning the duties and obligations of Government officers than these were never pro- pounded in a Legislative Assembly having the affairs. Is a Government to forfeit all claims to publie confidence and respect, by giving the world reason te believe that its members and officers are oo better than a sworn banditti, which gives its gifts only to the most daring and unscrupulous ruffian, who may stoop to the meanest and the foulest deeds, which men of character and real ability would scorn to thitik of, not to say accom- plish? Is a person, alk appointed to an office, always to be screened from his gnilt, and must no one dare to unmask his ignerance, hjs stupidity, his hypocrisy, or, it may be, hie villainy, because, forsooth, he may have “ strong fechags ” in faveu of his masters ? I think, Sir, that the Won. Mr. Palmer will get

Mr. Horror;

Perhaps it may be amusing to your readers to | know something about a Secret Society now ex-| isting at Saint Peter's Bay, which is styled “The | Yellow Orange Society.” “ About four months ago | we heard it said in different places that an Orange | Society was beginning to be formed at St. Peter's | Bay. Yo this yepert we gave a deaf ear, con-! sidering that our Protestant neighbours would not | countepance or support a Seciety calculated to | destroy the harmony existing between Protes.| tants and Catholics. But we are very much de- | ceived in our opinions. We find that some of our | Protestant neighbours are Orangemen to the back- bone, and have betrayed the confidence placed in them by their Catholic brethren. A notice of some | ot the individuals conrposing the Yellow Society | will be a sutticient proof of its respeetability. These poor deluded sous of Adam are ina destitute state for want of character. They are deprived of their own cornfort and self-conmmand by giving | couutenauce and yielding to the intrigues of Orange i sycophants. They are collectively and individually | more like insane creatwres than rational beings. | Phe least and meanest of such persons, com- |