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“PHS IS PRUE LIBEREY WHEN FREL-BORN MEN—HAVING ‘TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Miton’s Ecripies, co ence ante nnnennenenremeatiantingnpnatninanoncemenanicrencungemammamnpelatoiondoaniel cancel betoaee : a Senkakhe se Poca reeheatadelihchthinds Retipetthonsicichenncsedeedeaat pear eagnde tte ipiek tether lead coclanmanenatheinaiada-anatnssieetser incision New Series. CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 21, 1850. Vol. 1: No. 92

A Tale of Jealousy.

Nearly three centuries ago, an exten-

give portion of that part of the country “which lies on the Wallachian banks of the Danube, belonging to Demetri C . @ powerful Boyard, descended from one ef the Greek princes who had been driven from Constantinople at the fall of the Lower Empire. He was wealthy, gene- gous, and megnificent, the father of a gfomising son, (who at the period to which this history relates, was eighteen years old) and the husband of the most Seautiful woman in the country. Helen i was looked upon as the happiest and most enviable of her sex, and she @night have justified the general belief, Sor nature had endowed her with mental @owere no iess remarkable than her per- onal perfections, had it not unfortunately Rippened (hat, amidst the countless roses @ith which her path in hfe had been @rewn, one sharp thorn had lurked and gierced her to the heart. rendering her, 19 the intolerebie enguish it occasioned, gegerciess of the many other Blessings that had been showered npon her. In a word ehe was of a suspicious and jealous dirposttion ; passionately attechea to her husband, and to all appearance adored by him; she never. heless lived in a constant distrust of bi, which his character and menners were too well calculated to jas- tify, for his general adoration of beauty was a matter of notoriety. And although, from aknowledge of his wife’s disposition he had taken euch precaution in his infi- delities towards her, that she had never yet been able to detect him in a love intrigue, she nevertheless felt eo persnad- ed that he was constantly involved in such pursuits, that she became a prey to 8 vacne jealousy, which embittered every hour of her existence.

At lost her restless suspicions appeared to have found an object on which to settic. Among her female attendants, was a youny and pretty Transvivanian, named Arustatia, whose snperier educa- tion had readered her a favorite with her lady. All at once, the damsal became negligent of her duties, absent in mind, and inattentive to the wishes of her mis- tress: when reprimanded by her, she betrayed insolent Auteur. Helena threatened to dismiss her from her eer- vice ; the prince opposed suck a measure ; and, in proportion, as the d:spleasure of his wife was evinced toward the delin- quent, the voice and manner of her hus- band softened in her favour.

This was more than sufficient to fire the suspicions of the princess. Eager to asceriatn the reality of that which she dreaded, resolved to rush upon a know- ledge that was to break her heart, she forgot her dignity so far as to play the eaves-dronper and spy over her attendant -—for some time without any result. One day, however, when the young girl had been sent for by her, and had neglected fo attend. the summons, Helena treacher- @as'y crept up a back way to her menial’s © 1aurbei-door, and noiselessly stationing herself outside of it, Listened to what was passing within, A murmur of voices in the room convinced her that Anastatin was not alene, and almost immediately that of the suspeeted damsel struck upon her ear, in accents, the purport of which eoul! not be mistaken.

“ Leave ine.” she said, “ for heaven's sake Jeave me! If my mistress were to boow of your being here, I should be lost

for-ever! Already she suspects, and watches me, and [ live in daily terror of her discovering a love which wou'd draw ¥pon me her eternal emnity! Go, prince —go. Demetri! ‘This evening, as soon as it is dark, I will contrive to steal out to the fountain in the sycamore grove, meet

me there at eight—your pretex of absent- ing vourself from home will prevent the princess from suspecting that we—”

Here the voice became fain'et, as the person speaking moved toward an oppo- site door; the footsteps of a man were plainly to be distinguished moving in the same direction; Helena could hear no- thing more—she strained her eyes to the crevice of the door, at which she was stationed, but could see nothing. Iler heart overflowing with dark tumultuous passion, she was for a moment tempted to burst open the door, and confound the guilty one who had presumed to rival her in her husband's love; but, listening again, she felt assured that the room was empty, and a moment’: reflection showe'd her that, by a few hour’s delay, she might render her vengeance more signal and complete. She therefore returned in the same stealthy manner to her own apartinent, shut herself up, and took her measures aécordingly.

Her determination was to prevent the possibility of Anastatia quitting the house, and then to disguise herself in the dress of a serving damsel, and to person- ate her prefidious attendant at the ren- dezvous in the eyCamore grove which she had heard arranged by her. ‘These medi- tations were interrupied by a message from the Prince, apprising her that he shonid be absent from home for the re- mainder of the dav, and should probably net return till iate at night; and, ts message, an additional proof of the cal- culating treachery which her faithless husband scrupled net to exercise towards her, was the last drop that overflowed the cup. ‘fhe exasperation of her outraged teeling knew no bounds ; and she remain-

ed in her apartment, that no member of

the family might notice ber agitation. An hour before sunset, Anastatia was summoned to her lady’s presence, and received an order to remain near her, and finish some embroidery with which sheher- selfhad been ocennied. Not daring to dis- obey, and hoping to finish ber task before the hour for her appointment with her lover bad arrived, the young girl sat down to her work with unwonted alacrity. The room in whieh they were was an upper chamber, and formed the tast of a spacious suit, having no entrance but through the apartments thet preceded it. Not long after Anasiatia was seated at her embroidery frame, the princess arose

and qnitted the room, locked the door of

it, and, leaving her attendanta close pris- oner there, with no possibility of egress until she herself should release her, she preceded to Anastatia’s chamber, where she selected a suit of her clothes, hasten- ed to disguise herself in them, and throwing a veil over her head, quitted the house, and directed her steps towards the trysting place. (To be concluded in our next.)

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“The Papal Aggression.”

LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.

My dear Lord,—I agree with you in considering the late aggression of the Pope unpon our Protestantism, as ‘ inso lent and insidions, and I therefore feel as indignant as you can do upon the eub- ject.

I not only promoted to the utmost of my power the claims of the Roman Ca- iholies to all civil rights, but I thought it right, and even desirable, that the eccle- siastica) systein of the Roman Catholics should be ihe means of giving instructian to the numerous Irish immigrants in Londou andelsewhere, who wi hout such

h-lp would have been left in heathen ig- norance,

This might have been done, however, withoutany such innovation as that which we have now seen.

Itis impossible to confound the recent measures of the Pope with the division of Scotland into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of distri¢:s in England by the Wesleyan Conference.

There is an assumption of power in all the documents which have come from Rome—a pretens:on to supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsis- tent with the Queen’s supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Koman Catholic times.

I confess, however, that my alarm is not equal to my indignation.

Even if it shall appear that the ministers and servants of the Pope in this country hive not transgressed the law, I feel per- suaded that we are strong enough to re- pel any outward attacks, The liberty of Protestentism has been enjoyed to» long in England to allow any successful attempt to impose a foreign yoke upon our minds and consciences. No foreign

fasten his fetters upon a nation which has so long and so nobly vindicated its right to feeedom of opinion civil, political, and religious.

Upon this subject, then, [ will only say that the present state of the law shall he carefully examined, and the propriety of adopting sny proceedings with reference to the receat assumptions of power deli- qerately considered.

There is a danger, however, which alaring me much more than any aggres- sion of a foreign severeign,

Clergymen of onr own church, who have subscribed the 39 Articles, and ac- knowledged in explicit terms the Queen’s supremacy, have been the imost forward in leading their flocks, ‘step by step, to the very verge of the precipice” The honour paid to saints, the claim of infal- Inbility for the church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the mutter- ing of the Liturgy so as to disguise the langnage in which it is written, the re- commendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and absolution— all these things are pointed ont by clergymen of tie Church of Erz- land as worthy of adoption, and are now openly reprehended by the Bishop of London in his charge to the clergy of his diocese.

W hat, then, is the danger to be appre- hended from a foreign prince of no great power, compared to the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Chureh of England herself?

I have little hape that the propounders and framers of these innovations will de- sist from from their insidious course. But I rely with confidence on the people of England, and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope so long ss the glorious principles and the immortal martyrs of the Reformation shall be held in rever- ence by the great mass ofa nation which looks with contempt uponthe mummeries of superstition, and with scorn at the laborious endeavours which are now making to confine the intellect and en- slave the soul.

] remain, with great respect, &c.,

J. Ruseevr.

TIE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUES. TION,

THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF WEST- MINSTER’S * APPEAL TO THR PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.”

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sued, and copied into several of the Ure tish journals. It is a Jong and masterby document, and written with the ful] swing of his Eminence’e vigorous and lJogica} eloquence. If common sense, p ainly and unpretentiously put forward, can yet get an audience in England, we calca> late that this ratsonee summary of the Cutholic case will muffle the haw] of Exe eter (ali, and be @ triumphant answer the Premier’s letter. The pamphlet ie partly plain statement, and partly plaiw logic. It begins with an iIntroductian, stating the ecclesiastical preliminaries te the establishment of an English hierar chy; the principal points in which we extract. ‘Thev are these:

“The Catholics had been governed ia England by vicars-apostolic since 1623; that is, by bishops with foreign titles, nained by the Pope, and having jurisdic- tion as his vicars or delegates. In 168% their nuinber was increased from one te four: ia 1840 from four to eight. A strong wish had begun to prevail, on the part of the English Catholics, to change this temporary form of government for the ordinary form, by bishops with local titles, that is, by an ecclesiastical inierarchy, Petitions had been sent for this pur} o @ to the Holy See. The first, | believe, wasin 1834. In 1847 the vicars-apostolie, assembled in London, came to the reso- Intion to depute two of their number to Rome, to petition esrnestly, in their names, for this long-desired boon. The writer of the present appea! was one; and he drew up the memorial on the subject, addressed to the Holy See.”

His Eminence here gives a summary of the constitution of Pope Benedict XIV., under which the English Church had been governed, and the reasons why it had become inefficient, the principal of which were :—

* The Catholic Church in England had so much expanded and consolidated itself since the Emancipation Act, and its parts had so matured their mutual relations, that it could not be carried on without a full and explicit code. The bishopa, it was urged, found themselves perplexed, and their situation fell of difficulty ; ae they earnestly desired to be guarded from arbitrary decision, by fixed rules, and yet had none provided for them. The uncertainty also of position on the part of the clergy, which resulted from this am omilous state, made it still more painé ful.

“Such was the case submitted to the judgment ofthe Holy See, fully ilustrae ed with practical applications. A remedy was therefore prayed for, and it was sug- gested that it could only be in one of the two following forms :—

“Bither the Holy See mnst_ isepe another and full constitution, which would supply all wants, but which would be necessarily complicated and volumniogs, and, a8 a special provision, would neces sarily be temporary.

“ Or, the real and complete eode of the Church mnst be at once exteaded to the Catholic Church in Engtand.

“The Holy See kindly listened to the petiticn, end referred it to the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda. After a full discussion, and further reply to ob- jections, the boon was granted, The Vicars-Apostolic were desired to suggest the best divisions fur new dioceses, and the best places fur the titles, Theee were adjasted, the brief wae Cragin ep

and eren printed.