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THE LATE GOVERNOR'S POLICY PRESENTED IN ANEW LIGHT.

Ta most remarkable production we have read for many days, is the second edito- rial in the last Js’ander, headed “ the late Tueut. Governor and Responsible Govern- ment.” The aim of this editorial is to sbew that Sir Donald Campbell was desirous of establishing Responsible Go- vernment—that he had dissolved the old House, that he had personally opposed Dr. Conroy and D. Maclean at their slections, because they were unfavourable to the introduction of that system—that, in short, he had practised the grossest deception, and evinced the deepest in- gratitade towards the party who supported him, and lied for him in and out of the As- sembly, in order to gratify his desire of establishing Responsible Government, and that he was defeated by the “blun dering s'upidity” of the Liberals, who ought to have been his coadjutors in the echeine. He deseribes Sir being anxious to realize the views of the and always ready “to eflectively agaiast the late rmajerity.” Duncan professes to have known all this mouths ago; and if he did, what 2 mean contemptible fellow he must be, to have worn the livery of Sir

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Donald—and been bis humble apologist and evlogist upon every occasion! Le knew Sir Donatd to be plotting the over- throw of the oligarchy, whom he is bound and paid to serve—to be paving the way for the remova! from o‘fice of Messrs. Haviland, Smith, Hodgson, and the res: ofthe public functionaries ; and the ap- pointment of the liberals to their places —and yet he, Duncan Maclean, availed hiinself of every occasion to say, whilst Sir Donald was alive, what an excellent, azacious, able, and prudeat Governor he waa! lf Mr. Maclean had really established bis “premises,” as he says he has, “that the late Lieutenant Governor was tincerely desirous of introducing Res- ponsible Government,” the conclusion would be, that his Excellency wasa most wiamous trickster—that the editor of the llander, in not exposing his machina- lions, but on the contrary, giving him ha support, was betrayiug the party for thom he writes, deceiving his readers, ‘hon he has Jaboured to impress with Xs idea that Reeponsible Government Would be a great curse to the Colony, ‘dshewing that he himself had not common honesty and courage to epeak ®t inthe face of the Governor. If any “ther conclusion can be deduced from “8 vaunted “ premises,” we should like Saee it. Itwonld be impossible to put Yuacan and his friends, the oligare’y,

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‘YHIS IS TRUE LIBERTY WHEN FREE-BORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC —MAY SPEAK FREE. ?—Matrtos’ s /Ronapipes.

CHARLO PTETOW Ny NOVEMBER 6, 1850.

ina more odious plight, than that in which his long rigmarole of an editorial places them.

Alluding, in the same article, to the offer made by the Governor to the As- sembly, to establish Responsible Go- vernment, ifthe House would grant pen- sions to the amount of £400 Sterling, the Islander has the following curious remarks :—

“Tf it procured ‘ good government, established ‘the rights of the people, and obtained ‘ Escheat,’ it was surely money well jaid out. ‘The conduct of the Assemlily in this matter instructs us that, notwithstanding a] their agitation, vociferation and waste of time during the last four years, that they did not at bot- tom consider Responsible Government worth so much as one shilling sterling to each of their constituents. How much less it is worth in their estimation, we have no means of judging. But the plain factof the matter is, they well knew Responsible Government to be an im- position, which could not long be con- cealed, and that atthe end of four vears those pensions, combined with OTHER Rasealities, wo ‘wld. fall upon them with} crushing effect.”

Now, let the reader observe, that at one time the Islander, and all who pa- tronize that precious recepticle of false- hood and stupidity, abused and black- guarded the Assembly for refusing those very pensions,—that at another time, the tune was changed, and the Assembly impudently denounced in the Js/ander ‘see an [-lector’s letters) for esaddling their constituents with those pensions Let it be further observed, that in the first sentence ofthe extract ebove given, it is stuted, that if his Excellency’s offer procured “good government,” &c., the money—(that is, the, pensions)—would be “well laid out,” whilst in the lest sentence of the same extract, © those pensions” are regarded as a rascality, as is evident from the use of the words “ other rascalities.”

If the present House of Assembly were as lavish of the public funds as were their predecessors, the pensions would have been voted, and Responsible Govern- ment established, The old Assembly did not scruple to vote £1000 of the pub- lic money—£500 as an increase to the Governor's Salary, and £500 for an As- sistant Judgeship, for which the Colony is not, perhaps, a shilling better than before the vote was given. One hundred pounds more than was expended in brib- ing the Governor, whodid not deserve the bribe, since, according to the Islander, he was the concealed enemy of the party who gave it; or one hundred pounds more than was expended on the disreputable job of making Mister Edward Palmer Solicitor General, would have met the demand for pensions. But the Assembly

felt and still feel, that they would be acting the part of the unfaithful steward had they taken money from the pockets of their constituents to give for the en- joymeut ofan inalienable and acknow- ledged right. It would be no less infamous toset s price upon the air we breathe,than

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to barter for a privilege of which all the intrigues and machinations of Governor and Oligarchy cannot permanently de- prive us.

THE REVOLUTION IN HESSE CASSEL.

Papers from the other side of the At- lantic have, for several weeks past, no- ticed the progress of a revolution in Hesse Casel—one of the smallest states of Ger- many—without, in all cases, giving their readers the slightest clue to the circum- stances which have occasioned it. The great and important lesson which the people of that country are now imparting to the rest of Europe—and particularly to those who trust too confidently in the apparent weakness ofa people to carry out their owf despotic views—muke their revolution a subject of the deepest inter- est to all classes and all countrias. They have given the best practical illustration | of the moral force principle of any other people in the world.

Hesse Cuase! is one of the independent German Governments, and ils prince or head is styled an elector. It is insigni- ficant as regards size, but important from its positiou in the very centre of all the other states.— After having loug suffered under a corrupt rule, the people took ad- vantage of the ferment caused by the French Revolution of 1830 to obtain a reformed constitution. With thie they were satisfied, and when the rest of Ger- many was convulsed in 1848, they ab- stained, us far as their own local position was concerned, from forcibly seeking any direct chanve. ‘The reigning elec- tor, however, was personally distrusted and despised, and abundant manifes- tations were conveyed to him of that fact. Ife was known to be plotting, as the tool of Austria and Bavaria, in fa- vour of reaciion; and chafing under the restrictions which the existing constitu- tion placed upon his arbitrary desires, he looked for the interference of these powers to establish once more all the perfect enjoyments of a German despotism. To effect this it seemed simply necessary that the people should be provoked to such actsof violence as would allow him to follow the fashion of decaring a siate of seige, and then, when all existing laws suspended, to deal with their future rights, in such a manner as miglit seem essential to the cause of despotism under the name of “order.” He saw ali tiie rest of Europe, and even as far as the expression of opinion could go, a large portion of the English population, sanc- tioning the wildest tyranny under the magie of thatterm, and he thought the time was come to take advantage of it. At the same time, also, there ean be little doubt he had made complete arrange- ments with Austria, Wirtemburg and Bavaria, that they should hold troops at hia disposal in case the resistance he

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was abont to provoke should unexpectedly exceed his own powers of repression.

‘The whole plan wag so straightforward and so perfectly in accordance with what is going on in Europe, that it appears hard it should not have been successful}. The project has failed, however, and the poor elector is the victim of circumstance, Instead of being at this moment a sort of small Emperor of Russia, he is a run- away at Frankfort, and without st pre- sent the least prospect of being able at dnearly day to share the fate of his brother potentates, the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Baden, and the Emperor cf Austria ; who, although forced to abscond in 1848, were soon ehabled to return to wreak increased mischief on their sub- jects in revenge for their temporary mor- tification,

The whole of the short drama wag soon concluded. At the commencemeat of hits plans, the Elector appointed 2 Mr. Hag- senpfug, who had been a professor of @

Prussian university, and bad just had the misforiune to be pronounced cuity of forgery by the coart of appeals 1: bis own

city, to be the President of his Cabinet —This wasa plain beginning aod thé people of stesse knew, trom the charace ter of the inan, what was conse In- stead of convoking the Hessian Diet at the nsaul period, Hassenpflug contrived that it should not oe called together until the last moment, and then merely for the purpose of demanding a vote of sup- ples. The Diet refused to make a blind grant, and insisted that proper estimates should be produced, and discussed in the usualmanner, ‘The Elector forthwith decreed their dissolution, and accompa- nied this decree by @ notice that he should cause thetaxes be collected, regardless of the absence of the constitutional sanc- tion.

The chief members of the dissolved Diet, who had been constituted a com- mittee by the general body, instantly declared the illezality of this proceeding, and applied for an injunction against it from the High Court of Appeal. Kn- raged at the cool but resolute attitude of the people, and seeing that no time was to be lost, Hassenpflug counselled the Elector to put a stop at once to this peaceful and Jega! resistance, by declar- ing the country in a state of siege. Ac- cordingly this was done, although not a finger had been raised against any of the authorities. Iassenpflag believed, how- ever, that an out outbreak would ces- tainly be provoked by this bold step, and ne therefore regarded it as the finishing stroke of his policy, Bavarian troops having at his instance been quietly as- sembled on the frontier, ready to march in on the first shot that was fired. To his utter dismay not a hand etirred in the country. The courte of law pronounced the proclamation of the state of seige to be illegal, and when soldiers were sent to execute the arbitrary orders that were

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