~~ wwewsatubhs Monpay, April 14.

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Honse in Committee on a Bill relating to elee-

tric telegraph conmmaunication wiih this Island.

Hei. the PRESIDENS—There 1 ouly one Observation which | wish to make with regard to The Company are bowed by tins Bill

thia Bill. to bave the Cable in working order on the Ist of July. Now, | ihink that ix Wo seon—they should have a little more time. The cable. it is true.has been ont of order when it was most required, ex- pecially daring thie winter, when the mails could net cteas the Straits fer three or four weeks ; bus that is their misfortune, net their fault. And as this Company bas expended a very large sum oft money 18 erreting this line, it weuld be unfair to bind them down te the Ist of July. Lau aware

that thes bave net reeeited 2 per ce if. tor their!

outlay. | believe it is the intention of the Com- uy to lay down a new cable, and that can only

¢ dene ander peealiar cireuaisiances, in order te be successial: the weather in June might toe sivrmy te lay it down, and when laid the first cable mig at not be anceessiul, They have already luid two cables, both of which bave become de- fective, and they must have cost 4000 or SUE dollars each. | thik the clause is rather stringent, aad [, therefore, move that the werd " July” be

struck out, and the werd “ August” substituted. |

Hon. Mr. ANDERSON—!] agree with lus ben- or de President. L tink the time shyuid be ex- tended ty August, and in the me wilune it need pet slacken tavir energies in getting the cable

laid

Iter. Mr. DINGWELL—I would leave the whole management ef it in the hands of the Go- termacat. We do net require the cable so much in the summer asi the winter. [ do not think tiey should be tied down to yay particular tine; aud by Dixkng them dewn io sucn a stringent manner We may be deprived of the cable ulio-

gvticr

Hoa. Mr. PALMER—The object m fixing the

time at tie Ist of July is to stinjulate the epera- tiens of the Company ia restoring the cabie to working order; for [ believe the tact is that ii mays the Company so badly that they feel very ie interest m if There is nothing to urge the Company te put terta any efforts to restore the cable to work- wg ordeT, Cousiderable Inconvenicuce ws ex- pereegcoed during the last autuayn and winter tor wart of tue cabie, and it ie likely to continue so For this reason L apprehend the Legislature las thought proper net ty allow the Compaay a greai sevpe of tia ay Willing to believe that the site er posttion ef tie cable is susceptible of im- provemest, and if T thought it was the intentiou of the Ceupany to attend to it and put itina better place, | would be willing to extend the time. tHowever, | de net see any great objection to extending the time te August, aud leaving it in the haads of Tie Government to give 1 or not as circngscances may require

How. Mr. SIMV?SON—If the Company any eifuria te put the cable in working before the first ot July, I would be willing to ex- tend the tiwe; but if not the contract should then cease.

Tae question of coneurrence was then pat on the amewdiaeut, and it passed ia the afficuuative

through the Bill, the Howse was resemed and the chairman re- ported the Bill agreed tw with 3 certain amend- mneut.

The Apprepriatien Bill and a Rill relating te steam! navigation were then severally read the second time, passed through Committee, and re- ported agreed te. Toe Bill to render the Legis- ative Council elective was read the third time, as aincaded, and passed.

Hon. Mr. @alwer moved that the Honse do go jute Connuitter wn the bill to give efivet to the Report of the Commissiovers on tie Land Ques- diets

‘fon Me. DINGWELL—Though I should stand alone I will raise my voice against passing that Lili at the present tue, as [understand that ti Cievernment have writteu for documents con- nected with The Report which are net here, and which should be beture us beteore We go to iegis- late upeo the Award. The reportof the so catied Spy is net before the House; and, from the high teram in Which he is spoken of by one of the Cow- missioners, | think his report has had a good deal vt influence on the decision of the Comjaussiouers As that Report is net betore us new, aud as this Commission bas been brought through withour the sanction of the couutry, ior the country has never been tested ape if, theretore l think we are legisiating very bastily, and hasty legisiation le aiways dangerous. Lejere we go te contira an Award witelt fixes the price of land at <Us. an acre, | totnk we should pause. It proposes to convert leasehold inte ireehold estates: but are the people tu a position te purcurse their tarus at ue. an acre? Jf the Award :e confirmed in that Shape, it wil he ho beneiit tu the te nantry. Ela many tenants will be made treeholders by it! What advantage will it be to the tenauts whe are net able te pay their year’s revt, to lave the pri- vilege of purcadaing their tars at 2s. au acre ] thik there is somethiug better im stere for the tenants ot thie Idand. [i [ thought the arbitra- tiep clause could be carned out i would support this Bill; bat Lb de net see any benefit that could result from passing it in its. present shape. I tear it Wilk ve au injury. 1 wouid at least wait ull we have the Bili te facilitate the operation of the ar- bitration clause befere us, and af we are satistied with that thea we can pass this Bill; but we cav- net take a step backwards if we ones sanction it. 1 de pot like to be called. upou to legislate whea waat We have to be-gislate upon ts not be ture Us. We may set a pre edent which would be very in- jurioms to the people. Even at the low price Waieh the Government offer the land which the; possess, uiany of the tenauts are not able to pur- cus,

Hes. Mr. HUTCHINSGN—There cannot be

make

ordet

The Commitiee having gene

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any great objection to wailing till the other Bill,

COMIS up.

How. Dr. JOUNSON—Nodoubt the arguments of los heuer, Mr. Dingweil, wili tind an echo; but | consider that we are bound to abide by the Award, and, thereture, it is our duty to contirm it.

Hon. Mr. DINGWELL—I want to see the na- ture of the Bill to coudirw the arbitration clause. Are we beuud te contin tie Award when we fre bet luruisued Wilu the papers connected with it!) By eoutirming the Awacd, 1 consider that We are sauctioming ihe proceediogs of & man whe his goue through the country as a spy deciving tie people, Tae Award winy be fonuded on false etuieuenta; theretere J contend tnzt it is not eemistent for the Legislature to sauciion at. The

Attatr about the apy is so discracetul tuat it should {

Lut be tolerated ta any country.

Hiew. Dr. JUUNSUN—We tiave nothing to do with iat; We have to do with the Award aa it is, and we are bound to confirm it.

Hou. Mr. SiMPSON—His boner appears to | thus thac we should have all the evidence betore |

Us to make another report. Dees bis honor ex-

peet us, alter this * pais taking report,” by com-

petent men, te sit dewa bere tor three or four betas months te examine all the evideuce, and wak anetuer report! The Commissioners have exe tinted the evidence aud bere is the result. As to the so called spy, 1 coasider it a reflection on the gentiemen Whe seat hiay bere te call him a spy W hese fault is it that tue coautry has pot bee consulted on the Award! Et the petitions, about which we heard se mach last sumer, bad been sevt ia, dare say the people wouid have had au epportamity ef expressing Lauer opiuions, As to tee deiay Ul the other Jill comes, if this Bill is pot passed we will not require auotuer.

that the debate on the principle of the Bill was

closed ow Saturday. lL save objections to being

called upou to repeat my observations on the Bill,

Jt ueiteer interesting to the Colony, nor tor th:

advancement of the pulbe business that 1 shouia

de se. But L believe the arguments and observa-

tions of lis howr, Me. Vingwell, are intended te

‘ ge torii ty the world, and L should be very sorry \ te let them go without being auswered.

auy ot your houers. Now, Sur, is boner would

base us to wait Uil we obiain the evidence which !

the Commmsioners acted upou, aud he appears te

tuink that this evideuce is very essential! tor the |

iaiwormation of the Legiviaiure betore passing this

Mul. Now, Sur, you are aware that an applica-

thon has beeo sade to the Colonial Office tor this

joatior, and the answer is before ug Appheation

Las alse been made to thy 4'ounnissiovers tor it,

aud the auswer was that they possessed ny printea

eupy aad it would take a great deal of time, and

entail a good deal 01 expedse, to copy it, as it Was

avery voluminous ducument. Now is it neces-

eury torus to wait aad risk the loss of this mea-

sure beeause We bave not tis appeudix before us !

li is not our province to examine the materials

trom which the Coramissioners drew their deci-

* tivu, wed Wo say that their decision waa wrong. It Wodia OF Sioisting the compact which exists be-

tween the Colony and the otber parties concerned

iw the Commission. We would be periling the

Testnt of tie Couuission, and lowering ourselves,

were we to de se. | would not do so jf I had the

j appendix in litters of gold. 1 cauread and appre- j eiute the Award without the evidence on wien it ; is founded. I have wo objection to the country | seviug it: but L look upou it as a document whica y ‘ has intuing w GO Waa site “progress of this Bil theouge the Legisiature. Hic honor also appears

_| that we are on the right road

etion, and, tuereture, taey have not!

fon. Mr. PALMER—I thought, Mr. President, |

I dev nei vise With the expeeiation of changing the minds 0; |

te tuick that, notwithstanding the power given to the Comuissoners, the Awara should be submit- ted to Lhe beture it is co. ficmed.,

Hoo. Mr. DINGWELL~I1 ou y said we should

to the people,

jiow. Mr. PALMER—~Por w! at purpose t

Hou. Mr. DINGWELL — To test tucir minds on the Award.

Hon. Mr. PALMER—That i: what I call sub- wmitting it te the it were — ifa

wore returned

» Mr. Py sideat. And if) tions dissolution

ave wy tue Uplullns OF Tne there would be very few fou "t in his views.

to support his hon-

come yet | Hon. Mr. PALMER —Yes it may; but that } should not induce us to hesitate one moment in} jcoutirming the Award, The people might not | thank us for uot confirming it when we bad the | power, The Award has now been before the peo- le almost since the meeting of the Legislature. i Jt has been disseminated over the Island almost ‘as broadly as it could be sown, and what is the | conseq rence? Lhave not seen a single petition, or heard a single complaint agaiust it, with a view | of repudiating it |

Hon. Mr. DING WELL—It has been received with general dissatistaction.

Hon. Mr. PLLMER—It is very extraordinary jthen that there has not been a single petition | } against it presented to the Legislature. [ thin’ | | this taet speaks volumes, Mr. Presidout. It show | Now, Sir, his hon-| or has remarked with a good deal of emphasis ou the persou whom the Comissioners entrosted to collect special evidence, and he has tollowed = ihe ery of parties outside and called hin a Spy endeavouring to make his mission an odious ove, | cause his information was obtained privately. | Now, I take the opportunity to say, once tor all, |

that when the Comunissioners sat here all partie | bad the most uahounded confidence in them. The | people considered that no mai could be found in| {North America more capabie,or who would more | taithtully represent their interests, than the ui | | chosen by the Goverument of this Colony. Taey | }held their Court here, and selictted every man, in| }the most unrestricted manner, to appear betore | }them, and they weft this Island haviog popular| | opluion in their favear |} Hoo. Mr. HUPCHINSON—Yes, till the secret | | agent came. ' | Tfon. Me. PALME R—Very well, T am glad to get that adajission trem an hen, member of the} Opposition. Well, what was the next thing pre- sented to the mind of the Lieutenant Goveruor ! One day a stranger presented himself to His Ex- celency and gave him a letter informing bim that! the Cooimissioners bad seleeted that man te ob-} fain information oa such particulars as they deemed essential in order to make an Award ; and that they had sent him to his Exeelleacy, net io ask his epuuen, but te see whether the Island Let me ask you would any Governor turn reund, under these cireum- stances, afd say, No! we will not receive you! Waat would be the votce of the peope 1 mney were listening! Would they not say 1¢ was tolly tor the Goveraor to reject bin!) Would they noi say it was au iusult ty the Commissioners wae sent him! There was no alternative tor his Ex- cellency but to say this Isiand would bear the e | pense. His Excellency was enjoined to secrecy. tle was at liberty to cousull wit eve his Geverament with regard to the egpense, but JYhen, who is to blame that the Com- seat that man here? I suppose the man followed his instructions. When the British Gevernment require a diplomatist they select a man of shrewdness him to read his instructions aloud wherever he goes. He just lis among the people aud watches public opinion and puble sen- uiment, and keeps his Government pested up in Therefore, 1 do not see that there is anything so very extraerdinary in the course pursued by the Commissioners or by their secret agent, This man could fall in with proprietors as well aa with tenants, and if his mission were known they would | cram him with mformation which would be pre- udicial te the igterests of the tenants: it was bet to make it hnown, The Go- vernor had no discretion to twtertere further than to get his disbursements; and | think the Gevernment bas done all that any Government | having (he good of the country at heart could do. Mr. Whitman done his business well, for he was away from the Island betore avy member of the Goveruwent but myself knew that he was bere. i hope I shall not have oceasion to rise again to answer any objections to that person whieh your levers have caught up trom persons outside.

Hon. Mr. HUTCHUINSON—His bhenor has

stated that it was necessary that Mr. Whitman should Keep his business secret; but I think be cou d have gone to cillereut places and to difier- parties, aud asked the price of land, without keeping his business so very secret. No person ef a veste mad eould have acted as he acted. But what astouishes me most of all is, that the Commissioners could not have come toa proper

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woall beur ais efpehises.

Liners pivery’ anh

no more

Hitsslouer’s

on ; ney do not tell

vllows instructions; he goes

i) ter,

theretere, ne!

him

eut

decision Without sending such a mai here at all.

They weat throngh the ditferent Counties and

then retnrued to Cuarlottetown — their court was

me, and could take

r. Wittman could. and

wiy could they not come to a decision without

sending bim here’ When he was here I went into the Treasarer’s office one day and seeing wa strange man there Lenqnired who be was: L was told that

Le wits a tmansent here by a Firm to establish a Fishery ou the Island, and he is leoking through the dvcuments to asce n where he ean zeta good plate e Now, I think the night | wave doue withont sending that man here; he has caused a great deal of agitation throughent the Is laud, and if be hus net giveu fulee iuforwation, the people believe he bas.

} Hon. Mr. DINGWELL—I was not prepared to hear his honor the leader of the Governmeut take this man’s part, or to justify him in going Mroayh the country to condemn the evidence taken betore tne Commissioners Was not prepared, I say, to) hear tian auliempt to justly either that man or the | Commissionefs in sending him, becanse he descend- | ed so low as to take advantaye of the poor and oue- raut to their injury i

open and free—they had ample ti evidence mach better than sf

Co Hilissioners

say such w Mali cCumnot have the feelings of a gentleman.

Shoald a Judge in any Court, I ask, after hearing the evidence, take evidence frow oue party privately 1 cannot cou- wand language suiiciently strong to express my | detestutiou of such proceedings; wnd if is honor, |

| the leuder of the Government, knew the feelings ot

the coumtry on toe matter as w ellas Ido, 1] question if he wouid attempt to justily eituer Mr. Whitman or the Comtuissioners.

| Mouse adjourned

Tvurspay, April 15th.

| A‘ Bill for investing all estates and property oc ; cupied by or for the Naval Service of Great Britain aud Ireland, ia the Lord thigh Admiral, or the b Couuui for executing the oftice of Lord | thigh Admiral for the time berms,” a“ Bill relating } ty electric place communicalon with this Is- | land," anda ‘iil to appropriate certain moneys | | therein mentioned, for the service of the veur of} mr Lord isez,’’ were severally read the third time | und passed !

The till “to wive effect tothe Report of the Coma missioners on the land quesiion,’ was then coth- | mitted and agreed to without any amendment.

On tie question being put, “ shall the report of | i the comuiitiee be received,’ the House divided : | Coxtesrs—~Hon. the President, Hons. Messrs. | | Simpsou, KRamsuy, Haszurd, Andersou and Jotinson | —— Nos-contexts—IJons. Messrs. Hutchinson and | Walker—2Z j | Seo it passed in ihe affirmative. |

Shoners

telegranpl

House adjourned tor one hour, . AFTERNOON |} Hon. Mr. PALMER presented a Bill to explain | certain parts of tue Act for the establishment of the | | Prince of Wales’ Colleze | tt ' i

SITTING,

It is somewhat doubt |

il, said his honor, whetuer scholurships can be se- ected from the College, or whether they can only | be taken from the District s« hina i he ie ve it Was} originally inteuded that they should only be t aa |

j a frow the District schools, but the Act is not suill-

j eiertly explicit on that point

“ ' . : ” . | i ill “ for raising a revenne,” anda Bij) * to | | facili the operation, in certain particulars, of the |

; Award or Report made by certain Commissioners | appointed to settle aud adjust diilereuces respecting | j some of the ‘Township lauds ot this Island,’ Were | severally read the second time, passed through com-

mittee, and reported agreed to Phe Bill velatiug to Ste.m Navigation in this Is-! land was read the third time and passed. Louse adjourned.

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| CORRESPONDENCE, |

MORALITY IN PRUSSIA AND IN ENGLAND. No. 13. i To rue Evrrork or THe EXAMINER.

Deer Sin—It has been the yim of certain parties, | with the view of advauejug their own political and

seliish interests, te make Catholics and Catholic | countries appear as low as possible in the social aud | moral scale. In endeavouriug to remove some of | the odium heaped ou us it is necessary sometimes to |

vive statistics and extracts which tay be a liitle | \ disagreeable to many friends, but as this is done in | self defence, of course it cannot be attributed to the | desire of giving the least offence even to the most | sensitive. I have already shown the deploratle | j state of morals in Latieran Sweden and especially |

jin Stockholm, where, xecording to the testimony | } of a distinguished Seoteh Presbyterian traveller, | more thay one third of the population are bastards! \Lshall now give from the writings of the sume | gentleman an extract from whieh we may forin an ' idea of the meralitv of Protestant Prussia, the coun- try of Luther. Mr. Laing asserts in reyvard to this }eountry that chastity, the “Index virtue of the moral condition of a people, is lower than in almost any part of Europe.” (p. 173.) Iu proof of this he says:—

“It isno uncommon event in the family of a respectabje tradesman in Berjjn to find on his break. fast table a little baby, of which, whoever may be the father,he has no doubt at all about the maternal grandfather. Such aceidepts are so common is the class in whiel they are least common with us—the middle ciass remoyed from iguorance or indigence —that they are regarded bat as accidents, a8 youth- ful indiscretions, not as disgraces, affecting, as with us, toe respectability and heppiness of all the kith and kin for a generation.” (Lvid.)

This frightful state of morals is vot at all sur- prising ; for in no cogutry in the world should we expect the doctrines of Luther—* Si nolit domina, veniat ancilla,” &c.,—to be practised to such an extent as in Prussia, and, as a wutter of course, it should be * no uncommon event in the family of a respectable suman in Berliv to find on bis break- fust table a little baby.’ and such “ accidents” should be regarded as mere “ youthful indiscre-

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When innumerable British Protestants are endea-

wok (pra we the oven Wwe we oould not be

vouring social agaiust Cath lies, by" freqeently ng en the jgnarance and

le. But I trust | immorality of Catholic countries, may be permitted

Hon. Mr. HUTCHINSON —The times MOY chose who way differ from myself in religion, but

must present mach that is repulsive. .

|‘ purlour’—for there are

| British Colony.

to bring before the public a few facts regarding the

respecting it? Of this I have very little doubt, al- thonuh they may have unwittin

social and moral condition of millions of Kuglish—|iayg benefit on

men, not for the purpose of hurting the feelings of f in order to show that ignorance and immorality exist elsewhere besides in, Catholic countries. No one can deny that England is at the present day great and glorious in many respects, and there are tew who are pronder than your humble servant of her high prestige and free institutions—the result not of her Protestantism bat of that glorious British Constitution wrested from tyrannical sway in the good old Catholic times — yet that there exists amongst the ameses of her people an amount of i rnoranee, immorality, and beastly degradation un surpassed in any country in the world, is a tact which L presume no one will attempt to gainsay, and which should canse British Protestants to blush with shame at the violent attacks which are made on Catholies abroad, when they themselves bave such air immense amount of beatbenism and bru: | tality to remedy at home. That such is the case 1} shall prove from the nmiost respectable Protestant | authorities. Dr. Channing, in Vie * Duty of Free } States,”"’ as quoted by J. Kay, Esq., M.A., Travel ling Bacuelor of the University of Cambrid suys =—

“Toa man who looks with sympathy and bro therly reward on the mass of the people, who is | chietly interested in the tower classes, Eugland | ] Le The eondi- | tion of the lower classes at the present mouient js a| mournsul comment on Enylish institutions and civi lization. The maltitude are depressed in that coun trv to a degree of ignorance, want and misery, which must toneh every heart not taade of stone In the civilized world there are fewer sadder | spectacles than the present contrast in Great Britain | of unbounded wealih and luxury, with the starva | tion of thousands and teas of thousands, crowded into cellars and deus, without veutilation or light, compared with which the wigwam of the Indian is a palace Misery, fuinine, degradation, in the neigh bourhood and presence of stately mausions which ring with gaiety, and dazzle with pomp and un bounded profiwivn, shock us us no otter wretched ness does.” (Lue Social Condition and Education

ot the Veople, by J. Kay, M.A. vol. 1, p. did.) Mr. Kay quotes largely from ‘ Lord Ashley's | audi rable apeeet Om pay euile destitution, delivered |

se, |

inthe Ilouse of Commons on the 6th of June,} ,1S48," and from which [ will vive a few extracts

Itauppears thatin London alone there are thirty | thousand young persous living in * lodging houses,’ | which Me. Kay ealls © hells,” and of whieh Lord Asiiley gives the following description :—

“TL will give a description of the lodying-honses Many of then which Lhave seen were abomiuable ; but tae statement FE will lay before the House was} yiven on the authority of a City Missionary, whe} had been appoinied to iuspect and report on the | subject. It ds not un exaggerated description of those places, where hundreds aud thousands of the human race are congregated. ‘Tne City Missionary, speaking of a lodying-house, and referring to the i many enplonions terias to be upplied—said:— The parlour measures 15 feet | by LO. Beds are arranged ou each side of it, com posed of straw, rays aud shavings. Here are 2) iiule and female adalts, and 3t children, with seve ral dows ; t

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in all oS human beings, ia a contracted dea from whi are systematically ex cluded. It is impossible,’ he suys, ‘to convey a just idea eft their state,—tie q ianuiies ef vermin are | amazing! I have entered a room, and in a few

minutes L have feit them droppimg Gn my hat like peas.” * They may be gathered by handfuls,’ wrved oue of the inmates. ‘Lcould fill a pailina few minutes. I have been so tormented with the itch, that on two ovecusions I illed my pockets with | stones, aid Waited Uila policemay game up, and then broke a lamp, that TI might be sent to prison, ere be cleansed, as is required before new ‘Ah! said another, standing

‘ lilt win air

ob

comers are adiyjtied.’

Iy confe a hd hy not elve

the opportatity of squandering £100,008 sterling: tn paying three or four values for their own lends and those of their friends. The Col. Seeretary expatia- ted last year very largely on the benefits likely to accrue to the tenant fron: the arbitration clause ; but he has been discreetly silent on that point since the appearance of Neweastle’s despatch, throwing cold water on the atfuir. The climax of the Land Commission farce is the Tories confirming the Award, knowing at the same Une to a certainty that the Dake of Newenstle will not stualtify himself by recommending the Queen to confirm au Act the contents of which are directly contrary to bis in stractions, But what do they care so long as they can suneceed in deceiving the tenantry, Their fate is now seuled—political huimbag, charlatanry wud jaugglery will now avail nothing, | pe

* “Kuowing that their rale of deception is coming to a close—anticipating the storm of indignation that will burst over their heads at the eppreeshing elec tion, W.H Pope, who appears to be their scape goat, tries to play bis card by the effect of religious auimosities. fle leaves nostone unturned to excite BP. otestants against Catholics ; but his efforts will fail. Protestants and Catholics are bere uuited and they are detersuined to uce their united strength to

lexpel from office a deceitful, hypocritical, tyranni

cal clique which has deali so shamefully, and ty

such un extent, in deecit and political cajolery. |

Protestants in this directionare ashamed of tne part played in the rame of Protestantism by that

|** hated’ individacl who-has been publicly acensed

of having been couvicted of a very immoral action, and is very genevally believed to have the bank ; and they have very serious doubts about the sincerity of a £00 religion, and the orthodoxy of an individual whom theysbave good reasons for re- garding in no betier light than us ‘ta big potatoe

infidel.”’ A VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

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FOR THE SONGS I LOVE BEST—THE SWEET SONGS OF THE SPRING. Dame Nature, exultant from death's cold embrace, Comes fresh ou the stage with a smile on her face ; And dushed with new viger, I hear her now sing Lie songs | love best, tae sweet sous of the spring.

THE EXAMINER,

The snow-laden tempest no longer I fear,

For a vertical sun now softens the year,

And curbs the wild Bear of the North in his speed ;

Wiaile the mild South’rn Laiub frisks tame o'er the mead.

A rich carpet of grass sprouts green o'er the earth, And the wvood$ and the plaius all vocal with mirth, Revive my sad heart, a8 in tune forth they sing

Phe seugs L love best, the sweet songs of the spring.

The shrill creak of the door encased by the frost, And the click of the axe ia the forest.are lost ; Wouile the robiu’s gay note, et morniag’s tirst dawn, Lutorms me that winter, cold wiater, lias gone.

The bleat of the lambkjn oft strikes my ear now,

Audthe shoutof the swain, atthe hilter bis plonyh ; |

Yes, each light zephyr on iis bosou doth bring

Soute sound T love best, some sweet song of the spring.

E’en - May-tlower, just blown, in majden-like b oom,

Sings, syiph-like, in silence, of life from the tomb,4 Township Lands uientioned in the Schedule to iis "

And bids us look forward in faith to an our Wien manu from the grave shall spriag up like a flower. .

Then come ye with me to the forests and fields, Aud list to the music Dame Nature now vields; For all flashed witt uew life, [ hear her now sing

| Lie songs L love best, the sweet sougsof the spring,

by. ‘you can get a comfortable snooze and serub | : 7. = we e there’! (pp. duyand 400 | New London, May %h, 1862, * Here,’ says Lord Ashley, * is a statement made | ————~+ane—_—__-—~

by a medieal man :—* La a piace, where these public privies exist, scenes of the most shocking character | are of occurrence. It will scare ely be be lieved, that these public privies often stand oppo site the doors of the houses: modesty and deceucy are, therefore, ther impossible’ But, in a private house, isthe boy exposed to better influ ences than inthe lodging-house ! Very ofien seve ral families are found in eue room. It is a fortunate family which has one room for itself. Everything | is transacted in that room. Cleanliness is impos! sible ; it is a scene of filth, misery and vice.” (pp. ial Thas it appears thata large proportion of those who dwell in all the larger towns * of the British empire are crammed into reyicus of filtirand daiktess, the ancient bul hot solitary re iga of the newts and teads.”’ (p. 4il.)

«Did one-twentieth part of the sickening abomina tions which Lord Asaley brought to the nevlice of the House of Commons exist in [taly, Spain, or Austria, what eloquent Popish abomination sveec! would be delivered by “* Ministers of the Gospel ’ he length and breadth of the land! It is ny Wonder that so much viee and degradation ex ist htuony the common peuple of England aud Wales, for it we ure to believ® the most respectable Pro iestunt authorities, they liye and die in a state of heathenism. Mr. Kay aavs :—

Of the Operatives in Lancashire, and of the workmen in our great towns, there is not—and I speak after cousiderable experience and namerones

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To tne Epitor or THE EXAMINER. Sirn,—The writer in * Ross's Weekly’ of the Sth

inst., in his remarks upon the misapplication of the |

word * transpire,’ may rest assured that he is per fectly correct in bis eriticisin. , is certainly eutitled to respect. and among Americaus itis probably decisive; but with educated English- men, who inay be snpposed to understand their own langaage in its simplicity and purity, it is quite an- other thing.

Dr. Johuson, our best lexicographer, in his se- condary deiluition of the word * transpire,” viz: “ty escape from secrecy to noti¢e,”” observes, that this rendering “is an innovation from France, wit! out necessity ;”” and if this got nutisnal acceptation of its meamag be foreign and needices, wiat are we to think of that unauihorised one of Webster's, which not only confounds the meaning of the

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It is evident that he who styles himself “ One of the Moderns.”’ ; | t+} He stoderty tie Lith

has not studied the vernneniar to mach nx ivunt

te +t ‘ : €- in the monitor o

or be would uot have adventered upon the defence of so palpable a solevism ’

* Wuether vivlation of suid to trawe? "(ty This is all mere jargon transpire 2 li fhe

the Subbath can be j To

eqyuires the exertion. of a diving aveiut.

obeervation of the Sabbath isa divine command,

the breach of which is not onle ireejpnent, but note

rivus, aud does not adit @f perseptiication by any ; ’ 5

inquiries —TH RF: £ IS NOT ONE OUT OF EVERY TEN) role of rhetoric. :

WHO EVER ENTERS A Cnuncen, and stil fewer It would be well for our medern fiend te know attein vis - - t ’ . .

who attend regularly vol. 1, p. 416.) LT REPEAT that thy purest akd est ngNsh was written and

THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THE PROPLE IN spoken in what has been terined the Angastan age

FHE GREAT TOWSS oF THIS KinGpomM HAVE No

RELIGION vol. 2, p Sil.)

Perhaps I may be permitted most respectfully to sugvest to Mr. Laird and the other religious gentle meu of Charlottetown, who seem to take such a

, deep interest.in the couversion of the heathen, the

propriety of establishing a society for the conversion of the poor. heathens of England, who certaiuly

petand in as wach need of the Gespel, and have as}

strouy a cliim on British charity us their coufreres the beathens of Erromanga. I have te honor, &e., j A. McDONALD. St. Danstan’s College, May 15, L5v2. —_-—_--~+0e- —--—— FOR THE EXAMINER TO MISS O Lassie, ye hue gaen agley wi pride an nneo foun; Ye ken it was a heaveril thing For sic # lass as you.

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Ye are na like the bonnie ross— Your birth’s ua bigh ava;

Your tocher is no muckle, luse; Your wit is vera sma.

Guid suke what are ye proud about? Wir haud your head in air, |

And winna look at decent folk, As guid as ye and fair!

Ye hae a silly fashion, lass, When wi some hanglity friend, To gang your auld acquaintance by, | As tho’ ye never ken’d.

Thae “upper crast,”” wha’ baked themsel'es

jineral or political! | strawa, and sinking Tories have no tegard either

of oui history + # period tuat dates bic kK bearly two hundred years; and still more, thatahe authorized version of the Holy Seriptures, mad@ in the days of the Ist James, is and will ever rewmin the test of the best Enetish composition, all additions and fan cied improvements by wmoderu ty ro€ to the evutrary BOOW Ith slang ONE OF 22d May, 1862. a A NEW TORY DODGE.

Hon. Mr. WaeLcan—Sin—The Tories are trembling fortheir Governm widhave recourye to the most odious and igneble nreans to retain their pos.tion. Finding that War. MeGilil, Exqr., is likely to be returaed at the coming election by a Protestant coustituency, they wish to represent that gentleman as the tool of Catholic Priests; and tor this purpose a late * Moniter’ calls public attention to his being often seen tete-a-tete with Priests. No one acquainted with Mr. MeGill ever thought. that he was anything else than a cousistent Protestant ; and Lhave no hesitation in saying that the assertion regarding bis been tre-

THE OLD SCHOOL.

| quently seen inconversation with Catholic clergy- | men is a contemptible, malicious lie.

And even li he did speak to Catholic Priests, is that a sin, Drowning men eatch at

to hoaur or truth to support their tottering cause.

| Mr. MeGill’s political aud religious Opiuions are

too well kinowu to be much misrepresented by the ‘Monitor. I have never seen Mr. MeGill walk-

lig arm in arin with a Roman Catholic Priest ; 1!

have never seen him put his arms on his shoulders

Vhae c.kes o’ high dezree, jin the House of Assembly; [I bave not seen hia Thae a o’ birth, an’ sense an’ gowd, | visit Bishop Melutyre’s residence about two or Just laugh, puir lass, ut ye. | three Cimes a day for several weeks; but there

}is aman high in office in the Government whom

As thae apes ape, sae ye maun ape The unco high and braw,

Yotw a’ ae woof o° senseless airs, Na geutles lass ava.

Think na sre mickle o’ yoursel, ' fis mental wastrie a’ ; !

Get na on stilts when wi’ big folk, For pride maun hue a fa’.

Toom headed lass, just ken voursel, The keek your pains maun pay, Syne ve shall fuad puir pauglty ane, Ye'r nought but common clay. KECK TUE REDE, | Charlott+town. . ai