&

oe

a

idl

i

THE EA

= ¥ r ‘4 } A iva : IN Ba i

WE Petr De Motes a ee

STOTT +. RY A Ae ERS tN aT TREE ae

we that a production so ambiguous and novel in its style,

CV asbuaaek $27 rye ° aie Mae tantarn avtent for what autho- belie ‘ . OUNCE inis is true to a eertain extent Or Woat aust c : “ee head i sab rity had the present Mayor and that part Of the Council could have em inated from the pee of so practised a writer. r ae a Pees Paapet. oe te > Me MeKaehern says that Me. W arburton used all the meaus lected in August last to authorise the payment of one penny | Mr. Melacaern says Pe d ee es hms asm Uh, cient Ca tl ther! in his power to secure the retura of Mr. F. Gaudet. Di uring two years before they were in oiticef Ud the otne NS Por ; cz ia ‘4 ee Ten lee) 1 Mr. Warburton aet otherwise, he would be a traitor to him

hand, the remainder of’ it is not true, for besides many small

ums ordered to be paid -+ry the Council since August ixst, ae . . i. let an ‘

there have been fees to witnesses, eosts refunded, moieties of| the othe

‘eolf and that Government of which he isa member ; because r Candidate, Captain Hubbard, publicly declared his fines, awards and advances to the Reeorder, all which have | intention, if returned, not to support the present erioeepct

| Mr. Gaudet pledged himself to support if. In such a om Py edut Mayor, and which are charged in the very accounts that | Mr. Warburton could not hesitate c one et eS this veriteble committee have been so long auditing; yet they | all the means in his power to secure the retarn 0 7 r. : . : we the hardihood, in the face of what they know tobe} Mr. MecKachern next states that he heard Mr. — ee positive facts, esnecially the advances to the Recorder that|at a meeting at Cascumpes, express bis Spieeninntion of . they made codshlerable talk about, to say that L have *not| canvass the district in conjunction with any other candidate, ! ; iny in the field, and that on the same evening

een paid by we ander the sanction of tis Worship the pre |

; . ‘ ° es Oe . hid the aathority ef the present Mayor or City Council for | there being so mi . ; 6 ; oe Me “ee ee * took the 1d man by the hand is there any wonder that my feelings would be} he went to fignish and “tock the blind man by ’

ery “they have dealt v ' ‘

io

heu faisehoed, ia-ult and defamation are thrown | and gave him his interest. Now, Mr. McKachero, - i resent them, especially when they | surely must have known, when you penoned the ary ae hive been made with a design to injure me? That persou | ment, that it was not correct. : The fucts are ne a Wes au idiet or a slave who would not show fight | Warburton held a meeting at Uongemipes 7 = " i tb ir such circumstances. The committee very modestly {and oa the day following at Nail Pond. rere a ! . ry leuiently with me.” How very | candidates then in the field, all professing = eee Wiiedle they are! t was my right to preach such doc- supporting the present Government. Under ms : ~ i: tue aaier the prov eatien and not theirs, as I defy them | stances, Mr. Warbarton could not ee eee, sow vue particle of sathority for their ungentlemanly and | of either of the three, but very Po ae es - a sie uduct towards me. I have hitherto treated them/ electors. Now, sir, at the meeting at 3 we ~ See = t'u! manner as I have all the other Coun- burton did not “ take the blind man by the han ; ° . { sa bowsd ia honor to state that from the day | contrary, he made use of the same words oo oe ; : exievel ucen iny duties as City Clerk, [ have sojourned | Cascumpee,—expressed his intention, water the - _ _ with the whole Coun i lors on the ‘most friendly terms pos- | ciepametaapen, eee ear — ee ee oe le; im fuct, I candidly confess that L have beeu treated by | make choice of a true Liberal. but yo oa pete: a sat their Worships and the Councillors, with tue present exception, | Lord Mansfield has suid, that : as eee a! os . . : as an equal more than as @ servant. cases themselves shauld aiter. A few weeks ago —— 7 fhe committee say that ‘vo balance had been struck in| in the Islander, over the signature ol a. hs de the eash account for two years and a half.’ Why did they | report of Mr. W arburton s meeting at ene ers ted hi as not see to this before ? And that * £12 13s. 4d. was posted deign to call Mr. Warburton a Liberal, but designa . on to the eredit of the Police Court over and above the amount |“ Snatcher,” because—so ingen es oy, ms = netually received.” Both these assertions are palpably false, principles to be in accordance with " gone overn ee the committee well know, and as the books theimselves/and his inteutton of supporting en “* Te testify. Balances were struck in the cash account, and the | and subsequent public meetings, br. Bavoen hin s it ry money was actually received for the Court; and their own |‘! come out” In opposition to the ene pg Mie ata eoaduct in this particular woes to refute their assertion by Now 1 ask you, Mr. Amicus—l beg pardon, i eS - gach ke showing their dishonesty, for if they saw and knew that this|—if Mr. Warburton was not perteetly justified ‘in coming sun had been crowded into the Police Court account, when | forward and using “ all the means iu his power 7 to =_— had not been received, way did they not say so in their| the return of the candidate pleded-to ee ee reoort? Why did they not then expose the fraud which (hey | Government e VW hen a “— See eres . : e . now, by a side wind, try to make appear assuch? Does not | tion of standing alone, Mr. Habbas Was ote o! a age this circumstance alone show the committee have acted dis-| Liberal candidates above mentioned 5 but so soon as he honestly, both towards you and me, iv attempting to cover up opposed the Government, Mr. aes not be ~ sch iniquity in the first place, and in now trying to stab me | to the principles which he has ai i. ba - = with it? Who will believesuch men in future? It has been | forth and oppose him, With regard to Mr, a ar “ s for some time currently reported that Mr. Morrison’s sole | prevailing on Mr. Conroy to ee - pried: oe a aim is to stir ap a prejadice against me to obtain my office, | t have only to say that it evidence es aes J of I . and I am almost uncharitable enough to believe it, as he Conroy’s principies, inasmuch as he would not endanger t e cectaialy has shown himself throaghout this affair thoroughly | return of two Liberals for the district, by having the votes co unctent for anything! He my faney himself fully en- | divided among three. I _ reason to believe that Mr. titled to che sobriguet, which has been bestowed on him, of W arburton would rather that Mr. Gaudet should resign, but f book-keepers,” but be is not so shrewdly correct | he left it entirely to the candidates and the people. As re- he has made on/y £3 6s. of an error in| gards Mr. Warburton representing Mr. Gaudet at one of the

‘+ prince © as he imagines, for : ste! , : the small sumrof £12 4s. 64., while auditing some bills placed | polling divisions, aud getting another person to stand for belore the City Council, although these bills are noted in his himself, which “ Alexander McKachern ” has italicised, I reports as “ audited and found correct!” aud this wonderfully | can only say that it goes far to shew Mr. Warburton’s popu- larity, aud that even were he absent from the district, he would be returned with a Jarge majority of votes. which they have shown themselves totally incom peteut to } i have thus shown, Mr. Kaditor, that Alexander McK xch- Lring authority for, or to adjudicate upon honorab'y. ern’s attempt ta e<tablish a charge of inconsistency agains: ‘he committee also say, with respect to the reception of | Mr. Warburton has been a failure ; und as [| havé very good their report, that when « Mr. Dachemin ineved that the! reason to believe that “ Amicus ” and * Alexander Mctach- report be adopted and printed, "- . Baroard moved, in|err ” are Sytonymous, I do not see the great cons:stency In amendment, thatit de not received.’ ‘This is decidedly untrue, ! Amicus calling Mr. Hubbard a * Suatener Juberal,” and the latter gentleman moved that the report be laid on the | Alexander McHachern eulogising him so greatly. tab e till the next meeting ; aud if the committee possessed In conclusion, [ would remark that if Mr. MeNachern ean- bat a tithe of modesty that they have of assurance to vilify | not estubiish a better point in the * long letter of the doings and try to injure, without the least shadow of authority, one lof the Snatchers,” which lie has promised to treat the readers whe tover knowingly insulted or injured them, they would | of the Islander to, than he has in that of the 25th ultimo, I bave submitted to iay their report ou the table, even without would advise bim to devote the time which he intends for the

honest clairman has had the audacity to dictate, und his col- loa cue the temerity to subscribe to assertions respecting me

a motion, and have it fully discussed, especially when matters | writing of his long letter to

» , : . . Th « VNohet % of very far less moment have been laid over for weeks for _ _ That delightful task,

; : ce ; : ' . ’ To teach the young idea how to shoot. discussion, at the instance of Mr. Morrison; but this gentle-

man’s object ia this instance was to damage me instanta- | ress le & Toke Mr. Editor, es gy * ¥ . . _ + ~\ “o re j thts iy $ : Q } neously, by crowding the report into print, which, 1f left to | Kildare, July 8, 1898. :

ee eee

free discussion, with a fall Council, might pave been thrown under the table. This, L am bound to believe, from his sub- sequent couduct about the report (which may form the

grvuad-word of another communication), and from having been # le of 1

To tur Eprron. or THE KXAMINER.

Sim,—I see by the last Monitor 1 am the subject of an article in that paltry paper, the editor of which informs the inadvertently cautione] by his intimate friends of Lis propen- | public { have displayed not only a considerable amount of sity to find fault with and slander some party or person in| bad taste but also a defective judgment ~ publishing my almost every society to which he hag been attached ; and | card. In eras I beg to say, [ have followed a similar further from the fact that the committee, uot satisfied with |Course to that adopted in other cittes, and where there is to |be found persons with quite as much ¢aste as the editor of

insulting and endeavouring to degrade me, must needs take . . . ea 2 : é oe ‘ ; | +4 Monitor 3 to the eing those h whe , all the Councillois, both in and out of offize, tu task for taking | the Monitor. As to there being those in the city who have

particular care of the streets and neglecting the wharfs. | ‘hated claims upon the oto Lt will ig a wpe qnatiion What part of the duty “to examine and balance the City | itas the | ottiaet Alliance ae — echt ? My book ” had to do with the Councillors or with spending the | friends say, no! For my own part i 7 It leave that knotty money in this particular? ‘The committee, by their charter, | Pout to be — ed at the hustings. i menor further were not authorised in any way whatever to scandalize either | insinuates ees [ — - been a sullicieutly loug to the Councillors or me; but having forced themselves into | V4eant my sitting at the Couneil Board. Chat may be his stirrups, and overlooking their duty sltogetber, they deter- | OP!2!08 now, but what would have been his opinion provided mined to show fight ‘‘all ’round the board,” and ride rough- ' ' had joined the E alitieal eens as 80 often requested, and shod over every body who might be easy enough to let them | ee forth as their nominee? ] am at a loss to under- do so. stand why the Civic Election should be a political one; buat

Now that the committee have delivered themselves of their | that may arise from my want of judgment, which, { am sorry spitetul, pointless epistle, what. does fa sli cieeee ball Have | to eay, i am sometimes deficient of, as a certain individual they, by it, shown any diplomas or presented any legal or | the vicinity of the Monitor office, can testify from the fact iawful standard by which to measure my work or my com- | Of oe letting him, some year or two Since, slip so easily petenicy ? or have they dared to say, what is of most iniportance | mene eT fingers, when he gave. leg bail to so ae of his to you, that the accounts have been dishonestly kept 2| creditors, and no doubt, in bis own opinion, displayed not

* Aye, that’s the rub!” Whether your money has bee

n | Only a considerable amount of good taste and sound judgment. 5 j . s attorl mest a 7 vy jeavi ‘ honestly or dishonestly expended ia so fur es [ am concerned | but also viper oie of domestic ae “: feaving Bi with it} aad if you are satisfied that the accounts have been | Wife and family to the care of the didera/ inhabitants of this . , . “Itty °F LO ate he oan T i howestly kept, there ends the matter. You are the judges; | eey: In conclazion, I beg 0 mete, that I oe requested, full and the commi'tve should have had the common honesty to |two months siuee, to offer for the election of Councillor for vhether tie acevun's were honestly or dishonestly kept ; | No. 2 Ward, and then stated [ would do so, provided Mr. tii’ tic aCccecvil Wee shsesenta ¥ as Us >} + . e

show way recite tilt doceseder. if ie theis Tomaso’ Mclsaac withdrew from the Council ; and upon hearing he

~o bons ee eer b fail seincmend hlishe , Saad i th ta ‘y cana yt produce any nore evidence against the had iad acted, L published my eard, which COurss, 38 m7 humble ‘she wuminie than they tive dana in oithae of thair| Opinion, will prove far more acceptable to the electors than

Of the accounts than they hive done in eltner of their | ~¢t t .

4 being noiminated at a secret and political association, and afterwards approved of at a hole-in-the-corner meeting, where the proposer, in lieu of others, had to second and carty his

honey pistivs, the sooner they “ put their light under a bushel,” own proposition—the nominee of the Political Alliance and

episi

aud sit on it, the better it will be for themselves. L bave the honer to be your humble servant,

Ch aclottaiceie. t6ch dule:4538 his proposer being the only electors present belonging to No. wi AsVieVlrvwal Vill « ys QICe < ° ‘ I Tie 1 2 Ward. I remaio, sir, yours truly,

So rue Eprror or tus Examiner.

July 24, 1858. Wma. MURPHY. ——— tH rrr oe 8

Sin ;—The Islander is becoming more and more notorious; ‘‘ TRUTH 1s GREAT AND WILL PREVAIL.’’—Protector, July 7. having its columes tiled with communications utterly un- | ‘thy of publicity In a journal having any pretensions to} } spoctability ; Instance, the iutercepted letters and ciher soutradictory matter published each successive week in that ;aper. My mind was forcibly impressed with this fact upon vvadiny the Js’ander of the 2d inst., in which appeared a coni munication, signed “ Alexander McHachern,” purport. | ing to be a report of the doings at the late Election in thig) District, but the real object of which was to show the incoa- sisteacy of Mr. Warburion’s conduct, Asy person who tekes the trouble of reading Mr. Mek.’s letter cannot fail to perceive tuat he has completely failed in his attempt to snow this.

[t is not my province, at present, to treat of the merits or demerits of the successful or rejected Candidates; I mean simply to review this letter of Mr. MeHachern’s, and perhaps, in showing the futility of his attempt to prove Mr. Warbur- tou’s conduct inconsistent, way also prove A:s inconsistency. First of all I will remark, that was Mr. McHachern’s signa- ture not attacied to the letter in question, 1 could scarcely

That ‘* truth is great and will prevail,’’ An ancient author wrote,

And they who now the truth assail, The seif same maxim quote.

What means the oft-repeated tale, Urged by corruption’s tools,

The bare-faced falsehood, trite and stale, That ‘* godless ’’ are our schools?

That those who govern still withhold The Bible from our youth?

A lie so often preach’d and told, Tbey almost deem it truth.

But time will soon disclose the cheat, And reason’s sway return ;

And new-tiedged Tories from defeat An useful lesson learn.

Then thanks to those whose gew’rous aid Upheld the Liberal cause,

Aud to the tried and true conyeyed The right to frame our laws.

eh a AIOE ROBT ABY Sere TE aS ' =

he Examiner.

} — —

| CHARLOTTETOWN, Pp. E.L, JULY 26, 1858.

THE GEORGETOWN ELECTION.

—_-

eek manifests its disappointment and indignation at the High Sheriff of King’s County, pene net officer did not think proper to favour the designs of the Tories by returning on his writ one of the candidates at the Jate = tion at Georgetown, who had a minority of votes at thetlose of the poll. Our cotemporary declares, with more ange than diseretion, that in returning Mr. McDonald the Sheriff has set ’ and that in doing so, he ad-quarters.’” We

Tue Monitor of last w

‘all law and evidence at defiance,’ has ‘* been impelled by a mandate from he , need scarcely stop to characterise this latter assertion as a de- liberate and malicious falsebood, for those who know a? thing of the determined and upright character of the High ounty are well assured of the fact, that he ould be influenced in the With

Sheriff of King’s C is the Jast man in the County who ¢ discharge of his daty by a mandate from any quastie. respect to our cotemporary’s dictum, that the return in ques- tion is contrary to all law and evidence — the writer “ the splenetic attack on Mr. Underhay only displays his own tgnor- ance of the law, as well as his utter disregard for decency, truth, and common sense. If Mr. Sheriff Underhay had made any other return than that complained of, he would have — deserved the imputation of setting the law at defiance. Mis duty, as is clearly prescribed by the Statute, is to return the names of the candidates having a majority of votes on the poll books. A scrutiny, if demanded, is {held totally irre- spective of the return; and the Sheriff is wisely precluded from pronouncing any judgment on the evidence taken at such scrutiny. The law dirécts him to return the minutes of the evidence to the House of Assembly, and it is for that body alone to decide whether it is sufficient to invalidate any of those votes which were the subject of the scrutiny.

The Monitor’s calumnious attack on Mr. Sheriff Underhay, which, by reproducing it, the Zs/ander has endorsed — can be regarded only as evidence of the disappointment and mortifi- cation which the Tory faction are doomed to suffer — after all their boasting to the contrary — from the contemplation of the inevitable fact, that the new House will be opened with a clear majority in support of the Government, on whose overthrow they had so fondly but so prematurely calculated.

> oro

THE CIVIC ELECTIONS.

Own to-morrow week the citizens of Charlottetown will have the privilege, which, like Christmas, comes but once a year, of conferring civic.lionours on those high fanctionaries whom they may deem most fitted te assume the responsibilities and disefarge the duties of Conseript Fathers fur the great City of Charlottetown for the ensuing year. To the aspirants for those honours we cordially wish a period of haleyon dignity, undisturbed by anything more grievous than the reflection that the state of the times in Charlottetown, while it necessitates their abstinence from the historical turtle of civie feasts, ren- ders the Lord Mayor’s office iff our little Municipality truly a Lord Mayor’s show, and a holy one. In fact, it has been for some time apparent, from an inspection of the personnel of our Common Council, that instead of the whilom characteristic,

« Justice, In fair round belly, with good capon lined,”

our civic rulers present rather the appearance of ‘The lean and slipper’d pantaloon.’’

With the honourable exeeption of Mr. Councillor Duchemin, their Worships seem pre-eminently qualified to go down a pump with a message. We call attention to this circumstance merely to show the degree to which the business of a City Councillor affects the corporeal (it were offensive to say men- tal) organization of a gentleman who has the misfortune to have civic dignities thrast upon him. The City finances are said te be in a very embarrassed condition. Can the chosen guardians of the City, while this is the case, manifest the outwar. and visible signs of personal comfort and material prosp..1t iy ?

‘* Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,’’ and we hold the converse of the proposition to be equally true, ut least to this extent, that he who rules an impoverished community should be the representative, outwardly at least, of the adverse fortune of his constituents, as physiognomisis tell us that the expression of the human countenance is varied and modified by the thoughts on which the mind of the individual is engaged.

We perceive that the Political Alliance, having had the reins of our civic government so long, and having landed the citizens in so comfortable a haven of insolvency, has, like the doctor at the funeral of a deceased patient, decided on carrying home its work by seeing the victim consigned to its mother earth, and has consequently resulyed to assume the manage- ment of the city for another year, provided the salaries of the officials can be wrung from the hard earnings of a people struggling against the pressure of adverse circumstances of an unprecedented nature.

We believe the Liberals, as a party, will offer no opposition, deeming it unwise to carry partizan politics into a question so small as the local administration of Charlottetown, and be- lieving that they who have tied are best fitted to loose the knot which has been tightening for so long a time.

Candor rompels us to say, which we do with regret, that the Act incorporating Charlottetown has not realized the benefits anticipated from it. This failure we attribute, not to the principle of incorporation, for which we haye long been and are still advocates, but to the combined influence of de- pressed commerce and injudicious and unnecessary expense in the management of the details of our city government, We shall ona future occasion more particularly refer to these matters, with a view to the more economical administration of our civic affairs. Meanwhile we hope that, no matter who may be elected on Tuesday week, some prompt and energetic measures may be adopted to relieve the City from its present state of financial depression.

To CorrEesponpENtTs.—* W. H. McKay,’’ in reference to a

complaint respecting inattention to the Light at Fi ‘ pe aes ; 5 ght at Pish Island, | of Antichrist more imposing, andin a more prominent position

———- + Oa >

!

i :

| will appear in our next. uae }

Ey Jerowe Buirz, the great Magician, who has been per- | ao with the most brilliant success, in St. John, Halifax | ae Picton, intends giving a series of entertainments soon in| | Sis city, where, we have no doubt, he will be liberally |

| patronised.

MORE ELEGANT EXTRACTS.

Tan Presbyterian Witness of the 17th instant containg | another article in reference to the affairs of this Colony — | political, social, and religious — which far exceeds preced; ones in the amount of falsehood, bigotry and BCUTTIL ty, fo, which the pages of that journal have obtained an unenyiable © distinction. ‘The article under notice appears under the edi. torial head, without date or signature, and the extracts from 'which are of such a nature as to require little or no comment, The writer begins by stating :

‘© A fortnight ago I said something: to the readers of Witness about P. 1. Island politics ; this week 1 wish to gq little concerning a great variety of things on and in the Ig}

‘I am sorry to say that the elections were not quite g peaceful as I was at first led to believe. There was a+ blood row’ between the Irishmen and Highlanders near George on the afternoon of the election day. { obtained the follow; particulars from the Rey. A. Munro :—The Irish yoters in the proportion of three to every one Highlander : ¢ being fifty of the latter and one hundred and fifty of the former, The Highlanders, knowing their own numerical weakness anticipating foul play on the part of the Tristr, stood shoulder to shoulder all day till all of them had polled their yotes (Of course they voted for an honest Protestant member, who was pledged to oppose the Government and the Priests, then retired in a body, and were proceeding to their home when they were chased by the Irish with stones and sticks, Still the Highlanders were very unwilling to begin a fight. They bore with the insults heaped upon them with cmeeail patience. At last the stones were coming fast and heayy, 4 venerable and feeble Highlander was struck in the thigh and knocked down. Others also were seriously injured. The

young men stepped forward to the front, formed into close column, and rushed on the Irish with irresistible fury. The Irish fled (one hundred and fifty of them!) in terror and dig- may ; bat alas, not till one of them was killed and eight others disabled for life! This was a feartul chastisement, bat who will venture to say that it wasnot justly merited? I am gure that the Highlanders used every honourable effort to averta fight, but in vain. They were utterly unprepared for a fight, The Irish were clearly the aggressors, and their punishment and disgrace, though terrible, are justly deserved.”

lt is quite immaterial to us whether it is the “ Rey. 4. Manro”’ or the rambling editor of the Witness who has drawn the long bow, and shocked his pious readers by the above tale of a ‘* bloody row’’ at Georgetown; all we haye to say is, that a more ‘* bloody’’ lic was never printed in the colamns of any journal. That there might have been a litti¢ fracas at Georgetown on the day of election, as is usual at all elee- tions, is not unlikely ; but from all our enquiries we have been unable to learn that there had been anything like a * bloody row’’ or a riot of any description ; and we think if there had been ore man killed, and eight others disabled for life, the circumstances would be known all oves the Island long before they were communicated to the readers of the Presbyterian Witness. But such occurrences as these are unknown to the people of Prince Edward Island.

We notice, in the next extract, a further recourse to the use of the long bow; but the arrow, in this case, is aimed more directly against our brother of the Islander than ourselves; and we leave him to return the shot. We shail reply to the first sentence by stating that it contains “wo falso- hoods: Ist, ‘* The Government party’’ have not sustained a defeat; and, 2d, they are not ‘‘ writhing’’ ander that or any thing else.

‘¢The Government party are writhing under their recent defeat. They descend even to scurrilous personal attacks on private individuals. Indeed the political press of Charlotte- town is far below that of Halifax in its style of warfare. The Examiner and {slander could only be paralelled by the old Sun and Colonist. The Islander is a most injurious and unprin- cipled journal. Its polities may not be bad, but its tone with regard to things religious is absolutely dangerous. It algo truckles to popery, and aims at bringing about a coalition between the papists and conservatives of P. E. Island, such as now disgraces Nova Scotia.”’

The next passage, which treats on the religious aspects and characteristics of the Colony, displays. in addition to the deep-rooted propensity of the writer for falsehood, such a degree of impudence and envy as would make his testimony on any sabject absolutely contemptible and worthless. We are not at all surprised that he should have ranked the Catho- lics after the Mormons, Quakers, and Jews; but we do marvel at his candor in admitting that there are thirty-three thousand of them on the Island— nearly as many as all the other di- versified, conflicting and quarrelling sects put together. The impertinence respecting the Catholic Chapel in this city is a mere ebullition of envy and mortification, more likely to excite the laughter and derision ofthe Catholics than their indignation. If the appearance of that proud edifice is in- sulting to such fellowsas he of the Witness, we should like to punish them by making them gaze upon it every day in the year; or at all events until they can manage to build a church of their own that will rear a prouder head. In that case we think their punishment would be likely to extend far beyond the term of their natural lives.

Tt will be seen by the asterisks that we have omitted a passage in reference to the Convent. We can only say that the writer who was capable of penning a calumny so foul and atrocious, must have one of the most depraved minds and corrupted hearts that ever polluted a tabernacle of clay. **So much about politics. Now a little about things ecclesiastical. There are in P. E. Island about 22,500 Pres- byterians, ‘subdivided us follows :—Established Church of Scotland, (including 5,000 McDonaldites) 9,700. Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, 6,800. Free Church, 6,000. The Presbyterians of P. E. Island are not fond of quarrelling. They live like good christians, and near friends and brethren, as they are. Episcopalians number 6,700 ; Methodists, 4,700; Baptists, 3,000 ; Brianites, 1,759. In 1854 there were 22 Universalists, 7 Mormens, 1 Quaker, 1 Jew, 4 Unitarians, and 33,000 Papists. .

‘The Episcopalians of the Island are in the main evangelical. There is a smal] section of them extremely High Chureh and Puseyite. The Wesleyans are very strong and active in Char- lottetown ; they have not made great progress elsewhere. The Brianites have done them some injury. he ministers of this sect are very active ; but like most errorists, they are pliant in their creed. They aim at securing people. A church for this people is half built at Charlottetown, bat the ‘ sinews of war’ having been exhausted, operations had to be suspended. There is @ very handsome building in course of erection for the Pres- byterian Church of Nova Scotia. It will provaniy be the most elegant in Charlottetown. When the Free Church and the Secession unite, this Church will do them both very well indeed. The Papists of P. E. Island-are a bold set. © They thought, a short time ago, they were to have everything their own way, Inasmueh as they had a Popish Governor and a very Popish Cabinet. But Protestants are still soo strong; and there are still too many honest men among them to permit Rom» to rule the roast. ‘The Babylonian Chapel rears its head proudly above ail the Churches in the town. This is an insult which should not be permitted in a Christian land—the temple

than the temples of Christ. Babylon has a Nunnery anda

College here also. J Jearn that the former does not flourish well. e . . - * ° . A splendid Cathedral is in course of erection at Tignish—in a very poor neighbourhood. The poor wretches have to pay—hard as the times are-—and many of them wil! be rained by the heavy tax

ilevied of them by their ghostly advisers.”’

Highland blood was thoroughly roused. Their most powerful

v-