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ane party then in power as the vote of 1856 was creditable to the existing Government.

Another extravagant expenditure of which we are reminded fs that on behalf of the Lunatic Asylum. The expense of its management in 1848 was £349,—in 1856 it was £731. But what was its condition in the former year? Why, it was a disgrace to the Colony. The purpose for which it was erected seemed to have been lost sight af, for it was not im a condition to receive patients, and the consequence was, that the jails in all the Counties were crowded with unfortunate lunatics— some of them being manacled and fettered in dark cells, as i they were the worst of criminals, with a poor prospect of re- covery before them. We can assure the brilliant financier of | the Islander offive, that it requires no * herculean efforts’’ to brush away the cobwebs he has gathered about the other items

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friends, who were invited to the house of Mr. Narraway, and whieh we trust we have strength and fortitude enough to

after breakfast on the following morning =- Mr. Heard acting the part of sponge on the occasion -— the ‘ perils of the vey- age’ were again talked over, and Mr. Barker is reported to have used ** words to the follow ing effeet’? :— _ That the whole voyage was a constant sceno of drinking, ‘cursing, swearing and gambling, especially on the part of Mr. Warburton—That Warburton spoke on several occasions, in violent terms against the Sons of Temperance on the Island,

accusing them of various erimes, and that he, Barker, was

determined to take the first opportunity, after he got on the | Island, to inform the publie of the disgraceful conduct of the

. lon. the Treasurer of the Island, during the voyage.”

This, with a few unimportant embellishments and additions, is Mr. Lleard’s version of the dreadful ** proceedings’? on board theship Majestic. Now, what may be said ata public meeting, such as that which was alleged to have been said at the Mor- risonian Chapel, may be properly enough made the subject Jf out-door conversation; but should we find that at oar break-

survive. First, that we have attempted “ to ridicule another | on the score of religion.’’ Second, that we can quote Serip- | ture as well as poctry. And, third, that we are a Mormon. | With regard to the first charge, we plead Not Guilty. Mr. | | Heard alludes,of course, to himaself as the individual ridiculed. | We can assure him’ he has saved us the trouble—~if we ever) had any desire to incur it —of holding him up to the scorn of ‘the community, for m this undertaking ‘* none but himself ean be his parallel.’’ Tt would be absurd to think of ridicul- ‘ing Mr. Heard on the score of religion, for we are as far from thinking that cant and hypocrisy constitute religion as that brass, with all its showy glitter, is equal m value to pure gold. We hate that kind of piety which may be seen of all men, but is never felt by those who exhibit it. Jt is a kind of garh so commonly worn in the practice of chicanery, that _ whenever we see it we like to keep as far as possible from the wearer. As My. Heard hasa taste for our poetical quotations, we shall fit him to one om this very subject. E6 will be seen in Hood’s inimitable ‘Ode to Rae Wilson,’ a gentleman

in his comparative statement, but the errors and misrepresen- fast table there was “a chiel amang us takin’ notes”’ of our who belonged to that peculiar school of piety in England of tations we have already exposed will show how worthless the | Private conversation, for the purpose of distorting it to our) whieh Itoly Willie is the most distinguished ornament in this

whole statement is.

The state of the public debt comes in for a due share of consideration, as might be expected, from such a wizard for firures as the editor of the Islander. Of course, according to

his statement, the Colony was never in a worse condition, and

its debt never before so large ; although the British Govern- | denies that any thing of the kind occurred on board the ship, |-

. os |—** gambling *’ of any sort was unknown, and, unless enjoying ment were, only the other day, go fully satisfied of the ex- 7 3 . ’ ’ Joy ing,

cellent state of our finances — so convinced that our credit was sound, and that our debt was mot worth speaking of —as to give a guarantee for a loan of £100,000 sterling, to make in- dependent freeholders of despairing tenants, —a thing which the Imperial authorities would not do in those halcyon days of

| projudice,to gratify the promptings of a mischicvous disposition, | we should be inehined to regard him as the most despicable of

human beings, to be shunned—shunned—shunned, wherever there was a chance of encountering him. With respeet to the

charge of gambling and drunkenness, Mr. Warburton, whose |

word will pass in any community a long way before that of Mr. Heard, where the latter happens to be known—positively

a sociable glass in moderation can-be ealled drunkenness, that was also unknown. But Mr. Barker, who is the principal Witness against Mr. Heard, not only first quietly denies the correctness of Mr. Heard’s report, but subsequently goes to a

| Magistrate, when the tale-bearer persists in his calumnies,

and swears that the report of Mr. Barker’s address, and of the after-breakfast conversation, is altogether untrue! How humiliating is the position in which this affidavit places Mr.

1548, when the immaculate men then in office went begging to| Heard! This worthy labours to prop up his ealumnies by Her Majesty's Minister for ercdit to the amount of £12,000. | furnishing the public with a report of further private eonver-

But let us see what our debt was before the Liberals came into | power. In the year ending 3]st January, 1850, the Auditors | state the public debt at £28,579 lls. O4d., and last year the | same gentlemen set it down at £22,000 ; and this includes the | balance due for the Worrell Estate and Lot 11,—to meet! breakfast conversation seems to have been filtered through

which there are over £10,000 due by purchasers of public lands, and 45.000 acres of the recently purchased property un- sold, which, if disposed of at 5s. an acre, would yield £11,- 250,—to say nothing of the timber, longers and other stuff upon the land, in exchange for which a member of the As- sembly recently said in his place that he would be willing to pay the balance due upon the property. And thus we find that the Government have actually in their hands, at this moment, property to double the amount in value of the public dehbt—excluding, of course, from the £22,000, £11,500 of Treasury Notes afloat, which bear no interest. During the five years the present Government have been in offiee—(for, though eoming in in 1851, they were out six months in 1854) —they have paid off nearly £20,000 of the public debt, besides giving £11,000 more for education than their pre- decessors ever gave; and expending on roads, bridges and wharfs, £6,000 over the amount given in those blessed days for the return of which the editor of the Islander sighs so ardently. Will nobody, at the vext election, get a rotten borough for the aspiring Chancellor, so that he may hasten the arrival of ** the good time coming ?’’

We have a great deal more to say on thé subject of the Public Accounts, but we shall follow in the footsteps of ** our illustrious predecessor,’’ and dispose of the matter at our leisure.

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HOLY WILLIE AGAIN.

Iw a dull community like Charlottetown, where we have no public amusements, and where polities even cannot be made to produce sufficient excitement for the whole year round — we eught to be thankful, as we hope we are—seeing that it is our duty to cater for the public entertainment—when we have the goud fortune to cateh a fool, who is willing to do everything in his power to make himself a Jaughing-stock for the public, and whose antics are so extraordinary that there is no difficul- ty in getting any amount of fan and ridicule out of him. Mr. William Heard — or Holy Willie, by which name he is now popularly known—has, for the last two or three weeks, proved quite a god-send to many of us who were dying for the want of a hearty laugh. Practice leads to perfection in many things, and why not in tom-foolery as well as others? Holy | Willie was very diverting when he made his first appearance |

in a Supplement to the Is/ander about three weeks ago; but |

in his more recent effort to amuse an admiring public, he has |

infinitely exceeded our expectations. |

The question at issue between Mr. Barker and Mr. Heard may seem, at first sight, to be a private one—and the Islander evidently regards it as such, from the fact of its publishing the | correspondence as advertisements,—but as it involves the very | important enquiry : Shall one individual be permitted to slan-| der the character of another with impunity? the cause of truth | and justice will be served by our giving a due consideration to the cireumstances connected with it. Mr. Cephas Barker |

ablishes in the Examiner of the 13th ult. a communication, |

rom which it appears that Mr. William Heard had been in- dustriously engaged, for some considerable time, in the emi-| nently Christian occupation of spreading a report, utterly false, but seriously affecting the character of a public officer. Mr. Heard is awakened to a sense of his awkward position by | making himself superlatively ridiculous in asking the person maligned to let him retail the*scandal to the public without punishing him as the law directs. This modest request is re- | sponded to with much more courtesy and consideratiun than | we would be inclined to accord, and Mr. Heard is quietly warned of the consequences which might ensue from publicly indulging his slandering propensities. With the wholesome fear of the indignation of a jury —a stunning verdict of da- mages, and a plethoric bill of costs before his mental vision,

sation, —-even Mrs, Narraway’s nane must suffer insult in addition to the injury she sustained in having her hospitality abused, by its being thrust upon the publie gaze in conneetion with a conversation which proves nothing ; — a magistrate in Pictou has been applied to, whose name is not given;—Messrs. Seott, Trowan, and others of this Island, are also brought into Court, but of what avail is their testimony? The I ead

their minds, but whether lost in the process ef filtration, we exn discover none of the spiritof Mr. Heard’s first shot. They do remember having heard something said of Mr. Barker’s speech, and of the after-breakfast conversation; and two of them can only remember that Mr. Warburton and others were accused of the horrible crime of drinking ‘ success to the breeze,’’ while the Majestic was ploughing her weary way through the Atlantic; and another charge against Mr. Warburton, produced by one of Mr. Heard’s witnesses, is, thaton the voyage, he, Mr. Warburton, told the very palpable truth, that some of the Sons of Temperance here were not only in the habit of * raising the glass to their mouths behind the door,’’ but that many of them were addicted to—swoxine!’’? So that from Mr. Heard’s own wit- nesses we find the horrible ‘+ proceedings’’ to have dwindled down to a simple statement of the fact, that Mr. Warburton, during a cold and tedious passage, occasionally drank * success to the breeze,’ when a breeze was, no doubt, very much wanted, and that he had—presumptuous man!—-without a due fear of the Grand Division betore his eyes—asserted that some of the ‘*Sons’’ mightily relished a drop/on the sly and a whiff of their pipes!

We are almost ashamed to take so much notice of this puerile nonsense. Our inain object in doing so is, to eX pose the thing so thoroughly, that cur newspapers will be saved, for the time to come, from publishing a mass of correspondence on a sabject that should never have been submitted to the publie.

The paragraph of the letter under review, having a direct reference to the editor of this paper, beautifully ‘reflects ”’ the moral and intellectual attainments of Holy Willie. It begins by assuring us that ‘ the editorial assistanee which Mr. Barker has enlisted reflects no credit on the Bible Chris- tian body.”’ This sentence is not only impertinent, but ft is false. I the first place, Mr. Barker required no * assis- tance,’’ and certainly he ‘enlisted’’ none at our hands. What we have written in condemngtion of Holy Willie’s bab- bling was not intended for the Bible Christian body, but as a warning to honest people against indulging too freely in pri- vate conversation in the presence of the babbler, whose con- duet in the instance referred to * refleets no eredit’’ on anything calling itself a man. “ If Mr. Whelan secks to make political capital out of this affair,’’ continues Mr. Heard, ‘‘ especially after refusing to allow me to reply in his columns to Mr. Barker’s attack—I beg leave to refer him to one who is able to cope with him, and who will, I doubt not, supply his wants on that score.’’

Ve beg to assure Mr. Heard that Mr. Whelan is not in want of ‘ political capital,’*—that the ‘affair’? under

consideration has no more to do with politics than the sentence we have just quoted has to do with the truth — and that of all men in the community in connection with whom we might hope to create political or any other kind of ‘ capital,” Wiliam Heard is decidedly the last that would be thought of. Mr. Heard asserts that which he knows to be untrue, when he states that Mr. Whelan refused to allow him to re- ply to Mr. Barker through the columns of this paper. In proof of this assertion, and for the amusement of our readers, we shall produce the correspondence which took plaee between Mr. Heard and Mr. Whelan as part of the ‘“ evidence” — (a word for which the former has a great partiality) —in connee- tion with this ‘‘affair,’’ and as illustrative of the veracity which distinguishes our pious friend. Mr. Heard was so ex- ceedingly anxious to *¢ enlist ’’ the columns of the Examiner to give publicity to his second rambling letter, which the pub- lisher of the Islander very properly inserted as an advertise- ment, that he could not wait to submit a eopy of it to our inspection, but imagined we were silly enough to set apart our columns for the insertion of Aés lucubrations, without their having to undergo the usual ordeal of a previous examination. We answered the fool according to his folly :—

** Charlottetown, 17th April, 1857.

‘**Sir—As you published in the last Exweminer a letter signed * Cephas Barker,’ containing an attack on me, I wish to know if you will permit me to reply to the same in your colamns, in the nezt issue. Please reply by bearer, and oblige ** Yours respectfully, Hon. E. Whelan.” * Wa. Hearn. [REPLy.] ** Charlottetown, April 18, 1857. ** Sin—Your note of yesterday’s date has been received, in

he corks up the vial which contained his slanderous poison, reply to which I beg to state, that it is quite unusual for a

a wh about nothing, but an insinuation frequently thrust out, the

sepemaretetion of which is just this: “*Ah, if Mr. Warburton would only promise not to take the law of me, wouldn’t /

— it, if it wasn’t that I should have to ines — epee your eye.’’ Mr. Warburton, with | courtesy and gentlemanly bearing for which he i oI admired, condescends to notice [Wed ie toad and refers him to his presumed knowledge of the law of libel, | which mi de “aii to put the truth in evidence actions for defamation. Upon this exposition of a part of t law of libel, Mr. Heard again rushes Roto alah’ aed on assures us that Mr. Warburton has given im permission to’ uncork the vial. He, thereupon, proceeds to state the case

nd Po to the publie a round-about, rigmarole story, in public journalist to promise to publish communications he has there is much display of individual names—a great ady never seen.

‘* Yours respectfully, ** Wm. Heard, Esq.’’ * Epw. WHELAN.

Let the reader now judge whether or not the above answer |

an : contains a refusal to publish Mr. Heard’s communication. If cmpeee a a as a riotous bully would say toa peaceable the clever whiter himself is still convinced that we have not | p*y done him justice, or that the periodical literature of the coun- try is likely to suffer by there being only a very limited

ublicity given to his ingenious lucubrations— we desire to

Mr. Heard’s communication, intimate to him, that we are not only prepared to publish the , letters he has already written, but as many more as he can in write between now and midsummer, he paying down, in cur- he rent coin or good Bank paper, the usual advertisement price | rint, and gravely | for every square which his letters may contain. As the pro- |

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country i “In proof howover-righteousness re-acts,

Accept an aneedote well based on facts,

On Sunday morning — (at the day don’t fret} —

In riding with a friend to Ponder’s Eud

Outside the stage, we happened to commerd

A certain mansion that we saw To Let.

* Ay,’ cried our coachman, with our talk to grapple,

*You’re right ! no house along the road comes nigh it {

> Twas built by the same man as built yon Chapel,

And master wanted once to bwy it,— But t’other driv the bargain much too hard,— He axed sure-/y a sum prodigious !

But being so particular religious,

Why, that, you see, put master on his guard !’ ””

As to the seeond charge, the evidence against us is so con- clusive, that it would be arrant folly not to admit it without hesitation. Ft ought to be a2 source of consolation to his pious heart—if he eould only forget the uncharitable feelings he bears us—that we have given such a proof of our godliness as to be able to quote oan for we have always understood that an infallible proof of sanctity with the saintly class to which Mr. Heard belongs (we do not use the term in a deno- minational sense) is a readiness at afl times to lard one’s talk with pious texts. We hope that our case will not be regarded as an exception to this rule, and that our admitted knowledge of Scripture will not be taken as circumstantial * evidence”? that we were at one time intended for the Chureh, and not having entered the sanctuary, that something must have gone wrong in the course of out early training. As to our incur- sions into the domains of Poetry, we are so hardened in our guilt on that score, that we shall be tempted, once more before we have done, to compel Holy Willie to sit for his picture, to be refleeted through a poetical quotation.

It may be sufficient to observe, as to the aecusation of Mor- monism, that Mr. Heard, haying thought proper to aecuse us of such a thing, we trust he will have the deeeney to cease including us in the reviling and vituperation which he has such a taste for dealing out to Catholies generally, after the manly fashion in whieh he related his wonderful story about Mr. Warburton—that is, behind their hacks. Ifwe are a Mormon, why should he anathematize us for being a ‘* Papist?’”’ There is one thing, however, wé would wish to be understood: Mr. Hleard may say we have any religion or no religion—we shal] not quarrel with him on that ground; but let no Christian black or white man suppose that we shall ever try to get to heaven by the devious courses he pursues. His taste for hu- mour and anecdote has, no doubt, made him familiar with the story of the little boy who was asked why he objected to go to heaven—‘* Why,”’ says he, ** because grandfather may be there, and he would say—Whew! whatare little children doing here?”’ We hope we may be enabled to think better of Holy Willie than we do at present, for—judging from present cireumstances— | should we chance to get into that blissful haven.and meet hin there, we might be prompted to exelaun— Whew! what brings Holy Willie here?

Mr. Heard makes some allusions to morality. We are wt a loss to understand what 4e considers it to be, Our impression is, that true morality is based upon that golden rule, which enjoins us to do unto others as we would others should do unto us. And judged by this rule, how many persons are there in this Colony—with a full knowledge of his antecedents—who will venture to say that William Heard is in the practice of doing unto others as he would others should do unto him? ‘¢Take a hint, friend Heard, take a hint.’’ We are in the hamour for drawing a full length portrait of a certain indivi- dual, but we doubt, should we proceed, if he would admire our artistic skill. We shall, however, dismiss him for the pre- sent, giving, before vartinz, the poctical extract we have pro- mised. Wetbink he mustagree with us, that Mister Gubbins’s remark as to Jack’s braying qualities, is admirably suggestive of his published letters, and that the moral of the tale eannot be more fully appreciated hy any one than himself :—

* Again—good-humouredly to end our quarrel— (Good humour should prevail!) ' I’ll fit you with a tale Whereto is tied a moral.

Once on a time a certain English lass

Was seized with symptoms of such deep decline, Cough, hectic flushes, every evil sign,

That, as their wont is at such desperate pass, The doctors gave her over—to an ass.

Accordingly, the grisly Shade to bilk, Each morn the patient quaffed a frothy bowl Of assinine new milk, Robbing a shaggy suckling of a foal Which got proportionably spare and skinny— Meanwhile the neighbours cried, * Poor Mary Ann! She can’t get over it! she never can!’ When, lo! to prove each prophet was a ninny, The one that died was the poor wet-nurse, Jenny.

To aggravate the case, There were vut two grown donkeys in the place; And, most unluckily for Eve’s sick daughter, The other long-eared creature was a male, Who never in his life had given a pail Of milk, or even chalk and water. No matter: at the usual hour of eight Down trots a donkey to the wicket-gate, With MisterSimon Gubbins on his back,—

* Your sarvant, Miss,—a werry spring-like day,— Bad time for hasses, though! good lack! good lack! Jenny be dead, Miss,—but [’ze brought ye Jack,— lle doesn’t give no milk—but he can bray.’

Se runs the story, And, in vain self-glory, Some Saints would sneer at Gubbins for his blindness 3 But what the better are their pious saws To ailing souls, than dry hee-haws, Without the milk of human kindness?”

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Ir was not to be expected that the appointment of the Hon. W. W. Lord to the Commissionership of Public Lands would | he suffered to go unnoticed by the Opposition Press. The | in which we are told that although Mr. Lord * can sign his | mune, and make out a bill of parcels, in a sort of way, yet he is utterly disqualified for the offiee,’’ ke. Weare quite certain of the truth of the fact, that no matter who the Government might appoint to the Land Office, the nomince would be assailed in terms equally as offensive and untrue. Mr. Lord has, for many years, conducted an extensive commercial business — in | the course of which he has realized a fortune sufliciently large to buy out—at least five times over—stock, lock and barrel— |

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ther Mr. Longworth ean lay elaim te more talent or education than that possessed by Mr. Lord? We are quite sure he cannot. ,They are both eommercial men— unused to the routine of offiee — and they are so well known, that it would be quite unnecessary for us to make any eomparison of the success which has followed the career of both.

With respect to the article on Mr. Clark’s letter, all we need say, is ~- in which we are sure the gentleman abused will joim us — that we are delighted to find ample proof in the columne of the Jslander, that the Obstruetive party were greatly dis- appointed in their expectations of a break-up im the Govern- ment, in eonsequence of the casual differenee between the Colonial Sceretary and the Controller of Customs.

Srvrr vs. Sirk—Sre«x triewpnant.—We understand that the last English Mail brought advices to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, that Her Majesty was pleased to confirm the appointments made hy His Excellency to the offee of Queen's Counsel. We informed our readers, in January last, how the Stuff Gowns rustled with indignation at those appointments— how Sir Dominick was to be brought to book for making them, without first ascertaining the good will and pleasure of the gentlemen in Stuff—and how a Petition was to be sent to Downing Street, to annul them ;—but it seems that the Down- ing Street officialy have treated the little flare-up of the Barris- ters, briefless and others, in a very brief nramner, by virtually declaring their petition to be all stuff.

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To CorresronpEeNnts. — We have received a second commu- nication from Mr. John Williams, in reply to Mr. Heard’s grossly persona} attack upon him. The reply is such as might be expected under the cireumstances — bitter and crushing ; but as we have summoned Mr. Heard to our own presenee this week, to receive admonition at our own hands, we have interceded on his behalf with Mr. W., and requested him to lay down /us rod for the presemt, so that the culprit may not be chastised too severely.

We have nearly a drawer full of answers to the Enigma in our last issue, but we have no space to give insertion to any of them. Judging from the number of trifles of this kind which come to hand frequently,-we are inclined to think that those ‘‘ who teach the ingenuous youth,’’ as well as those who are taught, im this Island, havea decided taste and talent for enigmas. :

‘+ James J. Rice,”’ in refutation of slander, next week.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISIT MAIL.

The British and Colonial Mails reached Charlottetown on Friday morning. The news from Europe is unimportant.

HER MAJESTY’S ACCOUCHEMENT.

Bint or a Princess.—Buckixeuam Patace, April 14, 1857.—This afternoon, at a quarter before two o'clock, the Queen was happily delivered of a Princess. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, several Lords of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and the Ladies ef Her Majesty’s Bedchamber being present. This great and im- portant news was made known to the town by the firing of the Park and ‘Power guns, and the Privy Council being assembled as soon as possible thereupon, at the Couneil Chamber, Whitehall, it was ordered that a Form of Thanks- giving for the Queen's safe deliverance of a Princess, be pre- pared by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be used in all churches and chapels throughout England and Walks, und the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on Sunday, the 19th day of April, or the Sunday after the respective ministers shall receive the same. Ter Majesty and the infant Princess are, God be praised, both doing well. .

There was present on the oceusion in Her Majesty’s room —Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, Dr. Snew and Mrs, Lilly, the monthly nurse. In the adjoining apartmenis, besides the other medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr. Ferguson), were the Mistress of the Robes, the Lady-in- Waiting on the Queen, and the following officers of State and Lords of the Privy Council, viz;—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Palwerston, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labow- chere, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, the Bishop of London, and the Marquis ef Bredalbane.

Chloroform was administered to Her Majesty by one of the physicians in attendance, Doctor Suow, with a few short intermissions, for three hours.

Enoranp anp Persta.—The Treaty between England and Persia has arrived at Teheran, The ratification will uot take place for five or six weeks. :

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New Advertisements.

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Hourly expected, p™ ship “ ISABEL,” an assortment of

Mens’ Paris Hats, new style.

DUNCAN, MASON & Co. Queen-street, May 11, 1857.

OTICE is hereby given, that the Dividend declared May 5,at the Annual General Meeting of the shareholders in the Charlottetown Gas Light Company, will be paid at the Gas Office on and after Monday next, the 11th inst., between the hours of 10 and 2 o0’clock. N. B.—All persons will be required to produce the stock certificate for the Dividend they claim. By Order, May 11, 1857. Wm. MUKPHY, anager & See’y. Grand Division Room, CuarLorTerown, May 8, 1857. Ta Meeting of the Grand Division, 8. of T. of P. E. Island, held in Temperance Hall this evening—present, the G. W. P. Brother Burnett, Brothers J. B. Cooper, i. Beer, J. Prowse, Webber, J. Tanton, Gidley, J. Scott, jun., J. Evans, A.

Islander of last Friday devotes a short article to this subject, | Murray, J. Pickard, G. Tanton, D. McFadyen, W. C. Trowan, .

G. W. Millner, J. W. Morrison and John Arbuckle—the following Resolution was adopted :— ;

«« Whereas the following paragraph appears in the Eramincr newspaper, of this City, of the 4th inst., over the signature of ‘C. Barker’ :— :

Tae Witness—Mr. W. C. Trowan. Now, Sir, this gentleman, if report be correct, had a poor time of it in the Grand Division at their last meeting, where until half-past eleven’ o’clock, they tried to make him say that he said what he never said, in fact to bear false witness against himself and “ Barker,” but they failed ” va)

‘* Resolved, therefore, that the proceedings of this Grand Division, being generally of a private and confidential nature, to divulge the same to parties who are not members—eyen

prietor of the Is/ander has already made a business transaction {from tue editor down to the Printer’s devil—the whole Islander _where no misrepresentation is attempted—is a gross violation

out of the ‘ affair,’’ we cannot see why we should not have |

“ het * ? ° ween Cephas Ba and I’’—(we ; ane - | a , a phas Barker (we admire the grammati- /a chance of turning it to a pecuniary account. The eunning

ca eo i ’ . > ve . owen! WF Gana : iia hee brushing ‘reference ‘to one who is able to cope with ”’ us, is no doubt , ” ®, the ‘loathsome intended for the editor of the Islander. It would be some-_

epistle of John Williams,’’ and ‘‘ the contemptil itori . , pt le editorial | w g ‘ inc —— » i a] i reo 7 tho Examiner,” we are favoréd with the avful di oe what flattering to our vanity — if we were disposed to indulge

regarding the enormit Mr. W eee 8 any such feeling about so trifling a thing — to think that Mr. the ship Majestic. ity of Mr. Warburton’s conduct on board Hear

The statements are ledge himself unequal to ‘hat task. Whether the editor of with great advantage to himself, he eannot haye a very difficult |

e as follow: When the Majestic reach- | ee Bas atte 6: aa ed Pictou, Mr: Barker, a seams Gamal pennies aaa the Is/ander will take the hint, and help to get the tale-bearer

ea ; over his prese iffie is & matte ‘eme indifference

aa a & meeting in Pictou, which he addressed to us in ee na eeneen Sante severity and ae Fa emg ee oo e oe no doubt, to witness the editor cf the Is/ander, who : . f > Wie 88 has always entertai ‘ ifie bugs. ac ins | practised on board, es ially in the Wan of. dcinking.”.. 16 @ ys entertained a horror for sanctified humbugs, ac ing |

e . @ part of Deacon to Holy Willie, while ‘* service ? seems, then, that Mr. Heard and Mr. Narraway. of Pictou, in- would be of slick CL PL ee Sie, See»! aeenion

I an unedifying character. troduced themselves to Mr. Barker and his other unsuspecting | ying character i

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j buying, and selling ships, and other merchandise, besides

Mr. Heard has preferred three serious charges against us, Lands; and we put it to those who kuow the two men, whe-! Ch.Town, May 11,1857. 4i

stnhli : 7 odiaiiiie — -_ | of our rules, which strictly prohibit any Brother from amakin » ermeranmeanta If he were not a mae adapted for business, his | oublie the seas At tien ia 7 nd Reeiecd a success in life would not be 80 conspicuous ; and every person ‘that whoever may have been Mr. Barker's authority for making very well knows that if a gentleman be capable of building, | the above statement, itis certain that that gentleman bas ‘been most unfortunate in this instance, for it forces upon | this body the disagreeable duty of publicly declaring the said

d, notwithstanding his pretensions, is forced to acknow-, managing all the details of a commercial counting house, statement to be a tigsue of falsehood from beginning to end.”’

By order, JOHN ARBUCKLE, Acting G. 8,

task in regulating the transfer of a few thousand acres of land, Removal.

generally that be has removed to Dorchester-street, nearly

opposite the residence of Thomas Owen, Req., where he intends 'to carry on his business in all its branches, and wishes a con-

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tary’s Office is a more important oue than that of the Public | tinuance of past favours. An apprentiee wanted. Wa. GRIFFIN, Tailor

In 1854 the Hon. Mr. Longworth was appointed to the

us individually ; but it would be an interesting pablie according to rules prescribed to him by the Government, HE subscriber wishes to inform his friends and the publie

oflice of Colonial Seeretary. No one doubts that the Secre-

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