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themselves in the evosof the authorities of any knowledgs re@pecting the ention te coumamrt the feartelernme. Lt the y hold Weck, well ae set appear annmistakeable that theirsyr pa} thieves are wie tae olfsudors; and is his lordship te abstuin teu irom tho example wits which he has designed to testify |

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of the crimiaal parties? In conelasion, how we explain the fuiiywing, of which we have been in- d? Lhe wadow of the wardered man, with her five in childron, has experieaced much dificulty in saving her bartest, while large nambors of people have collected to reap

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ations, which, during the late tory aecendancy in the landlord meetin appomted to be held in the Dublin nda. Public opiaion, and the indignant reaction got up i@ liberal landed proprigtary throagaous Lreland, defeated iis insolent conspiracy ; but its authors publicly boasted that i tieir leading positions had received the sanction of the Der>yite authorities at the Castlain Dublin. We hesitated to receive this assertion, deeming it incredible that men of intelligence, of humanity, and especially of Christian educa- tion —however extreme their politreal toryism —could put forth Propositions g> utterly monstrous as those contained in Lord Jowashire’s programme. If the Earl of Derb¢ shall not in 8 me form or other officially contradict the onurmity attriba ed to him by the Clonmel Caronicle, the public will be forced to believe that, after all, the Downshire conspirators were play- ing * mere game of * brag’ when they boasted about the syinpathetic help of the Derbyite government in the establish- ment of a landlord * reign ot terror’ in Lreland, placing the whole country under curfew and military law at the fiat of a eoutral club of squireens, rent collectors, and erowbar-drivers, *< If Lord Dorby really intends to act upon the notice which his Cloumel orgén says has been served upon the people of Doon, it cannot be difficult to eonjeeture the sort of Tenant Right which he and his colleagues, had they remained in | power, would have soil’ Lt is a precious kind of tenant protection whieh daringly proclaims the right to sweep 500 individuals of the face of their native lind, merely because one, two, or positively three, villains, wh» can keep their own seercts, may be resident within certain boundaries. British law lays it down asa maxim, that ten guilty persons should rather escape un- pumiwhed, than that one innocent man should wronsfyily suffer. The direct contrary is Lord Derby’s interpretation of British justice in Ireland.” The Derry paper then proceeds to give the annexed informa- tion with regard to the management of the estates in question :

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“It is, we boliove, a fact that orer since the famina years nots singls lease which has expired upon the noble earl’s} Tipp rary estate has been renewed to an Irish tenant, the Jagpe 1 holdings having been invariably given to tenants from Lnglond, with one exeeption, to be presently noticed. exCeption oceurréed in tie caee of the late Dr. ileifernan, of Cashel, who ia that borough, in 1852, supported the libera! candidate, while he wrought for the tories in the e yantry, and took with bim 4 considerable acetion of the liberals. Dr. Hef rnan, it is understood, obtained from Lord Derby a re- newed lease, while every other [rish tenant, whether Protes- tantor Roman Catbolie, liberal or tory, has been steadily réfie cd that privilege daring the period mentioned.

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THE [RiI3il REVIVAL.

3 CAMP MEETINGS AT ARMAGU. On arriving at Armagh, fully balf the number, instead of tu:ning imto the prayer field, close to the railway stecion, Jeti ic behind them, waiked into the towu, and disperse } into the houses and side strocts. I saw them go certaiuly; £ did not -¢e then retura. Why should they have come at all, then, it may be asked? “ Six'y miles for eighteen pence,” is the anseer. Tae prayor-meeting train was a cheap op- portunity of doing a little worldly business. And L feli slightly © sold,” aftes hearing s9 much of Belfast piety, to find it s> much allayel by Volfast thrift.

Lhe meoting * for all {reland” was held in a gent!y slop- ing grass-field, a few mina‘es’ walking from the raiiway ; there was a wide p:cszect from it, over a well wooded coun! The weather was very fine for the occasion, wit! a fresi breeze ania dright ser. At the foot of the slope, and facing up the desccat, a sinall platform was pitched, with ashect of canvass spread on a pole behind it. Ln front of this prumitive erection the people gathered in a circular mass. The services consisted of addresses or sermons, alternating with hymns. Nine or ten reverend geatiomen relieved each other in the work of the afternoon on this, the chief poist of the meeting. The addresses that excited most attent on were those of tue Llon. and Kev. B. Noel, and the Rev. Mr. Moore of Balleymena, the place where tae movement is said to have commenced. ‘The platform was intended to be the autre ef the “day’s proceedings; the best preachers spoke from it, mea of education and training in their office. But such an agitation canuot be controlled by the regular tainisters of the diff-reut churches. They approve it, and go with it; but there are extremes to wh ch moderate and weil educated meu, however pious, cannot go. Yet they must accept the co-operation of a host of igaorant fanatics, and of no inconsiJerablc number of these zealots whose zaal is half imposture, or always ready to slide wholly into it. Some of the clergy are beginning at last to see this, and are endeavouring, though far too tinidly as ‘a body, to check the horrible abuses that have lately sprung up amid this “‘ revival.”

Tne Armagh meeting might have opened their eyes as to the sort of men who will be the real leaders of this movement among the lowest class. It is ‘ regretted” that on this great oceasion the people could not be kept at the centre of intelligence anl piety com ined. They broke into separate audieuves round wore vivlent and more exciting preachers. ‘There were at one time five smaller circles in the field, besides the main body. And i can assert that the most successful preachers, tested by the amount of * mental agony” they produced in the listners, were not the ten ordained ministers. This display of internal suffering is re- garded as the proof o! the * operation of the spirit,” which is not supposed to triumph entirely till the patieut is * strack

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x l2 murders, none of which have been followed |

the crops and save the turf of some of the tenanss, free

ern Presbyterian body, has, on thee nivary, the fuollow-| } comments upon the seaport of Lord Verby'sintention : |

f the worst and most iniqniteus of the famous Downshire |

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EOS IO TN ee a | Qrives to tho very verge of madeess—eften beyond it, Re- licious terror, thus fostered, evens t velece a ‘ow Vickinss, but leaves the great masa untouched, Of all that is said about an improved Hf, and “awakening,” in this great uamber, I do not believe one word. They look on, and go

out to see, just this dirpiay of misery, as they would go << any other sight, and are,accessories before the fact to what is almost worse than murder— ihe extinction of reason lo

sis P new yf oe e J itheir tellow man. In the probability of cases of * prostra ‘tion” consists the interest of a“ revival” meeting. | note

‘in all the reports of them an expression or tone of disappoint /ment if no one has been ** struek down.” ;

In the minor cireles of auditors—that were as satellites ‘in the main body of the meeting~—there were preachers | quite as ignorant, but of a different kind of fanaticism to that of the Terrorist. One was a caso of * tu!l assurance ;” he was perfectly contented, and wished to make others so. {fe was a short man, with a well-fed look, aud an oily, bald he dealt, with promise rather than judgmeut, and ‘inaiataised that the eleet were the happies: people on the face of the earth. But he had very few auditors ; there was Ino chance of his frightening any one into a fit. Generally the active agents in the various groups were singularly hard. | featured, many even evil-looking men, Une leader was on ‘exact reproduction of the Puritan in many of the eartcatares ot the time of the Commonwealth: he was the “low” idea! | of that day exactly repeated. In every circle singing was w favourite and frequent exercise, and, as in the railway train, bad to a degree that cannot be deseribed-—Cor. London Times.

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-_—e oe © THE SAN JUAN QUESTION.

This question appears to be elear y, accurately, and im- partially pat, in the following extracts from an article in the London Spectator of the 24th ult :—

We will not say that it would by « disgraceful testimony to the want of intalligence in both the communities of Englan: and the United States if any serious difficulty should ‘arise on the San Juan question ; for we do not believe that any such serious diffiealty will arise. We have the firmest c yayiction that all such hazards are out of date, and have been so for The question itself is ono that naturally

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i springs out of the antecedent circumstances, and we have not

the slightest disposition, on the present showing. to anticip ite the judgment by taking part with either sids. The reason for our reserve is, simply, that we have not al’ the facts belore ue ; and what is more, we doubt whether any party has yet been placed in a better position.

If any one will reier to the map of North America, he will see that the lower end of the Island of Vancouver lies parall | to the evast of North America on the westward side. ‘The coast of the main land is to a certain extent slightly hollowe? yatin the form of an extrem@y wide and shallow bay bu then it bends back again towards the west, pressing the lowe: tip of the Vancouver tongue, antil the corner of the main land and the outermost corner of the island are nearly parallel, forming the two posts to the gites of the straits of San Juan de Fuea. Where the channel is broader, and, as we have said, bant out, there lies near the middie of theastrait a grou] of Islands called the Arroo islands. It will be ramembered that before 1346 the sovereignty of the Oregon territory was in dispute between Great Britain and tic United States Through the treaty of June 15th, 1846, the dispute was asttied by a division of the territory, anda boundary was fixed in thesa terms :

* Frou the point of the forty-nint: paraliel of north lati- tude, wheres bs boundary laid dowa in existing treaties and sunventions between Geeat Britain aad the Caited States ter- ; ;

ainates, the line of boundary between the territories of her ritannic Majesty aud those of the United States shall be ontinacd westward alung the forty-oméa pareilel of nort

wyuatude to the maddie ot the chenacl which separates the

miinens frou wouver s Lsiand, thence southerly through

the middle of the said chanael aud vf Fuca’s Straits bo tu Pacific Ocean.’

Phe Ministers who placed their signatures to this troat: were, on the part of the American Republic, tae lisnoarad! Jims Bachanan, So retary of State, sad on the part of Great Britain, the Hight ionourable Richard Pakenham, * * ®

‘The veeupation of thes: islands ougiit not at this date to be

We have the 2, tic Urogun Treaty, belore us, an: ra Dabkween buy bwoCOoUuntrie: vt tie dueument. We hav

a wiatter of expediency, Daf of justice and law. Ziel imberaaiio lal sestu 4e Appeal by bide, GE ba Inbs pur bie Very. Guest pe ing ed the words ab 83 Phe boundeury beiwe-n the mon- irehial and the Regublican territory comeident With the 42th parallel ot north iotitude ‘tea thea middle of th» channel whieh separates the Continent trom Vaneouver’s isiand, and then southerly through the macdle of thé saii channel.’’ Now according to the Bnglish taterpretation, the boundary line woald ran along the 49ch parallel of north latitude to the middie of the strait, which s*parates the Cons tinent from Vancouver's Island.

Bat according to the Amorican interpretition, the word ‘* channel’’ is distinctive, and means the navigable passage. The difficulty is increased by the fact that there ae two navi- gable passages, the one on the west side of the Arroo Islands, the other east and south of the group. ‘This fact might seca: to evrruborate the Kaglish version, since, if there are twe channels, it ie remarkabla that the framers of the treaty did not say which of the two was means. On the other hand, tie clause uses the word * strait’’ ia the one ease, and channe} in the other—a difference which certainly implies sume dis- tinction in the two phrases; and if ** channel’’ isto be under- stood inthe American sense, it is still a practical as well as historical questioa, which of the two channels is meant? Under this iatter supposition, however, the difficulty could not be great, becauss the eastera channel is 80 close to the Ambrican shore that it raanifesily could not be intended. It is, moreover, so shallow that it is not available, like the western channe:, which is in point of fact deeper, and is the highway for navigation. If we accept the American inter pretation of the clausc, thea the boundary should ran along the middle of the western navigable pagsage, and the Island would belong to the Republic. .

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Pexty to pe StormMep and toe Wore Caixa Empire Assattep.—The events of last Jane have, however, dispelled ail vur premature dreams, and shown us that we have a very arduous, long and costly work to do before the diplomatic re- lations which were agreed to can be acted upon, and. before tlle advantages which were expected tu ensue can be realised. Cuat work is neither more nor less than a war of imvasion. We have to insist that the treaty shall be carried out in all ite integrity, and material guarantees surrendered for its perpetual ybservance. ‘To do this we must assemble a large army and a powerful fleet at the mouth of the Peilo and on other parts of

down ;” just short of this are those ** deeply affected.”

It was the circics round the wildest and most incoherent | preachers that the most numerous eases of the “ deeply | affecied’’ were to be seen, Where * divine religion” was! actually beiog made a * raphsody of words,” there the most | effect was prolaced. lu one group [ counted 20 poor wretches on their knees at the feet of an ill-looking. vulgar, | and evidently ignorant man, who Was consigning ail the | universe to perditioa with extreme energy. At every| sentence the prostrate creatures groaned and vrovelled in the | earth, and shouted ‘‘amen” and * Jesus,” in constant re- petition; another batch of signers (this time taten from | * those looking oa”), were sent to heil in the most distiace) mancer, then came ivure groans and ejaculations of * Amen,” | as if it had been a prayer for a blessing on them. Two; images were continually repeated throughout tgis fanatic’s address—he appeared to have no others—the fire of hell in| every form, and the blood of Christ. On these he raved | furiously till he was satisfied or exhausted, for he did stop at last. [ eould not see that he had produced wore effect at | the close of his address than at the beginning. The number of tue “ affected’ had not increased, and those round him looked on with the same expressiun of mere curiosity as if they were watching a chemical experiment. I could not anywhere observe any intermediate state between those who

the Chinese coast. We must assail the whole empire this time. | We must push our forces into the interior and storm the capi-| tal. And we must do all this, terrible as it ie, without flinch- ing or halting on any morbid pretence of mercy to simple hearted and unoffending natives. The lesson we are to teaeh must be a lesson to all—tothe Emperor, to his subjecta, to the! people of the coast, to those ef the interior, to soldiers and to | sailors, to old and to young. That lesson must he sharp, but | it need not be cruel, and its signifieance should be, not that! England is powerful only, but tiat she is jact and reasonable. | Trat she will insist on treaties being fulfilled, the Chinese | have much to gain and nothing to lose by their intercourse |

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»with her. This is not a consoling prospect for our Chancellor |

of the Exchequer. The war, from its distance and extent,. must be costly ; but the chiet burden must fail upon those.

who provoked it, and when the time for new conditions of |

|peace shall havo come, the wealth of China must pa e Pp pay t

piper. Even then the cost to England will be great, but not mure, We may well trust, than will be compensited by the advantage of opening China once for all to the commerce of the world.—London Post.

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Brocx’s Monumenr.— The height of the monument recently erected in Upper Canada to the memory of Major General Sir lsaune Brock, is 190 feet, excedding that of any monumental coldinn, aucient or modern, known, with the 6xceplion of that o: Fisb-street rill; London, fngland, erected by Sir Christo- ,pher Wren. architect, in commemoration of the yreat fire of

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THE GOVERNMENT AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS.

A little more than eight years ago, when public opinion was recognised, for the first time in this Colony, as the source of executive power, the public were taught to believe that it was not merely the duty of their rulers to conduct the affairs of state in such a manner as ee show how sensible they were of the source from which Mey had sprung ; but that information would be frequently diffused turough the accredited organs of the ruling party, with respect to the measures in progress or io contemplation, in order to give eflicacy to the hopes and expectations which heralded their instal:atton into office. That every reasonable effort was made to satisfy this belief, could be easily shewn by refer ence to the columns of those papers which reflected the sentiments of the late Government—the recorded proceedings of numerous public meetings, called, attended, and addressed by prominent members of tue Adminstration, and especially by a rapid glanee over the table of contents in the statute book, where it will be seen that before the Liberals were a month in office they had reared some valuable monuments to the cause of constitutional freedom. Their successors have been more than six mouths in office, and they have done absolutely nothing to justify the hopes their professions ot reform were calculated to excite. Their policy, their whole administrative ability, has consisied in the removal of every petty oflice holder withia their reach who was suspected to entertain a frieudly feeling for their predecessors. ‘They ol tained their preseat position in April, and such was jhe furious outcry agaiust thoir predecessors for the misconduct alleged to have been practised in every department of the state—the forlorn condition of the country was so pa:heti- cally lamentel by the sueces-ful candidates for power, that every One expectel, if nut the adoption, at least the introduc- tion into the Assembly of sowe great and startling measures of reform Not a thing was done, excepting a repetition of the long, old aud very stale talk, which of course ended as usual in nothing, avout making the Legislative Council ap eleotive body. ‘The Session, which ovcupied about two months, was a mere blank so far as any in_portant leyisla- tion was concerned. ‘The Bills passed were nearly all of a private nature—mere acts of [neorporation for Caurch and dther Societies ; und since the close of the Session nothing secs to have engaged the attention of the Exceutive—for silence as io measures in contemplation, if there be any, broods over the columna of their organ—but a vain effort to appease the cravings of theic followers after litt!e offices held by other individuals.

When the Liberals took office in 1851 they hid great difficulties to contend with. The sudden acquisition of popular power led to the anticipation of the most extravagant results. More than half a century of misrule had deadened the energies of the pubiic mind, aud placed the country ip an abject condition. The patronage of the Government was chiefly distributed amongst a favoured few, closely related one to the other, an! the revenue appeared to be collected for their espevial beneliit, with respect to the disbursement of which they coos:dered no one bad a right to call them to account, HKeform of all kinds was held to be syaonymous with rebellion, and the Briton’s right of descanting freely and openly ou public affairs was not simply ignored, bat the man who dured to exercige it fifteen years ago, within uearing of the dominant faction, was regarded as only fis for a placu in a Lunatic Asylum, or marked out for condign punishweat as incorrigibly vicious. ‘The struggie for Res- poasible Gevernment, however, commenced by a few fearless spiri.s, gave birtn to a strong public opinion, which became irresistivle at the general election in 185U, and je] to the overthrow of the ol] Family Compact Goversment in the following Spring. When this object was accomplished, the

nor the depository of vast experience; and as to politicat claims, we know not where and when he bas borne the heat and barthen of the day in political conflicts to such an extent as would entitle him to be single1 out as a hero in the Cone servative cause, wortby of its honours and its rewards. But the true secret of Mr. Breeken’s elevation is to be found in the fact, that he has a name aud character quite respectabla enough to appear as the holder of the office, and private means sufficient to enable him to live handsomely without covetting its emoluments, Another fact which helps to ex- plain the bestowal of the office on Mr. Brecken, is the cir- cumstance of his cousin and partner in business, Mr. Haviland, being a member of the House of Assembly, and of the Go- vernment. Now, we know that the office of Attorney General gives some prestige, and adds materially to the private practice of the lawyer who enjoys it. Mr, Heath Haviland

aud indirect manner, Who can doubt, therefore, that he and who can doubt, moreover, that be would use his parlia- wentary position ty enable that gentleman to retain it,— employing tur this object as much zeal, and as little reg for that ideal perfection which he professed so much anxiety ‘0 infuse into the representative body, ag if he himself were the holder of the office? Bat there 1» another cireumstanes which plainly shows that Mr. Brecken’s name has been merely used, in this transaction, as an instrument to subserve the designs of others. The Hon. Mr. Palmer goes the circuit, and attends principally to the Crown business in. all the Courts, It is true he may charge for services thus rendered in his capacity as Queen's Counsel ; but when he performs duties which it would not be necessary for a Queen’s Counsel to perform, if the nominal Attorney Generel did all his own work, we have every reason to express our beliefin the gene~ ral supposition that he pockets the lion’s share of the Attorney Generai’s salary; and who can, therefore, doubt that he-—aoy more than Mr. Haviland—would throw aside ail five theories with regard to the purification of the House of Assembly, and do his best to keep the office where it is, while it can be wade to bring bim a handsome addition to his own income,

In making these observations, we are actuate] by no hos- tile feclings towards Mr. Palmer or any individual member of his Goverament. Whtth regard to the Attorney General. ship, we know no man in the Colony who is more capable of discharging ifs duties; and so long as his party is in power, there is no ove who has anything like his cla'm to the office, We should be glal to see him in the office of Attoruey Gene- ral, under present circumstanecs ; nay, more, we do not envy him the emolumeats he enjoys even in the indirect manner in which they come to him; but we ask, would it not be more honourable to himself, aad more ereditable to the Gos vernment of which he is the leader, if he would take the Attorney Generalship at once in his own name—enjoy ell ite emoluments—do, as he is doing now, (neatly) all its duties, and emancipate himse!f from the trammels of a clique like the Political Alliance, which may, indeed, be said to have departed this life shortly after the decease of the Liberal Reform Association, but whose ghost, like that of Caesar in the teat of Brutus, conjures up an idea of its puissanee. If Mr. Palmer knew bis own power, as he ought to know, he would be convinced that those who have advised him against what we believe to be his better judgment, must rather sub- mit to Aim, if a trial of streugih should come, than he submit to them. In, wibtlyir ranks, search where you will, the Tory party bas no man who is capable of taking Mr. Palmer's place. I[!—while able to state and eafuree his owa terms— he is willing to remain the servant of a disjointed or defunct faction, for thesake of some paltry Ofiviat fees we for him, political oppoaent of ours though he be;

sacrifice at the Shrine of a faction, whose influence without his aid would seon fade like the baseless fabric of a vision,

public m.nd—thus suddenly iuvigorated and proud of tue | result oi ils exertious—jrew impatient uf delay in regener: | ating tue old and estsblisuing new institutions, Lt was not | enougi ty sweep away at onee the abases of loog arbitrary power, but it was deemed to be the duty of the incoming | patty so spee liy to eradicate the effects of the old despotism | aitou make men forget that it ever had an existenos. The land was couveried iuio one vast school of Liberal polities, | where the enthusiastic students saw the future of their beloved coun ry bathed im couleur de rose. Pascinaced | themselves by the prospect, the party just raised to office | word carried along by the curreat of popular feeling. The; | worked the affairs of state as if they thought they could | uever do enough to meet the expectations of their constitu-| euts, and they addressed themselves to their tasks with an | energy and determinatioa which betokened a latent fear that | their labours would never come to an end.

We have often thoaght that the Liberal Government per- | formed their work too rapidly, and did too much ia the first | two or three years after their advent to power, to secure for. themselves a long tenure of office. By hurrying on their | measures of reform in the morning of their oficial life, their noon aud evening Were givea to comparative repose. The public mind, excited by their first exertions, grew by what it fed on—new bopes and, aspirations were aroused —new ideas promulgated; and the couutry could not understand why the party in power did not display the sume activity in the last years of their adimiuistration as they did in the first. Want of exciting Work was wisiaken for the waut of energy 5 and this misconception, with other circumstauees, weakeaed the hold which the late Liberal Goverumeat had upoa pub- lic attention, ani prepared the way for the advent of a party who promised new aud startling changes in the Adminis- tration.

‘The questions now arise, What are the changes which the | successors of the Liberal party proposed, and how bave they redeemed their prowises ?

The first object was the total subversion of all that was. valuable in the new system of Goverument. ‘hey contended that the tlouss of Assembly would never be a useful and in- dependent body so long as any of its members were allowed to hold salaried offives wuder the Government. Tue receipt of pablic mo.uey, it was alleged, was incompatible with an honest discharge of their duties as represeatatives, aud made. them too easy a prey to the desigas of the Urown. ‘he parties who used this shallow -argument never, of course, condescended to shew what desigus the Crown could have in making servile tools of members of the Legis- lature. ‘Toe Laud Proprietors, abroad as well as at home, are the only parties who could bave an interest in corrupting the House of Assembly; and it requires no peuetration ‘ discover that never was there a majority in the lower House more abjectly prostrated at the feet of the proprietors than the majority of the present House, notwithstanding all their professions of independence, und the pretended sacrifice made by some of them in not having public offices of emolument. directly attached to their own wames,

But every intelligent man if the Colony knows right well | that this pretended puritication of the House of Assembly | by the exclusion of salaried officials, is practically a gross | delusion, It is scarcely necessary to cite facts in proof of! our ussertion, but a reference to one or two well known | things will not be trespassing tuo mach on the patience of | our readers.

Take, for instance, the office of Aitorney General, It has, been given to Mr. F. Brecken. Why? We are not aware that | he is the best lawyer at our Bar. We know he is a very

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‘young one—passably cleyer—not a prodigy of legal lore, |

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We will resume the consideration of this subject in our

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T ATTACK ON THE SHERIFF OF: KING’S COUNTY.

We learn from the Procesfant of Saturday last, that

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“while the High Sheriff of King’s County, John Smith, Esq.,

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12 day ‘ast eck on the road from Georgetown to Murray Harbour, iu the execution of his duty, several shots were fired at him from a wood. one of which killed his horse, but he himself escaped unhurt.”’ We are informed

or had made some seizure to satisfy a demand for

arrears of rent on the property of Laurence Sullivan, Esqr., for which the tion. J. Yeo is Agent.

No one can excuse or palliate such violence to a public officer like Mr Smith, who, we believe, is courteous and urbane in. the discharge of his disagreeable and oneFous duties ; and we hope means will ba taken to discover the guilty parties, and. inake them atone for the outrage. Bat we deem the Govern- ment si0uld be held responsible for the wide spread dissatis- faction whieh prevails throughout the Island with regard to the payment of old arrears of rent, and which has anhappily taken this criminal mode of making itself known by a das- tardly attack upon a civil officer ; because, at the commence- ment of their career, they assured the people that it was wrong for the landlords or their agents to exact old arrears of rent —that the people were entitled to haye them remitted to them; and that the whole question of landlord and tenant would be speedily settled by the appointment of a Commission. Views and promises of this nature were pompously paraded in the celebrated resolutions moved by the Hon. Col. Gray in the House of Assembly last Spring, which were carried by a large majority, when the gallamt Colonel assured the public that the long vexed land question would be finally settled in eight weeks. Mr. Yeo voted for those resolutions—his vote on that occasion amounted to a positive declaratio to exact the old arrears of rent ; them now

that Mr. Smith was about making,

n that it was wrong and if his efforts to enforce meet with a rather rude . resistance, he has no one somuch t) blame as himself. We hayo no doubt that the specious promises of the Government, and their bad faith with regard to the settlement of the Land Question—for we do not believe they ever intended to do anything in the matter—will load to a general refusal to pay rent, and especially long standing arrears ; but whatev@e cvurse may be adopted by the victims of the Government's bad faith, we hope they will not follow the example of the parties on the Murray Harbor Road, who have. yisited their displeasure on the unoffending eflicer of the law, and have thereby incurred ruinous penalties.

aoa a DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MORELL.

We learn that on Taursdsy night, the-Brd iostan', the valu-

able Household property, kaown as the “Moral! House, at

Merell, owned and lately occupied by the family of J. B. Cox, Was totally consumed by fire, houses on the premises

Keqr., Of the numerous out- Grea. og : ee of which wer? at a considerable ce from the Dwelling, only one escaped. It is said that a large quantity of grain was hkewise consumed. We undet-

stand that the property was pretty well insured.

shares in that private practice; and though be may not » pocket a pound of the Attorney General's salary, it is now’ doubt the means of bringing him many a pound in a private

should be anxious to get the office for his cousin and partner ;

are sorry and we shall regard him as the most remarkable instance of selfs”

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