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Correspondence.

APPOINTMENTS IN PRINCE COUNTY

Woodbrook, Sept. 27. 1899. My Dear Sin,—l would not trouble you with any farther motice of Mr. Joseph Murphy, were he not one ef the officials

appointed to replace better men by our present immaculate Government. J take the following extract from a low scurri- lous letter which appeared over his signature in a letter ad- dressed to.the Rdator of the ds/ander, published in that paper on the 9th instant:—** Ile must find something better to blacker the present officials than is contained in his complaint ugaiast me tv liis Exeelleney the Lieutenant Governor some weeks ago."’ I did prefer a complaint some time ago against this incompetent Commissioner, to the effect, that he permit- tel ye of his Overseers to demand the full amount of com- mutation money from aie, while he allowed all Others liable to perform statute.labor to get off with one and a half days’ work instead of three, as required by law, and some of the parties who were »werking for me at the time went to the roads at one o'clock, p. m., and returned the next day at the same hour. J wrote to the Commissioner at the time, com- laining of the injustice done to me, but received no answer. .then sont a eopy of the letter t> Mis Kxcallency, and [ am ro to substantiate on oath the truth of all L wrote; but have yet to learn that His Excellenéy refuses instituting an enquiry into what any honest man must consider a fraud on the revenue; for if the whole amauat of statute labor is not required to keep the roads in repair, the money granted by “the Assembly for that purpose thust be thrown away or mis- appropriated.

| shall now give you ashert histery of Mr. Joseph Murphy's withdrawal from the Liberal cause, in extracts from his ewn letters. They will speak for themsalyes. The whole hinges on my refusal to get bis name inserted in the Commission of the Peace contrary to the wish of nearly the whole settlement.

_In_1854, @ petition signed by only 22 persons, was sent to Sir D. Daly, praying that he would appoint a Magistrate on this Township, and with it an application from ‘Mr. Joseph Murphy for the appointment. ‘he application was referred | to me, and en finding out that several of those who signed the ye ition objected to the appeintmeng, en account of Mr. Joseph ga 8 overbearing disposition, J declined recommending jlin.

Extract ef a letter gigned ‘‘ Joseph Murphy,” dated 13th Nov., 1854 :— ,

‘+1 perceived a list of Commissioners of the Peace fer the three Counties, and throug! tho list of those appointed fer Prince County € did not see are a one appointed for Lot 11. It was not because I wag not appointed that I speak, as you might think jt is, qn aeeount of a letter which I sent some time ago to Lis Excellency, requesting as a favour to appoint some persen on our Lot as Justice of the Peace, stating to him at the same time the reason why in which one ought to be appointed. I also told His Excellency, if he thought proper to appoint me as one, that 1 should accept it asa great favour, und also be very happy to fill that situation.”’

Again :—** Idid not care who was appeinted en the Lot, so long as he wasa Liberal’’!!! ** The settlement is quiet, no doubt, but we can’t account for what may turn up.”’ *‘ It appears to me as if Lot 1) is to be cast off from the party a.together, for what reason I can’t tell, unless they are too liberal when the pinch.comes.” ** Now, Sir, [ will tell you the trath, and it is, ag thus: I did not care who was appoint- ed so long ashe was a Liberal. 1 do not care one straw tor it, or yet would not be the least displeased whosoever was ap- pvinted ; hut to say that we should not have one, it is a vexa- tion, and also a grievance, which we will not put up with.”

Again:—*‘* What did William Hubbard do that he should be eppainted a Justice of the Peace? Wasit because ho moved for Benjamiz Haywood to be one of the Committee to draft up an address for His Excellency—the greatest Tory that na be—that did not shew soundness, however it may turn gut.

In angther letter, dated lst December, the following passage occurs :—** And [ still think it is a very wrong thing, for he that ought to know our wants for to give us such a cold shoul- der. The fact of the maiter is this—we will never yield to such » principle, nor will we put up with giving us the go by atall. The Inhabitants of Lot 11 always acted Jike true men to the Liberal arty,’’ &.

And In pt oe letter of December, the following passage oceurs, which is quite sufficient to show the mean truckling

character of the subject of my letter, who would not only turn (more destructive rage, more desolating torrents of oppression, political apostate for office, but it is the opinion of many of | his neighbours that he would also become an apostate to his | faith, were the price given him for doing so :—** The present) jiecheap and the triangles—ihe assassin’s knife and the perjur-

system I always fought for and will still, if there never was u Magistrate appointed on the Lot. I would not turn a politi- cal apostate, although my request has not been granted.”

I regret troubling you so much on a subject of so little moment, and in all Probability this shall be the last time.

[ remain yours very traly, J. WARBURTON.

Nditor of the Examiner.

P. S.—In my last letter, degeribing the Post Office here, instead of patched you have printed ¢hatched. a...

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To tus Epiror oy toe Exawiner.

My Dear Sm,—By kindly inserting the accompanying letter, received by m2 from our mutual friend, in your issue of this day, you will oblige,

” Yours very truly, Ch. Town, Oct. 3, 1859. STEPHEN SWABEY.

13, Wartertoo Prace, Patt Mati, Lonpon.

Mr Dear Srepnenx,—My wife and [I were dreadfuliy shocked when we heard of the outrage committed on our poor little son’s grave. What wretches to disturb the sanctity of the ground aud break and sone under foot the emblem of our faith! J fully believe it to be part of the fruit of that intole- rant spirit preached and written to the people of the Island by clerical and other advisers; and now they have the result of the seed sown. A few years ago Prince Edward Island was an example to other countries ; all religious dwelt together in

yeace and unity, until that wretched, wicked newspaper was started {the Sanctified Press) by those whose proper mission was to preach good will, and which duty they performed by encouraging hatred, malice and all uncharitableness. — The Rugsians protect the graves of our braye countrymen in the East, also those of the Freach, though the prejudices of a rival faith must be often hurtful ; agd nobody can doubt the zeal ef the Greek Church. It remains for the Protestant zeal of Prince Edward Island to display a spirit a Turk or Jew syould not be guilty of. It will be a lusting disgrace to the authorities over the burial ground, (which has ajways been shamefully neglected), if immediate steps are not taken to discorer the author or instigator of as cruel and wicked an act as ever was perpetrated. The great hope of my life will be to remove the ashes of my only and beloved child to another country, where the resting places of the dead are protected from the despoiler. As to haying a Cross, you see rundreds of them in this couatry in the church yards; or if it was a superstitious error on our part to like to see the Cross planted at the foot of his grave, or to imagine that the white marble of which it was .omposed might represent the guileless life of one who died so young, surely the feelings of the stricken arents might have been respected, and no further pang been added to their grief in such a heartless manner. I cannot write any more, but will conclude with kindest regards to

your party and all friends. rewain, my dear Stephen, y

Aug. 4, 1359.

our sincere friend, T. A. MONTGOMERY.

We are sorry to observe that nothing has yet transpired whieh is likely to lead to the detection of the patties concerned in the shameful outrage which occurred some time since in our Protestant burial ground? Appeals to a sense of public pro- priety and good feeling respecting it have been made in vain, —applications, also, to the official authorities have failed of success, and eyen the meaner, but too frequently more power- ful allurement of a reward, has hitherto proved inefficacious ; the latter fact strongly inducing the belief that the perpe- trators of the offence are not to be looked for among the poorer classes.

The City of Charlottetown must, therefore, endure yet longer a reproach which no one apparently cares toremove. It would seem to be a matter of indifference to

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many ofits inhabitants that their meighbo nists, or the stranger who may yistt them,

‘live ; or, that the more respectable emigrant, attracted by the beauty and fertility of | | tling ina place where, should Lleaven deprive him of any member of his family, the reeord he might pipusly erect. to departed worth or holy inngcenee, should be ruthlessly | destroyed or defaced by cruel and sactilegious hands.

We have read a letter from His Lordship, the Bishop of Nova Scotia, to a member of one of the families so grieviously | insulted, rightly reproving the heartless indifference. and one

might add, unchristian apathy of the officials under whose ‘special safe keeping and guardianship our burial ground is | paced, in not strenuously endeavouring, at Jeast, tu discover ‘the miserable fanatics whdé have so ihdelibly disgraced the ‘community ; and at the same time sternly rebuking the whole

ody of church members of St. Paul’s congregation in their ‘silent acquiescence in this gross and brutal panAges Surel ‘the publication of Lis Lordship’s letter is advisable, as inti- |mating to those over whom he has episcopal authority the | opinion of ne set over them in the Lord.—Com.

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POSTSCRIPT TO MENTOR’S LETTER TO THE LIEUT. GOVERNOR. To tre Epirer.

Sir,—The promise to close your columns ‘* against further correspondence on this unplersant subject’? (Orangetsm) ap- pended to the first part of my letter of 2ad Sept., has emboldened Delta, the most worthless ef all the brainless scribblere who have attempted an answer to my letters, to appear in print, and therefore | umst apolegise to ‘* Junius’’ for having conceded the writer of Mentorisin whatever little abilityahe letter of «« Junius” displays,

The letter of «* T'elemachus”’ is too contemptible for even a passing notice. Public sentiment has already prejudged this opinion— ‘ ‘Telemachus,” no doubt, felt it an honour to be en- gaged in the coniroversy with “* Mentor”-—put in his plea to be heard as a disputant, but the public have ignored his right— told him to stand * aside,”’ and clear the arena for a combatant more worthy of the pen of * Mentor.’ ‘The miserable non- deseript whe writes in the plural we, and signs his |ucubrations with what was mtended for a letter of the Greek alphabet, is evidently the same pitiful, paltry plagiarist, mistakea for “ Junius,’ who | recommended with the last expiring ray of his poetical tight to write hisown epitaph. Yet, perhaps, there is no inconsistency in the we of his epistolary puerilities. Ad- mitting himself, clearly, to be a ** bigot,” ** fool” and “slave,” he writes in his threefold character, described by the noble poet, who, he adants, wrote “* some respectable versee,’’ but of course not equal to the funera! dirge of Miss Malouey.

‘The signature is the ¢rio in uno of the filthy outpouring of that envy, hate and malice, engendered, nurtured and matured in little minds, which prompt their possessor to hate a country, revile a creed, and d.ctate the threat of burning a Convent. ‘The opposing elements of physical force shall be like ‘* De- tenderism’’ versus * Peep-o'-Dayism”—defensive, not aggres- sive, and it will only be here as in treland when Orangemen shall have committed some flagrant acts of cruelty and barbarous injustice towards their unoffending Catholic fellow colonisis, that the Irish Catholic Celt, ** with the courage of his couatry,”’ will avenge the wrong and blot out the foul disgrace inflicted upon his creed and country. The Catholic, the frish Celt, like the champion of his race, Napoleon IIl., is not only “* the representative of defeat,’’ but also the heir to victory. The dark end evil days which weighed upon bis levely land, like shadows on the tomb—without one ray of lope of national re- surrection—have fled forever:—his race is now in the ascendan’, notwithstanding the van boast of ‘ Protestant supremacy,’’

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he removal from office of various, whorhave faithfully and efficiently” d to them ; but J think you mis” ntiments generally entertained by the Liberals if ir quiet eubmirsion to the high-handed acts uf the present administration to anything approaching an er | cence in, or approval, of, their proceedings. — After the ample proof given by the ‘Tories of their determination to set law a justice at defiance, in tie expulsion fiom the House of Assem- bly of Messrs. Walker and McDonald, the Liberals will not fee! surprised at any abuse of their power to keep shegsanians in office and the people im bondage ; and although the Liberals P their example in calling “ Indignation Meet-

have not followe as Sane aie ings,”’ whena cer has had to make room : “ew se not view with indifference

orter of the Governmen!, they do the acts of the present administration 4 and when the proper time comes, they will ‘be ready to tell them in unmistakeable language, that they have sought to promote their own aggrate dizement rather than the pablic benefit; and that the people have not forgotten that the holy name and cause of Religion has been prostituted —honor and justice sacrificed, and the poor inan’s rights and interests compromised, white the minions, who, reckless of conscience or charscter, lent themselves willing tools to their more cunning and no less wicked leaders, have been rewarded by appointinents to places of emolument or ixonor. Therefore, when you suppose that the Liberals of Prince Edward {sland have Jost all appreciation of justice or fair play, or can with indifference see the poor man’s rights in- veded, and the religion they have been taught to reverence made an engine of fraud and deceit, then, and not ull then, need you suppose that they acquiesce in or view with indiffer- ence the proceedings of the party now in power, But although any manifestation of public sentiment would be perfectly use- less, as far as influencing a party, who have so plainly evinced their determination to keep themselves in power by any means within their reach, yet the Liberals are not without work to perform. ‘They are aware that a Bill was introduced into the House last Session for the avowed purpose of rendering the Legislative Council elective, the effect of which would be-— supposing it to be framed in a spirit of honesty and fair play— to render that body either a useless vibration of the sentiments cf the other House, or a direet obstruction to every public measure originating therein. But the Bill now before the public has been prepared with all the art and deception whieh its originators are so welt able to practise, and provides that one-half of the Legislative Council shall be elected by the people of Queen’s County, which, as that County is under the controul of the proprietors, would give to the party Bow in power an opportunity of framing the Wlective Law so as to forever bar the other two Counties from having any effectual voice in the Legislation or Government of the Colony, and 8o keep themselves in the perpetual enjoyment of office, and for- ever stifle the voice of the tenantry’ with regard to the Land Question. Many of the representatives of the people of King’s and Prince County have lent their voice in aid of this deep laid plan for the political acnshilation of the two Counties, and the people’s only bope is in the firmness of the Legisiative Council, to whom let the Laberais unanimously express their sentiments relative to the Bill in unequivocal terns, by petition for its re- jection. And if the House of Assembly persist in their endea- yours to coerce. the Council! into a submission to sacrifice their country’s interests by withholding their pay, there are Liberals enough in Prince Edward Island who will be found willing and able to raise a fund to defray the expenses of the members residing in King’s and Prince Counties during their attendance at the Session.

Leaving these matters, for the present, to the consideration of yourself and your readers,

[ remain yours, &c., King’s County, Sept. 21, 1859.

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The land which the ‘* Orator King’’ cradled into independence by the power of his unequalled genius—the land followed by the same unpurcliascable patriot in a hearse to tte tosmb—the land which the eloquent intonations of her T'ribune’s voice, O'Cornel!, failed to awaken to a national resurrection—is not dead, she only sleepeth ; she has been gradually casting aside her sepul. bral siroud—bursting the manacles af her oppres- sion, and she will soon rise from the eahralment of centuries, with a new life, as the phoorx, fresh plumed frggp the fire. arrayed with robes of brightness—her glorious brow surrounded by the martyr’s cjown—for she has been faithful and true, hopeful and enduring, clinging to the old faith, straggling for her nationality, ‘* throngh centuries of wrong and ages of per- secution ;’* and, therefore, Irishmen need not fear the Orange bandits, al:hough they may have a foul field and great dis‘avor. They have been subjected to snore trying ordeals, to the fury of

‘than the ire of Colonial Orangeism, and they are still ancon- quered and invincible. Tue gallows, rack, and gibbet, the

er’s halter. during the rale in Ireland of the Clares and Beres- fords, the Norburys and Castlereaghs—the military murders of the peasantry—preached to by the Orange parsons in the tithe robbery of the people—the extermination of the rightful owners of the soil to wfford pasturage, to raise orthodox beef and mutton --the crow-bar brigade—the fever shed—poor house and emi- rant ship—the recruiting sergeant for the British army, and press gang of the British navy—the oceans of Irish Catholic gore shed to uphold the dignity of the British Crown through all the deadly strife in which Great Britain has been engsged in times beyond the memories of the present generation—and within the recollection of many now living, from the landing of ‘» Europe’s Chief,” Wellington, on the Spanish Peninsula, to the field of Waterloo—from the struggle on Alma’s bristling hill to the entry into, and occupation of, the south side of Se- bastopol by an Irish Catholic Regiment—from the late Persian, Chinese, and Indian wars and mutiny,—all, all, have failed to crush and exteriinate the Irish Catholic race. Luke the [srael- ites, they are a distinct peuple, the favorites of the Most High, subject to his rule, under his special protection—the landma-:ks —the beacons of Christianity. which neither can be extinguished nor removed. [t is, therefore, idle for the nondescript of the Monitor to threaten them with the Orangemen, “a fair field and no favour.’”? He would evince his leyalty to the Crown in a more becoming manner, to reflect with the writer in Ross's Weekly, if we “can defend ourselves (in case of French in- vasion) from a sinal] war vessel of ten or twelve guns—ascer- tain how many men could we in this Island send to the contemplated British North American legion’’—exert his very small talent in the poetical way—to secure a spirit of hostility against the foreign foe—instruct the rifle companies the best and safest mode of contending in mortal combat with the fiery Zouaves and dauntiess Turcos, who fight beneath the conquer- ing and invincible eagles of the Empire. This would be much more becoming in the present emergeney on the part of De'ta than either stirring up strife in a peaceable comnunity— lecturing on a smoky subject, to be laughed at, a jingling for the sake of being called Johnny. The public, however, have great patience with such creatures, and grant an iudulgence to the ** knights of the birchen rod,”’ (vzde * Ethelwoif,’’ in Ross’s | Weekly) which the kmghtless mulutude neither eonrt por value, These ** knights,’’ whether in commission, suspended or superseded, claim the same privilege of being impertinent that Admiral [ord Collingwood did when writing to his father- in-law as follows :—‘ Great aliowance should be made for us when coming on shore ; for being long in the habit of absolute command, we grow impatient of contradiction.”” And thus the public are treated, as if they were children by the Lords of the Ferule, who have been so long in the habit of * absolute command,” that they are ‘* impatient of contradiction.” Per- haps | should apologise for daring ** To brook the critic’s stern decree, And break him on the wheel he meant for me.”

No, I shall not apolog:se. I feel that fam the advocate of right, the denouncer of wrong; loyal to the Crown, a friend to the people, and inyincible in the ponoply of a pure conscience, and a mind free from guile. | fearlessly tel! the worthless tribe of scribblers, that--

* These men of fustian shall have blows enough,

And find they too are penetrable stuff;

And though I may not still unscathed go,

Who conquers me will find a stubborn foe.”

Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for the space already afforded, and hoping you will reconsider your promise to ** close your columns against further communications on this unpleasant subject, Orangeism,”’ { am, &c.,

Ch.Town, Sept. 22, 1859.

MENTOR.

To roe Eprrer or tas Examiner. Sin—!n the Exammer of the 13th inst., avd a previous issue,

To rue Eorrox or tHe Examiner.

Sin,—In looking over the numerous appointments of the present Government, I cannot refrain from passing a few re- marks on some of the officials in this section of the Island with regard to their incapacity. There is Philip Baker, of Bedeque, who proves himself to be one of the most incompetent Road Commissioners that have been in this district for the last twenty years, which can be clearly tested ; for he has not ap- pointed an Overseer in this precinct, consequently there has not been any statute labour done here this year. This proves a neglect of public duty, which is one of the greatest evils our little Island is subject to ; and when those honorable men who represent the people are aware of such evils, why not remedy them, and appoint competent, trustworthy men, such as the late incumbent, or others, who can be easily found in this District?

There is ancther appointment of J. P., which causes 8»me surprise here, as [ am credibly informed that an Hon. member who fills up a gap in the present Government said, ‘* we can- not with consistency and justice appoint him, on account of his unpopularity and short residence in the place.’’ I ask, then, can it be possible that this individual who vegetates about Hooper’s Corner, has as inuch control over them as the Hon. James Yeo, when he goes to Charlottetown, and comes home with his appointment? If so, where is this boasted in- telligence and consistency we so often hear of?

Yours,

Bedeque, Sept. 19, 1859. A CONSERVATIVE.

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Sir,—It is somewhat singular, yet not more so than true, that the first statesmen of England, and also of Prince Edward Island, should express the same sentiments with respect to the forcible introduction of the Bible into schools, and that the same law should exist both in England and here as regards the use of the Bible in schools.

By the following extracts from the ‘* Illustrated London News, of 6th August, 1859,”’ will be seen what the opinions of the British Premier and the Secretary for India are on this subje>t, and by referring to ttre debates in our Legislature will be found what the late ‘* Premier of P. E. Island’’ and also yourself, sir, sa:d on the same subject some months before :

‘* A deputation, having for its object the introduction of the Bible into Government Schools in India, had an interview with Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood on Saturday. Both the Premier and the Secretary for India urged that the adoption of the measure proposed by tho deputation would have-the effect of exciting the prejudices of the natives against Christianity. Sir Charles, however, stated that voluntary Bible classes either before or after hours were permitted under the present system.””

The hue and ery raised by the party out of office here about the Bible not being in our schools, and about the godless edu- cation of our population, gained its object by placing that party in power, who now evince aslittle zeal about the Bible, either in or out of schools, as if there were no such book in existence. The barefaced hypocrites! how long will the people of this Island suffer their hypocrisy ?

Ch. Town, Sept. 10, 1859.

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THE LAND QUESTION.

Tue Islander of Friday does us the favour to reproduce a

| gaged in trying t carry out the principles of the Purchase

Bill. We thought, and still think, that if the proprietors claims could be purchased at a moderate rate, the lossehald tenure would be converted into freehold much sooner than by the slow process ef escheat, and at quite as low a cost te the tenantry. We never advocated the delvsive doctrine that eveq if an Escheat Court were in operation, the tenantry could or should get the lands for nothing. If any land were ese

it would become Crown property, and those whe wanted it should pay for it in the same way as they would be required to do if it bad been purchased from the proprietor, in a man- ner similar to the purchase of the Worrell Eetate. While we held this view—and we still adhere to it —we could do nothing else than oppose the escheat agitation on the ground of its inexpediency. But when, two or three years ago, we saw the proprietors were unwilling to embrace the views of the loea} Government. with regard to a purchase of their estates ata reasonable price—notwithstanding the favourable disposition manifested by the Government of England to the earrying out of that policy,—and when we noticed their violent opposition to the Loan Bill, which was merely a supplementary Purchase Bill,—we began to think that a revival of the Escheat agits. tion was the only alternative ; and we expressed this opinion at considerable length in the House of Assembly two Sessions ago. The Islander, of course, finds it inconvenient to report any part of our speech on that occasion.

We are not quite sanguine enough to believe that the agi- tation of the question will result in the establishment of Court of Escheat. The proprietors have influence enough at the Colonial Office —no matter who is Secretary there—to get any number of despatches fulminated against it—the present Government would not, of course, dream of giving any en- couragement to it; and we doubt if the old Liberal Party, should they return to power to-morrow, would grapple with the question as they should. There must be a thorough waking up of public opinion on the subject—new party combinations must be formed, for which there are ample materials — and when the present Government are swept out of office by the whirlwind of public opinion brought to bear upon the Land Question, the country will haye attained to such a position as will compel the proprietors to listen to reasonable proposals for the conversion of their lands into small freeholds; and the British Government itself must either snuff out our legi¢g. lative independence, or make the proprietors conform to the will of the people.

The effrontery with which we are told that a revival of the Escheat agitation would be an act of rebellion against the Go- vernment of Great Britain, is only worthy of notice from the fact that it proceeds from the pen-of the Celonial Secretary, who, though not a member of the Exeeutive Couneil nor of the Legislature, by the force of assurance, backed by some proprietary influenee, ean make the Government of this country do what he pleases. We make the following extract from the Islander in which the extraordinary assumption is made, that, contending for a principle in opposition to a Colonial Office Despatch is an act of rebellion against the British Govern- ment :—

‘« We wonder how many persons are to be found at this day, in Prince Edward Island, even the most i and — of the Liberal party, who will read the remarks of the

ditor of the Examiner without, at least, a smile of contempt. Only imagine a majority of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island, in open rebellion against Great Britain!!!

‘* We trust that when the 1000 Rifles which, we understand, are on their way to this Island, are received, the present Go- vernment will take care that they are notseized by theleaders of the great Liberal party.’’ -

Now, since the Islander has given extracts from speeches made by Messrs. Coles and Whelan in the Assembly in 1855, we shall return the compliment by offering a few extracts from speeches made by the Hon. Messrs. Palmer and F. Long- worth on the same occasion, in which those two gentlemen— one a member of the present Cabinet, and the other an officer of the Government—shewed what little regard they had for Colonial Office Despatches, and how ready they were to as- sume that attitude which their organ now falsely construes into rebellion.

Mr. Longworth thus expressed himself in opposition to Ministerial Despatches, and in favour of Escheat :—

“T am dispos.d to go for a Court of Escheat, and when! say that, I do not mean to express the opinion that the lands are liable to be escheated.’’

‘*] am in favour of a Court of Escheat. I consiier that we are as much entitled to it as the people of Canada, New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, all of which Colonies have it as part of their institutions. And, Sir, I think there is © greater reason for it in this Island, as we know that by grants im- providently issued, the whole Island was granted in one day. Although the British Government may refuse to allow us Court, and the lapse of time since the date of the original grants, now some 80 years, may be considered as a a confir- mation of the titles of the grantees, I will advocate the Court, and I should wish to see a majority of this House in favor of it, in order to quiet the minds of the people and prevent any man or any set of men from making political capital out of the agitation on this subject.”’

‘* But with reference to the question itself, I maintain that although ministers may have refused to Escheat the lands, there is nothing in all the documents which have been cited to shew that the British Government would not sanction a Court of Escheat.”’

‘« It is our constitutionial right to have such a Court, and a8 I do not approve of the wording of the resolution moved by the Hon. Member, Mr. Cooper, I suggest to the consideratioD of the Committee the following :

‘That it is expedient to establish a Court of competent Jurisdiction to investigate and decide upon the titles of all Township Lands in this Island.’’

The Hon. Mr. Palmer used language quite as strong against paying ‘‘a servile respect to the Despatah of a Colonial Mivister,”? and admitted that the Colony had not only a right to demand Escheat, if the people desired it, but declared that the British Government could not possibly refuse it unde? the present system of administration, We make the follow ing extracts from his speech in the House of Assembly in 1855, which would prove him to be, if the Jslander’s interpretation of rebellion be correct, one of the most arrant rebels in this

large portion of the leading article in our last No., in which we alluded to the error of the Liberal party in not insisting, while they had the power, on the establishment of a Court of Escheat ; and with the view of showing how inconsistent we

are confronted with some lengthy extracts from speeches made by Messrs. Coles and Whelan in the House of Assembly in the Session of 1855, in opposition to a resolution moved by Mr. _ Cooper, recommending the establishment of an Escheat Court, which was seconded and warmly supported by a member of the present Government — Hon. Alex. Laird. We readily acknowledge that in 1855 we were opposed to Esckeat ; but we never denied the right of the people to the establishment of a

you complain of the apathy and apparent indifference manifested

; by the Liberals in this [eiamd at the unconstitutiona! formation , that it was inexpedient while the local Government were en- established, believe me,

Court of the character referred to. We endeavoured to show

have been, with regard to the agitation of this question, we! never pay such servile respect to the despatch of any C

part of Her Majesty's dominions :—

‘In the first place, Sir, I do not think that there is 0 weight in the angnets that because it has been hithe? ‘refused we should cease our exertions to obtain it. I shall

Minister, nor will l submit with blind and uncomplaining su” mission to the continuance of what I may consider to be ‘general grievance, merely because a Colonial Minister D4] _chodse to write a hurried despatch disapproving of my vieW* ‘One man is in office, as Colonial Secretary, ie , God knows who may hold that office to-morrow. It is no principle t & on, and if a hundred despatches from a hundred Colonial Ministers could be cited, all condemning a Court of Escheat as ae unconstitutional, I should give my vote for ‘the Court, if I thought it was a constitutional right. | 7 despatch is not and cannot be the law of the Colony, apd if thought it necessary, Mr. Chairman, that the Courts be I should be but little dismayed by the

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