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» 38 I'he following is from Benares, dated the 19 (h instant. being | the latest date fi » that quarter ‘We have just recewmec General Havelock’s despatch telling us of his having recapiured Cawnpore, taken many gugs—26 in number—aller a hard of three hours and forty minutes. Some of the guns are siege

But the unfortunate women and children had al) been 6 al t batad

ethes. murdered by order of the Rajah Nena Sahib before the commenced. At first there must have been five hundred wore and children, all starved out and afterwards ill-treatec, sold by avetion, and finally murdered. [t is horrible to thin fate. Four companies of the 78\b Highlanders, viz. Grenadiers, Nos. 3,6, and Trght, are the only oves with Uavetock. Nos. 1 and 7 are at Allahabad, No. Sat G: zeepore and the rest here (Benares) with Mojor Haliburton, They expect to move on 1p e week or jess.”’ We are, greatly rejoiced to hear that news was received in Poona of General Mavelock having again beaten that ruffianly scoundrel Nena Sahib, and taken his fort at Bithoor from him, scattéring his forces in ali directions, and taking thirteen of his guns.-"fhis cowardly villain, who dares not meet men, though he can torture and massacre defenceless women and children, has made an ignominious retreat, beaten at all pomts, and is now a houseless wanderer and a fugitive in the juugie, with a price set upon bis head, and the 7oih Highlanders on bis trail. It appears that in the fight which took place near Cawnpore,

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which Jed to its re-eaprure on the 1G:h wit, and the first thght|

of the Nena, the 78:h charged the guns turee different times. No officers were killed, but of the men seventeen were killed and wounded. Major Surling and three oiher officers of her Majesty’s Gish Regimeut were wounded.

A letter from Cawnpore, dated the 22d of July, mentions that Gen. Neill had joined Gen. Havelock, and that the latter was then crossing the river with fis force in the highest ardour for marching possible: After relieving the garrison of Lucknow they will all return together to Cawnpore, whence, a8 soon as the expected reinforcements arrive, they will advauce with all speed upon Delhi. Gen, Neil will, we presume, remam in command at Cawnpore and of the districts around.

ALLAHABAD—S‘TATE OF THE COUNTKY.

The following letter, of no smal! interest under present cir-

k of thefr |

= 7 Se an} f she muiete Madrid journals say that notwithstanding the, mu cis is over, it is rumoured that Geperal J iguerag ¥ Pee be succeeded by Sersumli, amd tha

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rial rag is tv resign cris is ¢ the ministry of war, and te

several high if tiowaries o i decree convokes the Cortes for 80th Oct.

—--e TURKEY.

“Omar (Pacha is noninatéd!G overnor-genefal at Hoga a ‘very lnerative post. He is eharged with the : PY 0 establishing a line of steamers upon the Tigris and the a 1 Euphrates, and with the protection of commerce agaist the

Arabs,

! are, to be dismisse:

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"| Three’ Russian’ steam Corvettes were in the Dardanelles,

: ‘ Mioc rs man.to-enter.the Black Sea, These vessels,

Lwaiting fora fir : a ships in the ports

,it is understood, are intended for guard Fdesigmated by the treaty of Paris. t-Phe Saitan of ‘Tarkey has contributed a thousand pounds ‘to the Indian relief fund. .»Cousiderable political iurportance ‘is attached to this act from the head of the Mahomedan _ religion. dt $e ya

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CENTRAL AMERICA.

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The cholera was prevailing alarmingly in Guatemala, Mr. Venable, the U.S. minister, had fallen a victim.

Cholera was also prevailing at San Salvador,

The engineers of the Honduras Railroad Company are ) busily engaged with their surveys, and it appears that the work will cost: $25,000,000, ) v@osra Rrca+A severe artiele in’ Ta’ Cronica shows that jealousy and ill will already exists against Nicaragua, and ‘Yeclares that Costa Rica will not permit any cession of the Transit route to Vanderbilt... As La Cronica is entirely un- ‘der the control of the government, this shows cou:lusively the

}approach of a rupture between the two countries.

| Sourm -Amentca.—The city of Paira,’ Pert, had been

° } ° Lawelling house:from being also destroyed,

! tinguished, at

suspicious circumstances.

The loss ¢annot

be less than from) six 1 seven hundred pounds, no part of which is insured. ‘The fire is supposed to have been the work of au incendiary, as an attempt to ignite the wood pile was made the previous evening, but happily discovered and ex~ da man was seen in the morning shortly before | the fire was discovered, leaving the barn where it began, under two Kagine Companies 2 and 5 that volunteered their services, | without whicu the valuable dwelling honse could not have been saved, as the Engine 8 and 4 whose turn by rotation it | was to gogp thevountry did not somehow turnout. A reward of £50 has beew offered forthe discovery of the incendiary, and a person answering the description of the man seen ‘leaving the barn has been traced we believe as far as Salisbury. | Constable Sinith has, however, returned without finding him. | St. John Courier, Oct...10.

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| NOVA SCOTIA. | “A. Fine.— About.7 o'clock, in the evening of Wednesday ‘Yast, the three” storey wooden. building on the corner of | Barrington and Duke Streets, owned by TL Y. Mott, Esq., lwas diseovered to be ou fire: Of the three tenements con- ‘taitied in the building one was ogeupicd by Mr. Scarfe, Sad- Idlers one by O. Hl. Hobintonu, Musical Instrument maker 5 ithe third was vacant. | The fire is supposed to lave originated in the vacant premises, — At one time it appeared very pro- bable thatthe Chalmer’s Church adjoining, and other build- linosin the vicinity, would be destroyed; but through great exertions of the firemen ably assisted by the soldiers of the ‘garrison and sailors belonging to the war ships in port, the fire was confined to the building in which it originated ; but | was not extinguished until that was pretty thoroughly gutted ‘and the éxterior walls mach injured.

Axornpn Fine.—About 11) o’clock, a, m., yesterday, as ithe railway train Was coming down towards the terminus at

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cumstances, is from a correspondent, who dates his communica-! Qamaged to the amount of $100,000 by an earthquake.) Richmond, a spark from ‘the locomotive alighted upon the

tion four days’ march from Allahabad, en route to Cawnpore, the 10th July : —** Vestiges of the mischief done by the Sepoys meet the eye in every direction. Bullock train carts destroyed and scattered on the road; the electric telegraph wire from within nineteen miles of Allahabad,

thrown about the fields, the latter being cut down and removed. The wire furnishes these rasca'is with offeosive materials, They eut it up an! use tas slugs against us. morning, we saw four of the rebels that were haiged. We also heard several reports, which appeared to procee | from big guns at no great distance in our neighborhood, and thought that the brigade that had preceded us had fallen in with the enemy and were engaged, Our slow matches were lighted, ¢nd we were prepared for an engagement too. Most of the villuges in the vicinity of the main road are barnt and destroyed. T will say nothing of our camp, &c. It would not be interesting, and, indeed, wou'd take up more of my time than I can spare. bad reports avout Cawnpore.”’

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CHINA.

In China there have been hard fighting between the rebels and Imperia’ists. ‘The former had given battle to the Im- perialists uncer General Kwun, near Seu-hing, and gained a complete victory—only three boats escaping to Canton to tell the result, and carrying Le’s bravado challenge to Yeh to come on again as soon as he could get ready. . Le's force is said to number 100,000 fighting meu and 1600 war vessels, und his head-quarters are now at the district city of Uet. The first class city of Seu-hing is in straightened circumstances.

Another rebel chief, called Lein, with fifty thousand men, has had a hard battle with Imperialist troops from T'sue- chow, and having guinel the victory, he is compelling the

whole of the surrounding country people to submit to his rule. |

}, taken off the posts and |

In our march this!

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Every house in the, place suffered more.or less,

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/ be ie ' Awrcn SutpwreckK —MEN RATEN BY TUR Suanks.—An ex-

dinary case of shipwreck is reported in tle St. Chiris- topher (West [ndia) papers. The Rosabella artived early ip May, from the Spanish Main. On the night of the 14th of May a storm suddenly’ brewed up, a heavy se struck the i vessel, and she’ became a total wreck. Nothing was saved ‘but a trunk of money, and with this the captain and super- cargo got ashore. They then purchased a cargo of sugar and Vchartered the Esther ef Curacoa. After, embarking, the second. time, a fearful tornado. struck the schooner, and she instantaneously went down. ‘Twenty-one persous were wash- ed off, and with great difficulty avoided the vortex of the isiukine vessel, ‘The boat fortunately got adrift; but'the plug lwas out! For three hoars they struggled to stop the hole, land at last it was done. But meanwhile thé sharks had taken off several of the miserable men, and only thirteen | succeeded in getting into the boat. They. picked up, the oars. ‘Lt was quite dark, and when morning came they saw no land iv any direction. For four days andithree nights the ‘wretched men, without a morsel of food and searcely a vestige ‘of eléthipg, labored at the oars, and dn the morting of the Oth of July the boat reached St. Christopher, ten men being but all in the last stage of exhaustion. One died ‘The rest were

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alive, almost. inmmed hospitably cared for.

iately on being carried ashore.

UNITED STATES. Aman named Adams was recently married to Miss.J enkins,

Fearing for the provincial. city Wself, Yeh is calling inall the in Ware eounty, Georgia, and a rejected suitor of the lady, Tsue-chow men, and has statioved a thousand of them in the pamed Harley, went togAdams’s house, and finding nobody south-eastern suburbs. The leaders of the nincty-six Villaves, thore but an old negro woman, he knocked her down with too, have had to send their quotas of armed nen —between an axe, fracturing her skuw, and then broke to pices all the two and three thousand of which are in the western suburbs. furniture. Next morning Adams went to seek Harley, and " : ‘ . ° 1 pea Og £.A cams The Banner-men, Manchus and the lieut.-governor’s guards. | Jot him in the arm, when they closed, aud Adams was soon altogether about three thousand men, are trooped oa the {Killed with a knife. Harley then shouldered the corpse and heights beyond the northern wall. ‘carried it to Mrs. Adams, who instantly fell in aswoon, when The Hakhas of Komeng and six: other districts have the murderer cut ber ina most ghastly mamer with his united, and are burning and destroying wherever they go. | knife, which he then drove to his own heart, atd fell dead. Canton is the great’ point to escape to, and there the poor| Mrs, Adams ig not expected to recover. starving wretches of the surrounding districts are congregated

> . » . . ‘ — - ; IRNING OF A PropeLiur anp A FReiGur.—Sanpusky by thousands? men, women and children. Temporary mat- Boryine 0 I ear ‘ ’

Ocr. 2.—The propeller Republic, of the New York and Brie

roof of the large two storey building occupied by Mr. Ward, ‘and known for many years as “ the three mile house.” ‘There 'was a High North-Hast wind blowing at the time; and gp a ‘few minutes the house was in flames, The alarm was given ‘jin town at the earliest’ possible moment ; butthe distance of ithe éonflagration from town—three miles—made it impossible

l for the fire engines to reach the spot im time to be of any ser- ivice. The “three mile house” wag totally consumed. The 'fire ulso communicated with the adjoining cottage owned and ‘occupied ‘by the Messrs. Symonds of this town, and with the ‘mill reeently purchased by the same parties, and both were {totally consumed, together with the outbuildings belonging

to them. We understand that the Messrs. Symonds. saved |most of the personabeffects upon their premises. Mr. Ward jsaved litile or nothing. It is said that £45) was, insured upon the Symonds: property, and. that Mr,.Ward’s. prenzises ; were also insured.— Halifax Acadian Recorder.

Correspondence. PAB LLDPE L PLP PLD LPLID ALP L LAL OAL LAD Ohl NP el Lh ed To rup Eprrors or rou Prorecror.

Genttemen,—As the Convent, recently opened in this City, isa theme upon which you areat present very eloquent, perhaps I may claim your attention to a few more additional remarks upon it, My purpose’is not to gratify you with an example of that verbose declamation which fills fe colamns of the Protector, but merely to state a few plain facts, and then take the liberty of making a few equally plain sugzes- tions; and short as my letter is, [ have no doubt but [ shall be able to prove that ta// is not the chief end of man.

To begin with a plain fact: There are no less than seren Protestant Olergymen in Charlottetown, and only one Ca- tholic Piiest, These seven Protestant Clergymen talk—talk —talk—twice each Sanday atleast, and at Agitation Meet- invs, Young Men’s Christian Associations, Bible Question Meetings, as often as—they can get hearers. This single @atholie Priest never displays his oratory in the Temperance Hall—never obtrudes himself on the public ; but this Catholic Priest works, and sets his people.to work. ..Mark the conse- quence. He and his congregation erect a Seminary for female education, and the young women of this working Priest's con- gregation—(and the young women of your congregations, if they avail themselves of it, against your will)—have an in-

‘The greatest praise Is due to the}

° ‘ a BE Cin | Tn a conversation which T had with Mrs. Cullen recent] the presence of another person, she expressed her regret hen her name bad been brought before the public in the She distinetly stated that she had told you ail you had public, and auch more,’’ which she did not wish the w to know. T replied, that Mr. Cooper had contradicted. Mt Warburton’s statement. Her answer was: + He need The only thing I blame Mr. W. for, is for making it publics lam informed by persons residing in the same house with | Mrs. Cullen, that Mr. Cooper called on her and wi sign a written denial, which she positively refused to | Mr. Cooper left her in no very amiable temper, declaring that he ‘* fully believed she had told Mr. Warburton all he ‘said the did.’ So much for the consistency of the ‘* man of ” | If the above statements are of any service to you, you my fullest authority to use them as you please, _ And meantime, I am- yours truly,

P. G. CLARK, eee ee ee @he Examiner,

Oct. 16, 1857.

CHARLOTTETOWN, PB. E. L, OCTOBER 19, 1857,

THE ISLANDER AND PROTECTOR.

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Tux Jslander of the 9th instant coniainsa powerfully written letter, over the signature of its editor, in answer to the effusion of the Protector’s correspondent, who sufficiently indicated his idea of his own importance by the modest attestation of Voz Popul to the crudities, equally void of truth and grammar, with which he embellished the columns of the veracious journal which received the eongenial nonsense. It affords us much pleasure to endorse the opinions and statements of Mr. Maclean, on the subject of the attack made upon him by the editorial crasaders of the Protector; and differing as we do, have done, and in all probability shall continue to do, from the Islander, on topics of a secular nature, coming within the legitimate sphere of political journalism, we trust that we never shall | suiler such differences to bias our judgment and feelings to such a degree as to stifle the expression of our honest opinions on charges so gross and unfounded as those which have been made against our contemporary by. his sanctified opponent. The ,Teal cause of the onslaught is that given by Mr. Maclean, namely, that the threatened attack upon the subscription list lof the Islander, fot its course upon the Bible question, not having the effect of inducing a change of opinion, the fire must | be directed to the editor personally ; and the hope ie, that his assailants, however widely differing among thenselyes in their religious views, yet working a masked battery, may possibly dyiye from the field an adversary who seeks no suelter, by the indiscriminate use of slanders, which im laymen would be con- sidered disgraceful, yet when the darts, being tipped with odium theologicum, were launched by sanctified combatants, the unmanly nature of the weapons would not be suspected. Deprecating, as we have always done, the insértion of any thing in our columns caleulated to offend the religious feelings, opinions or prejudices of any class in the community—we haye frequently allowed grossly offensive attacks upon our creed and its professors, which have, from time to time, appeared in the Protector, to pass without note or comment ; and had it not been for the reiteration of the attacks by this fellow who signs himself Vor Populi, we should haye pursued the same course in the present instance. ro bite

With referenee to the course of the Legislature on the question of the introduction of the Bible into the commoa schools, Mr. Maclean observes: ‘ But do the Uniformitarians imagine that it is possible to pass any measure through the Assembly infringing on religious toleration? If the election come to a struggle of that sort, the Catholics can return 24 members out of 30 in spite of all opposition.’’ This we believe to bea wlerably fair estimate of the political powers which could be exerted by the Catholic electors of the Island, ifthey entered

sheds have been erected for them at Cho-fong, on the south

of the river, and there are daily dolings out of congee and | rice, supplied by the authorities. in quantities just sufficient

to ward off dissolution. The fear of a rising within the walls

is very great; each man dreads his neighbor, and every coun-

tenance is depressed.

Yeh is organising another squadron of war-junks at Fatsan, and is making preparations to repel the rebel armies now close on his skirts. The rebel squadron. numbers several thousands of “ fast crabs.” Recently they attacked and. took the dis- trict cities of Ng-chow and Hung-chuen. Now they are at Tek-hung, about thirty miles from Sen-hing. The rebels have also surrgunded See-hoey. Cheng-yuen, another dis-

railroad line, was burned at the 8. M. and NR: R. dock this afternoon, She had a full cargo of rolling freight and live stock, which was consumed. She was partly insured. The large freight wareliouse of the railroad company caught fire from the propeller and was destroyed, together with a portion of its contents. The building wa’ insured for $10,- , U0.

Fixancrat Arrirns.— New York, Oct. 3.—This has been ja-blue day in Wall street. The suspension of Clark, Dodge /& Co., exercised a most depressing effect upon a market already burdened to its full capacity.

| Owing to the failure of the Southern mail, from here

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trict city, is garrisoned by two thousand men, all in a state| Thursday to connect at Philadelphia, the. check.on stocks

of high diseoutent for want of pay and regular rations. Ip the north and west the people are in great trepidation.

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IRELAND.

Betrast Prociuarmen.—The Lord Lieutenant and her Majesty’s Privy Council in Irelund have found it necessary to place the people of Belfast under the stringent operation of the Crime and Outrages Act, and have accordingly issued a proclamation—p!acing the ** Athens of the North” under coercion, Unlicensed persons are to deposit guns, pistols, and ammunition at the police barracks, under a penalty of a year’s imprisonment.

Tue Betrast Riors.—More Disrurnancrs.—Wednesday

morning, between nine and ten o'clock, the Orange party of

Daurham-street, among which were several mill-workers, grouped together in the locality of Sandy Row, and showed their usual well know disposition for aggression, turbulence, and outrage. They commenced a savage and violent attack on the @atholic mill-workers as the latter were going over the bridge to the usual avocations in Linfield mill. One Catholic boy was sadly beaten.and injured ; others had to fly for their lives. There were, at this partiewlar gime, some four or five of the Iceal police present, but, as usual, when Catholies are in danger, these worthies looked on, apparently enjoying the affair, and made no effort whatever to quell the riot or save any of the Catholics from the dangers to which they were exposed, and to which they have, as is now quite notorious to every unprejadiced person, being exposed since the unfortunate doings of Sunday,

There are nearly 2,000 constabulary and military now in Beltast. The heavy cost of the additional police force will fall on the inhabitants. The salutary steps taken by Gov- ernment to put down the shameful disturbances carried on, will, it is hoped, have the desired effect. — Limerick Chronicle.

A collision occurred between the police and the wilitia at Limerick, on Sunday the 20th. Some injuries were sustained but no lives lost,

FRANCE.

{nundations in the south of France have been disastrous, and the destruction of property immense. Several lives have been lost, Mhe Emperor contributed ten thousand franes from his private purse for the relief of the sufferers.

SPAIN.

_ Mexico has accepted the mediation of England and France

P. » quarrel with Spaiy. Tie Oonferenge will be held in Udon,

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'senton that day failed to reach bere to-day, and hence about eight hundred thousand dollars which should be liberated to- | day will remain in the sub-treasury till Monday. The feeling of the stock market is not one’ of total ' depression. Clark, Dodge & Co., who were supposed to stand above casualty. The sole cause of their suspension is said to be 'the blockade in exehapge. ‘They have a surplus of over two millions of dollars. | The only additional failures of note are Ely, Bowen and McConnell, and Gage, Sloan & Datter. The Reading Roilroad went to protest in Philadetphia yesterday only a note for ten thousand dollars. The company interruption in the business of the road. | The Banks: re; to-day ; and it may be added that the banks kave shown com- mendable liberality in rendering assistance judiciously in numerous cases. '

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| | Barrisu Capvrautists.-—The Loudon Times of the 17th ult. |

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Further advices from New York may be'expected to-morrow

! ‘by the North Star. | be simply a matter of about £10,000,000 sterliug—that is to | sty, something equal to the utmost cost apprehended from lthe Indian insurrectiqgn. The. two last. mails. have brought

news of an average fall of 30 per cent. in the most prominent

American securities, and, assuming the total held on this |

side to be about £8,000,000 sterling, which is probably much | below the true amount, our nominal Joss has already in the os . . %

course of ten days reached £24,000,000—a sum which still inadequately represents the real mischief; since, when the ‘present panic commenced, the market was already suffering from a year or two of almost uninterrupted depression, In such a state of things further yioleat fluctuations must be expected, and a recovery of 10 or 15 per cent. or a further fall to that extent, may therefore be considered probable.

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NEW BRUNSWICK.

Pree.—On Tuesday morning last a fire broke out in one of the barns of R. Jardine, Esq., Woodside, near this City, and before it could be subdued, consumed. the whole of his farm buildings, about 80 tons of hay, and a number of ex- _peusive agricultural implements, Volunteer Eagine Company | No, 2, from the City; was promptly on the spot, and being ialter a time joined by No. 5, was the means of saving the

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stitution where they may Jearn — note this! —the Frengh | the political arena as members of a Church. But how stands and English Languages, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, | the distinetion of creeds on the floor of the Assembly? Outof Geography and the use of the Globes, Ancient and Modern | a House comprising 24 members but six are Catholics. This

{t received a severe shock by the failure of

continues payment of the coupons, and there will be no,

ort that payments have been very prompt

The interest fo the British public will |

History, Rhetoric, Chemistry, Philosophy, Botany, Geology, | Music-—vocal and instrumental, Drawing, Painting, and every kind of useful and ornamental Needlework. While you— seven of you, no less—with all your talk, leeturing and ser- monizing, have not one single school. or sentinary, public or | private, in the whole Island, where your daughters can get a respectable, no, not'even thexhast” of actvitized education. The Catholic Priest is a worker y the seven Protestant Cler- zymen are talkers, How true is the. proyerb+dadarare est orare. :

Now don’t raise a dust by denouncing Nunneries. in deal- ing with this matter, whether Nunneries are right or wrong, | is not to the. purpose. Asa Protestant, I dare to say, that)

so far as Nuvneries or any other institution afford a good |

Nunneries ave wrong—what of that? Only an attempt on. your part to make the errors of others an apoiogy for your }own want of activity. If you wish your children not to at- tend Catholic schools, first provide them with equal facilities of acquiring a respectable education elsewhere; and then, aud not till then, will parents pay any attention to your denun- |

won't do; nor will lecturing your children and people in the Temperance Hall eyer make them educated or intelligent. The ouly hope | see for you is to talk less and work more, and ulso set your hearers to work. . If the alternative fer our females is henceforth to be either accomplished, intelligent Catholic ladies, or uneducated, uninformed women— *. * * * * then, in that case, Gentlemen, your chance of losing the rising female generation, allow me to tell you, is imminent indeed. At any rate, bear in mind, when you de- nouuce Nuuneries, that a, Nunnery” is the onty place in Prince Edward Islaud where our rising females can be at all respectably educated. | Be that ever so dishonorable to us.as Protestants, il is nevertheless a stubborn, undeniable fact. Yeur obedicnt servant,

JUVENLS.

Ch, Town, Oct..15, 1857. + .em

;' Cuarnorretown, October 16, 1857.

Sin,--The correspondence which has lately. been published, relating to Mr. Cooper and myself must be anything but in- teresting tothe public, It would neyer have appeared had not that individual accused me of uttering falsehoods of him, wherhe well knew that Istated nothing bat the truth ; and 'T could have stated other niatters, had F thought it worth my |while.to doso., If Mr. Cooper fancies that 1 attack him for his political opinions, he is greatly in error, as I -believe him possessed of nue, with the exception of these which are at the ‘disposal of the highest bidder, 1 shall only;trouble, you, to publish the enclosed letter from Mr. P, G. Clark, and leave

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the public to judge, should they think it worth the trouble, |

how much Mr. Cooper’s reputation has gained by his unparal- | leled effrontery. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,

To the Editor of the Examiner. ~ J. WARBURTON.

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Hon. James WarsURTON.

| Dear Srr;—Mr. J. B. Cooper, in the Monitor of yesterday, says, that he has the authority of Mrs. Cullen to deny the

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| Statement which you assert she made to you, relative to Mr. | Cooper’s action in the, matter of the estate of tthe late Mr. Cullen ;_or, in other words, that Mrg. Cullen denies having ‘made the statement to you. ; .

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. : . . proves, we think conclusively, that no desire exists on the .

part of the Catholic population to degrade the altar to the level of the hustings—to violate the divine preeept by which they are enjoined to ** render unto Cesar the things which ate Cesar’s, and unto God the things which are God’s.” | Yet, we ask of our readers, be they Protestant or Catholic, if the course openly avowed and hitherto consistently pursued by the ‘‘ Sanctified’’ Protector—if the very scope and aim of its begzarly existence has not been to set the community by the ears, on the ground of religious differences—to array Catholic against Protestant, and to bury all the kindly feelings of a

seoular education, so far they must be right. . Aud supposing | °° 70" humanity, and all the amenities of social life, under

the ruins caused by religious discord. This all men know who have had opportunitics of watching the bigoted Protector ; and on the estimate of Catholic influence cited above, from our Protestant contemporary, where, we ask, would be the influence and position of Protestants, if the unholy line of

ciations of the “errors of Popery.” Writing in the Protector demarcation were once drawn, as desired by the Sanctified?

We have, and always have had, too much reliance on @he in- telligence and public spirit of our Protestant friends to sup- pose for a moment that two or three persons can induce them to do violence to their political principles, and to lend their aid to fan the flame of religious discord in this hitherto united community, merely to please the clerical editors who pass from one to the other the not over-ready pen which indites the stupid twaddle of impertinence and bigotry that dis gusted one printer and would disgust his successor, if any thing could.

The Islander calls upon the Reverend George Sutherland to | adduce proot’ of the charge against that journal of « immorality |and infidelity,’’ recently adopted by the Free Church Synod. As we were equally imyvlved in the accusation, we maké @ similar call upon his Reyerence. .We dare him to justify bis conduct in supporting such a charge; and if he cannot adduce proof of the truth of it, in what position can he minister te - With what face can he inculcate the observance of honesty, trath, charity, or any of the Christian virtues?

his people ?

Perhaps his Reverence imagines that because he is a clergyr man his. statements. will go forth with unlimited credenee, without that corroboration, which. in the statements of a lay- ‘man, would be deemed a necessary accompaniment’ to the publication of the libel. If so, and if his Reverence should think that the folds of his clerical robe can sereen him from punishment, as the hooked salmon thinks to render istelf 30- 'seen by hiding its head in a-hole, we shall imitate the piscatory ‘sportsman, and, dislodging our prey from. his hiding-place, | play him for our sport, until-we land him gasping at our feet, choked by the element in which he lived, and on his charity shall hot say ‘Here lics”” Rey. George Sutherland.

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