ER LTTE TEC IS ICL RT SOA IE

CORRESPONDENCE,

For Tre EXAMINER,

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Mr. Eprron—Wouid you be kind enough te! allow me to tre pass on your v.luable space with the following letter : | TO THE INTELLIGENT AND HONEST PROTESTANTS OF P. EU ISLAND. |

GENTLI MEN, — Having read that meck and} enilemaniy production over the siguature of W H. Pope, dated Charlettetown, 2nd inst., which of course was written ia the true spirit of Chris- tian charity, of doing to others and judging them as you would have others do to and judge you, I feel tempted to write a few observations thereon tu the intelligent aud honest pertien of the Pro- testant community, lest Mr. Pope may think that | the mere fact of his making certain misrepresen

i leving girls and ‘heir manly tavourites, and those | for the North,and reproach the American govern- | amoun

| sible air of matronfy philosophy.

| character and feature, was in itself a study and a

only compelled to return to the ranks of their reg sasuhe ay proved guards and by hunger, Make a residence at home disgraceful to the deserters, The local police should arrest every man lmpro-

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

Sr, Joun’s, N, F., July 24, 1862, The Etna from Liverpool 16th, Queenstown perly absent from his regiment, 17th, arrived at Cape Race on Thursday evening. | Another correspondent writes from the same The ‘ Times’ again deprecates new American! place as follows : “ What is a geing te be done, I don’t know,

(For the Examiner.) THE SOURIS TEA PARTY.

Thursday, the 24th instant. was—in the good | old O'Connell parlance—" a great day for" Souris; for, during all the forenoon of that day, there ga- i thered together in that diminutive: cap.tai of | Sp ade aa a ae a a . Seomeniailt in gayest boliday attire, from distant | tariff, predicts far greater injury to America ber ny ioe Georgetown, Morell, St. Peter's, Grand River, | ¢!t than to any one else. | but I know that we must - e we wen, for me reorge « mt » O8 %, é i - " ° : a i 7 } : : + ic laree regimen

ay For +, Rollo Bay, « el ryveast-| Fighting before Richmondis eagerly canvassed. | outnumber us two to one, ; K '

tay Fortune, Rollo Bay, and all the coantry east z iz z ) ee ee. ie bisieaen

ward, the young people and the old, the laughter- Sowe of the journals regard it as a great reverse | renin erases is tn thin actay SULIRIAA most bewitching daughters ot Hymen to whom | ment for treating it in any otaer light. Others | that have seen it, and it ee a uae early matrimony had imparted the slightest pos-| contend that McClellan has sustained no serious | ot the putts in the papers for the . iu r - yet . | disaster, is, indeed, practically nearer Richmond, | Take them together they are a drun en Baeapel To see them all clustering round the merry jand may congratulate himself on accomplishment quacks, eating and os — — oe pose dancers on the green, or at the bountiful festive } of a great and most successful operation. } out here for the sick, aut : . a Mino = a. aoe board beneath the wide-spread canvas awning, and slash a man all to ad Cs tt ie go are the te wateh the youthful play and infinite variety of | by a bullet. ‘Palk ahout Catho ne i as I 1 | best friends the soldier has got. ‘The Sisters o! Charity are doing a noble work here, and although

Hopes are freely expressed that more pacific} councils will soon prevail at Washington.

The ‘ Times’ is particularly sareastic. It treats rich feast, which net even the material one there Phe a I :

Van Dorn and Breckinridge were at Vicksburg, and would endeavour at every cost to hold it, They belonged to regiments, one of which num- bered 2uv, the other 150. Gen. Dancauand three captains with thirty privates, according to them, were killed during the fleet's passage. : Finding that Vicksburg would hold out, Flag Officer Farragut determined to open the Missis- sippi in another way, namely, by cutting @ canal across the bend, and leaving Vicksburg far to one side, Instantly the work commenced. Negroes were gathered from every plantation around, and three or four hundred of them set to work. The canal is already partly finished and in a week will be comipeted. IRISH BRAVERY IN WAR Even at the risk of being again denounced by | the Pittsburg Catholic as pandering to the preju-| dices of “bad and foolish Lrishmen,” we call the |

THE PRESENT

The Examiner.

Charlottetown, August 4th, 1862. | PRR Owl’

A potiricat article appeared in the * Protestant’ of the 26th alt., which we bad almost forgotten to notice. A very few lines must suffice at present to dispose of it. Its object is, or was, to induce Protestants of all shades of belief to throw aside their political priuciples—no matter how strongly attached they may be to them and how antago- uistic to our rulers—and unite for the support of the present Government, to which some of its sup- porters persist in attaching the name of “Protes- tant’—theugh, considering some of the materials

tations of the Cabvlic religion, and no one think the matter as a decided Confederate victory ;

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whieh the Tea tubles stood ; and of course the in. telligent reader will not want to be told that they were abundantly stpplied with all the delicacies of the seaso# and the various condiments which are required to make a tip-top spread of the kind. Neither is it necessary to say that justice was done to the excellent viands; for the etercizes, games, dancing, &c. #0 freely practised until the hour for separation, showed that physical exertion was Well sustained by bealthful aod itvigorating refreshment. ‘Fhe Lady Managers, and their nu- merous coadjutors at the Tea tables, were inde’ fatigable in their efforts to make the Tea Parity eminently successful and their surrounding friends supremely happy. In beth they succeeded far beyond their expectations, 48 Was shown by thé

attention of our readers to the accounts of Insh | of which it is composed, and remembering the tor-

ing it worth while te contradict him, may be pui| down by any one as proof of the currectness ot | his statements Admitfing, for argument sake, that among the | long. list of Popes —a list extending for over} eighteen centuries—some were liable to the viees | inherent to humanity. and that those vices were | highly exaggerated by men writing in the same spirit as Mr. Pope huuself, is that any proof o! badness of Catholic dectrines ! Why, among |

i} doubtless, of the proprietor, Mr. Beaton; aod in

} beautiful landseape, pregnant with the young bar-

every regimeat has its chaplin, he won't speak to

set forth with finest picturesque effect aud culinary a private. The priest is the ouly mau that is among |

a hinks there are good evidences in North that the art, could approach. The site was the selection, thinks the og

beginning of the end is not far off. In another) ine wen. Although J have not lost any of my article it devounces the insolence of Gen. Butler | ardor or patriotisis, fur I am out to help to put in his intercourse with the Consul—says it is not! down this rebellion, and lam going to de it, | the way to conciliate neutrals, aud superiors | vot it vexes me to see our brave men die by should consider whether he is not deing more) } dreds and killed like sheep, while such men harm than good to Federal cause, las John A. Andrew are talking politics instead oi sending men and money to help us and our gallant General. [fit hadnotbeen for him the Army of the Potomac would have been anvililuted. He ts the

its decoration alse the finest taste was manifested On the one side was the lofty sea-beaten cliff and mighty melancholy sea; and onthe other the bold

vest, and hallowed by the peacetul, holy presence ot | . ts Dn e

a Chureh of God, rearing its graceful spire over | be Morning Post says affairs approach a crisis | j ¢ i } ey . .

all, and its crucial signal to the mystic conscience | 8 hich will necessitate some decided course an the

‘ Neutrals cannot

| tial fame has never been ecmend nor tarnished. |

of the passing mariner, and to those who pass their

| part of the Federal government.

valor ou the battle-fields of Virginia which they | will find in another part of to-day’s paper. Phe | charge of the Irish Erigade at Seven Pines was |

tuous and deceitful policy it has pursned, it is a

stretch of conscience to say, that any religion at all |

gratifieation which every one expressed—the ads mirable order and deeorum observed from the ber ginning to the end of the entertainment, and the

worthy of the sons of that Old Land whose mar-| ¢yaracterises the Administration. The motive for | reluctance with which all parties left the grounds

It wae like the stroke of lightning: it was like | the sweep of the burricane, With a yell they | bounded into the thick of the battle, literally | bearing duwn all opposition by their fierce im-} petuous rush. Never were brave men more)

the twelve Apesties selected by Christ himself a | Judas Iscariot was found ; according to our Pro-} testant Pope that s! o iid be taken as proof positive }

of the falsehood of Christianity. In Pope's ramb- |

ling from fanaticism te polities, he next assumer

the dislovalty of Catholics and the loyalty of Orangemen, well shown in the * Examiner's’ editorial, but [| may make one remark about the pretended and | highly selfish wyalty of Orangemen. Previous to | the accession of Queen Victoria, in the reign o: | William the Fourth, there was a parliamentary enguiry into the loyalty of Orangemen, and it was | then clearly shown in the British "louse of Com-| mons, to the complete satisfaction of the ther King, nobility, and people of Great Britain and Ireland, that the Orangemen entered into a gene-

;

The loyalty of Catholics has been | worthy of especial mention.

| ** North Side ;”’

bravely met than on that bloody field; and as we |

idol of the army, but he must have wore men, or : wi read of the advance of our men in the teeth of the |

instead of the war being in Virgitia, it will be in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and God kuows |“ battle-wind” that swept in counter currents where it will stop ; but give him 50,000 more, | and of the gaps in the enemy’s lines filled up time und we will stop it where it is.” jaiter time by our heroic but mistaken brothers, The Albany ‘Evening Journal,’ (Rep.) speak- | amid the whirl of confused feelings that it cp 2 be te in an a edleusned | 7A feel a glow of exultation that even on such a ee Oe nanne eae Fa8 oye -’\ field Irish valor could achieve distinction. Not and which has intlicted so aimel disaster and dis- | that & eas Mabe: thee deeds Teuiiete ovate The ‘ Daily News’ mr ont what would be! hover on the country, says; | pege of history, and will not be soon forgotten ; the feelings of England if situated like the North, “There has been # good deal of buncombe; a | A. ? jand argues that secession will be crushed at all good deal of foolish taik; a good deal of absurd “ The Historic Muse, ) haszards. | generalization; a good deal of harping upon im- Proud of her treasure, marches with it down Parliamentary business unimportant. | practicable themes; a good deal of windy decla- | To latest time.” Foster, in the House of Commons, gave notice | ation and vapid bluster; a good deal of ~s But never did Irishmen centend with a nobler that when Lindsay's motion for recognition ef S4mption of functions that didu’t belong to it; 4) foe then when they crossed swords with the South-

quiet lives within the sublime and varied scenery | much longer rewain passive apectators, and great around it. The entire scene was extremely grand, | question is, when shall the South be considered to byt withal lonely, iu view of its insular vbseurity | have vindicated its right to recagnition? It points and isolation. — | past policy of England in recognizing successful Bat tuen we te the socia) incidents of this festive | opposition, and says if North would take initiative | vecasion; one rich and rare wae, at least, being | and sail with current, which it cannot stem, neu- | LT allude to the long | tral states might be saved a disagreeable heces- train of carriages which eutered the village from | sity of discharging a most disagreeable duty. the east, after journeying from St. Peter's and the | and at the head of which moved | lown upon the startled beholders a gigantic omui- bus, driven by Mr. Douglas MeCallum and the Boys et the Bay, accompanied by bag-pipes and “amall arms.” No Yankee circus could | ¢ upare with it, decked out as it was with banners | innumerable, whilst its six paneplied steeds moved

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this “evangelical” advice—which, we are credi- bly informed, emanated from the evangelical pen of that purely evangelical son of the Church, Wm. H. Pope—is alleged to have been prompted by a remark which appeared in the EXAMINER, a fort- n ght ago, in the course of our observations oa Se-

’\ eretary Pope's infamous and blasphemous attack

on the Catholic feligion. We said then, and we shall on more than one occasion hereafter reiter- ate the opinion, that “if, atthe next election, any Catholic elector should, under any pretence, or excuse, vote for a member or supporter of the Government, he will deserve te be marked out for the contempt and disrespect of his co-religionists.”’ We said this, not because we want to establish a Catholic Government — we are far from wishing to see anything of the kind— we don’t waat to

when day, with lingering beams, was fading inte night.

One of the most attractive sights at this Tea Party was what was called the Newfoundland Cake. This was a contribution from natives and resents of Newfoundland, who bave reeently taken up their abode in Charlottetown, and pre-

given by him in aid of the Tea Party. The Cake, which was of the richest description, weighed nearly 50 lbs. ; it was surmounted by a very in- genious representation of the Catholic Cathedral Church of St. John’s Newfoundland, chiefly done in sugar, and ornamented with numerous amal) flags. The whole structure weighed between 70 and 80 Ibs., and was made by Mr. W. HM. Simma, a most skilful artificer in the Confectionary Tine,

sented to the Right Ker. Dr McIntyre, te be

. cuward respeusive to the rein, and even, one would ral conspiracy to put their Grand Master, the then | finey, to the pibroch

Duke ot Cumberland, oa the throne, and to de | Only that no one is or can be sincerely eoncern- rive Queen Victoria and her descendants of their | ‘| : Pcitiennte rights. The Orange Grand Secretary, | @ eolenel in the army, had to fly the kingdom,and | Took with him certain documents clearly showing | their treason. The Privy Council issued a Pro clamation aguinst the Orange treason, and the

knowing fall well that Ged has not given to am- bitious editors any “ mission for preaching the Gospel,” I should be for prescribing to all soured consciences and bigots generally, a full dose of

d with the political theology of the newspapers, |

tea and sweetmeats, together with a fair share ot |

South comes up, he will move an amendment | £90d deal of pharisaical pretence and assertion of | ery chivalry; never did they contest the palm ’ ¢ that will assume any distinc

pledging the House to sustain Government in its |S8petior wisdom; a good deal of disposition te | with an enemy so rich m every quality that econ-| have a Government that will a ew my

a | brewbeat the Executive and interfere with the | stitutes the soldier; and here they conquered, and | tive so-called religious character in the adminis- yn

a very pleasant interchange of courtesies between oe ; j petty ‘ ia -. | prerogatives of the camp. Ithas been samewhiat | 9 have they done throughout the whole of titis | 4 gs litical affai we expressed the opi-| the contributors of the Newfoandiand ©. and The increasing distress in manufacturing dis-| severely afllicted with the infirmity of nat always| war No matter how it chanced with their corps, | tration of politi rs— I ake

|tricts in England is engaging the attention of par- | being able to know what its legitiinate business | yo matter bow the fortunes of the day fluctuated, | Lion quoted because the Government seemed to} the Bishop of Charlottetown in reference to the

recently arrived from Newfoundland. There was

| policy of non-intervention.

Remnent. ied that the Prince of Wal iM visit | 20° knowing, of net being able to attend te | the tide af victory ever set in the direction taken | approve of Pope's borrible and disgusting attack | contribution—the former congratulating his Lord- Pon 2 denied that the Prince o ates WEE Visit) it It has been overmuch given to considering | by the frish troops. “Never,” says Napier, on the religion of the whole Catholic world.| ship, in a written address, on his safe arrival f i . sS1a.

| itself a kind of general regent—a superviser, and | © was their haughty and intolerant shout ( Faugh- | | Rome, and expressing their deep saterest in the

King himself called on all Public Officers to Jeave

| Palmerston in a speeck before the Volunteers |“ regulator” of the affairs of the vation and the

u-ballagh, Angliee, * Clear the way,”) heard upo.

And the editor of the ‘ Protestant,’ who assumed

the disloyal organization, and this timely enquiry, twenty eight years ago, saved the throve to Queer Vietoria and ber descendants against the foul ma-| |. this Island at least, will net in vain be songht chinations of Orange criminals. And the rejected after in Responsible Goverument—so long at least @fiai of this organization have now the brazen | as we witness the present glaring contradictions ¢@untery to cail then.s -ives loyalists. As to Mr. | between its spirit and the practice, and the people, Pupe's saying it is evidence of a tyrannical des-| jan to eall fer bis removal. As a private indivi Wal he may think, dream, or rave what he pleases : but as Seeretary of this Colony he should net be @llowed to insult the moral feelings of the cow- unity. Mr. Pope next compares the worship of Jesns Christ to the idolat-y alluded to by the Prophet isias. Perhaps in Mr. Pope's opinion they may be the same, but surely every intelli- geut and honest Protestant must admit that idol atry means the worshipot talse gods aud aot the worship of Christ. That Christ gave Bread and Wine at the last supper to his Apostles, and re- markéd: “ This is my body—This do in remem- berance of me—This is my blaed,”—even Pope himself cannot deny, though he may consider it | disgusting idolatry. Now, if a Catholic believes that the God of the world could turn bread into his body and wine into his blood, must iz be con- sidered impossibie,beeause the infallible Mr. Pope of P. E. Isiand may tell him, that according to » MrPope, Christ did not mean whit he plain y said’ | wish to kuow, if the Bible should be ix- terpreted according to private opinion,why Roman | Catholics of the present day, iu commen with the exerwaelming majority of the Christian world in all ages, are pot as entitled to take these words in their plain sense as Mr. Pope and others to put ® figurative sense of their own composing on them! Asaspeeimen vf Pope's misrepresentation, he supposes in his gentlemanly imagination a Priest over a copious vomit looking for a crum) of bread, a contingency that could never happen, the Eucharist never being iv the shape of a crumb of bread, and the remark only proves the false- hood, or ignorance, or both of the writer; and as te a copious vomit, priests do not indulge in glut- : toay, and say Mass fasting. Pope next alludes}! towne of those oit refuted falselivods in English

But as te that, every age has been found to be an “age of humbug.” and the * humbug” of our day,

| political deception.

What never was, however, and never can be “ humbug” is the genial cultivation of all Christian sentiments amongst neighbours whom God has

the solemn problem of a common destiny; and on

appearance of these joyous pic-nies and tea parties, where even our suber-minded merchants cau be tempied to try the moral and hygienic virtues of a brief conge from the ‘ couating house.’ In faet. their contributions to charity in this way are so much actual loss to their poor physiciaus—be sure

tree farm), where it done us good to witness big pletboric bodies moving with surprising elasticiis and trolic through the variwus nimble “ reels” and four or eight hand encounters, and giving, like the a h onab'e Cockney to his atunning necktie, “the whole foree of their minds,” and their extremities also, to the business.

To proceed; let us now ester beneath the spa- cious awning, and witness for ourselves the grace- }tul hospitality of the ladies of Souris. Right at | the entrance te this fairy scene or refectory of the

angels, we eheounter Mrs. Beaton and Mrs. Mec- Gowan doing the honors; whilst, modestly moving ubout, we recognize the resident pastor, for whose presbytery the ladies lent their services on this ve- casion, and whose almost timid nature gave a charm to everything, even to the few delicate compliments paid by him, en passant, to bis Pro- estant and Cuthelie friends. Other jadies, or ‘ministering angels,” were there as well, and

always ignerant of their rights and privileges under | it, remain tolerant of all sorts of niouopoly and

thrown together to work out, in charitable accord. |

this account we hai) with unaffected pleasure the |

you do not point me out to the “learned faculty” | | Fake, for instance, this seuris Tea Party, (and | une could say as much of th t Pie-Nie at Apple- |

| Government.

dancing, &¢., at these charity reunions of ours | spoke impressively, and some say significantly, | of the importance of waintaiuing the efficiency of | the mevement.

Paris ‘ Patrie’ says an interview between the Emperers of France and Russia and King of | Prussia will take place in September.

Bourse cloosed heavy—68. 50. |

In the Italian Chamber, the Ministry explained

Garibaldi’s course at Palermo, regretted his at- | | tack on France, and said his journey was without | | Official sanction.

| Prussian Ministry introduced a bill providing | | credits far increased navy. | Steamer Edinburgh leaves Liverpool 17th for | New York, to accommodate cargo shipping in an- | ticipation of New Tariff.

Markrrs—Coiton Market buoyant—advanced | ida 4d. Breadstuffs downward tendeney. Flour | dull. Wheat steady. Cora declining. Consols |

YS to 934. THE STATE OF RUSSIA. The vast system of despotic Government in | | Russia seems about to pass away. Whether the | loss of the Imperial mind of Nicholas, and of the | astute Nesselrode, is to tell fatally or not is more than can be predicted, but the system does not | answer its ends under the milder rule of Alexan-} der. Indeed, every item of iutelligence seems to | indicate the commencement of a process of poli- | tical disintegration, From St. Petersburg comes news of arrests so fast, and sv numerous, as to cause serious apprehensions for the satety of the Consternation has seized the ruling powers from the Emperer downwards, and grave men believe that the “ revolution is at the gates.” It is about to be preved in Russia, as in every other country misguverned by absolutism, that selfishness cannot permanently rule a people. It may for a few generations be permitted to an ex- clusive class to manage the business of adruiuis- tration, without the aid of representation from the ranks, but in the end the collective intelligence of

|of Generals, and the rascalities of contractors.

world at large. It has been demonstratively re-| the field of battle, that it was not followed by a} ihe responsibility of publishing the Secretary's | success of every undertaking honoured by his formatory. It has lifted its voice loudly in favor | charge that seemed the rushing incarnation of | article as an editorial, acted a very disingeuuous! countenanee and patronage. The Bishop, of

of retrenchment. It has done a good deat of) fangh-a-ballagh.” ‘The historian of the present | , . . : fi rT i- work in the way ef uncovering peculation avd | campaign could no better describe the charge ot | Part im leaving out this explanation of ours.| course, replied im the most grateful and coupli

jobbing. It has resolved itself into we don’t know | the [rish in the different engagements than by tran-) Supposing we had said of Wesleyaus, or Baptiste, mentary terms; and thanked the Newfoundlanders how many committees for the investigation of the | scribing Napier’s words. They are as applicable lor Hpiscapalians, what Secretary Pope bas said | for their handsome gift in aid of the Tea Party. | ee an ee ee | = o om = _ a ~ pe a ine tae of the Catholes ima wriiten letter—and far more | After Tea, the Cake was disposed of by ballot,

bleokecd Gara t oa Z 7 i 4 "York Reco hideous and loathsome utterances have fallen from | and won by a young girl uamed McCabe,and whe * | his lips in private conversation, deeply wounding | very generously made a present of it to the Lady franking privilege or the mileage ef its members. | Jerr. Davis DEMANDS THE RECOGNITION | to the feelings of the least sensitive Catbolic—) Managers, when it was eet ap by auetion, and

It has been eloquent in its denunciations of job- | OF THE CONFEDERATES STATES BY ENGLAND | supposing we had deseribed the religion of any | bought by the Very Rev. James McDonald, V.G., i Jo”) any FRANCE.—The W ashington correspondent PI

And yet it has not been over eager to refori it-| self. While it has preached economy, it failed to | reduce its theory to practice by abolishing the |

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| bing, but it forgot even to censure a Senator for | of the New York World says reliable advices re-| denomination we have mentioned as that of a| who intends te have it exhibited at the greatest

charging five per cent. commission upon Contracts | obtained for a constituent. Se easy is it to per- ceive the mote in our brother's eye, while we fail tv notice the beam in our own!”

ceived trom Richmond state that Jeff. Davis has shockiug idolatry—that disgusting practixes were | Tea Party—decidedly the greatest — which ever : “ht s3e 5 » m € “e ° . + | : 2» - :

| sent a special messenger to the Emperor of France | ttersted in the church of that particular deroani-| yet astoniahed this Island, and which will be held | and to the Queen of England, with despatches of | : bi en ie bh the ome

a private nature, dewanding the immediate recog- | "tion — that the women who worshipped « — the oe ot the se

uition of the Southern Confederacy. The demand | lost evers vestige of their henour and chastity in} ‘The most wteresting feature of the Tea Party THE LATE BATTLES NEAR RICHMOND. | is said to be a a? a ee an Of | their intercourse with their ministers’—supposing | was the genera} and aurestrained mtercoarse be-

We take the following extract from an article in | documents, including letters written by the eng-| : a é 5 aa “a ‘ e the London Times’ in Seheene to the late coniae! lish and French consuls at Richmond, testifying | ¥° published such stuf, mani. holding the office | tween Catholics and Protestants. Though avowed of battles near Richinond, only partial accounts of | to the unanimity manifested by the inhabitants ot | of Colonial Secretary or Queen's Prater, and that ly a Catholic eutertainment, Protestants of all which had been received when the * Asia” left :-~ | that city in forming a separate goverpment, ang of | the Government had not removed us—would not | denominations were to be seen at all the tables,

A day or two more will bring us more exaet news | their ability to maintain it. Another decument, | 2 vs . : a of this great event of the war, but it is diflicult to! merely devoted te the military operations of the the whole Execatixe be justly held responsible for and m every greup epon the grounde—thesshGie- believe that we have not already learnt its main in-| Confederates, states that nearly all the battles | our act —and who would question the propriety) ing tha? the attempts of unpriucipled politicians cidents. The Three Days of June mean that toe | fought in Virginia, from Bull Kun down to the | : > ion w ite 3 osu Confederate army is strong enough to hold its posi. | —— ca feht ae mead sikation in | of having the whole Protestant population warned toexcite jealousy and dliscora Between Protestants tion in Virginia for a time that may be indefinitely baitic of Fair Oaks. and the operations i the) against supporting such a Government? We and Catholics have happily proved unavailing,—

olonged. A y days ag rere i rhe a ; ; ' mi . i aes tier the Boiiernem would Detle to hold the | Shevandoab Valley, were as many victories wun blame the Adn.nitration for the grow and ue-|and that the Orange clement, so miachiswusly Cupitel which they had chosen. Many who were | by the South or the enemy pgs | provoked libels that Pope bas been allowed te! introduced inte our society for political purposes, disposed to give most credit to their determination | men, in waterial of war, in money and in resour-)) . i aia | a ae . . aud military spirit still thoaght that, though Rich-| ces of all kinds. In a private note addressed by heap upon the Catholics; and the latter would be | has not seriously disturbed the good feeling which

mond might hold out during a considerable term,

and gain a place among the towns memorable for |

Luaportant selves, it wust fall daring the present cuinpaign. ‘The retreat of the Confederates to strony positions in the rear, and their prolongation of the war in the more hilly parts of Virginia, se@med the natural conrse of the campaign, present it cannot be suid that there is any probabi lity of the reduction of Richmond. The Confeds rates, by using all the strength and rousing all the enthusiasm of the country, have brought togethe; armies in Virginia with which the Federals find it

| When the reverses of Port Roval and Fort Donel-) _ i . : . . sen made the French Cabtiet thet that the South frightful idolatry—that its priests are filthy in ibeir |

History, written to borrify old women of beth sexes, and abont which Pope, the moral poet of England, net the immoral writer of P. E. Island, remarks, “ London's culamn rears its tall head and lies.” Mr. Pope then alludes to what he calls that most abominable Sacrament, Confession. Certainly Mr. Pope would consider it a most abominable thing to be called upon te contess some of his acts. He finds great fanit that the priest dors net publish what be is told private) in eontession ; but what would Pope say if he did? or what would acy eae thivk of the priest who woukl publish to the world what he was told! ueder the private seal of confession! Depraved, indeed, raust be the mind that would want hituto publish it to the +-orld.* Catholic priests are ot ordained for the purpose of pampering to the vices | of mankind, but for correcting them, and are not likely to preach in the style of some preachers ot | reformed Christianity, who, for the world, would | ot be so impolite as to mention hell in the! presence of certain people; and, therefore, it is! their duty to probe moral sures to the bottom and (then apply remedies, and tot, like an ignorant quack, skin them over and leave the moral cor-| ruption festering inade. But it would be as) qFeasouable to suppose that every instrament of | purgery was to be used by a skilful surgeon to a. healthy patient, as to suppose that a moral and virtuous female was to be questioucd about every | -ethne. “What would be thought of the fool who, | on reading over alf the laws for punishing crimes, | exclaimed, horrible, borrible! Are innocent | “people to be visited with all these punishments / and is it not as feylish for a slanderer, on reading | a book on Theology, proposing questions to be asked of all surts of characters, to exclaimare all these questions to be put to every virtuous female * | But if Deu’s Theology were asPope falsely alleges, & most immoral book, such an argument would go

right gently and cheerfully did they attend to the | the mass is sure te tell, advantageously, upon pub- | Impossible to cope. Ii is impossible to refuse admi anne eyirellirvd their happy senate. Bat, lest too! lie liberty. As yet, however, no constitutional ot raion to a people which, invaded by & commu much staring might seem rude, we shal! withdraw | sivaintiognee tundee hen appeared, but sach a | ttee times as numerous as itself, and deprived ot our reluctant eyes,and return to the dancing; and | :

dfficult it would be to say of the six hundred or 80 present, whose iantastie tees moved lightest and most gracefully through the “ mazes of the dauce,” wherein all of them scemed at one time or another to take a turn or two.

It was expected, I believe, that Charlottetown would have been fully m presented there, but the disappointment was accounted for by the funeral of poor Father Brady occurring on the same day. Even as it was a few were present; and between four and five u’clock the Vicar General and Father Dan \wurriedly arrived from Vernon River to grace the denouement of this Souris Tea Party.

A GUEST.

i a a f a Mazzini or a Koasut} -, tt only te oppose a sfubborn resistance to its cue actus ee on» BER OF Rh ROCUEIG, for ) mies, but to take the offensive, and intlict on them jleaves the Russian Government to deal with an ye most severe defeats. The present situation of | indefinite headless “conspiracy.” Sueh an incep- | the two armies is likely to pive the greaiest encou tion of revelution only intensifies the feelings of ragement w the South, aud to raixe to the highest the people, and tends to give them shape by the) pilch the resolution and the military pride of the action of secret societies. ie dhetita of acan 3 hie’ } saathie inal distinguished German, whose masterly lines of for-| (Y€7Y attte of war in which naval strength cid { ae ae . . + uot euter, aud now the muin army of the enemy is i tifications at Sebastopul so long held the Allies at | ican Mak at a hao eleebar ‘ttamhaieele Pi as ; od: Pri Ss Obelj ki on ta _| afiven : MACK Ue s at ap ina Uarrow pe Hinsuia, bey, ig arrested; so is Prince Obelinski, th “| where iis communications are endangered and its tier of one airsady banished to Siberia, and thes power of domy harm fo the Confederates is ulmost are joined in captivity by the head of a distin-} destroyed. What must be the result of such a bat- |gushed German house, Baron Engelboldt. In) te as has been fouglt! Evidently that the Fede

i : . a dunn viaaatiad »} with much worse chances than at first. A beuten . ; | of being consigued to durance, because everybody | a aniatl 4 uiten | t >, to Oe - ’ > : - 5 : a . . 2 law > . . ni 50 > ors fro “or St. Peter's, 26th July, 1862. lives in au atmosphere of suspicion. No man is, 2") 1 W hieh loses daily large numbers from fevers | : i : | aud other maladies, encamped on a desert tract of — > ae safe, for ne matter how Joyal his antecedents, he ’ i * lage a _ . 2? tf tand, debarred from all communication with the TEA PARTY AT ST. DUNSTAN’S COL-/ ™#y, 09 the mere suggestion of a connection with country beyoud them, and with enemy’s cavalry LEGE GROUNDS | @ secret society, be consigned to Siberia. Colo- ever ready to take advantage of any Weakness iu : juel Rostoffsoil, one of the Emperor’s aide-de-| their cowinunications with the sea behind them, is j a » i me Riot midi 2° & west oti s Pare, c ikely vain unv v 4% vorti udvantages parties and pie nics, of banquets and | C@mps, has disappeare d, a word whieh in Rus not like ly to xain any very important advantage | sia bears a meaning so fearfully significant, as to 19 the midst of an American summer. waggons, | make it a merciful relief to know that he lias jour- | | . . . | neyed North even under compulsion, A comiittee | | ot inquiry long ago appointed has not yet completed | +o. shows that, even ut isolated points, they are | }an luvestigation, aud the reason assigned is, that prepared to receive the enemy. The ambiguity of the dimensions of the “ conspiracy far exceed | tie telegraph prepared us to believe that the battle | | the most gloomy anticipations, before Charlesixn ended in a victory for the South. And all enjoy'd their own suecess, according to its | There is also an undercurrent of discontent in) The thing is now made clear. A Kederal i kind, ~ | the large cities, and it takes the mute but expres- plainly ignorant of the enemy he was “ —s . i Of taste to please the appetite, — discourse to suit | sive form of incendiarisim. For weeks the largest | the 21900 = te a oye = oe: aud oe the mind. | fires have been reported at the capital; and now | 8° 4-00 ten to the attack of a battery, and he | or “ise and . dh y of ds. | : ¢ : | seems to have been as compietely defeated us the exercise and merriment, and harmony of sounds, | we Jearn that the torch of the ineeudiary has been |

. oy’ aint on’ en malign : | British were at New Orleans, and perhaps much | dike eae tT d upon Saint Dunstan's | a¢ work at Tiflis, where ten houses were destroy-| in the same manner. The Southern ne Wepupers

ed, at Mobilew, where twenty were burnt, whilst | however, appear not to magnify the action, as the | at Czarnichehow, on one day, the 1th of June, | light we have mentioned has been exvolled for | no less than forty-four houses, one hundred and} vearly half a century, bat conient themselyes with |

We hear of bazaars,

Exenrsions night and day in steamers, gine and curs,

And many summer pleaeures, of which Prince Ed ward Isle abounds,

And ‘mougst the rest a Tea upon Saint Dunstan's College grounds,

manner Which shows that the Confederates are able to carry on a long war, the fighting at Charles

“Religion’’ and Crown loyalty upbeld their dignity At this convivial gathering with aniformity,

| 're-ident reminds His Majesty of the fact that nine months ago, several cabinet councils were held in Paris with the special object of discussing

vernment.

A Catholic is told by the chief officer in the Colony, with the apparent sanction of the

Jeff Davis to Louis Napoleon himself, the rebel contemptible dotards if they supported that Go-) has xe long characterised in this Island the inter-

, community of afi denominations. The number at | the Lea Party was estimated az from M00 te

the propriety of recognizing the Confederate | Whole Executive authority — and the foul libel is | 1500; and the amount realized was £105—which

cognition, and that the thing was given up only

would not be able to stand against the North aud miaiilain its iadependence. The note ends by stating that all tears of that kind ought te be abandoned now, and the series of brilliant victories

haustion of the resources of the North, ought to satisfy the Ewperor of the unanimity of sentiment