iat ? F j ‘ ee. . + + . Pat —e eres oe f J we Pig, stuicping and fulling “frolics”—days when aeift!Dops helped each other at certain) _ geasons, aod in certain farming operations, as & watter of course, Every farmer has each year a field of larger or smaller dimensions to stump. Now, stumping single-handed is very duli and very heavy work, and hired labor is almost impossible to be procured. He goes round amoug his neighbors, and asks them to| * come ona certain day to “lend hima band.” . On the day named fifteen of twenty weighbors come and help him to pull out wrt pile up the stamzs... He gives them a gowd dinner and a | \ few glasses df whiskey. Ta thé evening a few | of the ne) shborjag lasgesdrop in, and the hard} « day's wor cisended by a dance of longer er |} shorty? © wtiweiiinee. This : ti ”" frolies, every one goes thickening or fulling | a long time to the Island what balls and | the mae re refined circles ‘Tho’ ostensible business | to full the piece of home- | in those days—yearly | every farmer's family. | there were done at these | niné-tenths of the cowrting | é ug from an acquaintance first made at | GMing frolic, As we said before, the cloth| sured by the farmers’ wives and | t pug hite ro Was. fujled by hand at these frolics. Tha is tite Way in which it was done. A long aul ° og of rough boards, firmly braced, Was ¢rectedin the largest room that the house oe id o a a a “ 4i: »: * hs re ea pail, * WH Bid pared the cloth backwards and forwards ~~ . , ¥ : contain: I. The web being unrolled, and: the N’ y it was laid on this table chain. It had been previously ko for some time. The boys and s giels—t ere were no young ladies in those days Uthemselves on both sides of the table, “aenoss the board, at the same time shoving it aleng On one side towards the top, and those @ppesite towards the bottom of the table. Ai intervals the cloth was wetted with a strong srlution of soap. As this was pretty hard work there wore generally relays of hands, one read) _ te tale its turn when the other was tired. The young men shewed their gallantry by offering ~~ gocrelieve their fair companions ; and a pretty girl @ fit be seen shyly offering to take a- . pF t-she considered a ‘ | fair share of the work. This work went on _ merrily with song, and laugh, and jest. The - taan’s place—not her lover's, you may | That eparkl'dsin her yet Tid wither'd hopes of other yeara Awake in memory? Ste hush'd the sigh of sadness, Aud wiped the teugg away} And with the RY olips ob gladness Seem'd happy Dew and gay. Still music aM to joy beguil’d, And Time went sweetly by; But though she dane'd, aud sang, and smiled, She'd turn aw ay and sigh. —_ — WERAND. A CHANGEOF GOVERNMENT REQUIRED. We would recommend toy each and every leefor who will be shortly called ou to decide the velitical fate of this Island for several vears, these is the stump’ aye werds of Horace: Eripe tanpi cole jugo: liber, iber sum, dic age. Loose thy neck from this iynoble chain, Aud boldly say then rt free Phe peopleof this Colony have been too long de- ceived by politieal tricksters, and we are glad to The probainlity that the incapable» who have ruled our learn that tkey are beginuing to peregive it, destiwes for the last eight years, will soon be semt ta rusticate in the cool shades of Opposition, mst be a source of pleasure to all the (riends of liberty and progress. Tho electors now by sad experience, what they committed when they entrusted the Conserva- ‘ the lads and lasses of those | tives with the reims of power. The foliy and ex- guilty of, Many a happy marriage | travagance of the Goverument are now too well known to dblate on. Detivant reges, plectuntur Achivi.— Hor. Our rule s folly wakes the people rue. The most talented and energetic politicians often becwme careless and apathetic when cloyed with the sweets of office; but when they bare neither talenta nor energy they are mere nuisances, and serious obstacles to iberty aud to secial and puli- tical advancement. That our present rulers are uot possessed of talents, energy, or administra- tive honesty, is quite evident froin their political When they succeeded the Liberals they wade great promises, acts during their tenure of office. tor the tulfilment of whieh the peopic have waited with patience, but in vain. For example, our tenants were to be all treeholders in eight short months; but they have new waited eight long years, and their grievances remain as yet unre- dressed. The Land Commission was established, and Delegates were sent to England at an ener- the Fifteen Yeara’ Pur- chase Bill was passed; but nothing was achieved mous cost to the cbuntry ; except the strengthening of the doubtful titles of lr tenants long? te get rid of masters whom they the proprietors. is no wonder then that the have placed in power only to tyraanize over them aud deceive them. }we never imagined that the Conservatives would We are not disappointed, for settle the Land Question in a manner satistactory to the tenantry. We judged aceording to thei antecedents, or according ts the Greek proverb, Sagi pee~ ‘ merriment mi cht notyhave been very refined, Bere. But it was, for the most part, pure and hearty. ae Those who were not at the board were not by P of: ‘any menns idie. Every chair and dench in the eh Ahouse bid its barden of loving couples, whisper- Rs ding the tender nothings that have such a charm ve on young folks all the world over. The | fe ey 3. fi » - seareity of seats rendere-! it necessary for the “young men to accommocate their sweet hearts with uw seat on their knees, which, to tell the truth, was not found to be a very great incon- venience by any of the parties concerned. The work done, and the web rolled up in due form, ali sit down to a substantial hot supper; afte: which, the chairs and tables being cleared away, the youngsters either danced away the remain ig hours of the night, or when the old félks woald not allow dancing, amused them- selves with forfeits and other games for an c - hoar or two before breaking up. The young +. men, of course, escorted the girls to their homes, and those long walks over the crisp snow in » the brij:ht starlight were by no means the most unpleasant of one’s life experiences. If we were disposed to be philosophical, we would pause here to write a disquisition on the changes that have been* made in the social habits of the people of this country by the in- troduction of Fulling Mills. The change is, we verily believe, not an improvement. People in those days were much more sociable than in _ There were fewer jeaiousies, bickerings and hea t-burnings, and infinitely more enjoy ment. There are now too few social gather Sage am. ong the people in the rural districts — | - too little amusement—too little healthy ex-| eitement. People, not knowing enough of | . . ys A ag exch other, do not understand one another. It! a&* b " 4 a'ready sone beyond a limits assigned us; ae ettear sheer» vorpie bus peat ae ssa Ayal o5 4s ” i e ei ; , asi ; Aivng that eee bail. Sadia nee, they have had to repress popular He A geiden harp was streaming indignation! the point of the bayonet; they have om Its soft Comptaous art. had recoutse (0 the mdat odious measures to ad And oyes te eyes were beaming wain'ain the auth ‘ity of the law; they have 4 é The language of the heart. piuuged the Colamy jor debt in building barracks ; And (laneere tripp’d it merrily und ail the requirements of a wilitary establish- % a Qeiss SrSing how; went; they have squandesed the public money in And gay spirita botnded cheerily delegations ; they have, we may AAy confirmed the Ta youth and beauty's glow. proprietors tiles; they bave virteaedy avstroyed the * Proud pleasure said te sadness, Free Education Act; they bave digagste4 many Tower not this happs place— ‘ aven of their own friends. Jn a word, iby Their Mar et my hall of gladurss, ne apaeity and poliveal deeeit they have retieged Ber eloud the sunny fare, themselves odious. , Tae words of the poet are of Thickeniwz Frolies, when all well-behaved people mét on an eynality, and before youug ladies and young ladyixm were invented. e Werhave much more to say, but we have and have also, we fear, trespassed on the pa- tience of our readers. But we think that we have sail enough to convince them that very great changes have taken place im our Island Home within the last thirty years; and that if aay one who left it at that time, or even ten years later, were now to return, there is not a single & ‘tlement in the country that he would pees sniz ‘: and that he would observe almost | : as great chan zes in the condition and manners 2 of the pee sle as in the general appearance of the commtry, — . [Pog THe examiner ] A YALL WAS WREATH'D. A hall wae wreath'd with garlands, OF byaciuth and ree, And dowers of sunoy fartands, W vere the grape aud olive grows; And lampa shone bright, and ssiver hgib Giean'd from the mirror’d wall, i Kakon korakos kakon oon—* Bad the crow, bad the egg’ And, in fact, cau our rulers poiut out te any acts of theirs which have beeo of any prac- tical benefit to the general interests of the Isiand, other than a few lawa which they have passed re- lative to geese, rabbits, partridges, oysters, dogs, rams, ewes and pigs! which could as easily, and with one-fiftueth of the cost, have been passed by two or three aldermen of a one tenth rate city or county corporation in any other part of the eivi- lized world. This, certaiuly, is small legisia- tion ; but our statement is no Uurlesque—it is the plain, jiteral truth. According to their own ver- sion, the Conservatives possessed, within their own charmed cirele, ali the talent, energy, wealth and influence of the Island; but they bave proved themselves to be vot unlike all vain beasters. The best proof of this is to be found in their acts. They have not bad the brains te initiate a single measure for the benefit of our ill- used people; on the evntrary, they have been obliged to fall back ou the Land Purchase Bill, tormerly passed by the Liberals against the most dogged and determined opposition of those new In power. Never bad a Government a more inglo- rious career than that which is now tottering to ite downfall. Seleet a dozen of old women from Belfast, Strathalbyn and West River, and get thew know ’ an egregious blunder Sead a ~ Who always favored the proprietors?) Who spent something like teu or twelve thousand pounds in building barracks? Who brought the soldiers here and sent them through the country? The TORIES. The Liberals always syaypathized with the tenants; the Tories seut Sheriffs and soldiers after them. Tt is ne wonder, then, that irrespective of the neglect of public improvements the fenantry should abominuate the present Gov- ernment. A large majority of every other section of the community—except the proprietors and land agents—have more than sufficient reason te long for the day that will drive our rulers from a position which they have shewn themselves so | unworthy and so incapable of filling. Notwith- standing this, let all be on the alert against fur ther trickery and double-dealing; and let all liberalmided aud progressive wen form them- selves into a solid phalanx, so that they may be euabled with greater ease to resist the attack back into oblivion those who have abused the confidence of the people and brought odium on the Colony, ial —— A WORD OR TWO ON AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT. If any one thing within the teach of political action shows more clearly than another the paternal nature of a Government, it is surely the mode of action which that Government adopts with regard to the encouragement of education We coutine ourselves, tor the present, to a swall portion of What the histury of England teaches us in this respect, and we ask the most superticial student of that important branch of study if the sovereigns who iave most endeared themselves to theif subjects, from Egbert to our owu Victoria, have failed to juterest Lacmselves in the totellectual Alfred the Great s extraordinary labors in this direction are too weil improvement of the nation ? kuown to require repetition bere; they were such as few sovereigus of any country since his time haveequalled. To the Plautagenets, Tudors, aud Stuarts, considerable praise must also be awarded ior their liberal patrouage of education, however much some of them may bave disgraced thei country, and humanity itself, in other respects Phat English literature made very great progress during this period, no one is at the present day tvol-bardy enough to deny. A distinguished Irish scholar, for imstance, said sometime ago: * Eliza. beth, James, and Charles encouraged learned wen, and adopted a policy favorable to literature. Almost all the poets, and many other writers, were either courtiers theuselves, or under the immediate protecloa of courtiers, and were con- stantly experiencing the smiles or benefactions ot royalty. The court, therefore, exercised great in- flience on learning, and it is no wonder that writers should fix this era as ‘ by far the brightest in the bistory of English Literature. Ot this period also the Edinburgh Review thus speaks, and its authority on such a subject, notwithstand. ing its prejudices, is certainly very considerable : “There never was any thing like the sixty or, seventy years that elapsed from: the middle of Elizabeth’s reign to the pertod of the Restoration In point of real force and originality of genius, uveitber the age of Pericles, nor Lhe age of Augustus, ner the times of Leo X., ner of Louis X1V., cau cowe at all in comparison; for in that shert period we shall find the nawes of almost all ihe great inea that this nation has ever produced, —the names of Shakespeare, and Bacon, and Spenser, and Sydney, and Hooker, and Taylor, and Barrow, and Raleigh, aud Napier, and Hobbes, and wany others; men, all of thew, not merely of great talents and accompiishments, but of vast compass and reach of uoderstandiog, and of winds truly * * * * ereative and original, and enlarg- mg to au ineredibie and unparallelled entent, both the stores and tae resourses of the human facul- ties.” Of what bas been dove in England sinee that era under the savction of public authority we need not speak ; every person tolerably well read in the history of that eountry Knows that, al: bough much unquestionably requires still to be dene, yei wuch has been done. Une of the latest instances of the encouragement given to Education by the British Parliament, is the granting of a Supple- mental Charter to the (Queen’s University in Lre- land, enabling that bedy to grant degrees to the ww legislate, they certainty could do vo less for the good of the Island than the pompous individuals whe now lord it over us. When our masters stepped inte authority, the ship of state was in an excellent condition. She was new; the sails, cordage, and all the other nee-searies for a pros perous voyage were in a splendid condition. There were in the dest of spirits, and the passengers | were rejoicing in the hope that they would soon | Bur, | The| arrive wm ‘satety af the wished-for haven alas! how bave matters now changed? is, besidis, oar honest conviction, that not only | ship is leaky, the cordage is rotten, the sails are would the amount of enjo;ment he greater, but | tern ; provisions have tailed; the erew have muti- that the tone of general morality would be! nied; several have been attacked by malignant | raised if we could go back to the good old days distempers and bave been thrown overboard — some ot these latter have been swallowed up by the waves of Confederation ; etbers, having es- caped a watery grave, have drifted to foreign lands, where they have consoled themselves io studying Natural History. The old captain has been put in irens, the mate has absconded, the second wate bas lost the confidence of the crew ; | ridiculous, we would here wish respecttully to ask jour Island Soleus if their sage beads were eve: } was plenty of provisions ou board; the crew | j students of the Catholic University,—a very sual! jitem, however, towards paying a very large | Bill. If we did not fear being accused of making a rather hurried descent from the sublime to the engaged forsone moment in considering the great lesson that we have endeavored to derive from the | !evel with the wisdom of the law. of Literature, especially that of English Liter- ature, proves that public morals improve with the spread of koowledge and civilization. conduet of their masters in the art of legislation Cau they fied, in the whole range of British his- tory, a single instanee of a party in power that | has continued for eight years to employ as Visilor |} of Sehovis an individual who is scarcely fit te uct in the capacity of Secretary to a Temperance Does British legisiation turmish any | precedent for spending a nice little sam yearly i supporting what is generally believed to be a kind | of School-waster Factory, but of whose influence jon society the public see aa little as if ite doors were for ever kept locked, and the words, | Meeting? | ithe “ Professer’s” window? There is another et nae mee Se el ae as it used to be, and that the people who ishabit it are pigmies, intellectually aud physically, with little houow, houesty or goodness, The vauuted wisdom and perfections of our ancestors will be found wore imaginary than real by any one who takes the pains to inquire whereim that superior wiedow consisted. At, w bat particu- lar period were wankind more bappy, More ¢om- fortable or wiser than at the present ? When did the supremely blest period ealled the Good Old ‘Times begin andend? Were the people of that undefined aud undefnable period better Christians than their degenerate descendants of to-day 1 At atime when religion, or rather scholastic theology formed the principal, almost the only subject ef tudy or of thought, and when all jntellectual energy Was exerted in speculation on that one topic, we might naturally expeet to find people devout. We are told that the time was when a 8 t t \ 1 iis sword betore him, while the Gospel was read, osiguity his readiuess to supportit. But this war ike devotion led to more lamentable consequences, nasimuch as it led the devotee to look upon deviation from orthudoxy as a thing not to be He first stigmatized Doubt by the odious name of Heresy, aud then punished it as a tolerated, crime. In our day, when every civilized mat allows every otver man to pursue lis thoughts on religious and protaue subjects to any extent of speculation, We cau scarcely appreciate the bless- ing of such liberty, and are apt to forget the hurrors of the stricter orthodoxy of our forefathers Further argumeut on this subject may be avoided by referring to ove horrible writ devised by the wisdom and enforced by the piety. of our an- cestors: so common as to be one of the legal forms given in elementary Books oi Practice, aud so long and lately cherished by our wise forefathers that a Protestant Sovereign repeatedly executed it, deliberately and literally, against harmless and obscure Baptists. Being now rarely printed, and not well kav sn to the heteredox of our degenerate day, it will not, perhaps, be amiss to subuii it for (ueir pecusal, in the hope that it may excite an awtal reverence for the ages when Sheriffs en- need virtue and godless through the laud by ite grun authority :— * The Queen, &c, to the Mayor and Sheriffs of Loudon, greeting : Whereas the Venerable Father Thomas. Arch- bishop of Canierbury, Primate of all Enylaud, &e, with the couseut aud assent of the bishops aud alse of the Whole clergy of his province in bis Provin- cial Council assewbled, the Urders of the Law in this behalf rejuisite being in all things observed by his delinitive sentence, pronounced aud declared William Sawtre, sometime chaplain, a manifest Heretic, aud decreed him wo be degraded, &e , and bath decreed him the said William Sawtre to be lett and bath really iett him to the secular court. according to the lawsand canonical sauction set torth in this beball, and Holy Mother Charel bas uothiug further to do in the premises: We, ihere- fore, being zealous for justice aud a lover of the Catholic Fait, willing tv maintain aud defend the duly Church and the rights and libernes thereot aud (as much as i us lies) to extirpate by the roots sach Leresies and errors out of our Kiugdow of Bugland; aud to punish beretics so convicted with condign punish ment; and being mindtal that such heretics, convicted im form aforesaid, and eon- demned aceording to the law, divine and hamen by cauynical justitalion, aid in this behalf ac- customed, oaglit to be burnt with a burning fame of fire--CoMMAND you most strictly as we can firmly enjoiuing that you commit to the fire the aforesaid William Sawtre, being in your custody in sole public and open place within the liberties of the City aforesaid, before the people publicly, by reasou of the premises. and canse him realiy to be burnt in the same fire, in detestation of his crime, and to the manifest example of other Christians ; aud this you are by bo means to omit at your peril ln witness whereof, &c &c." This is even worse than Distress for Rent ! Neither is it at all clear that the morals of those primitive times were loftier or purer than those of our own day. [thas been well observed by a modern historian that whatever we may lnagine Concerning the usual truth and sincer- ity of men who live i a rude and barbarous state, (here ts much more falsehood and even perjury aweng thew than amoug civilized natious. Pub- he virtue is nething but amore enlarged and mere cultivated reason, and never flourishes to any degree, nor is it founded ov any principle o! honer except when a good education becomes general When perjury was cultivated by the ridiculous habit of obliging those suspected ot crime to bemg compurgators—by requiring 72 witnesses fo couvict a Bishop, 27 to convict a deacon, and ouly two to convict a laywwan; wheu litigated points were seitied by the combat of chosen champiens—it is hard to furm a very high estimate of the morals of those who volunteered their oaths as compurgators in a strange cause, or their prowess to elicit the will of Heaven concerning a dispute of the merits of which they were totally ignorant. The morals of the com- purgator and champion must have been on a The History The geogs liceatiousness of a great portion of the most magnificent literary productions of the classic |. authors is at once a proof of their gevinus and im- morality. From the days of Wycherly and Con- greve down to the present the moral tone of our »wu literature has been steadily improving. The writings of Dryden and Pope, Smoilett and Field- i { ‘ he authors of the Res‘oration,—yet some of their f ean oF eS Yaa eb cieeeteeen olla gious age=that the world is not somehow as good | tion of his own soul and those of nis ancestors, | Death lurks within ite treacherous epell— felvase to all Christians a third part of what waa) A spirit of the art of hell— owing by them toJews.” Courts of justice have A ceased tu extract evidewor from witnesses by the thumb-screw und the byot; Catholics are no longer forbidden to have their children educated in their holding or inheriting land by reason of their not subscribing the Declaration against Popery ple no longer buy wind and rain from wizards ; nor are old women burnt alive for riding the wind on a broomstick. Formularies for exor@isms ate ue longer prescribed to protect the innocent of both sexes from the pollution of intercourse with infernal fiends. ‘The Devil vo longer attewpts to throttle those he cannot vanquish in argument, as he repeatedly did with the redyubtable Martin Luther. Dutch women vo longer bring terth sovterkins—no Rol Roy McGregor steals cattle he was too lazy to rear ;—daring Freebooters and which the enemy is seeretly projecting, and hurl | knightawhenever present at mass, held the poizt of | Borderers, whe, in their day, achieved historical } notoriety, would now be convicted as thieves or Our weonlight bas ne Meu's lives are not endangered by the baueful influence as wurderers. hanged fairies, aud the darkuess has no ghosts, of comets, or rendered miserable by the respouse of the augurer or the interpretation of a dream. We may stil bave vices (» curb aud errors to correct, but a review of the superstitious credulity of our aheestors will surely couvince every Une prejudiced man that our race bas outlived a great joily that kind miserable by exciting unfounded tears, aud mass of and error rendered man puulshiog as criaies Sspeculauions and opinions that ure bow properly cousidered not ameuable to legal correcuva. The long and ardueus struggi for liberty by the people of every country in inodern times bas been one continuous contest with intolerant and oppressive legislation and ab- surd maxims, fabricated in the Good Old Tiwes by the Wisdom of our Ancestors, and perpetuated by the selfixhuess or prejudices of those who re- To fascinate to deadly. harm— Allure, decoy the wenk away, I : ee Over Virtne’s corpse and bovor dead, own religiong wor are they disqualified from I Pep. | This curse of base satanic birth Sinites hope of heaven—wrecks peace on earth ; Within its pale of midnigit dye The virtues all dethroned lie, And vice succeeds aud infamy. This monster curse bas sacrificed ; verently and blindly tollowed in their footsteps. When we remember the vast amount of rdicu- lous -pousense our forefathers believed, and the prolific source of misery that their credulity and ignorance were to mankind, it is astonishing thet any mivasure should be now supported merely be- cause it recommended itself to the wisdom of our aucestors. The wass of nonsensical beliefs and crude theories, now bappily exploded, proves ibat our ancestors were far from bemg paragons ot wiedom—that they were scarcely moderately wise. Nor isthe distant past the Old Times—it was but the infancy of the world—the green age of eur nation’s youth, when our forefathers, ignorant of things now familiar to little children, groped their way in undiscovered regions of expe- riment to search at haphazard for results which their knowledge did not enable them to arrive at by an act of reason. The Good Old Times in- deed! The Good Old Time—the best Old Time that ever dawned upon the world is the Present We are older because we number more years irom the creation. We are wiser because we have the experience of ali ages as a lauip lo our The Present is the Good Old Time, hoary with age, learned in all knowledge, wise in the leet. accumulated wisdom of ail Lhe sages of the past. lustead of foolishly worshipping the imoeginary per- tections of bye-gove days, let us rather be thankful tor the excellent wercies of the Present, and look forward to the Good Time Coming; tor, © There® a good time coming, boys, A good time coming ; We may vot live to see the day, But earth shall ylisten in the ray Of the good time coming. Worth not Birth shail rule mankind, Aud be acknow ledved strouyer ; The proper impulse has beeu given: Wau a little longer.’ [FOR THE EXAMINER | A CURSE. A enrse there is of ample bound, Iu human cireles ever fouand— A vangrenve thing of fatal toils lusidaons, life consuming coils— W inding around the human frame— Round head, and heart, and soul, gnd brain, With dread embrace its victims roand, Dread as fell Boa ever wound ; His sealy nervons twists around ; Pill crash'd and bleeding, lifeloss lay The creatare for the monster's prey Butah! a winning, pleasing foe, This enrse which charms to utter woe, In friendly guise—deceptive. worn, Seductive, wily, eheerfal borne— And blandty to its courts invites ; There gilds the baue of false delights— Cheers ou with sabtie artful voice ; Might Pandemonium’s hosts rejoice, Till treacherous vice triampbant stands, And smiles o'er ruin of her banda. If further of this enrse yond know, Read on—these lines lay bare and show Its bane, its victims, vice and woe. Phen come, my friend, no wizard hand Iilusive peints at my commaud— No foul imposter here I stand, No dark delusion do present, But truth unfold of dire intent. If such you seek, with me agreed, ng, are infinitely chaster than the writings of} Enquire and leara as we proceed— To scan crime’s Wretched victins o'er “ Haunted House,” painted in hideous letters over | productions are too indelicate aud sensuous for | Ad probe this carse into its core. he purer morals or better taste of the present! Ack him on gallows seaffold bound— the new Captain steers now in one direction, HOWs little question about erippling the Acts of Educa- generation. Today's reader of Peregrine Pickle| Ask him with gibbet irons crown'd— in another; sometimes the ship is left to herself, tion fur which we would wish tu ask a precedent, and Count Fathom will be rather amused at] Ask impious haud deep gorey dyed and is vielently tossed about by the waves; even the rata, that bave stuck to the ship for a long number of years, are fast abandoning her—a pretty sute sign, it is said, of speedy shipwreck ; and the passengers, naturally evongb, are in a state of ex’retme trepidation and despair, seeing that they are fast dritting towards the rocks and quicksands of destruction. The captain, in order te enterce bis authority, has brought on beard the ship a number of marines, arined cap-a-pied with swords, cutlasses, &e, and bas pointed on the disatiected passengers two large swivel gune to | | keep them within bounds. Under such circum- staneea the poor tellows must be very civil and circumspect, hut tt is evident that they are only waiting the first opportunity te seize the captain and his satellites aod swing them to the yard-arm, in order to preserve (hemselves aad the ship trom jumminent destruction. The Conservatives have hambugged and deceiv- . weft delight eball cheer to-night applica bie te their administration : Servitus crescit Doe sparkling aterry crowd ; nora —<'* a slavery to-former times unknown.” eee Writing boeows, beating bright, The politica! Atmosphere may at present seem “Bor joy sivail laugis aloud but we may rest assured that the “vy jerw their confidence has been calin and sere. ¢, public feel acute betrayed, how they Dare been deecived, bullied and insulted, aud they aff’ voly awaiting the proper a opportunity to give wanifert proofs of their hatred ot political deception and tyaany. Some think that there ie but little differences bei ween Liberals and Tories, and hence that there steuld bea Coa- ition.’ Weil, it is only blind met whe easnot nce. Whv got Responsible Government for the Sune say that the decay of public. wgtae was con- temporaneous with the decline of clawaieal jiera-;periority we owing aluwost as much to what we ture,—otbers make it exist about the Maye the, have lost as to what we base gained—ia owing last of the Apostles suffered martyrdom. Bag | as much lo our having abandoned the barbarous assert ite departure at the rise of the Refurma- practiaes aud eredulous theories of our adgesiors Aubbesk die benenty | besia. but as the days of our enlightened Government, for good or fur evil, are all but ended, we are not disposed to remind them of any ‘nore of their sins We are content to let them pase through the death-struggle with as little reworse of conscience | as possible. : nti —" THE GOOD OLD TIMES. Tue Good Old Times and the wisdom of our | Ancestors are, favorite subjects of admiration with a great many persone. They rever cease lamenting that their lot is cast in our degenerate ‘day. Pérhaps vo prejudice has done more harm than this superstitious review of antiquity. | Among politiciane abuses the most glaring have been defended and maintained on the sele ground of their being sanctioned by the wisdom of our hancesters. Theologians have adbered to the mos! | bigoted, narrow and intolerant maxiins for ne | other reason than that these maxims were stamped with antiquity, and handed down from our vene- rable ancestors. Legal proceedings have been disagraced by fictiovs, and arbitrary, nonsensica! rulea whieh frequently prevented justice and afforded a shield tor chicanery and fraud, and whieh were allowed long to survive the exposure of their sidiculousnuess, just because they were pro- geuies of the Good Old Times that gave biith to Johw Doe aad Richard Rue. There are even in our days many worthy people who will tell you in the inost svleina atyle of mwuralizalion that the men of the preseut day have po fixed principles of honor like oar ancesturs—that politics have deg cnerated into selfishuess and snuboersey— that tf” religion has either altegefler fled the earth, is £0 Much mixed up with error as to be nv Jowger tke Sion Pure article that prompted the burning of (be Collards aud the witches ot New England—that, in short, public virtue has alwost wholly Jeft the eacth. At what precise period this calamity paseeg py mankiad the worshippers of antiquity are gyt guite agreed x a c dwell too exelusively upoo the great strides we have wade in mechanical inventions and scientitic 3 ‘ient sud medieval civilization we are apt to Swollett’s boast when he “flattera himself that he | I 8 delicate reader into a trespass on the rules of decorum!’ The gradual improvement of public morals in recent times is well illustrated by a tory related by Sir Walter Seoft. of bis, who lived to an old age with unabated ‘ 8 A t ter sent the book sealed and addressed, “ Private and confidential.” The next time he met his A wrapped up, with these words—* Take back your | 4 through the very first novel. But is it not,” she | A aid, “a very odd thing that I, an old woman of 4 A A A A eighty aad upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud tor the amusement of large cireles, consisting of the first and must creditable society in Loudou?” Temperance people complain that vendors of | > wanuer not very conducive to public morals, but | 4 inen of the last generation have recorded that it! Ask him, to geuius brightly wed, was a custom of publicans in their younger days | Who begs alouy the streets for bread — lw entice thew customers with petices painted Ask homes where discord rampaut rears, on their siguboards, to the effect, “ You way here Aud blows aud curses reba their spleres— et druvk for a peuny, dead drunk fur two pence, | “ od have clean straw for nothing.” Tu proof of the superiority of wudern over an- . A A little reflvetion will convinee us thay this eu-| And : And whence the shaft which pierced dum through, Aud his fair pristine virtue slew — = rt people? Whe passed the Free Baducation Bill! Nir iuitoduced popular aufivaget Who the Be > t id 7 cs of the death of Ceorge IIL or the passing of the , riod when it may, to thew itis palpable vas thatthe prevut i it deg tien,—others trace its last flicker about the time os Ww our 0 whis body with @ “ bipning. le hls ere | , n the fell blood of suicide— has expunged every adveuture, phrase and in-| A*k Incest, iu its foal array— inuation that could be construed by the most | 45* the adalterer, flash’d for prey— Ask the deceiver, as he flies To gain sedaction’s glowing prize— Ask prosticvution, steep'’d in woes— Ask the blasphemer, big with oaths— A grand aunt) , sk self-respect, in charnel Weeds— sk dark dishonor’s reeking deeds— igor of intellect, asked hi if he had ever seen| Ask cheat, aud sveophant, and liar— Mrs. Behn’s novels, and expressed a wish to see| Ask mind debased by abject hire— hem, as they were :auch adwired in her younger | Ask destitation, vagrant, lean, days. Mrs. Behn’s works, approaching too near And spangiag loafers, sickly, mean— the manners of Charles the Second’s time, Sir Wa!- Ask the maim d limb and brokea brow— A sk him ou cratches hobbling now— Ask him with blood stained heavy eyes— Ask him whoin the gatter lies— everable auut she returned the book properly | . sk each whose hope is but a shred— sk those for whom affection’s dead— bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you take my adviee put! ask ber who groans with weepiugs wild— her in the fire, for 1 dound it impossible to get| Ask poverty’s sad, bungry ebild— sk pallid clieeks aad loathsome formsa— sk beaaty’s wrecks aud passion’s siurms— sk reputation’s mauled name— sk health dextroyed—ask fallen fame — sk frieudship’s bond iu piteous twaia— sk love in ruiu robed and pain— Ask broken heart aud tortured brain— Ask dying oue aud tombstone crear : ; Viio rests, who writhes umamely here— trong drink in our day follow the calling in a A sk the poor maniac in his eell t seme short lucid interval-— sk the self-bauish'd way veard oue, , Poor exile from au aching home— sk aisery’s rags that Gaunt the gale— Ask siurving miilions in their wail Why bangers pangs incessant prey, ud waste Ww bones their Hesh away, ud bleat aud blotch with losthseme sore discoveries—the wondertul application of steaw! The face which eret fresh beauty bore aud electricity—the increase vf Cowtort resulting | Ask sin aud woe of every birth, from the accumulation of wealth. and the general | Which reeking mars this gorgeous earth ; pread of education among the peovle. But aj Aud when you've asked wud probed tue root, ud wheu each assuwed the brate, iat cheer’d him ow to many crimes bat stain the present and past times, 2 acquirement of wore rational ues of And stamp’d upon his heart despair, We no longer jucge @ mao tor his y hail'd him o'er destructivn’s brink, fatal tale begins with driuk— ee ee ee | euceunler. a ee ee Se Il potent with a serpent charm nu slimy vice, sunl-deep, astray— Leuds the lost slave with impious tread, What millions loved, what millions prized, , And hourly still oblaticns rise, In crimes, and tears, in groans aad sighs, Froin its foul fane “a anuary, 186 a January, 1867. , = SOCIETY IN CHARLOTTETOWN FORTY YEARS AGO. “There's a feeling within us that loves to revert ‘To the werry old times that are gone.” ANON. Tw giving the following extract from a private letter on the state of society in Charlottetown WERAND. ~ forty years since, we violate no confidence in so dviug —we conceive that np apology is NeCessary -—— “You labor under a mistake if you suppose that wheu speaking, as I did the other evenirg, with a certain degree of warmth of apprubation of Charlottetown forty years sinee, I intended to assert that the present race had degenerated. Far fram it; what I meant to convey was that thé manners, habits and customs of the people, and their modes of living, were more conform- able tuiheir means, and were more productive of hospitality and good feeling than perhaps I will en- deavour to illustrate this by a few details of life in Charlottetown at that period. Aa the first place we were all comparatively poor—plenty, however, of the necessaries aud comforts, though few of the luxuries of life. We were exists among us at the present day. more secluded; steamboats were not; and the post day, after the winter had set in—which it did in this respect earlier than now—occurred at intervals of a month, We lived in greater ‘amiliarity one with the other than would be possible or even desirable at the present day. Dinner parties were infrequent; but we made up by the old-fashioned, comfortable, cosy sup- pers, preceded by rubbers of whist, round games, and the not infrequent impromptu dance. The demon of politics had not as yet sounded the uote of discord, setting parties at variance ; and when the Legislature assembled, the presence of its members was hailed with the satisfaction that arose from the break in the monotony of life, and as they took their duties easily, work- ing only in the day time, and devoting the evening to enjoyment, it became rather a sea- son of increased festivity than of severe parlia- Then it was the Wellington, or rather Howel’s, as it was more frequently called, was in its glory. Rum, gin and brandy mentary labour. punch were the usual accompaniments of the evening session of the Howel Parliament, last- ing till far in the nizht. I well remember the first of these sederunts, at which I assisted—as the French say. Tae principal personage, and who had the greatest share of the discussion, if such it might be called, was an old white-haired Hishland gentleman, who had, i belieye, been was vehemeutly insisting that the Gaelic languase was the most copious, heautitpl, energeuc, and musical of all the tongues spoken by the childven of men since the destruction of the tower of Babel — that it was so ciosely connected with, and. re- sembled the Latin so much that antiquariene were in doubt as to whether the Rowhas derived their ‘aunguage from his Geelie an- cestors, or the latter from those of the Romans. Having, with all humility, ventured a doubt whether the words “ trowsers ” or carpet ” could have any corresponding word in Gaelic. I was assured that such was the case, and im mediately two loud jaw-breaking words were sounded in my ears, one of which, I was told, signified a covering for the thighs, and the ther a cloth for the floor. I was, of course, silenced, though not convinced, It was quite 4 common occurrence in those days for men hizh in rank to spend the evening at Howel’s, solacing themselves with the creature comforts above mentioned. In private houses after the accustomed tea and its ae- companiments, cranberry punch hot. was the heverage, and it was by universal consent ad- mitted to be the right thing. It was unques- tionably a time of genuine hospitality; no stranger put his foot on the shores that was not welcomed by the class of suciety to which he laid claim, and treated with the best the place affurded. It is true that visitors from all parts of the world were not as numerous as they have since become. There was also, more sociable intercourse, if T may be ailowed the express ion, between families, than there seers to be at present. The quiet suppers above alluded to were, if not conducive to health, eminently productive of good fellowshin, and were in truth pleasant reunions. In fact, we were then compelled to rely more on one another for amusement than is necessary now. There was one weekly newspaper, it is true, which might serve to while away an hour in the perusal, and one or two more throughout the week in discussions on its contents. The want of in- tellectual food became so pressing that a Book Club was formed, and a number of ex- cellent standard works were imported, which were of much service, and afforded great gratification te both the elder and the rising members of society. (A good public Library is much waated ut the present day.) The society of Charlottetown was, forty years sinee, limited in number, and grass grew in most of the streets. Furniture and dress were plain and unostentatious. If Champazne was censpicagus by its absence, Oysters were no less su by their presence and cheapness. In a word, if we were lighter in purse, we were compen- sated by a corresponding lightness of spirits. We shot fuliy as itflew. Assemblies, amateur theatricals, cSriole driving, as it was then call- ed, wore away the winter; and if we were not [We readily comy correspondent, in giving insevtion tq another at one time Spe ker of the Assembiy, and who nications, touching the character ious Of certain members of the bly. Our triend says a great . rds, in his prefatury temarks, in hie usual pondervus style, to convey his displeasure at owr remarks last week as at introduction to the letter we then published. We did not expect our fread would be very well pleased with oar jocular remarks; and to make them as little displeasing as possible, we made them jocular, But now that our triend lectures, or sermenizes at us in the gravest possible manner, and: im- putes the Lord knows what motives because we do not concur with hit in opinion+-wé writings Of his about ** Conservation and Liberalism,” and the Fancy Porteaits which have fullowed them, have doue us ao youd, but very much harm. Most people are not disposed to listen to any propasitions about a coalition * Government at the presert time, when the party in office are well aware that the country is prepared to pronounce a very emphatic ver- dict agaiust them, When the elections shall be over, it the Liberals and Conservatives shalt. be about even, why then we may talk aboat a Coalition ; but if one party should win the po- pular suffrage far ahead of the other, no one would dream of a Coalition. As regards the Fancy Portraits of gentlemen whyse principles aud policy. are opposed to those of Tae Ex. aminer, we admit them cheerfully enough; but we can not help smiling at the lavish, in- discriminate aud extravagant ‘praise—(which might be taken for burlesque only thatwe know our friend never jests)—upon public men in the narrowest sphere of political hie. If the gentlemen whose portraits are shown to an admiring public, are pleased with the like- nesses, we congratulate them on the pleasure which they may derive from the inspection. We have some pleasure, too, from the exhibi- tion, but it is not of that nature which, in our heart, makes us think better or worse of the originals to the portraits. —Ep. Ex’r.] # [FOR THE EXAMINER.) POLITICAL PORTRAITS. Invidiam placare paras virtute relicts ? Nulla venanatp litera mista joco est. Nothing can shske the steady resolution of that wan whose mind is under the influence of justice and principle. When so inspired, such aw man has entered upon a task—voluntarily, or bject vt wh.ch is the aceom- of a great public good, c ve than the bright a ty itis ‘ it. The mere witticiams, however brilliant, which may be directed against hiw for that purpose, ©” will be spent in vain, Dhey may, perbaps, * make the unworthy laugh”; but they “eannot | but make the jadicious grieve.” Aud, as for tie bolts ot envy, batred, and wnalice” , whieh may happen to be aimed at him, au! only is he secure against thew in an armour of proot—the reeti- tude of his intentions ;— bet ench— sbatis, wiher- eepted by the @gis ot public justice,-—ever pro- tective of its own cng Ane os te og ground; or, if ujury wroug au, like * the curse cee” is experienged by those woo bave designed it. When the delineator of these Political Portraits and writer ot the articles on Conservatiem and. Liberalism, which have appeared in the Examiner ot the last few, morte, payee vpou bimereli the task, of which they have n the produce, i was in the honest hope -that, at the present is, if dispasswinately read by the leading and pairwic wen of both parties, they would sensibly aperate to the extinetion of party jealousies aud aniaosi-- ues, tend te the bringing: ta uum, tounded: on political cqunpatiiee end pulite ahbuss aunion which would seeure te the couatry the jou services ot her best pubhe men, beth of tie Conservative and of the Liberal School That his object wasa laudable one, bw, he believes, will deny ; and that ne has Mtherto pursued it in @ manner of which be can lave ne- reason te be ashamed, he feels fully assured, Hie object hasbeen the establishuent of “unity, peste aud concord” between the lwo parties. ‘To.thie end, by au ext bition of their direct political . vergences, be has honestly eudeavou to prove to beth parties how absurd it is to atempt: to keep up distuetions, where, i teality, tire ss. no difference. 4nd it, when speaking of bem, either in their conglomerate aspects, are indwide- ally, he hae chosen te look only upon the tajrest side, he cannet believe that any truly good er wise man will ceusure him for having done se. He is well eousineed of the treth of the Iialiaa proverb, whieb says, Every medal has ite reverse, He is, consequently, well aware that no rae ling party im a@ state has ever been perfect or borne kway so wisely as to avoid Lhe coumisnon of sins not easily torgiven, or of errers not sven * to be forgotten: and well) aleo, is he aware that) to whatever howearable Crusis or bigh poste, politicians may be individually raised, there are. tew, very few, ef such dignitaries in whose cats —aye, although their very best—some holese—and in sume Cases, tery ugly ones tou—may net, with little expense of laber be found out aud expowed to public view, and worse, mveb worse, than ris dicule. It werdld eestainly bave been eary Sor him, in most eeudemnatery lnoguage to have dwelt upon the ins or mistakes of parties ; or, after the most dismeputable fashion of some of the Canadian auti-Coutederate papers, to bare endeavoured, by meaus of public scandal, to fix indelible stiginas apen the names of seme of the leading men in the Colony. But detractwn is, not his element > he kas po taste for it, and con. sequently, be has experienced no difficuity in w- chewing it. To these tewhom it affords pleasure, he is quite willing that a monupoly of it shall be. insured, In the evulogiums which he has bestowed, either upon parties or imdividuals, he has— whilst» merely abstaining tow ubnecessray censure written nothing but tae truth. That such eulogiume- would be unpalatable and offensive to some persons, . he very well knew; Dut that knowledge did net: deter hno trom theip utterance ; and be bow ova. fidently defies any whose dudgeva they mey have excited to prove thad they have been undeserved-- ly given. In what he has written, he has been altogether - uninfluenced by party predilections; be bas had no private ends to serve; and be has steadily kept in view nothing but what be concieved would. be tor the public weal. His pen bas honestly re-- corded his sentiments, and no one cun justly up- + > * a wiser, I think we were a merrier set of peo- ple than, with increase of wealth and conse quent augmentation of care, we have since be- come. Such, however, isthe natural course of things. When J take my quiet conteniplative walk through the City, and look at the plate lass wiadows, glittering and radiaut plate, cut glass, silks, satins, laces aud articles if virtu, T say to myself, this is all as it should | ; but I remember that forty years since | we had none of these things; and what is more| to the purpose, were full as happy if, not more | so, than those of the preseat day, whose cir-| cumstances enable them to purchase, or those | who must be cunteat with the sight without the | pussession.”’ In the remainder of the letter the writer in- { | ' with | , be ; ‘ dulzes in persvoalities which we couid not) give publicity to, withyut incurring more dis-| pecent reptebensiod, aud quile reckicss ol whab pleasure aud complaiut than we are willing to| -_—-__ 2. ame - (FOR THE EXAMINER ] NOW I LAY ME DOWN. “ Now I lay me duwu to sleep *— Sweet these words recur to me— “| pray thee. Lord. my soul te keep,” Lisp d beside my mother 6 knee, As o'er hee Kuceling child mm joy She said * Gud bless my pruyiug boy.” “If Lehoald die before I wake.’ My clasped haads upon her kuee, “J pray thee, Lord, my roul to take ;”* Amen!’ then sweetly euiling. she Gave good night kiss and blewsiug Wwe, As ouly mother's love can de. Oar Father. God omuipoteut— Of goodness taithfui one, *Neaih thy mysterions firmament Under thy vital ean— fave thine within e ee cme os wg 6 * ee ee ee ee a ee ee eee ul ibe bow. keditor of ike haaininer ui dle Prepie ls venture, notwithstandiaz the lapse of time, to | coueequent eee ee ee ee pressed wilh, (be wie braid bun with the basevess of haviag Writiede one thing whilst thinking another. ‘This defence of what be has written under the above named beads, bas been drawn from: hire wee a weetiiul reply te the jeeular editerial atiaad- versions thereon contained in the last No vi the Examiner. That it way have been intendedthat- those avimadversivuesheeld be regarded 46 HO-~ thing but an cusmwadeew of gaile de caw, he is. very willing to beivewe > but spurticely as try way bave been penned, be cannot belt hinking— and therefore, begs Lease to suy—Mal, Whetbe? considered as directed against biptsell, or ae lev- elled at those Whose yolitical cX@raclers he bas attempled to delinvate, the gasde Which gase eu birth could scareely—te say tue leash ul ii—bave been more causelessly emyiv) ed. , Doubting vot the read) reeognition,wn the pars oi this reply lo bis ralber biling jocusdy, wud ite paper, the poliucai laser —W boli deg: further rebuke way yet be iu feserve lor wii will pew fesume lie een pation, bul dwulling eb Lhe dudulgent kinderns by Which le witrady uwee. -o much, wii cheeriully be continued — it aball have eoabled baw to subunit the real ‘ vt bis peuciiliugs—sow bul lew—Lly Lie Sudguebt of Lue public. , * HON. JOSEPH MENSLEY, M. P. P. The public character of (ve Hon. Joseph ‘ ley 1s one which, in Us culire iruibiulieee, it is not ditticull to delineate. Mr, Hensley i wa Asa josopiie lawyer, Dr, , ie ouly i in What way be culled Ube dead wover of the Knglisb Constitucen ; bui—largely nme bued with Us tree aud living spirll-~es & poliian: apd a #@laleswan, be des.ccs hel al) iegemuen and goverrient shomid be in scaytd with ie icllyent Wishes, couvseiwns, god cayertalous of ihe people. ba..4 He thorougtly understands, and ie deeply im- ween. be ie ut sense uf the appel , , very b are ga 4 7 a is id ad