members on the Government side of the , Telatiye to a questien that might be Confessional as to the ‘ purity of! Now, such language as this was not only dis- | good to : I the Colony; and the less religious ful, but immediately calculated to dis-| strife was started and encouraged amongst | Arehd. Alison. ath the peace of the Colony. Why, it wae, them, the bester it would be for the whole | the Colonial Seoretary wrote a letter to| ‘(After a few further remarks from other tt Hutchinson, Beq., the then Mayor of! members, the question for the second reading thia City of Charlottetown. The letter bears of the Bill was put, and carried on a division date August 15th, 1856. [An extract from of 14 to 10 ] whieh was pablisbed ina speech of Mr. It's. | im the Islander of Ist May.}] He (Mr. H.) told the hon. Colonial Secretary that if he| would come to Vascumpec he would te pleased) ~~ to show him plenty of Bibles in the neighour-| hood. tle was sorry he sheuld have so far . a nm himeelf ne to have so grossly in-/ THE TRUE POSITION AND DUTY OF sulted Uatbolic ladies, he hed given the hon. | LIBERAL PROTESTANTS. credit for more pleck. | Ma. Eprror; ‘ oon ens oe | Your strictures on a letter that recently ap-| Me. fowrax again a ained that the peated in the Protestant excited my curivsity. A CORRESPONDENCE, (COR THE EXAMINER.) —_—- religids of Catholics had been insulted in all! friend was kind enough to lend me the pumber i testant” fiuds with the Pefition js its intolerant I read it) spirit. || morialists pray that Her Majesty wall be pleased to withhold her Royal assent from the Bill to in- corporate the Orange Lodges of this Island. the prayer of this Petition * A Liberal Protestant” approves; but he doesn’t iike the way in which this favour is asked. Orangemen the alleged right of incorporation, but he would couch his denial in good set terms He says to the Orangemen, ‘I would not grant you this been, if it were in my gift. ' ‘ impolitic and irexpedient to extend the sanetion , Wpon the subject of the | sentence of bis letter he statex that “the Protes-| ot Government tothe Institution to which you be- long; really, ab! eh! I cannot recognise yqu ofti- cially, but since you are fond of tie amusement, | will treat you toa dish of abuse of those con founded Papists." meu would be infinitely obliged to our polite po- litician. eatuuate of his judgment gud his religion. that they ted most dear, by One who fed which contained the communicatioa ertdenvoured to gain, ly intrigae, theic carefully, and if you wall allow 9 sincere, wel bene ree oe denied that he had meaning, and, I trust, honest Liberal Protestant as gia: . | space in your columns, J intend to make a few Mr Howtay—There could bend doubt in| rewarks or its contents. wny reasonable mind but that tho bon. the It is very unfortunate that ‘‘ A Liberal Protes- | Colonial Secretary tad compromised his im-| tant'’s” firet assertion je 9 falsehood. We more ehat had’! Seana ~ augue the abject of| than suspect the wan who begins his story by the hon. Colonial Secretary's visits to His | Stating what we know to be untrue, In the first ‘Lordebip the Kis! ‘endowment of Se. Dunstan's College, might) tant Liberale of Priage Bdward Island have no feitty be tele fo the judgment of the people) Every one of the Colimy. “Tf this bill were passed, he could Hot iter fel that his religion had been : pi assailed ; thétr tiere had been wasted by long | beral party. Every Liberal who can wr ite decent and weary discussious on this Act of Incor-| English, and who wishes to give publigity to his iin when it might have been much more! yjews on any subject of general interest, can do profitably employed for the benefit of the 80 through the columns of that paper. J never country. tn fact, if they did not accelerate | heard of any distinction being made between ee & om Se —— ml ere Protestant and Catholic. I believe such distine- ‘Seen much better emploved than in attacking | tion to be an invention of the enemy, esiculated to ‘the reli gious opinions of their fellow-colonists. | divide the Liberal Party. I know, and every “He would yield to no man in defence of his) Liberal Protestant who has written for the press ‘OEs, and, on the a band, he would al knows, that his communications have met with Tbe ccehtee” re ° ol the most favourable considergtion trom the editor strenuously opposed the seoond reading of | of the Examiner. |i is with great pleasure that ahe Bill. I take this opportunity of bearing testimony to fon. Mr. Coirs was very doubtful where | the promptness with which that gentleman has Seulent ? ‘The pr band dan ot tecceeere: published the hicubrations of at least one Liberal end. : prepe Ag mC >} tion, while giving cuales great heart- Seaton | Protestant, a and trouble in the community, would not | Whelan should meet with the unqualified appro- remove a single one of the aileged grievances | bation of Liberal Protestants or Liberal Catholics, against Catholicism. The prayer bovk of! is more than could be expected. I have little the Rtg tr England iteelf wight be per-| doubt that he gives offence to the one class quite taser that ths Ho. Colon Serstary had % eu as be doe tothe her, le must bp used in respect to the books from whieh he| peculiarly fortunate public journalist who ean kad, durirg the session, favoured the House! please everybody at all times. ‘I'bat none of the with so many quotations. It was worse than | editorial fraternity among us does so, 1 am very | useless to rake up old grievances ; they did 1 will venture to say that even po good, but when they eompared the noto-| aad ; aeons bang al. ee el Mr. Laird himself now and then gets a sharp rap | { rious njpassacre at G with that of} a Seallabogue, the Glencoe massacre, ordered | over the knuckles administered by one or other | I have no doubt but that the | by William of Orange himself, would be found to have been one of the worst recorded | in history. No reasonable argument had been adduced to show why such a Soeiety should be incorporated. It was argued that. the Roman Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown | had endeavoured to obtain “an Act of [n- by-the-bye, the public have nothing ta do—of the corporation,’’ aud that the only question | editor of the former paper will Gud as much fa- wpon the matter was the simple difference | your with the great majority of his Protestant between ** of’ and ** in.”’ That was gaid to} ead sae he | : ill with hi be an erter of the Queen's Printer, who, it| readers as those of the latter wil with hia. geemed to him, was either always making) “ A Liberal Protestant" writes, that Liheral mistakes or boing blamed for those of some-| Protestants are ag sheep withgut a shepherd. 1 body else. He could not, nor would not, suppose he wishes the Libers| Party to follow the believe that the Priests of any religion Were | exampie af the Conservatives, by submitting to wo bad as the hon. the Col. Seeretary BEpre- | sno leadeyship of a pair of McNabe—a Protestant sented ihe Priests of the Roman Cath: lic) . ore te # paiy at 4 ws ane papa Church to be. It had been stated im the) MeNab and a Cathoilc McNak. ‘Phat being the Mouse that the Roman Catholic Bishop was! case, what is to hinder the Liberal Episcopalians Editor of one of the newspapers published in| from having their McNab, Liberal Presbyterians, = City. Ae well known that the Methodists, Baptists, and Uaiversaliats from each ony mag too mach power and in- We would then be ia no want of : , | having theirs 3 fluence over the news rs published > a nd shepherds, gach asserting his claim tothe premier- the | island ; they should mind their own business, | ’ and not willingly give offence to others. The ship on the soundness of bia faith and the purity duty of every Minister, mo matter to what, of his doctrine, and not an the vulgar common — or — ceed was to preach | seuse ground af his possessing the hecessary qua- ai Ge Gacterne aF'the faith, accordia . © | lifieations af a good political party leader. Such is Own Opinions; at the same time taking | folly b: ‘ ; special care not to attack the religiovs faith | '""'¥ Herds but ta be exposed fo be rondemned. of his neighbors, but to allow them tho game|! always undorstood, until I read ‘A Liberal b t . . ? if! Pratee le’t latte . «3 = are liber y Hah be claimed for bimestf 5 and iti} ratectant 8" letter, fat, Mi, Coles wes the me ' ) d, aud prac-| gagnised leaders of the Liberal party. On his tically carried out,they could notexpect peace | cians tu that position jt is quite peediess for me or harmony in the Colony. Several objections | hers ta say one word. The part that he has had been raised, and questions asked by hon. | *""* Do ene ae taken with regard to the anti-Orange Petition is ane that meets with the approbation of the Li- organ to represent their views.” knows that the Examiner ia the organ of the Li- | That everything written by Mr. well convineed. encve of his readers. Examiner is as faithtul an exponent of the politi-! is of those of the Conservatives; and Tam well | ny : ; f ; your Majesty to upheld the majesty of law by | withholding your cousent from an Aet whieh in- } corporates a Seciety that puts itself in the place | of law, and which, in certain ewergencies, bas | been knawn to dispense with law altogether. It | the prayer of the Petition be granted, Orangemen | will then be in precisely the same situation they ; now oecupy. They will be neither better nor worse off. ‘They will receive exactly the same amount of toleration that is now extended to them. The fun of the thing is, that this is the exact position that “ A Liberal Protestant” would keep them in, notwithstanding his senseless prate about intolerance. That worthy, in his zeal for the cause of Orangeism, invests himself with the mantle of the prophet. Ho says, in effect, that he knows that Orangemen will in future act the part of peaceable citizens. Whence he receives bis in- spiration it is hard to tell; but as we ordinary and unfavowred mortals Lave no other means of judg- ing the future bat by the past. we sce every rease to dread that Orangemen will seize on the flimisiest pretext to inflict injury on their Catholic fellow citizens. Indeed, let any one, whether Orange- man or not, be smitten with the No-Popery dis- ease, and there is no folly and no crime that he is not ready to commit. If history teaches any lesson it teaches this. Though the law and an enlightened public opinion will net permit bim to ut the flock.”” He (Hon. Mr. C.) believed that if the question were put, as he believed they were put, nobody but the culprit could take offence. Why, it was too well known here, in thie City of Charlottetown, that Orange- men when the opportunity offered—and he believed that in many cases the opportunity had been deliberately planned—bad never hesitated to defile Catholic girls; and it would certainly be well that the Orangemen should obey the Scriptural injanction :-— «Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam of thine own eye, sud then shalt thau seg clearly | to cast out the mote that js in thy brother’s| he took any other part. I consider that every patriotic and intelligent Protestant, whether Li- bergl or Conservative, should sign it. This anti- Orguge Petition, in the opinion of “A Liberal Protestant," is going to do the Liberal party a great deal of injury, because, to use his own words, “it pieces the Liberals of the Island in a falee position by identifying them with the Catho- lie party, and again, those who sign the Petition strike a deadly blow at the Liberal party by identifying Liberaliam with Roman Catholicism.” This identifying Liberalism with Catholicism is the great bugbear of this zealous Protestant and consistent Liberal writer. He no doubt is igno- rant of the fact that this is the position in which Orangemen avd Tories wish to place Liberai Protestants. He is not aware of how industrious eye.”” There had been nv sufficient pegeuns adduced for the passing of this bill, which, not only from its framing but from the prin- ciples it laid down, could not be bug most obnoxivas to every Roman Catholig. ‘The | they have heen in proclaiming that all Catholics O , the body which this Bill sought| were Liberals, and all Liberals Catholics or worse. ont to, it wae well known, were a He, sweet innocent, has never heard the epithets violent political faction. Now the Catholics disguised Catholic, peendo Protestant and rotten ° : 1’! Protestant, applied to these Protestants who take al/bough they had been often charged with |i. Literal side in polities. When he and his the crime of being Liberals, had no wish to} friends ean prove that Liberalism and Catholicism interfere with eithes the political or religious opinionsel others. {t wasa well known fact that Orangemen were peaceahle only when it suited their own purposes. Not long sinee, a clergyman had been grossly insulted at Brackley Point by Orangemen ; and the imcorporsation of this secret Society, with the reales and regulations, from which extracts had been read by the hon. the Col. Secretary, would be aa ineult to every Catholic in the Isiand. It was generally reported that whan the present members for the City were brought forward, one for re-election, the other for election, that the Orangemen had put certain questions to them. ion. Mr. Daytes.—Seme questions had been put, but an answer had been declined. both c his colleague and himself. Hon. Mr. Cotcs knew that the question had been put to the hon. members, and was satisfied with the explanation. If this Bill passed, they would have party processions, rty banners, and « strony increase of party ieeling. In fact, it was bigh time that the hen. the leadear of the Government shonld Orangeisin and Protestantism are terms, then he and they will have proving our identity with Catholics. good Protestants as themselves; I can aasure him Protestant, and though I intend to sign this bor- fly to that of Rome. ed who sign the petition in selves with the Catholics. in Ipeland it was absolutely required to supple made this adinission in Parliament. some prompt steps in the matter. it, that Orangeism, and something stronger than itlon t Cotes bre read & letter from | Ovangeism, was necessary to enforce the execu- the Exéanitier yelatiye to the Orange asgoci- ion of some of the most unjust, iniquitous and ’ ation J Hon. Cor. Srcrrrary.—Those weye by- laws, not imterrogatries. lon. Mr. Cotxs.—Neither Catholics nor Protestanta should tiv themselves to the tai! of any party, but use their Lest efforts for the common good of the Colony. This could not be brought about by attacking Catholics, ## the hon. the Colonia! Secretary had done. In England, no Protestant constituency had ever returned ¢ Roman Catholic mem as its re tative; while the Catholics io this Istand had acted in a different manner, a8 might he noticed in one instance, at least, that every English statesman, worthy the name fantry and eayalry are now in Poland. Island. Were you to publish some of the most prominent features of this code you would, no doubt, be accused of the most malicious and ey- iravagant exaggeration. To give your readers 55 works of that historian without being disgusted a ee eee eS wore with the intensjty of his toryism. Compared with Sir Archibald our Attorney General is a liberal, and his bouor the Speaker an out-and-out radical, With a tenacity truly wondertul, he holda to every exploded theory, and advocates every hoary abuse. He is the eontemner of General Edueation, the opponent of Political Reform and Free Trade, of Catholie Emancipation; in short, he is the champion of old togyism in all its ramificatiqns. An eminent Edinburgh Reviewer pyonvunces his last volume to be a book of fallacies. | tainly a queer authority to be produced by a Li- | beral on the Catholic Question puted points. not at al} jndjcative of good will, bluntly telling are productive of evil wherever they are tolerated. | j fuss about the Liberals doing what he himselt | hesitate to say that he has strong political feelings ; ee ey eer THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEFENCE. OF THE SCHOOL VISITOR! —_—-— Tt is amusing to see a liberal swearing by Sir I defy any one who has the least park of liberalism in his composition to read the To THE Eprror of Tuk EX sMINER. Sik :—In the last number of the Examiner I ‘read, with some surprise, the speech which the Hon. Attorney Genoral delivered, during the de- bate on KEduestion, in the Leyislative Council, inasmuch as the speech contains sentiments and statements which I consider are unworthy ot any gentleman of bogyr, prudenee or independence. Hon. Mr. Palmer is the first person who has attempted to defend the conduct or apologise for ar lig, Rec | the incompetency of the individual who chemetelty jand notoriously diagraces the office of School Visiter in this Colony. The supporters of the Government, in the Legislature and in the press, have had the decency at least not to deny the ‘charges which have been so ivequently made against Mr. John Arbuckle, not only by embers of the Opposition, but also by many friends of the Government. Put J think jt would have been |more fortunate fur the School Visiter, as well as foy the Attorney General's good pame, il the speech made by Hon. Edward Palmer had never been spoken or reported. If the elegant orator of the Legislative Couacil is nat on the eve of entering the stage of his segond elitdhood, ha surely must regret haying given utterance to the words to which T now eal] public atiention, as they only | require to be reproduced in order to have them 1} am sure that the Orange- reprobated,’-In the conseo of hie epeech be enid: \** Fault has been found with the present Visiter | fow wasting his time talking politics; that way er jmay not be the case; bat will auy ef your honors | point out & government officer who is not a poli- }tician, oy a law to prevent him from being one. I think you will find the reverse, for if theve is not a law, there is a rule that no man bus a claiin tu 3 public office unless he is a politician. I have a dislike to political drones. We live in 4 free eouptry, and I like to see persons take ay interest he advocate of Protection, and the disapprover He is cer- mus well known facts, turn out to be, after all, by ‘A Liberal Protestant’s’’ own confession, dis- One of the great faults that “ A Liberal Pro- What is intoleragt about it? The me- Of He would deny to the I think it They would, no doubt, form a yery high Stull, L think { hear ¢ sturdy Orangeman, with a look him that ‘fair words butter no Sr. He would not tolerate Orange Societies, yet he blames tho petitioners for saying that Orange Societies | lt he considers Orange Societies harmless, whence his opposition? I can see some sense in opposing , and discountenancing what I consider ap unmiti- jin the Government of the Colony. [tis an uinder- gated evil, but po oye but a fool ur a capricious | standing that every vfijcer appointed by the Go- tyrant wil] crus what he believes to be harmless. | vernmeut should sympathise with and take an * A Liberal Protestant” seems dreadfully afraid |iuterest ju that Government; and so far as that of members of his party stultifying themselves. 1 | complaint has been brought against the present presume that he had not the remotest suspicion | School Visitor, I think there is {ttle ground for that he in his letter ta the Protestant was furnish- it. I believe he has been more sinned against than ing the world with as bright an example of stulti-| inning; aud I thnk he has discharged his duty fication as could be afforded. He makes a mighty | abs well as it was possible for him to do. 1 donot would haye dune in a more offensive manner. It | but 1 do not think it is proper for friends of the would have been much more to his credit if he | Government to make charges aguiust him, for I had thrawn off his mask of gauze, and macfully | believe he has contributed as much as any public detended the policy of the Government, and openly | officer to the succesy of the Gaverament, and I adyocated the incorporgtyon of Orange Lodges. - nut ashamed to say so," He yery cunningly, a8 he thinks, fastens &} Now, Sir, this language obviously means that charge ao intolerance - Mr. Coles and the | the Attorney General believes that all the public signers of the petition. He finds in that petition ‘ . at : inne the werd “ jihenie * and makes a tremendous | officers “waste their time talkivg polities; but eackling over it. Had the Liberal party peti-| that they having helped to win the * spoils,” have tioned Her Majesty to give the Orangemen a taste of thase penal laws and civil disabilities by , : ; . Whose assistance they, at one time, ground down | publie plander ; and further, that no friend of the the Irish Catholics, he could net have set up a | Government should censure a publie officer, no greater clamor. But the memorialists do uot pre- a right to enjoy, undisturbed, their share of the | In consequence of the long drought the Thames has become offensive. _ Zz | We regret to learn that Garibaldi is still great deal from rheumatism, and are Mr. WalLtyc,— Will yer prent this for the Decun in yer paper? Dear Decun,— A man over tu the Post OMis) thing x mati tother day was puttin a letier thro the hole in the | quite unable to write at all. His friends : wall, jist belo the winder, and sais be aturnin tu) anxious for his removal to som rotering | } ad"? will k | place ineral bathing establishtnent. ne, “I spose “ Chuckle-head” will kno I maled | pla e or mineral th , 2 this or letter, fur be amest knoes evere thing} Panis, May 15.—The successes obtained at ' thro the intes-| Puebla unhappily were purchased by severe: about the corrvespondens agoin on thro the intes- | Fite clicors -adbouy whem Gene. | ; | losses. . tionals of this ar Offis.” I sais tu him, who on} ral Laumiere, and 56 privates were killed | airth does you sinuate by that ar aprobium epitaf,| add 30 officers and 443 privates wounded | “ Chuckle-head.” “Why, the Deeun,” sais he ics latter, ai pe he pela ad P ise $4 ‘libberty | amopualances.— rench Ag a —_— ’ _— pee ) eden that the meadows of that country are Gibbett,” sais he. “ Aint you ashamec on your | at present of an usexceptionsble beonty and self,” sais 1, “‘to implie that ugly gaborkit tu the | have not for many years been 80 abeamaehes Decun? He's a burnin lamp an a blazin fine} phe same poriod. The alternation of rain’ Christisp,” sais I. * No Sur,” sais he, “not a) and sun have been ve ae pena pin’s pint is I ashamed of it. Why shud I? It’s the Senpennnaee con sonee in the am wg true as powder and polly woggs, an pnt 2 oats ce satis Wie to donee | Aut Sally's got » babie. "He's s ralo. Chae e-| vears,—From West Africa we learn that the | head, and shud be a diggin drains or drivin teams, | King of Ashantee has invaded the British or choppin wood, or a picken isters, er oakum, or! protected countries on the Gold Coast in con- dandelions, or sum oiler of them fine arts, insted} sequence of the English authorities having of swettin evere week and perspirin like a nigger, vereees mas aa to the sow! purpis of blagarding desent people pase Se . .,... | pulse the invaders. about ther religin, an makin bad blud, an gittin| " yyegyy, May 15. — The General Corres- fights up smung nabors, evere whar, so fur as he peodeng of to-day says:—In order to avert kin, the everlastin gooney as he is, and aukard as | an Nuropean conflict, Austria inter.ds pro- a two yar old stier. But after all, he’s a larfin | POPs the adoption of more coercive hd ; ; . sures than a Federal execution towards Den post, an I never hears him drawlin out his words mark. ‘The object of those measures will be but f thinks he must be hide-bound, or bin drinkin | ¢9 pucrantee the execution of the stipulations sour sider, or got the belly inflamables, or swal-!| of the London protocols of 1851 and 1852, ler’d a dose of stickin plaster, or some other| relative to the succession of the Danish sweet megts; but whea I happens to see hima stridin over the squar, I sees at wouce, a3 it was, Throne.—The village of Damerbam on the borders of Hampshire and Dorsetshire was nearly destroyed all by fire om the [Uth inst. a long-leg wash-hen a steppia full stretch over a ef Ile’s a most perti- THE POLISH INSURRECTION, elar pietur of that ar foul. CONSPIRACY AT WARSAW. letters, IT aint exacly sure “Chuchle-head” id! gone days ago an order was issued by the jist like tu hev a notice pf he’s own letters faluted Revolutionary Committee that the inhabi- about in the newspapers; no, he wud’ut praps| tants of the Praga suburb, numbering some . 7 +2 . » > > 7 . > feel percisily eymfortable if I was to arsk him, 12,000 souls, were to remove to another por : tion of the town, Suspicion being thereby if o : aroused, search was made, leading to the dis- up like bullet duks tu Whilerminar, Zepheriinder, covery ig the evening of workmen occupied Sofire——, but I won't sai the rest, owin tu the | in forming a mine beneath the fort upon the internil spirits of cavelry or nite arantree an fire | right bank of the Vistula, apposite the Citadel. |The miners were arrested. They stated, | Upon interrogation, that upon the 13th of the ; : month. it was intended to blow ap the fort, go; but he jumpt slap from the platturm, and | containing a garriaon of 800 men, and Jarge skowered awa amost allmity fast, as if he’d seed) stores of Powder. The bridge carrying the my boot ris to 45, and got skarred. Well, 1 | Railwey aceross is to be built up to this fort, thinks tu myself he’s jist clared in time, anyhow | and wiil be commenced in the course of the he’s # exusy fellah, and desarvs toe leather, and shud year. Many reports are in virculation as to a had his hose drawd ; an I had a notion tn do it) What is intended to happen on the 12th, the = a — w Pane = pee: = no ng 't) day when the amnesty expires; but na one | ae — 2: SEP Se BiG natera y, DUC! Enows for certain whenee the dreaded blow because we was rite slap up agin the Pelise Offis ; weil the deligueas and them ar fellaks with the City close on might | Wil De Geltverec a es iin: oe aarshed me into their logins, so I didn’t du it;| | The Osidert sc he Zeitung sys :— Upon but 1 jist thot ita kind of respectful and rite to| the Sth inst., 15 companies of Russian infan- let you kno the perticklers, and whisper in yer | try, with 8 guns and 5 squadrons of cavalry, ear that the oudacious reducer of yer bame an | attacked Taczanowski, in Ignacewo, near swomp on a hunt fur a frog. But agin about the how it kims of hig a sendin them gir gots fixed | infu my bussum.” Jist as he finished off, my dander was ris tu convinced that the religious opinions—with which, | heral party. He would nat be a true Liberal if are gne and the same thing, and that the words syhonymous ’ some hope of the subject of study.” : Till then they will excuse us if we consider ourselves as that though I have been now some years a Liberal rid Petition when it is presented to me, I have not yet been to confession, nor do I feel the least inclination to forsake the Church of England and Although our writer does not attempt te prove either of the above mention- Bp prom he has, by a very convenient mode of reasoning, and in a very peculiar style of English, arrived at the conclusion that those question identify them- Hie says it is notorious, and well known to every candid reader of the history of Orangeism, that when first established ment the weakness of the laws, and preserve the British rule and policy in that country. What is very ridiculous, he adds that Lord Palmerston T can assure him that Lord Palmerston never talked such noneense since he cut his eye teeth. Tie truth oppressive laws that were ever enacted — laws (although there were others) the return of the hon. member for Kast Point, who, al- thoogh a good Protestant, and whe did not *uppert the grant to St. Dunstan's College, +e had been returned by what is termed a Ro- man Catholie district. ‘The Roman Catholics in the Island had, ip fact, thrown out the olive branch, but it was sot accepted, and the question arose as tu what should be done. Was it enfe or politic to keep this poliuecal, religious contioually before the public ? Ari d to the matter of prayers, and the allusions that had been made with respect to absent members at the ning of the House, or members leaving the House, Le (Mr. C.) was of opinion that no member could feel hime If bound to hear the prayers of a politica! agitator, who had obtained bis si through the mflueoces brought to bear upon the Government by the Society it was Sow Sy this Bill, proposed to Rectpurate. He (Mr. C.) bi that the stn to his own Minister, if he felt Queated Was going wrong, or re- with em to act in oaera inbansiotans “4 member of the House; tater what, : bee ani we teet degusion bad one; it.could not some idea of the laws of which the first Orange- men constituted themeslves the miuisters, I will quote the words of the great and eloquent Edmund Burke. Speaking of the irish code be says: “It is truly a barbarous system, where all the parts are an outrage on the laws of humanity and the Jaws of nature; it is a system of elaborate con- trivance, as well fitted for the oppression, inpri- sommment, degradation of a people and the debuse- ter so unreasonable a request. What they say is, that though Orange Societies have been productive | cal convictions of the Liberal party as the Islagder | of incalculable mischief wherever they have been | may have “contributed to the success” of the tolerated by the civil authorities, yet we ouly ask | or te swear away the lives of his Catholie tellow- citizens, they dv not hinder him fiom annoying Catholies by a narrew-minded proscriptive policy, and from bering his friends and the public by preaching stupid sermons, by making violent speeches, and by writing dreary essays on the truitful subject ot Popery. “A Liberal Protestant ’ cannot finish his letter without having a fling at the Roman Cathohe re- ligion. ‘This abuse of Catholicism is a luxury in which, in these days, a great many persons in- dulge. No matter how slender his qualifications, every pigmy politician considers hiinself in reli gious controversy more than a match for the combined talent and learning of the whole Roman | Cathohe Church. Those who never hear but one side of an argument are not the very best judges of its merits; and those who form their concep- tion of a Charch from the prejudiced deseriptions of its most bitter enemies, will wot be likely to possess the most correct idea of its true charae- ter. This is precisely the case with the whole herd of Lilliputian controversialists who nauseate the public with their weakened, windy polemics. The greater part of them are about as competent to make a fair statement of the questions in dis- pute between Catholic and Protestant as a New England soldier is to give a just decision on the merits of the quarrel between the North and South. A little modesty is a most becoming thing. 1 cannat help thinking it a little presump- tuous in a “ Liberal Protestant’s’’ pronouncing dogmatically on “questions which the greatest and best intormed minds hare at all times differ- ed (?)— questions on which that Protestant is, perhaps, uninformed, and which he has not made The intense denomina- tionalism which some among us seem bent upon fostering cannot fail of having a bad effect upon the most important interests of the country. Its inevitable tendeney is to disturb the harmony and good feeling that should —xigt among all classes of a Christian community — to sybstitute a lopd advocacy of peculiar tenets for purity of heart, and vivlent denunciation of these who differ from us for holiness of life; to make us better Protestants and Catholics than Christians. It is a soil much more favourable to the growth of the self-right- eourness of the Pharisee and the spiritual pride of the fanatic than to the humility aud charity of the true Christian. Belore I close, I must say a word or two by way of protest against the apologetic and detrac- tive manner in which “A Liberal Protestant,” charitably supposing him to be really a Liberal Protestant, speaks of Libera) Protestants. He writes of the “ honest and well-meaning” among them as if there were not as many honest, well- meaning Liberal Protestants as of any class of politieians eu the Island. THe stigmatizes this party—ot the existence of which I had noidea un- til L read his letter—* as a despised and cringing faction at the heels of priests.” This party Judas expects, I suppose, to earn his forty pieces of silver by libelling as respectable and as indepen- dent a class of men as this Island ean produce. has Jong since been ashamed of. Orangemen may | Liberal Protestants, as a class, are far more inde- have been 28 neceesary in Ireland as Indians and Hessians were in America, and as masses of in- I don’t kuow what “A Liberal Protestant” means by weak laws, or how Orangemen wanaged to sup- plement them; but I do know that the code under which Ireland groaned for more than a hundred yeare was hard, beyond the belief of diuety-njne hundredths of the Orangemen of this pendent, and much freer from priestly influence than their opponents. Talk of their cringing!! Their stiffness of backbone is the very quality which Tories and bigots most hate, and most tear, and which they punish most severely when- ever opportunity offers. ar seorn to cringe to priest or minister, te landlord or merebant: ean as much be said of the rank and file of the Tory party! So far from feeling ashamed of being as- sociated with such men, lam proud of the eun- nection. He whom the bigots ean force to speak with bated breath of bis connection with the Li- beral party,is no true Liberal. Beeause forsooth the greater part of the Catholics agree with me in polities 1 must abandon my principles, and either form a new party on a religious basis or basely desert to the ranks of the enemy! Would not that man make a laughing stock of himself who refused to ride on a certain high road beeause seven-sixteenths of those who travelled on it pro- fessed to be of the Roman Cathelie religion? What would be thought of the Church of England | slightest claims to just or enlightened views of civil | hang Cathohe priests, to burn Catholic chapels, | amount of of the origin of Orangemen. ment ot human nature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Sydney Smith says: “So great and so long has been the misgovernment of that country (Ireland) that we verily believe the empire would be much stronger if everything was sea between England and the Atlantic, and if skate and codfish swam over the fair land of Ulster.” The same writer says soldier who would refuse to fight because his right-hand man was Roman Catholic, his left hand man a deserter, and he in his rear a seeptie ? Just as the English soldier recognises as a friend and an ally every one who fights for the liberties of Old England, so every true Liberal will frankly give his hand to any one, whatever bis creed, who does battle by bis side for the rights and jiberties again: * The great misfortune of dreland is, that | of the people. ‘This attempt to divide the Liberal the mass of a hare been given up for a| Party into Protestant and Catholie sections js century toa ful of Protestants, by whom they | foolish and inconsistent in the extreme. Politics have been treated as belots, and subjected to| are the bond of union among Liberals, and not every species of persecution and disgrace. The| religion. We welcome all to our ranks, even true state of the case is this, the British Parliament { Orangemen, not because they belong to this or were a di to humanity, and, being unable! We are determined to submit to vo ecélesiastical to execute them, Orangemen constituted them- | dictativn, to cringe at no priest’s heels; and white selves the instrumeats of oppression. Not the | our ranks are recruited from all devominations of whole standing army of Britain, aided by all the! Christians, we are resoived to permit favouritism iron clad ships afloat, could, in those days, enforce | to none. obedience to those Jaws. I only wonder that} Apviogising for the length of this letter, were svpegtied to for one pour.” This, I I am, &e. think, your readers will find to be the true theory : A PROTESTANT Prince County, May 25th, 1863. Government which appotated hin. Mare infamous doctrines Concerning the duties and obligations of Government officers than these were never pro- pounded in a Legislative Assembly having the affairs. Is a Government to forfeit all claims to publie confidence and respect, by giving the world reason te believe that its members and officers are oo better than a sworn banditti, which gives its gifts only to the most daring and unscrupulous ruffian, who may stoop to the meanest and the foulest deeds, which men of character and real ability would scorn to thitik of, not to say accom- plish? Is a person, alk appointed to an office, always to be screened from his gnilt, and must no one dare to unmask his ignerance, hjs stupidity, his hypocrisy, or, it may be, hie villainy, because, forsooth, he may have “ strong fechags ” in faveu of his masters ? I think, Sir, that the Won. Mr. Palmer will get Mr. Horror; Perhaps it may be amusing to your readers to | know something about a Secret Society now ex-| isting at Saint Peter's Bay, which is styled “The | Yellow Orange Society.” “ About four months ago | we heard it said in different places that an Orange | Society was beginning to be formed at St. Peter's | Bay. Yo this yepert we gave a deaf ear, con-! sidering that our Protestant neighbours would not | countepance or support a Seciety calculated to | destroy the harmony existing between Protes.| tants and Catholics. But we are very much de- | ceived in our opinions. We find that some of our | Protestant neighbours are Orangemen to the back- bone, and have betrayed the confidence placed in them by their Catholic brethren. A notice of some | ot the individuals conrposing the Yellow Society | will be a sutticient proof of its respeetability. These poor deluded sous of Adam are ina destitute state for want of character. They are deprived of their own cornfort and self-conmmand by giving | couutenauce and yielding to the intrigues of Orange i sycophants. They are collectively and individually | more like insane creatwres than rational beings. | Phe least and meanest of such persons, com- | views in reference to public officers, as surely we ave not lost all spirit of honor and independence ata -immasittin Government should be little better than a pack of public plunderers, “ wastiug their time talking polities,” which should be employed in fulfilling the duties of their respective offices. 1 think that the truth of the following proposition 1s s0 self- evident that most reasonable men will approve of it, that is, when once a man becomes an officer of a public system of edueation, and paid out of the pockets of all seets and parties, he should cease to be a violent political and sectarian par- tizan, and should attend ta the business for which he was appointed—striving to serve and please all, and the meie teol of none. This proposition should be true of all public officers, bat more especially congerning thoas who are connected with the Educational department. If it be ad- mitted that the high offices of our Edueational System are ta be given to none but political par- tizans, we may soon see the same principle enforced in filling the district schools with those ouly who haye “ strong feelings” in favor of the Government. But the Hon. Mr. Palner must have foreseen the evilé which would arise from carrying his theories into practice, when he alleged—notwithstanding hig previous remarks—that he was not “ an advocate for a person iy his (Mr. Arbuckle’s) standing bejpg a warm politician." Now, the reason for keeping Mr. John Arbuckle in the office of School Visitor is, that he has contributed to the success of the Governmené party. The means which he employed, as the Hon. Mr. Dingwell described truthfully, were spending his time “ lee- turing on polities and establishing Orange Lodges.” If these services have been so eminent in procur- ing the * success of the Government,” and if he must be rewarded for setting one elass of the popu- lation against the other, thus promoting bitterness and uncharitableness, ean he not draw “ the wages of this Colony? ‘The Hon. Mr. Palmer admitted that the “ office of School Visitor should be filled by a gentleman and a scholar.” That Mr. John be appointed to some less important ofiice than the one which he disgraces, with a salary sufficient give him a pension, as it would be nearly impos- sible to name any public offiee, above that of fog Reeve, the duties of which be would be able com- petently to discharge with any credit to the Colony. But with all his incompetency there might be some excuse for him, did he show the least zealin performing the duties of his office. ‘The fact, however, is, that the greater part of his time has been idled away, and many schools in the Island have not been visited for twoor three years. That he has shamefully neglected the duties required of bim by law, some of the warmest supporters in the Legislative Council could not deay. Said Hon. Mr. Ramsay, ‘‘ the School Visitor has not done his duty, though it would appear by his Re- port that he had. |] know aschool that he has not visited for three years.” Hon. Mr. Goff said, he “‘saw some of the evil effects of schools not being visited. Both the teacher and the trustees became careless.” But the redoubtable Sergeant Henderson gave the poor School Visitor “the un- kindest cut of all” when, theugh trying to defend bim, he “ haped future Visitors will furnish good statistics of the schools, and that they will actually visit them,” thus sinuating that Mr. Arbackle’s Report was a worthless affair, and that there ex- isted considerable doubts as to the reality ofsome of his “visitations.” The only apology offered us to the cause of so many schools being left un- visited, was that there are more schools in the Colony than the School Visitor could visit in the course ofa sear. But some of the schools have not been visited, even once in the course of two years, and others not once inthree years ; besides, the very fact that Mr. Arbuckle had plenty of work to engage his whole time in visiting schools, makes his conduct still more culpable fur “ wast- ing Ins time talking polities,” and “establishing Orange Lodges ;” moreover, as it has been reported, further disgracing his position by hawk- ing about Barabas P’ope’s pamphiets, and serving out bad rum at electioneering booths. There is one statement in Mr. Palmer's speech with whieh I agree, namely, the statement that Mr. Arbuckle “has discharged his duty as well as it was possivle for lim to do.” I do not doubt it, and in another Jetter I will show that even his last Report contains no information, such as it should contain; that it is full of gress grammatical f would be} made laws for the government of Ireland which| that sect, but simply because they are Liberals. | blunders, affectations, and ridiculously absurd con- tradictions ; and consequently, that to continue 2 man in the most important, if vot the most exalted office in the gift of the Colony, who is so notoriously incompetent aud unworthy to Gill it, is a dewning disgrace to the Government, aud an insult to the intelligence ¢f the people. iy oar ata Ju the meantime, I remain respectially, May 23, 1863, PK - wD but few personas who will endurse his degeuevate | soa tage . so as ww ‘agree. with lid that the officers o: a iniquity’ in some other way than as being the head officer of the whole educational establishments Arbuekle is either one or the other, 1t would be the keenest sarcasm to assert; theretore, he should to support him; or, perhaps, it would be better to posing the Yellow Secicty, claims to be onc of | their highest oracles by spouting hia ire at Ca-| | tiolies, aod scandalizing Catholicity. We are| informed Mr. Editor, that this oracle is an excel-| lent marksman. especially at the uv creation. Some years ipo ire x pis | strayed mto this Orange oracle’s premises: not earing for live pork, he felt resolved to stop the career of bis visitor (net by Rat Externiination,) | bat by powder and shot. “It would be advisable | for the Government to supply this oracle with British amuunition; if he cannet shoet papists, | inshooting pigs. Here isa specimen of one of the | Yellow Secret Seciety. I would advisethe Orange | concoctors of the Bye-Laws to havea proviso made relative to the oath as follows: * And 1 do hereby promise that I shall not shoot my Protestant neighbors’ pigs.” —Another Orange philanthropist, knownasa * * * By all accounts, this indi- vidual 18 an iron-hearted Orangeman of the first water —pufis up a bluff, sociable face to Catholics, and at the same time would deprive them of their eivil and religious rights. It is a fine display of | nature to appear very mild and affectionate to Catholic customers. It is very singtlar that persons who would ewdeavour to command a people's es- teem and regard would lend themselves and take | the city. a HOLLAND, A DUTCH WARNING TO THE RUSSIAN. The Government of Holland has followed the course taken by the three Powers y the Polish question. This is the more worth as in 1831 Holland declined to associate he! self with diplomatic intervention in Poland The policy of Holiand is strictly couservatige She has herself suffered from revolution’ which cost her half her territory. She a}: stains from political partizanship, and her King is the son of a Russian Grand Duchess The adhesion of this Government to tu, Western Powers must be regarded rather ag an act of warning than of hostility towards Russia. Tae Svez Canat.—Tho French Govern. ment papers are in a state of great eXaspera. tion at the publication in the Ceurrier dy Dimanche of & despateh from Aah Pacha, Turkish Minister for Foreign affairs, eon. demwning in the strongest terms the Suez Canal scheme. — Po —_ THE CiViL. WAR IN THE STATRS, IMPORTANT NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, Sr. Joun, May 23,. An arrival at New York from New Orleang brings intelligence of the bombardment of Port Hudson on the nights of Sth, 9th, and 10th inst. The Federal vessels were not ip jared, but the result is not stated. Goo news is promised soon. All the Colored regiments im Bank's de. partment baye been turned over to General Uliman, in addition to those under the com- mand of the latter. There are 2500 recruits in eamp. Ullman would proceed immediately t organize Corps d’ Armee, under white Accounts of Gen. Grant's operations do not differ from the Confederate reports. He ig believed to be master of the situation. It is reported that the Army of the Potomac lias changed its line, before Frede- ricksburg, to & point more convenient for the protection of Washington City. General Hooker's headquarters are at present 7 miles nearer the Capitol, Jt is also stated that llooker has been fully reinforeed. Official report from Capt. Pennock, of Mississippi Squadron, dated 26th, reports his capture of Haines’ Bluff on the 18th, enemy evacuating the place, Jeaving immense arma- ment uninjured. Pennock blew up the magazine and destroyed the works generally. Ile opened communication with Grant, whose forces were advancing on Vicksburg, and supplied them with provisions. Alsosert gum boat up Yazoo to destroy Confederate navy yard and stores. Grant closely invested Vicksburg, which could hold oat but few hours. Port Hudson must follow, and the Mississippi to open ite entire length. Inemy beaten at all points, Federal forces benayed splendidly. Latest rrow Gen. Grant.—Gen Johnson being at Calhoun, 17 miles north of Jackson, , ' ° . ° | matter how incompetent or Low negligent In per-| character is O*** SPOONEY. |Konin. After a stubborn resistance the as- forming his duty the officer may be, providing be ~ ee 00s l ailidiehe succeeded in storming the place, (POR Ti EXAMINER.) | which had been strongly barricaded, and the) Poles retreated towards Silesia.’’ The band of Dzachowski was attacked and | beaten on the evening of the 4th of May, near) Bontica, in the Government of Radom, north | of Upatow ; followed up the next day, it was| overtaken near Ozcowice, and beaten a second time, with the ioss of train, arms, and bag- age. | ‘Travellers coming from Ostrowo state that & very sanguinary engagement took place on ‘Tuesday near Kalisch, in whieh the Russians were said to have been victorious, although they suffered very great Joss. | Several carts filled with wounded had entered | Kalisch. The department of Justice has declined to | co-operate with the Goverument in earrying | ; out the confiseation deeree in Poland, as no law authorising such a measure isin exis- tence. THE SECRET COMMITTEZ AT WARSAW. Gen. Berg since his arrival at Warsaw has .. done his utmost to discover the Secret Com-'| | mittee. A fortnight after his assumption of office the Grand Duke asked him if he had been able to discover anything. ** Yes,’" re- pig auimal| plied the General ; **1 have acquired the con-| viction that, with the exception of yvur Im- ial Liehness and myself everybody here " belongs to tle Cominittos. FRANCE. News from Puebla to the Yih inst., gives subsequent to the investment of the city on the 23rd March. Upon the 27th Mareh, a bombardment was opened upon Fort Jarvier and the penitentary, which was well fortified, and continued until the Sist, when a breach was made, and the French troops advanced and carried the positions by storming. From there the storming parties pushed on, taking suecessfully, at the point of the bayonet, two otler fortified positions, and presently entered They fought their way through the streets, which were barricaded, and eap- tured the Plaza de Armas and the cathedral, which were strongly fortified. These po- oaths injuries to their Catholic neighbors. I am plorable position the conductors and complotters of tween Catholics and Protestants! Catholics and Protestants heretofore lived in friendship, until the community Las been disturbed by Orange Lodges. Yours, &e. A PROTESTANT. Saint Peter's Bay, May 19, 1863. LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The R. M. 8. Asia, after a splendid run of 94 days, arrived at Halifax on Monday even- ing, the 25th ult. The news furnished by the European journals received by this vessel is not wholly devoid of interest. The assent of the Russian Government to an Karopean Congress for the settlement of the Polish insurrection is not without some significance. Russia is seeking to gain time. in the meanwhile, she is making advances to France ; indeed, it is said that the Czar has | actually offered, if the Emperor of the French will ubandon the cause of Poland, to unite! with him in modifying the map of Europe. But here is the difficulty — Great Britain. There are too many ghosts un the road for Louis Napoleon to yenture upon it alone. As faras England will go, just so far will Napoleon go, not an inch beyond. The Poles have been defeated in several encoun- ters with the Russians; butas a counterpoise to this, the Poles have won several victories in Lithuania and Samogitia ; and a telegram from Cracow announces that an insurrection has broken out in the Ukraine. This is about the sum total of foreign intelligence. A little difficuity —originating in the fact that the Lord Mayor of Dublin, at the recent reed of addresses to the Prince and rincess of Wales, had precedence over the Seoteh deputation—is likely to engage the attention of Parliament. The Seoteh autho- rities intend to have the question finaliy settled, The Report of tho Royal Commissioners of the International Exhibition of 1862 has been published. The balance-sheet shows that a small surplus remains in hand. Stock of the Bank of British North Ame- riea, 49 to 51. Distress in the manufacturing districts was on the increase. Lord Palmerston, in the Commons, had stated that arrangements ‘in eonneetion with the Throne of Greece had not been completed. Mr. Berkeley had signified his intention to introduce a bill for the aduption of «vote by ballot’’ at elections. A most disastrous earth Rhodes on the 22nd of April, destruction of 2000 houses tionate loss of human life, an earthquake were felt at Alexandria on the same day. A return has been submitted to Parliament shewing the exgent of the growth of Cotton in India, and the exertions making to extend its culture. In January and February 52,- 00,400 pounds were shippsd from Bombay to Europe, the money value of which was nearly £3 000,000. A large meeting held in Fano uare Rooms, London, on the 12th jnst., adopted a petition to Parlisment demanding enforce. ment of the Jaw against English builders of Confederate cruisers. resulting in the and a propor- sure, Mr. Editor, that the irritation felt hy some | of those Orangemen is very great. What a de the Orange faction must have placed themselves in, | : : when they consider that they are the instigation defended them with great bravery, fizhting of all the trouble and ill-feelings now existing be. | sitions being carried, the Zouaves and sol- diers of the 99th Regiment of the Line assist- ed by the Sappers, made their way through | the houses and dislodged the Mexicans, who desperately from house to house. The Freneb loss was reported to have been 150 killed and 500 wounded. General Vermet de Laumiere is among the killed. ‘The only fortified posi- tions the Mexicans now retain are Forts Guadaloupe and Loretto, The attacking force of the French numbered 18,000 men, while the Mexican force was calculated at 25,000 men. General Forey holds the bridge over the Kio Gietro, thus preventing Comon- fort, who ison the other side with 12,060 men, from advancing to Puebla. THS NEW FASHION OF SILK @0A4TS AND BREECHES. The Nord contains the following account of an approaching ball in Paris, at which a serious innovation is to be made in the present style of evening dress :— The ball at the Hotel Talleyrand Sagan, at which the highest Parisian aristocracy is to assemble, is much spoken of. It is positive that gentlemen will not be admitted except in coats and breeches of varied-eoloured silks. It will be a real Jete of the last centory, and will evidently be much more elegant than the mass of coats deplorably black. It is incontestable that the custom of wearing mourning-colour at festivals is not decidedly pleasant to the eye.”” PRUSSIA. BETWEEN THE CHAMBER AND THE MINISTRY. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the President read a letter signed by the Ministers, stating that so long as the Ouse supports the assumption made by the President, of a right to limit the Minister's freedem of speech, the members of the Cabinet COLLISION the Chamber. The Ministers require a de- claration from the Deputies that the House has no disciplinary authority over the mew - bers of their body. The letter of the Minis- ters was referred to a special committee, which has summoned all the Ministers to ap- ar before it. Herr Von Bismarck-Schon- ausen bas replied, however, for himself end his colleagues, declining to appear. He re- ferred the committee to the explanations conteined in his letter, which, he said, render- ed any participation of the Ministers in the debates utterly impogsible. The Judicial Committee of the Chamber hes authorised the prosecution cf the Polish members Dzialyoski and Gu ttrys. should no longer be present at the sittings of uake oceurred at Two shocks of SPAIN. TROUBLES OF THE PRIME MINTSTER—Aa sToRMY SCENE IN THE SENATE. The Spanish Prime Minister, the Marquis of Miraflores, seems to have a tfoublesome time of it in the Uortes. Anxious to pass through his Ministeria} existence undisturbed by internal events oy by personal riyalries at home, he recommended. in his opening speech, the practice of mutual indulgence and of re- ae between the ‘episle leaders. consequence is that the legislators have been eure ever since, and after a fashion not likely to,exalt the dignity of the Spanish Parliament in the eyes of the public. During the debate in the Senate 2 few days ago,a ryiolent altercation took piece between General Narvaez and General Prim. The | Marquis of Miraflores interfered between the | belligerente, and with tears in his eyes be-| jSought them to sacrifice their personal animosities ‘* on the altar of their country."’! with 60,000 men, endeavoring to effeet a juaction with Gen. Pemberton at Edward's Station, Grant being reinforced, attacked and drove him into his entrenchments on big Black River. Gen. Banks in private letter expresses ex- pectation that Louisizna would soon be ready to re-enter the Union as a Free State. ‘tribune’s despatch says deserters report Confederate army in good condition, and about to attack Hooker to compe) nim to change his base. Confederate papers des- pondent on situation of Vicksburg. North Cayolina Standard, Gov. Vanee’s | organ, strongly denounees President Davia, | and repudiates suggestion of giving him die- tatorial powers ; North Carolia will neither | be slaves of Lincoln nor Davis. | Flour 10e a 25¢ lower. Gold 1454. Ss. Jomn, May 26. | The city was not them taken, though the | Federals bad gained great advantages. ‘The | Confederates were making a firm resistance. Grant completely commanded the town and had succeeded in planting his colors on the enemy's outworks, Some of his troops were within a mile of the Court Mouse. Be had captured thus far six thousand men and 64 (cannon. It was supposed the city would be taken by Saturday might. ‘The Monitors and gun boats were jn front. A Murfreesboro’ despateh to the Herald says there were indieations that large bodies | OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH TROOPS AT PUEBLA. | of Confederate cavalry had gone to the South- | ward, and that Breckinridge bad failen back. he cau turn the supply into protitable investment | Ueteils of the operations of the French stoops) Vallandigham was being conveyed to the | Confederate lines ; only a single private re- ceived him. in Guerillas were in possession of two towns Missouri. St. Joux, May 27. Reports of large Confederate forces on Kast Tennessee are sal to be much exaggerated, | They are principally eollected in Wayne County, Kentucky, ander Generals Wheeler and Morgan. The re Buckner from Virginia are unrejiable. A despatch from Washington to the New York Post says that it was reported the Con- federate pickets on the Rappahannock, on Monday last, admitted that Vicksburg had been captured by the Federals, No later in- telligence from Vicksburg bad been received by the Washington Government up to li o’elock just night. It is reported that des- patches have keen received stating that another line of defenees have been discovered in rear of Vicksburg, which will require to be taken by storm. A specia) despatch to tho Mobile Register says that the latest news from Vicksburg up to Thursday night last was that the Joss in the recent engagement was trifling to the Confederates, and that the garrison was confident of being able to hold the place. Halleck, and Gen. Hooker, were im council yesterday for several hours. Che Examiner, ery Charlottetown, June Ist, 1863. THE GENERAL ELECTION NOVA SCOTTA. -_——— IN Ir isa good Christian precept which enjoins humility in victory when victory has been nobly won, and when that victory has been sanctified by the best aud purest principles. We sincerely trust this precept will influence the conduct of the victors in the Nova Scotia contest, just eon- cluded, and that they will regard their triumph with honest pride, but without Vain-glorious boasting. In adding our humble congratulations to theirs, we do suv because their success concerns net alone themselves and their country, but af- fects the cause of civil and religious liberty every- where, and gives assurance that intelligence and common sense have exercised their influenee iu a memorable manner, where bigotry and intolerance lately darkened the political horizon. Apart frou this genezal consideration, our own rejoicing would be, jp & great measure, subdued by old recollections — by a remembrance of the happy tine when the chiefs of the party now overthrowa battled valiantly for every politieal principle we hold dear—iong before their followers had learned to infuse the poison of religious Ligotry into those generous thoughts with which people of every class and creed were regarded as forming one common brotherhood. A more happy political family could be fonud nowhere than was presented by the alliance of the Liberal Protestants and Catholics of Neva Scotia | down to about the time of the Crimean war in 1855. Mr. Howe wegt ou a reerujting expedition | to the United States, in the hope of getting brave soldiers for the army that had beeu eruelly deci- mated by the bloody struggle then waged in Northern Europe. For some reasons we never could adequately comprehend, a portion of the Irish peeple, on both sides of the Atlantic, were bitterly opposed to England ju that struggle. Those who especially distinguished themselves by their opposition were called the Young Ireland Party ; and the followers of that party in Halifax wrote and said many foetish things about Mr. Howe's recruiting expedition. Mr. Howe de- ounnced the sentiments of the Young Irelanders ted reinforcements to General President Lincoln, the Secretary of War, a 4 a soe ES AY: ee ees *