122 The conduct of the Government with rd t the Land is of opinion that the whole af the proceedings were uofair to | Vommigsion is deplorably wretched. L¢ should have been their the tenantry, and calculated to bring the Government into) Bret olyect to pass an Act making the decision of the Commis: | — . sion binding. And when this dic pass, why was it not sent assed unanimously. home to teevive the royal aiiowance? Because some members | of out winistry began to fear that some good might arise out) of it, and in order to prevent this, they very kindly withheld the Srii~unted their ftiends, the proprietors, would have time | to thwart tte passage! If this was oo. the reason why they of ie Brad July, I3G0, which is as follows: ** We also learn by | withheld it, what was? . ithe Maglish Matt of this day that tia Excellency has received fhe Bditor of the Is/ander has characterized tho people of despatches express.ve of the satisfaction with whieh the Colo- | New heudow, because of their addresses to the Governor, as /nial Minister rece ved the Act passed during the last session of *\atwiligeat aad respectable,” Ta this COMMUNICATION APACE ihe Legisisture for giving effect ta the award of the Comuns- forbids me frow showing theartfal machinations of our aleve! joacc,'?— wee imieaded te deceive the temautey, because the 1 guiging-up these addreswes. If they were genuine they | waor of the Gazeffe, which is published by authority, 13 the would not appear quite sy ridiculous. But when the actual | principal confidential officer of the Government, and uust have the, address ae laid ogee by yout talented j} Known at the time that the sistement was untrue. everespondents af that locality, it only tended more powet) passed unanimously. faily Se awaken the otornal abhorrence of a disoerning public | of such envrmous and preposterous pare In my next, A shall endeavour to show the tom-foolery of such means in| sane ; : : ; se eCouw ject O | J ee, Wie Sheays, any, Pe ene s | Resolved, ‘That the employment of Mr. Whitman as a Spy honest grounds, [ shail also show that whatever claim certain | ‘ 42 + | opon the actions of the tenautry during the last winter, retiects peupla of New London can have to the term ** iutelligeat’’— | 4 end ieee ; |wery little credit on those who sanctioned his sppointment, an Samase you tle wismerpioally small tay oe lay | sa further proof of the deceit practiced upon the peop.e by a auae Whatever to the tera ** respectable.’ if | am any judge |* * % P ? = ne Fipece J. Gacpev, Chairman. | Proposed by Mr. William Handrahan, seconded by Fidele Gatlint— : Resolved, That the statement published in the Royal Gazet/e } | | } Fioere J. Gavver, Chairman. Proposed by Mr. James Thompson, seconded by Mr. Pidele Ghe Craminer. oo in one of his trowser’s pockets, a fig of tobaceo and a few matches in the other. ‘he scar of a small cut was discovered on the big toe of the left foot, The height of the body was about five feet eight inches. An inquest was held on the 24th | y f ; ‘amines at the on of Michael McPhee, Nail Pond, Lot 1, returo to this subject again, Iam, Gentlemen, Mr. | 00 view of the body, when the jury returned u verdict of **found drowned and suffocated in the water.”’ By publishing the above in your paper it may lead the friends of this unfortunate person to recognise him. Yours most sincerely, FIDELE J. GAUDET. Whelan, Charlottetown. Hon. E. (VOR THE EXAMINER.) TO THE PROLESTANTS OF P. BE. ISLAND. Gevrixemen, —- You have been treated in the two last Is- landers to two long letvers of advice by W. H. Pope, Colonial Secretary of this Colony, ealealated to excite prejudices and unchristian feelings in your minds against your Roman Ca- tholic fellow colonists. Sach effusions, emanating from W. H. Pope, whose ** unscrupulous’’ antecedents are so well known and appreciated in thisecommunity, might have parsed without notice, as faras he is individually concerned ; but as the mouth-piece of the Government, the editor ef a newspaper known to be the Government organ, and as Cvlonial Seere- tary and Clerk of the Executive Council, bis acts and senti- —— —a ion many years ago,under the good old Family a large amount of provisions and ammnition, About 4. Seu hamacten, oo oe rr tagyte his aatihe desire to en- army wagyous fel! into the hands of the rebels. Ae feat 1g gender religious strife to keep himself in office and the propri- ‘the Union troops retired their positions were i " 4 etors in power over their unfortunate tenants. Hoping *° | eupied by the rebels until after Fairfax Court oo ‘passed, after which the pursuit was not continued, GME OF SOURSELTES. aieeean the teamsters unhitched the horses and . | the waggons wheo there was not the slightest necessity, The jrebel cavalry wus the terror of the volunteers, who wore com. ‘ Clerk of the Executive Council appears again with a letter | pelled to keep in the woods to avoid being charged by them. over his own name, whereic he fully proves his claim to the) The repulse of the Union army after it had ee character he bas gained for hiuself, that of 4 Low SNE«KING | a viciory in the engagement at Ball’s ran on Sunday io ate piackauarp. He denies that he was rebuked by the Com- | ,ribn:ed to the vastly superior ndubers Of the rebulg missioners when he edged his way into Rothsay Hall. Bat laccideat which occasioued a panic thet spreud like a rebuke is a thing which he does not understand. The only | gion. The Union troops almost wi enception way to make him sensible of his impadence ae Sepeiees Sich eplendid qailemey. Thap fr flinched an is to wring his nose and kick hi well, as Mr. Francis Long- | Z ‘ ¢ The worth threatened to do a few years ago on a public wharf, beneath the most murderous ire. Y pressed on, when he showed his courage by sneaking off in the most hang- | battery after battery at the pvint of the bayonet, Pa dog manner. : ; comrades were everywhere falling beside them, ond they He brougnt certain charges against me over his own 8igna-| many of their officers bad fallen, uotil they bad dri ture. He saw that my refutation was unanswerable, and then ' their opponents and actually ensried the day; dat . he adopts the mask of the anonymous editor to explain away). ted with wo many bours’ hard fighting, and with the at, refutation, thinking, no doubt, that the responsibility and | a : ; Sqmese of asserting Seliterats falsehoods would be shared by | ™“Unition for their artillery expended, a fresh arwy wag his friend, the Queen’s Printer. But the veraeity of one of ed upon them, they were compelled to retire, To rox Eprror or THe Examiner. Sir,—lIn the last Islander the Colonial Secretary and chief these worthies is on a par with that of the other; and their | When General McDowell found that his reserve was ty. ; ie - p Goverument. of whad-cunstitutes respectability, | should say, New London if penny ae a whole, is a ettieet sina er to it. Oh y my friends of | Carried without a dissenting vote, 6 eneiaiied she ruling majority, { should like to be able to give you my Fivgce J. Gavosr, Chairman, support at tie coming election consistently. Do, as men) Mr. Wanecrron having proposed the 21d resolution, which possessing the precept uf morality, the feeling of humanity, the-sentiment of honor, reform your actions. met decisive indigaation, Let us no lunger be branding upon our proe‘edings thé iudelibie stigma of public abhorrence erfurm a lustration. Purify the country of having produced euch wen as you have been. Then, and not till then, can f, with gvuntiess others, accord you our support. these friendly hiats. Artapon them, so that you may prove ® bivesing tu yourséives and an bonur tu our native Isle. Vu,tvea, duly, 1861, . AURORA. —_ ee a—— >< ee Ms To raw Eviror of tue IsLanver. - Dear Str, — Surely your thoughts must be perpetually Fenoing ou Urange and other secret Sucieties, if you really itmagined me tv have “‘informed’” you, ‘‘in the presence and bearing curred a¢ Warblington was oveasianed by reasun of the estab- liabwent of Uramge Secieties."" Suca an expression of opinion never fell from my lips, | beg to assure you. WhatI had, in %, an Opportunity of saying tu you, ere you walked away rom me, was—that those atruciously vile letters of the Co- luuial Secretary “whieh have defiled your joaraal tor the last fow weeks, were of a very inflammatory, nature, and were, | Wassfraid, greatiy tending tu cause incendiarism and other outrages—and that the Press in Charlottetown, aince the ad- missivo and val of such hellish effusions as W. H. Pope's, im the sticefaot the islander gnd Monitor, was dgemed by men i fa to tlre title of Christian vitizend as far beneath their cvutempt as you were wad are of miue, ; Yours truly, STEPHEN SWABEY. Charluttetowa, August 3rd, 1801. FOR TUM EXAMINER. Ms. Epiroa—Sia, Ip is seldom I trouble you with s com- munieation, but | cannyt refrain from doing so at the present time. When the Liberal party were in power, loud were the eviaplaiuts if an officer of say of the public departments was abeout trum his post, and more particularly against the Lon. G. Coles, who held the office of Colonial Secretary. [t was stated that if. the gentlemen at the head of the different de- ta attended so their duties, there would be no necessity tor deputies. That was the cry at the hustings by members of the present Goreroment; and it was promised that should shey get the reins of Government a grest saving would be eff-cted in that branch of the public service.’ Lt is not to be denied that some of the officers in the public service honorably perform their duties; bus it is a notorious fact that there are vthers-“w & mere pieces of office furaiture ; the Colonial Secretary, whose salary of £36) the public pay, has been absent from lis office vearly allsummer. But the worst of all is the appointment made by the present Government of Mr. D. Currie as Assis- tant Clerk to the Council, aud who has turned a Government Office into a shop of all work; and occupies the time which be should devute to the service of the public in various duties eppertaining to private affairs. But I see | will here again have te coumerate for the information ef the people. First, ail the of a Masonic Lodge are kept in the Council Office, and aif the nutices of msetings, &c., emanate from the Game suurce — the duties of Paymaster to the *‘(irays’’ are aleo vrmed there; inaumerable communications fur the Monitor, at the cust of time and stationery to the public, sre cuncocted there ; the Visiter of Schouls and the Monitor man make a ovmmon resurtof the vilice; newspapers, books, &e., ate supplied ia abundance. [| now think ( hear your readers say, who performs the duties of the office? Why, the old and faithful servant of the people, Chas. DesBrisay, Esqr., may be found always at hie pest, and although his salary was re- duged te enable the Govtrament ty appoint an Assistant for ‘ia: hie has nuW, [ain satisfied from persons! observation, to work tham ever; wiile Mr. D. Currie amuses him- ~ eet€ ia wetting political squibs for the Monitor, and idling away the pee for which the Government public money. TROUT. 2 _. > Tron wud shapemae.) PROM “THE PARION OF ULDVILLE,” A UNIQCS PREACHER, Wul0 PREACURS TAT TUE MOST HEINOUS CRIMES WIKICH Mls CONV MKTS CAN COMMIT 48 NO SINS TH TUKM ; WSILE THE VERE SH5T DELS OF OUTSIDERS aR BLN. . . No. 1. Air +" My name it is Donald McDonald.” ‘name it ie Fussy MeVaine ; i’ living at Uldyille so grand ; Totaste a wee drappie I'm fain, Pur which but the flesh has to stand. “ . ‘Por know yo, that I'am converted ; My soul eau uo wore commit sin ; But all. who my ‘burch have averted, ‘ireir best sare foul and unclean. I'm one of the missing ten tribes, mon, Who oow in grea numbers are found ; They're known by a violent jerk, mon, Whisb thrills from their top to the ground. . Maving proved myself one of the nation, Whieb God from the ancients cid chuose, Iw perfectly sure of salvation, Too’ I take an oceasional bovse Bat all who have sprung from the Gentiles, No matter how faultless they be, Their good deeds are guilty and sinful ; My worst arv.ne sin unte me. Then if you approve net my actions, Couvict me; tne world | defy . Ty prove my soul's shate in transactions ~ + 5 Committed by flesh that shall dic. " “fa ‘public inthe vf satires on the sayings and eccentricities of thie ville Parson, should the Bditur consider them worthy publication ' J. 0. Let not your) pleasure in again meeting his old friends, a8 he considered it | eveduct in future be euch as to demand, as heretofore, the tia duty, although no louger one of therr representatives, tu Jo} Accept of ofa larze nu:aber of persons, that the fre which oc- | rq like the fifth wheel to coach, only an ebstruc- sion. £ do not lige to particularise, but | am compelled to do av in this instance. “What is the present Colonial Ireasurer? | psy him £100 per year singular views have been actually announced hearing of the writer and hundreds of others. This is numbered | because the writer inténmds writing a series Old- thought it w of | the country at heart to come forward and contribute his wite of | ments must be regarded ws the echo of the Lieut. Governor and Council, and hence the feelings of disgust and disappro- bation which must animate every Se oe 2c ’ d great | as well as Catholic m the Colony against a Government call- as eeconded by Mr. Thowas Barnard, seid he bad ¢g ling sasat- Menahelins Acne Bir,» which oath arial course to sucl+ abominably disgraceful means in order, if possible, to prolong its existence in office. ‘* By their acts ye shall know thom.” Now, gentlemen, let us first consider for a moment ‘*what |. j all in his power to forward their interests, In hia opinioa the Land Commission was intended to deceive the people, and the fact of the Government in 1860 having declared in the speech at the opening of the session that the resolutions and address | yonner of man’ this W. H. Pope is, who is thus employed of the Assembly were graciou ly received by Her Majesty, | hy «ap exclusively Protestant Government” to raise the fell when they were aot presented tu her, plainly shows that the In- | dinon of religious discord between us and our Roman Uatho- |tention was to deceive the people, and he could not brlieve, | ji¢ neighbours, few, if any, of whom ever did us an injury ; | under theae circumstances, that any vo xd would result from the | and secondly, what “logic of facts’’ he brings forwar. to im- pose On our common sense as an inducemont to adopt his Go- ‘labors of the Couanssion, because if the repurt turned out to | be favorable to the temantry the present proprietary Governor | yornment advice, without any exercise of our own Judgment. ond the proprierors had intluence enough with the Home Go- | 1 64 us, therefore, in the first place enquire, is not this W. H. vernment to have the proceedings set aside. ‘The meeting, be | Pope, so truthful an index of ‘tan exclusively Protestant Go- | was sure, wou'd agree with him when they were made aware | vernment,”’ the same identical person who a few years ago sur- that the Act, which was intended to confirm the proceecings rentitiously circumvented the Liberal Government in the pur- of the Commision, was not sent heme until the month of Oc-| chage of the Worrell Estate, and between himself and the tober, when the Commission had finished their labour. te persons whe advanced him the £500, paid as earnest or de- alluded to the fact that a Spy was sent to the Island to make posit on the purchase of the property — plundered the tenants x report favorable to the proprietors, who, by false promises of | 9, that property of at least £25 per 100 acres, by the enor- improving the country by canals, railroads and fisheries,induced | mously extortionate profit which he exacted from the Govern- the people to value their lands at au exorbitant pricey im order | ment? Is not this W. H. Pope the sane who a few years ago that the proprietors might benetit by the valuations. “This Spy | wrote a pamphlet, under the auspices of the old family com- had so office i the Colonial Building, where he had acces’ to} pact, on “Responsible Government,” complaining of the the records of the Island, and ut was admitted by the Eduor of | thep Liberal Government for having taken the part of the the Islander that His Excellency and one member of the Go-| tenants ugainst the gross usurpations and tyranny of the Pro. vernment were cogn zant of the fact. Mr. W. gave a state- | prietorsand their agente? In that pamphlet Mr. Pope invokes ment of the doings of the Government--of their lavish expen- | the aid of the proprietors with the British Colonial Minister | duure of the public money fur the last three yeors. He endorsed | ¢o alter the system of Government then in force in this Colony, |the statement made by Mr. Conroy, (who was called disloyal | in such manner as would ‘-insure protection of property from | by a member of the Government) in the House, that the expen-! sp. gpacks of a dishonest and dominant Legislature.’* Yes, | diture for the reception of the Prince of Wales was lavish. He | gentlemen, you ean easily soe how dishonest it is (in Mr. allud-d to the outlay at Government Honse, not that he believed | | Pope's estimation) for a Legislature to desire to free the ‘en- it was wrong to make the house comfortable for the reception | ants from the relentless oppressions of their Landlords. | of Her Majesty's Representative, when £1200 were expended | jg net thie the same Mr. pe who, about four years sinee, fon the House Inst suinmer for the Prince of Wales, and fur- |y gome «trick 0’ the loop’’ legerdemain endorsements, emp- ther eum of £800 was demanded fur the house for further re-| tied the coffers of the Bank of Prince Edward Ielund of some pairs last session. Surely of the house was fit to receive the | ¢10 000 of its funds, and then enapped his fingers at the Cashier (vldest gon of our most gracious Queen, it ought to be good | and said, « you must know that | am not worth # sixpence, and I tell you now that you have nothing to expect from me.'’ J enough for Governor Dundas and his Lady. With reference to the Volunteer movement, he objected to | will not inform you, gentlemen, what my opinion is of that \the public funds being expended for them, when the debt o | transxction— whether or not it wasa nolorious swindle, a gross the Island hed incressed over £23,000 since the advent of the | fraud, a downright act of knavery, a rascally concern, a mode present party to power. [It was broadly stated in the Is/ander, of obtaining money under false pretences, or a pious, saintly act some years aga, when the Livers! purty establisied @ smail | such as would entitle the operacor to fashion and direct the Pro- ferce of 20 wen when the mili ary were removed from the Island, | testant mind of the Colony, and merit the approbation of “an | that they were intended to assist the proprietors in the collection | exelusively Protestant Government,’? under the direetion of oftheir rents. Might he not with equal propriety say that the | which he is sewing the seeds of rancorous religious hatred | Volunteers were intended for the same purpose; and when it jagainst the Rowan Catholic population in particular, and 1@ known that addresses were presented to His Excellency ‘against liberal Protestants ee advocate the causo of the (which the Governor highly approved of) from Belfast and else- | tenants in general. Is not this the eame W. H. Pope who so where, offering their hearte and Lands for the ae ae of truly and constantly represented the Proprietors and the Go- | public opinion —can there be a doubt on the aubdjee ? Mr. W., | vernment before the Land Commiesioners while in this Island, | ta speaking of the members of the district, said had he been in| and used every exertion in his power tu prevent the Tenantry | the House he would have voted as they did on ai! oecas.ons. | from deriving any benefit from the said Commission, whether | He, however, recommended them to form e Branch of the Ke- present ur prospective, and who is said to have pirated away form Associatioy, and at once to fix among themselses upon | the publie records from Mr. ‘Thompson, the Tenants’ advocate, | two caudidates to represent them at the next election, and to | for the sole use and benefit of Mr. Halibartor, the Proprietors’ | support each other. ’ _ jeounsel, while he was himself receiving from ‘‘the exclusively Mr. Connor said he fully agreed in the propriety of passing | Protestant Goverament’’ £350 a year out of the tuxes paid by | the resolutions proposed by Mr. Warburton. He bad supporied | the Tenants !! | the resolutions proposed by Co!. Gray, not that he placed any, Ls not this pious Protestant, Mr. Pope, the same who so | | Genfidence mu the present party, for he did not believe that | frequently stated that if ever he would profess any religion, it | resolutions coming from a party who had all their lives eup-| would be that of the Kowan Catholics, as she oldest and most ported the proprietors in their exactions would ever benefit the | consistent? and did bo not visit certain Catholics during tenantry. The deceit practieed by the Government fron the the last Session of tha Legislature in March last, making | very commencement had confirmed bin in the belief that no | known bow piously and honestly he yearhed for a Legislative | good could ever come from them. He looked anxiously for | grant of money in aid of Saint Duastan’s College and the Cun- the report of the Commission, but he firmly believed that it |) vent, as the undoubted right-of the Catholics ?—that he was | would not be sanctioned untess it proved favorable ta the pre- | urging on the Government the propriety of such a grant, and prietore . and when he knew that the Government had retaned | that he expected to te able co overcome the bigotry of two the Act which was to conticm the report of the Comma-ioners | ignorant * * © -* (the blank ean be filled up if required), | in thew posseasion unt] Ovtober, when the Comm ssion closed ; who were the only obstacles in the way of the grant. Now, and then sent it home accompanied with petitions against ite | it is evident that he went to the Catholics, either with a de- paseing, he had lost all confidence ia the business. He briefly | sire to express his convictions as to the propriety of the grant sliuded to the Volunteer movament and the expenditure fur the | to the College, or for the purpose of ascertaining the views and reception of the Prince of Wales, for epeaking of which he wishes of the Catholics the better to enable him to disappoint or was accused of disloyalry by a member of the Government. _ deceive them: that the latter only was his object ie conclusively | Ue urged upon the people the necessity of being alive to their proved by his letters now under consideration ; and while such | interests, of forming themselves into an Assoctation, and ef disreputable conduct is abetted and sanctioned by ‘*an exclu- | Combining together for the support, at the next election, of sively Protestant Government,’’ who keep him employed for ' men who will support liberal principles. jsuch disgraceful purposes, I flatter myself there is sufficient | Mr. Dori, ae one of the representatives, theught it his duty honesty, purity of intention and patriotism in the great bulk to express his opimon on the resolutions before the meeting. of the Protestantsof this Island to induce them, as soon as op- He would give then a most willirg support. He voted against | portunity offers, toscornfully and indignantly hurl from power the first reseluions proposed by Cul Gray, because they were all such persons as would ‘aid or encourage such dastardly not to be carried out by a law, but when an Act was passed to! conduct! And, strange to say, this is the moral and pure confirms the report of the Commiseion, he gave it his hearty sup- | minded W. 4. Pope who claims the right to direct the Pro- port, lurle thinking that the Act in question would be kept |testant mind of P. E. Island! He tells us that we must not back by the Government until the Ist of October, to give the trust any Liberal Protestant who would either deal justly to- proprietors the opportumty of getting it rejected when they | wards Catholics or who would be elected by them. ‘The Lion. found that the Commissioners appeared favourable to the ten- | Col. Swaley, who has given two sons as clergymen to the antry. He now believed the report would de disallowed, unless | Church of England, the Hon. Joseph Hensley, whose brother it was favorable to the proprietors. He alluded to the fact of is not only a clergyman but a Professor in a Protestant Col- a Spy being sen: through the Island to deceive the people, and | lege, and yet either of these gentiemen or any others of their | declared that no good could be done until the present Govern- | liberal views, we are told, must not be trusted, because, as Mr. iment were replaced by mea who would study the interest of | Pope would fain make you believe, they would sacrifice the the peopie. He concluded by expressing his satsfsction that | interests of their religion for the sake of Catholies! The trath Mr. Warburton, an old menber of the House, had declared | is, Mr. Pope feels more interested in the continuation of hts own that had he boen in the House he would have voted on all oc-| salary, and in keeping the poor tenant farmers of Prince Ed- casiony as the members of the diatrict had dune. \ward Island underthe galling yoke of the Proprietors who employ Mr. Penry rose for t ¢ purpese of expleining in French the | Aim, than he dues about ali the religions ever preached since nature of the resolutions before tue meeting. fle approved of | the creation of the world. And he must haye a most contemp- them, and censured the cundvet of the Goverament with re | tible opinion of the honesty and principles of Protestantiam if ference tw the question. He asked bie coun'rymen what they | he thinks he does not insult a eou'd expect from the Government when they had stated tothe | tants of the Colony by such vile acts and insinuations. Duke of Newcasile that an Act had passed the Legislature on ene day, when it bad oot paseed the Council uniil the next. Le disapproved of the action of the Government in retaining : : the Aet which was pissed to contirm the proceedings of the | The Liberal Goverament- bed pomer. here fer. ight yonte, Cummission until the Ist of October, when the Commission had wht ahd ee Setenntns coined ended tte labore. Mr. Perry spoke at considerable length on the Cashebian: bat aninbeetnbion ofe won : achiians - the affeira of the Island generally, and blamed the present Go-| hes heen heats ht inst the G te _ vag air adieat ‘od vornment fur the part they had taken in them. He wae listened tec grant Be oe to the +a adie Colle a ‘Onieaet to very attentively by the French, who seemed tal y to epp7e- ' Had such thi Tens done, Mr De deahd net hava been ciate the action taken by the delegetes and the [.bera! party | compelled ro ante ae italy, Z der noma , , \fieed. ou the Land Questign.and on the whole affas of the Europe, for a flimay argument against che infentions ! of Ca- | Mr. James Twompson was anxious to give his opinion with iS eect oo aenhis Syren re po | | reference to the reeolutions, which he bighly approved of Fle | : ; i . resulution said to be adopted sume years ago by the Archbisho as the duty of every men who bed the welfare of | of Tuam and three of hie iimenia in which they sagpaeed No, no, the web of Mr. Pope's sophistry ie too transparent to ob- seure the vision of discerning Protestants. (an opinion preferring G. H. Muore to Ousely Higgins to re- information to the general siock. Le had seen this Mr. Whit- present the peoplein Parliament. Now, both these gentlemen man, the Spy. He. went to iis neig base attempts to columniate me or any one else can leave no | treating, it was too late to correct the mistake, and he com. impression on the public mind. 3 ‘manded the main body to fall back, which it did quiedy The lying official asserted that I was ** rejected by a Pro- ‘ia order. The men had been fighting all day without testant district and had to go to a Catholic one.”’ | denied | 9) 6.04 and were completely exhausted. They would bay it, and deny it still most positively. Pope refers to the elee- ‘been called back from active service in # short time if tion of 1854 when Mr. Beer was a candidate, but then | had | : p a majority of yotes over my opponent, and was returned vn | the pauie had not occurred. Aa Englishman the Sheriff's writ; and at the Jast election | ran for the same sent, and who had been in al! the Crimean battles, said such district, shortly before it was divided, [ beat my opponent by | charges as the Vire Zouaves aud the GUth regi " Craney Island, Pig's Poiut, Sewall’s Point, aud other places | in the vicinity, are strongly fortified with rifled cannon. steamer Merrimack and Germantown, and the United States, election,—in whieh we are confident they had net fair play— has received a powerful armament of 64 pound guns, while her bull has large majority of the Protea: | successfully with auy vessels io the United States Navy, undland desire to establish a religious aseendaney in thet ; all they hope to, is yet to be learned by experiment ; but that. more than 500 yotes, and in spite of all the influence, corrap- | did not see at [nkerman or at Alma. The loss of the io and weer lyre the Tory ~~ we against vag aves is now stated at 160. : id not look like being rejected 1@ Governmen nke The result is in a great measure attributed 's the “ ‘ is hands in the Secretary's office, and : . ae Se 7 vba see the aaa majority ness of General Patterson. it be had followed up Genera of votes | had in the ** Protestant district’’ at the last time I | odnston, aud prevented his junction with General offered for it. Yours, &e. gard, the result would have been quite different. He August 3, 1861. GEORGE COLES. ied Geueral Johnston to add his forces to these of Ge a — _ — Beauregard, and place an overwhelming force at t } IN THE UNITED STATES. Jusction, when, if he had actively en the atter 4 CIVIL WAR IN ee | Johnston's command, he would uot bave dared to leave the NEWS BY TELEGRPI. | Upper Potomac. — Another experience gained is the necessity for « sufficieney Boston, July 26th, lof cavalry. ji The Governor of New York has issued a call fur 25,000' General MeDowell behaved with admirable gallantry, He additional troops to serve three years. was continually in the front of the battle, made his re Ten thousand rebels are reported at Fairfax Court House. | couocissances in persoa, and issued his orders with Rumoors are current, but lack confirmation, that the rebely and courage; but the bravery of the commanding. are about to cross the Potomac, 16 miles above Washington, was unavailing to arrest a panic beginning in the rear, and march down to attack the capital on the Maryland side. The Five Zouaves fought like devils. Their heroism iq Gen. Patterson explains that he could not prevent Joha-/ revelling a charge of cavalry, while they were argine ston's junction with Beauregard owing to the expiration of |one of the batteries, is the theme of universal ode the enlistment of a large portion of his force, who were three | These brave fellows punished the Bisek etcme very months men. | severely by laying flat upon the ground feigning eath, ua All volunteer officers in the Federal army are to be ex- til they were almost upoo them, when rising Bi Ving one amined, and if shown unqualified, will be diswissed, of their fiendish war yells, exch Zouave picked hie wan and fired, decimating the detachment, stampeding their horses | without riders. Boston, July 27th, 1861. | The fortifications on the Virginia side of the Potomac are) 4 fier their repulse, i Feders! ‘roops returned to their being strengthened. Regiments are continually crOssi0g | encampment ou the Virginie side of the Potowae. . ‘over. Reports of Rebel movements on Hunter's Ferry con- | The force of the enem is reporte! to bave been inmmense 7. tinued, and several Federal Regiments are ordered there. || y caperior.—-cnaaanaas aboot Bivety thousand men ;— There are three or four Regiments to day arriving at Wash- | While the Union army iu action did not number more twouty- ington, aud our out-posts are gradually being extended into | p44 thousand. ’ Virginia. A despatch from a Al! confi lence is felt in Gen. Scott, and in future there | somanded the left, will be no interference with his plans. Orders are continu- tack ; the right was by ally issu ng relating to efficiency and disciplive of the army. Davis reached the field noon, and took command of thy |The Senate bave passed resolutions tnaintaining the intezrity veutre. When the left Zz pressed the severest, the centre of the Union, and also a Bill for defining aud publishing ‘engaged 8 portion of the suemy's forces and devided the fur- treason. bea of the day. Gen. McClellan has arrived in Washington, and taken) ‘pye robels did pot follow the retreating forces of the Fe- command of the army of the Potomac, and is giving renewed | deral army after passing Bull’s Run. ; confidence. | “ The 60:h (Irish) Regiment rece'vel a perfect ovation on their arrival in New York yesterday. Schr, Kuchantress bas beeu recaptured from privateer off LATEST FROM EUROPE. The City of Baltimore was intereepte] off Vape Rece on Cape Hatters. os jthe 2osh iust. Dutes to the 18:b inst. Goverument securities firm. | The King of Prussia was fired at in Baden on the 4b A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says that 200,- by a young studeut from Leipsic, named Becker, who was 000 men have been ordered fiom the diffreut States, which arrested, The ball ea the King’s oe is being responded to nobly. | A petition presented to Howse of Commune Me, Advises from Washington state that no more offensive ) Lever with fradulent practices in the Galway Contruet. operations from that city need-be expeered before fall. Gen.) Lord J. Russell is to be created a Peer. : | Sevtt will now have his own way, vad take bis own time to| The Lrish Census shows a decrease of 12 per cent in tom suppress the rebellion. years, ‘The number of additional guns and mortars have been; ‘Tae French daties on Sagar slightly reduced. placed on the defenses surrounding the City. Tie fortifiea-| Tae tariff on Coffee also sligintiy sudified. tions are rezarded as impregnable The E.uperor’s beaith ts improving at Vichi. A Washington despateb to the Herald. says that the Fele-| Mankers —Monvey market unchanged.—Cunsols 9 & jral army is wholly on the other side of the river, from Alex- _ Corton bioyant, _ Manchester advees favorable. | andria tu the Chain Bridze. | Breadstaffs steady. Provisions steady. ria LD FORTRESS MUNROE. | ree oe we It would not be very surprising if exciting inteilligence | se € lic Exai Wie Ty. Charlottetown, P. E. I, August 5, 186L should reach us from the vicinity of Fortress Musroe before | — ee long. The Union forces of the Fortress, and in the loyal | camps, have been so reduced as almost to invite attack from | the enemy. The Wasbington correspondent of the Journal | of Commerce-—who generally looks on the dark side of affairs POPE’S EPISTLES AGAINST THE ROMANS. —says that there is some danger of the blockade of the | No. IL. : Chesapeake being raised by a simultaneous attack upon all/ Tug scantiness of Mr. Pope's materials for @ crasede agains our troops. Flis statement is as follows : . . : : nm 7 There is still another point to which those are looking | the Catholics of this Island is ledierously glaving to bis ae whese attention has vot been wholly absorbed by the opera- letter **to the Protestants.”’ The letter occupies nearly s tions of the grand army near Mavassas, and from which the | Colum of the Islander, and more than half of it consists of telegraph to-day advises us that important news may be soon extracts from Newfoundland papers, and « lengthy quotation expected, viz., Old Point. It is represented that there are | from an old No. of the Ezaminer im reference to the Donoy- 29,000 Confederate troops between Norfolk and Sewall’s brook Fair Meeting in 1558, and which we regard as the most . on . , 5 ’ . . Point, and 30,000 men between Richmond and Norfolk, ‘interesting part of the whole thing. The Newfoundland Li The Derals seem to feel somewhat keenly their defeat at the lass which were sunk at the Norfolk Navy Yard, have been raised and the Journals representing that party express themeedlres and put ip condition for active service. Information has. warmly on the subject, as might be expected. In the extrac been received at Fortress Monrve, ihat the steamer Yorktown ‘from the Newfoundland Patriot,—whieh, by the way, is edit- beea entirely encased with beavy railroad iron, nen Sy raaeneneis = by © member af Se Guat fie This protection and armameut would enable ber to compete /#%¢—there is not one line to show that the Catholies of New since we haye no iron clad ships. Six efficient vessels are Colony. But even if they had such o desire, that would not also nearly completed, to be used as privateers, and will be | justify the Secretary and Clerk of the Council in ensting ridi- heavily armed. ‘These with the above named vessels, and oule and contumely on the religion of nearly half the pupal other smail craft acting in concert, it is thought, will consti. : tr , ‘tute a fleet sufficiently powerful to break the blockade of the ‘i “f the Island—and insulting in the grossest manner, sd Chesapeake ; and it is believed to be the inteution of the Wit the approval of the Government, the people who Confederates to make the attempt, while the land batteries pay his salary, as well as the salaries of the other officials en & portion of the attention of the Fortress as well as | connive at his reckless and iniquitous proceedings. of the Uuited States vessels. Whether they will aceomplish | Tho Liberal party in St. John's propose to hold a publie ; |meeting on the 13th inst., to protest aginst the manocer is hey b t ; shag Have greet peuegrets canatt be denies which the Government of Newfoundland have obtained their THE BATTLE. | present position. We should suppose there is nothing crime American files received by the -Canadg from Boston are PS! in thie; but Mr. Pope says—Belotd, the Catholics wast full of various accounts relative to the recent battle at Bull's to overturn the Government of Newfoundland, and s monel™ - | - PUBLIC MEETING. AT TIGNISH. | said he was an agent to a Steamboat and Railway Company, | F to which money was no object,—that he could make as safe a| STRONG EXPRESSION OF OPINION IN REFERENCE | harbo h h t Se Tuk Lad sutianon erdor on the coast as any on the Island —that it was the inten- | + | tron of the Company to establish Kailroads, Fisheries, &c. | A Meeting having deen ealled at Tignish on the 19th inet., After making these false statements he deciered it was the m- | by Me. Warburton, for the purpose of exposing the conduct of |temtion to purchase 1000 acres of iand fac the use of the the Government with felerenée to thé |and Question, the foi- | Company, end then asked several farmers what they would take lowing resviutions Were unaoimously adupted vy the mee ing. fer there. prepersd by Hon. James Warburton, seconded by Mr. Peter Resolved, That a branch of the Liberal Reform Association be at once formed st ‘Tignwh, and that the fuliowing persons be office-bearere > Nicholas Conroy, Exq., President and 1 They thinking, of course, they would become more | j valuable fur having Railroads and Fisheries establisiied near | their farms, asked large prices for them. ‘This was carefully | noted down in # book to the detriment of the tevantry. What, | said Mr. Thomp-on, can you expect from a Government that | would sanction or rather encourage such conduct? {i was ne-. hoours at Miminigash— | are Roman Catholica* —the latter once a Colonel in the army, the former a lawyer of good standing, and both considerable landed property in the County Mayo— ing previously serv seing th hay- great harm the Bishops did to Protestants by such an expres-| sion of opinion, or what evil consequences are to be dreaded severe one, therefrom to us Protestants of Prince Edward Island at the! ra! Forces. ‘five hours the next general election, requires » genius of Mr. Pope's skill in logical eeyuences to portray. And for tie falsity of Mr. Pope's quotation of ** Father Conway's evidence,”’ I would refer him to the Dublin Freeman's Journal—an independent Protestant paper of the time, which gives the evidence in ex- tenso ; butas Mr. Pope tas such a pious horror of Liberals, I fear he would not wish to eonsult Run, which is a swall fwampy stream jo the directien of | meeting is the first | Manassas Junction. We condense the following account, | this end ! some years in Parliament. Now, what |Cbiefly from the currespondence of the New York Herald : The first battle, which occurred on Sunday, was a yery step they take fur the accomplishment a Now we all remember the time—and it is broug!t vividly aud resulted in the apparent victery of the Fede-. to our recollection in Mr. Pepe's laut letter— when the Lorie It had lasted for uearly twelve hours. For of Charlottetown sought to overturn the Government of ti eaononading was incessant, and the sound of Colony by a monster meeting. That was in 1858. The Ge ‘the musketry | machine. After the day had been won by the Federal forces, troops of the redels were substituted for those which had resembled the continual whirr of some monster ' vernment found it necessary to remove the Postmaster Gest fresh | been | ral for disubedience to the orders of his superiors. The Torie thoug ht they eould eoerce the Government by a display of thing bat deceit trom beginning w eud. But it w not the first |; : testan sos age paper, we time @ Spy was eet to watch the people by a Tory Seemnahe ee ae os G a ae re oe ae You Can expect nothing from them. You must jook to your- oe on, lend white 38 : Po, eiacal otherent vad the Chareh a You have the remedy in your own hands; and if you | eet: hae Mr iiedenee mec pe et (he opportunity pase, you may never get ther. F : 2 . a : 7 Associaiion at once. and when the time comey for eleeting your Cece wyweFien ol the Catholic religion, T leave him to the & YOUr Catholics who are no doubt able to defend themselves, and if et oo alee system, Nets who will oppose | they think him beneath their notice and treat him with that The thanks of the meeting " silent eontempt which he so justly merits, I shall not interfere having been unanimously voted : . : ; 7 to the Chairmen, the mesting siphon. 2 Sen x between them. My object is tu point out to my fellow Pro- sppuiated pore t wduig Sec'y. Ex-cutive Commitiee—Patrick Doyle, Pidele J. Gaudet, Ea Messrs. James Thomson, Gildert Buote, Herbert Gaudei, Joun White, Charles McCarthy, James Bains, Edward Fuley, Juba Goudet and Arthur Doyle. } : Fiexis J. Gavvgt, Chairman. Proposed by Hue. James Warburton, seconded by Mr. Thos. Barnard— Whereas, eerisin resolutioas were agreed to by the House of ‘Avoumbly during she seesion of 1859. having reference to the Laud Question, and which were stated in His Excellency’ | testants that Pope wants to mske traffic of our religion—for 3 , ney’s | proceedings. | the fellow b religi a 1 ig + peed 9 she apenyag of the section of 1860 10 have been gra-| wre undersiand Mr. Warburton intends calling meetings Aaron Sai ceaieanntaee to ** divide and conquer,’ he knows very weil, that if the tenantry be united, the landlords’ claims will soon vanish, and fas agencies willalso vanish; and as he knows that the ataably’ teceiwed by Her Maj-sy, whew they were not even to het, but ou the contrary were disapproved of by the ; afier Haymaking, at Loe Sane af Newcastle; aud at hw Grace's recommendation a 7,8, 9, Grand River, Lot 16, and Egmont Bay. . ’ Commission was appointed for the purpese of seithag the loa Government hambug of the Land Commission wil| soon be g Tienise. 29th July, 1861. | is | i vexed queqian nending between the Proprietors and their Ten-| Duan Sin.—The bod mieten Exposed, his ‘ast ray of hope is to set neighbor against neigh- : = , — of a man unk f bur, C ; ; trey Autry. And wereas, the Actio contirm the decision of the on the western shore of Lot One, about three oon same rei ee ee Cummimnaners was teiamed by the Geverament wwii the Com- iateovoners bed Duisied toe lavors on ihe Island, when &t wee treusumtied, ecCompauied vy winch were the means of inducing the Luke of refave laying it belure Hur Mejasty for epproval. tholic ; and ashe is unserupulous as to means accomplish bis en s— he invokes the * UVur , provided he ean North Ca It is supposed he belonged to sows part of New ghosts of the slain Braatetes—- was without & cont, but bad on @ pair of home- , span grav cloth trowsers. and waistevat of the same stuff, a Newvastie to 2 cottun shirt and flannel under shirt, a pair of gray Tite meeting | stockings, and a pair of wow bouts. A peany token was fuund ie in error. ‘that Mr. Moore is a Protestant. —[Ep. Ex. ®t hard fighting were lost. Tbe whole col Counsellor O'Hagan, who | [+ Was nothing more nor less thau a stampede. ‘The enemy berals of Newfoundland domae- defended Father Conway at the Dublin trial, says iptinapeech were themselves not aware of it. ’ oh pea ges aa defeated and driven back. They theo renewed the attecx, Py*eal force, bat they were mistaken. ‘They imvited tlt The ammunition of the Federal artillery bad been ex friends from all quarters ; and the Belfast people, armed with in the previous contest. It was ordered to the rear to re- loaded pistols, were led up the street by a wember of the pr plenish. As the caissons were rushing at full speed to the sent Government, and were ready to commit bloodshed 6% rear for this purpose, the movement was coustryed by the | marder, ouly thet they were cowed by superior numbers ® | teamsters and civilians there into sretreat, A panic amon ; ; sore of them occurred. They ran for their horses, and eiahas the other side. Besides the pletels, there a Waiting to ascertain the facts, they cut the traces of the Wag- = anndien, and sling shots, in abundance, to enforce the Om gon horses, and commenced a precipitate retreat. Servative view of the Postmaster’s dismissal; and there #?? The consternation thus created was communicated to the doubt that those instruments of destruction would have bet soldiery in the rear of the columa at the very moment when freely used had not the leaders of the Liberal party a charge of fresh cavalry from Manassas Junction was made great energy in repressing the ardour of their followers, #2 upon them. They were jaded. They had @ fatiguing march, though unarmed, were able and ready to punish their fo# bad fought desperately for many hours without food, rest. : or refreshments. The panic in the rear spread from satin | for their taunts and their insolent bearieg. The Tories#** |to regiment, avd in the very hour of a glorious victory all | hugely annoyed because the Catholics attended their “*indig- | the advaniayes so hardly and so gallantly gained by a day's | nation meeting,’ and they were not allowed to carry oub umn was stawpeded, Scheme of overturning the Government. And because the Li ; inst the Government, which the Tories sried 0 , Mr. Pope assumes, without the shaduw of 1" stratien The arey, in its retreat, were compelled to ‘eave bebigd | here in | peer reg one - ty -) ~~