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EXAMINA

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ae sen stent ~ — patiiaadiaauame

SS wr TL Re a Pe ee —

Pane — off rs, ratives than hy the exay- }

an, ty iperial Canal of Chena. men cgi tothe tugh;

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faet wad persuasion of our tained to half thae magnitale of this Indiaa work.

vise of direct power. Hut In duc time success crowned oui » oud the named off ne -~ Sutherland, Ludlow, Thores}-y, Willoug ty, nud Others, will in ratee. long be heid in grateful memory, us the zealous pod 4b'e) Hlollaud put together j. an L it is greater by agents by which female intauticide hos bea terminated, anda) than the greatest mavight necalal in tae tew and happier regime inangurated for the females of Ludia,| America. This refers to the matn line alone. whether marsied or unmarried, laccount the branches, the caval will extend to about Hy all its efforts for the moral and socigh improvement of the people, the Indian Govertuscnt has proceeded on the prin- e@pie taste you cannet suypress a wide-spread vice without elearing away the cireumstances which give it birth. If you would clenr a field of weeds, you must, while upt put the soil in a position to grow something better. lowed this plan with the Bhee!s, and Mai s, aud KNionds, aud | ‘ other wild tribes, of which we have been speaking. It is! trying a similar course now upon the population at large by meaus of Education, It was in 1813 that the frst move- ment by the Government took place in this direction ; and tu, + the Charter Act of that year, it was provided that a iakh of which the Anglo-lidian tise sats rupees (£10,000) should be annually * applied to the revival | river-viispring of the migaty fiimalayas :— nud improveweut of literature, and the encouragement of the Jearned natives of India, and for the introduction and pro- | -clancing in the early sun! motion of the sciences amowg the i habitants of the Britis | his crowd in every murmur speaks territories in India.” But it was not until] 1825 that any- Your glory. FY A Me Pe dca die egies | thing was actaa!!y done, and then not in the right di:ecton herr le. } or ’ et “i , - , Down to 1835 all the larger And voars to come shull hear your praise supported by the Goverumeat, with the exception of the Fat other than the fame of demon-gods, Liadeo College of Calcutta, were decidedly Oriental—too Holding their grim abod Oriental —in their character; and the whole scope of the On Meru’s top through fabled secular days. instruction tended to conciliate old prejudices, and 10 propa-| Years hence some ag dd MAN ill say— gate old idews. The result was a dreary failure, Bat the | bi Me shit , ous rts ue ht tl Court of Directors were resolved to succeed, ant their letters where te ae We Sraleeeate: ir around, ” on the subject were singularly unreserved in expression, as aati ‘dean thé eedee Unt aebuene round a well as enlightened in spirit, Frankly admitting that — ‘{f stood among them on that shining morn, yssumption of the administration of Ludia bad so fur be uy I saw the Roler of the Land detrimetial to the higher classes of the natives, in that it had Let loase the wat rs ith un easy hand ; deprived them of official emp'oyment, the Court urged that | Tho River, vainly idolised of yore, it was therefore our duty to ufford them the best equivalent i Now first her servants bl ased 5 a ig our power, and that nothing betrer could be offered than | The Staten eee hore ruch sound European instruction as wou! 1 gradually, quali y Till bigot oe ehtida a! sbddoors' tele the Wesel them for.restorution to much ef the efficia! enployment of 7 , " which they had been deprived. given effect to in 1835, by Lord W. Bentinck, in a minut which gave adeath-biow to the Oriental system, by direeting that all the elucational funds “be henceforth employed io imparting to the native population a , literature and science through the um language.” indigenous education was fortunately not neglected; and ehorily ulterwards it was directed that in all the Govermmen! Sons ; colleges and schools the eultivation of the vernacular should though there they assume another form. go hand in hand with that of the Eng'ish langaage—thus

there Were nce rly equals the uggreg lt wreatly exceeds all the tisst-ciass catils oO United Statics o Taking inte

be less than a million and a balf of acres

waters, will pot ; res full extent the Blessing witte!

Bat none can estimate in ther

t . now placed i

it fol-jseasun whieh from time to time, as Ind upon the plains of Lindostan the wice-spread desolatien o

1 } } ’ .f be canal leaves the Dea Os

beyond the reach of those periodical calamities 0

oting them,

Perera: at | Avath I immne and Geach,

: , 7 | eee y at Lurdwar, close to the foot of the Hitmalayas. It wa opened by Lord Dalhouise in person on the oth April, 1504

\nd well worihy was the gece of the proturesque lines witi

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educational establisaments

These wise counsels were Of the great Baree Doab canal, and smaller works of oes : scit } >

as of the 600 miles of ecxnals in the district of Mooltan, which have recently been putin more efficient order than Sewan Mull. Lower Indus, in Scinde, irrigation canals

hah sid bal re ee Bk ee i ‘ } ney We > even in tae pail aqays Ol knowledge of they were, ’ oe i

ee rl valley of the dius of the /

'down the Notwithstauding these sweeping expressions, have likewise been constructed, ery Ne to reclaii POR EPRI

of the sandy wastes to steady fertility. Nor have these beneficent works. been nogleeted in the Madras Presideney, Vast dams or huntricuts across the Trivers there take the place of the canals

rearing an improved race of of the n rthern provinces —rhe aie water thus obtained teaching the vernacular, might quicken the quiet depths of | 7 m'the rivers be ng led she snes ce using a ae the provinces with a litue of the jeaven of European | ichanuels. A magnis ent Vork Ol this Kind is ave great leJge, Que great.and avowed motive to these educational enpree —— the nt YR Godavery, Gesigned,. BAG executed ° measures Was the desire on the part of the [ndian Government | by Coioner Cotton, w herehy the RROD OE AT HEBRON has been to huve at their disposal a bo ly of natives qualified by them) 5 wap t saree tracts = COULITY, porenensy exposed to coustant habits and aequirements to take ¢ larger share, and ocaasy | FtIsk of steriiiy and fainmine from want of water. higher situations, in <ivil administration, than hid bitheito, been the practice. But hereupon the native:, ever prone to) ae ta Pein ro caer lean with childlike helplessness on the s'r ug arm of Govern- | strean 3, and convert their Ww at wow flow ing idly to tae meat, thought that they saw something absulute (instead of 5°) ine a muuilivent ageut of good to the surrowudiug merely conditional) in the promise of Governiwent, and be- | Population. lieved that they had only to conform toa certain test to seoure chicky witten in bedi, ’ Bg flo @. Hennm; viicial employment. This dangerous delusion is being) — ¢ soy © Ludia uader Lord Dalouise,” August number, p. 233. checked. The students have been wisely eautioved not to (To be concluded.) imagine that the sole or main use of a liberal education is to —— : “- fit them for the offices of Govesnment,—and reminded that, |. hesides the publie service and the pursuits of literature and | science, there are open to them the learned professions——law, | medicine, the office of teacher, and civil engiuecring. Medi- | eal colleges have ‘cen established for some time; bat the | teachivg of Civil Enozineering is daw deservedly obtaining il, to make 3 in, ret still more marked support from the Government,—the object | present agitation for the metro eee v the Be asa class- ae deplore de evils of a

: . ; . - tHajuk into the schoults of this Island, of these latter collezes being to instruct and train natives for | P98 Into ta Serie et oe ve as, e c 3 donied by none; and | ‘ desize of fauning the

* native schoolmasters, who, while

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Correspondence.

To tae Evitor or tae FExamiser.

Str,—Permit me, through the medium of your widely cir- culating journal, to make afew remarks in referenee to the

: | wide-spread féalicious warfare wil cind of work require: he service of 2 G srnment| WESS SPE ’ ‘et every kind of work re | nredin the service of the Governm | think: Catholics will De acquitt 1

in its department of Putilic Works. Fidally, erowning and flames of rcliyious discord, or of perpetuating the present agi- A EL LENG punted coarse of Holy. Writ: be accepts the invitation, metdike eclipsing all that had gone before, on the 19th July, 1854, | tation. In consoquenee of Mr. Siark’s “ injdicious and un- | cere gece lx alata tA vie df to hie week Yn Ry a .j of \ 3 Mast - Zs : or there went forth from the Court of Directors the great iSdu-tauthorizéd’’ assertions” not beiug coatradic ey and his views! ° i dain ey PA 6 1% that will not sui t ie meee a i Ilo inheoat in bunible de- cation Despatch, containing a scheme of education for all disclaim i by the preyer astluritina, the Bishop's lott vot | [Te Tus Epiror or tun Examiner. | p Hidened Ou & God of le va. while icy lean on an.arm ef flesh, India,—" far wider and more comprehensive,” says Lord Dal- , Fein ynstrance Was ac press a to Pye poate of Exiuecation, i Sin,—As the speeches delivered at the late Protestant mect- He humbhi oat confidence in the God of Israel, whiie housie, * than auy the lveal or the Supreme Goyervments {need not here mention how that d roument Yeeame Puc, UY | ing on the Sersptaral Education Question are reported, so far| they mako alliances with ITsraci’s, enemies, and depend on

how the agitation was fomented. | Mr. Stark’s official position jas i know, in your paper only, and being unwilling that mine} horses and chariots fur deliverance. Tenee his expulsioufrom

vould ever have ventured to suguest. It left no:hing to be desired, if indeed it did not authorize and direct that more | matter, should have induced him to pause before insulting the

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sould be done than is within our presept grasp.” The main) Right Rev. the Bishop of Charlottetown, and, throagh him, features of this ffreat plan are the establishment of vernacular | the Catholic body, in reference to what he is pleased to style schools throughout the districts, with Government coilezes of | his ** hot and peremptory epistle.”’ That lett or bears on the a higher grade, and a university ip each of the three Presi- face of it the impress of candor, and displays the most Qnxious dencies; while grants-in-aid to all educational institutions are | desire to proven) the sep) ep IOAYHR psy bgibes meartane ye : 1 $ | ha ‘os eo Stark appears tu consider i e i ae 8 seagec sanctioned, subject to certain rules, and on the ennditios ” Sorcerers eA tha Beaad of Riacatioa,. Dissehe think, hie Government inspection being at all tines fully, admitted. Lordship eould hold further communication with the Board, It is the fashion with some of our home politicians to | after its shameful abuse of confidence, by the publication of speak of the administration of the Court of Directors as if it| his letter? As Mr. Stark, in his report of 22nd Deer. 1856, were something peculiarly slugyish and behind the times ; | Says he never heard of _ child being threatened min eRPat- but the idea is the mere olispring of ignorance, of conclusions | S102 bie ne eee Adioh rs ae a a Sas of desue trem: tod necdeW-acaphere: of olsordation, or of wsvet'| VON IEY, OF FFF OF U8, +, DOR SO PROD, TOE. EA MN DEA NCD, exuberant expectations which far overleap the limits of was strack and knocked down by a Protestant teacher, for re- judgment and practicability. Tor ourselves, we ti id it fusing to assist at prayer, and was obliged to go out in the impossible to come to any other conclusion than that entertuin- snow tue next mgrning, while prayer was being recited. With ed by Alison and other of our widest-seeing and culmest- such acts before them, does it appear unreasonable for Catho- judzing authorities—naineiy, that the administration of lies vo object to any prayer or religions exercises in our mixed British India, so far from having much to learn from our | %¢#O0'8+ Doings biebuele ies oa! cide 4 Parliamentary regime at home, has been infinitely more sue-| 0% & few Words respecting vals . great Protestant MeohIng ; a . eo ce ithat alarmed no one except those composing it. On reflection, cessful thin if the destinies of vee Eastern — had been I think it will be generally allowed, thas this meeting has dis- raled from Downing Street, at the beck of any gust of folly appointed and datonished b ith friends and fves, by the spirit or eXcitemeat on the part of the British Couwmons. Par- of its resolutions and its frantic, frothy, incoherent declama- lam sntary goveruinent dees very wel] fora people that can jiion. The reverend speak rs, on this memorable oecasion, dis- govern themselves ; but as people over iguorantly persist tn | played the most intolerant dispositions, and exhibited the most jadging of the wanis and wishes of other natious by their | uns veinly spectacle o! Scere amimorlhy and wachristian ha- own, it is be feared that errors of the gravest kind would | ted te pitney in this so-ealld } FOverPARS Colony. +m soon be comnsitted were the fortunes of Ludia to be swayed | °F, let me a c—Did this numerous assemblage endorse the a ' : oa rs ay ’ sentiments of the speakers, and approve of their proceedings? without check by there presepiatives ol the i'en-pounders of The Rev. Mr. Fitegerald acknowledges that he copied the Hngland, | Bishop’s letter. He must now acknowledge that he falsifiec To complete our sketch of the present cond’tion of the And I must say, that all the Indien Empire, it remains to vote what has been done for

lit in one remarkable instance. iresolutions passed from this till dooms-day will not efface the tae material improvenient of the country. It ts somewhat evrious that efforts for the moral and social elevation of the

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‘stigma of dishonorable conduct from the character of the rev. ‘gentleman. Where does he discover that the Bishop acknow-

material resources of the eountry was equally visibly attended | he wishes to enforce the use of Butler's Catechism in mixed to. Indeed, aitheucsh the mere extension of British rule in! schools? Where, India brought with it a great increase to the well being of lt must be a Protestant book. tle people, it was not till Lord Dulhouise a-sume of government that the ¢xeeution of great public works improving the country fatily commenced, Poremost amoug these we tnust mention the Canals for the joint purpose of

fj; am that no Missals were ever used in schools in any Catholic jeduntry. He prodaced a sensation on the meeting, probably ., profound, by relating the awful discovery of the Psalms in

Latin in a French school-book, and the Mass-book at the end.

irrigation aud wavigation 5 and < Her Wujomg idee stats the }low many pages does this fearful book contain, and is it in} gieat Ganges Canal—-a work without its parallel in the! Latin? Yhere is no doubt but that he will be dreadfully Major Cuutly (tiow knighted for his distinguished ‘alarmed some day by being informed that the young Acadian

world, services) was the engiveer of this grest work ; and under bis superintendence, within eizht years the whole maiu lines of the canal, applicable to tie dou'vle purpose of irrigation. ane navigation, were desizned, executed, an] opened. Extend p over 520 uries in lens h, measuring tn its greatest depth 1U | daties at the Board of Education? feet, und in its extrewe brea ‘th 170 feet, the main irrizatios: | vf the Gauges Canal is a work whichstan ts ue jaalled in its ss Many are strangers to it (the Bible) even in this Island. class and character among the efforts of civilised nations, Its | sllade to the J-ngth is five-fold greater than that cf all tha S.omburdy umtel, und more than twice the lenzth of the nyggregate irrizstion lines of Lombardy and Kyypt together. >A Asa single work of nav gatiow for pipoxes of com:erer, the frases Wad ao es upetitor throughout the

’ Mass-book !

,to receive the Bible, they would be glad to read it, world, exc ‘pt the them have, but it was taken from them by thpir priests,

No. sitgle tan il in Kurepe oe | oP gt

-leneth of the four vreatest canals

nearly one-third | their character?

900 | him lie under the for

wiles ia length; and the avea, which may be irrigated by its

: . “it he eS Se its fertifising influence will confer upon millions, Waon 1 as 1887, have brought hofor and justice

the Ganges |

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hailed the birth of this new

irrigation in the. Punjab, we have already spoken, 7 as well |,

The rivers} Kristna, Pennair, Cave i and Veanar, are likewise the! scene of great works of this kind, which will ulifise their |

lunder Government, and the conspicuous part he played in the |

and that.of others, that not very long since a Catholic child |

ledges himself misinformed in regard to the expulsion of Catho- | Lieuten: - Smite «h: fine } ie Vans } re ay : ae ar Yeas ~ ; Lieutenant people took a definite shape before the development « f the! }i¢ children from public schools? Where doves he discover that |

in the world, does he discover a Mass-book ? We have not sach a book, un- 1 the reins less, perhaps, the rev. gentleman means a Missal; and sure I

finva anlahrata Mises 3 Saat hita ma s with ‘that awh

boys celebrate pion, ip the publie schools with that awful are, therefore, I here solemnly accuse the rev. gentleman of |

}/ participation in the enormous crime of spreading that book. |

jis there not danger to Protestantisia here? and is it not high |

© time that he should, on Protestant interests, be relieved of his |

The Rev. Mr. Patterson, in his own scrambling style, says: |

: — The passe co ts print d reads : ‘*This introduction of religions ~~) sdont Catholics, Now, will the Rev. Mr Patter» “ yo we matt fe ) om , hh one ” Se work of scandal, and the ites: t wity for 6tating that the | lic Cletgy o) this Inland snes Z. pres: gps valling discont nt among Catholiog® aa es read thadiblg?) Will he sub tanti ite his sta am ents, er | WOE , ys Rr ei and the sentence will Stand egy, of stand convicted ‘béfere the world of an gtre@ous libel on, rected, ams, ar, your obedient servant, i Lexali on him to produce his anthority, for JOHN } IcNEILL, I stigmatising them as inventors and upholde rs ol Oppression, | Sec y Board of Education. »! fraud and cruelty; and if he cannot prove his assertion, lot | : . nee aid | hy * foul disgrace of bearing false testimony. 1, { Although, 2s above stated, the original of the Bish | asky himyto produge his authority for eee oe “a Z er letter was handed to us by consent of a majority of the i, idehnling fi regeiving. the b , a aAKe * ol ; . = , ; Sok: i Irie hathedeohed it? Hf the rev. gentleman has - did not, avail Gumelves of it, having seen,» da | . previous to our publication, the letter printed in

') conscientious scruples, why did he sell his conscience for the +) consideration of a school-master's salary, and teach Protestant) Gazette, which, we presume, was taken from the copy | i ‘ : tev. Mr. Fitagerald, and of which our

f\and Catholie children without the Bible? Will he have the | neue uff es to retract those grave accusations, in the | , maim

fievent of not being able to prove them? And after thus out- | pesitors made use, thinking it wae quite correct.

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raging the feelings of Catholics, wilh be be allowed to pantie considerable haste, in reading the proof sheet, the error wag

i At Ph ne f Kdueatir “sueh accusations be ; . 2 momber of the Board of Education? tt Bure h accusations not detected, which might have been. done.on a closer.com recklessly made in regard to parties on this Island, can the} afleon with £6 orixinel a2 : ” ‘\Yoast reliance be placed on the statements respecting foreign I on wita tue original.—-Epitor Examinen.] 1! a¢holie countries ?—statements advanced without a shadow |

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March 2,

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To tae Eprror or rue Examiner. Sir,—An article in the Lxaminer, of the 23d instant, hes | ** The Sanctified Press,’’ has so truthfully pourtrayed the'de. gradation of the Church of England Pulpit to secalar

; . | of proof, : : " | As the Revds. Messrs. Lloyd and Sutherland contradict each | sther, [ leave them to settle their very interesting and learned historical disquisition respecting the barning of Servetus by Calvin—the burning of one heretic by another. Such facts he eontroverted, It is something new to be | saits, headed by Archbishop Laud, under ln urles IL., per ted the Covenanters. Archbishop Laud | . i eas’ bel Tod Ms ae TORS. toe Cleaners ; I hope, however, I may be permitted to state what my feelings was Deheades ie. yc 309, Unde PieS 1., ant ones — Cail ail : evn . ' Charles Il. ascended the throne of England in 1660, I think ror are on anaes pe Tae comer e oa Laat S GAVE padticel’? Walinve’ that alin ciccmae aan * fally endeavoured to arouse the angry passions of some of ‘hig | te mE . wil e at OF y ileye py "ann ick personage, | hearers. | regret to own that I have returned to my home, ri} ‘hi t rotesti ; ‘ 4 th4 ; ar “ one : ° . Ha Tey ent 7 ; ae tt ae a t ; i a mass re- | after hearing one of the reverend gentleman’s sermons, a Worse urned, at least fifteen years after he was. behee ‘ . ak te : . ape trv agrttegie et breeder es Se Tha le pacing ed, to lead | man than I was before, and unwilling to run the risk of twice wat Priva? Fo ony) Hi of the € pea ¢| ollending the Almighty in the same day. I went on Sunda Mavynooti ohege, OF course, comes in for its share of! gran; ast he Temperance Hi: ir t } labuse: and it is passing strange that no resclution was passed co sant inte cer 5 ad, Yor we Creat Meee TT ‘1 , ehetae Cc can 7 Mk BER 4S passed, | of hearing a truly scriptural sermon—one which had the effect msting ie "itis! 0veru Yi rit a wy ‘ ‘ . <<. ro * » . gt .

INSh : i ea ; Cs 7 ; overt ~~ at to wilhdraw the annual | of soothing the irritated feelings caused by the inorning ser- ; 30,000 sterling hat inst 1, as re-!.: titeceen ial eels Bed af et a ae 1 ing to t e itution. Now, as re jvice. I have always been desirous to uphold the established

ror 3 . PACT vr Orn rec i : aw +} ore or s : 7 “,° . es f he teaching and discipline of Maynooth College, 1 beg church by every legitimate means, and | am desirous too that to refer you, oF ahy, person interested in the matter, to the tho Scriptures should be read; but.I, cannot, and .willemot, | Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the mabagement! subscribe to the doctrine—that every one shall be compelled | and ¢ ae of neat College ; and also inte the dis- 'to read what the reverend gentleman calls the * authorised ee ung seta ‘4 ve 1€8 pursur d Ss : ae Com- version of the Scriptures.”’ There are many besides me who | mission was appointed at the instigation of a fanatical party id !1,,14 the Sollee tell cilem ateneeenll : | a he itt PPX Wi dhe Tatar than rcenit. cf ie ene ; hold these opinions, and the clergymen ought to pause betore nant, the iey ort, cing the result of the lab urs OF they turn the pulpits inte arenas.for political party purposes, PRs Vader wn haste bss Fass +fn ¥ ar angi hes aes nt hc tae o ! ete , - ave aT? nth Teuaitat | tanta ted by evicence, Cannot 9@ | Nor should they, in my huwbleopinion, be used as places frdm giinsayed. —1t is dated ist March, 1859; the Commissioners! which to puff up a press, ** sanctified’? though it hes Naga a Ah results of the discipline of Maynooth,! ‘The Church of England, as established in Charlottetown, ee zy en de eR tr from any quarter against the| cannot afford to lose many of its supporters; ahd Dwould fmoral character of the young men; and we have no reason to} suggest to the Rey. Mr. bitzgerald the propriety! ef preaching

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hhnliaw Ve by aan ve peter eee conduct is other than irrenroachsahle 2774 > a . ‘ , « 3 : : . se By lieve that their general ¢ maduct is other tan Irreproachasle.”” | the Word of God from his pulpit, and not converting it inte

Again, that’ ** we should, however, he Going injustice to theta, } Wtieal rostram - for many like myself will leave the | Cottege, 11 we failed to report, as the goneral result of the’ Ghayeh of “ Charlottetown,” until, it obtains its legitimate | whole evidence before us, that we see no reason to believe that | oharacter.as the ‘‘ Chureb of England.??

there hus been any disloyalty in the | oly he ee ye Ey

jor any disposition to impal {allegiance to your Majesty.’’ They

teaching of the College,|

Bee. ‘| Hoping the cause of Religion may not be injured by the in- fF the ooigations of an unreserved | temperate zeal of reverend declaimers, L baye the boner tebe student is! , LAYMAN OF THE CHURCH.

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bdand to provide himself, at entrance, with a Bible; and that Caarlottectown, February 27, 1837. | the text-books used: in the greater portion of the course of | Ty in o eae Thédlory, are those of Delahoene, Scavini and Carriere

To tur Dprror or THz: Examtner. Sin,—Should you think the following thoughts worthy of linsertion in your paper, by giving them a piace ou will

A SUBSCRIBER,»

Will this be any comfort respecting the teaching and disciplin« of Maynooth, whose pricsts are pronounced, in Clussic style, to be ** a curse to the world???’ What, in the name of common | sense, haye the Catholics done to merit this torrent of abusé ?| oblige, yours traly, Have they conspired to circumscribe the liberty or invade the

5 ie a > i as os a” rights of Protestants? Have they im ented

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rere nres 1 iIsrepres Lacir’ Tes

lizion or ridiculed their services? The pretence is not even events in this our little Isle—the Bible being the subject. 4 ‘he ude. And Here, let me ask, what rational object can be ob- | Bible! a book of order, peace, love, concord and harmony tamed, or what interests sabserved by abuse and yituperation ?| having for its only objects the manifestation of the Divine

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It is the opiniun of Protestants and Catholics, and [ believe | glory and the universal spread of peace and good-will among -of'a very large majority of them, that separate schools cannot}men. Is it too much to suppose that its advocates (to usea | be maintained under the present circumstances of the Colony ; | cominon phrase), whether divines or laymen, should be, to ) and the only conceivable method, fair alike to all, appears} prove themselyes consistent, under its sacred influences? that | to be the exclusion, by law, of all prayers and religi vhose who stand forth us its champions should evidence the, | siructions in mixed schools. The religious instruction of the lspirit of its glorious author and sabject—Christ? should af Lehikdren iu tuch-eases will be atwwnded to by their parents | /east attempt to illustrate Lis sublime and Divine precepts ? land clorem - If it be considered that the time has arrived for |shduld make some cffurts to imitate the example of Dim why ithe establishment of separate schools, none will rejoice thereat | is their (professed) exemplar, and who was the personffigation

ite ;of kindness, gentleness and love in all its multiform ides of imanifestation? We are taught to hbalieye that God made the world and loved it; that having lowed it at its ersation, his 'sons of any other derromination of Christians. love, even after its fall, like au unobstructed stream, continged | of separate schools being established, we will expect a Catho- | towards it; and that at lust, ** in the fullness of tinie,” hie idie Inspector of Schools, and 2 Catholic Board of Educaticn | gave His Son to redeem it. Tow great, how infinite tiie loye | for we cam have no eonfidence'in thie prescnt [nspector, nor in| bow vast, how Godlike its d SIRS ! but wlise ! how ware y | the Board's at present constituted. iy posite is the eonduct of men, worms ,of the .curth, A 1 reinain, sir, yours very respectfully, comes among them, and hy - JAMES MacDONALD: P. P.O I protection of the maiater-

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} mote cordially than Catholics, for separate schools are quite | | in aceordanee witli the spirit of their religion. [tis a principle | (of theirs to have to communication, in spirituale, with per-| In the event |

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should, without remark, go forth in its present heterogencous their committee; his wotives impugned; the slanders and form, | beg: to point out two especial instances in which your | falsehoods that haye been Cirecied against him; these slanders: Reporter tailed to cateh my meaning. ‘Yo correct in full what | and falschoods being fabricated hy men who profess to be born you give as a condensed version of my speech, would require jagain, and to haye the love of God filling their hearts; the space. I will, therefore, content myself with | peace of God ruling their minds, and the spirit of God attesting | making the following emendations. ; to their spirits that they are adopted into the family of Heaven, | Tostead of the unconditional sentence, ‘* Let mixed schools | The whole may be summed up in a few words. Mr. Barker, ‘be done away with,’ words to the following effect should have | being ealled of God, appreciates his vocation; he loves his been attributed to me: “ If we have no choice but to see our | God and ail who have been redeemed by the Saviour’s most children deprived of the use of the tloly Seriptures in our} precious blood, and he fully believes that he cannot improve | National Education, or to give up the mixed school system, it | upon God's method of saving sinners, viz: hy love; but those | will be better for us to give up the mixed schools.”” ... | Who originated the late movement think differently to. him, I had spokem in favour of National Hdueation, and, with ) and advocate their measures ina spirit of bitter and malignant , our nearly balanced numbers, had viewed it as necessarily, a | persecution. I will merely remind those deluded men, “ that ‘compromise in which Roman Catholics and Protestants should | the wrath of men worketh not the righteousness of God.’*

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j alike be permitted to follow their own course with regard to | ‘the reading of the Bible. I thought the Roman Catholic | | Bishop’s letter broke in upon that compromise ; and, as he had | : a | thrown down the gauntiet in requiring for all parties a god- } A [FOR THE EXAMINER. |

less system, we, as Protestants, on taking the challenge up, | THE PREACHER ABROAD. What croakers are these same that deaf our ears

could: not properly do less than require a free use of the | | Seriptures for Protestant children, ‘This forms the burthen of; With this abardance of superfluous breath.—Suaxespearr

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the petition, which, as a cuunterpoise to the letter in question, While travelling a few days sgo,! aceidental!y fell into the | seemed to me to be necessary, lest silence should be thought to | company of a few ‘fat, sieek-headed men,” who we | vive consent ; but 1 do not believe that the Protestant body at) ,. ‘ly LORS ee eae . oes lp \ all wishes to do away with the mixed schools at present-in |’, °” route for the City, Their plumpness of exterior ah sre. away i S at pre in and ruddiness of countenance, indicative of Superior hving,

v “ . ‘y . : , A : : the cxcellence of their horses eja} . J | The second error in your report to which I will call atten- | oi¢ tanner in which hep mete spoil se . a ae | tion, is, where you make me say, ** 1 mean no disrespect to the skins and goat-skins, bu!) in wan eee nde . D . . | Governor, and feel there is a difficulty in his position,’’ all purity of their w! sik 3 clecloths ‘s pa bat ‘. ee aa

ae ee “i a tilt ee a aad a oi . as ' ’ nie NeCKCIOINS, ren rec ein Uniniwtakea | ree pap rere ote nee ome ee hs effect; recognizable as followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, — ce es ual I ener ee ee ee See fragmentary portions of their conversation, which iny leeward | Protestant anc : toman Catholic populations were so nearly position enabled me to pick up, and spite Saed.ahndeadedels | balanced, the Government was placed in a difficult position ; | the most bitter inyectives amalnns sahendiiinin iia . aT as | but that I believed it had acted with the best intentions. Idid poo. ler il OO ge aah eet r J cana tu

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| not, therefore, condemn any man because of the present difll-| pale ail Baal pee” eae Ani ee ane ae ) culty in the working of the Education Act, inasmuch as the | le PEPE ype th Peis - o the

as . ss . 7 . i ine é m~4 : > , ‘ | thing itself involves a manifest difficulty, and must be carried | : G98 ManOV ee: Gbere aie | . . . oe . ;oub on the principle of a compromise. And, regarding the ea '

jovernor as a part of the Government; I followed ere ew zeal, from the frequent ealls | saw them make

“+4 : an stand ely jalong the ros “6 trig ir lamps.’ |upimy remarks on the position of our Responsible Government, | ie a oil eee oer vt vemnt aa ons put a fresh supply ' . oe . . . | Ss s. > » | by saying, that the difficulties of the Education Act were not | ot bidel af tha eedeuhen dak * Lge x y satisfied that some attributable to the Governor, who, when he came among us, | ee Oi ee » Celwered at ihe meeting, were the een ees +> 2 genuine “fraitof the spirit.” | found the Act in operation, and whom I had opportunities of © Rut id Geatithe matier | (observing to be liberal and obliging in matters of business | t water In cool earnest : If we teachers who

| And had I not been interrupted by the Chairman, I should, | ‘2 Social structure compared with their holy reverences—if

doubtless, have concluded this part of my subject by pointing | we are to have our say in the matter, and are not to practise

: ; ; the virtue : ne j out to the meeting, that under the action of our Responsible | a Hine? of the ass that trots beneath his burden, and is : quiet,” we would respecttully ask these worthies what are

Government the tenor of an Education Act, as of any other | ; What is the ultimate tendency of all this sound

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Act of Assembly, is in the hands of those who go to the} Oartt 2OF Is not the Bible already.cl d hool ep Bible already classed among our schoo in setilements in which itis the desire of the paren's

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—hustings to send Representatives to the Legislature, and who | enter :

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I am, cir, &., jit should be so; and what more do these vaporers want? C. LLOYD. | Would they force people to read the Bible or any other book ? i, a SO, a, would pecpessabe an act of ienes more intolerant , od than any they attribute to the * Common Enemy ’’—the Church To oe Eprror or tiv Examiner. | of Rome. The manner in which they frame themselves men Sin,—My attention has been called to an error which appears of straw to grapple with—conjure up Quixotic d ficulties, that As you obtained the permission of the Board | address myself to you with

** They could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve ’em in a trice,

As if divinity had eatch’d

The itch on purpose to be scratch’d.”

It is not my intention at present to discuss the admissibility | ,of any portion of the Holy Sciiptures as a clase book into our |

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are ; ; a that it is scarcely necessary for me to add my mite of Sieg” a | proval to the unchristian and uncharitable discourses—F cannot call them sermons—which have been delivered from it-of late,

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anger 1 tl _ Tin the letter of the Right Rev. Bishop Macdonald to the Board they may win laurels in encountering theim— brings to my mind » lude to the Catholics, many of whom are willing to reeeive of Education, as published by you in The Examiner newspaper, | ‘he witty lines of Samuel BuGer: — main Jines of the 4 ord of God, but are prevented by their priests, who are | of the 23rd ult. (the inventors and upholders of a system of oppression, fraud | to publish the letter in question, I | ond cruclty—who seek to prevent others from reading, and a view to the correction ef the error complained of, as a matter will not read it themselves. I apes it, if all Catholics were ! of justice to the author of the letter, as well as to the public ; Some of because the erroneous word renders the sense obscure, if not | It offensive, in a dogree not fairly chargeable on the original. |