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(0 THUS HIGHLAN DERS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

My Countryaxy,—My attention has been called, by some

of ourselves, to an editorial that appeared In the Protector : ; ; ni

newspaper of the Vth of May last, vn tao d } the Key.

5 URaun Vi , Murdech: Sutherland, of Pictou, in which the Highlanders and the Giwlic come in for their share of the abuse which sust?, it | ssoms, pollute the weekly pages oi that weak and cont smptible suraal, to make is aceeptable to a certain class of readers. ‘As i have been solicited by a number of prous and r ‘spectable evuntrymen, some of whom have a elaim on my obedience no less than on my esteem, tu reply to this sea production, L have now resolved to comply Ww ith tlretr 3 not, however, without a cert shame, that, during the lapse of two months, no Highlan ler has been found on the Island possessed of sufficient spirit or moral courage ¢) resent this gross indignity offered to ourselves and our language. For myself. [ esteem and respect the clergy,, w eondact is consistent with the sacredness of their calling—

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indeed some of my best friends are of their number. bat, whon I sce the lanzgadage of my fathors—a language charactor- |" . . f . —_ - . a :* a ele ®. | ized by its flexibility and its fine postie softness—the language

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learned the entlearing

around which cluster and entwia

childhood-—tie in waich I firsi names of father and mother—the langaago in which I was first taught to lisp my morning and evening prayers, offered | a> from the guileiess heart of infancy to that God, who, [ was) trught to believe, heard tho prayer of sincerity, whether ex-

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pressed in English or Cielic—were I to allow the language of | my country to ba vilified and disparaged by one of her} dovenerate sons, and be deterred by the illusive halo of sanctity that attaches to his mamo as Minister of the Gospel from} chastising the pious renegade, | would deserve to be branded | as the most contemptible of characters—a moral coward. The writer of the disreputable article is the Rev. G.} Sutherland, minister of the Free Chureh in C varlottetown. | After haying attributed the death of his reverend brother to | the weight ‘and extent of his religious labours, the writer | proceeds thus: ‘* Part of this toil might have ben spared, and would have been spared, devoted young minister prolonged, bat and unchristian demands of a tew Gelie people, who mu t | have a service ina language they are pleased to call their own. | e @* * f¢ ishigh time that Presbyterians, and the Free Church, who have most to do with Glic peoj f use of the Giselic |

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‘a mistaken apprehension as to the manner im which that paper

i promising advoeate of civil and religious liberty, 1 the more , }eonfidently solicit your adviee in reference to the outcry raised

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| blessings upon the youthfal heir of immortality. And those were Lin Geae. Lhe

yows were spok n, and that prayer ubtere few short years that have pa sed since have to ” been fruitful in the strangest vicissitades of fortunc. I have at i. F *) ’ 7. *; , ” times enjoyed the ealm of domestic peace an 1 obseurity, God has at other affliction ; but when driven to the constantly accumulating load of tnjury : remembrance of that Geelic prayer has, ever and anon, thrown gloom. Hiow very few of you, my Protestant countrymen, but can eall to remembrance some scene equally interesting, which 2 . T “ .¥e > ‘ attaches you to your native language ? No wonder then you would feel indignant, as you ali certainly do, at the arrogant little limb of theology that would dare trample upon associa-

. lak ul ue ’ times sp »ken to me out of the wairiwtaa of | almost to madness and despair by and misfortune, the

tions so sacred.

Some of you may entertain the belief, that I é . severe and indiscriminate im my ceasure of ad/ the editors of the Protector—that the immediate weiter bof Wie article alone Such an opinion, however, must result from

have been too

deserves biame.

ig conducted. As every editorial article is submitted to the judgment of the whole editortal commuitiee, it is clear that} rey, by approving of it, and consenting to its publication, jorse the sentuments of the writer, and make themselves

eqitally responsible fer them. I intended at first to address this letter toyou in Gaiic ; for | fam proud and happy to own that [ have spent some years ti ‘cquiring a good kvewledge of the language, at the very | Gelic literature. Judging, thet many nicht fe:l an interest in this |

New Glasgow, July 26, 1858. P.S. The editors of the Protector disown the Geelic; »>y have long since shewn their want of “acquaintance with | the English: we know that they are perfect masters of Latin. | and Hebrew, but these are dead languages. Query, | the language spoken by the editora: of the Protector:

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TO THE REVEREND DR. JOHN KNOX, &c. &c.

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Revereno Sir,—Being aware that yoR& are an uncom-

should discoantenance uriversally the acainst me for exercising ny birth-right as a free-born British language in the public service of God,” &e. The italics are my} subject; and, sir, did that outcry emaatite from the worst own. [tis almost needless for me to expatiate to you, my lmembers of iety, I would have treated it with silent and countrymen, upon the monstrous injustice that ts embodied in rited contempt: but coming from persogs laying claim to thig extract. You all feel it. The writer’sdesire, as he has|some enlightenment, and especially members of the same xprossed it here, is indeed nothing less than the entire exclu- | Church and community as myself, lam ata@ loss to know how | sion of the Iizhlanders from all the privileges atten ling on, | can consistently acknowledge in the bondsof christian brother- ot resulting from the preaching of the gospel ; for he makes no | hood persons who, to say the least, forfeit all claim to provision fur those who have no other language than th | nsideration and respect. Probably you will say that I only Gaelic. This would be considered unpardonable coming from | give a one-sided statementof the affair ; but, sir, letthe whole an avowed intidel ; what can we say of it then coming from a@/ matter be brought to the light, and I shall come off unseathed | Minister of the Gospel? The Highlander that will support] and unhurt, notwithstanding the treacherous attacks I may | ither the writer of this article or the paper that published it.| reeeive in the dark; and although tedious to you, I shall till such tim» as they retract-their words, and make a public | submit a statement of the ma iy charges preferred against me | wknowledement of tucir error, is eqaally eatpable with them. personally, to each of which 1 shall briefly reply, and which [| Does the writer reaily call hims lt th servant of him wh )iam able an l prepared to ¢ yniute before the Church or any } |

commanded his disciples to ‘teach all nations,’’ and to ¢ preach the gospel to every creature?’’ I wonder if tho rev. geatleman has ever read the 14th chapter of St. Paul’s Mpisil t) the Corinthians. Shall the time and talents of some of our c'everest men bo employed for years in acquiring a knowledge

»f barbarous languages, without either written characters or share of common sense will perecive the<absurdityv of this | with barved doors. Qa to which McFachern alludes, as being “ : } With Barred Goors, aec., & 7 “ac udes, ¢ g

+ literature, in order to facilitate their labours in the conver- sion of the heathen, and shall we totall

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other tribunal. first charge by one of eur Deacons is, ** that [ was keeping bad ¢ mui pany ,”? merely because the majority of the electors in this locality happened to vote on the same side as I did. Now, sir, any person possessed of an ordinary

charge, as I do not think that e

ithey > tle aamdida tae wars ther of tive Candidates wer

‘om any elector, let his t. But, sir, to retarn :

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language of Scotland's bards and heross—the language in| country or character be what it migh which Dr. MeDonald of Ferrintosh, (** Domhnnullach mor na/[ would beg leave to state that [never favoured bad company, | ‘foiszachd"’) preached and Ossian sang? Shall we sen 1} ‘ither at home or abroad. Should all the families in the com-} missionaries abroad, to preach in their own languages to} munity beas choice of t!

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ignorant savages, whos: Capacity evon for receiving of society, is offen as low as their social condition is degraded, ant shall we withhold the same privilege from the brave. ioyal, intellectual, and Gol-fearing Highlander, wo is at all

times the friend of order, the constant prop of the Government | and the laws; but whose services are most invaluable when | most needed, in the hour of peril and the day of battle ?}

Alas! my brave countrymen—ye justly renowned ‘ Forty- second ’’—was it for this that the bones of many of you were left bleaching upon the parched and arid deserts of Egypt, ; where, instead of the friendly coronach of your country and the flip of the vulture’s wing, the rash of the simoom, or the dismal 1owl of the fieree and louely hyena, was heard over your sulitary graves? Was it for this that you distinguished

yourselves ia the glorious struggle of the Peninsula? Was it | foiled in his design, might possibly have sent me to eternity, |

or this that the broken though still undaunted remnant of } »

your veteran band rashed so fearlessly upon death in the last} if [ had vot decisive conflict at Waterloo? Was it for this that you | often as I wished without giving the least offence.

eneountered and routed the barbarous hordes of Russia, even against the disadvantage of hunger and privation, and being exposed almost unprotectad to the rude inclemency of a Rus- sian winter? Was it for this that you, with your heroic countrymen of the 03rd, fought so gallantly in defence of the ives of our countrymen and country women beaeath the sultry sun of India; that after you had lost many of your brave ~mrados and esteemed officers, through the incapacity of your 3axon commander, and had shed the tear of manly regret over their grayes, you still clamoured wildly to be led back to ‘evengs their deatl [3 this the reward that the gratitude of your country would nvke you for your many hard-fought battles in her defence, “9 forbid the use ef the language that conveys to you the traditionary fame of | niniy pride aad chivalrous daring that inspires your launtless breasts—the langaage whic! Is inssparally inter- wined with the wild mountain music that animates you on h2 eve of bittle? [for indignation swelled against the Duke of Cumberland for his attempts to deprive us of the| raracteristic dress of ourcountry, what must our feelings be cowards our own faithless countrymen that woald deprive us »f this last vestige of our glorious nationality ?

Let us contrast the present state of the western Isles of seotland with their condition about 40 or 50 years ago, and judge what the Grelic has done forthem. These Islands, | out the year 1300, were th: stronghold of erime, ignorance, und superstition, but the promise that** in the wilderness shall wators break out and streams in the dosert,’’ has had a glorious spiritual fglfilment there. Many of yourselves have s2en the rise aud progress of this reformation. You have oftea seen a | plain or hi covered with hundreds, nay sometimes chousands, of attentive listeners who had flocked froma eireuit of 30 or 40 miles, to hear the glad tidings of salvation. You have sgen many of these sit, ** with melting heart and brimful eye,”’ iistening to the sound of the gospel, who but a few years ago | would have flocked tox+t ith equal ardor to commemorate | 12 death of a friend or re h feasting, drukenness, revel and often bloodshed! Now, how was this moral renovation | ffseted among thom? Was it throagh preaching to them in a strange tongas? In what langasz: did Donald Manro, ‘the blind fiddler ’—that mighty herald of salvation whose} name is familiar t» all of yoa—sond his voice like a mighty | rumpet-blast over tho length and breadth of the country ? In what language did Dr. McDonald, of Ferrintosh, address his | ‘countrymen, when, by the power of his sweet and mighty eloquence, he carried away with him as by a sterm thair | passions and affections -when

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‘* Hf» now with terror froze the cowering blood,

And now diéss:lved the heart in tenderness,’ cording as his theme varied from the ‘‘ deep and awfal organ- 9? o

of the Ah, great

pipe ’’ of Jehovah's law to the ** still small voice ”’ gospel promises and the love of a dying Saviour ? and gifted Dr. McDonald! ‘Thou art passed away to thy rest, vat not the rest of oblivion. Long and gratefally will thy | usmory be cherished amid the Highlands of Scotland. Thy | manly, erect form, thine eye beaming with universal love and | vmevolonce, are bat imperfectly engraven upon the tablet of | iny memory. One svlemn seene, however, in which thou’ wert ‘he chief actur, neither the wear and tear of time, nor the} rudest shocks of fortuns can ever obliterate from my mind. IT} ‘ot remem er the sound of thy d fp, somoroas voice adminis- wing the baptismal vows to my father, while I regarded the | yorierm wee with wndiseuis> wnidus and aws hik As a] »mproheadins the leaker oar. sacgatve’ steak ret, was the object. TI ramam oe thy hanls outes reteched over | sy head. and thy vonsra le faes, instinct with devotion. praized towards heayen, while earn ‘stly imploring its future

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ntellectual instruction, or for making good and useful members |

| their cudgels.

)¢champions, that he caught the hand of one

upon the common enemy of humanity ?| charge by a person who knew the reverse, is, that D. Munroe,

2 | your fathers, which supplies the tide of | I cannot’ see wherein Mr. Munro was to blame—the poll

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of their company as myself and my family, Sy many ing transactions would not so frequently be transpiring around us. | am aware, sir, that I differ materially | from many in this cOumunityeas to the m@asure of respect | that is due from one human being to another; and should I} |take a higher stand on this matter, | should be more entitled | to sympathy than resentment.

My next erime is, that [ advised my own countrymen not | to make blackeuards of themselves by pursuing their retrea‘- | ing foes any further. If the term was so offensive, and at) variance with my position as a peace officer, the law Was |

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, bid heey lias HumMiilar

open to them for redress, which would have been a more! honorable course than to full upon an old gray-headed man with I am just now informed by one their own of our church | members aiming atimy head from behind me, which, if not |

} and sent himself to the gallows ; and conscious I am, sir, that | “d on their side, [ might cali them, blackguards as | And, sir, | if they could not appropriate the term blackguard for | repelling their enemies, they surely manifested its adaptation in offeace to myself. Had I stooped so low as to abuse even | wa Indian as they have abused me, I would consider myself a | blackguard of the darkest dye; bat, sir, | am conscious that | [ have done my duty asa peace officer to quell that disturbance. | Had I acted differently, [ would consider myself a perjurer.

[f I erred, it was, perhaps, in too far pleading merey towards

the vanquished, fearing that. murder might be committed, | which would be forever a stain upon the community. The

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Esq., and myself, were accessory to the tumult, by keeping |

the poll open too late. But, sir, [ consider myself as clear

of blame on that score as the child unborn; and for my life

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having been closed as soon as the different representatives were unanimous in demanding its termination, which was | done at half past clock, p. m., two and a half hours | before the time prescribed by law. Ii is also known to many of the electors, that in the morning I suggested to the Returning Officer the propriety of appointing a number of Special | Constables, to act in the event of an emergency ; and at his | request furnished him with a list of suitable persons; but unfortiinately it was neglected.

Tam farther charged with endeavoring to induce persons who had promised to vote for Mr. Owen to violate their word | but, sir, 1 am prepared to declare, even upon oath, if such | would be necessary, that I did not directly or indirectly try | to induce any person or persons to break faith with Mr. Owen. | Qn the contrary, I advised every person who gaye me to understand that he promised to vote for Mr. Owen, to be sure to fulfil his promise; and so far was I from injering Mr. Owen, that, on the nomination day, I publicly confuted and | repelled a false charge with which he was aceused. It is far) from my intention, sir, to render evil for evil, or railing for | railing ; or to accuse any party, except in so far as my own character is concerned ; but this L am confident of, that should

te as peaceably and independently as I have done, there would not be so much animosity and bad feeling

among the people. Bat, sir, | have too much of the spirit of

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i my forefathers to submit to either civil or Ecclesiastial de Spo-

lism. **No, while my body any breath retains, Or Svottish blued does circle in my veins.”

, in company with another elector, | subscribed Mr. Hensley’s protest against the election. But if 1at gentleman considered himself aggrieved, he had as much | right to protest against the election as Messrs. Beer and Mc- | Neil had; and I, as a free and independent elector, and Mr Hlensley’s friend, had an unquestionable right to subseribe such protest ; andif Mr. Owen has been lawfully returned, he shall | lose nothing by an investigation. So this charge as well as |

My next crime is, that I, TY t

the preceding ones, I repel ‘with due contempt.

But, sir, the gravest of all my crimes is, that Iembezzle the | public money. This charge is so gross, false, and malicious, | and in such perfect keeping with the spirit and conduct of its | author, that [ do not consider it worth a reply.

Permit me, sir, in passing, to address a few words of | admonition to our politicans of the black cloth. Gentlemen, | for G od’s sake, (whose heralds you endeavour to make us | believe you are,) refrain from your interference in the politi- | eal strife of the day, and from scattering the seeds of strife | and contention among people and neighbours who haye hitherto lived in peace and harmony, before you will set i ie | whole country ina political blaze, which, if a merciful and | kind Providence will not interyene,will result in anarcy and | bloodshed. I would, therefore, beg of Catholics as wel! as} Protestants to attend to the spiritual edification of your flocks, |

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imen, whether Protestant or Catholic, while act within their own sphere ; but when they step beyond that

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}and his colleague at the smail cost of his own reputation. |thanks to the better informed of our community, who, by re-

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| and leave polities to those to whom they more properly belong. [ do, sir, consider myself in duty bound to respect all clergy- | they move and |

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you, of which I trust, Rev. Sir, you are one, and also the worthy Rector of Georgetown, and many others whom: | cannot enumerate. I trust no one will appropriate to himself particularly my remarks ; but such of you to whom they apply—to such [ say, if you cannot cultivate and cherish that spirit and disinterested love and good-will to all men which inspired the blessed Apostles on entering on the sacred mission, it would be far more honorable in you «nd more beneficial to the public, were you to adopt and pursue more congenial and appropriate vocations. No doubt, Gentlemen, you will deem it presumptuous in me to dictate to you ; but when the peace and public weal are at stake, it is the duty of every person who has any regard for the happiness of his country to denounce everything that encourages lawlessness and discord.

In conclusion, | would beg to offer a few remarks on the Bible question. The Bible, Sir, is the precious boon of heaven

'to man—fraught with the glad tidings of a Saviour’s love to a

lost and perishing world—breathing peace and good-will to men—and a legaey bequeathed to us by our venerable forefathers. And, sir, are we to allow either Protestants or Catholics to legislate on that blessed Book, and make ita reversible or two-sided political engine, for party purposes, to

‘suit the different religious inclinations of their dupes?

No, Sir; State interference with religion is and ever has been the earse of the Church and the world. ‘To our Legisla- ture, with due deference, [ would say, refrain from political

interference with that blessed Volume, and it will work its}

way, until every modification and compound of despotism,

superstition and error, will explode #nd vanish before the | benign influence and effulgent light of the glorious Gospel of

( ‘hrist. Iam, Rey. and dear Sir, with due respect, Your obedient servant, CHARLES STEWART. Roseneath, July 20, 1858.

To tun Eprror or tue Examiner.

Sin,—As you have at all times manifested your willingness to prowote the public weal, and have arduously striven, with success, to contradict these palpably false and pernicious state- ments shadowed forth in the columns of the Js/ander, in re- ference to the doings of our present Government, you cannot

but give space to a few statements in reply to an article whieh |

appeared in the last No. of that paper, over the signature of ‘6 Alexander McEachern.’’ Since that indtvidual has had the audacity to vilify Mr. . thinks he may, with equal grace, conti respondent for To refute the charge burton, would be an unnecessary C ng the slightest acquaintance

nue to be a Cascunmec cor- that journal, especially in these troublous times, sin detail preferred against Mr. War- y undertaking, as every sane individual tn Prince ¢ ing

with the gentleman in question, not only knows such assertions

ounty. hs yuniy, Nay

| to be grossly false. Sutlice it, then, to say, that A. McKachern,

through his zeal for the Bible asa class-book in our public schools, would fain reproach the character of Mr. Warburton Bat

turning men to power who will protect our civil and religious liberty, will always secure freedom and keep the like of the TIslander’s correspondent, together with bis old tutor, Mr. Currie, in whose wake he literally keeps, there to vociferate and cry aloud, justice in this case is unfair. Those private meetings

held among the French by Mr. Warburton, must certainly be quite imaginary on his part. No such assemblages took place atthe time referred to; but admitting such private meetings to have been held, it cannot be possible that so small a number as attended could have so far influenced the majority of electors ag to enable théin to return two Liberal members for the first District of Prince Connty. It is not the case, Mr. Editor, the people here, with few exceptions, think and act for themselves ; and where the great pleasure lies, the great majority of them think and act aright, in politics at least. Whuith reference to the use of spirituous liquors to which the Jslander’s cor- respondent refers, jittte can be said; but much is, however, known, that A. McKachern would not object to become a little stimulated himself, in order to brighten his faculties to take notes of the doings of Mr. Warburton. The comment on Mr. Gaudet’s education and ability is too notoriously false to be worthy of notice,

With reference to Capt. Hubbard, whose name has been brongit before the public, I will merely observe, that when the report becaine current, that this gentleman was about to become a candidate for legislative honors, his political principles were known, and public disapprobation was every where expressed against ‘hem ; burt on discovering his position among the electors of Lot 1, he took advantage to endeavour to refute at a public meeting so:ne of the reporis in circulation to his prejudice \frer repeating some of the charges against himself, he assailed some of the principles of the Liberal party, as far as he could, and tried to explain his own, but though the assembled electors showed him very little favour, he nevertheless gota fair he ring. But the election dsy proved all, and when his defeat was known, he then poured forth threats against the poor but honest French, wondering where they would look for flour to-morrow ; but on being told that the flour they got from him was always paid for, the profits on which enabled him to stand where he then was on that day, he thought it best to keep silent for a while longer. Such, indeed, was the conduct of the candidate referred to,

|similar,as | have since learned, to that of the whole of the

vanquished party ; and I shall, for the presént, conclude, by re- marking, that A. McWachern need not expect to succeed in introducing his ‘Tory principles, (supported by his zeal for the Bible as a class-book), smeng the inhabitants of the first Dis- trict of Prince County, as he wil! be told that his efforts in this respect will prove equally as abortive here as they did in the

' Baltic and Belfast, where he could spout in his mother tongue,

and where iis bigotry would be more favourably received. Yours, &c., &e.,

Tignish, July 30, i858. PRORENATA.

_—————--—_- ¢ <6 a To ruz Epiror or tHe EXAMINER. Sir,—The Government having changed the Posimaster General, I would respectfully direct the attention of the present occupant of that office to the necessity of establishing

|at the window is one belonging to, and part and parcel of |

the olden time, and is certainly anything but what we have aright to expect at the present day. Mails often arrive without the knowledge of many persons, who may, therefore, bave letters layiag at that office for days or even weeks, and

irrespective of which it is a great nuisance, particularly in shivering with |

winter, to have to stand around the office cold until a countless crowd have obtained their letters. The Postmaster would find it far more to his advantage to sort out the letters for a postman than to deliver them at the window, having as often, if not oftener, to answer those who have no letters to receive as those who have, The smallest village in England has vow its Letter Carrier, and surely it is quite time the capital of P. E. Island, proudly boasting of its [ncorporation—its Bank—Gas, and sundry other Joint Stock Companies, should have so necessary an officer as a Letter Carrier. For my own part, I would prefer him, feeling sure as I do that he would be of far more value to the citizens than one-half of the present and expensive paraphernalia of a Police Court. I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM MURPHY.

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When far from early scenes removed, _How sweet to light on kindred seenes— When parted from our best beloved How sweet to find con

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O! Canada, thou dearest land To me of all beneath the sun, W barn could [light on foreign strand Would charm me half what thou hast done ?

[do not, Reverend Gentlemen, make a! . . } 'voneral charge, ‘There are many exemplary exceptions amongst |

Warburton’s political character, he |

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Yet having strayed into a place Less lovely far than thou hast been, It cheers my soul when there I trace Some spirit of a kindred mien.

And, Annie, [ aver, with truth,

A better substitute thou art For those who had beguiled my youth Than any other in this part,

Thoy hast not morely proved a friend, But one of a congenial mind,

By being eager to attend, With me, Apollo’s sacred shrine.

And having pined so long alone

Mid those who cared not for such thinge, a How sweet to meet with one who owns

A wish to soar on fancy’s wings.

Then let us frequently commune On themes of mental interest ;

And that our parting be not soon * To Heaven be our joint request. £

And if in diverse climes we roam, May we each other ne‘er forget ; But lighten the ennui of home, By thoughts of scenes where erst we met.

Rollo Bay, July 8, 1858.

The Examiner.

| CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1., AUGUST 9, 1858.

TEE POST OFFICE AND THE GOVERNMENT?

Tue friends and supporters of the Opposition have not ony not recovered from the panic which has spread amongst them since the removal of two or three subordinate servants of the Government, but during the latter part of the last week allowed themselyes to be worked up into a state of | excitement by the unavoidable remoyal of one of the best, if | not the very best, man the Conservative party in this Tslund ever reckoned in the ranks of its now broken and seattened ‘host. ‘Thomas Owen, Esquire, is no longer Postmaster Genera} in this Colony, and great is the lamentation of the Charlotte. _ town Obstructives in consequence thereof.

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| We shall briefly state the circumstances which rendend jg imperative on the part of the Executive to dispense with Mp. | Owen’s services. Our readers are aware that when Mr, Pete | DesBrisay was dismissed for imprudently taking part inte late election, placing himself im an attitude of hostility ang | defiance to the Government from whom he received his appoint. | ment—a person was appointed in his place, who, as might be | expected, was a stranger to the daties of the oflico—just as Mr, , DesBrisay was himself when he first entered the service. In | stead of receiving the new Assistant with some little courtesy, and giving him some advice and information with respect to the duties he would haye to discharge — Mr. Owen frowned upon him, snubbed him, and endeavoured to make him feel as uncomfortable as possible in his new situation, by not only re | fusing to point out to him the nature of the service for which he was appointed, but positively forbidding him to interfere with any of the work that was going on in the Department, In short, the Postmaster practically nullified the act of the Government, and plainly charged Mr. DesBrisay’s successor with impertinence and presumption in becoming a party to it. Mr. Kelly, knowing that he was sent to work, and not to loiter about the office with his hands in his pockets, or to sit upon the stove, as he was politely told he might — and having nd particular fancy for the cowering looks ané@ snappish ejacula- tions of his chief — informed ‘the Government through thé Secretary of the embarrassing position in which he was placed, and left the Office. Some days elapsed. Meanwhile 8 cor respondence was opened between the Government and ths Postmaster respecting the treatment shown to the new official. Mr. Owen appeared or professed to be sorry fur the mannerin which he had aeted, and after a good deal of circumlocutian — mistaken for the outpouring of a penitent spirit, but which | Was in fact put on to hide the angry feeling—Mr. Kelly went

back to the Post Office by order of the Government, expecting | to get on swimmingly in the acquisition of knowledge pertain ing to hisnew vocation. But all the animosity of the irrascible old gentleman suddenly burst into a blaze on again coming in , contact with the corporeal presence of his undesired assistant. Mr. Kelly wae

/not shown nor allowed to do any work — he was snubbed and

| Mr. DesBrisay was still retained in the Offiec.

| frowned upon after the old fashion. He was told, indeed, that he might stay in the office and use his eye-sight, but nothing ;more. Not thinking that he was appointed for such dull em- | ployment, Mr. Kelly again represented his case to the Govern- iment, and complained of Mr. Owen's continued uncourteous | treatment towardshim. The Postmaster having been furnished | with a copy of this letter, replied, that he could not perform | the increasing duties of his office ‘* without the assistance (one person, at least, completely conversant with all its minute ‘details ’’ — that Mr. Kelly could not fora long time be capable ‘of performing the duties allotted to him — that he could not _ place confidence in Mr. Kelly, and teach him “ to do the duties which only by a long practice can be correctly and satisfae torily performed,’’ and he concluded by stating, that Me DesBrisay, as his particular friend, had kindly promised assist him a few hours every day, &e. Thus shewing thats was determined, whether the Government was willing or not, to keep a gentleman in the Department whom the Governmelt had removed. | Now, what course was open to the Executive in this em ‘gency? Were they to cancel Mr. Kelly’s appointment asd recall Mr. DesBrisay ?- It would be absurd to suppose | the latter gentleman could afford to spend his time in the Pot | Ofice without remuneration. But remuneration or no rem jneration, he was there without authority. He was not, asa | person in his situation ought to be, the nominee or servant of the Government — but was, in fact, kept there in defiance of the Government. Were the Government to allow Mr. Ow® | to do as he liked with the department under his control, and _toset their authority at defiance? If they had done this, h& would have practically abdicated their functions ; nay mom they would have clearly announced to the world that their sel in removing Mr. DesBrisay and appointing Mr. Kelly were 4 flagrant usurpations of authority. There was no alternative but to relieve Mr. Owen from the duties of his office, and thie step was taken oa the 3d instant.

There is no one more ready to admit than we are, that Mr. Owen was a good and faithful officer, and in general aa obliging one. He had arduous and difficult duties to perform, | which he diligently performed, and he was not over and above. well paid for them. We have more than elsewhere, once bora testimony tv his efficiency and when our yote was required to