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and the Basque Provinces. Already have captures and| the usual sanguinary executions taken place on both| sides. Inthe mean time, the people of Madrid amuse | themselves in affixing pasquinades at the palace gates, | one of which, in ridicule of the Queen of Spain’s frivo-| Jous occupations, has been rendered in the following! doggrel :—

“The King’s in the Pardo, the Queen's a dancing,

Whilst our Montemolin is advancing.” :

Senor Olozaga has been suddenly recalled to Madrid,

whilst on a journey to London, in order to compose the existing differences, but it is difficult to predict what will be the termination of these fatal dissensions.

Suaxspere’s Birtu-ptace.—We are gratified to announce that Prince Albert has contributed the sum of £250, the Queen Dowager has also added £100, and the Corporation of Stratford another £100, towards pur- chasing the birth-place of the Bard of Avon.

Mr. Sheil has been re-elected for Dungarvan,

but we deeply regret to state that Mr. Wyse has lost’

his election at Waterford.

A correspondent of the agricultural Gazette says, that common road dust, sprinkled over the turnip plant, is a sure preventive of the fly in turnips.

Jenny Lind has been invited to stay at the Palace of the Bishop of Norwich during the approaching con- certs, to be given on the 20th and 22nd of September.

At the Bristol election, the first vote was a plumper for Berkeley, by Arthur Palmer, Esq., a veteran reform- er, 93 years of age, who, in 1774, acted poll-clerk for the celebrated Edmund Burke.

At a recent meeting in Cork Father Mathew declared that ‘no one single individual teetotaller had become a victim to either famine or pestilence.’ A text that re- quires no sermon.

Deatu or THe ImperiaL Prince or Brazit.—The news of the demise of the heir apparent to the throne of Brazil, Don Alfonzo, only son of Don Pedro JI, has just reached England.

Procress or Frer-trape.—A royal decree has been published at Madrid, suppressing all inland cus- tom-houses after the Ist of October next, from which date the traffic in all kinds of merchandise will be free in the interior of the kingdom.

The King of Bavaria has strictly forbidden all pur- chases of standing corn.

Captain Maclean, who married the accomplished poe- tess, Miss Landon, died in May last, at Cape Coast, Africa.

Several successful experiments have been recently made in France on the etherization of bees, so as to be able to take their honey while they are in a state of in- action, without the necessity of destroying their lives.

The Constitutionnel states, that ‘two smal] Moorish corvettes are at present cruizing along the cost of the Atlantic. They were armed at Tetuan, and are com- mand by Madder-Ali, a celebrated pirate, who has been

but a lame account of the sad affair, because we cannot believe that parents are extant who could murder their children so wantonly. When the woman was pes mitted she was so ill that the Sheriff sent her to ‘ e hospital under the charge of a constable.—Canada Pa-

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1], 1847.

STEPHEN WRIGHT, Esgq., vs. JAMES CONOLLY.

Stephen Wright, Esq., present High Sheriff of Prince County, caused to be inserted in the Islander of the 3d Sept., an Affidavit, in which an effort is made to dis- prove the testimony of James Conolly, published some time since in the “Examiner,” from which it appeared that Mr. Pope induced Conolly to sign the Petition for the removal of His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- nor, intimating that by so doing, he (Conolly) would be sending his “compliments to the Queen.” Now, Mr. Wright's affidavit does not disprove Mr. Conolly’s state- ment,—for the former swears to the same fact which the latter did, viz: that Mr. Pope did use the phrase im- puted to him, thereby creating doubt and misconception in the mind of Conolly. In fact, the second affidavit materially strengthens the first.

It does more than this: It establishes two very im- portant points. The first—that the High Sheriff of Prince County is one of the red-hot political officials engaged in running a muck against the Lieutenant Governor, and in sanctioning a fabrication of malicious falsehoods—thereby striving to unsettle the Govern- ment they are sworn faithfully to serve and to defend.

The second point of importance established by the affidavit in question is—that the Commissioner’s Court at Bedeque is used as an arena for party and factious purposes. Wright states that he had a conversation with Conolly about the Petition, “in front of the office used as the Court Room of the Commissioners of Smal] Debts at Bedeque, where the Petition then was.” Now, will not every just and sensible man ask, what right had the Petition to be there? Were the Commission- ers Courts established with a view to serve the designs of a party, or the interests of the community at large ? Can any man hesitate to say, that great mischief and injustice must inevitably result from making these Courts subservient to political designs and contentions.

for some time in the service of the Emperor of Morocco. ‘The appearance of those vessels has produced a certain sensation, as it islong since the Moorish navy has given amy signs of life.”

{raty.—Letters from Rome of the 28th ult. mention that the Austrian Cabinet had addressed a note to the Pontifical Government, in which it declared that, in the event of any ponents in the dominions of the church remaining unrepressed, or crimes being unpuni Austria would consider the Pope indipable of Se ing order in his states, and feel it her duty to interfere,

‘Suppose a person of a somewhat stubborn disposition ‘was called into the Court Room by Mr. Pope, and asked to sign the Petition, and he refused to do so, knowing the Document to be grossly false and uncalled-for ; and that, on the day following, he would be concerned in a suit te be tried by that Court, would he not have good reason to apprehend that he would be unfairly dealt with by the Political Justices? Yes—he might as well hope to gather Strawberries in November as to hope

reneral Redetsky, Commander-in Chief of the Austrian |that such a man as Mr. Pope would lay aside his politi-

army i Lombardy, had been empowered to act accord-|

ing to circumstances. It was reported that Cardinal Ferretti hed, in consequence of that notification, order- ed the Swiss regiments, and all the troops disposable, to inarch towards the northern frontier. The Corrier Livornesse of the 20th ult. announces that the Pope had summoned Cardinal Lambruschini to

cal prejudices even on the judgment seat. Had we a suit in such a Court, to be tried under such circumstan- ces, and howsoever just, we would know right well what judgment to expect before judgment would be pro-

ceived from his official employments—give him permis- sion to enter every circle in society honored by the presence of Stephen Wright, Esquire—dress him out in the broadcloth of the latter gentleman, and tell him to write “Esquire” at the end of his name; and one will not be a whit greater, or more respectable, in the eyes of the word, than the other. His oath will be as good any day—his word will pass current as readily as Mr. Wright’s. Conolly’s blood runs as pure in his veins as does that of Mr. Wright—and his heart, we would hope, thrcbs to emotions as honorable, manly, and virtuous, as ever wakened pulsations in the breast of = “ respecta- ble” Sheriff. If it be true that

“ Honour and fame from no condition rise,”

and that respectability and “honour” ought to be the reward of all who “act” their “ part” truly and faithfully on the stage of life,—it must be confessed that James Conolly is not one iota inferior to Stephen Wright.

Conolly, we will be bound to say, never stooped to the meanness that has been laid to the charge of a cer- tain High Sheriff that we wot of. He did not cause the names of parties to be put to the petition without their consent. He did not put the name of a Mr. Morris--a

resident of New Brunswick—to that Petition—assigning

as a reason for so doing, that the said Mr. Morris was, and is, a creditor to a small extent of certain parties im this Island—amongst the rest, a certain High Sheriff,— and was therefore fully qualified to assist in removing the Governor, and, at the same time stating, that several individuals from the neighbouring Provinces, had like- wise signed it. Did Stephen Wright, Esquire ever give such an instance of political sagacity, tnodesty, and propriety? If he did not, his denial would, of course, be very edifying. If he did, we can see no reason why the example thus set should not be followed up in Ha- lifax, where many gentlemen may be found equally well qualified to send their compliments to the Queen, and to ask Her Majesiy to remove Sir Henry.

LITTLE MOTIVES OF LITTLE MINDS.

That certain large fry well known to the public have reasonable cause—(we mean reasonable as respects themselves and the unreasonable menopoly which they have so long exclusively enjoyed, of place, profit, au- thority and interest)—to view Mr. Coles as their deter- mined foe, we cannot but admit. Habit and long use have really made these people consider it a kind of sa- crilege to wish a participation in power or pelf with them, or any enquiry into the means by which these have been appropriated or maintained; consequently they must look upon Mr. Coles as a most sacrilegious, indeed unnatural, intruder. What! the Governor ap- point to the council a man such as that! “ft shall not be!” But there is a smaller fry—the spawn of the others-—whose bitter enmity to this appomtment cannot be so readily accounted for, for if Mr. Coles is a man whose position is such that the big wigs of the Counci! think his presence an intrusion, so would their presence be likewise thought an intrusion; and yet is human na- ture, when it once submits to degradation, so vile, that the liberty and essence of the British Constitution, which lays open place and appointment to them as well

as to him, are overlooked: such is the envy and low

nounced. (It must’be remembered that these remarks | and contemptible malice by which they are actuated. are not directed against Mr. Pope exclusively. They, |[f he is a tradesman, so are they—so was Sir Robert

Rome. The protest of the new Secretary of State

against the occupation of Ferrara by the Austrians had of course, refer to the whole three Commissioners~-| Peel's father. But we would ask which of these men aan - bres gs of the members of the corps dip- Joseph Pope, Esq., one of the Delegates—Stephen has stood up and manfully advocated just principles in ai Naples, wae hn oe so a Ministers of Austria) Wright, Esq., the High Sheriff—and John Clarke,|the House of Assembly—which of them has even ever aa pated peeneth leche sasiited te fs ee S Esq.,—a gentleman appointed at the nomination of Mr.|been a Representative of the People, or ever will be? pee ae in a diplomatic style, Cardinal Ferretti Pope, and who canvassed, as he was in duty bound, for and yet they have the impudence, every one of them, to -— t aa was in his style. _The protest, however, | Signatures to the Petition.) The system of making any think himself a better qualified man than Mr. Coles. * generally approved. The Neapolitan Government|Court of Justice an arena for party politics, must be|Is Mr. Coles’s origin not aristocratic enough? Look

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had remonstrated agai lini, who ahs, wee expulsion of M. Grasse- any where injurious, even under the best and most round the Council and discover how many of those who |impartial Justices, because it is greatly calculated to! sit in it can boast of a different origin; they will be Dreaprct Murper i Losoroven--One of a ee public confidence, and offers to interested par- found to be few. But it might well have been thought | most fearful murders ever perpetrated in any country |“@s too great a temptation to do wrong. ‘that a clique—for so it is—of the tradesmen of Charlotte- has taken place in this vicinity. _A man and his wife, | The Islander makes a high-fiying flourish about the|town would think it but right and proper, and exceed- young emigrants, were brouglit into town from Lobo- respectability of Mr. Sheriff Wright, from which we are| ingly encouraging, that one of their body should be an |

rough on Thursday night, in custody, for havi ; “ot ; ying mur-| ili i iowa ikea ao es ome — led to infer, that, on the ground of respectability alone,! Executive Councillor. No such thing: they would

years of age. The real facts of the case we do wo the great Sheriff's deposition ought to be regarded as a sooner see Old Nick elevated than one of themselves, know comentir but it would appear that these children | lincher to the affidavit of the humble James Conolly.' unless they had the nomination; and we believe that

, a ems ge 5 alge pracias 4 _ as ie | There is, to be sure, considerable difference in the rela- the parties to whom we allude are ignorant enough to

. ap —"s o get rid of tiv iti ‘es: : | hi rr .

: them. ‘The boy was found in the woods, eo eas tiv oe of the parties ;—but Stephen Wright was, think that the nomination or veto upon all appointments ; stones, and the girl was left wholly exposed in another: pot PS 8 One time no greater man than James Conolly.| ought, at all events, to rest with them. It is well, how- place, and found in a dying state. The cruel parents) fe has had “ greatness thrust upon him”—some lucky; ever, that this extremely foolish and conceited notion

were arrested going up to town to make confession of|turn of the wheel of fortune may do the same for Con-'is confined toa few, and not to the whole class of our

their crime, having repented, as they said. We givelolly. Give Conollv all h Tri age aes

give olly. vOHOHY a the money that Wright has re-'tiadesmen.

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