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FLOWERS.

BY MARY HOWITT.

God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small ;

The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all.

Wemight have had enough—enough For every want of ours,

For luxory, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers.

The ore within the mountain mine Reqaireth them not to grow ;

Nor doth it need the lotus flowers Yo make the river flow.

The cloud might give abundast rain; The nightly dews might fall;

And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drank them all.

Then, wherefore, wherefore, were they made All dyed with rainbow light;

A}! fashioned with supremest grace, Ousparing!y day and night.

Springiag in valleys green and low, And on the mountain high,

find in the silent wilderness, Where no man passes by !

Our onward life requires them not, Then wherefore had they bicth 7— T’o minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ;

To comfort man—to whisper hope, Wheae’er lis faith 1s dim;

For whoeo careth for the flowers, Will mach more care for him.

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SIR ROBERT PEEL.

Strack down at noon, amid the startled throng

An esgie shot while soaring to the sun,

A wounded gladiator, dying strong,

Aa loth to leave the glories he had won,

A life-long patrict, with his work half dene—

Of thee, great statcemon,ehai! my mourning sony

Arise in dread solemuity,—of thee,

Whom the wide world, so lately and so long

Thine acolyte, would crowd to hear and eee

Pheir intelectual Athlete, their high name

Fereloquence and prudence, gifts and powers,

Bat lo: thst starlike soul, 2 heavenly flame,

ts well enfranchised from this earth of ours,

Wraasiated from the zenith of its fama.

Mantix F. Terrgr,

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‘THE DUKE OF CAMRIDG®.

Awsother of the chiefs, O! Icrae},

Gone to 2 good man’s rest and high reward As fall of years as honors; it is wel! Thus timely to be caii’d to meet the Lord.

©! death—how oft Britannia tolls the knell tor those she loves, 2 mother for her sons ! Yet itis seldom that her tongue can tel! More truly how she mourns her mighty ones, Than now in honest sorrow fills her breast— For be was worthy , full of kindjiness— A san of peace, and charity, and trath, Per ever doing good, and feeling blest (Though wurtur’d as awarrier from his youth) ‘Yu finding what a joy it is to bless!

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1850.

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THE LATE SIR DONALD CAMP- BELL, BART.

We observed in our paper of the 16th instant that the dissolution of the Parlia- ment elected in 1846 was regarded by the public generally, who were disgusted with the conduct of an Assembly which had so shamefully abandoned the inter- ests of their constituents for the favour of the Oligarchy—as being indicative of a disposition on the part of the late Go- vernor to regulate the policy of his Admi- nistration in accordance with the wishes and opinions of the people committed to his charge. Indeed there was no mis- taking the object of that dissolution, for the Gazette plainly intimated that Go- vernment was desirous of ascertaining whether a new Assembly would separate the question of the Civil List from that of Responsible Government. The new House made no delay in communicating to Sir Donald their intentions in reference to this matter. They would not separate the question of the Civil List from that of Responsible Government, and they would grant no money for the public ser- vice until that system should be put in operation. How did his Excellency an- swer the Hlouse? By statiag that he had no authority from Her Majesty’s Go- vernment to alter the system of adminis- tration, when a despatch, laid before the House at its opening, intimated to his Excellency, that on certain conditions being complied with, in respect to which he himself was to exercise a discretionary power—that he might assimilate his Go- vernment to that of the other British North American Provinces, the people of this Island, in Lord Grey’s clearly ex

pressed opinion, being entitled to fully as much consideration as those of Nova Scotia. The House, strengthened in

their position by this despatch, could not do otherwise than postpone the per- formance oftheir legislative dutics. To transact public business with Sir Donald Campbell’s Council, would be to falsify their promises—disregard the wishes of their constituents, and aim a.death blow at the cause of Responsible Govern- ment in this Island.

Matters thus stood until the extract from the confidential despatch was Jaid before the House, which repeated Her Majesty's promise of conceding Respon- sible Covernment, and shewed Sir Donald that he had either not read aright his mstructions, orthat if he had, he had wilfully neglected them, The Council then resigned: Sir Donald solicited a consultation with the leaders of the Libe- ral Party—he learned their wishes and intentions ;—they would satisfy the Chief Justice—they would not give retiring allowanees to the officers on whose behalf

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OCTOBER 23, 1850. they would resign certain officers in their favour rather than keep up contention, and protract the business of the country ; but before doing anything of the kind, they required a new Council to be form- ed, which his Excellency could do, as the old one did not remain to obstruct him. Sir Donald eaid—* No, I can’t change my Council,” when he had no Council to change ; “I am not empower- ed to alter my Government, but I will admit three of the Liberal party into the Counci]—I will take the sapplies and your co-operation in carrying on the Govern- ment, and I will report to Her Majesty’s Minister what I have done.” This is in substance his Excellency’s reply to the moderate demand for a change of Council made by the Leaders of the Liberal party, and fully sevealed the tortuous and disingenuous policy he had designed to pursue.

What nonsense it was to tell the House of Assembly that he had no authority from England to change his Government, when the two Despatches referred to, conferred such authority upon him in the most precise terms! Why did he ask for a consultation with the Leaders of the Liberal party—why did he: propose to give them three seats in the Gouncil, if he had not the requisite authority? ft was left'to his own judgment to arrange the terms on which the change of Go. vernment was to be effected; and his consultations with the leading liberals, and his overtures to them, shewed plainly enough that he knew he had the power of acting independently of the Home Go- vernment. But he thought to entrap the Assembly—to get his own ends served, and those of the Oligarchy with whom he had coalesced, in spite of his promised Impartiality. He soon found, however, lie had men to deal with who could not be easily baftled ; and if the last hours of his life have been embittered, and his demise accelerated by the consequences of his folly and obstinacy—as there is some reason to apprehend has been the case—his bereaved family must lay the blame upon the heads of those who had led him astray by their mischievous counsels.

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Tue Treasurer.— We understand that the Hon. J. S. Smith returned to this Island fromm the United States, via She- diac, op Monday evening last. Specvla- tion is rife to know whether Government will permit Mr. Smith to resume his place in the T'reasury after being absent from it for several weeks without leave, and the securities having withdrawn their lia- bility, and after, likewise, the office had been offered to two gentlemen in the Executive Council, who thought proper to decline a situation that could be held on the most precarious tenure only, as we #ré.on the eve of a change in our constitution, which, on taking place, will cause ihe removal of all the principal

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our own part, we have no hesitation in expressing our opinion, that if Govern- ment can in any manner gloss over Mr. Smith’s recent proceedings, and if that gentleman can succeed in obtainiag the necessary security, he will be suffered to

continue in the Treasury—to which office he has forfeited every claim—in spite of all that the public may gay or think to the contrary.

GENERAL HAYNAU IN ITALY.

When the Austrian General was lately attacked by the draymen employed by Messrs. Barclay & Perkins, some of the London papers, incommenting upon the occurrence, took occasion to describe General Haynau as the very opposite of the sanguinary monster which nearly the whole civilized world believes him to be, giving him credit for great forbear- ance and humanity in the discharge of his military duties, by which he was said to have incurred the displeasure of hig imperial master, the Emperor of Austria. To shew that the Brewer’s draymen un- derstood the @haraeter of Haynau better than the London journalist alluded to, we take the following account of his conduct and that of his army at Brescia from Ge-

onary War of Italy, in 1847-9.” If the atrocities therein detailed, which were Baron Haynau’s principal recommenda- tion to the supreme command in Hunga- ry—are not sufficient to freeze the blood of even rougher hearts than those of dray- men, it is hard to tell what can:—

“That which seemed to overwhelm our minds, and to freeze the blood in our veins, was the spectacle of horrible mon- strocities Committed by the Imperialiste. done either in fits of drunkenness, or in obedience to orders, or because they stupidly followed their ferocious instincta, Their acts not only went beyond belief, but imagination-—not only did they vent their rage upon defenceless people, or women, orinfants, and on the sick, but theic fury became such ae to stir- pass that of wild beasts, They flung out of the windows and against the bar ricades, the torn limbs of t . as bones are thrown to dogs ies arms of women, roasted human } heads of the Seemed TBs ae he

rescia. These

cannibals amused themselves with t} tortures of those whom they put to d th by fire. They nsed to cover the h aie of men with pitch and burn ee the eyes of their Wives, or th togcther, while

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in their res t “1 presence they outraged and then massacred their wives

and children, They did more May God forgive us for perpetnating the ee of these horrors, They forced

‘ei victims, while half dead, to swallow the entrailg Of those whom they loved

ces the dearest On earth, Some who tity

ed became ined, ee ben the generals nor the offierrg mest me a attention to the @uties jm-

em by honour and humanity inust, Lowever, exeept Colonel fella chich, the brother of the celebrated Ban who, Seeing the church of St. Affra meneced, in which a great number of women had taken refuge, stood at the

door, and would not leave it until hi ont, 1 ) is men had gone away,

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