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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1847. THE DELEGATION PETITION.

In our paper of the 21st August, we brie fly reviewed

a few of the charges contained in the Petition praying Her Majesty not to continue Sir H. V. Huntley in the sovernment of this Island., The little space now at our disposal will not allow us to comment, at any length, on the remaining charges. As the whole document has been already closely canvassed by the people them- selves, a few sentences will suflice to dispose of it. In the sixth clause, the Petitioners complain of the shortness of time allowed for the Election in Mey last, when the Hon. Mr. Coles was understood to have vacated his seat in the Assembly by his appointment to the Council. Now, the assertion that many of the Electors were disfranchised, in consequence of “ the impassable state of the roads and ferrys,” is mere moonshine. Few, if any of the electors, were deterred from coming to the hastings, by the bad state of the roads and ferrys. This fact is quite evident from the number of votes polled; besides, were the roads not quite as good for the sup- porters of Mr. McCallum as they were for those of Mr. Coles? Mr. Coles’s friends had an equally good right to inake a complaint on this head—for if McCallum’s party were disfranchised, they must have been disfran- chised too,—but Mr. coles’s friends knew that such a complaint would be false and unreasonable, and could not, with any propriety, prefer it. The canvassers from Charlottetown, who were so indefatigable in their exer- tions for Mr. McCallum, could gallop their horses through all parts of the District for several days previous to the Election—could send food for cattle and food for slaves to the most distant sections of it—could transport loads of hay, barrels of bread, and casks of tum, to bribe the slavish and the ignorant ; and yet we are told that the

to assert that His Excellency caused lights to be placed

time to admit of such a thing being done, nor was there any intention to do it.

The experience of the past month or two furnishes the best refutation that need be given to the ninth clause, which states that signatures were procured to the Peti- tion, got up by the advocates of the Governor, in an “ wnderhanded and improper manner.” It is well known that the most open and publie means were employed to promote the Petition, and its merits canvassed at public meetings. In short, the whole document taken to Eng- land by Messrs. Palmer and Pope, is a miserably-con- structed chain of falsehoods from beginning to end— creditable to neither the heads nor the hearts of its pro- jectors ; for had they never attempted a piece of fictitious writing such as this Petition, we should not have known how poor and sterile are their intellects.

COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE.

It will be long in this: Island before Commerce can make itself independent of Agriculture: that it has be- come so, and may continue so, in a state of peace inthe mother country, is now. tolerably evident. But there manufactures enable the population to find a support as long as those manufactures can be exported. Wehave not, nor can we have any extensive manufactures. ‘Our merchants, therefore, must look to the farmers as’ their consumers; and as the landlords generally will not ex- port farming produce, the farmers must depend on the

but this bond should be one of perfect equality, which it never can be, unlessthe farmer is able and careful to keep himself out of the books of the merchant, for.the moment he fails to do go he is at once his slave,—he is obliged to submit not only to such price as the buyer shall fix for his produce, but to pay the store whatever

in his windows. We are well informed there was not)

merchants to do it for them. Thus mutual interests) ought to bind all parties together in one fraternal bond ‘|

is supposed that its advent is wished for by our discount ers, however they may at times coquet with the subject. Perhaps nowhere in the commercial or agricultural! world is the relative credit of every inhabitant better known than it is in this community,—there is the whole business in Bills, and the credit of every drawer may be safely ascertained,—there is the registry, and the value of every landed security is known,—the value of nearly every stock in Town may be guessed at on reference to the Custom-house books,—there are the ships insured on the stocks, and the security in their bottoms open to the enterprise, at little risk, of any Banking Compa- ny; while its establishment would fix every species of money accommodation at a fair and equal price; and in the profit deriveable from,all such things there might be a more general participation.

“Oniy LooK aT THE Journats.”—In the Debate of the Malpeque Meeting, which we publish on our first page, the reader cannot fail to. mark the pertinacity of Mr. D. Montgomery, in’ ringing the changes on the above-written phrase.’ “Only look at the’ Journals.” We have looked at them, friend Donald, and regret to say, have found you-voting frequently with that party. whom you modestly averthave coalesced with you. As no person was fond Zenerous enough at the Malpeque meeting to comply with your mandate, we shall request our readers to follow us in a reperusa! of the Journals ; and then we shall know whether Mr. D. Montgomery acted with the true liberal party, oF, to use a common

phrase, “the loose: fish.”, )

! LATER FROM EUROPE.

| The Steamer “ Conqueror” brought over the English Mail from Pietou on Thursday evening last. We have ‘given in this No, the most interesting items of inte)}i- |gence which the latest papets afford. ' English Journa!s are still pretty generally engaged in canvassing the late tection contests, and. the political principles: jof the

-footed and iron-nerved pioneers of orest could! price i i aa sure-footed and iron-n ” the forest could! price is demanded for the articles he may want, and! newly returned members. All the-returns’have not ye!

not endure bad weather and bad roads as easily as the fragile and delicate forms of Charlottetown dandies. The secret is—Mr. James Mc Callum, the nominee and the dupe of the Clique, was thoroughly beaten by fair and manly polling, and any thing in the shape of an ob- jection will do to cover the defeat.—-The Governor was not te the smallest extent blameable, on the ground that time was not allowed for the scrutiny: the Sheriff’ was not bound to make kis Writ returnable on the 10th. He was directed, we believe, to have the Election con- cluded by that time; but he might have allowed the

_writ to run a month after the specified time, if he had any inclination to doso. It is very well understood, |

evil than this is, that he will receive the orders of his creditor as to how he shall use his political rights ; and

Compact)—yet, the genera] result of this has been here- tofore, that the Elections have been, to an unfair and

eee extent, in the hands of Charlottetown tra-

‘{lere and shopkeepers, who, in turn, have their masters

|who practise similer means in their efforts to. rule the; ‘roast, and to swamp any Government tliey cannot con- ‘troul. |

We trust the time is not far distant when the farm-

thus his purse is leaking at both ends. But a greater!

though we have amongst us merchants enough in toWN) p iccell Mj who have not bowed the knee to Baal—-(that is,, the:

been made; but itis now well ascertained, that the new

prmeamans, though apparently of a strangely miscellc-

neous character, will be decidedly favourable to the nistry.

In the selections we give, the reader will find many important matters, on which we have’ not leisure to comment.

| ss OUTRAGE AND ASSAULT.

On Wednesday evening last a violent assault wes coinmitted by a young man named Peter Smiih on the ‘person of one) James Huches, a Truckman, by stabbing {him in the chest with a knife—the blede’ penetrating to

; . Ys Ola . eee” Sse “4 i as ie ts ' however, that a scrutiny would never have been de-ling populatior. will make an effort to emancipate them-,the lungs, and nearly giving a mortal wound, The cir-

manded, had there been time enough to prosecute it.

|selves from the slavery to which the evil system We cumstances which led to this inhuman assault have been

The seventh clause complains of the late Magisterial | have briefly described is every day subjecting them; related tous as follow. Another truckman named Charrles appoiniments. ‘This means, simply, that the Lieutcnant/and the experience of the past will surely teach them,| McKenna was, on the same evening, endeavouring to

Governor did not continue to appoint the friends and nominees of the Clique. The Petition asserts that the gentlemen lately appointed have neither “education nor position in society.” It is really amusing to hear parties prate about “education” and “position in socie- ty,” who, as well as their grandfathers and their great grandfathers before them, never could lay claim to either the one or the other. In point of education, some ofthe new Magistrates complained of have been perhaps more

‘this effort they must make, if they would enjoy the full

value of their labours and the full measure of their po- litieal rights.

A BANK.

Amongst the difficulties which monopoly has thrown in the way of the rising fortunes of this Island, proba- ‘bly none has been so great asthe want of a Bank, the conductors of which would deal fairly with the people.

fortunate than most of their revilers, and quite as capa-|That the attempt some time ago made to establish one ble of discharging their judicial ,@uties as the man who, was sincere and bona fide, we are very much inelined

can boast of nothing beyond a shipyard schooling, em-|to doubt. As long as exorbitant rates of discount are

bellished by scraps of learning gathered from genteel attainable from parties who require temporary assistance

society. The sticklers for “position in society” evi- dently forget their own lamentable and lowly origin.

In the eighth clause of the Petition the Lieutenant Governor is charged with interfering in Elections—the Petitioners evidently meaning the late Election for the First District of Queen’s County, as this is immediately after brought in, and no other being referred to. Now, the Governor offered no interference whatsoever at this Election. The fact of his standing at his own door, when Mr. Coles’s procession visited the Government Hiouse, was not the smallest interference in the matter. When Mr. Douse—whose name figures at the foot of the circular attached to the Petition—sanctioned the false and silly accusation just alluded to, he appears to have forgotten that he once headed a procession to Go- vernment House, after an election, and was the author and abettor of proceedings similar to those he new con- demns.--Respecting the illumination, it is a daring lie

tablished. The want of one is one of the greatest evils of the presentdomination ; nor need the public expect, till that domination is overthrown by their united ef forts, that that want will be supplied. No! the public and open transaction of a Bank would be far less profit- | vate stiles fer the contraband trade-in money transac- tions.

Let the people look to it. That money accommada- tion will be wanted, both in commercial and agricultu- ral business, every one knows; and we hope to see it supplied through the medium of a Bank. We cannot think it all necessary for the Bank of British North America to wait for shares’ being taken in Charlotte-' town,—the establishment of.a, Branch could not fail to

and whose credit is good, we shall never see a Bank es-! |

protect his wife against an insult offered to her in the street by Smith, when one or two more parties came for- ward to assist the latter in beating McKenna, whereup- on McKenna w48 eémpelled to run, and haying reached

mg : . * @ . the house of Hughes, called him out to his assistance.

flughes came and immediately attacked Smith, but be- fore many minutes elapsed Smith drew his knife and plunged it into the breast of his new adversary, Smith is now in Jail, and we are giad to learn some hope is entertained of the recovery of Hughes. We forbesr any comment, as the whole affair shall come before the proper judicial tribunal.

PUBLIC MEETING AT THE FIVE MILE HOUSE. Our readers will; no doubt, remember that 4 public meeting of the Electors of the First and Second Districts

‘of Queen’s County, has been notified totake place at

‘the Five Mile:House, St. Peters Road, on Tuesday next. The Eléetors who call the meeting have, with”

able to the dominant few than the management of pri-| great generosity. consulted’ the convenience of the ad-

vocates and friends of Messrs. Collard & Pope; and we really hope they will go forward and explain what per- ticular examples of wisdom, morality and statesmanshiip ha¥é' been given by those two “learned gentlemen” in the whole course of their lives,—it is ‘to be hoped ile parties we allude to,| since they profess to admire the open and the munly course, wil] bring their argumeits _ to convince the pubhe that ome of their Jeaders would

‘not, if permitted to controul the Government, be the ty-

be profitable to the Company-and a benefit to theJle-

Tant he has always -been—andhe other, the miserabie

land. But it will be long enough before it comes, ifitvliving-lihe) on virtue and humanity.