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KIRWAN UNMASKED. LETTER IV. TO KIRWAN, rus Reverend Nicnotas Murray, D.D., Of Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

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. | 0 in i as been clearly proved in my last letter, and from pension ye s ' ( ” the more indisputable, as they are furnished by your own pen, | scrupulous, an ook upon the phrase. “If I mistake not,”” as

— Che Eram

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| life narrow wherever he passes in bustling ss ity

hbdooty bhopa teadotn. ol 1 bustling and gassy rotundity. But I ,of the class to which you new belong.

| question ’’ the description of our house,’ | Prime will maintain it. \ , You state as a fact, that “on your first remembered journey to | Dublin, you passed by a place ¢ illed, if you mistake not, St. John’s Well.” | You tell me that I know it is one of the holy wells. I answer that I But you appear all at once singularly

At all events, [ “all in "and hope that you and Mr.

: R ; | equivalen oy 8 site stlaaliaes nn fs that you had no reason, either intellectual or moral, for leaving the | q t to the phras:, ** Young as I was,”? when you were already a

Catholic Church.

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The only reason, deduced by inference from what was “called. if cea a > : ; ; . | Was salle tistake no you have written of yourself, will be found in a thick, dark cloud of | . ao eee Oh, oS

*‘clerk in the store.” I cannot dwell on your evidence respec.ing what

John’s Well;’ but I have no

.. * eg | hesitation in saying » a ae ee : " . : ; igaorance and infidelity, such as, [ trust in God, never enveloped the ration in saying that the story is, either in whole or in part, a

mind of any ether Irish Catholic peasant at the age of eighteen, either

giuce or Orifore Yet, sir, I ¢

when you left it, was so unmitigated as you pretend. It will be very

dificult for you, however, either to retract or explain, in your real

choracter, what you have published of yourself under the duplicity of your mask.

i know not what intoxicating influence flattery and self-complacency |

may bave produced on a mind and memory like yours. But I do know that whoever writes under a mask, and in & character even partially feigned, and especially if he writes on any grave subject, in which mankind take a deep interest, does so at the imminent peril of his own reputation. Jie is nearly certain to be found out. happens, his attempts to reconcile the diser« pencies between his assumed and bis read character are sare to produce, in the public mind, a feeling of ridicule not unmingled with a feeling of contempt.

[In the introductory note prefixed to your letters I learn that they were furnished to Samuel I. Prime, * under the injunction of secrecy as to the authors name.” ’

sume reason this unnecessary precaution. to tell “the truth,” even **the whole truth,” and “ nothing but the truth,” in your testimeny for Presbyterianism or against Catholicity, what motive could you have had in this free country for this studious concealment of your name? Tiere the press is free, and writing against Popery is even at a premium. Why then, as an honest man, conceal your name? [his looks badly. Mr. Prime, indeed, loaned you hs en lorsement, wiiatever that may be worth. public rouching for your veracity in these words: “ . It is proper to say that the writer’s character is an abundant guarantee for the fidelity of all matters of fact here stated, and that he is prepared to maintain them, if they should be called in question’? Now, sir, there are some things whieh you state as matters of fact, which I beg leave most ewphaticafly to call in question. I hope you may be able to maintain them, or ifn t, L hope Mr. Prime wil! be willing to forfeit his recognis- “ances.

I. You stat

» not believe that your ignorance of the Catholic religion | * oe > ,

And when this/,

Lf you lived im Spain or Sicily, there might be | But if your purpose was |

He introduces you to the |

, as a matter of fact, that nearly at the age of manhood, “fon as fuil an examination of the subject as you could give it, you came to

fabrication. It is found on page 21 of our first series, and I call your

attention to it, in the hope that you and gir. Prime shall maintain what you have there stated as facts. | VI. The story about the sun “dancing” in the heavens and in the chapels on Easter Sunday morning, and the attempt to produce a | delusive corresponding phenomenon in the chapel by ‘an individual | managing concealed mirrors, so as to produce the wonderful effect,’’ (p. | 27,) I pronounce to be equally a fabrication,or a mere playful supposition, uttered for the amusement of ¢ ildren. endorser will see to this matter also. Vil. Again: you tell us as a fact, that you “ saw good papists eating eggs and fish and getting drunk on these days. (Fridays and Saturdays.) | But that this was no violation of the laws of the Chureh.?’—(p, 32.)

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This, sir, as far as regards what you call “ good papists ’’ and * getting | drunk,” and yet not violating the laws of the Church, is a fabrication.

This same page records the turning pownt of your life, the crisis of your } conversion, You came to the conciusion that as regards the eating of | meat on one day, and not on another, God could not make it a sin by | distinction of days—so that if a man can plough on Tuursday, by your | rule, God cannct make it a sin for him to do so on Sunday. And here, in point of fact, is theelirst, aud perhaps the best, reason which your letters furnish for your conversion. It seems that after mature delibera-

tion, you found that to forbid a man’s eating meat on Friday is an} It would appear by infer- |

unreasonable regulation, and you rejected it | ence that as regards meat, on such days, what your conscience approved | your appetite appropriated; and with singular maivete, you tell us that |“ as far as you now remember this was your first step towards light and | freedom.” —(p. 32 By-the-by, this calls up a period in the calamities of Ireland which |had almost passed into oblivion; and which corresponds more or less | with that of your conversion from Popery. About twenty-five or thirty years age, Lord Farnham, andother gentle- }men of the evangelical nobility, introduced into Ireland a religious | movement called ** the second Reformation.” It was a season of distress |} among the peasantry, such as succeeds, year by year, in the history of | our unfortunate native country. Lord Farnham had almost obtained a

patent from the legislature for the efficiency and admirable simplicity

‘ : . - 7 1 | of the new contrivance for converting the Irish. It was this. The the conciusion 1/at You uld notremain a R mon ( ith lit. oD 23. Now, ; ; © '

sity | refer to your own testimony, quoted in my last 1 tter, as proof that your mind * wos a perfect blank as to all religious instructions,” and I insist that therefore you did not give the Catholic religion as full an examination as you could, for you could, at least, have revived in yourself the knowledge of ** the Catechism ’’ which “ you had forgotten.”

II. You state, as a matter of fact that ‘in one of the large interior towns of Treland, - you resided in a house, and over the store in which you were then « clerk.”—p. 13. You then proceed to tell us about a drunken priest, Father B., whem you helped out of the gutter, and wind up tLe whole narrative with the remark ‘‘and young asI was.” This purase, inordiaary language, would refer to a period as far back as memory goes—a period in which reason was lut in the dawn of its development—say 8, 9, or 10 years of age; but at that period, if we can believe you, you were already a ‘clerk in a store!’ Pray, dear Kir- wan, what kind of a clerk were you? * Young as you were,” by your own account, you were able ** to siut the store windows at aight ’’—you were uble ** to heip a man out of the gutter ”’—you were able to * clean of his Reverence "—you were able to “ give him his brandy next morning,’ and yet you were justin the period of dawning reason and earliest memory, in which you tell us chat ** young as-you were,” all this made an impression on you. The circumstantial part ef the story is still more wonderiu! than the leading facts. For instance, you could net see the man in the gutter, and you were “attracted towards him by a singular noise. Pray what kind of a noise is a singular noise ? And then, the night was so dark that had it not been for the singular noise he might have perished. Buton the other hand, it was light enough to recognise * Father B, the miracle worker.”? And instead of helping the poor man, as a drcent ** clerk in the store’? should have done, you ran in blabbing to the lady of the bouse, that Father B. was drunk in the street. And the “* Jady ofthe house ” gave the “clerk in the store ” “a stunning slap on the side of the face,’’ and “* the elerk in the store ee “siaggered under the blow, and then turned round in the best nature in the world to assist in cleaning off his reverence.”? Next morning you “* gave him his brandy,” and ** ygung es the clerk in the store was, alithis made an impression upon him.’ Sir, if the dullest lawyer in the country had u under cross-examination on this subject, he could not fail to convulse the gravity of the bench with irrepressible laughter. Ubserve, I do not raise any question as to whether the priest was drunk or not; I let that pass. 1 have myself seen among the convicts of the peniteutiary, individuals pointed out as baving once been respectable Presbyterian ministers, and who were there for crimes even more h nious than drunkenness. But no man of right feclings would pretend to justity an opposite religion, or to condemn theirs, on acer unt of their crimes and misfortunes. I beg leave, then, to call in question the facts which you state in your cirr-umstantial emdencein thisease. And I direct your atten- tien particular! to the contradiction implied by the fact that you were a child at the same time that you were “a clerk in the store.”’

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Ill. You state asa fact that, on your father’s demise, your mother paid the priest money enough to have his soul prayed for by name, on every Sunday fortwo or three years. That, when the money was ex- pended, bis name was given out no more. That, when she inquired the enase of this, the priest told her, that * your father’s soul was still m Purgatory, but that she had forgotten to send in the yearly tax at the time it was due.’—(p. 14.) You add, that wih this fact in particular, you are entirely conversant.

Now, sir, I question this @ fact.’” I deny this *‘ fact.”” I pronounce it to be a fabricution, and not a fact. And if the courtesy of language authorized it, I should feel bound to designate it by a still harsher word. No priest would ever dare to decide when, or whether any soul was released from Purgatory. No Irish mother, or wife, or widow, would ever speak to a priest in the manner in which you describe your mother as having spoken to him. It is true she had not, like her son, the benefit of a Presbyterian education. She bore the penalty of her ancestors, and her creed. But sue knew the priaciples of the Catholic faith better than

you do; and your superior genera! information does not authorize you to | envelop her in this gross imputation of ignorance as to her faith. J am |

willing to go to any reasonable expense to prove this a fabrication, uf either you or Mr. Prime have the courage to mect me, in a formal mnvestigatwn.

IV. Youstate that ‘‘ Father M. held frequently his confessions +t your house”? ** That he sat in a dark room up stairs uith one or more candles on a table before.”” Tiiat “‘ those going to confesston followed each other on their knees from the front door, through the hall up the stairs, and to the door of the room.’ —(p. 19.

Now, sir, your Louse is likely to become as well known as Shakspear’s. A relative of yours has taken the pains to describe it, in a late number of the Freeman’: Journal. According to him, it would be a buildiag in the primitive stvie of Irish architecture. The same, very likely, which prevailed whea the round towers were constructed. Up stairs would be up a ladder to what is called a loft. And if Father M. heard confessions there, I can sea (he great propriety of one or more candles on the table For according to the primitive architecture of Ireland, light was received into the dwel:inys, either horizontally, by the door, or vertically by the chimney. The tormer was made for the purpose of ingress and egress, and the latter for the double purpose of always letting tie smoke out, and sometimes letting the day in. If then, Father M. had heard confessions in such a place, without one or more candles on the table, what a beautiful theme this circumstance would have afforded to a morbid imagination like yours.

Sir, I feel sopiewhat humbled at being obliged, as a reviewer, to notice this, as well as other p rtions of your Kirwan’s letters, which, in my opinion, propriety should have induced you to leave under the protection of domestic privacy. Lf you were still a Catholic, like your pious, albeit uneducated, mutler, you would feel rather proud than otherwise of what *ppears to be the fact as regards the humility of your ancestral ‘‘ halls.” Poverty isnot regarded, by those with whom you now associate, as respectable. And yet it has been ennobled by the example of our Redeemer and Jiis Apostles. It is still ennobled, in the estimation of the Catholic Church, when it is selected by vi luntary choice, and is never Cishonorable, except when it is immediately connected with, or resulting ftom mora! guilt ‘ ‘

Vur glorious Catholic ancestors were driven back int the cabine of Trish primitive life; and Protestanfism, tn anticipation of the good thnge of hecven made sire also of the good things of the earth. ’ the giebe lands, ‘he wenasteries, the castics and domains of our Catholic foretathers, becaine the usurped inheritance of Protestantism, by right of legal spoliation, from the period when the teformation took the jaterpretation of the Lible into its own hand—aided of course by acts of

érhiament. ‘

When, therefore, you describe the Catholic ** Priests ” * moving about &S spectres, ag if afraid of the light of day,’? you trace a picture which Seems to cal: up to my .orgination the lives of the Apostles, and of their Divine Master, yving about meckly and unobtrusively in the discharge Of their heaven y wission;—whiist the contrast suggested by the *tithesis as in favor of the Presbyterian ministry, would suggest to Dy Wiad the idea of am inflated clerical pedant who makes the avenues of

The churehes, |

| kitchens were turned into scriptural reading-rooms for the starving | pupulation of the neighborhood, once a week. The day selected Aqp-

| pened to be Friday, in all cas: s. After Bible-reading, soup Was given out .

use. Lord Farnham and bis colleagues supposed that f the landed pro | prietors and gentry could only succeed in establishing an amicable understanding | between the conscience and the stomach of the * lower orders,” Ireland | would soon become a Prot stant country. ButI need not dwell upon it; las you are old enough to remember bow it was ridiculed by Cobbett and | other writers wherever the English language was spoken. Now I do not say that you are a child of the * second Reformation,” | but the fact of your having made the first step towards light and freedom through the medium of something like a Friday-beefsteak, looks very much like it. | See, Rev. Nicholas Murray of Elizabeth-town, into what a position | your “* playing of pranks ”? behind Kirwan’s mask has betrayed you! ! | Besides the bow which Mr. Prime has volunteered you, you have made

}one for yourself—still under the mask, however. You tell, that, even

| before “ you took up yeur pen you were not unknown to the men of our |

| age, nor unsolicited... .” The men of our age”? (!!!)—or of any | age, are very few, and posterity has reserved to itself almvst absolutely, the right of determining whothey are, ‘Jo save your modesty, therefore, I am obliged to suppose that the printer bas made a mistake here, and that if ene could have the benefit of a peep at your manuscript, it would be found that you had written, “the men of our (vill)-age.”?

Ab, sir, it seems that your misfortune through life has been to have been under the influence of bad advisers—since you tell us you were ** solicited ”’ to write against Popery. The circumstance reminds me of an anecdote which I have lately read in a London paper, and which I trust will not offend you, as it has already been employed in a deserip- tion of England’s highest Protestant nobility. It seems, a drover found it dificult to keep his cattle together in the crowded approaches to the English metropolis. And in his extremity he called out to his neighbor, **T wish you would loan me a bark of your dog.”? You know, sir, that broad ridicule is the forte of the English as compared to the French, and a Cockney wit tells us that Lord Jobn Russell has turned the drover’s hint into the philosophy of politics, and that whenever Ais herd betray a ten- dency to straggie from the whig path, he ** borrows a bark?’ from Sir Robert Peel. However this may be, I am satisfied that “the men of our age,”’ if there be any such, woald never have borrowed a bark of you.

This letter is already too long, and I must bring it toa close. But in doing so, I cannot forget how often you have told us that you were once an infidel. There are evidences scattered up and down through your Jetters, which, to an unprejudiced and impartial reader, would make it appear doubtful whether you are not still so. shall present in my next. L| shall not venture to pronounce an opinion on the subject, as the Almighty alone can penetrate the hearts of men.

In the mean time, however, I remain, with increasing pity, but with undiminished good-will.

+ JOUN HUGHES, Bishop of New York.

Correspondence.

| PRINCETOWN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

A public meeting of the agriculturalists of Princetown Royalty was holden it the Mechanics’ Institute, on Wednes-

day, the 24th February last, for the purpose of re-organizing |

the Princetown Agricuitural Society. \in the chair.

| ‘The rules of the Society having been produced and read by the late secretary, including the resolution passed at the suspen-

sion of the Society in the year 1849, requiring that a majority

|ef the then members or their representatives be presez t at the

re-organization of thgSociety and the disposing of their funds :

The names of the late members having been calied over by the

secretary, it was ascertained that there were a cousiderable |

Thos. McNutt, Keqr.,

Ociee 7 . ~ . } 1 : } ttet ny \ rah, OL) RAR majority of them or their representatives present. The'| Charlottetown, March 20, 1858,

following resolutions then passed unanimous! y :— | 1. Whereas the Saint Eleanor’s Branch of the Royal Agricultural Society has not afforded to the community the benefit they had reason to anticipate, this meeting deem it | advisable to reorganise the Princetown Agricultural Society. |

2. That the Princetown Agricu!tural Society be now re ‘organized, under its former rules and regulations, | 3. That a subscription list be now opened for the purpose of entering the names of such persons as are desirous of becoming members. ‘he list being prepared, thirty-one persons entered their names as members for the ensuing year. |

4. That office-bearers for the ensuing year be now chosen, which being agreed to, the following persons were duly elected, viz:—Rev. Dr. Keir, President; Benj. Beairsto and Robt. MeNutt, Esquires, Vice Presidents; Mr. Peter McNutt, | Secretary aud Treasurer, Committee — Messrs. George Sinclair, James Henderson, Don. MeLellan, Francis F. McNutt, James M. McNutt, Arch. McGougan, senr., James Beairsto, John 8. Sutherland, and Hon. Don. Montgomery.

5. That the annual subscription. be increased from two shillings and six-pence to three shillings.

6. That petitions be presented to both branches of the| Legislature, praying a grant in aid of the Society’s funds.

7. That the funds of the Society be placed in the hands of

the Society’s Treasurer, for the purposes thereof, |

On wotion, it was then agreed that the Society should adjourn until the fourth Wednesday in March, then to meet for the further busiuess of the Society. Au order being made

at the same time that members should pay up their annual |

subscriptious by that date. Ben}. Beairsto, Esqr., being called to the chair, the thanks

dsed by your own pen, are not a fair specimen |

I hope that you and yvur|

instead of syllogisms, and the ** second Reformation ’? wenton admirably | until the potatoes of harvest became mature enough for the people’s |

Some of these I!

| March.

to advise the Public, man speak free——EvRrpies.

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ab and impartial conduct in the chair. Princetown Royalty, March 25, 1858.

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To tue Eprror or tHe EXAMINER.

signed “ D. J, Roberts,” and to which I have made a few /remarks, whieh you will oblige me by inserting in your next (issue. D. J. Roberts commences with —** He who steals my jpurse steals trash, bat he who filches my good name,” Xe. Now, I think Mr R berts’s good name must have been filched | before he came to Prince Edward Island, and I am sure the community here will be astonished at his impertinence in naming such a thing; and as for his purse, I rather fancy he never had any, at all events, T do not think if he had, there Sion any cash in it; but he, like many other firms in Eng- land, commenced business on a capital of nothing but impu- | dence and the credit of hard-working Colonists, such as Mr, | Roberts has attacked, and who have been fools enough to ‘consign ships and other properties to them; and now it be- |} comes a man like Mr. Roberts to insult Mr. Lord and others, and say the party from whom these reports emanated are | in too little estimation for the respectable inhabitants to notice. | U think Mr. Roberts makes a great mistake in making such | assertions, as, L believe, three-fourths of the mercantile com- ‘munity perfectly coincide with Mr. Lord’s views, and believe Mr. Lord was fully justified in making the remarks as stated, And respecting Mr. Roberts's attack on Messrs. Davies and | Nelson’s commercial morality, L think he would have done well had he left those gentlemen alone, and likely he will hear from them on the subject ; but any person who has been

| uniortunate enough to have done business with Mr. Roberts and his commercial morality will not likely trouble him a | second time; and I think the sooner such moral men as | Mr. Roberts leaves our community the better, as his remaining | here will have a bad moral tendency, either commercially or | otherwise; and think his moral character is well enough | known in this community, without his appearing before the | publie, through tac medium of a newspaper, and will conclude | with the following for Mr. Roberts’s perusal :

“« And all your vain renown will spoil, | As guns o’ercharged the more recoil— Tongh he that bath bnt impudence To all things has a fair pretence; . And put amongst bis wants but shame, To al! the worid he may lay claim. Toough you have tried that nothing’s borne With greater ease than public seorn— Twat all affronts do still give place To your impenetrabie face,— That makes your way through all affairs As pigs through hedges creep with theirs; Yetas t's counterfeit and brass, You must not think ’twill always pass, For all impestors, when they are known, Are past their labour and undone.”—LHupipras.

Charlotietown, March 15, 1858. A NATIVE.

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To raz Epiror oy tux Examiner.

Sir ;—lIn al! communities having any pretensions to mer- cantile reputation, Exchange and Reading Rooms occupy an important position. The ateruing from the establishment of Exchange Rooms, wherein ** merchants most do congregate,” are readily appreciated in all intelligent mercantile cities; and the connection of a Reading Room with the former doubles the value of each; for if the object of an Exchange Room be the bringing together of merchants, for the purpose of greater facility in buying and selling, the immediate vicinity of a Reading Room wherein are found not only the prices current in the markets of the world, the rate of exchange, &c., the quantity and price of particular articles | in any particular market, but also the political information which may enable a-shrewd man of business to coutract or expand his transactions as he may judge of the indications of the political horizon. The merebant from this Island, at any of the mercantile cities in Europe, is introduced by his resident ugent or corréspondent to the News Room, to which the latter is a subscriber, and thus is afforded an opportunity of ascer-

| taining what is being done in his distant heme.

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These observations are merely prefatory to a notice of our | well supplied and cfficieutly conducted Reading Room, which | has in conjunction a Merchants’ Exchauge., ‘bot a mercantile man, | am a subseriber; and I regret to | observe the comparatively trifling amount of support it has |hitherto received. Lf the proprietors shall be obliged to | abandon the enterprise, for want of udequate patronage, it will be a blot upon our Island eseutcheon; and 1 cannot but think that the benefits which they have voluntarily conferred on the government and public, by the immediate transmission for publication of the various telegrams of the latest news,

dividuals, but also toa grant in aid of their undertaking from the legislature, whose constituents, the people of this Island, | have received gratuitously the benetits of the liberal expendi- jture of the proprieters cf the institution to which I have referred. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

S. ™

THE LOT 50 TEACHERS’ UNION. To tHe Epiror or THe Examiner.

The Teachers’ meeting previously published in the different Island papers, by J. It. Fletcher, was postponed on account of the inclemency of the weather until Saturday, the 6th of This meeting having taken place at the Uigg School House, Mr. L. McLeod was called to the chair, and a Consti- tution having been agreed to, it was unanimously agreed, that this Society be designated the ** Lot 50 Teachers’ Union.”

Mr. Donald McDonald was then appointed President ; Daniel Enman, Vice President ; James Hiayden Fletcher, Sec- retary and Treasurer; Alexander McLeod, Jchn Beaton, Ken- neth McKenzie, John Currie, and were appointed a Committee, three of whom shall form a quorum.

The Visiting Committee were then appointed as follows :— K. McKenzie and J. Beaton to visit the Green Marsh and

| Back Woods Schools on Saturday, the 13th inst. ; James H.

Fletcher and Alex. McLeod to visit the Murray Harbour Koad Schools on Saturday, the 20th of March; D. MeDonald and K. McKenzie, the Vernon River and Alberry Plain Schools on Saturday, the 27th inst.; D. Enman and J. H. Fletcher the Orwell (north) and Uigg schools on Saturday, the 3rd Aprii.

Resolved, That the next meeting be held at the Uigg School House, it being the most central, on Saturday, the 3rd day of April, at 4 o'clock, p. m.

Resolved, That the Secretary forward the proceedings of this meeting to the several papers for publication.

After transacting some other business connected with the Society, the meeting dispersed.

J. H. FLETCHER, Secretary and Treasurer. Alberry Plains, March 9, 1858. P. 8.—The Editors of the different papers would oblige by

copying.

, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1858.

of the meeting were given to Thos. McNutt, Esqr., for his

Sir ;—In the islander of the 12th inst. I notice a letter

To this, although |

entitle them not only to.a more extended patronage from in- |

Ney.

TERATURE AND NEWS.

[EDITOR ano PUBLISHER.

No. 39.

TALK ABOUT GEORGETOWN. To tue Evrror or tHe Examen.

Str ;—As I reside in the vicinity of Georgetown, and am occasionally in the town, I have an opporrunity of knowing what transpires in that locality; and, Mr. Editor, the talk about Georgetown is, that the * Chit-Chat” that appeared in \the Islander of the 12th inst. is all dees! And the talk is, that the Government, in appointing F, McNeill, Fsqr., to the responsible and honourable situations of High Sheriff of King’s County and Commissioner of Small Debts for George- town, has done a credit to itself and justice to the County— as Mr. McNeill’s appointment to both those situations gives

| increased satisfaction, excepting only a few of the dog-in-the- | manger like Tories, that cannot eat hay themselves, and (if they can avoid it) would not allow their competent neighbours

|to do so. And the talk is, that the appointment of George Poole, Esqr., to be a Commissioner of Small Debts for

Georgetown is one of the best that could have been selected ; and the talk is that neither of. those men are hot-headed | politicians, but that both of them are keen-eyed business men, and will (to the best of their ability) do what is right; and

in benefitting the public, will finally benefit themselves. And the talk is, that Mr. Poole bears no affinity to a spring mackerel, as the scales have long sinee fallen from his eyes. And the talk is that a late number of the Islander had an account of a public meeting said to have been held in George- | town ; that said meeting was a private meeting composed of twenty-five members of the Alliance, and four persons favours

| able to the present party in power, who went only by chance; | that more than the half of the persons present were from the country, and had no interest whatever in Georgetown, and attended only at the request of special private invitation ; that said meeting was not public, it not having been callked | by the sheriff nor senior magistrate, and more than one-half | of the population knew nothing of it until it appeared in the Islander. And the talk is that the said meeting very much resemled the death throes of the Political Alliance. And the talk is that the Mechanics’ Institute, that is established on priaciples independent of any thing sectarian or political, is a fudge, and is only a trap or nest where people are being drilled for the coming election. And the talk is that Mr, A. C. Stewart, the President of the Institute, 3s like a young crow, or as Haviland says, vox et praeterea nihit. Awa the talk is that Arch. J. MeDonald, Esqr., Collector of Exeise for Georgetown, bas withdrawn from the Institute on account of its meddling in political matters. And the talk is that it would be better for the Chairman and Secretary of the late so-called ‘august Publie Meeting ” to mind their own affiirs, And the talk is that if the Liberal party stick closely together, and do not allow themselves to be divided by sectarian or hiblical influence, they wii!, at the next-election, return two good Liberals tor Georgetown ; and, Mr. Elitor, [ think you will soon hear from me again, : King’s County, March, 1858.

TALK.

| Colonial Legislature. —

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ILOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

| W epoNespay, February 2ith, 1858. MODEL FARM.

( Continued.)

Mr. POPE.—I quite agree with what has been said | by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, so far as regards the sale of |the cattle and sheep; but I maintain that, if the mare be | reserved for Queen's County, as he has proposed she shall ibe, such reservation will be an act of manifest injustice to the other two counties.

Mr. CLARK.—I see something very. selfish in the views

‘/of the two hon. members, Mr. Yeo and Mr. Pope. I

|}thought we were pretty generally agreed, that the sale of ithe stock should be made at whatever place it would be likely to bring the most money; and all admit that that |place is Charlottetown. These two hon. m w>ers, however, | desire a distribution of the stock, for sule, among the three counties; not so much, I apprehend, with a view to the benefit of farmers in general, as for their own individual ad- vantage ; for, beng the on!y two moneyed men, in their quar- ter of the Island, they, doubtless, caleulate upon making some good bargains, should the stock be distributed for sule ‘as they wish it to be,

| Mr, DOUSE.—I cannot see, with the hon. member, the | Queen's Printer, that there is any analogy between the Ki- jectric Telegraph Company and the Model Farm. The dis- tinction between the two concerns, showing the first to be & | private and the other a public one, has been very clearly \drawn by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, who, in doing so, | has quite taken the wind out of my sails.

[ can, therefore, jonly say that, in expressing his own opinions conceruing the Model Farm, its stock, and its liabilities, he has fully expressed mine also, The Legislature cannot possibly serve the general interests of the Colony better, than by sustaining the Agri- jcultural Society in all its well-directed operations, such as | they have been from the very formation of the Society; and nothing which they have undertaken has been better conceived, |or been more wortby of legislative countenance and support, than the Model Farm. 1 said, last session, and I now say again that such institutions should be established in every quarter of the Island. That the people do not more genes rally and more fuily appreciate the value, to the whole couutry, of such a stock as that now upon the Mode! Farm, is really /surprising. Let any man who ean remember the infe: jority /of our horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, such as they were, a | few ycars ago, before they were inggroved by the importation, by the Agricultural Society, of stock of the most improved

reeds from the old country, compare them, ag they then were, with what they now are, and poor indeed must-be his | judgment, as applied to such matters, if he cannot, by such comparison, perceive the great benefits which have been con- ferred, upon the whole Island, by the operations ef the Agri- cultural Society. And, if the bencfits already conferred upon the country, by the importation, at interva's, of some of the finest animals from the old country, have beer so great; it surely must be very clear that, by having, within ourselves, ja farm, on which young animals of the different species, could be bred from the purest parent stocks, still greater and more extended advantages could be derived. And, yet. it seems that, rather than make good the losses which have be "4 accidentally sustained and the debts which have Leen, u i avoidably and of necessity, incur: ed, by the Socicty, on acconat .of the Model Farm,—the making good of which would not amount to one half-penny a piece, upou our adult male agri- ‘cultural population, — that institution, Which, if dab ’ would become the nursery of the future agrieuliy iof the Colony, must be abaudoued '

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