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He sat in the Provincial Assembly for St. John County from 1861 till 1868, and has represented Gloucester in the House of Commons since the confederation of the provinces in 1867. He was elected Speaker in 1874.

The Evening Globe became the property of John V. Ellis and Christopher Armstrong, in 1861-the latter being an Irishman, and the former born in Nova Scotia, being of Irish parentage. Mr. Ellis is now Postmaster of St. John, Mr. Armstrong remaining sole editor. The Daily News, the oldest paper in the city, is the property of the Hon. Edward Willis, an Irishman, and a member of the New Brunswick Government. He has represented the City and County of St. John since 1870. The St. John Telegraph was started by John Livingstone, son of Mr. Livingstone, for many years Customs Officer at Richibucto, N. B., (an Irishman) in 1862, since which time it has become one of the leading organs of the Maritime Provinces. He sold the Telegraph in 1871, and began the Watchman, which has already taken its place in the front rank of Canadian journals. Mr. Livingstone is one of the most pithy and spirited writers in Canada. William Elder, at present member of the Provincial Parliament, an Irishman, started the Morning Journal in 1865 as a tri-weekly and weekly, which, at a subsequent period was merged in the Telegraph, of which journal he is now the proprietor. New Brunswick is greatly indebted to this gentleman who has stimulated its business activity, and promoted general intelligence.

Among the clergy you find the Rev. James Bennet, now minister of St. John Presbyterian Church, who was born in 1817 in Lisburn, County of Down. The first of the family, with two brothers having come from France, and being of Huguenot faith, had settled among the Irish Presbyterians. From these, the most, if not all of the Bennets of the North of Ireland are descended. Mr. Bennet finished his education in the classical school of the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast, under the head-mastership of the Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks, father of Sir F. Hincks. On March 30th, 1843, he was ordained to the charge of a church, County of Armagh. Having been invited by the Presbyterian Church, St. John, to become their pastor, he arrived there on the 3rd March, 1854, and was duly inducted by the Presbytery of St. John, in the

June following. In this church he has continued to officiate ever since.

He has written a great deal for the public, especially since coming to St. John. His unacknowledged pieces are very numerous. He edited the Canada Presbyterian, started by the Rev. Wm. Elder, for some time. In that periodical many of Mr. Bennet's sermons have appeared. His sermon preached as Moderator of the Synod of the Church of the Lower Provinces on "The Divinity of Christ, deduced from his character and claims," is an admirable specimen of close reasoning and pulpit eloquence, and added considerably to his fame as a preacher. His 'Wisdom of the King" is a delightful book.

Rev. David Montgomery Maclise, D.D., was born near Finvoy, County Antrim. His parents were members of the Presbyterian Church there. From childhood, he was trained up under the in- . fluence of religious principles, and very early in life resolved by God's grace to become a minister of the Gospel.

He was for a time classical teacher in the West Jersey Collegiate School, conducted by the Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller, of Princeton Seminary; was head master in Bath Academy in Ontario, then Canada West, preaching always on the Sabbath, and many other occasions ; lecturing on Temperance, and doing a vast amount of gratuitous labour. Having thus had a theoretical and practical training for the work of the ministry, he determined to devote himself exclusively to it. He had two of what is called " calls," the one to Hopewell, and the other to Montgomery, Orange County, New York, the latter of which he accepted.

Another ornament of the Presbyterian Church is Dr. Irvine. By him the question of "Instrumental Music," was first introduced into the General Assembly of Canada. He got an overture which he penned, carried by the Session of Knox Church, Montreal. He introduced the overture to the Presbytery of Montreal, which was duly licensed and transmitted to the General Assembly. By the Supreme Court it was sent down in terms of the "Barrier Act" to Presbyteries and Kirk Sessions, and after a severe contest spreading over several years, his overture became virtually the law of the General Assembly as it now exists. He was very

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much worried and severely criticised, especially by some of his warmest friends.

The Rev. Alexander McLeod Stavely, was born in the Parish of Loughguile, County Antrim. He studied at the Belfast Academical Institution. Afterwards, he went to the University of Edinburgh. He attended the prelections of such professors in the Philosophical and Theological classes as Professor John Wilson, and Dr. Thomas Chalmers. In the Moral Philosophy class presided over by the former, known to literature as "Christopher North," he gained a leading prize. Having finished his literary course, Mr. Stavely received license in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and preached for a short time to congregations in the Province of Ulster. He then accepted an invitation to go to New Brunswick, and was ordained by the Northern Presbytery at Kilraughts, County Antrim, in the month of May, 1841, to the office of the holy ministry, and pastoral charge of the missionary station at St. John, New Brunswick.

He arrived at St. John, the place of his future and present labours, in the fall of the same year, and is now the senior miniser of that city. Several sermons, addresses and speeches by Mr. Stavely have been published, amongst them, "The Perpetuity of the Gospel," "Redeeming the Time," "The Life and Times of John Knox," "A Word for the Reformed Presbyterian Church."

Prince Edward Island was one of the first discoveries of Cabot, who named it St. John, after the day of its discovery. It was ceded to Great Britain in 1763, still retaining its name of St. John. It was not largely settled by Irish, but mainly by the Scotch and French. A census of the province, taken in 1798, shows but few Irish names. Still there are some, such as Cochran, Whelan, Flynn, Burke, Moore, Flannigan, Carroll, &c.

He

The first governor appointed was Captain Walter Patterson, an Irishman, and the grand-uncle of Mr. A. T. Todd, Toronto. arrived, with other officers, in 1770.* He was one of the largest landed proprietors, and had an Act passed by the Assembly in

* A younger brother settled at Baltimore, U. S., and his daughter Elizabeth was married on 27th Dec., 1803, to Jerome Bonaparte. This marriage was afterwards declared null by his brother, the Emperor Napoleon. Madame Patterson Bonaparte is still alive, as also a son by the marriage, who is a colonel in the French army.

1780, changing the name of the island to "New Ireland." This was without petitioning the Imperial Government. The Home Government, however, took umbrage at the high-handed manner in which the Act was passed, and disallowed it. He applied again in 1783, by petition, for a change of the name, and got for answer that it would be taken into consideration. Campbell declares that had the first application been made by petition to the King, it is extremely probable that the proposed change of name would have been adopted. The name was changed to Prince Edward in honour of the Duke of Kent, in 1798. Governor Patterson was not at all popular, at least he had a good many enemies, who placed his conduct in an unfavourable light before the Home Government; questions connected with the land, which had always been a fruitful source of trouble in the Province, being the main ground of complaint against him. He was certainly inclined to be arbitrary in some measures; but his motives seem to have been honest. His letters to his friend Stuart, also one to Lord Sydney, define matters from his point of view. During his rule of seventeen years he laid out the principal part of the island. He was recalled in 1787, and General Edmund Fanning appointed in his place. Governor Fanning was of Irish descent. His grandfather came to America with Earl Bellemont in 1699. The Honourable T. Des Brisay, another Irishman, was administrator of the government during the temporary absence of Governor Patterson in England. There must have been at least one Irish settlement in the island, to account for the "District of Belfast."

One of the most popular governors of the island was Sir Dominick Daly, of whom we shall see a good deal when treating of the struggle for responsible government in Canada. He arrived 12th June, 1854; his administration was marked by great progress and success; several important Acts were passed, the only difficulty being the vexed land question, which always was a trouble. Sir Dominick left about 1859. In his speech proroguing the House previous to his departure, he expressed his gratification at the harmony which had subsisted between the executive and the other branches of the legislature during the whole course of his administration, to which the uninterupted tranquillity of the island during the same period might in a great measure be attributed.

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The Rev. Theophilus Des Brisay was a native of Thurles, County Tipperary, and was born October, 1754. He arrived in the island in 1775, having been appointed by royal warrant the year previous to "the parish of Charlotte," of which parish he remained rector till his death, which occurred in 1823. He was the only Protestant clergyman on the island till the year 1820. A man of sterling character, and a faithful servant of his Divine Master, he was subjected, in the discharge of his sacred duty, to privations of which the present generation have happily no experience. The Rev. Dr. James Macgregor writes of him: "I was always welcome to preach in his church, which I uniformly did when I could make it convenient. His kindness ended not but with his life."

The Honourable Edward Whelan died at his residence in Charlottetown, on the 10th of December, 1867. He was born in County Mayo, in 1824, and received the rudiments of education in his native town. At an early age he emigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Shortly after his arrival he entered the printing office of the Hon. Joseph Howe, then a newspaper publisher in that city. Here he gave such proofs of that great facility for newspaper writing, which distinguished him in after life, that he was occasionally employed to write editorial articles for Mr. Howe's newspaper, during the absence or illness of the latter. At the age of eighteen he went to Prince Edward Island, which was then ruled by persons who could scarcely be said to be amenable to public opinion. Mr. Whelan, ranging himself on the side of the people, threw the weight of his influence as a journalist into the struggle for popular rights.

Apart from Mr. Whelan's oratorical power which was considerable, the great lever of public opinion obeyed his masterly hand as often as any fair occasion arose to resort to its agency. He never abused the power of the press. He knew how to combine a singularly consistent political career with conciliatory manners. Although he died comparatively young, he lived long enough to see, to a large extent, the results of his labours in the extension of civil liberty.

Mr. Whelan was a Roman Catholic. The writer of a sketch of his life which appeared in the Examiner, says that "his words.