Huron Signal, 1848-03-03, Page 2*tuna of pehcat a stets so 1114 Assembly "
We emceed, bate that the s" stem shock
pscrarb to 1M Quoted Stator will never be
is it .lured here. But woe test rot loss
bight of Ike turas of the swwrpsng trnsuvals
to less uastad States oo a change of govern
smut. It le to be a►enbsJ to the general
u erterence of the olBeere of government Se
p..httea) C' 1dShcs. V' lien moth iuterferenec
tame place, ar • matter of inure* Ilse par-
ti.•s mwt &Mee gm c'wwequeaees. We
hold that w sut,ordsti.'e tar.•-pulNtcal pubic
.chu.t.;' as the Hes rid cults thea, oughs
cot to mutter', directly or indirectly to
pohiseal commits • it they Jo so, they out
et *see to be di•miwed by the Roil* ly be
in whose employ meet they atSi Custom.,
oil a our political opjsuf ,ould become a
endured that eLetle blinistry of the day 1
or Earibe, u4ailuws that if one or two of
!ttcJbefs deliberately ufleed in this way
ht to be punished.
. - s' j
re is one oche. subject wortheca:Iing as
alteatton to Eirl Grey is we think dis-
• peend to limit too much the number of
mattleal offices. Of cour.e ho writes with
reference to Nova Scotia, a Province ton-
•derall Icesiu.purtaot than Canada, and
. has me e a qualification in the following
pa 4 rapt t-
" le the practical application of these
views, there will, 1 set aware, bo roods for
considerable difference of opimuo, lar this,
as In all mentions of classification, ver) Eng
csrenmetancer, and the various views token
by different men. will give r se to dunes -
Hone and occasional alterations with re-
spect to particular offices. Your
once with what has pained, and is passing
ssing
in the Mother Country, willsotgeet to yuan
tnstanccs in welch the question bas been
retard, ohether a particutir office should,
tie shooed not, be a Prriiamentary office ;
end .oma in which different talker.) have
been deiiberatcly removed from the ono to
the other class."
It io not in our opinion destraL:e, at toast
with the present limited represen;,tion, to
aJJ ninch to the parliamentary office,, but
11 must be (Anions to every one that it is
inJi•pensabte in certain departments of gore.
moment that the heads should have about
them' sumo one or two individuate in *Mur
they can place entire poliric..l confidence,
and on whom they can •rely for assisting
cordially to carry out that policy wh;ch
they may deem for 'the public interest. -
These are all, 11 is true, matters of detail,
which must necetsanl, be arranged accord
ing to eircumetancee, and which it is need-
les. to disease op the reseal. o ccacio -
Earl Grey's DesFb s are, in our Opinion,
-most valuable ducuments. lt• will be ob-
served that His Lordship is no friend to
coalition Ministate"; end that he exclaim
Responsible Government so as to leave no
dot:bt whatever a to his meaning as '• that
system of Parliamentary Givesninent whisk
has long prerailed in the .Mother Country,
and whisk oven II lie a necessary earl of
Representative` Iastitufions in a certain
stage of their progreas." How different
this from Lord Jletcalfe'e explanations !
We have one word to say to the Herald.
Ile says that "all parties• here profess to
admire ' British practice,' " and he seems to
fmagloe from that that every " British prac-
tice" ought to be intrndueed here as a matter
of course. The '• British practice" that we
have professed to admire is the aystein of
` Parliamentary Guveruu.eat ; but even Lae
Herald would gut introduce an Eetabliat.ed
Church, or an Hereditary psis int.*
):.nada, because such in:r.tutiuns id the
sanction of "British practice." • So with re-
gard to the Emmen' system. If that sys-
tem be unsuited to a young, and poor coun-
try like Canada, and disapproved of by its
inhatitantr, it onght not to t3 urged 04 us
by the imperial authorities, merely because
it is "Bnrish practice." This we feel as-
sured is the view that oitl be taken of the
subject by the people at targe.
COMMON SCHOOL TIIE 1/EST
SCHOOL.
We utterly repudiate, as unworthy, not
of freemen only, but of men, the narrow
notion, that there is to be an educa:ion for
the poor as such. Ilas God provided fur the
men a coarser earth, a thinner air, a paler
ekv 1 Does not the glorious sun pour
down bis golden flood as cheerily upon the
poor man'* hovel, as tipon the rich man's
palace 1 Have not the colter's children es
keen a reuse of all the freshnosa, verdure,
fragrance, melody, and beauty of luxuriant
acture as the pale "ons of king' 1 Or is it
on the mind that God has stamped the im-
print of • baser birth, so that ihe•po•ir man's
child know*, with an inborn certainty, that
his lot is to ctawl, not climb?
1t is nut so. God has not dens it. Mao
cannot du it. Nand is immortal. Mind a.
imperial. - It bears no mark of high or low,
of nett or poet. It beetle no bound of time
or place, of rank or circumstance. l,1 asks
but freedom. It require" but light. • It is
• Kee.eo-barn, and it tiepins to henven.-
Weakaet' does not eafceble it. Poverty,
eawwet repress it. Dtfliculti.0 do but
'annulate its vigor. And the pool tallow
chandler's bon, the'. sits up all the night to
read the book which en apprentice leads
Islet- lest the master'' eye should mina It fn
rho morning, shall stand and treat with
kings, shall add new provinces to the domain
"f-sefi•nce, shaft bind the lightning with a
hempee eord,'dnd bring it harmless from the
'elves. Thel Common Scbonl is romntoa,
not .e inferior, not as the ',chord for poor
teen's children, but as the light and oir are
tew*ten. It ought to be the beet school,
became it is the Bret mems ; and in all
CVt"ed works the beginninn is one half.-
) does not know the value to a com-
ttterairy of. pleotifuteeepply of the pure ele-
ment of water 1 And infinitely more than
thfe ie the instruction of the Compton
Hrheol ; for it is the (molars at which the
wad drinks, sad is refreshed and strength-
ened Gw tis rarrocr 01 ueofYlnou amid glory.
JJidep Donee.
ADUEL.
"fke rare and quiet of our good old
City ei tsget"n, was very unceremonious
ly ds ".abed on Saturday last, by the ben.
tweet staged,. w1 l.v" of (ler Majeatv'e
"mat end fritV.l serwaIin wbe proposed
9s theatre(vee to go to war ,ea their taw.,
• *sot. The part/au •acceded in this more
juke ssnedle oPsie. were Major Sedher,
01 the-JL,llaed Ibetriet, and
Arsete.st Awa Yytsrwa. A dtal•Yte
o +s'.vues thins reepee4ag muse pro-
pene. (tt thsbtt d rlt.cb, the Jtad;.t. a ealfed
the ll{j.r a !liar j odd .ark rgne..tlyy the
ave *set host+ dlaimtge. Matters heist,
el.. s •tebed so Ila .etielsctioanf them twm
emarthie., tea *oft Wolfto he amompplgbsd,
wag the uei lfeti us of two isemorartife At
dlemserasemeeemenempmermsteemememe
creeds yes have a great enajority, deelute( tad
believing c.asc.tatimsly Met it is aot true.-
Tkis certainly does act prove that all rrligisoa
are falai, but it proves the abasltd.ty and toMstice
of all mimeos to esubliab a oadooal rsligittg-
•hrle. the tocaleulatla diversity of phynealsee
g.aisattsu std metal astoatiteliva is every fee -
elide. the possibility if obtaining a esifseisily
of faith. This meatal coestituiva is a teener
few else great Author of natant, authorizing
every mea to wotsbip according to t1 s dictates
and tenor of the charter, but forbidding hire
imperauvety to interfere with the worship of bis
ueighbuur who holds au ego -illy noun. charter
frau flu salsa sovereign sourer. As a metsber
of eke Church of Scotland, our objection to ba-
n g used for the support of Episcopaliaaism is
mot imager than our ohjectioa to support. by
eorapslaioe, the Church of Rome ; and wink we
would resist all attempts to compel us to pay fur
the propagation of either of these creeds, we
egselly disclaim all right or desire to receive by
easement, either directly or indirectly !tom the
memtwn of these Churches, one slxpeoce to
she •epprt of Pre.byteriasrsm. 11 these views
incorrect, it is obvious that the eadowmeut cf
one, two, or (yea all the different sects of the
Christie* Charch a mwarrawuble. The ongi•
sal intention of the eodoweiesalbigg'. Col-
lege was act the promotion of peculiar or cont
tlietime religious opistou, and as the govern -
msec baa taken the libetty.of offering to pervert
it to that parpoas, mother gorernlseet has just
as *gal right to apply it to a different purpose,
rad as it n impossible to propose any impliea-
tion 4 it more is harmony with justice and
utility, we will hope that the coming Adminis-
tration will settle the question by applying it to
purposes of general education.
A National Literary institution, when the
useful branches of 'entice are taught, upon the
eimpleat method, and upon the most nameable
teres, would certainly be, not only honourable
bet advantageous to the country. As most Uai-
seraities,however, aro the sources of more words
than ideas, it would perhaps be desirable that a
very important chaoge should be effected in the
nature of these institutions before advocating
their claims to publte support. It is a fact that
the honor end true greatness of a coosery re-
sult principally from her learned men and her
literary institutions, bet it is also true that much
of what is emphatically called learning is com-
parntively if not entirely useless. There is per-
haps more time and money expended in acquiring
a.knowledge of (?reek and Latin, than is spent
in obtaining scientific information; and it is
certainly difficult to understand how either the
Optical or moral condition of society can be
beaefitted by the fact, that perhaps every thou-
sentdth.mao had learned to read Greek or Latin.
It is certainly a great mystery how the practical
usefulness of atnao is Casette cat be increased
by spending four or five years in what is tedicu-
lously called a " Humanity Churl "in acquir-
ing a knowledge of the absurdities and lewd
obsceeitees of Ovid, or the bacchanalian odes of
Anacreon ! The real greatness of a country de-
pends upon bet science, .poo her literature, upon
her learning ; .but not the learning of word,.
Greek and Latin had no influence in the discove-
ry of the power of steam, the construction of the
steam-eogioe, the invention of railroad., the in-
loaves
n-
-- s see
snro:ea.. ssscoadr. Charles Stuart, Esq., "eCameeesatim ems ef gild ant
ve WeerKegtatrar, was called upon to eon that lair core.. forward see -tat weal/ sus aha.ad
play war Grine-oho • n to the Judge, and Geo- stmtai.. with >fi waNse eftha 1Mirlaad W
tietd McDuaald, Esq., aas celled upon to as
perform the same office toward* the Meter. .,..ase --rot w aea..ne tlr nal ►mon-
CAtags beteg thus •rrsnge:d, 115.7 betook - 71..ftitaa e( eke tvhsla pospls sat Citaads u
lbsw*oftea to the iee, sowewbcrs botiry1Caaada itssl(: ►p rudiea y 14stdseg ova nwry
.ewige sf corset*...•d pnidip, Awa mor
itsetnstem, sad ths-ahy siakieg tries me "sly
believe bot fail "bet licit ewe meow, raid their
ewe laws are truly the beet emote, rad laws is
Me world.
la apeakiog of coaaeretog, we nay remark.
that it is new technicality in the oumteuclatete
of engine. We have heard to mach of Mss
about Conserving and Conservatives and Cos-
servatiam, that we have acttney got bewildered
in endeavouring to bud out the cueoeaiw a•
terns the real signification of the words end to
multifutiou■ ivasa of ideas to which they are
stock. And when we bear a man ta Camsda
talk or write about C.ossrrsag those "gtorioes
institutions" which constitute the Wilmette el
British liberty, we feel a little alarmed for Air
sanity. Perhaps the ebtsaecere of ter i.allaut
prevents us from being daaalwd with the',fullest
glory of these institutions in Cabada. Aod
uileas some of our gigantic loyalists will step
does,front this great gtoeralisiag stalkiag-herae
and coodeaceod on perticalan, by putting the
linger npou mine of these gloriosa noontime.
and peeing that the loon .prosperity of Me
country is iesepr)rably involved is the preset
conJition of them. We say that moil they are
willing to do m, we cake them welcome to the
!WAS gad Garde" bland. sal time use,
Soul, made the attstgt eo. At eke
us
lunation* ionised away at the
ritual given, the Matt 7) to the Mel at
JuJte, who b espre'ee) hie satalaetfom;
shield. eaelha•tng been inAuted un either
aid ..;t, they returned without brume it to
y, "O huuuur, thou blood ►rainedod !"
Shame ! Shane ! where wilt thou hide thy
dswint.hed bead t under the futile of the gar-
ments of the aduuni.trators til our laws, a
Judge! a Magistrate! a.Rexiatrar 1 Will
our government look calmly on, and see
three W►o are appointed to protect and
honour law, and adu.iatater justice, thus
wantonly brcome the aggreeaore 1 We
think not. Such an outrage, certainly, collo
for the dumisaal of the offenders, and that
others be oppointed who are more careful
to maintain the dignity of the Iowa, and the
moiety ofsociety. %Vico the honour o1
our public functionaries a of such a quer
tionoble character, as to require the Irfe of
one or the other, to maintain that honour ;
they are acether suitable for office, nor.can
they be considered good paterns tor seemly.
Are we to suppose that a man who author.
ised to pass j,sdgeutent in cases of common
assault,. Mea not laid himself open to the
law, by combating an act of far greater
malignity 1 Aro moo to suppose that a
viagatrate can continit an act of atrocity
and yet ascape the puiatiment due to such 1 benefit of the folluwiog anecdote :-
offence 1 The community have, at least, a
right to demand the dismissal of the whole
three of these men from office, and the
sooner they are made an example of the
better.-Kiwgsloa Herald.
HURON SIGNAL..
. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1848.
CLAP -TRAP.
OR rya K*CncL or cuLr.tN0.
history has io moat instances chronicled the
origin and progress of the various sciences which
have thrown a kind of divine halo around the
sombre annals of hmnen imperfection ; bot
though we can obtain a partial knowledge of the
different forms which gulling has mistimed a
different periods and on different occasions, yet
nobody has thought proper to write a mecum
history of its introduction sed progress in the
world. As unlike all ether sciences, however,
it can only produce evil, we may safely give it
as existence co-eval with the i omen nc-, and
suppose that it war comntuoicateJ to our grand-
mother Ere, during the magical dialogue ie
Elea. Its notiienclatnre is as extensive as that
of chemistry and its effects more astonishing
and more desolating. It bas dissolved the strong
est ties of nature, 'netted the progress of truth,
quenched the aspiring rays of intellect, and even
deluged with blood the populous tiepins of the
earth. We trace it not back into the misty
regions of benighted antiquity, nor conformer
the thousand mysterious dad unmeaning phrases
which fikelemaric charas have heralded it arae,
of ruin. Oar illustrations of its nature, .hall be
coufned to out own tunes. " Loyalty," and the
"Church in danger," ate among its olri-tot
waichwords; thee have stood the tett of ages and
are still fresh rad energetic yet. lea pamphlet
entitled "Obrenatione oir Morals end Polilie","
published by William Tait, of Edinburgh, in
1837, we defined the word 'Loyally, as employed
by our chivalrous ancestry, " a blind -fold or
reckless determination to be ma'saered for the
interest or ambition of the riling pewee". But
bad as things are, we are happy in being able
to state that loyalty in Canada h'as no sacb
mad meaning ; it embodies notbiag of blood or
battles; in fact, it embodies aottsiog but a kind
of nilly toteuttoa to btepatter honest simplicity
with a kind of shallow flattery, and *Moa we
read a string of paragraphs, each one cementite -
tog with " Loyal Mea of— "" we feel a sort of
instinctive tendetty to remember the ultra loy-
alty of the ancient Hebrews, when they bawled
out "O, Ging, live forever !" or the high
Cb.rch consensus of the Epbesians, when they
sheared " f'nat is Diana 1" Bet upon strives
rr eeuea, . dusk than both the Jews and the
Epicene. were enemy in ;he expression of their
absurdities, and therefore it would be unjust to
compare them to our modern loyalists. in fa -t
we are unable to find any suitable eatnparieon
fur these I.rya:,sts, save that cf a cask of small
beer in a state of fernseautioa ; it keep* blazing
and humming red nakrcg alt aorta of noise, and
yen world really *appose that the cask was filled
with some powerful chewiest preparation till i
impelled by curiosity, you extract the bung, and
discover that theeonsrquential noise has main
ted from—smell deer I
I)ut this bowling of loyalty has a bad effec
.on the character of its votaries in tlse estimation
of thinking mei. The ran who, whet giving
you • narrative of his boniness irenaactions, has
to Make • digression at the end of every half
dozen sentences, is order to 55111100 you that he
is honest and honourable, and straightforwarJ
may create suspicion, but be will seldom praline
the ,impression which he intended. There is no
disloyally in Canada. The Rsdieelsan all loyal
men and true. They do not wish -to erect or
wpport any harriers of exclaaiveaees between
the di&rent races of her Majesty's deal subjects,
Int by se doing, they should create a spirit d
divtyeetion in the exeladed party. They have
0o desire se exercise a despotic sod degndisg
authority ever an inhabitants of lower Canada,
.imply became the majority of them happen to
be a conquered people. They ere *et disposed
to bully, rad blaster, and Omsk rtheit aeighboor
!amebae and his rrpuhlse's iswitutions ; they
admit and admin his easily and e*terprse ;
they are willies to give him erect for the gond
he seri June. The Radicals, like to Chef
S.perieseadset d F.dseatio., tbiak tat met
'mid. the .)••cels t( edeeariou, bat sot ay other
deep that ave nMlted from republic -ea Jima -
Moe, ere worthy of seentise : bet *kits they
ane willing to *dant all *bis, they are gather
s*Asesed .r afraid to tell him, in the RIM
prompt bur civil terms, the be bad better keep
bis own tided the brook, .gtapf as errands d
eoossetcial i*teeeeerse, and thea we will *taw
him and greet him with ■ hearty slake of the
right heed of kIIe*abip.
On one of those formerly frequent oceaaioaa
in England, wino the High Church party only
maintained the ascendency by an extensive
practice in the science of gulling, (clap -trap is
significant but not polished), Lord George Got -
dun, the leading bigot of his times, harrangued
and speechified till he infuriated a great mai
with the idea that the Liberal. were going to
bring over the French to establish Popery, and
that all the people of Eoglaod would'b. com-
pelled to wear wooden shoes! This mob com-
posed of the very dregs of society paraded, in
reckless defiance of all low, the streets of Lon-
don, shouting lustily " No Popery. No wooden
shoes :" and marking their career of loyalty by
acts of violeoee and outrage. A lump of a
rough ragged Irish Catholic hearing the great
tumult in a neighbouring street, run of with all
his might to see whet war afloat. Plunging
into the crowd, and catching hold of the enthu-
siasm and the watchword at the. route moment,
be begun to vociferate in a kind of savage des-
peration "No Popery. No wooden shoes !"
But the fury of his roaring soca exhausted him,
sod when quite hoarse and breathless he halted
to require what the thing meant, and on being
told, he wheeled oat of the crowd is the very
wont of badj+umour, saying "Arnh, and if I
had known that, bad luck to the "hoot would 1
have shouted:"
Now, we would serionily 'Weise seate .l oar
worthy friends to try if they can redacts Cpa-
aervatism into something that is oaderstaad.Me
to themselves at least -if they can give It a
more tangible shape -in short to try if they era
(unti►h it with a '• dotal habitation sad a ewe"
in Canada. For we should really feel scary if
they ahsald bowl tore:wlose been. ..d . jtredsctios d etms
egaaus s.il.grapb, sot eves
teas, anti then like the eathaeias(et 1[tltasat fa tb'na1sadhl peeeestioe of the simple wen -
pinions by which tun earns his bread. la short
so far as the promotion of eociat prosperity is
c.ocsraed, Latin and Dutch and Greek and Gae-
lic, are equally valiable. The fact of the nom-
'echoer.a of different sciences being written is
Latin, only proves the design of mystifying
karoiag , and it is plain that an Eeglrsb nom-
eactatars sufficient to serve all Esgliahitude.a
is future, cosld be seod.ced fors tithe of the
expense required to make me student roamer of
eke Latta l..gnage. This monis for language
karaieg, is one great objection to a eatiooa!
University. The .ext is, that comparatively
few have the means of 0,50*1ng • college edu-
cation epos theft .aas, as learned or prolea-
stoaal men contrive to be pretty haadaoniely
pard for Oita Iterate, labours, it saroer& a little
of As Hanka metapbor to keep up a sariolal
institution ler the besetit of these few ; besides,
fleecier ornamental or beneficial • few learned
men may he, it is questionable if a community,
where every individual possessed each a glim-
mering of atellignce as would enable him to
perceive the dunes which ha owed to himself
and to society, would sot be a "ran prosperous
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