sather tha died.” and they hardly kwew in the chawder at Wal exact moment the grea Sstatesiian, woe name has been on ¢ very page our history fer Gfly years, ceased to be amoung the living, At that supreme moment thoes dearest ie him were about his bed with tb

bee were th Miatster of Public Works and Mra. Cowper, thy

exception at Palmerston, who had

lads geetly withdrawn here present Kari of Shaftesbury and the Countess, Viscountes Jeeelyn, Mr. Evelyn Astley and the physician: ‘The grief of thee circle was lessened, so far as

could be, by the spectacle of a quiet and easefi parting, hallowed, before the shades of deat came so near to the dim eyes, and the lips grew se slow te move, by faith im the words taught by that church of which the Premier died a tru: member. His lastact of public business was a metance of hia energetic maaner of dealing wit! facts when he had got bald ef them. He receive at Hrocket Hall the Ivish deputation upon th: cattle disease, though he was very auwell, an obliged tu retTine upen the sefa all the time 5 be he at ence acted upon the wishes of his visitauts If he would have kept ta that sofa be might hav:

'

lwed ; but he wae a coustant terror to lis dectoi by reason of bis energy, although when once | promised to obey them he kept bis word as if}! | had beer pledged to the Hivuse of Commons. As a rule, he enjoyed superb bodily bealth, and one

the reasone was, that, be it late or early wheu t

escaped from State affairs, he always insisted | wpen giving himself seven hours aud a half ot good sleep. Uf he could not get away bome tii] tour 4. M. he bade hie servants leaye hun undis- turbed till neon. His radiant spirits and easy method with public business were of course elements towards his long and uobroker vigor,

oud to bed the feoulty ul throwing off the graveot | eares of State along with his Parliament coat |

But be could net do se with personal matters, which is another proof how strong the personal end humac nature was in him. He would fret aud worry if a mewber of his family were ill, avd be more disquieted than at the impending crash of a throne, ustil the household was in good ease again. ‘These things could break even bis regular sivep; but “ affairs were not bis flesh and blood, and he could put them off, when they were treubiesome, till the next day. Such little trails of the great maa gone are what were recalled: commented ou, compared.

His LAST OFICIAL ACT.

( From the London Morning Star_)

It was painfully evident during the last seasion ot Parliament that the health of the noble Lord was beginning to fail how. Formerly he used to enter the House with an elastic step, and to re main until the House rose witheut leaving his place, but latterly, while be strove to conceal the effects of weakness, the unusual palior of bis face | and his early retirement from his seat indicated that he could no longer bear the fatigues which Indeed, after Easter. be usuaily retired inunediately after the

he had formerly borne so easily.

questions on the paper had been disposed of, and enly on a very few occasions did he take part | in the ordivary business of the evening. June the 16th he replied to Mr. Berkley on the ballot, taking the old grounds against this im- provement which we have so often combatted It was noticed that, although his body seemed. frail, his voice retained #!| its usual! strength, and so clear and firm were the tones that they even startled these who had been familiar with his voice fur years. On the same night he replied to Mr. Bright on the debate on Mr. Seeley’s motion with regard to deck-yard inspection, and on June the 1Gth he again spoke on Mr. Darby Griffith's mo- tin with regard to Colonel Dawkins. Ou the 27th Juve he made a very spirited reply to Mr. Longfield’s attack on the Lord Chancellor, and en the 3d af Jaly, was present on the oecasion of

the more formal vote of censure which was mov- ed in regard to the Leed's Bankruptey Court investigation. With his usual tact, he managed to have the vote taken on & motiwn of adjouru- ment, by this means ascertaining the strength of parties. The Government having been defeated, he thereapen accepted Mr. Bouverie’s amendment, Which bore semewhat less hardly on the Chancl- lor than Mr. Ward Hunt's motioa. On the lowing day it was bis duty to announce to the tieuse the resignation ot Lord Westbury, and

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‘LORD PALMERSTON

jtenantry did not require any fostering care, the

| Ballymore, chiefly

jemall holders.

On the Cliffoney estate, which comprises nearly

, that this gentleman will be

Even this sweeping denun

1 can crearn be

ed neighbours would probably

ilo by seeiny hie on horseback ebay?

an Eton bes or chation of susper have failed to defeat or delay the scheme o Confederation if there had not been some smaller and shallower considerations behind. If one thing is more certain than another, it is that the petty changes in the incidence of result from the scheme |

when vearly an octogenarian, he would ride some filteeu miles te eover and think nothing of it His miod never lost its interest in whatever was

new. Hie waa as keen as any young man about

the coming Derby, and would rather have won it taxation which may must be utterly iusignificant when compared

with its enormous influence i opening out a

than any political triaaph. These things are worth wentioning, for they are elements of politi- Cireat as Pitt was, he is said to have lost much through deficient sociability. Lord ' t Palmerston lost nothing in this way, but gained a} spl ndid bribe of the promised ratiway, the 7 adjustments of debt and revenue agreed to by the delegates of all the Provinces at Quebec | are certaimly not unfayourable to the smaller feolonies. But the word has eone forth that | Confederation means nothing but the shifting

oa a fof Canadian burder.s upon the shoulders of New

A correspoudent of Saunders’ News Letter gives | Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and that they will

eal success

| i : | corner of the world. And even apart trom the | | great'deal, lie owed, indeed, sv much to bis!

social tact, that superficial observers have seen |

in it the whole seeret of his power,

AS

do better te go on and stagnate in their old independence than to jom a people composed, accoréins to their imaginations, half of Frenchinaen who hate the name of England, and half of Canadians who in heart are Yankee. tha their case, as in that of the Canadians most of the property being building group4, held} themselves, the first consideration is that of

the following picture of the late Viscvunt as ~ Lrish landlord :

“Lord Palmerston, besides owning some eight thousand acres in and around Dublin, where the|

two large estates in the county of Sligo—one near| money, and no friend of Confederation could let to lartuers and| Uesire a more favourable test of the scheme ’ . }than that which the substantial pecuniary in- graziers ; and the other at ClHoney, tenanted by | terests of the colonies would afford. But the This esfate, let to four or five| mass of the people do not seem as vet to" have middlemen, at the @xpiration of the leases, on the! risen beyond the narrowest \ iew even of their deaths of William LV. and the King of Hanover,| Material interests. hey see, re per, Boos wos found covered with a numerous pupulation, | they sce, a possibility ‘that the em a b> as miyht add a few ceuts to the annual percentage — His lordship, while} of taxation per head. They fail utterly to see ging annuities, or 61 years’ leases of adequate | that, even if this were so, the countervailing furma, to the representatives of the middlemen,| benefits of an open trade would give them a jlet the rest of the estate to the sub-tenants at/ score of dollars for every cent they lost. In . . ‘ ‘ “ | these days of political economy, we dare not | one-half or ove-third of their previous vents, | complain of the selfishness that’ prompts men doing away with the ‘rundle’ or ‘common lto act from a single view of their material | system, and giving each tenant his own holding. | interests. We eannot, and we need not, ask | The estate was squared without one eviction, all | for any kind of sacrifice, but we have a right to wishing to go tu America getting free pasasges, | expect that se)f-interest should be enlightened, | and that those who count so carefully the pence ee ’ . }they may lose should nut altogether ignore the their arrears of rent forgiven, and a sum of| pounds they may gain; and the real interests | money, according to the number of their family, of these colonies are so obvious to any spectator on landing. A story is told that when the agents, | that it is impossible to doubt that they will Messrs. Stewarts and Kincaird, had arranged for | Sooner or later prevail over existing prejudices. the rate of passages, his lordship wrote to the | Ihe recent accounts of the state of — both in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, ee confirm this expectation. Nearly all ithe intelligence of the Provinces seems to be ee on the side of Union. The leading j |

large

excurbitant rents.

with permission to sell their cattle and grain,

| shipowner that if tae rates agreed upon would

not allow the best treate-ent and food on ship- ‘board to * his people,’ the contract should be | cancelled, and a new one made to treat them

politicians have espoused the project warmly ; j well. On being informed that the merchant was| the trading community in the towns is in its }content with the price, he replied, to give ‘ a] favour ; but the rural prea i oe, ms jtumbler of hot rum punch every Sunday after | sewhere, parpenentns the ban mF pre nae : i ve | —is not yet won over to the side of progress. dinner to bis people,’ which was carried out in| In New Brunswick the Opposition is further three or tour ships; but on being remonstrated strengthened by the Irish section of the consti- with by the clergy that this was a bad example, | tuencies, though in Nova Scotia the iniluence he ordered the shipowners in the otber vessels to| Of @ popular and patriotic prelate has gained the Roman Catholics for the cause of Con- federation. With the exception of a few party | men and agitators who have made capital out | of the jealousies of an untaught population, the the whole parish of Ahamlish, and a pertion of | ranks of the opposition seem to be mainly others, he settled on the parish priest a glebe of | Pecruited from the inert masses of the people ; | eleven acres, with a house that cost £600, for the | and, if experience can be trusted, we may be use of the parish forever—the respected priest | Sure that the policy approved by the intelligent being the Rev. Malach: Brenan, who eails it} portion of the community will certainly be * Palinerston Glebe ;’ and we are happy to say | adopted in the long run by those whose object- : one of the honorary ions are mainly founded on their ignorance, and a. ‘a * ag Lord eee He! on their incapacity to rise above the pettiest offere o the fotestant vicar of the parish! - , i oll . : fers . double the quantity of land, which was aaa? views of the proapecss which it offers. It do r because a giebe was not built, but which Lord | "Ot #Ppear to de d ubted that the completion Palmerston has kept tor the next incumbent, | °! the Intereolonial Railway would of itself being let only from year to year, and called the} ™ore than compensate for any small sacrifices *ylebe lands.” We trust that bis successor wi}]| Which the Union would entail; but, with more carry out hia views in this respect. ‘Though| than the ordinary measure of provincial suspi having ne residence in Ireland, he could not be| cion, the objectors, both in New Brunswick and ranked as an absentee, as he spent from one-half} Nova Scotia, insist that this undertaking—to te two-thirds of the Cliffoney rental in building! which {'anada, and, in a degree, Great Britain the harbor at Mullaghmore, improving the estate| also, is solemnly pled red—will b> thrown over- zz yt atcha aaie dias been board the instant that a few hundred thousand sands, Which effectually stopped their spreading | New Soames and Nova mote have ever the property. The tenant-right on this! aqnecnnns 5? take the chance Of, i mpay be, - estate sells at £10 to £12 per acre, but the con- extra shilling per head of annual taxation. | sent of the agents must be obtained as to the! There 1s somethin z almost ludicrous in the purchaser.” | belief that a project so large as that which has - +> | been produced by the Conference of Quebec

(From the London Saturday Review, Oct. 28.) should have been formed with the single object sinned }of entrapping the small Maritime Provinces THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONTES.| into a participation in the burdens of Canada.

give coffee and biscuits daily after dinner. ‘These little trasts will show the character of the man

is intended as a gui

instruetions to the Gove

jand we shall

It can hardly be doubted that this despatch | i

Dundas, on his arrival here, pate the “de

by anti-Confederate

drop forever. The despatch to General Williams clearly contradicts that The General is himself an enthusiastic Confederate — his predecessor was not; hence his removal to the distant Governorship of Hong Kong, where he could be no obstacle to the measure.

assumption.

General Williams is not authorised to use coercion in carrying out the Imperial policy in respect to Confederation; but we may rest assured that he will use all the “legitimate authority ’’ which his high office confers to render that policy acceptable to the people of Noya Scotia. The progress of public opinion in the sister Province will, therefore, form a subject of interesting study for some time to come.

In New Brunswick, it is pretty well known that Governor Gordon, recently returned from England, is charged with instructions to give effect. to the Imperial policy as far as he possibly can. The Government over which he presides is manifesting symptoms of a general There are two vacant seats in it already. Hon. Mr. Allen’s elevation to a Judzeship made one—and Hon. Mr.*Anglin re- signed his place a few days ago, making the second. He was the most determined and anti-Confederate the

It is said that he resigned in consequence

break-up.

able in Government. of some difference with his colleagues on their Railway policy; but there is good reason for believing that a gentle pressure of the Imperial “policy” by Governor Gordon had much more to do with it. We cannot see how Governor Gordon could allow Mr. Anglin to remain in the Government, and continue to obstruct by his writings the views of the Crown on this very important matter. Then, there is the Hon. Mr. Smith, the Premier, he has softened down much of his antipathy to a Union of the Provinces, if we may judge from a recent speech of his on alate public occasion near St. John. And should the office of Chief Justice become vacant ina few days —as there is every probability it will be, if not so already — there is very little doubt that Mr. Smith will accept the splendid prize which will then be within his reach. A Government thus weaken- ed would have no alternative but to appeal to the country at once. What would be the result of that appeal may be safely inferred from the late York election, where the Ministry received their first heavy blow and great discourage- ment in the overwhelming defeat of their candidate. In short, every thing indicates the rapid approach of stirring events in New Brunswick.

As for Prince Edward Island, her Legislature has pronounced a very decided opinion on the Confederation. She will have nothing to do with it. Tt is probable that the

question of

. . > The relief » larver Province woulc - Of all the districts oa the face of the earth _ is liet ey e — r Proy — } ould be ad |

° ° ° e e iu ry air oe 2A 2 snr se there is none of which we in Euzland know so! ' f re Saas tean (« ven if the supposec P _? . > i { " Ss he Ae ary ¢ oa > s a

little as of the thriving Provinces of New | Se ee r cumary arrangements were

majority of the population sanction that deci- sion. Under these circumstances the best we can do is to wait and watch how matters pro- ceed elsewhere.

nto the contest at all. Put this is a great

le to the Governors of the} mistake. The Government and their support-| share our belief — the Government took the | ence of a fellow-countryman and e¢o-re} “ime Provinces, as well as a letter of| ers in New Brunswick insisted that the contest | same view of the matter, and offered a very | who has combatted with so mach talent, other Mavitime Pro Ar of Nova Scotia; | should be on the issue — Confederation or No | large reward for the apprehension of the cri-| and success, the attempts which have been not be surprised to see Mr. Confederation ; and that all local or side issues| minals, But who the criminals are, is a mys- publishing a des-| should be cast away. The St. John Freeman, | tery from that time to the present. h expressing similar views with respect to} which reflected the views of the Government clared policy of Her Majesty's Govern- and those of the anti-( onfederates, was very | 9 dozen ruffians in Charlottetown set fire to Mr. thousand channels for the industry of this little | pent’? ‘That policy ” means, of course, the} positive in putting this before the country as Laird’s premises, would any one think of accus- confederation of the British American Pro- the real issue, apart from all local mae, ing the whole of the Charlottetown peopie vinces. We have been told frequently of late, | In the Freeman of the 21st October there is| with the crime? Certainly not. And if there papers, that the Imperial | an article which not merely defies an opposition| were one or half a dozen ruifians about Tra- | Government, having seen through the duplicity | to be brought forward against the Government | eadie to cause the burning there, that does not practised upon them by the promoters of the candidate, but absolutely insists that any oppo- necessarily tarnish the fair fame of al? the measure, were determined to let Confederation | sition must be viewed as a contest between Con- tenantry on the Tracadie estate. The only

federates and anti-Confederates. Here is an extract from the article referred to :—

“Will the Confederates now dare to test the public opinion of York? Will they, now that so good an opportunity is offered, dare attempt to fur- nish one proof te their friends in Canada and in Downing Street that the public opinion of the Pro- vince has undergone a change. In York they have had ample time for preparation and organization, ample time te “ educate the people up "’ to the hitch to which they pretended they could bring them, aud Mr. Pickard, who, in the last number of the *flead Quarters,’ annonneces himself a candidate for the vacant seat, boldly throws down the gaunt- let to them. He says :—

‘The ont question whieh, for the last few months, has agitated the public mind, is Confede- ration under the Quebec Scheme, to which I have been, and am now, decidedly op, - regarding it as possessing nothing that could or would advance our social or financial position, but on the contrary, would vustly increase our expenses, and end in DIsUNION and, perhaps, ANNEXATION,’

Here the question is distinetty raised. He seems determined that there shall be no doubt as to the matter at issue. Where ure the Confederates now! Where is their great array of converts to their cause? Willthey dare to show themselves— to raise their heads, and su manifest to the world that instead of having grown stronger and more numerous they have sank into utter insiguificance ?

The St. John Globe, which is also opposed to Mr. Fisher and his Confederation principles, declared in its No. of the 28th ult., that the real issue of the contest should be—Confede- ration or No Confederation. We give a short extract from the No. referred to as follows :—

‘The real issue is Confederation. Let the people of York keep this before them. Let them remem- ber that it is only a week ago that Mr. Cartier assured the people of Ottawa that Confederation

Canada. What were his grounds for this startling announcemeat, we have no means of knowin

The mere fact that it has been made so positively and authoritatively should fill us with alarm. It

est opportunity of which he can take advantage.

Mr. Hatheway.”’

federation or No Confederation.

ult :-—

“The question, we repeat. is Confederation or No Confederation, and this the intelligent people of York well k t overwhelming defeat of Mr. Fisher at the last election will not fill the electors with a fulse con-

the result of the election there can be no doubt, but if the electors are fully awake to the import ance of the contest, they will take care that Mr Pickard gets at least us large a majority as Mr. Hatheway had at the general election.”

Indeed, all the New Branswick papers viewed the election previous to its coming off, as a contest between Confederation and anti-Con- federation ; and the journals which advocate the latter side were the most pertinacious in urging that view of the matter, as affecting— which it fassuredly does—great provincial in- terests. In the Woodstock Acadian, of the 4th Nov.—a paper strongly opposed to Mr. Fisher and his party—there was an urgent ap- peal to the York constituency to cast away all local prejudices, and vote against Mr. Fisher because he had been identified with the Quebec Scheme of Confederation. This

ST

so still—nearly every one in the community) to endeavour to ruin the reputation and infly.

made within even the last few years by the Orange faction, to circumscribe the liberty and the rights of Catholics? Ah! but, says the Herald, W. H. Pope is the implacable enemy of Catholics; he has said and written many disgusting things of the Catholie religion; ig a word, he is a very bad man; Mr. Whelan joins with him im advocating Confederation,

Now, let us suppose a case. If one or half

was us sure as that Ottawa is uow the capital of

should hinder us from viving the enemy the slight-

We have no fear, however, as to the result of the York election, although we regret the contest on Mr. Fisher's account. We simply want the people of that County not to retarn Mr. Pickard by any ess mujority than that given at the last contest to

Three days afterwards the Freeman repeated its declaration that the issue should be—Con-

We give as follows an extract from its No. of the 3]st

now. We trust, however, that the

fidence, or make them supine and indifferent. Of

: }

. : : | y “ aqgmarv 3 ra > sne a! Brunswick and Nova Scotia. They are not not wholly imagmary) as to exclude such a incousiderable in extent, and they abound in

azricu!tural and mineral wea'th. No finer ships |

are built in the world than those produced by these ohseure Colonies. No more tempting ground for the emigrant could be sugested than their prolific lands afford. In picturesque beauty the old Acadia surpasses anything else to be found on the American Continent, and may vie with the chosen resorts of tourists within the limits of Europe. Yet, with the exception of the few who have business connections with

| theory from the mind of any one who had con-

| sidered the subject; yet it is probably this | dread of a trifling increase of taxation which | outweizhs all the advantazes of the project, j}and has for the time determined the Maritime | Provinces to remain in the commercial isolation lin which they have hitherto passed their jexistence. Perhaps, in wealthy England, we | may be apt to condemn too heartily the | wneuterprising spirit which prompts men to reject the most promising scheme if it involves

this may be cursidered the last official act of a| them, no one on this side of the Atlantic seems | * possible increase of immediate expenditure ;

statesman who had sat in Parliament without a!

break from 1806 to 1865. He served in offic ial |

; . aa ; ; asure of prudence imidity. Sti 2 positions four monarehs—George IIL, George | feeling of a much less equivocal character than | measure of prudence and timidity. till the

1V., William IV., and Queen Victoria.

land, Mr. Spenesr Pereiva!, Lord Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Lord Goderich, the Duke of Wellington,

Kael Grey, Viscount Meloourne, Lord John Rus- | no means wealthy, countries.

to know as much of them as he does of the country watered by the Nile or the Zambesi—

jand countries which, though thriving, are as

| poor as New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, may

The acrimonious personal attacks by a portion of the press of this Colony upon certain individuals, because they enter- tain, without pressing them

was after Mr. Fisher's declaration on Nomina-

Confederation which the present Government might propose prior to a general election. We make the following extract from the Acadian :—

“In trath, every opponent of the Quebec Scheme should regard this election as even more important than the last general election, because Mr. Fisher has been = forward, not by himself, but by Mr Tilley and the other Confederationist leaders, for the express purpose of waking a breach in the ranks of the anti-Confederation party .”’

These extracts shew pretty clearly the light

upon others, | Opinions in favour of Confederation — will have

;no effect whatever, further than to disgrace the parties who make the attacks. It is a pity

that those pugnacious people who can not | manage to provoke the Confederates here to an encounter, could not exercise their talents in New Brunswick now; there they would find employment and antagonists enough. When

tion day, that he would oppose any scheme of

point we urged was—that incendiarism prevail- ed at Tracadie at the time of the burning, just as it prevails sometimes in other communities, without affecting the character of the whole

population.

Mr. Laird’s little game in bringing a false charge against us, is quite transparent. He evidently thinks he might damage us in the estimation of our many personal, political, and especially Catholic friends at Tracadie and the neighbouring settlements. What a miserable partizan spirit it must be that will drive our contemporary to play such a fvolish game, when he knows how easily it can be frustrated —and when his conscience, though seared, must tell him, that he is playing the game at the expense of that pretended religion, morality and love of truth which he is continually parading before the eyes of his readers. ~~ To rune Epirox or tHe Examiner.

Dear Sir :—Permit me through the columns of your excellent journal to make a few pass- ing remarks on the state of affairs which at present cbtains in this Island. Confederation, the Tenant League and its consequences, afford abundant material for a few communications, I may, ere I close, say something ou these sub- jects ; for the present, I will, for the most part, confine myself to the expression of some thoughts relative to the unbecoming and long continued attacks which have been made by a portion of our press, and especially by the Herald, on the Examiner and its editor. I know, sir, that you are well able to defend yourself against all such attacks when you deem them worthy of notice; but at the same time, I trust you will not refuse me the opportunity of giving expression to sentiments which I, in common with very many of my fellow colonists, entertain on this subject.

Many hard things have been said against you by the Islander, Protestant, and Monitor ; but I believe that neither of those newspapers stoop- ed so low as has the Herald in its attacks on you. This is not what was expected from that quarter. When a man is abused by a person who has always been his adversary, we are not surprised ; but when a man is abused by one who should be his friend, we are more than surprised—we are shocked. Edward Whelan, editor of the Examiner, an Irishman and Ca- tholic, has, for upwards of twenty years, been the consistent and strenuous advocate for the liberty of the people. He has, with an elo- quence unequalled in this Colony, both in our Legislative halls, on our platforms, in our lee- ture rooms, and in his writings, contended and struggled, often with success, for the rights of all classes, and especially for those of Irishmen and Catholics; he has, by his talents, and by his zeal for the cause of freedom, been the principal means of securing for us that full li- berty of the press which we now enjoy—a liberty which has given Mr. Reilly of the Herald free- dom to utter sentiments, the publication of which, twenty years ago, would have committed him to the felon’s den. Yes, the editor of the Examiner has long, consistently and energeti- cally, combatted for the cause of civil and re-

ergo he is a bad man too! But, Mr. Herald, who is Elder Laird of the Protestant, alias the Patriot? He forsooth never published any of Pope's letters, never printed or sold what he called extracts from St. Liguori on marriage, never published articles most insulting to Catho- lies especially Irish Catholies,never abused nuns, priests, bishops and popes!! When Mr. Reilly took good care to tell his Catholie readers that Mr. Whelan was leagued with Mr. Pope in favor of Confederation, he conveniently forgot to inform us that he himself bad embraced ag a warm bosom friend the pious Elder, who is without doubt the most stolid, morose and intolerant bigot this day im P. E. Island, It is wot my desire to injure Mr. Reilly; but J do not wish to see him leading the community astray at the expense of the reputation of one who has done for it ten times more good than he has ever done or will be likely ever to do. Should his character suffer from the justification of an injured party he must blame himself for the result. Fiat justitia rvat caelum. Yours sincerely, JUSTITIA,

(The foregoing letter was written, we be. lieve, with a view to its publication in our Jast No., but it did not eome to hand in time. We now publish it with very much reluctance, be- cause the Editor of Tae Examiner feels that the warm encomiums of his valued friend are quite undeserved. Had they proceeded from any other pen than that of the well known writer, we should certainly have doubted their sincerity, and withheld the communication; but however much the judgment of our valued friend may be defective as regards his estimate of Mr. Whelan’s personal character and politi- cal services, we know that the kind and gener- ous feeling which prompted the foregoing tri- bute has not a partiele of guile or insincerity about it. We publish the letter, therefore, simply disclaiming our right to all the praise which it contains.—As for the Herald and the person who does the small, coarse, clumsy writing for that sheet, our readers are well aware that we have long since declined to keep up any controversy with that journal or its——- What d’ye call it? For over twenty years we have had several of the ablest men in the Colony—some living and some dead -—fer our opponents in the newspaper line; but the habits and instincts of the gentleman were easily discernible in their writings, and a controversy with them could not be honor- ably declined. But when we find every week a fellow crossing our path—without provoca- tion in the first place from us—a fellow exhi- biting all the instincts of the low-bred raffian —attempting to befoul us with vile names— sputtering infamous falsehoods in our face, and challenging us to controversy with him—we feel we can do no more than give him a cut of our editorial whip, as we have several times done, and as we would do with another sort of whip tuwards any other angry cur that assailed us. Mr. William Byers is, we suppose, a respectable person in his way, and we should not feel degraded in dis- coursing with him on any topic suited to his capacity; but if Mr. Byers should bring his soot-bags to enforce his arguments, we should instantly stop the discussion, and hand him

ligious liberty, and for the rights of all classes of the community, and especially for those of the tenantry. He succeeded years ago in breaking up the oligarchy, the family compact, by which the destinies of the Island had been long ruled. He has ever been a thorn in the

over to the Police to be dealt with as any other common blackguard would be.—Our good friend “ Justitia” may rest assured that we have not sustained one atom of damage, either in connection with our business affairs or our political career, from the malevolence

He! the loyalty which pervades many districts of yaity ee |

held important offices under ten different First the more familiar Canadas. '

Lords of the Treasury, viz: the Duke of Port-| * hich has shrouded this region, crippled their

and this in spite of the existence of a British | @"™ to he excused even for an excessive

| tisk is so slight, and the loss in any case so | minute, while the gain from free trade and free | communication is so certain and so immense, trade and repelled the stream of emigration, is | that the present resmiance cannot he expected The ase comparatively permanently to _ maintain itself. It is said

$ jalready to be giving way, and, whether this announcement may or may not he premature,

The obscurity

| easily accounted for.

jsmall, and, though not unprosperous, still by They are shut

sell, and Lord Aberdeed, and has himself oecu- | 0Ct—partly by nature, partly by political ac- pied the same position in two different ministries. | c.deuts, but chietly by their own choice—from When Mr. Caani id nedientn ath * /effectuai intercourse with the outer world. *. Vaoning die¢ suddenly, after a b wt Their available frontier on the laad side either

tenure of the bigh office of Prime Miuister of Eng-| faces the territory of an encroaching and uncon- jand, Lord Palmerston was a member of the | genial neighbor, or borders ona greater Colony Cabicet, and sat with hie colleagues in Lord | which it is the fashion of the Maritime Pro- Goderich’s mansion, debating affairs, while they | Vinces to treat win! affected contempt and sus- awaited ihe King's pleasure as to the future. He | POC? During the qumonee of ene Recipro- . : 7 city Treaty their trade with the United States died at Brocket Hall, the «eat of bis friend, bro- has become important, buf up to the present ther-in-law, and chief, the late Lord Melbourne, time their fellow-colonists of Cacada are shut aid where that nebleman himself died. It was| out from them by a barrier of (ustom-houses |

} | the Confederation of the North American Pro-

Colonies of Great Britain are enamoured of their isolation, and are at er ve unwilling to eration which would

the reluctance with which the scheme of Con-

vinces is far too advantageous to all of them not to win its way, though not perhaps this year or the next, to universal assent.

The Gxraminer,

Charlottetown, November 20, 1865.

THE COLONIAL MINISTER AGAIN ON CONFEDERATION.

PROGRESS OF THE QUESTION IN THE PROVINCES.

Tue following despatch from the Right Hon. idward Cardwell, Secretary of State for the Colenies, to General Sir Fenwick Williams, on his appcintment to the Government of Nova Scotia —has lately appeared in the Halifax papers; and has formed the text of numerous comments-—some laudatory and some con- deranatory :—

Dowyine Street, 24th Sept., 1865.

Sir,—I have received the Queen's permission to offer you the Government of Nova Scotia.

It is proposed that you shall be regularly appointed as Lieutenant Governor in succession to Sir Richard MacDonnell. been appointed to Hong Kong expressly on the ground that the declared poliey of Her Majesty's Government will, if successful, lead to the abolition of the office of Lientenant Governor of Nova Scotia, it would evidently be inconsis- tent with that policy to appoint in his place another Lieutenant Governor in the ordinary way.

The temporary administration is likely to

But as he has

federation was listened to among them. The} last longer than it would be desirable for it to very fact that they had no trade with Canada| be held by an Officer having other duties, since, was propounded by their agitators as the best on the most favorable suppositioa, the Act of of all reasons why they should throw down the| Union of the British North American Pro- barriers which alone prevented it from flooding | vinees could not receive the Royal Assent till their land with wealth. Why should they join} late in the next Session of the Imperial

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are con- federated with Canada, we may begin to con- sider how long we can remain separate — whether we can set up an independent nation- ality of our own, without the consent of the British Government — whether it would be to our advantage to go into the Confederacy promptly and with good grace; or be com- pelled by circumstances to ask for admission to the Confederacy, when in complete working order, on any terms which the larger Provinces might then be pleased to offer.

We shall not now or hereafter —for some time at least—weary the attention of our readers by discussing the question of Colonial Union on its merits, especially as it does not appear possible to do that without exciting violent anger in the breasts of our opponents, who will scold, and call foul names, and invent the grossest calumnies, but who are not burthened with common sense, and never in- dulge in such a useful thing as argument. We will content ourselves with keeping our readers informed of the progress which the question may be making in the other Provinces, just as we would communicate any other news — feeling assured that the decision which may be arrived at by the three-and-a half millions of our fellow subjects on the mainland will have the most important influence on the destinies of the people of this Colony.

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THE YORK ELECTION, N. B.

Amost all the Colonial papers we receive are still intent upon discussing the merits and consequences of Mr. Fisher's election for the County of York, New Brunswick. The Cana- dian papers, East and West, have entered into The Confederates claim Mr, Fisher's election, with