LL oe A : European News, From the Nowe of the World, Feb. %. TERRIFIC STORM IN ENGLAND. | The storms which have passed over the country have unfortunately caused some loss of itfe, and been productive of great damay: at sea and on land. At Piymouth, on Sun- tiny morning, there was a fearful deluge o rain, accompanied by the most appalli eg lightening and thunder ‘he tide im Ply- mouth and other ports of Devon and Corn wall was ths bighest known for 30 years A cond gable poruog of Clymoath—whieh especigily through Uaion Street, the long towne of Piy renport, lies low apd one of the #. est connecting the three mouth, Stonechuuse, and Lex —Wwas completely inundated Royal Mayines was drowned the streets were couverted i the unparalleled rain to leave their houses in were sume most exciiing soenes owing to the marrow esvapes from drowning. [be ship- piog in Piymouth Sound rode out the gale in saety, thanks to tha Breas water, although at the latter epd of last week @ portion of the wall of the Great Western locks was washed away. At Falmogth several ecolsivuns took place among the large deet of merchant vessels which crowded the barbur. At Pen gance, noted for ite tremendous seas, the scene was terrific, the great rollers from the channel charging up aver the sands Mount's Bay ino manner liightlully grand ‘The scho ner Padaran of Aberethirsk, wen down off the Sturt and all haads were lost The ra lways and tevegirap @ have suff-red severely. Un Saturgay aight and Sunday Coraowall was visited by a terrific gale, and the highest spring ftidee which have been seen in the country for nearly 40 years Che | results are very serivus. A large number of people had a bairbreadth escape op the Weer | Corowall Railway on Sunday morning. Tae} up-pessenger train had moved slowly out of | the Penzance station, and was abvut to enter on the long wooden viaduct at Ponssndane, which was at times buried in sea, when a Joud crash caused the driver to promptly pull up. Two huodred yards of massive uprighte®, driven 4 great depth into the beagh, aad the; whole system of wooden supports hegan to} shake, and 10 a few minutes went duwn with! « fearful noise. Immense iron Lars were! twieted, gigantic bylts of the same met! snapped, and is @ very shost time the wreck was twirled seaward. Phe telegraph wires were aleo carried away. Dand apd shingle, covered the railway from Penzsnce to Mara-! to deep rivers by he inmates had boats, and there ot Jo other towns) * » + IMPROV«<D METHOD OF ASSASSIN A-| TION ARM ED PREPARATION For a long time past New York has enjoyed EUROPE. the bad pre eminence of Leing one of the! : worst governed cities in the erviliged world. | Europe is at presend in a state of ar red [eg property ig oppressed with an almost in- preparation without parallel in the world. The tolerable weight of taxation. Its revenves| | are squandered in prodigal profusion Its) , municipal goyernmens je corruption organ: | destruction of the human species, and wed. Justice haa been bought and sold at its tribunals. Jobbery and robbery have beep practiced gn system ip ity adgpnisira. lion. RRowdyism, ruffianivm, rom and lager | beer have beld almost unlimited sywa7 within uestions they once had, but they still count) ir. precincts. Crue of every sort has revel- ye something, and five Continental nations | led in a sort of splendid impuuity withio ite limits. Kecently a new terror has been added to previously existing causes of quiet in that city. A new method of aésassination hae come into yogue among its dungerous classes. Night and day a:en are noiselessly shot down for wounded with silest airguns. At night, [From the N.Y Albion } THE IN preparation ig for the largest and quickest pos- sible ever before was it so advanced, so complete, <0 scientific, and so ready fox immediade use Numbers have not now th vaiue in military nave five and a half millions of mea eithe eady to mach to-morrow orto follow atshboit| intervals, These ave the most warlike races, wid al have their special quatities for the woik. Ot one race we are told that they are bor Idjers. and never so much at home as on the } | ‘ ry | end attle field; of another, that they will endure Sage tla vervthing, ard go lilies they are com./ '@ the glare of the street lamps at their fire- t i wy, € y ‘ i . ne sanded f another. that a national ippea | sides, er by day, in their offices, or walking ! i mas « ar ‘ . i ail s al a . - the crowded stregte, people are murdered or mutilated by mysterious bulleta, coming they know not whepee, without warning of flax or explosion. Tn some cases, it has Seen clearly ascertained that air gums have been the instruments wade use of in the per- petration of these deeds of villainy. In others, it has been reasonably inferred, trem | circumstances, that such in- will write them all as one man, differ as they wav in their habits of warfare; of another, that they only want organization and leaders; if another, that they aye only too vivacl us, and dithcult to restrain. These are the forces f the Girst class Powers class Continental Powers, for E ye Spain, Portugal, -that is, of the first brim d is not i luce d, and, of cours: ’ the attendant urkey, Greece, Belzium, Holland, or the Scandinavian nations, Jt is only the more | #ruments have been used in attempted ussas- | vctive elements that are inc!uded in the survey | bation } Che outsiders are left outside. The loose ex- Much consternation has been created tremities of the great Kuropean organization | among the peaceful citizens of New York by sre left hanging or Iving about, JPhey would the adyent of this new torm of danger to lile rave their place and work in an actual fray,!'m their gity. (tis readily perceived whata but for the cresent they need not be noticed,| terrible weapon against society a well coa- This is a question of vitalitv, design, and will, | structed air gun would be in the hands ot | Chere are five million andabalf men of action, men bent upon mischiet to life or property. | An innocent looking walking stick might be | * wost deadly but unsuepected instrument of crime in the bands of a man of ordinary cool pees and cunning. An incident te recorded io the New York journale to the effect that « policeman in that city some time ago, hap- pens to hewe his atieatiog gipected to the each resolved to sell his life dear, and to help to turn the balance considerably one way or the other—that is, if he ‘s to be calied ito action at all, and each is tully aware that le may be. A large proportion of these men are under regular and constant training on one aystem of tactics or another=-old: fashioned, new lizhts, experimentg], or jamproved by very | recent experjence. The Prussians have learnt much, and eye; the Austrians something, in Denmark and Bohemia. Then even the latter hag hardly anything to learn in their aptille y and cayajry. There are stogies, indeed, of the Russians being behindhand, and of frickeries being found necessary to deeceige the eyes of the Emperor; but we remember similag stories, with merely circumstantial ditferences, in the publicagious of the last century, which certuin- ly were belied by the results. We have very little doubt that there is not much to choose another along a deserted street. After 9 time the policeman observed the man pur- suing raise his walking stick and point it towards the other, alihough at the moment the two men were separated by some dis- tance from each other. Jostantly the man pointed at fell so the ground, and was rushed upon by the other, who began to pifle the fallen man’s pockets. The pol.ceman sprang forward and the murderer fled. He wus pursued and captured. On the line of flight the walking stick was dropped and picked up. On examination, it proved to be an air movements of one man stealthily foligwing | checked, : : betwe } dif ; ot ‘thiser givn, the depth in many parts being from 2/t) 9¢t weet the « iffesent sections of this enormous to 3ft. The Pengsnce promenades, 4 iss, pier, aad other places were under water for many bdurs,and scorcs of | onses were A oded. At Truro the Houses and tnoroughisres in lower parte of the tuwn were QooJed to » eun- eiderubie height, and many poor people have | rulfered great loss by damage done to their furniture. In seores of instances, chairs, tables, Ke, were afloat. and many articles were washed away. A boat, laden with cos went dowo in the Truro river, and a maa named Davy was drowned. At Falmouth a youth named John Tregenga was washed over- boaid end growasd. A large pogiion of the town of bowey was covered by from g't to: 4itof water nearly all Sundsy, und at tel ston, Padstow, and Ssltael) there was a similar etate of things. Many people had to turn outof their houses in the:r night clothes and seek refuge eleewhere. Several bhundr-ds of acres of land were under water on Monday. and the continuance of beavy rains caused ferious alarm. Louse property bas suffered considerably from the hurricane. An im menge body of water ‘as come down the Thames, which everflowed its banke or mony moiles, and lgid a great quant ty of land under water tu a depth of sevepal feet. Vie sea has washed away haifa mile of the Cambrian tuilway, near Borth. The wail Lad just! massed over. Tiere tas been an unusually nigh tide all along to coast of Cardigan Bay, much go that he has since di d. On Satur- | a3 far as possible, ag truly as possibile, and to gun somewhat clumsily constructed but suffi- ciently effective noiwelessly to send ite bullet through the bead of the maa musdered L{ow dangerous 93 thipg st would be if such Weapons jjcome common can be easily im- agived. The temptation to deeds of violence would be very great with many in such » case. The a; parent impunity with whch such weapons might, with slight precaution, mass of armed life. Any hundred thousand of them would probably be fourd a fair mat h for auy other h.ndred thousand: and there are nearly sixty bodies of jhat number of meu ncluding ihe outsiders--pretiy certain to b- should the war be concluded within two or three years—there cannvt be less than a hundred such budics, that is, ten million armed men. insiders, not But the stupendous enumeration is the least part of the great fact. t UCTS, es characteristics, ory gra, and sity of adopting adequate weaeurcs for their whatn Roma ie ids in ip portance and present kill ;., protection, There is ominous talk of vig: sirnifieanee to the ri y of skill, aide or sc nt rn oe ee a q iange committees and such like insututions, ee r oe mene Ah “nw nted to do just:iee where the aw is weak oO mana ) I itary . | } a - ra int —e a are and iniquity is strong. It ia to be hoped nL t es ictiun has , any al Le i aaa Gest-uction has for Many YCars LEC! tnas the servives of dudge Lynch will nut a e to tak pre dence over all oth - 7 2 be called into requisition To purily and io thas been studied with greater skill, and i 1: i . Vigorate the regular tribunals, that the op made the subject of the most costly experi : ‘ : eration of criminal justice may meta. ’ minal o ode alee ides abbuet and sure, is the thing speéialiy aceded. mau o hel uo « a i 0 odje . : : * “Nl But this new development of the art of of common interest, as not to enter with wa m P secret assassination would justify the use, if and intellizent curiosity into the . 7 necessary, of very strong measures for its successive Inventions and improvements um ar- cutee nad ot hk of dee el ee It ig a frightful manifestation usketry, arc i t Oo arms arn f : : : of human wickedness, calculated tu bring the most awful calamitics upon society at large, The weapons of the age are now as ingenjous, as elaborate, and as exact in : , ™ : : if not arrested. —Sié. John News. their construction ag a@ chronemeter or a phi Phe object is to carry ’ LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. repeat the deadly operation as rapidly as) pos crime, Everythiog—num New York folk are waking up to the neces- the « Powera. There are few persons so far from the humerous thiery, defences oe losophical apparatus. and great damage has been caused to houses sible, sy that it can be done cooly and eor- FROM EUROPE. aod rtock, On Fridsy evening an iron shed, rectly. The weapon now put into the hand of a ae j s!leubl e ' Rie . : . London, Peb. 75, evening. wn the malleable iron works at Biocha rn, of a common soldier for this purpose woud have ( Messrs. Han és ' bl du oa Mr. Bright made a speech at the banquet of r STs. a ay an m, Ww ae juwn duwn astonished the makers of the f llowin plperd! on, Anmuinted Chamtee of Caamneten. a which on . wige wind, and several wen enzas dour fathers were proud to possess. The next pe urged the importance and uecessily of adepi- | in the plac. severely injured one of them uo war isto be a great shooting-match for the lig & systeus at veean penny postage. In the House ef Commons this afternoon an tra! of halfea-dozen different rifles, upon the enquiry Was wade as to whether the usual legal be used, would be w dreadful incentive to, be speedy | day, as four men were et work in the upper merits of wh en military men are still divid- Ee + take POR Ne Cad ence storey of a new building in Lunslet road Leeds, it cuddenly collapsed. and buried the moen under the debris. ‘n'y one luborer, an Irishman “ #@utey,’ was seriously injured, nod he is now lying at the Leeda intirmary. Tue other three were not much hurt. The tide rose to such an unusual height at Wey- tgouth on Saturday, that the esplanade was two or three feet under water, and the houses on i were inundated At the rai way etation the water wae above te wheels of the car- riages. aod all traffic had to be suspended, vntil the water receded xt the tall of the tide | A very melancho'y offsir is reported from! Bridport. Itappeurs that a gentleman ven- tured out too far on the pier, ty ere a vonse| jhat wae in distress, when u wave dash ed over the pier tnd ewept hia away. The ‘Tae lower part of thea'd towo of Portamouth better known in the lostlity ag ** Spice Is land,’ bas been inundated, the evra haying gained an entrance saute several of the douses nearest the harbor Un Sunday the tide was so high at White- haven that it overflowed th wurket-place between Whitehaven and Parton the water ewept in heavy showers over the railgay: near to Harrington a portioy of igie wall” which protects the railway from ibe sea was damaged. At Harring‘on horbor om Sunday se sez damaged the breakwater on the north side ; while between Workington and Flimby the ses overfi wed, and su serious y sajured about 100 yards of the railway aa to put a stop to the trafic along that portion of ~ Londya gud North-ty cgcpu Company's ipe ive © On Monday, whilst the etorm was raging, a lutgh brig was in great distress near Port- jand ; but by signals made by the fishermen and coastguard she was atecred into Ches:! ove, where ehe tan sground va the soft Two of the crew endeavored to gt ush ge, dut were gyept of by a huge wave that came round the yessej's stern ang yege | carried into deep water, whea they pore drowoed. ‘ ‘ - ehingle. STORM AND FLOODS IX ipeLaNa. | The greater ; arto’ the city of Cork was Quod ed,the water beimg from 3/6 to 4ft deep in the principal streets. The traffic on the limes of ratlway on oth sides of the river was stup- ped, the ratis being submerged; and several treaches were made in the Qu enstown direct liae. At Youghal the sea broke over the line of 1atlway, destroying a postion of the station, overturning pngzong, end syask ing serious breaching in the permanent way. A row of new houses on the beacu was gutted, a portion of the town subme g- ed, and eonsid-rable damage dune. Part of Queenstown is also under water Some amusing incidents of the inundation ere deseribed bY the Lerk Const.tution -— ** Oo Saturday night swall craft of every kend, from the tihy casoe ty the heavy yawl, glided alung the canals formed between the rows of houses and to those who wera #pectators of it the scene was one of eva tinual aniwation. All the smalier busts were brought out by the r Qwners for the pose! qleasure of having w row through the sireets uf the city. but die larger ones were en yrged in plying from ope ploge to suother, éopg eXtemporaing ouwtezless ferries, by whieh people who were iuprgyned by the flood ‘gould reach their hougegy, Ao im m-nse taade was done by such buate ge fares that must huve made a golien harvest for toeir proprietoze, a8 the charge for being ferried acruss # gireet was is, and any where beyond that dytange bs. The gingle erivers tov made a gigng haul, though thes vehicles did not appear fo he as much pat- yoocsed at the boate, the weters in many places reaching the geate of the cars, thus thoroughly drenching the lower extremities vl their occupants. Tiyssa appears to be preparing in the! eveut of ET combine ol "fice suriat officers are engaged in making cvn-| tructe with the apubian Prioeipalities for three mogths’ ammunitiog and stures for en army «f 80, men, Telegraphic wires are ono.s laid on lines leading from Warsaw 2 “ue frontier towns of Turkey. investigation before pardon bad been made in the cases of the Feuiaa cuuvicis recently released from prison ed, but each 18 good in its way. As to the guns, we have been ringing the changes on brags, igon, slegs yasi guns, built gung. eorls, composite, converted, smvooth-bores, breach. loaders, muzzie-lusders, puns of every im aginable kind, by as many great competing makers, till it costsan effort of memory to know exactly how we stan] and waat is post- tively the last gun. It is certain, however, thgt there is a prodigious number of very good guas all ready to be used, gud also that in the event of any one carrying off the palin in the expected competition it will be easly multiplied to any extent, 5. many first-rate establishmen's are there for the purpose in good working order. There are also some novelties in ordnance of a rather terrible character, but they don’t seem to be much reckoned on for hard killing under ord:nary circumstances. ‘The pace of improvement is equally brisk in the matter of ammunition, «¢ outremente, carriages, and other points ecouparatively unheeded ip the wars of our foreta hers. A soldier if fom g man of ecrence, If an officer, a skilled mechanic if ip the ranks, and experted ty tp g jaan of g-nius endoenterprise ifincommand. Estab- ishments most cosmopolitan in their charac ter readily supply all nations with the weans of mutual destruction ; and the science itself is pursued and professed with an impartial desire to witness the greatest posmble results. ‘The favourite study of the age will suffer an immense disappointment if it cannot reckun ite success by millions oé slain. But what is ali this for? Whom is it for? Who wishes it?) Who has any purpore to be avswered? Who holds thie enormous avalanche. waiting for the fatal footfall or sound? There is the paradox. No native wishes for war. Of the balf duzen Sovereigns who would have to give the word of cum mand, put one desires was or feels bis interest tu lie in that way. Not one is naturally cis posed to war, or now inclined to it by cir- cumstances. Of the armics themselves, per baps there are five wen in @ hundred, if so many, who do not wish fur peace, fur their Jiecharge, and for their return to some peaceful employment. The Statesmen all with for peice All nations are heavily in debt,and disubled from prosecuting num -rous works long desired by the dedication of the public money to the preparations for war. Lhe cost of preparation. indeed is felt tu be! almost as Fuinous as the cust of aciual war, ang ty be worse in having no legitimate con- ciusion. A war way come to an end one way or another, but the preparation for war can only end in war. (Qt one Power it is said that bow is ite time dor war, as it will never be beter prepared ; gf another, that it woul? gain immensely by » respite tur five years ; of anvthes, i495 1 Cannot be d pended on for w single day tor either keeping out of a war or keeping stead ly at it; of another, t tit contemplates War at tts ows tune bye wav find i.s band forced before ite ume 5 yo! aovther, that i canueot possibly precipitate wor, b cause time is wanting for it; aad, of another, that seuce it ie perishing and falling tu pieees io peace, much more wil it in war. Tie gum of tul* 18 that no one wan wishes! lor war. no class uf men wish for war, and the publie opimion o: Europe would gladly see the way to pec fication, disarmament.and and @ returu to # peucelul policy. Why, then, ie this nut td be? Why se it even doubtful? The danger consists ia the uni | versul preparation. Tne Continent is one Vast mayagin: which an incendiary may fre. og insizniticaut State, one man i pppening to be in power, muy pus) the firet cause that | selpihg wars in motion. They who would. wait may find themselves not allowed to Wait they who wish to frighten may have’ to fulfil their threats. They who are looking about for partners may have fo epter the} dance without them. jVheo apything ws) } the Govesnuageut bad made was quite sufficient. | as their cases differed trom ordinary couuu- tativig of eeutenge. | lu reply to a question, Mr. Monsell sayd yego- liutions tor the settlement between the Hudson's lies foreugh the territories of the Company, lo connect the Atlantic with the Pacific coust unui a complete adjustment was reached, lo reply to the request of Mr. Timene for in | formation, Me Otway stated that the Govern. | ment had reeeived no authentic advices of the | rejection of the Alabama Couvention by the | Uuited States, vor bad it any litormaiion w haste | ever, In teg ad to the watural zation protocel, Tie Bank of Eugiand decrease is £200,090, | gerd. g. London, Feb 26. The War Office has received official despatch es trom New Zealand anuouneing turther euc ceases over the rebela. The Troops have car. ged by uasaul: the Maori stroughoid, Hay atepah, Phe vatives made a desperate defence aud lust 200 in killed and weuuded, while the Lritish loes Was wuly 22, Madrid, Feb 25 The vote in the Cortes, thanking tae retiring Provisional Government and authorizing Marshal Serrane te torn: a hew ministry sluod os follows: For lov 5 against 62. : In the Constituent Cortes, the proceedings en the occasion of the passage of a vote of thanks lo the Provisional Ministry were very luteresting. The Ministers explained their action towards religions orders and the chyreh lt wae slated that the Jesuit College of St, Vincent was suppressed because its members were engaged in # conspiracy against the Gov- erument, aud three of them were accomplices in the assaggination of Governor Burgos. The ordere directing the civil authorities to take charge of certain articles of chayel property | were als explaiced aud justified on the ground | that the proceedings of the clerical party ge- manded the interierence of the Guveruiment to preserve the objects of art in the churches. When the result of the decision wae announced | Gen. Serrave rose tu speak and was greeted wiib “prolonged cheers Tle made a tewperate and | | tranquilizing speech, advising the minority to pureue a policy of coyciliation, in view of firmly rovied and tuexeravle principles heid by the ma- jonty of the Cortes. Astor bimeelf he promised views loyalt, vatrctiom acd abnega ion Madrid, Feb. 23. In the Spanish Coratituent Cortes yesterday, | Serrane, Prime Minister, officially announced ihe | resignation of the Provisional Government. Gen. Prioa, Minister of war, ov an addtess, assured the Heuse that the late Dynasty woyld never re- | asceud the throne. Admiral Topete, Minister of | recent reberlion.—Subsequently the House pass | edaveteot thanks to toe retiring Provisional | Government, although the republican & embers opposed Ho wWilb unauinily, the House also by a | large vole lntigejed Marshal Serrano with tull eacculive powers log the tine being, and granted bin with the authority becessary tor the for- wation of a new Ministry. Gen Caballero Deroda is ty succeed General Dulce as Gai cdigs Getiergl o! Cua. ¢ ROM CANADA. Torente, Feb 23, } Reporte from various points between Windsor | (and Quebec indicate that the “Leg sieat shew | storm of the season Was experienced last night The Western trains are very uygh delayed. The ivains betweev Torvute aud Montreal are entirely blocked uy. M.R Brown & Co's Bank closed ite doors | this merning In cuusequence of beary jysses in| New York. } Ottawa, Feb, 23. | U. 38. and }vglaud. = Montreal, Feb. 24th. Negotiations ape in progress for getting the St. Mr. Fortesque replied that what investigation | “gs | house, We have been tod that ue ef our King’s | | County members fw off al y Langent into: open | secure which he trudged to town at the open- is and should be no semblance, even of con; for securing the independence of Parliament Bellingham woved an amendment that no persen shall be eligible as a representative alter adjourn- ment of the present Parliament, whe receives an annual salary from the Imperial, Dominion er Local Govermment, save the members ef the Ministry of the latter; and no Seuator be eligible tu sit in egther Assembly or Council. I lies Go- vepomeyt regarded the motion aa a Want of con- fidence, and opposed it. After a discussion which lasted till ufter midnight, the amendment was repeeted could not aqmething be done without any ince | sistency of sacrifice ot principle on the part © any party? J shall take what may be a sery low etgnd, and offer the following ae gestion : : : St. Dunstan s Collego hase been 19 operation new for some fifteen yeare or oo, and, as far as J am aware, it bas never cost the Colony one eent. The number of Students is yearly ou the increase, and there inust be some reason, ty say the least of it, that induces many highly respectable Protest ant gentlemen to send their song there lo receive | Ten feet six inches ef suow have fallen thus fat ; Llogr Market alanoat at a stand still, in con- se Qeyuce vt ryow ptorus. Sales wf ordinary supertine at $450 aud choice at BLO? | ¥ lo $4. es Moatreal, Feb. 25 No mails have reached @ tawa for five days. Yesterday wae the day appointed tor the as sembly of the Railway Connmmtesinere for the purpose of having the contracts entered on with successful competitors. “The however, wade it impossible fer either Commissioners or Contractors, who are on beard of trains, to reach Olawa, j Baw ‘Phe repost ia credited in political cireles that | the coutractora will retuse to sign their contracts | as proposed by the Railway Commissioners Yhere is no doubt the Contractors are gom- pletely at the merey ot the Commissioners, as there are several things bot mentioned in the plans that they may require to have done, and Contractors would be compelled to do them, It is believed the Worthingtons of Quebec, | will get the contract for No 1 section, in place of Messrs. Hersey, who have refused tu under- take it The report im Ministerial quarters is that Sir Jobu Ao cannot settie on the meeting of Parlhia- ‘iment until Cartier returns, Nobody seems really to know when he will leave England Auother root fell in last might. hurt. Nobody was Montreal, Feb 24. Trayel on the railroads Kast and West is still very muck obstsucted on account of snew on the track No trains hage arrived or left to-day. The i gtorm ceased tast night, but another w imminent, The storm was very sewere at Pembroke and ‘in the lumbering regions on the Ottawa river and lite tributaries. Jt je thoagtt that the lumber ‘operations jus the winter will be completely Montreal, Feb 27, It bas heen snowing for the last forty-eight hours, and the streets are all blocked up. Dreadful storin thie afternoon Lae prevented | the arrival of traing. The New York train ran off the track near Rutland, Vermont, this morning. The sleeping | car rolled down an embankment eighteen feet to lte the river. General Averill and Lieutenants Fiz George and Mclaren were among the iu. jured. ; | A destructive fire yecurred in Ottawa this }morning. About $100,000 worth of property | destrey ed. | Jog, Hickson, Secretary of the Grand Trunk | Trunk Rajiway. left for England lest night. | At w meeting last might for the purpose of making arrangements for a suitable public enter- | tarnmguent ty the Senators and the members of | the Commons on the meeting of the Parliament, | ambiguous as such speeches very frequently | | | 'a Committees of tweive leading citizens, lucludiug | the Mayor, was appointed. | FROM THE STATES } New Yor, Peb 24. | ‘The failure of reconstruction tor Georgia, Mis- | siBsi ppt and Teaas aud #f the Jax Bill and the postpovement of the House Tenure Office Act | Hill will compel the next Congress to remain in | session longer than was expepted—probably sixty ) days trem the fourth of Marep. | Phe Female Laver ques ion was discussed in Congress yesterday, and it was decided to ia- crease the suiarics of the lemale clerks to $1,200 per anuum Gould 132 1-2. Money eary New York, Feb 24. Despatches of yesterday from Cuba state that & decree is to be issued imposing ab export duly from the first of Marcu neat of 5U cents per box and $1.20 per bogshead on sugar, $1 per bale on tv- vacce and 50 ceuts per thoysanod of cigars sud on additive of five per gent ou wll internal taxes, the proceeds ul which are ty be paid weebly tu the (Spanish Lanke to secure an advauce of cight { imudiwnu duilare Ww Lue Government. New York, Feb. 27. | Cuban advices represent that the trouble be- tween the volouteers and General Dulee stili con | tinues, aud that in Consequence ol the mulieus spirit of the troops the geverument has deleruin- ) ed to inaugurate a harsher pelicy. A reported battle in the Cienluegos district was | Wen by the Spanish troops. D.S Reyoolds, Superitendent of the Buffalo, N Y Police Capt Heury Dickson,and two detectives the Pohee Commissiouers et with cruminally and uulawtully hidnappig two wen on the night of January lot, and vi carrying | Administrator of the Government has referred, | them to Canada tur a reward. CORRESPON ed To THe Evrron oF THE EXAMINER. Siuau,— Ere tuis comes to hand,the collective wisdom DENCE. ———S Bay Co., and the Dowiion of Canada were still | of oug tight litle Isiaad will have met iv the | enoush overlooked. si pending, wud it was undesirable to make any { metropolis, ang their work for the Session/ Elder Liird and his brother rule the Ex.|** parent, he shall have forfeited all a pa- slatemept ag to the prospect of bulging telegraph | pointed oyt to them in the Speech from the | Throne. The Solous of our day will find \their hands full: for the further and more | ; raydiy we advance in the opening yp andjthat gentleman credit for greater capacity. |develdping the resources of the country, the | We thought that when he became leader of the |™2" should be father to his own childree ; he ;}moere rapidly must the wheels of the state ensine be kept im motion by those who * run | the machine.’? We have this consolation, however, that, judging from the metal ot which the machine is composed, thera is not the slightest danger that, Phaeton like, they will run the risk of settiug the world in a blaze. No doubt, the attention of our legislators yil! be called to the neglected state of our Roads and Bridges, our Harbors, Wharves, Telegraphs, and regular Steam communica tion in our end of the Island, &c., &., &e., while the subject of Education will, as # matter of course, receiv: g ecial apienfioy, [f ig also to be hoped thet, in their wisdom, they wiil not lose sizkt of the Railroad from George- town to Summerside, and the winter boat tu ply between our capital and Port Mulgrave, or soms other pa ut on the opposite const. These are matters that demand the serious consideration of our Lezislature There are some of them that should not be put off from year to year. We hear ang read a great deal about the improvements that might be made, and are about to be made, in our road sys tem; and while these splendid systems are beany paraded before the public, our roads are, in feality, allowed to go from bad to worse. jt js only those who are obliged to haut their produce to the nearest shipping piace in the fall, with the mud axle deep, that can form an adequate idea of the wretched state of our roads Believe me, Sir, that something more substantial than long-winded theories laid down on paper must be adopted before we have any decided improvements in « a literary and moral training. St Punetan’s | College hae, at least, done the work of a pery | eflicient Gran mar School for the lgst fifteen) years, Let it be remembered that T am ouly | taking, for the moment, a view of things to suit my illustration, L leave out of the question, for | the present, the fact that, besides the Head Pre- fessor, there have been always employed & twat efficient staff of three or four assistant teachers iu the College. Let us leave out of the question, | for a moment, Whether St. Dunstan's Codege be) Catholic or nen-Cathelic. Let us look upon it as} an educational establishment that has well ana | faithfully done its duly towards the Protestant | and Catholic youth of the Colony for many | years, and viewing it in this light, let ws admit, in the spirit of fairplay and even handed justice, that it bas a just claim on the country, certainly high time that something should be done in this matter, Surely the jaget contemptple | bigot on the floor of the House could not deny it) the encouragement and support which we give! should form the basis of the education of a/| | A . . i resei.* j 'Chrigtian community, acd that ali denomina. | Prev'ous to the presei’ century, any institu. common djatrict school With the allowauge of a were district echool, ard reckoning the arrears | for the last fifteeu years, the matter would stand | thue: £6515. = £979. which would be sume- Or it they allowed at the! | thing to begin with. rate of an ordinary Grammar Se | £1004 15, = £ lov. : | L merely throw out these hints to let the public lees that whatever view we take of the College- | grant question, St. Dyretan’s College is entitled lio a share of Government support, as long ge such | » large proportion of our revenue ie expended an puble education. [f the Government wish be give the bigets of the colony an idea of the poe tion in which they place Catholics, let them withe draw all Government support frow the Princes of | Wales College for the next filteon years. and long ‘before the expiration of that term, they will | realize a better and more correet idea of the syecies of justice tow long dealt out to thei) Catholic ueigbouure. Yours, &c ' SIMPLEX. King’s County, March 2d, 1869. Che Examiner. Charlottetown. March 8, 1869. ~~~ LEGISLATIVE, &c. The Legislature has been called together by appears to be envy, malice, and deceit, and who delights in sowing dieseusions amongst neighbors. This week we haye not ppase et our disposal to review the dishonest articls in the Patriot. If we have nothing else to employ our time ut, we may, next week, expose some of the fallagies and ** tricks "’ of our contem- porary's style of argument. ~ _-+ = GOPLESS SCHOOL. Eyer and anon arises from the Pudriol a cry | of distress, a wail, a shriek as it were, of des- ism; fur it seems that Episcopalians and other Protestants, as well as Roman Catholics, are anxious to secure for their children something better than the godless rydbish styled infidel education provided by dame State, It must be admitted that the fears of Mr. Laird ave well grounded, and that the movement in faver k,piscopalians, Wesleyans and many Presby- terians, think with Catholics that relizjon | tiona should be placed on a perfect equality. No valid reason cap be urged why their de- | pair over the impending doom of State-school- | It is} of Freedom of Education is fast spreading: | a tyrant democracy ; and they should epg, make i: Aheir ambition to approve themselves worthy of sbeir high calling. Many are the fecs phom they are called on to combat ; buy wt the present day democracy, with ity de. grading and soul destroying disregard of individual rights, when opposed to the wil] of brute majorities, is the enemy agairgt whom, above ali others, the soldier of freedom should be most on jig guard, and should ever show himgeif mot vigilant, vellaut and uaeompry. mising. —_—_—_——. > THE EDUCATION QUESTION, Two weeks ago we gave a sketch of the aystew Of Education prevaghng in Knglacd; we will now say something about the 8ysfeny jy Ireland. There remains not s wreck of the educational institutions which existed iw the Enerald Isle previous to the Reformation, |g would be easy to shew that they were similar | to those of England; but they were wholly hou! it would be mands should be refused; what we claim for | ‘uprooted, and exercised no influence on those which arose afterwards. Neither were there, ‘tions for the Catholics; so that the early his. ‘tory of modern education in Ireland relates sclely to the institutions founded for the Es. one portion of the community, we are pre- | t#blished Church. Now there is this peculiar. pared to accord to the other portion, We are sures. Let justice be done to all. Nut only may be his chureh or creed, 10 immunity from send hia children. we demand freedoyn of education ; all taxation, direct or indiregt, for the support of schoole to which he, in the exercise of hie) ee sbsvjute parental authority, does nat see fit to in Ireland never had this; it was always purp. is not the orgau of bishop, priest or minister ; and waile we respect virtue, seal, and sincerity iu clergymen, we beg to inform Mr. Rider E ‘ : Laird that we do not consult them as to what | meet their creator, their endower, and the jr our journal | we shall, or shall not write. We are not de- void of religious principle ; but we are not re- . : : ligious slaves to be ruled, governed, and Queen Elisabeth's reign for the promotion of tyrannigd over by the arbitrary djgga of a) ‘ity in the history of the fistablished Church ia uot in favor of two sejty gf weights and mea-| Ireland, that it mever was, in any senge, the Church of the people ; it has been at all times, do we admit the right of Protestants to de- essentially and purely, a State institution. Tae nowinational schools, but we assert the right) Established Church of England, however much of every individual parent, no matter what wader the control of the State, became the Church of the people, and had « life of iq own, and an action, however limited, inde, pendent of the State. The Established Church ly a creation of the iste,e branch of the It is not 48 9 Protestant or # Catholic thas executive: its members were not the nation ; they were rather the government, or the goy- erning class. Hence al! institutions connected with the Established Church iu Ireland have ¢ | peculiarly governmental character: govern. ruler. ‘Lrinity College, Dublin, and the Dub. lin University, were founded by the State in the State religion under the direet control of His Honor the Administrator of the Govern-| meut for the de spatch of the public business | of the Colony. The Speech with which it was opened is rather a long one, and isin no way 'Covehead Presbytery. The people of this | the State. The endowed schools throughout Ireland were also founded by the governmens religionists, but as parents responsible to G- d, | for the promotion of its views of education Island demand freedom of education, not us| are, Some of jhe measures which it indicites are iaportant enough, aud if lezislated upon honestly, and brought to a successful issuer éauyot fail to be beneficial in their effects upon the future prosperity of the Colony. There jis Reciprocity, than which no question is of | more vital importance to the people of this | Island, and we trust no efforts will be spared ; thei i by the people's representatives to bring it to a| © issue, be | Sorry to learn that the useless practice, which successful The country will not has obtained for the last few years, of calling | out the able-bodied portion of the population from their various employments, under the name of Militia, for # few days drill, is about to be abolished. In this at least, the Govern- ment is displaying some wisdom. Then there is spoken of in the speech the establishment jof a Board of Works; the extension of Sieam Navization; the passiug of a Bill for a third | Judge; and finally the erection of a building H >use and Post Office. The Speech, however, is remarkable for the ab- , , for a Court isence of a single word in reference te the | Education question, This, we take to be a lot the Nigara troutier police are vn Unial belore question in which the people are as deepty itie *. . | : : Buffalo, charged | rerested in, as any to which His Honor the! | not necessary that there should be gny iliusion jmade to any church or denomination, i j maintain that the chiid belongs to the Family Ireland with regard to education, more wide, and to Hig alone, tor the education of their | and religion: the few foundations made by children. Jt ig not Mr. Hewaley, Mr. Coies, dividuals of the governing class, such gm | Mr. Callbeck, and their qssociates in the Gove) Erasmus Smith and Wilson, were by them dig- jernment, that will be oalled to account by the | tinetly handed over to the State religion acd | great Judge for ihe education of our youth ; (to State control. And when, later, the Kil. no, it will be the parents of our youth. We ‘are Street Schools were instituted, they were ‘cannot tell whether our opponents are too recognized as State echools under State regu- | stupid to perceive the difference, or whether | lations. All these CeeuEatanenD tended jo ‘they are tov dishonest to allude to it; buy) Produce in Ireland, especially among the goyz ertain it is thag the Pulriot and its fellows -erning classes, an ides of education totally ‘studivusly keep out of sight the real question | ditterent from that existing in England. Edu- issue, and carefully conceal from their | cation was loeked upon as a duty and a right ‘readers the gruunds upon which the advocates Of the State ; and the government was tacitly ‘of freedom of Education base their claims, | acknowledged to hare @ right to coutrot and The School Question is not a question be- direct it. Fortwo centuries it was held te be ‘tween the Church and the State, but between , #t once the duty and the right of government ‘the Family and the State. The agitation % enforce on the people an education adverse | against State-schoolism or infidel education is to their own wishes, and their own belief, and when at length it was admitted that they were | Communism” mauifest themselves; and the eutitled to retain their own religion, it wes | puint a6 issue is this: To whom dees the edu- ‘still maintained that the State had « rizbt ya | cation of the child belong? To the individu- | control the education which they were te req al, or to the community? To the State or to! ceive, and the dispute was, as to the exteut of the Family? In discussing this question, it ia | this control, and not as to its existence, | i | at but the form ia which *‘ Individualism” and These circumstances have produced an effecy We | on the whole tone of feeling of ail classes ig Ce : leg os Reig : before it belongs te the State; that the claims | spread than a superficial observer would im; of the former are anterjor, and infinitely ‘agine ; and this feeling influences unconscious, | While the increasing business and crime of the | Colony require a third judge aud a larger building for a Court House, that which would tend to repress crime: the moral and relizious | education of the rising generation, is stranzel y | Can it be a fgat that) ecutive? If so, it speaks badly for the ree} j | putation of the Hon. Mr. Hensley. We gave | | Government, that ample justice, in the matter | of Education, would be done to the men to! It is | amusing to hear Kuder Laird talk of the effici- | jency of the schools now in operation under the present system, and his attempts to compare them with the institutions of learning establish ed by his Lordyjip the Bishop. No one but » knave would attempt to make the comparison. Why, in the rising town of Summerside, whers something like efficiency would be expected in the schools in operation there, we have been informed that the Gram- mar School in that place is a perfect disgrace $9 the gpommunity. The students attending it ere in w blweful state of ignorance of evers- | thing which should be taught in a Grammar School; and even in the eommon rudiments of an English Educajion they are miserably deficient. According to Elder Leird’s logue. all the free echoule in the Culony are models of perfection. Will he go and examine the Grammar School at Summerside and report impartigliy of the state in which he fads it? If so, we promis: him that hie report wiil have the effect of opening the eyes of « soodly number of his readers; and that he will, ip the future, write fewer blatant articieson the whom he owes his present position. our roads. It «also high time that something | worth speaking of should be done towards | the improvement of St. Peter's, Souris and Murray Harbors, and making them more safe | aad convenisut for steamers to enter, No doubt all these subjects will receive due | consideration, but there is One subject among | others, which, for the credit of all classes, should be met and treated in a more mauly | Marine Affairs, asked the House to pass ag act and enlightened spiritthan heretofore—I mean | the ** Boy ’’ has never attempted to disprove ot indemnity for the Navy, for its acts during the | the eudjgeed of Bishop Mclotyre’s memorial te the | the In} Lieutenant Governor in Council last year. this petition Dr. Melutyre very modestly asked | | lor Government assistance, (without naming any | columns of filth exhumed from the defunct sum) fer St. Dunstan's College and two or three | other sehouls, then im actual and successful | operation, The Government, alter telling His Lordehip what a good fell whe waa, and thank. | ing him for all the good he wag dung, politely | ‘teld him that they were net in a position te en- | | tertain the prayer of tie petition. When the eub-| reward in the shape of sume miserable piek-| jret was incidentally spoken of vn the floor of the | space, andl dy wot know wheiher be bas been eiuce heard of perfeptiqn of our model free schoo! system. The ** Progress Boy,” who is opposed to the Bishop's Schools, gave the Summerside Seminary a puff lately, He was promptly met by # correspondent, who exposed the falsenees of bis notice of the School in ques- tion, and the ignorance of the teacher; and disclosures then made public. But the * Boy "’ had an axeto grind. For publishing Tretesiant—filth which helped, in a great meagure to defeat the Hon. J. C. Pope at the recent partial election—and for pudins the rotten schvol system, he hag obta:ned his ings thrown him by the Government, and to. superior to avy which the latter Gan pretend to show; that to the parent, and to him alane, belongs the right to determine how, by whom, and with whom, bis child shall be educated ; and that until,in due process of law, aud by the proved abandoument or dereligtion of his duties rent’s rights, no earthly power can claim di- rectly or indirectly to interfere with him in the discharge of his pareutal obligations. Every should clothe, feed, educate and house them, jand see that their bowels are kept in order; and no man should be compelled to do these things for another man’s childrea. It, however, the Catholic parent sees fit to eufrust the education of bis child to the Ca tholie Uhyrch, or if the Anglican parent de- sires that his child should be educated by the Episcopal Church, these are matters with which no ong has the right to interfere. In Opposing State-schovliam, our object is simply to reseue the child from the giasp of the State; and as ayainst “ Jack-ju-vffice,” we coutent ourselves with asserting the absolute authority of the parent which admits of no, control, or interference on the part ot any human authority. To the judividual parent aud not to the parents of the community jn | ‘for Ireland: they are firmly convinced that their collective capacity, does it appertain of right to determine everything connected with the education, with the moral, intellectual and physical training of the child. No man with a spark of dignity in his bosom, or the sligzht- est consciousness of the awful responsibilities of a father, would condescead to aiiow himself j | ly many persons in that country when discus sing the subject. These ideas have also been | fostered by che fact that, from the destruction of all ancient institutions and the poverty of the people, the Miate has been called en ta contribute, more largely than iu England, | funds for educational purposes, and has come to be co.usidered to have more right to dictate the system of education A small but power, ful section of leading men have fully embraced the principles of some doctrinaires, that educa- tion is a department of the State, and hava aealously propogated the doctrine; and the idea hag naturally been adoped by statesmen, always ready to enlarge the bounds of their. own authority, until we constantly hear die cussed the question, ** What system of educa- tion is the fitting one to be provided for the people of Treland?’’ Not * what education do the people of Ireland choose tc have?" This was strikingly illustrated by Lord Palmer- ston’s answer to the deputation which waite} en him some years ago to ask for a Charter. for the Catholic Univerity, that is, not for any assistance, but merely for the recognition by the State of the edycation provided by Catho- lics for themselveg. His Lordship answered : Her Majesty's Ministers have made up their minds as to the nature of the education suitable the best system of education for that country is a mixed system "’ Now this idea of the State ordaining she education of the nation is peculiarly inappli- cable to trelaud. It can be rational only on the supposition that the State is the very to be dictated to in such matters by majorities, Their decisjon should, no doubt, be submitted to as # Ccynvenient, though purely arbitrary, arrangement in matters affecting merely the political status of the citizen. But the rights of the parent over his child do not accrue from ‘nation itself; and that consequently its deerees “mre the expression of the aggregate free will of the people themselves; but whilst this can ‘aever be fully the case in @ nation of mixed Opinions and religions, it is peculiarly untrue of ‘Ireland. There the people are Catholic, the that status, and are not dependent upon iti | sovernment which represents the State is Pro- they are not the consequences of any political testant: hence for the government to settle or municipal arrangemeut, but are held direct | their education for the people of Ireland is an from God himgelf. They are sacred and in- | ghsolute tyranny, and the very destruction af violable, even as are the rights of the Creator | seif-soverament and individual freedom. over His creatures, and must not, therefure, be | But though the boding idea of education in treated as the subjects of political of muni Ireland was State control, as that in Enyland cipal enactments. No law ef man couferped | was free individual action, freedom eae them ; no law of men saould be permitted, in | —— ee eee of a : . , . ° | . v niuries any manner, to interfere with them, to modify advocates and martyrs of free education; for or abrogate them. Btate Education was to them proseiytiem and : persecution ; and as the Government beeame We repudiate, as thoroughly as does the | more intimately amalgamated with thet of Pateiot, that a State constituted as is ours, and | Eogland, the theories of personal freedom professieg that betwixt it and the Church there | a rag a a their eye rw jin Ireland. And whilst even those whe claimed freedom of education eannot quite ingof Parliament. An honorable man would nection, is bound, or hag the right to supports shake off the idea of a right in the state to Tite same question was gggin brovght before scorn to put himself in opposition to the Schools or Colleges with the object of therein | control it, even the most zealous advocates of the public in the early part of this winter, and a) certain class of the community were ijgamediately jupinarms. The Covebead Presbyfery said that SMe men who appear not tu have tha faintest | to eucourage a Catholic College was Lo engoyrage error and superstition and should, thetefore be kept down. The Patriot enlightened the public. by telling them that Catholic children were) who edit the Patriot. Hon Mr. Rose left this city last might for | taught, ae an essential part of their education, to | Wasigagton tu attend a meeting. as British Coay. curse Protestants aud that Protestants should not | ; : ’ , ' ’ wissiones gu the bouudary question between the | be allowed to live. Others maintained that to 18 Ue dist.ovorabie activa at which they would the support of schools to which they de not huge incambys—the Irish Church Establish- eacourage denowinatjongl schools would be des- trueti f the prace and h of the country . . . ener ns a yoga as Bish. 4 with atiompting to set the different religious pregeated to them our opponents shrinis from Bishop on his school policy, but th re ufe| must class the ‘‘ Progress Boy '’ and the tribe | Such characters are | the J udas’s of the human family, and there | stop The editor of the Putriet, not content. more or less ready, the word of command 4éliu ctow aid the Ward Brothere to compete and some yf hig clergy that were agitating this denominations by the ears, must also, in his. ig bow cumly given. It way be given even by 4! the Lachine Regatta next summer. mistake, bat, once given, aaupot recalled | Phe Authoritiey ane getieely preparing for the Gurope & put gate tur o day Unleas there bo a, Vit! of Buckiry and Deyle tu Mareb In con. common desesmination not e eo to wer,e 2 sequence of the jate coy munication of Whelan, | & conecqueps Telotiniiatjon to regard ap Loe | : ; enemies of Europe those who wou.d fugge & eT gong hey FH] oe war — her. Without this security she i¢@t/ The Stone cutters are on a strike in Montreal. war already in effect, ang the agiual out>reuk | ‘There wana lvely Gime in the Qusbec Assem- | is voly @ question of time. bly yesterday, va the second readiug of the Bill | likely to | question; aod, theretore, without ny further ; arguwent. they should be frowned down by an en- lightened public, They further add that the peo issue on Thureday last, try his hand at ex: citihg discord aad suspicions between the. ple—even the Cathelie ivity—it leit co theuselves, Lig and Seotey, but this contemptible. -infortmat on of a wew and impertaut pature bas are pericetly satistied gjih the working of the | J am acquainted with | educational department. seme of the Catholic laity of this section, and | have yet to learn that they are ao perfectly satis fied with the present state of things But with all the difficulties with which the question is beset, trick,’’ hike any others which he bus at-. tempted, will vnly recoil on his own head. | Honees people of all denominatjons will and learn to detest a man whose stock in trade | ERE tem sae os | government educatiou proclaim their desire to ineulcating the peculiar tenets ot any relizious allow of freedom, Gradually the antagonism denomination. If we ask tor justice for Roman begween the gwo principles is making itself but because they have inalicuabje righis os | sve ee ot otucation the eters one . a . ce on, and it is more t pro et the last parents, which the State is bound io respect, sumehet of the tyranny of state echoolism in and they should not he compelled to pay for [reland will tumble to the ground with thas | ideo of what honor is, and amuny puch we Catholics, it is not because they are Catholics, felt; the two systems are now a3 issue; in The issue thus oe already been shaken to the ye | We have already shown the nature of each meeting; they cannot answer our arguments, ‘division of education in Kngland, how far it s and they coutent themselves with misrepresent- voluntary, and how far the government inter- ing us, \feres, We — now examine, in # — . : = . manner, each brangh of education in ireland. Yet the friends of religious education should not First, of primary education. The cessation of lose courage, They form the vanguard here as the penal laws and the Vatholics—and they everywhere of the noble army of soldiers enlisted , coon Pe the people of in oe = in the cause of ejvil and religious Gecdomend! most without pogr schools, and unable to : battl : rovide them. A wise government coulg not fighting the of personal liberty acainst | ‘tate’ to aid a poopie to provide thet iu- see fit to send their children. T he Cheapest and Nicest Bonnets are bought at Farconer & Patrick's, South Side Queen Square, as FY ed vaca? aaa a ¥.