North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-01-08

From Mackenlie's CafoipeA lmaaack. for 1910.
ApRiL 8, 1885, Clergy Reserve bill, 10
,opropriate ihrse lands for general educa-
ION and good roads passed the Assembly
and was crushed by the government OF u.
C.-The Csnadas, by an act OF the pariIa-
ment ol their conquerors, are part oil the
ne of Canterbury. In u. c. one acre in
al every farm throughout the colony,
and also the unsettled land, (say 5 mil
lions Of acres) is given the church of Eng.
land Clergy Tor ever-also 500, 900 acres
he's, settled lands for gebes-and 100000
IN eadow an intaIerant school-with about
100 rec,ories of the most valuable estates
in the country-and all The religious and
civil supremacy and powers exercised in
England and lreland--this priesthood are
psd out Of the public revenue, against the
ueople's will, with enormous grants TO its
priests. Their priests are generally paid
spies on the people and defamers o; other
secis.
ApRiL 10, 1888, Robert Stbbert tried
for treason at Toronto and acquitted
The family compact Of u. c., so called
by Durham after the Bourbons, is we'll de-
,cfibed bv Matthew Carey, p. 37S Of his
Ireland INDICATED. He says, "In every
subiueated country, there is always a small
boiy of the natives, who make a regular
contract, not written, but well understood,
and duly carried into effect, by which they
sell the nation to its oppressors, and them
selves as slaves, for the sorry privilege OF
,ynnnzng over their fellow slaves" This
Gsmal body" in u. c. have for managers
John Beverly Robinson, Bishop Strachan,
Sheriff Jarvis, S. 2. Jarvis, Judge Jonas
J,nrs. Judge Archd. Mclean, Sir Allen
McNah, Mahlon Burwell, Sheriff Rutian,
John Macaulay, VIM. Allan, Judge Ma
oauIay and brother, Attorney General
Haverman, the BouItons, Candles aud
Hlwsrds. These wretches are to u. c.,
what the leaders Of A" the Protestant as
cendancy" have been 10 ireland, perpe,
ual blight, the evil principle personified.
ArRlL II. 1888. (Naturalized citizens)
Judge Robinson, the Jetiries of U. c. SEN
tences John Anderson (now Of LockporO
Ralph Morden (uow OF Lewiston), Cana
dams, Doctor Theller, naturaIized Amer
lean Citizen, and John Montgomery, who
had suffered So extensively in his property
BY the revolt, to be hung, drawn, and
their bodies quartered, on the Gath, tol
their love Of liberty. DR.. Theller protest.
ed, that though born an Irishman he had
left that land Of oppression early in life ant
become an American citizen, ablurine
English allegiance and English protection
The Judge and Attorney General decided
that once subject Of Victoria and heI
successors, subject for ever!! The Irish
threatened the government and saved
Theller's life--he afterwards made mira.
culous escape from Quebec, as did the
three others from Fort Henry, and all foul
were received with great kindness on thi:
side the lines. On this claim Of England
90 hang naturslized American cilizens al
English subjects, the London Sun saws
ITO sentence him TO death, to keep him
months in prison, loaded with irons, is ad
ding croeIty TO gross absurdity. When we
look to irishmen, OF whom Theller is one
The claim OF the law seems 10 US an uttel
domination. which every man is hound
TO protest against. Ireland ia still more &
prey to redundancy Of people than Eng
land, and there the furnishing wreiches
cleared from an estate, driven out froI
their roofess holdings by Beresford or {
Bsndon, have very often no resource, bu
10 bind themselves TO an American Cap
tain, who carries them across the Atlantic
and sells their service when they arrive
They are compelled by those in whom III,
Jaw vests the property of The soil, ans
whom the law encourages to clear thei
estates, 20 leave their native country, anC
when they procure in another the bread
which their own denied them, the law sill
claims their obedience, ties them To starva
Con, treats them the same as one OF the
favored landowners, and declares then
guilty Of treason IL found in the ranks %
The defenders, of their new country"
ArnL Ie, 1855 Canadian Heroes
Briiisk Murders -Messrs. Lount ant
Mathews, two of the bravest of the Cana
"a patriots, were executed this day, by or
Get Of Sir George Arthur, aud al the ur
gent request Of Chief Justice Robinson
hsgetmsn the Attorney General; anC
Sullivan. Baldwin, Elmsley, Allan ant
DrsPer, the Executive Council. Petition
10 Arthur, signed by upwards Of sc, 90,
persons were presented, asking him Il
spare their lives, but in vain. He knew
hat Victoria and the English Ministrr