the Fenian. * oppressor and murderer’ of his brethren, the «* fell enemy of his faith."’ No doubt! this is exaggerated langoage, if not, indeed, untrue, bat it expresses a genuine feeling, | aod the question is how has this feeling ort- We cannot get over the difficulty ifs an ubaccoUnl- | abie being. general way, he dues not reason so logically as his Saxon bro ther. Perhaps he is impetuous and anrea soning, hot headed and warm hearted, faithful to the death where his affections are engaged ; be the ohjects ever se abserd or so Jittle worthy of his regard. Butof his abil ties to feel, think, rnd talk there cannot bea question, and it is not surprising that his faculties have been turned into such a current, and have taken such a course as we see de- veloped in the designs of the Fenian brotherhood. - We have viewed this qaestion solely in its moral aspect, and in no other is It worthy to be regarded. Those who know the prepara- tions whica are necestary for an invasion, and bave any idea of the power of this country for repelling one, can afford to smile at the pretentions of the Brotherhood, but they cannot afford to neglect that very potent lesson which their hatred teaches us Ae was well said by Mr. Cobden at Rochdale on Tuesday night,injustice, whether national or individual, reevils on the bead of the per- tator. The Arab proverb says that curses ike chickens, always come home to roost ; and injustice possesses the same character- istic. In may not be our immediate conduct which has occasioned the Irish exodus, but we are reaping the mischiels of it. We may have been destrous of doing the fullest justice to Ireland; but our fathers, as we cannot deny, did her a deep injustice; and the burden falls on our shoulders Our fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge. The long night ol Ireland's mourning may have passed away, but ber retief eame from America more than from England, and it is not surprising that the Femans torn to her with a kindly feeling, and turn from us in bitter loathing. The ginated r ot saying that the Irishman Perhaps, in @ attributable connection with its intriusically | divine and regenerating priiciples, Had either the reckless and erafty politicians, | or some of their still more inconsiderate supporters whe have now for some years past made such a pompous use of the name of this Hely Volusae, in order te compass their own seltish and secular ends, been truly influenced in their own spirits by | trians, rr He sees in England only the) within its blessed covers, or any, even the slightest | the latter, while the Emperor of the Freneh guards the former from bis friend and ally, in Whose interest he fought aud defeated the Aus- We behold the descendents of the onee famous Greeks offering the throne of their coun- jy to any foreigner who woutd accept it, and | substituting, after the uneasy Crown had been * | . » . . o its humbleand tranquilizing philosophy, they never | refused by an English bey, a Danish child for the in the first place would have daved to reduce it te | the low level which as we have already read, by making ita matter of ordinary civil Legislation, they have new most assuredly done. This is, therefore, one decided action in their past conduet | for which we unhesitatingly tind fault with thei We maintain, on principle, that they erred ex ceedingly in thus taking the initiative in reduemg thir matter toa common par with all other simply local questions of a purely civil or legislative jeharacter. In taking this step, we charge thew | with the entire respeusibility of imangurating in ‘this country a fundamental impropriety which | should never under any consideration have been permitted to vecur in the universal progress ol our political experience. They have thus opened a dewr which they may uever find themselves competent again te shut, and whatever may be the future complications which this same religious squabble may yet assume in this very Islaud, we ask them now te bear in mind the fact that they were the first to drag it officially as a corporate movement into the common list with all our other ordinary affairs of a were current or commercial unpertance. The Bible, we determinately per- sist, should never have been thus treated. [t has already God's own authority as its infinitely superhuman certificate. Man ean have no con- ceivable liberty to legislate on the word of his Maker. avow wy belie that the man who can deliberately conenr in subjecting the Bible in any sense o1 case whatever to the base criterion of such legis- | lation, can have but precious little of anything even approaching a proper reverence in his own | mind tot either the bovk itself, in the first place, or even in the second, for the great Being Himself, | whom he pretends te aceredit with its Authorship. | Phere is something, at all events, every ope must feel, both naturally aod exceedingly repuguant | iu the concrete idew the vi. we are The young king Edward informed, felt horror stricked when requested to make use of the Bible as a) temporary pedestal fer what was in itself a were!y | uidiilereut purpose. Lut these meu have net Aud | care vot whe he is, but L houesily | question of race ethnol igieally is no longer scrupled to make it a footstool—a stepping stege of any value. ane mixed with the Anglo-Saxon. Her an- cient language is almost forgotten. Still there The Celtic blood of Lreland is) to the attainment of purely secular, if not in fact, | in some cases wholly selfish and sensual objecs. Lhey have dragged it through the mire of petty stupid Bavarian. Turning te unhappy Poland, we witness a state of things which fairly transfers the idea of “The sLooptest picture in the Book of Time” from the Poland of whieh Campbell wrote to the Poland of to-day. The history of that laud of fair woinen and brave wen” has emphatically been written in blood; and the atrocities uow being inflicted on ils people cause the moral as- peets of the Reign of ‘Terror in France to “ pale their ineffectual fires.”’ France suffered all the evils of the reaction of a loug misgoverned people, rising against a contiimuance of oppression, which had necessarily prepared the materials and laid the train ready tor the explosion when the fatal moment should arrive. Aud if the record of the events of those days causes the men of this gene- ration to blush for human nature, we must recol- lect that the tyrants and victims were alike French, and that the revolutionary party were taking vengeance for wrongs believed to have been caused by their opponents; and a bloody | revenge they did take— ty When France get drunk with blood to vomit crime. But Poland groans under the iron heel of an alien | despot. No Poles complain of, or fight against theis fellow countrymen They are all —- men, wowen and children — united in their hatred ot | the Barbarian and the hordes which he sends to desolate their country — to hang, and shoot, and scourge, aud banish, without trial or investiga- tion, the aged, the infirm, the watrons and the maidens, whose crime is, that they, or some of | their relatives, may bave dared to love their The perpetrators of these outrages | have not to plead in extenuation the mutual country. remains the influence of country and name, | pelilies, aud exposed it in the open glare of tae | acerbities which precede and cause one portion and it i worth the attention ot cur states- Werld’s face to all the degradation of local human | of a people to take up arms against another, for men to determine if anything reasonable can be done to satisfy the clanos of both. Some one has said that the love of a dog is worth having, still more is the love of a peojzle worth acquiring. Lt is neither to our honor legislation By the tenor of these remarks it will at once be seen that ou this distinctive subject three of my inherent premises are, that the essential inquiry at stake is veither—whether the Bible in | itself be really a good book—whether as such it in every uatieonal characteristic Poland is totally | different trom Russia. While yet the Tartar “hordes were shifting their tents to new pastures tor their flecks, Poland had s history of her own, nor our benefit that people leave our shores) may be properly used in our Public Institutions of | aad her sons stood high in the civilization of by- with hatred to us in their hearts. to win their sympathy and regard. the Fenian Brotherhood, it is as well they form of common lecal legislative investigation. If we! Education—er, whether even its use in such a| gone centuries. — After the decision of Austria, cannot keep them with us, let us at least learn capacity ought to have been permitted in this or | As tor any other country to have assumed the irreverent | France and Britain, not to intertere by material | aid, the viet of Russian brutality must endure should know there is nu terror for us in their 0" cach ot these three separate points I am, tully | its sufferings as best it may, until it shall please threats. {It is the sense of wrong under whieh they labor that we wouid fain alleviate, and every right-minded Englishman will coin- cide with us. We have no wish to be charg- ed with injustice by the huml.est of our countrymen. Probably we shail not see the | satistied in my own mind, and in reference to the last, as well as either of the others, I bold the positive ground, that the entire controversy from beginning to end is one which should never have been introduced inte our public legislative economy at all. bkach of these specific premises con- sequently | mean fairly to establish in the course But should J subsidence of the Fenian excitement for a/ of my progressive predelictions. generation or two, but we rely on the fair thus postiively succeed in making each of these in air of the American prairies to blow it away, | due order appear conclusively substantiable by as we rely upon the justice of the British adequate elucidation, it may here be anticipatively people te ‘regenerate Ireland with no other demanded by some—who the parties were whe ' wd first brought the question on the carpet of public noplements than wise laws an rotherly | discussion in the precise form thus deprecated / treatment. I have already specitied who were the fipst to | authority itselt. ‘Chey were in this country every | }man knews, none other than our present Tory | rulers. Ou this head, consequently, there dan be CORRESPONDENCE, UR tame FUBLIC. (No. 4.) * Justum ac tenaceam proponti viram, Non civiom ardor pruva jJabentiam, Nou valtas jnstantis tvrannii Monte quatit solida.’—Honar. Ma. Eprror: take any positive deliberative action upon ic as a! | constituent civil Government, legally convened, | | for the legitimate purposes of ordinary legislative duty in the land. ‘This, we aver, is nothing wore , | nor less than absolutely in itself the plain, bonest, | unalterable fact. Stull, L aw aware that the apo- | jlagists for Tory institutions throughout the | men, ander any circumstances, could perhaps) by endeavouring to throw the onus of it on other | select a better foundation on which to erect any | shoulders than their own. They still point back | favourite superstructure. The foviish usually to Bishop McDouald’s celebrated letter, as the | build apen the sand. Aod what renders the vast) primary, determinate, and instigative cause of the | balk of mortals se open to the accusation et the | whole course of procedure, and in fact, as the | worst of follies, is the mournful tact that they are | efficient solution of the entire difficulty. Now, I! ever tow prove to rear their various edifices,| have already distinctly enunciated the necessary | whether either ef a spiritual, moral or secial truth which lies fairly at the very threshold of all | character, on this worse than useless basis, m-| practical political economy itself, that no Govern. | stead ef on that indistructible rock of ages—the |) ment can in any country under the sun, ever be | truch of God itecif And iis, we lear, nvtwith-| held ercusable for taking am unconstitutional, or | standing all that has hitherto been writteu and said | i, auy respect an intrinsically wrong step, in their | on the subject, will be found to be the real choice | overt management of the common publie interests, | whiel: has alse bees made by our existing Tory | on the ground of any evidence whatever, which | consectation m this country. We de deeply re-) can or may be derived from any merely external gret, for their own eredit, that instead of having | souree—or outside pressure which may inany Way huomeligated the Bible in any « wmmensurate res-) be brought to bear upon it by the teuiporary cir | pect as av iotegral element of their public politi-| cumstauses or conduct of any separate class or | cal platierm, they have only been employing it all) section of the people. Much less then can they | the while as a grand subterfuge or screen to hide | hope for justification in any overt act to which from close inspection the coustitational rettenness | they admit theanselves to have been instigated, if | the King of Kings to loosen the grasp of the | spoiler from its throat, and restore its sorely | vexed people to the right of being considered as j human beings, and of being treated as such.— | The old adage that charity begins at home has | received the sarcastic addition that it also fre- quently ends there; and the conduct of the Auto- lerat, who, by one stroke of his pen, manumitted multitudes, innocent ef all complicity in, or even knowledge of the death of Mr. Richardson, whose fate has been minutely described in nearly all the papers; and it certaiuly seems the mere wanton- ness of superior Power to exact so terrible an atonement. “Tis beautiful to have agiant’s strength— "Lis tyrannous to ase it us a giant.” In happy contrast to those disturbed States, it is pleasing to contemplate the recuperative ener- gies put forth by British India in the comparatively short period which has elapsed since her cities and villages were reeking with the blood of the great Mutiny. Her tinaneial progress has displayed an elasticity which reflects the highest credit on the statesmen Who propounded the principles of the system, and have carried them into successful practice.—While the tillers of the soil are beeom- ing sensible of the benefits accruing to their class from the Government policy on the land question —(for that is the question in India, a8 in some other places less known to fame)—the landlords are contented, and the revenues are augmented,— The opening of hundreds of miles of railway, and the establishment of light draught steamers have co-operated with the stoppage of the supply of Cotton from the States te give an impetus to the growth of Cotton and production of Wool, which is already changing the aspect of every depart- ment of Lidian business. Within two or three years the supply of wool brought down from the Hill Country has increased from 2000 te 10,000 eamel loads, and this increase is owing to the extension of the Railway Systew into the interior ; aud no one doubts that the supply will increase in a steadily progressive ratio; and the demand for the article has been enhanced by the absorb- tion of nearly all the cotton of native growth for the requirements of English manufacturers, This reminds us that iu virtue of our editorial ubiquity, we ean outstrip Ariel, and while the tricksy sprite required forty minutes in which to put a girdle round the world, we can be in Europe He takes no interest in the welfare of the people. He makes no exertions tu improve their condition. In host cases he cordially hates and heartily despises them. He bears no considerable share of the public burdens. “He reaps where be has not sown, and gathers where he has not strewn.” Though be has fuiled to fulfill the conditions by which he holds his lands, and has been treated with the utmost leniency by the Linperal Government, yet he is generally an exacting creditor, demanding the uttermost farthing froin the toil-worn tenant. As he possesses power, respectability, wealth, aud intelligence, he has been able to furman important party in the Colony, This party exercises great influence over our local affairs. Whenever it cannot accomplish its ends here, such is its influ- ence in Downing Street that it commouly suc- ceeds in stifling any measure which is considered prejudicial to its interests. The people, on the other hand, feel indignant at the manner in which they have been treated by the Home Government. They cannot see why this little Island bas been made a theatre for a puny landed aristocracy in which to play its fantasti: tricks. ‘They do nut see what sins they or their forefathers have committed that the curse of serfdom should be laid on them, and entailed on their posterity. They feel that the man who pocket the rent. | has spent the vigour of his life in felling the forest, and in clearing the land, has the best right te the svil. ‘They do not see why the wistake, perhaps uniatentioually or heedlessly made in the first in- stance, should be so obstinately and unjustly persisted in. They cannot see why they are obliged ty bear their full share of the public burdens, while the proprietors hardly touch them with one of their fingers. They look upon themselves as forced to toil and sweat for those whe do nothing for them, and care nothing for them. The question between landlord and tenant has been the questwn of this Island. ‘The landlords, in ne tine. — The marriage ef the Prince ot Wales is an event which many persons may think should not be passed over in silence, in a review of the prominent occurrences of the year; and if any proof were wanting to show the firm hold that the throne and Royal Family have on the hearts of the British people, it would be found in the enthusiastic loyalty with which the arrival of the Bride elect and her union with the Prince was so universally hailed. ‘The misery attendant upon the Cotton Famine, 80 nobly and patiently borne by the operatives in the maaufacturing districts, and so liberally re- lieved by all classes of Her Majesty's subjects, is, we are happy to find, rapidly subsiding; and the wealthy and intelligent, have been united — the people, discontented but poor and intelligent, have been disunited. The policy of the landlord party has been to keep power out of the hands ot the people as loug as possible, and when this could no lounger be done, sv to divide them that the power possessed by them should become in- operative. The policy of the people should have been to have remained firm and united, and, by continual agitationeaud uufliuching assertion ot their rights, to have wrested from the proprietors the power that they had so unjustly obtained, and so unrighteously exercised. The tenantry have not coustantly pursued this line of policy, and consequently have been defeated by their more prudent and sagacious opponents. The in- supply of their staple, is giving steadily increasing employment to the industrious millions who depended upen it for their daily bread.—The supply of Cotton coming trom sources but recently, and, as yet, very partially developed, will, in all probability, exereise a most important | influence on the fatdre condition of the world. twenty millions of Russian serts, and immediately ' Although India aod other new fields of supply | afterwards transferred their shackles to the ch i- | would leave the planter of the Southera States a | valrous Poles — affords a melancholy verification | tolerably wide margiu in his fever, in the items - > | submit it to the humiliating ordeal of mere human | of the saying. of freight aud insurance in the English market, Leaving this sad theme, we find all Germany | yet there is no doubt that the new Cotton fields disturbed. The more important States of the | be reow for argument. They were the first to | Germanic Confederation, as well asthe enenewetal ‘ i will have a material influence on British exporta- tiou of the manufactured goods, as it will induce petty Principalities—* Tray, Blanche, and Sweet-| the establishmeut of factories in the places of heart, little dogs and all’’—are growling and, production. snarling in most admired discord. despair of Constitutioual Goverument, so long asj|of successes and deteats, and a constanily Than the Bible, considered in itself, no party of| Provinee are in the habit of justifying this fact, | he shall vccupy the throne of his ancestors; and! ree hot content with openly over-riding his obligations to his people, he has suggested to the latter the idea that a successor in every way acceptable is to be found in the person of the heir apparent— the husband of the Princess Royal of England. The Prince, influenced doubtlessly by his ex- perience of British institutions, bas openly expressed his disapproval of the conduct of his father’s Government. ‘This disapprobation was forced from him by the course adopted by the King towards him, and although communicated with moderation and filial respect, has, as might be expected, offended the modern asserter of “ The right divine of Kings to govern wrong.” We consider that a dignified declaration that | The King of | | Prussia seems bent upon driving his enn to | its slow length along with a Wearisome alteruation | render them blind to every evil but the imaginary favorable terus to the people when they find that | given by strangers whe took the moucy from the vue—conjured up for the accasion—of Catholic | the possession of the lands is the surest passport) Colouy. Nay more, they were given by itinerant Having no political character on | te secial position end political power? Let the vagabouds from the Federal States—people whew which to base their claims for support and confi- | people rest assured that so long as they thus pet) tie Monitor represents as being the worst enemics | American Colonies.—It is sad to think that pro- The desolating Civil War in the States drags | urring change of commanding officers. In faet, the only uuvarying characteristic of the stinet or the intelligence of the proprietors has prompted them unswervingly to pursue the course best calculated to obtain their ends. As long as opposition was possible, they opposed the acqui- sition of power by the mass of the people. When the people's voice, in spite of their must strenuous efforts to prevent it, made itself heard in the Go- vernment of the Colony, they devoted all thein energies to rendering the popular influence inethi cient, by creating divisions among the people. In this they have succeeded. At a time when the principles of toleration were waiversally sacknow- ledged, and in a country where danger to the re- ligious liberties of the people was the last thing to be dreaded, they so Worked upon the prejudices and fears of a large portion of the tenantry as to Aseendaney. — one or two sensation clergymen — and a number of sinalianinded people, whose vanity is gratified, and whose self-importanee is inereased, by being are, perhaps, a degree or two more insignificant than themselves. Who bave been the losers? We answer, every tenant and every tax-payer on the Island. All those who have been deluded into placing coutidence in that gigantic humbug, the Land Commission — all those who, in con- sequence of the delusive hopes held out by upprin- cipled politicians, have suffered the pangs of that hope deferred which maketh the heart sick—those broken spirited tenants who were encouraged to look upon the Award as the means of their de- liverance from that dreadful incubus — Back Rent—all these who bave been distrained upon by Proprietors, who have made the alleged favor- able terms of the Award a pretext for increased severity; all those whe have te vay from their hard-won earnings the expenses of the aforesaid Humbug, and those of a still greater Mumbug— the Delegation: all those whe, in order to educate their children, are ubliged to pay more than four times their former school tax, or suffer them to grow up uneducated: every poor mau who has te pay a greatly enhanced price for molasses, which, when the season of wilk is passed, is to bim and his children a necessary of existence. These have been some of the losers. During the last five years the public burdens have been steadily augmented, while the public debt has increased to an alarming degree. The whole, or nearly the whole legislation tor that period has been a com- plete make-believe—a desperate attempt to keep up appearances. Nor could anything better be expected. With Messrs. Yeo, Pope, Palmer & Co. in the Government, it would be tolly for the tevantry to expect that any measure really fayour- able to them could be honestly supported and successfully carried. These men bave interests directly opposite to those of the tenantry, but itis requiring too much of frail haman nature te expect that they would sacrifice those interests for their geod, But this is not the worst—it is only natural tw conclude that they would use the power en- trusted to them to further their own interests, and to establish more firmly Proprietary rule in the Colony. This they have, without doubt, attempt- ed to do. Whether they have succeeded or not, time alone will show. It cannot be denied that the people of this Is- land are imbued with a hearty hatred of the laud- lord system. Any man whe has lived a year in the country will be convinced of this. But they have certainly taken avery singular way of ex- pressing that hatred. They have placed in situ- ations vf power and trust those men who are the hfe and and soul of the Proprietary party. They have surrounded the Governor by a set of men who possess no feelings in common with the op- pressed tenantry—men who have been tor years their enemies and oppressors. These, doubtless, have made such representations of the views and feelings of the tenantry as suited their ows pur- poses. They have put it in the power of those who have an interest in keeping them in subjectiou to stifle any measure that may be proposed for the amelioration of their condition. Would astranger believe that a large majority of the people of tiis Island were the openly declared enemies of the upon Proprietors and their agents? How can Proprietors be ex pected to part with their lands on struggle hitherto hath been in the amount of denee, they professed instead an ardext zeal for) Proprietors and their creatures, so long will they i j carnage and ever widening gulf of mutual ante gonism beiween the parties. —The seizure of the) Steamer Chesapeake, of which we have recently given an account, indicates a new line of action struck out by the Confederates, which, if carried on as successfully in tuture attempts, will serious!) affect the Northern coasting trade and that be- tween the Eastern States and the British ductive industry must continue checked, and Europe stand idly looking on, while the mutual butebery is so long protracted, and no sign of its cessation is yet visible. The Union of the Lower Colonies, of which so! of that entire civil fabric which they claim: as the | especial result of their peculiar principles, and of their ewn combined handiwork. | his sentiments were in accordance with those of that act should be in itself impolitic by the insu- aE the Constitutional Opposition in the Prussian lated conduct of a simple individual, or even by the j much has been spoken and written, will probably | rotestantism, and an undying hatred of the Rowan Catholic religion They pretended te en- tertain the most lively fears lest the liberties of Protestants would, in some mysterious manner, be spirited from them by the magical arts of the “priests of Rome.” By dark insinuations and well situulated alarm, they excited the fears of that large pertion of the tenantry who, from childhood, have formed the most distorted notions of the nature of the Catholic Church, of the character of her priesthood, and of the principles of those who profess to be guided by her teach- ings. While these appeals were addressed to the fears of Protestants, a series of wanton attacks on the Catholic religion were made by several | | be forced to groan beneath the iron yoke of Pro- prietary boudage. Whev a man is suffering from disease he uses every means that science aud shill can suggest to drive it out of his system. No sacrifice is con- sidered tow great if making it will ensure his recovery. He would be pronounced a madman and a suicide who would deliberately use sueh weans as tended to increase his sufferings and ag- gravate his disease. Such a man would deserve aeither compassion por assistance. Landlurdism is the disease of our body politic. Of late, instead of wisely endeavouring, at all risks, to eradicate it, we have used those weans best caleulated to render it more painful and wore dangerous. It, instead of elevating landlords, landlords’ agents, called “Grand” and “ Worthy” by those who | Proprietary syetem when he saw that the offices: and honours in the gift of the people were bestowed | shall ret and perish in the sun. Pures of might end as well to let them Teach their full growth, as to pluck up one new and then, But it is urged in favor ot the latter course that if the noxivus crop be allowed to vegetate undisturbed they may wholly prison the air with their i. wholesome exhalations. We must admit that ths seeds ef intolerance are yielding to the sowers fully ten-fuld in this Colony. Recently, amidst the bitter breezes, and the biting frosts of d Deecmber, a plant has blossomed forth in the but house of the Monitor. As this plant is remarkable for its astonishing proportions, we Propose te de. scribe it for the instruction of our readers, and ty try our pruning hook upon it for our own amen. went. Dropping metaphor, we may vay thet gy article has appeared in our focal papers for a long time which appears to us to be so intolerant ang unaccountable as the Editorial article ip the Monitor in reference to the Covecert ip aid of the School recently established in the Western part of the city. In the heat of coutroversies writers often say hard things, and the writers in the Monuor often excuse themselves by alleging that many of their bitter articles af@ in retaliation fey attacks made upon the vuluerable parts of sume wember of the Moniturial ¢orps. But this recent display of “all uncharitableness” yo, wholly unprovoked. During the last six morihs we have vet seen the na me of the versatile wenn, who, by the way, is vow @ ornaiwent of the higtty useful aod beuerable pedagugical coupled with the name of the pubilsher of the Meador. Various reasons have been assigned fur the bad tewper of the artiele. Bile os said to be the basis of much bittermesset spirit. But it isprobable that many of poor J.B. C's angry outpourings are not 80 much the result ot overflowings of the yellow fluid a8 they ave of emptiness of the stommel We thought that the oppositwn given te the Concert by Mr. Cooper and Mr. Laird might be caused by these gentlemen having av love for the Onavimeus rule in reference to the adiiration of enligtened mankind for music, history points ong a lew great men who could never relish the be loved wf Apollo. Laird aud Cooper way be mem of this stamp, and their names may be enraiea amougst the other great meu—Voltaire, Dy, Chalmers, Horace Walpole, aud Dr. Johnson, whe had no music in their souls. We all know the opinion that the great delineator of humway nature gives of the man in whose soul there is no music; and viewing the “ treasons, stratagesus and spoils’’ that have marked the politica! career of the Lairds and the Coopers, we are iuelined to believe that the gentle bard of Avon must have seen these characters with his “eye in a fine frenzy rolling.” Having said 80 mach concerning the canses of the discordant notes of the Monitor about the Concert, we must briefly refer to them. it would be easy for us to take the article of the Monitor to pieces, aud expose it tw the laughter and scorn of our readers. But we prefer to reason with the Government semi-vficial organ, and shew the weakness aud absurdity of his conduct. He says he “ madvertently gave insertion to a vetice of a Concert in aid of the tuuds of St. Joseph's School,” and bo withdrew ii tor reasous to which we will refer. Now, sumetime sites the Monitor had no scruples in publishing and puffing the vulgar Concerts of * Wood's Minstrels.’ If we mistake not, these Concerts were patronized by His Eacellency the Lieut.Goveruer. They were ot the British empire. Yet the semi-official Gu vernment organ lavished praise upou them, whilst it has all mauner of evil to say about a Coucert given by uatives and Mritish subjects, residing ia) the Colony, but if the proceeds of the Ooncert were to go inte the private pockets of those whe gave it, the Monitor would bot refuse to pablina the advertisement. Yet, because they charitably. give their time and musical talents ter the wi port of a school te educate the children of the” poor, the Moniter does all % can (which, thank” Heaven, is pot much,) te render it a failure. Now, it the Monitor deems it wroug to provide funds te educate the pour, to be commsivut i. must condemn any effort te provide them with, food and clothing. Se the doctrines of our Ge- vernment officials would allow them to see ther religious opponents perish with cold and hunger; and before God and their tellow men they aught divine art of uusie. Contrary to the aban ¢ be considered wurderers. But we hope they will shrink with horror from the consequences to which their own unebristian theories would lead . : i - : 4 ps . ‘ > ‘ ‘s } . be 7 ’ " * We do indeed | whole minority of the population. whe may atthe | Legislature was due to the heir of the throue as | 24°!" unde-go discussion in the respective Legis- | napunenn of Che Comnerentio’ Wf) party, lay and feel sorry to have to record it as our decided im- pression that the day is net far distant which | mast reveal the fact, that whether intentionally | or net, they have at any rate substantially, ouly as yet, made that use of it which General Taylor | time compose their own well understood political | +} rai . ; opponents. Here, indeed, we might well stop any |much as to a reversiouer to guard against the further argumentation in support of this minor | ant wasting the estate; and it may be, that population. The elementary truth of our position | out of respect for the character and feelings of the is quife tow transparent either to require OF | son, the sturdy Prussians may have decided to was once said to have wade in Mexico, when at) deserve any particular illustration. Those apolo- | a dead stand for any other material—profaucly | gists tor the conduct of oar Tory administration, |“"dure longer thau they otherwise would have seized it as wadding for their political guns, tu iu reiation to this peculiar topic, whe are thus in| done the idivsyneracies of the sire. enable them te keep ap what might otherwise | have proved an unsuecessful contest with their political adversaries. To have politically adopted the Bible fur their real directory—to have strictly | cannot see in so doing they are only supplying | Court. aad consistently exemplitied its sublime and hely doctrines ia eithet their private or public capacity | as an experimental compact of Christian men, would iadeved have been a glorious developement of sterling reform in these degenerate days. It) were then themselves in the habit of denominating | whit would have caused ux to have verily anticipated | the speedy advent of the long promised millennium te our commen race. But alas! like nearly | every other illusery proguestic of such a cousum- , mation iu times past, we greatiy fear that all those among us, whe may have been induced to regard these reeent unusual Biblical protestations of var present Tory rulers in this particular light, are only onee more duomed, like many of their before towcredulous predecessors on earth, to the habit of appealing to the Bishop's letter, as a | sufficient justification tor that conduct, must surely therefore be worse than ‘judicially blind,’ if they | their oppouents with immeasurably strouger | arguments against themselves than they could | ev n otherwise lave legitimately obtained. The | Bishop, and even the ‘ Bishop’s party,’ as they | it, were certainly in that winerity at the time of | their taking out legislative action on the Bible | question, Which was powerlessly in opposition to their own dominant political rule, which in itselt coustitutes a fact, pregnant with the very strongest vt all universally recognized reasous, why they should not have paid the slightest attention to the letter in question whatever. And still they have | the assuranee to bring this incessantly forward in special justification vt their owa uncontrolled and find their hopes completely and forever dissipated. | ‘ uncontrollable act. Manitestly, if this be their Those angry discussions, which have so lately only practical excuse for that act, it is in all marred tir: secial harmony of this community in| sincerity a pititully lame one indeed. Not only relation to this precise Dible controversy, could | so, but if their act is otherwise in itself indetensible, never surely have derived the slightest counten- | this very excuse must uuder all the knows priv- ance from any thing which that Bible itself eon-) ciples of universal political economy, render it tains. Every one knows that they parteok far! forever, and in every allowable sense, doubly— tow much of a sprit diametrically opposed to the | yes, on their part manifestly and undemiably— sacred teachings of God's Word to lave possibly | doubly impolitie. But the Bishop's letter, they iu any Way acquired their birth from its humane way plead, was written before they beeame the and beniguant preeepts. What were some of the| accredited rulers of the country —before they only practical results which those discussions obtained the civil power as a coustituent Govery- themselves would hitherto seem to have produced jment! Well, what if it was? Ne previous on the current masses of the people!) Were they | Governinent were ever known to have taken any in any knwwn aspect either good or salutary !| public action on the subject, prior tu the date of Were they not rather the very opposite? I my-| their own positive accession to pewer, which self have repeatedly, during some of our late pub- | leaves them still in the same uncontrovertible lie political contests, when the question was rife, | positivon—of having been the first to take open so We speak, among the lower as well asthe higher legislative action on the matter. and it that action orders of suciety, if orders of society can be cor-| can be shown to have been in apy respect im- rectly applied to this couutry, met with men whe | politic, and if they at the same time admit that were actually, to use a couunen proverbial ex-| they were actually influenced in taking it by either pression, “as drunk as Bacchus’’ yociturating the | any or the whele of that mirority of the population mest direful dentneiations against all, as they| which at the time constituted their own well deseribed it, whe would dare to identify them-| gaderstood political opponents—ihen ter posi- selves with those whe would oppose the Buble. To} tion becomes incoumpurably less justifiable, and we what particular shade of polities such wen be-| must charge them with having been the first to longed it could net, of course, ve herd to deter-| adopt a certain impolitie course of action from mine. But this is nothing in itself. They were) what in itself simply amounts to the most at least no eredit to any society; and the only | essentially iuapolitic of all possible reasons. This great underlying truth which they at the time | is clearly a tir deduction front the intrinaical served and still serve to place beyond dispute, is| merits of the case. But to prove that it is’ the pitiful certainty that the very spirit in whieh! positively predicable in its full extent of the actual numbers of the vast ordinary wasses of our popu-| couduct of our present Government, in relation to lation entered from the first into the advocacy of| their particular legislative course of proceedure the then popular Protestant side of this express | on the main question now before us, we must first controversy, wae any thing but either an intelli-! establish the proposition, that that line of conduct gent or a commendable one. Lt was, on the con-| with which we thus mmpeach them was in itself | those puguacious little Prinees, who, at present, trary, in ue small degree utievly inconsiderate ; and the only natural result wiuel such support could possibly be expected to inspire into the minds of all calm observers could onty be digust, spontaneous disgust, and almost uumeasured and | uomeusurable contempt. The populace, iowever, | in this, as in nearly every other party commotion of the sort, are untailingly ready te tollow their reputed leaders to do battle tor whatever divinity they may chouse to select. “Great is our ‘Diana’ ix sure to be the mvariable war ery of the “erude multitude,” in every country, and under any cirenmetances, whenever thus led on by their respective party generals of the particuls r faction to which they have been submissively ac- vustened to adhere, without even once for them- selves so much as giving the question a serious thought as to whether the factional deity, for whieh they thas “shoulder arms,” is, in the aly stract, actually worthy of their homage or alte — undeserving of their rational netics, Those rtional leaders of prominent notoriety, eonse- quently, and not the mere subservient masses themselves, are the proper persons with whom we lave here strictly to de. And what shail we say to thew as thus constituting the appropriately intelligent agents whe way be supposed righteously liable te bear all the current res- er, which the subject may involve! fe say distinctly and emphatically this — Let the Bible reign forever in the hearts of men, let it he eaid that such discordant ebullitions of human feeling and base haman passion aa those whieh we bow deplore, find anny u whatever, necessarily impeiitic. ‘This proposition, therefore, we shall endeavour peintedly to establish in ac- cordance with our own legitimate conception of the real tacts, strictiy involved iu the entire case itself, viewed in ail its own exclusively more homegeneous and appropriate aspects. W. KEIR. Malpeque, Dee. 30, 1863. Che Examiner. Charlottetown, January 4th, 1864. THE OLD YEAR. A RETROSPECTIVE glance at the events of the year 1863, and the slightest reflection on the relative situations ef the Powers of the world, Will satisfy the most careless or obtuse that the : womb of Tune is big with events of truly cosme- | pelitan character. ‘Turning vur eyes to Europe, | we bebold Great Britain eagaged in hostilities | Hkaiust China and Japan—Franee effecting the | conquest of Mexico—the so-called King of Italy jlovking with longing eyes in the direetion a heme end Venetia—Austria inte ul on reluming | History shows that heirs, apparent and presumptive, to Crowns, are often found in opposition to the This has been verified in ne Royal Louse in Europe so frequently as in that of Brandenburg; and in that family the estrangement has had the peculiarity of bemg caused by the conduct and us of the monarch for the time being. The stubborn tenacity with whieh the present Sovereign has resisted al! the legitimate elaiins of his people—the sullen disregard he haa shown to their wishes—aud the contemptuous indifference with which he has treated the amicable sug- gestions of other Powers—-bave created an im- pression that a good undesstanding exists between him and his neighbour of Russia—that his per- mission to the pursuers of the fugitive Poles to follow their unholy crusade over Prussian territory, Was matter of arrangement; and that the despot in esse would be willing to make common cause with the despot in posse.—The vast arma- ments that Russia is preparing must have their origin in the idea of hostilities, either offensive or defensive, being imminent. The despatch of a large squadron across the Atlantic, to secure ther release from the frozen Baltic, teaches the saline lesson. The dispute about the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, ot which we have, on several oc- casions, given account, is alsu assuming propor- tions ominous to the continuance of the peace, not ouly of Germany, but of all Western and Northern Europe; tor it is evident that if once an appeal to arms be made by any of the German States on the subject, France and England, Russia, Prussia, and Austria, Denmark and Sweden, will be drawn intu the struggle; and one result will be the total extinction of some of seem inflated with a degree of self-importance calculated to reeult more injuriously to themselves than to others. Like Mrs. Partington, first alluded to by the Rev. Sydney Suith, and now of world-wide fame, they may be good at a slep or puddle, but when the ocean is roused their pattens and besos will be found inadequate te keep the angry elements from their little kitchen doors. Whinie British subjects are giving aid and com- fort to the recognised authorities in Cana, in crushing au invasion or insurrection—( we hardly know how to designate it)—they have been em- ployed in the neighbouring Empire of Japan in deeds of wholesale destruction and slaughter ; and however right and necessary it may be to strike prowmpt and heavy blows at those wretched Orientials whose political and moral eedes are almost diametrically opposite to those of Western civilization, nv one whe may have read the ac- count of the bombardment and destruction of the large and populous town of Kagosima can feel any other ereotion than that of regret that so great a waste of property, and so frightful a loss of life, should have been inflicted in satisfaction for the death of a gentleman, te whose impradent disre- gard of the advice of his teliow countrymen led ww the violent termination of his existence. The | latures to be affected by it, during their ensuing | | | Sessions. We are by ne means insensible to its | Anportance, as we have shown in former Nos., | and ean at present merely express the hope that the general consideration of the subject will be characterised by enlarged and liberal views worthy of Statesmen—and that before the majority of the people of this Island give their assent to the adoption of the measure, ample security will have been had that our interests are not to be sacrificed in the details of so important a coange iu their political condition as that contemplated. As the only public matter in which the people of this Island take any interest is the settlement of the Land Questivn, aud as nothing has been done towards the attainment of that object, it cannot properly form a topic in a review of the occurrences of the year just closed. The only event connected with the subject is, that whereas two Delegates went to the Colonial Office— did nothing — both failed in their mission — one has returned to his anxious country—the other has nut— “Jack and Jill went up the bill To fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke His crown, And Jill—pip not come tumbling after.” It would be easy te extend this review by a notice of other occurrences which characterised the year that is past, but our object is not to write the history of that particular period. It is the duty of a journalist to give “ia brief abstract and chronicle of the times,” as they are passing before him, and to suggest matters for contem- plation and enquiry, that, by adding to our store of wisdom and experience, may be of service to us in the battle of lite. And if disposed te mo- ralise -—— which we are not — the ever changing incidents in many of our domestic circles would revive, in the minds of some of us, the most pleasing recollections, and in others the very reverse. Far be the wish from us now to lift the veil which shrouds the domestic cirele, or enquire whether Joy or Sorrow has found a sanctuary there in the year that is sped. But let us be permitted to peer hopetully inte the future. The world has as many bright sides as dark ones, and much to rejoice at, in possession and anticipation, as well as t sorrow over. We can only pray and trust that the measure of joy to all our friends will be filled to overflowing in the year upon which we have entered; and if the vitter Chalice of Sorrow be presented to vur lips and theirs nuay the draught be a light one, and such as te leave uo pangs that wil give enduring bitter- ness to our Cup of Pleasure. ' >> POLITICAL CONDITION OF P. E ISLAND — PAST AND PRESENT. As sufficient time has elapsed since the late elections to allow the excitement taat attended them to subside, it may be well to review our couduct, and calmly and dispassionately consider the tendency and probable results of the policy then pursued by a large portion of the people. The situation of this Colony is very different from that of any other. The questions which have divided this community are of quite a dif- ferent class fromm those which have oceupied the attention of the people of the sister Colonies. The inhabitants of this Colony have been de- livered over, bound hand and fuvt, to the tender mercies of a few large landholders, These, destruction of 4 town of 180,000 inhabitants must | have caused a very large anount of suffering, and loms ol property) aud lie, on the part of countless fe’ the duties of landlords. landlord in this country is to give leases, aud te} The sole business of a though they receive their reots, perform none of| ¢ clerical. These attacks served two purposes : they completed the alienation of these Catholics who still adhered to the Tory party — made the breach between the Tories and the Catholics au impassable one — and they served to secure the support of those Protestants who consider viru- lent abuse of “ Popery” the best proof of ability and the surest test of orthodoxy. Having, by these means, according to their showing, identified Toryism with Protestantism, and the Liberal cause with Catholicism, they considered their success as certain. And notwithstanding the staleness of the trick, and the shallowness of the artifice, the result realized their anticipations. It must not be supposed that the whole Protes- tant population suffered themselves to be frightened out of their principles by the phantoms conjured up by the pelitical schemers and others of the Tory party. There were two classes of Protes- tauts who saw through the whole trick, The first of these were the Liberal Protestants, than whom there does not exist a more intelligent, and a more independent set of men in these North American Colonies, These, in spite of the odium attempted to be cast upor them by their designing and their deluded co-religionists, kept the even tenor of their way, and were not to be charmed inte supporting the Proprietary party, even though the Syren, Spiritual Pride, sang the sweetest strains; they were not to be daunted trom lending their aid to the Liberal cause though the Giant's Bigotry and Intulerance frewned their blackest, and threatened their worst. The other class, who were not duped, were the dupes and the more intelligent Conservatives—Con- servatives from principle—who, though they de precated the kindling of the fire of religious discord in the country, did not refuse aid which was obtained by means that they would not condescend to employ. But a division of the tenantry was what the schemers planned, and thut division they succeed- ed in making. Well, who has gained and whp has lost by this victory? W. H. Pope has gained a lucrative post under Government, and ample leisure to pursue his plans for increasing his gains. He has also gained a seat in the Assembly and a place in the Government. The Rev. George Sutherland has obtained a situation iu the House of Assembly as a prayer of prayers, and what is infinitely more grateful to a man of his character, an amount of consideration and importance that was not accorded to his talents as a minister, his abilities as a writer, or his virtues as a citizen, Phe Rev. David Fitzgerald has also obtained an office, but as he has lost iufinitely more asa clergy- man than he has gained as a political agitator, it is perhaps hardly right to count him among the gainers. John Arbuckle has been allowed to re- tain a situation which he has rendered contemp- tible by his incompeteney, and every claim to which he had forfeited a hundred times by his neglect. J.B. Cooper has been able to live a while longer without being tormented with what and landlords’ dependents, to places of power and profit, we had adhered tothe policy of rigidly ex- cluding them from all situations of public trust and political power—if they were hooted from the hustings and excluded from the Colonial Building | —their condition on the Island would not be nearly | se pleasantand powerful u one as it now is. They would still possess the influence of landlords, and sume of then would occupy the station of private gentlemen; but their means of injuring the people would be marvellously lessened, and their conse- quence in the Colony considerably diminished. This that we have suggested is the line of policy to be pursued by the people of Prince Edward Is- land. It is exceedingly snuple. Nv one, the most remotely connected with landlordism, should be elected tu either branch of the Legislature. The union of the people on this point should be com- plete. Landlords should be made to feel that their day of political power is past — that the direct power tu defeat all legislation in favour of the tenantry is wrested from them. Let vo bugbear, created by politicians or fanatics, prevent a union sv Lecessary. Common sense, self-interest and sell-preservation, demand that the proprietary in- fluence be iessened in this Colony. Let the people be true to themselves, and the victory is certain, A better day will then dawn for the tenantry of this il] used country. If, on the other hand, they suffer their enemies to divide them, their defeat is sure, and their state hopeless. THE DECEMBER BLAST OF INTOLER- ANCE FROM THE ORANGE ORGAN, “ He is the heretic that makes the fire, Not he whe burns in it.”"—~-SHakesreare, WHEN an educated and generous mind reflects upon the subject, nothing seems mure surprising than that any one professing to follow the maxims of Christianity, or acquainted with the lessons of civilization, can practise intolerance against another for buldjng views upon religion or polities imbibed iu early days, and through circumstances, perhaps, over which he may have had no control. Yet, it is smd that even in this eulightened century ye of the truest tests of magnanimity is tu bw truly tolerant. The fact, however, that young wen are nore intolerant thau aged men proves that much of the intolerance which exists is to be attributed te iguorance, As the young move on, aud through the world they get many of their rough cornors rybbed off. They find, through experience, that eyery thing js nejther wise nor noble in the party or sect to which they may happen to belong. They, moreover, in the course of time, discover that there is much worthy of respeet in the views and characters of those religieusly or pulitically opposey to then. When they get out of the little circle in which they had moved, and become the observers of other spheres of action, they become disgusted with the very things which they theuselves had formerly encouraged or enacted. We are assured that the Orange Lodges ju this and other cqunmnunities are for the far greater part recruited from the rauks of the young, and that as they be- come aged and enlightened, they almost invariably withdraw from the Orange and similar intolerant associations. The ignorant and inexperienced, then, are the most numerous blocks in the pyramid of in- tolerance. There is hope that reason and charity may be got into the heads of the blocks, or rather the blockheads, but how are we to deal with the pment officiule— | weeds and briars that flourish so luxuriaptly amongst the wise ucres! In due time they, fo, them. Oh, but says the Elder and the quondam local preacher, “if the object of the Ladies of Notre Dame were to impart a sound seri education to the poor children of the district in which their school is situated, instead of eondemn- ing, We should certainly applaud their effurte.” iow unmistakingly the cloven foot of bigotry and intolerance peeps out in that sentence. If the poor children would only secept the os as preached by the immaculate lips of the E and the Local Preacher 4ll would be well, but as they prefer to hear it from the tongues to which their tathers listened, and to which the noblest and the wisest have listened in every age for nearly two thousand years, the generous and liberal minded men are lamentably indignant. We would like te know who is to be the judge as to what is seriptural and not scriptural teaching, unless it be the Universal Judge who knows all. , b hearts. The writers iv the Monitor may consider o the “dogmas of Romanism baneful and sevl- ¥ destroying,” but we veuture to say that it would “a not be bard to find persovs who as sincerely evu- sider that the dogmas of the Moniter wan are infinitely worse than anything he could utter against Catholicity. But if the Monitor and Protestant so “sincerely” believe all they say, they should be consistent in carrying out their views. It is quite likely that the pupils of St. Joseph’s School will require books and stationery; let David Laird take care, then, lest he sell them any, for fear hs tender conscience may accuse him of assisting the domi- nion of Antichrist upon earth! As he has adopted the motte, “let the dead bury the dead,” he should also refuse the money of the Catholic teachers, who, we are informed, deal very ex- tensively at his Book Store. Now, the Monitor gives as a further reason for discouraging “the establishment and multiplica- tion of seminunes,” such as the new ech.ol for the children of the western part of the city, that they “afford aid or comfort te these who are in- sidiously plotting against our religion and liber- ties as tree-born British aubjects.” Suppose for a moment that there exists any such class of sub- jects who would desire to curtail the liberties of themeelves and their fellow colonists, we believe that one of the best methods to lessen their influ ence would be to get the rising generation te ap preciate British institutions, by first imitinti them into the mysteries of orthography. But until the Government failed in their duty te pro- vide schools for the poor, did the Roman Catholics set about establishing schools. The Liberal Ge vernment, whilst expending tav or three nds less money than the present Goverument, had several thousand more children attending the schools than are in attendance at present. With £17,000 at their disposal, the present Government should have every child in the Colony educated. But the interests of education, as well as the in- terests of the tenantry, seem to fail — miserably fail through their mismanagement. One ot the unanswerable arguments in favour of taxing the rich to assist in educating the poorer portions © the people is, that the wealthy are benefitted, 1- asmuch as life and property are safer when te people are educated. Yet, when an effort is made to bring up the poorer members of the commu nity in intelligence —a duty which the Goverir ment almost criminally failed to perform — the hireling press of that Government does all it ean to defame the good object. ’ But to excite the ignorant against Catholics, the Monitor asserte that they are plotting 1 abridge the liberties which we enjoy. Her Ma- jesty the Queen does not think so, tur Catholics are employed and trusted in every department ¢ her service. Is it necessary to say that Catholic , wisdom apd valor haye materially increased the lory of the British Empire? Tell us the Par * ament in which wisdem and eloquence bave 4 been displayed—show us the field in whie traest t bravery has been exhibited, in any period of 4 English history, and we can easily discern Cathe- lies amougst the foremost nawes. It could be clearly shewn that the liberties which Englishwe® 7 im recent times enjoy have been wrung from the Tory party through the influence of the illustries O'Connell and the Irish Catholics, Without taking away, in the least, trom the bonor due the noble band of Protestants who were determined to break the bonds of the Family Compacts whe musruled the British North American Colonie’, we may say that the Irish Catholics almost unsb! me gave their voice and votes for Self-Ge- verament in all the Colonies, Moreover, sed “