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: , The editorial article of the Protestant of Sew Orleans seveded with) revenues would be no mvure lost to us than

‘ g's —" Saturday last relative to the Confederation the & , and was swallowed up in all would the moneys of the different countries ca _, eld at the Temperance Hall on : i . , . ee 3 ei « é ; : bres wish that Batler might dis,| when placed in the common ¢ ty —" Friday evening, coataias some misstateme nts and some by ¢ esolve to kill fx "1 sses me of those advantages of | ~ | : oo ; ’ ‘ oe : ee or at er a o : r ni which, in justive to the ¢ parlottetown De- pia hg t neeed insueh a polson-| Ww alth and prosperity, unicss by Lnion we Skin’ ~~ ty. as well as to the Hon. Mr i st % be wally | -| gai articip i h 2sources Ne ay ve - : 8 gui! was a n to wholly " gain ® I 7 pation in the re ra A Haviland, who ie anjustly aceused of * eall- iess i 1 mus » gotout; therelore; Canada, and in this view we Should eagerly. a ei ‘pat peal. Pan et ke i ; i oe ee “Ghee erat nang aa because iOS im question ¢ arrangements of the ti the ¢ at uf everyDody, Wes Gesire to share its responsi Oriities, Cnr | a ooiate hould be corrected ; er r . > . , * on nted aCIGLy » Paotl we CL a. removed very pound of her debt is nobly represented “a a a af tha Dahatiag it Iways be a matter of more wonder and more than overbalaneed in its vast riches. |. At oo a ey a * ey l Ae shagcg yan ee as ’ that sa ; M atwithatnet ‘ t minis aie a Society, held previous to last Friday, the ar- peo} : re admit Notwithstanding this, there are persons , ¢ : : to } } . aa Oa ' as “ ; rf gz . ‘ ! os range men's f wr the Confederation mee tir g I 1 could, in the words i ST. in it of t atriotism, @xciatin, : trai a Ww ' Be s the a : , 1a to ean i I rio se © j ad were submitted by the committee and unani- eeward 7 { nee the ac o | we, % ady sO Ccomlortabie acd § ahi : , i seward, “a - 2. renou a & 8900.0 Wwe, BE yro com ‘ me + Ta yusly a lopt d by the Society. [hese ar- ereature ik butler, and declare, in all 8 situated in bile, propose to form an ailiaine -

rangements provided that Mr. ‘David Laird, as President of the Society, in conformity with

e 9th rule of the Constitution, shou/d vecupy the chair. Accordingly Mr. Laird took the chair for the evening, but as soon as the Hon. W .UL Pope finished tis address, Mr. Laird, in the fuce of the previous arrangement, jumped out of the Chair. ‘* Scorehed’’ by the argu-| ments of the opener, bis seat grew too hot for him, and he bellowed out to one of the Com.

official correspondence, that his removal! from) with poor, bankrupt Canada ? command at New O;leans was owing to pro- they forget, that this country extends from ededinys thich the government most decided! y the Atlantic to the far West, running from the disapproved, has retarmned him iz: other com-! month of the St. Lawrence to Lake [uron— mands soleng. It is a matter of more won-, with «a breadth of S00-or 400 miles—with a der that that adminictratign has sent him) population of nearly 3.000 000—with mag-

nifieent towns and cities — flourishing villages, North to be received with opon) —pumerous agricultural districts teeming erents whose fans-/ with wealth—with a soil pregnant with fertility and mineral riches—a trade already

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: tee ke his’ place d albeck nistration fai eriminalliy to'ersted, and immense and steadily inereasing,—sure mittee to take lis place. ‘ Mr. Cal ere oo ; * 4 : ea country | Moved with compassion, responded to the whet the Petter men ef ail parties had ¢.-| readers and countrymen, this is nota country | yo a ae cid Laird nounced in terms of far too measured severt whose alliance we & yuld si rn oF Tejeet she Prodiddut of the Society. aallee whose Soine seeret grip upon the intereste—surely) tut which we should earnestly covet and ' lad : os art 4 a look | auspices the meeting was convened, imme- nik ' i Fi wns—ii JIT, LANMCOIN AG prige in, in Ofer taat by & happy WediocK “iy a A ‘ Gsor. ae the beadtus 7 © ° ‘ oa , Ti . ’ a ne ain the W Department has given him leave we may consulidate our dowerics, and then | “!**°') ee Hs : an. i ' ; I Hb t | r nd I . champion of the anti-U ulonista. flon. Mr oe rf @ #cut si pus Ja Made UUTA part nate in : real ensure and cn ‘or : a me a ; ae : - - eile x oh ie Ga Eden llaviland then asked if this extraordinary S'tter men they mus CessuPrilv tippatr to u nhueed, : . f » at Bnet ° i. ef ’ . it ot oe lond ang | ead unprecedented movement on the part o Ii. f reas. Monte and int eomparative wealth of P. E. Island and p , dentin en } { ’ j t resident was in conlormity with Army of the James, i marked by failure.) Canada is that of the beggar and rich man a OF ee te ee Bie ell oe ‘ every” i mania for issaing | « i not. Mr. Editor, wish to exhibit | *” a eee ae ee eg ' ; : ras piled-—-(i regret to say incorrectly) -—— Dy mia : wor writing sharp letters marks of want of patriotism or of that pro-| + . ‘ ” ork ee ill i r ' ; stating that he had acted in conformity with is been the bane af many an innoceat cuis| found election we ought all te entertain for 2 aL . \ f | Lire! but I the arrangements of the Society. Mr. Laird yer ’ to the wr citizen, the forgetiul the soil which gave us birth: but resume 5 . : . trie Bat ! l ’ > . ei a f + | ce , | Cannot point out to any rule or precedent in Ssidier. in Whom the ec ntrie pulief. @\s- may abepe, with the east Gisparegemen . S ms yw ' ; lefence of his conduct, neither can he fall covered a s et lor b18 pen Llis name, ! to F. Isiand, that the viuiue of tie rakes : , : . ’ te j 1 back on any arrangement made by the Cum- ntecedents, became the threads of asatirej;and hoes, the shovels and the forks, th s - ’ i . oo ' con aN mittee or Society m extenuation of. hia un- eo mcan ata S,rcabie, that net even & harness and the ploughs of Canada is quitk }

beard of pr ceedings on that occasion,

; bea ; } , } } f thea f e » ne trare of ar ewer al deserved to shiei!d,| enough to pay the debtof the four Provinces a “ ’ - 4 Bites b Maj t-genera ug ea [he truth is, Mr. Editor, that Mr. David the writer from the same surt of punishment| with a residue of six millons of dollars; and ; ‘ ’ ; i ' | ' Laird was the only man found in the ranks o! once 82 Sountifelly administered to him by aj if we count the live stock at its value in - ;

the anti-Unionists who would attempt to re- ply to the ab'e address of the ll mn. Ww. Il Pope, he therefore rendered the Socie'y, of which he is President, subservient to the} interests of his party. | In his clumsy attempt at apologising for

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it would pay every farthing of th: *e only, within his own doe) debt she owes, Nos only that, it would court-martial repaid him likewise pay the debis of the Maritime Pr kind hy sentenging a poor wretch of a negro, vinces, and still leave a surplus sufficient for - lier, on trial before them, to **hard labor)! a h indsome cay ital for P. E Island to com- vn Dutch Gup canal for iife.”’ mence business with. Yet we are gravely ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity.’’ The informed (or rather misinformed) that this

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disaster that sielved Butler, however sock-| mighty country (Canad 1) is just approachin ing at first to the nation at large, is at last) the verge of bankraptey ; that we shoul worth more to the nation than e victoryv.ir pose no confidence in it; centre no h pes To every adverse tide that rolls euch fluod-| nor entrust to it our future political, social ; . ; : ee oe The nm. k aviland, so fs rom eall- wood high and dry upon the shure, t ind moral condition. Rather showid those Lue Ilon. Mr. 7 — ar f a ft - ‘ ; in r restiv he **arrangements ” eountry can well affurd to be submissive. | idie thinkers s¢ down and weep by the waters er ee " 4th ' _ . look i - ea ie ; ee ‘ Seciety,’’ emphatically stated that if Mr York rid, of Babylon, that the day is apparently so ~ ee a : tardistant when these visions or contemy luted Laird 8 conduct was a —s ee the pee a ' 1, | of the Society he would ** bow with submis- dreams of the wnionists are to assume thi i -s shade of reality son’ to the urrangments. adage i Feaiity r - o. diel ~ . ; ha iL. fulnae f he Tom. Not to speak of free trade existing between! “° much for the truthfuinces a f a the Provinces through the Union. and of the | {¢54¢né- For the present I will only remark if ovinces igh the Ur , and of the ‘i . ’ very pleasing effects fowing from it, I pass to | *%3* 3° ill beeomes Mr Laird, whose indis- 7 ~ FeRaee ~» ~-vL ee i ’ ~ yi +e so : . - . - ’ " ° a , . Sin ;—(ircamstances unforseen at the time! notice sandry other advantages. Our fish-| tinct ~ wlati mr pion on . & - Ny | 3 ; sntriloquis* sneer at whi 2 of my last communication have prevented me erics will be protected and general'y and gen- trained ventrijoquis’, t» sneer was mo

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from paying, as I had promised, earlier at-jerously patroniz-d by the Canadians, who | C48 te “high 89 Tount's ris of any . ' ' : oi : person. ifs, Fee i tention ty the jarther ventilation of the Con-| will setcle along our coast and be the means of | P&F892 on ; i

Tn federation Scheme ; but, althoagh a consid:-| d:fusing among us large quantities of money Pehe Charlotte 1 A mEneee rable time has since elapsed, and although I Readers of Canadian -history are well con-| of the C art ty te eins Vedating Society. had the occasion of hearing various arguments vineed of the fact that while P. E. Island} Monday, Feb. Gth, 1865. pro and con the Ucion, yet, | must say, that; was still under French rule, the inhabitants | I have not at any time or anywhere heard (or at least a great number of adventurers) | eofficiently strong reasoning to convince me of Nouvelle France, formed a rapid and ex-| Sir :—In your paper of the I6th you re-

Lat Coniederation is going to prove detri-| pansive strain of emigration continually ebb-| publish an article irom the Toronto Globe, mental to the best interests of this Colony.| ing t. our shores, but which began its reflux) Which you think proper to style a disposition On the other hand, | have been wonderfully | at the surrender of Quebee to the English un-| of Mr. Palmer's ubjections to Confederation ; confirmed in my former sentiments, to wit: der Wolfe, Nor shall the increased number | and in your introductory remarks you say

hat the Contederation of the British Pro-| of customers mar our markets, but will, on/| that ‘as his silly objections are repeated by vinees is desira’le politically, commercially | the contrary prove beneficial to them, forasa| other people, a refutation of them may serve and socially. Peltically, because it would| merchant can trade to better advantage with to prevent his delusions from spreading.’’ enable all those living 1a the Peovinees to b- | 100 customers than with one, so will 80,000) Now, without attempting or wishing to de- subjected to one government and to one con-| Islanders merchandise with greater suce~es | fend Mr. P., L think you could not have pub- stitution; « because it will in-, with the 4,000,000 customers that wil! attend | lished anything so well calculated to “serve” crease Our commercial facilities—trade will| our markets from the other Provinces. But! to increase the spread of ‘this delusions’’ as then be as free between Quebee and Char- | the anti-unionists, still desirous of opposition, the Globe's article, as it amounts to n thing lottetown, as it is now between this latter insist thas on account of the more rapid in-; wore or less than an admission that Mr. Pal- place and Summerside, and by means of the | crease of population in Canada than in P. E | mer’s arguments are quite conclusive. It Intereolonia!l Ra:lway, travellers will be only | Island, this latter place will be lilterally | merely disposes of his arguments tins far : 30 hours distant from Montreal. In the ewamped, and its representation will lose its| that it is unreasonable fur us to desire to | third pi Se? . is desirable Socia li relative importance, But tar from this being | enter the Union on any other terms than an beeauss it will procure us that intimate | the cas, our opponents, by this process of | equal footing with all the other Provinces; | intercourse which the people of these Pro-| reas ning, tear down, both roof and fuanda-| but does it dispose of Mr. P.’s arguments vinees, drawing their blood from the sam</ tion, the whole fabrie of theic arguments, | Wherein he shows clearly that for us to enter source, have a right to expect Nor shal! for as much as the population of Canada is | the prop sed Union on apparently equal this conncetion with Canada resemble in the | augmented, in the same proportion shall our | &rms would be decidedly disadvantageous to Jeast that of England ani [reland, az the taxes be diminished, in order to equalize our Prince Edward Is/and?) Ol no; 80 far from anti-cnionists assert. ‘This latter union was| shares. But, instead of marring our present | this, it virtually admits the truth of Mr esventially Legislative ; and when the ques- | state of improvement and prosperity, we will, P.’s arguments, but wishes to dispose ot tion was first moved in Ireland, the force « yn the contrary, ameliorate it. Here then ie them on account of their unfairness. I popular seotitaent was 80 strong against i: a cuustry that is worth the ambition of our! should wish to ask you, Mr. Editor, where Im that country, that the measure was i: young men. N »w, thousands are fertilizing does the Globe disy we of those of Mr. P's at tntly defeated. It was, however, passe the plains and valley s ol the South with their bj ‘ctions, of which he giv 8 us & Summary into law the Yeas following its first proposal) blood, forced tu leave their homes for want io the following words: ** Le is disposed to by the extensive use of ypen and undiszuise f means of enrployment; but the Confeder- | tnsinuate that the Canadian Ministers bum- berbery of the mem*ers of the Irish Parlia-| ation of the British Culonies will afford a | bugged nearly all the del gates from the ment. Thus was [reland deprived of its home to our young men, will give them a/ Maritime Provinees—the astute Mr. Paluset liouse of Commons and Uouse of Peers, an! field sv flici: ntly wide to satisfy the cravings of Course excepted — but he thinks those ol atandened 9 the merey of her most inveter-| of the most ambitious, whether ina protes- Nova Szotia and New Brunswick made pretty ateenemy. Butsuch siall mot be the eas! sional, political, or m litary line, and will) 2» od bargains, Mr. Cilley, of the latter Pro- with P. EB. Island respectively to the cor finally be to them a shrine of peace and secur- vince, being especially sharp when mon y templated Union. We will have a hand ir ity. But for this we require a large revenue,| Was in question, These two Provinces gei framing the constitution of our lature goverr yea, the united revenues of the several Pro-| the Intercolonial Railway —or, as Mr. P ment; we will Pr veess & local Llouse of As vinces, The Canals and the railwars that sm irtly puts 5, the Grand frunk Railway— rembly to provide for the individual govern-| are to be extended far West, will be most ef-| $0, 1f they are to be heavily taxed, if they ment of the Island; and our representatives, | fectual in augmenting our common resources | are to be swallowed ap by Canada, they will aiter having eonsulted the feelings of their) The object of the canals is that all sea-gormg | have sumething to ebew for it. But poor P constituents, will | presume, be superior t) | vessels should be able to penetrate the whole | E. Island, of ail others, gets nething but the bribery and treachery. f the way to the interior of the Great West:|;rospect ot handsome taxation. She 1s to

The great chj-etion that the advocates of | that the men whose avocation it is tou be the pey out large sums of money for purposes union contmusily hold oat to the people in| earriers of the world, should have enlarged | actually detrimental to her mter sts; ste is order to deter them from yielding their facilities for shipping ; that instead of un- | to pay a tariff of 25 per cent. im place of 10, adhesion to this grand movement, is the | loading and transhipping their cargoes in| 48 at present; her brave sons are, in the additional amount of taxation—a sure eon-| the lower ports of tue St. Lawrence, they event of war, to be drawn away from her eequence, gay they, of this Confederation | may proceed dircetly and without interrap- | own territory tu fizht in defence of Canadian | But nothing i more rmdiculous than the idea! tion to the great marts of the West. Thus! soil; and in return for all this she is to get that the Cawadiane desire the Union sviely tthe produce of this latter place will pass absulutely nothing.”" Now, L ask, where entail in as exorbitant taxes and oblige usin' down to vur seas through the Canadian | does the Globe dispose of the above? It cer- the end, a¢ many will ussume, to sell our canals, not, as at present, through thecanals tainly does not in the article in question, or tarme and ieave the country. Is not every | and ratlways of the Northern States, enrich-| if it does, [ am really at a loss to knuw where one aware, that the Constitution of th: ing their treasury and impoverishing our own. | to find it.

Central Government i« so framed, that if th [ now come to the last and most mnportant The Globe does not deny that Princes E2- Canadian legislators wish to impose an as- pomt which | purpose noticing in this com- | ward [sland will be taxed to help to fortify sessieaton us, they must assess themselves munication, via: our self-defence. All must; aed defend Canada; but, in answer to Mr. an like manner? In my humble estimation, admit that there exists no lounger time for P.’s arguments, proving the same, says:— the opponents of Union resemble very clusely | balancing, as the tide of desiruction, horror |** Dreadful, is it not? If fortifications are cerain parish vestries discussing a rate in| and deselation is rolling rapidly to our! to be built at alk, they should be built where uid question. They appear to me to attac! | shores. At what time our crimson blood | they are most needed.’? Now, we are aware to the Confederation of the Colonies no other!) may flow, we know not; but this much we | that fortifications will be most needed in of more important grounds upon which thev have, by the close obsersation of recent) Upper Canada, and [ ask why shuuld the can view this project than that of mer:| events, been able to appreciate, to wit, thai | people of P. E Island voluntarily take upon finance. In fact, the philosophy of the at what time sovever our Yankee neighbors) their shouldess the burthen of assisting tu | question, aceuriing to them, may be resume!) shall put an énd to their destructive war, so | fortify and defend Canada when we can do | in these few words: If the proposed sehem-! soon shall they rush on us like blood-hounds,) much better without it?) If the Canadians of Confederation can by any wathematica!l! and woe to us if this war, heretofore con-| are in dread of Yankee invasion — which | or theoretical process of ratiocination, be | sidered only asa by-goue danger or as im- | believe they are — why let them fortify and | discovered to involve a few more cents o! probable aa a yoleanie eraption, should! defend themselves, without the assistance ot taxation thad what is already borne by the overtake us unprepared. Shall this Island /amiserable little Prince Edward Island, and it inhabitants of this Island, then let all! become a second Gibraltar—surrounded by old Eagland thinks we are worth defending further investigation cr enquiry inty the) defences and excluded from all communica- and protecting, she will do it, and if not, | metter be lard aside ant ind faitely negleet- tion with the rest of our sister colonies, or| she will give us up to those who will. ed. A person. poxsessed of sound jndgmen¢) shall we become tree and seeure by being} Again, the Giobe says: ** The ather com-} and commun sense could scarcely conceive a! united to the Confederacy. United or not, | plait is, if poss:bie, even more preposterous. | more absurd non seyuifur, and surely noone we will undergo the same risk and danger on | Phe people of the whole Confederation would | would bs so rash as to reject, even in ease of | the partof the Yankeca, for union or dis-| be quite as much bound to defend Upper} the adaimion of the above premises, the! union with Canada does not deprive us of | Canada, in case of need, as they would be) scheme ootl thoroughly satisfied that tt :| our conneetion with the Mother Country, and | to detend Prince Edward Island, or any Union did not possess remunerations more! our consequent impiieation in the supposed | other section under the same circumstances, | thin compensating for its cose and unattain-| grievapees of the North. But there are per-| but not one whit more ’’? But does not the! able mm any other way. Ia the first place,| sons tu allege that the Colonies should not editer of the Glode know, as well, as every | unionists will not admit that we will be muel| be obliged to make any preparations of de-| other wide-awake Canadian, that in eonse-. widte heavily assessed. But people, whos! fence against the Northerner-, as it was Eng-| quence of the geographical position of the | minds have been deranged with this mono- | land, and she alone, who laid the first grounds! two Provinces, P. E. Islanders would be! manis, ery out in shallow strains, that) for provocation. But this w a grievous, bound a great many whits more to defend | Cana‘la pays 29 per cent on what are ealle!| error. The English Government has tirough- | Upper Canada than they would be to defend ed valorem gwds, while PE Island pays! out. maintained a strict neutrality, and is|even their own provinces, and without Con-| bori0 per cent; therefore the Canadians are| thereby conscious of haying afforded no just federation, as a Colony, we should not have overdurthened with tax. tion—their raler «| cause of offence to the North. Bat have not/to defend ourselves at all, as Britain's | extortioriers and tyrants. Nothing, mdeed.| private individuals assisted the Southern ‘e wooden walls’’ are quite a reliable defence | was ever better ealeulated to delade the Confederacy with money, ships, ammusition | for us. hia Oe ae country ,— better for such people tu sit down of war, &c.? Trae, and it is quite natural. } Perhaps many will say that it is injustice calmly, t feet seriously, xad carefully com-| Every man bas his own prejadices and his | for to require the * Mother Country to de- pire our respective tariffs. Now, it is an| own sympathies, over which the law of the | fend as against a foreign foe; but I tink, | wbhwulute feet, that, althvagh in Canads,) land has no jurisdiction. In this manner, | accord ng to your own reas ning in your| there are certain articles thatace taxed wits) the English peuple entertain their vain ideas| articles on the ** Land Question, that Bri-| 25 per cent, yet there are a number of | of right ard wrong with respect to the Ame-| tain isin justice vety muci indebted to Prince | others fur whew they pay only 10 or 15 per rican rebellion; taey therelore favoured the | Edward Island, and as there w po hope ol eent; while again there were &O articles th \t) Southerners, and even aided them turgely in our getting our just due, in the manner | admit of no tariff. In fact, one-half of the! the prosecution of the war. In fact, who.) which you argue tiat we should, it is surely imports are duty free; and the reason why [ ask, that has carefully watehed the whole | the least we ought to expect that she shouid certain imported goods are su heavily taxed. course of their actions, would not sympathiz’| detend that lund whose people she bas made is in order to operate as a prolubition. No with those brave and intrepid detenders of |slaves. Lt your reasoning is sound, and af duty was imposed on home manutacturcs io their homes and altars? No man of the| Eagland is in honor bound to emuncipate |

Le view ul protecting al those who should smallest perception ean then justly attribute | ber slaves m P. B. [sland by a grant from | be 4-sirous of embarking in this trade. to England any blame or reproach as to the| the Luperial Treasury, which honor she has)

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To tue Epiror or tHe Examiner.

»mmercially,

Union

Thus while Canada was sm «ing and drinking war that menae’s us; but, on the contrary, violated by withholding said grant, surely it. articies if mot all, atleast but lightly assessed’, let us all unite, perceiving our Mother Coun-| is not tou much to expect that she will d2- we were paying highly for the eonsump'ion try eutangled in various difficulties, and us-| fend us against @ foreign power. It shat of the same ints our treasury. Henee we sist in our own defence. Sie will not and money is due us, and they will not grant it, way safely inier that with regard to the cannot be expected to protect us alone; and | why let us get it out of them the best way dill-renee of our respeetiwe tariffs, we shall if we make no efforts on our part, we may | we can.

nut be suff rers by Union. There are, how- | rest assured that our doom 18 sealed the mo-| We are nearly all against the Union duwn ever, sone whe entertain the erroneous idva ment our Parent Country leaves us to our) here, Mr. Editor. and I hope our Represen- that all our revenue is to go to Canada, aod misereble and well-merited fate ; while there | tativesawill not betray their trast and rashly then be lost to us forewer. But will pot is letle danger of our being defeated, should decide and vote upon a subject for the settle- fae Pask, give up her rey nue? M6 we present to the enemy a front of people ment of which we did not retarn them as unduyliiediy she wii, and our Separate | well armed, disciplined and watetial, fight-| oar representatives. N rbody represents in resgurees will be umd and consolidated, ing for their rights, their laws. their Iyberty, | Parliawent the people of Prince Eiward Ls- wince we wil draw in order to pay the and their country. WILLOCKS. | land on the qnestion of Union; and [ am jptesest of our commen debt, provide turvur, Charlottetuwa, Jan 23th, 1300. sutistied,

- —_ _—— ee i people on that question, that Mr. Palmer! This Conference, after lengthened deliberations, and his friends will remain masters of ** the arrived at the conclusion that a Federal Union ot a these Provinees was feasible and desirable, and the result of its labors is avplan of Constitution fur the proposed anion embodied iv a series of re- sulutions, whieh, with other papers relating to - the subject, I have directed to be lagd before you.

| The general design of a union, and the particu- lar plan by whieh it is proposed to carry that in-

Yours, &. ; THOS. CLAY. Dundas, Jan. 23rd. 1865.

situation.”’

I believe, thet it will have your support. and the) suppert and approval of the entire community. | (Cheers ) It now remains for the Legislatures | of the respective provinces te decide on the course which they will adopt. and the ultimate decision will ‘be reserved for the Imperial Parliament

(Hear.) But [think yea will agree with me that it will be a very satistactory day for the mother country if those communities which have grown up under hertthrone shall be united inte a great |

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into the adjoining States for the purpose of arsen and robbery — it is such a gross violation of the vbligations of neutrality that they owe, while bere, to our Government, that every loyal citizen should fee! it to be his duty, it cognizant of those plane, to immediately give such information te the au- therities as might enible them to prevent jt, Our country ough! not (o be made a sanctuary for rovbers and murderers and incendiaries. There was a great, a selemn national duty in posed Upon

jber, in reply to Prince ( ouza's speech at the | the answer to the Speech adopted by a majority

) tates, and concludes by dewanding that the rights |

that the circumstanees of the times afforded the

if an appeal be made to the! Provinces of British North America. | ceedings which Lad taken place at the conf

Che Examiner, | tention into effect, have both received the cordia!

= | approbation of the imperial Government. jand powerful community, with all that indepen- An Imperial Act of Parliament will be neces- dence which belongs to the British race. and able lsarv in order to give effect to the cortemplated| and willing to make sacrifices and exertions in Union of the Colonies, and I have been officially informed by the Secretary of State that Her Ma-| among the powertul communities of the world ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. jesty’s Ministers will be prepared te introduce a| (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is given to ad a Lill for that purpose into the Imperial Parliament | tries to be great and powertul empires, but it has : ; i " "nol t 2 of - he

The English Mail arrived here, partly on Sa-! so sooy as they shall have been notified that the! been given to England sane te be also the mother proposal has received the sanction of the Legis-| of great and tree communities. i latures representing the several provinces affected | tury we gov erned our colonies with teo unc b by it. regard to our own views, and too little regard to “In commending to your attention this subject, | their views and interests. The result was a dis- as furnished by the Eevopcan Times, of the 21st,| the importance of which te yourselves and to | astrous and disereditable conflict, and in the end us furnished by the Lewvoz he , | your descendauts it is impossible to exaggerate, || We Were compelled to say what we had much ‘would elain) for it your calm, earnest aud impar-| better have avowed in the beginning, “‘ Wayward epAIN. | tial consideration. children, depart in re shee . hu subject With the public men of British North America (| vf the Queen of England vw ae wishes how tu de-

dove os “ee oats O8 thei it now rests to decide whether the vast tract ol! part froin the British Constitution. WwW bat the troduced a bill In the ( oe an arn country whieh they inhabit shall be consolidated poliey of coercion could not da, the policy of con- and-tax should be paid in advance ete - jinto a state, combining within its area all the} tidence has effected. (Hear.) But some people as resigned his cumissivnd as Capleia lu Tlic | elements of National vreatness, providing for the | say, “Well, but you are now taking the other

Spanish arwy s : ITALY. to the streng ae Rome, Jan. 20—The police have discovered whether the several Provinces of which it is con-| at the cost of the mother country” “ eli, Lam the au‘ hors and accouphices of the robberies and | stituted shall remain in their present fragmentary | Teady to admit, and I aim sure the colonies will taken place bete | and isolated condition, comparatively powerless | assent, that no permanent and enduring connex- . ion can be formed upon that basis and that prin- ciple. But what the colonists will be ready to steele | Jo the discussion of an issue of such moment,| assent to, and what we shall be prepared to go AUSTRIA. , ‘ (T fervently pray that your minds may be guided! #leng with them to establish, is a connexior Vienna, Jan. 20.-—-An imperi il reseript, ad-| to cone usi nis w hich shall redound to the honor | dressed to the Ban of Dalmatia, ¢ oalla, Siavoenia, ef our Sovereign, to the weilare of He

iblished to-day, ordering the assemolog | and te your own re putatic nh a3 pa

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Charlottetown, February 6, 18C5.

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turday might, and partly, we understand, last night. The news from Europe is not important;

but we make room fer the following items,

which is the latest date received :—

Maorin, Jan. 20.—The government has in-

security of its component parts, and contributing | extreme, and are governing your colonies too

th and stability of the Empire, or! much for the benefit of the colonies, and too nmch

assaults which have recently during the night, and 32 arrests bave been made. | (,¢ pyutual aid. and incapable of undertaking thei:

i¢ assaults have since ceased, | proper share of Imperial responsibility.

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r subject riots aud | tage; and I believe that England may be proud jto be the parent of such colonies, and that the when they will be both able and willing to repay the assistance and pro- De conducted ext sprig. 19th until Monday, the 23rd ; and then when the tection which they have received trom the mother : : pete : country, and when England, speaking as the THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. parent of those distant Sedonalinen: may say she Bucuare-s.Jan. 20.--The address of the cham- | matter was disposed of in one short sitting, and | will be glad to have her quiver fullot them, and she will not be ashamed when she speaks with opentug of the session, was presented te the Prinee her enemy at the gate. (Hear, bear. )”” o-day. All the members of the chamber accom- um Bd : a meg ilietiliitanmadal panied the deputation to the palace to present the | Legislative Assewbly—Messrs, Dorion and Dun-| , pe aRNED JUDGE ON CONFEDERATION address, aud made & Warm dewoustration of de-) kin—spoke against Confederation. The former | votion to the prince. :

GS Deel p v of a conie oft eh ghest fupechonaries wut statesmen. the purpose of discussing the manner in whieh day may

Parliament was adjourned from Thursday, the J }

ence tu come

the elections to the Diet of these provinces are to

} answer to the Speech came up for discussion, the |

of 70 against 17. Ouly two members in the |

' Tue Honorable Judge Wilmot, in alate charge

| gentleman preposed the following amendment to | PRUSSIA. the Address in answer to the Speech :—* This } to the Graid Jury of the County of York, New

Berun, Jan.20—In to-day’s sitting of the Low-| House deems it a duty respectfully to express to | Brunswick, gave utterence to the following ad- er tlouse, Herren Fwesten and Assiuan presented a report, in tbe name of the committee, on the ad- : ci . ; oie pte Ee s that the draft of an address in-/| Pe Of this Provinee, fully appreciating the biess- the Colonies.

your Excellency its firm conviction that the peo- | tnirable observations en the proposed union of i When an Archbishop and a Judge dress, proposin j ; » ‘ » troduced by Herr Reichenspeiger, and also the | iags of their existing political relations with the | {hus voluntarily come forward in support of se one litre luced by Herr Wagner, should be re- | great Empire of which they form a part, neither great @ measure, we may rest assured that thei: jected. The discussion on the address will com- | : ; ¥ ; a . . SCeK r seypate « > uy 9 lit mence on the full sitting of the House, on the 24th. | "°€* Dor wish to create a new nationality. : : oe Lie Committee of-the Upper House, on the) we have said above, only the mover and one| 4 influence over the minds of their fellow address, would hold a meeting this evening, at which Herr von Bisinark had been invited to be

present.

4s/ deliverances will exercise a great and well merit-

other member spoke in favour of this amendment; | Colonists :—

| aud the overwhelming majoriiy in favour of the! 4 fter refering to the light duties devolving upon

DENMARK ithe Grand Jury, and expressing bis satistaction eee at seeing a iull atiendance, bis honor said tiat he

_ CoPENHAGEN, Jan. 20.—In to-day’s sitting of the practically settled in Canada.—In the Legislative | would not be doing justice to his feelings if he

Rig ster of finance presented a bil :

proposing the abolition of all tramsit duties in Den

inara.

oviginal address shows that Confederation is

sraad, the

‘| Council, two members spoke against Confeder-} Were to say nething more on the present oceasion |} In that very bail he bad laboured as a Represen- . CUT] — | te » fora peri 6 years, and in concert with SCHLESWIG-IHOLSTEIN. | a. ss . ; wget Oh, tative for a period of 16 3 . j K J 0—At : ; Holstein. Lana| division was called for, and the Legislative Coun-! jis colleagues bad successfully contended for the KIEL, Jan. “0 —Ata meeting of stein Land . : . bas : - . i ie lege proprieties, held at Holienwestedt, ou the 18th inst ,| ¢!! ay, therefore, be said to have unanimously | political rights and constitutional privilege + ” Se ae ee : ’ : “hea . Oe irc 2 " | the people his Provinee. The questions ther Was determiied te present an address to the So-/| affirmed the principles of Confederation, » vi tral . j av 13 bai - b » hen c ‘ , i ; ; settled were highly important, but’ when com- } From New Brunswick, we learn that the Hon | pared with the question of Baron von Scheel Ples-in hud drawn down upon} Mr. Hatheway, a member of the Executive! deration now before the public, they were vi the persons by whom it wus Aligned the indignation C _ i ‘ . stnall moment. Never before in the history of } es — . : , | Council of that Provinee, has resigned his seat at | : . . 8 orenw nevnans pruerit? oF —r re 8 It ili canal : ae | these Provinces had a subject been presented fin en urgently requests the convocation of the es-| the Board, stating, as bis reasen for doing so, | the consideration of the Provincial Legisiatures uid desires of Schieswig Holsteim to exist under that he caunot support Confederation. The House a hen rast propersions, and mavulying 7 4 their own duke, as a part of Germany, be granted | of Assemb y of New Branswick will be dissolved | POtt@™t issues. Tn bis + Pens eve giiagle <P 6 ied? Without restriction. | consolidation of British lnifterests, and the per- veins anl ‘at } manenee ol British institations and British liberty 3 "pr @patTtr Ve Tp > pe » i ‘ ‘ . re ‘ THE RUMOT "a ae Sy OF TROOPS | province a chance of expressing their views on | on the North Ameriean Continent. The question O CANADA. i ; ; ae —_/ , an ragcne ies » gave Tl } “Tol . n " Contederation. It is not likely that Mr. Tilley— | W@S net pew Co Gun; If was one to wht b he eave ne London Globe coutains the following para who ia ti fg As Rs i a Mb much consideration while a Representative. After ‘raph :—Telegrams from New York, publishe ie hatha si cial egal Bale at na al having occupied tor about two years his present oanies ar it > con Hey ren gto seiry on e iat) ydomitable advocate of Confederation,and the vir- position, he was solicited to resume his political rite wevall In CUavada tha sritish troops are ; } ] ubout to embark for that country to meet a possible | tuous depository of the power by which the Parlia- life, and allow himself te be again elected as a was ck eo. Fico Ga ae oe eo Representative. His answer was that there was war with England, which is to result from the re ‘ . . ; . cognition of the South by England and France, and | : : jonly one question that could ever induce bim that the same reports werecurreut at Washington | Tesert to a dissolution at this season of the year,! again to enter a political arena, and that was the We have authority for stulig that these reports are yoless he was fully confident that bis Province | Uvion of the Provinces. At that time ther absolutely without foundation. were su inany difficulfies im the way that be des- paired of its accomplishment. Many circum | stances had conspired of late to make it desirable, jand leading statesmen from the several Provinees . arde Tv ae . ' 5 esi] t i2 . - As regards Nova Scotia, there will be no dis-| jad been convened to deliberate on the subject, J