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; Stefani, $1,200; Maretzek,! there was one daily paper, aud seventeen other papers ; in|

&1000. Mugio, S80@; Amodio, $800 ; dunca, $800 ; Madame | 1724 three daily papers were published, and eighteen others. ¥ “er . , ~ " . 4 % } ers . . Btrakuseh, SU; Squicrs and Ryceo S4OV each. The Br8t) ]) 1753 the uumber of newspapers sold in all England,

vielimies wad first Qurciat get S200 each.

CHINA. Tas Uxexracreo Precision or Fink on tur Parmo.—

A correspondent says, iu endexvouring toexplain the murder- ous fire on our troops iu China :-—

“When the Caucasus ant ita adjacent provinces, in 1838-9, in traversing the steppes bordering on the mountain range to the north, several highly intelligent Russian officers frequently reverted to the exiragrdinary incident which had left them in the desolate and gloomy desert they are in at present—viz., the total emigration of the Calmuc tribes, which, up to the latter period of the reign of the Empress Catharine, inhabited them, an event almost without parallel in the history of the ¢vorld from its first creation, with the exception of that which. hundreds of years previous, preceded it--the exodus of the [sraetites from Egypt.

A clear and succinct narrative, evidently gathered from Russian oflicia! sources, was published some years since in a magazine, and is tke only account ever made public. After hardships alaost without example, the emigrants who survived this terrible march reached the Chinege frontier, where they found s powerful Kussian foree of infantry and Cossacks drawn up to bar their further progress. Worn out and ex- hausted, they yet contrived to foree their way and reached the Mongol territory, the Russian troops following in hot pursuit.

“Searcely, however, had the latter eroseed the boundary before a murderous fire of musketry and artillery was opened upon them, while on the same instant they were vigorously charged on al! sides. Thunderstruck at this utterly unex- pected phenonsenon, the Russians retreated into their own territory, re-formiug on the borders of a lake. But though no longer on Chinese ground, they were completely under the rasge of their enemy’s guns, whieh played upon them till the waters became one seething cauldron of human slaughter, those that survived breaking and flying in every direction.

* What completely took the Russians by surprise, as they themselves informed me, was mot s» much the bravery ot their adversaries, or even the spirit of discipline aud order they manifested—bat the superior train of field artillery they had to encounter, and the admirable manner in which it was served, which completely paralyzed their men by its murder- ous precision.

“When subsequently in China, in the years 1845-6, re- membering what | had heard in Russia, I enquired of some intelligent Chinese how it was that these troops had not been brought down to meet the British in the war which had eccurred between the two countries. The answer | received amounted to the old Kaglish saying, that the remedy was worse than the disease, or, more properly speaking, it would be inviting the wolf to take care of the sheep. ‘They might easily be brought down, but who could bring them back again ?”

Her Majesty's Government bave reso'ved to s:nd at onee a military force to China, and to send it from India. We are glad to be able to make this announcement. It is of the first iwportance that our illusions which our recevt check is calculated to encourage in the minds of the natives of the East should be dispelied without loss of time, and no less important that whatever operations may be required io con- vince the Chinese of the neeessityof keeping faith, should be prosecuted to an early couclusion,

The hostilities we carried on at Canton against Commis- sioner Yeh left the commerce of the rest of China compara- tively uninjured, but the transfer of the war to the north: threateus to iuterfere seriously with trade. Ov every accouut, then, it is well that the expedition is mot to be delayed, nor must our respect for the fantastic prejudices of the rulers of China be allowed this time to hold us back from Pekin. It is for the interest of the uwatold millions of China, as well as for our own, that we should obtain that full commercial secess to their empire, of which the presence of the ambussa- dors of the Westero Powers in their capital is an indispeu- sable guarantee.

The dispatch in which Admiral Hope reports to the Admiralty the disastrous attack of June 25, removes one or two doubts which has beea left by the private aceounts. Thus it shows that the Admiral was from the first informed of the existence of the ditches in which so many of our gal- lant countrymen perished, and that he appreciated generally the extent to which the new defences had increased the difli- culty of his task. His report, like those of the unofiicial correspondents, shows that the late landing under an unsub- dued and heavy fre and on impracticable ground, was the cardinal mistake of the enterprise, but he contents bimself with remarking that, “had the opposition they experienced been that usua! in Chinese warfare, there is little doubt that the place would Lave been successfully carried at the point of the bayonet.” This, after all, is the strongest point that can be urge! to extenuate the errors of the commander in risking his brave men iu 2 conflict so unequal. We trust

that whoever may command the next force sent against the!

Chinese will do the public at home the justice to believe that it does not distrust the valour of its seamen and soldiers, and that it is pot necessary that in war with barbarians they should undertake exploits forbidden by prudence and scieuce, to maintain their credit for bravery in England.

More Trovurte in Cuina.—A private letter from Shang- hai, under date of August 1, gives an account of a seriou- disturbance there through the alleged kidnapping ef Chi. nese, by the captain of a Freneh ship called the Gertrude, for the purpose of carrying them off to Havana. Some days previous to the date of the letter, five of those said to be employed by the captain in kidnapping tho Celestial: were caught ia the settlement, and would have been killed were it uot for the police and some of she resideots interfering. The Chinese were in w very excited state. ‘The atreets were all crowded with them, and a Mr. Lay, the inspector-general of the maritime customs, as he was passing through, was at- tacked and stabbed in the breast and throat severel times, and would have been killed at once bad not three men rua to his rescue, one of whom caught Mr. Lay im his arms and made off with him as fast as be cou'd, whilst the others kept the mob at bay. One of them unfortunately bad no- thing but his hands to do so with, so they knoeked hia down and killed him at once; he who had a good stick kept the whole of them off until Mr. Lay and his friends got clear, although the shopkeepers threw stools, forms, and all sorts of things in his way, to trip him up, as he gradually retreat- ed before them. He bad one of bis cheeks cut right open, so that he could put his tovgue through, aud was most se- werely bruised about the body with bricks and siones that Several other parties were killed since then. ‘There was such an uproar in the Chinese city and all round the settlement fur two nights after, that everybody was up aod armed al! night, expecting to be attacked, but fortunately it passed off all right, although it would be al- most certain death to have gone into the city. The writer udds— I hope it will soon quiet down, as they bave brought the French ship into port, und she is to be examiaed by the iaudarin aud the French consul, as the captain utterly de- hips the charge of kidnapping, though few persons believe a.m.”

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Enarisa Newsparers.—The followiug statement respect- ing British Newspapers, may interest our readers :—

“It was in the reign of Queen Anne that London first enjoyed the lusury of a nowspaper ‘ every day. In 1700

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according toau average of three years preceding, was 7,411,- 757; in 1760 it was 9,404,790 ¢ in 1790 it was 14,0380, G29; in 1794 it was 14,794,153; and in 1792 it was 19,- 005,760.”

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UNITED STATES. INSURRECTION AT HARPER'S FERRY.

A mob of vegro insurrectionists, numbering several hun- dred, and led on by ** Old Ossawatomie Brown, whose feats in Kansus have had suel wide notice,” had seized on Sunday night upon the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, possessed themselves of the government arms there deposited, sent wagou-loads of rifles into the interior, stopped and fired into passiag trains, planted cannon upon the bridge over the Potomac, cut the telegraph wires, seized and kept in custody the peaceable and orderly citizens of the place, levied contributions upon the hote!s and provision stores, shot several persons, avd otherwise committed havoc and on- slaughts, al] aguinst the peace and sovereignty of the people of the United States,

It appears to have been a regular negro conspiracy, or insurrection, planned and organised for some time past, to free the slaves. The Secretary of War had information months since of the existence of such a conspiracy, and of the intention of the negro plotters to sciae upon the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry. possess themselves of arms therewith to arm the slaves of Virginia and the neighbouring States, es- tablish themselves at Wheeling and other poiots, and regain their freedom. He seems to have given no credence to the story when he first heard it, but it was literally verided.

On Tuesday last at 8 o'clock in the morning, the armory had been stormed and taken, after a determined resistance.

The telegraph despatch says : —

Col. Shute approached with a flag of truee, and demanded a surrender. After expostulating sometime, the rioters re- fused to surrender,

The murives advanced to the charge, and endeavoured to break the door down with sledge hammers, but it resisted al! their efforts.

A large ladder was then used as a battering ram, and the door gave way.

The rioters fired briskly and shot three marines, the marines firing in turn-through the partly broken door.

The marines then forced their way through the break, anil in a few minutes resistance Was at an end.

The rioters were brougkt out amidst the mast intense ex- citement, many of the militia present trying to get an oppor- tunity to shoot thei.

Capt. Brown and his son were both shot. The latter s dead, sod ihe former in a dying state, He lies in the armory enclosure, talking freely. He says he is old Ossawatomie Brown, whose feats in Kansus bave had such wide notice ; that his whole object wos to free the slaves, and justifies his action. He says that he iad possession of the town, and could have wurdered all the people, and that he has been murdered in return.

Bauritorn, Oct. 18.—An eye witness, who has returned from Harper's Ferry, descrives the scene there as follows :

Te first attack was made by a detechment of the Char- lestewn, Va., Guards, which crossed the Potomac River above Harper's Perry, and reached a building, where the

nsurgents were posted by the.eapa!, on the Maryland side. j Suiart fiting occurred, and the rioter®Were driven from the bridge. Oue man was killed, and another wounded. A map rap Out avd tried to escape by swimming the river. A dozen shots were fred afterhw. He partially fell, buat rose again. threw his gun away and drew his pistols, but both snapped. He drew bis bowie kuife and cu: bis heavy accoutrements off, and plaaged ivto tke river. Qne of the soldiers was ubout ten feet bebind ; the wan turned round, threw up his hands and said —* Don’t shoot,” ‘I'he soldier fired, and the wan fell into the water, with his tee blown away. His coat skirts were cat froia his person, and in the pockets was found a captain's commission, io Capt. E. H. Leeman, fron the provisional giverument. The commission was dated

Oct. 15, 1859, and signed by A. W. Browa, Commander-in-

Chief of the Army of the Provisional Government of the United States. 2

A party of five of the insurgents, armed with Minnie rifles, and posted in the rifle armory, were expelled by the Char- leston Guards. ‘They all ran for the river, and one, who was unable to swim, wasdrowned Theother four swam out to the rocks in the middle of the Shenandoah, and fired upon the citizens and troops upon both banks. This drew upon them the muskets of between 200 and 300 men, and not Jess

than 400 shots were fired at them from Uarper’s Ferry, about 200 yards distant. One was fivally shot dead; the second, « uegro, attempted to jump over the dam, but fell short and was vot soen afterwards; the third was badly wounded, and the remaining one was taken unharmed. ‘The white insur- gent, wounded and captured, died in a few moments after, ia the arms of our informant. He was shot through the heart and stomach. Ife declared that there were only nine- teen whites engaged in the insurrection.

For nearly an bour a running and random firing was kept np by the troops against the rioters. Several were shot down, and many managed to jamp away wounded.

During the firing the womeo aud children ran shrieking in every direction, but when they learned that the soldiers were their protectors, they took courage, and did good service in the way of preparing refreshments and attending to the wounded. Our informant, who was on the hill when the firing was going ov, says all the terrible scenes of a battle passed in reality before his eyes, Soldiers singly and in couples; and the crack of a musket or rifle was generally followed by one or more of the insurgents biting the dust, The dead lay ia the streets where they fell; the woun led were cared for.

A body of 40 mounted men left Baltimore this afternoon for Harper's Ferry, to pursue the rioters. Lt is reported that mauy have escaped who are secreted in the mountains.

The President of the Baltimoie and Ohio Railroad tele- graphed to New York that the insurrection is entirely sup- pressed ; al! the outlaws are killed or arrested ; all the freight and passenger trains are running with eutire regularity and safety. No damage has been done to any portiou of the railway track, trates or property.

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RALLROAD TO THE PACIFIC.

The subject of a railroad across the American continent, from the Atiantic to the Pacific States, is at present enlisting the serious attention of the United States citizens on the Pa- cifie coast. A Convention, composed of delegates from ail the Pacific States and Lerritories, was at last accounts in session at San Francisco, and very iargely attended. A vast amount of statistical arguments in favor of the various routes, and also in favor of the road itself, comprise the substance of the proceedings thus far, but it wus thoaght that some actton to- wards building the California portion of the road would be recommended before the Convention adjourned.

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DUELLING IN CALIFORNIA.

While the duel in California between Judge Terry and Senator Broderick, with all its painful and censurable details, are yet fresh in our minds, we read of another affair of a similar character between two prominent men of the same State. The covlness and business-like style in which these tragedies are conducted and terminated ia California cannot

but be read with surprise by persons who have the happiness of living in countrics where such deede of blood are now rarely,

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if ever, enacted, The duel we are about to notice was fought on the 16th of September, at a place bout o miles from San Andreas, between Dr. Preston Goodwin and Vol. William J. Gatewood. The parties fought with rifles ; distance, 40 yards. At the first fire Dr. Goodwin fell mortally wounded, and died bout two hours afterwards. . Immediately upon Dr. Goodwin's fall, Mr. Gatewood ad- vanced towards Sem extending bis hand, and remarking, ‘Doctor, I am very sorry that this affair has terminated s0— very sorry indeed.’’ ‘Lo which the doctor replied, I 7 glad to know that you acted like a gentieman.’’ Gatewo thanked him for his kind remark, and left the field in com- any with his surgeon. . Both parties ae democratic politicians—the deceased a Lecomptonite and the survivor an anti-Lecomptonite. = (degree prior to the late election, and engaged in a - re Goodwin was the challenging party, and he has pair a penalty of his act with his life. Both gentlemen were highly esteemed in the community. ,

A San Andreas journal has the following apt remarks i—

“ We might here, with much uppropriateness, indulge in @ moral essay upon the general evils ol the duello, and prove, for the thousandeth time, its utter incompatibility with the faith of a Christian; but when the Supreme Judge of the State lays down his ermine to fight a duel; when a United States Senator does not think it so terrible to face the shot of an experienced marksman, at ten paces, as to look public opinion in the eye and incur its scorns by refusing to accept a challenge when society and the pecple lavish tneir favors and caresses upon those who have fought duels aed honor them — we sce no recognized crime or violence to the Common- wealth in the act just perpetrated. If the people desire to put an end to the ** code,”’ iet them say so in some unmistak- able manner ; but so long as the record stands as it does, and the public are more eager to scorn him who refuses than punish him who accepts a challenge, we cannot hold duelling as a very obnoxious exception to our public moralily, wha'- ever may be said and written under the impulse which some yvgat or good man’s fall gives to our sympathies.

ba THE SAN JUAN AFFAIR. Wasutxaton, Oct. 17, 1859.—The Cabinet has had a series of protracted meetings lately, at all of which Mr. Ba- chanan presided, io which the trouble at our Northwestern boundary was the principal topic, and it has been finally de- termined to take no further action in the matter until after the receipt of advices from General Scott. ~ 08

Tue New Ageiay Saire—Tur Day or Grear Turnos. _—Mr. Lowe’s Aerial Ship, City of New York, rivals the Great Eastern in wonder. With it he confidently expects to make the trip from New York to Europe in 48 bours. It is nearly five times larger than the largest balloon ever built, its dimensions being as follows : Greatest diameter, 130 feet ; traverse diameter, 104; height, from valve to boat, 350 feet ; weight, with outfit, 35 tons; lifting power (aggregate), 223 tons; capacity of gas envelope, 729,000 feet. Six thousand yards of twilled cloth have been used in the construction of the envelope. Reduced to feet the actual measurement of this material is 54,600 feet, or nearly 11 miles. Six of Wheeler & Wilson’s sewing-machines were employed 12 days to connect the pieces. The upper extremity of the envelope, intended to receive the gas-valve, is of triple thickness, strenzthened with heavy browa linen, and sewed in triple seams, ‘I'he pressure being greatest at this poiut, extracrdi- nary power of resistanee is requisite. It is asserted that 100 women, sewing constantly for two years, could not have accomplished this work, which measures by miles. Tbe material is stout, aud the siitching is stouter,

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Ruffianism in Baltimore appears to be yet alarmingly in the ascendant, notwithalanding (he attitude recently assumed by the respectable citizens of that place. In the late ety electio: rhe polls were controlled to a great extent by villainy and rowdy- ism, In this same city, on the evening of the f2th, @ youny nan named Huble, passing quietly along the street toward- vis home, met a party of three mer, one of whoin struck hiro ind when he started ‘0 ran, a shot was fired by ooe of them which entered his head near the temple, causing instant death. Ov» the same night four wen went on duard a vessel tH thy dock, and ove of them shot the mate, named Smith, who et- emptied to drive them Qway.

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New York. Oct. 12—Advices from Washington state that Mr. Melane is about to resume his official post nea: the Mexican Government ; that there is a rumor afloat tha Mr. Taos. F Meagher bas gone to Costa Rica in the in- cerest of Ex-Presideut Mora, and will make an effort, with the aid of his Irish countrymen, to assist him in regaining supreme power ; and that the action of Com, Tatuall and our Minister Ward, with regard to the recent events in China, has met with the entire approbation of government.

A Fireman’s Parade, on « stupendous scale, took place in New York a few days ago, comprising 109 Engine and Hose Companies and 57 Benda of Music. It 1s sard to have been he grandest display of the kind ever made in the world. The parade cost $100,000.

The Detroit Free Prsss says: —‘ The extent to which amalgamation is carried in this city is really beyond the know- edge of nine-tenths of the inbabitants. ‘Phere are hundreds of families the parents of which are of opposite colors, aud, al- though the marriage of whites and blacks 18 iegal and void, yet they lve together and bear ciaidren, [tis a remarkable ‘uct that, outof all this number, a0 instance exists where a white man fives wih a black woman. They are all white Women ind generally the blackest kind of men.”

We see it stated in an exchange paper that the number of suicides in the United States smount to nine a week. Our conte porary is not alive to the real state of things in this natter. else he would have written otherwise. In New York alone, they have on an average the above number weekly.

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COLONIAL,

Exiraci of a letter from Amherst of 19th inst. :—

‘A fire broke out last night at hatt-past ome o'clock, the stables adjoming Siotth’s jarge (lotel, and im two Heures the vo el, stuliles, and a house owned by Mr. Treen, were en- tireiy cowsumed. The stores of C, Black & Son and R. B. Heusus, were with great difficulty saved. ‘T'he Hotel was in- sured in the Ualifex Fire Office for £600, the builuing of Treen’s in the Times Stare Office for £300.

Mr. Alexander Hardy, while moose-hunting at Indian River, iu the County of Saciburne, was accidently shot on the Sth instant. The deceased was 27 years of age—the son of Mr. Lot Hardy, formerly of Brookfield, Queeu’s County—and has lelt » widow and two children. a

Correspondeice.

To ruz Epiror or tue Examiner.

Sin—There is a compiaint in the Islander against the ivha--

bitanrs of Kast Poin', who petitioned for aid to ake a harbour of the North Lake. Perhaps 1 ought to have sent this to the Islander, but as you were the Cisairman of the Committee to whom the petition was referred, | have sent it to you in the first place, aud request the Islander will copy.

W hea a complaint is brought before the public it ought to be fairly states for the pubiic to understand it. The Nori Lake

has been a smai! estuary, but formed into a Luke by a sand

bank across its mouth, ‘he sand is narrow at the wes; end,

and wide at the east end, running far into the Lake which re-.

Ceives tw Lake to the sea. But on the west side there iv only a narrow this neck the inhabitants have cu a passage fur boats, and pe-

unosed the Legislature for aid to enable thew to mukea channel fit to receive sinali craft; but a few persons on the

~ili streams ; and the ou''st ie at the east side, a. she’.. svreaim, perhaps thirty chains, {rom deep water in the! lieve that Mr. Swabey’s opinionson the Rscheat question sve neck betwven the tide and deep water in tie Lake, and through | : }

ares ———s channel op the westside would dry up the eastern channel] expose their and on that side, to be covered with drifted : And they assume that for these reasons the representatives . | not support the prayer of the petition. aid The complaimanis may rest os-ured that Messrs. Knight Sooper would no More encourage One party to injure the ond perty of snother than they would neglect to represent to Legislature the reasonable wishes of any party of they weuts. And to show thatthe petition was resgonable, wa »; suppose a canal made througtr the arrow neck, walled y both sides, and floored mm the Sotiom, nineteen or rotel wide, and seven or eight fee deep; and fitted wih ee form a lock to keep a head of water in the Lake, snd sand oul of wt. The gates to be fitted with a sivice, to let a gush of water when required at low water ebb ‘tide, to & away any loo-e sand from the gate and outer channel, ,. aij does not sppear a difficult matier, and there i@ reason to tha it would ansver the purpose. Keepmg the Lake full overflow the most of the sand, and the surplus water follow ite old channel, and cons quently would injure no But such a harbour gained would be a general benefit oa neighbourhood where there 1s no harbour from St, Peter's, the north side, Lo Sour on the south side. ‘To meet the es. pense of the canal and lock is the only question. If an oa. channel is made to odrait the tide, st would be likely to ggus sand with at to fill up the Lake, and render it useless for @ hap. vour hereafter, When the inhavitants might become more .

mous 10 assist €ach otherto perform the work ; but at “

to wait until Government send a competent person to see report upon the practicability and probable expense of . work, , As you were Cinirman of the Committee who reported onth, petitions for the umprovement of the harbours of ‘St. P North Lake, and Souris, please to obtain @ copy of the Res and Address, aud publish thei for the information of the petilioners,

‘The Jslander wil! be pleased to copy. : °

Sailur’s Hope, Oct. Is, 1859, Wa. COOPER.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE op ASSEMBLY,

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The following is the Report of the Special Committee ¢ the House of Assembly, referred to by Mr. Cooper. The At dress merely conveyed thé request of the House to the Gover. or, and its insertion here isnot necossary. Whether th present Government has ever acted upon the request of the House, is more than we can positively say. We beliow,

however, they have not done so.—Ep. Ex.

‘* The Hon. Mr. Whelan from the Committee to whom wer, referred the petition of inhabiaats of St. Peter's Bay and ity vicinity, the petiion of inhabitenta of Sours and adj Settlements, and the petition of inhabitawts of Township. No, 47 and others—severaliy praying for grants in aid of individual subscriptions to woprove the navigation of their respective har. bours—tu examine (he same end report thereon, presented to the House the report of the said Comuuritee ; winch report being again read at the Clerk’a tabie, was agceed to by the House and is as followeth :— ’

“ Your Committee to whom were referred the following peti. Uons, beg to report as folluws, viz:—

‘A petition from certam inhabutanis of St. Pever’s Bay adjacent settiements tn King’s County, preying for a money to enable them to unprove the navigation of St. Peter's Harbour, in aid of which object the petitioners bave subserived about two huadred pounds.

* A petivon from the mbabitants of Kast Poiat, praying for a grant of movey to aid them im deepeomyg the enanmet ftom the North Lake to the sea, su as to adroit of the ingress and egress GF siiailcraf'. And also @ petition from the whabitepts of Souris, praying fur & erat vO aid them om constructing 4a embankment by wiich the ebb and dow of the ude in the har vour of Souris could be contiaed witha is proper chanoel, and the depth of water be thereby considerably wereased. The iwo last named petitions, as well as the first, are accompamed by subseripiion lists ; and your Coutiitee are of op mien that if the objects which they saverally recommend to the favourable consideration of the House, could be accomplished penduure of public money comimensurate with the aeans oft Colony, great advantages would be conferred, ot oniy upon the petitioners, but upon ull classes of the commanny generally, Your Committee, however, believing that in the present de pressed state of the revenue, a sufficient amouai could not appropriated to commence with avy prospect of success unprovements contemplated, they recommerd that the further consideration of the prayer of the several petions be deferred uatil nex’ Session, and tha!, in the meantime, an address he presented to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, requestiag that some efficient person or persons may be appointed te examine the sites of the propused improvements-—repor their practicability—furnish an estimate of the probable expense that would be incurred on them, and af practicable, accompagy said report by such plans as would tend to diseet the delibers- tions of the House on this suiject, ao that it may be fully and maturely considered im its next Session.— All of whieh » respectfully submitted.”’

Che Examiner.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. LL, OCTOBER 31, 185%

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POLITICAL CONSISTENCY,

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Tue dearth of materials with which to advocate the position of the present Proprietary Government must be very apparent to any one who has read the last No. of its organ. The Colonial Secretary therein reads the Hon. Col. Swabeys lecture on inconsistency, and draws his inspiration from documents more than half a generation old. It appears that in 1842 or 1843, when the Escheat question had a considera hold upon the public mind, and just about the time the Islander was ushered into existence, Mr. Swabey was one of those who saw that no advantage was likely to result to the tenantry from the continued agitation of that question, # the right to the grants, even should the lands ba forfeited, was in the Crown—the local Government having no control ove them whatever ; and what made agitation still more futile ia his estimation, the Government here were apparently in office for life—owed no responsibility to the people, and had @ de- cided hostility to the escheat movement. Acting under the impression that the agitation was at that time impracticable, Mr. Swabey did his best to discourage it by various composi- tions for the press, amongst which were editorials for the Islander, and a begging appeal to the Proprietors to stump down their money to support that paper.

Now, because Mr. Swabey will not do ashe did nearly

twenty years ago, he is to be abused. Because he will not 'Sepport the pretensions of the praprictors, when the eircall- | Stanees of their position with regard to this Island are entirely changed, he is to be proclaimed as a person guilty of themost ‘flagrant inconsistency. But while we contend that there s | nothing crimioa! in a man changing his political opinions # the course of half a life time—a thing which has occarred i | the eareer of some of the most eminent statesmen of Gres | Britain, and has distinguished many of our own Island politi- ' clans, the present editor of the Islander, his father Mr. Pope, and his predecessor in the editorial chair, Mr. McLeaa, being inciuded in the list of reereants to. their prineiplge— while we admit the right of a public wan to change his views, if altered circumstances sould require him to do 60, We

r When we had no 8 Government, and the titles to ce lands were in the Crowm he did not consider the condition of the tenantry would be

undergone no material chance.

east side are opposed to it, on the ground that to deepen the ; much improved by a change of wasters. But now the quest?®

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