= ese CORRESPONDENCE a ae Rogie i . jo. 8 the same. | youershut your bible, says i? No, says he, i : Mx. Epiton j= ‘they Saw at. Don't you find the Catholies The meeting was then opened by Colonel \ good long while ago yoo printed a letter | wood neighbours, says 1? Well, sayshe, I'll | Watlles, the Chairman, who said that he hoped the i meeting would take jute cousideration the ane You may depend upon it) say that for them, that I neow they - as expected honour which was conferred on him, and There " | good Reighbboars as aman could wish ' "the fact that he was but a short time eonnected it want a helping hand, and when [I'm in with the parish, in drder to wake allowance for j trouble, [ find them as good as Protestants, | his shortcomings. "The objeet of the present He cm fiad out merit in spite of) wand better chau agood many, But then, says! meeting, as they were aware, was to arrive at he, they hate us in their hearts, and its only | some conelusion respecting the right of pew-holders ithe fear of the law that hinders them from|to dispose of their seats. Ile would be most | alli J say ’ niece | happy to hear any suggestion which might be ; killing us. Now, says f, ain’t you @ nice | "pp ei j ne Leheubovtll horritly grammatised, yet be could find out| Christian. By your own tell the Catholiva| Prepesed. The preseat Shick e ; adie I ue a 1 ‘the ; | Court avese from a parishioner, to whe : That there letter was what} are as good as the are ef nee was let, refusing to pay the owner of the pew the fulks call an era in my existence ; ever since they are ready to help you im your need, stipulated sum, although he was willing to give it, | they feel for you in you troubles, and although then [ paid more attention to what I saw in and offered it to him as a voluntary contribution. ' oO “ from me to you. 1 was proad when I sow it in print. says [to myself, is a man with some sense ai him all kinds of disadvantages. ter wae badly wrote and badly spelled, and Though my let the sense of it. they have ten thousand chances to hurt you | ‘pis the owner retused to accept, and hence the the papers, and what I read in books, and without you ever knowin (t, yet your property j present action. In consequence ot this dispute what | heard from the pulpit and other | is as safe, and you sleep as sound in your ee ee ee | be } ds rojo etirst Sunday atfer aster. glace. Felke te beginning tolangh atm. and} ee — eee ee i. tenaiatel tothe churchwardens to be reinstated say | am getting mighty wise and conceited, | dence that they are kind nabours and feelin| i# the pew held by ~~ me wires Peat toss and all the rost. For all ¢hat they seem to| trienda, yet you take it upon yourself oe ee = ee a el mind what I say more than they used to. 1) judge their hearts, and say they really hate| 7) of, favettel: especially in relation to owners tim afraid that if the newspaper editors knew | you, and are only waitin for a chance to do | of other pews, did not Dooun it eiuinabhietn tells what ase my neighboure make of me that| harm to you and yours This is'nt a hit like | upon themselves the responsibility of deciding the they would try to put me down. Why, sir,| the chagity that thinketh no evil. And if! question. In consequence of this the matter was I gives owt all the news second hand; I've | you're so suspicious of them, have'nt they as} brought before the Consisterial Court on last fought ofer and over all the battles in the | good reason to be as suspicious of you? 1} Saturday, when the churchwardeus were cited to States. I've been to Poland, and if it wasn't; know you, Mae, and I know that you would nt | attend, but Dr. LDattersby post poned the hearing for them blamed hard rames, I do believe! hurt the hair of the rankest Catholic alive ;/ till next Saturday week, so as to give time to the Ilave they ever tried to hurt | possessing pews in the churehi to let or dispose of | I'd make my friends believe [ was privy | and more than that, | believe, that you would | parishioners to convene a meeting, and give ex- eounsellyr to the Rooshan Emperor. And | go as far, and do as much to help your Catho thea about our own politics, though my po-| lie neighbour as any man, buat does the) tions don’t suit a great many, yet they make | Catholic know that? Has nt he just as good | seme impression upon a few. Folks is con-| reasan to believe that your kind words and | tinually asking me questions what 1 think | friendly acts is all 4 piece of policy—a beaut. | about this, and what [ think about that, and/ ful coat to cover a black and rotten heart. what this will come to, and how that will Ilas’nt he a better reason? When he sees a} end. Sometimes [ get cross and answer! society starting up among us, which has all | mighty short, for you know, Mr. Editor,/ along been the bitter enemy, and sometimes | common people like me is made great fools| the unmerciful ruler of Catholics, when he, of these times. Ard what's worse, the big-| sees our young men and our old men, and est fools think themselves the wisest people. | even the ministers of our holy religion flock-' Tow, ace for one instance, there's neighbour) ing to join it, bas'nt he a good reaser to| Mac,—well, I won't meation no names—he's | believe that we bate him, and that only for| & poor fellow, who, @ long time ago, stuck) policy, and because we want the power that) into the middle of the hardwood forest, and| we allow him the rights ef a tree man ?) bas been grabbing and toiling ever since to! Every body does'nt think much about things raise @ family and pay his reat. lis family | —most of people see what's onthe top. The is growing up, bat the poor man is wore ap; bulk of the Catholic people only see the act, too, and basa whole of back reat erush-| they don’t enquire into the motive. They ing him to the earth. Well, he hates the|see people hke Donald ¢here joining the Toprietors; he says they have takea his, society, they know the Society is against the veart’s blood from bim, aod snatched his) Uatholics, and they think that those who join children’s bread from thaje mouthe and their | itare the enemies ef Catholics. You andme, clothes from their backs, and is going to Mac, has been very good nabours, yet there jeave him in his old age withouta root to cover! wag a time before we got into one another's fie. Ho's a religions man, is Mac—none of | ways that we had some pretty hard talk. | your canting, whinimg bypecrites, but a de-| You did some things that | did not think was) cent, honest, Christian man. Weill, before! right, and I, no doubt, did and sed many the election, he comes to me, and says : | things you did'nt think wasright. Suppose ** Neighbour Homespun, I don’t know what them times, when there was hard feelins be-| todo. I don't believe that them Tories will) tween us, I locked my door, and broug)t in ever do us tenants éne bit of good ; it ain't in| all my boys, and got them to take an oath their natore to de it. Why, when | count) not to allow you to move the big stone at the| them over em my fingers, I get completely | line, and not to marry your daughter, and| outolheart. Look, 20%, there’s Yeoand two a heap of other things; and suppose L was | Popes and Paimer and Longworth and Havi- continually finding fault with you in my own | land, them's the bead and heart and soul of | family, and puttin on my spectacles to find | the Tory party. What can we expect from | out the holes in your coat, and suppose now, them ?” than acthing,”’ says 1. + It ain't in their suppose, then, [ set apart one day in every | mature that they should help you.’’ ‘I see year to keep in memory my victory over you | that,’’ says he, shaxing his head. ‘About in that trespass case, and suppose [ kept a that Award, now,’’ says he, ‘do you think) picture of Squire Straitedge in my house, | ps will come of it?"’ ‘+ Now,’’ says| and ended every meetin for the last twenty | 7, ‘don't put me out of temper. After what years by burraing for Squire Straitedge. Do| you said just now, you must be simpler than | you think, under these circumstances, we| baby not to see that no good will ever come | would ever got to be the friends and nabours | of it. Just count over them men that has the tbat we arenow? Don't you think that in- hatehing of it, and see where the place to! stead of our families being as they are, like} hepe is.’’ ** Bat,’’ says he, ‘afterall, some-| one family, and you comin here when your! thing may be done; | can't give it up yet.’ | lonesome and out of heart, and me goin over I suid nothing, for I felt a kind of sorry for| to your place for every little tuing | wanted, | the poor fellow. ‘If it wasn’t fur that | and both of us tryin bard to help each other, | Award, I think ['d vote for the Liberals,’’ | and both of us understandin one another, | tays he, after abit. *‘* But,’ saysbe again, and havin confidence in one another, we **the Catholies is all on that side.”” **What would be the blackest enemies in the world? of that,” says 1; **what has that got to do It ain’t in reason that it would be otherways, | with it?’ “If the Catholics is all on one| I don’t believe, if I acted that way, we could side, it stands to reason that the Protestants| live in the settlement. Both of us would get) should all join on the other,’ says he. a mighty sight worse every year, and you ** What for?” says I. He seemed something would get yourself to believe that | was the ae. You know,” saya he, ** that the| biggest scoundrel in the whole world, and ‘atholies want to get the upper hand, and my opinion of you and your family would, if they do there'll be awful times."’ **What/ not be much better, I bet a dollars Phere! makes you think the Catholics want to get! would be no end to the quarrels and lawsuits | the apets hand, as you call it?’ Why,’’| that would be between us. Why, we would) says he, ‘that’s what they're always trying | be the curse of the settiemens. Mac says, | for; 1 just heard a chap reading a letter, I'm most frightened at that picture, hat 1 from the Ministers in Town, and they say | believe in myheart that you are rite, I kuows | that if Protestants ain't true this election,| what I knows, and 1 know that one time it} our liberty will be all gone, and the Roman. | would'nt been a very hard job to make me_ ists will ride over us rough shod. And Bill | bleeve that you would a’most cut my ttitoat, Pope's been eee the horriblest things | if you only dared ta. [ don’t doubt it, old, out of Catholic books that ever you heard.’’| friond,says 1. Now, says I, the Orangemen, ** [don't see that it’s any particular business | is just doin what it would have been so wrong | of mine what the Catholics believe or what and foolish for me to have done, they are| they don't telieve,”’ says 1. ‘* Can't you see) keepin alive oid quarrels, and hinderin them- wane that Bill is playing? Hesaid over| selves irom understandin their Catholic’ in New Brunswick, I heard, that theonly way nabours. As for all that staff about our’ | pression to their opinions on the subject. In reply te & question, the chairman further observed that the object of the present meeting was to determine the rights of the owners of pews in the Church whose claims would seem to be established by time and prescriptive right. ~*~ * The Chairman said it was the opinion of Dr Battersby that when a parishioner left the parish lus wight toe the pew ceased, after which it would be allucated by the churchwardens. “~ * * * Mr. Clay proposed that a committee be appointed to decide what steps should be taken in the matter, Mr. Collins then said—Mr. Chairman, as nothing practical has as yet been done, and conversation earried on which seems to me to lead to much misconception, I would ask leave to say a few words. In the first place, I consider it wholly irregular and inexpedient to introduce the name of the rector in this meeting. No responsibility rests upon him. ‘The law has wisely and properly shielded him from any trouble in the distribution of pews, and has fixed his private and sacred duties by placing between him and the parish officers eleetea oy the people, on the widest fran- chise known to them, viz., the churchwardens with whom the whole duty rests Now, sir, 1 think much misconception is likely to arise fram the conversation that has taken place, and from Mr. Williqms’s statemeut. There are two rights claimed and affected by this transaction. One the law reeognizes, the other the law utterly ignores. ‘The first is the oecupation of pews, the second is the right of transter, ‘The pews are unassailable, and the churchwardens cannot dis- place an vecupying member to make way for auother; and if he exeretses any capriciows au- thority, the gourt will andv his acts. The second the law properly repudiates that a man ceasing to require a pew may sell it to another, and name his own successor. Such aright neither does nor ought tu exist. Coufusion and difficulty would follow. Nor ean any effort of ours alter the law. ‘a musical car might ¢ Be | errors in the playing of the Band on S| day evening Jast. ‘The chief ones observable | | that’s what they want? Not that I ever |Consistorial Court, as to the right of parties | o| heard, says he. . ° 99 harsh.’ Somuch forthe *‘ attentiveleader’s”’ | bass performance, The reed instraments can-| other instrument, heeause they do form any part. The E flat clarionet 18 a) leading instrument , but when the ‘* attentive leader’? is not capable of teachin, playing. or arranging music for it, it 18 useless. When the B flat Clarionets were introduced into the Volunteer Band, the ‘* attentive leader’? then and there condemned them, and had them offered for public sale, they being at the same time the very best deserip- tion of Clarionets, and without fault, being Mr. Pask’s make, one of the best makers in the United Kingdom. So much for the * at- tentive leader's’ knowledge of Clarionets. If the leader is not clever at arranging music, there is one thing be is particularly clever at, that is weighing biscuit. If to have the pleasure of listening to good music and arrangement — of seeing anvther instrmental Band started in the city, and that no religious bickering or ill feeling will be;tolerated by its members, or that no person, on aceount of his religious opinions, will be prohibited from being a member. Thank:ng for the space afforded in your valuable journal, lam, Mr. Editor, Yours truly, BASS. — To rue Eprror o THE Examiner. Dear Epiror ; Would you be kind enough, both for the benefit of your readers and the writer, to give the following epistle a place in your journal, and oblige A TEACHER. To ruz Hon. K. Henperson. Str,—Not seeing the Examiner very often is a sufficient excuse why I did not write the following sooner. 1 was not aware, until lately, that you had, in your legislative ca- pacity, asserted that the statements made by the Teachers, ata meeting in Graham's Road School House, concerning Mr. Arbuckle, were uotrue. I consider if there is any untruth about it, you are the one who has tola it— at the same time not accusing you of stating a known falsehood. Four teachers were pre- sent at that meeting, who, by request of the meeting, stated how often their respective schools had been examined. ‘I'wo of these, at least, you aceuse of making false state- ments, but which two you allude to is not! pointed out, consequently the public may | charge any of the four with falsehood. Now. Sir, this is a grave charge, and ought not to have been so lightly made. You have wounded the feelings of those persons who convened the meeting, by making such un- a — asily detect several NU : Z t Poland is still the theatre of frightfal iroe | men 1 batred agaiaat the Iloping soon) ~ €Srare OF POLAND. cities; and all the power and ferocity of ° | ° » > C. . - i on 7 were in the bass instruments being hard and | ¢)e Russians cannot put dowa the insurrec-) jyeyt in the worst of times! tion. : The news from there is most harrowing. not be ** drowned '’ by the corner | We know 00 parallel in modern history to) o not per-|the atrocities eommitted by the Russians) upon the Poles, except the barbarities per- petrated by the Orangemen and the Hessians in Ireland in 1798. One infamous Russian General sends three Polish prisoners to the slaughter every day, by way of striking terror into the people. General Mouraviell has ordered that all Polisn ladies who shall dare to wear mourning shall be subjected to the knout — the most brutal punishgnent known in Russia;—and has seized upon a number of married ladies as hostages, whom he threatens with death if their husbands do not surrender to be hanged or shot the next hour. The Archbishop of Warsaw has been summoned to St. Petersburg tor presuming to claim for Christian sepulture the body ot a Priest who was hanged lor sympathising tov warmly with hiscountrymenin theirefforts to regain their guaranteed rights,—and the barbarities perpetrated on the remains of an- other ecclesiastic are absolutely sickening. The victim, a young Monk, gave bis services us chaplain to a division of the insurgent forces. For this the Prior of his house was arrested and threatened with death unless the young Clergyman delivered himself up. Hearing of the perilous position of the Prior, the brave young Monk immediately pro- ceeded to the nearest Russian outpost and gave himself up, whereupon he was ordered tu be executed ; but the Russian soldiers, in carrying the sentence into effect, twice fired over the victim's head to prolong his agony. W hen at last they killed bia, they flung his body, with his monastic robe and crucifix, into a hole, which they filled up with filth, and having covered it with sand, they made their horses trample it down, 80 as to complete their barbarity and glut their ven- geance. Lf this be the spirit in which the agents of the Czar are authorized or directed to act towards the Poles, we fear there is not much chance of his agreeing without pressure to the terms proposed by Austria, England, and France, for the pae:fication of Poland. But when the three Great Powers have agreed upon @ line of conduct with regard to « great European question, and bave in a joint note submitted the terms upon which they conceive that that question should be settled, we have aright to presume that they have taken into account the possibility of the Czar’s declining to accept those terms, and prepared their measures accordingly. It is net to be supposed that such powers as Great Britain, France, and Austria would devote months to deliberation on the Polish question, and after much interchange of dip- founded assertions respecting it. ‘hey were | persons who used their influence to place you | in authority who convened that meeting, not) | for the purpose of weakening or injuring, bat! peace, without being prepared to enforce the weceptance of their terms, if the obduracy of the Autocrat should compel them to do so. [ must, sir, regret that any such course as bas | for assisting and strengthening your party. | fjaying taken the matter in hand they musi It has had the result that always attends illegality and irregularity. 1 believe also such a course was wholly unnecessary. I do not believe that the Protestunt gentlemen whe then resided in Monkstown were behind their fellow-worshippers in Ireland or England, or that of an appeal had been properly made to them that their hearts would have veeu so turned against God, and steeled against the wants of their poorer neigh- bours, that an appeal could only reach them through Ainerica, and that their only principle of action would have been selfisbness. I do not beheve that this church would have raised its head as lugh and spread its walls as wide if ite foundation had not “axe laid in errer and wrong. Sir, the best answer to such a charge is, that some of thase men and the successors of others, when an appeal had heen made, gave a differeyt reply. L call on the Church of St. John, handsome and capacious, finished and completed, and handed over without owing one farthing of debt, as the best answer to a slander upon the living and a calumny upon the dead, Lut, sir, a different / course was adopted at that time, and hence we } are to reap its bitter fruits and consider how to | deal with them. The oceupation of pews should be peremptorily confined in the hands of ali proper ) eccupants ; the right of barter deeidedly stopped, | As to the) being both illegal and most disastrous. latter, in the first place the law wholly forbids it. In the seoand place, the purchasers became purchasers of that which cannot be sold, and took conveyance of that which cannotbe the subject of conveyance. Surely there 1s no eqnity as against either third parties or the public. 3rd—Siry I am not aware that these purchasers suffered any loss. They and their families have occupied pews un- disturbed, which they valued at least at two or three pounds a year. Others have received rents till they have been more than overpaid. But the ame still returns, what is proposed te us to do? Are we to resolve that the law laid down by that able lawyer, and sound, right-thinking gentleman, is unsound law, or to resolve that to govern this Island was by settin the Pres-| rites, its what folks now a days call bosh. | because we do not like it we will not obey it. It byterians and Catholics fighting. What he! There ain’t the least danger of Protestants | has been thrown out that the question has been | contimues with little abatement; and there ap- meant by goveraing the Island was, keeping| sleepin over their rites. You know human-_| '2'8¢d by those who have no interest in the matter. the Tories in power and drawing four hun-| dred a year for himself out of the Treasury. | enough to stick up for their rites any time. | He's a eute fellow, that Bill ; he knew well nature well enuf to kuow that folks is ready Now suppose Catholics was foolish enough Sir, I have an interest, for I purchased a pew and paid a large price for it, but shali never dream of otlering such a thing for sale. I valued my pew at £5a year. If Land my family oceupy it enough that the Tories would not do any- | and wicked enough, to try to take eway any- | sufficiently long I will be repaid, if not the chureh- thing for the tenantry. fle knew well enough that after a little while the people | would get tired of them and send them off about their business ; so he thinks to himself | if he could get up this religious question, and| set the tenants jawing and fighting about that, they would not think about their in- | terests. The proprietors would then live in peace, and he would get fat on a big salary, | with very little to do. So he commences! writing, and the Catholics write back again ; then Jobnny Arbuckle, J. B. Cooper, Donald | Carrie, and a whole parcel more, whose bread depended upon the Tories remaining) in office, took up the cry. I don’t want to gay anythi srespectful of ministers,”’ | sayel, ** but | will say that Pope & Co. found some of them their readiest and blindest tools. | Some of them thinks aa are doing their) daty, and more again thinks if religion is the | question to divide the people, they will be) beggarmen. Don't you see that ministers is only men like you and me, and almost every man likes to get power and to feel important hats to them, and thinks a heap of them for being pious and well-learned men, they likes | all this well enough ; that’s no more than! what's their due, and what they're used to ;| but when such men as Col. Grey and the other big bugs in Government.bows to them and axes them to dinner, and listens to them as if they was 9 wise as appossel Paul, and when they gets the power to put this man in office and keep that man out, why itsa great snare. They'li be very apt to stretch their consciences a bit, and do aud say many things | that aint quite the thing. For m part, 1! k wpon # political parson something like 1 look upon a smokin woman. I can't abear to see a big black pipe stuck in a woman's mouth, no more nor I like to see a clergymen mixin up in party squabbles like self-seekin stamp orators.” ith that Mac holds up both his hands. and says, * Them’s danger- ous opinions of yours, neéghbour. You reads too many books those days. It won't do to say anything agin the clergy.’’ ‘* No more I do,’’ says l. ‘* There isn’t a man in this lsiand a clergyman more’n i do, as as he is a clergyman, but when he gets to be a pollytisian, | finds my respect coolin very considerable. And when I see them sidim with the enemies of the people, and | tryia all they ean to make people think hard of one another, I don't think they are fol- lowing close in the tracks of their great Master, who told them and me and you that it was no thanks to us if we loved our friends, but that we ought to love our ene- mies, to do good to them that hurt us, and to pray for them that ase us bad and do all the m they can to us. And Ile didn't say it a bat he did it.’’ ** Well,’’ says Mae, “if we all did that, whata different world it would be, wouldn't it?’’ * You may say s0,”’ says I. After a bit, Mae says, my Donald is dread- fully taken up with them Orangemen. I think he's goin to join them, if he hasnt done it already, he says a whole lot of the boys hae joined and he was awful curious to find out the seercts. He is'nt much given to tiiukin, that's @ faet, but you see the boy ia potty ae luke the sheep, what they see others doin they like todo. For my part, I am gettin too old for them sort of things, but ff they keers the Catholics down, I've nothing @gen it. What do you mean by keeping | down Catholies, says 1? Why, says he, to hender them from takin away our rights, and shuttin our bibles, and all that. Who Rays they want to take away our rights. and shat, our bibles, says 1; do the Catholics say that’ thing from us that we call a rite, don’t you think that every Protestant in the land would stand up and manfully tell them t p that they need‘nt try that, fur we'd die be-| Its resolution can bind no one, and I wish merely | 4 In case they would, | f° state that I believe any man knows as well, fore we'd give one inch. I bet a dollar if we ever came to that pinch, | that some who talk so mighty big now | {anster of pews is uot only illegal io itselt but would feel mighty like skedaddling, for all | their Orange oath ; "md many who now sing | out for fair play, would be in the first rank | to defend what we hold dear. I would dis-| own a son of mine who would slink away like a coward when there was real danger | bat | would be heartily ashamed of one who | would do another an injury just for fear that | that other would hurt nim some day. Fear| makes more tyrants than cruelty. As long as the Catholics are peaceable people and| good nabours, it is wrong and foolish to treat) them any way bat like our Protestant na- bours. What they believe,or what the dis- believe, is no business of ours. If any one feels inclined, and wants to harm them, better les them go, and talk to them and not to us, : ; if poor men oe ae and me takes off dee | cbous their creed. There’s no fear of us| pypchened the pew, dub upon the, Hepensontation turning Catholics. 1 always find that those who are always finding fault with other peo ple’s religion, hav'nt got a bit too much of their own. If we wants to see faults, let us look at our own, and we'll find enough to make us sick of that employment for one while. If you’l) just look at the thing strate in the face, nabour Mae, you'll see that all this fuss, and all this bad feelin ia just to keep in office a few fellows who has not got the brains, nor yet the inclination to govern us well, and they find it much easier to set simple Protestants and Catholics fightin, than to look after the business of the country. I've writ so much that L can only sign my- self, your obliged friend HUMPHREY HOMESPUN. Free Hill Farm, July, 13863. --- +--+ oe____- Cuarottetown, July 2nd, 1863. Sir,--1 beg to express my thanks for your kindness in iaserting my letters of 18th March and 9th April, on the subject of the improper management, &e., &e., of the Pews in St. Paol’s Chureh. As there appears no dis- position tu remedy the evil brought forward, will you allow me to trespass on your kind- ness in requesting you to give an insertion to the accompanying article, received by the last mail, as appearing in the Irish Times, 12th June, 1865. J. P. BEETE. The resolution passed at a large and influential meeting of the pewholders in Monkstown Chureh appears to meet with the law and the equity of the matter in question. The meeting unanimously resolved that “ while they acknowledged the claims of the original subseribers for the completion of the church and their descendants to the pews allocated to them on account of such contributions, the meeting wholly disapproves of any rents being charged by such or any other owners of pews for the oceupation thereof.” Equity requires that they who subscribed on the understanding that they should have a sitting in the church tor them- selves and their families, but the law, we believe, does not acknowledge the right of any individual to sell his pew or charge rent for it. Indeed, io some cases, as in that recently tried with respect to the sittings in the Cathedrai of Derry, it has been decided that the ordinary can re-allot the pews upou the enlargemeut or alteration of a eburch. MONKSTOWN CHURCH—IMPORTANT MEETING. Pursuant to notice, a meeting of ihe parishioners and pew-holders of Monkstown Chureh was held this evening in the Parochial School-honse, tor the purpose of taking into eousideration and adopting such measures as might be deemed advisable wit! respect to a question now pending belure the | wardens will find a better successor. Sir, I have trespassed too long. I consider it not meet for any legitimate purpose, or able to do any good. and might have expressed better, that the sale and disastrons in its consequences. After some further conversation, Mr. Saunders proposed the following resolution :— Resolved—“ That whilst this meeting will ac- knowledge the elaims of the original subscribers for the completion of the church, and their descendants, to the pews allocated to them on account of such contributions, the meeting wholly disapproves of any rent being charged by such or any other owners of pews for the occupation thereof.” 7 * * * * * * Mr. Downs—It was generally known that he was the party to whom the matter referred. Wishing to dispose ot the pew, and having nothing further to do with the sale of sittings, he offered the pew for sale. He had a right to do this, as he purchased the pew for his tenants, and had a notice to that eflect posted up. Mr. Garnett of Mr. Evans he gave up his claims in his favour. He (Mr. Downs) requested Mr. Garnett to do this in dtder to accommodate Mr. Evans, but the latter gentleman, instead of purchasing the pew or paying the usual rent, enclosed a cheek to Mr. Downs as a “ voluntary contribution.” This he refused to accept, and, in accordance with his rights, disposed of the pew. (Hear, hear.) He was willing to accommodate Mr. Evans in every possible manner had be met hun in a proper spirit, but he could not consent to receive asa voluntary contribution what le regarded as a right. He had purchaaed the pews on the faith that he would have a vested interest in them, and some of the rectors informed him that it was not illegal te dispose of them. He had given Mr. Evans a month's warning of his intention to dispose of the pew, but of this he appeared to take no notice. When the pew was disposed of, Mr. Evans wrote to him saying that he was a tenant of his for four years, and that he should have given him an opportunity of purchasing it betore another person. Upov this he (Mr. Downs) communicated with Mr. Garnett, who kindly withdrew his claim, but Mr. Evans afterwards refused to purchase or pay for the pew except in the shape of a vuluntary contribution. —--—- see —— To tue Epitor or THe Examiggr. Sir ;—In your issue of the 2Uth ultimo, Sppener a letter over the signature of ** X L,”’ headed “ the fortnightly performance of the Volunteer Band,"’ wherein it is stated by the writer that if ** Miss Bird were amongst the large assemblage of persons who listened to the performance of several pieces of music by the Vuiunteer Band on Thursday evening last, on the Barrack Square, she would have to admit that we have made a musical step in advance siuce the period” she visited our Island home. Miss Bird is in error when she stated that Prince Edward Island eould not afford an instrumental Band. Now, lL beg leave to tell the writer ** X Y Z.’’ and Miss Bird also, that there was an instru- mental Band orf the Island, at the period she ‘**s0 graphically deseribes,’’ and discoursed sweeter and better music than the ‘* musical ear’? of the writer ‘“*X Y Z’’ listened to on Thursday evening last. 1 presume ‘* X YZ’’ at the expense of the ‘ attentive jeader,’’ is too satirical in his remarks, when he advises the citizens ‘* thata pleasant hour could be passed in walking on the Larrack Square, and inhaling the refreshing breeze floating from the Hillsborough,’’ &e. I have no Goubt but the citizens will feel much obliged for “*X Y Z's’ kindly ad- vice. The writer “ X Y Z’’ farther states that the music *‘ was remarkably good on ’| immigrants leaving its unhappy shores.—The ease | “Why nothing at all, and worse! I don't want to burt your feelins you know, | been stated here has been adopted to ruin many.) And now we may consider this the modern | _way of acknowledging a favour: instead of | | saying, asin the daya of old, ** Thank you, | sir,’’ 1t is now, ** You're a liar.”’ | The statements made by the Teachers at’ ‘that meefing, as appeared in the public | papers, are still maintained, notwithstanding | your assertions to the contrary. So we lay | | the onus probandi upon you. You may not| 'be altogether blan able, but certainly you | are to be held accountable for what you have | ‘said. Trusting, however, that you will not) \consider it beneath your dignity to answer this, that the accusation of untruth may not ‘lie at the door of the innocent, I remain, Sir, your obdt. servant, ONE OF THE TEACHERS. July Tth, 1863. Che Examiner, Charlottetown, July 13th, 1863. BRITISH ANY FOREIGN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH M AIL, — PROGRESS OF THE INSURKECTION | IN POLAND. By the English Mail, per Steamship Asia, which arrived at Halifax on ‘Tuesday last, we | have news from Great Britain to the 25th ult.— | The English news is of a quiet aspect. We are | | glad to learn that there are fair prospects of a) bountiful harvest.—The distress in the Cotton dis- | triets is not much noticed, and, it is to be hoped, is pears to be no great falling off in the number of | | | ° | of the ship “ Alexandra,” which had been pet | some considerable time ago, by the Custom House | authorities at Liverpool, on a charge of having | been built and fitted vut for the Confederate States contrary to the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, was at length brought to trial in the Court of Exchequer, and resulted in a verdict | for the owners, or assumed owners, of the vessel. The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up the evi- | dence, expressed his opinion that the case of the | suspected ship did net come within the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and by this opinion the jury were iafluenced in giving their verdict fer the defendants.—-The Prince and Princess of Wales had honoured Oxford with a visit, where a magnificent entertainment had been given to their Royal Highnesses. The festivities extended over two days, and it is said that the ancient and classic seat of learning never exhibited more enthusiasm at a reyal visit.—The annual Feast by the Lord Mayor of London is the only other noticeable event of a domestic character. It differed in nothing from preceding ones. Lord Palmerston, in replying to the teast in honour of Her Majesty’s Ministers, chaffed with his audience | in his usually pleasant way, and alluded in vague generalities to the foreign relations of the Empire. As regards the foreign news, the state of Poland claims the first attention. Aa article on that sub- ject will be found below. The Poles continue to maintain their ground, and are victorious on small occasions. The intense hatred which their ep- position to Russian authority has excited, is manifest in the diabolieal cruelty with which the Russian General treats Polish prisoners who fall into his hands. It will be seen that France is preparing for warlike movements in some quarter of the world, whether in Europe or America, it is yet impossible to tell. At one time, the Emperor is represented as being anxious for armed intervention in the Polish struggle; and at another time, it is said that he is chafing «t the neutral policy of England with regard to United States affairs, and is ready to take a part in the Civil War on this side of the Atlantic. The expensive warlike prepara- tions, it is not likely, have been undertaken with- out a settled purpose; and that, we may rely upon it, will soon be inade known. Alluding to the diplomacy of the English Cabinet | on the Polish question, an English paper states that “Lord Palmerston has not waited for the answer of the Czar to the six prepositions of Austria, England, and France, before divulging their na- ture. It is proposed to the Emperor of Russia to grant at once a complete amnesty and to cease hostilities—to restore the kingdom of Poland (the Duchy of Warsaw), and the representative system guaranteed by the constitution granted by Alex- ander and swept away by Nichvlas~te establish a seperate Polish administration, to employ Poles alone in the public offices, to use the Polish lav- guage in all official and judicial documenta and functions, and to establish perfect religious free- dom. Will the Czar accede to all this? And it he refuse — what then? Have not France and England gone too far if they do not mean to go further, should the Autocrat be obdurate? Ifthey go farther, it is a war—and what a war! and if they stand or retreat, it isa disgrace. Most sin- cerely do we hope, in the interests of humanity Thursday evening last, both in time and. style,”’ and caps the climax by adding that | and civilization, that the Czar will yield, and that | the peace of Europe may not be broken.” ou the decline.—Destitution in Lreland, however,| and prepare for immediate service three finish it one way or the other. It is pro- bable that the fall of Puebla will have its effect upon the negociations with St. Peters- burg; and there is significance in the an- nouncement of La France that peremptory orders have been despatched to the ships of war that had been ordered to ganvey troops and munitions of war to Mexico, where they are now wanted, tu hold themselves in readi- ness to proceed at a woment’s natice to whithersuever they may be directed. FRANCE, ‘* WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR.” We have very little news from Paris; the late important elections, the oecupation of Puebia, and the impending collision with Russia on the Polish quéstion, eontrive to be, /as may be supposed, the principal subjects of As regards the late | elections, the inipression is becoming current} desired. There was a place for cricket-playing discussion in France. that the Emperor will yetain the services of | M. de Persigney, notwithstanding the marked | disapproval of the people to the idiberal system of that unpopular minister. This |opinion has occasioned considerable un-| votaries of ‘Terpsichore to the green sward —a easiness. As the warlike preparations for: Mexico are being proceeded with, the hope | that the fall of Paetla would at once bring | the war to a close is gradually diminishing, and at the same time the apprehensions of a) war “ Russia are every day becoming | stronger. Phe sudden and unaccountable departure of Count de Goiiz, the Prussian Minister, from Paris, has, however, given rumors of a campaign on the Rhine, and the belief in war, we regret to say, is stronger | than the hopes of peace. In the meanwhile, orders were a few days ago transmitted to Vincennes to place on the full war footing batteries of twelve pounders and 100 artillery waggons. The excitement produced when the order arrived was immense, and it is believed by the military that war will break out before the month of July is over. War rumors were prevalent at the Bourse during the week, and rentes were falling. It is now reported in Paris that notice has been sent to the troops at the camp of Chalons to hold thggaselves in readiness to move at a day's nofice, and that orders to prepare ambulapees and waggons of the military train have been received at Metz and Strasburg. The Iimpe- rial Guard ac Paris have not yet received any footing, end their artillery, commissariat, and ambulances are kept in constant readiness, | they are always prepared, and do not require | a lengthened notice. This may not mean) immediate war, but it shows that the Em-| peror considers hostilities highly prcbable, or | such momentous orders would not have been | given. As it is most improbable that the| Emperor would incur so large an experse as these preparations involve for the mere | purpose of a demonstration, it is argued that his Majesty must expect an unfavourable | answer from Russia, and that hostilities are | not only probable but imminent. On the other hand, some of the French journals declare that France, far from de- siring to engage with Russia on the Polish question, is more than ever resolved to leave the future of unhappy Poland tothe decision | of United Europe. This is of course tanta- mount to an affirmation that France has no intention of going to war in championship of the oppressed Poles. We need hardly impress upon our readers that these rumors and. assertions are of the gravest significance, when we recollect that our neighbours find themselves on the brink of a war, which may spread like wild fire to the remotest ex- tremities of the continent. La France of Thursday, asserts that admi- ral Forfait, who has set sail for Vera Cruz, carries instructions to General Forey to issue a proclamation immediately on arriving at | the city of Mexico, to the effect that the! French Government will recognize the Govern- | ment of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Why the in-| habitants of the city of Mexico are to be the first recipients of this piece of information is not stated. —— AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria opened the Coun- cil of the Empire in person on Thursday. The Speech from the throne 1s a most gratif y- ing document. *Thanks,’’ saysthe Emperor, ** to the liberal inStitutions of the Empire, its. material and intellectual jife is everywhere | being rapidly revived, and its influence ands osition aS & great power are continually coming more powerful. The financial con- dition of the Empire is becomjng more and more satisfactory.’’ -+<?<PP- | — MR. LAWSON AGAIN ON ORANGEISM. THe Recorder of this City, John Lawson, Esq., has published another letter in the Islander of Friday last, on the subject of Orangeism, in which he adds additional testimony to prove the evil effects of that Institution. After justifying his opposition to the petition of the Presbytery, of a former day, in the matter of the Glebe Land) Reserves, and which was noticed at some length | in his first letter, Mr. Lawson thus again protests against the illiberal and intoleraut spirit of Orange- ism; and condemns the “ injustiee and oppres- sion” which marked the conduct ef Qranye clergymen at the last election ;— “It is possible that I may be mistaken in the sentiments and views of the Loyal Orange As-| sociation, but may I not, in my turn ask, if range- | men seek only the maintenance of their own rights, | without in the slightest degree interfering with er | attacking their Catholic oeighbours, why was the | motio lomatic notes, agree to propose certain con-/ ditions to the Czar for the restoration of| ot a different opinion. u for incorporating Orange Lodges intro ‘duced or supported by a “ligt ingest —and that, too, by a gentleman who, with ap eloquence highly credit. lable to hia head and heart, not long since informed his fellow-iman the utmost freedon 10 all matters or prejudice of no wan—to fing dewn wo man altar—to punish no man’s prayer—to he tions which, in divers tongues and varied forms, aud im temples of a thousand shapes, but with one deep sense of human dependence, men pour torth 0 God.’ “Lam asked whether Roman Catholics have not equal privileges with Protestants? They have, L thank God; but would they have had them had it beenin the power of the Loyal Orange Associations to have peevented it? Would Ca- tholic emancipation — the admission of Roman Catholies into Parliament or to the Bar—have ever been conceded | Would those fearfully bloody laws enacted—to the eternal disgrace of the tines —against Priests and Schoolmasters, of that then proscribed faich, have ever been repealed bad the consent of Orangemen been required! Need | ask fur a reply! The speech of the bon. introducer and supporter of the Act in question clearly proved to me that Orangeism, as-it is now termed, tended to work injury and oppression to the pes- ple of a faith to which Ocaugeism is and always has been, and, I may add, always will be hostile, and on that account I opposed it. Is it a secret that at the last eleetion Protestant clergymen ot all denominations, including some of the Church of England, joined themselves together to prevent the return of Roman Catholie members, and that the Presbyterians were among the number? Chis may be to many all fair and right enough, tou my mind it ‘savors of injustice and oppression. “J have not a copy of my letter at hand, but 1 am not aware that L have in that letter stated anything of the illegality of Orange processions ; and I honestly coniess that | know nothing of the addresses of Orange Societies alluded to. Nobody doubts the loyalty of those bodies. In fact, they are so loyal that they have come, it would seem, to the conclusion that they are the only loyal people in the nation, and that the up- holding the Throne and the Protestant religiou is exclusively their duty, and that without their aid both would fall. I have no objection to their thinking so, I crave leave, however, to differ in opinion, believing, as I do, that loyalty is net eon- fined, in the British nation and its dependencies, to any sect, or creed, or society. : “| bad thought that [ had explained myself with sufficient clearvess and accuracy, as respected the paragraph in the petition relating to the Lieut. Governor, butit seems that the words acting apparently in concert with his advisers, is a personal reflection on his Excellency. I confess wy inability to perceive that it is in any way per- sovual. Had the phrase run thus: * acting ap- | parently in opposition to his advisers,’ there cau be | but little question but that it would have been in the highest degree personal, and might well have | been resented as such. Every man placed at the lhead of a Government, whether provincial or | municipal, must at times run the risk of * acting apparently in concert with his advisers,” although Our worthy Mayor is }compelled to give etiect to the decision of his touncil, whatever he may think of their wisdom jor policy; so is the Lieut. Governor of a Colony, } nay more, the Queen on her Threne is compelled | to act in concert with her advisers, or to dismiss them, or, at least, accept their resiguations. The ) present Lieut. Governor, maintains, sa far as I | have been able to ascertain, a prudent and | praiseworthy reticence concerning the acts of his jadministration, and, in so doing, he acts in a | manner werthy of his exalted station, and in con- tormity with the dictates of sound policy aud good sense. “lam, &e. “J. LAWSON. “ Charlottetown, July 8, 1863.’ _ ~<a o BAZAAR AT ST. DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE. Tuis jateresting affair came off, as advertised, on Wednesday and Thursday last. We have seen many large and gratified gatherings at the College. but never, we think, larger than on those days. The weather was favourable; and the prepara- tions for indoor en- tertainment included everything that could be out-door as well as and for quoits—a Band of Music to send forth at frequent intervals a flood of harmony—experienced violin-players, who, towards evening, invited the large fountain, constructed for the oceasion, evi- dencing the possession of great taste and ingenuity on the part of its constructor, shot up its cooling and refreshing showers during the two days, to the delight of every one who witnessed it,—and there were vacant tents for shelter from the sun’s rays; and a very large tent or restaurant also on the ground, which was by no means vacant, where the most viands and the choicest luxuries could be procured, sut the great attraction was in the interior of the Building. The spacious Hall was beautifally decorated, and here were gathered all the pro- ductions which feminine taste, skill, genius and industry could devise for such an exhibition,— embroideries of all kinds were in lavish abun- danee; costly ecclesiastical vestments, richly wrought chairs, mats, cushions, fancy worked caps and slippers, and a thousand little things which go to make up toilet for babies innu- merable; paintings, engeavings, cartes de visite of distinguished persons, &¢., &¢e.—covered the tables, and were pressed most diligently on the attention of the ladies and gentlemen who had substantial ‘orders, but as they are always on the war | Come to inspect them. Rich cake, confectionary, ice-cream, and other delicacies, also had a place on the tables; and there were fair ladies whose persuasive tongues suffered you not to depart without partaking of some of them. We never saw so much skill and energy displayed in effect- ing sales of the various articles exhibited. No person who had any money in his pocket could hope to leave the Hall without buying something. The | fair pilferers — (for really we think they should | not be called by any ether name) — would let no customer go without lightening his pocket of some loose change ; and if the victim of their en- chantment happened to be an unmarried man, of the soft and susceptible mould, he was pretty | sure to be seen walking off with a lot of baby clothes under his arm. We have not space to give a particular des- cription of any of the articles exhibited. We must notomit to notice, however, that two Chairs, with beautifully embroidered cushions, command- ed great attention, and realized handaome sums from the lotteries of which they were the subjects. A set of silver-plated Harness, manufactured by Mr. J. Bowers, of this city, was also greatly ad- mired, and deservedly so, for it was the most chaste and elaborate piece of workmanship of the kind that was ever, perhaps, produced on this Island. It was also disposed of by lottery, and realized, we understand, nearly one hundred pounds at one shilling and sixpence per ticket. We have not yet learued the whole amount pro- cured from all the sales and lotteries—but we under- stand that the Bazaar has been far more success- ful in a pecuniary point of view than was antici- pated ; and in every other respect its success was apparent to the bundreds who attended it, and who included a very large proportion of Protes- tants of all denominations. We were pleased to see the liberal and generous spirit displayed on this occasion by our Protestant fellow citizens of opposite creeds and politics, although the Govern- ment officials, with one exception, had no share in it; and we hope it is the forerunner of a return to the cordial relations, which, in former years, happily marked the intereourse between Catho- lies and Protestauts in this Island. ‘ orn COUNCIL ELECTION FOR THE SECOND DIVISION OF KING’S COUNTY. WE are gratified to learn that our esteemed friend, the Hon. A. A. McDonald, of Georgetown. was returned on Wednesday last, without oppo- sition, as a member for the second division of King’s County in the Legislative Council. Mr. MeDonald, it will be remembered, was returned at the last general election by a small majority. His opponent, W. S. Macgowan, Esqr., petitioned against the return; and after a long scrutiny in the Council, Mr. MeDonald’s seat was declared vacant, and a new election ordered, Mr. Mae- gowan again canvassed the district, but he found that his suppert had greatly diminished, and he wisely left Mr. McDonald to walk the course. speech as fall of bitter-| anti-Orange Petition, was held at St Dunstan ' Rowan Catholic | College on Wednesday and Thursday ‘a as ever was uttered in the [rish Parlia-| learn that it was a decided success, “ A monster Thazar, excelled only by the last, We c This ig y fmuch more laudable method of endeavoring 6 | raise money for a denominational institution | by seeking to d:aw it frgo the public cheat ofthe we ‘that early in life he had learned te accord to | Colony.” It is scarcely necessary to say that the above of religion—to jntertere with the religious nee Coakaibetohe caged Gein the Postini ap uo} day lest. Its paternity is easily recognised, The penalties and no pains on those solemn supplica-| envy, meanness and spite of the narrow mindeg | biget are perceptible in every syllable of jt, it | Mr. Laird had the power to prevent the’ raj | of money by a public Bazar for St. Dunstan's Gg. lege, or any other institution in connection with tfe Catholic Church, he would be no less lous in exercising the power than in | money from the public chest for the same object, It must be very mortifying to the uncharitable appreciate and how generonsly they encourage the noble institution oa the Princetowa road, ——e Qe sss tw Some editorial matter was prepared fer the present edition, which, for want of sufficient space for its insertion, we are compelled to lay aside untilour next. The English and other news, when interesting or important, are always entitled to a preferential claim to space, to the exclusion of any editorial comments. It it be any comfort to our friend Donald Currie, we beg to assure hing that he is not overlooked in oue of the deferred articles. We hope he will try to keep cool anti} next week. ED DOINGS OF THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS — THE EXCITEMENT IX GLOUCESTER. Intense excitement was naturally created ig Gloucester, Mass. when the news arrived of the capture of several fishing vessels by the Confeder. ates. The Advertiser says :— Our Town was thrown into a most intense excitement on Wednesday morning, by the an. nuuncewent that several of our fishing vessels had been burnt by a rebel pirate. The news wag brought by the Schr. Cadet, which arrived oy Tuesday evening, and narrowly esea being captared. Capt. Williams reports that on Moa- day, while at anchor in the South Channel, saw g barque bearing down towards them. Ha suspicions thatshe was one of the piratical he hove up anchor and there being a light wi got vut his boats and commenced towing. While engaged in this saw several boats put off from the barque and beard four other fishermen whe were near. A thick fog shutting in gave hima better opportunity te get clear, and a good breeze springing up also favoured his chance of At mght saw the light of tour burning vessels. Schr. Lavrena, Capt. Andrews arrived, seon after, and broughht in seme of the blocks and Thg- ging taken frow the wreek of Schr. Marengo, which was burnt to the water’s edge. ‘The Crews of the four vossels burnt arrived, heme yesterday afternoon im the four o’elock train, | Phere were thirty-five in all. The depot was thronged with people, every one being anxious to hear the particulars of the affair, and quite an an- imated scene was presented. | Statement ef Capt. Henderson: On Monday morning at 7 e’clock, while all hands were engaged m fishing, saw a barque standing to the N. W. When she bere S. W. from us she hore ship. A thick fog setting in caused us to lose sight of ber, and we thought she was a werehantman bound in, Soon after we were boarded by a boat’s crew, con- sisting of a Liewt. and pine men. Captain H. went to leward to take the painter, and while aking the bout fast the Lieut. jumped on board, }and grasping him by the back, exclaimed, “ Yea are prisoners to the Southern Confederacy ;” and drawing his revolver gave him to understand if any resistance was made he would shoot them on the spot. Ten minutes were allowed the crew to pack up their clothing, and they were transferred to the barque, when the Marengo was set fire te and destroyed. While on board the Takoney, three other of oar - fishermen were burnt, and the men brought on board the barque, where they were unitormly well treated. Capt. H. was invited into the eabin to supper, and the captain of the barque, whom he describes as a man of small frame, and whose weight would net exceed ene hundred pounds, treated him very kindly, and offered him a Lieu- tenant’s commission if he would join the Confede- rate service. He also stated that be was playi the same gaire upon the Yaukees that they had played upon him, as they had destroyed ail his property, and be was de i de the cous thing to them, as far as laid withir his power. He did not wish to take the life of any person, but his orders were to shoot down the first maa who offered any resistance, avd he should do se. He admitted that he had destroyed four ships, making with the fishing vessels seventeen in all since June 12th. One night while eruising he was spoken by a U.S. gunboat, who enquired if they had seen any thing of the Takoney. In addition to the crews of the fishing vessels, there were on board the crews of the four ships which had been burnt, and being rather cramped for accommodations the Captain conclu te liberate the Schr. Florence under bond, and send her to New York with the captured men. They were all put under oath net te fight against the Southern Contederaey, and with this parvle they were allowed to ewbark. ‘Tuesday morning alter leaving the barque the Florence spoke with the schooner Western Light, of Willfleet, off Gayhead, and she took all the Gloucester men and them at Hyauuis, where they were kindly re ceived, . rt fe THE PORTLAND AFFAIR. The cutting out of the cutter Caleb Cushing from Portland harbour, was ove of the most dash- ing and startling exploits of the present war, and not by any means the least important of its events. t shows What courage, determination and skill may accomplish even with small means. It ap pears that about a fortnight ago the commander of the Tacony, finding that she was becoming too well known, determined to exchange her tor a vessel a of different class. On the night of the 24th ult., he transferred all the things in the Taceny on board the Schooner Archer. At3 A. M., he set fire tothe Tacony and stood west. It was te get possession of a steamer, and to destroy the U4s. gunboats on the stocks, that he made the attempt in Portland harbour. According to the state- ments of Davenport (the comuiander of the Caleb Cushing) the Coufederates proceeded in the fol- lowing mode: “ Between 12 and 2 o’elock last night, some suspicious looking men, dressed as fishermen, came aboard the cutter. Hearing an unusual neise he went on deck and was im- mediately seized by five men armed with pistols, who said that they belonged to the Confederate navy. Finding resistance useless, he surrender- ed and was put in irons with all his men. The cutter then proceeded down the harbour. Both Lieut, R and Engineer Brown st them- selves officers of the pirate Florida, id she was in the offing.” Subsequently the steamer Forest City, Captain Liscomb, reached Portland early on Saturday morning from Boston, and on his way up the harbour noticed the strange movements of the cut- ter, working out of an obscure channel. In bess than an hour from the time it was requested, his boat was at the service of the Government. He took on beard about 100 citizens (1000 were very anxious to go,) and about 94 o'clock proceeded to the fort, where he took en board two 12-pounders and about thirty soldiers, and started for the Caleb Cushing. At 12 o’clock, having arrived within about a mile and a half of her, she fired her first shot from her 32-ponnder, showmg no flag. ‘The shot fell short. The Forest City then waited for the steamer Chesapeake to cowe up, the cutter keeping up her firing. Nine shots in all were fired, none striking the steamers. Both steamers were about to make the attempt to board or run her down, as the case might be, when three boats were discovered about half a mile from her pulling northerly for the shore. A tug- beat was left te watch the cutter, and both steamers started to intereept the boats, two of which ran up the white flag, and the crews were taken on beard the Forest City. Reed, the mas- ter of the Tacony, was among them. He is & | small care-worn, spare built man, from 32 to 35 | years of age, about five feet four inches high, and of Northern birth. On being asked where he be longed, he replied ‘ To the Confederate Navy,’ and produced his commission. He wished to be treat- ed asa prisoner of war, the course he had pursued, he said, in his brief career towards those he had captured. He was landed at the fort with hia companions, whe were mostly a rough-looking set, in fishermen’s rig. The third boat was picked up by the Chesapeake. In it were the cutter's crew, with three of the rebels. Lieut. Davenport and his wen were kept in irons until after they were in the boat, when a key was tossed to the three ‘ rebs’ with which to unlock the ‘ bracelets.’ In the meantime, information wae obtained as to the whereabouts of the schr. Archer. She was discovered and a gun fired across her bow, when she have to. On of her were found three | * rebs,’ six chronometers, nine quadrants and sex- tants, a dozen or fifteen Epitomes and Coast Pilote, a flag belonging to the notorious slave selir- Wanderer, another belonging to the ‘Granite,’ & ship's bell marked ‘Star of Empire,’ a blanket belonging fogthe Aucriean Atlantic Steamship Ce., &e. The Caleb Cushing sank at sea after she was abandoned—her magazine having been set of lire, spirit of Mr. Laird to see how highly the publi — & i