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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1848-05-12, Page 2:Sud Ili. coedit ulnas of 1741, was stolid. 1 Evq. The Signal Is eery neatly minted amid J. R.tfw 11 sold oh, so matter. 1 will 'Aa order the mon. v pard, and your peeteuJod' by the inlrodeteturj remarks (ruts its taiet.t- p•nver was .•niy a log to amuse you. Was ed editor.—Journaluad Express. this to talo borne pariently, what remedy coni 1 no soogh' f The t.aturel result of Ahad the variety of newerapers that bate sorb a0 whir Juntet til pieties' fullowed, and sprung into earstcnee during the last twelve drama-t,-tsrttoo gild snuck. followed in de- 1.t11—tu.l t•, : r.-belflon o1 Upper Canada, ul which .n1 i. mover, 1 have a ve•y different Boric in I pass over, and refer only to the ul Lower Canadian R.:t..nucrc, Ih.•nthe tad/m-1 of this Drttish GGuide- twistret-.pte.l Lord Durttanlr views and saw that .vu utast have the centroel of out local antra. Then the Ri•furmcrs of I.. C. stood 10 the!, principles ; took office under Sir Charles f ,,r t, and with only two Luger CanaJtaoato the Cvbiner, were perfectly catwbesl ; end when their rr Deletes were as addtiv, •t once rami n:ev under Lord Met- calfe, and nobly fought the.battledof He- lene in the face of calumny—corruption and every temptation that power and pat- ronage could suggest to induce them to shell, las peptic, will beet be rudurslood menthe, we aro .111 are of soca that bas come out mote favourably wonting tis patronage of the public than the Huron Signal. It is i Reform paper but is conducted with mi, -..ration sed go. diatribe -, and le1t► • variety of talent whisk ie highly creditable to a p',bt•e journal.—Moalieol Trusser int, 9htit Aped. Teal " Honor Stu .ay" I'obliehed al G.Juticb, 1'. W .,—Thitiias Mscquoen, Elliot. Tho two fiat Dumber. of this paper are befure us, and wo gladly hail its appearance as a snort desirable addition to the periodical press of the colony. Had we known nothing of the Editor, we should here been pleased to greet •nuttier laborer in the field of knowledge ; bat keoweng, j in our old nplwes`. ion. and respecting bun as a sincere and ardcol I support theist because they aro liberal advocate of the right. of man, we cannot —hothead, they aur firm—because they are but.utTer him the right hand of fellowship, true and l feel assured, cumpluneatary to and welcome him as a friend and • truther. Upper Canada or poi, that they - are MGM Let us not be miaunden.tood ; our personal twunarcbicel than thou w•crtern neighbours. 1 am slam a mauve of Lower Canada, and as such feel that 1t was my duty to reply to the seuuttwot. THE HURON SIGNAL. Ort:liotvs or THr Page.. We have received the first number of the Huron Signal, a neve Reform paper pub - Belied at Goderich, Huron District, and edited by Mr. Thomas Macqueen, who formerly resided near Pakenham in this District. Mr. Macqueen's superior talents, sloth of a writer and speaker, are so well known to our readers, that any eulogium on our part would be altogether uooecee• nary ; and Dow that be baa • press at his disposal, he will have ample oppertunity of using them to advantage. And if the people of Huron are capable of appreciat- ing real talent, we have no dut.bt but that the Signal will be liberally patronized.— Bathurst Courier. Q "THa Huron SignaL.—The two first nuuoers of this ably conducted paper have reached ue, to truth it mart be an oasis in the desert, and will doubtless reflect a brilliant ray.of iptellectual light around Goderich, and along the shores of the "wild romantic" Huron. Although differing from us materially in respect to politics, we wish it aboundant success.—Brantford Corriere The Bret number of the Huron Signal, a new paper started at Goderich, has come to band 'Edited by Thomas hfacqueen, the talented author of" Tho Mourland Min- .tresl." The "Signal" comes out on the Reform Ticket, which is by no means s re- comtuendattou to a good Conservative like our great and humble self : bet nevertheless, it promises to be ably conducted ; and we will not withhold our admiration of the flow- ers. while we recuse to taste the poison fruit of the tree.—Ottaroa advocate. Huron• SIGNAL—We have recieved the first number of a paper printed at Goderich, bearing this title. The Signal is edited and published by Mr. Thomas Macqueen, who is known to be an able and spirted writer, and there can be but little doubt of this journal being a powerful auxiliary to the Reforest Preva. We trust the Reformers o Hume will well support Mr. M. in his undertaking.—Victoria Chronicle. Mcuex Stox.u..—This is tho title of a Reform j -ureal jest commenced at Goderich, and to w hack we wish_ every vuccess.— The •mount of editorial matter in the first twe members gives assurance that it will set remeia a mere cypher to tho ranks of the Caaadta. prior ; and the talents of the editor will be an addition to the cause it is intended to spbuld. — Guelph Advertiser. W. have greet pleasure in acknow- ledgsw the reeerpif p(the first number of the /hove `Signal, edited and published at Uuderieb, by Mr. Thomas Macqueen, well ksowal as • lecturer and author, both in ticetland sad in this country. The Signal, is Mr. M'. kande, wilt be conducted with Wed and esorgy, and we sincerely hope It well be well wpport.J by the Reformer of the Hems.—Toreeto Globi. acquaintance with Mn Macqueen, has nut been ouch as to enable us, were we so dispo- sed, to say tot we agree with him 1h all his political viowe or plleciples. i It is enough for us to believe, which we do moat sincere- ly, that hp has the good of mankind at heart. 1Ve care not whether he bo a re- former nr conservative.—•' The greatest possible good to the greatest poesible num- ber," is the ,motto he bears, and under such a noble staWdard we ere ready to march boldly onward ; and who would not 7 Mr. Macqueeu is well known in Scotland, as the author of many beautiful poems, in which he has displayed great power, depth 01 ...cling and tenderness, with a native simplicity and originality which stamp* him u a man of no cuutmon order of mind. Mr. Macqueen is a man who, we (eel immured, is made of that sturdy northern material which is not early bent or twisted out of its proper position. No Mere party feeling well ever induce him to contend for what he believes to be injurious to mankind. Like most of his countrymen, he poeaesesa strong reasontpg powers, and his atylo is at once simple and vigorous. His " Politics fur the People" particularly No. 2, is an admir- able article, and we regret w -e have not room to extract that pert -of it in particular, in which bo cuntende with such eloq• ence and powerful, or rathcr,'unanswerable rea- soning, that there is no sect sit' for the eminence of two political partite. He has put the matter in a light, in which we con- tese we have never seen it before. We have been so long accustomed to the mach- inery of party government, that wo are apt to regard it as an essential and necessary part of the British Constitution. Still tvo cannot but think, that a "'tend still" party, as well as "go-ahcrtd' party, is useful sn its way ; not for rho purpose of prerenting improvement or reform, but to retard in some measure, its too rapid prgress, which might' be dangerous to mankind. No mat- ter what the subject of contention may be, it appears natural to men to range them - 'elver to two or more parties, under their leaders ; but these parties need not neccss- anly be political parties, contending for very opposite principles. .It seems almost as if the day had gone by, fur such con- tentions. The only difference now between the motions of the stands stills and the go - 1 u -Acids, ie, that the one goes faster than the f 1 other. The stand still to like a man-of-war, I under fill sail,—or Post Captain, if you will;—who will not stir from his quarter deck, but, who is carried forward with his shire all the.time. If our friendllacqueen has a fault, it is his wast of hope, and a somewhat despond iogduposition. Let him trust in his own native powers, and the glorious cause in which he in engaged. We wish hint every thew 'that he can reacohably desire, and ■hap bedelightd to bear (ruin him. Ilia approbation of what we have widen, ie doubly gratifyiag to us ; first, because he has been kind enough to give greater pub- licity to sentlmeuts which were dictated by astncore love fur this land of our adoption, and because we cannot but be pleased with the pure of ono, whose judgment we res- pect.—Victoria Magazine. Wei have received the first and second wtabere of the Mures Siesta, printed and • palidiehedie the town of Goderich, by Mr. Chas. Dolsen and edited by Mr. Mcqueen. Tile editor is favorably known in Kingdom, as • Lecturer and we have no doubt that dimwit the columns of the Signal, he will exert s tweet beneficial influence to the new country where he has located bitneelf.— Kingston Argus. We have meet sincere gratification in acheowledging the receipt of the first and eeeeed smashers of a new•re(erm paper the " Huron . Signal" published at Goderich, and edited by Mr. Thor. Macqueen, a gentleman of eminent abilities. We hitt Its appearance with pleasure and wish it the emeses to which it te so justly ostitlod.— Newcastle Courier. Tao Hoene Sra..L.—We have receiv- ed No. 9, of • new Reform Journal pee. Imbed under thio title at Goderich. and judg- ing from the articles in that number we believe the editor fo be • gentleman of much ability. 1t is neatly got up, and must if followed tent as it has commenced and if properly supported by the people, prove highly beneficial in the extensive and im- proving District of Hurun. We wish it all success.— Orford Star. ,r We bete receitreJ the two fleet noddi g- . the Huron Signal. a new paper just started in Guderieb. Thomas Macqueen, Edger, it le liberal un poetics, and welt edited. We hope the peuple of the Ilurom 1 iitriet well reward the enterrrise of the proprietor, by riving bum " the grottiest possible numbe/' of e•banb.rs.—Ki,gstos emoommiele Tbe'f even Signal, ie the t t1e of a new Reform edited by Mr. Macqueen. Vibe resided some short time .ince Its the i'sw•eb +, of Pakeem ha, oe the Ottawa•— The mtlf'm+is wan edited, and deserves steeVs at tbs 11. mode of Reformers gaoeraIly r?ir`Pasejsd. L1er*R remits IN Goprt•ual.—We have received thefiredli.i. of the '• Huron Sig oral," P'1ets'd tilt (uJenelr, by Air. Ctraaias Matti* dad edI04 by Tromps MLQurs., HURON SIGNAL. FRIIDAT, MAT 19, 1848. EDUCATION, Whatever diffenaa of opinion. may exist among men is regard to particular forms of Gov- ernment or different lines of policy ; however far tbey may disagree in their methods of promoting the commercial interests or in advancing the internal improvement of the country, we might suppose that the subject of education would af- ford ground for mutual co-operation cod exertion. It is a sutjcct in which all taokind are deeply and equally interested, and we might think that the history of the progreaa of sect, ty and civili- zation, world long :re now have taught the im- portant oath, that a nation can just be prospe- rous and happy—great, and easily governed in proportion to the education and real intelligence of the great mass of its inhabitants. Aod that the rulers of mankind generally would have been deposed to allow the education of the people to occupy the first place in their legislative delibe- rations. We are sorry that these *appositions are not facie. We regret that the majority of what are ealkd civilized Governments take little Or e0 ieterese a the caused a Instruction. Aad that even these who—ere Redd isr the march of seieoee and national distinctioo, still regard the education a the people as • secondary eonsidentioo. However ismenteble or mortify• ing it may be, iu is a feet, that the most civilized and intelligent Governments in the world spend a thound-fold mon time sad money in freesias militia laws—in talkieg of national defe•ei. and is ieveetisg and porehasisg impro•ed meets and modee a murder, than they to in their er.nteu to educate the people or eultivale the oatiosal nisd. In feet, i• looking bath epos the ►*tory of the civilised world, r eves is laking a view of it dsrisg the short period of oar ews life, we can hardly Geoid the eoecteuoe that il e rulers of mankind here anted. and are , n ow actrag seder the impresario that the great , end for which the bunion faintly Palet, is amply to try how seecerfo!fv they eat kill each other. • Learnlag w 14kt_ el, beadle the lfMtr rrtirets of death wttb skill and destensy—to saltiest° and suesg!hea u0r most weep dapoeatoas, ted te areal sad obliterate the uoble•t feelings of oar stature, eossutute the education for which all sailed have paid expensively. But alas, for the itopruvetnen, of the uvisd—the ealtivau,un sad deeelopemeet of oar Lights. capacities. The wbbect may uccasalousily be seemed at in • transient or cau.ul manger to till up as idle hour, iu the al.cenee of what u° coo,idered quesl.naa at Importance, Or It few paltry hundred pounds may occassionally be expended on educe,; tins s• • kind of bravado to other mations, or to appease the Importunate remor.straaces of a kw iiidivldeals olio have the good of Irattkiad really at beat. But the vast unportauce of tisining and calmed:us mankind, as moral and intelkr teal beings has neves get become the abject of saltine setious deliberation to any civil Gover0- tmeat. For just so soon as • rollout! and correct view of this subject esu be properly entertained ; Gevernineut by standing armies and national prfeslhoods wiih all their cooeomitaat sAas- work will be abandoued, and Inao.will in reality assume the character of a reasonable creature. It is true that Freesia, Britain and the United Sates have recently made some noiao about educating the people sod have eves spent some money arnuslly in the experiment, and it is to be hoped that the noise and the mosey together will ere long awl en the public meed to the im- 1 ptirtanee of the subject, and that general educa- tion will assume s tangible existence, and be supported with seal and earoestuesa as a nation- al institution. Even in Canada during the last four yeas we have talked and spent money on education, and it must be admitted that we have dooe some good—we hove gives the people to understand that there is such • things, education. The school -tax has done more in awakening en- quiry on the subject titan all the labours of all the teacher,, visitors, trusted, and superintendents employed in working out the nooseoiical mea - sore. It has done more than s million of the best written tracts or treaties on the subject could have accomplished. It is an appeal to the purse. And though a man were so dead or deaf or dull that he could not comprehend even the simplest appeal to his underaaoding,!or his rea- son, or his honour, or his honesty, yet with ■11 his etupity he can distinctly understand an appeal ' to his purse. We tie great advocates for taxa- tion—direct taxation. it is by fax the moat ef- fectual method of giving people a knowledge of the affairs of their own country. It communi- cates a distinct, a kind of 1aagible ides ol the value of improvements. We un have no roads nor bridges, nor canals, or railroads without taxation, every public improvement, and every public institution should be supported by direct taxation. And were mankind :o be directly taxed for armies, and navies, and natioaal priest - hoods, the world would be rid of these naisanees in less than twelve months. Because when you make a direct appeal to men's purses, they feel an interest io enquiring into the nature and ase of the thing—they ask " What is it for?" and unless you can satisfy them that they are to be benefitted in some way or other, they soil not pay. This is the value and the beauty of the school-tax—it oases mea to enquire—we ad- mire it ; but we do not admire the manner in which it in distributed. Taxes are valuable and justifiable exactly in proportion as they am jodi- ciously expended. We have no faith in five -hundred pounds side- -ries being connected with a system of popular education ioany country, and far less in a young poor country. like Canada. We thank l/r Ryerson's office might. be very advantageously thrown aside. District Superiataodesia of a proper description might be useful; but in the meantime the Majority of them are considerably worse than useless to the canoe of edacatiou.— They are sucking the substance from the poor teachers many of whom are living in poverty.— One half of all the teachers in Canada ought not to be allowed to teach at all ; they are utterly unqualified, and though their qualifications are equivalent to their pay. the community is suffer- ing serious injury frum their illiteracy and they themselves • are losing their time and estistart- logon a miserable ill -paid pittance ; while the tan who merely asks • few questions regarding their qualifications and then pares them, wheth- er qualified or not, receives an ample salary for ;reforming tbcee useless formalities: this kind of examination is a mere farce --a regular trifling with the peoples interests at the peoples own ex - peace. It rhould be unanimously called down. We think the three Trootees in each School - district, the School Visitors, the Warden of the District, and the Inspector General, might manage the educational affairs deem/de equally as well ns they are managed at present; at all etemte things could not be much worse than they are. From the correspondence between Coun- cillor Holum and Dr. Ryerson, which has lately appeared in the Signal, we would direct atten- tion to ale following facts :—The inhabitants of Heron have paid their due proportion of Dr. Ryerson's five hundred pounds salary ; they have paid Mr. Bignal'a one hundred and thirty pounds salary, for which they have been defrauded out of their just proportion of the Government edu- cational fond to the amount of more than two hundred pound* during the years 18(6-7. Dr. Ryerson throws the blame on the Distriet Super- intendent or somebody. And Mr. Bigoa1 sod .r'eboly throw the blame on Dr. Ryerson— and thus the people of Iluron have been deprived of their rights by the men who were paid for look- iog after them Mr. Holmes proposes that a District Meeting should be called by requisition to take the sub t into consideration and to adopt means for jhulloing, if possible, the rights of 'the District in • this matter. We wee • deed the money will not be easily obtained; but we certainly think that the Meeting abosld be held, and as the School Rill will undergo sense revisals and emesdments the year ; we are of opinion that a Memorial to the Government founded on this Heron case, might be of much service in directing attention to the feet that the wholesale dismissal of Superiateedeea would be so ad• vantage to the caner of edoeaiee, as then the whole tares paid by the people would be received by the Teeehers, sod the Trustees whose* per- form the meet of the dation petite would more Cheerfully perform them all, were then en paid oAleela over them. Os* thing at least is car- men, odds a simplifiestien of the Bill, a redue- ieo of i u s*c►i•ory and a moth damper wthee of work's( it can be effected, the sewer it Is repealed the better • PLAIN DEAL11NO. • •esus 464ItTTs. Wt think la was Siwalik* who said list of alt the vies that afflict society, sou gave Wall w much ausoyenee as eel -vice ; gad it has time here semerk•d that J yet oriel to left a fouls lessor just admire him. Two wreia ago we atkied a few friendly Meta sad edmo•itiese to Mr. Gila, the semisel .roedwtot of the Huron Gazette. Our officious friesdrbip had exactly the effect which we aoticipeted but not what we tnteudrd or dewred. The iutrlteetwl giant at length awoke, belchiug out philosophy, like the kneel of s steamboat throwieg firth amohe. it was not the philuaop4y of 8ocntes, nor Des- uttes, mor Spia.u, nor nacos, nor Berkley, aur Brown, nor Emmanuel Kant,—it was the pure, *•mixed, anqusl.6ed, unmitigated phil- osophy of billingsgate—the rectified essence of the Heron Gazette. It Ii with +ante reluctaaee that we notice this remarkable specimen of vulgarity aad black- guardism. 1t is, is fact, eo low aid dirty an attack ea personal character, that, with the ezceptioa of • tongue -battle which we once heard between two absudooed (males in Bridge - gate of Glasgow, we never either saw or heard such language seed. It thews, howevtr, the kind of society that Mr. Gila*, as a g.s lseasn. hu mixed is. to our friendly suggestions to Mr. Giles, the most objectionable passage is an allusipn to his family, which we are sorry to un- derstand has been construed into • sneer by those two or three individuals who act as the censors of the Press in the Gazette office, sad who are enemies to us, but mach greater enemies to Mr. Giles. Why should we sneer at the family of any poor man? ' tVe a? u poor as Lazarus, and have a small fa ; so has Mr. Giles ; and we repeat again tis merely from • sympathy arising from tit, that we notice Mr. Gild foul•mout deader at pre- sent. We do not believe t Mr. Giles wrote this kind of fish -wife art of his own accord ; we think his learned mid sctewtifie friends ad- vised him. We think these learned friends have already victimized Mr. Giles to their own chagrin and malignity ; and whether be believes it or not, his family mast suffer the effects of his impredence ; and therefore we do feel for them, and we again counsel him in the moat friendlr spirit to examine his position, and not allow Memel( to be plunged farther and deeper into ruin, merely to please the vanity and gratify the spleen of two or three conceited creatures. They mey,for the gratification of their own evil propeo- sity, make him a scape-goat for their transgres- sions against society. They may hatch evil and beget abortive scandal against those who score - their littleness, and may father their small iniqui- ties upon Mr. Giles, and foster his credulity by telling him that he is getting oh well—that be is making considerable noise in the world ; bat certainly the evil day is coming: Mr. Giles must be eonoeioas that he is altogether out ol his proper sphere at present, and that the longer he is prevailed upon to remain in this ludicrous position, the deeper must be the :: rision which will attach to him, and the more overwhelming must be the misery which will eventually over- take him. I t wan too bad to allow that amia- ble, sweet -tempered, deTectable little model of christian sobriety, who wrote such a long letter kr the purpose of expre.uag his Moms horror et the ungentlemanly manner in which our " Plain Dealing" hid speeded to Mr. Giles, and for the further purpose of telling the public a mighty secret, %blab he declares he did not wish to tell. We say it was too bad to allow the dear little embodiment of mildness to give such a carries - tare a oar arrival in Goderich during the time that Mr. Giles, poor man, wait struggling in his exertions to obtain a printing press at Buffalo.— We de.lars it was to bad to give publicity to such a delicate seatimentel description of poor frail human nature, especially wien Mr. Gentles a the Huron hotel declares that he knows u mach of both hers Giles and us, th tt be wishes no more correspondence with gaattcrnea editors. We sever spoke a word about Mr. Giles being i in a state of " beastly intoxication." We never saw him in that state, and we do not like to believe, and far less to- publish upon hearsay evidence. We haze heard certain little stories about a certain little man being very frequently "gaping like an idiot," staring like a he -goat." ate. (the comparison are coarse, bat jut as we received them) still we attach little credit to this kind of hearsay evidence. We do not wish to publish these rumours as facts ; we do not wish to publish such stuff at all. A em's drinking or drunkenness is generally published fret in the tavern -keeper's books, and then it very loon publishes icicle We do not believe that Mr. Giles ever was drunk ; bet notwith- standing the doubtful aspersions which he throws upon oar faith, and we admit that we are scep- tical on • great many 'objects, still, there are a number of things which we do believe firmly ; and, among other things, we do believe test if you take • little empty calk, utterly void of brains or other absorbents, and bore a gimblet hole in the bottom of -it, you may pour in any quantity of liquor without making it drunk, or even causing it to run over,—and it is only after the staves have become saturated and the liquor begins to ooze through the pores, that you can discover any symptoms of " beastly intoxica- tion." Mr. Giles entertains his readers with • history of the masa ad types belonging to the Signal Office, and a few delicate compliments to the Hon. Malcolm Cameron. This, we admit, is rare ietelltgenee--espeeislly the idea of oa being brought hers to oppose the Huron Gazette ! 1 Whet • pity we have not time, for it would re - vole -ids, to give s narrative of the Alese and toleru, the opo and downs, the difficulties and diseppnistmeets, and the eenidoes rumored voyages and adventures, by sea and lead, of the Joint Stock (:employ Pries of Gedenee. We are aware that many very repeetable people in the town, could wish efeeerely that the press be- longed to Mr. Gilfi, led we here se wish to 10 - form them that it does not, heehaw some of them are already obetantially informed of the feet, mad a 'amber more will be tangibly instructed is the truth 4 it, is about three moths from this date—therefore ser takernetaa would be entirely eopergeeee. Mc GDP' next mars, be does not seed the p►sit of his usdertakisg to his master at Port Semis ! Happy deny ! wise is them able in talk of prods? What a debt of gratitude the et.eileepes of ddartek are soder is Um for each a (devaluates ef ready mosey is the towel Ws have within sleek aur profits; we 010 1110- siag deeply late debt with our landlady ler ear board, and have best akinkimg 4 writing le Port Swots, or sumawhets else, far as order to enable ye to otosie halt • posed of weecee free some d tie stares waekty 1 Mltiwhw poaeray struck &goal, thy 0546 and credit ate equally called otuwn in Cadence. O that kit Gila would visit out red et the aro watt • moll* share of hie profs : but alas ! aias ! there are assure persons far more afraid that las purse wd1 not be opened io this gmrier, than they are Of the poblic morals being invited by his " tap - bond lectures u0 phrenoibgy" or any other sub- ject. Mr. Giles has the easiest method of ehriokiog from the respoosibility of his wickedreas that can possibly be imagined. Ile tells us that a certain dirty little article crept into ►r edemas from the 8trsetrville Renew, which heduly ciedited at the time, without kaowt.g it was there ! ! What a wicked, malicious, persever- ing little reptile it must have been, 1u creep all the way through bush and brake, and marsh, gad lake, hum Streetsvilic to God,•ricb ! And evi- dence hu already been published, to chew trial It actually Mas ren creeping through some e1 the swamps of her Majesty's Crowe taste! We admire its industry, but really we cannot admire its ambition. Does Mr. Giles suppose tbat 11117 body will believe this stuff? Does he think that mankied are all as nilly and childish as himself? No; even the happy little metol upon whose path then are us shadows ; who sever experienced in his own pereoo the sicken- ing degradation of drunkenness ; whose moral sensibility is as much astonished at the sight of • drunken man as another man would be at the sight of the Phenix,; the upright, unadultera- ted specimen of optimum—even At does not believe one word of this nonsense. Mr. Giles has very appropriately headed his Macbeth'. caldron of filthy rubbish " Plain Lying," and we take the liberty of informing him the the respectable inhabitants of Gode- rich give him cooaiderable celebrity as a manufacturer of that kind pf material. His as- sertions about the Editor of the Signal signing the Mackenzie petition, sneering at the offer of a ticket to the St. George's Dinner, and being an infidel of ■ socialist,—belong especially to that order of things.—they are deliberate, wilful and malevolent falsehoods. They are given with the same intention as the Quaker India calling read -reg. But it is too late in the day. Intelligent people do not can though Mr. Gild was a Turk or Hottentot, providing lie was as honest tan. They consider that a disposition to pay our debts at the rate of 20. per pound, ought to be among the first articles of all reli- gious creeds, and the man who thews a disposi- tion to chest, lie, impose and swindle, will be universally scorned, even in spite of his hypo- critical professions of religion ; while his at- tempts to raise the hue and cry of infidelity against thaw who would try to expose his de- .igniog scoundrelism, will just be regarded as the result of dastardly malevolence. The mis- representations of Mr. Giles, regarding the Huron Signal and its Editor, we have answered in another column, by extracts from the Cana- dian Press :- surd the oaly apology which we can offer to the nomero.e Editors, bosh Radical and Tory, whose friendly notices of es are here omitted, is simply that we have not kept any separate files, and were thus obliged to take ha•ever came first to hand. 11'c thin:. Mr. Gies is unfortunate in every thing be takes in hand, and still more unfortb; nate when be tries the pen. His paper will soon be unable to cootain his answers to the remonstrances of those he has offended by his imprudence. We think he should give it up,—or if not, he should cease to be guided or counselled by those reckless inexperienced cha- racters who are driving him to misery and dis- grace for their own rain •nd selfish purposes, and who lately forced him to insult the respecta- ble community of Goderich under the designa- tion of " barefooted boys and Blip -shod grim." Gonzales, 9th May, 1849. To Mr. Thomas Macrae": -8is,—We the undersigned fully impressed with the benefit to be derived to *omelets and the public, from the delivery of a course of Loc. torn similar to those lately delivered by you on Phrenology,—respectfully reemest, that if not interfering too mach with your other avocations, you would favour as and the rest of the comma. any, with such a eerie. u you ray think neces- sary for the denlopernest *Nile subject. We are, Sir, Veer obd'nt serves, CHUM= Farrcaot, Tnoau Waring), Jna• GALT, We SrorT, R. LTrraa, Taeosas Craacn, R. G. Cunt ala, W. B. B.Troua, A•ILIV. W. Knee, THoieas Kinti, B. Pommes, Ross Ro.csrsos, - Jatams Gcirrt.tn. J. K. O000tao, W. Bcvacrr Rice, B. Wi,.tsow, A. Ross., A. F. ouaw, Roassr Ewe, Lowest ALvotta. I. RarrxwseaT, G. F. Linnet, D. Dow, Roamer Penes, Awoos McKay, Moira. G,Laooa, D. B. McDosetD, ROadir Moniawxst., Wrttual War.Lacx, TO Tali anima or 105 11155,41 teafiaL. Gediata, Aped $th, 1848. Su,—la • rhedoawtade of bakerdr► sod aoersee to the Gamete of t►.. Mt► root., ►le remark* attest the soamsaawuae of '•A• Iade- peaJegt Thicker,".e. Mimi errwees from all ewlmeates ' •kegisamg m o z?r as sodred,1 pas tiiw b oo-- _Ued o i iiav cur whit. For, sir, 1 coosiokr the article not only meant as a slur on the character of owe d ear meet enarptisioirmereseets et the AyQml who by the way hes jest perehe•ed the whafa of the surplus grata held by mar Ooderish met - chants, and shipped to hie own vt ssL), bet deo a slur on o class a( the common* tyable pep only the main say of Caoaaa, bat also of the Brutish aatiee. I'w rive. weekEnglas4 .r ler colonies be witot Ijher merchants --bo they large or spat Inca astlemos eat cafterdre- searcre be ever 50 well developed, they would maks bet • awry show without her mord/eats 10 Import, export, barter and trade, Ate. with other unties. Fee if 1 eaderataad the inters of things aright, (aid 1 think 1 have seen as much of the we and Aria as geed imam ideas im- planted ie rdf brae, r the Editor of the Gazette) • amuse is respected by others aceedies sa the wealth and capability of its merchants or api- sabsu, (as the ease may be,) to ete, i' _., them : the wealth of a notice, apart from its agrieotterr, lies is ita.. reeree. I have neer yet Pea with the bares is wen favour, neither have Al.•e.gbt fed: pspstkrity ; and it would be so me sr.a with the here* for if 1 should chanes 10 Ilgbt ea • peer devil ef a bare, be would be so peat that eves his hide would not be worth the trouble of taking off the carcass. Ile also says, that you put my biter in ship-shape ; in that respect he lies ander • moat fallacious idea. With the ezceptioa of the quotation left out, it was verbatim es far as is went. He also says it was a didtoeest comms - nitration in attributing to kiss sionisaes , slid Ae never sacred—serer sponse. Never adopt.' ed ! What doss he mean 1 Is not the publish- ing of the article in his paper adopting it, or fres be not been " • squatter" in the editorial chats long enough to know the meaning of the weed "adopted." In snowing it to appear in hie paper, he became as mach revocable for it, es if he had endorsed • note and got the Basket es cash it. Bat perhaps like the honed. at the Extra, he knew nothing of it until he reed it let his own paper. Who clipped it from 1►e Swedes villi Renew? was it his forsamm, Mr. Diann. son, or that mischievous imp the prtwew's devil p and if it was o0a of them, who reed the mon - I have no objection to the Editor of the Odette, or any other' editor, to canvass the political priseiples of oar public eharastere—Iw that of right beloogs to the psbtie---bat as the same time not to meddle with oar private slime for that is too mesa • trait to be thought et, I wish you both soccer in the undertaking you have gone into, and hail Toe beth se the her- bingen a meowed enterprise is this most iaa- por:amt gad enterprtxiag District ; aid allow ms. Mr. Editor, to append the following boa ilial lines from that great nm, J. Q. A. as net Bala of place :— " 1 want a kind and faithful friend le Moss the adverse hoer, Who seer to Battery will deemed, or lewd the knee to power, To chide me when I stn wrong, my inmost aoet to see, And that my friendship prove as strong, for blm as his for ma" Yours, Ac. ie' As Iennewesn Tann. We acknowledge the receipt o(a very seedy printed pamphlet of 72 pages from Moaned.— It is entitled " Remark, oo the State of FAaw- tion in the Provisos of Canada, by L." We . have not had leisure to give it a careful permed but in glancing hurriedly °eerie' pages we thick we are warranted in saying that it coatarna meth that is good and useful on the important sehjece of which it treats. It is supposed by same of our cotemponriee le be the prodactiou of Dir. Ryerson ; perhaps it stay, it is at least writhes by one who u so admirer et" Leese/so," whisk' we are not ; bet at the same time we would see allow mu prejudice to overeop our jsdgemeey 0 far as would lead es to medusa what we actually oelieve to be valuable. Dr. Ryetarm we think, is a clever loge. Ws differ very widely from his views of papular .dueatiae..aiTl we believe that apart from his " View of limy" policy, there are few tete is Cased' more quake fled for the situation width he sew bolds, ea/ we would only approve a his dismissal on the ground that he has already received his thin of public emolument, sari shoed now maks room for some other deserving iadivideal ; or ea the will awn easel/Mai seg meet that the office is a very expensive and • very useless ap- pendage to the caused education. We thaw mend the pamphlet from a belie( that the people might to know ail that is advanced er wham M that subject in their own eoastry. The Literacy Garland, the Victoria Mag.dae, the Newesstb Farmer, the Aptedsrtet sod the Temporises Advocate ban ales bees duty is - Siemer. Orem, t ceived. Goowat, lith May, 1848. I To tie far. Charles Fletcher and waers, when names are appsaded ro tAe foregoing Repti- GawrLurca,—i eenainly feel complimented by your requisition, and beg leave to cure you tbat an oppertunity of eootributi.g to the intel- lectual advancement a my fellow -°restates is in me, at all tunes, a soiree of peculiar gratifi- cation. And in compliance with your request I will, (if health is granted,) deliver the first of a series a Leeteres on Perietep, and its poeti- cal applications ; on Thursday ,evening, the 95th instaa, of which dee notice will be gives. i am, Gentlemen, With much respect, yonnt, THOMAS MACQUEEN. (T We bare till sow omittd to setovuledgm remoteness fen the 8g•al from Robert Bell, Esq , M. ' P. P., (rem Jaffa Themeose, E.q,. Downie, and from James Gado., Esq , Lemke Reed Tata Now Coeror■ Acr.—Tbia Ail ie objectionable a many particulars, and has given tnuch annoyance and disutidaotioa. The Council of the (hoard of Trade of To- ronto bad • confere5ce with the Hoe. Iv- arzcroa GDaaaaL oe Monday last o• Ms subject. The Hon. iasrec oa Gtrr•sea recommended the several Beards of Teed* to prepare anemone!' to the GeeararaeNi pointing out where the Aid wee defseliws before the meeting of Partitionist, with • th view to amend e i♦ -k%. T• F.rtwaanets. _ Th. Leek Peel, Mee Plymouth, with 191 Isle e• I.6 April for Qanbse ; and the she faKree. gy, and haw', left Limo**, oe the 101rd • and 6th April, for Qeeb., with 'JN Oe Demers. :.ntr all . drat, Sotacrroa G•illiaa, Watt Wo learn - that oil SaturdayAirmail mivalg William Hume lab was meal lit aa Hits Majestj a Solieutor Gesatal woe. Tbo honourable gentleman was to bah tows y..tsadsy for tipper Cassia--1Pilia.