‘in 1869, with a diminished population, than | it bas been for some years back. Surely this! is not a sign of prosperity, and itis for states

/men, whose business it is to know how wide)

the limits stasd * between a splendid anda

happy Jand,’ to staunch this perpetual drain, ot a nation’s life blood. Whatever the out-|

{From the New York Albion

DISESTABLISHMENT IN TUE OF LORDS,

Mr. Gladstone's Bill for the disestablish-

ment of the Irh Church has met with an

expected, though |et us hope, only temporary

HOUSE

in th House ot Lords Ata

cinemas

| thing influencing a child’s life and character. A Catholic education is not to be imparted by mere instruction; mere knowledze of letters, numbers, writing and arithmetic, ¢x- | erciges no influence on the eanscience. Unless ‘the conseience be inflae eed will a knuwiedze ‘be imparted of right and wrong. Many per- sone who believed in the great principles of

{¥romthe Boston Pilot.)

EDUCATION.

Forvnam, N Y., May 27, 1869. To the Editor of The Pilot. Dear Str:—The system of education

Opposition,

SS

* a meeting of the Conservative Peers, held in 7% § London on Saterday last, tha course to be °§ = pursued bg the L cds relative to disestablish

ent was brought up for di-cussion. Lord

airns urged that oj; position be mage to tn: | Bill on its second reading. He felt that, as the country bad never pronounced on the present Bill, and as the feeling of the House of Lords was so 0; posed to it, the most politic, consistent, and best course to pursue, under the circumstances, would be tu repudiate the measure. Lord Salisbury and Carnarvon! deprecated the policy of Lord Cairns, the! tormer deeming it better to accept the Bill and modify « in Committee than to renew ill feeling and exe tement. Lord Derby how- ever, supported Lord Cairns,and the majority of those present ¢ ncurring with him, it was

| tenant is aot secure in Tipperary, for there

ery is raised aga:net Ireland for the number adopted by the Government of the United and atrocity of its agrarian crimes, it muSt} Grates 19 undoubted!y def ctive, and demands be confessed that it presents no unfavourable)... entire revision: first, because it is unjust contrast to either England or Seothend as re-| towards a darge portion of the American gards ordinary crime. ta 1567 there were) people ; and secondly, because in Us moral 18,970 persone opmmitted to prison in Ene! tendencies it is pernicious to society To lant, and 14 207 convicted. In Seotland 3 - prove our first asaert’on, we have but to draw 305 were committed and 2 510 convicted; in| attention to the ex sting laws relative to what Ireland there were 4.561 committed, and 2.-| y:9 called common or public schools, There 732 convicted. The off-nces against property | we find religious training altogether ignored, with vtolene: stand thus forthe same year: | and infidelity, atheiam, and indifferentism —England, 1 940; Seotland, 445; and Ire- openty practised,—which prevents Uatholics, land, 246. Ireland therefore, is not a coun-[ who gre consistent with ihe teachings of their igy in which either life or property can be! .cjivion, from sending their children to be said to be insecure. But the life of a land-|oayeated under such baveful influences. lord who ex-rcises his unquestionable legal) Now, it cannot be demied that. the Catholic rights to what is deemed the oppression of 4) population of this cosntry bas assumed large |

proportions, and is daily on the inerease ; it)

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is an unwritten code of the laws‘tn the hearts

Christianity doa not believe in dogmas, buta dogma 1s simply a divine trath, the doetrines of faith righthy understysd, Every divine truth is a dogma; the Ingarnation—Proces- sion of the Holy Ghost—all mysteries of our Lord's Passion and Death, the Resurrection, Ascension, The Institution of the Seven Sacraments. A system of Education without a dogma means an edaeativn without divine truths and ductrine, and is no education at

all. ey eae: THE ALABAMA CONTROVERSY. The arrival of Misister Motley in England would appear likely to bring forth a new and improved phase of the Alubama controversy, Something waa needed to break the effect of

| of the population that is in the teeth of the

agreed that the second reading of the Bill ; laws of the Statute book.

should be opposed, and on the Sih inst.. the Earl of Harrowb; guv2 notice in the Llouse that he should move that the second reading be postponed six months.

A SHOWER OF SNAKES.

‘fhes determination on the part of the Peers Setrents py tas Me.rion—Tus Prarie has been commented upon in the strongest IN THE NeiGupornoop oF TAYLORVILLE, terms of denunci:tioa by all the journa's of Iui., LITERALLY ALIVE witu Reprines—

» &

is also plain that they pay their share of the} Senator Sumuer’s injudicious speech, which tuxes imposed by the government; and is it! went far to nulify all the work done by Minis- not fair that they should regeive ap equiva | pop Johnson in the interest of a fair and friend- lent in those things for which -taxer are ex-| ly settlement of this much-vexed question. pended’? The English Government haa been) British feeling and opinion wag deeply stirred |Justly eensured for her oppressive tule in| an] jt was manifestly the duty of Amer:ca to jireland, bat in matters of education she is) pour oil on the troubled waters ; nothing was

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-| Summerside how can jon” sthand the partin’,

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less culpable than the United States. In! porter calculated to redound to her advantaze t ' bat : |treland, o Catholic commuuity if it hes a

land at the same time serve the cause of peuce. | goin’ to give it te him

‘luminary of the Muddy Holler City of Summer-

CORRESPONDERCE. nnn —————aEaEeaeeenrersnsen eee

For rue EXAMIner,

The Summerside Grammar School in the market—The grate McRae is lavin the Island for the Island’s good. The Editor ial staff of the Summerside Jurnel de- plores hes loss Somethin’ about David and the moggasin man, And a leelle about the counihry.

MisTuer Evirven.

Dear Sur;

Shure thin ita yourself that will print me letther an’ it's meselt that will be thankful to ye for so dvin’, an’ be the way of fulfillin’ me promise as your copthributor, T now, wideut wakin’ any wore apolegy rush inte print. By the length of David. an’ that’s not a short oath, I belave it’s a failn’ that'll sthick to me Well then to -comawetce at the beginnin’, the Summerside Jurned of the 10th insthant. melan choly announces that the grate McRae. the

side, is about lavin’ the Island Gintiemen of

Hear McRae sing the followin’ ditty:

O! Cape Breton, my native home, Prince Edward’s Isle is not the tand for me. The edithorial sthaff ef the Summerside Jurnel wid the Divine at their head, deeply lamints the logs of sich a good naybor, ay’ so useful a citizen, an’ it appears alao, that they have held he’s ae. quaintance, character, and conduct for the last jour years is safe keepin’, and now they’re afther Be the by Misther

|ta.the triumph of the anarchists in the chief

the denizens of Paris, Lyons, and Marseilles, and hence the vast preponderance of the friends of order, of law, of religion, and of the ‘Empire, with all its failings, in (he new Cham- ber of Deputies. In one poiat of view, we |see much to reconcile the eemies of anarchy cities of France. It must impress more deep- ly upon the Emperor the absolute necessity of maintaining good terms with the Church as the great propazation of moral principles and peaceful ideas among men. The new Cham. bers will contain even fewer Orleanis.s than the late one M. Thiers has been beaten at Lille,and Poitiers, and we believe that he has not been returned for Marseilles. A few Legi- timists have been returned, but that cause has been Jong since killed by the mother of the Compte Dz Paris. Count D°Alton Shee once an officer in the household of Charles X , or his brother, and also a Peer of France, started upon Socialist principles in Paris, and has been Among the defeats we much regret to see the name of Count de Fal!loux, and in LaVendee M. Lesseps bas {fost his election at

igneminously beaten.

too.

the inhabitants of the smaller towns as they do

The condition of the How. George Colonial Seeretary of this Teland, is sneh, that be

| ia quite incapable of attending te any busivese,

aml we regret to learn that his malady is ong which leaves bet little hepe of his recovery. The Hon gentlewan.and his family have the ry thies of the whole community. The case «f Mr, Coles ia a very sad one, A streng man hoe atricken dewn at an age when the ittelleetyal powers are generally mature. No ene who hae watched the career of the young Liberal Chee and recollacta the young man who, nearly t years ago, lacking the advantages of education, . offered asa candidate for a seat in the ‘. and, by force of his own genuis, energy, and per. severance, surmonnted every difficulty, and be. eame the most influential man en the

could look upon Mr, Colea of 1869, a8 he sgt silent and inactive — in the House of A .

and not muse upen the uncertainty and instability

of mundane effairs. The pitiable pr

which characterised the jormation of the Govery. ment in 1367, told very plainly that the strong will which had hitherto led his party was giving way. From that tine to the present disease hag EF os been making steady progress and for more than

a year, Mr Coles bas been absolutely unfit for _ the transaction of any business requiring the — least mental effert With the unfortunate ges. tleman—the subject of these remarks—we have had many and bitter quarrels; but now all ig over, and we desire to reroember only his good - qualities, and thore bereficient measures which be wae ivetromental in carrying through the ‘ Legislature. Political services are proverbially > requited by ingratitude. but dead indeed toevery generous feeling must be the people of Prinea ~ Edward Island if they do net cherish with

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affectionate rewemberauce the memory of George

the metropo'is, sive those in the Ligh I ry Pus Grears Sxakge sToRY ON RxcorD.! suffeient number of taxpayers, CAN erect A: Jr is gratifying to see the frank and amicable Edither. the corps of the Jurnel says he bas Marsielles, and M. Guerolt, of the Opinicn | Coles — fel, interest. Even the Morning Post diseredit-| From the Uiinsis State Register, June 1. school, the expense of which shall be de!ray- spirit displayed by Mr. Motley on his arrivai! jardled you. Tf te has. I'd rayeommend ye at Nationale, has been at the bottom of the roll ee

he r h e Lords { efuse a ‘ ; yf E . y the commissioners duecation: thev a , : anries elke oneal an ‘ : ‘ ‘ : . RE . a : ‘ = ccna teaden = eine : f linia - ve ‘ Phe great storma of last Priday nisht will] a yee al a uneeae somal ag . eer Tare ‘terten | niles = of th ; a ns geben ber Caareed tin. in the district of Paris, for which be honed to By telegraph to the St. John’s papers, we econ 2acding, 20d was Of Opinion that a re- y 2nem heread : aon ean appo a teach PHO Bha rece DH 4 . re ise t e@ kingly senu- | of that ointment, white ,etieectuany cure ° en0_.2 ° ° - . Sectica sate ade : he long remembered in this State. In ad-| PF becommg; his response to the kindly e ibe returned. Ollivier, rejected in Paris, be- | learn that considerable excitement haa berg ~~. ‘ ‘ a 7

not preved® the ultimate

jsalary from the same source, sq that the/ ments egpressed in his honour and that of his| while vegetatin’ in the log hut scme years age pasaa ce of the B:! I,

dition to the details heretofore given, we i : a ‘ hihi thieseniiiee acs traaiei Sala ~ of pupils sre constantly under the care of 4) country, wag replete with peace and good will, —he knows what I mane rh | a as “Paslereiis The storm! © tholic teacher, who is directed by his) The declaration that the President's Govern. Musha thin alanna, afther al » sooner a ig ea | paster how he shell actin matters of religic PY} ment and the whole Republic earnestiy desire port in bad friends wid McRae, I'll be afther

burst in its full fury at that place about} bidd : sad i ’ that h b abel aithaus ew f ; ie ae . har Brea y ae viddin him God speed, an’ tha e may be dark, and the rain fc'l in torrents. The] ind, although they are compelled to use the the maintenance of peace, and the present able to astonish the Blue noses wid al! he's

Ba ; ‘

: ; books pubiished by the Government vet the! » a ites Keral relat stwe > tw 7 s 2

ehenteté atoues coenented thé Galea feahdies nal boo | | “ oY G ver 7 ; ye : | mutually bone ficial relations between 7 i Grammar rules, mooda, and tinses, as he's ay : ey We tharwise be in danger | eguitrics. wi usid CTS : : : a :

\é vil, ° ut vthey would othsrwise b iM Ganger) countries, will be music io the lovers of bath. | Gane the benighted Shanghi citizens of Summer.

jof mmbibing, 18 counteracted by the saving) Acting in this spirit, which, doabtiess is that} .j4ge—the modern Athena. 1 ehall now clane me

caused at Eartport, Me., by an announeement wade by the Department vf Marine and Fisheries for the Dominion that henceforth all United States’ fishing vessels and beats will be required to take out licenses to fiah in Provincial watera, Hitherto, in that quarter, there has beer but little hindrance t+ the Americans, and the etries enforcement of these orders occasions much com-

The Siar used threaten- ing language, and asserted that the Church | of treland “ mast pot cumber the ground ufter December; that the least which will be said will be proclaimed from the house to; viz, that the Houses of Lords is pot a more Jogicxl, desirable, or excusable institution

cause he proposed to the Emperor a more liberal policy than that in existence, five months ago, has been elected in Var. Three or four of the communist candidatas having been elected in Paris, as well as at Marseilles,

damuge

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s—

vn The wind, however, was more violent

Lere

and with iutermissions blew in great strength | from every direction. Several buildings | were damaged, and young hickory trees! actually twisted of by the wind. The grow | ps Were prostrated by the wind, and|

than the Irieh fever heat that wili foliow the rejection of the Bill—a heat such as has not been ecen since Birmingham threatened to merch on Londen in the name

(‘hurch—a

ing ¢

| precopte of .Christianity, which are daily in t Je y

most in aceordance with the sober sense of fused into their youth fw! m nds by a Christan) America, Mr. Motley should have no difficulty teacher, The save rule exists in Canada | jn coming ere long, to a just and equitable and. in fast, in all the British territories. In| settlement of the question at issue. Knyland

be the way of no harm.

pin, net that the parties shure, are much cleaner

T'in goin’ to write about, but for the reapict [ye for thim, I shall take a tint and commence agin, The Protestin news-

Lyons, and Bourdeauwx, there mast be new elections at those places, which will probably ard half-a-dezen yotes-to the Socialist opposi-

tion. On the whole the elections have been

motion.

A Brigt., owned by John Lefurgy, Esqr.,of Summerside, sailed from Cascumpee on Thure- day last. for the Bristel Chaunel, “Cargo, 16,106

of Reform" The News said that © the vote | this country, Catholics are compelled to con Pika neither interest nor desire fur the keeping | paper of yesterday ix tow eurrupted with the

bushels Oats, Deale, &e

of the Lords would, at the worst, postpone for a few months only the fate of the Irish! Chureh, Its ind: reet effect would be graver. It wouid raise the question of the position the House of Lords holds under the Censtitu-| tion.” The Tel-greph concluded an artic'e ia these words :--~** The country has spoken! uamistakably and finally. If toreed to speak azain its accents wi!! no long>r be free from indignation, or preserve tie mood of moderation, which to the last it earnestiy desires to main*.in.”’ Time d: * We are on the eve of a crisis thins sines the throes which preceded the Reform Bill ein be compared with the consequences which will attend the threatened co the Peers. The result of the sitagzie is not doubtful. Tf the Lords suceceded at first, they would be ¢ mpelled to undergo a second tender of the meusire which they had reject-| eYatfirst. The results of their actioc all, put in jeepardy not only themselves and their privileges but the peree of the great towns and the m iintenanece of law and order in the country; above al they do their best to.provoke an outbaret of passionate violen in an anhappy country, the vast majority of whose inhabitanis the Lords propos: to ont rigs by 8 contemptuous disrezard of their wishes.” In ac tition to these otteranc2s of the leaders of t!.e metropolitan what the telegfam ca!'s the * outside papers which circulate more among the people,’ “ ta‘k,’ it ig alleged, “ v ory revolutionary.” Nor has this * talk’ been apparently without effect, | it is now said that twenty-five Conservative Peers decline t follow the policy of rejee tion and that the defection of others is re garded as probudle. The Times of a later date than we have quoted, d-cigres that “ the experience of the last two days (Sunday ad | Monday) re-affirm the trut: that in a direct issue the Lords ‘aust allow the national wil! to prevail. The present uspect indicates the passige of the Pili to its second reading hy a small majority.

We are inclined to agree with the Times in this opinion. The present excitement on the question of disests lishment will pro | bably prove on'y an epis de in the uliimat» successful career of thi8 popular measure, and is of importanc? chiefly from the significant |

opular demonstration in tts favour, and of escility to the Lords, which it has caused. The abolition of that body has been openly debated, and tke growth of publie sentiment on the questiva significantly manifested. Not long ago it wou!d have been rezarded as treason to broach the idea of the abolition of the Upper Hoose, bat now we find the matter openly diserssed beeausa that hody | has seen fit t. offer futile opposition to a| popular measure. The fact is preznant with meaning, and sows how great a revolution | has been effscte in the popular sentiment in Great Britain. The recent d monstration by the Tory Peers, while it will vot probably have the eect of defeating the measur against which it wes directed, will neverthe- less not be without its effect. It will bad to a more thorough diecussion of the place which the Upper [lonse oceupies under the Conetitution, and the estion | whether it cou!d not be legis'ated out of ex jatence with ad: antaye not only to the nation, | but to the Peers themse'vea. ‘The events of the past week have proved that their exclasive body is not popular, cod that the ieast they | cau expect at the hands of the people is its thorough reorganization. —_— ——_——_+<>Po -————- —--—

| EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.

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The special correspondent of the Daily News, who is investing the agrarian out-| rages in Ireland, calls atiention in his latest letter (dated ‘rom Cork) to the wholesale) emig' gtion which is still going on. ** Stand. ing on the quay of Cork, loaded with cattle, | pes sheep, poultry, and butter for exporta | tion, and pressed by crewds of emigrants, whose labour probably contributed to the wealth that wis leaving the country with | them, it was not possibla to avuid asking) oneself whether there was anything in the! operation of ths received doctrines of politi-| eal economy, and of the legislation founded | upon them, to account for the strange seene | presented. There were firkins of butter baing shipped off to various perts of the world ;| cattle, sheep, and pigs to England; a few horses for France. No doubt there were men who rared the animals, and women who helped to make the butter on the quay, going, with the produce and it may sarciy be usk-| ed, is 1¢ not an anomaly that this labour power aod this produce could not be brought) into direct contact at home ?—that the agri-| cultural Jabourer and farmers ding!

ter could nos eat their Tipperary and Cork but-, ter in Tipperary and Uork, but must d= sy ‘n- «foreign land? If we were left to the mere| reasyning of common s:nse, it would seem to|

firet hen on the producte they made, and that) only what wes left efter supplying their own | wants should be exported in exchange for the pr ducts of otfer countries, not obtainable! in Ireland. [ut here the producer and the | product are mingled in a common mass ot | exportation, the former leaving home fur the} express purpose of obtaining his share of showe very things whien hv has produced, and | whieh are beng carried with bim over the! wide sea. It maz be said that they, or those | toey have lef: behing, have received the re.| PF _entative i» money af the food that is | . Weaving the country to feed foreign mouths: bat I am afruid that the greater part of thie | money goes, like the cattle and peop'e across | the sea, to supply the wantg or minister to| the pleasures of absentee proprietors. [t is,

the of statesmen to discoyer the eause of the truly affecting scenes which gre takiog ia this land every wees. Tha: over ation ie the cause can hardly be tree, I ea told there is a rea! deficiency

ef labour iu the country. Iam told that in es seers districts agricultural |a- Seenceaa 4d. to 23. Gd. a day—ten shi!) ings a week and food. It may be that what the formers cull ecarcity of labour means « rise in the price of labour. But the two shings ore ve-y different. If there be enough of talour to do the work at any price, it cun-

19 BCarcs, Io the

* as

}and sometimes of flesh, but never before of

| perfectly harmless.

fare

| beaten into the ground by ghe rain and hail.

But the wast singular phenomenon, and one! which was not vouchsaied to any other munity, was a shower of snakes, We heretoiore read of showers of sand, of fs!

com-| have | J

« shower of snates: sured that the phenomenon which occurre on lust Friday orght can bea described more fitting terms.

}o Saturday an] Sunday last, every ditch, |

| brook, and pool on the prairie north of Tay

| lorviile was alive with nondessript creatures, which have been described to us as being i) from one and a balt to two fee® loag, und of

three-fourths of an inch to an ine) in diame. |

‘This diameter is v ry slightly lessened | at the head and tail. The tail is flat, like | that of an cel, but has no exada! fin ; indeed, | there is no fin at all that of an eel, but the mouth is that of a} sucker. ‘The evea are emall, and the ears | ure simply orifices. Immediately behind the head, on each side, is a flipper, Ike that of | a turtle, inelnuding the limb, which basa rer’ In color, theee

ter.

eetiy developed joint. snakes, or whatever they me, are of g dark | hue.

The nomer of iheso creatures is beyond all estimate, They swim in every branch | and padd'epf water. Their mode of pro | gression, in addition to the undulatory mo-! tion-of a snake in the water, is by the use of the fnper deseribed above and they swim| entirely under the water or with the head and a few inchea of the body above the sur

face. thus indicating that the flippers are not|

absolacely essential to motion. They are | Boys and men take them | from the pools in hundreds, and they are| brought to town for inspection.

We are wiiling to admit that our know-! ledge of ichthyology is bot sofficient to de-| termine what they are. Eela have teeth. | are carnivorous, and some species ara very | an belligerent. These c eaturer| of the, genue evelepteras, or suckers. | having no teeth, and are ev.dently unpre pared for attack, and exe=pt by flight are de- Furthermore they have no fins and their fippers are on!y adjancta, and pot | their principal means of progresston They | ure not serp nts, asthey want fangs, either) hooded or naked, which invariably disting | uish the order of ophidians,

We wil! pot worry our readers with any | speculation o» a subjecg conlessedly beyond | our knowledge. We are promised sume} specimers, which will be submitted to natur- |

yoracneus

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P , fengeless

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alisis of acknowledged abiiitty, whose opin | ions we shall lay before the publie.

It is the univeraal testi:nony of all the| people of the country that no creature any |

thing like those was ever before geen by them. |

|ducted exclusive

|} the jia whieh they may send and yet we are well as | 'PS*Tection, in order to preserve them Intact) much more in harmony with sound sense and a a ia no} th

fun

seg t The head is in shepe |

| year; the Philosophersin February, and the

tribute towards the support of echools, eon ly by the Government, and

jin whigh they have no share ; besides this, |

y must erect and sustain parochial schoo!s, | their children for|

from the gross errors and vices which are| disseminated in the public institutions. That | is Is unjust, no verson who calmly reflects | on the subjeet, willer ean deny. But how is this to be remedied 2? Simply by adopting | the plan rursued by England. G ve us the assistance, for ourselves. which you give in| common with oO hers, and we will freely pay | taxes. Our assertion, |] think. nceds no proof 3} that modern education is pernicious to suciety is, alus ! too evident. Let us look around us| d observe the state of morality which is to| e een in every phase of human society and) sickenins, indeed, is the sight which mee's} vur gaze The most striking instance, and | ithe one which has the most immediate bear ing on the welfare of society. is to be met. with in our Federal and State Governments | From the lowest beadle to the offieer o! highest trust under the Constitution, we find one unbroken series of corruption and fraud ; religion, principle and country, ol are | sacrificed on the altar of base lucre; and | that unbeAding patriotism which wag the| boast of oer aneestors, haa been offered as a

i |

| holocaust to the supreme power that presides

over our wmerican legislatures — the Al-| mighty Doilar! How is this tide of corruption | to be arrested? [low is the integrity of our} covernment to be restored ? By educating | our young men as Christians; by inculcating | those principles of honesty, of right and|

justice, whieh wil make them proof against our Statesmen. Now aaan education of this} kind ean be obtained in Catholie colleges .tone, the bigh standing which they have attained amongst the literary institutions of | the present day ought to be an encouragement | to all classes irrespective of creed or country, to unite in one grand eifort, and try to en- nobie the minds of the rising generation, from whom we must hereafter choose om Governors, our Senators and our Presidents —probably, tor, our Emperors,

Your eo:resrondent has been led to these reflections by being present at the literary exercises held at St. duhn’s Col'ege, Fordham, on the 25th inst, under the auspices of the Debating Soc’ety This association is com- posed of the Philosophy and Rhetoric Classes, and each braneh gives an exsibition every

. wot

Rhetori@ans in May.

The pr fiziency wequire d by those gentle- nen of the audergraduate course, is certainly ereditable to the inatitution of which the y are members, as also, and particularly, to their

that s:z@ without having been seen.

‘he size renders it eertain that they have a t a sta “i a ao si ae cantaairs | worthy professor, who by his untiring 22al not been Ceye.o7 there, as Tract: | . ’ eh ‘ble ti we a el t is wane, 2 | has institled into them a tact for unearthing vosaible th ” ‘ i" } . .

i J R ‘ | the secreis of a:cient and modern writers : ‘ Pea : | for whieh be himself has gained so extensive quite certain that they were never there be-| , “

ed ‘ od ;}@ reputation. The subject chosen for the

iore the storm, and it is almost cq rally cer | , : os > ae ; tain the storm br he them there, Thie| C2°C'ees Was the - Execilencies of Shakspeare hi a Sturm evgn cre, his! . ‘ storm. which preee 5 aol am liked aie ‘ante ,| tke immortal Bard of Avon; aad so admirably storm, which press er 8 as ct : ; ia ne ae See wt ‘ head |did each speaker adhere to the course sour * Bre wae t » * ao e | ° ; salina aa d kal pe didedin Je 6) ¥\ marked out for him, that there was not the gatne 2 « os > us torms 2s . . on ics tl mee er pin a a * = | slightest cash or confasion ; no one trespassed wi ala ie 5 nem tue. Pe ree een °lon the province of his newgkbor, bat clung nado, ard, in passing through the country

| the forthwest, drew op water, and with it| | biotus.

| above the earth, and ovcasionally, as at Snip- i man, striking the earth.

javatied themselves of that opportunity.

conclude that the people of lreland had the | P

| the ship, and were advised that the transaction

| was a perfectly legal trangaction, and cannet

‘lwith nicety to hia own. The first speaker disturbed the usual atmospheric and electri |” ooo f 7 i

eal conditions, so as to produce, in add:temn. | te the central turnado, a@ high wind, heavy | rain and-an e'ecirical storm. The most! plausible theory which ceeurs to ns as ac- conuuting far the presence of these fishes, is|

| thas the tornado in passing over some lake i

or river 6 the immense unknowa region of | these animals which are: evidently ampti-| Toe tornado then sped on its mis | sion of destruction, passing perhaps miles

Near Taylorville the central body of the storm was dissipated, as is shown by the tact that the wind blew in gusts from all directions, and thse erea tures tell to the earth to astomish the people, and perplex the seigutific.

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MESSRS. LAIRD AND THE ALABAMA.

Messrs Laird write to the papers to defend their proceedinss with respect tothe Alabama. | liney suy that from first to Jast there was no! secrecy a8 Lo the character of the ship, nor ax to her coudition. The Customs’ authorives had full iibe:ty to inspect the ship at all times, and The Jovernment were fully advised that the vessel was ready for sea, and might start at any time. When she did start she had not even a musket on board. Her destination was wholly | unknuewn to Messrs Laird, and the firet news they had of ber arrival and equipment at the Azrves, was fr m the newspape 8. Their cox tract was simply one for the building of a ship of war, to be delivered in the port of Liver- ool Uf course they knew for whoin it was intended, and they therefore took the opiniou of Mr Metiish, Lord (Chen Sir Hugh) Cairns, and Mr Kemplay as tu the legality of build:sy

was perfectiv legal. This opinion was con firmed subsequently by Chief Baron Pollock, im the trial teat arose out of the seizure of the Alexandra, by Lord Palmerston. The result of tha trial was that the government had to pay Mesars Lated £37,000 damages for detain- ing the Alcyandra; and infereutially, they would have had to pay as-much if they had detained the Alabama. Messra Laird contend, therefore, that the building of a ship of war

expose Eugland to damages in favor of the United States. They add, that when in 1854 other questions had arisen as to the rights of neutrals aud hbeligerents, they dectined to huild another ironclad for the Coufederates, although it was not to be delivered until after war was over, and although payment was to be made by instalments in the interyal. Final- ly they wish it to be understood taat Mr Laird, M. P, had left the firm befaug the Alabama was built. Altogether these gentlemen assume quite a different tone trom that taken by Mr Laid himself, when he declared in the House of Commons, amid the @nthusiastic cheer's of the Opposition, his pride in having been con- necied with the Alabama, —_—- -—-_~gpo——_—_——_——

Farmers and “ Horse Men,” are continually

enqetins, what we know of the utility of * Sheri * Cas Spite - F

we suntan. through the. uinns

meeene oar i

jwas Desmond 8S. Lamb, of Albany, N. Y.,

"Ey | provide

who took as his snbject, The Drama—

Shakspeare’s Genius: and, uniting the grace and = gentleness cof the lamb, with the buiducss and intrepidity of

tha lion, he acquitted bimself creditably fo hin succeeded James A. Kelly, of Syra cuse, N.Y.,who 4: livered a elaborate discourse on Shakes eare’s Avt, to which he did ample justice. Joba W. Morvis, of Morrisania, N. Y., then came forward, and entertaimed the listeners by a sketch of the famous trag divs —King Lear, and Richard the Third. Comedy was the subject of Tnomas Donohue’s highly interesting discourse, and he showed, by his comical expression of countenance, that he wasin hiselement, and, by his quota tations from the principal comedies from the Ulustrious bard, he elicited (requent bursts of laughter from even the most sericus. Last, though by no means least, came John J. Keilly, who, in a spirjied address, held up to the admiration of an adoring audience, Tragedy, in which Shakespeare excelled, and woich be adorned with the wost tasteful drapery of his tmuginative genius.

The whole passed off very siccessfully, and contribyted unwonted pleasure and satisfac- tion to these who were present. In the music department, a duet, by Professors Mace and Simon, on the piano and violin, together with the beautiful rendering of the popular song, Apollon toujours preside, by Prof Collier, were the p inoipal attractions. In the ab- sence of Elis Grace the Archbishop, who was prevented frum betog present by pressing business, Very Rey, Father Starre, V. G, presided, and at the close of the exercises, in a highly complimentary address, thanked the members of the Sogiety, both for himsel! aad in behalf of the audience, for the enter tertainment which they bad furnished, and congratulated them on their success in oratory,

Trusting that you will find a corner in the worthy oo}umns of Tue Pivot for those un- worthy lines,

i am, dear Sir, yours, &.,

ALUMNUS.

DR. MANNING CN SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

At the conclusion of a Sermon on the Con version to (rod, preached at the Catholic Chureh of St. James, Spanish place, London, Dr. M. observed :—Do not be led away by those who say a Catholic system of education is impossibility, that there must be a system of education irrespective of religion, You know very well that religion and education ateinseparable Education without religion, such as those I have described, would be re duced to mere instruction; but instryst o is not education. Parents are bound to see that ther children are instructed in their religion as they grow up. Do not listen to such who Say (hat the greater portion of gar children are educated Tney are not edu- cated in the faith. Even those out of the

nity of the Church of England have acknow ledged this necessity, and are endeavoring to r @ relizious education for their ehild- f ee ee ance nena

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open of this quarrel, and from the reasonable |

disposition she has already shown, there is no doubt she will go as far us her honor will permit to dispose of it forever. Mr Motley’s instructions, there is ground for believing, ure

legitiinate wish fer the continuance of peace and friendship between both countries, than was Sumner’s harrague® There is, therefo e, a fair prospect of au early settlement of the Alabama controversy .— Quebec Chronicle. wich anil ontehiad

Michizan papers state that a young man named George Densiow, | ving at Rome Cen tre, in that State, dreamed on the night of Mareh 13 that he was deaf and dumb, and vn awak:ng was horrrfied to find that he could neither hear nor epeak. From that time un til the the 4th of Muy, fifty three days, he remained totally deaf and dumb. On the evening of that day, while returning from the field whera he had been at work, and odd feeling came over him, and he was ohl to ern against the tence for support. senily he beard a bird sing, and he fo

aiso that bis vo-ca had returned to him. lfor example and proof it ye require it, the files}

of the decased Protecther and Protestant and the ; , |now living Pathriot, and you'll find there nv Ourselves have been silent on the subject, be

Duri.g this suspension of voice and bearing he had er joyed uncommonly good health.

LATEST REWS BY TELEGRAPA, |»

FROM EUROPE, London, June il. In the House of Commons this evening, the proceedings were mainly unimpertant. The de- bate on the Alabaura question bas been postponed until the 4th of July The Bermada dock with a large convey, in