Tat

| D.¢

AMINGR.

egret ek Tr

e a ’ }’ t EO (oadul Wuucriuaen i : rel SS an S i i ; i} | f thy olishy ; e i i -. } z Se i ] eet el¥v in 2 risine ; ‘ i byeiid ; uvred ) , IHS e ; Lord } ivy) appointed Governor Gt neral. issitiat sir, VW . wee eR ice ' , ’ oe ‘ ol aii i ae = ik 42 i } sh evacuated Cabal, ana were frig rtbadiy Wa ead 1 their retreat | { i} re-entered by the British forees, the prisoners re- FRe ‘ : . me ) Dili aL lous wma its tort weal lous ra@vee, under General | QLiOCR, t So +4 i \ sa erwaraGs cVat i : ’ Ae ee) : pe Lei3y Sir: Gnar'es Napter defeated the army of Seinae, : . c24 s? BP oat 2sessit wr Was eersequertly annexed to Cue perish possess fone, i . : ‘ ' . : 1 . S cw en en tes } tRi- Siyvy Heuory Dardinge appointed Gevernor General. ; P} : - me ‘ ; . ‘ ‘ ~ ' . i 7 4-), The Sixha ecrossed the Sa'tlei, wd uttacanea the 1’ es? > | ’ ~~ ) tp Priiish at Perogepore, la the batile which ensued, Gener a¢ t } nar ats k ib was kuil a nud Su Ri. sate wtalivy won ided, ’ , ! ei} : | ! . she 4 hahah Buttle of Ferozshah (Dee. 21), la whice the ots were , ik ut ih : : i wees 88 a :ed by the British, under the command ol Ooi Hugh l ot! listiuraished offers,

he Satie) ( Dee. 27).

Sikus re-ecrossed ft

. . ee Ss ee » SRY ani } ston? r he Sikh ‘ : F i } Dattle of Aitwa yy al. -O) aud defeat of th -— relicion it is dclizhtful to see that the great majority of the

ai, Pewee s nee = f a

' starry Oumith. Clerey of this Island are imbued with the same spirit. As

3? ; 7 1 70 \ | ¢ f ¢] : g ? . } “ tl . zy s + ° ’

oe sobraow. (Feb, 18.) Defeat of the Sikhs by the) jy aS the Presbyterians and Methodists are concerned, there British, w th immense joss on both s des. | is no exception.”’

; ane sie oe } cP: ’ W., ear »} ; J} ~ ine am tw °1% ca

Te ipied by the Brivish, (Beb. 20.) areas nee We do not presume to know. neither do we eare, who is the, ‘ t \ - a treaty of peace being stgued ou tae uth oF} ? ! : : hat ie A aa s ee ee : ‘admirer of ** truth and genuine liberality’’ who penned the au | -

LETT IES ST Te ee ee

| VV radi

resemblance. It strikes us that ‘nore about ‘dragging religion into politics. riests organized their forces to Not one solitary Irish Romish

the utmost. of their power. | government Candi-

vote is known to be recorded against the \ This is very significant and pregnant with warning. for Protestant ministers to arouse themselves. 1 in Polities most insidiously all along. What they do they do in secret, in the Confessional, and no : f cable vietim who is bound by

But

: , elim : ate + ‘stants have aone and are still uoing, is patent to

datea,. ‘Truly it was time Priests have dabble

no man hears of it but the utser all what Prot

the P rople to pursue. great reformers of other days. ) ; ; Calvin, or Melville, or Chaimers, shrinking from taking a due

share in every

SIS Sea

1 dearly wish that

» wal) 9 own refection in-* Areby McNs He tigow flattered would they he with

ive Been tier

w Swahoy.

. rouns q

“Tt is well known that the }

terrors of Pargatory and of Limbo itaelf to obey. tr.

‘ ‘a5 . ' ¥ 3} speak in open daylight end speak the trata, leavin i ‘ . ‘

Hy aa

“ee

jadge for themselves what This is what was done by Jolin

and

Messrs. Jolinston and Tupper couly i ba the

Halifax folk would never hear

?* ~

course they ought b

political movennent that affected te interests of

wea ws

TUE SUBRIFFS’ RYTCR

sited ple can easily taterpret this lang age. It chal S ae AS. ae me welt sidug. te Ta . iF icin ciroulat news-and ‘Tus retarns to the several writs of election were given in O " . aid a = or 4 mvenient for purties i °! tt ston Friday last, and we are bappy to inform our readers that the vere felt to the care of old women and nervous youn? Jgire . les the name of Andrew A. Me

} return for Georgetown inclad Donald, Esq. ;

; and the principles of justice. Lhatg ntleman having 9een dé

bim asa member, without reference to the proceedings on th

) an opinion, it will affect as many votes on one side as on the Knox and all the You would not find Knox, or

as it was when he declared him elected.

; ’ ee er : . the numerous lying reports put im circulation all over t! country by the Tories, as to MeAulay having obtained, as th

over his oppenent.

WET...

- that is, nobonly ugainst ‘* eles, it is therefere strictly in accordance with law “K clared duly eleeted at the Court for the declaration of candi- dates, in virtue of the majority of votes which then appeared

in his favour, it was clearly the duty of the Sheriff to return

erutiny, the merits of which it will be for the liouse of As- sembly to determine, s®uld Mr. McAulay feel disposed to petition against Mr. McDonald holding the seat. With re-| spect to the evidence given on the serutiny, we have been in-|

formed by the High Sheriff, that so far as he was able to form

other—leaving the majority for Mr. \ cDonald about the same This is the best an- swer we can give to the long rigmarole account in the last Monitor, and copied into the Islander of Friday, as well as to | e weut entails upon every people uxhappt/y entrusted with it or result of the scrutiny, a clear majority of about a dozen votes The friends of the former laboured hard,

PILI LOLI DL LT IGT PIT CLE TE rrr,

are to practise their first insurrectionary evolutions and

manceuyres. in Queen's County, first, it is pUrposed—gy we

n have beard—to endeavour to get up aa awtal demonstration,

meeting of constitutional

+

by means of a monster

; : reformers ayiinet the enfire Governa :

ntand their immediate s ‘p porters :

| Warbart m, W hielan and Cy,,” butagainsts Daly himself. tae Invcting a petition to iter Mah sty, Our most gracious Queen in the stvle of a formal indictment of His Excellency the Licutenant Governor Sir Dominick Daly, and bis constatutional advisers, directly charging them with high treason against the majesty of the pevpie of this Colony, in denying to, and withholding from them, that constitutional remedy for theip e vrievances for which they had most hambly sued; and with wany other high crimes and misdemeanors ; and praying that lier Majesty will be most graciously pleased to recal His Ex. cellency from his Government of the Colony; to break up the Executive Council; to break them ‘* with a rod of iron; «9 break them to shivers, as the vessels of a potter ;”’ vo dissolye the Assembly > and to suspend our Constitution, and cauge it to be revised and remodelled, in such @ way as may render quite | practicable and easy the re-astablisimment in the Island of the good old system of Irresponsible Rule and Home Red-Tapeism, (for thé promotion of the prosperity, power, wealth and honor of the patrician class—so by themselves at least supposed to be—and fur the relief of the plebecans—so msultingly accounted by the other class—from all the cares, anxieties, doubts, is. givings and perplexities which Self or Responsible Govern.

iv Domine

At such mong

subject to it! ‘The projected monster meeting—should not our present ex- pose of the selfish and mischievous policy and designs of the factious and malignant gang who have concocted the scheme

ttisi, (Mareh s+.) Wud wuleX

Sir Charles Napier resigned his command’ in India,

soe

he gave a fare

rof LLangoou, { \pril 14.)

. : ; ‘ : : labove extraordinary communication.. To know the class he

Earl of Dalhousie appointed Governor General. avove extraordinary CommMuUnicatio : ti ‘ : > tots ahh

agement with the troops of the Dewan Mool- | belongs to, and the paper tor whieh he writes, is quite sui

ihe

i 7 hich endel in their defeat. leient. chief intellectual nutriment of sach a journal

l Shere Singh, (N Vv, 22, ) by ul

vw British, unde:

Sikly army surrendered uuconditionally |

7s cobb] ;

‘ wie of aCi &

dito the British possessions. a temporary excuse fur their incorrigible laziness and impu-

to that effect is ‘and throwing aside the dirty apron and donning the white sa . -*)| choker, betake themselves for a genteel living to those pulpits if address fo the troops, Dec. lo.)

Mareh ‘around which the victims of ignorance and intolerance ** most

in the followieg : ‘ ‘ ; . ‘ ss 7” a ty Law ; shant ha nic weerstanding with the Birmans. A British | do congregate,” when, 1 taey did not cheat the Almighty, ' : } nail . 7 . “i = an . wred before Ranzoon, and a certain time al-| they should be breaking stones or ¢ ybdling shoes.

; lo: r,t . ‘ j - ; . ? e settlemont of the dispute | Having, however, lent our space to the reproduction of the b consequence of the treachery of the Viceroy of Cee ,; , , pi a Ly consequenee 0 the treachery of : article, we may as well notice some of the glaring falsehoods

piace, in which 300 of the} | ty 1 )| *h it contains. destroyed, (Jan, 4.) | Wen nsaip

engavenent toon asf i : : j . ee The writer says, ** the Government Is over-

jiéd, ana the lortiacattous o ;

: ; 1 f s the overthrow

Masiabau, (April 5.) , Is the overt

at least 16

thrown’’ by the late election. Is it indeed ?

| . } proved by the fact, that the Government will have

chanestog h two

three times, finally | supporters in the new House of Assembly, while its opponents 20.)

ands

‘and spared no expense, to accomplish this object.

It was not prevent its realization—will be held, (on what particalar spot

7 r sy 4 ens of 7| usually emanates from the ciuimsyv and unser upulous pe ns Oi ' those despicable wails of society, who, heing brought up to the,

stall, or some equally lowly but honest calling, find |

1y the Governor General, / dence when they pretend they have ‘a call to the ministry,’ |

| fed the confidence reposed in him when he was appointed, and

(to makea corrupt and illegal return.

|we know not,) and organized under the high auspices of the : ce lehiefs and leaders of the Unkely Alliance. The principal ance — for him they eared little or nothing — but from hatred | speaker will be lawyer Brandon. Ue will upon the occasion to the Government, which, as their instruinent, he would be we imagine, sit upon a pale horse, like meagre Envy, in field. We regret that a man of MeAulay’s abili-| marshal guise, with the Petition in his hand, rolled Up 80 ag ito resemble the staff—the ensign of military authority—and 'will also, doubtless be surrounded by a cortege of forensic aides-de-camp, all, like himself, fully inflated with such bombastic and delusive eloquence as they may think most ikely to enable them to effect their selfish and covert objects, Bat how either he or they can set about the wooing and seduction of the people, except in the vein of avowed turpitude, villainous sophistry, and most vile ees: in Which Richard Crovk-back wooed the ill-starred Lady Anne, and won her to his cruel arms; or except as the same royal and superlative villain afterwards solicited, from the bereaved mother, the We are well| widow of his brother, whose sons he had murdered, the aware that every attempt was made to mislead him in putting | hand of her daughter in marriage, we cannot, for the life of sic diates. tanialnmenattnele Ue Whe Die cibiedink acuiaitee aco us imagine. As the royal and rathless monster, in ayowing ee ee eae a oe PON SO 6% 7 PU"| to the gentle lady Anne the murder of her husband by ithe intriguers fuund him not only too honest to betray the im-| himself, declared ‘* it was his love of her which provoked portant trast confided to him, but too well-informed and clear- | him > or as aa ty poneeeelhs oe ee a : s . .. | With the murder of the brothers, the uncles, and the « ; headed to misinterpret and misapply the law. He fully justi-| 10. whom he incestuously sought to make his belabt be replicd saved the country from the disgrace which the Tories would | Say that I did all this for love of her;” 'so must the lawyer and his forensic aides-de-camp address and confess to the people. They must admit that they have ever w.thstood and opposed the natural, lawful, constitutional,

from regard for the man they evinced their zeal and persever-

bound to oppose. tices and open and generous disposition should be made the

cat’s-paw of the few sneaking, brainless fools, who strutted | ‘about the Sheriff’s Court on the declaration day, trying to)

. . : } look very important, and appeared ten times more anxious |

to defeat their young and highly respected townsman than} McAulay himself was.

The High Sheriff cannot be too highly commended for the | firinness and strict inpartiality with which he discharged the |

dificult and important duties entrusted to him.

|

have inflicted upon it, had they had a creature of their own

ea ; . = oe ee en ca v ee: Se eaten Melia’ cannot, by the aid of any amount of scheming, exceed i4? . , er ts ze a ala ln RE o We don’t think it is necessary to defend Sir oe pany k lian railway epene 1, (April 15.) land the Queen's Printer against the monstrous charge of being iat. ““erritories of tae R 4) th of N agpoor fall to the | ‘* Papists.’’ If their miserable reviler did not belie and aban-

Kast India Company

1855. Treaty with Dost M Somed signed, (March 31.) ¥ ist t Canning appointed Governor General, (July) is . Aun Xation oi Oude.

at Meerut, (May 19,) Kuro deans, and

Jhe pative troons mutinied

massacred several

(don the precepts of his forefathers, he might be a * Papisi | (005

of which ate

and withont referring to France, the Papistical Sovereigt hl lund is t dG § \

>

-o should like to know what would be the extent of British

oe ; GEORGETOWN,

clad to eonciliate on aimost any terms,

_ oe +

j | 4 |

|}GREAT RISE IN THE VALUE OF REA

1}

tion at Georgetown on Thursday last, according to advertise-

o

ment, and suld between 20 and 40 Town and Pasture Lots, | ;

ESTATE IN

Tur Commissioner of Pablic and Crown Lands held an auc- |

j

jand *- well unders ovd wishes of the people.’? But they may allege in their justification that they did soinloveand mercy |to the people, as considering that, in seeking the power of self-government, they were foolishly and madly seeking a power which, should they obtain it, would only harrass, | annoy, and perplex them; and that, in withholding it from ithem, and reserving it to themselves, they were actually becoming willing martyrs for their country’s good—laying

Deili.

te y on receipt of intelligence of the mutiny, and no

eulertainued

changes have taken

ities of India.

: ; r } ‘ . . winike : fired on their officers, | power and supremacy in the absence of the millions of loyal _ AY mf oare S sit ’ ' } <ed ig i ’ . They eatere {ths ety unop; mdta f00% | Catho ie hearts and stalwart arms fort fieations, tie Kuropeuns, tT

Shah Akhbar Kisg of La

that support the honor and |

its a ee ES : ee

lienity of the Crown in all parts of the Queen's dominions? Pr re

; . ee oe een vite — and 80 on with the rest. ar.

‘ "Et

slang if ‘red lia ite

} mutny ‘ ; ‘ ° ° Sealii } ; ee ae ee re, i se tao eae ae ty to other stations, ane by tie ie@e snud or Ct brefness says ti ier is a“ Sniveiing

! bap us % > 1 4 Ben Fai

reached ind the wauyle of tue Coles is ¢ rtainly

i high prices.

upon themselves “a load which would sink a navy *’—and taking upon their shoulders, **a burthen too heavy for men j}who hoped for heaven.”’ It would, however, be urged against ¥ l'them—and they would have to admit it—that they had and active, whieh is quite | resolut ‘ly opp sod the making of due provision fur the general diffusion of knowledge among the people; bat in like manner

nearly all that remained undisposed of, at unprecedentedly |

We are informed that the competition for the | fown Lots—the greater part of which, we learn, are of an in- ferior description—was very close evident

from the fact, that they sold as high as from £15 to |

tas in open © ‘volt, Jhe mutineers wi cvs rV¥ inota big it or fanatic. and wes Ippose every Piotestant who is | £29 each—the upset price on those lots. and for which many they might as Bs _ rn a Se a l tha ne af Btrogos on Ware: ad ehil | 2H, ‘ * ‘ ‘ i. . a og Se ge : . * ae “ | nruceecaed from ne purest, tie most unseihsa regare ur tne Sane : ee re ee hs ae D - eee n ti Is regarted DY the sn aprosd writer for the sis yi bars ly — — sould as a short time ago, being £5, £7 108., i ja ppiness of the ned unsophisticated people ; and urge upon

ee ee ak ae Be aks a Rina Witness as a Puseyite, or something worse, Out of the emgnt | aud £10. Westrongly suspect that the late election at George- | them the sage aphorism, ae ' Lae ag re, a oo = a . e War a members now constitating the Executive Council of this Colony, town had something to do with this competition;—both Liberals | * Where ignorance is bliss ‘tis fully to be wise.”

nuuber was small, and they w ere sufering | ix are consistent Protestants — four are members of the Chureh | and Tories wanted the lots to secure votes at another election. | They would - d abt als ) be ena that they had se, Large bodies of troops were dispatched | of England; one a Wesleyan, and the other a Presbyterian. | However, the latter did not strike out as boldly as the former | sides resolutely opposed the extension of our foreign com-

Was the sneer conveyed in the words: “and so on with the that British supremacy would be se s ‘ : 7 bat ae oe ~~ | pest,’? intended to apply m. Charles Young, Attorney |

, ' t tO tue Li

Z | > . o-- honor: +! co pnaenraad are ane nf ¢t} shininoclahts i 7 ite o!} the fore roing paragraph for 1857 (ren ral, wio 18 regard d as one or tne shining lights of Me : = £ o Deli }

lace in the history of a ll ¢ S ; , ; himself no | of the Government, who was believed to have achieved immor- |

thodism; and to the Hon, Juseph Wightman, another member

ro writer h is prove |

ny ue

; reoiieting ° ew is -anremoaey would 2 tal In predicting that Jorilish Supremacy Would | ta) honour awongst the saints on earth by his zeal

yus and pious

:

“ysserte d.] ; nay

la

acy Of the Bible in his place in the Legislature ?

i . {—the Liberals

| meree and the improvement of our internal trade ; bat again, ‘like the wily Crook-back, they. might still plead that their adverse policy in that respect was dictated by their great love of the people, by their earnest desire to save them from the

having obtained about thirty lots as their part

n, while the sprit of Tory competition did

ae ees OF tue Speculati

not

Several Liberal electors went from |

YL? » Bey {yur or five.

range beyond

Charlottet:

congratulate them on their profitable investment, and more | particularly on their extension of the franchise in the impor-

(tant borough of Georgetown, which will be very serviceable to

»wn for the purpose, and had a fine time of it,

syvils

We | of luxurfous indulgence—

e | ees . > | ** Bane of elated life, of afluent states;”

‘and to preserve to them the health, the strength, the enjoy-

pment, and the happiness

i “ Which the kied hand of liberal nature deals To them who love their vegetable meals;

Race anere a were

mee

y s he

eee

oe ine yh a TOE

<tt>

“"> € 2 . 2 | (ee aniin pc AlLeLELEEL ER. CHARLOTTETOWN, PLE... JULY 19, 1858. i i ee Oe LT ee MORE FALSE TESTIMONY BY ANOTHER CHRISTIAN

WITNESS.

Tae Noi otian has ¢ pple 1, without following article from the Halifax Presbyterian Wilacss —a worthy prototype of the Charlottetown Protecter. Being happily spared the infliction of perusing the Witness, the

f yy

Novascotian is our sole authority for the tissue of falsehoods

with whieh a Charlottetown correspondent has crammed the hialifax Sanctified Press :— rlottetown correspondent of the vil $3 BANS:

“It is truly refreshing to see the energy and stern determination with which the leading men in the Protestant rauks rallied round the standard of truth and of genuine liberality. The * Courbimation’ has dove a great and good work, and though it should die to-day 1t will not be forgotten ia Prince Fadward Island while Protestants have to preserve liberty and ¢ ion from tie insidious attacks of Papists and Pusvites, and politicians who sell cheir birthright and their * fora mess of pottage. The Combination has anit “d Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, and all el of Presbyterians, in the one great work of securing an open Bible in the School, and putting Popery into its proper position in a civilized Politicians who in point of fact

Pile - ap | Bris

isses

eoummunity.

vreatly feared it, pretended to muck at it and despise it—jass us Tupper ind Wilkins and Johnston did last wi:rter with | regard to the Protestant Alliance. Now, however, they have

discovered ¢» their cost that it is a power in the land. ‘The Papists and their supporters are beaten at the hastings. The Government is overthrown. Protestants will take the position which n turally belongs to them—they will be the governing

class. It is a shameful perversion of everything that is right and just an) becoming, to allow Papists to rule in Protestant

sete of Pio Nono to ride roughshod cts of Queen Victoria. This was the position of ig Island. The Governor, Sir Dominick Daly, is » Queen's Printer is a Papist ; the * Premier ’ is

countries—t» permit the subj over the su! ufiirs in ti a Papist ; ¢

nivelling Pasevite—and so on withthe rest. The Attorney Cenoral was the only thorough!y honorable and trustwort: y

He eoald

taan aunong them; and he resigned last Saturday. not wet & coustituency in the Island, and he waa too honest to d public opinion by sticking ty his post, as his € wrues desired him to do. + There ica great ery here among the friends of Govern- it against * Political Parsons,’ as they are pleased to eal Procestuet ministers who have taken part in the reeent

ine Irish Papists, from the meanest to the highest, ite them with all their heart. 1 was walking through an rish part of chis town on Friday last in company with a young

ifn part vl ‘ »

Jie may have looked a little like a Methodist, Presbyterian trae blue.’ The Irish women, how- ever, took him fur a Methodist, an? [ was greatly amused by

! .

the valedictions they invoked on the bead of the ‘ Methodist

Pa aon.’ ** The Gu ornament pross and partizans are untiring in their advocacy Of che prineiple that religion has nothing te do with wimeost the precise p! raseol ry i have

nae *s 1 yY use

xeurd from the lips of Dr. Tupper and the Hon. J. W. 7 ! !

Into COMMON Use forth. Of course shrewd

, and so

{hold on to bis office.

dation for this assertion.

note or comment, the |

suing the straigat-t

oie s . e Soe i

| ‘The eorrespondent of the Witness further says: ‘7

Pr astorzay : . . resoye ran

ligion or morality of any kind.

‘it is well known,’’ ‘‘ that the priests organized their

power. ©

one 8

the Government candidates,”’

against Mr. Dingw

some against the

a model Protestant, and a great lover of the Bible —

not be an unmerited one.

. a Be ; . . . " secrating religion,’ * dragging the holy mame of

We are told that when the late Attorney General lost his

‘lection, his colleagues in the Government ** desired ’’ him to

Every member of the Government

knew as well as Mr. Hensley himself that his continuance in |

office depended on his success at the hustings; and although

i

is defeat was, and 38 still sineerely deplored —a defeat which } ean be attributed to nothing but bigotry of the foulest stamp, | and the most unserepulous lying on the part of the political parsons and their myrmidons— there was not one member of |

he Government who sought to dissuade Mr. Hensley from pur- |

cward and independent course which he

did pursue, of resigning his office.

he Go-

vernment press and partizans are untiring in their advocacy of the principle that religion has nothing te do with polities.”’ fhe Government press advocates nothing of the kind; but it insists apon this obvious fact, that in their erusad: against the

Goverament the political parsons have shown no regard for re-

If their morality, however,

consists in propagating the most diubolical falsehoods, and pandering to the worst prejudices of their ignorant: followers,

and their religion is comprised in the distich of

« Fighting like devils for conciliation, Avcd hating one another for the love of God,”

they are certainly entitled to wear the belt.

continues the writer under notice,

forces

avy

to the utmost of their

‘nis is another falsehood. The ‘* priests’? were, in

general, calpably apathetic in the late political contests ; but ve hope they have learned such a lesson as will induce them

to organize their forces in time for the next election. ‘ Not

jlitary Irish Romish vote is known to be recorded against

is another falsehood. In the

third district of King’s Coanty there were many Irish and Seoteh Catholie votes recorded against Mr. Hensley, the late Attorney General; in the second district of the same County

there were many other votes of a like character recorded

-e]] — another Government candidate —and

Printer.

Queen's In the third district of

@ueen’s County the Colonial Secretary and his colleague, Mr. Kelly, had many Irish and Scoteh Catholic votes polled against them; and in the third district of Prince County, Mr. Yeo—

is mainly

indebted for his election to French Catholie yotes; and in Charlottetown the candidates on the Government side had wore than twenty Trish votes giv + Priests dabbled in polities’” as extensively as the Parsons,

his would not be the case: but another day is coming, when

we hope to see that the reproach — if it be a reproach — shall

Pie Catholics — numbering nearly | one half the population of the Island—ean command, if united, as they willand must be, nearly one half its representation ; and with the assistance of the Liberal Protestants, they can, and will, thrash the bigots and fanatics into fits.

magainst them. Had the

We are quite certain there is no fuun- |

6 the Liberal eause at the next election; and we congratulate ithe holders of lots previously suld on the increased value thus

\imparted to a Town and Pasture Lot qualification. * TORY OR CONSERVATIVE PLOT AND THE PRO- JECTED TORY CAMPAIGN. ‘““By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid: our friends

trne and constant: a good plot, good friends, and luli of expectation: an °°

|THE

}exeelient plot, very good friends “Yo smeli it; upon my life, it will do well.””—SuAksreane, « Let me put in your minds, if you forget, What you have been ere now, and what you are; Vithal what we bave been, and what we are ”—Jb.

We concluded our last editorial article by promising that, in our next, we would discourse more fully and distinctively ithan we had then done concerning some occult devices of i**the enemy,’’ of which we had obtained some inkling. i ghall, therefore, now fulfil our promise. | The Tories, or Conservatives, as they style themselyes—al- | though we fail to recognize the propricty of this designation ‘of their own choosing, for what they would conserve tor the

people of this Colony, could they conserve as they wish, be- |yund the very worst, the most corrupt practices ot the effete, and happily detunct syStem of selfish misrule, we know not— ithe Conservatives then, we say, imagine, nay, almost persuade

'themselyes undoubtingly to believe tiat although the general | election returns are certainly against them; yet, the Liberal |

majority being very small, ** the hazard of the die,’’ should |

| they only be able to precipitate a summoning of the Legisla- ture for the despatch of business, may be in their favour;

| | either by their obtaining, through adroit manceuyring, a posi-

itive, though small, majority ; or by their succeeding in so} ly . i . © . - | ; balancing the parties and ewbarrassing the Government as to | ssolation of the Assembly, or something else |

;

mec sSitate a

which they would like still better; and they are willing and

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eager to “set their political life upon the cast:’’ at least so | they wish it to be believed both by their opponents and their

‘+ guiside-the-cirele”’ friends.

To this end—the precipitating of a session of the new House of Assembly—they mean to pet up a petition—* signed by the independent electors of Prince Edward Island to a man’’— to liis Exceileacy the Lieutenant Governor, setting forth that the election returns, doubtiul as their state is, have mach in- ereased, rather than allayed, the great anxiety which, previous to the election, existed in the minds of the great budy of the people, coneeruing what might be the ultimate prevailing complexion or character of the contest at the polls; and humbly (?) represeniing to iis Excellency the propriety of his fturtiwith assembling the Legislature, that the people may, a8 speedily as possible, be determinately apprized of the nature of the rule to which it will be expected they shall yield obedience ; and that, in the event of its being distasteful to them, they may be at liberty to have instant recyurse to such consiitutional action on their own part ad may prevent its establisinuent and consolidation,

This petition, we ourselves are convineed, will not in any sense be genuine or bona fide—it will be a mere ruse, a mere feint—and a compliance with the prayer of it by His Excel- lency will be about one of the last results ealeulated upon by its originators; and that Ils Excellency will, promptly and Wisely, although in the most courteous manner, decline to en- tertain its object, we feel tolerably certain.

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4 eete so 8¥ia We aim Tasks ‘ ellency—- iis Excellency failing to comply with the most

reasonable and constitutional request of the people’ —their political campaign will be opened in jearnest; and Queen’s County is to be the field on which they

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of their petition then b ung rejected hy His Ex- |

Who ealm, and bred in igno ance and toil,

By low desires, are fitted to the sil ” This mode of defence they would be compelled to adopt, for to ro other could they possibly have reeourse ; but if it should be successiul it would only be for this strange reason, that the people were charmed by the honesty of their kuavery. | Raised for the nonce above tie

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dead-sea level of their ‘usual ‘ dull, stale, flat and unprofitable ” eloquence, may they not—for trying emergencies have made the veriest dullards | persuasively eloquent—may they not, we say, in a burst of | fervent, heart-born eloquence, point out to ** the people,” and [enforce upon their minds, the great wisdom of * flinging laway ambition.’ of suppressing every aspiration after learning and knowlede, and of piously and contentedly ‘resigning themselves to a life-long state of ignorance and toil. In this strain the most promising of the youthful aspirants of the Clique—their young Hen/ey-——with voice and features, grav-ly tatored fur the occasion, may commence an oration in VE “a | praise of bomility, lowly-mindedness and passive obedience, by aptly quoting fro1m Thomson’s Castle of Indolence the introductory stanza of that quaint but philosophic and instructive poem : ‘« 9 mortal man, who livest here by toil ! Do not complain of this thy hard estate; That like an emmet thou mast ever moil, Ts a sad sentence of an ancient date; And, certes, there is for it reason great; For, tho’ sometimes it makes thee weep and wail, And curse thy star, and early drudge and late, Withouten that would come an heavier bale, Loose life, unruly passions, and diseases pale.’’ And aptly also, in his solemn exordium, may he pointedly tell them— “The tallest pines feel most power Of wintry blast; the loftiest tower Comes heaviest to the ground: The bolts that spare the nountains side, His cluud-capt eminence divide, Aud spread the ruin round,”’

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_ Yes, my jumble friends, earnestly and pathetically may he ‘add, when approaching the peroration of his harangue, all these difficulties, all these dangers—dangers both to the body and the soul—were we willing to encuunter and sustain for your sakes. We were prepared—nay, are still prepared, would you listen to and conform yourselves to my friendly counsels—tiius to place ourselves ‘* in the imminent deadly breach,’’ that you might live unmolested, in the vale, with passions unrufiled by ambition, and untainted by pride ; that there, like mariners laid safe’ ashore, you might smile ‘ to hear the distant tempest roar,” ** And bless’d with health, with business unpeplex’d, Tuis lite might relish—and ensure the neat;”’ ' * the next,’* the hopes of which, we have been, and stil! are, my humble friends, ready for your sakes to forego, by casting ourselves headlung into the vortex of ambition and political strife. Surely after such an barangee the people’ would be-con- vinced, and acquiescingly exclaim, ? ‘Tis very true: O wise and upright judge / How inach more elder art thou thau tuy look Yes, yes, there ean ha no doubt of st: the power of exalted state **is—a barthen tov heavy for a man who hopes fur heaven :’’ then let us,

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* Full happy in our low estate, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that’ wears a crown.”

They may indeed calculate upon having to encounter none but *iron-witted fools,’ or mer as simple and eredulous as ‘Sunrespeetive boys ;"’ and should thei: monster meeting prove an assemblage of such unresisting matter and yielding mate-