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(To de continued.) R. B. Levixa, Reporter.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

Tvespax Arreryooy, March 27, 1860. LAND COMMISSION DESPATCHES. ‘Debate continued.)

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND—The whole subject of the land question had been »o thoroughly diseussed on the debate on the address, and had been so mixed up with almost every question thatit was worn thread-bare. Now, however, when there was a reasonable prospect of its being consign- ed to ** the tomb of all the Capulets,’’ the Opposition re- fuse to attend its ‘aneral, bust eadeavor to resuscitate it, se a war ery atan ther election. Lle was surprised at the leader of the Opposition, who objected that the Commis- sioners were not tied down by particular resolutions, but were left at liberty to establish a court of Exebeat if they saw fit. Theresolution was an attempt at o vote of want of confidence in the Government, which he did not believe the majority of the House would support. The Govern- ment would not be found to have exceeded their constita- tional powers in aJvising the letter of his Excellency—they had but carried out the spirit and intention of the House, whiei desired that every thing connected with the question of the relations between Landlord and Tenant should be ggone into by the Commission, and not merely one or two topics be submitted to its action. This course afforded a prospect of satisfying not only the old Escheator, but the recent converts to |iis creed, who, as is usually the case in sudden conversions, exceed in zealous attachment to their newly adopted doctrines the old believers. (Laughter.) When the ieader o! the Opposition now professed to have faith in the practicability of Escheat, he must have forgot- ten the conditions under which he took office in IS51. If that gentieman bad, he could refresh his memory by refer- ring him to the despatch of the 12th February of that year. If he suid that he was not aware of the existence of that despatch when he took office, be nmpeled himself upon the other hern of the dilemma, for he should have resigned when he discovered sech wus the law of the land, if be dis- approved of its contents.

Hon. Mr. COLES never heard that a despatch was equal to a law of the lan.

Hon. Me. HAV!LAND—It was when it referred toa constitution eman ting from the Sovereign.

lion. Mz. CULES had not takeo office under that des- patch.

Hon. Mr. HAV. LAND—The hon. member took oflice on the 23rd of April.

Hon. Mr. CGLES—The despatch had not been sent down at that time

Hon. Mr. UAViLAND—Bat the hon. member sanction- ed the contents by retaining office after it had been laid be- fore the country. It was not the mere ipse dist of Earl Gray, but the authoritative declaration of Her Majesty's Government. That was the charter under which the leader of the Opposition took office, and as he denied having done 80, he would ask him if he had ever seen the document?

Hon. Mr. CULES—Not for three days after assumicg office.

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND—Then asan honest politician he should not have sat at the Council Board an hour after he had seen it. He should have retired and agitated the cvuntry from one end to the other on the question, and not have continued in offive eight years under it: and it was only when he cou! i no longer drive the political coach that he became a convert to the doctrines of the hon. member Me. Cooper, and in 1858 came out with an address promi- sing his suppert of Eschoat. if he could only obtain a ma- jority at the approaching election. When he found that the power he had used tur self aggrandizement was about to pass from him, when the people no longer viewed him through « glass duckly, when they refused at length to bow the knee to Baal, he then was willing to become an Es- eheator, an advocate of a doctrine which no one had de- nounced as vehementiy as himself. Reference had fre- quently beea made to the shoes of the Proprietors, buat he was surprived that the leader of the Upposition should have appropriated the lung boots of the apostl: of Escheat, in making this extraordinary jamp. The hon. member must be content tu wait a while ere the people would be disposed to trast him agai The majority of the House would not vote a want of confidence in the Government, and charge them with untruthfulness in having represented that the negotiations were in w fair train towards a satisfact ny completion, whes they knew that the contrary was the fact. It was impossible co table all the correspondence till the matter was se'tled. Such a course was not usual until the object was un (at accompli. It was unfair in the Oppo- sition to berry tie Guverament, which had not been in power but a mont or two more than their opponents had been years, and did not, or could not, settle the question during their long t:nure of office. Appealing to the opin- ions of all honest men, he was willing that the conduct of the Government s!wuld be left to their fiat.

Lion. Mr. COL[:3 denied that ne had taken office under the terms of the despateh referred to. The correspondence made public up to the time of his forming the Government “n 185i, showed that the, only stipulations required by the imperial Government as conditions precedent to the con- cession of respons ble Government, were retiring allowances forthe then Attorney General and Provincial Secretary. After the formation of the new Government, he asked for the production of Despatch No.3. The Lieutenant Gover- nor replied thatit had been furnished him for iis own guidance and instruction. Despatehes were not possessed vf the immutable eharacter which the hon. mewber attri- bated to them. They differed materially one from the other with reference to the same subject. according to the vary- ing influences and Opinions for the time being at the Colo- nial Office. One despatch, for instance, intimated an in- tention of guwra: teeing the Loan; this was subsequently refused And the same argument would apply to the ques- tion of Excheat. When sir E Balwer's despatch recom- mended an enquiry into the whole question of the landed tenures, the principle of Escheat was virtually conceded. The resolutions iopted hy the Louse, and based on the sugzestions of that despateh, were not intended by those who passed them to be of no effect whatever. Ue felt not the desire for power which the hon. member had attributed tobim; and as fir as bis allasion to self aggrandizement waa concerned, lis allusion was much more applicable to that gentleman |imself,and to his immediate friends. Le, (lium. Mr. Coles) had lost money by accepting office.

Hon. Mr. HAVILAND—The -term * aggrandizement”’ did refer exclusively to money.

Hon. Mr. COLES had been-amased at the anxiety mani-

fested by the hon. member lest some of his supporters ahould support the resolution. He had eautivned them against so disistrous 4 course, as involving the loss of their present position. His colleague, the hon. Mr. Longworth, had labored tu prove that the language of the speech was jestified by the f.ets. Liis arguments would go abroad and the people might judge for themselves as to the sufliciency of his arguments.’ The truth was that the Government was rather surprised that so much stress had been laid by the opposition on the improper introduction into the speech of the expressiun ** graciously received.’’ The Government bad managed in the debate on the address to get one or two zountry members to vote in recognition of the truth of it, and they would of course pursue the same course now. 4s tu the authority of a despateh, he would allow the country to judge of the comparative merits of the opinions of two legal gentlemen, members of the Governmeat. ‘The Hlouse had already heard that of the hon. member Mr. [avi- land, and he would now read that of the leader, Hon. Mr. Palmer, as enunciated by him in 1855, when Mscheat form- ed the sutyject «f discussion: —* I shall never pay such ser- vile respect to the despatch of a Colonial Minister, nor will I submit with Lind and uncomplaining submission to the continuance of what I may consider to bea general gric- vance, merely because a Colonial Minister may choose to write & harried despatch disapproving of my yiewe. One man is in office, as Colonial Secretary, to-day, God knows who may hold that office to-morrow. It is no principle to g° on, and if a hundred despatches, from a hundred Colo- nial Ministers, could be cited, all condemning a Court of Escheat as uneonstitutional, | should give my vote for the Court, if L the:ght it was a eonstitutional right. A des- patch is not ari cannot be the jaw of the Colony; and if I thought it neerssary, Mr. Chairman, thatthe Court should he established. believe me, [ elould be but little dismayed by the refusal of a Colonial Minister. 1, Sir, would never submit to sucl dictation, but would take my position on the higher grognds of iny right asa British Preeman.’’ Of the two opinicns the country, as I Lave said, may pre- fer which they please. As to myself, Lam dispvsed to adopt that of hon. Mr. Palmer.

Hion Mr. YEO regretted that the Commissioners were not here, and that the whole question was not already subwit- ted to the inv«stigation of three disinterested gouticmen. Phe tesantzy would have cause to rejoice ifsuch were the ease, fur by t). @ time they must be satisfied that such mea- sures as the itent Roll Lax Bill and the Loan Bill were abanduned—and what better could they expeet than would result {rot the proposed Commission! ‘Lhe late Govern- ment wanted to borrow £100,000, which the Tenantry were to re pay. Low could they do so while they were waable to pay their rents? ‘The agents had often offered to give op the buick rents—he himself bad agreed to relinquish ‘the arrears duo on Lot Gl, if the Denants would pay one

year’s rent, and his offer wags not complied with. What more favorable terms could be expected he was ata loss to conevive, unless they hoped to get the land tor nothing and have seed purelbased and sown for them.

Mr. SINCLAIR—The resolution called attention to the contrast between the speech and the despateh, on whieh it was hut reasonable to infer that the paragraph nnoun- cing that the address had been graciously reeeived, was foun led. Ifsuch inferenee were correct, be could not un- derstand how any Government could produee such a docu- ment. Last year he considered the address and the resola- tions as being equally silly. Ile said then that it would be superfluous to ask the © ymmission te become suppliants to the Proprietors, on behalf of the people— that if begging had to be performed, they could do it themselves, without the intervention of a Commission. The Duke of Newcastle took the same view, and the people ought to be grateful to him for his sagacity. He returned the address to prevent the Llouse making a fool of itself. Ue foresaw that no good would result from what the Heuse had done, but he then did all he could—he called a mee ting of the Proprietors to ascertain what concessions they would be disposed to make. fais was as much as the Commission could do. The Go- vernment had not yet received the answer, but the Colonial Minister has, and knowing what the Proprietors intended to do, he said that no good would result frei the mode of procedure ad ypted by the House, [fa properly constituted Commission had been asked for,some Just and equitable ar- rangement might have been entered and Go- yernment needed nat in that case to have assumed the right

te that the Louse of Assembly did not intend to eir- tibe the powers of the Commission, when the very

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prayer of the uddress specifies the particular objects sought to be attained through the Commission. Low then could the Government venture to assert that the House had not

had said! have brought the before the consideration of the House before proceed-

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Mr. UOWAT~—The hon, member, notwithstanding that he characterized the address as foolish, had voted for i; and he now showed but little regard for Consistency, by ‘deerying that which, last year, he had Supported, lie (Mr. Howat) bad supported the ad iresa which by request- ing a Commission to lavestigate the ** existing relauons’’ batween Laodlord and Tenant, expressed the opinion of the House that the Land question in all its details should be submitted to its action. Ihe Commission would const.tute a Court of Haquiry, which differed trom Escheat, inasmuch us the latter would be based on the principle of forleiting all the lands in the Island for nonfulfilment of the eondi- tions of the original grants, and without reference to the several royal indulgences, This he was opposed to, buta Court of Enquiry was necessary. asin the cases of s.me lands, it was supposed that the titles were defective. The leader of the Opposition bad assumed that the Commission- ers would, as a matter of course, decide as the Proprietors might wish. While there was nothing to justify such an opinion, if was unfair to prejudge the Commission; and be- heving that honorable and disinterested gentlemen would be appointed, he thought it unjust to anticipate their deci- sion. The drstduty will be tu ascertain the rightful owner, and having done that, they ean decide on the amount of arrears of rent to be remitted and the terms on which the lands may be parehascd. Ue would like to know what ar- rangement was contemplated with reference to the expen- ses, whether the Tenants or the Proprietors or the Goyern- ment were to bear them.

Hon. Col. GRAY—The question had not yet been deei- ded. It had, however, been proposed that the Imperial Government should pay one third, the Proprietors another, and the Colonial Government the reutainder.

Mr. HOWAT—IHlis reason for asking the question was that he had heard it stated thata tenant disputing unsue- cessfully the title of the landlord, would have to pay the expenses, which might be ruinous to him; but now there would be no cause of anxiety on that account. He con- sidered that the Government bad acted wisely in stating that the [ouse did not wish to fetter the Commission, for if they had adhered tu the terms of the address as forming the basis of the Commission, the whole affiir would tave fallen through, and they rightly interpreted the sentiment of the [louse when they expressed the hope that the object specified might not be lost sight of. The delay which had taken place afforded no ground of discouragement. Every thing appeared to be progressing favorably, and he trusted the business would soon result beneficially to the country.

Mr. BEER—It was admitted by all that the negotiations were pending, and when the hon. member Mr. Coles con- sidered that the publication of despatches caused of the Land Bill, his desire to have the correspondence con- nected with this subject laid before the House, might be at- tributed to a wish that the Commission should be a failure. It would be premature to expect that the matter should have been completed already; if nothing definite shuuld have been made known when the House should have met next session, the request for all the correspondence vould wich propriety be made. The late Gyvernment had failed to settle the Land question in eight years, yet they cavil atthe present for uot having disposed of it in as many months. The Opposition asserted that the Government were throwing dustin the eyes of the people. Such practice was common to themselves when in power, and at the eve of a general eleetion. On such occasions the constituency heard much of Free Lands, the Fishery Reserves, and the Quit Rents. But at present no general elsction was at hand, and, if they were so disposed, there was no necessity for the Government to follow the example of their oppo- nents. Ife would be sorry to think that any one would give the hon. member Mr. Coles credit for sincerity in his pre- sent advocacy of Escheat. If it were, as that gentleman had stated, that a Coart of Escheat could be established without reference to the home Government, why was it that he did not institute it during the eight years of bis tennre of power? Ifit were false, why did he make such assertion? Ile well knew that the Imperial sanction was requisite. As for himself he gave the present Government eredit for being actuated by good intentivus, and was willing tu await the result.

Ilon. Mr. COLES had never expected much sympathy or support from the hon. member, who, although he might profess unboanded confidence in the Government, bad but little liberty of action as a member of the House. Ile had been sent there by the political alliance, and was bound to obey their instructions. With reference to his not having established a Court of Escheat during the eight years of the late Government, he had endeavored to settle the Land Question by moderate means, but his measures had been thwarted, and when the Loan Bill was refased, he consider- ed that the only practical method left, was the intervention of tweive men as a jury ina Court of Escheat. The Pro- prietors might be represented by six and the Tenantry by a like namber. But tow would the Tenants be represented in the proposed Commission? The hon, Mr. Yeo, a mem- ber of the Government, and Mr. Doase, another proprietor, repudiated any interference with their properties by the Comimissicners. That proved how small a chance the tenantry were likely to have from the operation of the Coia- mission. He defied the hon. member, Mr. Beer, to prove his assertion that he had ever promised Free Lands to the people. The report of the Commission would not be bind- ing on the parties to be affected by it, unless it were adopt- el by an Act of the Imperial or Local Legislatures. lia court of competent jurisdiction were constituted to try the question, an appeal would lie to the high iegal authorities in England, in whom he had every confidence; but before the Couimission where would the tenants find an advocate, except perhaps in the hon, member Mr. Cooper!

Te he continued. - 0 —_-—— SUMS VOTED BY THE LEGISLATURE FOR TUE KELIEF OF PAUPERS. KING'S COUNTY. Resolved, That the sum of Five Pounds be granted and paid

to the Rev. P. MePhee, St. Andrew's, for the reliel of the following destitute persons, ia his Mission:—

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Widow Doyle, Bireh Hill, £A 5 0 Widow MeAdam, Savage Harbour, 015 0 Mary McDonald, 015 0 Patrick Kirvin, St. Peter's, 0:15" @ Widow McBachern, Savage Harbour, 015 0 Catharine Walsh, Lot 33, 015 0

£5 ¢ @

Rsolved, That the sum of Seven poands Five Shillings be granted and paid 10 Join E. McDonald, Esq , Liitt!e Pond, Grand River, Lot 56, for the relief of the foliuwang persons: —

Jane Steel, Grand River, £210 0 Geerge Blackett, 7 210° 0 Catharine Brown, 2° 5° 6 STs 9 Resolved, That the sum of Seventeen pounds Fifteen Shil- lings be granted and paid to Joho Sutherland, Esq., forsthe relief of the tullowing persons:— Donald MeDonald and Wife, £1 15 Mary Daly, Morell, 2 0 Angus Wilson's blind sen, 1 0 Widow Berigan, Morell, a.e Widow MeNeill, Cablehead, 1 uv Widow Larkin, Bay Fortune Road, 0 10

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Mary Miller, Bay Portune Road, 015 Mary Ryan, Morell, . Widow Calien, — do., i, Mary Cocliran, do., 1 o Harriet Nichols and daaghter, ‘ 1 @ Jeremiah O'Brien, Morell, 9 Michael O Farrel, Cardigan Road, aA 15

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Widow Pvor, Bay Fortune Ruad,

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Mary Morrison, Cablehead, 010 O Wilham Walsh's son, Bay Fortune Road, 1 Mrs. Morphy, Moreil,

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Resolved, That the som of Nineteen pounds be granted and placed at the disposal ot William Macgowen, Esq., for the reliefel the following persons, provided they stand in need

of public sopport:~—

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Placentia Chaisson, widow,

Uniece Claisson, widow, ; 6 .¢ Gilbert Busty, 8 © Angela Bushy, widow, se Rachael Cheverie, widow, L<6-,8 Charles FuzPatrick, Line Road, : 2. Palage Chaissoa, 015 0 Reebael Maltlien, Souris, 1-OE@ Ellen Matar, Head of Seuris, 2 eo Charlotte Obeveree, Souris, i -0--@ Angellie Pocquet, at Arctange) Peeqgnet, 15.0 Widow Henderson and duughter, we, BA Lacy Bushy, Souris, 015 O Mary Bushy, Souris, 015, 0 Widow McCully, Green Vale, eo. 2 James Totty, Souris Beach, ee ee Martha Cheverie, widow, Souris, 2. 2. Wiiliain Cummings,Chapstow, 1 10. .0

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Resolved, That the sum of Kleven pounds be granted and placed atthe disposal of the tlon, Angus Melatyre for ihe reliet of the following persuns, provided they stand io need of public support: —

Anabella McDonald, ie Nancy Mclines, fate of French Village, “ie: © Widow of Angus MeDouald (Siow), ew Widow Ford, North River, oe Widow Melanes, from Tracadie, 2S Michael MeLeod, for his son, oo" © Widow MeAutey, Line Road, Lot 45, 7 ee Catharine MeDonald, Lot 45, roe 9 Lauchtin Gillis, for his blind son, a... © Naney MeDonald, Lot 44, ce. Gaspard Lanley, Lot 45, : eo

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Resolved, That the sum ef Seven pounds Ten shillings be granted and paid to the Rev. Mr. Mauro, Brown's Creek, Lot 57, for the relief of the fo'lawing persons:—

Widow MeLean, Douse’s Road, Za 'O: 9d Margaret McLeod, Douse’s Road, Peter’s daughter, 1 10 Ann MePhersen, iit @

Widow Wiliam Brace, 110 0 Flora McLeod, 1iv O £7, 10 @

Resolved, That the sum of Six pounds be granted and paid to Mr. Samuel Moore, Lot 61, for the relief of the Griffia ~ family. Resolved, That the sum of Seventeen pounds Ten shillings be granted aud paid to Mr. Jubnston Aitken, Three Kivers, for the relief of the following persons:—

Miss Suckles, £110 0 Catharine Lamont, > “@ Peter Crawford, 210° 0 James Creed aud Sarah Cahill, for Clayburu’s children, 110 0 Rachel Bruee, :* 0-2” Widow MePthee (Murdock,) 110 0 Widew MeQaeen, 110 0 James Conners, blind man, to enable him to leave the Island, 7. Ellen Cowan, i 1¢ «0 Isabella Cameron, ¥ 0 Sarah Rice, i.@70 E1740. 0

R solved, That the sum of Nine pounds be granted and paid to James Bell, Esq , White Sands, for the relief of the fol- jowing persens:—

Alexander McLeod, High Bank, £1 10 “@ Alexander Gillis, for son, High Bank, iw *e Angus Nicholson, High Bauk, 110 Ifie MeLean, do., ie Lauchliu MeLean and wife, Lite Sands, 210 0 anu ¢

Resolved, Viat the sum of Seven pounds be granted and

placed at the disposal of Mr. William Robertsun, Grand

Liver, lor the relief of the following persons: — To Jolin Garnett and wife, ch @ . 0 Donaid NeLean, Duudas, 2 0.0 L711 Or ®

Resolved, That the snm of Tea pounds Ten shillings be granted and placed at the visposal of tive Lon. Jotin Gof, for the relief of the following persons: —

To Frederick Shephard, Cardigan, £210 0 Widow Angus McCormack, oe eS Widow Sarah Williams, 9°06 Ficra Crawford, ie lS Sally McLean, De Gros Marsh, N. Side, $s 6'0

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R solved, That the sum of Eighteen pounds Ten shillings be granted and placed at the disposal of the Hon. James Me- Laren, New Perth, for the relief the following persons:— To Atexander raser and son, New Perth, ce o's)

Edward Wilson, Lot 52, 200

Catharine McLennan, Lot 53, St. Peter's Road, 3 0 0 Christiana MeSween, Pisqaid Road, Lot 52, 110. 0 | Widow Sarah McDonald, Union Ruad, or Widow Flinn, Lot 52, 9 ae Barbara McKeozie, Sparrow's Road, , owl Mary Redinond, Lot 52, Montague, je. Ciristiana McKetlick, Lot 53, - ¢ 2. £18 10 0 |

} Resolved, That the sam of Fonr peunds be granted and

placed at the disposal of the Rew. R, T. Roach, for the relief | of the following persons:—

TAS PS.

SA TUNE TEP DE LAV DENN

done by the late Goveroment previous to the purchase of the| If his Lordship sbould be made answerable | for the arrears of Quit Kents, whieh is a debt justly due to ithe Colony, and the payment of whieh the Government have | the power to enforee, the balance of the purchase money, in exchange for the estate, will amount to a mere trifle, if any-| ~

Worre}] Estate.

thing at all. Yours, &c.,

May 19, 1860. GEORGE COLES.

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“When evil strives the worst baye greatest names.’ THE NEW COLLEGE.

To tue Epiror or tur Examiner.

a ° . . ' Str—Such important meisures as the Legislative enact- |

ments recently passed in reference to education, aud more particularly the establishment of a new College in this | Colony, certainly demand the serions consideration of the public. Having considered the consequences which will probably follow these measures, and finding that I eannot agree with all that has been arged in favor of them, I pro- ' pose to offer some observations upon the subject, reminding the reader, before he decides in bis opinion regarding the conduct of the Government in this affair, of the truth coa- tained in the motto placed above this letter.

| <A few years since, when some Reverend Gent!emen— strangers ip the Island —interfered with the happy working of our Free Educational System, and proposed to establish a College with Protestants alone, as professors, Mr. Dunean McLean, the late talented editor of the Is/ander, which then /represented the views of the far greater portion of the Con- servative party, derided the selfish project of the innovators, | for which he justly reeeived the respect ofthe public. But | when the star which guided the once respectable Conserva- itive party had set forever, the little lights of intolerance

avain beyan to gligmer, aud fearing that they would inflame |

the ignorance an prejudice of their deluded admirers, the

|Government have shown themselves less liberal than the valleged despotism of Austria, in meddling with our whole system of education, and passing precipitately a Bill to es- tablish a College, from which a large portion of our popula- tion can derive no advantage,

‘The measures alluded to have been indecently passed into |

law, while one-half of the members of the lower brauch o! the Legislature were absent, and when the Session was with- in a few days of being closed. Though there was no oppor-

tunity afforded for the expression of public opinion on these.

educational changes, yet it behoves the people to speak out, /even now, and Jet the Government know whether or not these measures have beea conceived in wisdom, and prove themselves determined to watch whether or not they will be executed with justice. That the establishment of the Prince of Wales College will benefit any considerable number of persons in this Island is extremely doubtful, and that the Government, through ther Board of Edueation, wil) be par- tial in wielding their power, we have good reason to fear.

[ have hinted that the late Mr. Du»ean McLean laughed at the notion of barthening the Colony with the expenses of a new College, when it is evident that the Central Academy is capable of meeting the bighest educational desires of all, except a few pompous geatlemen who want professors ‘chairs,

,and some other persons who wish to have their sous edaca- ted at the expense of the country. Since the death of the late editor of the Isdander, the Government seem to bave no wan of suffviest talent and courage to direct their councils in av independent and honorab!e manner, They are drifting into the grossest absurdities, for never did a journalist com- nit sO egregious an error as the present editor of the Islander 'n fo.lowing the steps of the intolerant persons knowa as the Protector party. The maniy independence of Mel.can

would have averted this state of things; but now the | 22a ' Islander and the Government dance about to whatever tune | during all bis lite, a staunch Free-trader.. The Baron put an

the Reverend * Gentlemen like to play. The Governmen: consequently must establish a new College ia order that these ‘disinterested gentlemen may get more remunerative chairs than their Jato editorial ones. The geutleman who has taken the lead in spurriog on the Government to esta- biish the Coilege, is suid to be the Rev. George Sutherland, who has writien some heavy platitudes ou some uncommon | place sub'ects for the patient readers of ‘the s« mi-seeular, | semi-sanctified press, and has otherwise shown his capacity to become a professor of a College wherein mixed seets are | to receive an education, by delivering discourses remarkable | for nothing but for their pompous s'yle and sectarian bias.

Clerk ef the Exeeutive Council, in erder, [ presume, to make | way for the new profe-sors, and that he is filling the seeond- mastership in the Academy at the same time that he is at- tending to the duties of his new office in the Colonial | Building!

Electors! who have been burthened by the present Go- | vernment with an additional taxation of nearly £10,0 annually, and especially you greatly deceived schoo!masters, |

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of the Pontifical Government, is looked upon as an impor

he Cxraminer, Charlottetown, P, Tie Lee May 22, 1860, nepeag ee

LATEST NEWS FROM EUROPE.

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Tux British and Foreign Mails arrived here on Friday morning last. We are indebted to our worthy contemporary, the Halifax Evening Express, for the following well selected summary of the latest news.

There have been rumours of plots against the E-mperog Napoleon, and it is singalar that Radio, one of the four per. | Sons concerned in the Orsini tragedy, is now in London, [fe ihad been banished to Cayenne; Lut the Morning Star an. _founces that he is at present ia London, adding—* There jg (certainly a mystery about it.” [t is also asserted thata revolutionary committee of Ltalians in London have dese _ patched two practised as assins to attempt the life of Genera} \de Lamoriciere. Lndeed, it is believed that the Duke de 'Grammout, the Frev¢h Ambassador in Rome, has apprised |the Pontifical Government of the existence of a p'ot agaiuss | the life of the General. | The approaching dissolution of the Tu:kish Empire tas _been so repeatediy fyretold, that it is not surp'sing for us te hear that affuirs are rapidly approaching a erisis. In anti. (cipation of this event, it is asseried by the Journal de Gen /neve that General Fleury, aide-de-camp of Napoleon LIL, (has ben commissioned to propose to the Bag'ish Govern.

ment an entire division of the Mast between France, Kugiand, — | Russia, and Austria, according to a project long since de. vised by the Emperer. :

A rumour prevails in Madrid which is likely to be well founded, aud the issue of which will spare the Queen the necessity of shedding royal blood. Tae Count de Monte. }molin and his brother, both convieted of Leing concerned in | the late plot, are ready, it is said, 10 gveup their claim tg the throne, and aceept the legtimaey of the Queen of Spain, The affection which the Qucen must naturally entertain for | her relatives will induce her to wish for acceptance of thig offer, and the pretenders to the erown will thus be saved.— | Marshall O’Douneli bas arvived ia Spain. and is no doubt a

consenting pariy to this arrangement, which seems to be accepted as a satisfactory solution of a grave aud difficult | question,

There appears to be some truth in the rumor as to the | wish of Belgium to obtain a fuoting in the Kust by the par- chase of the islaud of Cyprus, for whieh it seems the Porte | bas been offered forty millions of franes, a very acceptable sum in the present state of the Turkish Empire.

_ From Austria we receive intelligence of organic changes ia the Goverament, and almost simultancous the news of the death of Baron Bruck, the Ausirian Finance Minister, The deceased Baron (whose death bas been so sudden) rose to the emiuent and responsit.le position he filled for a Jung time {rom a comparatively humble station of life. Born in Prussia, he translerred his allepiance at an early period of his life to the Emperor of Austria, getiing into the employ of the Austrian Loyd at’ Trieste. He commenced his poli- tical life as a journalist, contributing to the German com- mercial journal, then published at Trieste, the Austrian Lloyd, wioze domicile was at a later period transferred to Vienua, llis great knowledge of the Symptoms indicative of the state of the money warket in Austria and Germany Subsequently procured for him his entry into the eareer of a financier. Iu questions of tariff reform Baron Brack was,

end to his own life, and is the fourth Aastriar official who bas committed suicide. It appears that the Baron was dis« missed for complicity in the s,stem of frau ls upon the state funds, which, as the Times says, “seem to have extended from Bohemia to Trieste, aud he he bas expiated his offence by cutting his throat, afier having, as is suspcctel, swallowed poison.”

We are g'ad to soe it stated that a prospect exists of the differences between France, Eagland and China being settled without the intervention of arms. The Western Powers have made a proposition to the Chinese Goverument, whieh, if promptly assented to, wil] render war unnecessary ; and

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| It appears to me, that notwithstanding the additional ex. | *? Certa n is the Home Government of this Proposition deing 4.

| penses which will be incurred with the new College, there | favorably received, that the Duke of Argyll bas been tem ;

| will not be any material- improvements effected in the pro- | Porari'y appointed to the office of Postmaster-G enera! during = ‘posed establishment which might not be introdachd with less | ‘he atsence of Lord Elgin. It is expected that Lord E —, expense into the Central Academy. Neither law, medicine, and Baroa Gros, wheu ney reach Keene teen : nor divinity are to be studied in the Prince of Wales Col-) rh doa that, the organs oil return home; if the =. leze,and the only additional branches proposed which were a ee aed acceptcd, they wiil coutiuue their journey, and R not taught in the Acadeary, are the German leaguage and | 4

at : coo the war will go forward. é

mataphysics, with longer time devoted to the Greek and, . yy . Lavin classics. Iu this place I must be candid to admit | Lord Clyde, (says the Army and Nary Gazerte,) has been g that a gentleman of polished manners and pleasing address | relieved of the command in India, and may be expected in : was required, who would devote his whole time to the duties | England earher then was anticipated by those who were es

of the head-mastership.of the Academy. I have been credi- /aware, some time azo, that his Excellency intended to remain « bly informed that the time which should be given to the | another year in India, It is probable that his lordship will .

‘instruction of the pupils, has been often devoted by Mr. arrive ia Englaud next July, Kenny to his own private banking transactions. Again, the There are rumors of probable changes in. thé Pontifical e

| secoud.tnaster should be a person of intelligeuce and ability | Government. It is said that a project of reform is about to who would also attend to the duties of his office. But it) §. submitted to the Pope by M. de Coreelles, who is spoken appears that lately Mr. Donald Currie tas been appointed | of as likely to be appointed Home Minister. The :

possible

retirement of Cardinal Autonelli bas also been mentioned.

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The nomination of Monsignore de Meorede as War Minister

tant event. His relationship and intimate friendship with General Lamoriciere will secure the most harmonious co-

‘operation between them.

The Duke of Modena has placed his army at the disposal =

Mrs. Hillman, seor., Georgetown, £110 © | who will shortly be required to repass for muster that Board | of the Peutifical Goveroment. Tuis example has becn fol Mrs. Drysdale, Georgetown, 1 O O | of Education, who will, with jealous and [ fear partial eyes, | lowed by the officers onl scldiers of th» Dacheas of Parma Mrs. Seow, do., 110 © | examine your little knapsacks of knowledge before they give | and those of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who have remained — Do) [soua certificate wherewith to earn the paltry pittance of | faithful to their standard, all of Whom ara about to join the

£50 a year, mark the fact—and if you find it correct, cut it! i apal forces. The “opT Gare material of every kind belong-

‘a ta. a | out and keep it in your carpet bag till next General Elee- | ing to the Duchy of i arma, and which is deposited at Gorves yondence - | tion—that Mr. Donald Carrie receives £150 yearly for not | Og In the erres of Mautua, is also to be placed at the.

i fof ] a | attending to his duties in the Academy, and £100 yearly, [| isposal of the Pontifical Government.

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To tue Eprror or tox Examiner.

Str—I observe in the Islander of last Friday week, a\ statement to the effect, that the editor bad been informed, on | the best authority, “that some months previously to the| purchase of the Worrell Estate, Col. Gray enquired of Mr. | Coles the amount the Government would be willing to give’’, Tae Islander adds: « The Colonel was. assured by Mr. Coles that £3,000 sterling was the utmost, the Government would give for it.’ Now, if ever I expressed | an opinion on this subject to any person, it was to this effect, |

versation with Col. Gray on that or any other subject from the time of the Fairy Queen meeting, in the autumn of 1853,

considerable space of time. ing referred to, the Hoi! & Palmer blished, of which Col. Gray was a member, and continued in

until 1854 the Worrell estate was known to be in the mar-

tenantry, and save it from becoming a prey to the rapacious designs of Messrs. Pope, DesBrisay and Morton.

The Islander statcs that there will be a loss to the Colony of two-thirds of the amount paid for the purchase of lands by the late Government. Ti this be the case, what will be the Joss on the purchase of the Selkirk property? The Wor- reli Hstate and Lot 11, taking both together, cost the Go- vernment only about five shillings currency an acre; while the Selkirk property is to cost 3s. Gd. am aere; and the land on the latter is not near so good as that on the former, and, therefore, will not be so speedily taken up; and what is of very important consideration, the occupiers of the Selkirk property do not appear to be the most desirable class of cus- tomers, or they would not allow their rents to fall in arreaz 16 the enormous ameunt of £14.000. It is true there was a large amount of arrears due on the Worrell Kstate; but the detinquents on the Selkirk property are in a very decided majority,

Should the Government really conclude upon effecting a purchase of Lord Selkirk’s property—about their sincerity or ability to do which I have my doubts—l1 hope they wiil not forget the arrears of Quit Rents due by Lord Selkirk, even if they should not make an enquiry into the original

titles, which many of their friends complained had not been

that the Government would not give more than the £8,000) inclined to referred to, in addition to the sum of £6,000 due to Colone) | Aeademy.

Gray on the property; but Lam certain that I held no con- | . , . J property.s the consent of the-Government, were scarcely warm in their