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befure infprmed, and who had been sev Jate engagement. From him he learnt brothers were all serving in the Naval Brigade on shore ; and with him he remained till he saw him expire. fe then pro- ceeded on the duty for which he had landed, and soon discovered the bodies of his two other brothers, who had |

een killed in, the bettle. His feelings may be imagined, as f assisted in laying these three brothers of his own, side by side, in one grave.—~Corriall Royal Gasette.

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Sis,-—T observe in the Islander of the 17th ult., a letter from James Campbell, of this place, to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, tendering him his resignation as Com- missioner of Small Debts, believing, it is said, that he was on the eve of being dismissed,

I did not imtend answering thet communication; because where Mr. Campbell is known the low abuse and black- gdardiem at which he excels, and which form the most |

wrominent features of his character, could do me no injury.

he Islander may be the means of carrying his falsehoods into other places where my character, and that of my) slanderers, are nov so well known as iu this vicinity ; and | that alone induces me to notice a communication which | | ought perhaps, under any other circumstances, have treated with cgutempt. The subjoined letter from one of the most re- spectable persons ia New Branswick will sufficiently prove the grossnese ef Campbeli’s falsehoods,

Concerting his insinuations respecting the execution of a “certain criminal” at Amberst, [ have merely to call the readers’ memory to the fact, that the Sheriff's affidavit, clearing | ine of having any hand or part in the matter, was published | in the Royal (fazette of Prince Kdward Island, in May, 1847. |

Mr. Campbel!, as you are aware, is one of the rejected | candidates for Legislative honors here; and I believe hts! chief cause for slandering me, is owing to my successful efideavours to keep him and such like characters out of the | Assembly. TI have resided in this place for the last fifteen | years, and this would-be-popular little man never shewed his teeth until bis vanity and presumption induced him to offer himself as a Candidate for Election in this District, when, after repeated solicitations to me for my support, he found that my epinion of him was in accordance with that of the inhabitants of the District in which he resides. That he| was highly incensed at me, will appear from the language | with which he accosted me ufter his political defeat, while under tve inflacnce of that stimulant to which he is so much 2ddicted:—* D—n you Brown,” said he, * were it not for | you I would have been returned.”

Since that time, Campbell has done his utmost, both pri- tately and publicly, to injure me; and finding that all his attempts had hitherto failed, now feeling himself particularly grieved ea being compe'led to reliuqais: Lis hopes of future populanty, and the long aud eagerly sou cht for appointments, | i.e struggles his last, by comiug out in this aotorigus Journal, | the Islander, attvekiay my private character, assisted by its | Ejiter, that well-knowa seditious Lbe'ler, proved so at the prosecution of the very party whose hired slanderer he now | is. His ecaracter is s» well-known, I shall leave the public | to julge between us without further troubling myself about | chim or his remarks.

In covclusion, L can essufe Mr. Campbell, and all the Tory |

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Wx have cbserved in one or two of the Charlottetown papers, | against it, if i

during the past week, a notice, with a very curious preamble prefixed, of a public meeting of the electors of Queen’s and King’s Counties, to be held on the St. Peter’s Road—(no house is mentioned)—eighteen miles from Charlottetown, on the first Tuesday. in July, to take the Kscheat question into consideration. ‘There are 61 names attached to this affair, the majority of them being the names of parties residing in the vicinity of the Ten Mile House, and they modestly request the publication of their lengthy notice in the Char- lottetown papers. Now, if we complied with their request, we prestme it would be with the understanding that vo charge should be demianded; and if we printed notices of Escheat meetings without charge, we should, of course, to be consistent, publish notices of all ether public meetings at the same rate.

‘That would not do; and we have, therefore, come to the

kind, in reference to

determination, to publish nothing of the an advertise-

Escheat or anything else, unless in the furm of ment, which was to be paid for as such.

We will not now go into the merits of the question which the public meeting above referred to proposes to discuss. Heayen knows it has been often enough debated to uo good purpose whatever; and we sincerely regret that even the small number of 61 individuals—scarcely three of whom are known beyond the localities in which they reside—should think of wasting another day about a question that can never be settled in the manner they seem to desire. As a proof of the intelligence of the parties whose names appear to the notice for the public meeting, we may Just mention that they have endorsed, unwittingly, we believe, several statements which are as far from the truth as any that were ever penned. The first is—that Governor Bannerman had instructions to settle that question—(weaning Kscheat), by legislative enactment, and the Government neglecting such settlement, has caused disappointment and grief to the 61 patriotic gemtlemen about Tracadie and the Ten Mile House. The “ instructions” here referred to, is the Despatch of 12th February, 1851, from Earl Grey to Sir Alexander. It certainly urges the propriety of having an “amicable settlewent” of the vexed question between landlord and tenant; but so far from countenancing

_Escheat, the Despatch strongly enjoins the Gover.or to dis-

eountenance a revival of the agitation for Escheat. The next gross misstatement is—that the clause in the Land Purchase

| Bill relating to an enquiry into proprictary titles before pur-

chasing, meant an enquiry into the original titles, through the agenty of a Court of Escheat. The clause referred to can bear no such construction, as has been frequently shown. There is not one word in it about the original titles, or a Court of Escheat. The third gross misstatement is—that ‘the Governor” (meaning the present Governor) would dis- solve the Assembly unless they supported the Administration. We have the best authority for knowing this statettent to be untrue. The fourth misstatemeut isthat “the Legislative Council sre composed of men who have no sympathy with the people for the settlement of that question.” The Legislative Council, we believe, have the liveliest sympathy for the people in their warts and sufferings, and the sincerest desire to ameliorate them; butthey believe, as we do, that to support Kscheat would be no step towards improving the condition o! the country. We pass over the silly and untrue remark about the “ qualification” of members for the Upper House, to notice the fifth glaring perversion of the truth in the sentence

faction in St. Eleanor’s, they shali always find me their de- | which says, that payment to the members of the Legislative termined political enemy; but I shal! uever, under the cover | Council gives that boy “ power and independence inconsistent of night, do injury to any man’s property, as some of them | with Responsib!e Government, and the rights of the com- have done, nor shall I ever be found acting a part in such munity.” We will only observe in reference to this huge diegraceful proceedings aa this high-minded Mr. James | misstatement, that the 61 subscribers to the notiee of meeting Campbell has been in this very place, about which, for the axe as lamentably ignorant of the true ptinciples of Respon- sake of decency, I will at present refrain from making apy | sible Government us they are evidently astray im their concep- durther remarks, f tions as to whiat constitutes “ the rights of the community.” N, J. BROWN, There is evidence of great modesty on the part of those 61 Heche. tors in the fact of their calling upon theclectors of King's County to meet them somewhere about the head of the Hast River. One might have reasonably expected that a few, at least, ef the King’s County electors themselves would have joined in the call; but we can recognise the name of only one. Whether others ought, or ought not, come to the niceting, they cam best decide. it is curious as well as interesting to perceive that some

St. Eleanor’s, May 30th, 1855.

(covy.) Doncuzsten, N. B., May 26, 1855.

N. J. Brown, Esq., Dear Sir,

T am informed that a newspaper printed in Charlottetown | «called * The Islander,” has published defamatory accusations a against your character, by stating that you abseonded from of the Lory laud agents and land proprietors about Char- Nova Scotia, aud were of notoriously bad reputation, lottetowu appear to be vastly pleused ut the prospect of an

It is to be regretied that any maa, being in civilized | agitation for Kecheat, and encourage it as much as possible. | Lt is almost to be hoped that they, at least, will have their reward in increasing discontent on the part of their tenantry

sociciy, can be so base, so regardless of truth, as deliberately to pen such slander against you; and the press that offers oe the nicans of disseminating it is a disgrace toany community, | and unwillingness to pay rent—a certuin consequence of that But goch attempts to injure you appear to me a certain | ‘discontent. The object of the Tories is to embarrass the videnc2 of your prosperity, which has produced envy, hatred , Government, in the expectation of ultimately defeating it, and maliee in tie besoms of some of your neighbours; and}aud thereby ridding the proprietors of such unpalatable although slander of that kin] may give uiomentary annoyance, | measures as the Rent Roll and Tenant Compensation Bills. yet the injury will ultimately falhon the tradacer himself, and | Now, our advice to the Liberal members of the Legislature on him only. It is hardly possible that the slanderer can | i, t0 let the kischeators, the land agents and proprietors, go injure deeply, any more than ean one man write another | with the Hscheat agitation as vigorously as they please— down. Lnrefereuce to your character and conduct white you | to say little or nothing about it; and if the land agents and resided in this Provinee avd in Nova Scotia, having known | their abettors, in conjunction with Mr. Coopex’s followers, you from a boy of twelve years of age, or under, up to your | ¢4” succeed in getting an expression in favor of Hscheat removal to P. E. island, L ean conscieutiously assert, that [| from a decided majority of the people of the Island, why neither know, nor have heard any charge against your moral then, by all means, let them have a Court of Kscheat. It character, in any shape or form. You resided in youth, for will be an interesting employment, when the time will arrive, some years withmy father, the late Lumphrey Gilbert, Hsq., | to scourge the backs of the false-hearted land proprietors and and his well-known solicitude for your welfare is a criterion | their agents with the rod—~of iron,” if they like—which that you merited bis good will; and after leaving and they intend for us. while you were in Amherst, Nova Scotia, during the period I pursued the study of the Law, and was enrolled a Sarrister in that Provinee, and attended several of the Courts, having seen, you frequently during the time, I can bear testimony to your upright conduct and correet habits, I sobriety, industry, energy and perseveranee to endeavour to rise to competence and comfort, be crimes, then indeed you were guilty of these while L knew you; but if such be virtues, and truth be superior to falsehood, I fesl bound to say that the man who charges you with being of bad fame and character while you resided in this Province, and Nova Scotia, is himself destitute of any regard ‘to truth, and pos- sessed of a degree of baseness degrading to humanity and too mean to deserve your notice. You are at liberty to use the foregoing statements and remarks ia any way you may

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BILL

THE ELECTIVE IN CANADA.

that the principle of the Bill for making the upper chamber of the Legislature en elective Body was admitted in Canada, and that the measure was sure to go into operation there.

that the Legislative Council of Canada wou!d not be so silly as politically to cut their own throats; and we are now fully confirmed in our scepticism on this point; for a late Colonial Mail brought the intelligenee that the Legislative Council of Canada, in recent session, had condemned the elective Bill. Tue Quebee Chronicle has the following re-

think proper. : marks on this subject :—- I am, dear Sir, yours very truly, ‘The objections formerly urged against the Legislative (Signed,) R. K. GILBERT. | Council as an obsteuctive and Tory House no longer existed, ceeded and it was impossible to point to any good measure passed Me. Wartax,— by the Assembly which had been defeated here. When bills

had been rejected the country had sustained the Council in every case, so that it might be averred quite safely that the legislation of that House was as much in harmony with public opinion as that of the other. Some of the speakers, and especially the Hon. Mr. Walker, denied in the strongest terms the authority claimed by the House of Astembly to initiate such a bill, aud contended that such action was re-

Sir :—I would beg leave'to ask, through the medium of your paper, whether or not the Commissioners and Overseers of Roads and Bridges for Charlottetown, since the first settlement of this Island, have been sworn not to perform or ¢ause Statute Labour to be done on a certain part of Mi te) fort treet, so much required? Or are they so lost to

t)ia it vii se 2 sve > etitotinn: ; > ; ie - + ¢ mo re atin: Pee a nal a cea nee garded by the most eminent constitutional lawyers as a vio- ee cat ; oe’ s, Bnd it wil speak | jent breach. of rivilege islati i for ilse.!. I also inform you, what l tile improvements have prevet she Porveges of re! Lagisiativg Council, abe

tongef the public press was also quoted in proof that the utuiost indifference prevailed in regard to the contemplated changes, and even the ministerial organs did not speak very strongly in favor of the measure. Another view of the question was taken by the Hon. Mr, Moore, who was ver strongle persuaded that the elective principle applied to this House would bring it into collisiog with the.oiher, aud in

taken place were done by private individws!s at their own expense. ‘Witness the useless expenditure in other parts of the Town of the public money! The inhabitants have pe- Aitioned repeatedly, to no purpose. Shame! GEORGE A. THRESHER. Charlottetown, June 4th, 1855.

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fact make it the popular branch, as it wns usual now to designate the Assembly, Then the next demand would be for an.elective Gavernor, and finally for elective officers of all grades, fgom the Constable to the Judge. Such a change in our Constitation was too important a matter to be done suddenly, and without saying that he would finally vote t had proper consideration by the country an ‘time enough in this House, le would vote for the amend- ‘ment moved by the Hon. Mr. Matheson, which was intended to defer the consideration of the bill until next Session. Hons. Messrs, Seymour and Knowlton approved of the elec- tivé principle, bat were of opinion that the Bill had come up too late and could not receive that careful attention which its paramount importance entitled it to. Hon. Mr. Quesnel was an adiirer of the British Constitution. In his wind it was the most perfect in the world, and as our own was as near a copy as could be applied to a Colony, he would be very careful how he voted for changing it. The Hon. Re- ceiver General replie to several of the speeches in opposition, during the debate, in the course of which he adinitted that it | would be hard to select from the country a better House than the present. On the other hand the adverse speukers paid ; him, and the Hon. Mr. Ross, the Speaker, the most flatter- ‘ing compliments, and at the end of the discussion the mem- ‘bers were in a most complacent temper with themselves and ‘each other. The division has already been given, and it may ‘be said the battle was fought and finished in a very satisfac- tory mauuer,”

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IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

Great slaughter of the enemy—Kertch captured !! and one hundred and twenty-erght Russian ships taken and destroyed !!!

Tun steamer Lady le Marchant’s arrival from Pictoa on

Friday forenoon was hardly announced when the important

intelligence seemed to be everywhere circulated, that the

Allied arms had been atteuded with extraordinary and unex-

pected success at the seat of war. If jutelligence had been

reecived of the full of Sebastopol, there could riot have been greater delight and enthusiasm amongst our fellow towns- men. ‘The news came by the electric telegraph from Halifax to the Eastern Chronicle office at Pictou. The telegraphic despatch is dated Thursday last, and states that one of the

Collins’ line of steamers had arrived at New York—that the

Russians td been driven beyond the Tchernaya by tlie Allies

that Kertch was captured, and three thousand Hussians

killed—that, on the 23d May, four steamers, twenty-four transports, and ove hundred merchantmen were taken and destroyed in the Sea of Azof—and that the Allies were everywhere victorious. The paragraph in the telegraphic report respecting the capture and destruction of the steamers, transports and merchantmen, stands by itself, and Coes not dis- tinctly say by what force they were captured, whether French or English, or both; from the concluding paragraph of the despatch, which informs us that “the Allies were every where victorious,” we are induce! to conclude that the cap- tured vessels belonged to the Russians. If this be the caso, the intelligence is certaimly of the most important and grati- fying character; bat while we are anxious, and indeed will- ing, to believe it, we cannot cop eu! from ourse'ves the fact that we have been too ofien hoaxel by telegraplric despatches, and those received from the Uaited States especially must be taken with very considerable caution. We sincerely trust,

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firm the glad tidings conveyed over the electric wires. give below the despatch as it came to band.

CRIMEA.---Glorious News! KERTCH CAPTURED! — ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY RUSSIAN SHIPS DESTROYED !! — RUSSIANS DRIVEN BEYOND THE TCHER- NAYA!}!

Eastens Curoxrcie Orrice, Thuysday, 2, p. m.

The following highly important despatch has just been received from New York, via Halifax, by a gentleman in this place, who has kindly placed it at our disposal. The news is by the Collins’ steamer at New York.

The Russians are driven beyond the Tchernaya.

Kertch is captured—three thousand Russians killed.

On 23d May, four steamers, twenty-four transports and one hundred merchantmen were taken and destroyed in the Sea of Azoff.

The Allies everywhere victorious.

Hatrrax, Jane 13,

The American steamship “Atlantic” arrived this morning at New York. News most important since Battle of Alma.

The Allies have gained three victories.

Desperate engagements on nights of 22d and 23d before S-bastopol, French took and retained an important position of defence.

advances, and retained the Russian lines on the Tchernaya— Russians retreating to the hills— Allies took Kertch and command of Azoff.

France and England decline further conference at Vienna —hopes of peace prevail.

Consols for money quoted at 924. Money market easy.

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We were frequently assured by some members of the that our readers care little or nothing for these things; we, minority of the House of Assembly of this Island Jast Session, | care less, if possible. Hence the reluctance and the “ indo- was elected four years before at the general election in 1846.

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however, that the arrival of the Magl'sh Mail, which may be | expected here in a few days, direct from Halifax, will con- | ¢ counted up in pence.

$000 Russians killed and wounded; the Allies made rapid |

says “tho adtocacy of that measure originated with me, buy it was spoiled in the hands of the Snatchers.” When body laughs at the vain old fool, and tells him in plain lage age that he isa liar, then the stereotyped cry is raised s “Ay, that’s the way the Government presses support the Administration by abusing me!” Me! me! me! Ailthe

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every adverse claim is comsttuel info an attack upon Aj and furthwith his Billingsgate vocabulary is searched fo terms of opprobrium, upon which he every week rings the changes either for the columns of the Islander, or fora stupid - memorial to the Solonial Office, or the Jeutenant Go - which is thrown into the waste paper box with other robe. i as soon as received. wy 3%

Nothing appears to disturb the equanimity of Maclean's temper so much as the fact of Mr. Whelan being “ Queen's Printer, Printer to the Assembly, Justice of Peace, M. P, pO for the 2d of King’s County, ex-Executive Councillor, with some other honors.” It is very singular that a person who can fill all tlese offices, besides being “ organist to the Go vernment,” as Maclean says, should be so “ indolent” gy that veracious authority tells us be is. But the greatey crime against Mr. Whelan is, that he happens to be Queen's Printer. Any thing and every thing cuuld be forgotten and forgiven, but that. Lt was ali right, and fair, and proper, — for Mr. Haszard to hold the office for a quarter of a ceutu — it was highly laudable in Macleau’s stupid publisher to take the office when Johu Myrie Holl assumed the Govern ment throuzh the treachery of the Assembly ; Lut for Whelay to take and hold it, with the concurreuce of the majority of the people of this Island, it is an unpardotiable offence, bee cause, as Macican says, Whelan “ can, 10 the short space of four years, not only bay houses in Charioitetown, fare sup. tuously for the first time in his life, and drive @ carviage aud a pair when it suits him.” Kavy throws its shadow over every sentence that cmanates from Macleau’s peu. Lt is che fatal poison that “saps aud consumes the heart” of the pubs lisher as well as of the editor, Let John Ings be ong more Queen's Printer, who will thereby be paced beyoud the reach of begging his frieuds tu take up Muclean’s wages, and the latter be placed beyond the neves-ity of altcruately dunning and growling at his uomiual employer — and ait matters will go on tolerably smouth. But sv long us Whelan retains the office of Queen’s Printer, and Mac!ean be forced to subsist on the alms of Cuarluttetown tories, we canuut but expect the columns of the Isfauder to overfiow With (ue oui. pourings of an envious, malicious, and disappoiuted spirit,

We are accused in the Islander with having charged our political adversaries with the misfurtune of betug poor, There is no- truth in the accusatiuvn, We have suputed nothing of the kind to our pulitical adversarics, although we might, if inclined, use the imputation with astm ch propriety, perhaps more, than they cam, when tee wiiters of the islander are continually informing ‘the pubtic that the prescut holders of office are “penniless paupers.” We have not been bere twelve years without learning much of the private hiswory of even the first and oldest families in the place; aud when we perceive the paid servant of those fumilics, in his Capacity of editer of the Lander, reviling the Liberals, and saying they are “poor peuniless wretches ”"—himse:f an abject aud d- graded being who subsists on the scaut wages of political pro titution—we are often tempted to give them @ Nowland \for their Oliver, by tracing the origin of sowe of them fiom ‘the scullery —others from the carpenter's bench or dram shop, whece their wealth, uyou which they pride themselys s0 puch to-day, could easily, not a great many years ago, be We do net make this remark by way of retaliation for the impertinent allasions so frequently thrown out by the Islander to the alleged poverty of te Liberals; we offer it as a warning to those Toi y fe-ittes OF Charlottetown who support Maclean in his vicious career, aud who are really respousible for all the culumuies be pens, to let them understand that we can, aud may be inclined w lift the veil which conceals from the present generation an origiv as lowly and as poor as that which bas fallen to the lot of any other person in the community. ©

The Islander alludis to some remarks alleged to have been made by Mr. Wope in the House of Assem'ly against Mr, Whelan. Mr. Pope is stated to have told Mr. W. that he begged his biead in the streets of Hal:fax, and that he (Mr, W.) did not deny the imputation. Mr. Pope never said any- thing half so foolish and so false, and thereiure Mr. Whelan could neither admit nor deny it. We dare the Islander to point vut to its readers the report of any speech made by i which contains the language attributed to him. Mr. W. bad a much more honorable beginnirg in life than that. With family connections which served the Crown in high civil and military departments, and enjoying in his mother’s right the fruits of no small amount of property, he was vever placed in the abject condition described by the Islander. Arriving in Halifax in 1831, he innmediately entered the St. Mary’s school, afterwards erected into St. Mary's Cclege,. Which he subsequently attended under the presidency of the | Rev. Dr. O’Brien. From that school, in 15382, he went to | the printing office of Mr. Howe, uot through his ** compassion,” but by his earnest request, and there he rewained until within a little more than a year of his arrival in this [sand in 1248. The Islander insinuates that Mr. Whelan commenced businet® — here under the auspices of Mr. Howe. This insinuation, like — every other one in the article under review,-is positively fule —not that it would be a diserddit to commence business under

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We, however, put no faith in ihe assurance, being satisfied | clusively at ourselves in the Islander of the Sth instant.) from the Executive Council in consequence of his conduct at

the auspices of so distingu'shed a man as Mr. Howe—it would ra ieee be an honor; but the fact is, Mr. W. left Mr. Howe's ; ce stablishment against his wi in dving c im fi | We are often charged by the Islander with being indolent, a Salahahes of ety Sel re hc ae as if that fault did injury to any person so much as to our-| Equally false is the assertion that Mr. Lobban “ bailed” But we plead guilty to the charge in one respect, Mr. W.* from jail,” in 1850, “for a trifling debt, to — and that is, in replying to the personalities and abuse den we yy - a ee debut at the ere. = a A e : . , as lncarcera on any account whatever, and theré- — which we are weekly honoured by the Islander. We know foro ho could not be bailed by Mr. Lobban or any one ee. Mr. W. did not make his debut at the hustings in 1850—he | ave shown in not having uoticed, for the last two. road two palpable falsehoods exposed, in the compass of raat : wo lines. weeks, the column of falsehoods that have been directel ex-| alse again is the assertion that Mr. Whelan was “ejected”

y we propose giving to those falsehoods the l-ast con- the Fairy Queen mecting. We have, ou two or three prey sideration now, when every body else has forgotten them, is, | a mene abundantly proved. thet Mr. W's. retixomeyh because they suggest some reflections and facts, v20ll b eri aa oe ve ne: ae

2g ' a0Uy apar his letter to Sir Alexander, with His Kxcellency’s reply,

at might else be forgotten, and which will published in the Royal Gazette, Ovt. 24,1853. Valse aga _ be in very good time at the present moment. Egotisin is ais the assertion that Sir Alexander “ signified his opium *

decidedly bad trait in the character of a public, journalist. But it is conspicuous only in those who do not understand the duties und responsibilities of the editorial office, and who, if they did not write about, or in praise of themselves, would have no employment for their pens. his is the reason wh Duncan Maclean so frequently makes himself the hero of his own articles, when he does not attempt to play the “ feeloso- pher” by stealing hacknied remarks on scientific subjects from the Encyclopediw, and giving them to the ignorant readers of the Islander as his own original productions, What “che writer” said in the Assembly during the short period the traitor was perinitted to hold a seat in that honor- able body—what he did not say—what measures he has sup- ported in the Islander, and what he did not support —inter- larded with the vilest abuse of his opponents—coustitute the staple of nearly all he writes and does not steal, very reform measure that had been ever advocated, and become popular, is elaimed. as the particular bantiing of this super- sible Govern- ment, or Free Trade, or. Free Edueation, or Universal Suf- frage, aud, presto, up jumps tho editor of the Jsiandgr who

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rather broadly, that. he” (Mr. W.) *sliould have beet lynched on the spot for his insolence,” that is—at the Fairy Queen meeting. How finely this false assertion coutrasts with Sir Alexander’s act in appointing Mr. W. to the Com

y mission of the Peace on the very day he resigned his seat a

the Executive Council !

‘alse, likewise, is the assertion, that Sir Alexander ordered the words “ published by authority” « to disappear from the head of the Royal Gazette,” aud “ expressed to the members of Mr, Holl’s Government his deep detestation of the vices Whelan’s journalism.” Now, as to the uso of the words “published by authority,” we previously explained that they — were placed at the head of the Royal Gazette, as our owM — voluntary act, to distinguish the official organ, in 1851, from Mr, Haszard’s paper, which continued under the name of thé * Royal Gazette” for several weeks after he ceused toD@ Queeu’s Printer; and the words were discontinued also our own voluntary act, when the occasion for them ceas? As to Sir Alexander’s “ deep detestatiou” of our “ jou: nalisth, we have the pleasure of knowing that he had much more 00% \fidenee in-us than he had in Mz, Holl’s Queen's Pinter, aud

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