Year: 1875

GUARDS STILL WATCHING THE REMAINS OF Gull


BoRD-CRITICIsMs OF THE BISHOP S CIRCULAR


TROUBLE EXPECTED AT THE COMING FUNERAL


MONTREAL, Sept. 10, 1875.


The situation here remains unchanged. All that is
left Of poor Gubords body still lies in the vault of the
Protestant cemetery and is guarded all during the night
by armed men. To-day the two parties engaged IN this
religious strife stand like pugsts in prize ring each
waiting for its rival to strike The Institute Canadion
is pledged to bury the remains of Gubord in the Gem
ctcry Cote des Neges and to accomplish their purpose
they will call on the military to help them.


The Church, anticipating this, states through the
mouth of the Bishop OF Montreal that in the body
inferred by force the ground covering it shall be
interdicted and looked upon henceforth as cursed
spot It is tho custom of the French Canadians to
inter husband and wife in the grave. Therefore,
II Guibord should be really buried and the ground be
cursed, must not the resting place OF Mrs. Gubord,
whom the Church dearly loved, be cxccraed as well
II would certainly seem so, and then, again. how
could the Church permit the body OF of its
members to rest with that of the man whom it had ex-
communicated There is another point which is being
discussed in conversational circles-Does the Church
funl tho mandate OF the Queen in permitting the burial
IN the limits Of the cemetery? ?-that is barely assent
ing to IL and Withdrawing the consccraon of that par
ticular lot owned by Gubord and making it spot





enhanced by conservation and for particular purpose,
which could only be effected through the consecration
OF the ground The Crown orders consecrated ground
for the remains and insists upon its conservation The
lawyers earnestly discussing this phase of the
question | am informed tonight by the French and
the English. too, that these soothing and calming
messages a mere warning to action


In the quarter inhabited by French Canadian work.
men there is great concealment and mystery. If you
talk to them about the Bishops letter they will shrug
their shoulders and remark 1t is only to quiet the
Irish" They class all Engllshspeaking people under
the head OF Irish, whom they hate and by whom they
cordially hated. From what have OF tho
people of the East End 1t is evident that the Bishops
curse will have little effect upon thcm and they Will
when the time comes fully prepared to battle
for rights they scarcely seem TO comprehend


ISsrITur CASADIEN.


visited the Insttut Canaden this morning. IL is
situated the Rue Notre Dame, just within stones
throw Of Bonsecours the Oldest church in this city.
exceedingly we'll appointed The reading room is
graced with a group of magnificent engravings pre-
sened to the institute by Prince Napoleon The So
ciety Is thirty years old and is very powerful 1t has
numbered in its ranks the most famous men of the
French Canadian race. There has not been man
OF note among the French Canadians who fought for
responsible governments and against the bureaucracy
under the old regime, or a single statesman or orator.
who has been connected with It, and to-day its list
OF members comprises the flower Of French ability in
the Dominion. IL has been honored by royalty and
even Horace Greeley contributed to its record by lee
turing In ITS spacious hall Its rooms free and
open the public, the only stipulation being that
visitors shall be decently attIred.


The Gubord affair the sole topic OF conversation.
Indeed, IL could not be otherwise when II is taken into
consideration that just at this time the society is ptted
against the Church.


''what have you not known of last night?" heard
one man say another in that peculiar dialect
which only a Canadian when
the greatest mental excitement "Dey so to de
ccmctre Protestant; dey row stones at do polce dey
fire many many shots; dey want 20 steal dc body
born him." Al first thought he the victim of
rumor, for | in the cemetery myself last night
but a worthy and reliable Montreal newspaper,
the Evening Star In It's last issue of to-day contains
the following item ga stone thrown at the police
guard at the vault at the cemetery at O'Clock
this A. NJ. Tho officers discharged fourteen shots
in the direction from which the stone came,
but nothing further took place. This
the only incident OF during the night
Sergeant Richardson has still command Of
guard at the vault Passing out from the Institute
Canaden the Rue Notre Dame entered several stores
under pretence of examining and pricing such articles
man would be apt TO purchase. | was aware that
though was in the neghborhood Of the institute was
at the time among its most vehement and bitter
opponents What heard there may be briefly
pressed in the following, which actually said to
me:-"Bury Guibordl Never admire my Queen,
but love my Church from my heartslrings"


Apart from this nothing remains 10 be said. Armed
men constantly guard Guibords remains The day for
the burial has not as yet been fixed upon. He will DO
Inferred not secretly as the Church presumes, but
publicly. II may be tomorrow. | anticipate trouble
serious. murderous trouble. II is inevitable, and feel
sure that the burial OF Gubord will be such
the people of this country have never seen.