HASZARUS GAZETTE. FEBRUARY 25.

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HOIIIB OB AIIEIBLY, hioxnsr, February 13.

Boss: in Coniprn on the Amines in reply 30 H50 Excnauw I Si-amen at the opening of the Session: -

Mr.-Winn-run in the Chair.

(Dcbsle eoiatiusd from Hasaard's Gasette, No. lid.)

The lot Paragraph of the Draft Address, as reported from the Committee appointed to prepare the same, was read and agreed to.

2d Parngyap .

“Notwit standing that several Members of the House of Assembly had addressed it Requi- sition to Your Excellency to summon the Legislature to meet on an early day, in order to exclude, by legal enactment, Departmental Ofiicers from occupying seats in the Legis- lature. we would have regretted if Your Excel- lency’s ooiupliai_icc with such a request should

construed into an admission, on ion Exccl_lency's pirt, that evil had arisen from the yvorking of our present Constitution, demand- ingap immediate change. ’ . his paragraph having been read, the Hon. Ms. WIIELAN moved that it be agreed to.

Ms. Ysiu. Before the question should be put, lie wished to make a few remarks. Whether it was, or was not, admitted, by the Govern- ment, that, under the working of the present system of Responsible Government, evils had I|'|9°|l. demanding an imuiediute change, he was very certain that, under it, there were many thi_ngs so ill ordered that they required rectifioation : and such was the opinion of the majority ofthcopeople, as well as himself; for, otherwise, the enerul Elections would not have resulted so much to the rejudiceofthe Govern- ment. 'l‘liey had had a ong hlustering, boast- ful s each from the hon. member for the fl District ofKing’s Countv, (.\Ir. Whehin) ; and he had railed very freely a .iinst soinc hon. members who had signed the cquisition to His Excellency for an early call of the House, in order to exclude. by legal enactment, certain Pub_lic Oficers from occupying seats in the Legislature. No doubt he (Hon. .\lr. \Vhelan) was very wroth with the gentlemen who he signed that Requisition ; for it threatened both himself and others of his party with the loss of their ollices, and a consequent most serious diminution of their incomes. The hon.niember (Mr. Whplan) had said a great deal in praise of the Education Act; but he could tell him that man of the people, instead of being thankful or that Act, and lookin upon it as a boon conferred upon them, concidercd it as a positive grievance ; for, although forced to pav the tax impose _ by it, they derived no benefit whatever from it. Such was the case, with respect to it, ofthe inhabitants of Lot 13. as wel as of those of many districts throu hout the Island, who,nlthoug i paying the schoo -tax, could not 0 tom sciiooluiasters. The hon. member had also attempted to take greatcredit to his party for the reduction of the Public Debt which had taken place since thcintroduction of Responsible Gpvernnient and their coming into power,just as if that reduction were attributable to the working of Responsible Government and their superior management ofpublic nfliirs. All who were acquainted with the general and limin- cial history oi the Colony.forthelust ten or twelve years, must be convinccd—and could, tell hiin—

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iiiiiny amongst iheir friends and suppoitcrs—

discharge of t eir duties.

which he had alluded, was alone sullicient to fistify a Requisition for an early call of the so

on . Mr. I)oi'ss.—I agree with my friend. Mr. Yeo. It is well known to wha

would have been no improvement of the kin here. within the last three or four years,

to this Island, and have. in connexion with our ate abundant harvests, raised our

fore attained. For the present prosperous state of the Colony, the (lovernnient, judging by His Exccllencv's Speech, appear to take great credit to t eiiiselves. But, as an o residenter in the Colony, I can tell them that i

have never known greater discontent among V‘ the people than is now felt by tlieoi—and my 1, experience extends over it period of thirty-two 1 years. There has never been amongst them 3 more “' ‘ ‘ .. . : more ‘ ,—pa-; tient enduruncwthsn within the last two or I three yciirs. 1 am for Responsible Government ; I iut, with respect to the present form of it, as 1' here established, my opinion is, that, without 3 n. thorough purification, it will never be truly responsible.

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I liiive no idea of permitting‘, people ol no real talent, worth, or merit. to-; step in, iind—-takin iidvuntu c of the mistakes 1, into which the people have een led through the deception practised upon thcm—aggran-I dizing themselves at the public expense. The . shameful abuse of their power, by the present Government, with res ect to ollicial appoint-‘ inents ainon the people, has been of the most

rovoking character. Generally speaking, they have dis liiced the most trust-worthy and elli- cient pu )llC servants, and appointed, in their rooiii,—if not always iuen whose ignorance and incompetence have been almost proverbial in their several localities-—yct men whose chief, if not sole, recoinmciidntion to those in power, was services, rendered, or to be rendered, at elections, and the most slavish subjection to the will and abject coinpliaince with the requests or commands of those to whom they were indebted for their appointments. In my own district this has been the case. There the most worthy men have been cast aside to make room for those I who, it was expected. would best promote the l selfish views of the Government. Look at Bel- fast, and see what they have done there. What they have done there—-what they did there in my absence——and well they knew I was absent —all'ords a sufieicnt proof of tlioir own unwor- tliiness. Two cars ago, I complained ol a Commissioner oftheir appointing-: not. indeed,

that such was not the case, and that the reduc- tion ofthe Public Debt was not owing. either to the establishment of Responsible Government or to the superior wisdom and economy of those who, since the introduction of the Responsible l

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t e higher ublic othces. The reduction of the l Debt and t e present prosperity of the Colonv. " could and on ht. as the must all know. be traced to very ifliarent causes. In the first place, it ought to be remembered that, for some years, the building in which they then sat cost the Colony, annually, some thousands of pounds. That and other public buildings. the erection of which had cost so much, had long ceased to be a drain upon the public revenue; and consequently ii surplus had been at the disposal Government for the reduction of the Debt. It was also to be remembered that. in the year 1850, the supplies were stopped; and, nothing being paid that year, the revenue of that year, kept in the Treasury, went to en- hance the revenue of the next; and, conse- quently, to allord additional means for the reduction ofthe Dcbt—£2000 wasa reatlift. It was, indeed, true that the genera prosperity of the Colony had greatlyjncreased within the last three or four years, and that there had been a consequent increase of the public reve- nue; but the causes of both were to be found in favorable seasons, abundant crops, the rent discoveries of gel in diflerent parts 0 the world, extended couimerce, and the unexampled demand for shipping: just as the previous de- pressed state 0 our revenue was attributable to causes the very reverse—unfuvorublc sen- sons, failure of crops, and the consequent al- most utter destitution ofa very in rge proportion of the new settlers in the Colony. and, on the part of others, not only a want of produce for exportation, but insutliciency for home con- sumption. As to there having been no necessity for calling the House together at an earlier period than usual, if the manner in which the road-service had, of late, been conducted were fully considered, the cat necessity for an im roveinent in that service which could not fal to appear, would alonc show that there had been cause enough to sag st to His Excel- lency the propriety of an ear y summonin of the Legislature. The Government had lilzled the country with Road Conimissoners; but to little purpose as far as it concerned road-making

or mending, for provided they got theirsalaries—-v

l0 a car each—itnppeared as if in the recei t thereo they thought theyhad fullllled the only duty for which they had -en appointed. They let the jobs, it was true ; and the some for which they were let were. on the Commissioners’ Certilcates of due performance, paid out of the Treasury; but, as or _due examinations of the work performed, revious to the min of Certificates, he be ieved onl very few 0 the Commissioners gave themse ves that trouble, but took the reports of contractors in their own fiver. If it- were otherwise, how, he should like to know, would it be possible, for men of nyjud?ent or conscience at all, to pass such sliainefu jobs, as had been certified duly per- formed and i-' for accordingly? So shameful indeed was t e neglect of Commissioners, that, last season, miles and miles of roads had

of his dishonesty, but o his incapnc-ity: but my compl:i.int—-well founded though it was -—was lllilllv in vain. Much of the money ex-

cnded there for public improveiiients, un er ien-oiiipeicnt vlli-~,-ctors, might as well have been thrown over the wharf. Let those whom they .- ii; out, be compared with those whom they ll:l\'<‘. put into ollice. and the comparison will, I think, ullhrd sulficient evidence of the i-ori-upt motives which induced such dismissals and such appointiuents. Such abuse of power has been boriio with surprising patience; but it has at length produced its natural conse- quence, and the discontent of the people is openly manifested. I indeed feel sorry for them. Whom have the Government made a Collector of Taxes there? An individual who, when he came to Charlottetown, to make his returns, and pa into the Treasury the amount of Tax collected by him, gave evidence of his unfltncss for his up intment, in the public exhibition made by im in the streets, of his inability to take care of himself. Whom did they appoint Postmaster at the head of Orwell .’ The keeper of a low reg-shop. Whom have they commissioned an revcntive Olficersl One an individual residing in the interior, two or three miles froui the shore ; and who can know nothing of what is going on in the smuggling line, in the neighbourhood, unless he should he made upprizcd of some such act accidently. I win to see our revenue protected; but, such appointments, that object will never be attained, how conducive socvcr they who make, or linve made them, may think them likely to prove for the protection of their own power and influence. Ilud I been in the lace of the lion. .\lr. Colcs, I would have acte with more mo- deration—with less regard to the interests ofa

arty, and with more consideration for the best interests of the eople. I would not, through feelings of resentment, have dis ilaced men who were faithful and cllicient in tie discharge of

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and freel enough had they expressed it. The just pretty much as they Commissioners and the Overseers were men of '1-‘muily-Coinpact man. Nei drain I is Radical. the same shin ; and both alike neglected the nu: [ am a staunch Como;-nil“; and are

' No justice It I" litieal sentiments of my family, I am hsp iy to was rendered, by them, to the public. A de- my, me duly balanced by Conservatism, ‘lam sire to rectify the defects and neglect ofduty to not. indeed» 5‘|’II’9 Ill“ ¢h0|’° ll“ 5903 8“! | poculation in an of the publicoflices; I sin not 5 aware that any hing wrong can he established

Government only: but it was the opinion of ‘of which the 'are in I inajorltyi--with the

Trnsisury at t eir command, may, in fact, do ease. I'a no

iaigiiiist any of their incumbents:-—they lrave

either to the thanks of the people, or to those ll-,,¢i,,n of f

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prosperity to a greater height than it ever be- l ,',,_,y M“. ,,c,,,, W; but I

their public duties, merely because they had politically opposed me and my arty, or be- causel knew their political sentiments to he adverse to those of myself and my friends. Neither would I have referred to any ollicc, an individual, merely iecause he had advoca- te my litical sentiments among the people, or because I believed he was prepared, when opportunity should ofl'er, to render me and my party every service in his power. With res- pect to all appointments to, or dismissals lrom ollice-—I mean especially amongst the people-I would, irrespective of rty or political creed, have bech guided solely by the fitness or unlit- ness of individuals for public cmployinents. But not only had the Government appointed men to ofices whom the must have known to be incapable ofdlscharging the duties thereof; but they had even n so remiss as to fail in allbrdin due rotcction to such oficers as strove Taithful y and eficiently to acq themselves of their duties. and to protect the revenue. I rticularly allude to the case of Mr. Angus scdonald of the East Point. With respect to the attempt to subvert the Constitu- tion of the Colony, with which the fourteen members who si ed the Memorial to His Ex- cellency, respect ully suggcstiqg the propriety of an early suininonin of e Iagisluture, on. member for the

ired with nothln but grass. Hon. niem- Second District of King‘ r. Whe- bassinl lit in .an pretend lncredulity, but Ian), I tell that hon ineni colleague he had hiiusel seen about 12 miles ofroad re- that the aim of those ni is we

paired with what was no better,- grass sods. '1' t was a fact to which he would, were make oath; andhwlpch he inosy on oat o man Soch was the wqy. in which. in ordci piiooie money hid been presen ernaient an tt . In lket, he hlim pen the roads last year was not worth Is. in the _ what was id for it; and that was not the up hlnself and others cpyowl V 050

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nct,aiid is not, to subvert th a vernnient ; and the sooner that is done the batter will it be for the people. Those fourteen Iasubars, as well as the great body ofthe ple. are too loyal to it re a subversion o the Constitution; but the Will! to destroy the rtiiientsl System, w ich so directly sud obviously tends to the corruption of the Asseubly. By iaeans of that System a few men!-s.-ii of the Assembly are enabled to lay held of the keys of olcs, and-eashlned liy [by Government and the Assembly. is both

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I :.-ikcn cure of that ;—but I am fully persuaded I causes the 3 that bad consequences must result from placing present prosperous state of the Colony and the l molly penis"; in ate increase in its revenue are attribiitablc. ‘, ".1," thairliuntlflllpoll the publicmoney. Iliope I thank the Government for nothing. 'l‘hc_v §¢,l,,,g' “-l,,,,, W, ‘gllm uni,-e..." l have, in fact, done nothing to entitle them, lm, f,-gem]. wfl]_.w9 glmll

sitions which enable them

trust some 01 , before the expi- vcars, have the merit an

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of any real friend to the Colony. If there had ,.,.¢l,,r,,,,-lion of llmfiug placed public gmiini upon been no improvement in trade elsewhere, there 1 ,, ,.,,,,,], bag“ f,,,,lln‘ than 4" found ghgm, A.

to the Land Purchase Act, I have been told that lands have been if-.-red to the Government, but that no satisfactory answer coul be obtained

in trade and commerce throughout t o world; 1,). ¢i,,—,,e who ,,fi:_.,.,,,] u,em_ For ,,,)-.,,lf' 1 ,3"

them I am prepared to sell, if they are prepared ‘.0 bu_v. Isinccrcly wish to see the tenantr placed upon ii better footing than that whic cannot see that a man would be iiiuclibeiictitcd by niortgiiging his own property to purelusc the Worrcll Estate. ‘

, fur, however, as the Government and their sup- " porters in the Assembly were concerned in the

carrying of that measure, I believe their sole intention was to delude the people, for the fur- tlicruiicc of their own soltisli uiins. It is a mere deception. But greater mischief has been done xiniongst the tenantry, than has been effected through the misrepresentations, and consequent inisappreliensions, concerning the working of that measure. Individual members of this [louse have positively and unconditionally pro- mised “ Free Lands" to tho tenantr ; and the fallacious ho es which they have tius excited have produce most serious evils, both to ten- ants and proprietors. I have been a land-agent for twenty yours, and, as such, the manager of

- one of the iuost considerable properties in this

Island ; iiud no man upon the pro rty can say I have injured hiui. Yet on individiial—-a meni- ber of this lIouse—-took advantage of my late absence from the Island, to work upon the minds of the tenantry to my injury-—ond sti more to their own; makin them believe that they were to have free lands. This he would not have done as openly as he did, had I been at home; but my absence was his opportunity. Such pretended friends of the tcnantry are their very worst enemies, and have already done them more harm, than years of the wisest logis-

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remedy. [Cries of ‘- Question !" from both sides of the Iloust-..] The hon. member then concluded by saying, I hope the new Govern- ment will possess, not only much greater ability than the present, but much more political hon- esty also ; and that the people will soon begin to experience, under ii. wiser administration of public ulfairs, that satisfaction to which they are now strangers. I am sorry to diller in opi- nion with his Excellency. and sorry that he should have been so far deceived as to be induced to believe that the present order of thin is satisfactory to the people. Had he travc led amongst them, as I have done, and been brought into as close contact with them as I have been, he would have had abundant reason to mistrust the representations made to him, by his consti- tutional advisers. concerning the satisfaction 0 the people with the present Government and the present order of public nlfairs.

ilon. the Concimi. Slcns'rssv.—I can alford to enlighten the hon. ineinber (Mr. Douse) con- cerning the preventive ollicer, Macdonald, of tho I‘Ii|8I Point, to whose case he lnis alluded, for the purpose of thereby damaging the character 0 the Government. The truth is, that the Go- vcrninent was prepared to pay Macdonald’s expenses, in the Supreme Court, at Georgetown; but it was discovered that, instead of attending to his cause in Court, he went round amongst the poor men who had been sub naed us wit- nesscs, to get them to abandon t eir claims for mileage and attendance at Court in his favor, so that he might be enabled to claim, on their behalf, the legal allowances due to them, and pocket them himself. In consequence, however, of this neglect of his cause in Court, occasioned b such unworthy maumuvring, judgment went against him by default. In another instance, he went on in opposition to the advice given him by the Attorney General, and was also defeated in that. It was impossible for the Government to defend or sustain an oflicer who manoeuvred so unfairly, and who obstinately persevered in a course which the rown Law Oficer had counselled him not to pursue. The less hon. members, who wished to damage the Govern- ment by their attacks, say about Macdonald, the better, I think.

(To be continued.) R. B. Isviso, Reporter.

THE \V’AR IN THE EAST. (From the Times.)

The destinies of Europe hang upon the decision of the two great German powers. \Vill the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin unite themselves heartily and sincerely with the French and British governments for the maintenance of the existing territorial arrangements of Euro ? Ifthis be so, there is even yet it possibility that the hostilities already begun upon a section of the Danube may not rise to the proportions of a general war. 'l‘hc point at issue is, in reality, one of far more immediate moment to the Ger- man sovereigns thnn to the Western powers. Let us spciik of each in turn. One of the principal objects which the Russian Emperor now seeks to realise is the conquest of the mouths of the Danube —in other words, he desires to seal up the principal outlet from the commerce of the Austrian dominioiis. Now, the Danube is an Austrian river-— for all practical

oi-poses, as much so as the Rhone is a lirench or the Thames an English river. Of course the Austrian cabinet is amused with propositions for indemnification, but it would be 'ust as possible to indemnify the Emperor I-'ran_oi.s Joseph for the loss of his head,_as it would be to compensate his subjects for the loss of the Danube. The Austrian should rejoice to see Eu risin in arms to light a battle peculiarly his own. We dismiss the hypothesis of neutrality as unworthy of IOOIOIII notice, uld the struggle assume a character of reality Belbi-e two months ofwar are over every power-in Europe, with the exception possibly of Spain, will be engaged on one side or the other. t us assume for a moment that Austria should aide wiili Russia, and with all the cilia German gavsriineiits,