incase BRE a” | isla wa

ing upon the proposals made by the Duke of New- they occupied five yeays ago. Bad, and irritating, | meen Deelish,’’ solo, from Moore's Irish Melodies ; { we hope, be amply rewarded for their zeal and | thus compelling vesecls to pasa under the Ninety-

castle, and comparing them with those made by | however, as their case was, he and bis immediate | “* Willie brewed a Peck 'o Mant,” solo and chorus. |

the Delegates, the hon. gentleman said, it was | political friends, had given thei, and would con- | Mr. Edward Reilly then read a well written address |

jon Burns, embracing a biographical sketch of | the Superintendent in the removal of the Church, | d the R aud was ably assisted by Mr. Janiee MeWade, of 20 Sie Mam.

Both these genthemen—as well as Mobile Bay.

on of the lease--fer a leas armonint Nor

aft? on vant ahould be disinclined to

do Laee why the Tet

aleem at that rofe : Det tn many cases Lanctlords have not looked

after their interests, a i have net received oa full rents. In preperiien, i this has been 7: enw, the Tenant will be unw dling te redeem, - a higher rate, a rent ble h he has neve - ; while the Landlord will be ready te sell, ata - rate, a rent which he bas never received, In a these cases, therefore, a propertional wee rust be made In order to satiaty the oe = may be made without lissatistving the Landlore In ‘all these cases | vould propuse—te wer on ordinary phrase—te aplit the difference a tween the strict rights of the Landlord, and m1 ai nnohes ' = yee te aseertam, mm any case of intended commutation the average payment af | ‘Tenant toe the S Scars preceding the Ist of = hat bering the Gitte Up te whieh the Com- —— prepes? te remit arrears. Having this, 1 weuld propose te take, aa the Go- | a t price, & Sun equal te 8 years purchase Sr the covered rent, plus Syears purchase of the ave actual receipts <a illustrate the proposal by three cases, farms, reuted at £0 a sear each.

“We agree with your Excellency that it was expedieut thet the Delegates should be sent te | Eogland tor the purpose of ascertaining the views ot Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Co- lonies on the important question of the land tenures previous to the meeting of the Legisla- ture, and thereby facilitating -the settlement of : ; i the long agitated subject.” preseut security, but to their future well being—

With respect to this paragraph, the Hon. Mr. jcoummendation despateh, it could not, in its, which they could ouly consult by uniform sub-

objected by the Goverument aud their supporters | tinue te give them no advice but such as would, if

compulsory. No, it was vot, and as a mere re- Coles, the Leader of the Opposition, said, that as | nature, be compulsory. But if His Grace's pro- mission to the laws. ueither the gentlemen between whom and hiinself | PSs Were not compulsory, neither were these |

ia the Assembly there was a general coincidence | of the Delegates; and, besides that Hia Grace's by the Hon. the Leader of the Opposition,—by

of opinions, ner he himeelf, had been able to re- | scheme was much wore favorable to the tenautry which epithet the hon. gentleman, however, took Where all did well, it might appear invidious te é The Gules, de, were | Severavt Colonial and Foreign Mails were whilst the Chorases were |

than that of the Delegates, it had this especially | geeasion to observe,

cognise any wisdom in the appointment of the | he meant nothing offensive

| Delegation, or propriety in the proposals which |" Feeommend it—it was a scheme proposed by | to any individual or family connexion—occasioned |

the Delegates had submitted to His Grace the | #" honorable and high-minded man, who occupied | My Breeken to remark that alter the establixh- Duke of Neweastle for the settlement of the Land | 8¥¢® & position in the Imperial Goverument a8) nent of Respousible Government there had bee Questioun—preceedings which bad been taken al- | atiurded him the fairest prospect of being able to an attempt made to establish a new family com- together independently of what might have been | Ki¥e it effect. In their attempts to effect a settle pact—that compact had, however, fallen to their epinivn concerning them—-it certainly could ment of the Land Question, the Government had | pieces; and there was now happily no compact net be expected that they should concur in the | bungled and blundered from the first, and bad at’ put that of the people. This declaration on the

‘ seutiment of approbation coucerning the appoint- | last most signally failed. If they would act part of Mr. Brecken oceasioned some members on Vv i i -| . Sane. 5 alt ment of the Delegation which was set forth in honestly, they would drop the question altogether | the Opposition side of the House very significantly

sappose that the fwil reat has been regelarly paid | the paragraph of the draft Answer to His Excel- | for they must be convinced that by the policy| to exelain, “Oh! ob!" We ourselvee think it

ia the second, that it has been half paid—in the third, that it has not been paid at all. (i)

lency's Speech, which bad been just read snd which governs them with respect to the question would have been much more creditable to the ‘submitted to the House by the Chairman. To they will never be able to effect its happy solution. hon. member, on the score of good sense With reapect to the appuiatment of the Dele. aed good feeling, had te spoken in less sneer

|the said paragraph the hen gentleman then |

ei. ” en 400 0 0| moved the following amendment : | gation.the hon. gentleman observed, that although ig and scornful tones than those in which Right pears purchase of average | “Phe House of Aaserably have received with the party with which he acted were in the miu-, he indulged, when alluding to the leaders of that receipts (LW)... 2... 2 --0-- £400 0 0) dutiful consideration your Exeetlency's announce- ority in the Assembly, they represeutthe essential party te which the country is undoubtedly alte- Government price, £o00 V0 O at : ve —_ aes interests uf the people. The members of the Go- gether indebted for the Constitutional Guverument (IL) to a settlement of the Land Question; and also | Yernment side of the House, uo doubt, represent- | Which it new enjoys. Eight years ead of wee . - pen aig» = ror to the ——s of ed many of the tenants ; but they were very far) If the considerations, such as relationship and ule eek Welied <i amenen ” ing other termeof settlement than thoe suggested |" TePreseuting ax many of them as were re- fimily connexion, which, under the rule of the oe nn od Co CR ere £200 0 O by His Grace the Duke ot Newcastle.” | presented by the minority; and therefore, forthe | Family Compact, regulated the appointment to — ——| The hon. geatleman, in proposing this amend- | Goverament, with the corsent of only their direct | offices, are now, or rather should be set aside: and Government price, (in) £6w 0 0 ment, took occasion tu review the whele of His | SUPPperters ta the House, te appoint a Delegation | no other recommendation than fituess to fill it is Eight years purchase of reserved | Grace the Duke of Newcastle's despatch of the | to the Colonial Otfice to make proposals for the | required on the part of candidates for appoiut- __ peut (£50). -- ~~... + 22 ee eee £400 © 0} 11th of July last, and the terms of commutation | *¢ttlewent of the Laud Question, was a direct ments, it ought to be remembered that the Sy eeu . r — ee : ere, a's o| pruposed by His Grace. shewing how much more a of the rights of the people. si | charmed circle was broken and the bad pre- ——— faverable these terms are to the tenantry than | he Hon. the Leader of the Opposition, the! cedents of former days ignored by the present Government price, £400 0 © | either these offered by Sir Ssmuel Cunard or | or. Mr. Warburton, and Mr. Conroy, when | leaders of the Liberal party ; and generous minds,

Of this sum I have already said, one-third would be paid in cash by the Tenant; the remaining two-thirds would be advanced by Government in Debentures. A payment of twenty-five years of & per ceot, on the amount berrowed, would

bly suffice to meet the annual interest of the

Jebeutures, and te pay off the principal, if the terms of the Loan rendered it possible te invest the annual payment tewards the sinking tund in the redemption of the Debentures, i. ¢. at 6 per eeut interest. If net, the slight loss uught be berue by the Treasury, in consideration of the

blic bevefit which tus commutation might be ex ed to effect.

f this were se, the result to the Tenant. in each of the three preceding cases, would be us follows :

When a rent of £50 had been paid in full, the Landlord would receive CSU. The tenant would pay £266 13a. 4d. down, and au annuity, say for ¥5 years, of £42 1s. 4d.

When the reserved rout was £50, and £25 had been sctually paid, the Laudlurd would receive

those proposed by the Delegates on behalf of our | speaking of the meetings of which they had any of whatever party, will freely concede to thein the | lueal Government. }actual knowledge, whieb had lately been held by |

honor which is their due for having so opened up ' [As the Duke's Despatch above referred to is} the tenantry to take into consideration what) the path ot honorable ambition tu the taleut of the

‘published entire in the present number of THE course, a8 respects their landlords claims upon | country. | EXameNeR, all readers of that paper will have an | them for rent, it would be must advisable for) at ig certainly the voice of the people whieh has | opportunity of judging for themselves how much | Gon & ogee pean ee ee ee ee placed in their dominant position the parties who more favorable to the tenantry are His Grace's Land Commission scheme and the Delegation | pow hold the reigns of power; and it is, therefore

proposals for a settlement of the Land Question echeme has deprived them of every hope of reliet | the voice or opinion of the people whieh ought to than those which have been made by the Dele- | om genyeety bondage, through the efforts of | guide beth the Legislature and the Government. gates to the Colonial Office, which till be toune | oe epee es Orne declared that the be- | -r,, Parliament, net ouly of Great Britain, but of | im the “ Correspondence between His Grace the haviour of the people at such meetings had been | Prince Edward Island, a properly spate the | Duke of Newcastle and the Delegates,” published | wost orderly, peaceable and praise-worthy ; that | Government; and as such Government _ deni

in a late No. of this paper. they themselves—and they believed all who were stituted by the election of the people for neo other | In commenting upou the Duike’s scheme, the ' 8") W4+ looked up to as leading wen in the | og or purpose than the protection and promotion

hon, gentleman. shewed that, were it adopted, the | ™uks of the Liberuls—had invariably, on all! oy their best interests, any decisions of Parliament ‘amount to be paid by a tenant, owing uo back | UC vccasions, and with relerence also to all at) Which are not regulated by a due consideration oi

rent for a farm of 100 acres, held at 1s. per acre tributed meetings of the kind that had been | thosw interests are hesaches of the sacred trust

that the scheme proposed by his Grace was not) observed and followed, tend not only to their

£600, aud the Teuaut would pay £200 dowa and rent, would be 8 years’ purchase of reserved rent, | . ~ ; | an annuity of £32. £40, and 8 years’ purchase of average receipts, | When nothing had been paid, the Landlord ¢ 40—in all £50; fur another of the same extent, | would receive £400 and the Tenant would pay 3133 Ga, od. down, and au annuity of £21 Gs. Ad , : I suggest the paywent by way of sunuity, be. the amount to be paid would be & years’ purchase | o— I aoe this to be the most convenieut - of reserved reut, £40, and 8 years’ purchase of | the Tenant. ul, of Course, arrangements might i a a ae aan. . | easily be made te cnable those whe pretecred if sven? Ceeny™, £20 — in all £60; and for an- tw pay their inoney mere promptly. other of the same extent, and at the same rent, lu any case, however, oe be distinetly but for which no rent at all has been paid, the anderctevé—ae thie ie the basis of the whole ar-| . nount to be paid would simply be 8 years’ pur- rangewent—that the «bligation te pay the prin- s i cipal and interest of the Debentures, aa between chase of the reserved reut, £40. And, as, accore- | the Government and the Debeuture holders, rests ing tu the Duke's yropesals, only one-third of the exclusively on the public Treasury, and isin ne degiee whatever uttected by the laure or neglect ‘ wt the Goverument tu recover the mouey from the ars to be allowed for the payment of the re- Tenant. : | maining two-thirds, the hon. gentleman further As theas sales will not be compulsory, if is not yhuwed that the result of the three cases would | mecwssary te cuter upon any question as tu Lhe | pature and duration of the leasss to which the right of purchase should apply. But, with regard | pay down £26 15s. 4d., and alterwards £2 2s. 8d. | te arrears, | assume thal, im any case vi comuu- | tation, the Teuaut and Landlerd will alike be | satistied to alade by the Commissioners’ recom- weadation, that arrears which acerue privet te | annually for 25 years; and inthe third, the tenant | May Ist, (005, shewkd be remitted, but that all would pay down £13 6s. Sd, and afterwards | subsequent arrcars shawid be paid ap. I] have heard two ebjectaous raised to that part ’ | af the scheme which relutes to Teuants whe have years, each of the parties would dave purchased | set bithertes paid their vents. The ove is, that | the fee simple of their tarma. The hon. gentle- | se large a remission preicssediy depending on Uie ‘ | fart Sint. evet hue hove withheld, te. in fect. en) @** *e* proceeded by comparisuu tu shew how encouragement to dishevesty. The other is, that much mere tavorable to the tenantry these terms these whe have bitherts suceessiully resisted the | ace than these proposed, on behalf of our loca | payment of auy rent whatever, will wat be willing ( Ze pay Che poe qewed com umtaiion, worder te get

i

und at the same rent, reut being 4 years in arrear,

purchase money was to be paid down, and 25

be as follows: La the first case, the tenant would

anvually for 25 years; in the second, the tenant | would pay down £20, and afterwards £1 12s. |

£1 Is. 4d. annually for 25 years: and thus, in 25 |

rid of au obligation wick they bave pever per-| culty, be said, which had been encountered by | principles at the last election. The reception,

formed. ber. : ' the Royal Land Commissiovers, in their consi: |

The eue objection is, that the indalgence to bou-paying Tenants is buserally large—the other, : . 7 that it in suicically small baffled all their shill and ability te overcame, was |

go 4 a, tw a ower extent, anawer that of fixing a geueral rate of commutation, or. each other. Hut the truth is, that any practical)... . i — \ » i grrengemret must be aps to both of them. The laying down any general prine iple whereby the state of things is this: The Landlords cannot *#!ue of farms might be estimated, with due re-, seriottaly hape Ge recover their atrict legal rights gard to difference of situation, diversity of soils, | wey Ne A Mee rp ethodbn ggg ae ae aod other cirewustances affecting their value. |

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be supported in their present refusal e do so, This difficulty fis Grace appeared tu have happily | it is desumed—for without that assumption all overceme. The considerativns by which it! hope of a pacification is impoasible—that the Landlords will tind it to their interest to waive . : : their right to much that they are eutitled to, it "ad been governed in Jaying dows hua ae | the Leyicdature of Prince Edward Jeland will tion scale were: that in cases in which tenants) henestly aseint ne te gto ge eee at had paid up the whole of their rents, or nearly | present receive. i@u the auly possi ass aa. i wf oapromise, The cea! question is not whether °° their having been enabled te do ™ could net | Une med arrangement is free from objection, always be justly attributed to superior honesty, | bur weneer 5 _ nat, m2 mane aes - industry or economy, but was undoubtedly, in canes, Vanlaye eo nelocd a : . Tenant to secure their own interest by closing wast cases, the result of auperior advautages - with sueh terms as 1 have indicated. My own joyed by them with respect to quality of soil or hope and impression is Chat it will be so; aud 1.) situation; and that neither, in cases in which ~~ a - ioe icbeiktoes tevants had fallen into arrears, aud had paid but port of this Government: though fam bound to little or no rent, could their poverty aud inability | add that some, at least, of the Landlords are not to meet their obligations to their landlords be

satisfied with them. There would, of course, re- firiy laid to the score uf idleness, intemperance

main a few special cases to be dealt with : : : separately. But the experience of this country of improvidence of any kind, but rather to the

has shown, that when s reascuable ST of sheer impossibility of their deing #0, even by voluntary commutation i ouce put forward, it is, ; y ity. x6 tefre tong, trely pted by the majurity of ineans of the greatest industry and frugality, 1 those concerned, while the majority either esta- | contending with the disadvautagen of an infertile blish a faar ground of ex-cption, or are eventually soil and disadvantageous situations, as hundreds | t > ee the eee steal ee he of the tenan’s in the Island, it was well known, : : : " ll and fair consi- | the Legislature that Her Majesty haus not were doomed to do. From a fu able to comply with the prayer conveyed in | deration of these facts, it appeared to him that | Address. Hut I wish you, in so duing. ty yy. ided in laying down hie | lay the present Despateh before them, and invite pt Gone Bee Ste oF oe ere " J their attention te the sugystions which it contains, sliding scale of commutation; and it was evi- ing, Lean asaure you, the resultof much anxious dently as fair a one as, everything considered, | consideration, and of au earnest desire to promote |. aig possibly be proposed.

tue iterate of Prince Edward Island aud te “Iw the opinions expressed by the Hon. the |

HF:

iovernment, by the Delegates. The great diffi- | spicious as an vppouent to himself and liberal |

deration of the question, and that which had j assembled tenants was such as not only to silence |

seemed to him (the Hon. Mr. Coles) His Grace | content how se prevalent among the people, |

the pouring of troops into the Island to enforce

spuken of ty theur, recommended perfect obedience | ded to them by the peuple; aed when the

tw the laws vf the laud and full submission to al | time comes fur them tu render up that trust Siig

wn = oe 7 ore ot ea — ‘will be called upon to pay the peualty for its Sy ee ee en ee eialetion Bi. wlll Ge: cell:. deeded mibelll

it had—it could uot,in any case be attributed to the : a “ ld (perhaps, both for the parliamentary representa- ese lon. . “mie ue ” i : : eae en eee | ives of the people of this Colony themselves, as

Liberals. stated that, as far as their individual kuowledge |

Xtended ou this subjec . y pe ; ee extended ou this subject, the only persous whe | |), place in our Legislative Halls, during the

| preveut Session, our “‘conseript fathers” take due care to be well intormed concerning the general opinion and will of the people, relative to the great question of the land tenures, and that

had counselled resistance to the laws were meu who, at the hustings, hud voted tur the Govern- went candidates, and were noted for their in- temperate zeal in support ef the Guvernment aud in es tw the Liberals. __ |“ they govern themselves accordingly.”

r. lpugning | the conduct of the Government on the score of | ther having vivluted the rights of the people in | appointing the Delegation to England without having thought proper to consult the Oppositiou—

Conroy, whe particularly : The charges of insincerity and deception on the score of the Land Question, preferred by the Hon. the Leader of the Opposition against the | Gevernment, provoked much vehement deelama- tion in reply, especially on the part ef the Hon. {the Leader of the Government, the Hon. Mr. | Longworth, and Mr. Brecken ; but their attempts | to disprove them were as signal and decided a failure as their schemes for the settlement of the Land Question bave been. lu the very face of their failures, and of the he and his colleague had attended, the ouly iudi- | tT! of discontent aud indignation, whiek their i | mismanagewent of the great question which they boasted they would settle iu eight mouths, has

to the law was a man who had made himself con- | | aroused throughout the Colony, they assert, with

whe, though wuch inferior in number to the Go- vernment majority, yet certainly represeuted a much larger number of the tenaatry—said that at | a public meeting of the tenautry of the District

of whieh he lad the honer to be one ot the repre: |

seutatives, Which was held a short time previous |

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tw the meeting of the Legislature, and which both |

vidual whe came torward te counsel resistance

| the greatest boldness, thatthey are eff -cting the however, given te him aud bis evil counsel by the | coteation of the suasiay; ond pusitively declare | themselves to be the most upright, the mest intel-

hun effectually, but te put him to flight. The ligent, the best informed and the must patriotic people assured him that if he should again venture | “ Serer een ae REARS RASS Seenvetneney for public admiration as “ geutlemen of the most

| disinterested motives, of the most generous public The Hon. the Leader of the Goverument, Col. | spirit, of the noblest mind, and of the most gene-

Gray—with reference to such meetings of the | rous philanthropic teelings,’ and boast that they,

tenautry a8 those above alluded to—und evidently | most deservedly enjoy the Gall erutiduines and vee

anticipating, or at least dreading, that the dis- eas st iittala iin ati

to tender any such mischievous advice to them, they would drive him out of the country.

was made by the Hon. the Leader ef the Govern-

oceasioned by the miserable failure of every cL scheme projected by the Government for their | ment ent the Ten, Ir. Langereth, al masiepes

relief from the proprietary yoke—relief which had | °Y "helt services as members of the Government

been so confidently and boastfully promised theui | being gratuitously rendered, neither of them hold- —would induce them te band themselves together | ing any: oton a aagnnnenh, the Siew: tep.d ance

to resist all coercive measures which may be em- | of the Opposition oberrved, that, as respected the

ployed by proprietors fur the collection of rent owl Hon. the Leader of the Government, he was a gentleman of indepemlent fortune, and it was not

declared that the consequences to the Colony of . such illegal combinations and resistauce to the | at all likely that, for the sake of any of the paltry law, would be a suspension of the Constitution, | salaries attached to government appoiutments | iv our little Colony, he would give up his liberty

obedience to the laws at the point of thebayonet ‘and ease and submit to the drudgery of attending

and the sequestration of the public revenne—it | #" Ofice; but still he had his price, and he had

might be for yeurs—for the eupport and pay of | tained it, in the gratification of his ambition by

the troops se employed. He shuddered to think | the power and distinction which be enjoyed as what the consequences of such madness might be | Leader of the Government. As for the Hon. Mr,

to the people. He, however, had been in the | Longuastyatinangh quite -_ on ne habit of taking his reute_at an hour’s notice, and than the Hon. the Leader of the Government, should blood-shed ensue, he would leave the | bold any uffice of emulument, yet indistinctly he country. He would net remain to be a witness | = rn woe oupomensted oe lahyegs of it. Should the people unhappily determine to | Chia Sates nants ae Sommer oe ye

Z ., | vernuent; there were outside considerations, resist the demands of landlords for rents to which whch be. on del alee tbe ettdatns they were legally entitled, they might rest assured | 4 ian ew: 4 aia that Her Majesty would, as she was bound to do ae es sila he fas my eesny ok by ber coronation oath, uphold the majesty of the | rae : oot nt ST ae

verpment.

laws for the protection of the saered rights of |

— —-—_~+eo— - —

well as for the people if, in the deliberations which |

his life and an account of some of his chief pro- “Coming thro’ the Kye,” solo; “ 'Te- | reuce’s Farewell,” solo; ‘The Last Rose of Sum and | Grand Regina Corli,”’ duet, quartette and chorns,

ductions,

jmer,”’ solo, from Moore's Irish Melodies;

last part of the programme.

| mention auy one particularly. |

very creditably sung, | hundred voices.

led the performances with much care and ability

two Solos with remarkable skill.

formauce of the St. Cecilia Choral Society. M. FE. LEAHY, See'y. —_—_-_—+-<ae

CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN’s LITERARY INSTITUTE.

migration of aainmals. He combatted the theory of the Ethnologists who di+pute the urnth of revela- tion and maintain that tbe African, American and

creation.’ works of Cardinal Wiseman and Sir Charles Lyall, to prove that all the animals thatinhabit the “earth,

Ark = The lecture was well arranged, and contain- ed a great deal of valuable information ou Nature! History.

On Wednesday evening next, the 23rd instant, Mr A. MeNeill will lecture before this Tustitute, ou “A Federal Union of British America.” The ebair will be taken at 8 o'clock.

W. W. Sutrivay, See’y.

Mareh 2st, 1864.

acetone ns YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AND LITERARY INSTITUTE.

On Tharsday eveuing Mr. A. McNeill lectured on “ British North America.’’ He glanced at the his- tory of its provinces; sketched their geographical features ; dwelt upon their peculiarities ; and point- ed to their fature. Nis statements were full and acenrate, evineing great research and eare. His account of British Colunbia and of the Red River settlement were quite interesting, invested as they were with an air of romance and nuveity. Towards the close of his lecture be spoke of the Provinces as a whole. Of their extent, stretching some three thoasaud miles from Newfoundland on the East to Vancouver's Island on the West; and having « breadth, from North to South, of about a thousand miles. Of the necessity of railway communication between them, by a grand hue from Halifax to Quebec, and thence to the Pacific Ocean. Of their relations to Kurepe, and the near prospect of a new attempt to lay down a sub-Athintie cabapnaphhie line vetween the home empire and its North American *rovinees. Aud lastly, of the desirableness of a Federal rather than a Legislative anion between them; with general legislation fer general pur- poses, and local legislation for local purposes ; unticipating here the founding, in due time, of a great independent North American Unien, balancing and rivaling that of our Republican neighbors. The whole was well prepared; clearly written ; pronounced with spirit, thongh « lithe too rapidly ; and enlivened by dushes of * bonhomie’ and inumor The lecture was suececded by an interesting dis- cussion. The audience, in point of numbers pre- sented a fair average; aud included several of our legivlators, now ‘tn attendance upon their annaal ditties’ The evening was as pleasant and profitable us any Which the Association has enjoved during its current lecture searon.

The Hon. Joseph Hensley will lecture next Thursday evening. “ The British Navy" will be his subject. A voble subject in good huuds. ‘There ouglt Ww be no lack of an audience. -

eee }

[We are indebted to the Vindicator for the following interesting details respecting the remo- val of St. Andrew's Chapel to Charlottetown. ‘The interesting historical reminiseences counected with the venerable edifice give it a claim to more public notice than could be accorded to the re- moval of any ordinary building. We are gratified to learn that religicus distinctions, which are su often now resorted to lor political purposes, were thrown aside by the Protestants residing in the vicinity of St. Andrew's Parish, who cordially ac- sisted their Catholic neighbours in the perform- ance of their pious work. }

REMOVAL OF ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.

The removal of the old Church of St. Andrew's Parish to Charlottetown, ou the ice, is worthy of more than a passing notice. Lhe -people of this Parish having completed theirsplendid new Church, and having no use for the old ove, resol ved on haal- ing it tu the city fur a schuvul-house. One of their reasous for not taking the building asunder was the veneration which they had for it, both on account of its ave, and on account of the venerable prelate vy whoim it was erected. It is the oldest Catholic Church on the fslund, having been built upwards of sixty years ago by Bishop McEachern, whose me- mory 1s still venerated by all classes of the commu- nity. It was in that Church that all the Catholics ot St. Andrew's Parish, #8 well as many of those of the surrounding parishes, received Baptisu: aud other Sacraments; it was thevein that the good Bishop laid the fonndation of Catholicity in this Colony. It is no wonder, then, that the people de- sired Wo preserve an ediliee which brought to their minds #6 many pleasing and holy reminiscences. Besides, the material in the frame and other parts of the building is as sound Dow as it was when the Chureh was built.

‘To transport a Charch of upwards of sixty feet in lenzth, to a distance of twenty miles, was vet an undertaking of a trifling nature. Hence it was ne- cessary, in the first place, to place the building on a strong sleigh, the runners ot which were of hard wood, at least « foot sqaure. The chareh heing se- curely fastened on to this sleigh, some fifty teams of horses were, on Monday, the 7th inst., tackled thereto, hauled it on to the ice of the Hillsboro’ River, and set out for Charlottetown. A large num- ber of persons, Protestants as well as Catholics, assembled to aid in starting the Church ; aud seldom is there enjoyed any wherea more beantifal and pic- turesque sight than was enjoyed by those who witnessed the Church passsing down by Mouut Stewart Bridge, at the rate of five miles an hour, accompanied as it was by hundreds of individnals. For about twelve miles every thing went on admir- ably, and without even one stoppage ; but when the Ruildiug was approaching Apple-tree Wharf. and ue the horses were trotting alouy with the view of passing rapidly over the ice which was known to be weak at that place, suddenly the Church broke down into the river. Were it not for this accident, which happened about two o'clock, the Chureb would have been in the city about 4 o'clock. We may easily imagine the disappoiutment of the good

uecighbouring parishes of Tracadie and Fort Augus- tus, Whe were aiding in the good work, wheu they saw the Church ten feet in the Hillsboro’. How- ever, they were not disconraged. Atter making several unsuccessful attempts to draw the building wit of the ice, the people dispersed for the night, many of them going to Charlottetown, where they

very interesting, from being reudered by nearly two The successful issue of the Soiree 1 refleets much credit ou the Musical Direetor, whe |

Mr. Edward Roche gave an interesting ‘eeture, at this fustitute, last Weduesday evening, on “* The

other races Sprang from diflerent “ cleeties of ‘ He gave copious extracts from the | stadt, there being reason to suppose that the Niels

air and sea,” sprang from those preserved in Nouh’s

people of St. Andrew's, as well as many from the |

© come. Mr. Angas MeDonald, Garahilli, Pisqnid, wa

Mount Stewart. the leading tceaimsters, Messrs. Syuot and Magtire

rance, and are deserving of auch praiee.

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The mention of “the Old Family Compact,” by Lawbillotie, were the pieces performed in the | LATESE N KW FROM EUROPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MALL.

_ received during the past week, aud on Saturdsy | morning we received a portion of the English Mail. | columns.

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THE DANO-GERMAN WAR. CAVALRY ENCOUNTER NEAR FREDERICA.

On Monday aw squadron of Danish Dragoons lencountered two squadrons of the enemy's | Hussare between Varde aud Frederica. The | Danish loss in the engagement daueunted to nine men wounded and missing; they captured one officer, a surgeon, and 28 Hussars. | Military operations appear te be quite sus- | pended in Schleswig. ‘The despatches whieb come trom that quarter do-not speak of any warlike | movements near Duppel. A thaw has again set in, but the operations remain interrupted. Hanoverian sappers have been ordered to pro- ceed from Rendsburg to erect batteries at Gluck-

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Jurl will blockade the Elbe.

CAPTURE OF A DANISH MERCHANTMAN. The Austrian gunboat Vilenich has captured a Danish werehautman laden with coffee, aud lett it at the Island of Cephalonia,

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA’S DECREE.

An Imperial decree has been issued by the Emperor of Austria declaring that Galicia is in a state of siege. The document and the reasoning it contains must be edifying to those Kuglishmen,it there really are any such, Who adwiure the attitude of Austria in Schleswig. The Austrian Emperor i iformes the Poles of Galicia that they form an in- separable portion of his dominions, and that he wust anticipate any chance of their attempting to realize the nationality principle by dealing with the district as ove already in rebellion. The rights of nationalties are all very well in Schleswig, but let us bear neve of that talk in Galicia.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION,

Fifteen hundred insurgents, under the camme nd of Bossak, having occupied the towu of ; in the Government ef Radom, were att on ;the morning of the 22d ult. by a considerable | Russian force. The engagemeut lasted the whole jday. The Poles, who had barricaded themselves in the houses, inuflicteé a heavy less upon the Russians. The latter received considerable rein- fureements towards the evening, when the Poles retreated in good order under cover of the night te the forest of St. Croix. Forty houses in the | town were reduced toe ashes.

| THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The last intelligence inforws us that differences have sprung up between Austria and Prussia in | their Dauish policy: nor is it surprising that it ‘should be se. The high-handed proceedings otf Prussia in the invasion of Jutland are alone enough to alarm the Emperor of a polyglot State jlike Austria. The invasion, and the refusal te ) evacuate, constitute a preeedeut, which practised | by England or France might, inconvenience Aus- | tria to an inswravountable exteut iu Italy or Hun- jgary. Of all the powers Austria has most to hope frou forbearance, and the least to expect from an active assailant on her frontiers. It is vot the policy of Austria te be dragged into schemes of mere military strategy by Prussia, for |it Prussia has nothing to lose beyoud her froen- tiers, Austria has much to lose in her woral status in Europe, apart trom her geographical position. | The two Germau Powers ought net to require te be reminded that they are net necessary tu the European system. ‘Chey simply represent the com- | promise which Europe settled in 1851, but their | present state does net nvite the support of the triend of liberty andimprovement. All that Aus- tria can do she ia obliged to do te hold ber Kanpire together, and all that russia ought to do is to be content with what she is, aud apply herself to the | development of the liberties which her people are | 30 admirably fitted to exercise. | Austria and Prussia, have, however, entered npon a very dangerous course of action in Europe | Really in opposition tu Germany, ostensibly to in- | flict punishment upon Deumark for breach of faith, und still more in jealousy of each other, they have outraged the international law, and are now sum- moned to a conference to answer fortheir misdeeds. | Austria, to do her justice, has wccepted the invita- tion in a spirit which shows that she really does wish to make the war local, and leave the question to be settled by the European Powers in Soni Prussia is not so complacent, and demands the com- plete evacuation of Schleswig by the Danes as a condition precedent to her appearance in Couter- jence. The proposal is just as reasonable as .f France, having luvaded the Rhenish Provinces be- fore listening to propos ls for peace demanded the evacuation of the left buuk of the Rhine by Prussia. It is difficult to eee how a Conference can deul with a question which has been made the pretence of doing Deumark a yreut wrong, m which Ger- may presses forward with views of her own, and where even the assailants represent views equally contradictory of Danish wud German policy. There jis only one Way in which Europe can deal with all varties, and that is by the exercise of the strong on If Europe does take such a view of the qnes- tion, it is not Austria or Prussia whe can complain- for their own existence depends upon the preserva , tion of the statu qao in Europe. The proposal of the Emperor of the French for a Congress was not accepted becanse the inconveniences it was pre- posed to cure were only the resuls of a previous Congress at Which all the great statesmen of Kurope assisted. A Conference is a were trifling affair, but when we see the deplorable consequences whieb have been allowed to follow the Conference of L852, and the way in which a Treaty has been set aside, we are not disposed to look hopefully for a selu- tion on the assembling of another in 1854.

Me > - | LATEST NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAK IN TUE STATES.

Sr. Jounx, Mareb 10.

It is reported that Sherman's expedition peue- trated 35 miles beyond Meridan, destroyed all the railroads in the vicinity, 32 locomotives, and a large number of cars; Sherman's loss, killed, wounded, and missing, 500. Lurge number of plantations also destroyed.

A despatch from Washington te the New York World reports that a Council of War was beld there, in which the President, Gen. Grant and leading military wen participated. It is reported

We give the Amvrican news in other We insert below the latest aud most

throughout the evening. Mrs. Stevenson rendered | important news from Europe recened by the vuluatle assistance by uccompanying the pieces on English Mail.

the Harmoneon in excellent style, and by performing