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Sranisa Lapigs.—The dress of the “panish lady js Temarkably elegant; and. generaliv adurns a, very

perfect-shape.. Black.is. the. universa i color, and the}.

robe is very tastefully worked and vandyked, A man- tilla, or veil of black silk or lace, and sometimes of white lace, is thrown over the head and shoulders, and is confined at the waist by the arms of the wearer. They are both @xpensive and “particulars in dressing their feet with neatness, and their littleshoes fit closely. The large black eye, the’ dark expressive glance, the soft blood, tinged olive, of the glowing complexion, make the unwilling Englishman confess the majesty of Spanish beauty, and he feels that though the soft blue. eyes, and the delicate loveliness of his own countty- women awake the more tender feelings of interest, he would deny or dispute in vain, the commanding superi- ority of these dark-eyed and fine formed damsels,

A young lady who was rebuked by her. mother for kissing her intended, justified herself by quoting: the passage—* Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so-unto them.”

As there is innocence in babes, and imbeCility in old age; even so there is envy in’poverty, and ‘arrogance'in opulence.

Don't try too lard to, be happy. Many, run about after felicity like an absent man. hunting for his. hat, while it is in his hand oronp bis head. 2

Common minds are hardened) by ingratitude: but,to superior natures it is an occasion for new acts of kind- ness,

A seranading party, afier having played before a house for neariy an hour, were ‘politely informed by. a waichiman that t nobody lived there !”

BORRISPOUDENDS, To tae Epsron or tne Examiner.

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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE ' OFFICES IN QUEEN SQUARE AND THAT IN DOWNING STREET. ~*~ Verity, to use the language of the Jast Royal Gazelle, “ there is now no need of conjecture, as to what is the na-

ces“in Queen Square and that in Downing Street; aor do we apprehend that there is much room for doubt, as to the sentiments of the Society for the Reform of Colo- nial Government.”

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Indeed we have never been in doubt as to the nature of the correspondence. We have all along been aware that, since the declaration by the British Government of their intention to.extend to every British Colony, en-' joying a representative constitution, all the advantages to be derived from Self or Responsible Government, where such a form of Government should be desired by the people; and especially since the people of Prince Edward Island have pronounced, in the most decided manner, in favour of the adoption of that system here! and the overthrow of the old irresponsible rule, the poli- cy and efiect of which have ever been to crush patriot- ism, to repress independence, to Jimit knowledge, to check investigation, and hold the-people in agrarian servitude and political bondage ; ovr officials have been most traiforously engaged in p'otting against the rights and happiness of the people, by representing them. or causing them to be represented, to the Home Govern- ment as wholly unfit to be entrusted with the powers of

ty of their condition and the paucity of their numbers, as on account of their ignorance; and by causing them- selves to be extolled and eulogized—in contradistinc-

pleased to read Mr. Hume’s letter printed by you ten days since, and, it is to be heped ali Liberals are pre- pared to “use with prudence and moderation the privi-| Jeges to be conceded to the Colony.” Amongst some} Strong expressions.which received utterance last Session, there is one by the Speaker, in regard, to the power of the House to exclude the Governor’s Messenger. ‘I'he! precedents he, on the spur of the moment, referred to, were only those where the,Commons kept the Royal’ Messengers outside, and the Speaker ia the Chair, ull) they had completed their procedure. He never antici- pated that the Governor would use violence to drive! them from their hall, and therefore could. not think of | repelling it. The. House did suspeot the intention was! to take them by surprise, and, the last day proved. that! the Governor could resort to such, aa. offensive pro-' ceeding.

Ther lective Councii. referred ito, in. Mr. Hume's! jetter, as to be had if we apply for it, has been decried’ by some as a departure fiom the British. Constitation. | We have not the British Constitution bere unless.you! will say that a Governor, whose essential interest must! be ort. of the Colony, because his tenure of office is for! six years, and because he is appointed. by a man three| thousand miles distant. unless you will say ‘that such is| in the'same’ position, end likely to kave.the same feel-| ings of gond willand that strong desire. to retain the! good will of the people which the Sovereign of Britain! ought to entertain for them. And a Legislative Coun-

lion to the popular members of the Legislature, whom they have defamed .and bespattered with the most rancorous scurrility—as “the lords of human kind” in the Colony, and indubitably the only men amongst us, upon whom place, emolument, power, and honour could, with any regard to justice and merits, be conferred, for, they well know that one certain and immediate effect of the establishment of Responsible Government will be their forfeitare of office and emoluments and the utter extirpation and destruction of their power, both root and branch. And—not satisfied with thus falsely and traitorously misrepresenting the people and dispa- raging their faithful representatives—in their extreme arrogance, insolence and vanity, they have sought, and still seek, through the public press, to insult the com- mon sense and ridicule the understanding of the people, by telling them that they are utterly incapable of dis- tinguishing between right and wrong, that they know not in what honour and integrity consist, that they have not the most distant idea or conception of the qualifica- tions reqtisite either in a member of the Assembly, a member of the Government, or an incumbent of a pub- ‘lic office; that, in fact, their wishes with respectto a

ail elected by such a Governor, orby him and his Exe-|¢hange in the Government, are no more to be regarded cutive Couneil, is certainly not equal in independence than those ofa child who crice because he desires the

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ean displace, unless for tresson, and. even then not by!

lds own decision, but by that of the Peers.

AVere the Legislatiwe Council to consist of men woath that were they to retire from office and resign their pow-

£4000 or at least £500 in real property, clear of incum-

brance, ond who had resided ten years,in the Colony. ' ? $ |

and were they paid like the, Jiouse of Assembly, it is believed they would be more efficient. Would that add too much ‘to. the expenses Well then, make the As- sembly sixteen in number, and gue Council eight, and! ihe expense would be the same.as at present,

Bomethiag | was gaing to have stated in regard to dhe falseheods published ia the English papers as to the moderate terms demanded by the Landjerds in this Co-, iony—whieh lies even. Mr. Hume eppears. to have be- heved—-but that shall be reserved fur another letier.

I am, Sir, yours, &c,

July 8, 1850. A. B,

P..8. Could we not elect our awn Governor, Council and Adseinbly, as well as sone of the old Colonies did! 139 years, since? It is hard to be governed by ane whorl’ not one insn.in twenty would vote for... Not ane ja itwenty. you ask—why there would be twenty candi- dates. Well, to speak again then, Mr. Editor, twenty inen could easily be selected in this Colony, every one

moon for a play-thing; and that all besides themselves{

ia the Island are so doltish, degenerate, and incapable

er, nothing short of a miracle could save the country from absolute and immediate ruin.

But we ara bold to tell these men, in the plenitude of their vanity, that, were they stripped of all the * appli- ances and means,” of all the false greatness and speci- ous pretence, with which circumstances and place have invested and surrounded them; were they deprived of their luxurious abodas, their menials, eqnipage, broad- cloth, “leather, and pranello,” and obliged to don them_! selves in the homespun garments of honest end frugal industry, and to travel the same long, rough, and weary road, upon which many, their superiors, are now toiling ; there are some among them who, in spite of al! their long’ nourished pride and arrogance, would soon be made most painfully sensible of their natural incapacity | and inferiority, even amongst common men,

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slip from thei grasp, leaving some of them scarcely a wreck behind —these men; We say, become almost fran. tic in their 1 Teady even to shriek for aid, ere prepared to seek refuge in any alternative, however ca mortifying the conditions annexed to it, provided they be less awful than the total extinction of

their power and emoluments ; ‘but still there be one faint hopeleft to them in thei adkeyi/the dl

rays of which they almost idolatrously worship; we mean their hope of the partial, if not total, demolition of

ture of the’ corfespondencé carried on between the offi- |°"' Representative Constitution—the extinction of

spirit of freedom and independence in the Paaaiadte and the substitution, for our present popular Aasonbly, of a set of men little better than living automatons and self-acting tools—the nominees of the Crown and “the elect” by bribery and corruption—snoually to enact the farce of deliberating upon,the.affairs of the Colony for the good of the people, but, in:fact, merely to vote the “ needful” for the support of those who, in moekery of the rights of freemen, shali have constituted’ them » Legislature.

It may seem cruel, and may ectually be so, to i men, standing upon the very brink of political perdition, of the deceitful hope which now cheers the last hours of their official importance ; but we are bound to do so, lest we should become the ally of ‘those co-laborers in iniquity, whose traitorous proceedings have for their object, not only the frustration of the views of the Jm- perial Government for the ‘extension of ‘the rights and liberties of the people of this Colony, but the diminu- tion of those.which, under the present. imperfect and irresponsible system of government, they may now en-

joy; that, through the imperial! exercise of euch tyranny

and oppression, and by such defalcation of public right® and prerogatives, they-—the too long exclusively exalted and favored few—may be left in secure and undisturbed. possession of the profits. and emoluments derived from power and office. We will not, we cannot, for their comfort and gratification, countenance the assertion and

belief, for which they impudently seek to procure ac- ceptance among We people, that, because the Assembly, consistently faithful to their public trust, refused to be drilled into submission. by Sir Donald Campbell, and scorned disgraceful obedience when, in the most insult- ing manner, he commanded them to fall back and wheel to the left, the Colony shall be subjected to an imperial] interdict, and their faithful respresentatives criminated by the ban of the empire.

On the contrary we are convinced—and our convic- tion we will honestly and boldly declare—that, however unacceptable the manifestation of the gennine apirit of indeperdence and freedom on the part.of the As bly may be to Marl Grey and the “men of unboended stomachs,” who have here long fantastically aped, upon a petty scale, the bearingand the practice of hereditary aristocrats, their. disapprobation. and, resentment of. it will fail to effect the cancellation of the royal sword, which, through Her Majesty’s present administration, has teen clearly and unequivocally pledged to the peo- ple of Prince Edward island, and uf other Colcnies similarly circumstanced, to.the effect that, if they desire. Responsible Governmenment, Responsible Government they shall have; and,§ therefore, we opine, the sooner some of the present tenacious and incumbents of power and place in this Colony succeed in diss busing themselves of their fond and fallacious expectations of luxuriating a while longer upon the sweets.of their several occupations, and betake themselves, for the popular gratification, to the pedaneous: practice of. the plebeian melody, “And a-begging we will go,” the sooner will they learn to comport themselves with de- corum and propriety inthe humble sphere to which they wil] shortly be called upon to descend from their for- tuitous elevation; and with more grace may they then, assume, asa cloak to their sorely wounded pride, the exterior of the plilosophy of the fallen Wolsey, and ex- claim with him,—however foreign the sentiment may be to their hearts—to any friend who, amazed at their re- verse of fortune, may enquire of them concerning their peace, How do you Sirs? “Why well: “never so truly happy, my good friend. We know ourselves now. Our fail has cured us; and from these shoulders, these ruined pillars, taken a load would sink a navy, too much

itrust and honor: O, ’tis a burden too heavy for men who

hope for heaven.” (To be continued in our next }

COLONIAL MAILS. By the arrival of the Steamer Rose on Thursday

evening last, we were put in possession of our usual

exchanges. We have hastily glanced over their co- lumns, but have found nothing particularly worthy of

These men, now actuated by one sole and common

of iwhom sould poll double the number of yotes of our present Governor, . Whether for Governor, member of j.ezislariye Counca', or of the House of Assembly.

aim and desire—the yetention of place, emoluments and

notice except the statements concerning tlie guilty and

unhappy Dr. Webster, and an agticle on the reciprocity : ‘nower—= which ou ithe introduction of the Responsible between these Colonies and the Uniged States, which

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