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RAILWAY RIOTS AND CAIH0LU7 OOMMKNTATOHS. SIR Tlie last No. (if tho Hjli/ax Catholic, contains two articles, of which somobody, vitli a little common sense, should take some notice. One is u roUiuiunication, signed "A Lover of Fair Plav." in whicli the puMic arc gravely told that the reason why the railway rioters were bailed, aiii acquic- tcd, was hecause Mr. Ilowe denounced tho outrage committed, iu hiw speech at Temperance Hall. Tne writer says : "It can bo truly said in this instance 'good iias resulted from evii ' as had not Mr Howe made this aSair a subject of notice for his speech, in all proba- bility the poor men would have been confined for six months in jail previous to their trial, and now very likely be in the Penitontniry. Mr. Howe's con- duct saved these pQor men this ignominy, and %vas the means of arousing a sympathy in their behalf, which secured for them eminent counsel and friends who were determined that they should have a fair trial." If this writer'o production stood by itself it would be a curiosity in its way. — Tho logical result of it is, that every scoundrel, who commits burnlary, arson or murder, should bo bailed, have subscriptions made, and eminent counsel employed for him ; and should bo acquitted, if anybody dares, at a public meeting, or in tho newspapers, to express his horror at the crime. When the Sahidin prisoneri were brought to Halifax, evi-ry man woman and child, ex- f)res3ed their horror, publiely i»nd privately, at tlio crimes committe>l upon tho ligh seas. The names, the facrs, the feelings of our common hutn mity, were upon the tongues and pens of every body at that period. Two or t 'iv-- of thosa people were Englishmen. Now, what would have been thought o!' ' >■ ir c-oun-« trymcn in Halilax.had they taken these wrotchc.'' undor tlioir pati i:i;j;e, bailed them if that were po88il)le, brought evidenc-> to prove that they hal never been on board the Saladin at all ; and, when that rLSf)urco failed, rondernd trial a mockery by carrying tiieir feeling into tho Jury bjx, and make a conviction 'Tboae Letters nhicb np| eared originally in the "liaiuux Morning Ciinuick," contain aa able expusilion of tbe danger to the civil liberlieg of the poupio of Nova SootiA, from the political position nssumad by the Uoman Catholic Church under the leadership of tho YooDg Ireland Brigade of Halifax, and are bow republished in thii shape, for Xhi benefit and information of tho friends of civil and religious liberty, of all dcnouiinntiona. li rl -w»»*l«»,j.j,A .*' f-Ak- ^scj-^s: («) Tlio Kii^^liMliiiiau who diJ tliiii \voiilcd. I'lincli Rnro| makes fiin (if litn. Notwitheitundin^ all this, I'lnglish counsel will defend liut who will Who, if escnpo him holdly— an IOnp:liHh Judge and Jury will try him fairly iihct his crinicH? Wlu> will become fircuvipliccs (ij'/vr the fact \ were poshihlo. would give as a reason why he was rescued from the jail nnd I'enitentiary, that some pul)lic man had mentioned his name in a spcccli, while vllustrating the frauds of the d.iy I Mr, Howe mentioned no man"» nanntf lie did not pretend to say. wiio wan »)V wlio vas not guilty, lie referred to the crime as ])erpetrated l>y Irishmen, !ind denounced it as unparallfded in the history of tlie country. He said, juet wliat every citizen liad a right to say — wiiat the JudiiO 8:iid, with tlie scales of Justice tremhling in liis hands — what every Irishman in Halifax would say. if the Protestants of Preston were ty Itrcak into tlie country seat of the Hon. Mr. ToUin, destroy tlie furniture, terrify tlie inmates, and leave that gentle- man lying in a pool of liiood at his ornu its bitter Iruits wlieruver it hns apitLMrud. 7Vt«.«c tujfiant t/iaught that they could trample out freedom of religion in thi wooda an I solitary places of I^'ova Siotia. Tliusu wliu uid iind uljct thoiti think tliiit liy prucluiiuiti}; to till tlio world that it ».» dunffcrous for l\'oca Scotiatis tt) laui^h at what t/uij do not bt- lievu, tlicy can e>ilcnco and intiiuiduto tlioso wlioia tliey caiiiiok coiiviticu. Little do tliORO riotnrs, or their abettors, know of the country in which tlioy »r« trying thc'HO fearful experiments. The rij^ht to disnisx all quvstions or dot- trincs incolfiiig our worldly interestx or our eternal salvation — to nii\i>itaiu wliut wo helievu to be true, and t* laugh at what we bclievr. to lo absurd, is the common right of every ^oua IScotian; and all the "njereurial" people that can bo mus- tered will never trample it out of our hearts, or our lionieHtcadu. This ri<2;ht the peasantry ol our eastern Counties enjoy wliun at home. They brought if with them upon the public I'orks of their country It was or K!:ould havo been as sacred in Gourlay's shantio as in any C'huruh or Dwelling in the .Metropolis. ThoKditor.H and Correspondents of the Catholic, have, weak after week, for months, scoffed at and reviled everythirj!» thai ISritish sulijoets value — oveiy- thin}» that Protestant NovaScotians held dear. This paper has done it;* wnrk, and done it most effectually. Presuming upon the nulitieal divisions whieli past oontroverdies had created, itH Editors Hupposcd that Protestants would sacrifice their religious felings to their political interest. Holding the bnlancu as they assumed, between parties, a few short-siglited Catholics in thu oa|ii- tal, thuuj^ht that they could spit upon, use and scoll' at, all Protestant sects and combinations in turn. For months they have been doing this, and I havo r)con looking at t'lem with apccii.l wonder. They havo written and acted as though Nova Scoti:Mi«, who happen to Lo Protestant.^, had neither loelinL's, moral power, or political influence. Week after week., everything that our fore-fathers fought and bled for of old, everything that they brought with them, in the fh'st emigration un- der Cornwallis— in the second emigration from the revolted Colonies — in tho latter emigration from Croat Britain — every thing that wo take prido in as subjeuta of our Sovereign — everything that we hold sacred asj'rivnian, and bclicvirs in one Saeiour. has been scoffed at and i ceiled And now wo are told, forsootli, tha^thnology muut not be discussed in the back woods — that "Scotch Protes- tann," inubt hold their tongues about Catholic Ceremonies, or there is great danger that "mercurial Irishmeu" will gut their houses and break their heads. And, when they are broken, we arc furtlior told by these lovers of fair play, that Mr Howe had better hold his tongue about the matter, for fear tliat tiio "sympathy" of othei Irishmen may be aroused and the violaters of the law be rescued from the Penitentiary. No Protestant Avould d:irc to publish such a paper as that to which wc refer in any Catholic country. The man who attempted it in Rome, in Spain, or in Mexico, would soon find himself in "tho Jail cr the Penitentiary.' Hero it IS published with perfect impunity, and the difference betieeen a Prolrslant and a Catholic country is illustrated by the very impunity irhich it enjoys. Everything that NovaScotians hold dear, sacred and national, has haen made the subje.-t of "jeers and tauiits" again and again. "Abuse and derision" havo bce.i heaped upon tho "faith" professed by three-fourths of our population Tho oldest and most estimable clergymen in the country have been "railed at" day by day. Luther has been "pitched to Jericho." and everybody and every thing clsj that stood in the v\ ay of arrjgant and bigotted int derance. Al! this has been done, and Mr. Compton s shantio has nut been disturbed — liis house has not been tunttd into a slaughter house. liut the impunity that he enjoys in the capital, Protestants are denied here and elsewhere. The Scotchmen and Nova Scotians may "build bridges," "quarry stones," "lay sleepers," but woo betide them, if tih'y laugh at v/hat they do not believe, if they say a word al)yut tho roil pres-.ni^je. ]>urg.itory or of the Pope. (4) Now, wlmt 1 rerjuiro is tliut Tliomns (Jourlny and Itadurick Mfkiiy, nntl every ProtCHtiint in Nova Scotia — however humble in oircumHtannoH or remote or iaolntod in situation, shall havo the snmo rt;;lits that Irish Priosts ov Kdi- tors claim, oxcrcito and enjoy, in Kulifux If "mercurial" fanalica violate those rij»hts they should ho punished. If others band thempelveh higedier for tiioir protecfion, tlioy should bo deHpiscd. If the sncuritios of the law nro nbusod that fho 'guilty iniiy es'-'pf, the Inwniul ihlio ( rguc, and t/u rigid lo tavgli, n^i'inst all the bludgeons and brickliats that can bo mustered. "Mercurial Irislnu'-n" would do well to remember that, outside of the city of lialiliix, they nvc but a handful in any County, east or we&t. Their best BOcurity is hiw, and order and ihe preservation of the free institutions of the country. Tliere is no part of Nova Scotia where they could not bi iramnicd down in a day, were the people to liecomo ''mercuriiil" and deal out the "bro- therly love and mutual forbearance'' which were displayed at (Jourlay's shantie. In the County Oi" ILiliiax, out of a population of 40.112, the Catholics of all orij^ins number but 13.217. Tlie right to discuss ihcolo;iy, and Lo lyugh at what they cannot believe, will out bo very laniely surrendeied !»y the otiier 2.1,700, or I urn much mistaken. If heads ;iro to be broken, and houses gutted, about religion, the '-mercurial" gentlemen, who protend to I)e over sensitive, will lind that bad lessons are soon learnt. I can 'inderstand vn \\\h\\\ivx\\ slung by some tiaiul. :J)ouL hi.-, vcligio;:. striking a bJow on tiic instunt, iuid in hot blood, !>nd I can lind for him the excuse of national excitability, or uho general plea of hot blood accorded to our common nature. Had eitlier oI' the rioters struck p manly bloA' ut (aourluy or (ia.-ton, resenting n gratuitous insult to his country ov his ereci", Protestant th '.'gli I am, I would have iielped to make a ring nod lei llicm figlic it out. 1j 1 I u half a dozen "mevcurial Irislimen" challenge<' hall a doxen Scotchmen, or Nova Scotians, to cotno out and settle their personal or religions disputes by manly trials of strength or dexterity, even those who disapproved of the mode, might pardon tiie zeal or admire the courage of the combatants. But in this transaction there was neither hot blood to pa'liato or manly courage to ndtnire. An overwhelming force, drawn from long distanees, was concentrated in cold blood upon a lonely dwelling. There was neitiier a fair challenge — equal numbers — or one quality exhibited indicative of manly cou- rage. The boys of Nova Scotia used lo he taught at school, and 1 trust arc yet to "light fair." Tor two or three to get upon one, ov for one to strike his opponent when ho wai? "down" nsed to be considered disgraceful on the common or on tlio parade. Ptut the mode has changed. Persons with "religion" for an excuse, juny hill in groups upon a single man, may stand ove<' and beat him with slicks when ho is down; and persons claiming to be gentlemen consider it no disgr.u-e to f;ymp;ithizo with such ruiTians — to shelter and protect them. " Lovers of Fair Play" yo sire indeed, and most chivalrous "Christians." H'hoii our Saviour was present in the flesh, and a disciple smote one wlio re- viicJ iiim to his face, our Lord did not shelter but rebuked the zealot. There Vis a "real presence" from which Christiano might borrow an example. But what would he have said if tho twelve aposties had set upon two or three poor men, and i.i hh name treated them as the inmates cf Gourhiy's house were treated ? Would he have talked about "mercurial" Jews and "irritating sys- tems of abuse," or waujd he not have denounced such an atrocity, if perpetra- ted in Ilia prcsrncc, as 1 denounce it, now that wc arc told Kiat such aciimo has ln.'cn comiiiiitcd in fiis name. (5) Having alionn tlio truo clmiactur of tliOHo nrtioica, tnken noporatuly, lei; mo hIiow how uttoi'ly incunsiHtiint tl)oy arc with each other. IF, an the oditoro tell u«i, these luoti stui-med (inurlay's house bconuso the Catholiu iiiystcriuM wei-o laiigheJ at, win* believes but that ull that iiun happened would liuVe hap- pened vs'hether or not any ujooting had been held iit Temperance IhilP The reveliition made in tlie e(iitui'ia! nccountB I'or all that has occuricd : For Ihn dollberation — secrecy — and atrocity of the act itaelf. r.i' tilt' (act I'lul tliuu2;Ii liuinirc'ls iiiUMt liuvu known tbo viii;^ h'adors, cr siino jI' tiiciu, liot one liinlimaii to tliis hour has given the stliglituist evidence in (urthevenco ot the ends of justice. For the presence in Court, and elsewliere, of aidei s and abettors, not ashamed to become accommp/irrx aj'icr the frtrl. My speech at Tcmporiinco Hall waN not made till some days after the attack on (jjourlay's slmntic. Il was not made utttil I had spent two days on the Wes- tern and two on the (Eastern lluad, talking witli evcry-body who could give me any information. It was not unlii I had sauntered round the town, and ga- thered unmistaliablo evidence that tlio rioters on the llailway wore backed by the sympathies of some at least, of thoiv countrvmon hero. *rhen it was that 1 thought it time to speak out, and the miserable attempts nt bullying and in- timidation Lliat followed convinced mo that I was right. The results of the miserable farce played off in the Supreme Court has not surprised me. J was neither surprised at what was, or whan was not done: but this I saw from the commencomcnL to Hie cud, tliut the ac(piittal of the pri-soncrs was a foregone conclusion. "Oood," we are told by the scribblers in the Catholic, "comes out of evil." I .•li(>rn it Tiic wiyMoC Piiivi'ioniM' niv mysterious and inscrutable. A spar- row does noi I'al) to the ground unobserved l)y its Maker's eye. Wiio believes, tlien, tii.it lie did ni)t murk the men wlio fell to the ground in and around (Jourlay's sliaiitic, beneath ihe blows of bludgeons, and were loft weltering in their blood? NViio believes lliat those who struck them down, compurgatod before earthly triimnnl, or siieltered from the laws of the Province, will be held excused in the siglif. of d'od, or that the blood or broken constitutions of the victims will cry to Heaven in vain 1 I do not. But I believe that as long as that doomed house stands by the Railway irack every Protestant Nova Scotian that passes it will feel his pulse quicken, and his heart thrill. That long aiter c\'ery stick of it has mouNlercd down, the spot will be pointed nnt to our chil- dren und their cliildren, as other spots are clscAvhere, which the bigot hand of violence has stuinpcd with atrocity, and which freemen, for example sake, do not permit to be Torgotten. The consequences of lliis plain speaking 1 have duly weighed and measured. In a long public life, and in uniestrained social intercourse with thousands of human beings, no man ever heard me revile anybody's religion. I respect the feelings and admire the sincerity of the Catholic whose opinions Ido not share, whose ceremonies I may think superfluous. But, when he comes to propagate his religion by the bludgeon — when the liberty to criticise and scoff, which he claims and exercises, he attempts to deny to the Protestant po^miation, my path is plain, and I tread it utterly regardless of consequences. The subscriptions for the relief of Thomas Gourlay, Roderick McKay, and eight or nine men who wero bruised and beaten, will 1 have no doubt, be at once filled up. This is the fii-st thing to be dune. McKay has nine children, (Jourl.iy lost one child from fright and exposure. One oi the men, Robertson, 1 think, nearly bled to death in my presence at Hamilton's. Another, a fine young fellow from Capo Breton, who had been but half an hour on the works — who had offended nobody — knew nobody and of course could identify nobody. Jay for weeks in bed, and I'ecovered only to be conscious that his constitution was broken. .*;'o far as money can repair their losses, these poor men should bo made whole. But higlicr con>idcrations ar*^ involved in this movement. — ! 11 («) Tlii'MO iiicii iiiivu luiuii bniiacd in iniiid an wuU ait in tlii-ir hudii-it. \t' tituy dct nut duubt tiio L'rovidunuu uC (jixi, tiioy vilidoulit whutliur tlioyuro in ti t'liriH< lian O'iuntry. Upon tliis puint iut tliuni bo ro-aHiitii'ud, and tiiun lot uh luok round and huu what nuxt \h tu bo dono. In tliu uioautiuiu, Uuliuvo mc, truly yuurH JOSMPII IIOWR. trtatui ftnUtr No. II. UAILWAY lUOI'S AND CAl'ilOl.K; CO.MMKN I'A'lUK.-^. SIH: Thiit mv leiirr u(l(!rt*»8t;d to yon on ilie S27ili uh.. would diaiurli iho ]ipo|)I«i uiiqHe iiave howled and }>ilibered around me. For the |ire!>eiit let lliem howl on. w)iile wh pro- ceed to du our business at'ier our noiinlry's i'jsiiioii — noi by uUiiiuor au>l noise, but by earnest steadfast work, and ihou;>liM(il deturininaiion, Tukini; a survey uf the field we can see what has been (tained ur lust. In the firit place, luya) Uriiish subjects, <4 all origins and rac(!s, united and erect confront i'>? fureiiz.i faction, that in tlieir inids', from tin) cioiiinenceiiient to ilie end of the Russian war, syutpathiseu wiih the eip^iiiies if their oonntrv; and who, ihrouL'h their organ, tit the close of 1850, had '.lie audacity, in the heart uf this tiritisli coiiimuniiy, to thank God publkhjj'or the huiniliafion of England. Lest any of your readers here, or elsewhere, cliouM doubt ihe Kccuracy of luy language, when ! describe these people as a foreign faciion, I quotu a single pas- sage from the editorial of the Halifax Catholic of the i27ih of DectMiiber last: — "The year 'fifty-si-x was u^^hered in amidst the clash of arm?, the booming of can- nons, and the dreadful conflict of European powers for victory, conquest and glory. — The morning of the last new year of the politic.il world was gloomy and terrible; and no one could have anticipated aught evcept the dreadful and inevitable couscquences of a war which threatened to bring within its range every power on the earth. Thu wise policy nf Austria, the prudence of Napoleon the Third, and the concietion throughout Europe of ihe decline of England's power, calmed the troubled waters, and restored pence and tranquil ty to Europe. At this side oi' the Atlantic, we have had a striking illustration of the fact, that little men, under certain circumstances, have the power of causing much commotion. A recruiting expedition in the United States proved to England that the Americans will maintain their lavs, and that Eng- land must humble herself at the feet of the self-sufficient and boasting republic of know- nothings, fillibusters and common schooh. We had anticipated, as a goot HriilKh mntMiiu'ii, fo i>\i(icnll> innnift-Hteil tldrlnn tlin prpHciit yuir, ire on the other hand, havi retiion to glori/ij Cod, and rejoice that England in ut la»l tinder»tood, and her power to do eoil thrrrfurc circumterihtd." This in n t'uir Hpfiiiiieii oI'iIkj iiylo uiid of the kind orBriitimnntn timt have rhn- rj<'teri!*i' rusoiirceti of tlin Hriiisli i')in|iire hnve hciMi ilt>|irrciuled, niui lit Miemii.<9 |i!iii(iiii!«^d and iirniscd. When liriiiih and Iribli (loldiiTi won a h:iiiht, the •jtory was i^Ivrii lo the I'riMich. When vnliinlrer* wertton their way to rrrrnii onr riiiilis, ihoy mitc inlercepieO and turned asiilu When riimiite nr (iisHsier deciiiniled iMir army, their snlFerinas were ulnuted i>\er wiih fliTdish exiiliaiinn. When lieieii v\!in eonqiiiired \viih hortiie deierminatinn, the hniniliaiinn of Eiiulnnd wnb prtieliiiiii'd. Kveit in iliese •'(Jhristiun tiiiienilies" (or New Year's day, iliore arc liMiieyed word-* l>M' *' Napoleon the (.'aihoiic'' and *' T'lUjicnie the piinis." 'I'Iia ••Kim/ of Najdes," (the ({reaiesi riiisereanl in I'liiropi ), has •'pond frier.ds" who trjil fpilt ;he hiitl drop of their hlood to pull down •*thr Union Jaek.'* What a "llapfiy (/hriatniH«" we are lo rpenH with fr-llow nnhjects who eouhl cherish such reiHiifieiiis as these. Thuro is not a word of praise to Queen V'iciorin \vhoM> iiatiip the people o<' Nova Scotia honor ahove ihiit of all the iSpanish and Neapolitan ly inriis reverenced hy this faction, wtiii are only jnhilant over their cake and wine when her throne totters and hei "power is eireumsRrthed/' i'hcsti foreign syinp'ilhisers, latiorins in our midst, stand now unmarked hef<>re the cotnniunity tihosH nationality they would iindertnine— whose flag they would ahuse — whore feelin^is thev have ouiru];rd. All the o'emeiits of society, aroused to fon«chiusnes» of what they are about, have nniied to «i|ipo»e ihcin. iVrsonal dinereiices or aniinosiiies — |)arty ties and predelici o is — the rivalries of public men, have all sunk into insignificance in presence of the overpowerine deterininaiioii of the people to vindicattf 'he sreal principles which lie ui the very foundation tif our or^anizuion as n Driii&h cnminunily. Shall "thu pouur of Engiund he circiimsciihed?'' shall Kngland he 'Miumbled?'' shall "The fl kg that braveJ a thousand ycnrs The battle and the breeze." continue "lo flutter,*' or Hhitl it ho pulL'd down hy foreign despots, or he hoisted half mast iii^h in token of depradaiion and disgrace, to ({ratify a few dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, if there he so many, of discontented persons, who under it have been elevated to all the rishts of ciiizenBhip, who have been surrounded by nit the securities of civil and religious liberty, an<) yet sigh for the political despot- ism of France — and the educational privileges of Naples and Spain! Thfse ques- tion& have been ponderrid, and decided with honorable unanimity within the past ten days. The citizens of Halifax and the people of Nova Scotia, so far as they have (!3i'>ef*>d any knowledge of the sentiments promuleated, have formed hut one opinion, and thai is, regardless of all other questions and Considerations — to unite for the preservation of nil that this foreign faction hate, hut ichich Nova Scotians, and Britisfi suhjtctx everywhere cherish and hold dear. 'I'here may b:; a few- persons, who cannot puage the strength or unnnimilv of this determination — who may be trammelled by their positions or connections. There may be a few pnlitictans, on o'le sidi} or the other who are pausinn lo speculate whetli?r political capital may bn won or I ist. J)ui ihe mass of the people, who are Round at heart — fearless and outspoken, have made up their minds to confront this fa'^tion — to make ihein comprehend, if they have forgotten it, that Halifax is a Hritish community — that Nova Scotia is a British Province; aud that the plory and integrity of the British Empire are not myths, hut realities dearer lo them than are the contemptible desp«;*.isms or "boasting republics" we are invited to mourn. Upon another material issue there is equal unanimity. 'I'he habitation of Pro- tfsiant farmers and Ar.irkiuon was broken into — sacked, and as the Judge declared 1 ' T 1 (8) l^tl like "a Slniiflliier lluutp.'— I'tia crjmn w.i.i )Mir)>i:trali>(l in liroiti liav, by 100 MI4II. I'eii or iwpjvti iifihein wHru nrrvatuil and tried. I'Vnm tlin iierpttiration of llui nuirnjie to ihe tiiiul ilianliurKU ot'ilie priioncrt, with liiil u iiiiit(lu flxoepiion f li«l.uv«, but one of ilioir ctcrulii/iotiiits or <'oiiiiirym«n, ever nnve tli? aliiihtoat evidence or aid in f'urihKrencc of the end* of jiiittioH. 'riioii|{h I'roteatant jurora nbuorfully ac- quilted uliure (lie ttvidt'iicn whs dclcclivti — no oonvictioria could he obtainnd wliero they liioH^lit it am;dyBn(Iii;ient. Tlie all«>|{iM| lioter^i, piilronized and encouru{;ed io toMn, went buck in iriuni|(l) to ilio wonds. Tlie wiineA^rs wliosi- heiida weie broken and |iro|iuriy destroyed, were iiullied and bruw beuien in lliu Court, and turned uul of it Hfl though tliuy were tlie ruul criminuli. The elFeck of ull this was very aoon vi«il)le on ilio Weitrrii m>:iiI. An Iriubmun at liaiiiniond i'Liiiis lil'oku into a neighbor's Iiouhh last week, ninl cut bin bead open with Boiho weapon. Tiie ni!i}{isirnieA in ibe BKitlomfnl dare iaBuc no pro'.'ess hii * no arro^l w;i!i muJe. A fuM daysi a'terwanU Mount (Jniaokn wna tiiiueked, the win- dows broken, sind Ibu iiiiiiales leirified. Tbo pmnriutor, bo|)e!f»Aof proieiMJon or rodrets, waa about, when I last saw liiui, to reqursi aonie person who ini|tbl bavu iiiQuence witii ihu dipredaiorA. lo live in iho Mount, and prulect ii dnrinu ibo win ter. Mr. Fenertv, ui'b Ircul |tioccs8 tor the seizure of soirc liorxcd on the liuil- way vvorks had been Inr n forinifbl forcibly rcaified. Nooflieei dnie (to and exe- enib the writ. It was oi-.ly executed on iSa*u,day liii>t, but in the mean limu one of tlie animals has (!ied of (>i:irvuiion. On Friday laHt an Iri.tbnian at MrCuhe's, vn the Wesiern roud drove a .lack Knife between the iIIh and into liie lun;e will have excellent euinpany ; and when bo t;oeii back to the woods, all that be has lo do will bo lu du^a ^ao A/i//b, McKiiiiion, poor fellow, if he recovers, is perhaps thitikinj; whether or not it will he worib IiIa while to prosecute, because if a Four I'ound wei<:{ht is not flung at bis head from ihti {{allery of the Court House — he is sure lo be ruui;hly handled and laughed ay for I'is pains. What ia good for a McKay is good for a McKinnon, and ilie wounded man w ill probably go quietly back to bis witrk. While these tranaaotions have been disgracing the country, and such ihoughta, in all probability have been passing tbrcugb the minds of peiaonsuirecily concerned in them, the cilizenaof Halifax, of varioua creeds, of all ranks, of all abaies of politico, have been coming calmly but resolutely to these oonclusiona. That law and order are the first ends and objects of all government. That the preservation of life and property is its nnosi sacre.i oi)ligaiion. Tliat a Govern- ment that cannot from any cause, nlTird thissecuri';.' and vxill not provide a remedy; that can, and does not, from any fear, favour or atVectiun, ia a Uovernmcnl that has already abdicated and ignored its tunctiuns. It ia nut for me to say whether or not the administration have Uie nerve and en- ergy to meet this crisis. I put the facts on record, as they are patent to the whole communiiv; and I affirm the deliberate determination of our fellow citizens, that at any cost, life and property, aha' I be made secure. If Irishii.in of sense and respectability, waking up to a full consciousii«:8s of the precious mesa into which they have been dragged by rioters and rowdies and of the extent to which they bavo been compromised by the disloyal sentiments piil- lished by their organ, co-operate with ilie community, it will be ueil. This is what some of us, if not all. have a right to anticipate. If they do not, they mutii expect to be classed with ibuse who olaiia tu be their leaders, and treated sccurd- iogly. The writers in the Cathoiic Ho not venture lo repeat the threats in their former article or t" acknowledge the accuracy oi the interpretation put by v g whole commu- T niiy upon itioir Unfuag*. Tliey ire now tllvo lo ih* fioi thai ihay aro in no poai- linn lu hullv Prnieaunia in ihiw eountry, and ao ihay have all aet lo work to bulljr and abuae Mr. Howe. A sood many people have tried the aame fame before, and have not made tnuoh by li, I think 1 oan Rive a good account of them from the hiiiheat lo the luweit. Some «if their blundera and raiasla'.ementa 1 may perhapa expoae in another letter. Their felioitiea of languago. and reckloaa diaregard of truth and Heeenoy, I havo no deaire to imitate. Two or three puinta may be noticed here. That I have aaked h^r Majeaty'a Go* vernmeni for proinotiun ia no aeorei to my peraonal and political frienda.' That it haa beenpromiaed, when a fair opportunity oflera, may perhapa be intelligence gra* lifying to my enemiea. I have earned and held every nflUce in Nova Scotia, to which 1 could or cared to aapire. Not only every Nova Scntian'a hut every Iriah* inana aon, can tread the tame path to honour and diatinction; and if I riae they may come after me. Principlea recocniced, and precedenta eatabliahed, become the pro- perty of my countrymen— of Cojoniaia generally, in all time to come. 1 may be inordinately ombitioua, but I really can aee no more ain in a Nova Scotian aapiring to be a Governor than there ia in an Iriahman hoping lo be a Ui^hop. If '*ihe Chairman of the Railway Board, waa anxioua lo eacape from it*' in anf other than the ver) legitimate manner lo which I have already referred, the oppor* tunity waa preaenied more than once laat winter, Membera of thn Legislature on buth aidea, know what I aaaert te be true. On the promotion of Jud^e Wilkina, I think I may without vanity, aaaerl, that I might have gone into the Government again wiihnui any aacrifice of my peraonal inlereata, or of the iniereata of "my own party.*' The K«poriB, Accounta, nud general pu'ioy of the Railway Board, will aoon be laid before the Legialaiure, and the Chairman will be in hia place. If there are aiiv "aorews looae," that will be the lime m tighten them, where the men have no maaks on, but are face to face before the whole Legislature, and the whole country. — Whenever the Railway Board becomea irkaomc. or unpleasant, I will aoon leave my chair vacant. It ia not ao now,and 1 shall retain it, at all evenia till rejooled by the formidable combination with which I am threatened. "Every Catholic in the Province," we are told by one of the Brisadc, "should eumo to a calm, aolen./. determination never to itive any political support lo Mr. Howe — never lo support any Kovernmeni that keeps him in office, ard never to vote tor any memher u( the House of Assembly without a pledge that ho will oppose, on all occasions, any such Government." This is the penally 1 am to pay fur net permitting this faction to ride rough shod over the people of Nova Scotia— for spsaking out what every British subject feels, what every Protestant, with precious few exceptjona, thanks me for apeaking. Put thia issue before the people of Nova Scotia, and I am content. I will never shod a tear for any office that iheae scribblers can deprive me of 4nd certainly will never hold one an hour under any administration sufficiently contemptible to truckle to their dictation. In the meantime, I am very happy to be able to stale that the Subscription Paper for the relief of the poor people bciten and injured by the riutera, haa been aigned by the Protestanlk of Halifax, without diatinotion of politics or creed. Yours truly, ' JOSEPH HOWF.. 1 ' I i f No. III. OLD AND YOUNG IRELAND. SIR.— Nova Scotians can scarnel}' understand what is passing in tlicir own capi- tal, witlioHt reverliiic to eomo things which have occurred in Ireland. It seems unaccounlnhlo to ihem, that any portion of our population should wish the down- fail of Fiiipland— filoal over her defeats and dis? sters— and thank God sninmnly (at the close of a year in which we have shared all the glories of a great war without any of its hurthens) that in their opinions she has been humiliated by the efforts of Foreign Despots, and her power circumscribed, Sentiments suoii as these are as unacuountaole to many, as they are abhorrent to ua all. When the population of Ireland was decimated by fever and famine ; when thousands were dying in that country, where a fearful visitation of tho Almighty was a^jgravated by tho improvidence of the people, what would any respectable Irishman have thought of the Nova Scotian, who selected that moment to say it served them rioht — who gloated over tho misfortuno« ot Ireland — who thanked Goil, over his Chrismas Dinner, that her resources were exhausted, and her power circumscribed. The Nova Scotian wlio could do this would naturally snap his political rela- tions, if he had any, with the Irishman he addressed. He couid neither expect to fhare the counsels nor the confidence of tho man whose feelings ho had thus outrag- ed. — From tiiat moment thcro would be antagonism between them. There could be no love, and there ought to be, if not hatred, at least that reasonable degree of suspicion, watchfulness, and dislike, which irreconcilable conflicts of interest and op:nion breed between men who belong to countries foreign to each other. The Nova Scotian, who, under such circumstances, triumphed in the misfortune of Ja- maica, Jersey, or Ceylon would deserve to he hated and despised much more than a Frenchman, who is not a <;ubject of the same Empire to which these Islands be- long. I'he Nova Scotian who wished ill to Ireland — who gloried in her humilia- tion — would intercept supplies in her hour of necessity^— and thank God for her weakness, real or supposed, would be just as bad. lie would benot only a traitor to the Sovereign, of whom they were fellow subjects, but a bad caid for nothing. In the Courts -.:o Englishman could get justice, and no prooess would be served against a Catholic if tho Plaintiff appeared to belong to a Protes- tant Church, Suoh was the state of Ireland at this period. A general masacre of Protestants was expected, and tho English fled, often in open boats, across the channel at the risk of their lives. Macaulay fills up pages as other Historians had done before him, with a recital of the cruelties perpetrated in eve.-y part of that country, by tho Catholic majority when they goi the power. We arc often told by some of the Brignie what a Heaven Ireland would be if tho Irish had it to them- selves. They had it at this time, all but a few isolated and poorly fortified towns, and they made it as nearly like the infernal regions as any cotintry could bo. Man- sions were sacked — manufactories destroyed — the crops were enten and the laud felt unplanted. Tho chief wealth of Ireland consisted in cattle. More than one gentleman possessed 20,000 sheep and 4,000 oxen. These flocks and herds disap- peared off tho face of tho land. A peasant wnuld kill a cow merely to get n ptiir of brogues. Often a whole flock of sheep; often a herd of fifty or sixty kino, was slaughtered; the beasts flayed; the fleeces and hides wero carried away, and the bodies were left to poison the air. — Tho French Ambassador reported to his master that, in six weeks 50,000 horned cattle had been slain in this manner, and were rotting on the ground all over the country. The number of sheep that was butch- ered during the same time, was said to have been three or four hundred thousand" The legislation of tho Catholic Parliament was quite on a par with the devastation of the country. Between two and three thousand persons were proscribed. ''At the top of the list was half tho Peerage of Irt^Iatid, Baronets, Knights, Clergymen, Squires, Merchants, Artixans, Women, Cliilari tif the island — murder stalked abroad, the sword desoluieil the country, whctc Jaiix^s'is army utei with feeblo resistance, and famine and disea&e wuru suro \o ha left boliind. This, then, was tho state of Ireland when tho Catholics liad it nearly all to them selvev. This is the condition to which they reduced it whtrij they iiad it last. Is it to be wondered at then, that when the tables had turned, when William had triumphed — when besieged cities, heroically defended wero provisioned and relieved — when Protestant Irishmen, Englishtneu and Scotchmen had beaten down their enemies, and got the upper hand, they should dcteiiiiine to keep tiie ascendancy they had esta'ulished at the risk of their lives? They did so determine, and they shaped their policy and their Ier>is1ation accord- ingly. They ruled the Island for more than a century, and as tho Historian recurds, gave the mass of the people whom they subjugated, no mere power or cuciui con- eidsration, than tho New Englanders gave to the North American Indians. In 1800 the Act of Union passed, and Ireland was incnrporatod into the Empire and represented in the Imperial Parliament. This measure, wheihet wiso or un- wise, at the time, was carried by the most barefaced corruption. It is impossible to read the story now without feeling equal contempt for the unsurnpulutis ptdiii- clans who bought, and for the venal scoundrels who sold the Irish Ijcgiaiaturo- It is the fashion with the Brigade to lay the blame of this tranbaciion on lliu Eii;j:rt£li, but the Legislature could not have been bouj^ht, if it had ii»i been culd. anii even Casllereagh, the chief purchaser, was ati Irishman. With any or all of these transaetious,. Nova Scoiians iaJ uolliir.^ lo do Wo {" ■■■■II (U) reaS of ihem a0 wa do uf the "if ^ wars of France — of Uia religiova peraeoutiona of Germany —of the partition ot Poland. Irishmen have no right to blame us, or to bother us, with their by gone national feuds and rnsoalities, any more than the Germans of Lunenburg would have to disturb our country, with the polities of Prussia ; or (he Frenchmen nf Arygle would have to fight over again the wars of Fronde, to organize a Jacobin Club, or to get up a demonstration in favor of Napo> leun the Catholic. What Irishmen, Germans and Frenchmen, have got to do in this country is, what to their^oredit be it spoken, the great body of them fur nearly a century have done, obey the laws, keep the peace, uphold the flag of the Empire, and perform the duties of good subjects and citizena. What Nova Soolians, of all origins, have got to do, and what they will do, is to see that the religious penecutions — the bru- tal violence — the mockeries of justice — which have disgraced the Uld world, shall not be introduced and imitated here. And what they will also do. is to see if they have gut among them any persons who in war would sympathise with and assist the enemies of their country, that those persons shall at least not be clothed with the authority of their Government during peace. That such a faction exists in Halifax requires no proof; but, if any is wanting, I shall presently supply it under the hands of their allies in the United States. In the mean time I have a word or two to say, in reference to the charge whieh this faction bring against me that 1 have changed my opipiuns about Irishmen and Irish afTairs — that I have thrown off a mask of assumed friendship, and become a political and religious persecutor. All this ia arrant nonsense. If the people who utter believe it, they must know rery little of me, or of the stream of my opinions. When I commenced public life as a journalist, the Catholics of Ireland, down- trodden and oppressed by their own countrymen, wl o, as I have shown, acquired hy the svi- jrd the mastery over them, were strugglirig. under the leadership of O* Connell, for a share of representation in the Imperial Pb liament, from which they were by law excluded. O'Connell's name was not then very popular in Nova Sco- tia, nor had the eause he advanced many friends. But four or five Protestant No- va Scotians joined the Association formed here to co-operate with him, of which number I was one. All the officeholders in Nova Scotia — its wealthy merckantn — the great majority of iis constituencies, were dead against the movement. I was a young man, poor, commencing life. My friends, all that had patronage to give or power to injure, were on the other side. Th6 Irish were a comparatively poor, downtrodden,and isolated part ot the population. They had not a seat in the House nor an office in the country. Some nf the families that since have claimed a mono- poly of Irish influence or admiration, sh/unk from the contamination of this asso- ciation, or sent their contributions but withheld their names. I threw myself into the movement boldly, not because I wanted to court the Irish, who were here a pow- erless minority at the time, but because I thought it was right. I think so Btill, and if the Catholics were tomorrow excluded from the Imperial Pnrlament, I would advocate their admission as fearlessly in 1857 as I did in 1839. During iho lifetime of O'Connell, with all his faults, he had much of my aym- pathy, and often won, by some bold stroke of happy combination, my undisguised admiration. I believed him then, as I believe him now, the greatest Irishman produced in modern times. Many of his measures I approved. His boldness, adroitness, humor, and practical sagacity, I could not but admire. When, at a later period. I saw the great Irismman in private life, and in the House of Commons, (he frankness and simplicity of his manners, no less than the comparatim estimate which I formed of his talents, mingled something of personal regard with interest inspired by his noble career. While I thus thnnght and acted about Ireland ard her affairs, nothing was more natural than that Irishmmi should be my friends. The opinions I held then, I hold now. The measure I advocated I would advocate to-morrow. I was not ashamed of the cause of civil and religious freedom in that day, as some were that I could name; nor am I reluctant to acknowledge, now that O'Connell is dead and power- less, that in some of his fiercest struggles I gave him my very feeble aid. were close (13) It bas becomo tlie fishiun, among a certain aeetion o( the Iriah pnpnlation lu>rp, to assert that all this was done trom motives of self interest, and that now, becanne 1 require no support from the Irish, I have ungratefully cast thero off and astailed them without cause. The answer to all this is very simple. — Upon one question I difiered with the Liberator, and with those who supported him here and elsewhere. This was the question of Repeal. Thou(;h never disguising: my opinions of the poliiiciana who bought and the knaves who sold the Irish Legislature, I conscieniiuusly believed that the repeal of the Act would be impolitic if practicable ; and that it was im- practicable even if it wern wise, because, that in the civil war which any attempt to repeal the Union by force was sure to provoke, the Irish would be beaten — a great deal that might be done in the meantime for the amelioration of the condition of their country being sacrificed in the contest, and feelings engendered which would not very soon subside. In 1841 every Catholic Irishman was excited about Repeal. An Association was formed here, and addressed frequently by the Kev. Mr. O'Brien, and by others who took the lead in the movement. Some of my Irish friends urged me to join this Association as 1 had done the last. I declined. A deputation waited upon me, and pressed me with every argument that friendship could dictate, or some consci- ousness of power over my political prospects, at the moment, could inspire. I respectfully stated my own convictions and declined to recede. Then it was that I was told, in very significani terms, that if I did not embark in the Repeal movement. Responsible Government, and everything which 1 had then in hand, might go to the winds. At that moment my personal interests and political success might be fairly assumed to hang upon my answer. I gave it in the negaiive, and would no more permit Irishmen to coerce me into doing what I did not approve iu 1841, than they can, in 1857, coerce me into approval of breaking poor men 'a heads in the wilderness or of writing sedition in the capital. O'Connell tried, but could not carry Repeal by peaceful and consiitntional expe- dients. He would not sanction the employment of physical frrce, or countenance open rebellion. Then it was that op rose the Young Ireland Party, who scoffed at Dan as a coward and a fool. Who threw off his lesdeiship — blamed him for delays and broken promises, which were fairly attributable lo the difficulties with which he had to contend. They wounded him in the sorest point when they insinuated that the oontribuiiona of the people had been misapplied by his family, and that repeal with him was only another name for rent. This young Ireland party con- tained ipme talent. They wrote excellent poetry and poetical prose. Some of them were ready and eloquent after a fashion ; but not one of them was a states- man, or a soldier of practical sagacity and common sense, fit to plunge a nation into and guide her through a great revolution. The whole of them put together had not as much common sense as O'Conikell must have had when he was a baby in arms. They confided in their own showy talents and scoffed at the Liberator's caution and experience. Dan saw what was coming. Their lolly and ingratitude broke his heart. He went abroad, sickened and died, and then the stage was clear for the Young Irelanders to work out the regeneration of their country What they did and how they did it — who does not know.' After ciamming the nation for months with their braggart threats and denunciations: after defying the whole pow- ers of the empire ; after detbiling the easy modes in which they were to annihilate armies in the cities, by pelting them with ginger beer and blacking bottles, these great wariiots took the field. No sooner ha(} they done so than all the loyal and national among the Catholics deserted them. The clergy denounced them — the laity stood aloof. It was soon discovered that they had neither arms, amunition, skillful leaders, or foreign alliances, not one requisite for a revolution — or even to give dignity to an ordlinary civil war. They were chased and hunted about by a few policemen, captired in cabbage gardens, or compelled to fly abroad. Some were tried and exiled, and only returned "sadder and wiser men," pardoned, at th« close of tha>. war which their followers here regret was so successful. i.i i i r ■nm ■■■■ ifl («4) Wliri) ii: llio full litiu ur \heir experiment upon l-ho nnrvea of Juhu Bull, theeo yciunf; Irelandors had their admirers here. Messrs. Condon, Curopton & Co., sane th«;ir .otnos, and repeated their speeches lo each other, and to any body else who would listen to them. Wo were bored to death with " England's hour of extre- mity being Ireland's opportunity,*' with the union of the " Oranse and the Green," and a good deal of brafrgart balderdash, which Irishmen of any taste and good fopling could scarcely swallow, and which Nova Scotians listened to with very incredulous smiles. When their great Repeal movement, which I refused to join, had exploded, leaving a dirty smoke of treachery and cowardice behind — when their leaders vine crawling about in cabbage gardens, flying from the country they had humbugged and disgraced, or were in the custody of the government whose power they had defied, we really supposed that the moon-struok Toung Irelanders here would repent of their folly, become good citizens, and bye and bye good sub- jects and in that hope and belief merely laughed at and left them alone. (r peace we could afibrd to do this; but war broke out, and for a time the sever- ities of an untried climate, the labors of a protracted seige, and the blunders of a War Department, made the issue doubtful. There was, for a time, every pros- pect that the Republic of the West would join the Despot of the North, and that hostilities would be brought home to our very doors. In every city of the United States, the Expatriated Young Irelanders did their best to precipitate an unnatural war. This excited m surprise, but what did surprise us was to find that the disci- ples of that school, here, had learned no wisdom; and that, in the reading room, inthe streets, anri in private society, their faces brichtened when the news was bad, and that they only looked gloomy when the allied armies were successful. ' Still, we scarcely thought that any of them were bad enough directly to betray the interests of the Empire — by any overt act or secret correspondence; and cer- tainly did not believe that any person, holding an office under the Provincial Gov- ernment, would so far forget himsulf as to enter into correspondence with convicted and banished traitors, in a foreign country — convey to theni the Eocrets of his own Government; and, while receiving the pay of ihe Sovereign ha betrayed, endeavor to intercept or defeat a mission sent on national service abroad. All this appeared, even to me who have had my eye on this faction for some ^ime, incredible. Whatever I might have expected, I had, until months after the war was over, no evidence to prove what these people had been about. I have it ,now, and I liy it before the country that they may decide what is to be done with it, and whether the Government that keeps such persons in their employment is worthy of their confidence and entitled to their suppoit. "Have we a JGovern- mentl" some writer in the Catholic asks. I think iho whole Province wilfask this ,question presently, and not wait very long for an answer. "The New York Crtizcn, an American Irish weekly Journal," is published bv John Mitchell, who was tried and convicted of treason and rebellion in the Mother Country, and banished to Australia. It is said that he broke his parol of honor and ilcd to iho (Juited States, The paper published by this person is filled with abusa of England; and no effort was spared by him during the Russian war to cripple the resources of and stir up enemies to the Empire. That this expatriated traitor should, whiio he was doing all this, have had correspondents and co-operators in Halifax — that ofiicers of the Provincial Government should have so disgraced them- selves as to correspond with him, will appear incredible. We have the tact, how- ever, under Mr Mitchell's own hand. The New York Citizen of the I9ih July last is now beside me. To show the true character of this paper and its Editors, let me trouble you with a single ox^ tract from a letter which fills the editorial columns, addressed by John Mitchell to another Irish revolutionist recently pardoned : ' " But furtJier, the said advisers of Her Majesty arc also fully informed (for they do me the honor to read my writings) that here in the United States I have used all dili- gence to point out the real nature of the lat t war in Russia, with a view of preventing people in this couutry from so throwing away their sympathies to waste thein npon her (16) sacred M^osty, her oanse, her disasters, or her humiliations ; and perhaps thnt I have even, to some slight extent, succeeded in this meritorious object. Theroture, vhilo I'.io Atlantic rolls she can never pardon me. ** And besides all this, her M^csty's ministers know well (for I enjoy the privilege of their distinguished attention) that I am one of those who in America look forward with enthusiastic pleasure to some attempt of the British GoTeniment to ooerce, bully or molest the Republic of the United States, in order that we may unfurl the banner of the stars Snd stripes on Irish ground, and try whether it will not again, as it has done before, sweep the blood red Cross before it into the sea. Ministers, I say, are aware of this, and, therefore, know that to me the offer of a "pardon" would be an insult, and would by me be answered by another insult. Such a reply would, I admit, be rude, ungracious, repugnant to my natural politcEess ; but then it would be a public duty." Nuva Scotians, I think, wili consider the person who could avow such sentiments and designs as iheso, anything but a reputable correspondent fur a luyal man while war was raging. I do not believe that there is an Irishman with any common sense who will suppose that officers of the Provincial Government can be permitted to carry un sncli correspondencp. In the same paper from vrhieh I have taken the above extract this editorial article appears: i "bravo HALIFAX. *< It is with no ordinary feeling of pleasure we refer to a preceding page in this week's Cilixen, for a report of proceedings which took place at Halifax, N. S., on the occasion of presenting Mr. Crampton with an address. Such open ditaffection and liberty of speech in a British Province, and such evident sympathy with America and her institutions, arc truly refreshing. We cannot too much admire the spirit and pluck of one of the speakers and writers — Mr. William Condon, who although hold- ing a government situation, beards the old toothless British lion in the person of one of his cubs. Sir Joseph Howe, who cunfcsses he oauie on a skulking, kidnapping, dirty mission to the United States, in the year 1855. The exposure ojf his plans by a tele- graphic despatch sent to the ** Citizen" by Mr. Condon, was mainly instrumental ia defeating the scheme." Yet this person holds, to this hour, a lucrative appointment under those who represent, in this country, the majesty of the Empire — who authorized that mission — whose secrets were thus betrayed. Really we are driven to the belief that the Bri- tish lion has not only lost his teeth, but his mane and tail too, in the keeping of those who permit the honor of England to be thus compromised at home and scofled at in foreign countries. . ' ii i- .. ,,,,.;*.,, . ,: yours, truly, JOSEPH HOWEv No. IV. SIR:— '''" Mr. William Condon honored me with a very scurrilous and abusive liet- ter in June last, to which [ did not reply. I was favored with another, written in (he same style, some weeks ago, which I also left unanswered. 1 was under the* impression that he would, bye and bye, be : shamed iff both epistles ; and that, in tha meantime, our relative positions could not be very much changed in this com- munity, or in this country, by any thing that, in violatiop of gpQd manners, we could eay of each other. » 'Al I I m Mr. Condon hating, so far, profilted by the suta of pnblie feeling m to be iatlHe* f-ii to write in decent lan;;uage, hie third letter, pubUahed by yuo on Thuraday, la entitled to some notice; with your permiaaion, 1 ahall take the liberty to enquire what it ia Mvor:h. Mr. Cundnn passet over the trifling incic'enta of an ofRcer of the ProTincial Gov- ernment appearing at a public meeiioi;, to atignnatize and condemn the conduct of an Imperial officer, paasing en route through the Province, whoae conduct Ae Queen approved, and whoae aervicea were rewarded with a title. Ho takea no note ot the fact, that, at that Meeiinfc, the Provincial Secretary, a member of the Cabinet, and the official organ of the Provincial Government, took an active part ; and was then and there opposed by hiaaubordinaie, who, accordioQ to thedootrinealaid down in the Attorney General'a Letter of the 30lh April, 1855, forfeited the office which he ahould have leaigned before taking the line he did. Mr. Condon does not refer to another beautiful exhibition which he made of him- aelf on other memorable oeeaaiona, when the Attorney General appearedin Oourl to bring certain riotera to Juatice ; and when Mr. Condon appeared in Court, day alter day, representing an organiaed eonapiracy to defeat criminal proaecutiona — to baffle the Government of which the Attorney General waa the leader, and to bring upon this country the disgrace which that officer so earnestly deplored. Mr. Condon confines himaelf to hia dealing with the Recruits, and to hia foreign correspondence, but whatdoea his statementa amount to? We all knew, lung ago, nearly all that he has told us now. That the Irishmen said they had been entrap- ped — that he believed or pretended to believe them; that a grand demonstration, to alarm thn members of the Government, was got up. and that 100 men, whoae paa- sagea had been paid by the Queen, were intercepted on their way to the Crimea, and aent to work on the Railroad. To enable your readers elearlr to understand this transaction, it ia necessary to bear in mind that the political paity to which Mr. Condon belongs did their beat from the commencement to the end of the war, to preaent Iriahmen from enliating in the British aimy. In several Countiea of Ireland their machination* were suc- cessful — in every part of the Kingdom they exeroi&ed some influence, and in not a few sections Irishmen refuted to enlist at all. "Wiil you aid Enirland in her hour of extremity ! Will yju shed your blood for the nation by whom you are oppres- sed ? Will you be such fools as to gj out lo the Crimea, to die in the trenches, or to starve in front of a fortreaa which can never betoken!" Where ia the Iriah- man so base or disgraceful as to take the iSaxon ShiUins and recruit the Armies rendered powerless by the rigors of the climate and the bravery of the Russians!" This was the language acattered broadcast over tKe Emerald Isle, by the organs of the party who had failed to revolutionize Ireland eight yeara ago. These dis- loyal sentiments and appeals were echoed and re-echoed in the Iriah newspapera, in all thu seaports of the United States, and in tLe piincipal Cities of British North America. They were caught up and published here. Hundreds of our ciiizeas read them with disgust, and heard them aulleiily muttered or openly avowed, by persons whose peculiar opinions had previously attracted but little attention. I believe that Mr. Condon cheriahed these sentiments. Many rtapectable persona are confident that he and bis friends avowed them. To the honor and credit of old Ireland these opinions were not shared by the mass of her population Recruits were raised in that country. Thousands flocked to the standard of the United Kingdom. The tanks of regiments that had aeverely suf- fered were filled up. Prieats and Sisters of Charity volunteered for the Crimea , the latter to nurse the sick, and the former to administer the consolations of religion; and when success crowned the eflTurts of the Allied Armies thousand of gallant Irish Soldiers returned with clasps and medals upon their bosoms ; and the great Banquet, given to the Crimean Warriors, by the Citizetis of Dublin, proved the general appreciation of iheir services, and the exesllciit tone of the national semi- nent at the conelusion of the War. It i!" (17) That Mr Condon shared in this exult»tibn, or approved of the participation of his eountrjmen in the hazards of the Campaign, few, who heard him ex- press his fcellings during the war, will venture to assert. That he would have turned aside everj Irish volunteer, en route for the Crimea, if lie had had tho ?ower, the community, whore he is best known, very sincerely believe. The 'oung Irelanders, here and elsewhere, with few exceptions would have done the same. This is the key to Mr Condon's conduct m reference to the re* cruits sent here from Boston. To stop them— to turn them aside, was with him a matter of principle ; and to prevent any more from coming was the ob- ject of his communications forwarded to the United States, to liepuUican baters of the British Government, who shared his opinions. The Irishmen sent hero I never saw. Th«y were forwarded by a person whose instructions were the terms of enlistment contained in the Frormciul Secretary's Handbill. He had no motive to deceive them, as his reward was to be a Captain's commission, on the actua! enlistment here of £0 many men, not head money for the number sent. I was assured that attempts were mad«i at Boston, to persuade the men not to join the Legion. — That the sulijcrt was fully discussed on the v harf and on board the vessel, the men having the liand- bill in their hands. Being at New York I was informed of their embarkation, and at once telegraphed to the Secretary that they might be expected at Wind- sor. I^om the moment of their landing at that port they were tampered with. I have reason to believe that an emissary, for that purpose, went from Ilalifrx. Ab they came down their attention was turned to the Itailway works, wbcxo their countrymen were getting a dollar per day. That tho Saxon Five Shillings was better than One Shilling was a simple sum in Arithmetic. By the time that these men got to the Four Mile House thev had the lesson by heart and were quite prepared to desert, having got into the neighborhood ot good wages at the Queen's expense. Here they were met by some of their sympathising countrymen. The Secretary and the Governor were soon, as Mr Condon tells us, hetet with clamor and depu- tations, and tales of fraudulent deception. Mr Wier, bein^ an officer of the Irish Society, was dragged into the mess: and before night, the Young Irelanders glori- fied themselves wiih the conviction that tho Saxon was weakened by 100 tnen, and the " Union Jack," which may not •• float over the Bay of Naples," had just that number less to defend it. Mr Condon has given his version of the story. This is mine' The public will believe which they think, under all the eireumetances. the most consistant. Naw, let me fancy that 190 recruits were marching out nf Galway towards the depot, and that they were met by a person of Mr Condon's known sentimpnts, hold- ing an office under (he Lord Lieutenant, and handled after this fashion. Let md suppose that this person had telegraphed and written to avowed enemies of the Go- vernment, to prevent any more from being raised in that qL«i»r, how long would a persoh o acting hold 1( s office under an Irish Government? Not a day. Suppose that 100 recruits had been landed at Dover from the Continent, and that a Revenue Officer at that port, (assuming, without commuriicating with the agent of his own Government, who sent them there, that they had been deceived), took them under his patronage; by clamor and misrepresentation, either with or without the consent of the local authorities, scattered and dispersed them. Suppose that he was an officer. Bupp«se that those persons were to boast, in Le Nord, or any Russian newspaper, of the honor of his correspondence, and attribute to it the de- feat of a scheme for the enlistment of troops, or for any other national object.— Suppose that boast to have circulated for months, uncontradicted by the officer, who was a constant reader if not ac agent of the paper in which it appeared. A ti i I (18) 'If we can fancy Bneh a Mriea of diserediublo transaotions aa iheae lo have ooeur- red in England, we know that the officer tbua dialinifuishinif himtelf, would not only be disiAiased from ihe public aervice, but from all i'eapectabie aiaooiatior.8 with luyal and honorable men. Let ma aasume that Mr. Bulwer, when ditmitaed by the Government of Spain for obeying the Queen*a instruotione, returned to London ihiough Snuihampton. That, at a meeting got up by the manioipal authoritiea of that city, a band of Spanish sympathisera appeared, headed by a Revenue officer. That Ihen and there Mr. Bulwer waa aiandered, the policy of England denuunced, and the Court of Madrid jualified. If we can imagine auch a acene to have oucurted, we know well what wulud have happened immediately after. Let me suppoae (hat a riot had occurred within twenty milea of London. That this demonstration was so formidable that troopa had to be called out. That ten or twelve of the riotera had been arrested, and were on trial. Fancy an officer of the Inland Revenue takint; into his head that theae people were all innocent, get* tin^ up subscripiions to defeat the Government prosecutions, taking hia seat day after day in Court, in their midst, and, in the presence ot Her Majesty's Attorney General, openly countenanomg those rioters. Fancy tho Attorney General declar- ing in open Court, that, if those proseoutiona failed, the jurisprudence of the coun- try was disgraced. F^ncy the Revenue officer, when they had failed, the Jurors not agreeing, glorifying himself on the result in tho public newspapers, in open defiance of the Government of which he was the servant. Can we fancy such transactions to have occurred in Englandl But if they had.the officer of the (hbnd Revenue would have discovered that if the Jurors were divided, the Cabinet waa not. Uis place would not be worth an hour's purchase, under any administration. Whig or Tory. Having now shown that Mr. Condon's conduct ia utterly indefensible, tried bjf Engliiih rules of Administration, let mo try them by our own. '^^^ On the 30ili April, 1855, the leader of the Government made this declaration, not of policy but of principle, which was subsequently sanctioned by the aupport- era of the present Administration, Catholic and Protestant. We are arraigned for displacing a few of the Tory Commissioners of Annapolis, hut we have a memorial from the Custoi and a large number of the Magiatratea and leading men of the County, approving of the work, anda Qovernment ia not worthy of the name that has not the vigor to protect its friends when tbey are wronged and insulted. The Governrtient were charged, loo, with the dismissal of the Posttnaster at Windsor, but I do not hesitate to avow that the principle we then acted on we are determined to adhere to as the British lule.and that the aubordinatee of Government who oppose it must be coutent to resign or to lose their places. Acting upon these principles, Mr. Geldert was dismissed from the Post Office in WindEor, for voting against a member of the Cabinet at an election. Mr. Miller waa dismissed from the Board of Works, for some alleged subordination ; and Mr. Mo Naughton, of Shelburne, has been, it is said, mote recently removed for TOtiog, not against an officer but a supporter of the Government. All these gentlemen are Protestants. Not one of them has placed himself in an attitude so defiant, and insulting aa Mr Condon. Nfit one of them hae brought on his country the dishonour and discredit that he hak inflicted. It remains to be aeen whether Catholics and Protestants are to be restrained by the same rules of Administration— subjected to the same dicipline, or whether we are to adopt new •ones, and whether the Protestant gentlemen, already dismissed are to be restored. Yuuts truly, JOSEini HOWE. hU