~ w ; Soe ’

Tg

“ne eaten cence Se — ee perce : I : u- LT holly solely of biis Major had undergone for her sake. Ru paper ynade up wholly and $i 5 z ethe and seraps cribbed from other Journais,

mor added —and rumor for once Spon , ea ‘ e'truth.—that te genile tai one had,

dawn ¢ ’ $s whol " ng | a3 We would in sitting down to a repas’ <a al awctvielded het heart, a ee a af the after @ Stiort Sergey yi ided her te ‘rose only dish was fabricated out o: the Sa day wh she wodld yield her, whose only in fixed 2 Gay Vig sie ; 7 % 3 ; es pond to the capuvating soldier. This offal gathered from another mans news | thought fwould prove rather too Sone where. out of Prince idward much even for thie comfortable philosopity acaba f the Press ts to “uv r a : . oa a co! sek Liatea®. « m of ne ress of mv friend, amd I hesit ited about com- Ista: e chielest alm 0:

iin ind—tG inform aud direct the public mind

municatiog it toy lit. By some means, ! . t+ canie to his knowledge ‘ ‘ ta make them known however, 1 cat o his knowledge. | wather its opinions—to make ee wa f > wound. ba | ti “éWhat’s yo@r opinion of my deen Ae dae from ever tog

sir!” said he me one day, after | nad aid —e ’ yearn od from . eolitary saunter througno ay nilable source, and © gt + Boulogne. 4 | throu —to cesure Wrong #! *saidd: “but you wii

or four months. reniied Tweezle;s © but | ther

catter it browd cast catte

) 7 : ? n the iana

orern the uphoid Right.—to chastise Error . mn the hieh-born or ' to disseminate 7 ruth. Old John Gutten- berg’s discovery were of fittle avail if i

‘cher purpose than the regis-

recover in thre

*{ doubt it, still it might! '

“ifthe had

ve been worse !” al is ed you outright,” said |, guessing hig meaning. . a T* J thd ry , o . Preciafhy go.” replied Tweesie, smi ing, andgouoked quite happy to think he had escaped with his ire and only receiv- ed a wound that would confine him for six months to his bed. | “ hs lo you think o ae ae om STG @iiccesle caulk | heen f every other civilized and inte kind in genezal,” sal I'weezie agaiv, | Press of every OM; ll it have no Pablic *% ei. | is . } . ; hy} * and of Miss Julietta Blossom in parttCU- | Gent country ; Shall it hi : smey be ies n every lar >” 1” sat 3, | rose tones mey be heard | y “They are false in general, sale’ | ’ » fallen : “and Miss Julietta Blossoim is false i

2? articular. ‘ * AW! said Tweezle, chuckling, s%

gppy man! ro 7 eh = appeeasaa oe ie * nor carping, nor sounding mean- age.” replied... | elling, er “Se anal serious for a meeeent, | ingless panegyrics on behalf and fen heaved a deep sigh. a creature of Fortune who may deem him- lonher® saidte., = tossom 2? inquired I. | Teta cones eaaneere she 2. ‘the public are at length djsposed to rich, beantiful, and well born! oe I a Jost her!” Tweezie made an eb in look sad. “ But it might have been worse - he added brightenmeg Up. For my part, [ was gli cheerful ; but | could: no reasons he had for being 5% an fore asked lim. ©. might have T weezle. Happy, happy

1,

neous matters. | z ; " syre on to > f women- | Edward [sland be an except

}

Voice, w! cornes of the Janc thoughts that agutate the venera)

| ance the Ainpiy OF a breast —claiming for all equality of riguts

exemption from 1njus

}—shaping into utter-

tice—not sniv-

of any

' self superior to the crowd? We belieye i

‘Tory and Radical, Snatcher and Snarler, | appear to be thoroughley sick of the pu- im $0 | . id eo aie sillantuious t well see

} d 1 there- | We do ' however, presume to hope, thatin seek- |

spirit that has long charac-

not,

7?

married her!” said | ing to supply the desideratuin, we stall

| succeed in pleasing all parties by the line |

‘ ' ) = eregrine. cera rere ‘of conduct we mean to pursve with the Our first

By this we

| | new Series of Tue Examiner.

@ ine Examiner.

| desire is to please ourselves.

| mean, to follow the bent of our own

‘thoughts, to make THe ExaMinep, in |

" ocean owe

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1880.

| short, as nearly as possible a refex of |

|

emeenncmnte a en

It is so mach the f shion now-a-days with Editoracf Politice{ Newspapers, in a cer- tain remote part of the world that shall be

titute the scissors for nfine the functions of | six years ago the old Fainily Compact

ir to the clipping of | was all powerful. Bscheat, which for a

a = eas ; . | the principles and opintons, regarding ELIMIN AR\ REMARKS. public questions, which it was our study |

| ina former series of THe bxam. NER to

pursue. During the mterregnum of our

ecitorial life we have watched the grow-

nameless, to sub ing power of these principles. Five or

the pen, and fo ¢ the Editorial Ch paragraphs from more than half inclined to Jet our jittle Sheet make its descent upon the commu- | Bity without so much asa * God save all | here ” or any other polite formality of an) introductory vist. ‘This style of editor- ship is, to saythe least cf it, admirably eco- nowical, It leaves many a quire of virgin fuolscap unsoile¢—many a bottle of sable ink wnshed, without at all taking into ac- count the many hours an editor will save by not having to scratch his pate for an | ideo. Besides, there is much philosophy | in the condu:t of this tactiturn, automaton |

her papers, that we are | period had frightened the Isle from its | "propriety, was then wel] nigh defunct. The desire for Executive Responsibility was but slowly permeating the surround- ing provinces. In those provinces the since been gratified. All the | nonsense of vested rights—hereditary | tenure of office—faithful public services,

which had long been the staple of Clique

eajolery in British America, is now re-

membered, if remembered at all, only to

| desire hee

be Janghed at and contemned. In Prince Edward Island it is not so. The old absurdities are not yet Jaughed out of sort of editor: ie is sure not to compro- mise his dignity, nor expose his ignorance, by Writing, of atterspting to write, on su djects he knows Jittle or nothing at all about; and the nore closely he keeps his |

fushion; but thats tu the democratic spi- | rit of the ea few who cherish them is | i every day bee

3 i

wg “ beantifully less.’ | Many a good inte higent fellow, who, in |

ee ™ | times past, Would have crept into,a rat- cozitations to Hinself, the more likely is ‘hole ofan “ official” Spon him, by the vuigar crowd as | or Jeaped with joy d with that

very learned gentleman. mighty functionary’s has learned le undoubted advan- | to know that it lies with himself not to m this silent system fy be inferior to his fellow mortal in any or ‘all of the attributesofmanhood. One of the first objects ot ‘T'ae Exavines wi.) be ‘to give strength and perinanency to this

brains. We ei 8 > ba | anphilosphical . ae < tad - _ feeling of honest independence—to make a ‘ “ . 2 - ,° . muprudestiai—that i 1s | it universal. Without it we

vetier to speakiboldty the th aie | must be | the thoughts within | = | slaves—slayes not, perbaps, by au unius ‘8, though we tun the risk of bei es »P ps, OY au unjust Ree i < being call | and arbitrary exercise of power, nor # ever So Hara naine, thats keep our ’

aid ha ie ae through the instrumentality of vicious . us Ran laws, but Se a a. mattatie aaa through the want of proper respect for ourseives, and dread of others

4 a | no better than ourselves. 2 in | Lovk to the Government of Prince

editorship, 80 was, agreead} like banquetin

ow it is not, nor ever our tasic. We don’t alweys on other men’s

Wejresi!: cre. We Ter 1 Opy be univ PMS ‘ * ‘ . ‘be ytDS of the vor! which ea . eo i ; :

SLR ms ae rN

Edwan Island! Is there a colony of the - Empirein which public opinion exercises en So small ay oo ee the adminis- fe eon pets 2 Where ther mgs Diittie cared for.

by ae. Bt

cetera enencenanatatine

‘ a

Ps

i

whe- | , | aesire to be the low, ane |

} j |

| exercised has bee

} mie

| our fellow colonists, our

Pp; te

menace

48 SQAMINS

2} : sic most sweet | cajole them, s0 that the

be

Representatives Legislature the pretens Why is this

yoices may won in. favour of such , will support 10 jous of the arro-

Be-

as

. ‘ the case’ gant jew?

cause the Compact of Cl held in their gr of the Crown, that thev

. oc ~~ 9 ne thernseives to be the fittest persons to en empse: s ? !

. . nih’ oy if but that 14 3S IMipOs sipi;e joy if, os and to enc

official has his sycopiet

from then ; rage this delu- ir I , ts or sion, every 7

} nendents whose cupidily, or whose { e] C } 3, | \ ce seen in “genteel society,

will prompt them to

ity them patron €

inflvence thus

moreover, the n unscrupulously used

because,

to close every channel of communication with the people— to intimidate and perse- oe

cute any man who might seek, through the |

tinm of the Press, to instruct his fellow

countrymen how to enjoy their civil rights.

Ny these causes alone is to be attributed |

the fuilure hitherto of a Liberal Newspaper | | —(observe, gentle reader, we use that lite |

inthis Island. But while we acknowledge their potency, we at least are not dis- posed to yield to them without another strugale. We have brooked official frowns so Jong, we find no terrors In

them. The opinions with which we

entered public life have become part of |

our identity, and we could as easily forget

or renounce them, as forget our account-

‘

ability te, or renounce our dependence upon, a Higher Power. If we succeed Ip

no other instance with the New Series of

Tye Examiner than in sowing the gerin

of independent thought in the minds of

labours will be

rot only not in vain to the Colony, but its |

Press will in part be redeemed from the charge of sérvility and incapacity. —< +o

We have deemed it expedient to ts- |

sne Tue Examiner in a diderent form from = that printed, because, in the first instance,

in which it was

/we can publish the Paper on a more

econontical plan, and reduce the price in

ters apart from our Office, that we could not, with satisfaction to ourselves ayd ‘The terms oa which it is now is- will be seen on reference to the

form. sued fourth page.

this we are determined to make ‘Tue Examiner, and we shall be much sur- prised if our readers do not find more to ainuse and interest in its columns, than they can obtain from the dull pages of the islander and Gazelle.

——

ANNEXATION TO NOVA SCOTIA.

and few causes for pubiic inust give a great deal of Jeisure for ule

indulgence of idie conjectures and silly | A Ee ‘| the public journals has ventured to eX-

prattle, it is only najural to expect that

queer stories will be often palined upon eee } f Ww = S c oad ead, we suppose, of giving offence to

the public for Gospel truth. During the

Six years we have been vegelating here

o . . le ‘ i 5~< } i the monotony of our life"lins been ofien | ali-parties-and-influenced-by-none” Paper

agreeably relieved by listening to many a strange tale concerning our Govern- ment end public men; but the strangest

(we have yet heard is that which attributes

to His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- nor the writing of a Despatch to Earl Grey recommegding that Nobleman to annex this Island to Nova Scotia, in case the local Legislature should refuse to grantan adequate Civil List, unclogged oy a demand for Responsible Govern-

ment. Our experience of this place has | made us tolerably incredulous of much |

that we hear; siill we must confess we have been staggered from our accustomed

skepticism by the great and respectable mass of tesumony whic rons

ee)

ed, moreover,

jarlottetuwh Have | yo so lone the patronage |

+ hehey not only believe | j it would be immeasurably advantageous

tu take it

swear to any absurd- - 1

may propound: and | | would forego the trifling

| serve

| SO.

| oraher the constitution

formerly |

What the country reqiures | ces ce ae "y ‘ | they will shaw that there is no founda- | is, in our opinion, a Political Newspaper: | ,.

tion forthe rumourto which we have

_ taining, as it does, an unmerited imputa- Inasmall Town like ours, to which | lion on the character of the whole com-

, [melita tice coe sat ete the absence ofa great amount of trade | muntiy, 3s still rankling in the breasts of

excitement, | _ ty on the indepeadeace of the local Piess,

ih

be}! has the honour 10 preside

enuiled to

FC re ae a al ~ — *port./ ta: : OM

of the Governor—(if there be any such

people in the Island

the | fied to the trath of the fact, have declar- j

that His Excellency has

5 te en llentinn Bobi employed his leisure 1n collecting data,

to establish his position, that though an- |

nexation to Nova Scotia might, in some measure, be injurious to Charlottetown, 9

to the Island generally, but that his ix-

cellency isan annexationist only because

‘the House of Assembly is composed of |

such stubborn fellows as not to do what he wishes them to do, and to be so auda- cious asto ask fora controul oyer the , public officers whom they are required to | pay: so that it appears His Excellency consideration

of benefitting the Isiand generally to

Chailotretown, and gain a com- | pliant House of Assembly. Now we don’t

intend to write a line either for oragainst |

| annexation, because we caanot believe |

the question to have arisen for discussion. [fit bas been mooted by His Excellency

tle word #f because we do not wholly dis- | regard the testimony of veracious people, | and because we will not be wholly guided by it)—if the question, we repeat, lias been mooted by Sir Danald Campbell, it | isemirely outofplace. It isa question | for tie people of the Island, pot for their | Governor, nor for a thousand Governors | ereater than he. Ele may write a ream | of Despatches on the subjoct ifhe pleases , | but he can’t do it, aud the Colonial Secre- | lary can’t doit, and the Queen herself | can't do it; the constitution of Prince

Edward Island, wretched though it be as

a copy of the Brinsh one, will outlive |

| either or all of them, if the people will it |

The Queen’s Minister may amend | of a Colony, but it withont We wish not to |

! acini — . ; ie cant anuihuate the con-

sent of Its Lemisiature,

be guilty of any personal disrespect to |

F . ro} > > . ie } . . one time will be employed in other mat- | on the Legislature from its duty by hold-

ashe found them, le commits an unpar- donabje folly—(ifthe story which is re-

lated of him be true) in seeking to fright- |

'ing up the bugbear of annexation; and 'as there isa majority of his Executive

| our Patrons, publish the Paper in the old) Gouneil in the Levislature nil ol: thie | | D> s ¢ t

|

'

|

are, Or Ought to be responsible for the acis of their Chief, we sincerely trust

now referred.

DESERTION OF THE TROOPS. Tue following curious Despatch appeared in the Island Newspapers about three months ago, withvut note or comment. The indignation which it excited, con-

many ; and it is a remarkable commenta-

that not one individual connected with

\—have gravely testi- | 'sertion of the ‘Troops. it said, that this Despateh has originated

| countability on the part of ** Her Majesty’s | Ministers” in this Colony, why then they

‘which elcited the annexed reply from Parl Grev: if they were. they would lig due to their position to belicve that | ‘manifestation of their will, and nothing can be more devoutly deprecated than Ue

‘establishment of a contrary belief, since ‘that would prove a subyersion of the prin-

| }

| from JOU to 30 men, in ee ae of

| will ubdoubtedsy be withdrawn,

| Tre Lieutenant Governor having receiv é ed Despatehes from England, has deter —

| Assembly. _ diving into the recesses of the Lieutenat

| question of Responsible Government =

press an opinion in reference to it, from a

“ ; t our worthy Governor,” as the * onen-to-

delighted to style his Excellency in the first-days of his Administration. Though the name of er Majesty’s Secretary of | State for the Colonies appears at the end | of the Despatch, yet we do not hold his | Lordship responsible for the expressions itcontains; but indeed we may feel sur- prise that he would Jend-his name to such

(paltry affair. Public Despatehes, such |

as the-one we now refer t@, are like mer- chantable wares, manufactured ‘o order The wise ‘Gove it d

and populer Gevernment, over

which his Excellency Sit Qonata a , are alone

credit of dig tating 7? 4 4 oe a .

; vernment, for no

a a me ad

have stigmatized the whole people of the Colony with being accessory to the de- We have heard

'

with himself—that the Council did not advise it. We reject

this story as too silly—too improbable—

the Governor

‘too derogatory to the honour and inde-

pendence of the Government to be true, The Council are His Excellency’s advi-

sers: as such they must be cognizant of, and otght to be held accountable for, i every public act that emanates from him: if there be no cognizance of official acts —(and one especially so important as that " we are now considering, by which the whole Island is threatened witha loss of i

«

its id and butter through the removal of the immense body of soldiers who d here)—if there be no ac-

bre:

are maintaine

err

are no Government, they are merely His Exeellency’s tools, which he may use or

lav aside as he pleases. We say ogain 7 we don’t and can’t beljeve the Council

to have been ignorant of the Despatch

—_—

have resigned their places, and left Sir Donald Campbell to shift for himself. It7 '

every act of the Adiinistration is &

ciples ofthe Constitution, andthe exist-

ence of a despotism, centring in one indi-

vidual all Ececutive power. - Downing Srreet, Sept. 9, 1949. Lieutenant General Sir John Harvey, 4

come =F

viied with a reanest which you had made ty reduce the varrison of P. Bad,

having reported to me, thathe has

A

to bun,

tle prevalence of Military Desertian, I have fo acquaint you, that [approve of that measure; and | have further to we- this reducnon of the Garrison does pot produce the cesired effect, of inducing the Colonists to ‘dise courage Desertion, the whole of the oops

J have, &e. (Signed) GREY. Lieut. Gov. Sir Donald Campbell, Bart,

&ec. &c. &e,

‘To the Electers of Prince Ed-

ward Island.

a

4

mined an dissolving the Mouse of | Official secrecy prevents out

iz

| Governor’s mind ; but it must occur to thé

public as more than probable, that His” xcellency’s instructions compel him 10 7

a take the sense of the Electors on thé 7

Anattempt has been made through , t medium of official whispering’to intit date the Assembly of this Island, as well as its other inhabitants, with the threat of annexation to Nova Scotia—that is, #) has been held out, that if the questions @| the Civil List and Responsible Govert ment be not seperated, such a punishment would be inflicted. ‘To give way to such an idle threat would be at once to givé up the Representatives of the Isla bound hand and foot, to the dictation ¢ the Government. Electors! you will m

so act as to give effect to the wishes ‘ ihe party who seeks to enslave J* tbe Minor grievances and complaints

are many ; but how can your Represen

tives redress them without ‘the Gove : — ment be changed from the \ espom® i tothe Responsible System, Will S47 Crews,

suffer your friends, the advw_ tes of ™

System, to be overborne ? , you ® tons, o. surrender your own Jiberti Tote — Baled ¢ | . Crcoun

merely for men w ol pe Po themselves to adveeate Respon one will appea E

ee mr et