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proximity of Lndiana was the discharge of Grearms, Mr. | the understanding is that the Liberals in both euds of the Cooper fell, pierced with three bullets, At the crack of the district will support thove candidases alove who are put for-) ridee Mr. Tinkle tarned and saw @ large bund of armed Iu- | ward by the people. The Ledger influence has lost nearly | disws emerging from the brush but a few pxces distant, all its power here, and | think the day is not far distant | With the rapidity of thought he sprang from the will toward | when it will be utrerly destroyed. Before closing this last the house—tifty yards from the mili —in which was the wife | meeting three cheers were given for the Queen, and I had and infant child of the wurdered man. As be ran be cried | the great eatisfuction of pro; osing three more for Sir D. Daly, | “Lodians! Indians!” at the top of his voice to attract tbe our late talented and worthy Governor, on bis promotion to | attention of Mrs Cooper. L[nstinctively she caught her ch ld | one of the best Governments in the gift of the Crown, The in ker arms, ead ruvned from the house, where veing joined | appointment of Sir Dominick has given universal satisfaction by Mr. Tinkie, who took the child, together they escaped to in this part of the Island. | intend ere long to hold an-| the farm of J. W. Cooper, distunt abeut one-fourth of « mile. | other series of meetings in the Western part of the Island, | Several men were at work here who, a3 sogn as they were in- due notice of which shall be given to you. Lu the weantiwe, termed of the tragedy armed themselves with such weapons: I remain, wy dear Sir, ee were at hand, sud bastened to the scene of the murder.

The body was found lying near where it fell. No doubt but the poor victim expired immediately from the effects of | Hon. E. Wuxxan. the first volley, as each of the bullets bad hit w vitul part, | but the incarnate devils were vot satisfied ;—the body was | RESOLUTIONS. stripped entirely, naked, and bore marks of having been hor-| Proposed by Hon. Mr. Warburton, seconded by Mr. Mc- ribly beaten by an irom mil! bar, | Ginnis, and curried three to one ;—

A smal! [odian boy, a servant in the family, unable to. 1. Whereas the report of a speech made by the Hon. Joseph keep up with Tinkle and Mrs. Cooper when they were escap- | Howe appeared re wae rouge’ rd ate get as ing, wae also killed but a short distance irom the house. cee Oe Gee cae oe ee

: ; ,. | recommended in their Report to Her Majesty the guarantee Phe Lodiavs plundered the ¢ weiling of everythicg portable, jof a Loan of £100,000, on the pledge of the Colonial Revenue,

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destroying such articles as they could not carry off. From | for the purchase o Proprietary claims in this Island, and the |

every indication there must have been from twenty to thirty | extension of the Land Purchase Act passed by the Island Le- Iedians in the band. gisiuture some years ago, as offering the fairest basis of com-

A party of citizens assembled and gave chase as s20n as| promise, the best solution of the difficulty that could be devised |

— this Meeting fully concurs in this portion of the Award;

poss:bi t there ia little prospect that they can come up | : aa me be apanne, poenyes J P but inasmuch as the present Government is prinvipally com

1 with them io the mountain fasinesses to which they have! retreated. oe ; i | doubt set an undue value upon their lands, this Meeting is ef

Upon being informed of the affair, Oapt. Lovell, of Vor opinion that no Legislative acticn should be taken on the Humboldt, sent out a detachment of twelve men under Lieut.)| Award until the Electors shall have an opportunity at the Lynn, to the scene of the tragedy. | hustings of returning members to the Assembly uninfuenced

Veceased was one of the most peaceable, industrious. and | by the Proprietors and their Agents, in whom they can place

enterprising citiseos of Californig. A most painful reflection | cerdence.

in his death is the fact that he ig the third brother who has| Proposed by Mr. MeLellan, seconded by Mr. McKay, and been foully murdered by Indians in this county. in 1851 | carried By & anajority :—

five brothers and two sisters of this family settled in the | county. One brother died a paturs) death and three have and industry of the Tenantry, and would in reality bea sixth fallen victimes to the blood-thirsty savages. One brother and | more than they pay at present, exclusive of arrears of rent thesisters ju. iemain toy weep over the uatimely fate of their | The lowest rate of interest of £100 would

| due sipee 1855. brethrea, |} produce annually £6, or 20s. over and above the rents now

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From the Humboldt (California) Times, July 27. jment, there would still be an advance un the rents alread | paid of 8s. per annam—thie Meeting believes this part of the

One of those startling tragedies has transpired in our epunty. | Award would be an injury to the Tenantry, and ought not to that sinks deep into the thoughts and feelings of & COM | be wecepted by the Government, as it will never satisfy the munity ; not only exciting their liveliest sympathies for i fenantry, or inWividuals wishing to obtain freeholds. friends of the VOCReaR, but thrusting UPSs avery one - fear-| 3. Whereas the Duke of Neweastle, ina Despatch dated 21st ful question, whicb one of us will be the next sacrifice? Of) March, 1860, declares—** that it would be very desirable also course, we allude to the oytrsge described in our colnmns. | that any Commissioner who might be named by the House of which was perpetrated on the 23d July by the savages near Assembly on behalf of the Tenants, should go into the enquiry Hyderville, gue of our richest and must important setilemen's. | uniettered by any conditions such as were proposed by the The temerity displayed on this occusion by these insidious| Assembly last year, | have further to request that you will foes, was truly astouishing. That they should attack some | #8¢ertsin and report to me whether the Tenants of Prinee insolated dwelling. murder its inmates, strip it of any valuables | Edward eet ol the seen of eee oo Seber, ad : 4 tum kt 60 ielbine Gacke ef teiri Cee to agree to the proposed reference ;’’ and whereas ue might coutaip, an , SAIN Stroke OF the fenantry gave no auth rity to the Assembly, by petition business, would not surprise any one who is at all acquainted

4 or otherwise, to agree to such terms as ure proposed by the with their habits, Bat that they should sally out in broad | Commission—this Meeting is of opinion that the Tenants, who

day-light, and perpetrate such deeds in the very midst of a) are more Interested in 4 just settlement of the Land Question

thickly seitied community, was something never dreamed of | than the Assembly, or any other body, ought themselves to

by any one. If s holocaust were needed to propitiate the have an opportunity of accepting or rejecting the Award of

sympathies of our fellow cit zens in other portions of the | the Commission.

Stace; to call forth some word of condolence from the power- | Proposed by Hon. Mr. Warburton, and :econded by Mr.

ful press, or to entitle us to those rights and benefits which, st iy McLellan — | .

every government owes to its loyal subjects, then indeed is! hh ae - That this Meeting believes that the favour

dea canditien falllied. These have. bean sang fon) landers Shown to the Proprietors in the propo-ed eunfirmation of their , titles, and surrender of the Fishery Reserves and arrears of

heaped npon the devoted heads of this community, becaus? | Quit-reuts, would place them in a much better position than

there were those in our midst who deemed self-preservation they formerly occupied, because believing they had justly for- the Girst law of nature; and in obedience to that law, bad | feited their grants, and that they had no claim tu the Reserves endeavored to destroy some of the hostile savages that prow! | OF 4rfears of Quit-rents, they would have suld out their claims around them, seeking to murder and rob any sod every white ‘° the local Government fur a much smaller sum than they person, who should be so unfortanate as to fall with'n their| Tort or the Award ws grosly unjost aed will eecront a acta reach. We sincerely hope that ne more of that false Phil- | factory settlement of the Land Question. this Meeting is antrophy, whieh extends pity and sympathy to a set of beastly yt savages, who are us much the enemies of mankind as are) be placed in a worse position than the Tenants on the Selkirk the most terrible beasts of the jungle, may at length give |}and Worrell estates, by being called upon to pay a higher way to a truer and nobler sentiment ; that a philantrophy may | Price for their lan s. abound which can sympathize with a peaceable and enterpris- | saat tabnetin ing Community, who are endeavoring to build up and perpe- | PETITIONS. tuate christianity and civilization. To His Excellency Grorce Duxpas, Usqr., Lieut Governor, ‘The war which the savages of this county sre now waging Fc. Fe Fe. upon the whites is one of extermination. They area species, May 17 pixase Your Exce.tencr : ot beings the most degraded, actuated by no mutive but that! We, the inhabitants of Prince County. having met for the of revenge and love of piunder. That they murdered the | purpose of considering the Award of the Land Comunssion, little domesticated Indian boy living with Mr. Cooper, proves published in the Examiner of the 26th August. have come w this beyond the possibility of « doubt; for had they been a ta war - same can accrue to the oe ot : ° . ; 1€ tsiand trom it; Dut on the contrary, (with the exception porsessed of res of buumanity, they might have spared the of the Loan and Purrhase Bills passed ‘ the aaa life of one cf their owa race. Those who have residid in ment),it would be a great injury for the following reasons. this county for years, and who have been made to feel the = In the first place, the Proprietors are confirmed in their repeated outrages which these savages have been constantly titles, when it was well known to the Commissioners that they perpetrating. know too well what motives actuate them |never fulfilled any of the conditions of the original grants. | Aa loyal citizens of the United States we have a right to Phe Fishery Reserves, too, are to be given up to the Pro; rie- | demsad protection in the peaceful enjoyment of our lives, SOS: Sud the whole of the arrears of Quit-rents; while the | liberty and property. And if by reason of untoward circum. | et a whe made the jands valuable by their bard lnbor and | 7 . industry, are called upon to pay all arrears sincs 1858. e-ances,,the LU. S. cannot edimmiately respond to our just

for In the next place, twenty years’ purchase, or £100 for 100 | demand, then it is the duty of the State government, to the acres of land now paying one shilling rent per acre, is sixteen |

support of which we annually pay thousands of dollars of our per cent more annually than the tenants now pay. Mr. Howe bard earned money, to render amp'e and speedy aasistance. | believes this to be w fair price for lands tu be puid by tenants, That the proper authorities will respond with alacrity to Jet 12 speaking of the Loan Bull, he says —** If the prices our call for assistance, we eannot permit ourselves to doubt, oS all wt angpred 0 a a rotry estates) | fora moment. But we ask something more. We ask that |g fae keene op ema Goneeng. tren gee, Fale mee she press of the State no longer misrepresent the position in| ateoeie te of land could be relieved from the leasehold | whi.b the prople ot this county are placed. We ask that) Again, the arbitration clause will not avail the poor man | instead of standing aloof aud taunting us with our misfor- | who will find it next to impossible to pay a much swalier sui | tunes, they present t.e truth upon this subject, that those in | than 20 years’ purchase tor his land, without rupuing the | authority, and whose duty it is to extend the protecting urm | Tk of au arbitrssion, ot the Goverument over the hombiest citizen, may yot through | Lastly, your memorialists will be placed in a mach worse | igo. rance begiest the performance of their whole duty. oeibion than the settlers on the estates now belonging ty the | al weer ag Ra vvernment, who have only to pay teu years’ purchase Oe

: | their lands, and all arrears remitted. PUBLIC MEETINGS IN PRINCE COUNTY.

Under all these circumstances, your memorialists honestly one {pray that your Excellency will, by dissolving the present | Eomoxr Bay, Sept. 12.

i sare * as give en pPportunity o! sending mem- . s ‘ rs to the Assembly who will advocate their interests.

My DEAR Sin,—I gave notice some time ego that [ would And your scueearaiiee. asin duty bound, will thet wits. hold p.ectings at Grand River, Let 16, and at Egmont Bay,) Prince County, Sept. 9, 1861.” for the pur.ose of considering the award of the Land Uom-' mission, and to expore the doings of the Goverument since sheir assumption of power. The meeting at Grand River took place ou Monday, end { never saw so large am avsem-!an urticle signed **a Settier,’’ dated from Stanhope, ex- blaze us appeared at the Chapel oa that day. Phe resolu- | pressiog great satisfaction with the Award of the Royai Com- tions, which accompany this note, were submitted 'o the meet- missioners, and stating that the more he thought of it the lg. with the exception of the third, which some thought | better he liked it, &e. Now, Sir, we believe that such an ar- would wot be of any service as the House of Arsembly repre. | ticle never was peuned by any persun in Stanhope nor do the sented the people. and I did aut press the :esulution, as the! people of that settlement in any way endurse such erroneous | petition tu iis Excellency for a dissolution of the A-semt| yo was sufficient to show what confidence the pecple place io that | Sc teiteals unanimously passed at a Public Meeting, held in body. I explained to tho meetings the nature of the award, | the Schoul-house of Stanbope. ~ having previ usly read it, Messrs, Palmer, Long eorth | aud J. Yeo gave their version of the award, and they were. leaue Foster : —

‘ . ’ } auswered by Mesers. Gorman, Joba McKinnon, and Mr. | Whereas, an article appeared in the IJs/ander newspaper | MeclLel aa, traw Indian River, | giving expression to sentiments of concurrence and approval |

The same resolutions were vgain submitted at Lot 16 | of the Award of the Royal Commission ; and whereas «aid ar- Mr. Ramsay, the Chairman, was of opinion that the first ticle purports tw bave bzen written in Stanhope: Resolved, | resxution was carried, but declared bis inubility to decide, | as, owing to the length of the debate, the question on the re- solution was nut put until long alter dark. The 2) and 4th resolutions the Chairman decided were carried, Aud when is is proved that a large body of the Tory party from Sum. | disappointed tenantry of the Island. merside and St. Miesnur’s attended on behalf of the Govern- |

: : Moved by Mr. G i 2 Mr. oy ment aud proprietary purty, she passing of ile resolutions} MeMillap = Seen eet an eomnted hg My, Aled

was wore than I anticrpated. The spirit of the people in) Resolved, That thie Meeting earnestly calls upon their Re- |

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Award, aad many a wan who supported the present Govern-| prevent, if possible, the Award of the Royal Commission | ment at the last election will do s9 no more. At Grand | becoming binding by law; and any one holding 4 seat in the | itiver, Mr. Yeo's tensote and workwen attended in a body, | ore -appanert not — sv will be considered au enemy to right, Lut bad the Electors of Lot 14 ulone been there, ma<«' "™ ee oT BOVYER, Chairman. have been # majority iv iavor of the resulutions of at least) Stanb »pe, Sept. 14, 1861.

four-fifths of the Electors, This evening { opened the mees- | .

ing at Jos. Abrabaw’s, Egmont Bay; there cou'd not bave| beep jews than AVO persuns present; and when those who

were ig fayor of the resolution and move to the right, vot wore than balf'a degeo remained, thus |

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‘ , sol the Government, by the wohebitants of Lut Lo, whe are aj! {reeholders, and are | nad and ipteiligent man in the Co desirous that their fellow-colonists in p her parts of the [s-| ment the credit of duing all in their power to benefit the ir jand shoud become so ow favorable terms. Mr. Yeo was | country generally. Thoy bave done more for the tenantry |

the only member of the Government to defend his party wt | already than their predecessurs have ever done.”’ this wecting. 1 presume Messrs. Pa'mer, Longworth avn |made a similar statement some time since; but instead of Pope, who addrvesed the meeting at Lot 16. ound their pre-

pence there would wot very iguch increa-e the pojwiarity of bee Government, Mr. McLeilan, woo was deieguted toa- : tops rom Lot 18, addressed thus meeting in » forcible Sp eeu, pud was loudly cheered fur the Opinions he expressed. {cys Wy at large. Lhe Government have, during their short, ihe wieution of the Kiecters of Princetown ant Lot 18 to career, added neurly thirty thouvand pounds to the public | bold ® queiing there some time uext week, for the purpore | debt, with “Oo increase of tax tion amounting in many iustan- ot cbuvsing ibeir candidate. { bav. becn called apon by the| ces to Lo per cent—they have allowed many of our Jarge and joosliteow to offer for the verthern part of the District, and |

all the harm they cvuld by increasing the taxes of this hard-!i

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/but every class in the Island. 8 as Yours very truly, | ment in opposition to the old Family Compact and Tory party, I ublic men cannot | the advantage of which is, that the people may change their! with impuniry any more tt hig rulers every four years, which eould not be doue before. 2d. | fo}Jow bis infamous calling in the belief that be will vever be (They gave usa better market for our produce by opening all

posed cf Land Proprietors and their Agents, and would no |

Resolved, Phat 20 years’ purchase is a price far too high | for lands which were alone made valuable by the hard labor |

jexacted ; and if 10 per cent were deducted for prompt pay. |

| further of opinion that the inhabitants generally ought not te |

would be only a fair price for laud; aud there is no doubt)

vent miad, that when a British or Colonial statesman of bigh

iby their minious, than by an independent Liberal party who | /have sympathies in commou with the mass of the Colonists, |

| pound of flesh in the shape of rent and arrears — give thew |

wiisper vot a word about bad titles, arrears of quit reats or | | fishery rese:ves are under the influ-nce of the proprietors, ue ; a , 4 \that-a landlord looks to the original ; vpinions as those expressed by ‘a Settler.”’ In proof of which it to their sorrow i and the paid bireling of that Government | original Jessee for the fulfilment va will please insert in your useful journal the fullowing is not ashamed to insinuate that we ought not only bear the

Minister if we do not accept the award. says :—

That this Meeting views with indignation a +h a | the Duke of Neweastle will very likely introduce into Parlia- |" ‘ ; : . ‘ | gross spiewipbonuneaibas of fuets; ge ecole wie’ Inent an act for the purpose of setting at rest the questions of | with this part of the question we had , Tepared laa tabular from such sentiments, feeling confident that the long-looked | Proprietary titles, Fishery Reserves, &e., in accordance with . ‘ | for Award will give no relief, but rather tend to depress the /the Award, and leave the Proprietors at liberty to demand present cluimants to the townships. | hopes and retard the prospects of the poor down-trodden und | {rom their tenants payment of all they owe. bil ‘consenting Proprietors will refuse to remit one shilling.”

heed — not. We remember having a dozeu times been i of settlement; for both being equally under agreement | opinions of our co-religionists ; and if we have, at 7 uM t _warved not to persist in the advocacy of liberal measares, or | to pay rent must be treated ax yoke-lellows. tis port of the Island is fully aroused to the injustice of the presemtatives to make use of all their ability and influence | wo would be surely annexed to Nova Scoiia. The power of for the tenant must be made sauce also for the proprietors. when he er they made statements which we k the British Parliawent has teen sought to crush us, but it has| 'hey both cackle for non-payment of rents, and when the. : aoe rane fo befor, been sought in vain. verument, the adywers of the late Sir Donald Campbell pre- | ‘pared a Bill and seot it to KE gland, iu a eontempubly con- | from 1858 to 1862 and onward, so must the Crown tevants. | being the case, we do not feel bound to give answers to Mr. ‘aiving aod ciandgsting manser, with the view of having it The tables we bad constructed show whut will be due in Pope's ** queries’’ in the ,passed through the Linperial Parliament, aud in’ which it 1862 to the Government from the owners | was proposed to deprive seven-vighths of our fellow Culon’sts oa this principle. ition directed | Sim,—I notice ia the Monitor of the 4th inet. a letter signed |oehe caus Re Ls: wae designed woder that Bill t» | mate of the area of the Fishery Reserves, ealeulated in linear were directed (0 | 4 Parmer,” purporting tu come frow King’s County, in wich | confine a of es Colony to proprietors, aud : : a : | there is 4 very poor and untruthful apulogy for the shorteom- to cunler the framchizee mainly upoa wealthy freecholders, showinguuuistakeably the opivion of tbe award entertained | in The writer says, he -*believes every , That was the act of such a Government as we have at present ; lony will give the Govern- and we cao easily

The Islander nately the British Governmeut would be no party to the as- jsault upon our liberties ;—the Colouial Minister could not} right to dispute title, is dving any gud for the tenautry, the Government have done | dure to offer the Bill to the notice of Parliament, and the} ness

working class — by fastening more firuly than ever the yoke uf Newcastle may be asked to pass a Bill to confirm proprie- vf proprietary boudaye round their necks, and by providing | tary claims under the award; but we are con selarics for persons who, #s officials, are detested by the coun-| meet with a

_prictors are extrewely anxious (0 have devided in their favor. | correct owaerships,

/ Lhe decision of the Commission on that point is eminently in this respect are tl most Kervivesbie bridges to go into decay and tumble duwn,— conducive tv tueir interests, Siuce the passing of the Civil |agreeweut for a they bave erip) led our eceuve franchise, — they have deceived ; List Bill in 1851, whereiu special refereuse is madg ,

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aaeneme : — : : i h lasses and betrayed the tenantry by their Land Commission humbug, l reserves, the proprietors bave admitted generally the right | best would have represented these ¢ sOmewhay

. ; th ised j encouraging landlords and agents to bring vexatious suits at ‘of the Government tv control them; and when Mr. W. H. — than pegged on aie oe ee A i law fur the recovery of arrears of rent, which they promised Pope and bis fellow vendora sold the Worrell estate to the! bowwer, in the th a.

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would be wholly remitted under the Commission,—tne price | G of land has been raised to an extravagant figure, more than | — double what the best land could be sold for on the Worrell ‘« estate, —~ all the just claims of the Colony to quit-rents and | a. in sits ateat Wieeictere fishery reserves are proposed to be surrendered to the proprie- | done again Wi ve ’ , ot s leheee me alin u ; a 9 yt . itted by the Comeneaiaheds \enidied: and if such measures were adopted a3 would render that attaches © his la ; t provements, : Value of peed: fee fre eset ap hee ge i . ‘the agreement for leases tenure empowers bim + cules,’ to be bad and improvident, are also proposed to be confirmed it expedient and necessary to sell other aad Ve can, i" e ag " aaad aie Sean. Sn ak to the fullest extent. i therelore, easily account for the anxiety of the overninent | years . ~eholder’s jug ‘These are only a few of the bad fruits which a proprietary | | Leteow & ‘et if possible, all opposition to| flows through the tender mercies of the laudiord, ¥ tee : 7 and proprietary party to quiet, if po ; pl x bi Pig We fu ee Seen the award. But the country will not be deceived. Oppo-, the dee‘sions on this question mo-'entent to those ghe = Now, let us briefly notice some of the measures of the late | *\* : " ; : saleaid nothing and mada we crores of théle ant ; ; : ‘sition cannot be quieted. The Government have prepared} p ng, | : oven ding 19 Liberal Government, which benefitted not ois she eeeeey ‘for themselves a bed of thorns, and they must lie unon it | pay anything, aod bearing dowuwith a heavy hen} upon Th 2 : lf-govern- | 10 § ts , anc P : eu; . »™ as ie i ssielianmant bern: practise deception in their high places | those whose anxiety to live in peace and prosperity With oy, han the highway robber should ‘tative proprietors, led them to become contracting Partin tg itheir own injury. The reason of ths is obvious the ity Kvery day's experience shows us that | of the proprietors deper.d more on the ack nowledgmen, ‘the tenantry than the recognitions of the Crown, | prowise which appeared to the Commissivners to be invgly, in the conglomerates of the Land Question, aud to be with goodiy and glittering apparcl, was tbat of pur out the interests of the proprietors, and obtaining the

overnment, they consented to a deduction of six hundred | favor ef the proprietors, a oe koow the age cres for fishery reserves, at a charge of six shillings an) title to be good, te ibd = ae ue T agreement tennis, They know very well that the same thing would be and the highest o the leasehol ers. he value to the pry,

| if a Liberal Government | prietor of the squatter tenure lies in the ae Sales

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| the ports in the Island to ae a and en pee’ (there is retributive justice in this world for the dishonest etl eo y 3 merica e8Se | <n :

|etriction on trade under which an aecTric i tisten “i well ‘a oe the footpad.

“neither discharge nor take in a cargo up the Hillsborough | P® river or at the other side of the Charlottetown ferry. 3d. They | ree yave us free education, which a large number of aoe = | The steering the Roya! Commission noon the peouteied all the proprietors did their utmost to oppose, and which bas | : Peli ake a e logbook (or rather ab- | ° 7 7 a ne & 2, | | been a tizetees boon to the country. ttn. They passed the | ere . ist! ‘* oY) hae afte animate capta ns | fvow Eng'and to do 50. ln fact the only possible y Purchase Act, which has nade more freeholders avd happy [ees eee enna tc f th 4 bor Wa ebbdie ig | fF the tenant trouble is, after sli, the Liberal Gover ,of che Award, reminds us of the old prover): | proposition of 1853, ea'led * the Purchase Bill.” The

| bomes than will ever be dome by any Actewanating from the | ' ‘ ‘ " sinle | present Government ; and had they not been opposed by the) Scyllam, qui cult vitare Charybdim. The dangerous tensn stares everybody in the face a# soon as the Award is

foulest misrepresentations they would have secured the pas- rock had to be passed safely, aud the whirlpool of secret re- | examined, that if'that simple piece uf- machinery. hed wage of another Act, under which, by this time, nearly the search navigated. there was no royal road open to here aad put in motion, the acescsity fore opal. a whole leasehold teaure of the Island would have been converted | Royal Commissioners.“ For weeks together” Mr. Howe | 4? ‘ e- te ; po pon eget ae into freehold. Now, Sir, these are only a few of tie £004 | 4144 bis colleagues listened to the storm of complaint from CE Gem eee Sry AS f that wi ; and oaks measures of the lute Liberal Government; and unless they this Seylla_of the Land Guestion-amt for athe afteveerds quietly enjoying the benefis of that wise . hecemrary are soon reinstated, it is the opinion of a lurge majority of the | oo lit ve ‘lexi vos th, ad denger. “Despite 'weasure. We bave not space farther to enlarge apow thes people that the country will be involved in debt beygadre- Spue round in perplexity over ” o So Meine te | Subjects, and defer, for the present, other reme-b« ——~—-a¢ | demptioa—the burthens of the tax payers will be increased, | the contradictions of opposite 1p aati ; S; & C othe: portions of the Award. . and proprietary cppressign will be stretched to its utmost Tenants, the small holders, up to Messrs. Spy o.. oF bounds, er” Yours, &. ‘the big holders—the voluminous document is moored in A TENANT. | Downing Sireet—is in port for repairs. and will soon be Queen's County, Sept. 9, 1861. |ready to relaunch on its final voyage to the regions of law. |

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ADDRES3E3 IN GENERAL AND THE NEW Loy,

DUN ONE IN PARTICULAR, - ‘through the storms of legislative debate. In the meantime —_— rr h c & \ il win ry | we bave ap abstract from the log book, and some few intima- We observe that an address has deen presented to His By. & ws . \tions of coming events. Mr. Howe says, * the sooner the | celiency the Lieut. Governor by **We, the Magistrates ang LSS = ——SSSS | general principles eusbodied hag — agp niger r 2 ge other Inhabitants of New London,”’ in which there is she us. |Commissiovers were universally known on the Isiand the | £ dlerhey 40. the-sentionss Maneet Charlottetown, P.E.L, September 16, 1861. | soouer all partics would prepare for the legislation that would palenpent as Srey 1 7 hieh | bow and the ; ~" | be required to give effect tothe Award.” ‘There is no doubt stereotyped phrases 7° oyaty, which leave about as mach Conscyous ef the lamentable weakoess of its cause, the | sat that the various items which coastitute the report e!| impression on the minds of ‘We, the Magistrates,” &e, ay | Islander makes scarcely ay ene at the Award | hat the Award will be, when we get it, are capable of | they would if translated into Hebrew or Sanserit, Thy lof the Commission on its ee ee ; rote te Se “o giving differing direction to difering minds—clauses wil! | presentation of such addresses is becoming a moral diseags ig ae sic: ns tow aie re 2 is “appear rising from interested or disinterested materials just | 6 community, indicating an unbealthy tone of the public j Deenese, Ht 6 Geld, OS wil precere:e ae ~ > as private interests paint them, but there is a certain mean) Re 6 les of li Ww jamount of arrears of rent that accrued prior to 18038. We, line that atrips itself of party feeling and lays bare the real hoe , and a decline of man ineae.. {om understand the have no evidence that there is a great amount of rent due | features of the gase, Primarily, it wust be borne in mind, , good taste which eugzests, from time to time, in Europe or and owing prior to 1898 from the senna on the Sour or Give |... 1. dissses ts ne corel is chronic oppression, arising, |the neighbouring Continent, the offering of complimentary | estates en wee <a a it ‘a3 the doctors Say, from peylect of the constitution. Under addresses to great warriors, eminent statesmen, philosopher to the Commission, enn Co , a be "8 cee - |the constitution of Prince Edward Island * the Goveroment | of world-wide renown, and literary stare of the firet magni. due on these fow properties, the probability is that the | 6 4. Qulony always had, and still possesses power to escheat Fn a Fi, : |. : ~arcd. or if not secured, voder any cir: | y Jy ne P i! tude; but when this kind of thing is done with a gentleman pemenne have Bd0e SUUREED, GE HF WOE segues, ERENT AAP ‘lands ;” yet because some * forty-three years” have elapsed , bi : ‘cumstances it would be difficult for the landlords to collect | witbout-au exercise of this right, it is now. deemed “ imprac- who has acquired no distinction in arms, letters, science or ' them, as Mr. Howe stated in giving his exposit.on of the | ticable and absurd at the present day.” Why? it may be | State-craft, the address becomes a nauseous com pound of fawerd. For shis mene. sisaeey XY i it would be | sced. Because, notwithstanding the wishes of the people | meanness, sdulution, and ignorance, and must de very olla * ae absurd ry — rh Se eee ee pl ‘aud the readiness of their representatives to legislate in this sive to a manof judgment, or even very moderate talent. fice si . ", 3ts—to “ae 1 Os g °| 4. ° . ‘ } 3 f m x - oe Sd ae - ce . ae witli ba manrsifl , direction, “the Crown bad expressly instructed the Gover-| When His Excellency sball become. a8 we trust he may,» gaut claims of the proprietors, aod ee "| nors bot to sanction any sach measures.” Thus veutralising | , 035 statesman, like his waster Lord Palmerston; ors such prices on the lands which heir-tenants may wish to buy by private instructions a natura! and acknowledged cons'itu- | ht : J ae - ‘as would be impossible for the latter to give. In fact, the tional right, and by delay, intrigue, aud subversion of right warrior like the noble clansman, Clyde; ora brillians wri- Award, if alopted, cannot fail to increase the power of the | vinciple, throwing upon an oppressed tepantry a perpetua-|*eF like his c.unmtryman, the lamented Lord Jeffrey, we | tandlord, ee: — the lenscheld ‘cystom insteed of iion of evils, the accumulations of which have now culminated | shall be bappy to hail his enrollment im the ranks of me ae extinction. i ji in a Royal Commission of Enquiry, an unsatisfying Award, | eminent men, and will endeavor to be amongst the fret io e Islander’s agsertion that we oppose the Award as a ‘and, asa consequence, the determined resolution of « distract-| |. | salatory addvees to the:thep distingnichas ‘means of overthrowing the Government, is certainly no de- ied and misgoverned people, to obtain for themselves justice | sign # eongrata y stiseus g Tepre- fence of the Commission. If it were a good award, and btieeh edie Chnastieenion acientieeinistiun by ‘a recollection sentative of the ancient House of Dundas. favourable to the interests of the tenantry, our opposition ~ ise cuiieenn iia Gaiden effurt to abolish a seigneurage We have too high an opinion of the Lieut Governor to be- [would we -~ avail erry ms - —_ of 8 =e not a * forty-ihree years” adverse claim, but a venerable aud | lieve that he gues to the country for the purpose of evoking | to the cenmnits ag Neither oe w brane. fers tiune-honored” complicity of over two centuries, And not | the fulsome addresses with which he bas been assailed—for we possession of their-vifices, Neither Is the attempt to exone-| 145, only, but in memory of the leurels that crowned the ; e ; b | y» J cap look upon them in no other light than that of unpro- rate the Government from any censure in connexion wit | heroes of emancipation in “the West Indies. whes a Wilber- : ithe matter ony deienece of the Commission, or any reason ee gained by persistence ‘st righteous course cuit uboli- voked assault; the least desire on his part for euch addressees ‘why the Colony should adopt the Award. The Islander | . : ; a ae a mele | would destroy any value that might attsen tu spontaneous ef. sntus: + Gek. Geld Me! Waldie D eainin de ad no | uo” of siavery, and the expenditure of millions of treasure, | " : eS ee Mr. Whelas blamed | (He. Compensation in settlement of a dewonstraied wrong. forts; and if these thongs are done without Lis Excelleney’s | meee 00 do _ te Award than ; a — ' a Mr. Liowe and his feilow-servants of the Crown, the other knowledge or cons nt, as we trust they are, the parties cun- | foe that wh ” Mr Howe ue en ace “aie ae, wets Royal Commissioners, decided that “ the granting away of | cerned in them have a great deal to answer for in disturbing jot himself. Mr. Ggsy, aud Mr. Ritchie. be gentiemen | 4g whole Lsiand in biocks of 20,000 acres, was an impro.i- here named advocétel the measure, knowing that it would | 100 oy woise of th ears reget nnd tea” P thi the repose and comfort of a gentlemag who cannot tkes be attended wth advan‘age to the proprietors,—as members | ~~". “X*Te'se See en tthe Cee? Lit quiet drive inte the couptry without having a greasy address nn - 8 7 ao term improvident reflects upon that act of the Crown and_ * , , ot the Government they allowed their Colonial Se-retary to | stigmatises it as a want of forethought. Tae eonseq rences thrust inte 4 Iace, filled with childish nonsense and absmi- fade Keqquestien web the view uf doing all he could to ad- lof this improvidence or waut of forethought fell, and is now Bable perversions of fact. We, as a loyal subject, provest ae aaane be as te th ee oom eo 1 falling, upon the sab-tenantry, The corss and bunions of Sgainst this annoyance to the Queen's representative. Schvol- } ) ‘nha ~~ ‘D. ° ow _ | » : . . | : a PBI Br ets cad sn ee a the pressure require relaxation in the shoes, and it ix but an/ masters can and do put up with it, when they ure absut leay ee he ee ‘exercise of just and retributive action on the part of suffer-| ins a distri di ‘Cowmissioners ia open Court that tweaty years purchase | ne ae a . is + Tart Tiaadiaiiiaiak hile ae 8 dintrict school, in which they bave discharged with , y *Y 2 : ¥ average ability the onerous duty of teaching tho rudiments ge : | kouest agency, and every lawfail influence, to atretch their | ee ; . lis Stafemen rea 4 4c ae ” ree . ° n Bngiieh educativ ew uncom ureti oi" this stat " greatly ic flueuced tue Commissioners in de uppers” into bearable proportions, It is right that although f an Eng) * ducation to a fi hed hins for the — ma eves ni oe ie ee Bee ee th \3 Court of Kscheat is pronounced * impracticable and absurd | lengthy period of twelve munthe. ~The Teacher prepares the “ poe - a‘ ey J oe aa a ¥ — 7. “at the present time” that the questiou should be kept open. address, complimenting himself on bis profoufd knowledge, urd cause Uo Wa e d-lbera sisi * great | ap ; . . oe : Liberal * the How Joxeph Howe — Raabe the sacle Phe Government will have the payment to make for the great talents, wonderful skill in teaching, and affectionate re- Ja . 9 , Bs bee : ” laak 2 ; °CeEse: . . = . was recommended by the Duke of Neweastle, a noblenan of | improvident blocks, aud it may be nenegmry 90 to frame} gard for his pupils,—the trustees adopt it, as a matter of ee J : a. ithe coufirmetory law, which looms in the hazy distance, that . : : ; liberal politics — and because the focal Government usder , *. course, without reading it: or comprehending half ite contents; I : ‘i ae only a dona fide aud regetered owner be eutitied to neguciate | ae ™8 shove administration the Cumimission was inaugurated, have! .i.'1.44 wish ibe Government, and a certain and fixed time *'* Teacher then prepares, after & great deal of mentel la- oon a fluence with ae ye Soh ite oe peerile ‘allowed for the purposes of reeord. boar, a flaming reply, brim‘ul of gratitude, und crammed with reascning 08 this west clearly sow Whe Culenccions pewitiony a, osu ectbutticntes of the Award dre petiessble'ts | the biggest words he can get from the Dietionary, thus giving of the Goverumeut supporters with regard to the Conunission. | 0 lati the difSeultiee be e . 3 es ’ it is & strange doctrine, and will be scouted by every intelli-| preveatives (0 un Chey Seution Of the Cilsoules tween an air of astonishing learning to the production. This, the Nagrorsg i by penne. lf what is called squatter possession | Schoolmaster regarde as a good advertisgment before he en- : aa ‘nolds good, which it undoubiedly will, an argument is there. | a ” character chooses to propounl a measure affecting the inter- | by raised, that since a Detvée title ‘has ‘aiken fe part of a| ters a new field of labour; and if it serves-him iu that way, ests of people who are ae to him, it should be adopted ‘township than the claimant of the whole possessed, wheiber the public should not object tu the little bit of humbug prec- gi peovte Ee ee ea Sa | the proprietary claim to the whole is vot broken up by the| tsed, because tiey must know it is harmless: We cannet » 2 e ‘ , ; . ‘. ° ° : i ae ys at They will take ha” diate Joe os ‘disintegration as parts—whether in fact the Government | suppose His Excellency the Lieut Goverpor stands in peed of , ; eis : ; . , (has not acquire itrollio a or al t | thie ki ees guarantee for the-seuedneas or willity of the lowe by. which bao ont sae ae F dcdis wien ved ‘aie this kind of advertizing ; and, therefore, we recommend that they are to be governed. | conership’ biive ‘boom uaenebidcell lene ‘sniaal to todifer 6.4 the practice of presenting such addrosses as the New London As to the iuflueuce of the present Government with the, verse possession, the evidence of which wou!d repose on the | one, shall be reserved for the exclusive benefit of our worthy srepennneehs pe auuouncement eught : put the people - facts of any undisturbed squatter possession? Some one | and respectable fellow colonists, thre School Teachers, many of het guar. ad give grat imguinew th ppsiton st the au hoon ban aimage ia esoaiog tol ane, see whom hare eed he pale longer thon tle Rectory i ing ee j ess Sc vee ey cy z, circumstances, would have a bigher right than the Govern-| done, and are no less distinguished in the eultivation of art ne people of this Island are willing to concede that it ‘8! mont, which, by the exercise of ite iaws upon the pr sh] Ries ; ' , better for them to be governed by a proprietary faction, or, had kept it sear of aliens, and mace it leGiehsbn heron 2. roman aoe Seana I ti . mee P » OY roads | We shalloffer only one observation touching the New Loudva and bridges, and eligible ior sett'ement by proieotion. The | adress in particular. We noti Nusi f kind avs. “the tit! : ve ar. @ notice no allusion of any kind to let them without amy more trouble agree to all the demands | Award says, * the ttle of the proprietors cannot now be dis- 7