resent appearance. Is it—and do not answer ‘the Government has done, that the mainten- 
     
     ightly—so very distasteful to you? My ex-/ ance of order is due hitherto. od 
     
     eciient maternal ancestor, whose garments,| So much was this felt that a cry of indig- 
     
     pantaloons excepted, | now wear, though net nation rose against the Goverument when 
     
     popular as a partnerin a country dance, was, | these daring cases of brigandage were heard 
     
     vevertheless, a favourite in general society,| of. Nor was it altogether unmerited ; for, 
     
     and——"’ besides neglecting the formation of the Na-| 
     
     * You are right t stand up for your distin-| tional Guard, the Government had conoen- 
     
     guished relative,” said the countess, laughing | trated a large portion of the troops in the 
     
     hike a Hebe, ‘ and it would ill become me to) capital, where they must become daily more 
     
     be over-critical as to the dimensions round | demoralised. Sending them out in detach- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the waist; but what do you mean?’ ments under good officers would not only 
     
    
   
   
    
     *That J, whom you think so noble and | have contributed to the security of the coun-| 
     
    
   
   
    
     disinterested — J, whom you believe, purely | try, but likewise offered a chance of more 
     
     for your dear sake, to have made such a booby | easily re-establishing discipline. 
     
     of myself, am a humbug—an impostor ! Oh, | +<—->- : 
     
     Caroline, Caroline — (forgive me, | would) SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH PRESS— 
     
     kneel—the impossibility of getting up again | OPENING OF THE SESSION. 
     
     without assistance alone deters me), | select- | [From the Saturday Review 
     
     ed this abeurd costume solely to conceal from) "The debates or conversations on the address 
     
     our eyes, for the present, a figure s‘arcely throw a little light on the political probabi- 
     
     es# Ereposterous. Caroline, | am—do not ities of the Session. [t appears that both 
     
     start—il anything, o trifle stouter than your) houses are unanimous in disapproving of the 
     
     charming self!’ ‘interference in America, or recognition of 
     
     A burst of silver laughter was the only/the South. But for the windfall of the 
     
     reply, in which Bob, unable to resist the | (onian Islands, Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli 
     
     pleasant contagion, neon apes. would have failed to discover ao excuse for 
     
     ‘Tt strikes me we have both been rather) jiffering from the government. It was per- 
     
     eliy,’ said the countess at last, wiping AWSy | fectly natural that they should dwell on the 
     
     the tears that mirth had called into her) ;jjitary importance of Corfu, and there could 
     
     deautiful eyes; * but it must be at least ad-| he no diffeulty in citing the opinion of Napo- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     reason to hope that Mr.Gladstone will be 
     
     enabled to afford some relief to the taxpayer. 
     
     Mr. Disraeli, notwithstanding his economical | 
     
     ——— of last year, thought fit to protest 
     
     y anticipation against ill-judged retrench- 
     
     ment, but he will scarcely throw away the 
     
     hope of Mr. Cobden’s support by insisting of 
     
     the maintenance of establishments on a ecale 
     
     whieh the government considers unnecessary . 
     
     As far as it is possible at present to judge, 
     
     the party contests of the year will not turp 
     
     on finance, and no measures are announced 
     
     which can give rise to serious division. The 
     
     untoward transactions in Brazil may, per- 
     
     haps, occasion a damaging debate, and the 
     
     policy which has lately been adopted in 
     
     China will require justification, The chances, 
     
     however, are vpposed tu a change of ministry, 
     
     especially as it would be necessary in the 
     
     first instance, to pass through that agreeable 
     
     experienge of a general election. Lord 
     
     Derby ,though he himself prognosticates a hum 
     
     drum session, may, perhaps, hereafter defeat 
     
     his anticipations. 
     
     - =o or - 
     
     Cuarteston, February 18. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The following is a proclamation from 
     
     General Beauregard :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Georgia, AND FLoripa, February i7. 
     
     It has become my solemn duty to inform 
     
    
   
   
    
     Heap Qvanters DerarrMent oy Sopra CaRoLiNa, | that in politics as well as in religion they are now 
     
    
   
   
    
     CORRESPONDENCE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PPLE 
     
     FOR THE PUBLIC. 
     
     Mr. Eprror; 
     
    

    
     I am one of those few living men who, at the 
     
     present day, never wrote a political, or any other 
     
     article, to a newspaper in his life. Linake this 
     
     remark for the sole purpose of gaining, it possible, 
     
     a little more than a common share of attention 10 
     
     introducing myself to the notice of the reading 
     
     public. You know, sit, as well as T can tell you, 
     
     that any thing odd is almost certain to command 
     
     a special amount of observation. ‘This, I presume, 
     
     is well understood to be one of the most rudimental 
     
     laws of human nature: it is, in fact, so rudimentary 
     
     as to have become one of the most trite maxis 
     
     of every day life. You know, too, thatany person 
     
     whe does not write mere or less on polities in 
     
     these immediate tunes in which we live (and more 
     
     especially in the country In which we live) must 
     
     be considered in no small degree eccentric. He) 
     
     must, at all events, be esteemed a very odd being, 
     
     since even Ministers of the Gospel—the most ub- 
     
     stracted class of mortals in the universe, and a 
     
     class who have always been ulteriorly supposed to 
     
     intermingle themselves the least of any with the 
     
     ordinary affairs of this world—are how found to 
     
     have become by far, in so far at least as this 
     
     country is concerned, the most prominent characters 
     
     on the stage of civil life; and seme say, indeed, 
     
    
   
   
    
     beginning to arrogate to themselves the sole right 
     
     of being considered vox populi. do certainly 8 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     mitted that we both had * solid reasons.’ ’ 
     
     . — 
     
    

    
     MODERN GREEKS. : 8 ' 
     
    

    
     Of the 950,000 inbabitants of Modern | argument by referring to Sir John Young's 
     
    

    
     Greece it has been said that the Greek race | uniortunate despatch, which was as hittle 
     
    

    
     forms the smallest part, and that, in truth,| worth stealing as the most worthless article 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     there are few descendants of the original | that was ever made the subject of eoeny temporary separation of you from your | eeting—will net only immediately, but also most 
     
     Greek families, the majority of the popala- | The statement that three Russian ships o bomes will be made without alarm or undue naturally, find the general enquiry resolve itself 
     
     tion coasisting of Albanians, or, in other! war were afraid to sail down the Adriatic,|) ote, thus showing that the only feeling | into the simple question, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Slavonians. ‘his, however, is by | because there were batteries on the eastern 
     
     an cpane aw be verified by the shore of Corfu, will searcely convince parlia- 
     
     traveller, who can never mistake the refined, | ment that it is expedient to calculate 7 re- 
     
     graceful, and fiery sons of Aristides for the | sults so inexplicable in any — = i 
     
     heavy, laopish, and coarse Albanians. It odd that the object of the — ™ re- 
     
     may be said that the Greek race has under- commend the abandonment of the other six 
     
     gone less physical change than any people in | islands, which would haye readered the con- 
     
     the world; tho same quick, mobile features, tinued occupation of Corfu a ener. 
     
     tall, slender forms, and oval faces now con-| pation. — There is no doubt — aerernes 
     
    

    
     egate in the streets of Athens as once | Corfa might be useful to a belligerent in 2 
     
     formed models to Phidias, The land whieh | Adriatic, and Napoleon invariably assume 
     
     was laid waste by the War of Independence | that it was desirable to be pre meh for — 
     
     has been repeopled by the accession of Greek | 1m any part of the world to which he mig 
     
     families, who came from the north to settle | turn his attention. There areman r other po- 
     
     in the kingdom for which they had always | sitions within and without the Me literranean 
     
     been ready to suffer. These people are, which might be recommended by similar con 
     
    
   
   
    
     leon, that the possession of the islands was) 1). authorities and citizens of Charleston and 
     
     indispensable to his purposes ; bat Mr. Sey- | Savannah, that the movements of the enemy's 
     
     mour Fitzgerald scarcely strengthened the 4.0¢ indicate an early land or naval attack on 
     
    
   
   
    
     | one or both cities, and to urge that persous un- 
     
     ‘able to take an active part in the struggle 
     
     | shall retire. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘which animates you in this hour of supreme 
     
     trial js the right of being able to participate 
     
     in the defence of your homes, your altars, 
     
     and the graces of your kindred. Carolinians 
     
     ‘and Georgians! “The hour is at hand to 
     
     |prove your country’s cause. Let all able 
     
     bodied men from the seaboard to the moun- 
     
     | tains rush toarms. Be not too exacting in 
     
     | the choice of weapons. Pikes and scythes 
     
     'will do for exterminating your enemies, 
     
     | spades and shovels to protect your firesides. 
     
     |‘o arms, feilow citizens! Come to share 
     
     with us our danger, our brilliant success, or 
     
     our glorious death. 
     
     | (Signed) G. 'T. Beaurecarp, Gen. Com. 
     
    
   
   
    
     —-- ~»wee 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     called the Pallikares, and brought to Athens 
     
     many of the singular habits ot their moun- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tain jife. They preserve the sententious) 
     
    
   
   
    
     manner and silent demeanour of the Turks, 
     
     exercise constant and glmost ruinous lospi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     siderations. England has, at different times, 
     
    

    
     wsessed Tangier, Minorea, and Corsica ; and 
     
     Retoon at one time eagerly recommended the | 
     
     acquisition of Sardinia, Yet it is evident that | 
     
     a Power with a limited army, and with abun- 
     
    
   
   
    
     The following piece of gossip has found its 
     
     way from Cincinnati, Says the Cincinnats 
     
     enquirer :— 
     
    

    
     A friend in this city, who has recently 
     
     | visited Canada, informs us that the British 
     
    
   
   
    
     tality, and interlard their conversation with | dant oecupation for its navy, suffers a Brave Government have, during the past summer, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Turkish and a few Italian words. 
     
    
   
   
    
     We have before said that what is called | lated garrisons. roops 
     
     is cither Turkish, Alban-| works of Corfu would, in nine cases 
     
    
   
   
    
     ian, or some combination of the two. The| ten, be better em — in completing the | ),..5 attended to. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Greek costume 
     
    
   
   
    
     Pallikares are true to the red cap, the waist- 
     
     coat richly embroidered, the white petticoat 
     
     of a hundred plaits, and the gaitered legs 
     
    
   
   
    
     The inhabitants of the Phanon quarter of| which already exists in the Gulf of Lyons | places. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Athens, on the other band, 
     
    
   
   
    
     inconvenience from the et of na sent to Quebec, arms, cannon, and equip- 
     
     The troops which man t af | ments for two hundred thousand men. Every 
     
     out OF) detail for a yery large force in the field has 
     
     The canon of small calibre 
     
     |impregnability of Malta; and in exceptional | . 
     
     instances, the inconvenience of nut porsessing | and Quebec have been removed and Arm- 
     
     |a station in the Adriatic would be the eAME | strong guns of the largest size put in their 
     
     About the time of the 7'rent affair, 
     
    
   
   
    
     dress in’ the| In the hands of a weak ally, Corfu might, if) Vion considerable bodies of troops were sent 
     
    
   
   
    
     French fashion and adopt Europeon habits. | necessary, be made available to the English lto Canada from England, a commission of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Between these, however, are a large num-| fleets ; and the Government 
     
    
   
   
    
     will, during the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ber who unite the Greek cap and petticoat | ensuing negotiations, have the opportunity | report as to the best means of defending the 
     
    
   
   
    
     trousers and the short | of providing by treaty against the occupation | 
     
    

    
     he Greeks, of whatever} of the islands by France, by Russia, or by | 
     
     condition, and whether of pure er mixed| Austria. If the cession is politically expe-| 
     
     race, shave both beard and whiskers, and | dient, there is no sufficient military reasou | 
     
     retain the moustache. It is only as a sign | against proceeding in the course which has | 
     
     of mourning that they allow the beard to| been commenced. 
     
    
   
   
    
     with the wide, bagg 
     
     vest of the Turks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     If the question becomes) 
     
    
   
   
    
     lakes. They recommend that sixty strong 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; ; ' : ss 
     
     iron clad gunboats should be built, such as fare, and must be, only two classes of human beings | 
     
    
   
   
    
     could pass the locks through the canals from 
     
     the St. Lawrence into the lakes. By the 
     
     treaty with England and the United States, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘naval officers was sent over to examine and | Catholics. 
     
    
   
   
    
     this perhaps the most striking growing charac- 
     
     teristic of our time, and more particularly ot our 
     
     ‘country, that ere long we may expect to find 
     
     i things having fully arrived at that pass which— 
     
     | whenever a strongly partizan article appears 1 
     
     | &@ newspaper, or whenever any passingly boisterous 
     
    
   
   
    
     Is he a Minister? 1 do 
     
     |not deny, that this may be all right. We are now 
     
     told, it seems, by Win. HL. Pope, and the rest ot 
     
     the Clergy in this Island, who together constitute 
     
     the highest ecclesiastical authority which the Colony 
     
     can produce, that iu order to bea Christian a mai 
     
     must needs also be a politician. ‘This, 1 believe, 
     
     is the latest deliverance which that august body 
     
     have laid down as a standing article in the future 
     
     creed of all pious Tories. Lam not aware whe- 
     
     ther or net they intend formally drawing out a 
     
     new Confession of Faith, or Thirty-nine new Ar- 
     
     ticles, fur the use of Church members in Prince 
     
     Edward Island. But I understand they contem- 
     
     plate promulgating among the disciples of this new 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     industrious, W i a 
     
     eu onee forsook the Bible Class and the Divi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     sion Room; a8 a consequence, iatentet ee 
     
     and economy gave ens idleness aud ; — on? 
     
     and he subsequently left the place Ww it on . re it 
     
     to himself. ‘Take another, though it spre o ove ! 
     
     a jJonger period of time. A young man we ti 
     
     education, good natural ability, and strong religious 
     
     he becomes a member et a churel 
     
     and useful: he sustains 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
     \ 
     
    
   
   
    
     principles — \ . 
     
     yhere he is both heuoret 
     
     oon in the church, which he fills with credit 
     
     to himself and edification to his brethren. How 
     
     earnestly have [ heard him pray, and when plead- 
     
     ing for peuitents, how beautifully he would appro- 
     
     vriate the language of the prophet: “ Give them 
     
     Leoety for ashes, the oil of Joy for mourning, and 
     
     the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 
     
     {n due time he commences business ; successful 
     
     at first, but failing at last, he yields to circum- 
     
     stances he cannot control. But even here, and 
     
     when sinking to yet greater depths of adversity, 
     
     like Job, he still holds fast his integrity. — At length 
     
     helping hands are tound—he is started in business 
     
     again, with a prospect of succeeding. In an evil 
     
     day be js seduced; in & moment of nuwatchfulness 
     
     he takes a step from which he cannot retreat; he 
     
     becomes the organ of a certain (Iwon’t say scurvy ) 
     
     set of politicians, and hard enough he labors in 
     
     their behalf. In their service he loses the relish 
     
     for divine things; his religion vew is form only— 
     
     the power is gone; he turns upon more than one 
     
     of those who befriended him in his hour of need: 
     
     he is now able to sneer at a Christian brother ina 
     
     style which would make an infidel laugh or a 
     
     devil grin; simply because when that brother en- 
     
     tered the political arena, he would not lay aside 
     
    
   
   
    
     ws indueed to join the Lodge. | 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     The Examiner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, March 
     
    
   
   
    
     PERRO LOLOL LOOT 
     
    
   
   
    
     9th, 1863. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Ae 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEERTING OF THE LEGISLATURE 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tur Coloaial Legislature met on Tuesday last, 
     
     the customary formalities beng obseryed on the 
     
     coming to, and departure of His Excellency the 
     
     Lieut. Governor from, the Colonial Building. The 
     
     Volunteers were in attendance in about the usual 
     
     force: and the effort made to pack the Gouneil 
     
     Chamber with strangers was quite successful. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Administration, which instructions he, the Hon. 
     
     Col. Gray, had fulfilled—His Excelleney’s vee. 
     
     ponsible advisers now comprised— 
     
     The Hon, Jolin Hamilton Gray, President of the 
     
     Couneil, 
     
     “ Edward Palmer, Attorney General, 
     
     “« James Yeo, 
     
     * Jobn Longworth, 
     
     “James C. Pope, 
     
     “ David Kaye, 
     
     “James McLaren, 
     
     * Paniwl Davies, 
     
     “ William H. Pope, Colonial Seeretary, 
     
     The usual Committees were then appointed, 
     
     The Committee to prepare the draft of om 
     
     Address in answer to Hit Excellency’s spoeey 
     
     were Mesers. Haslam, Duncan, Howat, Hon. Mr. 
     
     Laird, Mr. McLellan, Mr. Yeo, and Mr. Brecken, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Before the delivery of the speech the President 
     
     of the Council and Speaker of the House of Assem- 
     
     bly had to be chosen—the choice for the first fell 
     
     upon the Hon. PD. Montgomery, Speaker of the 
     
     last House of Assemb!ly,—and the Hon. T. Heath 
     
     Haviland was chosen for the second. There was 
     
     no opposition to either of these gentlemen, 
     
    

    
     The Speech read by His Excellency is ae 
     
     follows :— 
     
    

    
     Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the 
     
     Legislative Counced : 
     
    
   
   
    
     Asseinhly : 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Committee on Public Accounts—Messrs You 
     
     'McLennan, Duncan, Rameay, Hons. Messrs. 
     
     | Thoruton, Warburton, Coles, 
     
    

    
     | After the appointment of Committees, Mr, 
     
     ) David Laird was 7 first Reporter to the 
     
     House, and Mr. James Charles Cox, second 
     
     Reporter. 
     
    

    
     Mr. Duncan then moved that Rev. George Se 
     
     therland be Chaplain to this House, and the Hon, 
     
     Mr, Coles woved in amendment to the j 
     
     that the Rev. Dr. Jenkins be the Chaplain. 
     
    

    
     Ou the question being put there appeared fer 
     
     the amendinent — Hons. Messre. Coles, Kelly, 
     
     Whelan, Beaton, Warburton, Hensley, Laird, 
     
     Messrs. Sutherland, Walker, Howlau, Conroy 
     
     Muirhead—12. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Her Gracious Majesty the Queen has been 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     religion, but alluded to what he considered a pro- 
     
     ridential cals. Lord, what is man! 
     
     mourned over hin, saying, Alas, my brother! 
     
    

    
     “A Christian is the highest style of man,’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     exalted character than a minister of the Gospel— 
     
     an ambassador of Jesus Christ. Que who is ti 
     
     stant in season and out of season; warning every 
     
     man, teaching every man, that he may present 
     
     every man perfect in Christ Jesus. A watehman 
     
     of Zion, one who mourns daily over bis own im- 
     
     perfections, tugether with the sins of the Church 
     
     and of the world — one who weeps between the 
     
     porch and the altar, saying, Spare thy people, O 
     
     word, whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious 
     
     blood; one who goes forth weeping, bearing pre- 
     
     cious seed, expecting torcturn again, bringing his 
     
     sheaves with him; a mau separated from worldly 
     
     things, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost; who. 
     
     by his life, as well as by his teachings, “ allures to 
     
     brighter worlds and leads the way.” 
     
     Hlow it shocks us to think of such a man (or 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     religio-political theology a new category of com- 
     
     maudments, which are at least like many principles 
     
     of the British constitution, to be theoretically 
     
    
   
   
    
     | men) descending from that high and holy position, 
     
     | to mingle with “carnal” and ungodly men, men 
     
     | who scruple not to carry a point by means which 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; : s ‘by parity of reason a minister should be the high | mark. 
     
     It is hoped, however, that this | harangue happens to be delivered ina public mass | 6o¢ style of Christian. [cannot conceive of a more | announcem 
     
    
   
   
    
     adopted and practically acted upon. This new) would make an honest heathen blush for shame— 
     
    
   
   
    
     and especially parents and children, aud all — land 12th of July of certain years the sum and 
     
     ee ae Se ee substance, the alpha and omega of all bis preach- 
     
     OUOW IDE t—-28, HOU EION RUG 5 OMICS | #98 ing, instead of the incarnation, life, death, resur- 
     
     be combined. 2nd. Erastianism is the only true | rection, ascension and intercession of our Lord 
     
     — on = es - tee be a | Jesus Christ; or mingling in election turmoils, 
     
     es Se oe ee eee a. Clergymen are) and taking an active part te defeat or support a 
     
     the only true authorities in all political matters. | particular candidate, or allowing his pride aud 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sth. The essence of all pure Christianity 8 ¢et-| anger so far to contract his better judgment as to 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the fortifications at Halifax Kingston,’ tainly based on purely political principles. 6th.) tyr caten a brother minister, erring though he may 
     
     , a a . } 
     
    
   
   
    
     These principles are those, and those nee —e be, With an action for libel in a civil court, saying 
     
    

    
     ae My Py dane oy ome “4 at the ey time, “I = - a ern oe 
     
     ore © srelore be regarded as having tie) foss to be a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.” 
     
    

    
     slightest spark of Christianity about them, Sth.) Oh, if angels weep it is at such a sight. 
     
    

    
     All Liberals in politics are Roman Catholics. 9th.) peyow Protestants, Christian friends, where is 
     
    

    
     : od 
     
     All Protestant Liberals are worse than Roman | our desire for political ascendancy leading us! 
     
     1th. Thou shalt therefore utterly) are we notin danger of losing the spirit of reli- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     code, I opine, when fully developed and universally | pandering to their prejudices by making historical | 
     
     disseminated, will furnish the community at large, | oyents which took place on the Sth November | 
     
    
   
   
    
     jin this Island, viz: Christians or Tories, and 
     
     | Liberals or Roman Catholics. 13th. To one or 
     
     other of these twe classes thou must belong, for 
     
    
   
   
    
     neither power is to have more than ove vessel | there is no middle way. There is no Purgatory. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     grow, and those who wear whiskers are | the subject of a regular debate, the most’ of war on either of the lakes, and is to carry | There can be but two places—Heaven and Hell. 
     
     only one gun, the vessels being intended only | Mth. Take heed, therefore, that thou belong to 
     
    
   
   
    
     looked upon as dandies who are without forcible argument o the opposition will be | 
     
     enuine patriotic sympathies. All the; derived from the risk which may be caused , 
     
     Brecks also wear stays, and at a public as- | to the ‘Purkish dominion on the mainland of 
     
     sembly, their lean, sinewy figures, tightened | Albania. The priests and demagogues of 
     
     at the waist and surrounded by a scarf, re-| Corfu have lately, with characteristic impu- | 
     
     cell to the trayeller the wasps of Aristo-| dence, informed the High Commissioner that 
     
     phanes. The beauty of the Greek race,| they regard the approaching annexation to! 
     
     which is so proyerbial, and is so obvious in| Greece as an earnest of future encroachment. | 
     
     any assembly of men, is scarcely confirmed | Tseir power scarcely corresponds with their | 
     
     in the case of the women, who are (in Athens | mischievous intentions, and even the decadent | 
     
    
   
   
    
     at least) neither handsome nor well made :| Empire of Turkey is strong enough to res.st, 
     
    
   
   
    
     fat and dumpy in figure, with snub noses, fat) the attatks of g community somewhat less 9. Jakes on the opening of navigation in the | its merits when we have it fully before us, In) 
     
     English officers | the meantime, I have merely referred to the fact 
     
    
   
   
    
     feet, and a gooselike, waddling gait, many | numerous than the iphabitants of Maryle- 
     
     of the Athenian women retaia vomistakeable| bone. The Greeks of the kingdom have) 
     
     tokens of their Albanian origin. Indeed, | learned that they must have a revenue, an) 
     
     thirty years ago the entire population of army, and a reputation before they attempt 
     
     Attica may te said to haye been Albanian. | to extend their territory by conquest. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     Handsome Greek girls, who are by no/ danger of distarbance in the East is not alto- wii) he made by the Canadian Parliament | 
     
    
   
   
    
     for revenue purposes. 
     
     prepared quietly, and has now, lying in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     to put forty iron clad gunboats together forth- 
     
     with, suitable for service on our lakes. ‘The 
     
     engines, guns, and equipments, as well as the 
     
     other materials for these vessels, have been 
     
     sent for this purpose during the past year to 
     
     their naval station in Bermuda, and could be 
     
     put together there and sent into service on 
     
    
   
   
    
     spring, on the St. Lawrence. 
     
     in Canada say that 100,000 regular British 
     
     troops could be sent to Canada very soon by 
     
     sending volunteers and militia to garrison 
     
    
   
   
    
     But England has | the right side. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Island of Bermuda, all the materials ready |. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | forts in their colonies, and that arrangements | 
     
    
   
   
    
     1th. * We are the people, and 
     
     | wisdom will die with us.” 
     
    

    
     | But I must not venture to state exactly what 
     
     is to be each separate proposjtion to this new 
     
     |code of religo political faith aud practice, for the 
     
     | publication or promulgation of which all eyes are 
     
     juow turning to the Protestant clerical Sagedum 
     
     lof Prinee Edward Island. Enough to kuow that 
     
     ithe public are at this moment eagerly awaiting its 
     
     | formal announcement. 
     
    

    
     We shall be able to speak more confideutly of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ithat Politics have now, even with Ministers, sup- 
     
     | planted Religion, and have in all other respegts 
     
     | so realised what used to be cousidered the natural 
     
     ‘order of things in this world, that they, as much 
     
     jas and even far beyond all other men, seem to 
     
    
   
   
    
     find in them the more than all absorbing theme of 
     
    
   
   
    
     means common, sre only fo be met with in| gether imegionsy «bet Hysope ens abeage) the coming session to egll out two hundred | human interests. In order to place myse!t before 
     
    
   
   
    
     some of the islands, or the outlying moun- | prevent any petty state from disturbing | 
     
     tain districts. Singularly enough, curpu-'$he peace of the world. Two of three) 
     
     ence, whieh is so characteristic of the wo- | English frigates would interrupt any medita- | 
     
     men, scarcely eyer affects the men, who fre- | ted invasion of Albania at a much smaller ex 
     
     quently retain till an advanced age their pense than the cost of garrisoning the islands | 
     
     mall waists and easy, graceful carriage. _—iit is reasonable that the military and political | 
     
     ‘The costume of the Greek women is of yery | meritsof the proposed measureshou d be fully 
     
    

    
     great variety, those of Athens weering the | discussed ; but it is surprising that Mr.Disre i. 
     
    

    
     silk or cotton skirt, and the red cap with the should have thought it worth while to pro- 
     
    

    
     jong silken streamer. Strict temperance is| pound @ paradoxical blunder which renders | 
     
     a part of the Greek chgractey, and drunken-| bis opinion wholly wortiless. The merest) 
     
     ness or low debauchery is seldom seen| novice would have been ashamed of the as-| 
     
     amougst them in any part of the country ;|sertion that the Treaties of 1815 gave the | 
     
     bat they are especially a vain people with Tonian Islands to England as they gave Paris | 
     
     regard to their acquirements, which are,|to France. To confuse the argument more 
     
    

    
     however, often yery considerable. From the completely, Mr. Disraeli p ed to explain | 
     
     Maviomichalis, those Beys of Mague who de- thatthe Eng)ish title was touaded, not on trea- 
     
    

    
     risively offered the tax demanded by the | ty, but on conquest, and foally he admitted | 
     
     ‘Turkish agent on the point of a sabre, to the, that Corfu itse]f was never aetaally conquered. | 
     
     rade mountaineers of Magne who live on It is utterly absurd to urge on the House of 
     
     acorns, or the Clophts and Maniotes, whose Commons the authority of certain ‘* great) 
     
     manners nearly resemble those of their fore-| men’’ who wished to capture the islands dur- 
     
    

    
     fathers, but whe perform the hardest manual | ing the war, and it is idle to propound the 
     
    
   
   
    
     thousand yolunteers when necessary. 
     
     was objected to last winter, byt the objection 
     
    
   
   
    
     This | the public im my} true positien, which is one ot 
     
    
   
   
    
     contrast, I have said that never in my life have 
     
    
   
   
    
     arose from pulitical considerations which | before written a political article to a newspaper. 
     
    
   
   
    
     agreeing to pay the volunteers, ke. 
     
     — cee em — 
     
    
   
   
    
     Desertion IN Canapa.—Lt. Gen. Sir Fen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | have been arranged, the Home Government I have said that so different is this from what has 
     
    
   
   
    
     been the experience ot the most of other men in 
     
     this country fox some time past, that even those 
     
     whow above alf others we might naturally expect 
     
     to be the last to engage in political altercation, 
     
    
   
   
    
     wick W liams, commanding I . M. Forces are now found to be on the contrary, not ouly the 
     
     in Canada, bas issued the following General | foremost, but-alko the most desperate belligerents 
     
     Order, by way of hint to the miserable within the entite arena of our colonies’ political 
     
     wretches who make a trade of enticing sol- | battle-grounds. And I have said all this to en- 
     
    
   
   
    
     diers to desert their colors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     For our own jforee my claim ou the passing attention of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     part, we would have the vagabonds, when | populace; tor if I have no other, I have at all 
     
     caught and the crime fully proved against ‘events this one good old claim—the oddity of my 
     
    
   
   
    
     them, made to stand on a pillory in the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barrack-Yard. ‘The Order is dated at Mon- 
     
     treal, 24th ult., and is as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘As the Lieut.-Gen. commanding has 
     
    
   
   
    
     been informed that some American agents | new upstart is this who now presumes to talk to! enlivening scene, with the hundreds of all ages 
     
    
   
   
    
     have lately come into Canada for the ex- 
     
     press purpose of attempting ts delude soldiers 
     
     in JI. M. service and persuade them to desert. 
     
    
   
   
    
     eiz great strength as hewe:e | genera! proposition that ** you { I ; 
     
     dma : ae Teas SE eens oramusement.’’ | quaint the soldiers under his command of 
     
    
   
   
    
     of wood and drawers of water — the Greeks 
     
     are thoroughly imbued with the spirit of li- 
     
     berty and independence. The Manivtes, too, 
     
    
   
   
    
     are celebrated for their hospitality, and, nor England ever thought of keeping it | 
     
    
   
   
    
     when once made acquainted with the 
     
     stranger, are ever ready to do him some ser- 
     
     vice. They are sufficiently reserved to tra- 
     
     wellors, howeyer, uotil they are regularly 
     
     introduced; and M. About, in the yolume 
     
     from which we obtain much of our informa- 
     
     tion, remarks that they carry their affability 
     
     as far as kissing, and their coldness 7 to 
     
     gun-shots. In spite of these trifling blem- 
     
     ishes, he says, they are the most interesting 
     
     of all their compatrivts, because they are the 
     
     awnost manly. ] 
     
    

    
     With respect to brigandage in Greeee, of 
     
     which everybody has heard so much, it is so 
     
    
   
   
    
     complete an institution that resistance on, that Paris is at a held by a title 
     
     r 
     
    
   
   
    
     the part of the traveller who encounters a 
     
     band of robbers is almost useless. The best 
     
     thing be can do is to submit, unless he has 
     
     either a guide who has a business connection 
     
     with the brigands themselves, or is escorted 
     
     by a band of soldiers or armed attendants. 
     
     The public alarm at Athens has just been 
     
     excited by several acts of brigandage, which 
     
     have aroused popular indignation, especiall 
     
     as the last has occurred cluse to the capital. 
     
     Half a dozen young men, one of them being 
     
     the son of a rich Athenian citizen, made a 
     
     Sunday excursion some three weeks ago to 
     
     one of the neighbouring villages. and on their 
     
     return home after nightfall were surrounded 
     
     by rine armed men, who, after riding the 
     
     companions of this young gentleman, allowed 
     
     them to return, but carried him away, de- 
     
     mandiag & ransom of £2500 from his family. 
     
    

    
     A band of some six or seven has been heard 
     
     of in the mouotaine of Megara ; one person 
     
     was carried off from the neighbourhood of 
     
     Patras, two others from Missolonghi: now 
     
     and then an opea letter was received from 
     
     the far South with the post-office mark show- 
     
     ing that it had passed through the hands of 
     
     brigands on its way, or a case of burglary 
     
     was spoken of at Athens ; bat the very rarity 
     
     of all such stories in this storytelling country 
     
     made it smpossible even for ill-willed people 
     
     to ify them into anything serious. 
     
     There was, besides, a feature apparent in all 
     
     these cases which was well calenigted to in- 
     
     spire confidence, and that was the determi- 
     
     nation on the part of the people to resiat and 
     
     heip themselves where the (sovernment had 
     
     neglected to do so. As the latter bad been 
     
     wery remissin the orginization of the Na- 
     
     tional Guard, the institution best adapted to 
     
     deal with the evil, the + Bot only in 
     
     the towns, but ia the rural districts likewise, 
     
     took the matter into their own hands, and 
     
     organi themselves as best they could 
     
     Being all armed, aad mure or leas accustomed 
     
     to the uae of thew weapons, thie was not dif- 
     
     ficult. Not agtisfied with this, the people 
     
     themselves took measures to insure Lhe secu- 
     
     zity of the mountain passes. Jt is almost 
     
     invariably in these passes, which lead from 
     
     one plain into the other, that bri es- 
     
     tablish themselves; the gugrding, fore, 
     
     of these passes across mountain chains 
     
     which intersect Greece is all important for 
     
     the ity of the roads. 
     
    

    
     As the houses whieh exist in almost 
     
     al} of them have been deserted by the posts 
     
     of gendai merie since the revolution, the vil- 
     
     lages on each side have taken upon themselves 
     
     te supply the guards, and they sand reliefs in 
     
     regular rotation. It is to this steadiness on 
     
     the part of the people, more than to anything 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     o not conquer Hig Excellency considers it his duty to ac- 
     
    
   
   
    
     t was not for amusement that the aiiies took | 
     
     Sebastopol ; but, nevertheless, neither France | 
     
     Nothing can be more monstrous than a claim | 
     
     of ownership in the Ionian Islands, founded | 
     
     on the acceptance of a trust. Lord Russell | 
     
     accurately explained the origin of the Pro- | 
     
     ‘teetorate, which Mr. Disraeli’s ** great men” | 
     
     of 1815 had, after the war, neither contem- | 
     
     plated nor desired. As far as England was_ 
     
    
   
   
    
     to guardianship of the islands; and it was 
     
     the Russian Minister, Count Capo D'Istria. 
     
     who preferred English protection, as more | 
     
     beneficial to his own native island of Corfu. | 
     
     Mr. Disraeli's French admirers will scarcely | 
     
     be flattered by his curious announcetnent 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     deduced from the Treaties of 1815. In the 
     
     absence of strong disagreement, debates in 
     
     both houses were naturally uninteresting. 
     
     The speeck from the Throne communicated 
     
     no partiele of information to; arl.ament or to 
     
     the country ; andit would not have been 
     
     convenient to discuss the possibility of a 
     
     change of ministers. Mr. Cobden and Mr. 
     
     Bright were silent ; and, except on the sub- 
     
     jeet of Corfu, Mr. Disraeli was prudently 
     
     oracular. [lis influence over the house was) 
     
     iNlustrated by the perfect gravity which was 
     
     not even disturbed by his magniloquent de- 
     
     finition of the American dispute. ** For my 
     
     own part,’’ said the leader of the opposition, 
     
     **T am bound to say that from the first— 
     
     and subsequent events have only confirmed 
     
     my conviction—I have always looked on the 
     
     struggle in America in the light of a revolu- 
     
     tion, and a great revolution.’’ Perhaps he 
     
     has always looked on the struggle between 
     
     England and France, at the beginning of the 
     
     century, in the light of a war; nor is it 
     
     necessary that he should conceal his opinion 
     
     that America itself is to be regarded in the 
     
     light of a continent. As Mr. Disraeli’s pro- 
     
     found and original reflections lead him to 
     
     approve, with the rest of the world, of 
     
     English neutrality, it is unnecessary to dis- 
     
     cuss the reasons for a sound conclusion. 
     
     Lord Derby’s speech was more eloquent, as 
     
     well as more judicious ; and in discussing 
     
     the Lanceshire distress, with which his name 
     
     is honourably associated, the Chairman of 
     
     the Relief Committee was able to speak al- 
     
     most with official authority. Lord Russell 
     
     may reflect, not without profit, on the good- 
     
     humoured ceference to Lord Melbourne's fa- 
     
     yourite question, ‘* Can’t you let it alone ?”’ 
     
     lf it was necessary or proper to take any 
     
     formal notice of the Pope's conversation with 
     
     Mr. Odo Ruseell, a cautious minister would 
     
     have confined himself to genera! offers of 
     
     contingent hospitality, instead of fixing his 
     
     guest's proapective residence, and urging him 
     
     to commence his journey at once. 
     
     Melhourne hjmeelf woyld certainly have car- 
     
     ried out his principle yes it alone. 
     
     On the whole, it may conjectured that 
     
     the opposition will make a push for office, 
     
     but that they will wait fur eome advantageous 
     
     ey of —s their strength. They 
     
     ascertained, on Thursday night, that tho 
     
     Heuse of Commons is not dieposed to censure 
     
     the government on questions of foreign policy, 
     
     but some djfference of opinios is certain to 
     
     arige, aad if all seetions can be induced to 
     
     combine, a hostile majority may possibly be 
     
     brought together. The Queen's speech eon- 
     
     firms the general belief that reductions will 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     be effected in the estimates, and there is! 
     
    
   
   
    
     ri} helps love needs keeping up. 
     
    
   
   
    
     By much slothtulness, by falling into sloven 
     
    
   
   
    
     this fact, in order should these villains at- 
     
     tempt to do so, they may be on the alert to 
     
     seize them and hand them over to the Police, 
     
    
   
   
    
     go that they may be punished as they de-|to say. 
     
    
   
   
    
     serve. 
     
    
   
   
    
     «The Lieut. Gen. takes this opportunity this paper for several reasons. Ist, because he Children of the tenderest years glided along in 
     
     of publishing in General Orders a letter believes there exists at present no other in this | rapid curves and flights among the athletic men 
     
     which he has just received from a British Province which will publish from prejudicial mo- | and the gracful maidens in the bloom of woman- 
     
    

    
     |tives anything but one-sided political articles.| hood, who flew about as if 
     
     | And secondly, because he regards the Examiner,| wings of the eagle. 
     
     Saal tain dh jin so far as the skill with which it is conducted | 
     
     concerned, Austria would have been welcome | bas entailed upon himself by drunkenness and j, concerned, and in so far as the amount of its | 
     
    
   
   
    
     deserter in New York, in order that it may 
     
     be seen what wretchedness that individual 
     
    
   
   
    
     desertion ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ Sir — It is with painful regret I deserted 
     
     from the Royal Canadian Rilles in August 
     
     1861. Since my arrival in the United 
     
     States, I have been a soldier in their service, 
     
     and in the paet 17 months [ have been 
     
     through all the engagements on the Chicka- 
     
     hominy, in the disaster at Bull's Run. [ 
     
     was laboring under intoxication when the 
     
     fatal occurrence of my desertion took plaec. 
     
     I would not for the whole world do again 
     
     what I bave done in quitting my regiment 
     
     and my country, cursed drink was the cause 
     
     of it all, and I beg that you will warn all 
     
     soldiers under your command to remain 
     
     where they are, and stick to their colors, and 
     
     not come here to be treated worse than con- 
     
     victs. Will you be pleased to have this 
     
     letter read at the head of every regiment 
     
     ander yourcommand. It is with great grief I 
     
     most respectfully ask you to pardon me, asI 
     
     would return forthwith were I permitted to 
     
     do so.’ ’’—Fredericton paper. 
     
    
   
   
    
     opp ea aplevnen 
     
    

    
     It is rumored that President Lincoln will 
     
     recall Gen. MeClellan to the command of the 
     
     army asa peace offering, and witi'n a fort- 
     
     night. This arrangement is said to have caus- 
     
     ed a great flurry in the Cabinet. wnd Mr. 
     
     Chase and other radical members bad threat- 
     
     ened to resign, but the President remained 
     
     firm in his determination. 
     
    

    
     —~<? > --_— 
     
    

    
     A Year arter tHe Weppinc —A young 
     
     woman marries. During the days of court- 
     
     ship, she bad been stimulated perhaps to 
     
     unwonted care as tu her ap nee. It was 
     
     her aim to show herself to her lover neat and 
     
     tidy. Her hair was always smooth, her 
     
     face bright, and her dress, from bonnet to 
     
     shoes, clean and becoming. These are good 
     
     habits to begin with, and a young man 
     
     reasons that a house kept with the same 
     
     taste and care will be a pleasant place. The 
     
     house is furnished, and wedded life begins. 
     
     If these habits are kept up, well and good. 
     
     But if the husband is less considered than 
     
     the lover was, all will go wrong.—If a bride 
     
     thinks that there is no longer any need to 
     
     study neatness, and imagines that having 
     
     won a husband, every end is answered, his 
     
     affection will soon cool. Everything that 
     
     he stock of 
     
     love that two persons possess on their 
     
     wedding day will not last their liyes It 
     
     must be replenished, and those means which 
     
     nourished mutual affection before marriage 
     
     are to be persevered in, or love will yee: 
     
    

    
     J 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     habits, by dressing untidily, by gossipping 
     
     with neighbours, and haying a comfortless 
     
     home for her husband, a young wife will 
     
     forfeit his esteem. There wag a home built 
     
     up by mutual love ; it was fair and goodly 
     
     to look upon; but through ‘ idleness of the 
     
     bands, the house droppeth through,’ and 
     
     domestic comfort becomes a ruin.— British 
     
    
   
   
    
     | position to recommend me to their inquisitive 
     
     |notice. No doubt some (and especially some of 
     
     | that runaway class of men who are in the habit 
     
     of putting their fingers in their ears, and listening 
     
     | to only one side of a story) wil! say—* O, what 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     j the people?) We won't listen te the like of that 
     
     | fellow.” Well, Naturalists are generally curious 
     
     to examine even a worm, if it belongs to some 
     
    
   
   
    
     | new species Which they have never met with be- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | hate and abominate all such men. 11th. Thou | gion altogether? We have had union prayer 
     
     | shalt never in any case vote for oue of them, lest 
     
    
   
   
    
     yor , my meetings, and talked of union; but if our union is 
     
     some fearful calamity befall thee. 12th. There 
     
    
   
   
    
     | nothing more than “ unitedness” over a cup of tea, 
     
     or unitedness at the hustings, then may the Lord 
     
     | have mercy ou us, for we sadly, if net fatally mis- 
     
     } take that which Christ prayed for, as it is recorded 
     
     ‘in the 17th ehapter of John’s Gospel, 20, 21, 22. 
     
     23 verses. 
     
     | What is the state of the respective Protestant 
     
     | churches in this city at this preseat time? In 
     
     }one, the minister has preached away so many of 
     
     | his congregation, that there is scarce enough lett 
     
     to give him support. Tu another, one poor man 
     
     is the object of aversion (if not of threats) to all 
     
     }the rest. And why! he remained at home hard 
     
     | at work on election day, instead of coming forward 
     
     }to vote for tae favored candidates. And in this 
     
     | church the petition is weekly offered to the most 
     
     | High, “ From envy, batred, malice, and all uncha- 
     
     | ritableness, good Lord deliver us.” Iu another, 
     
     jinemibers have been sadly at variance one with 
     
     |another, so much so as to enact scenes on the 
     
     } open street, and in broad day, over which ~ ie 
     
     | better cast a veil, particularly as the minister, 
     
     | who never takes part in electious, is laboring hard 
     
     to keep his people in good humor one with another. 
     
     | Lu another auiuster whe was once fairly delized 
     
     | by his flock is now scorned, at least by some ; and 
     
     | why ? these who seorn him have been seduced 
     
     jinto Orangeism, and he does not choose to sail 
     
     j under that flag. Hence the estraugement—hence 
     
     the scorn. And yet, in the face of all this, one 
     
     leery high and honorable authority talks of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     weace and a triumphant Protestantism.” 
     
     the above sad results at the door of Orangeisim, 
     
     } more than one will agree with Mr. W., and dis- 
     
     }agree with Mr. 8., as to its “origin;” though for 
     
     | the sake of ears polite, I would like a softer, 
     
     | smoother epithet for a system which is doing the 
     
     devil’s work iu the livery of Jesus Christ. 
     
     Yours, E. E. 
     
    

    
     i 
     
    

    
     (FOR THE EXAMINER.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     SKATING ON THE HILLSBOROUGH. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On several days dyring the past week the 
     
    

    
     Hillsborough river presented a truly beautiful and 
     
     | and sexes, Who enjoyed themselves in walking, 
     
     | Sailing and skating on its polished surface. We 
     
     once heard a genius, in his peculiar way, declare 
     
     —in a phraseology which constituted a pure Irish 
     
    
   
   
    
     | delightful unitedaess of Protestants; aud another, | 
     
     | meek, lowly and reverend, as he is, says, “we have | 
     
     Laying | 
     
    
   
   
    
     jfure. And ou the same principle, I shail now, Buli—that nothing was so refreshing as a “ good 
     
    
   
   
    
     pleased to announce to her Parliament that she 
     
    
   
   
    
     And he! has given her consent to a marriage hetweeu Ilix 
     
     | Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’and| Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Den- | (nat Rev. Mr. Sutherland be Chaplain, it was ear- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lam confident that you will receive this 
     
     ent with the greatest pleasure, and that 
     
     | you will heartily uuite im expressing to Her Ma- 
     
     jesty your congratulations on an event 30 comlucive 
     
     to her own happiness, that of her family, avd the 
     
     wellare of the nation. The remembrance of the 
     
     visit of His Royal Highness to this Island gives 
     
     additional interest to this marriage. : 
     
     ‘The Secretary of State for the Colonies has laid 
     
     before the Queen the Petition passed by the Legis- 
     
     lature last Session, praywwg Her Majesty to use 
     
     her influence to obtain tor this Island privileges 
     
     in respect of Shipping similar to those which have 
     
     been conceded by the French Government to the 
     
     Province of Canada. IT am requested to inform 
     
     you that the question of extending these privileges 
     
     to vessels built in any of Her Majesty’s North 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Government of Franee, ene 
     
     The Colonial Minister bas intimated to me that 
     
    
   
   
    
     their powers in the Report which they have made. 
     
     Majesty to assent to twe Acts, passed during last 
     
    
   
   
    
     Papers on the subject will be laid before 
     
     I ain confident that yoa will deliberate on 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     port. 
     
     | you. 
     
    
   
   
    
     most endeavours to obtain a relution of those 
     
     differences which have so long retarded the pros- 
     
     perity of this Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Assembly : 
     
    
   
   
    
     T have directed the Estimates for the present 
     
     year, and the Publie Accounts for the past, to be 
     
     laid befere you. 
     
    

    
     1 observe with regret that the Expenditure for 
     
     the year 1862 bas largely exceeded the Revenue. 
     
     The revenue has fallen short of that of the pre- 
     
     ceding twelvemonth. This, without doubt, ism a 
     
     great measure owing te the derangement of our 
     
     Commerce, the result of the continuance of the 
     
     unhappy struggle in the neighbouring Republic. 
     
    

    
     I would direct your attention to the sum which 
     
     is annually expended on Education. ‘This item 
     
     alone absorbs nearly one balf of the revenue, and 
     
     it is, moreover, an expenditure ever imeveasing 
     
     with the population. The proceeds of the Assexs- 
     
     ment o« Lands, specially devoted to this service, 
     
     are altogether disproportionate te the expenditure 
     
     which it entails. ‘The necessity for reducing that 
     
     item of public expenditure, or ef raising au addi- 
     
     tional reveiue to meet it, is imperative. 
     
    

    
     You will, Iam confident, bestow a carefa con- 
     
     sideration on the financial condition of the Colony 
     
     generally, with a view to adopting such measurés 
     
     as may be deemed necessary to equalize revenue 
     
     and expenditure, and to maintain unimpaired the 
     
     publie credit, 
     
    

    
     Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the 
     
    

    
     | Legislative Council : 
     
    

    
     Mr. Spealeer and Gentlemen of the House of 
     
     Assenbiy: 
     
    

    
     I have been desired by His Grace the Duke of 
     
    

    
     Newcastle to invite you to give your earnest eon- 
     
     sideration to the system by which money votes ars 
     
     initiated in the House of Assembly. In the 
     
     Mother Conntry, and in several of the Colonies 
     
     under constitutions similar te your own, the Exe- 
     
     cutive Government is directly respousible for the 
     
     | financial condition of the country. It is for you 
     
     to consider the propriety of introducing this system. 
     
     A measure will therefore be proposed to you ter 
     
     vesting in the Licutenant Governor and his respon- 
     
     sible advisers the exclusive power of introducing 
     
     measures for the appropriation of the revenue. 
     
     Correspondence on the subject will be laid beiore 
     
     you. 
     
     * ‘The Act changing the coustitution of the Legis- 
     
     lative Council, by rendering itelective, bas received 
     
     the sanction of Her Majesty, and has been carried 
     
     into operation. ‘The constitutional position and 
     
     functions of the Council remain exactly what they 
     
     were. Its deliberations will be strengthened by 
     
     a consciotsness of poplar support, while ite con- 
     
     struction is sech as to reflect the settled wishes 
     
     rather than the transitory impulses of the people. 
     
     The qualification of electors under the present law 
     
     renders it advisable that the electors should be 
     
     registered, and @ measure to that effect will be 
     
     brought before you. 
     
    

    
     I with contidence commit to you the important 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Awerican Provinces is wider the cousideration of 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Commissioners appointed by the Queen to 
     
     inquire into the diflerences existing between 
     
     Landowners and their Tenants, have exceeded 
     
    
   
   
    
     His Grace is consequently unable to advise Her 
     
    
   
   
    
     Session, and inteuded te give validity to that Re- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | a question of such interest te your constituents aud 
     
     the Colony with a determination te use your ut- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Flouse of | Hou. D, Davies and James Duncan, Esq. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Against it~—Hons, Col. Gray, Colonial Seeretary, 
     
     Pope, Longworth, Kaye, McAday, Davies; 
     
     Messrs. Breeken, Yeo, Rameay, Montgomery, 
     
     | Howat, Haslam, MeLennan, Duncan—15. 
     
     When the question was put on the main metiea 
     
    
   
   
    
     j ried 16 to 11. Mr. Laird voting im the affirmative, 
     
     | It was then resolved that be petition praying 
     
     | aid for Roads, Bridges, and Wharis, or for any 
     
     | object of a local or private nature, be received 
     
     latter Wednesday the Isth March inst, 
     
    

    
     | It was farther resolved, that the postage on all 
     
     betters and prasted papers both foreign and in 
     
     ‘laud, to Members of this House, and the postage 
     
     !on the same, when inland only, from Members of 
     
     this House, shall be charged to the contingent 
     
     accounts of the Heuse. 
     
    

    
     The House then adjourned. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tuvurspay, Mareh 5. 
     
    

    
     The Speaker took the ebair, at 1) o'clock, and 
     
     after the uswal formalities the Mon. J. C. Pope 
     
     presented a petition frou Daniel Green, Esq, 
     
     agaist the return of J. Muirhewl, Exq., for the 
     
     Filth District of Prinee County. The petition 
     
     was received and read, and the House resolved 
     
     itself suite a Committee of Privileges. 
     
    

    
     Mr. John Yeo, in the chair, ‘ 
     
    

    
     It was resolyed that the allegations in the 
     
     petition warranted an inquiry, and aftes consides- 
     
     able disenssion, the Poll Books aud 
     
     relating to the election were placed uper the 
     
     table, by the Colenial Seeretary, and Wednesday 
     
     next, the 11th instant, was appointed as the day 
     
     fur the House to investigate the matter. 
     
    

    
     BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. 
     
    

    
     Mr. John T. Jenkins was brought to the Bar 
     
     in custody of the Sergeapt-at-Ayme, charged with 
     
     huving assaulted two Members of the Hoase the 
     
     Mr. 
     
     Jenkins carried in his hand the stick with which 
     
     he said the assault had beer committed; he said 
     
     be did net assault or insult either as Members of 
     
     the House, but as members of the community. 
     
     As to infficting personal injury on Mr. Duvean, it 
     
     was far frow bie thoughts—all he intended was to 
     
     | shew his thareugh contempt for him, en account 
     
     | of some approbrives epithets that Mr. Duncan bad 
     
     j used, and he merely intended to knock his hat off. 
     
     Mr. Duncan's bat was produced, and the triangu- 
     
     lar incision showed that great force must have 
     
     been used, 
     
    

    
     An examination and cross-exammation then 
     
     followed, the questions being put in writing, and 
     
     the answers taken down rerb et lit by the Clerk. 
     
     This eecupied the whole forenoon, and in the af- 
     
     ternoon sitting it was resumed. Mr. D. J. Reberts 
     
     was called as a witness, but in answer to a cer- 
     
     tain question he said that he declined to violate 
     
     | the previleges of secial life. He was cautioned 
     
     and warned to ne effect, and upon a metion being 
     
     made, and ecartied, he was also handed over tothe 
     
     Sergeant-at-Arms . W. A. Jobusten, Exq., was 
     
     the wext witness. He had seen a portion of the 
     
     affair, and deposed to what he had sewn, correbo- 
     
     rating My Jenkins’ statements. 
     
    

    
     ‘Phe Hon. Mr. Dingwell being required as a wit- 
     
     vess, a message will be sent to-morrow to the 
     
     Upper House requesting his attendance. 
     
    

    
     The House adjourned at 7 o'clock, leaving 
     
     Measrs. Jenkins and Roberts in custedy of the 
     
     Serjeant-at-Arus. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE CHAPLAINCY AND THE ASSAULT. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tue removal of the Rey. Dr. Jenkias from the 
     
     Chaplaincy of the Heuse has given very great dis- 
     
     satisfaction to al} but the extreme partizans of the 
     
     Government. The son of the Reverend and 
     
     Venerable gentleman—Dr. J. ‘T. Jenkins—unter- 
     
     tunately got into a collision with two members of 
     
     the House, on Wednesday afternoon, in conse- 
     
     quenee of the vete they kad given ow the Chap- 
     
     lainey question. Those twe members are Messrs, 
     
     D. Davies and James Dunean. It appears from 
     
     the evidence, with which the House was oecupied 
     
     in recording for nearly two whole days, that the 
     
     word “ blackguard” was bandied between Messrs. 
     
     Jenkins aud Dunean for some time, when the 
     
     former, becoming excited, struck the latier with 
     
     a light riding whip over the hat, making an inei- 
     
     sien in the bat, and inflicting a slight bruise on 
     
     the forehead of Mr. Dunean. The latter then 
     
     rushed at Mr. Jenkins, but Mr. Danean wae ite 
     
     stantly tripped up and thrown on bis back by his 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Mr. Editor, threugh your columns, ask the privi-| walk on the open sea.” An hour ona pair of 
     
     lege of addressing myself in a brief series of| skates, running, or rather flying over the glassy 
     
    
   
   
    
     Business which will come under your consideration : ‘ 
     
     in the course of the Session now opened, antagonist. The matter was brought to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     notice of the House immediately—a warrant was 
     
    
   
   
    
     letters To the People of Prince Edward Island. 
     
     Listen, Gentlemen, to what the “ creature” has 
     
    

    
     His first letter shall appear in the next 
     
    

    
     jissue of the Examiner newspaper. He seleets 
     
    
   
   
    
     leading matter is concerned, as being infimtely | 
     
     ‘the most respectable periodical of which the Co- 
     
     lony can boast. He knows well that many bi- 
     
     gotted Protestants, aud more particularly out 
     
     and out Tory Protestants, are silly enough to 
     
     imagine that any and everything which proceeds 
     
     from the Evammer office must needs be confami- 
     
     nated. But he does not intend minding the 
     
     childish prejudices of a captious public, much less 
     
     of a certain honey-puggling class of human beings, 
     
     whom, no matter te what particular sect, either 
     
     in religion or politics they may choose to utterly 
     
     homologate or bind themselves implicitly down, he 
     
     has always since he ever felt the sinallest speck 
     
     of independent thought influence his own mind, 
     
     felt at the same time naturally constrained to re- 
     
     gard as so many non-entities in the world of in- 
     
     tellect. For sueh people he has very little emo- 
     
     tional esteem of any kind. Neither love nor fear 
     
     is for the most part wont to inspire his heart 
     
     when he happeas to come in contact with any 
     
     who really belong to this peculiar generation. 
     
     What he intends in the present case to say, he 
     
     intends to say to all honest, uufettered, indepen- 
     
     deut, disinterested and true souled men. And 
     
     hoping to find such men and such women, too, 
     
     constituting the aggregate of the existing popula- 
     
     tion of his native Colony, he shall, in the mean- 
     
     time, ask leave to subscribe himself theirs, 
     
     Myst respectiully, 
     
    
   
   
    
     W. KEIR. 
     
     Malpeque, Feby. 26, 1863. 
     
     ~<a 
     
     ORANGEISM. 
     
     To THe Eprror oF THE EXAMINER. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir,—Writing as I am to Protestants, many of 
     
     whom are your readers, you may, in all truth and 
     
     sincerity, write over this communication: “ We 
     
     are not responsible for the opinions of our corres- 
     
     pondents,” yet for form’s sake I address it as 
     
     above. In this I shall take a view of some of the 
     
     sad effects of Orangeism; and there is no lack of 
     
     materials—the difficulty is where to begin. 
     
    

    
     I have for many long years watched the pro- 
     
     gress of religion and morality in this town, and 
     
     have witnessed a manifest improvement in the 
     
     morals and manners of the rising generation, up 
     
     to within a few years past. I consider that im 
     
     provement may be attributed, first to the preaching 
     
     of the Gospel; second, to the labors of temperance 
     
     advocates; and third, to the labors ef public lee- 
     
     turers on religious, literary and scientific subjects. 
     
     Has there been corresponding improvement for 
     
     the last few years? I unhesitatingly answer 
     
     there has not, but quite the reverse; and in this 
     
     opinion [stand not alone. J now refer to Captain 
     
     Orlebar’s lecture, “ Our Island, its duties, pros- 
     
     pects,”’ ete., delivered before the ¥. M. C. A., and 
     
     published in three or four consecutive numbers of 
     
     the Protestant. I need not occupy space by quo- 
     
     tations, but boldly charge the state of things which 
     
     the lecturer so pathetically deplores to the institu- 
     
     tion of Orange Lodges among us. Our young 
     
     men Upor — the mae franchise is conferred, 
     
     on arriving at the age of 21, are by secret agents 
     
     seduced into the Orange Laie wate ton 
     
     pride, vanity, and self-esteem is fostered and flat- 
     
     texed; aud as a consequence, Temperance Socic- 
     
     ties, and Bible Classes, together with attendance 
     
     at their respective churches, sink in their estima- 
     
     tion. Take a ease as a specimen. A young wan 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Workman. 
     
    
   
   
    
     who had attained his majority with credit to him- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | Waves 18 even more invigorating. So thouglit 
     
     numbers of the younger portion of our city; tor 
     
     every merry little sprite who bad on a pair of 
     
     | skates seemed to be filled with vew life and spirits. 
     
    
   
   
    
     they had the 
     
     The present winter is the 
     
    
   
   
    
     It wil] be seen that this Speech gives the pro- 
     
     mise of no measures that will be really beneficial 
     
     to the coyntry; but it will be seen that there is a 
     
     very significant hint given that the amount ex- 
     
     pended en Education must be largely reduced, 
     
     or furthey taxes levied on the people for its sup- 
     
     port. The initiation of money votes by the Go- 
     
    
   
   
    
     issued for the arrest of Dr. Jenkins —the whole 
     
     of Thursday and Friday was occupied in inyesti- 
     
     gating the charge against him, — the evidence 
     
     ciearly showed that there was no design on Dr. 
     
     Jenkins’s part to assault or insult any member of 
     
     the House —~and that the most irritating 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     first time that any or at least any considerable 
     
     number of our fairer, dearer, and gentler sex 
     
     have participated in an amusement which some | 
     
     over fastidious people, doubtless, consider oughit | 
     
     to be enjoyed only by the more robust half of 
     
     creation. In Canada and the sister Provinces, 
     
     the female sex have availed themselves of the be- 
     
     nefits to be derived from skating. Whatever 
     
     prowotes the physical developemant or well-being 
     
     of a people is well worthy of our commendation. 
     
     Too much reliance on drugs, and want of fresh 
     
     air and out-door exercise, is said by physiologists 
     
     to be the cause of the physieal degeneracy of the 
     
     American women. Hence the explanation of the 
     
     fact, that the American soldiers in the Northern 
     
     Army have not had the strength nor masculine 
     
     vigor to bear the fatigues of war, whieh they 
     
     would have had to sustain them had their mothers 
     
     been strong and healthy, and not the feeble and 
     
     sickly creatures that all intelligent writers repre- 
     
     sent them. Let us then have skating, calisthenics, 
     
     or whatever promotes the health ot our fair ones. 
     
     No exercise is more animating nor healthy than 
     
     skating. It exerts the mind as well gs the body, 
     
     as every form of beauty can be “cut” on a skill- 
     
     fully-used pair of skates, to perform which re- 
     
     quires not only practice but considerable taste. 
     
     You can dart trom point to point with the swift- 
     
     ness of au arrow, glide in graceful curves, and 
     
     fly around backward and forward in perfect eir- 
     
     cles, aud revel tm fascinating gyrations. Many 
     
     of the young mea and some of the ladies shewed 
     
     much skill on their skates whilst on the Hillsbo- 
     
     rough last week. The innumerable lines of beauty 
     
     which were carved out by the feet of the skaters, 
     
     were only surpassed by the lines of beauty which 
     
     were easily discernible in the glowing faces of 
     
     our fair countrywomen, who were skating during 
     
     February's last days, or who were literally 
     
     “walking on the waters” of our beautiful Hills- 
     
     borough. Let morose mortals philosophise as 
     
     they will, or cynics sneer as they may, there is an 
     
     enchantment in the sight of a petticoat. Where- 
     
     ever woman makes her appearance, the scene is 
     
     holier and the enjoyment purer, esnecially if the 
     
     one be there “whose eyes we can gaze foudly on, 
     
     and love mankind the more.” The angels ever 
     
     lovely are all the more beautiful if they put on 
     
     wings. What does it matter whether the wings 
     
     be placed on the shoulders or on the feet. It is 
     
     true, that Michelangelo, Raphael and others of 
     
     the grand old masters, painted their angels with 
     
     wings upon their shoulders; but, then, did not the 
     
     ancients who lived in the sunny climes, where 
     
     frozen waters were unknown, believe that the 
     
     classical god Mereury had his wings upon his 
     
     heels! We are becoming so poetical that we 
     
     must conclude, for fear of disturbing the equani- 
     
     tity of our local prosemen. We intended to say 
     
     a word of censure on the practice of some persons 
     
     running their boats amongst the skaters, as on 
     
     several occasions we observed narrow escapes 
     
     from danger through this cause. But the boats 
     
     with their white sails, contributed so much to the 
     
     animation and beauty of the scene, and were 
     
     managed with such almost surprising skill, 
     
    

    
     “ Treading the waters like a thing of life,’’ 
     
     that every one was delighted with their appear- 
     
     ance. We merely remark that as the river is 
     
     ample enough for all, in future some regulations 
     
     should be enforeed to prevent the ice boats from 
     
     runuing on the places where any considerable 
     
     number of skaters may be assembled, as in future 
     
     Winters it is quite probable that thousands of our 
     
    
   
   
    
     | faction to the country —then we must say that 
     
    
   
   
    
     vernment—a measure against which some of the 
     
     party in power used to declaim very violently in 
     
     former years —is preposed for the consid:ration 
     
     of the Legislature. But such a measure as this 
     
     will be of no service te the country —it will 
     
     ouly serve te tighten the grasp of the Govern- 
     
     ment on the Treasury chest, denying to meuibers 
     
     not in the Government the right to press upon 
     
     the Assembly the necessity of granting small 
     
     sums of money for very useful local objects.— 
     
     A registry of voters for Legislative Councillors is 
     
     also proposed. Such a measure may be useful, 
     
     in order to prevent the wholesale and indiscrimi- 
     
     nate swearing by wlich the late contest fer Coun- 
     
     cillors was characterised; but it will certainly 
     
     complicate the elective machinery — will be at- 
     
     tended with considerable expense to the country, 
     
     and will provide nice jobs tor Government parti- 
     
     zans.— The Speech supplies the piper’s news 
     
     about the Royal marriage — the failure of the 
     
     Land Commission, and the great increase of the 
     
     public debt. ‘T'hese are the topics touched upon 
     
     in the official verbiage. If they can atlord satin- 
     
    
   
   
    
     the country is very easily satisfied. When Mr. 
     
     Gray and his party in the Assembly shall bring 
     
     the light of their wisdom to bear upon these 
     
     questions, and enable us to judge how they intend 
     
     to deal with them, we may have something more 
     
     to say regarding the advantages they are likely to 
     
     confer upon the country. As regards the Land 
     
     Question, judging from the Governor's Speech, 
     
     there is evidently no intention on the part of the 
     
     Government to attempt to resuscitate the Award, 
     
     although the supporters and members of the Go- 
     
     yernment at the late elections intimated that the 
     
     Duke of Neweastle would be coerced into recov- 
     
     sidering his decision on that subject. 
     
    

    
     The following suramary of routine proceedings 
     
     in the House we take from the last Islander. The 
     
     ouly considerable debating that has occurred was 
     
     on the question of privilege referred to below, 
     
     aud then the doors were closed, and the Reporters 
     
     excluded, 
     
    

    
     The Members of the House having returned to 
     
     their own Room, and His Excelleucy’s speech 
     
    
   
   
    
     having been again read, the House then procueded 
     
     to the choice of officers as follows ;— 
     
     John MeNeill, Esq., Clerk of the House, 
     
     Mr. William MeLean, Clork Assistant, 
     
     Benjamin DesBrisay, Esq., Law Clerk, 
     
     Albert H. Yates, Esq., Sergeant-at-Arms, 
     
     Mr. Angus McKinnon, Messenger, 
     
     Mr. William Birch, Door-keeper, 
     
     Mr. John Passmore, Assistant Door-keeper. 
     
     Hon. Col. Gray then rosein his place and stated 
     
     to the House that he deemed it but right and 
     
     reper to announce to Mr. Speaker and to the 
     
     House, that His Excellency’s late Ministers hiay- 
     
     ing tendered their resignation on the 23rd ultimo, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     self, having given satisfaction to his master, sober 
     
    
   
   
    
     citizens may turn out for a day’ joy > 
     
     ing on the Hillsborough. no Mee e 
     
    
   
   
    
     and having received the commands of His Excel- 
     
     leucy to undertake the task of arranging a new 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     language was used by Mr. Duncan as well as by 
     
     Mr. Jenkins, before the violence was committed. 
     
     The debate closed at half-past eleven on Friday 
     
     night by the House coming to a resolution that 
     
     Dr. Jenkins was guilty of a gross breach of the 
     
     privileges of the House, and that he should be com- 
     
     mitted toe the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms 
     
     during the pleasure of the House. Nearly the 
     
     whole of the Government party were extremely 
     
     auxicus to have Dr. Jeukins imprisoned in the 
     
     common jail, The first resolution proposed by 
     
     the Leader of the Government recommended that 
     
     punishment for the offence. 
     
    

    
     We shall, if time will permit, offer, in our next 
     
     edition, some general observations on the change 
     
     of Chaplains, aud on the unfortunate disturbance 
     
     which has sprung out of it. 
     
    

    
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     THE ADDRESS IN ANSWER TO THE 
     
     SPEECH. 
     
    

    
     Tue Address in answer to the Speech of the 
     
     Lieut. Governor, at the opening ofthe Legislature, 
     
     was debated in Committee of the whole House on 
     
     Saturday last. Ia reference tothat part concera- 
     
     ing the Land Commission, Mr. Coles moved a 
     
     short amendment, to the effect. that no beneficial 
     
     results have followed the labours of the Koyal 
     
     Coumnissioners. This gave rise to a long discus- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sion about the Award and its wonderful advantages 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the country, from whieh it appeared that the 
     
     Government party are determined to make an 
     
     effort to resuscitate the worthless and defenet 
     
     bantling of the Commissioners. Mr. Secretary 
     
     Pope was entertaining the House with a rigmarole 
     
     story about the Land Question — escheat, quit 
     
     rents, fishery reserves, &c., quoting old des- 
     
     patches and parliamentary speeches to make up 
     
     for the waat of original eloquence from himself, 
     
     when we left the House, very few others choosing 
     
     to remain to listen to the dull oratory of the Se- 
     
     eretary. The debate was adjourned uatil to-day, 
     
     when other paragraphs of the Speech were dis- 
     
     cussed; and we suppose the Address will be ‘ 
     
     agreed to this evening without any amendment. 
     
     bo 
     
    

    
     Cavacombs or Rome.—His Lordship the 
     
     Bishop of Charlottetown proposes to lecture on 
     
     this interesting subject before the C. Y. M. L. 
     
     Iustitute on Wednesday evening next. His Lord- 
     
     ship’s intimate knowledge of Rome, his late visit to 
     
     the ancient Catacombs, and his acquaintance with 
     
     the history of the eariy Christiags, will, no doubt, 
     
     enable him te give a very jystructive and enter- 
     
     taining Lecture, 
     
    

    
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     THE English, Foreign and Colonial Mails have 
     
     arrived, we understand, at Cape Tormentine, but 
     
     up to the hour of going to press, had vot reached 
     
     Town. 
     
    
   
   
    
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