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scalpe!, or a dissecting knife over a mangled limb? Yet we leaving the Government as strong as before the storm com- are surprised at so many who receive a “ lideral educator torn out bluadering boobies if they are made lawyers ; and of service to none but the undertakers if ¢ wy are doctors. The classical scholar cannot converse with his Greek and Latin) ult, Pre with the simplest peasant of any nation in Europe. Ue has 00 | visit of the Prince of Wales, and the spirit exhibited through- jofurmation of Geograp»y but that knowa to es

a 3 tel! not » discov of America. oy will - ene a w, Kyferdye seualoeth. They will notteach | Lieut. Governor refers, in his speech, to the great increase in « single branch of any science. Al! that classical learaing does, S3y3 & popular writer, lor the greater nu uber of those who acqu.te it, is to make them fee! not ony perfec ly eatiened eo gaa 4 eg vith the © own acquiremen's, contempt for those whose of railway communication, as one of the objects which the minds are only filed with plain useful knowledge.

We have marked other parts of the Luaugura!l A idress on which a : we intended ig this letter to make sone remarks ; but having oc- | Stewart Camph cupied more space than #e ant:

must reserre them, together with further observations on tie for Pictou, was unanimously chosen in his place. New College for discussion on 4 future occasion. |

in conclusion, we have to obeerve, that it did not seem very | Advices from the United States stil! refer to the progress of a - ; : M . * . . “ .

creditable for the membere of the Government, who ** vowed | the revolotionary movement in the South, and the secession and deeper vowed" to perfect our sysiem of education, t+ | from the Union of another State, Louisiana, making six States

remain silent on such ~ Be 5 et ——— tae open that have now thrown off the Federal authority, and declared ing of the Priace of Wales College. Not a speech, nor : ; bli aly : even re nark was made, save a few common place blunders by | themselves sovereign and independent republics. namely : the Cuy Recorder, sod te Patron of the lus'nutioa. I cer- | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and tainly expected that our Lacut. Governor, wh» has been re-) Tt suisiana, Forts, Arsenals, and Custom Houses, belonging to presen’ed as a geatienen of ‘ good education and long | poriiamentary experience,’’ would have delivered a musterly ithe . le epeech ; but not a word, save calling upon Rev. Mr. Pitz-) ists gerald to open the proceedings wih prayer, and at ihe close |

menced. The Legislature of Nova Scotia was opened on the 3lst After congratulating the people of the Province on the

out the Province in the formation of Volunteer Companies, the

sl, Esqr., resigned the Speakership on account

general Government, have been seized by the revolution- in the seceding States; but as yet there has been no hos-

aii ce, “the weedings are over, you can now | ’ ea” Gusauana oa yeas ago a gen ds asomsh-| is very probable that Mr. Buchanan, whose term of offise 38 ed and enraptared the British Parliament w.th his tiret attempt | about to expire, will do all in his power to prevent the effusion in soa’ Teeny ie DO Gund p-Ainglay.«f sinqacece we | of blood, and will leave to his suecessor the responsibility of neased, even im tint Huuse Whose wals so offra resounded | e. :

with the words of Pitt, Burke, Fox, and Sheridan; but the | resisting Southern aggression by force of arms.

orator never made another speech ; he lived on the fane of the | first, snd is known in history #9 “ single-speech H wail'on.”’

There is @ parallel case with Himilion: anotier gentieman

rase in the Brush Parliam ont, and astonished, if the did no | enrspture that assembly. Loke that of Llamilton, it made the

skeaker famous, and like Haiwilton he seems to be disposed to | for the post it aspires to fill as second fiddler to the Govern. live on the fame of his ** sx pounder” oration, aud never speak again, wheh may be the reason why the people of Prince Ki- : : ward Isiand have not up to the present time benefited by the | obscure Monitor, wherein an attempt is made to show that * good education aud long parliamentary expericnce’’ of the | the party in power have done wonderful things for this country present Lieut. Goveruor. Now, if the writer

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GOVERNMENT HAS DONE.”

Notuine could more clearly demonstrate its utter unfitness

ment, than the article which appears in the last No. of the

CONSERVATIVE ' during the period they have held office. Ca. Town, Jan. 25. 1861 i oni | of the article is really in the confidence of the Government, a. , Jan. 25, 1861.

icine }and is not a hopeless blockhead, he might have afforded us

- “e+ TESTIMONI AT TO THE REV THOM 4s PHEI AN Pp P some entertainment and instruction by intimating Rsv. ayp pear Sin—Your recent appointment to ancther . : mission having unavoidably necessitated your withdrawal as | but when he attempts to enumerate their good deeds, there is President of the Catholic Young Men's Literary Institute, the members thereof cannot permit you to retire from that) aa . ‘ “1 be lnstitute over which you so ably presided without expressing Je2t8 have buts passed since their advent to power: to you the estimation in which they hold your services. ‘* only two Sessions of the Legislature have been held under Your zeal in the cause of religion and education, and in | their ¢ mtrolling guidance.’’ He seems to be surprised, there- qrerything wife! taeds to sien's external happiness and fore, that any great amount of work shou d be expected from temporal prosperity, is duly appreciated, not only by the : ‘ arg il memoers of the GC’ ¥. M . Institute, but als by every | Government in two Sessions—just one half the term of their member of the community. From the first formation of our Jnstitute you bavye renderel valuable assistance to it by your donations; nor can we omit to record with gratitude the ; : . Rdg om galutary advice which you have tendered to us, both in pri- is —in forming a Government. This, to say the Jeast of it, vate and in public, fur the guidance of pn onary | was an extraordinary waste of time, One would suppose that replete with wisdom, and which if adhered te more strictly, a 3 a lie cal an would have added consider.bly 10 our own individual happi- * ¥ee* would suffice for any party having oe. ness, and the prosperity of the Institute asa literary body. in the House of Assembly, to form a Government. The This, Rey. Sir, is neither flattery nor adulation, but the | Liberals, in 1851, at the time of the first change, performed words of soberness and truth ; and in viewing the prevent | : : : a Aourishing condition of eur lnstitute, te you Rev Sie, more | *ll this work in two or three daye; and from the 24th April . ; Z a ; : 3 tals . than toany other individual, must be a tributed that success | until about the usual time of proroguing the Legislature, they

It must, therefere, be gratifying to you to know that your passed thirty or furty very important Bills, notwithstanding Sctive co-operation and energetic support have succeeded in |

establishing upon a firm busis the Catholic Young Men’s | that there was a majority in the Legislative Counc. epposed

Literary Institute—an Institute which, under divine Provi-| to them. dence, will be instrumental in effecting much moral and in- | The Monitor says that ‘two important measures ’” were tellectual improvement amongst the Catholic youth of this | City. or , Fer your many Christian virtues. and in gratitude for your | namely, the remodelling of the Legislative Council and the efforts in the cause of morality, science and literature,—and | pong Question. Yes, they were certainly discussed during also as @ mements of the many happy hours we have eo profitably apent in the lnstitate under your able presidency —

what is

‘likely to be done by his patrons in the forthcoming Session ;

a melancholy lameness aboutall his remarks. He says ‘‘ three

parliamentary life. We are told that the first Session was occupied in ‘* settling the administration of the country,’’ that

brought forward in the first session under our present rulers,

that Sessien, and last Session too; but the Legislative Councii

we respectfully beg your acceptance of ths accompanying e-py | Aas not beea remodelled, and the Land Question has not been |

of the * Life of the Bleeved Virgin Mary,’’? whose perfect charity, resignation and ardent piety are worthy the imitation | of every Ubristian. i May you, Rey. Sir, in the new sphore in which you are of the Executive having been put thare in one day. But the ealled tao Tabor. preve as saccessful in prowoting morality in combination with saccular knowledge, as you have done while Stationed in Charlottetown ; and having perserered to thie end in the practice of th we, and te all your late parwhioners, your end may prove that of the faithtul servan. of the meek Redeemer. : i eG : ee Again, Rev. and dear Sir, expressing our best wishes and , preseut time, refused to make known the correspondence which Warmest thanks, we beg ¢> subsertbe eurselyes Your sincere lriends and well wisers, RONALD WALKER, EDWARD ROCHE, EDWARD REILLY, JOUN GALAN, Signed oa behalf of t ¢ Institute.

REPLY. | vceasivn only t.e Liberal Government withheld a small extract

Dagar ann nesrectep Frigxos—In receivinz your yery kind, | and, I fear, tvo flattering address, accompanied as it is with : , ' ; ' the “Life of the Biessed Virgin Mary,’’ Lhave to ebserve | when ¢hey got into power there would ba no secret despatches 4hat my removal from aiaong you, and the sever-nee of ms oficial connexion with your Institute, cannot sever the friend- ship which has hitherto su sisted between ug; for although I shall mot, in future ae heretofore, have the distinguished bonour of presiding at your meetings, still my heart is with you, and my best wishes, hopes, and prayers shall be for your advancement and progress in those ennobling pursuits, the developement of mind and the cultivation of Christian eharity, which know you love and practise.

In attending to the arduous duties of my mission in Char- lotsetown, and the surrounding districts, 1 am sensible how fer I fell short in rendering such services to your Institute &s its utility and importance demand; and yet, amid the in eessant calls of duty, there were pleasing intervals of leisure, which afforded me some happy hours in the enjsymert of those sensations so eloquently enunciated in your address, when my slightest wish ‘ to calm the rising tem pest of de~

settled. The Cuuncil has, indsed, boen metamor} bosed into a

party in power repeatedly promised to give the people the

right of electing the Councillors; and this they have not only

number of the Conncil from 12 to 17, they have, down to the

took place between the Colonial Office and themselves on this subject. There is no duubt that their reason for withholding

this correspondence is, that if published, it would convict , them of falsehood and misrepresentation. When the party now at the head of affairs were in the Opposition, they made

ja furious outery about secret despatches, because on one } a ,

‘roma despateh of the Culenial Minister. We were tuld that

| stitution of the Legislative Council, which sould, above all | thicgy, bave been made public; but their concealment is fair presumptive proof that the Government have made represen- (tations to the Colonial Office tuat would be discreditable to } them, if known,

As regards the Land Question, what have the Government | done but to deceive and disappoint the pecple? In the first | Session of the present House, they passed a series of resolu- | tious, in which all the popular measures relating to the land ,tenure—some of which have been agitated for nearly fifty | years —were condemned in yery strong language. The Colo- bate’ was always acquiesced in with pleasure. For this nial Minister disapproved of those resolutions, and suggested willingness and promptitade in respecting the wishes of the), Commission to enquire into the grievances of the tenantry chair, and also for the good order, and strict decorum. which | Resislinis dies Cantal ¢ ‘ c eae invariably marked the proceedings of the Institute, you have | —'®*V'ng the Legisiature to nominate ore Commissioner out o!ten received the public praise and approbation.

I hope, therefore, thas in future friendly feeling and the Same desire to preserve order, shell be the distinguishing characteristics of your Insitute. It is an institution pre- eminently entitled to Catholic support ; inasmuch as it lays the basis of the future social greatness of the Catholics of this Colony, by rasing them to an inteilectual level with their more affluent fellow Colonists of other religious denominations.

The work accompanying your address shall ever be esii- mated by me ag being the gift of valued friends, whom I shal] always remember with love and gratitude.

And now, dear friends, in bidding you officially adieu, my ardent desire is that the Institute may go on and prosper ; and may all its members increase in all useful knowledge, but more especially in the knowledge which makes men good citizens as well as good Ubristians, and prepare them for the joys of heayen.

of three, whose province it would be to represent the views of ‘the leaseholders. The Commissioners opened their Court in this Island in August last; and during the month they spent |here the Government not only gave them no assistance in prosecuting their enquiries, but withheld the public records from their exsmination, and allowed the Secretary and Clerk ‘of the Council to put every obstacle in their way. It was more than ouce declared in the columns of the Government ‘organ, that if the award of the Commissioners would not be satisfactory to the proprietary party, it would be resisted by ,them ; and there is no doubt that their resistance would be successiul, while encouraged and supported by a proprietary : Government in this Island. But a long time is destined to To Messrs. Ronald Walker, oy gy ree 2 elapse before ang award be Frm in fact, the Act which 1s and Edward Reilly. _hecessary ws give effect to the award is not yet the law of the land ; and it is stated that the Commissioners will be here

Tracadie, 21st January, 1861. __— ee again next Summer, to make further enquiries, and thus keep

7 bases _ | the public mind in agitation, uncertainty and anxiety, until Che Examiner. 3 ‘

the proprietors shall have squeezed every available shilling out of the lands, and have driven many of their tenantry to ruin and despair. Is it not preposterous, then, to give the Government credit for a measure which is not altogether of their own creation—which, so far, has produced nothing but discontent aud agitation—which has been used as a pretext by some of the landholders for worrying their tenantry by | prosecutions for arrears of rent to a greater degree than was ever before known—and which, when the award be given, may place the tenantry in a worse position than they are at present? The Monitor says the people must wait patiently for the decision of the arbitrators—aad that it would be “im- proper and disrespectful’’ to suggest what that decision might be. Arrant flunkeyism of this description is only worthy of the miserable tool who scribbles for the Monitor. The victim of proprietary avarice and injustice must nearly starve him-

Charlottetown, PEL, February 11, 1861.

NAAR

NEWS BY THE MAILS.

The Poreign and Colonial Mails received during the past Week furnish some important and interesting items of news.

The Royal Mail Steamship Arabia arrived at New York from Liverpool on the Ist inet. with dates to the 20th ult. With the exception of some slight suecess to the arms of the King of Naples, there was ng change ia Italian affairs. Operations

before Gaeta Wete not pesumed—the French fleet remaining asa barrier to the Sardinian fillibusters.

There were tumultus us aase: in the British Metropo!

tmbiages of the labouring claases ‘@on the 16th ult., on account of des-

titution. The prineipal thoroughfares were crowded, to the self and his family in order to meet the claim of tho proprie- extent of three thousand, by labouring mes, tomen end | tor and the lawyer’s bill of costs—may, indeed, have to go to children suffering from cold and hunger, |

and clamouring for |jail after the Bailiff or the Agent has put up to auction alms. Oyt-door relief was administered to g large extent, ‘the last blanket or the last piece of furniture he possessed, and the disturbances wore quelled. while his family has been thrown on the highway ; and he,

From Newfoundland we legrn that the Legislature of that | forsooth, is advised to take comfort in the reflection, that in Colony was in Session on the 25th ult., and that the Ministry ‘two or three years time—just after the next General E’ection Were severely censured, and very nearly defeated, for alleged —tbe Land Commissioners will probably make an award, which neglect in the administration of pauper relief. The Govern-| may be attended by some advantages to him and to others of ment of the Colony yielded, however, in some measure, to the{ higclass! The Government must have a low opinion of the

. ‘ ! the revenue, the consequent progress in the prosperity of the, |country ; and indicates, amongst other measures, an extension |

Government have in view.—The late Speaker of the Assembly, | their face; and when the Tories took office in 1859, there | were £5000 spare cash in the l'reasury, after the Liberal Go- ated would be required, we | of pecuniary difficulties, and A. C. McDonald, Esqr., member | vernment having spent large amounts for education, such as

| about ninety thousand aeres of land, whieh, for the most part,

| tile collision between the federal troops and the seceders. It |

and |

j sort of Court of Record for the Government, by Sve pominces |

¢ virtues which ay ende:red you ty | neglected to do, but after unconstitutionally increasing the |

}atall; but we have their own testimony to the fact that they /have received and transmitted despatches affecting the con- |

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think that such gross imposition as this will conceal their! Firs.—On Thursday evening last a fire broke out ina small duplicity, and silence the just and reasonable complaints of | unoceupied house situate in the Bog, west end, which was _ the tenantry. | totally consumed. The Monitor intimates that under the late Government the and the wind was from the south west, which sent the flames financial affairs of the Colony were iu an unhealthy state, and }and sparks in a direction where, fortunately, little or no da- It saysthat Treasury War-| mage could be done. The house had been oceupiod by per- At/eons suffering from the Small Pox, and it is supposed was one time they were, when a great commercial panic paralyzed | purposely set fire to.

CONGREGATION OF NOTRE DAME.

its credit very much impaired. rans were at a discount under the Liberal Government

the whole community ; but for nearly a year before the Liberals left office, Treasury Warrants were readily taken at

Pupils of this Institation on Tharsday last, for the benefit of | the Catholic Poor. The room in the Convent, used for the} occasion, wss very tastefully decorated, and amid the festoons were several appropriate scriptural mottoes. The audience was as numerousas the room was capable of accommodating ; and among those present were a large number of Protestants. : | The performers were exclusively pupils of the Establishment, | | several of a very tender age, and we cannot speak too highly | | of the creditable and praiseworthy manner in which each per- | formed her part. ‘The Ladies who conduct the establishment, | itis very evident, bestow great care and attention on the Educa- | tion of the young people committed to their charge. The amount received from the sale of tickets was presented by one of the young !-adies to the Bis \op, who appropriately | acknowledged its receipt. We did not sear what amount was realized—it could not, we imagine, be less than £12 or £15, a sum which will prove most acceptable to those for whom it is designed—many of them, at the present time, being in cir- cumstances of more than ordinary The amount realized by the above named entertainment was £20.

no Administration ever spent before—alter having purchased

| has since become freeho'd—after opening up many new roads | aud building several very expensive and substantial bridges ; | and leaving the public debt, when the offices were handed over to their successors, at only about £38,000. Now, the | public debt, we venture to a sert—and we challenge the Go- | vernment organs to prove the contrary—is considerably over | sixty thousand pounds, most probably sixty-five thousand ,— | and what have we to show for the additional expenditure and our increased liability? It cannot be said that the duties on

imported articles have been lowered, fur the very reverse is | ° : . ° : , the fact. Tne duties have been raised in many instances from | | 25 to 100 per cent more than they were under the last Go-

| vernment.

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We are sorry to learn that during the last week some inter- ruption has occurred in the Sub-marine Telegraph Cable be- aa eween this Island and New Brunswick, and it is feared that for education bas not been increased ;—it is true, there has Telegraphic communications will be suspended antil the open- | been some show of increasing the salaries of teachers; bet | ing of the navigation. In the mean time every possible means 7 5 will be used to render the Cable agaia available.—ZJsl.

There are no bridges, wharfs, or other public | works to bring asa set-off for the inerease of debt. The grant

| owing to the obstacles they have to overcome, and the expens

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UNITED STATES. SEPARATION INLVITABLE. *Wasninerox, Jan. 29.

Since the action of Virginia in regard to secession was known, Mr. Crittenden has expressed the opinicn that he has no hopes of the edoption of a cowpromice which shail heal the difficul- ues.

Many prominent Southern men are settling down to the same

conviction that Mr. Criuend n has expressed. education than the Academy did under the management of | "¢"4 90 unmediate collision between the Federal officers ani 2 f » Act J g Mr. Hamphreys, Mr. Cundall, or Mr. Kenny.

they must undergo by being re-examined at the Board of If |a teacher does not wish to submit to re-examination at all, | five pounds are at once taken off his firmer allowance. The | number of schools in Char!ot'etown has been lessened —educa- , tion in the Central Academy has been put beyond the reach of the poor man’s child. by raising the fees from two pounds | per 2nnum to ten pounds: for although the institution may be called a College, we do not believe it will afford a better

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| Education, their salaries are really considerably reduced.

| the local authorities in the seceeding Siates-—but anticipste a peaceful separa’ion of all the Slave Ntstes.

We are willing to acknowledze that the public debt has been| Ex-President Jo‘in Tyler is expected bere to-day, asthe re- | presentative of the Virginia Legislature,to confer with the

increased under the present Government by the purchase of tee ae hy seo os . ct ao aa - : . ., ..} Vad net on the Nat‘onal Crisis. e has been invited by Mr. | the Selkirk Estate and Lot 54. Both cost £13,000—whic) is | Buchanan to make the White House his head-quarters oo not half the amount the present Government haye added to| he is in Washington. The National Intelligencer of this morning publishes an authentic saement showing that Louis Napoleon does not syinpathize wiih the secessionists.

JEFFERSON DAVIS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE NEW CUNFEDERACY!

A special despa'ch to the Times from Washington siya that a spec al messenger from the Engineer Department was sloppep at Pensacola and refused permission to visit Port Pickens,

It is understood that Jefferson Davis wiil be President of the Provisional Government to be es:abjissed at Mon'gomery onthe 4h of Febraary.

A telegram from Major Chase to Senator Mallory says no attack will be made on Fort Pickens. Two distinguished Vir- givia po'iicians are iy Washington on an affuir of hoaor, A mecting was expected to take piace on Tucsdsy morning.

SOUTHERN TROUBLES.

The following is an ex'ract from a letter received in this city from a yourg Nova Scotian at Mobile :— a ** Mosier, Jan. 16. 1861. Government. ** War excitement still raging. Tuere ae now about five Lhe Government fiddler No. 2 yaunts about the Bank taking | thousand troops intown. There are four thousand othera gone We grant it, and we| down to Pensacola to take the Navy Yard, Fort Banancas and | Pickens—the two former were found

ao o le see a a delle crete. , i all know that that is the reason why warran‘s are not at a | and burning.

They have ali retreated to Fort Pickens, whieh | 18 one Of the strongest torts in the country, and which (if not Liberal Government in 1853, bat they were ‘then suffering | $/Ve0 &) peaceably) wii never be taken without one half of the four thou and being kiled. The ludies are now engaged in

making saod bigs, ahd prepiring bandages snd |int for the Let us go back 12 or 13 years.-In 1846, 1847,| wounded. Fort Morg:n is minned with about 1500 man a ad 1348, 1849, and 1850, Treasury Warranis were af a fearful! 8 90” in a compleie state of defence. This ia no “* ch ld’s ’ play,” 1 el you~everything is in ewrne-t. The Federal

Government | ave determined to coerce the see ‘ding States, and Will the Mon'vor pressme sad States are delermined to resist. As an instance of the to say that the men who composed the Government at that) ¥ !ovner’s patriotiom, on taeitey Alaseass * Went cut,” the 2 G.versor made acA'i onthe cia ns of Mobile for $100,000,

and in fese than one hous ch.t sun was placed in the hands of | depreciation of Trecsury Warrants under te Liberal Admi- | those deputed to rece ye it. The “Lone Sar’? is ff ating over | nistration? And if the Compact Government were men of me Cus‘omn House. and all ships now cleared tre done so by | wealth and credit, how dil it happen that their Treasury | the independent Srate of Alabains. As yet | have beon quiet- | Warrants were depreciated to a greater extent than ever! tier qvesuion,

| the publie debt during the two years they have been in office. Bat what kind of financial ability have they displayed in | reference to these purchases? They offered and paid to Lord

| Selkirk three thousand pounds more than the amount for which | |

| his Lordship proposed to sell the property to Mr Douse only | } | 2 few months belcre.

There is no doubt the Government could have purchased the estate en the terms offered to Mr. Douse; Bat when Lord Selkirk was offered more money for his land than he wanted | for it, he was not such a fvol as to refuse it. As regards the | purchase of Lot 54, the Government paid a higher price for | this property than they did for the Selkirk estate; and we do | not believe they have yet sold an acre of it, ur received a | shilling in return for the outlay.

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}or, perhaps, on more advantageous terms. &

it is likely to prove the worst speculation that was ever undertaken by any Colunia}

}the Treasury Warrants at their face.

| discount. The Bank might have done the game with the

| from enormous loss, which threatened.to ruin the infant cor- |

poration,

discount—from 15 to 20 per cent.

The old Familiy Compact

were tien at the head of affuirs.

| time were not trustworthy, which is the reason alleged for the

to vever don’t be afraid of ne ; I'mal! right.”

| Treasury Warrants hayé been depreciated since? We ae! | quite sure that this difficult question will be passed over by | | the Government fiddier.

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Suicipe or an Emivent Corrarman.—On Saturday even- ing lasi,the Rev. Robert C. Rice, one of the most eminent | ministers of the Chris ianor Reformed Baptist Church, arrived The Monitor promises to inform us in its next number of the | . the ay emer oe in aes en route from Philadel-

i. ie a hed es ‘ | phia to his home in Eminence, Ky. He immediat:ly went to great ee rendered by the Government to the eause of | hie room, and ig not known ever in have left it. nanan ieee education and temperance. We have given some attention to| day night the room was forced open, and Mr. R. found dead the first subject in the above remarks. on his bed, having shot hin.self witha pistol. On the table lay an open b.ble and a sealed nute, addressed to M iyor Bishop,

| Of which the following is a copy:

For information oa the | second—namely, the progress of temperance principles under

| the auspices of the present Government~ we beg to refer to; ‘* Piease have my poor body put ina genteel case and sent. | the charge made by the Chief Justice to the Grand Jury at) ee ee vad apg where I hope it will be laid | = f : | beside my dear Kliza. My Christian character is impeached, | | the last term of the Supreme Court, His Lordship then de-| gnq by msforiune the means of vindication are eut off. |} _clared that the country is frightfully demoralized by intem-| have been @ true man—have lived fur the good of mankind | | perance, although a thing called a **God-fearing Government’? | 9¥4 the glory of God. I have never injured a human being | | silien Ste hatialen, jin entionally. Ihave preached faithfully the true gospel ef i ;Corist, and of the eross of Christ [ have ever clung as the ground of my hopes. ‘Take charge of my trunk, money and Clothes here, to pry alicharges. Wutaill is lost—my mind ‘ | frantic—my heari crushed. R.C. Rice. | | Tux Royal Gazette of Tuesday last states that his Excel-| The allusion to “ my dear Eliza,” is to his first wife. The. | leney the Lieut. Governor in Council has been pleased to order | deceased, says the Commercial, stood high io his church as a.

the name of William McGill, Esqr., to be removed from the | man eminent for piety and learning.

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AN ARBITRARY ACT.

No other cause is as- | Commission of the Peace for Queen’s County. We intended | signed for the act by bts friends ere a settled melancholy | |induced by the separation of his wife from him. © It is but /recently that he married the last time, and his wife parted | from him a few days afier their nuptials, We trust to! to show then, that the Government have stretched | their authority, in this instance, to an unwarrantable extent, | and in doing so have been actuated by petulant and unworthy nouncement, before the above Institute, on ** The Crusades.” After

| : Y | a few appropriate introductory remarks, the lecturer proceeded to give feelings. We have also to state, at the request of Mr. McGill, | a lucid oes accurate account of the origin, etch and eaeekaainans \that he himself will address a letter to His Excellency the | of thoso wars which had for their object the rescuing of the sepulchre : : : : | of Christ fromthe hands of the Iufidels, Lieut. Governor, in the Examiner of Monday next, on this! which the Crusades coutinued were termed the “ heoric age of Chris- subject. tianity;” and the zeal which promoted, and the courage and progress | ae carried into effect the enterprise, were landed to a very high

| degree. The lecturer also endorsed the view that the Crusades bad the A coop PrecepEntT ror Locat LeeisiaTion.—The following | effect of extending civilization and commerce, nay, of even

paragraph is given in a late Colonial paper, the substance of ‘%*™ i" Europe.

to comment this week, at some length, oa this very extraordi-

niry and arbitrary act; but want of space compels us to | postpone our observations until our next No. | be able

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Catholic Young Mien’s Literary Institute. Mr. Elwin Kelly lectured, last evening, 7th inst., according to an- |

of the Redeemer of man, the Crusades are entitled to the favourable

. si ; consideration of the men of ourage. ‘* Georgia has just passed a law staying the collection of | dep attention during the hour and a balf occupied in its delivery.

debts in that State until Dee. 1, 1861. “ No execution ean now its conclusion, the young gentleman was warmly congratulated upon

be levied on any property in Georgia, nor can property in the | *e success of his first attempt as @ public lecturer.

} ’ ‘ ; ; ‘ Oa Thursday evening, 14th inst, Mr.

1ands of the Sheriff, and already lawfully levied upon. be) sup; Xba 7 ”

| i : : . ubject—“ Animal Physiology.

sold. Sheriffs, therefore, have lost their occupation ; collec-| Feb. g.

tions in the United States Courts it is idle to expeet, as seces-

sion puts an end to United Courts, in Georgia estimation.”’

|no doubt authentic :—

Cononer’s Ixquest.—OQn Thursday, the 17th ult-, an Inquest was held at Thomas Sullivan’s Lot 49, by John R. Bourke, Coroner, on tho bedy of Jobn Began, of Lot 35, who was found dead near the woo is at | the head of Seal River, Lot 50, when, after a minute examinatien, the | Jury returned a verdict of * to tine cold.””

If Georgia had such land-claimants to deal with as we have here, the proceedings of its State Legislature with respect to the collection of rents would be very summury and effectual. The Tory party of this Island have often Girected our atten- | tion to the United States for good examples in legislation and in the administration of public affairs. We beg to direct their attention to the lesson which the above paragraph in-

At the Hospital, Charlottetowu, on Monday last, the 4th inst., of

caleates. If Georgia be right in staying, by legi-lative action, the collection of Aonest debts, our Legislature cannot | Small Pox, in the 20th year of his aze, Mr. Archibald Buchanan, | formerly of Lot 49.

be wrong in staying the collection of rents for township lands, | esteniitiieinnentiien 2 the validity ond honesty of the clsim to which is generally) PRORTVED ON CONSIGNMENT, admitted to be extremely doubtful, WO well-selected Crates of CROCKERY WARE, to suit | the country trade. Will be sold cheap and time given for payment, by PATRICK STEPHENS,

On the Srd inst., Eugenie Willis, infant daughter of Mr. James Reid, |

At Charlottetown, on 39th ultimo, aged 16 months, Robert, infant | son of Mr. Charles Drake.

ecr+

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

I{aving promised to give insertion to the several communi- Orwell Cheap Store, cheaper than the eheapest country | cations mentioned in our last notice to correspondents, we are store on tne Jsland, or J. P. TERLIZZICK, Charloite- |

reluctantly compelled to.omit, for want of space, the second letter of the Rev. A. McDonald, on the Temporal Power of the Pope, addressed io the editor of the Islander, and publish- ed in that paper on Friday last. We shali make room for it next week.

The intercepted letter from the late Major of the Queen's County Militia, and other communications, will appear next

town. January 21, 1861. MUST BE S@LD. 2 50 Bbbls. Extra Labrador H ERRING, put ap in Bbbls, for fauly nee, 50 Bbbls. Baldwin APPLES, 20 do Russet do

20 do Greening do Bie asi. JASON WEBB,

tiows of the Opposition, and the Ministerial erisis has passed, | intelligence and spirit of the people of this country if they

week.

Ch.Town, Dew. 24, 1860. opposite the Bank |

a * eens Fee

There was no other house adjoined to it ; |

e / A Mustcar and Dramatic ENTERTAINMENT was given by the

‘They appre- |

evacuated, guns spiked, |

ly attending to my business —but for how long I can do it, is ano- |

The two centuries during |

ation preserving | In this view of the case, apart from the motives | a : : which prompted so many thousands of brave men to attack the Saracen | which is announced in several United States journals, and is in his own country, and in endeavouring to obtain poesession of the tomb | The lecture was listened to with Seven Mile Bay, 21st December, 1860. At) George Cabill will lecture. |

E. Riztty, Seo’y.

Died,

aged 5 years.

23 4 “YEN ADVERTISEMENTS,

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