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no hot crushes, no white gloves

In short,” interrupted’ Vy, “ there are no agremens of| seem to very low opin ‘such an utter impossibility for any woman

life at atl. There is no intel!éctual element, uo thought be- yond just what we shall eat, ahd wherewithal we shall be clothed ; ne existence better than that of the animal, who has

instinct’ enough to make his lntf and kill his prey ! Some |

people, you kiiow, Mr. Goring, Iike the white gloves of ex- istenee, ehd I am one. The ambition of having the best butter, cutting the most timber, and sticking the most des- porate pig, are such as I can’t sywpathise in ; nor can I fapoy any man lowering his inte.lect to them.”

“Well,” said Tom. rather crossly, “ I suppose William D> Robin's a man of iate'lect, and at on: time he wasn't above seeing the delights of pig-sti king, and had serious thoughts of joining are.” ait

« Wilkianr De Rohan!" repeated Vy, her eyes flashing.

and ber colour varying. “Yes, be might think of New |p

Zealand as he thinks of the uroors, or « week's fishing in tho Tay—-as a month's sport, not as a life's aim and end. He can enjoy his days among the blackcock or the trout. Any man worth anything likes sport, but the trout aud the black- eock alone would not satisfy him. He may not know bim- sell, but I know him; and I know, too, that with his talent, and social attractions, and warm heart, the narrow aims and insolated life of the Bush would be utterly insufficient for him, and thst he would sicken and weary for a higher ex- istence 4s

Vy stoppe] shcrt sai coloured as the door opened, and the man announced Mr. De Rohan. Willie's eyes fell.on Vivia and Goring as they sat close together, Tom bending eogerly forward. Vy's face was hidden from him by the back of the chair; he hadn't camght what she said, and’ I saw, as he noticed their tcre-a-tete, his lips closed tight,’and his cheek grew psler. YVivia feit caught and confused; and as Willie came up to her coldly, she grew as stately with him as a lively young laity gf the kitten tribe could.

‘Good morning, Mr. De Kohan. Quand on parle du loup-—— We were-just tatking of you ,

‘* Indeed,” said Willie; listless y.

« Haven't you any curiosity to know what we were saying ?” asked Tom.

« No, ‘Les absens ont toujours tort.’ So I don't siip- pose I shold be much gratified,” said Willie, with a sbort laugh. ‘ F coptical people are often very unjust,” suid Vy, carelessly.

“ But they are ofien right, Miss Lessingham. If I imagine my dear frieuds are blaming me, I shall be nearer truth than if I let my vanity mislead me into fancying they are’ pfaising me,” said Willie, taking up the Tames, and glancing ‘through it. “ Good Heavens! Mount, Julia Val- letort is married to that old Bloxham sbe used to quiz so mercilessly. Upon my life! it's disgusting how women marry now-a-days) So that they get a good home, ‘they'll take up with a paralytic, or a hypochondriae, a drunk- ard, or a gawnb'er—no matter what.”

“Was this unfortunate Julia Valletort an old love of ours, that you speak go bitterly about her marriage ?” asked ry, quickly.

“Love? No," said Willie, contemptuously. “ I never} eat the girl halla dozen times, but I know she’s young and pretty, and has, fof the sake of being called’ My lady,’ sold herself to an old roue of seventy-five, that shé hates and ridicules. Lut be's a baronet, and can give hér a first-rate establishmeht, and that is al! ladies look at. They never show much taste in actual lifs for the love in a cottage that they are given to talking of so pathetically. Just state your value, and promise them a good dowry, and any man may have a wile who likes.”

‘« 4 wife, of course,” said Vy, impatiently ; “* but perhaps not ‘he wife.”

4 Yes, thé wife ; unless, indeed, shé hag a more profitable speculation in her mind,” said he, looking at her with « hauvhty sneer.

What women you must have met!” cried Vivia, rising impetuously. “ You cut thet all down in your bitter sar- casm likes a mower cutting down hay—you forget that with the rank grass you may chance to destroy a corn-flower bere and there.”

“ Well, the prettiest cofn-flower is only a weed,” said Willie, with something of his old smile. Nobody basa chance against him in the tournament of repartec.

Vy gave a short quick sigh, and busied herself playing with the kitten and detailing its manifold perfections to Goring, talking as fast as ever she could, while Willie, seem- ingiy absorbed in the paper, watched her over the top of it. Soon after he got up to go. Vy was standing by the cockatoo'’s stand, and as he went up to her with a very chill **Good morning,” she looked hurriedly up at him. “ Are you vexed with me? are you angry about anything ?”

Willie Kept bis face eold and impassive as statuc’s. “ Angry? Dear mé, no, Miss Lessingham, why should I be so?”

Vy dropped his hand and turned away.

Willie bowed with the grace of the vieille cour, and turned amy also.

“Will,” said Tom, suddenly, that night whon we were at his lodgings, and the men who'd been playing at whist there were ail gune, “ I don’t thiok that girl would like the Bush.”

A sudden gleam of joy like a sun-flash passed over Willie's face for a minute ; then be said, carelessly, “* Don’t you ‘No, L don’t,” said Tom. “Certainly. I don’t mean that she wouldn't go if [asked her, because, poor little thing, ahe’s no choice between marrying now and governessing by- and-by. But I dot't think that she’ll be happy there. You see she likes all tie things that I couldn’t give her : society, and new books, and intellectual talk, and all those weaknesses. She’s not the smallest taste for farming, and you can’t get her to see any ivterest in butter. No; I don’t fancy she'd be bdappy there, and you know 1 ctttid never stand a wife always with tears in her eyes, and hotne-sick, like a child the firet half at school. So l've beth thioking—it’s a great sacrifice, because there’s no pig-stickipg here, and I hate evening parties, and | shall mise the free, jolly, sans gene life and the camping-out, and the spletidid gport; horribly — bat I really think I shall stay in Biglana, be cohtent with my two thousand a year, turo over the whole affair to my partner, and take a house somewhere here stich as little Vy will be easy in. Don’t you think it’s the best plaee, Will?! Willie got up to open the door for a cat to come io, and made a great business of it. When he came back to his arm-chair be looked grave, and his lips were pressed together. “ Do you think Vy likes you, then, Tom ?” I asked. “ Well. she don’t dislike me,” answered he, tranquillly. “ That isn’t much to go upon,” said De Rohan, shortly.

Then theré’s no bother of society |

‘thought yda had more pride, There's nobody to stare at you, and gossip didn’t love him for himself.” about you, and say how badly you dress, or what # horrid |

temper you are to your wife; there's no dressing for dinner, | mee : aha A ; , thought of secitg St. Paul's set itself down in Nelson.

keep? Will you stoop to a pretence of love, made to you besiies you a in an * eligible position ? 1 should have : mbre sense, more spirit. No

man with proper self-respect would marry & woman who

Toin took his pipe out of his lips and stared hard at him.

«“ You talking romance, Will? I should‘as soon — 0

old boy, to think it to — = L know they like you much better, and you had a way wit ‘em I aie could, et, but I don’t fancy I’m such ath ogre. Vivia may like me Br mysel it's possible——" “True. [ beg your pardon, Tom,” srid Willie, with aid evident effort at bis usatl manner, though he spoke with his teeth clenched hard. “No need, my dear fellow. I’ve known you too long. and liked you too well, William, to take exception at it when you get on your stilts and sheer a little bit at me, laughed Goring. “1 bet you Miss Vivia and I shall have settled matters soon, and you may hold yourself in readiness to be garcon d’bonneur,” Willie gave a slight shudder, iece to light a fusec. « Poor old fellow !” thought I; to marry he’s in for it at last.” (To be concluded in our next No.)

have a very low opinion of me,

and turned to the mantel-

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Correspondence.

Pp. E. ISLAND STATESMEN.

Mr. Eprton,—A communication, over the signature of “ Moderator,” appeared in a late issue of the Islander, upon which, with your permission, I will make a few remarks.

The writer appears to have taken umbrage at some very )juat strictures, written by you, sir, on the intellectual and literary disqualifications of the Hons. Messrs. Yeo and Laird.

«« Moderator’s” ideas of the qualifications necessary to con- stitute a colonial statesman are, unhappily, neither original nor profoynd. He says, ‘no man could be more delighted to see all aspirants to place and power distinguish themselves by their ability and learning than I; but, in my humble opinion, there are other qualities whicl’ should be preferred to these in the thembers of our Exécitive.” Heaven defend us from rulers’ who possess neither learning nor ability. However, the absurdity contained 14 the ubove quotation is somewhat mitigated by the scarcely less absurd stutence whieh follows it. It runs as féllows: * Moral weight and influence, unbending integrity, fatural shrewdness, and sound- ness of judgment, f consider fat higher qualities.” Higher qualities’ than’ what? Ths context furnishes me with no other answer than “ ability and learning!” Moral weight and influence, unless possessed and wielded by a man of liberal and enlightened mind, render their possessor a power+ ful instrument, as well for evil as for good, in the hands of moveable and enlightened men. The unbending integrity of a narrow-minded bigot gives intensity to his prejudices, and makes him one of the most misvhievouds cliaracters that ever a state was affiicted with. If natural shrewdness and sound-

fluence” yielded him by his ledger, there is not a constituency

nces of judgment are not the groundwork of all ubility, 1) don’t know what is.

But after al! his display of fine writing, what ate ihe statesmanlike qualities that * Moderator” attributes to the gentlemen whose cause he has volunteered to advocate ? Has he shown from Mr. Yeo's long political career that he pos- sesses the legislative eapacity, the political foresight, and that breadth of view and grasp cf intellec*, which are neces- sary to constitttte a statesman in any age and of any country ? Does he assert that lve possesses the less brilliant but not less useful qualifications of a politician: those of a hearty love for the people; and of his always having recorded his vote in favour of those measures that kad for their aim the intel- lectual advantetferit and social melioration of thet people ? Nothing of the Find. Fnstéad of giving the readers of the Islandet a rapid antt éomprehénstve sketch of Mr: Yco's

political life, aud thence proving his fitness for the high | station he now occupies, ** Moderator” uses the exploded and fatile @ priori argument, that the man, who, by hook of by | crook, has been able to scrape toze her an ample fortune, must of necessity be possessed of the qualifications necessary to make him an effective statesman. LEved were I disposed to admit the furce of the above argument, which | am very far from doing, the case of Mr. Yeo would convince me that it was not generally applicable. It would show me that a man might possess, in an eminent degree, the qualities neces- sary to success in mercantile pursuits, who had not sufilcient ability to make him a fifth-rate politician. Kvery man who is out of Mr. Yeo’s debt, let him belong to what party he may, is forced to a¢knowlege, that his success a8 a merchant presents a striking contrast to his failure as @ politician ; and that were he divested of the ‘* moral weight and in-

in Prince Edward Island ‘that would return him to parliament. ‘

Mr. Laird has little reason to feel flattered whem hé con- templates the picture that * Moderator” draws of him. Av honest, but ignorant and obstinate’bigot, is not exactly the ruler that a community composed of numerous conflicting sects requires: Were [ to retouch the portrait, 1 fear that I could not, in honesty, soften its shades or add brillianey to its lights. I cannot see how tke circumstance of his having four or five clever, ambitious, and intelligent sons, adds to his efficiency as a politician. The Opposition may console themselves for the Joss of Mr. Laird by the reflection that men of his stamp are more troublesome to their friends than dangerous to their enemies.

I conceive the tasks and trials of the leaders of the present Government are neither easy of performance nor light of endurance. To humour and instruct the men of the ‘Laird school, of whom they have a goodly company, is a duty which requires both wisdom and patience ; but, to be bullied by a man who can boast of neither the urbanity of a gentle- man, the intelligence of a scholar, nor the geniality of a boon companion—one who exercises the power he derives solely from his wealth, with such unbounded influence as renders the Government so bullied deservedly unpopular, is a trial particularly hard to be borne by men of spirit, refinement, and education. 1.

Prince County, Oct. 6, 1859.

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To rue Epitor oF tue Examiner.

Str—-Among the many edifying communications appear- ing in the Islander of the 2ad inst., [ was not surprised to

observe one over thé signature of Fair Play. The writer, desponding as he appeared to be, |

appeared in your paper of the 8th ult., respecting the new Government appoiniments in this part of the Island. But

“Well, L mean I think she likes me quite well enough not to refuse me,” continued Goring, with the same com- placency, “I can give her what you fellows say will buy aoy wife in the present state of things, when they average three women to one man, and two-thirds of the crinolines must be doomed to single blessedness. I suppose that’s a merciful provision for as, because each of us has several dozen loves iu the course of his existence———”

“ And will you be content, Tom,” interrupted Willie, with most unnecessary bitterness, “ then, to be accepted for the sake of the house you can hire and the ecrrants sou can

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before proceeding sufficiently far to tell us the subject of his

‘fire-brand communication, he, as in keeping with his style,

“tiakes a stragvling and inconsistent reference to another letter, making a slight comment on Mr. Warburtos’s in the ‘same No. he says, “ Mr. W. feels very bad,” &c., &e.

| Fair Play’s style of writing is too well known among | those whose particular attention he would wish to attract, to | sign any other than his real signature, in which he formerly

having lost the substance | amongst them are Protestants allowed. i p ; 6 | g' e ed to worship thei grisps at the shadow for a support, seemed to commence his| according tothe dictates of their conscience os flowery epistle with the view of falsifying my statements that divinely appointed popular conservative liberty, which guards | letters

— such pride. When Mr. Haywood lacks in ability to | defend himself from the legitimate reproaches of a dissatisfied public for allowing himself to be imposed mpon them, Fair

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': 2ee5 . ° ahabitants, two miilions ef whom can at any moment extend’ Ep. Ex’r.[

Play shows very shallow wit to espouse his

he proved 80 inefficient aw ‘oo his own, in August, 1858, when his incapability was) soaiy clearly aate-oth by “ Domo.” It goes ee show the man’s recklessness of character, when he pens sta .

ments of H’s fabrication, to show his own comiparative worth, calculated, if possible, to injure Mr. Ruggles’s private — ter, who individually did not feél the least disturbed about

the removal of thé office, and wiose charatter shoukt not be

unjustifiably attacked because of the public's murmuring saahiing Mr. Hay wood's being appointed, It is pps to say there is not a seintilla of truth in Pair I lay s stater ents, ae will be hereafter clearly shown. Had the Fslander cor- responder given the names of the parties that bought the Kildare Rivet’ Bridge to repair, which of course he could not do, acredulous public might be more inclined to censure ; but, as it at present stands, afd Mr. Ruggles’s statements advanced to the contrary, which will be presented to the Editor of the Istandeér for publication, and to which he can affirm on oath if required, it will only show tbe meddlesome pedagogue’s tenacious resolve to publish what is positively false, But Fair Play's prisciple of displaying his high style of composition in vilifying private characters, is doubly re- prehensible when we see bim duped by B. H. to ieur the public odium with the latter by thus endeavouring to defend him. To prove Mr. H’s exclusive * guitableness” for the office he holds, on which grounds he was appointed thereto by F. P's statement, I shall advance & few facts, furnised by the aggrieved themselves, and to which they are willing to attest, if required. eat 1

On selling certain parts of the road on tit Miminigash shore last spring, Mr. Stephen Kelly happened to Buy in one part, which, having been finished, was passed by the Com- missioner. S. K. applied for the order for the amount there- of, but on doing so, was told that he, the Commissioner, was in possession of none at the time, or did not know when he would. This unsatisfactory reply naturally elicited av ex- pression of dissatisfaction from S. K.; but he was replied to by our Commissioner by being told he could not engage to him the time he could give bim the order so demanded, and finally advised him to take flour and meal for the amount. Thais Kelly was partly forced to do at the price the former chose to charge. Also, in Kildare, a piece of a road was bought in by four persons for a trifling sum, and after per- forming their contract, according to orders, as explicitly un- derstood by the four, the Commissioner would not pass it till made four feet wider than at first made known. This addi- tional labour was certainly imposed upon the poor people from the fact of their unwillingness to deal with him, as he stems whidlly inclined to sell to none but the French, with whom he can battef the more easily, and secure their orders for himself, while be makes more than an ordinary good market at hit own door of his flour, meal, &c. And to show his sectatian bias, which makes him the more objectionablo to every liberal and impartial thinking man, and proves his utter unfitness the more glaringly, he has not only appointed his own co-religionist in a precinct where one only existed, as Overseer, but has taken a man from an adjoining precinct in opposition to the law, and appointed him Overseer over a Catholic section of people. This was the case in Horse Head, where Mr. J. Thompson was appointed Overseer, having | been taken from his own precinct on the west side of Black | Pond.

These facts, Mr. Editor, together with the man’s deficieticy | in other respects, without alluding to his want of as much) education as would enable him to fill up the blanks on the road notices and orders, would not vouch for Fair Play's; sincerity in attaching his name to a communication in which | he would fain defend Mr. Haywood. It also should be sufi. | cient to convince the latter that he should be content with |

ing occupied ia his own domestic affairs, and view office aceking as an aspiration beyond his provinec. Had Fair | Play adopted the truth telling principle for which he affects to keenly reproach others for not having done, he would find | himself utterly unable to assume Mr. H’s case, and to handle | it that it might savour favorably of Mr. H’s conduct. His} eagerness to bring all his political opponents under the gene-| ral stigma, meant to be inflicted by his letter, has caused bim | to mention with bitter sarcasm the name of P. Doyle, Esq., | between whom ani the late Commissioner he makes an | awkward effort to draw a relative comparison; but was he 4s reserved or possessed of half the amount of quick discern- | ment and’ iudgment as P. Doyle, Esq., with which traits pe | justly secured the confidence of the people, Fair Play would | think more seriously before allowing hiwsel! to be duped by B. H., to act as a medium of slander.

Deeming the present case unworthy of any further con- sideration, asit is not generally interesting, I shall feel obliged by your giving attention to these reniarks, which it is hoped will prove effectual in silencing Fair Play, whose scribbling for the future will be unnoticed by me, and con- sidered by the public to betray the character of the author.

Ksteeming your strenuons advocacy of the country’s wel- fare, I remain yours, most respectfully, ve

Lot 1, Sept. 15, 1859. I. C. M.

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ADDITIONAL POSTSCRIPT TO MENTOR’S LEI'TER.

To tuz Epirox oF THE EXAMINER,

Sir —You will please permit me, without violating my promise to His Excellency, as this communication is nut addressed to him, “to have done with Junius for éver’’—to dagGerreotype that vain writer as faithfully as if he had set for iis jikeness in the fraternal apartment, where a native artist, to the credit of the Colony, competes more siiccessfully With itinefant talent than does his more ambitiotis but less gifted relative, the subject of this Postscript. Sir, it is painfuJ to prohounce an opinidn’ which savours of egotism on the merits of a Writer, character- ised by ‘* Ecolier’’ as ‘* as one who makes a long circumlocu- tary bombastic speech in which the words ‘ great,’ * grand,’ ‘glorious’ and ‘ magnificent,’ are heard until they have entirely lost their meaning ;’’ but as the task is forced upon me, and as I have never shrunk from what I considered a public duty, | must discrown this presumptuous pretender to literary supericrity —hurl him from the giddy height of assumed greatness to which his arrogance has raised |:im—reduce him to the level of com- mon men, and make him know and feel that he is mortal. Who then, is “Junius?”-—this powerful wrier who re-writes the slanders of Exeter Hall—trades in the lies of Shafisbury— reviles in the Billingsgate of Drummond, and cants with the sanctified whine and shameless bigotry of Spooner? List to the servile sycophant of Orangeism, hear his stale rehash of charges against Rome, a thousand times refuted, when he insultingly asks, after h’s ‘* all very fine, gentiemen,” ‘* where is liberty to be found, and on what soi! does it flourish even in 1859? If bigotry has disappeared, how is it that Rome, the | very centre of purity, ander the direct eye of the Sovereign Pontiff himself, is the veriest type of anarchy and degradation ? How is it that Austria, Naples, Spain, Portugal, Tuscany, Mexico, and every Roman Catholic country in the world, are | but so many nurseries of civil and religious tyranny? Where | Maker) | answer, |

the altarand throne, and recognises the privileges of the people, | is found and enjoyed, irrespective of creed or country, beneath | the mild sway of the glorious Pio None, Witness the free and unrestricted worship of Protestants in the Holy City. Liberty, | conservative liberty, popular and highly rationa!, is found and enjoyed beneath the gioriaus, the conquering Freach tri-color, which shields from insult and wrang three millions of French Protestants, surrounded by thirty-nine millions of Roman Catha | lies, and pays the French Protestant clergyman twice the sum «because he has the orthodox appendage of a wife anc family | paid to the Priest of the national faith. Contrast the liberality, the state bounty, the protection in. the exercise of their religious privileges afforded the Protestants in Catholic France, with its nearly forty millions of Catholic |

| bigotry and the how! of faction,

the E:pire to the extremities of Eastern and Western Europe —contrast, | repeat, these principles of civil wnd religious toleration with the bigotry of the Northern nationa — Protestant Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, so powerfully depicted by the Hon, William Young in his lecture before the Mechanics’ Institute and the inhabitants of Charlottetown last summer. That hon. and learned gentleman stated, without contradiction, that no liberty, either civil or religious, was allowed to even the Pro- testant sectaries, and therefore could not be expected by the Ronman’Cathdlice. Lutheranisin, be stated, reigns supreme— is conservative of its exclusite rights—proud of its name— monopolizes the whoke power of the state, and will not admit any Protestant rivalry near the throne— punishes dissent, and dooms to servitdde and death the recussnts to ite purely ortho- dox’créed. Why did mot the Spouter General of the Instiuse, the Demosthenes of the Island, confront the orator of * Qjd Chebucto,” the gifted Haligoniin, and repel the siander uttered against the Protestant nations of the Noth? He could not— he dare not, and sa he was silent ?

Liberty, constitational hberty, happily conjo.ned with socie! order and the highest developément of industrial prosperity and personal freedom.is found in Catholic Belgium, with her Protes- tant King: ‘The other Catholic Sietes of Europe are likewise in the enjoyment of similar bleesings, although “ Junius”’ is too ignorant to be acquainted with the fact, and too bigoted if he knew it to make the admission. And heré, too, in the new world, real republican liberty is only to be found in the south,

the Andes unfurls her standard over balf the globe.” Here, in land, a Catholic State, gave an asylam to the persecuted Pro- testants, who fled the fanatic rage of the Pilgrim fathers, end their crue! persecuting progeny ; and Maryland, inthe languave

world, its Catholic inhabitants ~who had fled the vengeful ie and exterminating cruelty of English persecution for conscience sake—affording a safe asyium to the Protestante, cruelly pers ~ cuted by their more sanctified but less charitable sectarian brethren.

The unfortunate Orangemen, disgraceful aa they are, are certainly to be pitied, if they have employed ** Junius’ as their champion—he has so'd the buttle, betrayed their cause, and afforded Mentor an easy victory. If he has volunteered his services in their defence, it is quite c'esr that his vanity promp’ed him to undertake a task far above his abilivy.

fear to tread’’—he must hive his sty and see lis tacnbrations in print.

to death of the Orangemen, whose * sim,” ambiguously ex. pressed, he says, ‘‘ is to encourage that spirit of loyalty to their gracious Sovereign and her Governinent which will raise our Empire stil] higher in the scale of nations, powerful enough and ready to breast a world of tyrants, who envy her glory and abhor her religion.’’ In his first letter he said Orangeisin was ‘© Protestant supremacy.” Hie Jast contains the following :— ‘* Orangemen are not formed to deprive any of liberty, bur to support the rights of ali toan equal participation of political power.”’ Is this ** Protestant supremacy ?”’

who felt the justice and saw the imperial necessity of placing the Catholic chiplains of the Anglo-Indian Anny during the late revolt upon an equal footing with that of their Protestant brethren inthe ministry —who blotted out the foul disgrace from

the orphans of the Catholic soldier who crimsoned the burning soil of the tropics with his life-blood in defence of the British Crown, unless they became lrotestants—who granted, for the first time from the period of the Reformation, Catholic chapisine for the British Navy, whose flag proudly waved on the Eyxine, mingling ite folda with the French tricolor, over which floated the glorious ond triumphent banner of the French Admiral, ex- Hibiting the image of the immaculate Virgin. Glory, honor and benediction to the noble house of Derby, and may ite present illustrious chief, whose talents and patriotigm have added additional! lustre to the halos of glory which encircle hia Binily esculcheon, never prove recreant to his motto, sans change— never change from doing gool—never cease to remodei the

ritish constitution, until it 1s restored to that diberly and inde- pendence which his Catholic ancestors, the Barons of Runny- mede, wrested from king John. and which they bequeathed to ‘* Junius,’ whose prejudices wil! not permit him to acknowledge the source whence they sprung. The Orangemen must feel graie- ful to * Jumius’’ for the following testimony of the cowardice and dread of death, and the reluctance to gain the mar.y:’s crown on the part of the Protestants during the rebvellon of 1798. He says:—**The only nveans of escepe left tothe Proiestant prisoners, and which was adopted by many, was their baptism by the Priest, and consequent conformity tu Rome.”’ IT doubr not but that ** Junius,’’ in case of emergency, even afraid with outthe danger of death; would adopt the same course, and prove himself recreant by his apostacy to the faich which { am happy to know he enfoys imsuch security. Thank God, how- ever.** Junits’’ cannot record such unfaihfulness on the part of the Catholics to the Faith of thei fathers. The tortures inflicied by the Ronin Eutptrorsthe rege aud vengeful! cruelty of the followers of Malomet—the horrore of modern persecution be fiendish crevities of the Irish penal code—found Irish Catholics faithful and tree to the religion of Rome—the religion of, Patrick. ‘The vengefal how! of nativeism in America—the, proselytism of the fanatics—tae disloyal combinations of Orangeism—the raveng of the bigots, and the filthy outpouring of the vile American press—have proved ineffectual in exter-. minating that glorious Church—with the Pope acits head—the Church of the Adstins and Augustines, the Cyrils and the Basils—the Church of the Polycarps and the Tertullians—the Church of the Charlemagnes and the A!freds—the Church, ia the Janguage of a great Irish orator, priestand patriot, * which was founded by Jesus Christ, reared by his Apostles, cemented by the blood of martyrs, and consolidated by the lapse of ages,”’ whose ancient superstructure Orange bigotry would raze to the ground, in order tc erect upon its ruins a new couventic!+, according to the modern style of spiritual architecture. I feel, sir, that | have devoted too much space to the senseless bigotry of ** Junius,’’ and shall never again take any further notice of his ignorant effusions,

Sept. 30, 1859. MENTOR.

N. B.—T wo more Jetters, and I shal! have done —one to show the people of Prince Edward Island the cruelties inflicted upon the trish Catholics under the British constitution—cruelties Which ** Junius”’ himself,deplored while descanting on Crom- well’s Saints.and the intidents of the Long Parliament—the other; an Address to the people of Prince Edward Island, to preserve that social intercourse, and cultivate that christian friendship which have hitherto blessed their labours in the land of their birth and the land of their adoption, despite the rage of M.

{Our correspondent will observe that we have again taken considerable liberties with his MS. and erased several pas- sages which were entirely too personal for publication. Edi- tors of newspapers, and a very large portion of their readers, can rarely be expected to takesuch an interest in the disputes which anonymous correspondents may choose to get up, a8 to publish and read with satisfaction all the harsh things that the heat of controversy may provoke. It may be true enough that an editor is not responsible for the opinions of his con- tributors, but he is responsible for the general tone of his’ periodical, and should avoid, as far as possible, in the discus- sion of public questions, either by himself or his correspond- ents, irrelevant and personal allusions.

With regard to Mentor’s intention to prepare two more on Orangeism, we must say that we can see no reason at present to reconsider our resolve of excluding further new mutter on thatsubject. So long as Orangeism is not aggressive in this community, we can perceive no good in fighting against it. We understand, however, that it is Mentar’s intention to publish the whole correspondence in pamphlet form. We need, of course, raise no objection to that proceeding; W® have no doubt the letters will be interesting to a large number of readers; andif they should have the effect of repressing any tendency to offensive displays of Orangeism, no one will more heartily rejoice at their publication than ourselyet.-~

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the new world, the adopted home of persecuted freemen, Mary-"

of Bancrof', presented a glorious spectacie to America and the |

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the statute book wiiich prohibited the b!essings of education to ‘

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