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hours came into court, and delivered a verdict of Guiity.! pared to support it. The system of monopoly, barter: ae ‘ing in offices, &c., has thus happily received its death Lapy Mixers is Cauirormia.—A young man from) blow here.” Maine, writing to bis friends from Califorpis, says that|

aie. Asourrion or Law Monoroty in Nova Scotia.—

alasost 30 mies from any other digging, are two * - Phe following important Act—aintroducec by the Hon

gent ard besutuful” young ladies, Wihh no attendant except an old grey-headed negro whom they hatennuced) Mr Howe—lately passed the Legislature of Nova to accompany them, and whos the servant of tire MMBETI Scotia, We hope the Legislature of this Island wi! of one of them. The eldest of these was got 20. It/ jor be backward in following the libera! example of geems their imagination had become excised bythe (old) the Nova Scouans, in this respect, when the Lawyer's atories which they had heard, and they bad determioed) 4--epdment Bill shall come before them in the ap-

_ sible Government has been conceded to the Colony by

to try their hands at making a fortune. The old negro was past work, and was left in the camp during the day w took after the household affairs, and keep watch while sae girls pursued their mining operations. When the

reached their camp the old darky was alone in it, a e girls came in during the day, and received their visitors hospitably. They expressed no fear ef being molested or robbed, and said they should leave for hoine when they had accuinulated $10,000; they had already

$7000. They were from Florida.

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Colonial.

Werare indebted to the St. John’s (Newfoundland) Courter for the following remarks in reference to this Usiadd. ‘It is true enough that the principle of Respon-

the Mother Country ; but Sir Donald Campbell and his advisers~—unwilling, we prestme, to psrt with power— eZ nit the principle to be very good in theory, dut not to ve tolérated in practice, and are determined to postpone putting Mm into operation as Jong as possible :— CONCESSION OF RESPONSIBLE GOVERN-} | ‘MENT TO P. E, ISLAND.

The Islanders have worked their agitation for Re. sponsible Government toa victorious issue—This little, yet brave and independent colony, has had the spirit aad the determination of men who would govern them. aeivea in the true spirit of British constitutional liberty, and they have gloriously borne down every obstacle which great foreign monopolist influences, and Jocal factions had erected to defeat them. We can well tanor and respect the honest representatives of the con- stituencies of P, E. Island, and may sincerely congratu- date that colony upon the salutary change it, has effected by the proper use which it has made of the most valu- able privilege of freemen—the elective franchise. Oh, that Newfoundland could catch theinfection! Oh, that eur citizens would begin to value their country, and strike out fora form of Government which should be congenial to their tastes and feelings; for that Respon- siaje Government is desired we know, but we lament the abseace of that fearless public spirit which would compel a few men to Commence an earnest agitation, which once begun, would, in a. short time end in guc- cess, We tell the people, that it is criminal to be silent’ it is worse—it is slavish and contemptible. We hear sneers end jests and opprobrium dung upon the pre-

proaching Session. AN ACT. T» authorise Her Mojesty's Subjects to Plead and Reason Jor themselves or others in all Her Majesty's Courts within thig Province. e

Whereas, The monopoly now enjoyed by a limited number of persons of privileged seats in Hier Majesty’s Courts, and of the right to Plead and Reason therein, 1s injurious to that privileged clasa, by withdrawing them from the free competition of their fellow-subjects, is unjust to the Judges, who would often be instructed by men of genius and learning cared in other pursuits ; and deprives the great body of the people on the one hand, of the privilege of selecting Advocates—and on the other, of all inducements to study and comprehend the Laws:

Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows :—

From and after the passing of this Act, any of Her Majesty’s Subjects who shall have voted at any Elec- tion, or paid Poor and County Rates, may Plead and Reason in any of Her Majesty’s Courts of Judicature within this Province, enjoying all rights and privileges therein in aa full and ample a manner as these ere now enjoyed by Barristers, Proctory and Advocates.

The Quebec Morning Chronicle (Conservative Jour- na!) with the Montreal Courier, annexationist organ,— stand strongly opposed to Elective Councils, Tne lat- ter says :—

“ The policy of introducing the Elective principle in- to both branches of the Legislaure, and nominating the Governor by the Crown, is a feeble conception, founded upon very insufficient acquaintance with the people. In the United States the elected President may veto a Bill, but he does so knowing that his tenure of office has but four years duration. If in Canada a Governor, named by the Crown, were to veto ¢. Bill passed by a majority of both Houses, he would peril the connexion; to ab- stain from the veto would be a voluntary abnegation of his authority ; in the one instance he would be a nui- sance, in the other a nonentity.”

Che Examiner..

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1850.

THE NEW CIVIL LIST verses THE OLD. * LOOK OM THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT.”

sent gyatem of egislation; if it be the wish to purify it,! we gay, let them sey ao, let them come ovt and form a) Committee to begin an agitation far soct object, le! them,.call public meetings and the public wil! gad befure suct 2 movement the present systeny will! disappear, and one will be substituted which will make/ te representative branch truly the reflex of public opi-| wion, and not as it is nov, a place to which men aspire | aa which they may make advantogeous bargains with) the Executive. Responsible Government has arrived: to your threshhald, and if you do not woo its further! spproach, you will deserve to remzin uader the legisla-| von of tricksters and jugglers.

We congratulate tie feader of the movement in P. E. isiand, Georze Col, Eaq., whose acquaintance we have had ihe honor to make, and the result is only such as we could have anticipated from the agitation of so able and we independent a man. We recollect his enerzy of| ofaracter, his evtdent sincerity of purpose, his high and enightened and liberal sentiments; we honor and es- wen lim, and sincerely congratulate him upon the suc- cessful reautt of his spirited advocacy of the true coxsti- tutional principle.

Some of our members are talking of ooposition to the Bifbintroduced by Mr. O’Brien for an increase of repre- sentatives, the first essential to prepare the country for the new systein of government; and we will briefly tell them, the reward which they will be sure ta receive for tnat uppositian, will be the contempt and denunciation of the whole country. Mr. O'Brien’s Bill is the only real mesure of reform: sa yet proposed, and we shai} couiimte to observe it and expose the fallacies by which x has been attempted to be met.

Tae announcement from P. E. Island comes to a frend of ours, in a private letter of the 14th March, from a geniemas of high political standing, who formerly belonged to Uie conservative ranks, and states :- :

“Pius has been an eventfil day for P. E. Islard. By a Disosich received this day from Mowning Street, and this day communicated to the House of Assembly, Re- spocsiiie Government has been extended to us to the fai extent, (the Chict Justice's salary ia full, and an

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Ir is eo very seldom we find an editorial in the Guzetfe that we have been disposed to regard the last production

respond,/with more than ordinary interest, because the official!

character of the paper—and not the talent which it ex- hibita—gives it some claim to consideration, and is ca)- culated to lead the public to suppose that its annuncia- tions and assertions are made with the cirect sanction of Government. Cn Tuesday last our contemporary was singularly unfortunate in its assertions, It was stated in the paper of that day, that the object of the Assembly in refusing to transact business with the Go- vernment, on which the seal of popular condemnation has been unmistakeably fixed, was “to serve the selfish purposes of the leaders of the present majority, whose sole aim, it has been pretty clearly demonstrated, is to thrust themselves into offices of emolument at the ex- pense of the present incumbents.” ‘'o expose the utter falsity of this assertion, we need only refer our readers to the statement of facts relating to the conference with the Lieutenant Governor, published in the Examiner a few days since. The leaders of the majority who con- ducted that conference on the part of the Assembly and Council, were offtred three seats in the Executive, with the offices of Treasurer, Colonial Secretary, Re- gistrar, Collector of Excise, Attorney General, and

sent to leave six of their adversaries in the Council, and provide pensione to the amountof £400. Their refusal to De bought so easily shews how little they were actu. ted by a selfish desire for personal aggrandizement. This should, and we trust will, bea sufficient answer to

the calumnious assertion of the Gazette~to the black- guerdism of the Islander on the sane poiat, and to al! these whe are too luzy to think and ewguire for them-

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Now, as to the next assertion, that “the amonnt of advantage which the Colony would derive from «, change is more than problematical,” and that an increase rather than decrease of official ralaries would bo the result, for the Gazette endeavours to make it &ppes: that the office of Colonial Secretary and Regiztrar woald entail an expense of £650 annually to the Colony, under the Civil List Buil of the present year, while under thet of the previous year it amounted to only £550,—we ach. join the following statement, which we defy the Gazer, to controvert. Let us first see what amounte are given to the differ. ent Officers whose salaries are now paid by the Cology: Chief Justice, Assistant Judge, Secretary and Registrar,

Fees retained by that Offices, Road Correspondent, Surveyor General, Attorney General, Prothonotary and Clerk of Crown, Treasurer, Coliector of Excise,

Commission on collection of Land Tax in Charlettetown, say, Amount paid Clerk of Legislative Council, and expense of Tudex-

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The arrangement proposed by the Li-

beral Party, and partly carried out by the Civil List Bill passed in the late Session, would fix the salaries ‘and allowancea at the following amounts :—

Chief Justice, £700 His successor, £500

Assistant Judge, we His successor, £400

Secretary, combining office of Road Correspondent, and including Clerk’s allowance,

Registrar and Keeper of Plans, §c., now kept in Surveyor’s Office, 200

Attorney General, 180

Treasurer, including collectign of Land Tax in Charlottetown, and Clerk’s allowance,

Collector of Excise, 200

Cierk to Legislative and Executive Councila, 100

oo £279.

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Saving of 516

Yurther saving afer the incumbeacy

of the present Judges, 20 £710

From the above atatement it will be seen, that imate of there being Jost te the Colony the sum of £1008 nunlly by the contemplated eeparation of the offeesd Colonial Secretary and Registrar, a clear saving d £130 will be effected, and on the whole srrangeme@ the Colony would gain annually £710.

So it appears after all, that the Responsible Gorm ment parity are the real economists, and that “te amount of advantage” which the Colony will derive feof the change, in the matter of salaries alone, will ew ouly not “probiematica!,” but clearly defined.

It may nog be amiss to notice one other obserrim in the Gazetie's editorial, in reference to the subject OF salaries, namely, that the office of Clerk to the Ese tive Council is litle inferior to that of Colonial Seth tary. Ifsuch be the case, how has Mr. Haviland so fortunate in getting the duties of that office charged for something like ten pounds a year? ! answer to the remarks respecting anticipated loss tom Revenue, which the Gazetle puta down at £30,000," have only to observe that the whole Excise Revenw*y last year did not amount to over £11,000, and the » revenue of the first quarter of that year did not xP £4000 ; so, should the Revenue Bill remain sopi for the first quarter of this year, itis not hkely 5 eee quarter will be suffered to elapse before such o Bill # ceive the sanction of Parliament, as tha wishts of : Assembly will, no doubt, be complied with by ier jesty’s Government before the expiration of that pent

Schcolimaeters and Roads and Bridges are ante? that excite the ively symputhy of the Gazelle. my pity no Schoolmaster can be found to teack thet,

of that paper cumimon sense and understanding: long as he follows the will-o-the-wisp who Avs bes

tempting to frighten the public for the last le¥ he? by shedding a celusive light over the columne 0" g

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