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whea that the boy was metamorphosed to a great exteat, those who shall succeed us; but [ hope the hon. member is| as has been amply proven by you an as ares . You aod made more reasonable than it had hitherto been in refer- satisfied that it will receive the Royal allowance. I agree | ao ereet ne me st ce smi aes — ence to measures which originated in th’s end of the House. with himin al] points respecting the necessity of having an 2 sin aiatetieken ed alos orton ; you have agein It would thea have been too late to have attempted to have elective upper Chamber. Though [ introduced no measure) placed meni'én the some distinguished sligatio’ pussessed of errrie! it through this end of the build ng, for then Her Ma- of this kind, when in the Government, still thera was On€ | | Hera! education, but who directed their talents to your thral- jesty's Y pposition—as they are pleased to cull themselves— brought in by av hon. member in the Oppesition, and I theo | dum; and what ia still more culpable on your part, you returned would bave said “ you have willing tools at your command | advocated a change. in the constitution of the Legislative, these men again to Parliament, after being made aware of their now, to go through with the measure.” It ig necessary, how- Council. The present Bill comes so near au amend=nent | attendant faults and defects in intellect and character. You ever, to have a Leyislative Council so constructed that it) which I then introduced that I do not know that { shall| cannot but know that you acted very abererineely ig siping can carry mecsures necessary for the interests of the country. | trouble the House with many remarks at present. I pro-} oe " perpen es ee ae ae ane: a Vader the system on whieh the second Chamber is now con- | posed an amendment to the Bill introduced in 1859, but | of P. é heh. le ahtieinieal ol iebaneie duterdan atiteted “it is modrally impossible to carry out Responsible | which was carried against me. I must say this one breathes |have to perform, representatives should be able politicians, and Government in its integrity. We are not now attempting | liberal spirit. With one or twoexceptions, it is one which | educated, talented men, whose characters, particularly in re- to carry this scheme through because it sounds wel! in theory ; is in accordance with my views. I think it would be better | lation to their parliamentary experience, should be without a weshave experienced the evils which have resulted from no- to have the Councillers rua for the whole County, as it would | blemi«h. ‘Therefore, it is necessary that you should not only be nfinated Chambers. When we came into power there was give more independence to the the body. A man might run acquainted with your representatives, in order that you might a majority in that Council opposed to the principles of the for a District and gain his election, whereas if he ran the | know whether they are upright, honest men in other maiters,

; : y lov > ’ : . but you should also possess yourselves of a knowledge of their preseot Governmeat. The Government of the day under the whole Ccunty he might be unsuccessful. [ do not see how |

oe . . ‘ : " }actions in their parliamentary capacity, in order that you ma Lm yt apne — _ to fill up vacancies in that Chamber we can make an except’on of Caariottetown. The wealth of | pater hint aaa a te all esl atnaneamiet aivent wit r own friends,

'the City will always command a great influence independent | Investigate their doings, without prejudice or partiality to ei her Alona. Mr. COLES.-——We did not.

of any other circumstance. eater SAN SLND. —E beg wo Ser with the ben. | few observations on the Bill in its present stage. I spoke their nuwber men who are highly worthy of merit and honour,

member. When in power, one case occurred in which they ; ° : ° a : ; : : ; ;, and ethers who are and have acted more or less tbe traitor to put in @ proprietor—Mr. Forgan—but it was only throwing | °” this subject, in my place when the Bill was totroduced in| shale eauaiey. . 0 camkd bobalh Wd; loeb lg esseunie he

# Sprat to catch a whale,—a sop thrown out to induce Land. 1859, and my views on this question have not undergone, merits of sone and demerits of others, to take a coup d cil at roprietors to believe they were very liberal in their views. ®™y Change since that period. 1 have not changed one iota / some of the Acts passed this and last Session of our Legislature ; Bat they took good care to have a handsome majority at the ‘® ™Y Opinions whieh were expressed on this question 19) while you may at the same. time dilate your orbs, and look @ Council Board before that gentleman was nominated. It is 1859 and 186) On these occasions, I stated that, judging lle farther back in our Parliamentary history, and conceive an epet to that abuse, not only here, but in the neighbouring from private Jnformation which I received from Englaud | idea of the results of the different Acts passed from time to Colonies. How, I ask, would the present Council stand as from persons in authority, and in high places, 1 thought the | time. This “ae reduund to pom ee eee regards the lste Government were they to succeed the pre-| ro render the Laginaative Leen Seep — — aera pt nant ha taiaianate bod apeehnehie bless- sent? They would, ne doubt, prove an obstructive body, as 89!" the Royal assent. t think there will be great difficulty | ings ccudenna ted Free Education Act—the greatest boon, the last Chamber was to us wher we came into power. Now, | 7 getting what is sought by this Bul, accorded to this small 1 will venture to assert, ever conferred upon our country, and woless we alter the principle on which that Chamber is at | Colony, though my hon, colleagues think differently on this! yj | ever be a living momment of the exertions of those by presént constituted what wourd be the result? The result’ poiut, | I trust, however, that the efforts of hon. members 00/| whose influence it was passed, Picture to yourselves the merits would be that they wouid be obliged to infuse new blood into’ both - * ore anxious te on this ir aes may be og — results ae ce oe fo pare _ wr ; a . 1 rr o Une. o viewin e vaine o ese, A i oneeque the upper Chamber--in other words, > pe wee there to en- | sieded - l - ra ownane 2 pe can Me mee merits attached to bana who passed them, I do not the able the lower House to carry their measures. We have *!uded to the satisfactory working of the clective system In »d ; pzie- : . | the Cape of Good Hope and Australia ; but we should bear) portant ones passed during the laie Sessions of our Legis heard much of a contemplated third-party, who are to drive . és > I ‘ . P ‘ ’ l lature: amongst these you wiil tind one to authorize a cer- ‘both parties now preseut out of thes: Legislative Halls. '° mind the disparity which exists between these two eoun-| ' Saviors of the Conntry are to arist in their power and ma- *!es and this Colony.

‘ a ‘tain person to bear an additional name, another to incorporate

’ I agree with the pa of the | the Cascumpec Marine Railway Company, another to iacorpo- jésty, to advocate the iuteres's of the country. Then both Bill, and approve of having an equal division of Coyucillors irate the Pioneer Division of the Sons of ‘Temperance ia Cas- sides now existing will be compe'led to bide their diminished ' each County. As regards the property qualifications 1 | eumpec, wad a catagory of othera equally calculated to benefit

Mr. Editor, | have now arrived at the leng’h of my former

letters. If you consent to publish this, you may expect & DEW Holitical alliances.—Mr. 5. R. Thompson, the talented | et of charges, which, if not in the best style, wiil be amply | sufficient to cause Anything of a modest-Guvernment to tide |

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j;more general satisfaction. ‘enacted, and though very much pleased

| Mr. Wartan ;—Sir~1 think I am nearly right in stating that Her Most Gracious Majesty’s birthday was never more be loyally kept here than it has been to-day, certainly not with | jeaders themselves, bas been defeated. The Hon. Mr As te weather and to the scenes | », - wincial Secretar}, ont-the. lion. Oe. We

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returned, however, and be is now at liberty mike his own

fur the tenantry in this Island befure the Land Sonne was also a Candidate for the representation of the of ‘St. John. Although professing Conservative principles in ‘moderate furm, he was not reeo;mised by those Who claim ty the leaders of the Conservative party, and he, as welj 8 the

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and manceuvres of the “*men under arms,” { was disappointed | General, are the Liboral candidates for the Citz of St. Joy

| in noticing a very great deficiency in the military tactics J was | bolstered up to expect from the great praise the Drill Instruc- tors have been Juaded with, particularly Drill Instructor O’Brien, whom ‘Ross's Weekly’’ has puffed or high.” | What the men have been taught they performed a mirably, ‘even the Company from « rural district, whose tuition has not ‘been as extensive as that of those in the City ; bat what they |appear to have not been taught, yet what they should have ‘been, is what I am about to complain. : | In the skirmishing manoeuvres, advancing and retreating.

| Liberal or Tory-—search minutely into the labours of both par-| we were taught years ago to advance with piequets and | Hon. Col. GRAY.—I intend, Mr. Speaker, to offer but a! tier, and you will find thet the adberenis of each have amongst | stealthily, and when retiring to keep our rear rank covered. |

To-day nothing of this kind was exhibited, but quite the re- verse: advancing, the whole moved forward in a body — | retreating, did the same; and at the double, the tatter cer- tainly looked beautiful, and was greatly in accordance with the order of tha late Duke of Wellingtor—‘‘never turn your | back on your enemy !"’ 1 am inclined to believe that neither | of the Drill Instructors would retreat from an enemy disgrace- fully. hen why permitor order their pupils to do what they would not do themselves? Yours, AN OLD VOLUNTEER. Charlottetown, 24th May, 1861. cree

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“CATHOLIC SUPPORT AND ITS PRICE.”

Tne Islander of last Friday says that the object of an article anJer the above title, in the Examiner of the 20th May, was **to cause it to be believed that the Government are desirous

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heads ;—and when they come into power, under the exist- stated on former occasions that I thought this Island did not| the country. Fancy a body of men, convened in Assembly, : ; , : ania’ : ss-ss sufficient wealth to make a proper distinction, In/and extracting from our hard-earned funds a considerable ing system, there must be of necessity a great increase made POSS*SS Sulliwie alta to sew . ; for tt ea Si Ghana id the L-sislative Chamber. There Ie t Leith t ‘other Colonies they amounted to £4000, or £5000, but here #™mount 4s remuneration or their services, employing the time | faert ° od ere ee the sum was reduced to as many hundreds. 1 still think | ey should use for the amelioration of the state of thei: con-| of which the upper Chamber can be properly constitute], | “ware " i Pa . i on oe agement | #tiwents, in debating whether or not it would be proper for a | “shalt ia, te give it stability and to enable it to exercise its| t at this sma rovince wWiil not receive thal encouragemen | certain individua! to tak» an additional name, when the country fanetions and powers as a conservative body. These are | from Elomy which some hon. members anticipate, | did not care if be should himself, without legislative author'ty, | . . ie . : . ' (To be continued ) take a thousand names, if his inclinations should go so far. | gither on the priaciple of hereditary succession, like tbe wal eae “a te Railway . . Duets of ‘liorde Rebtion Ie all coustrion nomiected | === as a? | With regard to the Cascumpec Marine Railway Company, 7 . be, = : Me Pr a Poe S aC aael ¢ ‘od (l | | would feel certain it was all a hoax were it not that I have an ya wows. ant os ssible 9 : G . J/OVVES PON rice, | occular demonstration of its existe: ee, in lock ng over the list«f da years ago that it was impossibie to carry on the Govern- | Acis passed lately by our “So'ons.””) Such a Company doubt- mentof the Province on that principle, and in 1853 a pe- | tition was sent from the [louse of Assembly to the Queen, |

YOR THE EXAMIFER, | legs is in being, but I cannot for the life of me imagine whatis

\its abject. [ never heard ofa Marine Railway being in Cas-. praying for an alteration in the Constitution of that Cla uber, | and an address on the subject was carried by a majority of

OUR REPRESENTATIVES. cumpec, nor of the probability of there ever being one there.

Dean Fecrow Ceronists,—With mingled feelings of de-|I have made enquiries on the subject, and ail [ ean learn four fifths of the lower House. The idea of an hereditary Voted attachment to, and interest in the welfare of, our fertile | respecting it it, that the intelligentand ingenious people of the | upper Chamber io any of these Colonics cannot be euter- Island home; and of deep regret at observing that our progress | northern districts, seeing that there is a sieamboat likely to ply | ‘tdteed for a womeat. When we consider the peculiar con- towards happ:ness ie retarded by the clog of mal-adminisiration

|t» Cascampee, in their ecstacies at such a piete of good for- | : ; |which characterises thoee who sway, and which | I «| tune being in store for them, and impressed with a determina- | struction of the House of Lords, we find it is not the mere é elon ae a re ee e ; : p ereation of yesterday but the result of two or three centuries; | | pow address you, for the

terized those who have swayed the destinies of our country — | tion to make it as lucrative as possible, and being well aware,

, firs: time, wpon a subject of vital im-| by their arctic experience, that their northern shores are fre- | for its power and influence have grown with the growth of | portance to us al] —namely, the doings of our representatives in| quently visited by stormy, tempestuous weather, which would the British Constitution. An elective Chamber then appears Parliament, Huherto | have remained silent on all subjects of render it a thing impossible for-airy craft to wearher the reef of | to be the only alternative, This Chamber is elective in Aus- ® political nature, and would act in the same manner longer | the North Cape—in order to keep trade agoing, as well as to) tralia, the Cape of Vood Hope and Canada, and, if [ m‘s-| rec : not that I - the present state of my oe calls | — the comfort ms a of the a and en

. ; hs * “. Q...7.,, | aloud for every one ef us to unite in exercising the-.ower we | —have it in contemplation te construct a railway, 8 made as sake ved ’ _ for rt _s _— introduced this Session | possess of ridding it from the oppressive ye oan keep to convey the steamer through from Cascunpec to the West ie the cgisature of New Brunswick. Hon. members °P" | us in misery, and which will ever ve an impediment to our pros- | Point, where by aid of a noble construction which they have in posed to chis 5 !l may state that in Canada the principle | perity, if not removed ; 254 in no better way can [ assist in this | contemplation there, attd which they say will answer the purpose | has oot worked well. In that Colony, a few years ago, they great work than Sy endeavouring to arouse you from your | of wharf as well, and for which they have petitioned the Legis- | experienced some difficulty because the upper Chamber there dangeroug jnsensibility to these calla. Although being eilent | lature for a thousand pounds to aid them in erecting it — she i¢ a mongrel institution. They did not do as we Duras {oO OT political matrers, yet my perceptive faculties, | assure you, | will be beautifully launched into her native element again, after da, to aweep the whole body out of ezisience, and put in an-| have not been idle in that respect. 1 have endeavoured to con- | having taken a sa)! on dry land, whence she can proceed on her other entirely new ‘weed o lice? , hat i led | C@#¥e the importance of the duvies of legislators, and have been | voyage without the least delay ; and in order to carry out the trimming y al ge udhey ss nue = = left 8] partially successfui in attaining that object. | have also inves. project to their satisfaction and benefit, they have appointed a : £~they only elected a certain number, a eft at)

. i . ‘tigated the parliamentary labours of Liberal and Tory, and have select number of wise and ingenious men who, to make every the Counci! Board the nominated members who were put) ‘thing work well, and to have themselves and their great work

| thereby discovered that insincerity and a dereliction of duties

there when the Colonies were united in 1841. A_ school-| have enaracierized and do characterize many of those perrons recorded in the fature history of our Island, have prevailed anon boy migh: have foreseen there would have been a lack of har- | chosen to legisiate for us, both under Tory and Libera! admini- | oe Legislature to incorporate them. uf this pr: ject should ever | mony in any body so constituted. How could there be un- \® rations, These considerations, together with the consciousness | be carried out or nccumolshed, it will ae one of the meen wnimity between those who only beld parchment titles, and | of the near approach of a general eleetion—on which oceasion wenders of the age, and this great artificial wender, like the those elected by the votes. and according to the wishes of the | you will have an opportunity of amending the breach made in| natural wonders of thad<land, will have a wonderful eff-ct upon euple? But this difficulty did not arise in the other Col | your prosperity —account for the liberty | row teke of iendering | the northern portion of our Island, hitherto go little noneed, be- peuple : u eeene We y ; Ot arise in the o er olo- |to sou, my respected fellow-Culonists, a bit of advice and ex | cause scarcely worthy of notice. Nuinbers from ail d rections | a es where the elective principle was properly carried Out. | hortetion with regard to your future tactics and evolutions in| Will daily crowd the weinity of the **Cascumpec Marine Reil-_ in Canada ther system Was neither elective nor nominative, | the political field. The motives winch influence me to do this) way,’ to indulge in the rare curiosity of wewing the Princess hence the difficulty which arose. [ may refer to the elective | are of a very different nature from those which prompt the ma. | Royal, with sails set and engines agoing, take a flight across | #ysiem which has been in operation in a kixgdom in Europe jor part of those who busy themselves in pubiic matters: their | the country, and alighting @ofely mo the Northunberland | since IS31 til! the present time. It is a limited monarchy | chief object is tomake the public aware of the existence of such Straus atthe West Point, and this the works of the en with an elective upper Chamber which is not composed of | siege, us te ° Pee to worm ein oe | **Unscumpec Marine Railway Company !! Peers, thou there aro Peers in the body: I al'ude to Bel. | $909 graces of the aders or prominent Characters of 1 er! : yum. Ton tingion bess population or ohne etn respective parties, with a view of profiting thereby, no aatter, Examiner prevents me from prolonging these remarks

«ioe os stag | what the sacrifice may be to the country. Indeed it is a| retura to the subject again. Yours, &c end a Constitgtiog es nearly assimilated to that of Britain as y y $

‘ a 5 BC lamentable fact that the principal part of those who may be dr- | @ possible. ‘Puig pringiple hae been fuily tested there and signated political characters, whether in the press or on the | has given entire satisfaction.

In Britain all statesmen of | rostrum, in public or in private, display too much fanatical par- | any note— Whigs, Tories, Conservatives and Radicals—lead- | Udanship ‘owards their respective parties, who by them ing men in these four classes have concluded that the days! of nominated Chambers are numbered. This is the opinion of the present leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, The one is so blindly zealous in ite own defence as to depart Sin—Considerable tine has ela. sed since | Inst wrote you | who, so to speak, is the quintessence of Toryism and Conser- from everything having any sembiance to trath—ite domgs are; Consequently you will not strupl+ to silow this letter apace in vatism, Lord Derby, and the last man ove would have thought | smeaannves by its en ; while they pat va op posite | 0 tect arrest > nm Examiner. = would afford me . aul oe a _ | One, and vice versa, tis unnecessary to say that such persons | the happrest consolation | were Certatu this communication wao would have ssseated to the elective principle, The DO’ way be ranked among the worst ie of ssadieieudeoms oouloama my writing ander this heading: would that the fo!l- minative sysiom has been tried te France, Spain, Portugal My object is of a fer different nature, being simply this: to | lowing charges were all that could be brought to bear against aud in the Republic of America in its earlier history, and | awake you to a sense of the perrlous position you are in at pre-| the present Government. Bu, alas! itis not the case. The fuled. Lt may be said a Chamber constituted on the elec- | sent, and also to wrouse you to unite unaninously and deter- | great South American wonder—that mighty gigantic Amszon. tive priuciple would be liable to be influenced by the popular :inedly in shaking off the yoke under which you now groan. | would require to pour its raging contents for years over the foeling of the day; bat we know the popular breeze some-| Judging by your lethargic submission to thie yoke placed upon metropolis of P. EB. Ieland in order to Cleanse the existing tiutes blows to the detriment of those who fan it. Some YeUr shoulders by the persons you yourselves have placed in ministry of ite mierule and error. Friend!y as I have been to

My dear frienda, the crowded state of the columns of the |

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RULE AND MISRULE OF TUE PRESENT MINISTRY.

To ture Epiror or true Examiver. |

| ! ** Are deemed a hero; By their foes a Judas or a Nero.”

“raat” | Parliarrent, it appears to me—and | am eure to every person who the existing majority, { cannot refrain from expressing im inay a & wend save trouble and expense not to have | trembles at he ineeninn fate of his country—to 4 a philan- | candid a panied their actions. Within us hele w sesoad Coamber at all; but [ trust no gentleman in this trophic act for some one to awake you from your dangerous sleep. |18 an inward monitor which continually tempts us to believe ilouse is tinged with any such notion. We know that men! When we take into consideration the vast inportance of wise | with Cowper, one of England’s literary ornaments, Feequeutly pass measures, which, had they but time to reflect, | and just legislation—when we reflect that this great bleasing, |

they woald wot have passed, an! ihut is one reason why we whichis indispensably necessary to the prosperity and importan:e | should have a second branch to revise measures adopted in| of any nation, is the offspring of the assiduous labours of those The period when the Liberal Government stood at the helm the lower branch of the Legislature. Bulls sometimes pass! Perens chosen to represent tbe people in Parliament: and! oF sitire was one when calumny, abuse, false charges, and p:o- through the House of Commone full of errors, notwithstand- | when, afier investigating the doings of the representatives of | ;

\ stia aimee ol Gein ae ae aieadiieiaadie. aitias ton neue aia jected reforms was considered absolutely essential to the cha- ing all the able men there are in that body. Lord Broug- ge i ae on cake of eae If these aristocratic (?) ham argued on the necessity of a second Chamber two cr |

os abe Pee a. a ee eee = et Ri diR recta nate yw. teal it does not become . 4 i m— o d | : é‘ cs : three years subsequent to be pa+ing of the Reform Bill. The gable labours tu the welfare and acnelioration of their country — se ee ae Maer Sie, Ge esate House of Commous stood out firmly for their privileges un- | we certainly must come to the conclusion that they are deserving oe a. gentlemen, In thie cence of the eed om 2 of der that Bill, and considered the House of Lords almost a of the highest earthly eulogium : should be held in estimation and an rz netereenent the ttle respectable. Haw often dia no veutity, Oawe oce. boa a Crimit a Law was passed ia the ene i ors a enanne ee ithe late Editor of the Islander stigmatize the Liberal party Commons, which, when it went to the upyer Lou e¢ was found | on? © pure , bath va “t sing hey oe om am Sand the | because they appointed rejected candidates to office? How to 2ontain errors of a charact:r so extrnérdinary, that, had | °°"shcement OF hie fellow Deings And according as repre- just soever this principle of the late Editor might have been, the Bul passed the House of fy rds, it would have paralyzed eoetntvee exert move of Tees tatuonee ond of6 in causing to Se bave our present lawgivers acted on the principle of excluding he Uiaieal Justi f England f 1 athe. The * Planted laws within the State rejoe ed candidates from office? Let the examples of Jeremiah | the Uria.mal Justices of Englan ae twe ve months, a To shield alike the bumble-and the great,” Simpson and Charles Llaszard, Exqrs., suffice. ‘* Consistency

. adda : ‘ ; y y, liouse of Commons would - give in, but nue. Was and in otherwise directing, promoting and accomplishing the | ah! where can’st thou be fuund.”’ done as the law was hot passe that year. his Is one =| well-being of their country — 80 also are they meritorious of | The e nployment of deputies, it was said, was theoretically stagee, out of many which m‘ght be cited, to show the neces-| corresponding commendation and gratitude. But when those

: , r }and pra:tically wrong--# waste of the people’s money—and an - “0 having a recond Chamber, This question hus been | individuals whom the people ef any country have at any time | enconragement of irdvlence on the part of the head officials. before the

ouse £0 frequently, that hon. members must entrusted with the guidance of the vess«! of state on her onward | The uew regime was to sbolish, once and foreve’, ‘his corrupt have their minds made up. As regards the details of the Course to prosperity, actuated by selfish or any other motives, practica, Bur have they done so? No; they have not. Does) Bik L may state the Government are not wedded to them. have betrayed the — trust pre in them, thereby ae not tend powertally ~ prove that those reforms were but They may be altered in Committee. It is somewhat d ferent mining, in @ very sensible degree, the greatest interests o the from the tongue! That § ey wankd be thoroughly carried ou' frout the ou6 introduced by we in 1839, which was founded | vary people who placed them in the rather conspicuous position never entered ona of their hearts! Striking as ths may seem a 4 princip! J , os ; a alt “Members of Parliament "”—conspicuous alike in exposing | to the honest-minded reader, it 1s positively true. The most pan > pes rns _ ; vase os ree = an | their real character, whether good or evil —we evidently cannot | powerful logic ever adduced—simple facts—fully corroborate sound: viz., that representation governed according to

‘in justice eharacter ze them by any more honourable or distin-| these assertions.

wealth and population. ‘fhe Bill of last yoar proposed to guished epithets and eppellations than traitors to their country,| The reduction of the public debt—that theme an frequently give 3 members to Prince, 3 to King's, and 6 to Queen’s disgraceful, hypocritical and debased, scourges to ian, and foes | harped upon by that celebrated individual who, i is said, wears | County, lo political matters statesmen are not always able | ‘° God—stignias indelible in their character and degrading in the beaver with the hole in its top, in order to give the aira to carry out their views. As in private matters, so in pub- |the extreme. Who can, without incurring the just displeasure | free passage 'o a morbid brain—wasto be one of their first ob- lie sffcics, there must be a system of giving ond taking ad- of his God, se!] hiw country forh sown gain and ayyrend zement jects. In orderto accomplish this end the number of officials

mas ny , litiea! ~ i hohe 3 lved | revelling in the paltry vanities of the world at the awful sac- | wae to be reduced—the Land Office to he abolished, and the opted. ii im political mat:ers ¢ach statesmen resolved upon | rifice of hie country’s ruin? Whoa can, without hypocrisy, uaproductive lands in Government possession vere to be set off. having his own way, L>zislation would soon come to an end. pledge hunseif to cleave to his country’s rights, and then after! st public auction. But has ths been done? No, this talked. As regards wealth, Queen's Coauty has about double that of | having received the required support, turn the tables upon lie | of economy has never since been heard of. The land Office | either of the other two Cousties, and its population is double constituents, pocket the core, and leave them to live as best | is still there ; we have more public officers than ever wo had : also, and vpon these principles the Bill of 1859 was based. | they can upon the peel, with a yoke upon their necks? Who | the unfruitful land is still where it always was, abounding, | The present Bill proposes to give an equal nu uber—four— | actin this manver without drawing upon himself the just re- supposs, with I -zarda, toads, frogs and reptiles of every descrip- to each County, Gharlottetows and Royalty, however, con-| 40 aL of . - wronged pantie~-weenged and tion, joyfully singing triumphal songs in honor of the present Gdiies ths coateercial pes'tiea of the Canite!, ic certain! | ene aved —the benefac'ors of those “traitor knaves? Uh, how party who have 80 very kindly left them to erjoy their habita- satitled 1..ene etenter 7 ideas eatin aay 7 | an people so treated submi: to it when they posseas the power | tions in peaceable possession.

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. of cramming into the recesses of oblivion those tyrante, and Aoai ; ; a Bonnie Sp : : , gain, the Maine L qnor Law was considered of the greatest sacde io the Bill in Comm tree. Tue Reform Bill was ma- You are aware of the political state importance, and should be in force a8 soon as the Einowl party

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terially altered in Committee ; several Boroughs were thrown of our own country, and how is it that you can tamely submit | Woy hor» 2s combat. Thie was all the ery when Coles had the

out, aod many which the framers of the ill aud its syp- ' oppression, when you have means at your disposal to remove power,and simply because he was a distiller. John Arbuckle

porters wishéd to throw out were retained. [| hope hon. | the nuisance? These means you can exercise at the next elec- our present respectable and pains-tuking Visitor (?) received a

wembcrs on both sides, whatever be the fate of this Bill, wil! |" Then you w.il deal unto every man according to his good salary in order to enable him to preach up the blessings of sucha law, and damage the reputation of Mr. Coles In the

oa Gab etitchade thet we have net axed thin acestere 20 0 stalks | works—then you will weigh well in your mind the great duty House of Assemb!y many flowery and eloquent harangues were

: : 4 ily bound to fulfil. Oa that day you will suit

. a ; | you are essentially yy

ing-horse on which to ride into power. I hope they will your actions to the ideas conveyed by the poet, when he says: | ofered—many weighty and oratorical efforts were made, with the dazzling brillianey ofa Macaulay or a Gladstone, by some

view it as an indication of our siucerity, and of our desire to i : ; “ 2 te eur uc ede these Ye sons of freedom, wake to glory: x : ; ) pass it, that it May prove a benefi c *COs80F Hark! hark! what myriads bid ye rise: old tepers, in order to show the moral, intellectual, social, and who shall sit in these Halls whea their present occupants are Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, commercial advantages that would inevitably fo low should euch wader the sod,—that they may have the satisfaction of living Bebold their tears and hear their cries. a Inw be enacted. At the same instant ne people thronghout Christendom stood more in need of a Prohibitory Maine Law

uuder laws calculated to promote the independence, wealta, Shall hateful :yrants, mischiefs breeding, than s0...e of these cheerful. tipey followers of Bacchus! Now,

‘ With hireling hosts, a rufiian band,

prosperity and iness of this Colony. Affright and desolate the lund; Hen. ite. COLKS.— Allow me to ask if this Bill is intro- have any of our present rulers made an attenipt to carry such ate a Bill through the House? No, people of P. F. Island, they

While peace and liberty lic bleeding, a ol To arms! to arms! ye brave— low. Mr. HAVILAND.—k is. ae Se have not. Bearthis in your minds. Brand those as deceivers Pin ff nbd’ em besey to then, that it who have deceived you. Never again suffer yourselvew to be Hos. Mr. COLES.—1 am happy to say, . enjeled by these long-faced, pretending philaathrapiote Ten

The arms you will ase in your effurte for freedom will be siiaply shall receive my The hon. member closed his re- them distincily, tell them manfully, that you will never again

** Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them.”

remember to act with prudence in the application of this means,

I will,

| Mr. Boultenhouse will be set aside, if the Governmont can NORWEGIAN. |

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of purchasing the support of the Catholics of this Island by the endowment of St. Dunstan's Coliege.’’ Such was not our object. We noticed the subject merely for the purpose of denying a fulse and impudent statement in the Monitor, to the effect that Catholic support was promised to the Govern- ment, if the latter would endow St. Danstan's College. We repudiated the idea that Cathu'ic support could be purchased at any priec, by any Government, or that it cou d be pro- mised by any one. We now state again most pusitively—and we wish it to be understood that we make this statement on the Lest authority—that no promise or pledge was evor given to any person or persons connected with the Government that the Catholics of this Island would support them if a grant were given to St. Dunstan's College. This statement is too pluin, we should think, to be misunderstood.

‘< One of the head officials’’ (the Colonial Secretary, no less) denies that +‘ delusive promises’? were made toa certain Ec- elesiastic of the Catholic Cherch. We suppose he did not think they ‘vere ** delusive’’ ones at the time. At all events, a very lively interest was manifested on behalf of Catholic elaims by certain official dignita:ies, who were very assiduous in their attentions at a certain residence not many miles from the Cathedral.

In connection with this subject we may state, that, as we predicted, his Lordship the Bishop of Charlottetown and the Very Reverend the Vicar General have declined to aceept the unasked-for honour of seats atthe Board of Education. That ‘attempt to purchase Catholic support’’ has been a signal failure.

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

Tux anxious public, who were so much concerned about the |

long absence of the Colonial Secretary, will be gratified to

learn that that officer has returned to his official duties. It has

and are, we believe, eure to be elected.

Tux election in the City of St. John, as we learn from received by yesterday's Mail, hae resulted in favour of Liberals —the Provincial Secretary and Solicitor General

having been returned by majorities of four and five

The Freeman, an Opposition paper. says the O pposi

an ‘‘ignominious defeat.’’ The great success of the Liberaiy in the County of St. John no doubt influenced the City elec. tion. In York County, Fredericton, the Liberals Were also the winning party—Mr. Fisher, late Attorney General, being at the head of the poll.

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STEAM COMMUNICATION,

Tuz Steamer Westmorland arrived here from Shediac on Thursday Jasi, having undergone, a8 we are informed, very extensive repairs, so much 80 that she is believed to be in better order now than she was when first put upon the M i] route between this Island and the adjoining Provinces. The pring. pal owner, Mr. Boultenbouse, is now in Charlottetown, ang has notified the Government that the Westmorland ig to resume the carrying of the Mails; but it is aid that the Government will not give the Mails to this vessel until her owners shall have caused a survey to be made upon her, and a certificate given as to herefficierey. Mr. Boultenhouse eon. tends, we understand, that it is not bis business to call « sor. vey—that by the termsof his contract he is not required todo this—that his boat will ran as usaal, on the days appointed by the Government, and will apply for the Mails as formerly —and that be will hold the Government to their agreement, In the meanwhile the public ere sadly inconvenienced by having nothing but a very slow schooner to carry the Mails to and from the Island; and complaints are, in consequence, becoming loud and general. There is no doubt that the Go. vernment are anxious for a pretext to run the Westmorlanduff the line, so that the contract may be given to a polities) friend. ‘he Pictou Eastern Chronicle, of Thureday last, hag the following paragraph on this subject :—

** Tus Istanp Marts.—The Mails from P. F. Island have not come forward by the last two trips of the Lord Seaforth, but have been sent ever in a sailing vessel, arriving here some twenty hours later than they would have done by the steamer,

| We learn that the cause of this singular transaction sa mis-

understanding between Mr. Boultenhouse and the Island Go- vernment. ‘le Westmorland has for some two or three weeks past been laid up for repairs, and the Seaforth took her place ; but it appears that the work to be done on the former boat required a longer time than was at first expected; and the Covernment, becoming apprehensive that Dr. Boultenheat was »ttempting to foist the Seaforth upon them, in place of the Westmorland, adop‘ed this means of preventing it. Of course, the Islaaders have a right to do with their mails as they please—lecep them altogether, for that matter ; but we can't help thinking that it is just a little foolish for « manor a body of men tu bite his nose off to spite his face.”’

Manny's Parent Mcwixe axp Rearing Macmine —As we are always anxious to communicate any information that will be useful to the farmer, the following certifeate fr m a highly inte ligeat and respectable farmer us to the great advantag » to be derived from the use of Manny’s Patent Mowing avd Reaping Mach ine, will be read with intere § by agriculiuriate generally. Many other persons througheut this Islaad have

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been reported that he was engaged in negotiating for a steamer |

to take the place of the Westmorland as a Mail packet for t is Island, and that Mr. L. P. DesBrisay, the owner of the Lady le Marchant. woald come in for a favourab’e considera- tion. It seems to be well understood that the contract with do it.