~” a aE GA a: eis Le ghana NE ay _ nm =m — ——————— ment had given security on different kinds of loans that a rise was made ia the interest of one and not that of another, Such a course would be most unjust. To show in what man- ner the action of the late Government operated, | may state that [ had purchased debentures myself to a considerable a- mount, and when the interest on Warrants was raised, I found it impossible to obtain wore than £90 for £100 on the face of the debentures Mr DAVIES.—One of the principal objections offered to the purchase of Lot 54 by the Government appears to be that there are no receipts from it ; this, however, should not be expected,as it has but recently come into their possession. The question with the Gevernweat was whether the land ought t be purchased by them, o¢ be allows] to go iuto the the people in ignorance of the fact. I have heard that two or three themselves after they began their labors were evidently most parties were desirous to procure the property, and if it had idesirous to sift the whole question, been disposed of to eitker of these persons, the Government did that much honor to the liberal party or the Tenantry would probably never again have the oppor- | Hensley ove of the Counsel for the tenantry. hands of private indivi/uals, = cas ves, and all documentary evidence which the Commission is likely to require, so that the time peeled for their actual Sitting in the island may be reduced within the most mode- rate compass consistent with the due and complete accowplizh- ment of the enquiry.” : Now, Sir, the Government msde no preparation of this ikind at all. ‘When the Commissioners arrived, instead of ‘any previous arrangements having been made, the Govern- ment appeared to do everything to thwart the enquiry. The Royal Gazette coutainiug the votice of the time that the Commission would commenee its sittings, thouzh that paper ia usually issued on Tuesday morning, did not appear unt! Wednesday, the day on which the court opened, as if to keep Phe Commissioners —— eee —_—— Aud the Gove. unment ag to appoint Mr. They did not tunity of purchasing it on nearly 80 favorabie terms. Under bring forward their own Attorney General, though he is in these circumstances I think the Goveromeat were justified The hon. leader of the suppose, they considered Mr. Llensley more competent than Upposition stated that the price paid for the Worrell estate , he to conduct the case. They also procured from New Bruns- | was about 5s an acre, but if the quantity of land purchased, in the course which they puraued. the receipt of some £350 of the public money, because, | wick the services of ano. her very competent legal gentleman, aud the sums paid for it be reckoned up, it will be found to Mr. Thompson, who proved himrelf to be very able, and gave be near 6s an acre. Hon, Me. COLES.—The amount for the fishery reserves | cannot complain of the con iuct of the Government. should be deducted from that. Mr. DAVLE3.—It is pretty evident that the late Govern- hands ? ment bought both the fishery reserves and the water on St. As regards the lawyers retained, then, .. But : ? 3 ; ‘what kind of a brief did they place in these gentlemen's Nothing but the resolutions referred to. Speech therefore goes too far with respect to the Land Com- i general satisfaction. Peter's Bay, as Other wise it does not appear that the number mission, if by the expression, as questions submitted to 16, of acces said to be on the E tate can be nade up. vet & the statement that the Selkirk estate was offered to which P With res- he meant those submitted by the Government. the Royal Commissioners opened their court, b asked | fjis Groce did not shen intimate that our lesislation on this The day on it ! 1 >. . ‘as ine other aver ‘rst ‘ i would be Mr. Duuse for £3000 less than the sum for which it was the question whether every person who so disired would purvhaced by the Goverument,| think it extremely doubtful. permitted to submit matter for their consideration, and Mr. Mr. Qouse’s son was bere at the time the Bil! passed the Lensley replied that he understood the Government had. no House, 2nd went heme by the next Mail to forestall the Go- objections to any individua! coming vernment, and what use would it have been for him to do so, if they bad offered a higher sum for the estate than he was 1 would have been pleased to learn that} the land had been purchased at a lower rate ; but, as [ before [ can remember, employed by i. Prien remarked, in the cireumstances of the case I believe the Go- would like to ask, what had the Government to expecting to give, Veriment were jastified in acting as they did. Hon. Mr. HAVILAND—The hon, leader of the Opposi- at a gnat and swallow:ng) He denominates the paragraph under considera- tioa a ‘ whining parazrapl,’ because, [ suppose, the Govern- ment had the sincerity to come forward and state the course Tue Governmont have been o' lig- | ed,in order to meet their demands,to issue Treasury warrants at 5 per cent; butif this had been done by the late Govern- tion is frequently found straining ® came’, wich they had pursued. ment they would not have had the candor to acknowledge it. We have been told by the hon. member that we have violat- ed the constitution of the Colony ; but where was the violation of the constitution when beand his party were in power, and the eredit of the country was ata lowebd? Treasury warrants | were given in a subordinate offive at a discount, and known to be taken in some instances by the party immediately to the Treasurer's office where the sum on the face of the war- rant was demanded and cbtained. A person also was des- patched to Haifsax to eudeavor to procure money, if vot vtherwise, by disposing of warrants at a discount ; and there was no law empowering them to negotiate Government loans We ware necemitated to consent te a rise of below par. interest or to decline ta purchase of the estates; and when we consider that Treasury warrants were bearing six per cent., it is unreasonable to suppose that debenturesat a lower rate eould be negotiated, A capitalist would be a fool if he found it possible to obtain six per cent for his money on government security for ten years to lead it on the same security at five percent. With respect to the action of the late Government in raising the interest on Warrants when that om debentures was left anchanged, the hon. member will not find a prece- dent in any country ; and I contend that in this matter they committed a public fraud. he objection, hewever, to the rise of interest which we sanctioned isa mere lagatelle, as no individual interests were made to suffer. 1 was surpris- ed to hear the public morality of the hon. member, when he stated thatif the Opposition had come into power they would have repudiated the Warrants thus issued by the Go- Verpment. Hon. Mr. COLES —I did not state that they would have repudiated them, but they might bave done so). Lion. Mr. HAVLILAND.—To even bint of such a course | shows what respect he entertains for the public credit. I am astonished that such a remark should have fallen from one who has occupied so high a position in the Colony. For one party going into power to discard the engagements made in public fuith by those whom they displaced, is unknown in the history of legsiation. He raised objections to the pur- ‘ebase of Lot 54 because it was liable to be escheated, and was only a fit p'ace for frogs. The title of this Lot is, I be- lieve, the only one which has been brought before a jury of Prince Edward Is'anders, and they decided it to be valid. And though I am unuble to state the description of land on which frogs are alwa;s found, yet [ have the best aathority for saying that wheiher they are numerous on Lot 54 or not, the soil there is of « very good quality. The Government are assailed for paying a higher rate fur this Township than for the Selkirk estate ; but if they had not agreed to aceept the offer at £2000, other parties were prepared to step in and take possession ; then the Government would have been ‘charged with neglecting opportunities, and the hon. leader of the Opposition would have been the very first to raise the | ery. Members of the Government have been accused of once opposing the Land Purchase Biil and afierwards adopting the measure. I cau say /or myself that [ never opposed the Bill, and defy any boa. member to prove that I ever voted against it. | heartily wish all the laud on tie Island could be purchased under its provisions. ut | was opposed to the Loan Bill, aud will ever be s0, for 1 consider it to be t.on, Hon. Mc. HAVILAND.—That statement is incorrect Hoa. Mr. COLKES.—These were the words, as nearly as Now, Sir, I do with it? lion. Mr. LLAVILAND.—Then why complain that they ‘did not give tv a brief ? Commissioners whatever questioas were in dispute between Landlords and Tenants, but not to dictate who sbould be per- | mitted to come forward and yive evidence in reference to these questions. Let us see what was the result of the per- mission granted by the Court, I myself and others eame forward, and made statements for the information of the Com- ‘missioners with respect to the questions they were called upon ito investigate. But opposition was met with from the Go- | vernment. When my triend on the left, Mr. Cooper, was proceeding with his evidence, he was interrupted by the Col- onial Secretary with soine statement about a clause in an old | Act, which he said could be proved, by reference to the manu- 'script Journals of the House, and when the particular journal ‘was enquired for, it was ascertained to be at the Uolonis) Secretary's own house, who had carried it from the Clerk's office, out of which no document of the kind should be taken. | Auother case of opposition to parties desirous of furnishing jinformation to the Commissioners was that experienced by some delezates who applied to the Goveroment for documents contain'ng statistics ia reference to the number of paypers, | &ec., and their request was never attended to. | Hoa. Mr. HAVILAED—No application was made to ‘the Government for such documents. | — Hoo, Mr. COLES— Well, it was made to some member of the Government,—lL believe to the bon. member himself. | Hoa. Mr. HAVILAND—No delegate ever applied to me for any documenta. | Hon. Mr. COLES—Was there not a letter applying for statistics sent to the Government ? ion. Mr. HAVLLAN D—No letter of tho kind ever egme before the Government. Hoo. Mr. COLES—Nor to any member of the Govern- menr, Hon. Mr. DAV.LAND—Mr. Chairman, how ean I be expected to negative all his qu stions ¢ | (To be continued ) Saturpay, March 2. Mr. JOHN YEO, Chairman of the Committee of the ‘whole House on the draft Address in answer to the Lieut. _Governer’s speech, reported that the Committee had gone through the Address paragraph by paragrap, and had ad- opted the same without amendment; and the said Address | was again read by the Clerk, and ie as follows :— To His Excellency Gnoner Dounvas, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chi:f in and over Her Majesty's Island Prince Edward, and he Terrri-, tories thereunto belonging, Chancellor, Vice Admiral and Ordinary of the same, &c., &c., &c. |May ir PLease your Exce.uency ; | 1. We, ther Majesty’s dutiful and loyal su'jects, the Re- presentatives of the people of Prince Edward Island, thank your Excellevey for the Speech with which your Excellency has been pleased to open the present Legislative Session. 2. We will cousider the propriety of making provision for taking the Census of this Colony, and what enactme may be required to effect that object. 3. We thank your Excellency for having directed the Ac- counts of the past, and the Estimates for the present year to be laid before us; and it is a source of satisfaction to learn that all fioancial arrangements eonuected with the public Ser- | Vice have been framed with a due regard ty economy, 4. We are uware that the Expenditure of the past year has been increased principally by the purchase ef the Kstetes (of two non-resident Proprietors. Hon. Mr. COLES.—Their place was to submit to the) | i i hat ¢ | wi Excellency in expressing regret th with your Exce y ¢ should bave been delayed. We deem it advisable, however, in the meantime, that some Measure should be adopted to stay he award | solemn mysteries of the Uhristian religion, and that ha Bethlehem, it is more than probabe that he would have | ridiculed the idea that He was the Soa of God whom “ bis — : | d one | The Presbyterians of Scotland, in their profession of Bg lof these worthies scen the Divine Lufant in the stable at | in 1961, say——"* As we Letieve iv one God, the Father, thes jand the Holy Spirit, so we firmly believe, that there was ~ the beginning, that there now is, and th ¢ to the end a . . , , > : ant : ‘ommissioners’ Court | rm" . 4 jworla there will a ways be one Chareh, wie } -oceeuings, since the clesing of the Cot . et Pe aes a : » Wirels te tue Cag | proces ing . any of the Snell have been subjected to | coneee of touch and sight told him was simply Ok © COs rs te ene Uerveienl Suabete ans a ae Caan al ‘ ae ee ae Such a measure as this would | teat” little babe! You appear somewhat desirous te enter | neigner life nor ever asing h-ppiess.”” ‘s ‘ s i yreat expense and hardship. recommendation of the} on a “ religious controversy” about the- Blessed Kucharist ; |p. 118. Conf Sevt, Cap, ls, +a tic fee he unanimous : ; D . : an” . ; | utve practical sg ae of iheir Court; it would also| but I decline a disputation on so solemn a-subject with a | Vhe Confession of Fath made the seme year by the Nethep. : i t i. temnntes aud be bailed with satis-! person who has so far forgotten bimself as to stigmatize as land Protes ao and coulitmed in 1619 vy the Synod of ' : ¥ reiie e sui 9% - : . . fe aoe ‘ ; » 25 . a } afford great reitet to. ‘the I-land generally.” “monstrous pretensions” the claims of the Church of Sir | #0! *'9 te Confession of the Proves ame of Saxony, are oii faction by the inhabitants of the Jiang genera 'y- ich | Thomas M Bossyet, Feoclon, Newman, Wiseman and | "7° neture: ' The Tlouse divided on the motion of amenduent, cone 10Mas wWOO0Te, Mossyct, Pencion, « ‘ap : M \ | Tne French Husnenots. in their Catechiem, on the t : # . ee ae Montalembert. However, 1 may remark that “* Mr. Me-| . cite of the creed - W ae : | was nevatived on the following division. om . ial j article of the creed, suy, bY 19 this articie of lorgiveuess of 3 | Ye s:—tHous Messrs. Whelan, Coles, Wightman, Thorn- | Donald” has no difficulty whatever in believing the revealed | ging put after that of ue Conren?”? Ame, #8 Because ny ong 7 i ss—th Messrs. ‘ 4 . ‘ . i f # be - ery, Kelly ; Messrs. Conroy, Cooper, Dayle, Suther | word of God, who can neither deceive nor be deceiy ed; and} obtains pardon of his so, un) ss he be first incotparared . on, Perry, Acily , Sbessrs. ’ avd, Siuclair—11. Nesaeenaa Messrs. Gray, Haviland, M‘Au'ay, Long- worth, Laird; Messrs. Beer, J. ¥evo, Davies, Ramsay, | M-Neill, Owen, Montgomery, Holm, Llowat—14. Tbe question being then put, * shall the said paragraph | be agreed to,’ it was carried in the affirmative, on the same division as above, reading the Yeas for Nays, and vice versa The seventh paragraph of the Address being again read, Hon. Mr. Whelan moved to ameod the same by expunging ‘the whole and inserting the following :— “ We regret that the Culonial Minister has not seen fit to resent for tue Royal assent the Bill passed last Session, to give effect ta the award of the Commissiouers. While the The | puke of Newcastle gladly acknowledged in his Despatch of ithe l6th June, 1860, addressed to your Excellency, the | promptitade with which the Legislature of this Island hast- | ened to give effect to the award, it is worthy of remark that (en was premature. t> consider that euch legislation should be subsequent, and not antecelent to the award, will most probubiy postpoue a forward to give informa-| segtlement of the difficulties arising out of the laud tenure | until a late period of the year 1862.” The motion of amendment having been put,was lost by the | same division as on the preceding amendmeut, ‘The para- graph was then agreed to, hon, mem erg voting as on the sixth paragraph. | The eighth paragraph having been read,Ifon. Mr. Whelan (moved in ameniment that the whule be expunged, aud the tollowing substituted : — * We regret that your Excellency found it impossible toe | negotiate the Deben'ures which the Luw authorised to be issued for the purchase of the Seikirk Ksiate, and that Trea- vsury Warrants bearing a higher per centage were used for ‘that purpose. We regret more partieularly that such a course /as this was pursued, especially as we bave heard that War- rants were also issue! for the purchase of Lot fifty four—a purchase which the Ifouse of Assembly did not authorize. The Efouse of Assembly cannot help remarking that such a course as this, so contrary to law, and so subversive of the j rights aud privileges of Parliament, is extremely dangerous, }and calculated to destroy confideuce in the Government who adopt it.” | When the House divided the motion of amendment was | megatived, aud the motion that the paragraph be agreed to, | carried, as above. On the ninth paragraph being read, Hon. Mr. Whelan | / moved the following in awendment :— | * We rejoice to learn that the purckase of the Selkirk Es- tate hus been atteuded with satisfactory results. From this /we may confidently hope that the great utility and necessity }of the Land Purchase Bill will be further acknowledged by ‘the purchase of any other Kstates that may be vffered to the /Government on terms a3 advantageous as those on which the | Selkirk property was secured.” Amendment jost, gnd paragraph agreed to—division as | above, When the tenth parag-aph was read, [fon. Mr. Whelan moved in amendment the foilowing : — “ We bighly appreciate the spirit that has bers of yousg men tu earol themse!ves in the and Artillery Companies lately formed in this Colony; and | we shall carefully consider the propriety of legislating in re- ‘ference to the e Corps.” Amendment lost, and paragraph agreed to, as the others, The other paragraphswere agreed to without a division. The Committee who prepare: tie Address were thon ap- The fact that His Grace now seews) teen num. | olunteer Rifle | consequently that he bas as little difficulty “in believing | the peap'e of God, and continue in unity end commun: fh em ‘that to be ‘the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ,’ | which bis senses of touch, taste, and sight tell hiu is simply | bread and wiue,” as he has in believing Him tu have been the only begotten of the Father, whom the infuriated and ‘blood-thirsty Jews, judging by the testimony of their | | “senses,” regarded as a ‘poor,’ “impotent” man, whom they treated with every possible indignity, and whom they | iguom*niously nailed te a gibbet. the weakness of the Pope. | resources; and this, you appear to think, is sufficient reason | to insult him; but [ would remind you of.the words of| Monratempext : * He who attacks the Pope wiil fiod bim- self in collision with the Ca‘holics of the whole world.” The Yes : soreasoned, in former days, the King | Sal Her Grace the Dachess of Hamilton, Her Grace the Duchew | reasoned Seleucus, King of Assyria, when be sent Heliodorus lof Buccleugh ; the Most Nobe the Murchioness of i | Pope is weak ! ‘of Israel, when he sent his soldiers to seize the prophet. ‘to plunder the Temple of Jerusalem. ‘The victor of Maren- ‘goand Austerliiz reasoned after the same fasuios, and the 'world remembers the result. | ‘The course pursued by some parties against the Pope re- j minds one very toreivly of the iguominious treatment which ‘our Divine Saviour suffered at the hands of the Jewish dei- icides; nor cau we be sarprised that the arms of sarcasm and ‘derision shou! { be employed against the Holy Father. « The [servant is not greater than his Master,” who, during His | bitter passion, suffe:ed the most galling ivsulis from His un- relenting persecutors, ‘* And they began to salute Nias: ‘flail King of the Jews.” “ Aud they that passed by, blas- | |phemed Him, wagging their heads, and saying: * Vah! thou i that destroycst the temple of God, and iv three days buildest | it up again: save thyself coming down trom the eross.’ lu like manner also the chief priests moeking, said with the scribes one to another: He saved others, Llimseif Ue cannot save. Let Corist the King of Israe) come dowa now from the cross, that we may see and believe!’ Mark, chap. xv. the loilowing manner: * Poor old Pope,” if thou art the “ Viear of Christ,” save thyself from the plots of Cavour aud Garibaldi; if thou art * Christ by uaction,” preserve thy kingdom from Victor Emmanuel ; bab ! © impotent old man,” if thou art ** greater than Moses in wuthority,” defend thy- self and thy Cardinals from the daggers of the Mazzinians, without * Louis Napoleon's bayouets;” if thou art * Peter in power,” strike dead with thy “ cursings” these who are now despoiling the Chuareb of her patrime:y. Hail * Our Lord the Pope!” Hail Pius LX. -* King of the earth 1!” thou “ poor old man,” thou dealest * damnation round the land,” but thy ** curses seem to come home” to thyself!!! There is reason to believe that if the persons who thus de ride the Suvereign Pontiff bad been present at the crucifixion of the Son of God, they would have been among the first to scoff at their Saviour, and probably would have thus ad- idressed Him:—lf thou hast “ail power in heaven and ‘earth ;” if thou canst call :o thy aid “ more than twelve legions of angels ;” in a word if thou art the Son of God, aud not an “‘impotep\” man, come down from the cross! Should every Pope-sevffer read the following pithy words of that “ great man,” Montalewbert, [ think he would evince a little more sympathy for oppressed innocence, and would be mcre likely to restrain himseif within the bounds of propriety ‘and decency when writing about * the poor old Pope.” | Newspaper writers who are so co:splacent towards the powerful, aud so coutume!ious towards the weak, have a fashion of deriding the tears of the Pope. Abt we know i: | | too well, the tears of the Holy Bather toush only tbe bearts | It appears, Sir, that you take @ peeuliar delight in deriding | He is, indeed, weak in human a dvruous Prot giants, both lay and elerical, of the British, The evemies of Pius LX. scoff at him something afier | lof his datifal chi'dren, and his thunders frighten uobody ex- | the body of Chrmet, and se be @ member of the Church,” + lthat out of the Causch.tuere is nothing Wot death and dane |nanion 2?” Ans. * ltis certanm; for none of those who withdraw | themselves from t @ communion of tae fantiful, to make & “eet japart, ought io hope fur salvation, as lung as they Cunt Que separated trom them.’? 3 Notwii 8 and ng the * monetroos pretensions,’ +4 errora /corruptions,’’ which you say bave been ingorperaced with jdocirines of the Cathole Church, yet it 1s an undemable that Withia the last few years great numbers of the most i Is ands, have renounced Provesjan isin and retucned to Cathe lenty, the relizwn of Acrasy ad of Evwanp, and of thow |who, im the days of ** Popisi superstition’? wrung from the tyrant Joun,onu the plain of Runnymede, the fouos 808 of Suglish liberry-~Magya Cuarra. Among those who toue sg. turned to the religion of ther fathers, may be mem ioned:— }the Right Lon. the Countess of Arundel and Surrey ; the Rt | Hon. Ladies Viscountess Fielding, Viscoun'ess Canny den, Vig jcountess Newry and Mourne, V sconntese Castlereagh ; the Re. Honbles. La y Kiizabeth Cuarlotte P- at, Lady Aun Moria Monse!!, Lady Catnerine Hower, Lady Sussex ; Ledy Chas. Toyone, the three Ladivs Kerr; the Rt, Hoa, the | Sari of Roscommon ; the Rt. Hon. Lords Viscount Fielding, | Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Campden; the Rt. Honbies, |Lord Huating ower, Lord Nigel Kennedy, Lord Ralph Kerr, | Lord Walter Kerr, Lord £obn Kerr, Baron Ward; the Rt ILonbies. and Kevds. Lord Chas. Tuyone, Mo A.; Lord Hen i fromers Kerr, M. A 3 the Honttes and Revés William Towry Liw, M. A.; Charles W. Cavendish, M.A. ; the Hon. Se Juhu Taibo, G. OC. B. 5 the Uo nbles: Gilbert ‘Talbot, BE. G:. Howard FP. Owed, John Sandersan, C-ptan Pakenham; Sir Vese KE. de Vere, Bort., Sa EH. Fi zeerald, Bart., Sir Luciug 'Curta@, Uart., Sir Rowland Bleaneria-st, Bart. ; the Venere lable Bi nty Biward Musuiag, M. A., Arch leacun of Cavches ter, the Venerab.e Robern J. Wi berfoce, M. A., Arebd--gop of the Bast Riding, the Very Rev. Win. Cowper, Augustine | Moc aurin, M. A., the Rov. Wm. Dodsworth, D. D.,:he Res, |J. Heorv Jerrard, M. A.,aré L. L. D.; the Kev. Dr. New }man, the Rev, Dr. Faber ; and hundreds of © her ciergyner, podks and gentlemen, includ ng the. Rev. W. Pops, B.A, jand the Rev. ‘T. A. Pope, M. A. it is weil known that many O° these eminent conv. rts to the Catholic religwen bave made enormous Sacrifices for ine sake of |embracing the tru h.the prine pa of whom are Lord C, Thynone, Lord I Kerr, lon. WT. Law, Dr. Newman, Dr, Dodsworth, j and Archd-acons Manoing apd Wilberforce. To these fects you wil, perhaps, reply, wih a easdome sneer, Aud sey:— |“ There is no accounting for human creduluy. Mormonsa | counts ameag Lis voraries men of education!’ Indeed it would not be su praing should you gosu far as to compare sowe of the brightest imeliec a whieh Oxford and Cambridge ever idaced, such as Drs, Newmon, Manning, Wilberforce apd | | Feber to foe Smith and Brighem Young !! | ‘Phe Cathore Church bas increased wonderfully in Britain during the last thirty years. tier Most Gracious Majesty the | Queen does not appext to look oa Gatholicty with a very un- | favourable rye; see bas, L beleve, several Catholics in her |household ; ner Governowent seem determined to suppress Orange Societs im beeland. ther eldest eon, HE RU. the Prince of Wales, bes been in Rome,and has vieited the ~ im- |potent vid man,’ and who knows but he. ie more or less ;“ infected with the leaven of Pop r, "Be that os it may, we | know that during his tour throughout ©. mads last sumer he ‘reproved in themost praise wor hy manner the overbearing anso- jlencs and mamf st d sioyalty of tye rnffinne af that Prownce jwhocall thenselyes Orangemen. “Lie vob e manner im which tie Prince seed in Canada with regard to the U anzemen has {been commecded in the h great terms by alinont the eae i Biish and Aineri@ @ press, ® honszh you, Si have vnowght ; proper, for rere as best kaown ty ponree!!, to prese. ve, reper Mpg, an a@lioostem mows silence Frou these aml ender facts people are led to believe chat the polazy ef Baglaud te iwaris U.tho dis ie tok mg a favorable turn. The Catholic re! goo a pow extendug ies bot a ice ip pointed a Committee to wait ou [iis Ex-clieney, to kaow his | cept those for whom they are vot intended : ueverthe ess those } dcirasn ws be Oe eed @astie vyour, se sony be mferrea Low | pleasure when be should be atiended by the Llouse with the sume, louse adjourned. + Correspondence, ‘THE TEMPORAL LOWER OF TUK POPE. were To raz Epiror ov tur [sianper. Sir—In the Islander of the 8th inst you invited Protes | tants who wished ** to form a correct idea of the monstrous | pretensions of the Church of Rome,’ to give my letter, pab- | of his hands. tears are the tears of iunosence, and those thunlers are the thunders of jastice, Neither shall the former rema‘n forever barren, nor the latter forever powerless. Ls might be silenced bat not forever, nor for a long time. A thousand ' vuives in history aud in the Caures wai repeat the Von dicet | (it is not lowfu') of the holy Baptist to the tyrant. Mark it ‘well: it is notlng and it is everything. [t prevents nothing } ae lat this moment ; it will determine everything as to the future, | and that not only be‘ure the bar of God, but also before th: ibar of man. Lt prevented uot Herod trom workin his will ; | bat, after all, who would wish to have been Herod? lt jhindered not Pilate from letting loose the passious of the } blinded Jews; it merely cost him the troub!e of the washing But who would wish to become the Pilate of | } he tact that in Ragland aad Wales, tne pen!er of Caurenes land Chapels hive, amnog ibe pat year,.increased from 767 te 79C, wwerease Bly coummesties of mien nave ipereased fron BT to 47, increase $0; Coowems Rom 218 ty 150, merésse B2e aad Oi hebe Pres a tram BUSF%10-bbS7, ncieise $00! Allhou ch bese stats kex veil be gall and Wormwood to thee indiwwiduals who have ben sitaple enomgh t Taag pe thet ~ Popery” wae on ks deabend,yer they show very cles jthat these doctities wheeb you ae pleeed to term the “ mo. | #trous pretensto: Sof the Comrch of Kome,” axe taking a deep jusd on ioe Lass med 5 and that there is a strong prods jl ¥ ae , alors wacy years,a lagve majority of the erze and daughtwe or gud old Kagland’’ «iil be counted amongst [the bumbie, dutdal and deweted ch dren of the in peten we wan”? 1 aim, Sir, your vbedieut servant, hed in the same paper, an attentive perusal. In-my last stale i * A MeDONALD. lished in the aie pap : - e F , y.. 8! | the Papacy ?” | St. Dunstan's Coltege, February 26, 1861. letter I charged you with having used an ecoming expressions | — bo'jeye there are few genuine Christians who do not re ote i ‘ in representing the claims of the Catholic Church as * mon- 'strous pretensions.” In order to justify your language, you j ° . . ° nis have had recourse to the extraordinary course of publishing | a number of appellations and expressions which you say are taken from the works of Ferraris and Antoninus, and then adding :—** Such, we understand, are the claims of the Chureh of Rome.” Do you imagine that an intelligent | public will be duped by wretched sophistry like this? If my letter of the 2ud inst. contained those ‘ monstrous pre- | tensions” to form a correct idea of which you invited Protes- | tants to peruse it, why did you give yourself the trouble of quoting from Ferraris, &e., and then insinuating that certain } gard the conduct of those who indulge in iguoble sneers at | unjust in principle. 5. Qur wost serious attention shall be directed to the fact | ridiculous expressions were the claims of the Church? How Hoo. Mr. COLES.—I cannot understand the great ob- | that the Itev. nue as regards imposts on Spirits has decreased, | shall 1 characterize the ignob!e recklessness for misrepresen- jection of certain parties to the Loan Bill, as the amount of |? the face of increased duties, which It is to be feared iS tation which induced you to insinuate that [ said that it was interest which it specified was only four percent. The hon. | vaused by an extcusive system of susuggling. en member for Georgetown almost leaped into @ passion when | 6. We are gratified to hear that the Lind Commission, | tensions” the belief that * Our Lord the Pope” was “ King alluding to the action of the late Goverumeut in disposing of | which our Address to Her Majesty has procured, has inves- 9; Hejl 2’ Ferraris and Autoninus do not constitute the Warrants at a discount for the Road service. This was, he| tigated with the utmost care and diligence all questions sub- “ Ciurch of Kome;” neither are their peculiar expressions said, an unconstitutional proceeding, but | would like to hear |™/tted to it; and although it is to be regretted that the | the + ¢laims” outraging the feelings of Catholics to call * monstrous pre- | the Iloly Father iu his afflictions, as a proof of the absence, from their unfeeling minds, of some ef the most enuobliug ‘characteristics of our common humanity. The Vicar of | Christ will be little affected by derision or coarse witticisms ; i . . > . i | he will continue to defend truth and virtue, to denounce sa- | | crilege, perfidy, injustice and the iniquitous violation of the | law of natious, to lament the politica: and religious degene- racy, aud the atheistical dewayogy of many individuals of our day; relying on the words of Him who is Truth itself, ) te will, with sublime calmness, look on the tempestuous waves | of persecution dashing against his feet; uomoved and undis- mayed he will, uotil it shall please God to-calm the tempest, look on the raging waters and their innumerable bideous | fernal malice. | Towards the close of your lons efitorial you indulge the hope that the Uhurch will change her dogmas, so as to ** enabie | her to command the :espect of all who profess and call them- monsters, grinuing and gnashivg their fangs at him with in- | For tue Examine. NEW BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS. _ Hostilities have commenced. Toe allied forces, after recon- | poltring the cily Without meermiesion for tie space of three | weeks, made several nocturnal attacks upoa portions of its in- habirauts, bu. tie number who suffered or capitulated on terms , of hoporable defeat cannot yet be accurately ascerra ned. The conflicung reporis which every day reach us concerning the | Progress of Guts war render it unmpossible to understand the real | Condition of the invaders or the amount of resissance which they encouner. Cunfidently relying apon the interposition of a | Supreme Power, we aaticipat: that before many more weeks | (rausp re, peace will resume be dominion in New Branswick, jand check the spirit of spurious miliary ambition which a | appareutiy degenerating from the high aud well-earned repu- tation accerded to the projession of arms in times gone by. | The reader wili bear im im nd that. tae war now raising ite | audacious bow! in this Pro ince is e!topether agyressive in ite jCharacter; and thoagh, bke all such ware, it must terminate ) witb disgrace and humiliat-on micrived upon rs banners, yet him prove his assertion. A sum wae voted by the House Award of the Commissiouers bas from various causes been for the contingent expenses ef roads and bridges, and the (elayed, yet we are pleased to learn that it will be made ax Government considered it quite proper to ob:ain money to 4! ly as practicable, iu ihe ensuing sumer, } meet the orders on the Road Correspondent, by appropriat- | 7. We observe that the interpretation put by the Legis- pg a part of this sum to make up the deficiency caused by | lature of this Colony upon the views of His Grace the Duke the discount allowed. But the present Government when | of Neweastie, rega:ding the necessity of @ measure to render in need of money under such ci:cumstances, are assisted by | b'nding the decision of the Laud Commission, aad to give the Bank for political purposes, Hon. Mr. LONGWORTIL—There has been none re-| Act to which your Excellency alludes, was different from ezived from the Bank for the Koad Service. ‘that which [lis Grace now states was his ipteution, as ex- | validity to that decision, aud which led to the passing of the | of that Caurch. It matters little, therefore, | selves Caristions.”’ You appear to regard the doctrines of the the lamen able fact is asserted in one of the official despatches, , whether your quotations are genuine, or whether they are | Chureh sometiing like acts of Pariiawent, wiich should be | that during an engigement which took plice a few evenings vot; and if similar extracts were so multiplied as to fill the | changed to suit the times ; and you seem to desire that the work )sinee.inore thon Que hundred of the conbatanws were put hors whole Islander, they would profit you naught, for they ap- Lof Const shou d be reformed, in order that Christians might de combet. It may be well 10 ware, br ely, ‘he cause and obd- , 2 a F ” i. * pertain not tothe sujet. IF yondnive tn know th cans |h,oP ih” the ghtof sha rent comry tou wen! gree af ui Grmdabe invasion on ie ghia aud ere of the Church, L woud refer you to ber formuluries of faith | Variations of the Cathohe Church?’ You must entertain a) A number of ibe chivalrous and golly of the superior officers and te her dogmatic decrees. | very luw opinion of the Church when you appear to “indulge | attached to the different bariabons stationed an the strongholds lf, in your Opinio, there are “ monstrous pretensions,” | the hope”? thatshe wil! so siuitify herse.f as to change her duc | throughoat the conutry, having es eblushed someting ike & “errors and corruptions” in the Catholic Church, is it not | trimes—that is, to go through the degrading operation of ** eaf- | political coalition, and, be.ng actuated by similar mot ves with highly unbecoming, insolent, and [ may add, even disgrace- | "9 the leek,’* aa political writers term it. Do not imagine thai | those of tie old Crosaders, formed a conscription of vereran old Hon. Mr. COLWS.—Well, an arrangement was made with the Bank last year to receive money from it; and we eannot tell to what purpose it is applied. Ass to issuing War- rants without authority, | contend that the late Government would never have adopted euch a course; Lowever, as the amount issued by the Government appears to have becn only £2000, and thereby the ertaic was procure) on more reason- able terms, perhaps we should not raise furthor objecticag on the point. The paragraph wes then agreed to, es was also the filth. The sixth paragreph was read thea. © Hon. Mr. COLKS.—This peregreph, Mr. Chairman, is fo answer to one in the Speech whieh etates that the Land Commission bas inrestigsted with the atmost care and dili- grace those questions submitted to it. Now, Sir, I daresay tuis was easily dore, for ouly the questions rsbmitted to it by the Government were the resolutions pasted by this House two years ago, which were repudiated by the Duke of New- castle. His Grace stated that he bad referred the reselutions to Sir Samue! Cunard, who, with other proprietors, wus of opinion that the labors of sach a Commission, 2s was suppos- ed by the House, would be uot atisfactory, as would terminate only in a report which would not be binding on any of the parties, and suggested that three Referees be appointed with power to hear and determine aé/ the questions in dispute. This proposal was concurred in by the Duke, and the resolu- tions ed, because they did not include all the questions at issue, aud would lead to nothing binding. Still these re- solutivos thud repudiated, with perhaps the exception of a ‘ spatch or two from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, were al] that the Government rubmitted to the Commission- ets; and I will undertake to show that if these gentlemen in- . ves'igateé with dil rence the questions brought before them, + war indeper.dently of any assistance from the present Go- “werr ment. The Duke of Newcastle in bis desp» ict in answer to that of the eee euclosing the resolutions of te Touse lngt-ses-tcn agreeing to the Commission, says: — * at will be desirabic that previous arrangements should yi act.cabie, tor baving at baud all witness- oe lt be a. a ined dete ' pressed in his Despatch on this subject ; but we feel assured that when the Comm-ssioners wake their Award, Ller Ma- jesty’s assen. will then be given thereto, 8. We are gratified to learn that the purchase of the Sel- kirk Estate bas been attended with satisfactory results, and | that the great majority of the tenauts have availed themselves of such a favorable opportuuity of becoming freeholders ; and that the amount of de, Osite already received is @ proof that the purchase of that Kstate will not eutail any loss to the Colony. ¥. Under the cireymstance of your Excellency not being able to ucgotiate Debentures at five per cent., in accordance with she dyed Purchase Act, whilst Treasury Warrauts yielded six per ceut., we approve of the course adopied by your bxcelleucy in issuing Warrants for that service. 10. We are pleased to iearu that your Exceilency’s efforts in organising Volunteer Rifle and Artillery Corps have been responded ty in a praissworthy manoer by numbers of spirited youug men wurolling themselves. We will cheer- | fully wake guch provision lor supporting and encouraging | the morement as our limited mesus will afford, in order to enable your Excellency to further their efliviency. Your Excelleucy’s suggestion respecting the Militia law not being applicable to them, shail receive our best consideration, 11. Lt is pleasing to kuow that the reception given to the Prince of Wales by tue People of this Colony was geatilying to His Royal Highness, testitying as it did au attachment and loyalty so characteristic of its ivhabitanis, 12. We curdiaily unite with your Exeelieucy in the fer- vent hope that our deliberatious may, with the favour of Divine Provideuce, conduce to the honor and welfare of this Island. The first to the fifth paragraphs, inclusive, of the Address, oo the question being separately put thereva,were agreed to, As the question was ubout to be put on the sixth paragraph, Hou. Mr. Whelan moved to amend the same by striking out the whole thereof, aud inserting tbe following :-- ~* We are not insensible to the importance of the investi- | ful, for a public tunetionary, the highcst official in the Colony, | to be devrading himself to the level almost of a tub-preacher, {t itl becomes 8 secular journal, and especially owe edited by a Colonial Seeretary, to attack the religion of a large, or even a small portion of the community. [t may be mach safer for you, at the presert “ crisis," to write diatribes against the Popes, than to defend, like a person of inde- poudence, the position which you lately assumed with regard to the Land Question ; but 1 will be much surprised if such violeut and unprovoked attacks raise your journal much in the estimation even of the most prejudiced anti-Catholics. You have oulled the claims of the Church “ monstrous pre- tensions,” and Ll appeal to tho Protestant public to say stigmatizing the religion of nearly oac-half of those who con- tribute to bis salary ? With regard to the words that the Saturday Review ascr.bes to Card. Wiseman, The Weekly Register, which appears to be the organ of his Hminence, saye :—* A para- graph has been going the round of the London papers, on the authority of the Saturday Review. Roman do!lars (more than £200,000,) from England ; that * Vardinal Wiseman, as Pontifical tax-gatherer in this eoun- try,’ bas assured him that the Catholics wouid give towards ments tor the political enthralment of his subjeots,’ We ueed not assure our readers that all this is a mere canard,” anglice, a hoar! ' You say “ we think Mr. McDonald would haye as little difficulty in believing the Pope ‘tobe equal in power to Curist’—* whose Viear he is’-—although ‘only a creature,’ us he has in believing that to be * the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ’ which his senses of touch, taste aud sight tell him is simply bread and wine.” You are aware, Sir, | presume, that it would cost a dis- ciple of Voltaire, Bayle, or tne author of the “ Emile,” gation made by the Laud Commission, aud we readily jou very little to deride in ab emous manner the most and insulting Catholics regarding the claims of their Chureh 2 | whether it ia becoming for Mr. Secretary Pope to be thus | It states that Mr. Hen-. hesey, whom it styles * Gur new Ambassador at Rome,’ has | Promised the Holy Father a yearly tribute of one million of the support of the Pope's spiritual dignity,but nut * for arma. the Church will vary ber ** clanns” to sui the whims fad pas- | sions of all those woo call themselves Caristians, with the same | views regarding the Loan Bill. This i+, tudeed, the ave of improvement in the arts and Vhe conditions necessary fur saivation eighteen hundred years ago and at the present time are the same. ‘l'ruth is eternal and ¢hanges wot. Christ 18 (he same yesterday, to-day and fer ever. ‘The Holy Scriptures say—** Many are called but few are chosen ;°’ ** He that believeth not shail be coodemned ;”’ is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who g? in thereat. Mow sankow Is 1HE GATE AND STRAIGHT Is THE WAY THAT LEADETH TO LIFE: AND FEW THERBARE THA‘ reno iv!" | doubt not but this jast text may, in your opinion, | Saveur too much of ** exclusive salvation,” and it ie likely that | you would be inclined to amen. it in such a manner as would make the path leading to eternal tife sufficiently wide to adinit, at leper, ‘all those who profess aud ca.l themselves Chris- liaus. As ** exclusive salvation” seems to be a doctrine for which you have a strong dislike, and as you appear to have eschewed polines, | will give you a few ** orinedox” paragraphs, com- menteries upon which from your pen would, without dew.st, be very acceptable (0 your numerous readers. Calvin says of the visible Church :—** Out of its bosom no remission of #02, 40 Salvation is to be hoped fur.’’? L. LV. Inst. C. 1. p. 4. ¢ Beaa saye:—‘* There is only one true Church ; and there always was and aiways wiil be a Church, out of which Were is no salvation.”’ In Conf. fil. C. V. par. 2. King James 1., or Casaubon in 6 name, ia his letter to Car- dinal Perron, says:—* ‘Phe King piaiwly believes, without failacy or deceit, that there 1 ow'y ove Church of God, called as it truly is, Catho ic or Universal, spread over ai! the world ; out of whieh Church he holda, that no salvation ought to be expected.’’ In Resp. ad. Perr, The Protestants of Switzerland, in their profession of Faith, of 1566, say—** We have so great a value for being in com- munton with the true Church of Curs:, tuat we say, those cannot-have' life in the sight of God who are not in communion with the true Church of God, but separate theuiselves from a Goat. enetiay cap. 17, in Syatag. Confes. Fid. Genev. A Pp. ‘* Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad | men, ¢ msumptlon-=nort raged women, together with the ** beauty and coivalry’’ fromthe suburban parwhes, and having | twcility as some of vur Island poliicians have chauged their | concluded other preluninary #rrangements, reso!ved with cot- |dial unanimity to convert the whule world from its venerable errors in christianity to the godlike and sy:rivualized creed ene sciences ; but be assured shat people caanot go to heaven by unciated aud protessed by te saints aud elect of the preseut dey. means eiher of the electric telegraph, 8 eain mills or railrvads. | The oaly Christian people who maintain a neutral positioa in this war, are the aruies of the two Episcopal Churches. Toe Rt. Rev. Commander-in-Cinnet of the Aughean fofces mili- tant, positively forbade his subordinates to join m the holy alliance. The wearer of the orvher mire has had mo necessity 10 issue his orders, for the allegianee of his * eighty trovsend” to their benaer of patriarchical lexture ts proof agarmst playing _ the renegade. - tion United prayer meetings for the outpourings of the spirit hare been held here with wonderful punctuslity. in order 10 ¢ ‘lyse the whole universe i genera), but ireland and {taly in | particular, : . This pouring out of spirits is a most enrious thing altogether ; and itus d.fficuit to comprehend bow or by what operation it © pe:furmed, unless upon the principle, forced trom the Bible that every pergon must be his own judge ov at] matters concern ‘ing (he exercise aud product:ons of those ou! pourings of spirite. Psnaw ! cao ** An evil soul produc‘ng holy writ Is like a villain with a ewiling cheek,-~ A goodly apple rotten at the core.” Mr. Gray bas introduced a Bill into the Legistature for the erection of a Criminal Court in St. John, to be distinct from the civil busines+, and to be presided over by some legal gentie- man of not less than ten years standing at the Bar. -Itis likely ‘to become a law, and will relieve the Circuit Court of much troublesome and dilstory busin: ss. : | ‘The seventh of this mouth was the collest day experienced here for the law fourteen yeare, In some parts of the country the thermometer sivod 40 below zero, was frozen just as I was coming down from that street that! on to anotner one, and iersecung at wight angles and thes leading to another; but when | got home, L hag it rr by the application of tae necessary prescription, They letter of Waa SeGuis ai the roe Governor, breathes a the soul of independence ; and | read it with pee » heightened pride. Weil done, ex-Mojor, trample under 00 with @ proud contempt and delanc¢ all the dictates of 3 .* Royal servants. dst. John, N, B., Fed. Qi, 1861. P, “ ne of amy a 3