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y a erernc d lthe « you-brush-the-dirt-off-my-coat,-and-I'll-brush-the-ditt- |

Coryespon ene’, off-yours” principle. I cannot see what interests other |

SOE DOLLA DALAL NE oe | respectable clergymen can have in common with this sectarian

AN OLD SORE ULCEBATING. 'fire-brand, who seems to regard himself as the “scourge of

To rue Eortor or rus Examiner. God" to eff refigions sects but the one that he follows. iS

r ee have often heard him railing against Baptists and Methodists

Sin,—Will you permit me to reply in your columns to the b

part of the Rev. George Suthesland’s communication in yes: |

terday’s Protector, in which allusign was made - my letter | messubed bugs. uppe:bie-old mese-mates. of the Ustablished

on the Bible Question poblshed pnd Lo te Mca Ee 'Chureh of Seotland. Lsaw a pious and venerable old mau

Mr. Satherland and his friends may aceuse me of writing |

; : ; stand before him as a criminal, subjected to church discipline, | : riety, as Lam aware some of them have) ; ‘ . ee from a desire of notoriety ‘excluded from Crurch communion—one of the grav est |

accused me already ; but L would assure them, that on - ‘charges against him being that he had presented or started al Owe cocasion, at Henet, ae mach ere oe . ou ee | tune at divine. service for a worthy clergyman of the Kstab- | onthe public as My rennees w ener oS i b ca \lished Charch, when there was.uo other person present that) ing grounds. = Ist. My time and attention are 89 much) pres id as ie, TL can slate, on good authority, that he severely |

occupied with matters of a private and personal nature that) : ais . ‘ ped ar gecegpeatgee deo ~ ; , | reprimanded a member of his communion for expressing him- 1 have not much inclination ro meddle in any other matters

of less interest { ®4. Hard irfence Kos taucht trie se}f pleased with a discourse delivered, in his neighbourhood, |

) »s . > wo. urd experrence has Tug 1c ; . - 1 is

t) Me ae set . . Fs r lis to a I; man by a talented and eloquent young clergyman of the Secesston | Mt ve t 3 re annoying In its results aiaymi . , i we a .

" Se eatnt ae pe . Saeed i ees 2 as * a ‘hureh. No sufficient excuse ean be offered for such conduct ' ‘ > , 9 ?iiariv ordained cicryyipa and int ‘ ‘ ‘ c A : : 2.14 9 are, wey ; oe et? : : t] r . 7 x ¥ : as this, unless it be that the poor man is probably subject to, speci: anner wit e reverend gentleman who is to be oe : yore

* pom _ p , nO eae " e . > ; ’ occasional lits of mental abberration. In that case, he 1s more}

the chief subject of my present strictures—the Nev. Alexr. 1: Cnt ae

ieee: Mand shin, ‘Dintiteteaied -tdtolecdinestiel che | *" ohject of pity than of resentment. i a. c are ' ngotury \K ntoicrance e " . . . ” °

; . ae + of hi vec 7 ine y 5 tow with opie lhe reverend writer, in farther evidence of the Examiner's | ynora f his congregation, that they will assail with . ‘ ca el ; Pn oe : deci infilel tendency, alludes to that part of my letter'in which I

the most unforgiviag and violent persecution any person who cs i 1 hyo Sf oo

. . : bicon st . stated my objection to the Old Testament as a school-book,

is unfortunate enough to quarrel with their minister, without ad stag a } . tt

> ea tich iid tae and chuckles over a fallaey which he imagines he has dis- | ever taking the trouble to inquire whether be be in fault or, : : ol Peres. : br. | Fae 4 covered in my reasoning. I think, however, that I'll be able not. And their adeptness at slander and falsehood are such : ; ae it 14 ; ; : : . |to prove, in a few words, that he is in error, and that my ¥ to warrant the assumption, that a high standard of quali- '

. » . . . | em ten ah , bed “a ital bl deduction from the premises stated was quite logical. Every |

° garded among rem aS an waispensable " * aati rengqgh aids samen ad - mepenst"© person that has ever gone to school knows that ordinary |

ist he ion. They have from time tc : al

| ae ser = en Peo sree holy “ ined . le ; nea sehool-books are read in regular order from beginning to end;

tme come to New ts asgow mm Mw 1 ‘} Zeal anu endeavoure ; si ‘ - ee 4 Ss é iti . is tl

to excite a religious animosity against me in the settlement ; not RAphanne | Miler sentence, and le mon alter lessam, a? |

' ‘y t . tI “Tt : "i hh lel es fs > analyzed, It was in this sense that I said the Old Testament | q . supe , eitigence and wood sens ) Vy i . . .

+ M othe , a th ag ia’ Lg i Bes un tee ¥ was unfit for a school-book ; and every sensible and respec. |

seri bers heir slander and lies provec availing.— : ae. Ps a

iyo thn f h y me ak 5 fe ; ‘ " dese satiefactory soak table clergymaff on the Island will admit that—taking this | 1 is a OS eiresains ‘ Wistac y ‘00 "os ‘ _ °

orn : : eS . 6} as My mes r—I[ was right; {% ‘ran point out a hundred |

when, at the expiration of my first term of engagement lately, mR ee + “9 Pe. } fort Wie re ;

Pr ao ipa he a a eli - wenlary for | P@S22°3 in the Book which I would chgllenge any reverend .

t! - - . niet ; eee 1} X a \ J gentleman to read and explain before a mixed schoo! of both

sent year supe 0 th: ceived by any teacher on |‘ 1" : . . } ‘

an Facies potas sal - — a 3 ; The ti ‘a all 7 , * ‘sexes. “The bistory of Joseph is probaly the chastest history

i " ’ : v : xeepted. we : y ; : Tec ; he Rible ; 1S rooteet < ‘ set affaney s ‘2

was written under the influence of a strong excitation of feel- |‘. e | in Shee Reena AOS TARTS VraR aeeemerer

ing consequent upo » officious interference of some clergy- | a mages Ing ComPegecn: Epon the fic eee ree ee ons cers"! had never shed a tear on reading it or hearing it read; and men in my own domestic affuirs, concerning Which they knew } yet L would consider it,-to say the lea-t of it, an extremely

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nothing, and my opinions were expressed in language which |“, ,- ; : oe ; i e - and a 5 er an essed ; Fy = |delicate matter to read the passage in waich-the relation of as Fe ; niempecrate, ¢ t uis ‘spect Widely ¢ rene . . ois . : 7. a eee oe women ee ee, Potiphar’s criminal love reaches the climax, before a from my usual style of writing. Lt is with regret, then. that} |) te : ; wa ‘ sas : om iclass of tall girls, such as [ hive in my sehool at times. We I find these disagreeable matters revived, which I hoped had | ao cao . . . ] : ‘ have extracts from the Old Testameat in our ordinary been permanent)y buried amid the rubbish of the past. } . a ‘ ; ; school-books, which we read and analyze like any other lessons ; Bat though deeply regretting anything that I wrote that! ty. no person ever thinks of calling these t#e Old Testament. tended to give offence to the Protestant clergy generally, and | Tie reverend gentleman must remember, that in my remarks in particular to the clergy of the United Presbyterian body, | on the volume in question, I spoke of Goll an its * Divine whom I have generally found characterized ro less by Aan Author.” ‘To call a man that makes such an acknowledg- superior education than by their urbanity and gentlewantike) jent as this an infidel, is simply ridiculous. It were better, qualities ; yet [ neither regret nor recant a word of what [| { admit, if, in the first premises of my syllogism, I had put wrote concerning the character of the Rev. Alexr. Sutherland. | «4 book that contains records of dark crime,” &c., instead of Ls e * . 5 The reverend writer of the letter in the Protector quotes the | records of dark crime,” &e., as it would have preéluded tie following part of a sentence from my letter: ae The torrents possibility of any ecavilline at mere arravgement. © + * . o " 5 of abuse and slander which he” (Rey. Alexander Sutherland) |" { eou'd ‘easily retort upon the reverend gentleman by “weekly vociferates from his pulpit.” He puts the whole in| shewing him that Ads letter is from beginning to end one capital letters, the more to attract public attention, and 1n-/ tissue of unsound argument; but as [ am convinced that he} ed W Snister of CORES GRE EES SUNS PE Bearer . Ps . deed when a minister of the Gospel is guilty of such tmiscon-| will have foemen more worthy of his sicel in the editors,o! duet, it is a matter that deserves a great share of public) the Examiner and Islamger, L forbear. Tuc danger is that attention, Now, I can prove all that [ stated concerning the | phose two ravenous sharks, seeing the very defenceless position rere nme ee . ~idee: A . ! > . a o “ . s oe a = twice as wach besides; and L would | of the poor fisherman, will make short work with him. Two usk the intelligent public, which would they regard as worse. | of his arguments, however, are so manifestly lame that a small that a clergyman should be guilty of any glaring misconduct, | §ish like myself cannot resist the inelinaticn to nibble at so than that 1 should have the temerity to tell him of it? The very alluring n bait Ist tle rounds his charge of im- . J J 5 _—" = - ae , Bie object for whieh the above part of a sentenge was quoted, | morality against the Islander and Examiner on their however, was to base thereon a charge of “ wfidelity” against | reeriminations of each ather. Now this is, to say the least mG “— the paper that published my letter. Goodness gra- { of it, a very unfair argument. lle should have shown what cious! Under what influence did the reverend gentleman | they really were, avd uot what their opinions of each other . ‘ . . - p } J . s¢ tte d . ’ v write his communication ? By what strange process of ratio-| were, We know that men will often get so impregnated cimation ean he identify or ever assimilat: my exposing the} jth any cause that they espouse, in law, politics, or even misconduct, either supposed or real, of a clergyman, with In-| religion, that they will Aonestly attribute’ many bad acts fidelity? Lf this be adminsible evidence of infidelity, ther | aud motives to their oppouents which are in the meantime ni : Y : - ‘ . ¢ . not ouly the ministers of the Free and K-tablished Churches | purely imaginary; but it would be very unfair from such * dj . . i . * i a “8 a of Scotland, but also those of all other denominations, are In- | data to form an estimate of their respective characters. filels, for they continually declaim against each other. All| jiow often have we seen the editors of two very popular the Protestant clergymen that censured Mr. Barker for his | religious journals advoeating different views, most. bitter in ’ . e ° . e 3 d wy : r . conduct last Spring were infidels, and he is an infidel since | yheir jnyestives and unjust in their accusations against each he censured theirs! Nay, further, St. Paul was an infidel! other, and yet we have be ieved them to be both geod men, sinee he censured aud exposed some misconduct on the part St honest in the expression of their opinicns of each other,

’ c | —thuadering against the Church of England, for her |

‘unseriptural ‘rites and observances "and showering Un-|

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i ; ° of the Apostle Peter, and Paul and Barnabas proved them-/% yg both wrong in these opinions. According to his mode

selves infidels when they quarrelled! His argument extend-! of peasoning we could prove nearly all religious and political ed will lead to this as an irresistible conclusion. The rev. papers in the world—the Protector ineluded—to be immoral gentleman ee ae to — 7 7 first ay of the|in their tendeney, and so undeserving of public support. sentence referred to, for reasons which will presently appear. | 9, ses” } * jnfidelity beeause i

‘The sentence, as a whole, stands thus: “ Phd torrents of su | C . - oo ve na oe t ae aoe be : (ad mn

ue de. s of abuse | adyoeates Catholicism. "Lill L was enlighteved by his rever

und slander which he weekly vociferates from his pulpit against | ence on this point, I was not aware that [could call a obnoxious denominations, and even private individuals, have | peljever in the divine origin of the Scripturean i fide!, merely already driren from his church many of the worthiest men | hecause he might differ from me in his views of them. Of in his congregation.” Ah! Mr. Kilitor, the part of the} all the Catholic tenets which he has enumerated, the most sentence that 1 have italicized here, contains a rather unpa-| hostile to reason is the belief’ in the real presence of the Jatable truth, which he considers it bis interest to suppress! hody and blood of Christ in the Eacharist. I, in eommon rather than republish. All the members of his rev. friend’s| with all other Protestants, am of opinion that this belief is congregation that used to be considered pious men or “ pro-| wrong, founded upon an erroneous conception of the meaning fessors” ere he came amongst them, have entirely left him.! of the text. I believe that the expressions, “ This is my and would now no more own him as their winister than they | body,” and “ This is my blood,” are no more to be taken in would a Mortaon preacher. Amongst these are three of his |g strictly literal sense than is the expression, “ All flesh is elders and a catechist, who have borne an unblemished reli- ieee @ Yet if the Catholics entertains a different view of the gious character on an average about forty years each, together | text, ¢ ¢., takes it in its strictly literal sense, am [ to call him with several nominated elders and many other pious beads Of an infidel on that account, when we both believe alike that

familics. These facts speak volumes against his character,|« to (hrist the Son of the living God” spoke it ? Assuredly |

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\we give in exlenso, that it may not be said that we have pre-

AMINER.

The Examiner

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L, NOVEMBER 9, 1857.

Mr. COOPER'S LETTER.

Wnex we published, last week, the letter from Mr. Cooper on the subject of the Loan Bill, we did not give it place in our columns from any sympathy with the sentiments of the writer, or any admiration of the political ethies of the scribe of Sailor's Lope. We allowed it to go forth without note or comment, as evidencing the spirit which animates the man who has for so mafy years arrogated to himself the proud pre-eminence of being par excellence the champion of the people—the redressor of popular wrongs—the man whose yoice was ever raised in denunciation of fraud—who has ever ‘‘ fulmimed over Greeee, and shook the arsenal,’’ while he held up to reprobation the bad practices, and the evils which followed in the train of those practices, of robbers, pirates and swindlers—by which mild designations he was, and is, in the habit of indicating the proprietors of Township lands in this Island. One great rea- son, too, for our letting the letter appear without editorial allusion, was, that the writer was so well known—had figured before the public for so many years—had so completely ex- hausted every reasonable view of his subject—that the signature alone would be sufficient to take away any effect the letter it- self might produee—that the fatal ¢* William Cooper, Sailor’s Hope,’’ was the antidote to the bane of the communication.

It would appear that Mr. Cooper, having had his mind seriously impressed with the idea of the great pecuniary ad- vantages gained by the more than insinuated dishonesty of proprietors and their agents, has conceived a hankering after the ‘* flesh-pots of Ezypt,’’ and in his desire to participate in the plunder, has, in his old days, been impressed with the de- sire of getting money somewhat qn the principle inculcated by the old woman, whose recommendation to her son about em- barking on the voyage of active life, was, ‘‘to get siller honestly if you ean, but at any rate get siller..? We are sorry that any one in the Colony, especially a member of the Legislature, and that member at one time wiclding considerable influence, should have expressed opinions, openly inculeating a breach of common honesty, and justifying them on the grounds of probable impunity. But so it is, in the letter to which we have referred, Mr. Cooper has not hesitated to record that his support of the Loan Bill was based upon the supposition of obtaining money under the pledge of the Provincial faith for its repayment with interest, and then repudiating the moral and legal obligation which would necessarily devolve upon the borrowers to refand the amount. Lest our readers should doubt that this is a true version of Mr. Cooper’s letter, we ask their attention to the following extract from it, which

dicated our charges on garbled extracts :— .

“When the fsurpers’ creatures were the Colonial Government, and had British troops at their command to vver-awe the tenantry, and the people’s representatives having no power over, or part in the Colonial Government—were good reasuns to petition the House of Commons against the Golonial Office. But when the Colonial Office gave the people their rights to choose their own Governmeat, and withdrew the treops and even the arms from the Island—tbe people now have a constitutional remedy at law to investigate the titles, and all the power in their own hands to settle their own affairs, if they will only believe it; and if trials of titles are refused, trust to their own strength and the justice of their cause for the settlement of the land question. Consequently they could have no groands, but their own ignorance and cowardice, to plead in a petition to Parliament against the Colonial Office.

« Then, again, there is not that difference between my proposal and the Loan Bill, to affect the interests of the tenantry, as you would have them believe. Both votes were for the Government to purchase the land and sell it again to the tenuntry. Nor can the Loan Bill bring the Colony in debt. Because it was passed under such circumstances that ho more money can be recovered from the Colony than the people think proper to pay; and as both votes were for a compromise, depending on the wii of parties, either party might agree or disagree to the com- promise as they please@. Now the Colonial Minister had not agreed to my proposal; but he had agreed to guarantee a Loan. He was at liberty to object to my proposal, without any blame; but it would be a breach of promise to object to the Loan. Therefore, T could not expeet to carry my measure forthe benefit of the tenantry, by adhering to my proposal, without the support of Government; but there was a fair prospect of relieving the tenantry by supporting the Loan Bill. And although the Minister has not yet obtained the assent for that Dill, that would be no plea to petition Pacliament against him, when we have a constitutional and a better remedy at law. For whenever the tenantry make up their minds that they will neither pay rent nor buy land from reputed usurpers, until their titles are investigated and proved to be good in Jaw, that will 8.02 bring the land question to a settlement, and leave to the tenantry their rents of £20,000 a year to improve their OWN LANDS.”

It needs the pen of no magician to disclose the meaning over which the writer has scarcely deigned to throw the veil of mbiguous or equivocal language. Mr. Cooper’s idea, as ex- pressed by himself, amounts to this, that the removal of the troops and arms from the Island justifies the tenantry in defy- ing the legal processes and tribunals of the country, and con- veys by implication the doctrine, that a refusal to comply with the obligations they have assumed, and to obey the laws of the land, may be indulged with impunity, since the means of coercion, in the shape of a military force, are no longer

THE NEWS FROM INDIA. _ =

Tur intelligence from India by the English mail of F night is of a far more encouraging character than any which has been received since the commencement of the It is true that the enemy maintained, at last accounts, hig precarious position within the walls of Delhi; but the fects. ness of his attackson the besieging army—the frequent ang numerous defeats which he had sustaincd—the absence of cordial good feeling amongst the mutineers themse that time had suffieed to cool the first excitement of the ty and to make them fully conscious of the power and nthe resources of their antagonists—clearly indicated that t crisis of this horrible mutiny bad passed, and that British au was every where in northern India slowly but surely its wonted supremacy. There can be no doubt that the bri exploits of General Havelock and Ins small but heroic band, ig routing and cutting up the enemy against fearful odds in encounter--heve given a greater check to the progress of the mutiny than even the successful resistance offered by the Buy. pean troops before Delhi to the numerous sorties of the enemy, Not the least encouraging part of the news was the scale

oceupied the doomed City of the Great Mogul, up to the latest dates from India. This circumstance—added to the distrust

Sepoys themselves, and in view of the very considerable rein- forcements of the besieging army—leaye no doubt that the suc-

of a very brief space of time ; and that ere now the accursed — city and its horde of fiends have paid the fearful penalty of

stroyed, and the little garrisonof Lucknow relieved from its — perilous and harrassing condition—its ability to withstand the attacks of the enemy having been confidently reported at the last accounts—we may regard the great Indian revolt of 1857 as mainly suppressed, though considerable time must , before entire tranquility can be restored, and confidence and

of Bengal.

-e»_ee eo -———-_——_— — ;

FAST AND HUMILIATION.

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Next Friday will be the day set apart by proclamation of His Excellency in Council for a General Fast and Humiliation, to implore the blessing of Almighty God on Her Majesty's arms in India, and to humble ourselves before Him, by fiSting and prayer, in atonement of our sins. We trust that the Clergymen of all denominations, whose churches we have no doubt will duly observe the day—will appeal to the generous hearts of their people for contributions in aid of the Indian Relief Fund. His Excellency the Licut. Governor has re- ceived, we understand, a Circular Letter from the Secretary of that Fund in England, recommending an appeal being made to the benevolence of the people under his Government, on behalf of their fellow-countrymen anl countrywomen in India who have suffered by the present calamitous rebellion in that country, Reeollecting the prompt and spirited manner in which the people of this Colony responded te a similar call in aid of widows and orphans of our countrymen who fell in the last Russian war, we have every reason to hope that their patriotic and generous ardour will-be no less conspicuous now, when the unexampled sufferings of defenccless women and children, at the hands of ruthless savages, in addition to the usual cala wities of war—cannot fail to make a touching and irresistible , appeal to every buman sympathy. ’

Let sectarian animosities and political antipathics divide us as they may—let even national prejudices intervene—we ean and should all unite in heartily promoting such an object as that under consideration, the only aim of successful rivelry being who should accomplish the greatest good in so noble a cause.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Tne English Mail arrived from Pictou on Friday night We give below such items of news as are furnished by our latest papers.

INDIA. : THE SUCCESSFUL SALLIES FROM LUCKNOW.

General Havelock, though he failed in his attempt to re- lieve Lucknow, yet he so far sueceeded, that he drew the besiegers upon his small force. This enabled the beleaguered garrison to make a sally, which was not only successfull as to the destruction of the enemy, but enabled them to bring in a further amount of bullocks—sufficient for about three weeks’ consumption. It was then calculated that they could hold-ont-to the 9th or 10th of September, and it was hoped

here to be ealled in aid of an inadequate civil force. To this | doctrine, we, in common with the great bulk of the popula-

that reinforcements, consisting of the 5th Fusiliers and 90th Foot, would reach Cawnpore at the latest on the 1st idem, and thus easily enable Gen. Havelock to effect the relief of

existing, as they do, amongst Lligh'anders—men verbial | ae ee atniatentistion ta ish bason- : : ‘ f 7m . g: y 40, 4 2 proverbial | not, ~The doctrine of consubstantiation is just as Unreason | Son, record our dissent in toto. Law,as being the deliberate the garrison before the 9h, There is, however, an old a

for the love and veneration with which they generally regard | ahjo as that of transubstantiation, and yet Luther believed in | +4 » “> * oe ie “ , . . . - . their pastors, Last ey these men endeavour: d to obtain it,and all his followers have believed in it till this day. Are a hearing of their grievances before the Presbytery. The | they all infidels, then 2) Are all the Lutheran populations of | Rev. Mr. Manro, the moderator, was favourable toa hearing | gwaJen, Norway, Denmark, and many of the German States, | d sy . » ‘ » f we > ~ | . . " a Be : ° ’ £ } ot ae cause; but the defendant —Rev. Alexander Suther- | infidels ? Mr. Sutherland replies, yes. God forbid he! jand—being a member of the Presbytery, and apparently ‘should be telling the truth! dreading an investigation into his own conduct, opposed the} In conclusion, [ would assure the reverend gontlemang| proposal tooth and nail ; and having the advantage of the|ihat [ am far from entertaining any feeling of hostility to| complainants In some technical point oi ceelesiastical laws /the Church of which he is a minister—a Chureh’ founded by | succeeded in overruling their demand. Finding themselves). 5, dy of men unsurpassed, if equalled, in piety and . . « sail - — las ¥ d a : . si : . | thus foiled in their attempts to obtain redress in the ordinary | enlightenment-—the Church of my fathers, in which [ was!

eer expression of the will of the majority, should, and we trust, |

will, always be observed by the people; and the very desire which each man naturally feels, that the shield of the law protects him in his life, liberty and property, should, and we | believe, does and will, induce him to consider that his neigh- bor is entitled to the same protection:

Mr. Cooper evidently considers it consistent with public | morality that the country should borrow in the English | market money for the purchase of the proprietary titles, oa |

that too many eooks spoil the broth. : Sir Colin Campbell} had not been allowed at that time to take his seat in Council, and he, therefore, could exercise no effectual control over the movements of the troops. These movements were, in fact, subjected to the control of men who ought never to have been allowed to meddle with them. Col. Birch, the Mili+ tary Seeretary; Mr. J. P. Grant, Obstructor General ia the Central Provinces ; Gen. Outram, and the officers com>

;mauding at Dinapore and Benares, had all * fingers in the

pie,” and the result was that the two regiments on reaching, Mirzapore were called back to Dinapore, and then sent om:

and regular way, a delegate from the parties applied to me to! vo. 4 . PA ‘i ibe tt! cute, inlined) she. | hue . : mee . ; : : 8 y S P PP ®t0 reared and educated. Nor do I entertain any personal ill-| conditions, to be repudiated by the borrowers; and, inasmuch again in the Mirzapore and Allahabad directien. It is but

put their charges agaiust the minister in proper form, to eas orn beastly a Synod or before the public in his warlike clgnsman of New London have forsaken their | Daa an et,—pledging themselves, if 1 would do so, to piove 'sins and ceased their display of petty tyranny and intoleranee, |

im guilty of @ course of misconduct, the details of which jwhich so mach mars theie usefulness, tarnishes their repu-|

stitutional!? to swindle the capitalist who may be green enough to believe that our legislative body are not a pack of

opportunity presented itself for making a sortie. This time .

would be shocking in an ordinary chawacter, much more 80 tation, an} obscures the lustre of their natural parts, which | deliberate scoundrels—that “‘ Punica fides’ is an obsolete

in a minister of the Gospel. For some private reasons, deelined»eomplying with their request at that time. Now, | all these men would, I feel satistied, lose their lives and | JOSIAH McLEOD. property before they would even exaggerate or warp the| New Glascow. October 39, 1257

truth, much less tell a direct falsehood. The qnestion then | ° +08 to be decided in the public mind, before it pass julgment| Honrreue Deatu py Deowstxe.—On Friday night, at a

disciple. I remain, Sir, yours, &e.

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upon this man’s character, is, whether itis likely that so many Jate hour, a man named Archibald Brown, holdiug a respon.

reapectable and pious members of his own congregation would | sible situation in the Albert Coal Mines, by some accident, wilfully end maliciously conspire to aceuse him of crimes of fell over the Ballast Wharf on his way down to the steam- which be never bad been guilty. If he should haye the) boat, He groped his way up the wharf and endeavored to hardiiood to deny the truth of my statements, I am ready at'climb up the inside of the wharf. In doing so, the unfor- any time to produce a short written statement of the charges 'tanate man got jammed in between the logs. Por a long

. ol . . 4 : * . ° . . . . against him, with his accusers’ names appended thereto. time he remained in this situation before assistance could be | he has assumed, and which we venture to predict he will hold.

Although I thus throw the onus probandi of his vices entirely obtained, the tide gradually making, and death coming on apon the shoulders of others, 1 have no doubt but [ will be him by inches. When liis position was discovered, it was held responsible by his ignorant admirers; and will, in conse- | found impossible to get him out, and he was drowned in sight quence, be assailed with the most profuse threuts of kicking, of the powerless ap! horrifis] spectators. We understand horse-whipping, &c. I eannot see, however, that my remarks he was uot quite dead when got out, but died immediately on him can be offensive to any other clergyman, excepting his after. An iuquest was held and a verdict in accordaace

I are indisputably of a rather superior order, [ am their | phrase as regards the solemn action of a British Legislature.

| 100 of the enemy were blown into the air by a mine;

will to him. On the contrary, whenever I find that he and 2, tno truops and arms are withdrawn, he considers it +* con-| fair to General Outram to add that letters recently received

assert that the recall was in no way his deed, and that ha. disapproved of it from the first. Happily, however, another.

it was attended with greater success than ever, More than

We do most heartily protest against the right of Mr. Cooper, | large supplies of provisions were secured. The garrison now

or any other man, ih the Legislature or out of it, daring thus

| Legislature asa band 6f swindlers; and, assuming his state- ment to be the true embodiment of his own feelings and | wishes, implying that they whom he supported by his yote on ,the Loan Bill, acted in the spirit which he has not blushed to avow, induced his own vote on the Bill,

| Heartily sick of the contemplation of the position which | without the fear of having any disturbing rival, we leaye Mr, | Cooper to the enjoyment of the fancied idea, that

Merely adding our own modest opinion,“ which we are sorry

“consists of about 500 men, of whom 150 were in hospital; - penile i to villify our character for honesty—daring to stigmatize our | there are also about 300 women and children, who have gone

| through all the dangers and hardships of the siege, certam

(for the fate of the Cawnpore garrison had reached them) . ,of a cruel death if compelled by famine or any other caute (to surrender, Gen. Outram had sent word to Gen. Havelock — that he should aecompany him in his civil capacity only (he 'was Chief Commissioner of Oude when sent to command the army ia Persia). Not for an instant could he think of de- - priviog his brother in arms of the glory of relieving te garrison, and of completing the work which he had so wob!¥

begun,

SPRINGING A MINE AT LUCKNOW—THE REBELS BLOWN INTO THE . AIR.

| A telegraphic despatch from General Neill, reports, that

the besieged at Lucknow undermined a house in which @

yor, Cubeun®, Who, it seems, is as deep in the mud as be is swith the above facts returned. Deceased was highly respect- | to ®@y, differs from that of the forlorn Sailor's Hope man, yumber of Gazees were located, who had giveu great trouble, in the mire. This is the secret of the friendship that subsists |ed, and leaves a family and mauy frieads to mourn his loss. ‘that, in private as well as public engagements, honesty is the and blew the whole of them into the air. The garrison i best policy, .

between the two, and their strict aud uniform adberouce to|—St, John, NV. din, Leeder.

| sallied out, spiked the 24-pouuder which had greatly anno, :

scarcity of ammunition in the hands of the miscreants who

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and disaffection which had sprung up between the mutinons —

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their unheard-of crimes. With Delhi vanquished and de- _

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cessful storming of the rebels’ stronghold was a question mertly 4

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a sense of security inspired, throughout the vast Presideney

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