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thie trernnt to | ye that hon body fatied tle should, nuw- ever, have cone on to eay, that a similar attempt ht id not failed in 1855. when the babe was offered by the present House. | lhe members of the Council, —now that they are paid for thei services from the public purse, ought certainly to subinit themselves to the popular will. The hon. member from Que en's |

County (Mr. Mooney) thitka that hon. the House wish to fill the Gouneil with an apistocracy. This wonld, ne doubt, be a dreadfal shock to that bon. member's Nothing could give hin greater offence than to see yentiemen of independent means— who are under no necessity of resorung to dishonotable ineasures for the accomplishinent of their purposes—occupying seats in the Legislative Council. Were the members of that body placed there by the suffrages at the people, I should be satisfied. The country onght to sce that they are possessed of a more independent epirit; and now that pay has been granted to them, tt ts the more necessary that ’ lo making this statement, however, |

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they should be elected. have no wish (o detract from their merits as individuals 5 bat |

do aot hesitate to pronounce the Council, as at present consti-| j possess no hostile feeling |

tuted, a perte ctly useless body. towards them indwidaally ; but T confess that, looking upon them es a body, Leannot help viewing them with superlative contempt; and | think the country at large looks upon thew in the seme light. I have arrived at the op ntons lL entertain with respect te Uae Council, by very slow degrees, for at one tine I was in favor of allowing the coustitution of that body to remain, as near ag possible, x copy of that of the Upper House in Kngland.

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easury.” I shall leave you and the pub timate of the very jedicisus manage | Three-thirteenths of the amount re . } Glebe and Sehcol Lands (£826 Is. ld.) was paid into the | Treasury, being the portion laid off for schools, which left a i balance to the Glebe Fuud (sce Journals of 1547, Appendix |Q.) of £2,752 9s. 94. I understand the securities now | in the possession of the Conmmissioners are over £3,000, aud jthata certain amount, after deducting the annual charges, ; ‘udded yearly to the capital. This fact, I presume, coul( leasily be ascertained on application to the Commissioners. duly 23, loo? INCOLA.

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| “Let trath and falsehood grapple. | worse in a tree and epen encounter.’?—MILi0N. To rur Eprror or THE EXamrENrr.

Sin —With respect to the public acts of public men, you, ! 'belhteve, quite agree with me that itis the pecuhar, the legttt- | mate province of the newspaper press, as Shakspeare has de- iclured it to be that of ** the stage’? or © playing,” ‘to show

y perience reve i Mice Zs a cee Experience, however, bas since shown me that Colonial Gov-/ virne her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age

ernors generally have oo disposition to take upon themselves one graia of responsibility more than they were obliged to do— that they were continually shirking the responsivuity Which they ought te assume—and were but too much inclined to sur- render everything to party. When, therefore, I reflected upon these things, | could not but admit that a change in the Consti- tution of the Council was imperatively demanded. T. Kirwan, Rep.

Mr. LAIRD said, the question respecting the Bill before the Hlouse was no new one, as it had now been before them two sessions ; and he thought the minds of hon. members were pretty well made upon the subject. As far as he was acquainted with the people of the Island, he thought a large majerity of them were in favor of the principle of an elective Legislative Counce. As long as the members of that body accepted pay, they ought to be elected ; and since there now was Responsible Goverament in the Colony, the Legislative Council ought to be responsible tov. He would support the motion for going into committee on the bill, eventhough it was late ip the session.

{lon. COL. SECRETARY said, he would say a few words, which he only did because he wished to put hon. members right. He could net agree with the hon. member for Charlette- town, when he said, that the Legislative Counci] was like the bump on a dromedary’s back, which he (Ion. Col. Secretary) did not receive as if the hon. member meant any disparagement to that body ; but hon, members knew well that they sometimes passed measures through the House in the heat of debate, that would clash with one another, but which the Legislative Council were the means of correcting. The hon. member for <bearlotietown (lion, Mr. Palmer) had said that on account of the Members of the Legislative Council receiving pay, they vught to be elected and to become responsible to the people ; aud the hon. member, Llon. Mr. Mooney, had said that they were offered pay by the party to whom the hon. member for Charlottetown belonged. But how bad it been offered? = tt had only been offered to certain country members, which was thus a partial measure, and as such had been rejected, the members of the Council from the country having opposed i too, he believed; yet at that time the principle of paying the Legis!ative Council had been acknowledged by the party to which the hoa. member tor Charloitetown belonged. He (Hon. Col. Secretary) repudiated the principle of making the Legisla- tive Council elective merely because they received pay : but he had thought much on the subject, and he was of opinion that perhaps it would be necessary that there should be some means of changing that body ; because members appointed to i for life might adopt different views from those of members of the House of Assembiy, and thas be the means of stopping the supplies. He differed from his friend on his right (Llon Mr. Whelan) when he said that the Legislative Council was to be a reflection of the views of the Hlouse of Assembly ; but a member of the Council must be a person of some weight in the community and free from Jocal influence. tle could not agree with the hon. member for Charlottetown that the present Legislature Council were bound to vote just as the House ot Assetobly pleased ; for the members of that body were as inde- pendent as they had been in formertimes Respecting appoint- ments to the Legisiatiive Counci!, he said he felt a delicacy in naming gentlemen of his own political views ; but other gen- tlemen would have nothing to do with it, and should they be appouted, it would be said at once that the Government wanted to buy them over. In this manner it was scarcely possible to get gentlemen there opposed to the liberal policy of the day; but he thought if there were gentlemen of different views im the Conncil, it might work wel!, if elected in a gradual way. He differed from his friend on his right, fon. Mr. Whelan, that the House had no right to interfere with the constitution of the Legwsiative Council ; for a change had already been effected in the constitution of that body, when the Legislative and Executive Council were constituted separate bodies. Perhaps no petitions had been before the louse praying for a change in the con stitution of the Council ; but he thought the people had not had an opportunity of discussing the matter; and they sent hon. members to the House to concoct measures, and not to wait till the people brought thea before the House, Upon mature consideration he did not doubt that it would haye been better to have moved that the further consideration of the subject be postponed till next sesston. With the jeave of the House, the hom. member then withdraw his former motion, and made a ‘etion im accordance with the opinion he had just expressed, which was agreed to without a division.

The order of the day for the second reading of the bill to dete the boundaries of the streets and squares of Charlottetown baviug been read, Mr. Perry, who thought the bill wholly unnecessary, moved that it be read ‘this day three months,”’ wheeh was earned without any discussion, Yeas 14—Nays — bons. Palmer, Lovugworth,Co!. Secretary and Lord, and Mr. tCovper—5. So the bill was lost.

(To he concluded.)

Jorvespondence.

To tus Epivor ov true Examiner.

Sin,—lIt was my intention to have ealled the attention of the public to the management of the Glebe Fund, and of the Treasury in the good old times, in the same letter; but as they are quite separate affairs, perhaps it may be better to treat them as such. I shall, therefore, commence with the filebe Fund. Any person, desirous of ascertaining the correctness of the following stateneut, can do so by reterring to the Journals of the House of Assembly, 1847, where much more can be seen than is here submitted. Five mem- bers of the Assembly, of whom the late Mr. Rae was Chair- man, report :—

* That the moneys arising from the sale of Glebe Lands were paid in at interest from 2ud November, 1836, till 2nd January, 1858, and the interest, if paid, would have amounted to £200. That from the last date, till Ist Jaly, 1810, when the interest is marked as comme cing to run, the amount of interest, which, at the ordinary rate would have acerucd, is £585.”

Phe Committee could not ascertain whether this amount was paid into the Treasury or Glebe Fund. It is evident, that during the time above spevitied, the Glebe Fund did not

benefit by any interest which ought to have accrued, The following receipt gives evidence of the fact that a farge amount of money was received on account of the Glebe

Fund :— ** Reecived the sbove sum of £3, Comutissioners, Ist October, 1839. “TP. Ji. Lavinann, Treasarer.” Being three years after the sale of the lands in question ; but here, again, we have a letier addressed to Mr. Rac by

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and body of the tine, his form and pressure,’ but that at the same time this province should never be exiended to the taking: cognizance of the acts of private life, or to the withdrawing of the veil which shrouds domestic privacy. And surely you wi!! furtner agree with me that none can be more justly held accountable to this censorian power of the newspaper press, than such individuals as are characterised in the subjoinved extract : ‘ Prowning mon, it is said, will catch at straws: and some men, when in danger of moral submersion, act ina somewhat similar manner. ‘They catch, indeed, at something more sub- stantial than a straw; but, oftentimes, so unluckily that, although they touch their object, i slips from their feeble, although eager grasp ; and their atiempt to save themselves, by such means, only precipitates their submersion, end, by a sort of re-action, sinks them to a greater and more hopeless depth than they would, otherwise, have reached. Such men, when arraigned atthe bar of public opinion, on account of any de- reliction of duty, or greater transgression, actnated by a kind of imaniac instinet, or rather demoniac impulse, often seek to save themselves, and ward off the much dreaded verdict of con- demnation, by laying hold of some one, whose public position may be, or uiay have been, similar to their own | and endeavor- ing, by an attempt, generally as unsuccessful as itis base, to prove him equally culpable with themselves. ‘The instinct— reason it is not-—which thus leads. the guilty to endenvor to show that another is as guilty as themselves, ts certainly fatuous or maniac; for, even granting the party whom they seek to draw into the same condemnation with themselves, to be equally deserving of it with themselves, that fact made manifest, that consideration cannot, unless they are entirely destitute of every feeling of respect and manliness, im any degree lessen the abasement and bitterness of their condemnation to themselves, Butif it does lessen the sense of guilt and shame tn thetr bosoms, if it does make their condemuation less stinging aud and grievous to them, demoniacal indeed must be their nature ; for who, but Satan himself and bis children, seek to draw others jnto their own coademnation and misery ?” The mean, the valtry evavions, shifts, and subterfages, to which J. Barrett Cooper, Esquire, (charged with having drawn money from the public treasury, for services which he neglected to perfurm,) has bad recourse, and his base attempts to throw undeserved censure upon others, especially upon J. McNeil, Ksq., the long-tried and trustworthy Crerk of the House of As- sembly, “the Contingent Committee” ond myself, in vain seek- ing thereby to purge and puriy Hensel, have fairly, I think, brought bim within the abowe eategory 5 and, therefore, I con- clude that you will justly hold hin amenable to your power as a pubhe censor, and accord space wm your paper, even although it should be to the temporary exclusion of one or two of the iteresing and useful arucies with which your Columns are generally filled. . ; 1 am, sir, your obedient servant,

R. B. IRVING.

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ilonble. Epwann Wuextan, &c., &c., &c.

Cuartorretown, 15th July, 1857. ‘re Monitor, of the 9th instant,ina letter which appeared therein, over your signature, and which, it seems, was addressed by you, on the Lith April last, to the Hlon. the Speaker of the louse of Assembly, | find you have, in two passages thereof, taken most unwarrantable and un- truthful liberties with my character.

There is scarcely, in cither of the passages alluded to, as they affect me, one seintilla of truth. Six-sevenths of what is stated in the first is positively false ; and what is pro- minently set forth as a fact in the second, is nothing less than an unmitigated falsehood. Fortunately tor me, but un- fortunately for you, L have ample means, not only in my own private journal and letters, but also in public records, com- pletely and at once, to refute all that you have falsely stated concerning me, in your letter to the Hon. the Speaker of the House of Assembly ; and | now assure you, that, unless you publicly, that is throngh the public press, (by means of which you have, with singular eilrontery, in a most unjustifiable manner, cast imputations, easily understood, upon my char- acter, both publie and private,) endeayour to afford me such satisfaction, as any man presuming to account himself agentle- man, not to say a Christian, would, if convineed of his mis- take—so 1 am willing to write your violation of the trath for the present—feel himself constrained to afford the part aggrieved ; 1 will not hesitate to do something like ample justice in the matter, befure the public, not only to myself, but upon you also.

For your reconsideration, I subjoin the two passages of your letter, of which, with too much reason, | cow plain.

If l receive not, before noon to-morrow, a written intima- tion from you, that you will immediately endeavour to afford me such satisfaction, as I justly demand, I shall then consider myself at perfect liberty furthwith to redress the wrong which you have done me, in the best and readiest way 1 ean.

I am now extending to you that forbearance which, I think, any gentleman would, in euch a case, feel it to be his duty, (even if influenced by a principle no higher than mere self- respect,) to shew to another; but I do not say that my doing so affords me that unalloyed pleasure which one ought to derive from the performance of a good or generous act ; for | cannot persuade myself that, had I been the aggressive and you the aggrieved party, in such a matter, you would have extended, towards me, any thing like either gentlemanly or Christian forbearance.

I am, sir, your obedient servant, Kt. B. Irvine. James Barrett Cooper, Esquire, &e., &e., &e.

If upon the face of this letter, and the comparison annexed, there are marks of haste and carelessness ; for such marks the disgust and indignation which I cannot but feel with reference to the provocation which has caused me to write them, will easily account. Bit:

Fatsenoop Tue Frrst.—‘ In consequence of the entire absence of Mr. Irving, from the reporter’s desk during the first four or five weeks of the session, the whole labour of re- porting the proceedings for that period, devolyed upon wyselt.”’—J. Barrett Cooper.

Tue Trutu.—My absence from the reporter’s desk, that is ‘from my duty as Reporter to the House of Assembly, during the session of 1852. (for Ldo not forget Mr. J. B. Cooper's impudent assumption and reté¢ntion of my desk,) was from Saturday eyening, 2Jst February, after adjournment, until Saturday afternoon, 28th February: and, at no other time, during the session, was | absent from, when I ought to have been iz the House. Thus it appears I was absent from duty not for four or five weeks, as falsely asserted by Mr. J. B. Cooper, bat for five days, afternoons or evenings only ; and

(cory.) Srr,—In your paper, ¥

certificate, sent tu the Hon, the Speaker, ee A. {tn haste, blindly following the blind, I took the ‘ 1852”

of Mr. Cooper, instead of ** 1553,”’ the year really in the ques-

tion, and wrote accordingly as above. For ** 1852,” be pleased,

Mr. Decbrisay, with an accouut, showing payments

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' essential | bears wpod, | by further cx) 5 | * PaLsenoop THE SECOND. ‘awarded to Mr. Irving, who | lend although awhole month of the session had elapsed hefore he made hes appt arance in the House ?—J, Barrett Cooper.

‘us Trovu.—The above, so far as I have unde a most barefaced, impudent and uumitigated falschood. regularly attended, and discharge whole of the sesston, with the except , as above stated ; and not on thing more, particularly w d; as I can easily and wil

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particular.” and clears up this ! D Janation.—Saturday, duly 18, 1857.

or evenings but occasionally sume portant summary was require need be, show.

Until noon to-morrow, strictly private. After tha just as you give me reason € public. . , : James Barrett Cooper, Esquire, &e., &e., Ke.

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ither to suppress it,

R. B. I.

MR. COOPER'S REPLY:

A choice spe disgraceful dising¢muity, of something stili worse. (cory.) CuakLorrnrown, duly 16, 1807. Me. R. B. Irvine ; .

manly’? and eminently ** Christiaa’’ episile of yesterday. There are. 1 regret to observe, se in the Jetter to which you allude, oceurs in the date of the transactions, the seems to have aroused ** your disgust and indignation.” trifling correction, what y as ** inpudent assumption’ mitigated falsehood, to be, in letter, as i essential particular. I am, sir, your obedient servant, J. Barrerr Coorer.

P. S.—When you next go down npon your ‘* marrow bones”’

B.C.

‘erring brother.” REPLY TO THE FOREGOING.

* Whose tongue soe’er speaks false, Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.”

**Can he be what he is, and yet kuow what he is ?”

“* Mark Low a plain tale shall put you down.” SHAKSPEARE.

To James Barrerr Cooren, Esquire, &e., &e., &e. Cuancorrerown, 16th July, 1897.

Sin;—In my letter, addressed to you, yesterday, the 15th instant, I, in very plain, but truthful terms, brought before you, for reconsideration, —and rectification, should you feel disposed to make it,—the falsehoods which you had published concerning me, in your own ill-conditioned paper, “ The Monitor” of the 9th instant.

1 at once pitied aod despised you so sincerely,—pitied, especially after 1 had read a certain editorial of “ The Pro- tector,” yesterday, in which there is dealt upon you, en pas- sant, a3 it were, a well-leserved and most telling cut; and knowing as 1 did besides, something of a rather heavier and still more deserved punisbwent, at that time in preparation for you in auother quarter,—that I had positively made up my mind to allow you (much provocation as you had givea me, and much as | knew you to be in my power,) to escape alinost unscathed from my hands; provided you should make a simple retraction of the mistakes concerning me into whic’ you had fallen; attributing them to haste, want of thought, or want of records to which to refer, or, indeed, to any thing else which you might plausibly advance. But, no! no! your sordid pature could not afford even so small a measure of justice: there would have been too much honesty in it for your taste.

The rod with which, through your “ Monitor ” of the 9th instant, you had previously supplied ine, is au instrument so very suitable for the inflicting upon you of the punishment which you so well deserve at my hands, that, wielding it alone, L could most easily, in spite of any shield or cover you could have interposed, have so applied it as to make every stroke cut you to the core.

But,—how infatuated have you been!—not satisfied with knowing that you had so armed me against yourself, you have, by your letter of to-day, in the wantonness of matlig- vity, completely cast from you every means of retreat or protection, and delivered yourself up, bound and naked, for whatever severity of punishment 1 may be pleased to inflict upen you,

Years ago, when aroused by your virulent and unprovoked aspersions, L very pointedly intimated to you, as you, no doubt, well remember, my abhorrence of the man, upon whom | thought nature had bestowed the qualifications. pe- culiarly requisite in a headsman, My abhorrence of such a character is still, and [ trust ever will be, as strong as it was then ; and, therefore, fully deserving of extreme punish- ment as you are, and prostrate and defenceless as you lie before me, [ cannot consent to become your executioner. But, besides, I feel that, even although you have, by bitter reiteratiop, more than doubled the offence, L may still very well afford to be forbearing; for as I neither have been, nor am likely to be injured by it,—the source whence it has pro- ceeded having rendered it innocuous,—my resentment has been awakened more by the intention of the act, than by the act itself.

By a plain and brief statement of facts, drawn from pub- lie records, I shall, therefore, simply negative what you have falsely and maliciously stated concerning me. With respect to yourself 1 shall now merely observe that your own hand has, in your last letter, penned your full condemnation. “ Out of thine own mouth shalt thou be judged.”

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

Ist Srsston, 1851.—** Tuesday, 5th March. Resolved, That Mr. R. B. Irving be appointed Reporter to the House for the present Session.” .

(‘The intention was, that Mr. Irving should be appointed Reporter, not for the Session only, but ‘* to the House ;’’ and consequently, at the commencement of the subsequent Session, on the motion of the Hon. Mr. Coles, the mistake was rectified.

R. B. Irving, for his services as Reporter,......-..-£60

J. B. Cooper, Assistant Clerk,.....+-.+++++++-£80

6 extra for services in 1850,........ 10 £90 2p Session, 1852.—** Tuesday, 5th March. Resolved, That Mr. R. B. Irving be appointed Reporter to the Houge.”

R. B. Irving, Reporter,.. sees eeeeeceeereeeeeeseeL OD

Thomas Preedy, Assistant Reporter,.....++«++++++. 20

J. b. Cooper, Assistant Clerk,......+.-++++++-£80

3p Session, 1853.—R. B. Irving, Reporter,..+......£50 J. B. Cooper, for Summary Reports; ..........£20 +6 ee — —— 100 CERTIFICATE, Cuarcorrerown, 18th July, 1857.

At the request of Mr. Irving, Reporter to the House of

stich absence was satisfactorily accounted fur by Dr. Uebkirk’s | the Debates of the Touse, from the very commencement of

the session of 1353, Tucsday, l0th February, to its close on Saturday, 16th April ; except for a period of five days, during which he was confined to his home by sickness,-and attended by Doctor Hobkirk; and that such was the case, I can

szard’s statement directly here B. J.] | session commeneed 5 —<*At the same time, £50 were ho only attended in theafiernoon,

rlined it, is J d my duty, throughout the ion of five afternoons ly did I do my duty, " hen an im- 1, if

this letter (I keep a copy) shall be § time it shall remain so or not, or to make it

cimen of impotent, although bold malignity, mean subterfuge, and, in the P.».,

Sir.—I have to acknowledge receipt of your very ‘ gentle-

veral typographical errors The most material of these publication of which For 6 1852,” you will be pleased to read, * 1853.’ With this ou are now pleased to characterise *—** barefaced, impudent and un- ” Se., &ke.—will, if necessary, be proved t now is in spirit,‘ the truth,’’ in every

in the Methodist Chapel or elsewhere, please pray for your J

z extra, to pay Messrs. Hughes, Des- management. Shortly after the time appointed, the Offiee- brisay & hy ndman for engrossing, 20 bearers of the Society and the Managing Committee met at 109 | the Society’s Room, and, preceded by the Bund and the

Mr. Irving’s first Report, that session, appeared in Haszard’s Gazetic, Tuesday, 10th February, the very day on which the and his last report of a debate, (that on ‘the dule of wrecked vessels, &c., Tuesday, 5th April, only eleven days before the close of the session,) was published in Tlaszard’s Gazette, Wednesday, 6th July, 1555. His re of the close of the session, Saturday, 10th April, was puab- lished in that paper, Wednesday, 20th April. Mr. Irving alsy supplied the papers, as 1 dind by references to Haszard’s Gazette, with all (he most important summaries of that sexsion Mr. Irving began to append bis name to his reports, Frida : 25th February ; his reason for so doing being, I believe, that he might, thereby, be able to point out his own work beyond question. From that date, all that was published in Haszurd's Gazette, 1853, of the proceedings of the House of Assembly, whether of summary or debate, was reported and supplied :

Mr. Ipying. Mr. J. L. Cooper, | am well aware supplied, or was engaged. to supply, the papers with Summaries during that. Session ; but I do not find that a single Debate, reported by him, - published in eens ae aii - I find by an editorial remark in tha tr, Weduesda Sebaets 1853, that Mr. Irving bad furnished the protrdig ~~ of the House up to Friddy, l4th February, and, therefore, it quite clear that anything at all in the shape of Debate, that may have been suppiied iy Mr. J. B. Cooper, must have been - between that date and Friday, 25th February, during .Mr, Irving’s illness ; but all between these dates is little but Sume mary. “« ‘1a especting the Debates in the House of Assembly, ia th session of 1853, 1 find this observation,.in an edortal a8 Haszard’s Gatseiie, 23th May: * OF the debates which took place in the House of Assembly, in the last session, we have already published more than we believe have ever before been given by the Island Press, of any other session.”? ‘These | Debates were reported and supplied. by Mr. Irving. Toray

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The foregoing certificate was drawn up, to be si , son, Mr. George T. Haszard ; but, as 1d beatae _ — from home, on a yisit in the country, just at the when his signature is required for the publication of the said certificate, | have at the request of Mr. Irving, carefully com- pared the facts set forth in the certificate, with Haszard's Gazelte for 1853, beginning with the number of Thursday, 10th February, and ending with the number of Monday, 6th July, 1853; and 1 find that the evidence afforded, by the paper, fully corroborates or establishes the statements contained in the certificate ; and tiny who may question these mie beg leave to refer for their satisfaction, to the same ' which I haye consulted. Charlottetown, July 20, 1857.

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James D. Haszarp. © When, by the aid of the foregoing statement, the claims of Mr. Cooper are placed in nearly their true light, does it at all appear surprising that notwithstanding all Mr. Cooper's “ facts lald before the Contingent Committee, at the close of the Session of 1852, (of which the Hon. Robert Mooney was Chairman,)” that “ the resalt was a grant of £20, «for fur-* nishing a summary of the proceedings of the House of As- sembly to the Newspapers,’ ” whilst, “at the same time, £50 were awarded to Mr. Irving, who only attended in the afternoon, and although a whole mouth of the Session had” not * clapsed,”—no, nor even a second of time,—* belore he made bis appearance in the House !” Why yes, it does appear surprising, I must confess, that to Mr. Cooper for his supererogatory work, and which, ac- cording to his own shewing, (vide the letter in The Monitor of the 9th inst.) the printers “ suppressed for want of room, as was” politely “alleged,” they giving the preference to Mr, Irving’s “ more lengthy reports.” (Very contradictory, this! Mr. Cooper.) Yes, it is surprising that the Conon Committee should vote bim £20 for supererogatory anda jected reports; but I suppose the Committee did so on thi principle,—the less his deservings, the greater their genet- osity. Now for “ Mr. J. B. Cooper’s impudent assumption and re- tention of my desk,”’ and I shall speedily have done with him. Before the opening of the session, 1853, it had been ar- ranged, I believe, and so Mr. J. B. Cooper himself says, that he (Mr. Cooper) should report the proceedings of the forenodm sittings, and also regularly supply the peo with daily summaries; and, fur that service, it was, I believe, generally understood that he should receive the sum of £20, the same amount as was voted to Mr. Preedy, for his services, as Assistant Reporter, in the session of 1852. Availing himself of the opportunity which this arrange- ment gave him, as he fancied, at the time of my sickness, to supplant me, retain his own appoiutment of Assistant Clerk, and draw the full allowances for the services both of Reporter, and Assistant Clerk—calculating he could engage some need individual te do his work in the Clerk’s room, for £10 or £1 —he, with the most pertinacious impadence, retained pos- session of my Cesk, (of which, with propriety be had taken and kept possession during my sickness), ;until the close of the session. On my return to my duty in the House, I found Mr. Cooper seated at my desk—(at that time there was only one desk for reporting at in the House.) After having waited for some time to sce whether or not he would manifest any inclination or intention of vacating it, seeing, as he did, that I was again in the House, and ready to resume my post as Reporter, I went up to him and quietly said, ** Mr. Cooper, is it your intention to oceupy this desk for the re- mainder of the session?’ ‘lo this imterrogatory, with the cool impudence of the weasel who had taken possession of the rabbit's burrow, and refused to resign it to its rightful owner, Mr. Cooper replied, ‘1 believe so.’ I rejoined no more than “very well!” and taking a seat on one of the strangers” benches, by the side of Mr. W. MacGill and Mr. Mitchell, F prepared to pay such attention to the pr ings of the evening, as would enable me to report them from memory} for | very well knew, from previous trials of my ability, that I could do so. The Speaker almost immediately after took the Chair: some important business was transacted, and oné or two short, but interesting debates ensued. Alth oe- casionally exchanging a few words with Mr. Aiitchell onal Me. MacGill, I charged my memory with the whole; and, at home, before | went to bed that night, I wrote down a full report thereof, which was, I believe, published in all the papers. Will it, in any degree. refresh Mr. Cooper’s memory to be reminded of his sending for the key of my desk, by am officer of the House, at the time I was sick? ae The next day another desk was provided, at which, allowing Mr. Cooper to retain the one which he had ’ l regularly discharged my duties in the House for the te- =o of — session. seat o Mr. Cooper’s postscript scoffiing, I make no but this: How aaek mane oe have aan and sinned sons i I have never treated any becoming outward manifestations devotion with disrespect ; much less have I ever spoken of = in —_ of mockery and contempt. - [Out of respect to others. I here suppress a passage wae although mall solely for the benefit or Me. Cooper, might, published, give offence to some to whom none was, or, in fact, could be intended by me.]} R. B. IRVING. |

(COMMUNICATED. )

The “ Benevolent Irish Society Pic Nic”? came off on last Monday, and did infinite credit to thoso entrusted with its

beautiful banner of the Society, walked in procession to the steamer ** Ora”? which had already received the greater pat of her precious cargo, and was beautifully decorated with banners, &ce. All on board (who we should say number over S00 persons, exclusive of a large number who

going by land,) and the ‘* Ora,’’ steamed beautifully up the river to Apple Tree Wharf, where “ee welcomed by 4 display of bunting and three hearty rs from the persons

Assemb) ys that met, in their first session, on Tuesday, 5th | who had congregated there from an early home in the morping-

March, 1850, and were dissolved by proclamation July, 1853, |The party immediately landed and proceeded in regular order ; I hereby certify that, on reference to Haszard’s Gazette, 1853,| with flags flying, and musie playing, to the residence of. f find that he (Mr. Irving) regularly supplied that paper with | Francis McQuaid, Esq., through whose kindness all the other :

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necessaries requisite to constitute a Pie Nie were brought t the scene of action. Mr. McQuaid had a considerable portio® of his beautiful Farm arranged and decorated fur the use of the party, and as they arrived doors and gates flew opems the hospitable owner gazed with delight on the crowds a8

| positively assert, for he (Mr. I.) and his family, at that time, ‘occupied a part of my owa residence.

took possession of his premises. Alter a few moments Oe { whole party relized beneath the shade, which a large grove