dowht upon it. ton. Mr. LOKRD.—Lf there had been any doubt respect- ing the man’s title, the petitioniag candidate would have | broaght evidence to expose it. Hoe. Mr. YEO.—l1 think there was

or the other, Hon. the PRESIDENT.— Lt was not a question of title ; that was not d sputed, shat waa called in question. Hoa. ATTORNEY GENERAL —Your honors should) bear io mind that a man is not obliged to prove his tit!e

Hon, Mr. BEER.—The only doubts on my mind is re- show thatthe land was worth £ Specting the title. fora part of the evidence appears to throw do so. They show that the pucchase money was £30. Fifteen) number of such beings clubbing together, an ' ‘aeres improved land at £2 10s, £37 10s, house £6, makiog acting under the untutored inijuence of such a spirit, 18 Cor- ‘tainly one which in itself js quite enough to give 1 yen the myst moderate amount ol al fit of something worse | in!

I would like to be satisfied on that point.

At was uke value of the property

}what iv absolutely false.

jsaid £10 & year for ten or twenty years. | timber.

at &/ but afte< wards got a lease.

£73 10s yo all. Mr. McGOWAN.—It is a freehold property, your honors. | gent mind, possessed of e That is shown by the evidence. Darigs Clay has eworn to true spirstual divceroment, g re He said there was a foot and a half than Colera-morbis. doubt enough thrown | of mogg upon it, that they could not find the soil,and when they| — ¥F wpow it to call upon him to show that he had a lease or deed, | did find it, it was nothing but wand. ‘There is no truth ip | not such g spirit be suffered to find any place in the annals of | but there is no evidence to show that he had gither the one | his evidence. }part of the land is covere’, with yaluable timber.

100 ; but they havo failed to| bare idea of any rational being, much less of

lc is proved by the other witnesses that a Jarge| the nineteenth century! / 1 Lasked one disinterested view of the subject, will not instantly Sind every of the witnesses what §; would yield annually in timber ; be) faculty of his better nature saying amen to this petition? : It is juniper And yet can it be possible that we haye eyep in our own

Who, in taking

| midst one oecupying the exalted position of

any considerable

d simultaneously | Soon have 16,

any iutelli-

‘or the sake of the common eredit of the humap race, let |

even & partially

a veritable mem-

lion. Mr. GOFF.—It ig six or eight years singe Mathewson | ber of our civi] Government, who hag in open day yoluntarily

settled on tue land. He settled at first without permission.’ made the flgt ond fatal acknowledgement, that ho aud his as- L never saw it except when |) sociates in political faith have, in a great measure, been re-

ecrutivy till a doubt is cast upon it. The question here is | acted ay one of the Commissioners appointed by Government cently returned to their present position of probationary

whether the evidence bas thrown a doubt upoa it or not, | te classify the land.

We considered it a very valuable farm. | power, in this Colony, through the positive operation of this

Une of the witnesses says he was not aware that Duncar, We agreed that, as be was the first tg settle at the rear of the | very influence? **() tempore, O mores !” Surely this must MeCormacs owned any land in Georgetown, but that amonats |

te nothing. anything stronger.

Lf fifty men said so, it would pot ameunt to!

lf be bad said that he hear) Dunean |

MeVormack,the yoter,say that he bad no land iv Georgetown, |

that would be different and perhans suflicies,:,

Hon. Mr. BEER. —It is likely that Me property is worth £100, avd | would give the elector the bexefit of the doubt ; | but 1 ag vot yet setatied that be owned the property at all. | 1 thought that whea a doubt was thrown on a title, the opposing Candidate had to prove it to be good.

Hon. Mr. LORD.—His honor looses sight of the elector’s If the map had na title, it would have been shown by the evidence.

ilog. the PRESIDENT.—A man's oath is evidence, whea no other evidence is brought to contradict it.

Hoa. Mr. HEN DHRAON.—There js 2 difference between baving a persoua!l knowledge of a cage and having to decide wholly by the evidence.

oath.

All L have to go by in this case is

40%, we would class it low on that account. interval land. of some of the witnesses.

artizans, or we would not have such statements. I do not, really been altogether gratuituously cast upon your hitherto welieve either of them. ‘Lhe land isin the rear of Lot 54.| comparatively fair fame as at least a respectably intelligent

It is a sort of | be somewhat en to, at least, moral re Pe I do not think you can rely on the tegtimony | of foreign credit! See to it, ye independent electors of Prince

putation in point

Edward Islaud, whether or pot such a burning stigma, such Hon. Mr. LOR}).—1 think the witnesses mast be very strong| a degenerating and inevitably demoralizing aspersion, bas

When the Commissioners weve sent by Government to classify | class of British subjects! Surely you can never permit such

the land on that Lot they couid not have considered this farm | an impeachment of even your natural independence to pass

to be first class Jand, for wedi nd that the highest price is not) unrequited.

charged for it. during the last four years.

‘The property has not increased much in value | The actual valaue is just about) jaye actually allowed yourselves to be governed by such 4

I shall take the trouble hereafter to show

you that if you

the same as whep the Commissioners visited it four years ago. | principle or such a spirit, as the one now in question, there If the fifty acres pear Grand River Bridge which we ba |is nv more unenviable condition to whieh, as intellectual or under consideration yesterday, were not worth £100 surely) moral or voluntary agente, in any sense of the term, you

50 acres away back in the woods cannot be worth that) eyuld well have contrived to descend.

amount.

tory, and f do wot think we can rely upon it.

says thera ie a foot and a half of moss on the land. If thatis: dation. |

the cage, 1 do not think any man would settle on it.

Hos. Mr. BEER.—This farm was classified lower on ac-!

the evidence before us, and as far as | can judge from that.| count of it being the first that was settled in that part of the

Iam of opinion that there has not been eufficic.< doubi | Lot.

raised by the petitioning eaudidate to call for evidence to prove { selected the best land. y the pet # : Pic,}{ Hon. Mr. YEO.—Thie farm, it appears ig covered with

the title.

Perhaps some of your bhongis have some local

kaowledge of the fiets. Hoa. ATTORNEY GENERAL proposed 3 resolution, to the effect that there was not sufjicient evidewee before the

MeCormack. - The question beivg put thereon it passed in the affirmative. | t thin

The evideuwe relating to the vote of Thomas Garland, polled for Mr. Mebonald, was then read.

Hon. Me. McVONALD.—Donald Stewart, the witness brought forward by the petitioniog candidate on th e wan who buys andsells land.

acres of land near Cardigan Bridge. That be bas bought

laud io that vicinity for £90 per hun?ied acres, acres of land may be worth £100, woile the same quantity siowg side of it m ght not be worth £10. prove the value of tne land, ten years ago: but land has increased very much in valu cheir siace then. for the same price, if «he buildings were off it; and he also says that he sold 4 building Jos tor £10. kiad of evidence. it is,

Mr. McGOWAN —]t has been stated that the man goe: out to work for his living, —that ho is pot able to live ou the

farm.

Hon. ATFORNEY GENERAL.—I think there should beoy some more evidence given on this yore. One of the witnesses, says the lund is not worth £100. Hoa. Mr. BEER.—It is hard to decide ia such cases ; but suppose we allow that each party hag gone to extremes, and we iake the medium, 475, that would uot entitle him to

haye

Yote.

Higa. Mr. YEO.—If it were a freehold property, the man might bave bave a vote; but 1 cannot value 50 acres of seasehold land, without any improvements, at £100.

Hon. Mr. LORD.—I think it is very unfair to insinuate that a man would swear to @ qualification which he does no possess. Land iv many places is worth £2 an acre, though ip other places it is not worth so much. Cardigan Bridge, and there are very few farms there not worth £100. other improvemenis, and I would give him the bevefit of ihe!

douht.

Hon. the PRESIDENT.—It has been said by some o! your honors that it is leasehuld, but the entry in the poll book | 1# * Freehold.”

Bat 50

That does not Ue bought land there eight or

Hie says he would se!) the same land now

That shows the

S:ewart,

This farm is near

Garland baa a leg house and barz, besides |

valuable wood, all the wood taken off, except perhaps a few broom sticks.

fore he purchased ?

after him.

Hon. ATTORNEY GENERAL.—Darius Clay is doubtless: port.

a strong partizan, and betrays a very strong party feeling. 1 joral principles of any set of people, | should like very much ; S}/do not place implicit confidence upon hie testimony; but’ to ascertain what is. You must vote so-and-so for the sake ig Vote, is! still 1 must confess that there is sufficient doubt raised to call) of the party forsooth ! He says Gerland has 50} upon the voter to substantiate his vote. I cannot see that) independency of thought and of action human society is i | sometimes capable of being elevated to be sure!

His honor the Attorney Geueral then proposed a resolution Mr, Editor, to ask you if the aggregate inhabitants cf this to the effect that there did not appear to be sufficient evi- Province are not supposed to be its aggregate sovereigns ? dence before the Committee to establish the vote of Archibald | 4 nq ig not each individual inhabitant supposed to constitate ‘one of this general aggregate, and by consequence is he not supposed tu form one of the many independent sovereigns of the country? And has such a man possibly permitted him-

Mathewson has proyed the value of his farm to be £100.

Mathewson valid in law.

mative.

Mathewson was a pioneer and it is likely that he

The question being put thereon it passed in the —

An

d 1 tear for the

| credit of our relative civilization, as an independent rational Hon. the PRESIDENT.—The evidence is very contradic-| and moral community, the depression of which | now speak,

Ido fear that the grovelling — |

Une witness’ has not b-en made without some real and even too good foun-

had almost said

‘savage, but I will say, as at all events, the mildest qualifying

Varty,’” has had much more to do with the our late general election in this Island than

}much honor upon a goodly number of its grown up inhabi-

‘tants for some considerable time to come.

FOR THE PUBLIC. Mr. Epviror—

Chese strictures were, perhaps, rather too general. were not meant to apply eniversally community. wise exceptions to this cierical monomania of the time.

and less ele ically bebaved brethren.

cifications.

noterigué. churches.’ 1 appreciating, in any degree, the commonest news of th

Lt is therefore more valuable than leasehold

saying, ** Thou art the man.’’

By

CORRESPONDENCE,

Their + praise,” with a vengeance, ‘ is in all the To any one of them, scarcely a child capable of Cc}

But! in Gath, publish it notin the streets of Askkelon! these exceptions have been sv rare, or at least so honorably | then—I now pointedly ask the men of this Island—has the note-worthy, that there 1s no danger of their ever being eon-| exclusive spirit of party, this low animal passion, really had founded in the public mind with any of their more factious | 3° large a share in rendering the result of your late general For this reason, andj election what it now is? ; ble for this alone, in any remaark which I have yet made, | have} ofa family quarrel been the ostensible oceasion of bringing thought it quite needless io institute any distinguishing spe-| fully to light, in the permanently tangible form of an above- Everybody fully understands to what particular, board puliic acknowledzement, this most interesting piece of peculiarities, throughout the length aud breadth of the land, | information, op which itis for you, as the legitimate rulers of | respects very apparent. such implications can alone righteously and sign‘fic ntly ap-| thig country hereafter to reflect with feelings of personal pride, | of the circumstantial disadvantages of my ply. The more prominent among the peculiarities in ques-/ 4nd of course of what we must — tion are not only, in the point of view indicated by such| bred gratification? Surely you fee allusions, nefe-worthy, but actually by even common concert, | selves after making such a diseovery !

epithet which gan he applied to it—barbarous cry of **Party,

general tenor of is likely to reflect

1 have myselt

The one under consideration yesterday had) jeard, and heard over and over again, during the active course lof that election, the identical admunition, bandied from one Hon. Mr, RAMSAY.—How long had the man a lease be-) individual to another,who might be demurring on the subject, (Mr. Goff, three years) There is a great '«+ OQ, but for the sake of * the party,’ you must vote fur Mr. Committee to throw doubt upon the sete of Duncan | difference in yoing into a new place. He has now got theland So-and-so."’ Lt was not for the sake of the cauee but merely free. Ido not think he could sell it for Jess than £100, and) jn order to support the party. Sach men must have certainly k it would be worth that to a men who would go there) felt, by ail natural influence, that they had possibly, either | none at all, or else if any, a very prqblematical cause to sup- Now, if this be not disreputable at least to the higher

To what a towering pitgh of moral

‘self to barter this his own natural independency, his own ac- | knowledged birthright, for worse than a mess of pottage? | Has any such man, L ask, counting himself worthy of the jname of aman, ever actually allowed himself to have the rusty ring of mere party spirit put in his nose, and by it has jhe been tamely led to any local bustings in this Island to

In the communication which I transmitted to your journal | prove bis, in such a case, worthless vote, fur any temporary last week, | believe | made one or two middiingly severe | **moloch Whom any party in existence may possibly have strictures on the offensively partisen conduct of those who at} ‘set up? if co—where, 0 . present exercise the peculiar office of clergymen im this Island. | pendent sceptre then? What hast thou done with all thy They | boasted natural privileges as a free born British subject? to that order of the) Sold them for nought, aye—and sold them, perhaps, in many

There have, | am happy te know, been some} instances, to literally the ‘* lowest bidder ?"’_ O _ tee 38

sovereign, where was thy inde-

7?

And has not a very reputable bit

Ailow me,

numerous patrons, this list. If so, they num P and welcome. As for myself, I ‘care not one straw about the matter. Jf any | lone still conjectures or 18 willing to believe | |me capable of having used any sincerity he conduct of the election, L shall only | further say, he ean do so if he pleases.

As to my own particular state ot feeling about the issue of the whole affair, I can simply assert that | have never taken the trouble to for myself how pirties really stand. | am just as much concerned to know who, under the circumstances of the case, voted for or against me, ag { am to know who voted for Lord Palmerston, and no more. I have, indeed, heard that some false swearing |would indicate that some other persons felt much more interested in the scrape than [| did myself. 1 have also heard that some appeared very — indeed quite unnecessarily—particular in assigning their reasons for voting against me—pleading that I was a very useful character where 1 am— which means, I presume, that useless indivi- duals are the only right sort of people out of whom to mapufacture statesmen — that by not voting for me they conceiyed they were doing me a great favour — they also, | trust, by pursuing the same course, conceived that they were doing an equal service to their country. One genius, } learn, objected that [ had sat down and smoked among the ser- yants it his kitchen. Perbaps | might have felt as much entertained by so doing as if I had sat dowa and smoked beside himself in his parlour ; and although I may have often smoked injcomp*ny into which such as he has never yet bad an opportunity of peking his nose, still, strange tu say, I perhaps hereafter may take another smoke among his servants, if they are decent men, every whit as readily as with himself ;—and plenty other such balderdash have I heard. Dut such clap- trap is odious. It all, however, comes legi- timately within the experience of every candidate for political indignivies. Fa/se swearing i8, nevertheless, one particular con- sideration which, among the others, should not be so lightly passed over Well, if | should ever happen to run another contest of the kind, [ shall now muke a timely promise, that in case any individual take a falee oath, either for or against me, I shall not only take on my part the liberty of exposing but also of publishing him.

It is positively abominable that men who call themselves Christians—who profess such a surprising regard for the Bible—and withal who live in a modernized Christian land— should wilfully and unblushingly manifest such an utter disregard of everything sacred, and such a case-hardened preference for everything savouring of the nature of moral turiptude, as that which is necessarily im- plied in the bare idea of false swearing. Should not some system be adopted by which voters should have to produce stamped tickets or something of the sort, before polling.

I am pot writing from any personal feeling on the subject. If any one has done himselt the great Injustice of taking a false oath in order to poll a yote against me, the sole in- jury done has heen done to himself. He will probably never have the chance of 80 acting on my account azain ; and what is more, I

posed that many such cases as his wou

cae occurred on my account, he never would have enjoyed an opportynity of doing so hi- therto. Possibly, from the result of the election in the present instance itself, he might not in any futare cage, in which I should be similarly, although not exactly in | the same way involved, deem the practical ultility of such @ course, on his part, in many

Under the whole

powe to be, of very nigh | ozition, IT was only twenty-eight votes be- forever proud of your-| hind at the chose of the polls. I believe that

scrupulously truth-telling paper called the

One at leagt of yuur existing Legislative Councillors would | yyy j¢or published eciykty! It has surely

panes have seen the day that he would have occupied the | heen accidentally misnawed. honorable position he now does, had not the party to which | called the Munitone, for it ean only strike country, can find any difficulty in pointing its finger and| he belongs really arrived at such a sublime degree of moral) oye key note; [ can only emit from’ its vast

it should be

}and meotal culture as to be actually capable of reeognising | pages one solitary sound. ‘That sound, how-

all the truly sane and really professionally behaved | the superlatively magnanimous principle of rigid adherence | eycr, is always certain—it is always the one

rm ; . - . | ‘ . . . . . . There are some tweaty acres clear, and gome buildings On it. | clergymen of the Colony, who may have imagined themselves | to strict party spirié. Lut wait a hit: this may be a glorious | oid, harsh jargon of blear-eyed prejadices, of 1 certainly consider it worth £160. .

* 50 acres of Freehold Land.”

It is only two miles from |

ar S'S . : implicated in any affirmation which I have hitherto made, | adinission. Hon, Mr. DING WEL.—The entry in the poll book is. | trust, therefore, thie will be received as a sufficiently satisfac- | Clergymen, as a class, aboye all other) more considerate in the future,

tory explanation.

gether useless.

To you, we apprehend, if may yet prove not alto- strdugely warped and stupidly monotonous it may, perhaps, incline you to be a little} arty it way be, and [ am very

serving slavitude. No marvel, then, (that it does not always stick to the trath as

Cardigan Bridye.. There is 3 log house on it with double |e” perhaps, I respect; but clerical rhapsodists and uncleri- | much astray if it be not in a general way, abundantly true. | tenaciously as it dves to its crack party

chimneys, and | gm sure your hovors know that it could not be put up for leas than £30 or £40. eleared for less than £4 or £5 an acre.

The land cannot be I would not like to

say that it ia not worth £100. Hon. Mr. RAMBAY.—I agree with the two last speakers. |

A house and burn cannot Le put up for nothing.

Sreehold farm, with twenty aces Glear, [ consfder it worth | £100. ) pig Hon. Mr. ANDERSON.— We must go by the evidence.

One witness says it is not worth more than eays he thinks there are only 40 geres, aud taking alj evidence together | cannot say it is worth £100,

Hon, ATTORNEY

00. the |

GENERAL, —The principle is clear |

;cal pargons of every description, beyond all other public, It may, peradventure, be even’ worth your while to peflect a

characters, | hold to be justly the most genuinely despicable. | little more soberly, than you may have before been in the

In my last communication [ made one or two asvertions | habit of duing, upun its peculiar bearing on your own char-| eons quently we “ave here, as is quite na- | also about some of the recently returned G vernment eandi-| acter. I spoke | question the fact of its being the whole truth, in the case at

dates, which | did not mean to’apply universally.

But yet, | feel somewhat disposed at present to!

of some political pondeseripts or ciphers having been elegted, | preseat more immediately in hand. I have aslight misgiying

our legislative halls,

cipher strictly means an arithmetieal mark, which, standing | ci

If it is a by Government influence. to grace for the next four years | as to whether the gentleman, more directly under considera- Now, every person knows that a/ tion, would even lave gained his seat in the Legislative Coun-| wilt thou not in turn be admcnished ? ! ; 1, notwithstanding all the party influence thus yratuituously |thou not take a good advice, acd strive, if fur nothing itself, increases nevertheless, in the mean time.| admitted to have been brought to bear in his favour, had not thou passibly canst, to dissolve thy present

the value of the other figures with which it may happen tu; some other influences, in the mean time, not felt quite indis-

value of thoge other figures become.

Another, be connected. The more eiphers, too, the greater the relative | posed to give him any active opposition.

Perhaps it may be | jjes’* ? the t |! : Hence the importance | only a strange freak of my fancy, but somehow or other 1} hast been rendering some gratuitous services, to certain individuals uf getting a goodly number of such | cannot Lelp imagining that accident may possibly demand a}

ciphers returned to constitute a majority in our Colonia!) good deal more of his gratitude than any other agency what-

: Legislature. Perhaps but few of our independent electors | ever. to my mind thut after a reasonable doubt is raised, the op- | have ever before fully understood the real s

ecret involved in| ‘fortune,’ they say, ‘favours the brave.’

We all know that he was exceedingly fortunate. And| eering crusade. His bravery on the

posing candidate should bring evidence, not only to remove | this dodge. But the immemorial practices of this country, | occasion we will, therefore, admit to have been quite equal to

the doubt raised by the first evidence, but to establish the | 49d the more than jesuitical policy of practiced party leaders, his ** good luck.”’

validity of the vote. Now, im this case, one witness bas} '" conniving at and abetting the perpetuation of these prac-

sworn that the property is not worth more than £50, thut

throws a reasonable doubt upon the vote. that it isa Vreehold property, which IL very much doubt, thst does not alter the ease ; lor the second witness only does uway wiih the evidence of the first and leaves the question | weral which we call 1.

Even assuming | i

| |

tices, are often too deepfor the honest discernment of common

nen.

among us, | shall suppose Col. Gray for instance, our present Government Leader, to constitute in himself the simple nu- Some say that he is not even en-

uncecided. This Law is in favour of the poorer candidate | titled, in strict justice, to this estimation of his insulated

and ss is expedient for the liberty oj the subject as well as | for te ends of justice. The witnesses are strangers to me |

and they have stopped short where they should bave gone on, |

Hon. Mr. LORD.—I am of opinion that Mr. Stewart, the | first witness, must be an interested party, for, to say that the | one handred, and so on.

roperty is not worth more than £40 is ridiculous.

I think |

‘ia honor the Attorney General has lost sight of the circum-|

stunce that the voter limee!{ has sworn to the vote.

He qua-|

just now to rank thus highly in the seale of numerals.

value itself. But however this may be, we shall suppose him Well, who does not see that by putting by his side an 0—thus 10 — he is instantly transposed into ten, while, by adding to him

plain exposition, affect again not to know what the real use| anything else. And if the public are curious enough to wish also unprovided for by

To illustrate, therefore, what 1 mean, au as to render it readily appreciable by even the dullest comprehension

He worked, undoubtedly, ‘like a brick.’’ | interest. He strained every nerve. No one can ever accuse him of! Rifle Company. having ‘laid on his oars.’ He was certainly in earnest. He | very volunteering kind of a man. In the fought like a hero,—not indeed witly his tongue, nor yet with event of war ever : his sword—which are only ‘carnal weapons,’—but with his] think thou wouldegt yery likely escape, for feet, which he may have considered perhaps more spiritual |

instruments of political warfare, since they reach much more closely to the sou/s of all mankind than either of the others. Yes, yes, he both travelled much and labored hard, we must

tence, the seat which he now so honorably was the result? Did he not inseribe ‘** C

| allow in all fairness, to secure the great end of his then exis

fills. And what

| cribe onqueror’’ on his | over officious interference in publishin banners, and is he not now experiencing the deathless glory |

another 0, thus 100, he becomes still further enlurged into of mighty victory? But still we say, that, notwithstanding |

| all this, accident, simple accident had much more to du with Now, Mr. Editor, I hope that nobody will ever, after this| his being found in the position which he now occupies than

of ciphers is, in the composition of any such organization ag a| to know how this couid have been the case, the simple reason is, because nobody happened to give him any real opposition.

Jified on 50 acres of Freehold land, and another witness has| Provincial Government. The question is simply one of the |

eyorn that it is worth £100. “fion."Mr. YEU.—I am aware that many persons qualified | done as well as the Hon. at the last election who did not own an inch of land, and | | tion.

#m sure his honor who spoke last is awaré of it too.

floa. Mr. MeDUNALD.—I think the @vidence is conclusive. | held before, the common people will be more apt, by selecting Mr! Stewart makes some general statements {' but he does not | him, to perceive its proper force. Nor can any one now mis- show any reason why the property is not worth £100. The | interpret what I meant by the expression political cipher. 1 other witness, Mr. Lewis, gives good reasons to show that ‘the | am, however, very far from insinuating that all those gentle- property is worth £100. Je agrees with Stewart that'there| men who, in Many respects, entertaining widely dissimilar are 20 ueres clear. Lewis says that three or four years age | political opinions from myself, have either been returned o1 Mr. Garland was offered £100 for his farm. here is only|re-returned by the honest suffrages of the people to a seat Lue Witness to throw any doubt upon the vote, and thatdoubt|in any branch of our Colonial Legislature, constitute merely

is entirely removed by the evidence of the second witness, and | such' ciphers.

commonest arithmetic.

Any other gentleman would have Col. Gray to bring out this ‘Ilustra- But as he happens just now to be the leader of our own loca! Government, a standing which he never uncomplicatedly

Bat here again my allasions have been far tou

the voter having qualified, his vote, in my opinion, remains! plain’ to requiré any imdividualizing specifications. I have good. ‘The value of ‘land in that locality has risen 100 per adverted to'no redlly efficient statesman, of whom our little

eetit within the last few years.

Colony can to-day boast.

And as but few of the human race

Hon. the PRESIDENT —There is no doubt that 50 acres of| are often apt to appropriate to themselves the idea ot being freehold land, party clear, quarter of u mile from one of the | esteemed in any wise ‘‘a smaller pumpkin’’ than any of their

Bost shipping places on the Island, is worth £100.

fellows, I conceive there will be no great danger of any gen-

lion. Mr. MoLAREN.—It has been extimated that Mr. | tleman’s imagining for one momert that in any such asser- Stewart, who is a magistrate and a very respectable man, is a| tions, as those which [ have just explained, I have made the strong partizan. Of coutse we admit that he is a zealous ad- | slightest allusion to his distinguished se]f. Give yourself nu

Voeate for conservative principles, and it is he has valued the Jand at too low a rate. the property at £100; he does not say £101. that he hus stretched @ little ag well as the other. the rea! value will Le foutd between the two.

Hon. Mr. HEN DERSON.—The reasoning of his honor who spoke jast is good and sound. it is very likely the last witness would have said 120. honer the sitting member says that the evidence of the second witrese neutralises that of the first, but I do not think so. ‘The Gree witness throws a doubt upon the vote, then in steps the law ii] makes it imperative upon the opposing candidate to prove that’ the vote is goud, the law ; that is where the doubt exists u

Ion. ATTORNEY GENERAL, proposed a resulution to the effect that the vote df Thomas G atland ed by evidence as required by liw.

The Committee divided.

HecLaren, Keer. aud Henderson—6. Non-Conrenté—siow. the President, Hon. Messra. Ramsay, Walker, Diogweli, and Lord—5, assed in the affirmative. The President then resumed tie jourted till'3) o'clock, * *

So it

Committee of Privileges and Elections resumed. Hvidence rejating (voted for Mr. MeGowan) road. Hon. Mr. McDONALD).—The evidence on this vote is very cottradictory. The first witness Robert Howlet, say# he could buy the property for £20.' The néxt, Dairits Clay, says the Such a principle uiay, oliteidé value is £40—thiut tile land‘ is all covére acd that Matheweon could false very little crop apen it. The’ ext wiwmers is Balcolm Mathewson, @ neplew 6f the voter. when they disco

¢ bays if be owned the property he would not go out of ft | conduct.

for £100.

two @rys

:

It is very likel i think

If the property was worth £100

Nis

llere we have to grapple with pen my mind.

had not been ota bliah-

chair and tho House ad-

AFTERNOON SITTING.

to the vote of

with m9 088, |

He says he eww the place yesterday, -but pot for! Black's horned quadrupeds, ian previously. Alexander McDunalJ, another witness, a ro 2 tee stream of water ou it roe I

would not dri ry ina day. Ue yal 4 Tarte, y ay e valued’ tha

with Matheysen's

000 cows , Be onty at pretty well fotght to

os when it is-aifted agree . The last two witnesses werd

_ possible that unnecessary uneasiness ** Sir Fristiun ;°’ your legislative abi- Mr. Lewis, values lities are far too wel] known and established tu be impaired, in the least degree, by anything which a random public writer may assert. specifically intended, and yet, curiously enough, everybody knows equally as well who is.

Every body knows thou art not the ** McNab’”’

But lest some should surmise that I have thus characterised

Government influence as haying been umproperly employed in favour of certain inadequate creatures or ciphers of their own, from me! against myself have promised in my last epistie to the public, proceed to give them a brief account of my own experience in political life. I have indeed heard it reported here, only a few days since, that a certain Govermnent member recently taunted in Charlottetown a certain Legislative Councillor elect with the very complimentary bit of information, that he would never have occupied the position which he now does had not Cowrests—llon. Messrs. Attorney General, Yoo, Anderson,|the party to which he belongs recognized the glorious and magnanimous principle of voting strictly and instead of for men. an acknowledgement which, to any of the rizht-spirited por- tions of the public, must anyhow be really worth something. { believe one of the local organs—if not the organ of the Go vernment itself—has also made the same acknowledgement. Good may cut of evil. qifarrel may peradvénture prove the occasion of eliciting truth Archibald Mathewson! : MPA Se Wettig, ook principle #s that of mere party, is surely a position to whieh no human being of any natural independence of either thought or action etn’ ‘for one moment wish to be considered addicted.

personal seise of that influence having operated in the late general election, I shall now, as |

ne for party,

Well, this is verily edifying. This is

then, we see, sumetimes, in spite of fate, evolve Even such a disgraceful affair as a mean family

A blind~and dogged committal to such a low and sensuous

perhaps, be allowed, as one quite

eligible to any tribe af lower aimals, considered exclusively as such, and they may be allowed’to act becomingly enough. ver it to be the raling Jaw of their practical)

For neighbour Brown's cows to meet neighbour

‘from impulses of the same basa Lind,

‘¢ Let bears

and pitch info them with afl their fayour, pumerieal furce, solely from being actuated by feelings of ‘ party brute opposltio * Let dogs delight,” ‘to bark and bite, for God has made them so.’’ aud lions growl and fight, for ’tis their nature too.” But the

Several, I believe, were in time solicited to undertake the

hereulian task of becoming his political antagonist. man seemed anxious to accept of the disting and he who did consent, at the eleventh hour, to be put in| Sheriff's return of the gentlemen who are competitor with | him for legislative indignities, fuiled somehow or other to}

nomination as the ultimate candidate or real

buckle on his armour, or even enter the field

the one-sided battle was about ending. He was just in time! ness was rendered still more unfair by thy to see the vast cloud of smoke, which had been emitted by the exceedingly kind interference. enemy's numerous guns of enormous calibre, floating slowly) least, oughtest to have known that had 1 away from the intellectual horizon of the scene, and to behold | entered a protest under these cireums'ances the awful carnage which they bad inflicted on the imaginary | no honest government could, with any show enemy against whom they bad been diseharged. And nodoubt | of justice either to me or to the people, have his iggomnious defeat, under such circumstances, will teach | refused to grant 4 new contest, at least in t will likely be}

him a lesson which he will never forget. 1

But no guishing honor ;

of action, until

some time before he will dare again to encounter such an

overpowering foe! Bat all glory aside. The case or contest in question are already understood in this section of the County to explanation.

real facts of the sufficiently well need no further

But least people in other parts of the Island might dream, from anything which I may have asserted, that Government

influence or opposition party influence may

potent for me in running my own election,

have proved too to speak rather

unrhetorically, | may briefly shorten my story by assuring them that even if such might have been the case, it had no

chance of being fairly tested. For in the firs

t place, I did not

nominate in person at all, for the very good reason that,

whether [I wished to or not, I was not at attehd the Sheriff's Court for that purpose.

the time able to And secondly,

whether it was owing to my thus not having been able at the time to comply with the present requirements of the existing defective law of the land or not, several of the