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was alloy that roe, Mr. Welker, wiis
Sae preoenee of uuml...dia the pais{ 1,
•a star; but it seethed impossible to do say -
thing l.tl day light, a■rf orn the darkest*.
they could se lunger see the Seating piebet
tit the week dollies about, a Miele blow
from one gI which would ban sunk the
beat. To show that they had out deeerted
thee,, the ,I:M is the boat Owe Lod had
repeated .'hosts. Fur semi Uinta no ascend
was heard; brut at :smith cane a Weble cry.
F•'g• on ptxtuw hour they ku,y wpm thaw
eagle Jay trcak, the mast aeon hecsn:o vi
al to in the we tine which it. tieartn;•, had
1,akcn; f•t.r f ren, ecru still seen eur.ingst
sew s.rd.go sol top work; but they .ecu,e d
usotwnlw.. t) t teeming the,(, two of the
Lour sheaved segue 01 aoiwUun, they looked,
. mJ .• retched out their &rine torrent* their
deli rer.•r., who milled thew into tho beat,
in •.1111 of altos.( perfect cxhsu.tion: tt,e
u• her two woes deed.
From the Frrwnsgh Fernier's Journal
I'IIC LiTE ATTEMPT AT INsUtiREC-
TI'J.Y.-8MITI, O'BRIEN.
From 1'., died et ,•. which are bang
made, (r d i r i , deli', the public will be
enabled to :go -:..tis the real character of
rho tato aei ,,h,, at in.iirreetiun 1a this
country, .n + •.hj c• , which worn aimed
at, if not by t..0 snow respectatlo of -these
who prompted the proceeding,, at lust by
must of the men by whose age:.ey the
work was to bo seeumpli.beJ. The inten-
J :J mode of proceeding w ill appear tolera-
bly plsc. from a Jeta.l ot ter;ala proceed-
ings that took place immediately previous
to tint outbreak ext B,Ihngerry, published in
the .11ureia,•, Chronicle of bat week. A
correspondent of that paper tam—
" a respccral,le tarmiefa house, not
enativ tiles south of the city of Kilkenny,
Simi: cost, en the 33th of •Jul))•—thus Tues-
day previvas to the affair at Bo:lin%',arry—
seven of the pr.r.cipa! leaders of the In.ur-
rcetruaary movement. 1t war, fa point o
fact, a conned of war. The drat suhjoc
brought antler c. nsidcration had reference
netura:ly enough, to the commissariat; ant
the q..•_,hen was proposed, 'flue/ were the
rebel (..rtes a, be matntai,ed v This inter
ogatory waa at onto sus acted by ono of the
snot youthful, and certainly one of the mne
cMvelrous and gifted, of the insurgent ha
dere. Ilow are we to maintain o0
fronds, said he; • but at the expense of ou
comma! Those who aro not with us are
against ue, an I we shall make them ply the
penalty of their disloyalty to their coun
try.' "
These, it appears, that tho fortunes of wa
..V„IllVelottetuill the right to the possession
of prul.crty; that ii, the war was intended
to bis one uf plunder and robbery on the
broadest and most improved plan of the ad
emirates of the communist principle,—no
Ices than the twat confiscation of the pro-
perty .ext all who were opposed to tho mote -
anent. Bo', we may bo allowed to ark
would the coetiscation bave, stopped even
here ! It was bclJly avowed that the pro
per ty of all who were not ioetined actually
to take a part In the rebellion was to. be
made •ubsctv:cft to the ends of its pro-
gress, but in an army ui robber•, such as
toe principle thus enunciate) would helve
cyillectcj, it is not very likely that any re-
gulations fur tl:o, posatietun of .what the
mot city were i:s wait wowed have been
reepocte . The straggle, therefore, from
Vie outs•, was intended to be ooe between
lain who had not'ang to (ose and hen' who
stoop a want of it, ure.pe.t,,e of fetor
once in pr.litical opinions. It was to be
generally, the foray of a horde of humor)
r..'abers on the'property of the country.
indeed
tho cheer exhortations of the in-
cendiary pre.,: 1, '• prevent the harvest be
my rew,tcJ," could lotto had no other el
fete, 10.1' our only wonder that sten Ere
ten.hng to any respectability, sopponmg
them to bo poseeeeed of even the nios
moderate amount v( common acme, Moult
hero lent ammo:Ives for a moment to
suppose any other thing, to say nothing
of the extent to WWI * somber of there
Lave committed themlfetves.
ludeeJ, it appear., from the commnnica
tion which we- havo already goofed, lbs
Smith O'Brtr,t dil.•set bus taco ageing' the
barcfaced.rwbblrj'soJ phirtdcr that was in
` leojed. when bei lieh me .•.ware of the real
character ,of • the. cvuteseplated siruggle.—
The petted of )ti4 oiligdtsn,ncht`waa; how
veer, somewhat -01 •toe latest, and weakest
say that hit ignorance of thetreal intuitions
of the mop, until the affair was so far sd-
♦aneod, Wasnot what - we would have ex
petted from a man of his yore and under-
etanding. .Bat it will be more gats+factory
to the reader to state tbo reetilt of the pre
pontoon we have lcntioaeJ in the words of
the writer of the euwitbausle1tien we here
already alluded to. Ile ►sye,—
Alt were in favour of this bold, decided,
an,!, under theaircumetaneer, certainly not
unreasenatle r rupositicn, rave one, and that
Ono wart Smith O'Brien. • 1 belon••,' he re-
plied, 'to an ancient family—perhaps the
eldest in for po—whoso honour has re-
mained tint:mated Miring a puc,•esaion of
ages, and it shall ester be sold that I tar-
niehea eta law lame by having recourse to
plunder and rol•bcry, no na.uer in what
cause, or mode-, what circmnstances.'••••
••••.1 theca':ion• or tether an altercation,
of tit angry character, ensued. Arguments
a. welt as tbreau were used to induce the
Je,cen.1 int of the hero of Cl inter( to change
hes opinion, bet to nu purpose; and those
who know any thing of the personal cbsrac-
ter of Mr. (411. 4015 will not be seepnsod at
this display cf dogged pertinacity."
1t nn;rcare, however, that Mr. ()'Brien's
duggnl• peftlgteity, had the " leaders" all
Olga of the opinion uf one of them, would
hare cost him dear.
•I'be wrier cuntlnue,•,—
•' Nventaa'ly, the mai .raty separated from
etre th 1 s'(trton, and retired into an &Opening
sptrtrnent, for the purport of deltberaUng
on the best mode of getup: nJ of hexa; and
ono individual even went au far ss to re-
po.° a method of a eery summary character
tur effecting th .t object. The council
broke up on dope, without rookie( cm
any thug."
Our wonder, indeed, is that osly one in
J,ridull wart fer adapting the '• snmmtr)
.method" aHuac.l to. 1t was but another
etre in the road welch they set wero pttw:
p .IUg to traverse, and would hat* bead
quo riar.teter st:c of the whole proceed-
ings, as well as ot the to Nv1Ju.l ipbo ops
to conduct rt.
M•1 is was to the to tdent wet h terve
hated th it the ebynets to )nen Me.'Brion.
when the J.y of trial came, a to be em.
p hied.
The writer One anduJee lbs *arra
tow—
w The leaders separate!, each left o hu
owe duerctbon, and t1,o moth as well k ow o. r
'I• o. it was that the rebulI ua way stvineb
e/ as the eery wunwot of Ns beth, and w
the dI,s.fone of awe who laboured so se-
dulously to brief it ipto existetce, is Do•
ppMatry itfdsbtr.-d for a deNeer.ncn front all
•he h• rte of civil wet- '1 -he pDrldo of
eluate ries bar been at uoce the fade
sad rut (ileal heL.ud."
The $t ebal t► Of the late egos easiest
beteg. floe slit tly aapertainc4, the
, trcuretatM est{, fes think, be FrudecUru
of one foot ear.It w t I deter ever= man
prnteailiog to the {ls.t raspcctabilitrekoM
cutntnnanrsg mint tar pr.•ceeJinge in fu-
ture; nor Jo we rem +heti what fare a revi-
val of Ibo rasmya t f 1' dlnduals fur that
I perp es cayjg.in be talented, me motor
*1.11 p r'.cst ruwancing wa7 be indulged
,:t, or what lefty laol;uago may be put 10
requ'NtioD, is ttfhct Ott u!o)eel to be at-
ta•ne 1.
tt'o prc•utne that in- future, egitatles
will be confine 1 to the horst force depart-
ment of the pnneiple, and that no mode in
which life or limb lnay be j••opardieo.l w111
be again introduced or hinted at, except, it
mty be, i0*10n with smolt very con-
*reotent l, such me the •' door of the
house," tt is nut usnat to part with
life even to the attainment t.f a favourite
measure, and when the only murder ever
likely to be committed is, n..t upon the
persue, of indisiduats who may happen to
be porsessed of a little more wealth then
their neighbours, bet upon the principles of
cotnwon scase and the Q•tecn's English.
MEETING OF THE PROVINCIAL PAR-
LIAMENT. NOT 'FILL JANUARY.
Pram the Pilot—OMciaL
We have hither to ab.tained from"nctic-
ing the articles which baro from time to
time appeared in con tempory papers.n the
subject of the meeting uf Parliament. Wo
bare entertained nu doubt that the Minle-
ters who are responsible to the country for
the proper carrying o0 of the Government,
would select that tune which, in their oyyan-
ion wall' most advantageous to the public :
and they certatniy inert be better able .to
furry a correct opienon on this n,bj•ct than
we to any of our contemporaries can be.—
Frum the toot already adopted 'by a portion
of the Oppoeitien press wo aro mute pre-
pared for tbo cry that minlatere are unpre-
pared or unwi!ito,f to meet Parliament, and
anxious to stave the evil day as lung as
possible. It remain. for those who ranee
this cry to chew that a postponement of
some six wicks would be resorted to
through fear—axsuming that the public
Interests really required an earlier 0055500,
and that delay would cause freak public
diseatisfaction. With regard to prepara-
tion, cone.Jering the number and impor-
tance of the mensores to be submitted to
Parliament, delay on that score might fair -
be jietitied, we are well assured th-. t' e
public generally would mnm'tr , ,er give the
Minister' a few weckv. ;onger than that they
shoulti meet t'ar!iament without having am-
ple itme fur preparation. But we can state
with confidence that the postponement is
neither owing to want of preparation, nor
to fear of meeting the representatives of the
people. After mature consideration., and
alter haring duly weighed all that can be
urged on both sides, it has been deemed
that the public intcre,ts will be best pro-
moted by a postponement of the mouton
until tbo commencement of the year. We
shall state a few of the reasoe9 which ren-
der such a step expedient. It is highlteim-
portwnr. on, the. 1...k.r.. 15
may be highly important, that the Canadi-
an f.evinlature should be in session at the
same tune with the imperial Parliament.—
By meeting in Nuven.ber the probability is
that our Legislature would bo prorogued
before the important question of the Nart-
gatun lives could be submitted to the 1'ar-
lia nent in England. By meeting early
in January there wiil be ample time, nut
only fur trek:nz any meaeures which may he
deemed advisable to influence the Imperial
Parliament, but also for asaerteining the
prubabthty of our demands being acceded
to.
The American Congreei is to meet i.
December and •til terminale its version in
March. 1t hi of the highest importance
that we eh.ruld know.before our own fisctl
policy is finally determined on whether the
Vetted Suttee will consent to pass the
Reciprocity Act. Were our Parliament to
naeet in November the probability is that
we should not be able lo get positive infor-
mation or this head in !effcient thpe. Tho
American 'ire well aware of the nnanitnity
of fm lino in Canada on this subject, and '
our Reciprocity Bill cue be carried in suffi-
cient time to make thega thorosgbl1 eatisti-
ed on the point. We hare some cause to
do•Ibt their inten Soto, or we should rather
saw, we hate rcasen to know that their Bill
will be strenuously Apposed by some. and
that failure). po.uiS!o and it is of the
greatest consequence that we should know
in good tern what we hare to expect.
Another cause for postponement is the
importance of having a full attendance of
he member' of both Mouths during the
dt.Caaaeton of the highly important measures I
which will bo cubnitled to Parlament--
t meeiiug in Nevean.cr would lead almost
certainly to a recess During the holatay., at
coawiJerable expense to the country, if
there were no recess, still revers' members
would leave, and it is well knows that the
member. of the Legislative Council seldom
return atter once leaving. There would be
• break up before the New Year most cer-
tainly, and this might be attended with
very bald coneegnencee. We may montao
another, and • very powerful reason for the
short delay determined on. Were the
meeting to take place to November, it
would be impnsrible to have the public "s-
cout, for the prevent year prepared i0
Limo : and it world be a great subject of
complaint if Parliament were to be called
on to consider fiscal messnree of impor-
tance wtthout tuveng before it the tallest
information with respect to the receipts
and oxpens.tu,e of the present year. Oth-
er reason., might doubtless bo given for the I
delay. Many member' of the Houma have
nrged the p ostponemenv, and 'although
their teeth) fir an early sermon of Perlis -
Meet woe *web a5 to have male the blear.- ,
tete amyous tAat It Mould not be put off
3firrt':an Nomonher. it cannot be denied
ib.ti*-11 arsseal rule it would be more co-
ve -Meat that the session should not lake
platuntil who ttw New Year. 1f at
.0)4u11 he r . ill mote expellee', as • pee-
red role, t . •sect in November, it will he
•* ssalry to alter the period fir the tersai-
ea tet bf the fiscal year. Bat the probabi-
lity is, that the nuddlo of February would
on the whole be found the most °oarsmen' 1
period for meeting. Members would be
enabled to travel by the winter roads and
ctarn by the water. Aa rho text eewioo
wilt, n ell probability, M p
a lola' embthud
Mesal, mlrtjaket 410 bille0 ley( w'
ly in Japsarp lihl $.III ` IN glee taksi
piece huhu* iter .spacing' eN Melpgw.
Haring stats) the feet ebb tje peetpotom
meow tae ecce dsrml.dpe. •adstee• etyma of
the ri a•. ms teethe *scow% we (brae only
to ad.', Ihat it op no;Fdrgpbfjbst Mr. J,'em•
wood wale •e7 p.nttioe peourien M ,Ile
subject of the Wooed IMgeUaig 4ttemg bpi
aea.lnn. 111 wept tome► prgswa*I, aIle imise
the cucumslances, tonearly psus gd, alp tete
point. Anil, shies lsasug at i1A1gd
that '• it wool„ Ortel ae soca w eieFOO silt,
cea would aW3Wle'tee aubaugreglly er1pytesr4
his tela f that u would meet soon µtea .as
the tall ; and this chamois woo then vibe
intention et Minister., eaJ was se indeed
until very meetly, wham the very shwa
delay of about rut "win wee Jetermiued
on, iso the high public grouods which we
have stated. That the supporter* of the
Administration, and the pttbl.e at large spill,
by aausfied with this decision, we wtertaiu
0o doubt.
raow Tune 6AL owertmtrr.
PIM TJlt1OLOGY.—No. Xi.
THE Saxon, TUR 080*0 e► T1Lt w100.
"The soul, sad the moral and latsllec-
tual fecultlee, aro innate constitutional pro•
opiate, affected by a!ltho laws of our physi-
cal constitution:
A slight praegete upon the brain will im-
mt;dmWywrttwR the upesattoos of tete mind
which result cannot be produced by *mute
upon any other part of the body.
Dr. Itichcrault tells ea of a woman who
was brought to the hospital of Moulpeil.er,
baring her ,hull fractured, and a part uf the
bone removed by accident; consequently, the
brain W some extent was laid bare. Ono
day while the Doctor was dressing the
wound, hu happened to pre.., rather heavi-
ly, upon the substance o1 tho brain w uh his
hopers, when thus woman became sheat
and uncoosctuus in the middle of a sentence
she was uttering at the moment. Upon
'she
removing his finger, the wouran's con-
'ciousoeas smmcdiately returned. The in-
cident was new and unexpected to the Doc-
tor; and as it gave her no pain, ho pressed
it repeatedly with the sumo effects. }fere
the mental operatiooe seemed as easily ar-
rested as a watch would be stopped by the
pressure of the finger upon tho balance-
r wheel.
But it may be asked, how pointer"' on
ono puucular part suspends all the mental
sperttions, it, as phreuologteu say, the
brain consists of numerous organa 1
ijeewer—The brain commits of numerous
orgies, orated together in a•,•soft„ pu'p=
mites. enclosed in twomembraneousca_
called the ••(lora mater"- find "pia mater."
Tho bra.& t, .ic.-,uas blood vessels mud -
ad subataace. 1t maywbo
ulenei, as Mr. Combs says, to an Indian
Rubber tag, filed with duel; now, it is a
law of Hydrostatic', that pressure on coo
put of a Mild, affects all parts alike—con-
aequently, when pressure is made upon one
part of the brain, of disarranges the fibres of
the encephalic mass, that the fuocUoat uf
all are arrested thereby.
Sir Astley Cooper in his " Surgical Lec-
tures," tells us of a sailor who was brought
to S►. Thomas' Hospital, Lunde'', having
his skull fractured; and he lay in a cornmo-
tuae or senseless esu, until Mr. Cline, the
surgeon, trephined the skull, and raised the
bone where a was depressed WO
the brans;
immediately man's
the conseluq .
oers-
..,a..a i whoa. Mr. Clino asked bio
what was the haat thing Ito remembered, be
replied that the last thing he could call to
mind was having been engaged in a *ea -
fight in the, Mediterranean,—where he had
actually'rcceivoJ the injury thirteen months
before. During alt this time the man's soul
was locked in insensibility, in consequence
of the brain being prevented from perform-
ing Its functions.
'here is thereof' medical man of any
experience, who cannot call to his recol-
lection, cases illustrative of the propos.ttoe
I am endeareunng to establish ?
I have seen persons, who, in consequence
of cerebral coneostion, hire lain in &n.in-
sensible state for many houre, utterly un
coufcious of anything that was passing
around there; and upon venesection rod the
appropriate remedies being administered,
they bare been teetered. to the free exer-
ase of their faculties, without be.og aware
afterward', that they had passed an teter-
va; even 01 sleep. ' s
I was rather amused not very long since,
by a eery pious old lady, after recovering
from one of the'. insensible tures. 1l was
Sabbath morning when she fell into this
state; and on waking up on Monday after-
noon, pito sat) the never was more surprised
in hor lite, than when she saw ono of her
daughters knitting by her bedside, as she
was not aw..re teat she had token a wink
of sleep mace Sunday morning; and she had
never seen any of her children violate the
sanctity of lea Sabbath in such a manner
"
;ore.
Shee "leo informed me (which u an tm•
portant phymologucal fact), that although
aloe felt tattier weak in body, in consequence
of the blood she bad lost (l had bled her on
Monday morning), yet in her mind, *be
possessed more energy and clearness of per.
caption, than she had experienced for a
great number of years; and she could rapist
with (acidity, hymos ant other pieces of
poetry which she had forgotten upwards of
twenty years before.
Again, when the entad is Wire either by
thought or feeling, there are certain mo-
tions of the brain, which are proportioned
in rapidity to mental excitement. This
was Jucoverei by Dr. Peirquim, who was
attending a patient who bad a part of the
skull removed, as in Dr. Rtcheraud'p case.
Ile ohaerred when Ms patient was in ■
sound sleep, that the brain was calm and
motionless within the wooed; bet who she
was disturbed by dreams, the brain becaeie
agitated, suffused with an additional quanti
ty ail blood, and protruded out of the wound:
and by questioning her afterwards, ho found
that these appearances were aggravated in
proportion to the intensity of her dream.,
and they were still beigbtesed when she
woe awake, sad engaged in lively conversa-
tion.
1 remember having eon a man about
four years ago, who tett • part of hu sktxlI
remove* In eoieequence of a MO he got
from a horse, on the middle of the forehead.
Tho integument. had heeled over the
wound, so that i could feel Me emotions of
the brain under let hanger, like • living
looting oting under • silk bandkercbtef.
edamined him several times, cad the rapid',
ty of the cerebral mottoes se mod always
n pr..portaoo to the excitement of lire mind.
A blow on the bend—tnt+WuUo of the
brain --a dose of alcohol—a few laapiratioos
of the 4th,lcrating gas, ('I protoxelo 01
tslt►egele,") vBl ebil the meet sober,
atlas, tad ratios! 1i$.videil, Wit Ij,
Meet eiofest and ufgeoreehle • rut hal io••
There is oo Deceseity et adiptialamf4M tlleda
ted writers for cvdeoco &uAltjt! sa
obwieatioee of every teDeeung Rap hie
o ughoeat to eobnn •.e titin of t(ip tid(h pf
J kw, prepssu les. Thh libey pleNtoit OF the
.lased at the .utn,wtsffttbe ►ody*•Iti ekeot
connection waft tet estetesl tees..—II•
communeeaarose with easily, enter pert of
the bot ,by urease of that gwytpw.eyutem
of which (t i4} the graph c,utre,a-}be safe
eeioeeure Minuet to rlbich it is JJuodrJ
by the skull—
A HUMAN BYULL—Bvsos.
•' Leok en its broken arch, its raised wall,
Its chambers deeolate, its pariahs foul --
Pur this wastage* ambition's airy hall—
The douse of thought, the palace of the eel ;
Behold, is each lack -luau* eyeless hole,
The gay recce* of wisdom, and of wit,
AuJ posies's boat, that brookt d control;
Can all smut, sage, or sophist, ever writ,
People ibis ancient tower, this teuenwot
refill"
0 R.
MR:, AND GaoTLRNiN, ti'ouRti AND L••
Med.—These are singularly but vividly
distinguished by an American writer. Men
are quarried from the living rock, se with a
thunderbolt Gentlemen are moulded as
the putter's clay by rho dainty fingers of
fashion. Women are the spontaneous
growth of a warts rich soil, where the winds
blow freely, and the heart teeth the visi-
ting" of God's ever changeable weather.—
Ladlcs are the Miaowing of a hotbed, the
growth of a grecn•house, ten def and watch-
ed lest tfo wind. of heaven visit their faces
too reugbiy, till they are good for nothing
as women, at any rate as wive. or moth-
ers.
Ws heard recently a good story of an
Irishman who had never seen any of the
birds of America. "Tho first feathered
fowl," acid he, "that ever I see when 1
hem to Ameriky, was a forkintine, (porcu-
5pine,) I treed him under a haystack, and
shot him with • barn shovel. The firet
(inc I shot him, i tossed. him ; the attend
time 1 shot bum, i het bias in the'aws place
where I missed him before !"
•
G000 News (lr Tavr).^The Bribe's Cd -
viridian Bays, '• We learn from good autho•
rity, that a proposition ham been mode by
the Home to the Prov,so,al tiovernment,
offering Oedemata *ay auto of teeMe_ , ei
may be reon'M'.,'.or um purpose of funs -
"
ram Toronto use ose of tie'
proposed route•,—provided that the Go-
venl of •tett Province be willing -to
gtt mtee the interest of the loan, at 3 per
ecot. W'e uuderetaod the matter will be
laid before the Legislature immediately on
its meeting. We hope something substan-
tial will come of this."
t't
*eta\•
HURON SIGNAL.
FRIDAY. OCTOPI:* W. :UM
*PRAT DO TUE MINISTRY. MEAN ,
Thera is perhaps no question which has bees
more frequently, or More anx;oualy 'asked in
Canada during the last three moethe than the
question, o Waen will the Parlament meet'"
The oracles of the Tories have supposed tint it
would meet et this period, and at that period,
and at any time, and every time which their
slender powers of invention thought proper to
suggest. But day after day, and week after
week,ged month after month have glided peace-
fully away, and the Parliament has not met yet
And ever and anon ■■ the next limit or ludmark
comes round, the hue and ery—deep, long, and
toed, is raised from Gapo to Got!erieh, of a
tined shofliiog Government; a neglect the
public brines.—a eearcity of money —hard
'Imes ---dull trade—want of ernployinent—bad
roads—failure in the wheat crop—JLajreeeLie
weather -rad • whole Province literally wreck-
ed and ruined by the negligence and stupidity of
a Radical Government, that either dare not or
will not call the Parliament together ! In con-
templating the rapid program which general in-
formation, and more particulitly sound political
principles, has been making in Canada for the
last fear, years, ose would rautaally supp..se
'that the age of public gsUiag had passed away.
We !night with at least some plausibility eoo-
elode that although, to consequenee of aofavors-
blelitostions or other adverse circumstances,
there was still a large mass of asreclaimed igno-
rance existing throughout the Province, yet
there would bte few intelligent neo found who
woad willingly take the advantage of that igno-
rance. At all meow, common rose and common
charity. would ,prevent us from believing that
say neat, eapabla'ef conducting a common news-
paper, would be so utterly destitute of common
honesty, and the spire( of tAm axe, as le ears a
precarious livelihood by throwing dust in the eyes
01 those who uaforteaately ars too ignorant to
detect the imposition. Such we say week' be
the raiioal suppositious of any iatelligeot man
acquainted with the present peeress of improve -
meat : sad we certainly regret to know that
them snppoeittees would be at variaecc with
facts. -
The &Deduct of the Tory preen is Canada dur-
ing the lot six months has eeraiely been an t
anomaly ho the literary snots of the nioeteentb
senmry• The Coatampnble diaMmeety (we
mold 'Smoot say heartless wickedness) resorted r
to for the purpose of embarrassing the present h
Administrabee, .ed of injuring their popularity, r
has happily ss parallel is the history of political
facies& Asti however meth we any regret
'ha outdoes of or Tory eetemponri•., we t
weld grieve still more deeply emelt] we moo=
that they tserneel.ea were weak though to be- i
Hero is the soccer of thsi: unprincipled oppo- o
shies. But this we eaaaet do. Men who are
espable of ee,deetiog newspapers, however ire -
mist WeiU►ly Lrng Bowe oPoil 1111416.14 reeds
the aMyeellistl Merl Nd repetwiiss lithe in-
NWrrrp 1'r"' (h e,fe,tt s • we MO •sly wird tw
l gnat itireinwirrre ' melt seines ea the
before, w e e et k Lai. k w sada We depend wee
ee rtatra:utag come. by rYkwg • ,upty(yiag
esetuplo of the eriwiaal, than we Jo ley our
earnest area collective tulerours to cattieaa
t ree►kes, le e' e wppointrd sod draw both the LigSer aentttlleata d oat
Nlililaew. ate spry to (Lick that uaturr,whitth vau'd •soout'., retributive jus-
asy men on whet* Woe lies bestowed Oolitic.'
e is 1eh
se t a twi.44 s f, .boe1F be .i
t as to better ale &idea hinldraikt for •
we* b(poagi; and Mat MU ie bks fate of die
atubbila refti u Id 1. deo Bili
nt•je-
g Iim em6id'tdd Ire Yti .(itswp. Ve
would seriously ask the listing J.urnalist. of
the Tory faction, if they "appose that their un-
worthy bmulity to the (3oternment debentures
will just law for so much parry lutku.g, that
natant neither good nor evil beyond mere politi-
cal barking? Do they suppose it will be forgot -
tea after the Debenture. Imre fullf,!IeJ their mit-
W oe and reed the credit of the Province? As-
aeredty it will not be forgotten. Ii will be chit"
d oled in the memory of 'hemmed* who will re-
gard the authors as the hirelleg machinery of
our eoanuy'. enemies.. Men who iu fact would
write a aatioo's ruts fou the greed of gain. The
hostility to the Debentures may just be taken as
• fair specimen of the entire opposition.
It is true, the Parliament bis not assembled
so soon u was generally expected ; the people
are aware of this : but they 'realm:. aware 14a1
under the regime of. Sir Charles Metcalfe and
Dominick Day, the country was just about as tee .bat ,many, of what ate called civilised
long without any Government at all, as tho! asoioc,, slier having eprnt agee in devising laws
pre.eat Gore:ora-et have been in Office ! The 1 and tortoises fur the entries of ignoraoee ; abet
people cannot blot from their memory, the fact , hawing legislated rnaakiod into a many operate
that the present Govertime:it since the prorogi- cage, through, the instrumentality of certain
tion of i'arliam•nt hare dose more to advance I artifietal se other iutagisay dirti.etion. ; after
the interest• and prosperity of the eoserry than I having chartered sad muni6cestly endowed
was done by the Metcalfe Administration during whole shoals of stupendous Unive sties fur the
three or four years. There has been is reality mainteuacee of three imaginary distt.cIi.ss.
more business, for ,b* benefit of the Province, After ha.iog deluged the world with waggoa-
done in the Crown !.ands Office alone, during the loads of lewd relation so the eolno of peeper(,
lot three mouths than was done by the whole .and 1..r the peotecuun of •• treated:igloo" elf fiat&
Tory Government during [erre. year.. These corporate bodies aad )gist 'sock wsepdies:
are facts which the people cannot overlook.— end even after hewing established by act of Pao -
Many i••taoces could very cutely Le adduced to
.hew bit the rearm Govermneat wubout the
expeeces of • 1'.rlament, are pruinotiag the M-
enem' of the country at • tenfold speed beyond
the Gownaneat of Toryism with all its prod.- whetbe, he.eosld eweacieatwuly adopt it or acs.
gate expenditure. And even the acts which are AG•• r having gone through this system of akar
made the groaod of accusation agaiart lir. Balt- work for ages, ,Dane of these aeons have an
sex and his fritcds, are acts which have a high length come to the conclusion tett pepulsr eda-
elilm on the respect and gratitude of the people. cation is at lent wcrtby of being tatted o(—
For t0stance, t',e Namely+. Spectator, who is de- And for the lot twenty year* we have had
term -Cru to be longest aid lousiest is the beg- plenty of talking, Lot up to the present monism
beer ery of " Proac.iptioo," infras as that in the national attempt to n•deee it w pneuee. bac
-dee Sore of Work. Deportment s roesddnten iter been a ekrw. TM oris.. n,saswr pose
hare here dismissed wi:boat cease being amigo- posed have little or no ad.pauoa to the assure
of the eresteres, and the machinery employed to
work them, .' curnbersome and ase4,s. Now.
if it is hely .;1 silted dei reran a at lout u
uactahlc as the Clydesdale Lorse, cr the Scotch
Colley, we reotnre to awert that had the time
and moor} e•peuded in honking, and enfereiug
las
lice Ly uLe nl.Liuhuten1 al our Mae
ef
y a 1 INI.r li t nuy.r, of mtose
who are famed to Ire pvcrap4 by them ; a
eery large pepo(tion of ,i read
tb.,., sad Air larger .o. t1. ierloder-
mend theta when they re reed •Thee, reason
ing puwess tare never beta recessed They
Date genes ep, set exactly tike a .,meet., of
vegeution, but like lump. of mere salami mat •
ter.—lley ern work, sad eat, sad sleep, sod
earreiee the other animr.t fanctioae, bet their
il.oug'ts never a.ce.J above the pbyweal
drudeery of their existeoee : mei is uhousaads
of Intimates the emote* and mowed the jaw
only become linos n ,o them after tbry bave re-
curred its ptomain's. Felegatr.0 hu bitherto
been talked about awl purehard as a kind of
embelIuebmea to s kw tsditidsale , a pato'
kr going idle ; a suet of stir sal gamier toy
fer the wealthy. But as a permeative of pov-
erty and crime ; asas ieeest.ve to iaduuy sal
wirier, oras a wrce ef retrial pro.0.n57asd
happiev.a it has bees shawl eseleeirrly con-
fined is-'f1e dream d eke tbilathroptet. 1t 1.
liam.'u,t the geometrical d,mu.ioss of se's
r•ligiuus faith, sell decided imperatively the
elect amount of kis industry which Mould go
to suppait mid prspnpts cleat parchment faith—
ed or any excuse being attempted l The het o
down not leisg weeded, should certainly be a
"efficient excuse fa their dienriseal in the esti.
matron of every res. cable man, and we world
'oppose that even the If&mijin Fpeelaror will
admit, teat :t the business of toe Urpartaeet,
can be equally wril manneed wiiboot them, and haws for the guidance and punishment of bis
11 theirdismissal will lesson the Proriocial ex- ignorance been spent in educating him as a
pend,tare to the aa:oant of perhaps twelve or rational 'tieing, he would now be -capable, not
twenty hundred pu••nda a year, the act is at least only of adop•ing and supporting hie own reli-
es economical and as praiseworthy as the act of great erred w,hhout the compulsion of as act of
lite Tory Ministry in appointing his dearly be- hellhole—no but alro of regulating hu conduct
loped frond, Ogle R. Gower., to a sisecure• and of perferimee L:s rocial du:,esa thousand
office with an anneal salary of fire hardted fold tetter without a statute book, than lee le
with all the civil and criminal legirlatioa Gal -
which h - has to oar.
pounds. 0 abases 1 where is thy blah 1
EDUCATION.
We hast -mot r amdod the esus of popubse..
edoestios as s canes whose panm aunt bee
portance cleans the first 'titration c( the _L•egie
latorr. It involver, in a peculiar neaaner, the
TUE 8WERINTENDE.YT.
the Common School -Bill was proposed
in•r Canada, we felt gratified as if a new
era had dawned on the Pro.iooe. We hailed
social, commercial, and religious Mumma of the it as the I:atbingersef • better state of soeieq,
county. Ttae iodesty, politica! « oaomy, pre- uJ wrote and ,puke in its deksee with meet,
ve0uoh of crime, ptoperiy, hap; iori., and enthusiasm. And although we were aware that
,moral rectitude of .oc:ety, are all embodied in it. it was (..l0 , we retarded it as a laudable, fist
In shat, it molds the cEaraeter and decides Ate experiment epos wbi:h erpefaence would make
Jestioy of lotion". And through onion, have important im;-rtoreW.nt.. ft has now hada fair
allowed it -to !recopy only a ,ery inferior positron oriel, tied without admitting that it has worked
in their legislative deliberattoss, it iv nn hers well, we must .uv it has done sense good. 1t
important oo that aerosol : while the millioasl b., 1 rough' the r.d,menis of edeeirion wnhio
of pounds spent annually by civil governments. the reset, of many who -waeld oth rwi.e hak
,o abortive attempta to dimini.h national vie- been destitute. It has created an rxeltemen,
o m bereave national hap; inns., meet Convince • on the giesuoo, and the dtseusioa, which have
every ordinary ob.erver, that .our pre.•et rya- .risen oat of it, have aw.kened the public wiled
tens of civil govert:meet are yin: adapted to the to its importanee, ant enhanced the value of
nature and condition co the creatures governed. I education is the estimaliom of the community
They work haekward.. They do not attempt far beyond the estimate at which it formerly
to make men rirtuoos -by commno'esting a
knowledje of their duties and sespoosibihtnr,
but merely eondescend ro punish them after they
have become sufficiently vicious.
With the spiritual depravity of man, wed.
stood. And although its faiths aro af111 upon
its bead, and are, tea great extent, subversive
of its expected benefits. sell, we would muni,
rather vote far its emi',nuance than vote for rho
School Bill. While it remains it is at least a
not interfere; we do not even contend fer the reeogr,itioa—aremembraoee of what should be,
perfecrability of hit moral naterr.—bet we do !and were it goo., our notions of s national eye -
cowed that igeoranee is the prolific parent of tem of powder might be forgotten.
poverty and crime. %1'e Jo believe that • nation But u we tlo not belong to the Weft and
in ignorance, will be a aatwn in misery seder Penia* lawmaker!, we contend far mute atrera-
whatever form of government it may smut. We tion.. We think the people sheikh tsetse upon
think nun's ignorance is rrmoveable by proper the immediate removal -of the objectionble tad
mean.. We thing he is tractable, sagacious, injurious appendage* of the School Hill. Beds
and intellectual,—more susceptible of improve- amendments would require little amble, and mo
meet from training aid ealurdioo tbao arty ether hr from being eapeasive, w.uld be a decided
earthly animal ; and spots tits view of hu saving. The machinery to which we tyansd
at its introduction, were the Ileperlaterdesto—
Irish .sd low, chief seed sobordt.ite. We wee
amble to perceive the adrautages which they
were to confer upon the chose of popular in-
struction as an equivalent Ire the •lanes receiv-
ed ; and every year's experience has satisfied us
more tulip, that •w far from beleg besefcial,
they are actually as rename open Its energies.
We were willing to suppose that bad Diarist
Superintendents been mem capable of advancing
the interests of education by delivering Meow
popular lectures on it, la every seboelhabse
Ihroughost the District as fregaenaly se pini.
hie, they ja{ght masa been worth re:amisg at
siderite o(.* hundred onond. each. Bet also
were eo such duties prescribed for thew Thep
were to eramiee the qualifications of lechern
rad then give them eerti6eatee, whether mob-
bed or not ! We never knew ass rejected, .1-
thongh we have &ctWly men some t
cerefiedIhaw
a liming the rrgote quell
who r sot spell this cannaa dasnyliabise of
the English language it is tree the iepgin•
indent had no choice ; M had jest to take seek
as offered themeelv.u,_.er west Neither is n
reaso.abls to sermon that use powwrg even
ordinary gmtileaties. wiU .obmit to tate drudg-
ery sod rebuff. which await common echeol
mech.?" fer the
posed. a year.
of the Dittriet r
nature, all human iastitutions are founded. The
Quakes, or Society of Friends are not morally
perfect ; but they are leas soused with crime or
vice than say other eommesily of men. They
are eomparatively.free froo• the degradation of
drunkenness and profane swearing : their lyi g,
swindling, and dishonesty, if they exist, are less
apparent. and o...raae.'ly tens buelul. They
are free from the criminality of war cad fighuig,
and altogether their walk and conversation are
more exemplary, so fir is social propriety and
moral rectitude aro concerned. We rpeek of
hem as a community compared with other core-
masitie., and we think they are entitled to a
decided superiority on the point to which we
cf.,. Now, the Qeakere aro r portioo of
oma& nature. They are just one of the name-
tape divisions of the religions world ; sod as it
will scarcely be admitted that their morel supe-
riority results from any spiritual superiority in
heir peculiar religious notions, we most coo -
chide that it arises from a better mate of trate-
mg or cultivation. We do not argue for the
"!menial adoption of Qaakerwm. We believe
hey have, as yet, fallen far abort of the mark
Meh might he warted. Rat we certainly
Mak they deserve credit for having proves most
w itiafiethnly, and es a large scale, the morel
ImprovaLility of own. In feet, to they the dec-
tr..e of moral impro,abiiiiy, would he to declare
the tactility of almost all homes intentness.
Heave it i5 neiversalh admitted ia ti.eoty, sad
oven reeogctxd to practice but as we obecntd
•
perfectly, mien be aware that, eaelswre of the I t
..lswins of the sewspaper, the moot age le
aewirag wish earaess swerees of infer:natio..—
They seen know that know)a is cheap sed
'headset ; that there a mei a iotelligeoee
thew igsareeee to the comma,,' , and tial their
oturapti to full 07 impose open the 11111011111V1.
try sem 04 twenty et thirty
f e the eramiseclea Intim
lewdmt are )set so mesh
.ham work, sed cold be sgwlly well performed
by the Trotter of each '.boll .canna, wk4 aro