ot. “<a

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"8 Dot immedi estore joe will, ately restor planted be Kuvck him the best abili* v

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oe

, > d, you swear that

¥ one porderous blew of your fist, tween tht peepers of the offender, down. “All this you will do, to wf yous skill and kmewledve and +o hep fou God. Rad mece? tad the position assigned him, . s Utaecchately alter the court was organ med, Tots Diggers, who looked a5 green as young gourds, walked into fhe eourt room: wearmg brogans numbey eleven, his hands thruet deep into his pockets, and inguired

** Hellow, flere! wherein thunder is Sim Sme)ins 2”

Silenve iD the lobby

raged oficial.

** roared the out-

You must be an ill-fired, tarnaj fool, and:

) ye jest open that bread trap of yourn agin 2ur marmy wont know ye!" shouted back ie propfietor of the brogans

# hereupon dim Jarvis, the oficer, het fly the dogs of War, and greeny fel} flat ob his buck, with his pedestals at an angle of forty hive degrees in the air. We grabbed greeney by the seat of his pantaloons, and dragged him, wrong end fOrethost, info the presence of his honor, the presidirig judge, and said

‘Mr. Judge, here‘s that ‘darned, infernal fool, Tom Diggers, who warn't reve? Mi a court house afore, and ho undertibvk te fun over this Chicken, but, ‘¢erding to'my oath, i fotched thie tarnal eritter up stoddin,’ by aiy;a° him a jerk atween the eyes, ‘cording to jaw, and tow, say the word, and LJ} maul the dog-wWood juice outen him afore you kin Wink your éy@ twiee.”’ :

Judge.—Turn him loose, Mr. Ojfcer, and accept the thanks of the Vourt'for the prompt diseharge of your official dities.

Goon atter the Court adjourned to drink.

BGRRESPONDENCE, Serra (POR THE EXAMINER.) ‘vO THE LENANT FARMERS OF PRINCE ' EDWARD ISLAND .

SENTLEMEN,—Moet of you must be aware that a Genera! Election js near at Live, when vou will hive "t in your power to dechIR at ence wad tersdpe for ever, your ows future Coedom trom’ she trammel* of Jandjordism, of yiyr hite- time degradation, as well as trat of your Jeseend-

» , a : .

ahfs, As rent paving serfs, according’ fo the unity |

of Setlort Vor take at such eleéetiorn Tt 2 & faet well batabtistied in warfare facties: that thé com- maider-in-ehief conceals jrom hws euemy as much

of lis real intentions a# possible, and the better to! will frequently rliake a feigne" pretence |

eccive of ditack ifs dome parfef the lines fat fen where be thehuds to pdroetrate the greatest unl. And if you permit me to compare the sublime tg the ridieulogs, | wish to eall vour attention te the

cnoning devieesof your Land Proprietary Gok rn. |

meet, or their empliyment of “the man wath waren pats —the scrupulous, pious, religious, ean “ftitenlous, self-saecrificing, e Staple of pertect Protesvanticn, W_ HL. Pope, the Colonial Seer tary — Nhe nial Whe never went ifith a Ceurt of justice wif “theleah Baods "—the man whe never platidered ‘a Jian oul of 4 14.000—the man whe never dive, fom the Jreast ry under fal

: ilse nre fences ttudther’ persen—the

ror het, ne ing * ti math whe vever chatged The Westatorland Ten- atifty two gulneas for new Jenses under pretences that their former leases were nef Yood—the man whe never appropriated the rents of Capt. Cum- biviatd. ad Mrs. Cumberland to his own use mil Ghe' newer deelined rendering an account iéreaf to thenigélves ot to chee vew ly soustitu- ted “Agent, « Ye give up the Accounnat jLieroks of the Estates! Yes auch is the good honest man the hat deen fitely so busily employed by ** the teod-fereing Vroprietar® Govetiment, te dis- tyeet Sour aitOite-u fran te great, the all abaurbing gucation of the day, “This Land Cueation,” by gettingup “a tempest in a teapet ” Thott”: Lopish ” aggression, in appealing to Pro wataat Telivious prejudices, against your bette: jodginent! A worthy ‘agent certainly for such a cause? “Lhe last effort ef a terlorn hope! Now, geaticaen, T wish tf appeal te your better reasen, xvuf Colm delibezate judgment—to yeur ewn self interest, you will, It must not be forgotten that "Your preseil Government promised you an daly setilement of the * Land Question ™ subjected you te ne small expense by getting up the Laud Ceramission, in order te humbug and deceive yéd, ‘id te raise your expertations te benefits Which they vever intended, never wished er fevired mmter. While year expectations were rear ’ high. ewing te the elixpremitious shown by the Commissioners while here to take the whele subject of tenant grievances— Quit Kent Ulaine, Levalet Rights, and Fishery Ketertes inte consideration, they secretly and insidicusly employed the “Spy Wightman, whe acted wader theirdirections all Winter and Spring te after he completed tus work, ne doubt to their entire satistaction, they paid him out ot the pablic funds, the taxes which vou and your fini lies Jad te pay upen vour tea, molasses, tobacco, <, “they naturally enough said and concluded amongst themselves, that before the electors would find ot ther raseality, their deceptions, hollow pretences, it wopld be best to dissolve the Hyyse of Assembly, and try to get a majority te beep them in office for four years more, which the) Kuvw they had ne chanee whatever of getting unices the election were held while the electors wold De ignerant ef their machinations; but then they recollected that they had blackgnarded the Cothohes at the last election, and that if thes

wont Doors

joined the tenantry at the election, no Proprietary |

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To the Rev

Rey AND DEA iT

~ -

. David Fitzgerald.

How me to acknowlede: receipt of your letter appesring in the Monsor news pper of the Sth of October, “8S One your ** feilow-Colonists,’* and to express my deep

of

regret at reading therein your intention to lay before us, through ‘the same medium, Weekly, the nature of the Pope of Rome's

peculiar elaims,’’ and * the unser ipturalness at the doetrines and practices of that Chureh of whieh he is the head,”

My grounds for yegret at your intention are two-fold — 6ne, thai as I humbly opine you might be far hetter employed in follow ing your more legitimate avoeat ons, and the other, at seeing one, who | cannot but wish to revere asa rest of our Chureh, degrade | his high and holy offiee by sto ping to openly dabble in the foathsome strife of politico religious controversy and unutterably un- christian apimosity that has been for some years the bane of our existence here, and that may cause the eternal damnation of some hereafter. ‘

i will not stay to argue the question now for you may be able to steer clear of party polities, even if you have already, or indeed

ray have wished to have so steered, by the plan you propose to adopt, viz: the pulbliea- tion of a series of controversial letters in such & paper as the § Monitor.” Bat having ven ional to eXpress my regret at your determi- nation, beg to ask you two or three questions, assuring you if you answer any or all ef sheye, | LE will readily, if you wish, subscribe my wame , toa public acknowledgment of your coursevy ist. Do you not imagine that your more

he . . ' we, Kt

.

i yvously «f ived of theis ricehts, neh has all ulted from the keeping In ce Proprietary Government, who have

hed over tl} | roprietary interest with wavering il: and anvthine that would ikely to ameliorate }) e eondition of th wintry has always met with their Cisap- prol tion, and their combined influence has Iways been successful in warding off or sup- pressing eyerv design to lyhberate the tenants irom th grasp ol landlordism Courts ol kscheat, which might have taken place long », as well here as in Noya Seotia, have he evaded; and an irstance js on fecord in the history of this Island, in which a Gover x was deposed from offiee for being lavour- fe to estabiishing C Escheat, and who actnally had two townships escheated,

and who n » doul t, had he been alfijwed to remain but for a short time longer, would have freed the most, if not all, the lands of ths Celony; bus the landlords, with their accomplices, soon devised means to remove hii frow the government of this [s- land. The inhabitants wt that time were very ignorant concerning the polities of island and what would be tor the general good, a5 an arigtoeratieal government and family eons pact wielded their destinies. Lhe man

of that compact wag ottended to as the cue orwele , and thus the interests of the ; eople were, through their ignorange, xbaorbed by a erafty desiguing party, who were ever on the alert to retain their power, and keep the | people im a state of serfdom sane vasaalage ' Petitions were got up and weat the rounds of the Island, praying for the removal of the Cmvernor; and as the Oracle spoke, so the

toge ther

the

i poser! le desire to I nefit

or :

1 ‘Phey ehai

wii

y ‘ thie gyi hed prpetaousls 2 tiadlye | { he hnes of dead trees, and ot) Yankee ieee aad » ar ona a perately, broke Onky of n op at ibe . ' ‘ ‘ e high crowded upon them by yankee ] > \ehy ?| laatey and captured a small fortitieatior } * i 7 that they would be saed, ke.) &©” tt i battery of the Ist Missourt Was platted Al Jot been e , seized: our

ok printe aad Not because these great qua k. printen '

eomed lest, and a temporary panic

bear with a tameness absolutely ineredible the timony cannot be depended upon in refere ale ; tru ‘on. one by one, of all the hopes ante = the illus/ons whieh had Jed them to tie hee e of the Atlantic. There ia, no doubt, RoUe ving in the apeetacle of the nation 80 fecvuntls idea that everyth ny elae this

nee to anvthing—that he never tells the truth unless he stuinbles into it by the merest aecident ~ that falsehood is a chronic disease with him—part and

sublime PY ' ; ee Why, we

his mental organization ?

arcel. of wedded to one pareel

ceibblessanaeh caiotenat oo these matter crew, Wade Pepels ones mere tnaarel d inte the er aceine trivial insignificant im ecormyae | again ase; yeonit Mr. Palmer vive us the re \

, ie . 1Yy er had the inter st of strects of Corinth Butnew batteries Were open c : fietances have pot been rare of confine | 6 ; a r wet hi “~ sane rap J nei ~ Ent because *€ the | od yun them, and eur men under the direction risen. on an iéhed almost to a man fost the his caquires Mr Dope has. produced no testi- . uy k ae at =e > fo ay r avery to ol noe AeOus officers, aud stimulated vy ner o~ “coma Se ee is Tiberts ; but fiberty is aIMOny mony to support Iris own, whieh is Worthless

} » ( arrived en : ‘ ‘ : leita = ee t Py ise ‘ . ° ller Maj sty’s fiddler, W a — rayd come 0 ir lost battery Was regained, and once i strane ie Oe cated suder'a| {rom bie Tae A<ilip (hel Bishop ad Cibilalben .

‘*'Terrace,’? came in Che many of these nasty Yankees,

he <

and

the

and could not ther tricks the least

? since

stherwise than cognizant ol and if he hi ‘* our people * he soiled his reputation by contact with the ‘ Monitor.” he had every chance of domg so, and should have cautioned the unwary. But, no, that would newtdo. Now, hoavever, since * Brother Cooper" has received license to preach, and Donald has been their yalour knows no limits, and the latter | having ' seared up’? a quarrel with **a big | Yankee,’ whose back is at present turned. takes the opportunity through the‘ Monitor

of slandering all the persons who happen to visit our shores from thestates. Braye, very brave, indeed, are these chivalrous fellows on bebalf of ** our people, is needed, but when required it will be—no where ! of ignorant people might be winkec emanating from two such highly bred, | superiorly $aught, scientifically cultured, | chaste, talented, Avnest, and philanthropic minded beings as these co-editors of the ‘Monitor,’ is reprehensible in the extreme ; and when known will cause the people of |

Ingrabituge 5

promoted, i

|

; Corps,

it hurled destruction into their ranks,

hire bs day was saved, and the eneniy i fad retreat Gur loss was eom yaratively sinall during the j

featiilcharge. ‘That ofthe enemy was (ull twenty to our ote killud Among the killed left on the field were Brig. Gen. Rogers of New A Yrleans, Col and Acting Brig. Jolinsen of Mississippi, and an- other Colonel commanding 2 brigade, Whose name ws bei rned , The (Peo were commanded by Van Dorn, Price and Villipine, with thetr respective army whieh swelled their pumber te 50,000

Jt is unpossible yet to givea list of the cuumal- ties. Our proportion of officers killed is thought to be large. We lust but tour taken prisoners.

Richmond papers of Saturday last annonce the approaching adjournment of ther ontederate Congress. "The Senile had apovinted a committee to take testimony relittive to the outrages ecom-

*? when no bravery | iitted by the Yaukees, Which is to be collated and |

Au act was

preserved in a perinanent ford

Such dastardly conduct on the part} passed authorizing the manulacture of shoes ands - Jat, but) clothing for the army, whidh provides for the free

importation of ull articles necessary lor the yur

pose. A jolat resolution has been adepted by the Virginia Legislature, providing that no person

lsingle Government — America is sacrificing its | 2nd, from the Rey. A. McDonald; 2r, foey the cent happinetwand its future hopes. Rather) tron. 1. Breman; and 4th, we 4 State of modegate dirmens™ns, the North a degree of sel{immolation that ; may be required It would bea newle sight were | But before we notiee Mr. Conrey's letter, te

the end worthy of the means. — As it is, we stand | whiel we'made allusion in our last, we inust offer eter. act of destructi and at! ; Lon At : aghast at this wanten act ot de ees “ oor Mr. Pope's Wading articls, of that national vanity whiea can | * : ) , E vague imagination of terri-| in the Islander of the 10th inst., over his own

are now prepated tu offer testimony from N. Conroy, Esq, M. Poa,

presen than he will procevd Te an’

1 few words on the iuteusity thus sacrifice to seme terial creatness not only all that makes a nation | signature ereat, but all that makes it happy or respected, | ye 7 i } i i r : u : - 1 > * . > + Ture Grear CANADIAN Exmerrios. —The PN lis party out of the difficulty in referepee | eit: of ‘Toronto was recently the seene of almost | te this matter are—Tst. ‘That when he proposed lunrivatted festivities. The Great a a n-pravt-to- St. Diestews College it wae with the ‘hibition. was oe — yor ye a8 | ebderitbnting. that GUE inapidies res Syeelleney the Governor-Generi ‘ Mi Pit i ‘i aw loan Satine and taimily, and a hest of other | divested of its" d?noctinational character. Sud notables, seized the epportunity to be present.) That “ the majority!’ of the Government never Nhe Exhibition, its my 2 ee es agreed te, or promised the grant The fallacy of lescribed as having been a truly mag as eee ; affair. “he Toronto papers are filled with glow-| these positions ix ¢ asily si ocetiat itig deseriptious of what was on exhibition, the| st. In the various interviews ee names of the successful competitors, the ye ex | St. Dunstan's, and with Mr. Brenan, it woe

of premiums awarded, and: kundation. of the cour : : shee aeaeatl ofthe whole. ‘Ebe civic outherities | never mentioned by Pope that the ¢ ofege shoulde

The grounds on whieh Mr. Pope expects Wo,

i

within that state-shall be tried or ‘nprisoned for oe Toembe anpaae se sane ihapitted- themselves | be divested of its denominational charactet—seeb

‘driving therefrom. or putting té-death, by any | wlw

nears, any yersop, With or withovt arias,

imay be found.on that soil aiding ot abetting. or iu

vight hospitably on. the vacasion: in question. | proposal witli tees puck, atonal’ ene tall There was one coutinued round of balls, parties | 4

gud dinners during the progress of the Exhibition. i consideration on the subject. Mr. N. Coprag, in

eophe believed; thus, by the influences uses Oy thett worst enemies, were they induced tosign chose petitions praying for the removal nf the best Governor for the people's rights administered the Government ct thie Fsland. On the day the people signed those petitions they rivetted upon themselves

proper sphere of action, as our Clergyman and God's ordained Priest, would be the re- viyal of the Chureh’s existence and services in those so sadly neglected and destitute out- lying districts that in years Zone by were }imore or less tended and eared fur by the pre- sence and zeal of the Charlottetown clergy- men? [ will spare your own blushes and ow or your fellow laborer in this most! burst asunder, and which | hope shey will shamefully neglected corner of (id's ne |noyer ecame fo cudentout (0 ds to long 34 localities to which I allude, as indeed make a eer eo ae ie Renee bat passing allusion to the imperative eall! plishing it; and we haye, even at this late

. oe > dinperative Cait’ date every reason to hope that the lands will | on yeu, as God's minister, toa more constant! +, freed. “The sentiment breathed through- attention and personal visitation to many of out the whole of the Commissioners’ Report

+} + sar this ever

ants have to this day been endeavouring to

‘

at ios gage whom you barely favours this idea. Whatever may be the o-ty ay \ gue: far, far less as a friend, stiuggle to bring about this object, it must |} 2nd. fo you not think that our braneh of “y : ‘

come, for the whole prejadiees of the people are enlisted in favour of tree lands. On page 23 of the Royal Commissioners’ Report they say :—‘* The Lenantry of Prince Edward Is- land share the common sentiment of the Continent which surrounds them. The pre judice in favour of a freehold tenure, if it is one, is beyond the power of reason. ‘The proprietors cannot change the sentiment Lhe local Government have no power to resist it, and the Imperial Government, having be- come weary of collecting rents and supporting evictions in Ireland, ean hardly be ¢ xpected to do for the landlords in Prince Edward Is- land what has ceased to be practicable or popular at home,’’

Some contend that they have Jost all hope of ever seeing the lands of this Colony free, after so long an agitation and nothing yet eflected; but there is no doubt that a con- tinual agitation of the question will even- tually lead the British Government to adopt r to free this Colony. Continual remonstrances to the foot of the throne for so grieyoug an ijl, and the reasons for redress

| thé Church Catholic here, rotten and wither- ed as it is, and J fear likely to continue, and more especially you, as its head, might at- fempt at lest to join the numerous denomina- tions here, as well as our Roman Catholic | brethren, in inaugurating a few such Chris- tian aud charitable iastitations as a Poor and Industrial House, a Public Infirmary and | Dispensary, with possibly a louse of Refuge, ‘together with a better organised system vo! eliarity and local visiting than exist at pre- sent—than by your continuing to rake up and publish, and by our reading, old contro- versiaé papers in such journals as the * Moni- tor’ and ‘ Pfotestant’ of this city ?

Srd. Were you ever,- To your KNUWLEDSE, in your life, the means of changing the faith of any sincere Roman Catholic to that of the Anghean Chureh ? or do you seriously expect that the publication of your ** anji P. . effusions can have the effect of strengthening the Protestantism of one of your congrees tion, vr of shaking the faith of any Roman Catholic in the whole universe in the slightest

measures

those shaekles which they and their descend- |

' other markets and of common justiee : bat if|

Yarskeedous or Bny gther place e charge phat lany way giving effect in-that.state or its borders portioss of four people “ 7 : satellites of Her Majesty's Government of) ggent Lincoln-te liberate the slaves. Prince Edward Island, logated in and about | \ the Colonial Building and Mowitor Oflice, | regarding the movements of the contending armies with deshonesty and ignorance ! ot the Potomac That so sweeping a charge should bé made | the on the migratosy pertion of Americans by the up tie val ‘Monitor,’ is quite im secordance with that aud that a dirty elieet, but is quite contrary to the fact,

battle may be expected at any time.

What vould have been the Anancial state this Iskund during the last 15 years but for! the speeulations of Americans? Whese prguirer of the 4th says:

pose is te make another move on. Richmond by way of Fredricksburg or seme otiter reate,

barley, oats, potatoes, rags, eggs, sheepskins, Harper's Ferry. Gen. Lee, with & strong. force, &e., &e., have fowml a market, bet for thems ? | is rapidly moving toward Martinsburg. aco Aud if **when three or four of them get | ate battle is about to be fought. Gen MoClellan together *’ and charged some of the Islanders with ‘‘dishonesty,”’ they no doubt had a cause, for instance :—when many of our farmers first commenced trading with the:

aeress the river. ( ‘ \- ment and abslitionists are urging him: furward.

‘Vie Evanviner also says: ** The ion is causing some commotion in the Neth; \y

‘* Yankees,’’ they tried to palm off the taibings | yu. py ocident's auiversal martial-law will probably

of their grain heaps, and she most rubbishly | (uiet that.”

sainple of potatoes. Was that Aenest? And| ~ pidinie inn aaa

if this were done without any bad intent, | (From the London Times.)

did it not display ignorance of the customs of | nye GREAT REPUBLIC: IN ITS DOWN- f WAKD PHASE.

desizgnedly, could it be deemed honest? To

prevent the recurrence of shipping bad grain and caluty consider the causes which have raised

or rubbish, and improve the moral stone Of | them during the last half century frou 3,000,000 trade, a law was passed by our Legislature | 4. 30,000,000, and made their country, volike se

obliging grain to be sold by weight, apd many other lands favored with the most livish purchasers of potatoes would take nothing) vifts of nature, proverbial for its prosperity and but a merchantable article. and who eould progress, they might dev?ve from the reflection blame them for this? Then with respect to conelusions which woull bead them irresistably to * Yankee notions,’’ nobody is bound or foreed 2 pelicy of peace and mutual conciliation. America 3 1 : .° : | ubtedly, to the wisdom of those to subseribe to or buy them, and if they do) ?wes muen, union 4 ity nd roma Peter yond { their own free will and accord, and are erest and enlightened wen, the fathers and founders so of the % t Nand ¢ 4 re bitten, are they not as much to blame as the

ot her repablc They devised a seheme of tem- $ “ J “ ae a perate libe rty, pohecked and controlled by every i some people will not learn Ww isdem contrivance which pen ber fat prevent its tendency to beaten into them, and many will not) Qecenerate inte licentionsness. To the worn-out cherish it even then. Among such folk are) vietans of orditrary power they offered equal

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till it is

known as the ito the kawless and jiendisii proclamation of Pre- | The Richmoud yaners contain some particulars | "Phe: Despately of thes tad says federal army 3s south-ot-the Potemag, meving: he valley from Mactiasburg and Harper's Ferry, “It is reported,” savs the Whig, that one hun-

: : ive shave goneup the! _ ew ; dred aud twenty five transports: have gone uy as the ‘Monitor’ fobk know right well. | Potomae to Alexandria, snd it iw supposed.the pur- | The “The: federal forses | would our surplus horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, | ave at Martinsburg, with their left extending to

A desper-

cannet areid an eugagement unless he withdrawe "This he cannot dojawthe move rn-

“ The negro proelana-

If the people of America would only sit down =

The Military and the Volunteers contributed their ‘full quota towards the enterticénment’ of the citizens of Torouto and their tens of thousands of visitors, both on the oceasion of receiving the Gevernor-Getieral and his uoble: asseciites on their arrival, as wellas the Gratid: Review whieh took place the iMewing day. The Volunteers ot ‘Toronto consist of some tenoe twelve conapanies, ‘comprising horer, foot and sxtillery. "Phese, with H. M. 30th Regt, and the Regular Artillery, made a fine military display, the whole acting together in the greatest harmony. At this Review upwards of a score of prizes, consisting of silver cups, me- dals, money, and rifles, were presented to suc- cessful competitors by the Commander-in-! bief. These had all been fired-for and wen some weeks previously, and:the ,rescutation of them had beey reserved until the arrival of Lord Mouck. The Agricultural dinner was attended by upwards of twelve hundred gentlé¢men, ineluding ‘a number of Americans. It is stated that a brass band pre- sent, happening to play * Hail Columbia,” in com- lliment tothese visitors, Caue very near making. ‘disturbance in the mammoth tent where the vutertainment was held.—Erening Express

The Exaniner,

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Charlottetown, October 20th, 1862.

‘THE MENT WITH REGARD ‘tO ST. DUN- STAN'S SOLLNGE.

ALTHOUGH. the intrignes of the. Government

'with influential Cathoses im regard to on endow- |

vinent of St. Dunstan’s College have been exposed

in such away as te fill them with pain and dis-!

comfiture, yet, mm anotiver respect; the eomtroversy

TRICKERY OF THE GOVERN.)

the letter te which we made allusion last weeds, says that Mr. Pope “ expressed to me more than one hunded:times his anxiety to preeure a grant, | tor the College.” and never once alluded to the, divestingvof the institution of its denominational, character. He (Rope) teld Mr. Conrey that he advocated the grant as-“"an aet of justice to the Catholics that “the Govertinent would give the grant! themecthes wnaske?’ —that “if the matter was lett to his (Mr. Pope's)! metregement

he bad ne fonre that if the erant would pet be given the present Sessien) it would be the wert” —that “the feeting-of bigotry against the Cathelies was fost sulwiding, and he (Pope)) hoped: the: trovernment would be soon ito! position te ase aod support & grunt to the College.” Mr. Conroy says that the Colonial Secretary had

“daily conversations” with him on the subject of the grast-—that be (Pope) said “ all his time wae: taken up-withethe resttes” — “that it was not su: much from the’ opposition of the non-coutents ia

the Government that made then hesitate imosk

ing tlie grant as the hostility of seme Reverend genthmen — Sutherland avd: Sitegeraid — but he: thought they would be brought round.” These: are bows fie extroets trom Mr. Conroy's letter,

which, if ther are doubted, we shall ask Mr.

Conrey to verify. They show that Mr. Pope was

offering, on bebalf of the Govermmest.a grant tox ) Mt. Dunstan's Colleye, as 2 Cauthetic inatitution;

| “on aetiof iastier te the (4 @hehies :” and! Mr. Conroy says, moreover; that when Pope made the offer, he remarked, ‘1 eannet tell with what- face the Ceyemament. oa-atbor expeet the suge | port of Catholics at the hustings if they continue

and as

} P, 3.::88 may be better for me

degree ? With respect, Rev. and dear Sir, | remain, Your obedient servant, A CHURCHMAN. Charlottetown Royalty, Vet. 13, 1862.

to add that I use the term is in its application alone to

Gaod’s

the

ithe sense in which vineyard *’

united Church of Engiand and Ireland in this!

city, as I fully believe that my Roman Ca thelie and PisSenting brethren are in most eases favored by haying those set over them in the Lord whom they lave every reason to respect, love and venerate.

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(FOR THE EXAMINER.) THE LAND QUESTION.

The Land Question has long agitated the the minds of the inhabitants of thie Island, causing much diseonter t, and for the settle- ment of which the ominous appearance ou! a Court of Commissioners was w med to the Island Those held their sitting for the purpose of gaining in- formation trom Landlord and Tenant. But a few months ago this Court was hailed as the great jubilee to our Island. ‘The oppres- sed and the oppressors met to tell their stories of the various ways in which they had been

Commissioners

being sq tangible, that it must be granted sooner or later. It has been urged that it would be unconstitutional and a violation of the sacred rights of property for a govern- ment to interfere or to try any means to re- medy the existing evil other than those that the proprietor would be willing tu accede. But this is not Should it be this case when private rights would interfere with the

pablie good, to mflict an injury, it is right

80.

to interfere, and this is clearly pointed out ia the Royal-Commissioners’ Ri P rs, pace 20: «* The opposition ol some of the propri- : : : etors who had not become par {ies to the ar-

bitration, and who seemed to regard the

Commissioners as intruders upon their pro

perty and the willing violaters of their rights

pparent. These persons appeared

te forget that the Commissioners did net seek

the duties amy osed upon them, that they bad enquiry, that the

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was a wise

pO personal interest in the

grievant ‘sof Prinee Edward {sland crew out 1 nO Hegiect of theirs, These persons ap- peared also to forget that, though the rights of property have ever been sacredly guarded by the law whenever the possession Or abuse of property become prejudical to the publi

interest duals can be constitutionally controlled for the public good.”’ The idea sought to be} impressed upon thi ple was, that there could be no interlerence, that it would be unconstitutional and most absurd te seek for

$s, the rights and prejudices of indivi-

the

treated and acted. The fact of the three Royal Commissioners having full and unli- mited power to investigate and permanently settle the Land ()uestion was to the minds of the populace beyond a doubt. ‘The tenants,

redress other than by the good will of the proprietors, and on theaproposals that they would make. And, at the time the Royal Commissioners held their sessions, the intlu- ence used by our Proprietary Government |

‘Agents er Members ef the Government would be many of them, attended at those sessions, and réturaed; and, therefore, the trath-leving, samtly, told the lamentable tales of hardships endured W if Pope, Colonial Seeretary and Clerk of the —-of their striving to elear and cultivate

to influence them in fayour of the proprietors, and the various strategems resorted to by

P vccutive Council, wae employed to bambue and deceive the Catholies—te advise or persnade them tral “ Ged-fearing Government’ by whem he was emploved proudly and zealously yearned todo thesy fyi) justiee by giving them a grant of at

igact 22000 per annum for educational purposes, |

with many other spurious pretences of favours mnumeralle, tor which, ef course, the implied ged pro que consideration at the Eleetions was expected. And for the ability, integrity and sincerity displayed on the part of the Colenial Seeretary—the worthy representative of “a frod-tearing Government “—I beg to refer you te tye pevelutions in the last Eraminer and Islander. pe Colonial Seeretary interme you

‘communicated regularly to the Leader of the

Government, the Honorable Edward Palmer, the ,

substance of each conversation which he had with

that he;

many of the Government members to try to retain their popularity, and at the same time to work for the proprietors, was most appa-| rent to all who were delegated to that Court. The jeople had not a fair representation as they oughe to have had in an arbitration ‘which was likely to be of such vital impor- tance to the welfare of this Colony. ‘They | could not have, for the very channei through which the arbitration was brougiit about was corrupt, and in this case it would have been hard for the Commissioners to give a de- cision more favourable to the tenants than i8 given in the report, for no arbitrators will give more than either party seeks for. Now, the parties concerned in this arbitration were

enough land upon which to raise a scanty subsistence for themselves and their helpless families—of their getting a little in arrears of rent, and that small piece of land epon which they had exhausted their strength snatched from their grasp by the relentless | landlord or his agent, and they turned home- jless upon the cold charities of the world, '‘Then the aged man appeared, bent by the | burden of over three score and ten summers, ‘and told of the way in which many of the Lots were grasped by usurpers for non-fulfil- ment of the grants and conditions of other Lots-—of those uaurpers seizing for rents the whole of the poor tenant's subsistence ; and, ) as if the vengeance of the law could searerly

the Bishop of Charlottetown,” and no deubt to | be appeased, at last, when all would not sa- pany others besides. What a gracions smile o | tisly, incarcerating the poor man who had

the British Government, the proprietors,and the Government of this Island on behalf of | their people. Had the Governmént consisted

approbation the Leader of the Government, Mr. been #0 unfortunate as to settle ina Colony

simer, mast have bestowed upen the honest, | in which the baneful influence of landlordisw gencere brow ot the Colonial Seeretary when he | prevailed, while in the adjacent Colonies of jal bis Leadership how admirably he eajoled the | Nova Scotia and New Brunswick government pasuspecting Bishop out af “a warm shake hands | junds could and can be obtained at the small: for the font ee te ear ar oy, Same of £12 10s. per 100 acres, and the pay-

ts! hele a , Ble P » ” 2 * 7 : a bie off te Coverdinent and Inkermann Houses to | re eae ie ean ai and roxy. clam whisper the glad tidings of W. H. Pope's great| the ott oF ean pay in labor by making roads success! ‘Thus far the plot was all safe, just ere | which are a great convenicace to himself. the prorogation of the [louse of Asseritly— | Many have to regret, when by experience of nothing more wanted, but to get the “Spy” their servility to landlords, and the degrada- | safely packed off with hiv budget of accusations | tion to which they feel themselyes plieed by sud falee stories about the wealth of the poor) the rental system, that they had not set-| tovants op the Township lands pf the Island, and) red in either of the other Provinces, in which the sates at which nme of Ades proposed to sell! they and their children might enjoy the free- | m few select we bol oe holdings for ~ _ : dom of the soil. The usurpation of the: Fishery cites, Matwey Craton, Be, he. ; andl a, oa, of this Colony was clearly seen and

thea an Election, while the poor tenants were) ; ’ a . eapecting some good trom the Land Commission, pointed out by the Royal € ommissioners in | and as the Government and

and while the Bishop of Charlottytown was «o their Keport ; : ; greatly and warmly tmpreesed with the ‘fast’ | Proprietors were one in action and sentiment squeeze of the “ unelean hand" of W. 1. Mope, at or about the time and after the separation | Beg. Byt although it is a eommpn saying that) of this Jeland from the government of Nova “the P—} is kind to his own,” yet it wenld Scotia, the proprietors had pledged them- A pene that his D—lehip near malerird * his | selyes to provide for the payment of the quit oe Ete td ate (th. yc Fonts sud civil ist, upon whieh condition thi Election came—one of the Land Comynissioners Island bad a government conceded BO 18; and ta the Ielaud, whe, net being posted pp in the this: yas the chanee for the proprietors to intended Government plet, honestly enough “ let fortify their weak hold; and this they could the eat out of the bag,” by giving some hints | casily effect, as the proprietors swayed the foot the Award to seme of the Liberals im-| government, and were a part and parece) of mediately on bis arrival; and although W. H.\ it, which could not have been the case bad

Pope spirited the Commissioner off to Govern- inent louse, as quick as he could, in arder te peal his lips on the suect of the Award, vet it was too late, after what bad been made known to Mr. Benjamin Vavies, Mr. Coles, and Mr Whelan, whe were ugt the men to permit that light to be placed under a bushel.” Feeling, Mc Fditor, that 1 have glready neacly filled yp

y proscat sheet of paper, the subject, with your

ind permission, ahall be resmed next week, by

A TENANT FARMER,

THE NEW FISHERY COMMISSIONER. To tue Epsron or rye Examiner.

61a,—The death of Mr. Perley, the late ‘ommissioner of Fishoxies, seems to have faused quite @ commotion 19 the neighouring Proviners aa to who should be his guccessor. Nova Seotia goes for the Hon. Joseph lowe, New Brunswick goes for the Hop. John Hamilton Grey. Now, why shonld not Prince Edward Island go in?) We have the epportumity and we haye the man-- ” = inn, Gde in the utluirs of men,’ &c. Ke he wrote that lucid and concige ins the en Islands, in which the ‘ert ere fepresented by the author (page 46, lines 3 and 4,) 98 having in 1860, 16,000 quintais of dried fish, and nows that George Sutherland is the man, ie claim is irresistible, uf it is onhy properly urged. Yours, &e. PISCATOR.

deserip-

‘the Island remained subject to the govern- iment of Nova Scotia. All the lands of this | Colony would haye shared the sawe fate as thore of Nova Scotiz. The Hscheat Court would have taken effect, and the fortciture of | the grants would have heen effected for the | }non-fulfilment of the conditions of those! } grants: thus the land would be free. But _the proprietors were fully conscious, at the | ‘time of the separation trom Nova Scotia, | that if euch would not take place the lands) ‘would be eseheated, and they were quite | Willing to promise to pay for the ciyi! govern- j ment ; hut eyen in this they hroke faith by )failing tg comply with what they had pro- mised; but the extreme leniency of ‘the British goyernment towards the proprietors ' here enabled them to maintain their position }and power, until now they feel that the long existing wrong has given them right and | power oyes the soil, egnfirmed their titles to | the forfeited Jands, and that their titles are | plgced heyond dispute. But that a course of reasoning, based upon premises wrong in ‘themselves, will cyolve a principle of right | (28 jn this caso), ig a degree in mathematica] knowledge to which i haye not yet attained. ; i can Gnd nothing analagous to this mode of ‘peasoning. That the proprietors were wrong in holding the lands, when they had forfeited | their right, js certain, Iet the blame come ,Upon whom it may: and if they are right \won they haye solved a problem heretotore | unknown.