THE EXAMINER.

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hatives, Delisavetgrad (St. Elizabeth's fort), is situate to the north of Nicolaieff, in the midst of a fertile plain. At first it was only a fortress, constructed on the frontier against the incursions of Tartars from the Crimea, and the Empress Elizabeth sent there Moldavian, Servian and Hungarian wolonists, At present it is au importaut town, which stands on the two banks of the Inpul, to the east and north of the citadel. The streets of the towh are regular, and the churches numerous; but the houses are plastered over with a fine white clay, Which is decked in sach a way with quartz and niiea, as to dazzle and fatigue the eye. To the east of the town is an important sibirb, on a height sarmounted with windmills ; beyond is the steppe, and at intervals on the horizon may be seen sdiie of the hills so frequently found in this part of the World, and in the Crimea, iu which the encient Scythians Were accustomed to bury their herees, and which resemble the Ueltic tombs of Ireland.

PREPARATIONS FOR WINTERING IN THE

a CAMP.

The anticipated attack om eur position has not taken place, and matters in camp are resuming gradually their condition prior to the alarm respecting it. The road-making, which was almost wholly at a stand-still, is again progressing. The uccumulation of forage and stores fur the winter is an object

of particular concern, and fatigue parties and every available |

ineans of transport are pressed in the furtherance of this'| service, A certain amount of drill having been practised in the several divisions, the troops are now about to be exereised | at ball practice. Tne health of the army continues excellent. in consequence of te intended occupation of Sebastopol should the Russians on tke tiorth side leave us anything to eceupy, the troops kate been forbidden to fetch any more timber from its ruins; otherwise, if time and permission were xranted, the men would be able to get much that would be | tiseful in forming a substantial protection, in lieu of the | Government huts. There are solid beams and rafters with- | eut end to be obtained, but serviceable planks are fecoming | very rare. These can be obtained, however, at a reasonable | rate from Sinope and other places on the coast of the Black | Sea. The employment of the men in constructing their own | huts might be made beneficial ia many ways; and under simple directions from the Suppers and Miners, warm and confortable protection could be thus procured without much | cost or expenditure. When the shelter was secured, there | wou'd still be many days available for ball practice. It is ex- | pected huts will be provided for the Highland division a short distance beyond their present encampment near Kamara. | The enemy continues to be véry actively employed about the | new earthworks on the opposite side of the roadstead. The} number of guas in the batteries has also been increased, and an active discharge of shot and shell is directed against Sebas- topol and the Karabelnaia. The guns also on the cliffs over- forking the Tchernaya valley have not been idle, but, with ittle effect, have been frequently seeking to annoy the French in the right flank, or troops from the encampments in the plain going to water at the river. The Russians have a live of | sharpshooters in ambuscades at gunshot distance from the stream, which passes along the aqueduct to the reservoir. The characteristic appearance of our approaches, and of the Russian works, such as was offered to view immediately after the final bombardment and retreat of the enemy, is fast fading. Already, in some parts, the change is so great that observers are bewildered in trying to recollect former impres- sions ; and old campaigners, laid low on the 8th of September, but now sufficiently recovered to revisit the secnes of conflict, fail at first to recognise their former haunts, or to find parti- cular spots in the trenches bearing espévial interest, as the scenes of hair-breadth escapes to themselves, or of sad muti- lations and fatal injuries to their friends and companions. Batteries are dismintied; platforms, timber, and every kind of military store removed, gabions and fascines carried away for firewood ; new roads and paths made irrespective of shelter, convenience only studied in their direction ; trenches filled and openings cut wherever required; and time, the leveller, with the assistance of his active agents, storm and rain, is helping ia the work of demolition. A like proéess is going on in the enemy's works, though, from their massive construction and huge proportions, less obvious to observa- tion, DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIAN TRADE.

Two years since the quays of Odessa were laden with the pruduce of the vast southern plains of Russia. Fear of im- pending war had urged the dealers in corn to buy on every wide to make good the deficiency of the Fnglish harvests. The flags of all uations were to be seen entering the ports of the isles bringing food from the great empire which was so goon tobeourenemy. What is now the state of the Russian seaport? Not the smallest craft dare leave that blockaded harbour ; its warehouses are empty, or stocked only with the supplies for a hopeless and devastating war. An official article has just been published in Russia relative to the ex- portation of grain. As might be expected, the writer labours to show that the loss of his country by the present war is| leas than it has been estimated by the world. If his facts are

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have of late years been the principal causes of prosperity to the Russian proprietors, and, consequently, that the hostility wf this country has caused the commerce of the Caar’s empire to collapse speedily and completely. The Russian €Xports, which were in 1845 of the value of 16,000,000 silver roubles, rose in 1847 to more than 70,000,000. Although this high amount was not sustained during the succeeding years of plenty, yet the Russian trade still increased rapidly. In 1852 the exportation was to the value of 34,000,000 roubles ; und in 1853,the last year of peace, it had risen to 55,000,000, partly from natural development, partly undér the influence of the deficient harvest of the preceding yecr. Now came to up end this great and sudden prosperity. In eight years the value of exported Russian grain had increased three-and-a- half fold ; landowners had been enviched, the State had been relieved, material improvements, roads, canals, &c., had been commenced, when in an evil hour the Czar outraged the rights of nations and of liberty, and all has come to a close. lu 1854 the export of grain fell to the value of 14,000,000 roubles, and most of this was probably shipped during the three months which preceded the declaration of war. The export at the present moment from the whole of Russia is probably not a tenth of what it was two years since. RUSSIA AND THE WAR.

The mystery that has always shrouded the present visit of the Czar to the southérh provinces of his empire has never been completely dispelled, though thé curtain has been at in- tervals partly lifted, Nothing has beén beard of his personal anorements for, perhaps, the last fortnight. The Ost Deutsch Post says that he has quitted Nicolaicff to return to the in- terior of the empire, but it does ndt say to what place he has

2. The Grand Duke Constattine certainly remains at Nicolaieff. He has ordered that the Institution of Naval Cadets there shal] take the title of “ the Naval School cf the Guard,” and that all the sons of officers of the Black Sea fleet shall be admitted to it gratuitously. This measure has been favourably received by the southern provinces. Before the war, the higher nobility sent their sons into the cavalry, and the inferior theirs into the infantry ; bat both entertained a repugnance for the naval service.

By an order of the day, of the 17th, dated St. Péetersbury, General Laders has been named chief of the infantry regi- ment of Araja; and at the recommendation of Prince Gorts- ‘chakoff, General Liprandi has been honored with the order of St. Vladimir of the 2d class, and General Teterewnekow with that of St. Anne of tho 1st class, for their distinguished wervices in the Crimea, eae

’/ from St. Petersburg, and allege tliat it is the Emper | France wt

cose spirit of the United States Attorney General, and the

revolutionists, etiditional 1 duty of neu » ppl Should it not have kno of restraining military ente

Canada, congress passed laws 8 applicable to the existing case / l | po to the full extent of executing this Fvasions of Canada? Did he not for this purpose despa

A letter from Warsaw, of the 28th ult., in the Dantide, says t~—“ We have received intelligence here that eight regi- ments of grenadiers have arrived at Simpherépol, commanded vy Generals Plautin, Scherkoff and Kryloff. When ‘the Russians heard of the expedition of the Allies to the Liman, General Gortschakoff did not send the Grenadiers; then at Perekop, to cover Nicolaieff and Kherson ; but despatched from his own camp some brigades of reserves to the menaced point, whilst the choice troops received orders to reinforce the Crimean army. The Grenadiers are accompanied by their divisien of artillery, under General Korniloffs but we ‘know nothing of the whereabouts of the 7th division of caval- ‘ry, which left Poland at the same time as the Greitiadiers.

"A letter from Kalisch, in the Austrian Gazette, says— There is no indication that the Russians are going to evacuate ‘the Crimea, Ifthey intended to take that step voluntarily, l why; it may be asked, have they chosen that precise moment ‘for sending there tke corps of Grenadiers. It is certain that plore’ it and condemn it? ‘the Russians have if the Criurea fourteen divisions of in-| oficers lose their lives in fg ‘fantry, but lately a part of the 14th bas been recatled to | ters? Was not that excellent officer, | Kherson and Nicolaieff, and replaced by tWo divisiohs of'| one of ‘Grenadiers. The Russian army in the Crimea at re seep ee ‘consists of fourteen divisions of infantry, not including the 5 t m I ‘reserve, and constantly arriving bodies of national militia. the ships of the Kinney expedition lai

because she was suspec

n man-of*war, Teena ait estes ‘OE RU ; -HACE ted of being enga in this private

THE RUMOURS OF PBACE. war? Should not a writer know a little,

The rumours of peace first circulated by some of the Germat | facts as these?

journals, not being sustained by further intelligence, arerapidly| This is but a glim . aa arra eae en alling i dit. The few journals Which speak in the name action that may ‘be adduced in reply to the disgracetu S ae ee gto Beck Rake been sent ‘torial of the London Times of Oct. 23. It was so infamously or of , Base : F ‘an argument, that the American press, with hardly an ex- ‘eeption, to its lasting credit, wisel treated it as utterly

wn that, in 1838, for the special pur

? Did not President

sidered, Seeretary of State, Mr. Mar not completely suecessful ? ' 5 again and again had these laws brought to their notice ? And to come to more recent times. travy, in the administration of President Fillmore, do service in breaking up aaa expeditions on Cuba is true thé Lopez expedition succeede of the United States officers; but did even an Ame justify this, or apologise for

, went with him? Were th

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that time to this, succeeded in breaking u

the guns of an America

‘of Russia, deny that any new propos

10 is sending round the olive branch. The New Prutsian Gazette even affirms that Napoleon ILL. has caused | poneath contempt. And it to be notified at Vienna, that he is ready, at this moment,| of « heartless trifling” with a momentous subject—that proved to negotiate on the basis of the Four Points: The Independ- an incendiary torch to light a war blaze: It was this that set ence, which very séusibly discredits this news, however states the panic agoing in England. its belief, that at no time, before or since the fall of Sebastopol, . « . « am have the Westerr belligerent powers declared themselves; In beating its retreat, the Times asserts, that the American disengaged from the “ Four Points.” cabinet has used discourteous language to the court of St. It is ‘again repeated in Berlin that the Czar has made con. | James. : W —_ _—. pee Pr ee = fidential communications to Prussia and Austria of his hearty | ome oe ~ se = bateme’ Walhde ae stg Mtinitenns low wishes for a renewal of negotiations. The Emperor of Austria | uage ; yd thus far, this administration Itavé mshaged out is stated to have expressed himself in the same sense to the foreign relations with a firmness, foresight, dignity, unsurpassed Pope’s Nuneio at a very recent interview. M.de Bourquency bility, and splendid success, that have won the confidence an has returned to Vienna, farnished, it is said, with fresh in- received = a oo. as ——. aa _— the structions {o meet the contitigencyof propositions from Russia. | signature of Wiliam L. Marcy, the discourteous language 18 Prince Gortschakoff (the Russian Minister at Vienna) and | sven, ft ‘will be believed to have beet used ; but oan then. the other Russian Ministers to the German Courts, are cer- ot = yoeee ‘The, 0 Fl br ® ’ ’ . : ig e , a — ” nana Sinan agape dag anh ts complaint of the Times was, that the American Government

; A : could not stop the filibusters; the November 1 complaint of There is no doubt that the Czar and the Grand Duke Con-) the Times is that the American Government has been too stantine beheld the cannonade on Kinburn Fort from an

energetic in stopping filibustering. eminence on the Otchakoff side of the estuary.

eRe BEARIN

CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 3, 18

The Washington Union of Saturday says—‘ Dispatches by R Re the Pacifie confirm ene assurances that there is nothing : ‘whatever in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain ‘and this country that need awaken a moments’ solicitude. 53. | «The Central American question isstill a subject of earnest = —== | discussion, and very serious differences of opinion exist on We copied into this paper, of the 19th ult. a those differences are matters still belonging the London Times, which gave rise to the most painful appre+ | The Union fetthes says that the despatch of the British hesions in England lest the peaceful relations between that fleet to the West India station was pro ably caused by the

re : ‘alarm produced by the British consul’s mistake in relation to country and the U. States should be disturbed by alleged blun- | the Bark Meat The Daion alec gives s positive denial to

, an article from

dering or mismanagement on the part of British authorities in | the statement of the London Times, that Mr. Buchanan had

violating the neutrality laws of thé Républic: The very belli- |expressed sympathy with the English Government.

+ >om +- desire, too apparent in the conduct of the President, to em- broil the Republic in a war with Great Britain at this inaus- picious time, for mere electioneering purposes, appeared te |—the Kennebec Journal~in which we were gratified to find the warrant the worst apprehensions that could be entertained. | following just tribute to the importance and efficiency of the

ats designed to enforee the icable to cases of colonial insurrection ? a ises from the United States Into hat till more étringent and especially Van Buren new law in 1839, as to tth the chief of the United States army, General Scott, to the northern frontier? And so important was the occasion cdn- that the Governor of New York, the present us

ore; have not British officials

Did not our gallant ae ? It d in eseaping the vigilance’ rican official it? Did not dut Government de- Did riot; subseqtently, valuable hting these very bands of filibus- Lieut. Alien; kitted in these encounters? And has not government vigilance, ail such rties of adventurers? How many months is it since one of d for a long time under watched and detained,

at least, of such

of law, afgutiietit and

as a libel, and so vapid, faint, absurd and untenable as

yet it was this very article—a piece

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TO THY EDITOR OF THER EXAMINER. Srr,—T was surprisetl fd see in your paper of M raph upon the inferior a of the Gas supplied tg itants of this City—(it being equal to Se in land)—the burners alone, and not the Gas, being jg ¢ The *‘ fluttering’? yon name is caused by an excess Of Wate the main or service pipes, and has nothing to do uality of the Gas. Upon reading the paragraph, I at determined to enter fully into the matter, by giving Jhe of — Photomical experiments to prove that the e of Gas in old and worn-out bérners is véry imperfect ; but, ing to your known wish of doing justice to all parties ed, I will confitie my observations to — You haye (as many others have, among whom is the Hon. G es double the light from the new burners, since fixed in $0Ur o With the tap only turned Aa/f on, than you could betore gy. from the o/d burners with the tap fullon? Yours, &e “7 Nov: 30, 1455. Ww. Mcnpny, j We unhesitatingly answer the cdtitluding question aul above letter, by saying that we have far more than doubey | light since the new burners were put in ; indeed, with the + burners we had scarcely atiy light worthy of the name, fora) last fortnight especially. Very many persons hiive fallen jp the same effor as ourselves, of attributing the badness of light to an inferior quality of Gas, and we are ghed we dj public attention to the matter, since the error can be 80 corrected, without the credit of the Company being im This, however, we may say, that the old burners, as called, could not have been very good oties when new, 2 thy were put in use for the first time only last winter, and yg, very great quantity of Gas has been consumed in our establig, ment sittve then. The light is now as good as we could yy it, but not 80 brilliant indeed as during the first year of Company's operations. We have been iafurmed, and weal no reason to discredit the information, that the Company ¢ not continue to give Gas of the same richness and brillianeyg they did at first, at the price then fixed, without i such heavy loss as must have speedily terminated their caree With regard to the fluttering or jumping of the Gas, admittaly by Mr. Murphy, and which, we know, has been gene throughout town, as being the result of an ‘‘ excess of wat in the main or service pipes,’’ we beg to say, that that isa occurrence which the Company could and ought to haye pm ‘vented: They may manufacture the best quality of Gas eve ‘consumed, but if its efficiency be impaired by an excess ff | water in the pipes, they cannot blame the uninitiated for sup | positig the Gas itself to be bad. A good deal of misconcepti § |and dissatisfaction would be prevented, if the Company would authorise their gas-fitter to make a periodical inspection of thy burners in use, and where worn-out ones were found, tom place them with new:

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| We were not disappointed at observing in the last Islande | @ repetition of the falsehood — contradicted in the Exam of Monday — as to the officers of the Volunteers receiving pay for their services. As the Islander is evidently hard-up fora | grievance, and as the old reprobate who edits it must haw | somebody to fling his filth at—we may reasonably concluds | that the Story about the etormity of appointing officers to th ‘enrolled yolunteers, will be a standing dish for three month yet to come. It is reasserted that Mr. Mitchell receives 1%

per day ; we again deny that he receives one penny for the service alluded to. It is stated that Mr. McGill receives lis,

We are indebted to thé politeness of a friend for the perusal per day ; we deny, likevtise, that he receives one penny foragy of an American paper which seldom finds its way to this Colony |

service connected with the Volunteers. The IJs/ander, ina note, remarks; that this denial is a ‘* quibble,’ because “ itis notorious,” says that print, ‘that these individuals accepted

ae 1 : ‘ , But the United States press, at least the influential and re- | free institutions gained for this Island by the untiring zeal of ; office with the express understanding that‘they were fo be

spectable part of it, has, with alinost one voice, répudiated the | the Liberal Party. The testimony of one so well informed as idea that a war with Great Britain is at all likely to occur, or the writer evidently is, and so free from local bias and mere is even desired by the people of the United States. We take | party prejudice, will be well received and fully appreciated

'paid.”” The writer of the note; by the bye, corrects the editor of the Islander. The latter insists positively that Messrs. Mit 9 chell and McGill are in the receipt of pay ; while the forme

‘from the Boston Post, an influential journal, the following | | article, which may be said to breathe the spirit of the great

bulk of the American people, and shows that so far as they are concerned, the peaceful relations of the two countries are likely to remain undisturbed.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

The war panic in England is certainly remarkable. For a week the topic of the United States fairly eclipsed even the theme of the Crimea. One thing re8ulted from this breeze : a demonstration that there is in England no desire for a war with America. Nobody need deny that England has national spirit. No country has more of it; and were ‘the United States to enter upon a system of deliberate insult to her, then | there would be war. But this is what our Government never | attempted, and what our people never desired. Least of all | do they desire it now:

It is astonishing that such a panic could have been got up by such carelessly and recklessly written articles as the edi- torials in the Zzmes about this country. There is not a strong oint about them. We have before us its issue of October 25, and after re-examining this article, have no hesitation in writing, that in this country it would not stir the faintest political ripple. It adduves no facts, cites no proofs, contains no argument, and has not a single sparkle of wit. It as- sumes that ‘‘a large portion of the United Siates’’ are de- termined to ‘‘ force war upon’’ England ; that this determination proceeds from their settled filibusterinz propensities; that these are so strong, and our executive is of so weak a cast, | that they cannot be controlled here without a British fleet. This spirit, it is alleged, was about to take the shape of a descent on Ireland. As it was manifest the American Gevernment could not stop those ‘* engaged in enrolling unhappy men for these desperate and criminal enterprises,’’ therefore a British: fleet was ordered to the American seas to stop it! These were the words of the Times :—

“It is because we see no hope of finding in the United States a Government capable of preventing its citizens from waging private war on their own account against the best and truest allies of the great republic, that we are most unwillingly compelled, even in the midst of the great European struggle in which we are engaged, to assume a defensive at- titude, in order to trample out the first sparks of this firé, and to prevent a conflagration which, if once allowed to spread, may cause incalculable misery to the human race.”

Here then was its ground of panic, a solid mass of pure assumption. It was in fact even worse than this. -It was as- sumption at war with, and fi the face and eyes of, a series of facets concerning which one who writes for such a, journal as the Times—termed the leading journal of Europe

had no business to be ignorant. Wenow allude tothe steady, uniform, firm, unmistakable course of our Government for a long series of years as to this matter. The people of this country, hy an overwhelming majority, nor their Government, have ever justified what is termed filibustering. On the contrary, this Government, on many occasions, and indeed, on every oc- casion, has by work and deed, has by argument and by force, denounced and ymt down this ‘private war.’’ Indeed, the. United States, as soon almost as they became a national wer, embodied this opinion in strimgent and efficient laws, or mye y those who violated the duty of neutrality. It is just that the country should be judged by theselaws. “There they are on the statute book, and there they have been for sixty years; and we claim that they are the true exponents of Americau public opinion.

The London Times, too, should not have been so ignorant as not to have known, that these laws against private war’’ ig apa — into effect ; and this from the time of

e French revolution down to the last attem éxpediti of Kinney. ne

To gono further back. Should not this writer have known, that, in times of the revolution of the Spanish American

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by all our readers :~

{Fi rom the Kennebec (Maine) Journal.] PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Tt is well known to many of our readers that P. E. Island is a very beautiful and highly fertile location of the English pos- sessions in America, The following letter from an intelligent gentleman, a native of that Island, now a resident and an active business man in Maine, will be found highly interesting, show- ing, as it does, the meeeevnenn which have been made within a few years in the condition and civil government of the people :

‘* Norwa¥, August 22, 1855.

«After an absertce of many years from my native place, I was highly gratified to find so many great and radical overnment of the

changes in the ideas of the people and the Province. It is now some nine years since | first left it. At

that time the people, as a mass, took little or no intetest in the particular measures which were prominent in the Legislature of those days, and still less did they scrutinize the character and principles which actuated the minds of the men who ruled over them: :

‘** The Elective Franchise was enjoyed only by a very mcon- siderable portion of the people, and a qualification for it based on property. Free schools at that time were unknown, on the principles of our own; and, in fact, the whole Legislature of

pact, under whose lead every interest, every enterprise of the people, and the general welfare of the Colony, was always sacrificed, where they in amy way came in collision with the self-interest or aggrandizement of this particular clique, who, in the administration of the affairs of the Colony, were guilty of the most disgraceful frauds anc »asest corruption ever prac- tised upon an unsuspecting and cc1fiding people. But at pre- sent all is changed ; the people every where are deeply interested in the Legislature of the Province ; they watch their Represen- tatives, and scrutinize their acts, and woe betide the man who betrays their interest.

“They have succeeded in getting that they term a Reepon- sible Government, which gives them the control of many of the appointments to office before not enjoyed, as well as the amount of salary to be paid those officers, and has abolished many offices which were of no practical service but to make situations for the rising generations of the Family Compact.

‘“The patty therehy coming into power have done many very commendable things, among which is an Act jor the ex-

@ qualification for the exercise of that important right=not on the accidents of a than, his social position, education, wealth, or circumstances of birth—but simply on his own intrinsic manhood as a member of the great Rania family and a sub- ject of Great Britain. * Free schools have also been established on the same basis

as our own, making it the duty of the Province as well as the

arents to educate the rising generation; and, in fact, the

egislation of this party, although defective in many particu- jars, is on the whole in the right direction, and shows a t advance on the old Hunkerism of the past. The sceptre of the Family Compact has departed from them—they have been broken up—and many of them, whose offices alone held them up, (that support being taken away), have sunk into insignifi- cance and contempt ; others who were men ef honor, integrity, and devoted to the best interests of the people, are still doing ee = — ae are called to fill. Thus does the principles of truth everywhere advance, and grow in the and lives of the childrea of men, 7 a the goed time coming,”

GAS LIGHT.

Mn. Mcrrny, the Superintendent of ‘the ‘Gas Works, has handed to us the following short letter, in reply to a paragraph

colonies, congress,

in spite of their warm sympathies with the it inecttion <

which appeared in last Monday’s Examinzr. We readily give

the Colony was controlled by what is termed a Family Com: |

tension of the Franchise, making it now universal, and basing |

a sure and hopeful pledge of

admits that they are not to be paid until the Rent Roll Bly réceives the royal assent! What a pity it is there is nota) better ‘* understanding’’ between the editor and his comments | tor! they would not then tender themselves so ridiculous by contradictory statements:

Now, as to the ‘ understanditig ’ about giving any of the officers pay—citheér the Colonel, the Major or the Paymaster— nothing was implied ot expressed at the time of their appoint ment. They receive nothiiig; and nothing has been promised, 7 nothing asked. Is that denial explicit enough for the Islander? The continual outcry about the enrolment of thé Company— — | the cost of which must be paid out of the pockets of the &

tander’s good friends, the land proprietors, or if not so paid the Company will be disbanded—demonstrates the imbecile) _ weakness of the opposition press. We may, therefore, com] gtatulate the Government on leaving its enemies no other cau® of complaint. But the Islander's peculiar and unceasing ita | cibility on the subject of pay to the enrolled volunteers, may)

| be traceable te the fact, that that pay is designed to come ditt of the pockets of the Itndlords, under the operation of th Rent Roll Bill. If the pay were to be taken from the genenil revenue, the thought of it would not be so irritating. Th | Islander is—ever has been—ever must be, 30 long as it existe

the obsequious whelp of the latidiords,—no wonder, then, itdit ~ plays its toothless gums in barking away at a Governmel » which hatbours a design on the pockets of its masters.

A HUGE FatsEnoop—That Mr. Haviland formerly receivel

only £200 a year for deing the work of the Secretary's Office _ See the last Islander.

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A PROOF OF DOATING IMBECILITY —Thé leader in the lat” Istander, headed «* Layalty—the state of the Colony.”’ Ifo | in his second-childhood, Dumtan must haye been in his cup when he pettned that wishy-washy affair.

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Tut following paragraph appears amongst the Police Repot™ for last Week :—

« Nov. 27.—Hon. E. Whelan, for an alleged assanit on Patrick Best hey; case dismissed; plaintiff to pay costs. :

A few words will suffice to show the grounds on which th plaintiff in the above case preferred his charge. About thre? or four days before Pat Bearney made his complaint at Mayor's Office, he called bere and asked for a copy of the BY AMINER of the 12th November; it was handed to him, and threw upon the table, with unusual formality and nois®s the price commonly charged for it. He then demanded, in the most insolent and overbearing tone, a pen and ink, “ to mark,” as he said, ‘on the margin of the paper the date of its Po — chase, before witness.”’ This insulting intimation of a pro cution was no sooner uttered, than the paper was taken {ro® the fellow d——d for a contemptible scoundrel — to take his money, and leave the office instantly. He * to leave the office — continued to give impudence in it; ing that the paper should be restored to him, as he had pe chased it. Ho was answered, that if ho did not leave quiell he would be forcibly ejected ; and thereupon, considering A

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