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, rr “ia t a rt . ? > iF r This would be reason to expect that, sbould the travelling} 19 4 learned gentleman who fescucs your estate from! appen _ your enemies, and keeps it himse!f.

fae be reduced to two-pence, the characters ef such | wen as would then come forward to act as Constables, | would be much beloweghat of those who at presentacted in that eapacity: for the pay would induce nove but, une Jowest characters to look after it. With respect to| Commissioners having frequently trumped up business for their owa beneit,aa Mr. Mooney had accuseu some, doing, he (lon. Mr. Thornton) was not aware that any each’practicés had prevailed, except in a Court uot far from the ‘Ten Mile House, but which was then hap- pity defunct. {Mr. Mooney here said—that was not the only one.} Hon Mr. Thornton resumed: if there was another, it might, perhaps, be at St. leanor’s ; for he was aware that many complaints had been made! against tho Smali Debts Court there. He was of) opinion that the number of Courts might be advantage- ously diminished. A man, being a creditor, and hav- ying cause to be dissatisfied with his debtor, finding a Court just at his door, in the heat of passion took out a summons for a few shillings perhaps; when, most probably, had the Court been distant some miles, he would have taken time for cool reflection, and have ultogether forborne the litigant proceeding. He (the hos. gentleman) understood that petitions from the Masters parts of King’s County would be sent to the Ifouse, praying for diuninution of the number of Small Debts Courts therein. {To be continued.]

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iJonace Mas’s New Boo.x—It is one of the most etoguent collection of “Thoughts for a Young Man” ever penned, and we have no doubt of its great popu- harity :

Appetite is Nicholas the First, and the noble facul- ties of mind and heart are Hungarian captives. Were we tosee a rich banker exchanging eayles for coppers by tale, or a rich merchant bartering silk for serge by the pound, we should deem them worhy of an epithet in the vocabulary of folly. Yet the same men buy pains

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whose prime cost is greater than the amplest fund of

natural enjoy;nents. ‘Their purveyor and market-man bring them home headaches, and indigestion, and neu- ralgia, by hamper fulls. Their buttier bottles up stone, and gout, and the liver complaint, falsely labelling them sherry, er maderia, or port, and the stultified masters have not wit enough to see throuch the cheat The msas of society look with envy upon the epicure who, day by day, for four hours of luxurious exting, suffers twenty hours of sharp aching; who pays a fu'! price for hot supper, and is so pleased with the bargain that he throws in a sleepless and tempestuous nizht, as 8 pratuity.

English factory children have received the commiser- ation of the world, because they were scoureed to work eighteen hours ont of the twenty-four; but there is many a theoretic repubtican who is a harsher Pharaoh to his stomach than this: —who allows it no more resting time than he does his watch; who gives it no Sunday, no holiday, no wzcation in any sense. Onr pions ancestors enacted a liw that sicides shoulu be buried where four reads mect, and that a cart load of stones should he thrown upon the body. Yet, when gentlemen or ladies conunit enicide, not by cord or steel, but by tnrtle soup or iobster-salad, they may be buried in consecrat- ed ground, and under the auspices of the church, and he public are not ashamed to read an epitaph upon their tombstones false enough to make the marble blush. Were the barbarous old law now in force that punished the hody of the suicide for the offence which his soul bad committed, we should find many » Mount Auburn at the cross-roads.

A Pavpasre Hit.—James Russell Lowell, in his “Coaversations on some of the Old Poets,” savs :- -

“The world goes to church to be quiet, and takes it amiss to be interrupted in a calculation of the price of cotton by a personal reference to any of its own bosom! sins; the world has enaged the preacher to abuse the! Scribes and Pharisees, and not to be looking too nicely: after 18 own conscience. The world believes firmly | ‘hat the whole race of Scribes and Pharisees was dend| and buried twothousind years azo, and sees no harm tt! being a little severe upon their foibles, expecially us| Here are oo surviving relatives whose feelings can be: aet or edie by it.” { A Stine Tnaouent.—* The death of an old! man's wie,” says | amaratine. “is dike entting down an’ wncient oak thet has dong shaded the fainily mansion. | Meneeforth the glare ofthe world. with its cares and weissitudes, fall epon the old. widower's heart, and there, 2 nothing to break thoiz force, or shield him trom the: weight, oi wisivitune. It iv ua if bis.right hand wes’

withered--ove wing of his eagle breken, aud every!!

movement that he uade only brought hin to the ground. |

His eyes ere dim.sad glassy, and when. the film of: death falls over hiin, he misses those acenatomed tones: which nught bewe suoothed his.pagsage to.the grave.” |

A clergyman lecturing one sfrernonn ta his ferale| porisbouert, said: “Be net proud that our Lord paid!

enut sex the distinguished hovor of enpearing first to a!

‘simle afier the restrrection, fort wag only done that/out of the five offices of emolument to reserve only twolence to \for thesr own purty, shows that

ae giad news might apres) the eooner’

THE BRAGINER.

es pn eee ———

The word * Boh,” still used to frighten children, was|

: . - iaiste b CAI 1 ; : the name of a fierce barbatian general, 8on of Odin,| S!stency, Decause one of those officers was charged,

who was the terror of all his enemies,

There is a tradition of a “ Fair Maid of Doncaster,”

named Detty Maddox, who when a hundred horsemen’ wooed her, stipulated that him who could dance her down she would marry; but she wearied them all, and they leit her. The following curious advertisement lately appeared in a provincial print :—* To be sold by private contract, a beautiful monkey, a parrot, two spaniels, and a tor- toise-shell tom cat, the property of a lady, just married, who has no further occasion for the same.”

— BORRIPOUDANEZ.

“THE CONFERENCE” AND ITS RESULTS FAIRLY CONSIDERED.

To tue Eprtor oy THe Examiner.

Sir.—In the Gazetle of the 2nd. inst., a letter appears signed ‘ Moderatus,” which, like all other sayings and produciions of the Obstructives, is full of misrepresen- tations and mistifications.

In the third paragraph of this letter, the writer says the conditions precedent to the establishment of Re- sponsible Government in the Colony, are—* Pensions of £200 per annum each to the fullowing officers—viz. the Provincial Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Attorney Geners}.”

Now, I should like * Mederatus” to shew any Despatch inade public, wherein Lord Grey hiuts at the propriety, or makes any allusion to the necessity of making any retiring allowances to those Officers ; and I should also wish to know, whether he will venture to assert, that His Excellency requested a pension of £200 a year for the Attorney General], from the gentlemen who con- ducted the conference with him relative toa change in the Government. Is he prepared to rebut or disprove the statements, (made with reference to that confer- ence, a8 respects those officers), which were made by Messrs. Coles and Warburton ia the Assembly ?

} was preacnt in the House when those gentlemen stated that, at their first interview, His Excellency had stated himself to be perfectly satisfied with the offer which had been mace to the Attorrey General, and had struck out nis name from the list of Officials for whom he meant to require a legislative provision, as well as those of ull the others, except those of the Treasurer and Colonial Secretary, who, as he agreed, were to be eatisfied with appointments to minor offices, or to receive nothing, At the second interview, they stated His Excellency merely said, with respect to the

send for them and explain to them what it was purpos- ec to offer them, under the contemplated new arrange- ment, en their vacating of their present offices; adding that he thought they could not do better.

Now, Sir, as the only preliminary arrangements re- quired by His Excellency, with a view toa change in the Government, were a reasonable provision for the

iguilty. Butthe majority of the present House wil! not

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Treasurer and the Colonial Secretary, that he would! and I almost pity him, when I think how tormenting his

age Rothe o<ne~anawneesinmpdanaineae

* A lawver,” eaid Lord Brougham, ina facetions mood, such “ Snatchers” as the “ Snarlers” would have the n ’ $ ’ ™ to

Proposed atrangement has, however,

‘afforded ‘' Moderatus” an Opportunity to accuse the

leaders of the Liberal Party in the Assembly of incoy,. by a former House, with malversation ia his office. Pye accusation, however, should not have been so much to inconsistency, as for undue leniency and generosity - and to that the liberal leaders might weil have pleaded

rest satisfied—uniess I much mistake their intentions with regard to official reforms,—without denouncing two of the three as soon as the formation of aw honest Government shall give them an opportunity to procure the information hitherto withheld by a corrupt one— necessary to sustain their impeachment. 2

The attempt to justify His Excellency’s refusal to re- construct his Council entirely, without the sanction of Earl Grey, 1s quite futile ; in the first place because of the admission that His Excellency might have reconstructed it in part, by the expulsion of three of its members ahd the admission of three Liberals in their stead, indepen. dent of the authority of Earl Grey,—it being quite evident that he was as much at liberty to make @ com plete change as to make a partial one; in the second, because he had the resignations of the whole bod in his possession; and, in the third, because ali would have been merely provisional, and rever- sible at the pleasure of Kari Grey. Besides, if Hie Excellency did not intend entirely to remodel his Cous- cil, why did he call upon the members of the present Board to resign ?

In my opinion, it is almost to be regretted that Messrs. Coles, Warburton, and Swabey did not accept of the seats in the Executive Council offered to them by his Excellency: because,] think, that had they ao- cepted them, His Excellency would not have come pub- licly forward to support the demand of the Colonial Se-— cretary, the Treasurer, and the Attorney General far retiring pensions; but, on the contrary, he would, if he wished to befriend those officials, have earnestly and urgently advised them to accept at once of the appoiat- ments offered to them.

Those three liberals (Messrs. Coles, Warburton, and Swabey,) have, however, by their observance of correct principles and true independence, succeeded in their endeavours to overthrow the old corrupt system of Government, for at least four years to come; and a!! who sincerely desire the establishment ofa truly com stitutional Administration, must applaud the conduct of the majority of the Assembly for the noble stand whieh they have made for the realization of the well-direct- ed wishes of the people.

As for His Excellency, I cannot think how he can avoid feeling himself covered with shame and confusion when he reflects upon the opportunity which he has Jost of placing himself at the head ofa Government which would have been as popular as any in these Provinces ;

anticipation of his forced submission to the representa- tives of the People must be: for the time, he must feel assured, for his experiencing that mortification, is cer- tainly fast approaching, and cannot be retarded either by his own obstinate devices, or by all the power and ability of ¥oderatus and his party.

I am, Sir,

Treasurer and the Colonial Secretary, and a written assurance from the Chief Justice of his satisfaction with the proposed consideration of his claims; and as the three gentlemen who held the conference with His Excellency touching those inatiers, took the precaution,

A Friend to Constitutions] Reform, and A LOOKER-ON, April 5, 1850. P. 3. Since writing the foregoing T have read an ed:- toria! in the “ Examiner” of the 3rd inst., in whieu I

immediately after their retirement from Government | House, on the occasion of their second interview with) His Excellency, to commit to paper and attach their! Signatures to a statement of «l] that had passed between | thein and His Uxcellency touching a new arrangement; it seems very probable that any “ discrepancy” between that stateinent, as read by Mr. Warburton in his place inthe Aesembiy, and that of His Excellencey—if any such discrenancy does exist—must have arisen from sa} imperfect reccliection of the facts by His Excellency, |

have been much pleased to trace a very close evinsi- dence of opinion with my own as above expressed. A Looren-on. To Tne Fprror or rax Examiner.

Sirx.—

t cannot eseape the most superficial observes thet sn experiment is in process, the object of which is to trv whether or not the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island

are disposed to retract the verdict, pronounced e@

owing to some distraction of mind, caused by the bodily | distinctly at the Hustings, in favour of Reenonsible Go-

indisposition under which he laboured during the con-' vernment.

ference ; for, at the time of his reading the statement in} the Assembly, Mr. Warburton stated that His hixce}-|

In plain words, feelers are put forth daily te see if the expiring faction can in any way regain their fancied ascendancy ; end it is even rumoured—T cannot

leucy Was not, in his opinion, fully capable of transact-! conceive on any plausible gremnds—that His Excelien- ing business of so inuch importance, as, from the efiects|ey the Lieutenant Goversor wii! send the stubbore nad pressure of iliness, he was net even able to raise | Representatives of the Pcople again before their con4y- himself from his coueh. ltuents. It is not, Sir, heeause | give credence even te

Again “Moderatns” soemsto think that it is nothing !ess|the bare poss bility that His Excellency ean eontemn- tuan “a crime to offer those gentlemen niaor offices.”! plate x tmecasure so hopeless, ia olving-—irimediate!y Are those gentlemen, let me ask. of rank or standing 6u-lafter the sentiments of the constituency Lave bern re perior to that of Sir Rupert D. Georce of Nova Scot, | decisively pronounced—-an expense of time and moner who, when the change in Government iook place in ico vowarrantable, and which wonkd so certainly involse that Province, held the ofilce of Registrar, whilst Mr. |him 1) circuiustanees of the most painfal nature, that F Howe was appointed Colonial Secretary in bis stead? fcg!] your attention to this matter; but because IT kuow

itis alsoacrime, in the estimation of © Moderatua.” tolthe drts of the people's e,etnies to be profoundand ther propase to continue in office men who have heen repeat-lyjeilance upticiy r. that | would warn them te be es vdly denounced for mal-practices in their public capaci-|alert as ifthe step hae actualiy been taken. That the ties. With respect to this, | observe that it would in-/expiring faction has such a wish—whatever His Exeei- deed be a crime in Government to continue them, whilst leney’s resolves inay be—is plainly indicated hy the lying under such imputations, in the very important ana languaze of those whom they pay to be their seribes. responsible situations which they now fill. But to pro-!The Islander is furnished once avain with “the highest pose to place two out of three of the present public available talent’—fa plrase which was used by ttt officers, in places of minor emolument, and to continne! print when it hired rhe late Collard to be its editor. and the third in the office which he at present fills: that is ;

s}Which phrase may. be properly enough used i refer- 2 successor every way worthy of Collarc): and highest aystlabJs talect.” Lovever repugnan the

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