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Ov, Be 3 neres Daye be ‘hh sold as follows :_—

Sow rsstoneR oF Poutic Lanps Governue’y P. FE. Psuanp. | Dr. To amount of Lands sold, £19,256 16 6 Boedg, kta a8 6G Interest on balance, 8o7 7. 2h £20,269 15 8f }; : Cr:

*y cash paid on Lands, £5,818 16 7} heeds, ae Pue on Lands, 14,226 14 0 Piseount, 33° 6 1

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cor the year ended 31st January, 1805, are—

‘ Dr. $ ainount of total cash receipts from Public Lands and Fees, £1958 3 6 Prom Crown Lands, 380 2 74 err Seen: 5 £2338 6 13} }3 Cr. 7 *¥ Interest on Purchase Mouey, £1027 10 0O J.ass of Land Tax, 210 0.0 ¢ ommissioner’s salary, 300 0 0 Surveyor General’s do. 2750 0 0 \WYoodrangers, oy es | Assistants to Surveyors, 13 15 0 Adex. Anderson, Surveyor and Assistant, 15 15 0 hixpenses, 7 journeys, 21g 4 Printing and Advertising, 716 6 Stationery, 919 1 Polanee, 415 17 2h £2338 6 I} , Your Committee beg to observe that in the Public Lands

Accounts the sale of 938 acres is credited, on which no deposit has yet been paid by the alleged purchasers, and in rome other cases a trifling amount of deposit has only been #434. * while by the ZSth section of the Land Parchase Act a deposit of 20 per cent. is required to be paid before the Deed is issued. It also appears that the Commissioner of Public Lands has sold Crown Lands this year, principally in Georgetown and Royalty, to the amount of £710 10s., and Ket) tevether with the Surveyor General, transacted all the business cOmneeted with the sale and transfer of these Lands. » [*The werds, “ while by the 28th section of the Land Purchase Act a deposit of 20 per ceat. is required.to be paid before the Deed is issued,” were, on motion of the Hon, Col. Secretary, struck out. For reasons, see Dubate.]

Your Committee would eal] attention to the discrepancy between the amount of Public Lands Bonds, which, by the Yomiuissioner’s return, were last year valued at £1400, which Bonds, by this year’s accounts, appear to amount only to the sam of £775 7s. id. due, and £60 Us. dd. paid. Bat they fiad, on enquiry, the rest of those Bonds were cancelled some time since, under the provisioas of the Act above named,

. The Committee recommend that ia future the Accounts for | the purchase and sales of Public Lands be kept separate and distinct from the general Revenue Accounts of the Colony, aid that the debentures issued for the purchase of those lands be a charge against them,

[Tie next two paragraphs, on coming to be especially con- sidered by the Committee, were, on motion of the Hon. Col. Secretary, severally struck out of the Report.]

_. Your Committee observe that the sum of two hundred and

seveoty pounds has been paid to the Clerk of thé Executive

and Legislative Coencils for his services for the past year,

* also twenty pounds to an Assistant, while the Act 14th Vietoria, cap. 3, expressly declares that the salary to that officer of £120 shall be in licu of all fees of office, allowances and emoluments.

[t’appears from the Warrant Book that the sum of £67 7s. G1. has been paid to John Doirant for “ superintending the érection of Oyster-bed Bridge and other services,” aud a further sum of £115 5s. to the same person for superintending the erection of Prinee-street Wharf in Charlottetown. Your Committee are of opinion that the latter service should have een chiefly discharged by the Superiutendant of Public Works.

Yout Committee recommend that all the accounts to them referred be printed in the Appendix to the Journals.

ANDREW MACDONALD, Chairman.

(To he continued.) R. B. Irvine, Reporter.

_ fo The Rovan Gazerre and Examiner will, on and after Thursday and Monday next, be printed and published at the V’roprictor’s new Offices on Hillsborough Street, near King’s

Squ ire,

Che Examiner.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1.5 MAY 3, 1858.

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THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

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COLONIAL BUILDING AND GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

fur zeal of the Islander to propagate falsehood and misre- presentation respecting various items in the Public Accounts, #22018 tc be unabated. Its readers must be the most patient, if ot the most stupid persons in creation, if they favor—as t rc presumption is they do — the grossest falsehoods repeated week after week on the same subjects. We must charitably suppose that only a very few are led astray by the deception. Even these we would rejoice to undeccive. But we have not time to follow the Islander through all its twistings and turn- ines. We shall, however, expose one or two of its mis- rey resentations.

‘The arch-deceiver at New London informs his readers, that since the Liberals took office they have spent about £7,354 on the Colonial Building and Government House. This may be ‘quite true, and it cannot only be shown that the expenditure of so large an amount was absolutely called for, but it is cre- ditable to the Liberals that they could spare so much, ina short period, out of the revenue, in addition to other heavy charges, without offering it as an excuse for the public debt.

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eentleman’s dwel ing—~—and would, in fact, have to be abandon-

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cost the Colony for Stationery £25 4s. 2d, sor, Mr. Coles, used only £23 Is. 1d.’s worth for the whole

‘* This excessive expenditure of Stationery,’’ says the Islander,

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shel] — better fit for a stable or suite of out-houses than a ed in a year or two asa heap of ruins, if the Liberal Govern- ment did not wisely spend a large sum of public money In its reconstruction. And as for thé Colonial Building, it was another palpable job of the Tories—and, with its foundation crumbling into dust would have cost thousands of pounds more than it did, if if bad not been so promptly taken in band, | and a considerable sum devoted to its timely repair. Other | public buildings, such as the Old Court House and Jails, had |

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| to a heavy outlay for the erection of new Lighthouses. | Notwithstanding these charges on the revenue, the apparent debt of the Colony is a mere trifle beyond what it was when the Tories left office. It was éhen upwards of £28,000. It is now £29,000. Then there was only about £2,000 spent for education, and about £2,500 for reads, bridges and wharfs. Now we give for education £13,000 a-year, and have spent £46,600 on that object since our party came into office ; and the annual grant for roads, bridges and wharfs, averages £10,-

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000-—some of the best and most aseful bridges in the Colony having been erected by the Liberal Government. Now we have as an offset against the debt, £15,000 secured on Tands |

sold, and bearing interest, besides 45,00@ acres of lands to sell.

nothing to exhibit on the credit side of their account.

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THE PUBLIC STATIONERY.

Anorner graye charge brought against the Government on the score of its alleged ‘* extravyagance,’’ has reference to the cost of Stationery used in the public offices. The [slander asserts that the Seeretary’s Office alone cost more for Stationery for seven months, in 1856, than was expended on the same arti for all the public offices in 1849. Now this is easily account- ed for. In the latter year, there was no regular or separate account of the Stationery kept. Mr. James D. Haszard was Queen’s Printer in 1849, and sold Stationery indiscriminately to all the public offices, and mixed up his charges under this head with his printing accounts, There were the regular Stationers’ accounts besides. But is it fair to compare 1849 with 1856 as regards the cost of public Stationery? In 1856 the revenue and expenditure of the Colony were double what they were in 1849, and must, in the matter of Stationery at least, have been attended with double the expense. Besides, there was the Customs Department; in 1849 the Stationery for this department was supplied by the British Government ; and fur the Post O the receipts of those departments went into the Imperial re-

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ce, likewise, to a very great extent, because venue. In 1856, however, the Colony had to bear the cost of Stationery for the Custom House and Post Office; and the Land Commissioner’s Office, whica did not exist in 1849, helped to increase the account for Stationery. Let these facts be taken into account, with the administration of the Free Education | Law, which involves of itself a very considerable increase in the use of Stationery, and no one can be surprised at the in- creased expense under this head.

But let us compare the cost of Stationery for the use of the Secretary ‘s Office in 1854 and with that forany yearsinee. For the five months that Mr. Longworth was Secretary in 1854, he In 1855, his sueces-

twelve months ; and in the last year the charge against the same office for the same thing amounted to only £11 12s. 11d. ‘* would seem to include what the Yankees call ‘stealings.’ ’’ [f so, it would seem to justify a grave suspicion regarding Mr. Long-vorth’s incumbency of the Secretary's Office, for he spent for public Stationery at the rate of £60 11s. 2d. per annum, while his successor last year managed to rub on with £11 12s. ild. worth. The public must draw their own conclusions.

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LIEUT. COL. GRAY AND THE PROTECTOR.

We promised to take a brief notice of the Hon. Col. Gray’s letter to the Publisher of the Protector, which appeared in that paper of the 21st ult., and in which he deliferately contradicts a statement previously made by himself respecting his connec- tion with the Protector. Let us fulfil the promise.

In the Is/ander of the 24 March, Col. Gray published a letter addressed *‘ to the Editor of the Examiner,’’ in which the fol- lowing words oceur : — ‘‘ My support to the Protector consists in paying twelve shillings per annum for one copy of the same.”’ Now, we ask our readers if there could be any doubt upon their minds, that the impression which Col. Gray intended to create was, that he had no more to do with the paper referred to than any one else out of its 500 or 600 subscribers, who take it, read it, pay for it, and de nothing more? This cer- tainly would have been the impression left upon our mind, if we had had no doubt of the Col.’s veracity. But we had such doubt, and our correspondent, ‘‘Anti-Ilumbug,’’ confirmed it. This correspondent states that Col. Gray is, and has been one of the editorial committee of the Protector, and he informs us that he obtained his information from a circumstance which transpired in Mr, Haszard’s book-store. There was a slight inaccuracy in the statement of our correspondent. It was not Nr. George T. Ilaszard who said that Col. Gray was on the editorial committee of the Protector. It was Mr. Geo. Owen, who was lately in partnership with Mr. Haszard, and who knew as much about the concern as Mr. IH. himself, who com- municated to Mr. D. J. Roberts and a friend the fact of Col. Gray's editorial connection with the Profector. This cannot | be denied, and Mr. Haszard‘s or Col. Gray’s equivocation shall not be allowed to conceal the truth.

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ed to the Examiner in the Islander of the 2d March, namely, that the writer’s (Col. Gray’s) support to the Protector con- sisrTep in the payment of his annual subscription, see what he

Now, whenever the Tories are reminded that the debt, which

they left the Liberals to pay, without leaving them anything | aware that I never wrote him any letter in which I stated that |

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erected Government, House and the Colonial Building. But

th y seem to forget that an enormous number of Treasury , Notes were issued for this purpose ; and that £11,500 of them

stil remain unpaid, and are ineluded in the present debt of th Volony ; while there was a very large sum in addition to ‘bose notes—being the produce of the Land Asseskment—which th» Tories never d¥eamt of giving for free educatton—spent Tf that edifice, as

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says in the Proéector of the 2Ist ult. :—** Mr. Whelan is well

| I had ‘ no interest in or connection witn’ the Protector, further ** If this does | not virtually contradict the former statement, we really do not know what can. Perhaps Col. Gray thinks that editing a | paper is giving it no support.

‘than the payment of my annual subscription.

| We are well aware that this petty question is not entitled | to one half the public consideration it has received ; but there ‘seems to be such an intense anxiety in certain quarters to dis- ‘ayow connection with the Sanctified Press, and some of those

who are identified with it seeking to cover their disclaimers by

| misrepresentation, we felt it our duty to say more on the sub-

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THE BIBLE. QUESTION IN NCVA SCOTIA.

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Wine the Tory party in this Islend have been, and are, | clamouring for the passage of a law to compel the introduction |

of the same school in Nova Scotia oppose that measure with | regard to its application to their own institutions ; and con-| tend that the voluntary system, sach as is adyocated by the Liberals in this Island, and in use here, is best adapted for |

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that Province, and is likewise practised there. on this question lately occurred in the House of Assembly in| Halifax, called forth by the following resolution from Mr. Howe, who, for reasons best known to himself and them. has

been placed at the head of the so-called ** Protestant

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Combination ’’ in Nova Seotia :—

‘«s Whereas, Christianity is the only basis upon which a sound | system of education can safely repose,—Resolved, that no, School within this Province shall be entitled to aid from the public funds untilit shall have been made to appear that the | Iloly Scriptures, of the Old and New Testament, are daily read therein.”’

Mr. Howe, as may be supposed, spoke strongly in favor of | this resolution, which breathes anything but the spirit of | liberalism, whHe Mr. Attorney General Johnston as warmly opposed it. Mr. Johnston is at the head of the Baptist body in the sister Province, where they constitute a large, and by no means the least intelligent, portion of the population ; and for many years he has been distinguished for his zealous efforts in their behalf. After speaking to the question raised by Mr. Howe, the Conservative Attorney General moved the following resolution in amendment, which was carried by 28 votes against 18—Liberal Catholics and Conservative Protestants constituting the majority :—

‘* Resolved. That this House records its respect and venera- tion for the Holy Scriptures, and its desire to facilitate and encourage their use in all the schools of the Province. This important object is essentially in the power of the people under the existing Common School system, and the House believes that the use of the Bible in our schools is at present very general, and steadily increasing, and the Rev. Dr. Forrester, the superintendant of Education, in his recent report, has declared, in relation to this subject, that it is ‘ well and wisely provided for in the present Educational arrangements of the Province,’—and this Honse is of opinion that to interfere by special and coercive legislation wonld retard the object which it is the professed desiga of the resolution before the House to advance.”’

When will the over-zealous Protestant Tories in this Island follow the wise example of their co-religionists in the adjoining Province, and leave the people to exercise their own discretion with respect to the use of the Bible in the public schools?

Tur great Liberal meeting at Temperanee Hall on Tuesday evening last was truly gratifying to every lover of progress, and appears to have called forth a very satisfactory amount of abuse from the Tory party. The Hall was filled to overflow- ing, and the meeting was addressed by the Liberal candidates, John Rigg and Stephen Swabey, Esquires, who gave good and true reasons fvr the faith that isin them. In consequence of the very disingenuous and unjust course adopted by some of his political opponents, with a view to the prevention of his eleetion, or failing that, the diminution of the number of his supporters, Mr. Swabey denounced the conduct pursued by some professing Christians in no measured terms. Those de- nunciations, uttered with fluent eloquence and in a tone which proved that the speaker was in earnest, haye, as a matter of course, been seized upon with avidity by the guilty parties, as evidencing a desire on the part of Mr. S. to make his election a question. of religious feeling; and they apply to collective bodies of Christians the charges which were intended to apply only to individuals, To those who know the thoroughly liber- al nature of Mr. Swabey’s political opinions, the idea that he would wantonly offend any body of Christians in the commu- nity, will appear simply absurd. We know, and all Liberals know, that any impression to the effect of bigotry, intolerance, or religious difference being advocated by Stephen Swabey, Esq., can only be the result of wilful perversion of his observa- tions on the occasion of the triumphant meeting of the Liberal variy at the Temperance Hall, on Tuesday evening last.

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PUBLIC MEETING AT MOUNTSTEWART BRIDGE

On Thursday last a public meeting of the electors of the (new) third district of Queen’s County was held at Mount Stewart Bridge—Mr. James McDonald in the chair. Tere was a large concourse of people in attendance from Lots 35, 36 and 37, besides many from Lot 38, in the second district, of King’s County, The Hon. Col. Secretary addressed the meeting at great length, pursuing pretty nearly the same line of argument as he did at the other public meetings which he has lately attended.—He was followed by Francis McQuaid, Hsqr., in support of the same views. And Mr. John Mooney appeared and addressed the meeting on behalf of his brother, the Hov. Robert Mooney, who was prevented by illness from being present.—John Archibald McDonald, Esqr., of Glen-

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intention to offer as a candidate for the representation of the district—said that he had received promises of support from his tenantry—expressed his thankfulness for those promises ; but he did not enter into discussion on public questions. No other person appearing on the same side, Mr. Whelan next add essed the meeting on the financial state of the Colony, the purchase of the Worrell Estate, and reviewed the several measures of reform adopted by the Liberal party.

‘'he meeting was decidedly a liberal one. With the ex- ception of Mr. McDonald himself, there appeared to be no peison present to favor the views of the Tory party.

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POLITICAL MEETING AT TEMPERANCE HALL, On Tuesday evening last, the 27th ult., a publie meeting

under the auspices of the Ventral Liberal Society, was held:

of the Bible as a class book into our public schools, politicians: at the Temperance Hall, William McGill, Fsqr., M. P,P. } ° . ?

in the chair.

‘The meeting was a very large and respectable one It was composed of not less, we think, than seen sates The number of Liberals who were present, no doubt, great} . exceeded that of the Tories who attended ; indeed more en quadrupled it, we believe. The Liberals who attended mi independently of all consideration of their recognized leaders

| who were present, be regarded as a fair specimen of the real

bone and sinew of the Liberal party in Charlottetown, Amongst them, there were not, it is true, many who are eminent on account of high social position, great wealth, or even great learning; but there were many of sound

stout hearts, and strong arms—men skilled to understand and appreciate the ennobling prineiples of freedom—mea well qualified to discriminate between the real and the pseudo friends of the people—men able, in their industrial and pro- ductive capacities, to inerease the wealth, and sustain and advance the best social interests of the community; and any party, any set of men, who may have fairly woo, who may have justly entitled themselves to the esteem, confidence, and support of men of such caliber and stamina, (as our Literal. leaders in the Goverament and Legislature have most unquess tionably done,) can be in no danger of being overthrown the weak devices or feeble machinations of the skilless and soulless set who compose the cabinet council of the Political Alliance. Not one of the great men, not one of the Achil- lesses of “the Alliance,” was present, although the fayor of their company had been especially and publicly requested, It seemed as if by concert they “shunned the fight ;” yet one—Mr. George Beer—who, no doubt, considers himself ‘a fair sample of their host,” honored the meeting with his presence ; and by his address, and malapert remarks, afforded: the ever-ready, ever-armed Leader of the Government (the Hon. G. Coles) an opportunity, not only to refvte the un- founded charges elsewhere preferred by him and others’ against the Government, but, besides, provoked him to inflict; upon himself an awlully severe, yet certainly most deserved castigation.

John Rigg and Stephen Swabey, Esqrs., being certainly the men, and their speeches the speeches, of the evening, ve have, in our report as subjoined, given them dwe prominenee. and space, to the withholding, through the want of available’ time and limits, of much of moment that was said by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Coles) and the Hon. the Queen’s Printer (Mr. Whelan); but these two gentlemen, these “ warriors tried,” of whose worth and skill and prowess, the public have had so many unquestionable proofs, will, most willingly, we are sure, on this occasion, consent to be east rather into the shade, and thrown a little into the back ground ; especially as many assertions and statements which. they refuted and rectified, they have, over and over again disproved and placed in their true light; for such ig? the truly ustonishivg pertivacity of their opponents, in their. adherence to misrepresentation and positive falsehoods, that,. asin the case of their worthy, Mr. George Beer, so with respect to many others of the Alliance Brigade, individually cousidered ; their cobweb sophistries you destroy in vain; and, scarcely have they been swept away, before the creatures aguin resume their dirty work. Thistles and noxious weeds. of every description are most remarkable for their inherent powers of rcproduction ; and again and again do they disap- point the skill and labor of the exterminator: so is it with political and moral obstructives; for, confound, overthrow, rout, disperse, or even leave them dead upon the feld of battle, they will revive, re-unite, and make head again ; so that it is, indeed, no wonder that the Alfreds, the Wallaces, and the Bruces of freedom’s cause have in fact “ to fight all their battles o’er again,” and “ thrice to slay the slain.” But. figl:t ov, Liberals, the day is not distant when you will not obly again seotch the great serpent, Toryism, but-kill it out- right! Our Banvockburn of freedom is at hand!

Rapidly as we know ourself to be narrowing our limits, we take leave to indulge our inclination briefly to contrast the very dissimilar styles of oratory of Mr. Rigg and Mr. Swabey. The style of the first resembles that of the gliding rill; that of the other, the impetuosity of the mountain’ torrent. ‘The first, we think, may justly be characterized by the much admired and often quoted couplet :

‘“« Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage; without o’erfluwing, full: ’ and the other to a rock, torn from the brow of a mountain: “ Still gath’ring force, it smokes, and urged amain, 1 Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain.” Each, as a speaker, in his own pecutiar style, would prove, and, we trust, will prove, an acquisition in the Assembly.

OF the style of Mr. A. McNeill, one of the speakers on this occassion, and also a candidate—and most likely besides to prove a successful one—for senatorial honor, we take leave also to remark that we have very seldom heard a speech which, to our thinking, sounded more like truth, than that which he delivered at this meeting. His statements and re- marks came “ crashing, thundering down,” and, if such be: his usual style of public speaking, it must certainly be a very effective one.

The meeting having been duly organized, a little before 8 o’clock, by Mr. MeGill’s having been called to, and having tuken the chair, the business thereof was opened by the Chair- man’s stating, tersely and succinetly, the objects of the meeting, which, he said, were, in the first place, to allow the Liberal candidates for the representation of the City and. Royalty, in the next General Assembly, an opportunity to — enunciate their political views and sentiments; and, in the next place, to afford such information concerning the consti- tution of the Central Liberal Society, as might tend to the extension of its operations, through the organization of Branch Societies, in the different sections of the Island:

Joun Treneman, Esq., was the first who came forward t address the meeting; and he did so, ina very characteristi¢ manner—in a short, plain, sensible, unpretending, and dispassionate, yet cogent speech ; conceived nearly in the following language :—

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Fellow citizens,—We are now, as liberal reformers, in cit

We are happy to inform the electors of the St. Eleanor’s | district that John A. McDonald, Esq., intends to offer himself | idate for their suffrages at the ensuing general elec- tion. Mr. McDonald's absence from the Island, on private business, has delayed for a few days the appearance of a notice

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Now, keeping in mind the statement above quoted, address- | to the above effect, over his own signature; and also prevented |

him from personal communication with his frieads in the dis- ‘trict. From the unsolicited offers of support he has received, ave no doubt that his numerous friends will, by returning him as their representative, show that they know the value of putting the right man in the right place.

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| Mr. Eraxaim Rem, who appears to have been appointed |a travelling agent for the Unholy Alliance, delivered what ibe was pleased to style a Lecture on Political Science, at the ‘Temperance Hall, on Monday evening last. It was a curious affair; and it was our intention to give a somewhat lengthy ‘notice of the style and matter of the lecture, but want of space ‘prevents our doing so’ this week. As Ephraim, however, in- ‘tends to address other audiences in various sections of the 'Is'and, in a strain similar to that in which he discoursed to a

| Charlottetown one,—and as he will, therefore, continue to be a pablic character long after our next paper shall appear, it will not be out of time or place to give in our next due con-

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cumstances, very different from those in which we stood at the first meeting which we held for a purpose similar to that, with @ view to the ultimate accomplishment of which we are now &

'sembled. Our position and our sirength, at our first meetings

unimportant and’ inefficient though they then* were, are now pleasingly brought to my mind ; and it is with feelings of higl ‘satisfaction that | contrast them with the demonstration streugth, as respects both numbers and ni of purpose, ¥

we are this evening prepared tomake. Then, when the nu

in our ranks amounted to only sbout one hundred and thirty, OF ‘jitle noble band came boldly forward ; and, at the risk of exper encing much serious individeal inconvenience, deman ‘parliamentary representation and the full establishment of

| ponsible Government. Pew as we then were, and uninfluential 9 _by our Opponents, we were supposed to be—being compe chiefly of labourers, tradesmen, and mechanics, one of which class | aim prond to acknowledge myself—-we spoke ane sentiments, boldly and freely, and boldly and steadily did adhere to them, although manyrof our small band had too ing reason to believe that, in consequence of their ony honesty and unshrinking perseverance, they would, frat \at least, be able to afford themselves but {ittie butter 10 ‘bread. We then modestly asked no more than what we thou ‘even our opponents themselves would acknowledge to be ‘right. We did net wish to monopolize the representaien ‘the ‘Town and Royalty; we wished to have conceded t0 ‘merely our due share of it; but that share, the partly ee ‘so long most unjustly and arrogantly monopolized every oe a of henor, power, and emolument amongst us, having ‘strength—for they were then strong in the dependent

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