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thought the time also was material. Some proposed |

the Ist January, 1849—others the Ist September, 1848, *becanse by that time the harvest of the United States and Canada would be ascertained, and dealers could

. Mr. Rae) thought the first of| ©'SS! : : know how to import. He (Mr. Rae) ‘but world-wide fame for wisdom and sagacity,—at the

|storm, we repeat, we are notat all surprized. If any ‘thing was likely to awaken surprise, it was the patience

October would be the better date, because the proprie- ty of continuing the relaxation did not depend on the abundance or scarcity in other countries, but on our ca-

THE EXAMINER.

wisdom can establish a claim to the superlative), and ‘represented by a Monarch who has lived long enough jin the world, under a variety ef the most remarkable vi- issitudes, to have gained for him not only a Enropean

pability or incapability to supply our, population ne NE endurance of the French that kept the elements

stuffs of the growth of the Colony; and as our harvest was not well known till September, the Ist October,

of social strife so long quiescent. Doomed every. day

1848, was, in his opinion, the best time. He felt sy m- to witness the workings of a foreign policy which de- pathy for people who had not bread stuff, but none for| 5,aded their national character, and aroused the re-

gentlemen who could eat no bread unless made of su-

perfine American flour.

{Much more discussion took place upon this subject, but we have not room to report it,—after which the re- solutions printed above were agreed to.]

Roads and Bridges.—Hon. Mr. Coles suggested to

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proaches of other countries,—maddened at the specta-

cle of an old man on the thrashold of another world, in- triguing to establish his family on a throne, which was

given in trust to him by a free people, and of which he had proved himself unworthy,—compelled to drive their

the hon. members of the several districts, the necessity ‘thoughts back into the depths of their souls, lest their

of reporting on that service, in order that the contracts may be let, and the people get to work, and by that work

bodies should be given over to rottenness and the worm,

gain werewith to enable them to purchase seed to put —their every movement watched—their press shackled,

in the ground next month. 5; A few remarks were offered, when it was agreed that

the report should be made to-morrow.

Frivay, March 7.

Responsible Government.—Mr. Hhelan moved for lea ve to present the draft of an Address to His Excel- lency the Lieutenant Governor, requesting copies of any Despatches transmitted to England, by the late Go- vernor since the last Session, on the subject of Respon- sible Government,—and a copy of any Despatch that nay have been received from Karl Gray subsequent to 16th June, 1847.

Mr. Palmer moved to strike out the words: “since the last Session,” and—*“ subsequent to the 16th June, 1847."—The amendment was agreed to, and the Ad- dress ordered to be engrossed.—Messrs. Whelan, D. McDonald, and Palmer were appointed a Committee to wait on His Excellency with the same.

The Fisheries.—Mr. Whelan as chairman of a Special Committee appointed to report by Bill or otherwise, on the Fisheries, reported a Bill relative to the granting of bounties for the encouragement of Cod Fishery. In re- gard to to the Fishery Reserves, the hon. member observed that the Committee had a Bill in course of preparation, but he believed it would not be submitted this Session.

Crown Lands and Mail Conveyance.—-Mr. Thornton, as chairman ofa Special Committee appointed to wait on His Excellency with an Address to Her Majesty relative to the lowering the upset price of Crown Lands, reported that His Excellency was pleased to say he would forward the same. The hon. member also re- ported that His Excellency, in answer to the Address of the House, relative to.the securing a Packet for the conveyance of the mails to and from Pictou, was pleased to say, that he would attend to the same.

Land Question.—Mr. D. McLean obtained leave to introduce a Bill, relative to the settlement of the Lands of this Island. Bill reada first time and its second reading ordered for to-morrow.

The House were occupied in Committce during the afternoon sitting, and until the hour of adjournment, on Ways and Means.—The same Committee sat again on Saturday during the forenoon. Wehave not space, ‘however, to report the resolutions agreed to.

PRR WA ARLHENER.

MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1848.

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THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. Tne extraordinary degree of interest excited by the in- telligence of the late Revolution in Paris, will be taken

devoted in our present No. to the insertion of several articles bearing upon the subject, to the exclusion of some of our legislative reports.

While we, in common with the majority of our fellow subjects in the Provinces, are perfectly content with the form of government guaranteed to us by the consti- tution of the Mother Country, and satisfied that the prin-4 ciples upon which that Government is based, when fully and honestly developed, are not irreconcilable with the growth of a people’s liberty, in the most enlarged and rational sense of the term, or not inimical to the ad- vancement of their prosperity,--we are nevertheless not disposed to conceal from our readers the exultant

'—their men of mind and heart condemned to a dungeon

ora grave because they would dare exercise the free- dom of thought,—the memories of their old men yet

‘dazzled by the splendour of the republican arms under

Napoleon, and their young men panting in the solitude of their hearts for an opportunity to rival their sires in deeds of military skill and daring,—it is indeed one of the miracles of the age that a people constituted as the French, quick, vivacious and chivalrous—enamoured of Liberty in all her forms—for years the footstool of a bad Ministry and an ambitious King (not ambitious for his country’s sake but for his own),—should have so long delayed a struggle for that achievement which has dri- ven the richest King in the world from his dominions with a solitary five-franc piece in his pocket—with all the trappings of his ill-used power, and all the tools of his intrigues—an achievement that has cost so little, and promises to be so glorious in its results, not only to the French, butto the entire family of Europe: for if we read aright the incidents which have followed the Pari- sian Revolution, with lightning-like rapidity, we cannot fail to conclude that the spirit of the Marseillaise is not to be found indigenous to the banks of the Seine.

We have hinted that this French revolution is not un- acceptable to us, since it further enforces the principle which has Jong been gaining ground in Europe, that a people have the undoubted right to displace Monarchs as well as Ministers, when their feelings and their in- terests require them to do so, and putin their piaces men who will more advantageously discharge the du- ties of Government, though under a different form and different designation.

We would further observe that—although we have no wish at present to see Republican, take the place of British, principles (for Monarchy and its institutions we venerate)—the people of Britain as well as of the Colo- nies may safely imbibe a portion of the democratic spi- rit, without checking the ardour of their attachment to the throne and person of our gracious Sovereign; and by turning their thoughts to the triumph of the Parisians they may learn the advantages and the virtues of that spirit, without suffering their minds to be corrupted by the excesses which were the consequence of an attempt at its suppression. Had Louis Phillippe and his Minis- try governed France as an enlightened nation ought to be governed, the Frenchman’s democracy would not, perhaps, have interfered with his allegiance to the Bourbons.

THE ELECTION AND CURRENCY BILLS.

These Bills have at length passed through their se- cond reading in the Assembly, and will shortly engage the attention of the Upper Branch of the Legislature. That one or both will undergo some alteration in that Body, is not at all improbable. But whatever may be the alteration, or whatever the fate of the Bills—we sin- cerely trust “ their honours” will be a little more sparing of their eloquence in dealing with them than some members of the Assembly have been, whose prosy and fruitless harangues have seriously retarded the transac- tion of other business, and have made the Session ap- pear one of the most dull and tiresome it could be pos-

feeling with which we have hailed the triumph of the sible for us to experience,

Parisians over a Government so corrupt and treacher- ous and despotic as that which so lately disgraced the Court of St. Germain’s, and of which nothing now re- mains save the record of its crimes and the mischief it

The introduction of the Simultaneous Polling plan is the only new feature of any consequence in the Election Bill. It is true that Mr. Palmer, with the aid of his ad- herents, made a desperate attempt to increase the amount of a candidate’s qualification; but notwithstand- ing the vapouring and insolence of a certain few about

entailed. At the storm which has so lately burst upon the House of Orleans—supported as it has been by

some of the cleverest men in France (so far as worldly

tion Bill showed that Mr. Palmer does not enjoy the ‘entire confidence of the party he attempts to lead-—on

their majority in the Assembly, the debate on the Elec-|

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that ultra Toryism has not so firm a foothold in the present House as some of the old sticklers for the Official Clique professed to believe. The Liberal party voted toa man against increasing the qualification—they voted against it on principle ; for none but a fool would assert that their influence or their number in the Legis- lature could be more affected by the change than that of their opponents ; for we are well assured that if the Two Hundred Pound scheme were to go into operation it would exclude from the House of Assembly as many of the one side as of the other.

‘It is a very favorite practice with some persons in the Assembly to give vent to sarcasms and allusions res- pecting the poverty of others—the meanness and vul- garity of which would disgrace the commonest scold, and raise a blush on the face of a fishwoman. But we may be one day tempted to narrate the history of those self-sufficient persons, and point to the dunghill whence they have sprung; and, if we mistake not, we might ornament the picture we could draw, by putting a ferry or a cook-house in the back-ground.

On the Currency Bill, Mr. Palmer and his allies were no less shamefully beaten. The amendments proposed by Mr. Maclean—who displayed throughout the debate a knowledge of Finance infinitely superior to that of the two Worthies who took upon themselves to lecture Earl Grey—were carried triumphantly. Some of these amendments are important, and will, when we have more leisure and space at our disposal, receive an atten- tive consideration.

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The following paragraph, which we take from the Bermuda Royal Gazette—received by last Friday’s Mail —will shew that the saddle has been at last put upon the right horse. Our Charlottetown Officials chuckled amazingly when Judge Reddie’s suspension was, in the first instance, held to be unwarrantable; and Governor Reid was declared to be such another arbitrary man as Governor Huntley, who had suspended an Executive councillor for giving, on the floor of the House of As- sembly, the most convincing proofofhis unfitness for the station which he attempted to fill, by descending, in his observations in reference to Her Majesty’s Repre- sentative—to the style of invective supposed to be pe- culiarly characteristic of the low-born, uneducated, and

innately vulgar man.

St. Lucia.—SusPension oF JupGE Reppir.—The Com- mission of Inquiry having reported to his Exceliency the Gover- nor-in-Chief their belief, founded on the evidence, that Mr. Reddie was the author of the “ Polycarp Letters,” his Excel- lency has been pleased to order the Suspension of Mr. Reddie from the office of Chief Justice, until her Majesty’s pleasure shallbe known. Assuming thatthe newspaper reports are at ali to be relied on, we look forward, with some curiosity, to the view which her Majesty’s Government will take of this “ In- quiry” and the evidence taken by the Commissioners.—Barba dos Liberal, Jan. 15.

Tue VULNERABILITY OF TORYISM IN HIGH PLACES. —We observe by an article in the Halifax Sun that, in the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia the secession of one member only (Mr. Rudolf) from the cause of Tory- ism, has had an effect as wonderfully convincing upon the minds of the other late heroic Tories of that Body, as the desertion of Ney from Louis to Napoleon had up- on the troops which the brave Marshal had vauntingly led forth against the ex-Emperor ; and these converted worthies of the old regime have freely followed the in- viting example of wise and justifiable desertion from the Standard of sinking Exclusiveness to manifest their prowess under the Banner of growing Liberality. The consequence has been, that the cause of Liberalism has ever since been as triumphant in the Higher as in the Lower House ; and the President of the Council, like another Louis, has thought proper wisely to resign his throne—his chair we mean,--and one—the Hon. Michael Tobin—has been elevated to the vacant seat, who, we feel assured, will at all times be found discharging the duties of his important station with such dignity and impartiality as fully to justify the wisdom of his appoint- ment.

Mecuanics’ Instrrure.—On Monday evening, the 27th ult., Dr. Conroy delivered a lecture to a crowded audience at the old Court House, on the Philosophy of Light and Heat.

MARRIED. _On Thursday Evening, by the Rev. David Fitzgerald, Mr- Epmuxp MAawLey,to Miss SARAH Baca, both of Charlotte- town,

DIED.

On Monday, the 3d inst.. at his residence, Ten Mile House, St. Peter’s Road, Mr, Henry Mooney, aged 78 years. He was’ native of the Parish, Donagh, Coneey Monaghan, Ireland, and emigrated to this Island, with the Rev. John McDonald, in 1830; and from that time up to the hour of his death he en- joyed the respect of all classes in the community, which was evident on the day of his funeral, it being one of the largest as- | semblages of people ever seen in the Island, on such an occa- \sion. His children, grand children, and great grand children, number in all 74.

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