The Herald -- 1867-01-23 -- Page 2

Ses tienes

Loagworth, Royalty; Elwin Locke, Crapand ;
Too nas Alley, Charlottetown; Heory J. Cundall,
dv ; Puow os Boers, Cherry Valley * Angus MeAnlay
Teacadie: Altred LePage, Royalty ; Samuel Drake,
Lo 49; Thomas Dosbrisay, Charlottetown ; Jobn H.
4g'ea, do; Joba A, McDonnell, do.; William Brown,
alas George L. Dogherty, doj aud W, BE, Dawsou,
do; Exquires,

Having been «warn iu, His Lordship the Chief
Wustics addressed them, nud suid: :

Mr, Foreman, and gentlomenaf the Grand Jury:

You will be gratified to learn that the criminal
cases for your consideration at this Term, io so far
ua the court is informed, are ouly three in uumber,
two Tarce ses, and wease of assault and battery upon,
aad rescue from, a Swall Debt Court Baihfl, of a
party iu bis cus oly wider Execution,
ais state of the Ceinioul Calendar of the most
popu'ous County in the Colony, fora period of time,
exteadiug over nearly halfa year, is most satisfac:
Jory as regards the paucity of crimes of magnitude ;
‘but cannot be takou a4 « correct index of the state of

paneer mmneeneennannenetiinien

fiem. Verdict for the Plaiutiff for the amount of the
notes and interest. For the Plaiotiil, Messrs Hens-
ley avd Longworth; for the defeuce Messrs C.

Palmer and McLeod, hal!
Brown.

The Queen vs. William Harris and Cyril
Tudictment for stealing a quantity of woo! fram the)
carding mill of William Bagnell, Rage A tene Bill,

When the prisoners were arraigued, Harris 4 :
guilty. Brown pleaded not guilty, was tried and
convicted,
"The Queen vs William Hundleigh. — Tudietment
for stealing two woollen rugs, the property of Charles
Lord, Kvq. A true Bill, Prisoner tried aud ac-
quitted,
The Queen vs James Cameron, Tadictment for
stealing a sheep, the property of Joha McLeod. A
trve Bill, Prisoner's trial going on as we write,
The Grand Jury made the following presentments:
Against John Storey, for obtaining trom the Post
Office a letter addressed to Mr, Sentuer, aud after
reading it, absiracting money theretre™, with the in-
tentiou of applying the same to his own use,
Against’ Jexeph MeNab, for an assault npon

gen ame RUE et
Ghe Berala.

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Wednesda yy. January 23, sor.

NOTICE..—All persons indebted to the “ Herald”
Office whove Accounts have been furnished up to January,
1867, are hereby notified that the same must be paid before
the 1éth of Febrhary'néxt,) .°
; EDWARD REILLY.

Heruid Office, Charlottetown, Jen. 23, 1867, sf

A LITTLE PLAIN TRUTH.

eed

‘Tuere is a lesson in the histery of Newfoundland
which should be earnestly taken fo heart by the electors
ol this Island, and we are remiuded of it by the leading
eduorial in the Jslunder of the 18th instant. Most of
our readers aie aware that Newfoundlaud, both at the
polls and in the Legislature at its last sitting, almost
unanimously pronounced against Confederation, and
refnsed to send delegates to London to assist in haying

to Quebec. These are
be successfully controverted, and we leave it to the,

undeniable facts which cannot

country to say if the Government which has made them

The of ‘course is well paid to suppress and
misrepresent the éruéh, but let the people examine and
Judge for themselves, and they cannot fail to come to
a right decision when ‘they will bo appealed to in the
course of a few weeks, :

PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICE-HUNTER,

MR. W. E. CLARK, AS A POLITICIAN.

Laat week wo finished our sketch of Mr, Clarkyns a
politician, by promising to give in our present issue the
official report of his dilieulty with the Liberal Party
in 1857. We take, the trouble to devote a second
artiele to him, not so much for the purpose either ot
substantiatng our former estinate of him, or of illus-
trating more fully his unfitness for aseat in Parliament,
as to show that we dealt rather Jentently with him than

fucts is oye to be trusted again with the reins of power.

uch for Mr

Saar

| Som

r. Clark's statusmanships, and,

‘peculiar claims upon them arg for their Suffrages, we
jbeg to refer them to the Journal of the House of
Assembly for the year 1858, pages 72 und 73, On
these pages we are informed that “the Hon. Mr,
‘Jardine, from the Committee to whom were referred the
Petition of divers Inhabitants of Townships 65 and 66,

_ {and the Petition oftwo Inhabitants of Township 41, to

examine the same and report thereon, presented to the
House the Report of the said Committee; whiel Report
was again read at the Clerk's Table, anil is as followeth ;

Your Committee, to whom was referred the Petition:
of certain Inhabitants residing on the Bry Portion
Road, Townships 65 and 46, settiug forth the destruc.
tion cansed to their crops and her property, by a»
terrific hail storm in July of last year, and praying that
the House of Assembly would ‘vote thom a sum of
money for their relief: and'also @ Petition of Donald
Miisaue and Hugh M:Ktanon, on the Cardigan Road
Lot 41, in reference to the sane: subject, nnd prayia ;
for similar relief, have to ete they have oa
amined three witnesses on the subject of these Petitions
viz: John M'Intosh, Esquire, Commissioner of Roads
for the District in which some of the Petitioners reside

,

é

: . if a
Electors of the Second District want to know what his

the County in regard to the lesser description of that Scheme ¢artied into Law Judge of our surprise,

offences, such as laccenies, and receipt of stolen goods
aot assaults aod batteries, many of which are tried
aud disposed of by the City Police Cour', onder jo-
eal acts, giving ft summary jurisdiction in certain

Michal MeBride, a coustable, in the execution of his
office, An Indictment founded on the presentment
in this cause, was subsequently brought down @ true
Bill, :

Against John MeNab, for refusing to assist

the Hon, Donald Beaten: and” the Mon.

Dingwell; that the evidence given by these ptt tno
corroborates the statements of Petitioners, usthey were
eye-witnesses to the great injury done to the crops and
buildings of the Petitioners, ull having, to their know-
ledge, suffered very severely from tho storm, but some

: : +he first time, the other otherwise, for the facts of his case, as contained In the
therefore, when we learnon, for wr by the| Parliamentary Reporter of 1857, and the Journal of the

day, that eye gre betta secretly dow, atehes : neg} Louse of Assembly for 1853, conclusively prove that
pula ar i A = at inte Renewal yaa in the whal# range of ou- politigal history, no public
rom Canada, > Seot . ° ‘ man could be sected with a more blandering or

—

- * Secs < . * ‘ * Be aes 2 ey

Fay ; “when't iperahip war dissolved, oud, The watrint’s treasures dre hot bougha, or bold; + lnever Would haye heard Of Gontedoration, if loading of inducing him to remain for the rest of his days in at of "

peo hil bad friends, _ ys For thee there'd mo price-carrent im his theo 5 "\Genterestine and strong Government ‘men like Col; that sphere for which be is beat adepted—namely— seve ‘Nomeion Day the ‘oA ;
o :

5 beep made by Joho Conoly aad Jumps Cosello

& ses,

. The loca’ statutes relating to the issue of liconses.
auhoriziog the salo of spirituous and fermented
liquors, requive you to present all persous guilty of
retailing such liquors without license, aud uoder these
Acts you have the power of suspeading or annulling
the License of any [un or Tavera Keeper offending
aguiast these provisions in the mauagemeut of hi-
house, as one of public entertainment, and the Act»

Michal McBride, a coustable, in the discharge of his
duty, McBride was executing an execttiou tor debt,
issued from ove of the Small Debt Courts, aud in
such a ease no person is hound, whea called upor, 'o
assist # bailiff, otherwise, every man in the com>
munity mght be made a bailiffs assistant. No fur-
ther action was therefore taken ou this presentment,

This term, F. 8, Lougworth, E-q., Attoruey, was
admitted « Barrister of the Supreme Court, and Mr.

treacherous act has resulted altogether from the people
and the Legisluture tolerating in the Government
certain number of Confederate gentry, whose influence
has at last proved paramount, Alas for Newfoundland
and the honor of her Confederate rulers! Her case,
however, is nearly similar to that of the other Pro-
vinces which took part In the Quebec Conference.
Where biibery and deception failed, treachery came to

humiliating record to proses! : Nak
King's County, or one having less ¢#""8 UPOF Mt

On the 9:h of April, 1357, while the {lousd was tn
Committee upon the Public Accounts, an item of £264
7s. 64d... which had been disbursed by Col. Swabey, the
Commissioner of Publie Lands, and for which no
vouchers were produced to the House, was severely

* to the Second District of

individuals to greater extent thanuihers :
these partipular cases OF hardship are fully” Ay wh
“ ev ae ry wore alletdnt to,

Four Committee would, therefore, resomme
jyour iénerable House. that the stn of Thivty tlh
ve. Granted, agraens! to the seule Herennte aunexed,
to enable Petitioners to procure Seed Grain and
otatoes tur the ensuing Spring, as the destruction of
their crops Iris left them destitute of both, viz -—

iu question direct the Court to bring these matters Withee Hh Uiess anal rae : : critivised by the C rativ d Snail
, “ ‘ ard applied lor examination, prepa-|the rescue, Such is the history of Confederation, In| *'iticised by the Conservatives, an ally led to the
ae toeue ee ng retired eget to "lory to his being entered a Law Student fo the) Prince Edward Island every art was tried to betray,|™°ViNg, by the Hon Mr. Palmer, of the following Jouss pret - " :
present to the Court tests of.competent persons to} 2c? of Edward J. Hodgson, Eng voax or bully us into Coufuderation ; but, thank Goa, | esolution : Halenund Walsh, 3.00
ae '
Ail the offices of Bence Viewers, and Constables fer these have so far failed, The elections have been| ‘Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee one ee 110 0
the several Settlements in your. County ; and it is & orres p on d ence, staved off beyond the usual time, in the ardent hope|that the Commissioner of Public Lands, m chargin 5 gencell load : 4 .
nesceasary that ia the exercise of thie duty you take To the Ruiter of the Wersld, that some fortuitous circumstance might arise which ethene yee gt "iis domaaiion’ go Hy John rg he 110 0
care that no place requiring such officers be omitted Sim—Any person who has witnessed the views of par- would drive the Island into Confederation, and render} warrant or warrants, under the hand and seal of the Thomas Power, 110 0
io your sest, au event that not unfrequeatly happens,| io, the subject of Confederation, cannot have failed/another election altogether unnecessary. ‘This, toe,|Lieutenant Governor, and for which amount no es ant 110 0
occasiouiog serious public incouvenivnee, to observe that very many among the Clergy, and/has failed, and now that an election is inevitable, (no|YOUChers have been laid before the House, has acted William Larils ne
‘These are the ouly remarks uow necessary to make) more especially among the Svotch clergy, are warm ad-| thanks to our Confederate plotters,) the Jslander makes wey og to the requirements of the Colonial Statute, Patrick Tobin, | oS
to you, geatlemen, beyoud assuring you that you may |vocates of this measure. To most of the people com- under the authority of which he received his appoint- Pink £10 0
always depend upon receiving the aid of the Court | posing thvir congregations, the reason for this does not |* esperate effort at the twelfth hour to persuade the} mont as such Commissioner.” ange Se enen, 110 0
io the performance of those important duties whieh| Very clearly appear. 1 have beard it said, that those /Country thatic cannot do better than entrust its interests Donald M'Isane, 210 0
f y,{clergy men reterred (v imagine that if Confederation is/for another four years to the safe keeping of our Con- As this resolution contained a direct censure upon —--—--
Coi. Swabey as well as upon the Government who £30 0 0

devolve upon you asthe Grapd loquest of this County.

As willbe seen by his Lordship’s charge to the
Graud Jury, the Criminal Calender is light, and con-
taius no offences of au aggravated character, The
Record causes are as follows :

J. S. Carvell, vs. James Stewart,
J. Cantwelland ano. Johua Conoly and ano.
J. Lamphier “ J.T. Jenkins

R. Heartz aud ano, Thomas Owen

J. H. Gates Geo. Proud

R. Hearig audavo, * Wm. Dark

J. A. MeDooald John McNally

k. Locke and avo, P. Monaghan

W. LL. Wilson M. Coffin aud ano,
Albert Kelly N Consins

‘Y. W. Dodd and ano.“ B. Bell and ano,
James Palner * Neil Currio
Patrick Breen Joka Conoly

R. B. Siewart * William McKay

These, with twelve summary suits aud five ap-
peals, comprise the civil side of the docket for the
present Term.

Ou Wedueslay, the case of Carvell vs Stewart
came ou lor iviai, Aud ocuupiel the whole day. Tais
Was wa dciod Drow git to recover a clin for tonnage,
It appeared trom the evidence that on the 15th ot
Dacuurber, i865, the * Artic,” owned and command-
ed by Capi. Siewart, on her voyage from Boston to
Charivtiewwn, with 1012 barrels of flour belouging

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totue P.aj uit, worked her way throug! the drifting] Pope, is oot te well ar pea g - appeare, wag st laid
vit, at the easiera entrase prospect of Uw representation of Chailottctown aut
Sai OF the 6 een. OF + pity it is, and how untair to Mr, Pope, that bis friend, |!
*\No more/existeuuce, at the present miowent, of numerous banks,

useful member than Mr, Davies,” says Me. Pope, “ever]No such monicd monoply ean obtain again, and Gov-
ernment scenrities WHP always be ceruin to command

& premiam, or, at the very worst, they eannot fall

we, d&e., tv Prous

the harbor, aud, fading the tide against her, there!’

dropped aachor, Mr. Caryell, hearing that « sehoon-
er wiih asigual fyi for a steamer had been seen in

dream Navigation Company, and agreed to pay them
$100, it, tiadiag Capt. Stewart inside of Point Prim,
they brought bi isto port. Shortly after the
* Artic” had come to, the Princess of Wales hove iu
sight, steamed up, touk the schooner in charge, and
towed ber up to Peake’s Wharf, When the Steam-
er came alongside Capt, Stewart, in reply to a ques-
tion as to who would pay tue Steam Navigation Coiw-
pauy was told that thai matter had beeu already are
rauged by Mr. Carvel, ‘The Schooner was then made
fusi Wo tee Steawerund towed iu. The defence set up
by the defeudaut’s counsel, who did vot deny that the
servicus Were performed, was that Capt. Stewart
aeither wade # coutract with the Steam Navigation
Company, dimself, nor authorized avy person tu do
80 vu bis bebalt; thot he did uot require the assistance
ot the Steamer, aud could have made his way into
port without such assistance, Mr. Carvell made
the couiract ov his own responsibility, aod on ac-
count of the wterest he had ia the cargo. On the
other side it was argued that the mere fact of Capt.
Siewart’s being takeu iu charge by the Steamer with
his cousent, was evideuce of au implied contract with
the Steam Navigation Company, aud that the claim
now made, was both 4 legal aod an equitable one.
It was av advantage to him to got his veasel, at that
late seasoa of the your, into port aud out of danger,
aud be should pay & proportion of the expenses so
jucurred by the Plaintiff, The Jury held, that there
was iv the circumstances of the case, sulficient evi-
dence of ag * implied contract” found for the Plain-
tiff, and gssessed the damage at £10. For the
Piaiutiff, Messrs. E. Palmer, C. Palmer, and Me-
Leod: fog the defeuce, Messrs. Longworth and
eosley.
ag vs. Conoly, was commenced on Thursday
afieruvon, and took the whole of Friday. This was
un actiou brought to recover the amount ef three
vint and several promissory votes, purporting to

he Pla‘utiff. All the notes were duted
Ten of Biereh, 1865, et which time Conoly and

: Mae copresented the city.” —This would certainly be tree in
the Siraits two days previously, aud believing her tojone sense, had Mr. Pope not omitted in the sentenc:
be the * Artic,” eu‘ered inio an engagement with the the prepositions “tte me,” after the word member,

carried, and were tu include this Island, our population
would be greatly increased by immigration, aud that
this, with equalizing our currency to that of the adjoin-
ing Provinevs, would greatly improve tue con.tition of
many poorly-paid clergymen, An increase of a clergy-
man's coagregation, where the aweunt of bis stipend
depends oa the number who subscribe to bim, migit
certaiuly better lis circumstances; and if be could earn
his salary in this Island, and spend it in the neighboring
Provinces, the change in the currency might also be in
his favor; but this would be rather inconvenient
economy, and aé immigration is not #. favorite measure
with our rising generation, who think that land is both
dear and scarce enough already for them, I confess I do

supposed to influence the clergymen referred to, if they
are really the true reasona, It is mach to be lamented
that any clergyman, if he has the interest and weltare
of his flock as mach atheartas he bas his own, would
jor a moment endeavor to prejudice them in favor of
Confederation, a measure which, alter being well eoo-
sidered, has been soleamly condemned by the voice ot
searly the whole people and the supreme power of the
and, ‘There is one thing that many of those conmgrega-
tions have the advantage of, and that is self-government,
When their wivister takes a course plainly opposed to
their interests, the remedy 1s in their own hands,

1 am, Sir, yours, &.,
BY-TUE-BY.
Lot **, January 12. 1867,

—

To the Edito* of the Herald,
Sia,—The E:iter of the Jslunder, Mr. William H.

the Hon. Daniel Davies, is to be dropped,

Mr. Davies, had be maintained his shiges eo might
have been re-elected; bat he too readily ** deifted into
Contederation,” and made fast his pamter to Mr. W
il. Pope's Confederate cruiser, and bung by his stern so
close and fathtully, that it would be a pity to deprive
Mr. W. UU. ope of an appeadage s0 much valued. It
ia fur this reason, then, most nag | that the electors
aave made up their minds to relieve Me, Davies from the
representation of Charlottctowa by returning in his
place a gentleman who will represent something of more
consequence than the interests and prospects of Mr. W,
HL. Pope, i, ¢., the retention of oar present Constitution,
and the inestimable blessings of sell-goverument, which
we at present enjoy.

Your obedient servant,
INDEPENDENCE,

January 14, 1867.

A LETTER FROM * FELIX GALLANT,
CKUSS ROADS.”

Mr. Hediteur,—

You mus excuse a poor Frenchman, but I wis I had
de laramg to let de peep kvo de fac, if be is tru.—!
Wils I was goin to Town, I call to feed my horse, and I
meet my cousin Jo.; he jus com from de town. I ax
him de nuse from de town, * Well,” says be, ** Felix,
L heer de peep talk a grate deal abot de Governmen,—
Dere is lore or five peep now got de Goveramen in bis
own sharge; won't give him up; do jus as be like, 4)
aeers him tatk grate deal about de pops; dey say dat
Bill he mak lw brader Jim give him £60—for what you
tink, Felix ?—for lok at de barroks, or luk at de drill-
shed. If he iv tra_itistoo bad. However, be mak bim
do it.” “ Well,” [tell to Jo., © L bil de barroks, mak
de shed, and make a grate mony dril for de peep, acd I
never sharge ene quarter dat sum, when dey fiu every-
ting bimwel.” And dey say the Goveramen fin a man to
overse all de work. “By gar, dat man yet whatever be
want, and he keep all de muny he reswve—never min,
whe he belong to, by gar be keep him all, And dey say |
he wak all bie property over to Jim, and den he ‘lalf at
de peep wen dey wante der muny, Dey say he got
tirteen bunder pound besid bis pa, fur to go to see
de seals bast sumer. He do no good at all to any
bot bimeclf to keep away from hie crediler.* By gar,
dat ia de man; bot bimoy—min what fam goin to tell
to you—he will fin his mistake when we got de ou Gov-
ermen. He will be dun tor, dvy say. He can't get de
Kornal vo belp bim now, dey say, be foun ina out at

carrying ov business as brewers aod
Pie al aa The votes were filled ta!
by wud signed by him iu his proper hand
writing. Covoly's same, though he could write,
was to the notes ws a warkanan, They wore wit)

d by Anue Breea, whom Costello married some!
pga subsequently, viz: in October, 1865,

Iu:
July tollawiug, the partuership between Conoly and
Costello was dissolved,

The principal witnesses:
for the Plainti® were Costello aud lua wife, both ot
whom testified to the execution of the Notes. aud the
payment of the money. Conoly swore positively
that be wever made his mark 16 the aotes. and knew
pothing of them woril a year afterwards, when ome
tello paid bis mother the interest of the money.)
Conoly's explanation of the transaction was, that if

at ail, the £100 was given to Costello by Mrae,
en aud was intended -as part of her danghter's
dowry, icjpatian of her marrage with Costello,

last. He go wit Jim to hooper Corner, and hold a
meetin, oat dey tell steve W he he murt prose Jim; if

‘not, dey will not want de stor at Sunnuside, De fac!

dese fellers do jos what dey like wid de Governmen:
and de wuny, and we wus get petition to brak de
Hous soon, or de country will be rain. T heer Jim go
to Cornelus howet’s buns, and sinve dat he bos he bot

ia,

aot see any strongargument in the reasons which arejenough to abandon, in time, the doomed and rotten
ship. Their conduct, however, shows what is in store

| revived from the ‘Freasury ofthis Island little short of

iederate Government, or, at the very least, that it
ought to. re-elect our chief Confederate plotters.
Electors of i. B. Island, remember Newfoundland !
Remember Nova Scotia! The,side issue set up by the
Islander in defence of the Government, is only intended
to blindtold the people, The acts of the Government
are so indefensible, that even life-long Conservatives,
and nearly every petty ollice-holder in the country, arc
among its most earnest opponents. We are noi sur-
prised at the office-holders leaving the Government tu
its fate; for, like the saygucious rats, they have wisdom

tur the Government. Never, since the Culony has
enjoyed a separate Constitution, has any of its Govern.
ments less tu show of » satisfactory nature, after eight
years of power, than the existing Government. They
found the Colony some £38,000 in debt to be sure, but
this was after the Colonial Building and several Light-
houses had been erected, the Free Education Act set in
vperation, and a large quantity of Publie Laud pur-
chased. The Tariff was ouly 74 per cent then, and
aithough the Public funds were, for a short tune,
somewhat below pay in consequence of the hostility of
aknot of land and money-jobbers, who always opposed
every measure forhe improvement of the country, yet
the fou sdativns of the prosperity of the country were
deep and strong by the first Liberal Government,
sud the evidence of tho fact is to be found in the

below par, uuless in the event ef Confederation.
Weil, surely, the Government cannot tiad mach of a
merit in having increased the public debt to £150,000,
and the tariff tu 10 per cent. Neither can they boast
much for their doubtful improvement uper the Free
education Act, nor take eredit to themselves for intro-
ducing the Land Purchase Bill. If, indeed, there is
any merit in having been forced by the tenant troubles
to use the goud acts of the Liberals, in buying up
Vroprictary Estates, of course they are entitled to it.
If there is any statesniansitp in baving squandered the
public revenue in Useloss delegations, and in building
barracks, etc., thefthey possdss it; and if the attemp;
to sell the couniry be a virtue, then they are puragons.
But the dslander appears to think that all the money
spent in securing te hollow and delusive Fittuen
Years’ Parchase Bil; in bringing troops to suppress
the tenants; in buildiag barracks and canteens, and
stables; in supplying drunk avd infuriated constables
with horses aud waguus, whiskey. crackers aud cheese,
and paymg them well tor their trouble in harassing
defenceless women and children ; in sending delegates
to Quebve to sell the country, and to Brazil for’ no
purpose at all, are trifling matters not worthy the con-
sideration of the’ tax-payers of this colony, We,
however, have made a calculation, which we shall
publish pext week, wherein it will be shown that the
sum which the Editor of the Islander alone pocketed,
within the past seven years, would have allowed an
additional £14 to the sulary of our ill-paid teachers for
one year, agd that the money which has been unne-
cessarily wasted in. the manner above indicated, would
have lessened oug, public debt by one-half. For the:
lust seven years the editor of the Zslander himself has!

£4500; and the proprictor of that paper considerably
over that amount, It is therefgre no wonder that the
organ and its editor should be prepared to approve of
all the extravagance and rasoulity perpetrated by the
Government, and to endeavor to make light of them ;
but we very much mistake the tax-payers of the
country, Who have to foot all the Bills and to pay the
piper on all occasions, if they will approve of the
manner in whieh the Government bave fulfilled and

employed him, the Hon. Mr, Coles, as Leader of the
Government, objected to the Resolution, by stating
that it puts wrong construction upon the aifair, and
explained that Mr. Swabey had been empowered by
the Government to make the expendisure specified,
that he had vouchers for that expenditnre, and that it
was the duty of the Special Committee to have brought
them forward when the Accounts were submitted. If
vouchers were required to be produced to the House,
he wished to know why those from Mr. Clark's Office
had not been called for when his accounts were before
the Committee,

This explanation, as the reader will perceivo, gave
to those Liberal members who might have had doubts
about the formality of Col, Swabey's disbursements,
and who were wware of the consequences which their
voting tor Mr. Palmer's Resolution would produce,
a decent pretext for supporting their ** Leader.”
But Mr, Clark, in the simplicity of his nature,
ind in the gush of his new-born independence
and zeal, dictatorially informed Mr, Coles * that those
vouchers,” meaning his own, ‘were paid into the
Treasury, and were charged. Ie asked whe certified
that (Col. Swabey's) Acguunt? The best course was
to adjourn the dubace ull they got the vouchers before
them.” 2 ‘

Before the Committee rose, the motion was put on
the Resolution, when there appeared in favor of is:

** tons. Messrs. Palmer, ‘T. U1, Haviland, Moot-
gomery an? Longworth; Messrs. T. MH, Maviland,
Yeo, Laird, Cooper, Clark and Perry—10.

** Against it--ilons, Col. Secretary, Col. Treasurer,
Whelan, Lord, the Speaker, Mooney and Wightman ;
Messrs, Munro, Mclatosh, Dingweil and MeDouald—
11,”

This was & narrow eseape for the Government. As
the Public Accounts had tuen been three days before
the House, and it being late in the Session, aud a good
deal of other business to transact, Mr. Colgs
moved that the Speaker take the Chair, and the
Chairman report the Report upon Public Accouats
agreed to.

Mr. T. H, Haviland soug'st for further delay to
enable the House to enter more minutely into the
Accounts of the Land Office, and for that reason
opposed Mr, Coles’ motion,

Mr, Clark, anxious to bore holes in the accounts of
a brother official, and utterly ignorant of the eon-
sequences of his conduct, or of the red that was in

pickle for his back, also contended for delay, and said

**he saw no necessity for that hurrying; they would
take up the time with Bills detaining them, and now
they had no time to wait on those accounts. He said
if there were auy more items, such as that alluded to
by Mon, Mr, Longworth, he would not sanction them,”

llon, Mr, Coles replied to these objections, and re,
marked, in allusion to Mr, Clark’s opposition to the
Government under which he held office, “ that such a
thing had never been heard of, as that an office-holder
would vote for a resolution to condemn his own Gov.
efnment and still hold office. He defied him to show
that there was such a thing.”

‘* Mr. Clark said he knew what the hon. member
alluded to, He knew that he had threatened bin

debate, and he had no aligruative. Did the bon.
member think that he should vote against his
conscience ?” | : .
Whether Mr, Coles thought so or not, Mr. Clark
very sooa convinced him that ‘ conscience” was a
small matter when it stood in the way of an office of
£300 a year, for he voted not only against all further
inquiry into the Pablic Accounts, but even against a
modified form of the Resolution which he supported a
few hours previously! He even went further to con-
vince the House and the country at large that if he
was troubled with a * conscience” at all, it was ot the

illustrated thir pledges of economy and retrenchment,
Why, we do not know what the Government could

most india-rabber nature, for ‘such was the effoct of

all de Mowets for a botiel of wiskey, But} beleve de ‘have done more to conduma them in the eyes of all) Mr. Coles’ remarks upon him, that he published the

Pep nto fin bin out now pretty well, since be put
oan token all himself, By gar, why don't de,
Counsel giv up to him and resine bie seets; kan do,
every ting he like all binweli—dat is always de way wis
de Pops. You'll heer all when

moch more dan | tell to you.
Your servant,
FELIX GALLANT.
Cros Reads,

[Fon te Heparv.}

To dogs give hones; to Quebec achmers yellow gol:
For these are pledsures thy their natures sought,

honest men. ‘They have increased taxation, they have

crippled the Free Eeucation Act, they have tripled the. independence, which we gave in our last, ‘Chis is the jooes of an arrangemen

foolish and humiliating apology for his sham show ot

1 public debt, they have surrendered the Fisheries and official account of Mr. Clark's parliamentary career,
you go to town, Felix, raised the price af bread, and last of ‘all, they have briefly condensed, and the disastrous effects whieh his,
| dune their best to barter the liberties and independence vote and h's apology, had. upon the Liberal Party we

The Ton. Mr. Jardine then moved that the said
Report be referred to the Comm/itee of Supply.”

The House then divided en the question, when eight
members voted for und twelve against the above
amount being granted from the Trensury to assist those
persons to procure seed grain and potatees, ‘whose
crops had been destroyed by a hail storm. Among the
members who voted against the money beitiy granted
was Mr. W. E. Clark—the same idividual’ who new
seeks the votes. of those whose misfortunes and
petitions he spurned and despised in 1353! _ What do
the people of Bay Fortune and Cardigan Roads think
of Mr. Clark's coolness and modesty after this? Will
they vete forhim? They may do so if they please ;
but, having advocated, to the best of our ability, ever
since we have had contro! ef a journal, the cause of
the Liberal Party, at atime, two, when that cause was
abandoned by every journal in the Colony except the
HeraLp, we are anxious that honest, independent and
intelligent mon should be elected to represent tho
Second District, and for this reason we haye fone into
Mr. Clark's political history. We have now done with
the subject, and we will conclude these remarks by
Loping that if the Legislature is about to be eleared.of
time-serving corruptiouists of the Conservative Party,
their places are. not going to be supplied by
so-called Liberals of the same stamp. The coustituency
know Mr. Whelan, and if they vote for him, they do
so with their eyes open. In supporting Mr. Clark,

Whose chief viject will be to look out for himself, and
to voie as his Patron tells him, unless, indeed, his un-
fortunate propensity to blaaderiag should lead him
sto an awkward assumpiion of independence, the
results of which we have already shown,

Se ie ee

We have been favored with the perusal of & private.
letter, dated at Rome, Dec. 27, 1866, from which we
have been kindly permitted to make the following ex-
tract i--

* Ido not know if my companion has writ
since tae Sch December, ihe uwve of that’ sep gt
Vope went, as usual, tu the Cuurch of thy ** Santi Ap-
ostuli,” and yave the benediction of the Blessed Sacra-
ment, I was furtanate endagh to be in the Church.
Due crowd in the piazza was groater than usual, and the

disturb the slumbers of avy red-hot revolutionist. | I
suppose you are aware that the French banner entirely
disappeared trom Rome ow the 11th inst A few sick,-
and some offivials, as yet remain; but they aro now no
more than private individuals. The Pontifical troops
now garrison Rome, and the ‘* Yelluwand White” floate
from St. Angelo. The Zouaves and a few artillerymen
occupy the Castle; the ** French Legion”. ia in
as also the greater part of the ** gens d'armes,” and
German sharp-shooters, The remainder of the small

various frontier towns: Viterbo; Villetri, Frosinone,
Friuli, ete., ete. Every person expected that, after the
departure of the French, outbreaks would take place,
as the revolutionists were known to be very busy. In-
deed, my principal reason in not writing sooner was,
that [ expected . have some startlin
nicate. But the band of the Almighty has been stretched
forth in ard of the Hol Fathers nf his enemies are.
stricken and confounded. The most perfect order has
prevailed in Rome so far, and the vigilance and pro

ness of the yons Warmos, in arresting
‘ters, as also fire arms, has allayed the fears of the timid
| It is rumored, and y. believed, that Austyia,
Spain, Prussia, and America have pony to an
understanding to reo respect for the rights of the Pope.
Whether this be true or not, this much, however, is certain,

Court of Florence ; although some time since all the papers
teemed with articles on the quick overthrow of the temporal
etd of the Pope, Moreover the above-named Powers
ave sent each a man-of-war steamer into Civita Veechia,
all of which have been | there quietly at anchor for some
time. And more still, the King of Prussia, sometime since,
wrote to iis Holiness assuring him of his determination to
sce rex the rights of the Pope and the Holy See.
Lately he has energetically written to Paris and Florence,
telling them of his determination. ‘There has also been
quite arush of Kuglish Statesmen to Rome and various
other capi als of Europe. Add to this the openiy oxpressed
convictions of the French Imperial Papgre of such an
alliance, and you will then have all that I Row aboutit.
There is at present in Rome an Itajian deputy on a similar
mission to that on which V. last year, but the
\ the. Pops and the revolu-
tion are -wain. The Italian ‘wo long in oxile, havo
been permitied to retuen, but the work of Chareh
still goes on.
it is evident that Divine Providen

ee is at

length

of the Colony for their own ‘vellish ends. Upon what- have alrealy showa, Taey were also such that ho iaterfere. The Pope's Allocution bas stunned his

inty operation thd provisions of tho Liberal Laad

‘ever plea they base their clapm for a renewal of power, dare not present himself for elvetion before any con-
they fail, “They are not to be thanked for carrylay stituency where his past political history is known, and

now that they aro kaown in tae Second District of

‘Purchased Bill, for thyy were forced into ity and we King's County,we hope they will have thi désired age

‘Law him ae he aesigted at Vespers an Unvistmas ove, He
The concoursg of wishowe te ,
bs

looked quite as weil as uiaal,
— nrach the same ain former years, Tho weather
delightful, aud everything going oq woil,and happily, i

sia |
It is rumored about Towa

however, they elect a mere “echo” ot the former,

cheers and waving of handkercluiets was something to

me, .

Is in hard to say what the énd wi
bee ae

hews to comma. -

iseveral times. The question had been to adjoura the ae inspired the confidence of the bold, es

that no rp anabad measures have as yet been adopted by the |

vumber of Papal soldiers are distributed through the —

suspiciats characs

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