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TUE POLITICAL NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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One or two-tircdmstances ocurred déridg the past week which placed the épponents of the Governfnent in the most delightful frame of mind they have experienced since they held tife reins of potver in 1854, was reported that Mr. Alexander R. Beaton, elected for the first district of King’s County by an overwhelming majority oter his opponent, Mr. Emanuel McEschen, would not take his seat—the conclusion readily jumped at being, that he had no qualifieation, although that remains to be proved. How-

éver, this fact was clear ¢noagh to Tory understandings, that |

the seat would be yacant at the commencement of the Session: Tnis would make a wonderful alteration in the state of partics. Instead of the Government having 10 supporters, and therefore a majority of two, the utmost number that could now be counted upon wasl5. Now, when one of these 15 was wheedled Sito the acceptance of the Speaker's chair, the number on the tloor of the House would be 14 to 14. Of the 14 vn the Go- yarnment side, three or four would be immediately choked off by election contests. Mr. Andrew McDonald's seat for George- town would be the first disputed, and as he could not vote in his own case, there would be 14 to decide that be had no claim to the seat, while only 13 at the utnost could he found to maintain his right. The seat was a3 good ds won for Mr. Me- Aulay, without any more trouble. Mr. Sheriff Underhay would be called to the bar of the House to amend his writ, and perhaps severely reprimanded for not returning Mr. Me- Aalay in the first instance. With this increase to the Op- position, the task of reducing the number of Government sup- porters would be an easy one, and the next thing to be dune would be to substitute the name of Emanuel MeRachen for After

this, it would be very easy to dispose of the frivulous petition

Alex. R. Beaton, as representative for the first district.

said to be in progress against the return of Messrs. Coles and Kelly, by throwing those gentlemen overboard, and either ordering a new election for some distant day, or putting at once Mr. Henry Longworth and Mr. J. A. McDonald in their piaces. Then Mr. Gaudet’s scat might be assailed with success ; arid one of two others, perhaps, on the Government side would he dispatched in the saure summary manner, By this time the Government would be completely overthrown, and the Oppo- sition haye an excellent working majority to form a new Adwinistration.

The heads of the Tories were fairly turned with the political changes which their vivid fancies sketched. ‘Phe idea of a general election, as the only cure for a dead lock, and talked of a week before by politicians on both sides with caluunessand consideration, was pronounced a monstrous absurdity; € Governor was threatened with all sorts of vengeance if he would The Govern-

dare to dissolve. The whole thing was settled.

ment was to be immediately cbanged. The new expectants of office were preparing themselves for official employments. Those who thought their chances of office wero not the best in Lists of the

new Ministry were in the breeches pockets of at least a dozen

the world, were active in canvassing for support.

leading men on the Tory side. They met at the corners of the étteets—~in public houses, and at other places of general resort,

td compare notes with one another, where they chatted with amazing cordiality, and grew positively good natared and funny

over the rise in their political fortunes. Adherents and sup-

porters of the party now in power were clbowed, snubbed and | sneered at in every direction, and regarded as poor devils who | had but a very short time to live. In the midst of this furry,

the late Speaker of the House (Mr. Thornton) came to China

Hie is a membet of the new Ilouse, and he had barely time to

divest himself of his travelling clothes, when he was waited

upon by four of the Tory meinbers who reside in and about

Charlottetown. generous/y offering to give him their support if he woul’ again become a candidate for the Speakership. They

nésured him that their object was to have a Speaker who, like

himself, had not rendered himself conspicuous as a political

partizan, and that the practice of the House of Commons in

England was to select for the nead of the House a member who

enjoyed to a large extent the confidence of opposing parties.’ The dodge was seen through at a glanee. If Mr. Thornton

cduld be detached from the Liberal party, that party would of course be weakened by his departure, a8 was the case in 1854, when Dr. Jardine was seduced by a similar artifice, and has had his reward for it ever since, by having become the most ‘unpopulsr man in the conntry. But Mr. Thornton gave the sélf-constituted deputation no encouragement. He would not accept any ‘promise of support, nor give any pledge to become a candidate for the Speakership until he came to attend his parliamentary duties, at which time ho should decide what course to take in reference to the matter.

The failure of this mission was, to be sure, something of a damper to the joyous spirits of the leaders of the Opposition ; but on Saturday morning their hoped of, abd aspirations for, eudden preferment rose to fever heat by the circulation of a little slip, acareely two inches square, issued from the Islander office, and printed in the mest glaring type, announcing thie probability that a Mr. George Dundas, M.P. for Lintithgow- shire, in Scotland, had been appointed to supersede Sir D Daly in the Government of this Island. This announcement is stated to bo taken from the Glasgow Gazetie, of the date of the lst January; but as the English Steamer left Liverpool only on the first of the month, and there has been no arrival since, it is a mystery to us how a Glasgow paper of the first of January could be put on board the Steamer at Liverpool on

the saine day. However, the startling intelligence about a

change of Governor was the exclusive property of the Tories, |

and it afforded them immense satisfaction. The hilarity of that party never before rove to such am extent. Tt was

pleasant to sce z « The nods, and beck?, aud wreatbed smiles”

jaterchanged as they met each other in the street, the self-

satisfied chuckle as they chatted gaily of the ‘good time coming,”’—even features of the ** spare Cassius ’’ bred relaxed S8tu-w ecco, and we know, they * Seldom smile and sallle-v such _a sort ‘is Asif they mocked themselves, and scorned heir spirit That could be moved to swnile at any thing.’?

Nay, even Auctionécrs of the good orthodox Tory stamp grew jovial over their warcs—spiced their small jokes with polities gave sly and cunning hints about happy reanionsat Goyern- ment House under a new regime, and white waistcoats of the @op kind immediately ros> to 8 premiam

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About the nliddle of the week it!

shilling Souris spree — won't, can't, and shan’t get the Mr. Beaton

five vacant seat for the first district of King’s County. . ‘has taken what would be called in Englaad the Chiltern Hun-

dreds. He has accepted an office, by reason of which the

Government are empowered by law to call a new election im- |

} | mediately to supply his place for the first district. The writ

is out, and the election will be over before the House can meet.

Llere is a sad disturbance to the pleasant dreams of the Oppo- isition! At the last election, McEachen was 811 votes behind ; Beaton, and 422 behind Knight. THis chance of election now | is not only not better, but worse than it was then, so that it ‘will not be difficult for the district to send a new nan to the House who will take the same side in polities as Mr. Beaton |would. ‘he Opposition will be furious, no doubt — will eall | the Government all manner of hard names—- will rant, and ‘stamp, and swagger; but let the laugh be with those who win.

mer. The Islander says that his qualification was known to We don’t know any thing If his qualification were

be bad since the last Nomination.

of the kind—neither do the public. bad at the nomination in June last, why did not Mr. MeHachen protest against his return? Ile was as fairly elected as any member that will take his seat in the new House, and he had a perfect right to vacate the seat in the manner he has done. McKachen polled only 261 votes at the last Election. The constituency numbers abaut 1300 votes. Will the Opposition in Charlottetown help him in the event of bis contesting the new eleetion? We hope they will, for in that case we know his defeat wil be much more certain than it utherwise would

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JOLLIFICATION AT SOURIS.

Ir appears that on the 12th inst., a jollification—being a cross between a Tea shine and a dinner—was given at Souris to the Wild Man of the East, in the hope, no doubt, that it would serve to soothe his wounded vanity at being left no where on the poll at the Iate general election. It is said (not by our own reporter) that 60 persons joined in the spree ; but the room in which they were fed is searcely 15 feet square, for we have been often in it, and if there were 60 of them, the cam, we should think, was mueh more abundant on the chairs than on the table. The thing must have been a grand affair, for iteost each man who joined in the jollification the ex- travagant sum of five shillings.

f course there was a good deal of political speechifying on this interesting occasion. The Hon. Roderick MeAulay (or, as he is better known, Parson Rory) graced the festive scene, with his gab in excellent talking order ; and as poor Emanuel was not able to make a specch when his health was drank, he pretending to be sick—whether it waa that he had eaten too much, and his indigestion not goed, or that, like the School- master in Nicholas Nickleby, he had stretched his legs too often | that afternoon—he very easily prevailed upon Parson Rory to make the speech fur him ; and of course the Government, and the Snatchers gencrally, got fits in the course of the brilliant harangue. 3

‘There is one little incident conneeted with this jollification whieh the gentleman who has reported the proceedings for the Istander has forgotten to notice. 1t appears that when the revellers were about taking their places, it was observed, as we siy in the Assembly, that there was a stranger in the

|Hous*. To be plain, the worthy hostess who prepared the

feed had a lodger named McDonald, and he oceupied the very room in which the spread was given, from which he refused to budge when tle jolly company strutted into the apartment. What was ty be done? Ife had not paid his five shillings like the rest, and who knew but that he wasa Snatcher in disguise ? [t was therefore proposed, that, as he would not take a quiet hint and a sour look, he should be expelled by physical force, The proposal was no sooner made than agreed to, and a Mr. Leslic undertook to put it in foree ; but the lodger turned out to be rather an ugly customer, and instead of being expelled, pitched his assailant out of the room, tearing away his breeches before the expelsion, as a memento of the exploit. It being rather difficult to find spare breeches for all the company, the lodger was left in undisputed possession of his corner for the remainder of the evening, and when the joily fellows had got their five shillings worth of grog and grub, they made the best of their way home.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOBODY.

Tur Monitor and Islander of last week have been thrown inte great excitement by some printed notices which appeared in the country, calling a public meeting at the Head of St. Peter’s Bay on Wednesday next, to disenss some important questions that have been for many years under the notice of our Legislature. ‘‘ Ahn,’’ says the paper with the yellow jaundice, ‘* here's Government agitation for you !—here’s a deep-laid scheme of Coles and Whelan to disturb the public mind. so that they may keep themselves in office! But the handbill calling the public meeting is signed by—Mr. Nobody !”’ ‘¢ Look at that,’’ says the is/ander, ‘* can there be anything more conclusive than that it is a meeting called by the Govern- ment, when Nobody has ventured to put his name to the no- tice? Coles, Whelan and other Snatcher office-holders are surely at the bottom of the whole affair,—their object is to get the British Parliament to pass the £100,000 Loan Bill, and if wo don’t stir up the Opposition to resist them we shall be all ruined. At all events, we, says the proprietor of the [s- | dander —{the case was too urgent to wait to communicate with

| the edifor at New London and let him know all about the aw- | ful conspizacy, so that the proprietor, being nearer the scene ‘of mischief, was compelled to run to the reseue of his masters) ‘et all events we,” says this valorous champion of Tory in- terests, *‘ shall take yood care that the Colonial Office shal! know all about the proceeding—and then we shall see what the Government will be able to do, after we—John Ings!— | have said our Bay in the ear of the Colonial Minister!’’ Of course the thing is done for—the Government is gone tosmash —the meeting had better not be held—for what can resist the

jeffect of Mr. Tngs* blabbing the whole affair to thé Colonial

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Office? The yellow jaundice paper says there with not he over

60 people at the meeting—how accurate it is in its caleula- ‘tions !—because nobody has called it, and nobody will attend. Then why are the two papers making such a dreadful ado Why are they so excited? As for the Islander, in order to enable the proprietor to carry out his tremendous throat, of cours2 he will be there in propria per-

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No protest was entered against Mr. Beaton’s election lest sum- |

But before he goes we will give him a little information about the meeting. In the first

‘of this meeting until several days after the handbills were cir- ‘culated respecting it. It was called by one of the members

for the second district, who is not ashamed to tell his name— who has called many similar meetings in hig time, and who hopes tv live to call many more, to the mortification, disgust and defeat of the Tory party—in short, Edward Whelan, act- ing on the sidvice of many of his constituents, and withont the knowledge of any member of the Government, eilled the mect- ing, and means to attend it. If the people of the County gene- rally do not choose to respond to the eall, they can let it alone. | A ridiculous fallacy is often propagated, to prevent such meet- | ings being held, that they should be ealled by the Sheriff. A | requisition could no doubt be eastly mate to the Sheriff of King’s County, and he would, we are confident, readily comply with it; but it is a round-about way of doing business, and costs too much trouble and time. As to the meeting being an attempt atagitation on the part of the Government, the thing is too absurd to be noti¢ed. If the Government wanted an agitation they could easily excite it. Before the last election, and, indeed, before every election, as well as after one, such ‘meetings are frequently called by both political parties in every part of the Island. The Political Alliance had many such meetings in Charlottetown—the Liberal Reform Society had many such meetings—that empty twaddler, Ephraim Reid, under the auspices of the Tories, called meetings in many parts of the Island, where he had not a shadow of influence, to dis- cuss precisely the same questions as will be brought under the notice of the people at St. Peter’s Bay on Wednesday next; and all we need further say is, that we hope the meeting will be numerously attended, as we have no doubt it will, if the weather be favourable ; and that the spirit which we expect to sce aroused will speedily extend to every other part of the

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THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE.

Uxper this head the Islander of Friday last aske “* Why the public business of the Colony is postponed to so distant a day as the 17th February?” and answers the question itself by saying that the Government have thus delayed the meeting o! the Legislature to have the publie accounts prepared to their own satisfaction. Now, the Government had no such object in view, because the public accounts are never submitted to the Legislature at thecommeucement of the Session, and they are ready at any time after the end of the financial year, the 3lst January. The 17th February is by no means a late day for calling the Houses together. Last year they meton the 16th February—only one day sooner—and thcre was no com- plaint about the delay ; and indeed there was no occasion for complaint, as the Session ended on the Ist-April, which wasa considerable time before the country membersdesired toretarn to their farming oceupations. The year bofore the last — 1857— the House did not mect until the 26th February, and ended on the 15th April—a very convenient season for country members. in 1856, the House met on the 4th Febraary—only three days before the time appointed for the ensuing session—and closed on the Mth April. “There was no complaint about the supposed delay in either of these years, simply for this reason : the Opposition had nothing to expect from an earlier call of the House. Now, however, they think they will be able to out- manouyre the Government party, by following up groundiess protests against the seats of some Govermment supporters, and thereby creating a factitious majority for the moment against the Administration ; so that they are nervously anxious that the House should be called a month or two before the usual time for their particular benefit. The Islander ought not to have forgotten, that, in the begining of the year 1351, when the Tories had the ascendancy, and when they knew that they were doomed toa speedy expulsion from office by the new Parliament—they purposely delayed the meeting of the Legislature until the 25th March, so that they might protract their enjoyment of official emoluments.

There is another observation in the article we have under notice which deserves especial consideration. Since the election the Islander has been very attentive to the Opposition members, addressing itself to those gentlemen in such a strain as if it apprehended that some of them at least would not toe the mark yery firmly in opposing the Government. ++ The opposition members,’’ it says, ‘* will do well to understand and remember that the eyes of other judges are on them, than those in Charlottetown ; that the confidence of the country has been greatly shaken in some of them by the disappointing result of the County Meeteng, attributed exclusively to them ; that if there should be a dissolution, they will likely be replaced in the next Assembly by firmer men.’’ There is not one of the new members on the Tory side for whom this latter threat is so much intended as Mr. Donald Montgomery, of New London,—he resides in this County, and when the meeting referred to, was proposed in August last, he refused to sign the requisition for it, and took no part in its pro- ceedings. But is it not worthy of notice, that the Is/ander should now admit, after all its vapouring to the contrary, that the result of the meeting was a disappointment to its pro- jectors? Forthe past five months the Tories have endeavoured to hambug those at a distance who might believe them, that the meeting was a very great triumph to the Opposition, and the Governmen’ signally condemned. But now the Islander tells the trath for once, when it admits that the thing was a failure, so far as the Opposition was concerned.

‘*A BRITISH OFFICER’? AND HIS CAD.

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We commisserate Commander Orlebar for the manner in which his name has again been dragged before the public by the Monitor of last week. He has been laughed at enough for the nonsense which originated with himself about the Legislative Council and his apologetic letter to the President of that body, but it is melancholy to see persons who pretend to have a friendship for him practising greater fooleries by way of excusing his folly. ‘‘It is sufficient to inform the public,’’ said the Monetor of the preceding week, that the person who said so and so about the Council is no less a man than Capt. Orlebar—“ an officer and a gentleman!’’ The

establishes the right of such an important personage to make

‘‘attempt to gag a British Officer,’

‘ ‘* party in power ”’

| of every honds$ 4nd itidependent elector."’ Well, really, thig isa dreadful Sate df affairs! The ** party in power” are clean done for after this! Capt. Orlebar will hays an ovation ‘through the land! See, the electors are running helter tke® Nter in every direction to express their reprobatien of the party in power because the Captain is not allowed to talk nonsense undoticed. Only think of if! ‘‘a British Oficér!”’ and Dr, Young trying to force’a gag into the mouth of such an eminent person. There can be no pardon for such an offence, unless the Doctor be at once sacrificed to propitiate the gods and to allay the popular discontent. As for the Queen’s Printer, what right has he to interfere? Is he not paid for his services as well as the ‘ British Officor’’ om whose behalf there is

be mindful of the awful threat, that tie Monitor will “ appeal to the loyal subjects of Her Majesty ’’ against him, unless he learns to hold his tongue when persons of quality choose te spout nonsense. ‘

We repeat that we commisscrate Capt, Orlebar for the ridiculous position in whieh he has been placed by the blundering feol who does the twaddle for the Monitor, and we feel assured that if ho was nota man of peace, though belonging toa warlike service, he would convince the twaddler that caning @ sycophant and snivelling slave is a pastime in which ‘* a British Officer ’’ may sometimes indulge.

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THE DYING KICK.

Tuar sanctified paper called the Protector closed, we believe, its mortal career on the 12th of the present month ; but te show how strong the ruling passion is in death, even with self- elected saints, it could not quietly take its departure without making a most yicious kick at the oldest arid’ most venerated church in the worldone that embraces the largest number of followers that ever professed Christianity—whieh witnessed the rise and fall of monarchies now deemed ancient—which: preserved and disseminated liberty and letters when the world was sunk in barbarism and infidelity, sending her missionaries and her scholars to every corner of the globe, as she does yet, to inculcate the truths of Christiani: y—to spread the Night of knowledge, and to do battle with tyranny ant opprestion— hundreds of years before those churches which affect to look down upon her with seorn could count & eolitary follower.

In a leading editorial, bearing the alluring title, «* Liberty,” the pivus editor discourseth on the advantages which society derives from liberty in ite generie sense, by which we are secured in the possession of our natural and social rights, and which guarantees a pure and honest administration of justice. We do not propose to offend our readers by quoting, to any extent, the platitudes of our sanctified eontemporary on thie hackneyed subject; every schoolboy understands them; and there is not an intelligent lad of sixteen years of age in any of our seminaries: but might easily produce a far better essay on the theme of the Profecior’s editorial without going into religious polemics, We must, however, give one or two shor’ extracts, partly to show what fine writing has been practised in the sanctum of the Protector office, and partly to serve as a prelude to the more lengthy extracts with which we haye to burthen the patience of our readers. After giving us the piper’snews that liberty ought tobe the rule in political affairs, our saintly contemporary thus proceeds : « It is only in this state of things that intelligence and prosperity can flourish, for the dessemination of knowledge and the encouragement of enterprise depend almost exclusively on the broad principle to which we have alluded.’’ Thet is all very fine, barring the grammar. ‘* But how is liberty to be obtained?” asks thé Protector. The obliging editor answers the question himeelf when he says: ‘* Various solutions of this question have been. proposed ; absolute government has been named as the most likely to answer the purpose; limited monarehy has beew tried with great success, and so has Republicani&ém in many instances. Each have their advocates, and all of them have their advantages.’’ After this fine burst, the editor slides in to the religious element, and assures us that, efter all, liberty of conscienee in spiritual affairs is the most priceless of all liberty—that, in short, no community can exist without it.

upon which all liberal sentiments turn, and knowledge and enterprise depend, is religious toleration.’ Again he says: ‘It will be granted, I believe, by all but the most ignorant and bigoted of our species that toleration in the highest sense of the term is indispensable to the development of liberty.’’ And the same sentiment is repeated as follows at the conclusion of the paragraph, the italies in both cases being the author’s :—*‘ Toleration in the highest sense must be orlined

and the principle of religious equality admitted im its fullest extent, before liberty cun grow and flourish in its genuine perfection.”” Here the writer suddenly giyes himself a hitch —he seems to have become ashamed of uttering such liberal sentiments, and he relapses into the drawling, puling bigot of the mostmalignant type. All the fine talk about *« toleration ”’ will do very weil for Protestantism and its numerous offshoots : but toleration for the Catholics! Why the thing is out of the question. OF course *+ liberty can grow and flourish in ite genuine perfection,’’ when all the Catholics in the universe— and we know they are only a trifle of the world’s population— are hanged, drawn, and quartered, and their spirits sent pipin

hot to Purgatory. A writer in the Protector several weeks : who signed his lucubration “ C. R.,”’ proposed that Wee Catholics in the Island should be starved out by the Protestants — that they should not be employed in any capacity, even as hewers of wood and dfawers of water, unless on very atid oc- casions when there happened to be a scarcity of both. The community raised their hands.in horror at the monstrous propo- sal, and ‘‘stop my paper !’’ was the constant cry at the Protector office for several days after, which gave the poor thing its death blow. But ** C. R.”’ was an angel of mercy in comparison to the editor of the sanctified journal. The former wanted to destroy only the bodies of the unfortunate Catholics, but the latter has no such bowels of com passion—he evident} thinks the punishment too mild, and seems to be saitioci ie send

the grave. Our readers, we are sure, do not expect us to offer a word in refutation of the gross and fiendish falechoods

fact of being such puts an end at once to all controversy, and. o t

‘* merits ara will revteive the reprobation their Catholic fellow Colonists in the

which characterise nearly every sentence of the extracts

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himself as ridiculous as possible, and nobody should be allowed unity should know, that bigotry so et Fs to say booh! to him for doing so, Dr. Young’s respectful | those extracts display is tolerated more for political than |

i letter is denounced as an act of ‘* petty tyrann 1»__ay | Teligious purposes—is designed to detach w : 4 ies which hia whole | ch well-meaning but —

easily-deceived Liberal Protestants from co-operation with

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