SNS Ee Pea “
fumed, Twking the three dials in conneec- CORRESPONDENCE,
tiem. the etest emount of cubic ToeQee) nn nnnnndnnmennannn ewer

thos be ascertained, commencing anew every
time 100,000 fect bave rum through the
ne'er and been « susumied.

Now, to ascertain “the exsch amount of
gas which will be consumed during the
month of Jenaary, inspect the dials of
the meter on the Jst of the mouth; the
pointer on the left band perhaps stands be-
tween the Gvures 6 and 7, indicating O0,-
000 feet. The powter on the widdle dia!
stands between 7 avd 8, indicating 700
You thas have a total of 65 700 feet of gus
previously consumed, Sot the Ggures dowa,
and at the ead of the movth ayaa imspect
the dixl. ‘Tre right band dial s ands, per-
hap: nearly as before, and still imdicates
G0 000 feet. Tne middie ove has moved
on. and stands between 7 and 8, indieating
Fou, The rght hand one has made a
nawber of revolutions, and stands b tween
Yand 2, indicating 100 feet. We then
bave a total of 67,100 feet. Sabrract from

tect,

this number set down at the beginuing of

the month, and you have 1400 foet of gus
consumed, Maltiply this by the price per
cubic foot, and you bave your gas hill for the
mouth. Lf housekeepers would take the
tsouble to do this themselves, they would
satisty themselves and be sure to guard
bgeivet unstakes —Cirxinatti Enguirer.

—— ee
LIFE iN NEW ORLEANS,
[Correspondence of the New York World}

U! private reception parties and the like
there are enough. Everybody who sets foot
in New Orleans becomes ietected with the
prevailing desire to be hivienly happy. Al-
ihou.t oar army and ite offers be not na-
tives and to the manor born, yet is it ** more
}ionored in the breach than in the observance.”
To love im confiseated howsea and to ride in
contixeated carriages, drink confiscated (not
condemned) wines, is pleasant, natural, and
ant to loose the rems of puritanical restraint.
OF public assear ages there is nothing like
the ofd times. Of the private entertainments
we will not staltify oursel ves a8 Go report the
manners and tastes of oar hosts and hostesses
aad their company. although such prattte is
eommon enough. It ie sufficient to say that
the receptions of the seasoa are splendid
and quite beeoming te a Viewrious poople.

Avother sad evidence of the deworadaation
of the city, not attributable tu the war, is
the large number of gaudy whisky shops
pein. woder the name of saloons. These,
jor whe the city has always been noted,
are of the most spacious and « labeorate kind.
Sieeted with mirrors, deeoreted with fresco
stuce», and some of them hung thick with
Cupyls and Venuses, both in canvas and in
marble. There is the long range vf marble
counter, the elegantly dressed boor who
hands out the bottl «; but ao comfort amid

ev much splendor, [ao fact, it 19 rather ex-
pected that the customer shal) walk up to
the bur, pour down his liquor rapidly, and
hold on to the counter antl he gets beastly
drunk, when he is sugmarily kieked cut.
From the style of these groggeries and their

proprictors, we svould suppose drinking to questing a timely explanation ot the proposed |

he an exceedingly valgar practice in New
Urieans.

nu the boulevards, or the fashionable
Canal street, plenty of fasion may be seen.
The ladies are gay, and evidently squander
pin-mouey easier than their male friends
wnake it. .The stores are crammed with fine
merchandize. and the side-walks are thronged
ev day with a gay concourse of shoppers.
The ladies are far ahead of their norshern
sisters —or fur behind, which ?—having dis-
curded hoops, and, to contess honestly, look
very attractive without them. The milliners
must grieve at a habit [ perceive of part of
the population in going bare-headed, with
their hair plaited and otherwise elegantly

cvuffee.
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t
Tar Reiwxeo Crrims on Tee MisstssiPrt ~-
Further down as you go, stacks of ruined
ebimnics, burned houses, fields destroyed,
tell of the rebellion and its consequences.
Groups of contra bands gather together under
the banks im the neighbourhood of the gun-

FOR THE PUBLIC.

(No, 6.)
Justom ag tenaceum propoutl viram,
Nop civinm ardor pruva yobentium,
Non valtas inatantis tym
Mente quatit eulaa.”"—Dhon at
Mr. Eprron:

Laying all this aside, however, there may still
be some in our midst whe atleet to be even yel
skeptical as te what the Bishop's actual meaning
really was, We have heuestly shown that if he
oply stipolated for secular education a» it hew
eXists in our own educational institations — tree
trom any possibile rebligious sevtarion bias, oreven
| trom any porlhive rej eos piiflie nee whatever—
he may have asked for nothing in anywise either
necessarily paproper or even, under all the eir-
cumstances of the case, necessarily nudesirable,
all the pretentious viriings of our present sworn

Goverument advocates to the contrary notwith- |

standing. But there may be seme, when they
tind the ground net necessarily very firm under
them in one respect, ready te ehilt ther relative
position to another — there may be some realy
now to Insinwate that the Bishop really meant “a
godless education” ia the must profane siguitica-
tion which the term can be made te imply. OF
course We all know right well tnat he did not.
bat for the special benefit of those skeptical tolks,
and of our Tory friends in general, let us simply
suppose he did. And what then?

prove their circumstances i the least? No;

but if we de net mistake our own basis of argu- |

ment very much indecd, it will owly tend to eu
lbarraxs them exceedingly, and reuder the whole
course of their subsequent procedure m the case
very far more repceheusitle and ineattulably tar

Hess wise than it might have otherwise appeared |

jin the eyes of any civilized, not to speak of ew
| lightened, community. The Bishop's Letter was
surely nothing more, wither any cireustanees or
construction which cau ever be placed upon it,
than the insulated act of asingle mau. And what

wae the circumstantial oceasion of this act! |

What was its real primacy, well aceredited and
distinetively originating cause, whieh by the way

may now have beceme, through lapse of tune, |
comparatively forgotten by muuy whe yet speak |

of it ina general way in this Island! Were not
ithe succinet facts of the case precisely these: did
phot Mr. Stark, the late educational superintendent
lof this Provinee, during the term of office last
held by the late Liberal Government, of whom
Mr. Coles was the achuowledged leader, prtblish
a programme of his own views ia relation te the
method of practical commen school education,
which he intended proposing” for the adoption ot
our local Legislature; and did net a certain
specitieal course of Biblical lessons, which were
to be given daily by all teachers who should he
| heensed by the Board of Education te coudnei
these schools, enier expressly inte the rationale
of this proposed system! Was net this, P ask in
plam faglish, the first authentic tact ot the cuse ?
Most nadeubtedly it wus; and. if se, was not this
clearly contemplating a very great tanovation on
the old method which bad previeusly obtained
‘trom the earliest history of the country in which
the use of the Bible in the school was altogether
an optional elemeat? Most manitestly and most
assuredly it was. Well, then, what was the al-
mest necessary and natural result? Lick toot
this place all conscientious Reman Cathebes in
the eulire provinee ina prospective position, te
which, as a body, they could have ne natural
right te submit! Most selt-evidently wo did
And what again was the tnacoidatie resalt?!
Did not Bishop McDonald (at the instigation I
believe of some of bis own friends i Nova Seotta),
at onee write the celebrated Jetter to the Board
of Edvea'ion, then existing in this Province, re-

scheme of the superintendent, and protesting at
the same time, in the name of the whole Catho-
lie population, agaimst any change in the then
present system which should in any way compre-
tmise the Catholics themselves ina cheertul sup-
port of the general or mixed prospective educa-
cational interests ef the coantry ? Was not this,

] repeat, the substantial tact ef the event as it)

then oeeurred !) Most decidedly, and iu the briet-
est verity, such was the unconditional and abse-
lute and unalterable truth of the whele matter.
| Aud did Bishap MeDonald d» anything “ worthy
of” all the “stripes” wiuch he has siuce sus-
tained tor pursuing the preeise course which he
then did? Emmphatically ne!
more than his daty te his own peaple imperatively

required; and if some of our own clergymen whe |

pride thetuselves so cauel: ou their extreme tor
wardnuess in * watching the signs of the times”
aud forewaruing ali Protestants te allow no in-
tolerance to be assaured ot the part et * Reme,”’
themselves fairly entitled to any special credit for
their extreme vigilance — surely they will not, |
they cannot, condemn Bishop MeWonald for a|
similar discharge of his duty in a case se simply
plain as the one new betore as. The Bishop,

Git) ss eee

Will this tm-!

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we enquire in all solemnity—-was this or was this
not the certain faet of the case’ Fer if it was
then all we hare to any is, “ Well done Bishop
MeDowald! ‘Phon ceuldst surely wor
| atter all:
shave been a far greater man than St. Peter bim,
self! For we never tind him at any time repre-

}sent as having achieved any anch teat ef pure , offende ; i
We are not aware | trustees were called in te examine the sehool, and |

| te put things

the existing civil Goverument of even any ef these | had enough. t j
eo- | good many things muddling

perroual romance as this.
that he ever ence overawed, after this fashion,

comparatively Pagan States w hich flourished
temporary with hiweelt.
ebasing a thousand’ with a vengeanee. Thou
couldst thus, O Bishop, with the slightest serateh
at thy pen—mae wand—perpetrate oue ot the
inmost wimitigatedly toolish acts that ever, perhaps,

Thou mwuet. a/ all events, at this rate- | the p

‘This is certainly © one |

|

any rational bedy ef eivilized men have been |

guilty of performing! And what renders this thy

| them no how.

‘miracle still were nete-werthy is, that theu haet |

compelled these tien to do the very kind of thing
iwhich, above all others, they protess the mest to
abominate. For, neotwitletanding their noisy
-avowal or rather disavewal ef all these doctrines
more properly peculiar te thy church, we opine
that we can unquestionably prove that thou last.
lin this case, at least, fereed them te pertora one
‘of the greatest works of ‘ suvererogation” which
any set of living movtals Were ever huewn to lave
been gouded jute; and if we shall ultimately suc-
eced iu making this point clear to the unsoplus-
ticated apprehension of the good Tory inhabitants
of this Colony, we shall even, it we effect nothing
else, have made at least twe very pertinent dis-

! some modern instances, and the absolute neces-
sity of works of supererogation being sometimes

performed. Are our Conservative friends in this

that they were thus wbselutely driven, us by a
juniversal panie, throngh the single werd—and

hthat werd a palpable © lapsus penade’ —ol a

/you're worth, ne mere nor ne less. "
i with the new master: he wasn’t their superior,
! . . .
hand they knew it. As [T was saying, our orderly

| eivility.

‘looked awful serious, and gave the scholars a

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to hold a condle te the eld master. That thoneh
he'd been to town, ant had passed the Paaard, he
was'nt a betver seholur than them. They began

k miracles te give himiampidenee, ond to call him names, nad

vor fellow had a bad time of it. He was
forced to get eroas, and to beat some of the young-
sters pretty bad. With that the old folk gets
“dl, and keeps their children away. The |

strate again. We found matters |
Though the new master could do a)
well, yet whea he)
came to hear classes that had beew pretty well |
drilled by a clever man, they saw that he was)
shallow, and as far as real downright mind work
went, that they yras better up te it than he was. |
It is wonderful, Mr. Editer, how soon boys can
take the weight of & wan. You can't deecive
Hf you're not the right metal its
ho manner of use to look big, and te pat on airs—
they see right through them aud take you for what |
So it was

sehool had turned inte a very diserderly one, and
oar evil boys and girls into the most mnpident set |
of young vegabouds that was ever bieked inte
What was we te do’ We could'nt
give brains und knowledge te the teacher, and

{
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i witheut them: we saw well enengh he could never |
vet along with that bateb of youngsters. Wetsutherland. He says our statement i flee. | sted tebe paid; but at the lowest price which |

hearing about their ondutifal cendvet, and we |

j

| threatened to turn a whole grist of thea eut of)

coveries for their special benetit, viz: the possi |
bility of miracles really having been wronght in |

province, then, willing te adiit this alternative, |

school if they did’at mend their ways, But they |
did’ut mind for all that, and there was a)
reg’lar row in’ the distriet — some — blamed |

the trustees, more the teacher, and others again
the scholars. One or tvsn of as saw what was |
wrong, but it would’t mend matters to speak out.
As 1 said before, people grew carebess about
sending their children to school, and when the
Journal tor the second quarter came te be made

it, good reader !

lan individual necessarily involves a sacrifice of

“wnake ne sacrifice at all, except it be in the way

| Seerctary of the Temperance Hall Company—

sent—and ber prospects were never se bright ar
bnow. Te this the secret cname of the present rage !
It they ean guete Darbes, we shal) quote Davin:
” Our Ged whe isthe Lord of hosts,
Ia stilt uges our aide.
The God ot dacob aur refuge
Forever wall wbide.”’
All we want is the presence of God with ns sand
we care not'whe belie or oppose us. We will prove
reve than a toateh for bhein,

lam, youre
Jan. 13, 186A.

Mr. Morrison setting an example in that line ;
but much as we differ from him and Lis party in
our politica) views, Wwe commisserate him and |
thew ifthey are ebligedto put up with the insolence
and over-bearing effreatery of an empty, sootelh |
tious upstart like George Sutherland,

And this same Mr. Geo. Sutherland, in a letter
to the editor of the Islander, on Friday last, asserts
that we have published a tissue of falsehoods in
our statetuent about his bullying Mr. Deputy
Secretary Morrison, and says, moreover, that we
have defamed him. Defamed him! Only faney
Black Bill Byers may accuse us
of defaming him it we say that he is a worthless,
useless, dirty reunant of mortality. Defaming

&e.,
GG. SUTHERLAND.

~<a o- —

TUE LAND QUESTION,

~_——

As is declared by the Land Commissioners, in
which actually exists at the present tine would

Land Purchase Act.” “ By this system,” they
say, “it is apparent that three sigoab advantages

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truth, principle, and honowr, o the part of the
de‘amer. Mr.-S. mest etil consider himselt are excured, which Sre’ prevented by no other.
great if he thinks that he is worthy of such . Let. ‘The proprietors are dispc nil by their
sacrifice; but we hasten to assure Lin that we preparer

“Qndly. The tenants are enabled to purchase
‘their buidings and iuprovements, not necessarily
even to notice a person of the stamp ef George | at a price so high ws te represent the rents stipu-

of a sinall compromiae of pur henenr in having

Why dors he not prove it ae? It is easy fer, the expenses of management, added to the aggre-
him to de it, if he can. We deelare this fer a)

positive fact, that thes same George Sutherland | ~ , srdly, The wild lands are at once resened
attempted to intimidate Mr. Morrisou, as the |

| from the operation of the leasehold system, and
‘are subjected to the wholesome eontrol of the
pantan one. owen 7 b: SRR Die EOE | iweal Government, te be hereafter disposed ef in
in regard to the Catholic Concert ; and when he | feo-sinple, at moderate prices, as they are in all
found that Mr. Morrison would net do |

dis- |
honourable act, he—George Sutherlandthreat- |

gate cost of the estate, will warrant.

| the ether North American Provinces.”

their Report, “the most simple remedy for the evils |

en _ - =
—

‘toe lead them te a conchision Fes peeting hs dan
ster grie\anre of this ('wlons, semilar to that sf
whieb the Homse of Commons of 1233 arrived

touching the slates aad ibemr masters jn Britis
Colores. Tt cowld surely be ne difficult task te
prove to them that the granting of Whole

| Colony iu a single day, in huge blacks of 20,009

| acres each, was,” not only “ un inprerident and

| unwise exercise vf the prorogative of the Crow hn,”
| but that it Was mererver, a positive eVasion, or
violation, of the rights of the people. Nor would
it, we think, be more difhentt to prove ty them,
that * the proprietezs,” se eutled, in Opposing, as
| they have invariably done with all their tuight,
the remoustrances, and petitions for redress of

to have forgotten, “that though the righty of
| property have ever been sacredly guarded by the
aw, Whenever the possession or abuse of pr

| becomes prejrdicat to the public interests, tie
| rights and prejudices of individuals ean be éon-
stitutionally controfied fur the public good ;” and,
that, theretore, seeing Ubat these men—the pro-
prictors — netwithstanding the excessive indyl.
genee Which has, tune after time, indeed, through
out the whole period of their landlordism, trey
extended te them by the Crown, have exercised
| their power, as landlords, in a manner most op.
pressive to individuals, and injurious to the gub.
‘tic interests; the tine is acrived when concilig
|tery policy must be abandoned, when, forbear.
| anee must cease; and when by an exereixe of
‘constitutional control, an end must be pat fo

out, it was a long ways short of the lawful
avevedge. This made matters worse. The tras
tees was obliged to assess, aud there was no end
to the grumbling. ‘They sald, what waa true
enough, ther’ was never ne waut of scholars be-
fore, and if things was done right, there would
be more bow Folks that wos trends all their
hfe began to find tault with eaeh other, and they
swore they would not hold such a thankless effice
any longer. So yon see, Mr. Editer, under the
new law all hands is worse off. ‘The people has
to pay more taxes—they have te pay more to the
teacher, and they dou't get as much for their
menes. ‘The teachers get aiich less than they |
used te. ‘This makes them leave the bisness as

single individual to adopt the executive line of |
conduct which they have pursned in relation to |
this lamentable religious controversy which they
iust kuew they lave now, for such a length of |
time, been the chief instrumeuts in exciting! 1)
trow not. Well. it net, for their own credit never |
let us hear them agam harping about the
| Bishop's Letter,
But avother exeuse for the eccentric eonduct |
is brought terward by some of the advocates ot)
Poryism. ‘Phey affirm that the course whieh the
| present Government has pursued, was not inisti- |
gated by the Bishop's letier at all—but it arose
| tren the fact that the Bible was excluded trem |
the fist of text books specified by the Board of

soo as they can; and the people are ebliged te |

«ped Mr. Morrison that he would bring his
pGlitical influence te bear agaivet bua. Will Mr.
Sutherland deny this?

less as he is of bis integrity will say anything; and

knowing that, we must have some witness locerre- |

berate his testimony. Let Mr. Morrison, then, be
brouglt to the bar ef Publie Opinion, and if he
will say that Mr Sutherland did not use inti-
midation and threats in the satter referred to,
we shall de ample justice to that individual in
the premises.

There could vot be a stronger proof of Mr.

Hemay. A man so care |

| Then they (the Land Commissioners) — “that sic s) ,* whieh, Sor wrerlg jes
having stated that they bave unaphoonsly agreed | hundred yearn, hes. ie ite eBeet

‘to recommend the application to the whole Island ih ae. vaaliion nineties pout sim
lof the principles embodied in the Land Purchase | Colony—ns having taid the foundation of all'the

, Act, proceed te observe : ¢ 3 ; ;
} evils by which, in commen, they have
* [tis clear that the Local Government cannot h th ete bere
| gene rally apply the principles of tw Land Pur | Now, netwithetundion we ove these :
chase Act without the assistance of the Luperial | saan uaematiemntinhah tik aaa ? ring
i) penn “ ed } e :
bos weeny - idl | vad at manner in-which the prerogative of the
What the Commissioners mean “by the as- (Crews wen, ters. cacetsin’ sn viel
{sistance of the Imperial Government,” is the | venti of hist aan ai i seni Mat
| yuarantecing of a loan of £100,000 to the Island ; i i ¥ - bad

é, our denunciation of proprietary tyre under
and this assistance our jwea!? Liberal Government i ae

He did nething |

) Edueation which beld office wider Mr. Coles’s ad-
tinistration of the Governmeut. Now, it the last
excuse was bad—this is pitifully worse.
were the facts!) Were they net simply these

) Phe Board of Education which existed under

' Mr. Coles’s administration did specity a list of text
books for use in common sehools in this island in

pwhieb they did not include a direet mention of

bthe Bible. Was net this the simple fact! Most
eapheily it was!) Phere was ne erclasion about
it
another

;

They just lett if where it was and

always had been—eptional with all parties te use |
liter net as they pleased—and they did right, |
Had they done |

jmost inevilebly they did right.
hotherwise they would have dene wrong. And
What is mere, we have ue hesitation in asserting
our positive conviction that bad the prescut parts
tellowed their example in this respect, they would
have dope right alse. But this they have tet
done, and consequently under all the existing
circumstances of the euse, we say decidedly they

i have done wrovg. “Vhis we shall, however, esteem |

it our daty deliverately to prove. We have now
terminated the first series of our intended course
ot letters.

unhent poluts, and stating seme prominent facts
tor the general observation ef all, which we
shortly design te bring to bear on still more im-
portant fopies of present pracheal mterest, while

al the same tine we shall take good care to prove, |
as we go along, all those points tiewmeselves as this |

already advauced which may seem te require any
particular elneidation. :
add in the meantime is, that we ase perteetly as-
laured of all the statements we have new mate,
jand if they can be clearly demonstrated in due

season, as We advance, amy we tet here enqtire,
| pointedly, of Thase whe wrote some months since

such articles as “our secend great Protestant
) trumeph,” d&e., whether or not the un jawed wa
tives of Nowa Scotia and New Brunswick may
not have very strong reasons to doubt the truth
ot the assertioa that the Liberal Party lave ever
really attempted “ to thrast Popish doguas upon
| the whole community’ of this Island! We may

be wrong, but we certainly are willing te conjec-

Wat!

‘They never mentioned the Bible one way er!

They have been, every one nist see,
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concerned principally in throwing up seme pro- |

All we shall, therefore, '

put up with fellows that work for a ploughman’s
wages, and ore ouly fit for a ploughiau'’s work.
L dou't mean by this to cast any slur on) such
schoolwasters as are fit for their work. T knew
some of them, but TL kuow they won't teach one
day longer than they ean help. What [mean to
say ix, that the men whe teach for fifty pounds a
year, or a trifle over, as many de, are much
better fitted to clean stables and to chop store
wood than to pretend to teach our children what
they don’t Know theuselves
keeps in operation much longer, this is the only
sort of teachers that will be left in the country.
The Government may think that they are saving
a great deal by starving the minds of the children
tn tos way, but they'll find out one at these days
that they have been doing what vulgar people like
me culls xuving at the bung and wasting at the
gpile, Ne more at present from
Yours, &e. &e.
TUMPHREY HOMESIUM.
Vree Ifill Farm, Jan. )2, 1864.

The Examiner.

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Charlottetown, January 13th, 1864.

MR. GEORGE SUTHERLAND.

Mr. George Satherland—sometimes called the
Rey.—does not often crovs our path—and per-
haps it is well for himself that he does not—but
when an ill wind blows him along we feel that we
onght te treat him with a littl more considera-
tien than is due to an ordinary mortal, on account
of the position into which he has ferced himeselt
in this community, and the extravagant estimate
whieh he himself sets upon his abilities as a

preacher and politician, We have noticed for

seine time great resthessnessgen the part of this |

But it this law |

| Sutherland's want of common sense and disere-
‘tion than is evinced by his short letter in the
Islander, to which we have already alluded, That
‘letter betrays not the slightest mark of the gentle
man or scholar—it is intensely spiteful aud mali-
leiews ; and if we bad any ill teeling against the
man, we could not wish hima greater injury than
i that he would write another such letter.
| palmed himself off~or attempted te de it—tor a
Redeemer — as an advocate of peace, truth,
righteousness and Cliistian charity.
sake of his poeket—which is the first consideration

He has |
long time, as a Mivister of the Gospel of ead

For the)

was once in wu fair way of procurmg; and would,
indeed, have procured, had not their endeavours
te obtain it been defeated by false and seeret re-
presentations of the financial condition of the
/Colony. At present, to expect any benetit from
‘the recommendation of the Couiiissioners on thi
head, would be folly. As we said, on a former
| wecasion, “the present caanot
hentertain it without the most fagrant betrayal
of principles that have ever disgraced a party ;~
and now, perhaps, it will be better for the future
prospects of the people, if that part of the Com-
iissioners’ Report in which “the recommenda

Goveroment

with him always—one would suppose that he | ahem’? he,seidi, eae tie silane aneen ales edule
would try to keep up the deception. Bat te has!

thrown down the mask; be has shown that he is |
untruthful, that he barbours the direst ill will)

letter.
We have certainly, as we have before expressed

sepemous as an adder; and we will shew him
that he may be rendered as impotent as an adder
when we take the trouble to put him under our
heel.

He saves we have done mnch to “ disseminate

slander and falsehood” on this Island. We are

| poerite like George Suthertand, There is no honour

(in having such a persen for an antagonist ; but we
Lassertion disproved—that no man of sucha email,
mean, valgar intelleet as God, in kis irs¢rutable
Vrevidence has given te Mr. Sutherland, lias done

more, aecording to his sphere ef action, to eveate
| etrif- and uvncharitableness, with all theiraiteudant
levils of slander and falsehood, than has been ae-
| complished by this clerical charlatan frow the

‘time that an evil hour sent him bere te exude his

against some of his fellow creatures, that he is,

vet going to bands werds with an unscrupulous by- }

may say—withoat the slighest fear of having the i cendire* past ee “Cie geet “the Com

ourselves, heen much gratified to find that the
Commissioners have se freely admitted the
_wisdem of the policy pursued by the Liberal
| Party, when in power, with respect to the Land
| Question ; a policy, be it observed, of which the
Tories, when out of power, were moet liberal in
‘their abuse; but, in their partial adeptien of
which are to be found the ouly traces of politieal
wisdom to be discovered in the whole course of

their administrative career.

missioners freely admit “that the onginal grants
were iniprovident and ought never te have passed ;
thatthe grants were liable toforteiture for breach
of the conditions with respect te settlement, and
might have been practically annulled by the en-
forcement of quit rents ;" and so far we fully agree
with ther; but, at the same time, we as tully
dissent from their opinion “ that the lauds,” had

: : | very justly fave, at this mene seme ave |
in relation te our civil econemy, really presume | hoger 4p 0 wry br ~seilgreterae

wt

ture that our neighbours acrosa the Strait may |
row in which he might take.a prominent. part.
doubts of the true character of some ether party) yen, at the time of the lat® general elections
ith whieh this Island has a slight aequaintance. : :

individual, clearly indicating a desire to get up a |

‘the grants been so annulled, “ could have been

‘wental poison, He renonds us that the time |. siaiet hp the Crome wt varinue tine,

| will come when we shall be sent to our Jast ae-| ihent the cigheeet't tbat he teannt
| hs r rrpene ‘ ¢ :
count; avd, in the fullness of his condescension, | oe os ee .

which the Colony has so long groaned, yet the
course which we would desire to see pursued for
the promweting of its fufnre prosperity, whilst
having for ite ebject nething less than the com-
plete extinetion of proprietary claime or rights
in this Island, and that too in a manner which
would impose ne burthen upon the people, would”
aflord to the propieters all the compensation to
which, in reason or fairness, they could possivly
lay claun. To dispessess the proprietors by
escheat, that is, without compensation; or alle
gether to repudiate their claime, alter they have,
notwithstanding their disregard of the condithous
(of their grauts, been allowed, for so many years,
under the sanction and by the authority of the
British Government, to exeretse all the nghte of
ownership over the estates possessed or claimed
by them, would be positive injustice. Thin we
would say, supposing such an act were to be bad
recourse te by the British Government, or were
te be the effect of specific legislation ou the part
of the British Parliament: but had the private
and public evils which have arisen te the people
oft this Colony, from “the vicious system” of laud
tenures which has been allowed 80 long te pre-
vail, been corrected by a Court of Rgcheat in the
Colony, the correction, although it would have
deprived the proprietors of every acre of land
claimed by them, without awarding to them one
farthing as compensation for their lass, would
have been, on the part ot euch Court, a pertectly
just, legal, and constitutional preceeding.

Assuming that, on having bad the land-tewnre
grievances of this Colony fairly and fully brengit
before them ; and having fully satistied Themselses
that these grievances had their origin iu ae an
provident and ise exercise wf the prenoga-
tive of the Crowe, and tn the subsequent exoes-
sive and unjust forbearance catesded te proprie-

Malpeque, January, 1964

rf waiting for em
boate, & ‘then, mm the letter which he wrote to the Board |

We shal see. W. KEIR.

— — +o —

| the Ne-Popery how! was fresh and vigorous, and |
| when the dirty yellow rag of Orangeism was fret

there was great excitement m the land—when |

<tretched to the breeze te eatch the gullible and |

he says, he will leave us te “an awakened con-
We want ne re-

”

science and te a just Judge.
minder of our inevitable fate—it awaits George |

beenuse “the Crown was the julge in all these
cases; andeven, thongh it were admitted that the |
Sovereign was advised, and that the policy |

| tors, by successive British Governments, the mm
perial Parliament, inflaeneed by conenlerations
precisely similar te these whiel weighed with

doymeut, while rejure-
ing in their trecdor, hg protect by the
gouboats from roving hands of gueri!las, who
seek to destroy and kill them. Vick burg
soon appears, with but htte mark of the
July bombardment, from the river, but go
you into the city, and the terrible marks of
the bloody and destructive seige meet you at

~ every point, in dilapidated buildings, houses

and stores torn by shot and shell, caves and
barricades in the sireets, and an immense line
of entrenchments of every style of: engimeer-
jag in the rear. The presence of death is
visible in the mourning costumes of the wo-
raen, for almost every family telle you of a
vacant ebair at the hearthstone. At Grand
Gulf you see only a pile of ruins, and a
solitary house perched high upon, the bluffs
among the cedars, yet if you logk you will
sea that it is tenantless, and used only as a
habitagion for owls and bats. Natchez has
eacaped the fire and destruction of the war,
and so has Bayou Sara, hut come you to
Baton Rouge and see the monument of
Louisians's justice in her dilapidated State
Hyuse, whose hollow, blackened and crumbl-
ing walls are fit type of secession. See the
houses and eburches torn with shot and shell.
and go with me to the grave yard or cemetery
and there see the marks of battle on the

broken tombetenes and searred trees, and /as in ite different strategetic revolutions it has |

fences penetrated with bullets which tell of
the etrife of bloody war. Observe yonder
those groups of women, strewing fresh gaz-
lands of ** immortelies "’ on the tombs of the
loved and lost. Oh, woman, how holy 13 thy
miseion—** Last at the cross and earliest at

the graye.”

Bayou La Fvarche, the heart of the great of Lishop Mebowald had er even ean have tor) would make it alinost Useless to the peopie
has only its uturket house to this characteristically suprineipled line of proce-| raise the money, they taxes the poor
Tne hotel is burned. | dure on their own purt, way be very easily ga-) molasses and the poor man’s whiskey, and lets) pames associated with an institution proved to

pugar region,
mark its former site.
the dwellings are marked hy piles of barned
brick, charred timbers and half broken ehinn-
neva, and this is all that is left of the once
pretty village. Napoleonville has shared the
same fate, and many of the plantery:
down the bayou have been destroyed. Such
are the ruined sites of the Mississippi delta é
—Nerthern paper.
ae _

Axorner Conrepedate PaiyaTeeR IN THE
ArianticOcean.~-fn addition tu the notortuus
Confederate cruigetes, Alabama, Gieorgiz,
Florida, &c., authentic information has been
received of the movements of vessels chiefly
under sail, eruising in the S:uth Atlantic
Geaan—some in the track of the homeward-
bound East Indrawen, and others in the direct
route ol those outward bound on the Southern
Jutitudes. Another addition hag been made
te those cruising gader the ** ‘ars and bars”
of the Covfederate States, and was on the
Lith of August spoken off the Brazilian coast.
When last she was seen in latitude tour
south, longituce thirty west, near the Island
of Fernandy Norhona. and quite ig the course
of vessels bourst for East India, China, or

Australian ports.

eo, named

Stirenes ty 4 Saiatr.—The following ig a
singular eales
shirt ;—Stitehing the evllar,
sewing the ends, 500; button-holes, and
sowing buttons, 150. sewing the collar and

athering the neck, 1,204; stitching wrist
as 1 228; sewing the ends, 63, hutton
holes, 148; bemming the slits, 264; gather-
ing the sleeves, S40; setting on wristhands,
1.468 ; atitehing on shoulder straps, three
rows each, 1889; hemming the busom 393 ¢
sewing the sleeves, 2

526. sewing the seams, S48; setting side

nee in, 424: hemming the bottom, LL04, spiseguble state ot cowardly alarm, verging on,

otal aamber of stitches, 20 649.
The poorer classes vi women in England
as late us the beginning of the present century,

were employed in many towns in carrying

Dricks and mortar on their heads to the
masons at work on even the highest buildings,
Wowea stripped from shoulder to loins, may

even now be seem picking up Inups of coal

from the Tyne wed, when the water is low.

houses |

of Education in the special jostance of seeking to |

i discharge bis persoual duty, to which we here
allude, happened, as Mr. Ailan has expressed i,

unfortunately to say that nothing sort of a“ god- |

less” system, maniiesty meaning, as we have al-

ready shown, and as we are all vow fully satisfied, |

“secular” system ef education would satisty the
, Catholics.
Allan in this respeet by any means. We diifer
very mueb with that Rev. gentleman in: stppos-
‘ing that tis *iapsus lingte’ was in any wise, on
the part of the Bishop, * unfurtunate.” We re
gard it, on the contrary, as oue of the inest fyrtu-
nate mistakes which any wan ever wade i Chis
country. Aud for why!

Yory Hydra of this little Island to the indignant
vaze of the universal public. [ft shows, forever
\ shows, and ferever wust show the whole world

that the Lory conscienes of this Colony is an ex- |
You knew that our Government made a new. ever condescended to rest upon the vulgar ground,

ceedingly perverse and perverting affair, But
did the Tories really take advantage of this acei-
| dental and te be sure rather clumsy labial slip of
the Bishop to foist themselves inte power over
jhis devoted head! They did,
| were sent anderhante dy round or at least inme
| diately recand to the different Protestant Ministers
lof the Provinee “te start the ball,” and how
| boisterously and incessantly and Indicrously have
| they kept shouting and kicking at it ever since,

| wew for nearly six years — this mean ‘Tory toot-
| ball — been roting aronnd the land, completely

| erushing, as they vainly imagine, every vestige of
j liberal sewtimeot and liberal hope aud liberal
| vitality from the fated scene of its unsalutery de-

| predations !

ithered by all who really waut te Know, trom the
| fact that oe sooner did Mr. Coles write hin that

ithe Govyerument had no intention of acting upon land makes the poor map make it up; and if.
Superintendent Suark's suggestions, ise tar as) ewin’ te sickness, or a busy time, or bad wether, community which may have the misfortune te |
the pappesed systewmatic Bible lessons were con-| there is'nt a large average kept up, the people's harbour it—Mr. 8. ean no longer arouse any |

“cerned, than he expressed himself pertectly satis: |
ified. He wished fo make no intevation on his}
vwnh pa

with avy alteration or improvement which time
wight suggest, without any novation being at-
| tempted by any religions seet in the community |
whieh might invelve the religions principles of
vany other. Such then was the whele “head and
trout” of poor Bishop McDonald's crime against
the awfully outraged Tory clique of this identical
island! Hapless Bishop! Thine was surely a
monstrous transgression! Wilt thou ever obtain
}parden for such an offence? Phe Tories, we |
| knew, especially the more honest among them, |
are new at the eleveuti hour, when they are be-|

We cannet, however, agree wth Mr.

Simply because it has!
conspired more than anything else te being on in)
its true light the unprivetpled disposition of our:

(FOR THE EXAMINER.)
| Me. Eorron;

As | got a little time to-day, T take up my pon
te write a few lines to you. Our Jack laughs at
) the netton of my writing for the paper.

pup ier a ietterary character. Now, sur, 1 deu’t)
} stick myself up as such ne way, I dou't want te
appear any better than J am.
fand what | have te say Ll want to say in my own
way. Bless your beart, if J waa te think about!
| spelling and grammar,and them sert of things, !
wouldu’t be able te write one sentence.

drive evervthing else vut of my head, and Pd have
te buru my petper, and throw away my pen before

i had been to work tet mrtussits,

eddication, and | suppose when a man that’s got

lno learnin begins to talk about that, be must |
) put on greater than ever. —

make some excuses.

eddication law the last time they set, and a,
| pretty mess they made of it. The Tories was
| never any great iniends to eddicution.

‘most incessantly in pulpit and en platform—he
He says proclaimed himself as one of the great champions
f ougivt to learn gramuar and to spell before Peet) ot protestantisn—W. H. Pope aud John Arbuckle
l were champions in the sane canse—and men in
Tama plain man, office, knowing how hopelessly ignorant the Isle

If 1 the petty preacher of Orangeism, and led bun te
coummeneed thiukin about thea things, they would | pejieye that bis opituans were really worth some-

What makes were suelo us fo command respect in every
me talk this way is that Pin geing te write about | geetion of the Island.

They did ances with a ned, it was te be considered as a

fanatieal — George was a mighty power in thi.
| little community of ours—bis tongue wagged al-

of Skye peopl-are, who were the principal victims
of the wiles of Sutheriand awd Arbuckle—petted

thing, and that lis talents, piety and learning

George was spoiled beyond
all hope of recovery, The peacock strut was
His eyes seareely

{

and if he hoveured any of his passing acquaint-

Sutherland as well as us, as well as the weanest

iworm that crawls—every heer is filled with
|

adopted, from time to Cine, was to lement and
injudicious, still the Sovereign having net only
overlooked the laches of the subject; but, in ex-

l warning: bat let us ask is he in a tremendous

their predecessors of 1SU3, when they se gene-
rously and justly provided for the emaeipata
of the slaves im the West Ladies, were to rotewr

ress language, having repeatedly coutirmed the

hurry to see our head “ beneath the sed” as well | P y . pointe al yi . . } : 4
th who he calls his * foes 27” He intinutes | Ores gpenns,' ti fis aggieiate "Se one
ee . : \grautees in any other manner than as the lawful
From this we is nna So
| possessors of their lands.” Frew this opinion, |

i

we say, we totally dissent; and, ia doing so, we |

that our conscience slumbers.
must onter that bis is wide awake, and transeen-
"Ngee cay Gat panel | set agaiust it a declaration, made by the Com-
fain make us believe that he will be regarded asa “nissioners in another part of their Report. It is
: ; fo, weet otesting proprictors ef Prinee Ed-
white headed boy amongst the seraphin, whase | pote , serenity 6 . . -—t sont ‘
a ; ave “tte va te oper-
place will be on the right hand of the Alinighty, | yas ‘ por ay a ik iano a Fhyte a0

to whisper te Tim the measure of punishment a - “wna eo pe gah fron jn
’ ee
that sheuld be meted out to such delinquents as ‘i a Capra ie Volta’ Park hake Widles

‘ le
we. Our readers may remember the aneedote of 7" 5 lola nig he vf

4 vod, because every acre they hold is held by the |

os EA AP pega aa yenerous forbearance of the British Government
, eave ; 9 *] ; . “ ,

* Well then. Ma, Féui’e tat to! after breach of conditions ever and over again.”
e en, da,

hope he will.” Lut farther. We not only again repeat
go there, because Grandpa will say what are Hei : a i

Mr. Sutherland having

dently pure.
haus great punishment in stere for as; and would

‘that this “* valuable island, won by the valor and

award a sum of money for the emancipation of
the tenantry or serts of Prince Edward Island,
£100,000 or at the most £120,000 weald be qaite
sufficient to afford the proprietors an ample com-
peosation: for the extinguishment of their seig-
neurial rights or claims, as we shall ai once pro-
ceed to shew.

Jn support, ther, of this estimation or assertion
we shall quote from the Report of the Special
Committee of the House of Assembly appointed i
the Session et 1842, te report on the value of
Property enumerated in the Census Keturns, aud
which was adopted by the Hoase. In this Re
port, it is stated: * As to the valve of the claim
to the soil of the Island, maintained by the heise
and assigns of the Grantees, about 1,300,000 acres
were granted, Of these 239,000 acres are new

Some circulars |

their best to make people siek and tired of the | thivg that should be remembered and talked of

j old law, by neglectin’ the schools and keepin old for mouths afterwards, The elections over—the

children doing here?”
made up his mind that some sert of Aearen ia re-,

‘the taxes of the whole people,” oaght, from the

enterprise ot British solders, and maiutamed by held in fee-simple, and this being deducted, laws
n n ,

Tins, then, bern in dishonesty aud | best able should pay the most.
deceit, it een never surely end its career in giory.| since they dares’nt do away with the law alto-| pe w olcne oft een .

" , d ‘ ’ : : e would be always a leading spirit, The Orange
Donaldsville, the outict of | How littl reasen, in Honest truth, the tradccers | gether, went to work to fix itap in a way that | : . « 8

Joluny Arbuckle in a place that wight be filled by |

'

a respectable man, and a iman that was willin’ and |
able te de his work.
of a general eddication law that gave the poor man’s
ehild a3 good a chance of vetting learn’ as the
rich wan's, and they would’nt give itup. More

than toat, if there was’pt money enough to keep) Orange flag struck from its presamptieus heights
by the good right hand of the Duke of Neweastle

hita gein’ they wos willing te be taxed in a reason-
able way te sappert it. But they thought that |
j the tax should be a fair oue, and them that was

"Pes }

the rich man’s land and the rich man’s wine go

But the people saw the good | for at the pubhe expense for four years to come
| —the No-Popery ery completely out of tune—
every body sick and tired of hearing it, and the

Well, the Tovies | of that society in which he had the folly te suppose

excitement allayed—the Jacks in office provided

—George fell as flat as a pancake on the surfaee

Lodges were and ave going tosleep. Some sensible |

tian’s people of the yellowest type don’t eare to have their

vserved for bim in the next world, we begin te con- |

sider whether it is not advisable to make an _ a! ae a tl Te teas hooey nt
arrangement with the view of getting inte a place" ars -— cS sina an 4! gran ay iy bs Ni
where he may net be seen with our immortal | the Crown were an mestneaneran ar irect
; cag i | violation of the people's rights; but we fearlessly
eyes, so as te prevent him from asking the que- ' . see ;
rulous question—* What business has the Editor add, that, supposing the grants + ee practi
of the Examiner here?” Certain we are that ig, Cully annulled by the enforcement of quit rents,and
Mr. Sutherland keeps his preseat frame of mind | that thereon the lands had been — we ay
wutil he goes te des last account, we would not be | a ae ‘abi decal - saat ry Paps *
disposed to envy bins the kind of bliss that awaits | an abuse of the yeaenge ~~ one “ een:
, “as unwarrantableand indefensible as thatot whieh
| the Crown was originally guilty when it incon-
siderately granted the whele Island, in a single

]
him iu the Jile te come.

We ought te apologise to our readers—and we
do apologise — fer giving se much attention

1,061,000 acres claimed by these Granters, part
ef which they have leased; but the greater part
is unleased: and of both leased and wnbeased the
greater port, or at least nne-tenihs, is wow Te-
claimed from the state of nature.”

“Now, 58. per acre ter wilderness land may
be taken as the outside value therenf, and rather
exceeds the average value of sales of Government

| tands in New Branswick, and this gives the value

of this seignenrial claim (if calid ) at £250.”

“Taking another view of the matter, and
ferring to the account published in Lendon, iatoomt
1807, by Capt. John Stewart, and te other se

fires. They cuts off a third of the teacher's pay, | be disloyal, and pronounced by the Queen's Minis-

|

to Mr. Sutherland. 1a our younger days we were

sk ee , . f 20,000 acres each.” OF}
day, “in huge blocks o an * counts, it would appear that the average market

got to make up what's wantin’, se the poor is
burdened every way. The rich has yet their

ought to be kept up) without paying any thing |

extra, but the poor man is forced ty let his chil- |

dren grow up without learuin’, or else pay, 1 was | acquire the information, that he is about as vulgar | We were
going to say, ten tines as Much as be used te bes) and conmen-place a man a8 ever thrust himself | could, Mr. Sutherland shall be eur” fuot-ball” in a

fore. Well, I believe that if he has to hire a)
schoolmaster worth having, what with one thing |

and another, the sn he'll have to pay won't be | amount
ctnuch short of that. But T suit imore than 1 in-! extraordinary measure of respect.
{ We detailed last week the particulars of Lis at- the boys evinee in kicking the more harmless and

tended to when I began. I only wasted to show
hew the law worked. We had last year a real |
good teacher.
years, He was an intelligeut man, and he under- |
steud his business rent well, Waeu the new law |

giguing te fiud that the unprineipled iisrepre- | came vut, be comes to me and says: Mr. HH. 1

;septatiqns of this thy simple natural action is |

ain't going to teach under this new law; 1 got tou

jlikely, in the long ran, to do themselves mueh | little already, and when it cowes ivte vperatioa, |

}more real berm than thee — beginning to feebs / Vil get much less.

‘Tittle ashamed of their unjust treatinent which

‘thou hast thus sustained. “Doubtless, theretore, | we'll not get the likes of you in a hurry. Tu his; %

With that, I says,

/ Un very sorry, I know when you _ goes

‘ter as injurious to the peace and welfare of every |

He had been with us tour or five | tempting to intimidate the

}

lenthusiasm: on that subjeer — his sermons and |
rt: be only a the present free school | College and their Grammar Schools (1 dou’t say | speeches tall upon listless or disgusted ears; and, |
| systen) to be retained in all ite integrity, irse far) anything against thea, they're good things and) 5) gy. ; . ad

jas promischous secular education is concerned, | ‘in fact, he has just had sense enough to discover,

in a quarter where he could hardly expeet to,

on the eyes of the publie—that lie has ne par- |
influence, and that he is entitled to we

Seeretary of the Tem- |
perance Hall Company ito a compliance with |
his wishes regarding the use of the Hail for the
late Catholic Concert. We shewed that he was |
mean, and spitetul, and narrew-souled cuough to |

* Master, try to spoil that Concert, by telling the Secretary ,

at he must break faith with the Catholics, and

| it is owing to this slight sprinkling of shame that | off hand way he says some handsome things tome, | not let them have the Hall on the wight for which |

jsome uf them still desjre to persist in hinting that
thou didst really wean “a godless education” in
‘the profane séuse of the term. If they could only

much greater amount of * freedom of conscience.”
| It js got pleasant to know that they have persis-

are willing to meet therm on the worst conetrne-
tion which they can ever impose upon thy words
We have already said that thie act, in any setise
they can possibly view it, was surely the uct of
a stele mun. Weil, does not the query now

;

mane a setting in slecves plualy resolve itselt inte thie—Did or did not that | pouuds Was enough tor vim; another sed that he
and gussets, O50, tapping the sleeves, L.~ jsolated act vi a single wan drive the whole Dory did'nt kuow how he would turn ont, aud be would | individual clainss,
When jnfluence of the contemptible would-be tyrant

Protestant communuy of this Island inte such a

utter destruction, as to have induced them to
storia

local Government of the day with a
sudden avd prefernatural array of premacure aad

ot
walt

* delorous pentious on the sulgcet? aud did these

Lot-house petitions really senre the equally time:
serving, impetent and chieken-hearted Govene
rornt of the day jute the eguregious ave nupree.
dented farce ot actually attempting to dispose of
this special religious dithculty of the moment—
this great “casus belli” by positive legislative
enactent! Was this, we again enquire—and

| that there’s uo use in speakin’ here, but te make |

| a long story shert, the master left us, and went-
i where he’d be better paid for his work; se the |

} wild about the country all summer, and we ad-
vertised tora teacher. Twoer three came along,

looked # littl: smarter than the rest, ese along,

land we called a meetin’ te hire him. Some liked

the man’s looks, and some did’ut—seme was malignity which a fiend himeelt mightenvy upon the | | aceon to the yvlorious history on noble self demial

| willing to subseribe to bis selary, and seme
‘was'’ut. One said he was a soungchap, and torty

give him something i he pwased them.
the subscription list came to be added up, we
were six pounds short; aud every oue that could

lativa of stitehes io % pi2ID | make this gut, they wight, of course, inhale as) school was vacant tor a short time, but we found spare change and the leisure of the public.
four rows 3,000 ; | well as exhale “the vital air of heaven” with aj it would never do te have the children ranaing

they engaged it, because he had some Tea Shine
ofthis own with which he wanted to forestall the |
We |
pointed out the fact that the Seevetary spurued |

ithe dishonoursble aud unmerfly proposal ; end}
tently accused & fellow man of thags and mitents bat as we did'ot like their looks, we let them thereupoa Mr. 8.—for a moment stunned. no
of which he was never really griliy, Well, we) slide, as the boys say. At last a young chap that doubt, by a rebuff from sech a person as the this City whose antipathy to the Free Church bas |

Deputy Colonial Seeretary — scowled with a

presumptuous official, and teld him that the situ |

vation he beld was the fruit, not ef the holder's | Qa. recenuy given. Suitable channels of coumiu-

but of the great power and |

who thus inenaced the poor Secretary with his
!

be coaxed had given as much af could be sgueezed displeasure, aud who, he bousted, had the same

outot him. When the teacher saw that no more power to displace him that he

was coming he took ——(it won't do te mention
names) a one side and whispered to him —— i

a Cousin, or uncle or something like that, te the |
teacher. Alter they had done
aud put down his paime tor what was wantin’ to
wakeup the }o pouods. Well, the teacher went
to werk, but somehow be did'nt do well.

ad *

came torred he held it upou such a dishouourable tenure.

had to instal bi
in office. We have since heard that Mr. Morrison
declared he would resign bis situation if he thought
The

_ resignation of office is a thing that a mewber of
The Uw Tory party is exceedingly slow te come at,
beys did'nt respect hun. They said be wae'nt fit and we de net expect te

startled by seeing

this head, we have the authority of one of the
greatest of English lawyers for saying, “ the pre-
regative of the Crown extends not to do any |

fond of tovt-ball—a game that is new popular
with the Charlottetown boys. We kicked “ the

ball” with infinite dehght, and even now when a indeary ¢ it be eter’ ib the beset 46the prople, |

- and therefore cannot be exerted to their prejudice.”
We are now, however, persuaded that, if any
thing like a tall measure of justice as to be con-
ceded er awarded to “ the tenantry”’ of Vinee |
literary point of view. If he comes in our way, Edward Island, yt ie exer —_ od
again, we will endeavour to ‘toe the mark” te omnot o> © Sk Gunes 8 ale: ONG
his satisfaction, aud without any more malice than °? this head; for they would then see how much
it concerns the hover of the British people gen- |
erously to acquit themselves of that responsibility,
We say the Purliament, not the Government ; be- |
cause, altbough the Government might be fully
convinced of the truth of all that might be.
advaneed in favour of the demands of the people |
‘or tenantry of the Island, yet se long as the |
question of redress should he between them and
An editorial article in the last ‘ Examiner’ is devot- the Colunial Office merely, the enpeteente af thoy
ed to my defamation. You will not be surprised past warrants the cenclusion that redress weuld |

when I say that it is a tissue of falsehood through be withheld,
out, The poor mortal who edits that paper, and 4 base :
who, during bis career on this Island, har done so The question, we admit, is net one concerning

a S co relly san ' geet ~ jevile of a nature so ablierrent, or of a magnitude
ed couscienve, and 10 a just Judge | leave him, se fearful, as these of negro slavery; and, there-
ee re j fore, it might not be found quite go PuRy te enlist |
so agi i the sympathies of philanthropic men in the British
Parliament in the interest of the Tenantry of
Priuee Edward Island, as it was to engage thein
in behalf of enslaved Africans.
doubt, Lowever, that, in the British Parliament,
there are men whose minds are so deeply imbued
with the love of justice, that were they fully put
in possession of the merits of the question, in its
different relations, they would —influenerd by
nothing but their hatred of wrong, and their love
of right—wiilingly undertake to plead the cause of
the Tenantry of Prinee Edward Island betore that
august’ bedy ; and could they (the British Partis-
nent) only once be brought te give their senous
attention te the subject, and to deliberate pou
it, it could be no difficult undertaking, we think,

stray chauce occurs, we love tohave w kick at it,
in remembrance of old tines. Of course we
never had any malice againet the dirty thing, but

always desirous of booting it as faras we

wore useful thing that affords them bealthtul

amusement.

The following is the letter which we have
fuvoured with our notice in the preceding
article :——

To sur Eprron oF Tur IsiaxpeR,

Sia,—

always been on the point of running over. Any

ust of wind, any breath of prosperity, or any re-
of that Church would occasion an immediate over: | We have su
fl w of these wells of bitterness. The opport Bly

hever wanting at a certain office, and
they have found their natural deposit in the
columns of the * Examiner.’ ‘To those busy, ni
licious toes who keep runuing out aud in pablie
offices, dropping their standerous misre presentations
to all whe an x atste for such things, we say—
keep cool: the Free Church has seen mightier men
than vou, and men of Joftier pretensions, and hold-
ing higher offices, go down to the dust, ai their
euvy and their hatred buried in the tomb; aud she
shall live when vour heads are beneath the sod and
your lying lips stlent in death. The God who has
‘leased her aud prospered her will hold in derision
her opponents. Let them know that the Free
Charch, in Charlottetown. was never so numerons
as at this day—at least tour tiues Whal Wey repre :

nication are

| which for 67 Townships would give

‘houses and land cleared and fenced, but oF

value of a claim to one of the Townships of this
Colony from 1769 te 1550, was about £

£253,200
14148

—_

Total, £175 8
“And yonr Committee, making every deduction,

[uterest on that sun,

cannot estimate the amount of prices received UF

the proprietary claimants and their agente, at les

than £50 O00
And of Rents, at less than £ 160,00
Fh

Total, 3.210

“Nor the amount of Quit Rents, Taw Ase

ment, Road Compensation Assessment, oud ait «

Lhe
ate

Leaving £ isan?

“Tt is enbmitted by your Couumitter, that if, 9

addition te the £125,000, which they, oF rate!

theit agents have received, the Lmperial Gover”
went award them either the above £203,208,

other advauces, at more than

‘the smaller amount of £475,158, it will
“more than ean, in equity, be clained by those wie

have acted as have the Grantees, and theet -
succeeded to their territorial! claims er wud
and it is also submitted that trom the tables
it is beyond the

accounts herein referred to,

‘means of the Colony to pay the rents

by these individuals.

Ard respecting Rent paid to the propriety
claimants, the following statement is made 1
said Kepert:

“Of the land eecupied, 300,000 acres appre" .
from the Census to be under rent. Ths,
several Townships, is Ix, Gd. and 2 rg

" » asi ery,
leases of 42 years — the lessees entering aor
ness wooddand. On some Townebips, rd =
settlers obtained leases at Gd. per acre for

In general, the rent is Je. stering

venus. :
duration SH YO™

acre, per annum, wud the