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To THE Eprror OF Tor Examiner. | Ma. Waevay,

. In your place in the Assembly you will confer oe a and benefit on the public by making a stir ‘beat the Street encroackiments, which are becoming ,

very nameroils of fate. ing along guaten,f voticed a new building in course of erection, aad wae asked if said building was not on the Street : Is the course of a day or two | procured a tape and re- | wrned to the spot in company to measure, when, lo, the yesult was that the space between this fabric and the fence opposite was 374 feet instead of 40 feet! which [ igarn is the breadth of this cross Street, On making eaquiry { also learned that Jemmy, * the man of the sammer,” is algo encroaching on his neighbour on the West, because he has a cross-grained churl and “ Lex’ ‘aback him in his nefarious tricks; but as this isa watter the Assembly has nothing to do with, 1 will | form the basis of ancther Communication, as this affair requires all possible publicity, and by your perimission shal! have it, when [ have made a little more enquiry relative to the facts. Meanwhile you nd doubt will re- member that a poor man at the head of Queen Street was sbliged lately to move his house back from the founda- tion it had stood upon for years, because it was made to appear as a nuisance in a retired and quiet part of the own, while here, in a public thoroughfare, Jemmy is allowed to erect his building on public property with impunity. He has also another building adjoining, as much on the street, but this furms no reason or rule for him to be guided by, and as “ now is the time” to check such encroachments, the sooner the matter is brought before the House the better for the public, as all who will in futtrre build, will have their eyes opened. F’rom | all the enquiry I have made, it does not appear that, there is any conservator of public property here, as j there is in almost every town {i have visited, either at’ home or abroad, and in this respect therefore, Charlotte. |

Street, in company the other |

CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 4, 1850. Vou. 1-40, 27,

FOR THE EXAMINER.

THE ENTIRES.

Mr. Epitor,—

An entire ass, the entire owner of an entire horse, hired an entire mule iu shape of an entire man, who

‘wrote an @ntire piece of balderdash and got an

entire thing to publish it entire in his Royal Entire. The entire ass, the entire mule, and the entre thing, form an entire ‘f‘ryo, equal to an entire cypher, and

“amount to entire nothing.

Of the three entires, two individual entires are the

entire jest and Jaughter, among the entire beings of the

entire orbit where they move entirely erratic. The re- maining entire, or the entire mule, wrote an entire reflex

‘on his own entire character. So farthe three entires are ‘entirely disposéd of, and these entire goonies are left to

the natural bent of that entirely inferior species of the genus to which they belong, entirely holding the entires however subject to entire whim, when it may feel

entirely disposed to use them for entire mirth. MOMUS.

“HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Fripar, 26th April.

(Contiaced from our last )

RECO CC A CIS

‘Excellency, however, contrary to the expectation of the | House, gave his assent, in the name of Her Majesty, te the Bill; but, as the Legislature was prorogued mnmé- diately afterwards, the House had no opportunity to adopt that course which the majority were now, he be- lieved, satisfied it was their duty to pursue in order to provide for the payment of the Salaries and Allowanee mentioned in the Civil List Bill. That Bill having re- ceived the sanction of the three Branches of the Island Legislature, the House, he thought, might secure anticipate the Royal allowance of the measure w ‘the full length of establishing Responsible Government ‘by Law; and they were therefore clearly bound’ts | manifest the integrity of intention with which “they | passed the Bill, and to make full provision for its goin into operation as soon as the Royal Allowance shou be signified, by a Despatch to the Heac of the Govern ment, and Gazetted as directed in the Bill. It was Ro ‘less than the bounden duty of the House to provide fox

| the Bul’s being carried into immediate effect :fter ite

‘being fully established as a‘law; but it would aleo be their duty to tie wp whatsoever amount of money shold be realized by the Revenue Bill, beyond what would be required on account of the Civil List Act, and to de fray the contingent expenses of the two Houses in the last and present Session, so thatit should not be in the power of either His Excellency, or of his Council if be had one, to appropriate any part of it. —

Mr. l.oncworta accasad the majority of the House

Mr. Cones replied that he would be very sorry to ‘of having speculated with thein political capital in the

afford an illustration of such gentlemanly teeling, as that exhibited by the hon. and learned member for Cuarlottetown; wha, in heing kicked out of the Execu- tive Council, had not lLiesitated to humble himself so far

‘last Session, end of having matured and carried some of their measures with a view to bnying over the Go- ‘vernor. They had, however, he was happy to say, ‘missed their ark. 1f they had passed the Civil List

as to court his recal to it. With respect to his hasty, Bill in the expectation that llis Excellency would give withdrawal from the Counci) Chamber, he could see no. it his formal sanction, they would also, in the same reason why he should either repent or be ashamed of it. | Session have immediately followed it up, by making a

As he stood at the Bar of the Legislative Council, he felt not only that himself and his constituents, but the whole House and all the constituencies in the Island, were pointedly insulted by His Excellency ; and as the relative positions of himself and His Excellency, the place, and the occasion, all forbade him from shewing the insult in any other way than by withdrawing, he instantly chose that course. Other members, he was

‘due provision for its being earried into effect. If they ‘did not expect His Excellency to pass the Bill, why ‘then there was certainly some consistency observable in their omitting to make any provision for its opera- ‘tion: and, hé wonld remark that, if they still wished te | keep up consistency of appearance in their proceedings, ‘they would not certainly inake any provision for the ‘operation of the Civil List Bill, until his Excellency

town is like no other community ucder the Crown, I persuaded, felt the insalt as he did himself; the only | should be authorized to establish Responsible Govern-

wag going to say under heaven, and speaks volumes in favour of Torviem, which has so long reigned here. But, to the point, you see, Sir, if you orl were to at- vempt such a nuisance as the one 1 have now in view, very few days would pass over our devoted heads, ere we would be brouzht up befure the grand inquest of the County and ordered to move our little salt-box of the public Street, and if we had nota foot of ground in the tear to move it back on, the next order would be to take it down te-totally, or suffer an interminable scourg- img among the long-robed gentlemen, and ultimately be obliged to sell our parcel of land to keep us out of Jail for costs, and cut our stick to some other soil. Here. however, the case was quite different “ just a-going.” because he can draft a public building, present it to the Governor, bow his head and bend his leg to that func- tionary, and the whole Compact families, political aud religious, he can erect a two story building, whea, where, and how he likes, and his iniquity must be winked at because he is “a brother in the trade!” From the incorrectness of former Surveyors, who looked too often through a glass of brandy, and perhaps “ wet’’the compass too, before they set that instrument to lay off the Sireets, injustice as been done the public, the evil of which is felt in our day, and will probably be felt by our grandchildren, if you do not have something done _ this Session to have these errors rectified, particularly where new houses are being erected. it is not my province to dictate to you, or the honorable House, what exprees words and terms the Act should be composed of, but I think every person building should | be obiiged to have the Surveyor General to inspect the | Street before they venture to dig for a foundation, oF | erecta post. [ am not certain but N—— could be brought up before the Grand Jury at us next sitting and be indicted, but before that period, his © marie” easiic may be finished and some vendues of “splendid | eld trampery” held therein; but even his being brought! tp would not benefit the community at large, bor cor- fect the erroneous Surveys; it might, however, teach him ‘that. if in Newfouad!and be acted over every fish) Pile he put his hammer on, as “monarch of all be sar- veyed,” he wast not attempt the samme tricks on public Moperty here. I hope some Act may be passed; pro- kibiting excroachments en the Sircets. |

PRO BONO PUBLICO. | Casrlottetown, April 29. 1850.

difference between iin and them was that, taken by surprise, they had not determined as he did, on the in- stunt, how to act. The hon. and learned member had suid, that he believed there could not be found any instance on record of similar behaviour, in a member of the British Parliament er of any British legislative ody, to the individual presiding at the head of the Go- vernment: and he (Mr. C.) was very much inclined to think so too; for he did uot believe that either the Queen of the Empire would, or that any Soveretyn, her predecessor, or even any administrator of the Govern- ment ofa British Colony, ever did so far forget or vio- late the respect due to the Representatives of the People, as to address then in so insulting a tranner, as those which were adopted by His Excellency to insult the present Assembly of Prince Edward Island. By his tone and manner he gave them to understand that, were it In his power, he would crain the measure which he recommended down their throats. Much as the hon and learned member might disapprove of the course which he (Mr. C.) adopted to mark his indigaant sense of the insult offered to the House by His Excellency, he (Mr. C.) felt assured that his conduct would meet with the unqualified approbation of his constituents and of the public in generai.

Hon. Mr. Patleer retorted that the hon. member when asserting that he ({lon. Mr. P.) had been kicked out of the Council, niust have been dreaming of what had happened to himeel!.

Mr. Cores explained with respect to the intention of tie majority of the House to pass a Revenue Bl!) and make certain appropriations, that could. not fairly be taxed with inconsistency, or with having agreeed, with- out a very sufficient cause, to depart, in some measure, from the Resolution to which they caine at the-close of the previous Session. ‘They had passed the Civ:! List Bill to convince the Imperial Government of the sincer- ity of their intention to assume that burthen on the ful- fiilment of the conditions tendered fo them as an ecuivaient; but, in prssing it. they entertained no hopes

that His Excellency would assent thereto, because, in |

the suspending clause, it is ‘expreesly stated that the measure shall not teke efiect, unless Responsible Go- vernnient be estab'ished in the Colony; and it was well known to the House that {fis Iexcelleney had, more than onee, expressed luimse!fas decidedly opposed to

[the introduction of that syeiem ef Government. His

ment. The Address in answer to his Excellency’s Speech, which had been reported by his honorable and learned colleague, was, in his (Mr. L.’s) opinion, quite unubjeciionable. What was objected to was nothing inore than that the ustal respectful form of such address- estad been retained. ‘The remainder of the Addres$ pledged the House to nothing more than what it was evident the majority intended to do; and, he for one, thouvht it would’ be derogatory to the dignity of the House to be so wanting in respect to his Excellency, as to refuse to accept the respectful language usually employed upon such occasions.

Mr. Monroomery thought that every well-wisher te the Colony should be willmg to thank Hts Excellen- cy for having summoned the Legislature to afford the Assembly an opportunity to remedy their defective le- gislation inthe last Session. As to the effect upon the general interests of the Colony, which would resuit from the want of a Revenue Act, there could, he thought, be omy one rational opinion—and that at would be almost ruinous: and had His Excetiency not prudently reassembled the Legislature, the evils whicls such an omission would have oceasioned to the Colony could not have been averted. ‘The amendment to the Address proposed by the hon. member for Queen’s County, was one which he could not support, even. although he might admit that His Excellency had man- itested by his mode of delivering his Speech, some de- wree of displeasure towards the House. The hon. member then jocularly observed that, if hon, membera really thuught it necessary to be at all influenced in their cousideration of the answer to be returned to Fis isxecllency, by the peculiarly emphatic tone in which they imagmed His Excellency to have delivered huis Speech ; 1 woulé be quite suflicient, he theught, to. in- siruct the hon. Speaker, to retaliate by adopling a simi- lar tone in his reading of the Address to His Excellen- cv. The hon. member then concluded by expressing hig satisfaction ‘that a majority of the House were pre- pared to-pass the Revenue Bill at last.

Mr. Wangurton agreed with Mr. Pope that such a course as th.t of calling a Session of the Legislature at so unusual and inconvenientia season of the year would not hive been necessary had the country possessed &@ Governinent honestly disposed to do their duty. Before the prorogation it was impossible for the House to dis- cover hor His Excellency wosld act with respect to

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