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ence to this matter or not, and if correctly informed, to though the Speaker would not assent to his demand for ask the hon. gentleman who represented the Govern-|\nmediate personal conference with the members, yet nent in that House, whether the Treasurer had taken for some time he continued to walk backwards and for- the step alluded to, solely upon his own responsjbility,| Wards in the body of the House,

or had been authorized to do so by the Lientenant Go- Sir, bo reporting at ali, is better than such unhappy eernor in Council. The House, he said, could not have|misconceptions. ‘I'he similes, metaphors, &c., are awk- forgotten the loud and angry outery which had been|ward enough of themselves; but don’t make members mised against the late Lieutenant Governor, because he jresponsible for anacronisms and misconceptions, which firected the proper authorities to enforce, agreeably to|they did not enunciate, the Statute, the payment. of Merchants’ Bonds, as they Your humble servant, pecame due. He (Mr. W.) thought inconvemience might ye

And who, upon hisnself alone, For worship can rely.

We only execrate his deeds, When, close behind our backs, wee seized, he perpetrates Felonious attacks. Peter Pinvar, Jun.

THE ELECTION OF THE HON. G. COLES. | Mr. Coles’s re-election has given much cause for con.

eault from the rejection of the Notes of Banks in the} 8th March, 1848.

idjoining Provinces at the ‘l'reasury, where they had een heretofore regularly received; and it was wel] nown that the paper of Nova Scotia and New Bruns- ‘ick Obtained considerable circulation in this Island,

i gratulation, not only because it has resulted in placimy

“ON Beal tel. ide eae cp ernacure, jthat gentleman again in that House, where, unless

SPIELE LAS ARE BPI ERS changed in nature, he will never shrink from advocating the rights of his fellow subjects and exposing those long: standing abuses, which, as it were, override, the great

SATURDAY, MARCH II, 1848.

ind was considered preferable to our own. i did a <= ~ = oi hes aean to question the Treasurer's right to refuse that x nN ; _ TUR TAN aper ; bat he could not understand why it was rejected ve MARTIN ae. THE LONDON TIMES. ow, any more than at any former period,naless, perhaps,| 19 the Islander of yesterday week, appears a long he measure was deemed a necessary preparation for the | “88Y-washy article from the pen of that excellent and jompletion of the financial changes about to take place. estimable individual, Big Mantin Cottann, meant to {is main object was, however, to ascertain whether the be a reply to an able exposition of public affairs in Prince tep had boor taken with or without tie sadbtion of the Edward Island, given ina late No. of the London Times. Executive. ; Imagine, gentle reader, if you can, without making Mr: Palmer said-he had no doubt a proper answer the welkin ring, with a loud and uproarious cachination, would be given te the question; byt he wonld like to pata climax of ea folly, eS ‘ae ata take oe ‘alae tas slander answering the aes ss ure none but now why the hon. Mr. Coles had been called upon to! yo as caild ee ae Yl cae osttard eet

wnswer it. be is . , some sense. We doubt not but the Editors of the Mr. Whelan expressed surprise at the remark made by London Ti since they. appees to hate vbtsined bo

he hon. member for Charlottetown. He (Mr. W.) had { alled upon the hon. Mr, Coles, because he considered |COeCt a knowledge of our Island affairs—have receiv- im the most competent person to give the information ed some information touching the character of the indi- aquired, in consequence of his holdtae a. seat’ it the vidual who has been, within the last three or four years, > - . ‘xecutive Conneil. It was unnecessary, he thought, to|tHe only supporter, through the Press, of the high and unind the hon. member for Charlottetown, that the respectable official party in this Island; and we should ourse which he (Mr. W.) had adopted in this respect, |" be at all surprised to see, in imitation of a Downing Street Despatch, a paragraph in a future No. of the

‘as not an unusual one. I[t was the practice in the} >. bus : ritish House of Commons, and in the Parliaments of! Pines, to the follqwing effect :— There appears, in a e adjacent Provinces, for any meinber to ask another | P*Per called the Islander, published at Charlottetown, in ho might hold a seat in the Executive, for information PE. igland, 7 paragraphs of angry and incoherent wehing any act of the Government or any public declamation, called forth by an article recently published -oceeding of its officers. inthe Times. Knowing this to be written by an indi- The hon. Mr. Coles replied. He had himself heard vidual who has been distinguished, under various disre- he fact stated by the how. member for King’s County putable re by the name of Collard; we have Mr. Whelan) respecting the rejection, at the Treasury, only to observe, that we can hold vo controversy with f Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Notes; but he was {##™ nti he return to Halifax, and take his trial for the ot aware that any such proceeding had been submitted “oars scree SET RYO: oi or the consideration of the local Government: he had; “ ae artin has not disproved a single Proposiion ertainly received no intimation from His Excellency had weakened a single arguinent put forth ” the Times, he Lieutenant Governor upon the subject; but he wasld| “© doom it HRC CHEN ey | (B-SCOPPY any <p ete SRaee ie uggest, a8 the best mode of obtaining accurate infr-|rovenns to the several topics discussed. ‘The abuse aation, the adoption of an address to His Excellency. — ee ape we wpined bara a be readily for- ‘Then the matter dropped, and the House adjourned. + los: 7 AiG MOR CUQMMARIC trends. t.wee, Oe \douot, mein, as an plustraio’ of the ass kicking al ea Re SO) oe ee “~~ \the dead lion. But, we can assure the Islander and its G\VRBBP py yew es. ipatrons, that, however sinooth present appearances may ~|be, Sir Henry is not defunct, and neither are the en- TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

‘quiries set on fuot by him in a condition at all likely to See ae ihe smothered. Reporting is now become a trade; what would the! We think we know enough of the proceedings of the

zood folks of this Island have thought fifteen years | Colonial Office —(n0 matter how our information is ob- since,of £70 or £80 a year for reporting the speeches of tained)—to assure those public fauetionaries, whose acts their members? Yet, at that time, a clearer view was/have been reviewed by the Editors of the Times, that, riven in the Gazette of the chief arguments used in!'f they are unjustly aspersed, they will have an opportu- avor of and against any measure, than can now be ob-/@lty—as In Justice they ought to have, and why do they ained from any of the island Newspapers. ‘he system ®0t come forward and claim it—of placing themselves f this Session, however, answers some gentlemen ; for |Peyond all suspicion, 584 rthey speak five minutes, their Reporter can make g| ur co-temporary need not think that, by his indul- peech for them, which, in the customary mode of deli-| ence tn vulgar threats and challenges, he can betray ery, would occupy ten or fifteen minutes, He can,/"% into making any premature or imprudent revelations. esides, furnish new arguments, elegant similes, and|OUur own love of justice, and knowledge of the status qoy, ther ornaments of speech on one side; and, by a litle |4t¢ sufficient guarantees that we shall remain proof agglery, can render, in part, ridiculous, the speeches /@zainst all such temptations. Surely it is in vain that irinted as these of tlie opposite party. ithe uet is spread in the sight of any bird.

In the Islander of 12Ui February, on the debate re-| Since the above paragraghs were written, the follow- pecting Mr. Coles’ seat, Mr. Rae is represented as|ing verses were laid upon our Table. We confess sking “How Jong were the waters of the Nile to be|that we do not pretend to comprehend the entire mean- vided, and on one side of its banks to be cut wholesome | ing sought to he conveyed in the verses, and we think aatter, and on the other that which caused destruction?” that Big Martin would render an essential service, not lere, if never before, is Mrs. Malaprop’s “ Allegory on only to ourselves, but to the public generally, if he would he banks ofthe Nile.” But did he really perpetrate come forward and explain the doubles entendres which

majority of the people ; but because it exhibits the truth, that the Electors of the Island—however art, prejudice, and falsehood may, fora time, succeed in: concealing from them the real state of their position—will not teler-. ate oppression, or suffer even one, from whom they have, for a season, differed, through misconception, in opinion on guestions of public moment, to be crushed by tyranny, and a heartless combination; and most satisfactori!; proves that the same innate love of freedom, and free institutions, which leads them to contemplate with de- light the prospect of enjoying, at no distant. day, the Constitution under which their fathers and forefathers have lived in its entirety,—teaches them that to hasten the approach of that desired moment, they must faith- fully support, in the Legislature, those who struggle for this end. Their conduct at the late election shews that, they have learned to distinguish between those who truly wish for a British Constitutional System of Goyern- ment, and those who, unable to stem the torrent, which the love of freedom and justice has borne against the shaking barriers of exclusiveness, nepotism, and mopo- poly, behind which they are entrenched, are desirous to turn the stream aside into a new channel, knowing that resistance to Hs power is vain, In short, they see the difference between a fiction and a reality; between e shadow and a substance ; between that true Responsible System which will give them their just and constitu- tional influence, and that flimsy subterfuge which was. proposed in the words of Mr. John Longworth’s i)l-fated amendment in the Session of 1847, a passage from which we here repeat:

“ We therefore humbly pray, that such system of Department- al Government, as would involve the resignation of the offices of the Treasurer, Colonial Secretary, Attorney General, and. Surveyor Genera!.on their being left in a minority in the Exe- cutive Council, should not be extended to us, or held to be force in this Colony.”

Mr. Coles’s election is the first event which has affurded the public voice an opportunity of being heard on this subject. In 1847, Mr. Coles left New London in a im- nority of 227. He Jeft it,on Wednesday week in u. inajority of 36.. In 1847, in the wonth of May, he Jeff,

week, inthe very depth of winter, and at the time of its greatest rigour, he left it in a majority of 175! 4 majority which, be it observed, would have been greatly ipcreas- ed, had not the honorable gentleman—seeing his adver- sary was entirely hors de combat, and could not comman«' another vote--requested his own friends to refrain from, giving any more yotes on his behalf, that the Poll migh: be terminated forthwith.

We learn volumes from these facts; but two things more particularly : first. the public opinion of the manner in which Mr. Coles has been treated, converting, for very decency’s sake, adversaries into friends, and awakening contempt,opposition and abhorrence against his enemise. Secondly, the growth of the conviction to which we have alluded, that it is necessary for every eleetor, for his own. sake, to lend his support to the cause which Mr. Coles and his friends in the Legislature are pledged to support,

But there is, perhaps, no more remarkable feature in the recent election, than the absence of those who, ona former occasion, did not blush to oppose the return of a member of the Government of which they formed a pari, and under which they then held, as they still hold, nearly every office, The public will give these parties

uch an offence against sense and taste? He made no are so provokingly, yet happily, versified ; as he will be,! no credit for a returning sense of duty ; but will readily

llusion to the Nile; but he did allude tothe knife ofthe na doubt, fully cognizant of their hidden meaning. ‘ersian Queen, poisoned on one side. This was not in| 7 ‘ad taste, yet it was not original; it has been used, at! COULS ED vrox COLLARD ;

The surprising modesty and rare honesty—alike cha-

vast once, in a similar case, in Britain. a aol : : racteristic of the scribe and his employers —with which

Again, in your qwn paper of 12th February, in the|‘" } eport of the debate on the 4th Feb., Dr. Conroy i3 oe Collard as “the Literary Man” of the Gazette, quotes o state that “If Mr. Coles refer to history, he will find 74 eulogizes himselfas the Editor of the Is'ander ; and. that no less a person than Cardinal Wolsey had to retire the mnocence and meekness with which, as the Editor of from the House, outside the Bar, while his case was) the Islander, he lauds the extent of his knowledge and ending.” The Doctor did make an allusion to the |the liberality of his views, asset forth in hjs contributions ‘ardinal, rather an ill-chosen one, and expressed in in-|t'he Gazetfe ; cannot, we think, be either suiliciently ad. mired or laughed at. ’Tis Harlequiu playing upon his

attribute their inaction to its true cause—a settled con viction on their own part that their influence, even though backed by all the strategy which they put in practice last year, could not avail against a people whe view their proceedings with disgust. Yes, the public will shrewdly conjecture that, being, as every body knows, wise in their generation, they have thought i, perhaps, as well not to place themselves again, and under asecond Lieutenant Governor, in a positionso imprope: and so unconstitutional.

The example of upright independence, which tre

lefinite terins, bat nething so gross as is stated in your) | io nek diaal ; aper. Mr. Rae. in answer thereto, is represented as °°" 2nd dancing to his own music.

avi : . ¢ > Poets > } g ving said “that the Doctor had mis-stated facts, he, To see Cottarp upon Cottarp,

Electors of the First District of Queen’s County have just given to their fellow electors throughont the Islan¢, will not, we trust, prove tohave been given in vain. On

Brackley Point in a small majority of 27 ; but, on Friday,

he Cardinal, having walked about the House (of course: ohile his own ernse a8 pending), and that he might have.

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st down had he pleased.” What Mr. Rae did say was, iat the reign of Henry Sth, was not one to be referred | ' for precedents favourable to the independence of Par-

ament; that, on the occasion alluded to by the Doctor,

man at the head of the Church, and as Prime Minister, ‘ore arrogant and influential than any who have suc-: reded him, and not a member of the House of Commons, | utered while the House was Sitting, with the mnanifes! stention of dictating to, and answering that body: and!

ithe contrary, roused and inspirited by their noble 4 ichievement, we hope to find every other constituency 1© ithe country, as opportunity shall offer, successfully anc itriumphantly acting upon the same genuine principl~ iof freedom, which have been the honorable apd glorions ‘motives te action on the part of the honest. unbonght, ‘and wunintimidated supporters of Mr. Coles at the leie

Full of ecstatic love — A'l thoughts of decency and senso, By rapcure placed above—

As warmly, iathe public eye, He deals self-pleasing strokes, in each observant, knowing one,

Contempt's cool smile provokes. election. j And, so long as the people shail reflect upon the late Bot, this we may forgive the man, ‘triumph of freedom and independence, begun at Ne»

London, end nobly snd happrably eccomptishes

Whom ferw to please would try,

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