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NOVEMBER 9, 1889.

JuG-HANDLED EQua.tty

: ‘gees ; 7 the best offices in this Province with men

of the other Provinces, and shuts all the

avenues to promotion against Islanders of merit ! The injustice of this is so manifest that its continuance will be solely due neglect of the Island's Press and the Island's Representatives to assert our rights at this

juncture.

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Misapprehensions Corrected.

Irv is indeed strange that our enlightened eoutemporary the Argus, with a whole week at his disposal, should have entirely misapprehended the position We have taken with regard to the ‘unexpected change. Far from raising the ‘‘sectional cry, we have repeatedly, and of late, day after day, maintained that the reasonable and only way to abate the * sectional cry © is to fully accord to this Island equality with the other Provinces in all things,—especially with regard to positions in the Civil Ser- vice. When justice is done the Island, and positions of honor and emolument in all parts of the Dominion are given to Islanders, the “‘sectionai cry im the Is- land must cease. Bat if this be not done— if the policy hitherto carrica out hy both

arties be continued—the sectional ery— which is a pernicious cry, destructive of true union—will become louder and stronger year by year ; for the Island has a right to equality, and its people are British freemen.

Another error into which both the Argus and the Pregress have fallen, is that we are defending Mr. McNab. Mr. McNab does not, at this time, need any defence. He applied for relief from his oflice, and his application was granted--more promptly periiaps, than he anticipate’. lf we were warmly attached to Mr McNab, we should rejoice at the prospect of his removal from a place in which for every accident that may occur, he is liable to be hounded down asa murderer ; and we should be particularly

leased that the circumstance of his removal has brought his chief calumuiator to his knees, making explanations and asking par-

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These misapprehensions are, we have no doubt, the result of an unfounded suspt- cion that the editor of the EXAMINER is influenced by certain persons who are not mamed, and certain motives which are not mentioned, ‘Ve here assert most emphati- cally that the editor of the EXaMIner is influenced in his course by no person or motive, or anything but a sincere desire to promete, by obtaining a recognition of our rights, the mutual sympathy between the people of this Island and the other Pro- vinces of Canada, which he believes to be absolutely essential to the success of the Dominion. Persons and papers who hint at ‘‘motives,” will please explain them- selves, or else forever after hold their

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‘Our correspondent ‘‘Peter’’ and some other persons seem to think our ex- planation of the reason Mr. Archibald’s private secretary isa Nova Scotian a reflec- tion upon the clerks at present in the Superintendent’s office. ‘Than this nothing eould be further from our intention. We simply meant that it was but natural that Mr. Archibald would desire a personal acqiaintance with one admitted to the intimate relations of a private secretary. We learn that the néw Secretary will simply attend to the duties of short-hand writer, and that the clerks heretofore in the office will continue to attend to the more important business.

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A Good Impression.

We are glad to learn that the Island made a decidedly good impression upon the Railway magnates who visited us a few days ago, and that they were agreeably surprised by the condition of the Is'and Railway. No doubt they will influence many summer tourists to come to the Island and test its many advantages as a

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The Munro Bursaries.

AN ISLANDER READS THE LIST.

We very nearly overlooked the fact that Mr. John P. McLeed, lately student of Prince of Wales College, was a successful competitor for the ‘‘Munro Bursary” at Dalhousie College, Halifax; and that in the order of merit of the winners of bur saries and scholarships—representing all the Maritime Provinces—Mr. McLeod’s name stands First. This is, at this junc- ture, a most pleasing fact. While our beys at home are being kept down by ar- rivals from Nova Scotia, our boys abroad, in honorable competition, are taking the first places—going up ahead of Nova Sco- tians, New Brunswickers, and all the rest.

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As WILL BE SEEN by advertisement in another column, a meeting of the Diocesan Church Society will be held in St. Paul’s School Room, to-morrow evening, at 7} @ clock, p. m.

MARKET prices are unchanged.

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PARLIAMENT meets on the 9th of December,

Taree deaths from diphtheria are re- ported from the east end of the city to-day.

ONE case of drunkenness at the Stipen diary Magistrat>’s Court thts forenoon.

Laycock had an easy victory over Riley en the 6th inst., winning by three ljengtl s.

The Sheliac steamer did not, owing to the storm, cross the Straits yesterday.

Toe Dairy EXAMINER, |

that which fills |

' Police Court. ‘toward the pemitentiary to the!

| possibly could, for which offences they yineurred the full penalty ef the law,

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Correspondence,

sa” We do not hold ourselves responsible for oa4 7 . “ee 7 the statements or opmions of OUT correspondents

Clerical Interference in our Police Court.

To the Editor of the Pxaminer.

Six,—The Journal of the 4th inst., contains a paragraph relative to a recent trial in our Three boys —of strong tendeney were brought up charged with the ‘malicious’ destruction of property the night befo.e Halloween, on which occasion they appear to have consider-

‘ed it their duty to tear dewn gates, dismantle | pumps, tamper with the contents of a wagon,

and, in short, do as much damage as they

justly But the Rev. Neil McKay attended this Court on the occasion in question, for the special purpose— as the Journal alleges —‘* of pleading on behalf ef one of the delinquents, an old offender; and had it not been for the rev. gentleman’s streng appeal, that individual would have suffered a just punishment, as his behaviour in court was anything but satisfactory.” From the passage quoted it would appear that Mr. McKay’s ‘‘strong appeal ’ on behalf ef one of the delinquents, not only led to his (that offender's) escape from ‘‘a just punishment” but the other two as well, for under the circumstan- ces it wouldnever de for the Stipendiary to dis miss the ring-leader of the gang, and convict the others. Here then, according to the Journal's admission, one and all of those boys escaped ‘‘a just punishment ” through cleri- cal interference on behalf of one of the crowd. And still, rowdyism and malicious destruction of property is, it seems, not a punishable offence in our Police Court. Yet a poor drunk, at the same time, was fined $5 or twenty days imprisonment.’ Our citi- zens, according to this mode of administering the laws of the “orporation, are called upon to support men committed for being drunk, while the destroyers of both private and public pro- perty, which they are taxed to protect, are ailowed to go Scott free, because, foresooth, of a clergyman’s ‘‘strong appeal” made in their behalf. Our policemen are often found fault with for dereliction ef duty ; but where is the reward for their vigilence in the case cited. After making arrests they must bear being cheeked by the culprits at the hearing of the case, aud then be hailed with hoots of derision from those who escape ** a just pun ishment,” through a Kev. gentlemans ‘‘ strong appesl.”’

But the Journal is somewhat contradictory in its statements of this affair, for while it asserts that had it not been for that ‘“‘ap- peal,” &c., the accused would ‘have suffered a just punishment.” 1¢ asserts in a previons sentence that ‘‘no one appeared againgt tiie boys but a policeman whe could preve noth)- ing.” Bat the writer of the article in ques- tion must have been sure of the guilt of the parties, otherwise he would not: have, at the next sentence, referred to the “strong ap- peal” preventing the infliction of a ‘‘just pun- ishment.” Mereover, if more evidence had been required to prove a conviction, why were not the prisoners remanded for another hearing of the case? But no such postpone- ment of the case was required, as one ot the boys acknowledged, during the trial, that they did the mischief. One of the policemen, at the same time, offered to bring more evi- deuce next morning if 1t were needed, In- deed, this same ofilicer informed the writer that he had an important witness at hand be- fore tue trial came on, but he was spirited away before the opesing of court, he supposes by an over sympathetic official for the liberty of jail birds of every feather. But an acknowledgment of guilt was quite sufficient, without any further evidence. Such apparent trifling with justice, is lowering the dignity by which our legal tribunal should be surrounded. Besides, tampering with the ad ministration of the laws of the Neighboring Republic bas led to the adoption of Lynch Law, in many parts of the Union, and must ere long, produce the same effects here. Mock trials for both civil and criminal offenses can- not long be tolerated by a Jaw abidirg people Clerical influence in defeating the ends of Justiee, is as dangerons an element, as that of money, yea more! My idea of a clergyman’s duty towards God and man, is that he should by moral sugsion, exhortation, aud prayer, in the Sabbath Sehool, Pulpit, and in the homes of his Parishioners, use al! his exergies, and influence, in rescuing the fallen from a down- ward course, and when these means fail to reclaim the erring, and they are lost to all sense of moral restraint, and fall into the clutches of the law, let the legal tribunals of the country deal with them. [t is the duty of the State then, and not the Church, to dea! with such moral outlaws, and the otlicers of the law should be allowed to mete out jus- tice in accordance with the authority vested in them. ‘Their obligation binds them to ad. minister the law according to evidencejwith- out fear, favor or affection, aud they therefore should not be influenced in the discharge of their official duty, neither by money nor by ‘*strong appeals.”

It is from the manifestations of a morbid sympathy for both juvenile and adult crimi- vals, thatis nurturing an army of outlaws, who are becoming a terror to society and a nuisance to the State, and through time a sys- tem ef lynch law will have to be inaugurated in order to abate such a National pest,

It is quite a new phase in our legal juris- prudence for a clergyman to be admitted to plead at the bar of any of our courts of law, in behalf of persons charged with either civil or criminal offences. I was under the impres- sion that it was only gentlemen of the legal profession who could legally claim this right. 3ut it clergymen are to be allowed to practice at the bar, for the purpose of preventing the infliction of a ‘just panishment,” the sooner the public are made aware of that fact the better. For ‘‘ defeating the ends of justice ” seems to be a departure from a spiritua! to that of a temporal calling. What now can be said of the theory of the separation of Church and State ?

Yours truly, VENTILATOR.

Summerside, Nov. 8, 1880,

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Weather Bulletin.

Probabilities for the next 24 hours for the Maritime Provinces

Toroxtro, Oct. 9—10 a. mw.

Moderate # fresh westerly to south west- erly winds; fiir weather.

Tue Northern Light is now onthe Marine

slip, Pictou, for ene which will probably be finished on Wednesday the 10th inst.

- He asked the Council to confirm the pay-

| City Council. | ! ane ; | . , Ri aa ‘ eat | ‘Tum regular meeting of the Cizy Council } ~ 3 ; : was held lastevening. Present, the ct | Recorder, Councillors Morris, Murp ays | ‘ +} ;

| Byrne, Horne, Beer, Blake, Lawson, Smita- cand Davy. : i Read a letter from Mr. asking permission for his band be ‘in the Market Hall two nights of the week. | Permission was granted. : 5 The payment of amounts due the iate|

‘ ~ e > £ nf, " auditors was left in the hands of the Mayoi Messre. |

R. Galbraith, |

pract ice

and on motion of Councillor Blake, Brecken and Hyndman, were re-appeinte 1 Audtors.

Read letters from Messrs. Wright & Mo-| Gowan, 8S. W. McMurray, William Goo -| nough, and J, M. Dunean, asking remission | of City taxes. The case of Mr. Goodnoush | was left. to the Finance Committee, and ac- cording to request the taxes paid on Queens | wharf were ordered to be remitted to Messrs. Wright and McGowan. p

2ead a letter from the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, stating that a well had been sunk at the east end of the city, which would supply enough water for fire purposes ‘for all time to come.” He also informed the Council that while sinking the tank on Upper Queen Street he had encroached four feet on the property of Owen Connelly, Esq.; that the excavation in Mr. Connolly’s property had to be re- tilled, and the outlay thus caused was &30.

ment of the ameunt, which was done.

The Mayor remarked that the Collector, in making out his list of delinquent tax payers for publication, discovered the names of several clergymen on the list. As they have previously been exempt from taxation he asked the Council what action they would take in the matter-—-whether or not they would compe! the owners of houses occupied by such clergymen to pay the tax. A motion was exemp cing clergymen from taXes.

Read a letter from Judge Alley and F. Brecken, Esq., requesting that a sidewalk be laid in front of their residences on Syd- ney street. The Street Commissioner, in reference to this matter, stated that he had! enly money enough remaining at his dis- posal to repair streets and sidewalks, but if the Council wished to lay these side- walks aud would make an additional gran, he wonld have no objection to laying as many sidewalks as they approved of.

Councitton Merpeiy asked for a return of the amount of money expended for street improvement on Ward 2, with a statement of the work done thereon.

Councittok Horne, Street Commis- sioner stated that to give a return of the kind would be impossible at the present time, but he assured Councillor Murph, that Ward 2 get the lion’s share of street improvements.

‘Yue Mayor stated that Judge Young, on behalf of the Phoenix Cricket Club, made an offer to hand over to the city the house built by the Club on Victoria Park, for the use of the Park Keeper, provide the City would fix it up and reserve one room for the Club The matter was refer- red to the Committee on Public Works, to ascertain and report upon the cost of finish- ing the building.

CouncILLor Beer, called atteation to the fact that while a few people were compelled to pay dog tax, the greater portion of those whe own dogs were allowed to go free, He was informed by the Recorder that sum- monses were issued for all who had not paid this years tax. In reference to this matter some Councillors expressed opinions that it would be well if ail the dogs in the City were destroyed, and believed thai sheep owners in the Royalty would hearti}s co-operate 1f a movement for the destruction of the canine race jn the city was inaugur ated.

Councittor Samira asked if a committees | of the Council could be appointed to ex amine into the doings of the police.

THe Mayor quoted from the Statute, showing that the Magistrate had sole con- trol of the Police Force.

CoUNCILLOR SmitrH then stated that he had some charges to bring against the Force, but if it was beyond the power oi the Council to investigate them he woud not bring them before the Magistrate, because he would not get justice, He had| brought such matters before him some time ago, but would never do so again as long as his name was Smith.

‘he Mayistrate gave a lengthy explana- tion of the matter, stating that the inves tigation which Councillor Smith demanded arose from a petty spite which originated with the Gilboy case. He made a state- ment of the recent charge against Officer Cameron, who siept durmg hours of duty and during the stealing of the police regis. ter from the Station. He said the matter had been fully investigated, and that the officer had been duly punished by fine, but considering that he had been 48 hours without sleep previcus to the shert nap which he was taking when the register was stolen, he could not look on his offence as a very grievious one

Some hot words passed between Coun- cillor Smith and the Magistrate, and when the breeze subsided the Council adjourned.

passed

Hor. W. W. Suuiivay, has gone to Men- treal-—perhans to Ottawa.

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Buy: Your Gloth & Tweeds

Tremaine & Veteilf’s.

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HATS AND BRILLIRERY

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TREMAINE & METCALF’S, The Cheapest Store in the City.

Specialities this Month: DRESS MATERIALS, im Beiges at 17 cents,

22 cents and 30 cents.

MANTLE CLOTHS, 90 cents upwards. ULSTER CLOTHS, (double width), 54 cents

upwards, . MANTLES, from $1.50 upwards. LADIES’ and CHILDRENS’ CORSETS (cheap. ) JERSEYS, for Ladies and Children.

PLUSH, a variety of Colora,

Men’s UNDERGLOTHING, “* ULSTERS, GYERCGATS, REEFERS, ‘* SUIFS and SUITINGS, ‘ TWEEDS, GVERECATINGS, ULSTERS “ GLOTHS, ETC., ‘* THES, SGARFS, SHIRTS, ETB,

ENDERS will be received till the 15th) inst. for taking up and landingall Buoys! under the control ot the « harlottetown Har-' bor Master. For further particulars aj ply to} DAVID SMALL, Ch’town, Nov. 9, ’80—5i |

" {urk’s Island Salt, — LUPKS 18a dali. |

by Gage LANDING, per Brigt. L. J. We. t away, at Queen’s Whartf,—suitable for,

pork packing, Db. FARQUHARSON,

Nov. 8, ’80—2i

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