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166 | “1 the “Central Academy,” for whith he teceives fifty|exttavagant. ‘They were afflicted withy the vices of|revenue ofa simil UE AOU ei a the “Central Academy,” for whi¢h “y bbs . Sukie y were aliijcte ™ the vices of|revenue ofa similar period ina preceding year

und sometimes sixty pounds of the public money. ‘This | sotdid‘avarice and ‘of dishonest speculations he would|its credit is 89\good in the London Sdeney ian . no person cogeeives—taking the compilation of

not say that every anhexationist was. drunkard, but he had found that every drunkard was av, annexationist ; they had lowered and were ready for any scheme to raise themselves. The gallant Colonel again expressed his#egret atsevering thertie with his political friends. Except in the cases where ministers were clearly proved]. to be in the wrong, he felt that the only course left.to}, him was to support them. One of the reasons for his

doing so was their conduct—ryise, honest and true, on| was called to town to take charge of the Islander, and the annexation question. It was. the only, course, they :

oul ursved ; the offic, 5+)? (Supply John Ings with brains, (for the clique of officials te hater natiaintn a a derived abt »wanted something better than a man of straw to estab- amount.of influence from ~heir position ; would it have|lish their claims to a continuance of the honors and been fitting to permi‘, those who favoured annexation to| emoluments of office,) Duncan has manifested the most use that power to C,verturn the constitution.” | |praiseworthy zeal on behalf of the Colonial Sec retary. The most cons pictious leader of the Republican party | Whether jit is that.he ig anxious to. ingratiate himself in the Legislative Assembly.is Col. Prince. The ques-|with that officer, or that he receives from him a more tion of separating the Province from the crown origi-|than proportiomable share of the salary which Mr. Ings nated in the Assembly with him. But even he, hostile|is not able to pay, are reports in respect to which we as he isto the Ministry, fails to discover in the ranks|have received no authentic information, bat. both of of tbe party with whom he votes, and by whom he is| which, notwithstanding, we believe to be true. In the cb’eered on in his attacks upon the Government—the| Islander of last Priday Donkey addresses himee)f to the ‘materials out of which a new Cabinet could be con-|notice of the Secretary, and labors to extricate himself

sum c ; unpublished “ Grammars” irito account—to be more than

hig services are worth, and yet it is more than double the sum received by many others engaged in the same calling, Whose labors inthe cause of Education are as jncessant and arduous as are those of Mr, Arbuckle. But can there be any good reason shown why a person receiving already sixty pounds of the public money should on that account be more eligible to step into another Office worth thirty pounds to the exclusion of another person in Prince County, who is left in the mean time to grow fat, if possible, on the emoluments vf no office at all2 Such a doctrine as this, if not theoreti- cally believed, has been too long acted upon in this com- munity, But the time has gone by for letting sueh matters pass sub silentio, and most peopie are becoming alive to the necessity of giving “their own ‘fish guts to their own sea mews.” Hoping you will excuse the length of this, Lremain, Sir, yours very truly, . SCANDERBEG. Milton, Cottage, 20th June, 1850.

a loan of half a million.cam-be obtained on the most ad- vantageoug terms,—and when in its Parliament its Go. a" continues to be sustained by majorities of 59 and 60.

___ COLONIAL SECRETARY'S SALARY. Ir is quite remarkable that ever since Mr Mactéan

vO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Mr. WHELAN;

I observed a aaveenivee in your last Number re. specting the School Visitorship fur Prince County. ‘Tne writer more than insinuates that there is no person in the County qualified for the situation. I do not believe. this, and though not much acquainted in the County, think that I could name several quite as well qualified as the present incumbent, althaugh his qualifications are, I be- lieve, unquestioned. I am a comparative ‘Stranger in the County, and not well qualified to give, ay opinion ; but our late School Visitor is notin the game fix, and I hereby publicly request him to come forward from his

moody retirement, and vindicate the character of his:

County, if in his power.

P. T. Royalty.

FAIR PLAY,

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WEDNESDAY,

JUNE 26, 1850.

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CANADIAN POLITICS,

Ix.an article headed “Responsible Government in Canada,” published in the last Jslander, Mr. Maclean asserts that the question of Annexation “ was not meved at all in the Canadian Parliament.” In the shape of a Resolution or an Address, we admit the question was not “ moved,” but that it was generally discussed, whilst the Assembly was debating the answer to the Governor General’s speech, delivered at tie opening of the ses- sion, is a fact to which every golumn of the published debates bears testimony. We might quote from a dozen speeches in proof of this assertion; weshall con- tent ourselves, however, with two or three short extracts trom a speech delivered by Colonel Gugy, in the debate referred to, Col. Gugy was, until very lately, an able and indefatigable supporter of the Anti-Responsible (sovernment party--a red-hot tory, and a fierce antago- nist of the Ministry on the Indemnity Bill question, which led to the burning of the Parliament Houses in Montreal, and from which the annexation mania had its rise. But, ashamed of the opposition, as being desti- tute of honest and manly principles, and actuated by the worst passions in their attacks upon the Government, Co}. Gugy turns his. back upon them, declares his inten- ‘lcm. to support the Ministry, and finely scourges his former ally, Sir Allan M‘Nab, for his attempts to. bring “anarchy and confusion” on the Province by his fac- tious opposition and confederacy with. the annexation- ists. He says :--

‘He had had no communication with the Ministry ;, he appealed to thein whether he had had any communi- cation with them ; but he felt that he was bound by his sense of duty to. his country not to do anything to en- danger their tenure of office. He wanted peace and was averse to scenes of violence; and he felt that the

natural effect of the course of the gallant Knight was anarchy and confusion. # Pe ee ee by a.coalition, between members, wha like. hin were. monarchially inclined, and those who were prepared to. connect the province with the neighbouring republic, they could turn out that, Ministry, what would they sub stitute for them? Contd they form an adininistration to take their places which would last an hour? Could! they sit at the saine board and not eat each other up?

* The annexationist appealed to,the most sordid feel- ings of the human heart, the love of money.”

* We had fonnd that the menwho had favoured annex-

ntion Were the most vicious of the community, men! wo hod failed in everything they had undertaken, ane | Wore neely ty rush into. any-scheme, howeger wild and:

structed. A few of his observations will be edifying to Mr. Maclean, and we. therefore quote them from a speech delivered during the Address debate :--

“Mr. Prince then infotmed the ministry that he did not wish to see them turned out of office; he had not such a high opinion of the men on his own side of the House, as to think, they only were competent to form a good ministry He had great difficulty in seeing how the public business could be conducted, if the present ministry were to resign--a general election might make a difference; but at present he could not see his way. His opposition was, therefore, not dictated by a desire to eject them, but simply, because’ they had acted wrongly, corruptly, unjustly and despotically. The fact was, he expected very’little from the present House of Assembly; his opinion of members was very low-~‘ as the Americans say, I have a very mean opinion of this House.’”

The Islander quotes Mr. Merritt-~“.one of the most honest and trusted of the Ministry”--as being an enemy to Responsitile Government, and as to his repre- senting in the St. Catherine’s Journal that Canada has suffered from the adoption of the Responsible. System. We know nothing of the St. Catherine’s Journal--we know not whether it is owned by Mr. Merritt, or whether it is conducted under his auspices; but we hold it to be perfectly absurd that “one of the most honest and trusted of the Ministry” should lend himself to the service of Iris adversaries and those of his col- leagues—-that he should represent as detrimental tp the state that very forrn of Government which he is bound

by honour and by interest to uphold. The thing is too preposterous for belief. We must, therefore, regard the Islander’s statement respecting this gentleman-and the St. Catherine’s Journal, as being entirely unfound- ed, based upon premises far fetched and untenable as any of those extra‘vagant notions on which Mr. Maclean founds his assumptions regarding our own political movements. The speeches attributed to Mr. Merritt in Parliament afford the very best light to his senti- ments. In none .of those speeches is he reported as having admitted the “ mismanagement of the Responsi- bles,’—such admission would establish. his ewn un- worthiness of the important office he fills, and involve his immediate resignation or dismissal. On the con- trary, we find Mr. Merritt giving the most: effective support to the ministry by his speeches. and his votes, praising Lord Elgin, under whom that Ministry hold their places, as ‘* the first constitutional governor that

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Canada ever haJd”—describing the Indemnity Bill, which is the chief’ subject of complaint with the Opposi- tion, as “a measure which effected a great deal of good,” for “it had shewn: to the people of Canada that they pos- sessed the power: of se!f-government.” Add to this, that Mr. Merritt, on no cecasion, alluded in Parliament to the alleged increase of duties—that not one of the most rabid of the Opposition alluded to it—that if such increase had been made and felt as a grievance, springing exclusively from the peculiar form of Govern- ment now in Operation, it would have been readily handled by Sw Allan M‘Nab, Mr. Papineav, Mr. Bolton, or any other member of the Opposition—that inthe whole of the debates it is never once mention- ed. Add further, that if Mr. Merrit was the traitor. to his colleagues, which he is unjustly described by Mr. Maclean, itis impossible to suppose, with the nid of the most incredible stretch of credibility, that he would be treated with thatmarked courtesy and respect by the heads of the Administration, Messrs. Lafontaine and Baldwin, with which he is so frequently favoured. Duncan Maclean may write till he turns as black in the face as the paper he soils by his nonsense, but he will never convince any intelligent reader that the ro-

from a ridiculously false, position in which we: lately proved him to be placed, respecting the salary of that functionary. {t will be zemembered that Mr. Maclean accused Mr. Rae, of last year increasing the Secretary's salary from £200 to £450. We established the utter

absurdity of this accusation, shewing that the Colonial Secretary, who united in his own person the offices of Registrar and Clerk of the Executive Council, received £625. Dunean, fancying he can thereby make his falsehood appear somewhat plausible, quotes the law which fixes the Salary of the Secretary, Registrar and Clerk of the Council at four hundred per annum—says that under this law if was intended that £200 of the £400 should go tothe Registrar, and the other £200 to the Secretary (when the same individual held the two offices) the law expressing no such intention,—and that the Salary of £150 sterling, paid by the Imperial Govern- ment, was intended as a provisien for the Clerkship of the Executive Councii,. when it is notorious that the duties of that office were discharged by deputy for about ten pounds a year! Really, key must ima- gine that that small portion of the public who read the Islander to be very gullible people, else he would not impose such trash upon their notice as his last editorial in reference to this subject consists of.

Under the new Civil List Bill, which, we presume, must shortly come into operation, and bring Responsi- ble Government with it, £450. areWllowed to the Celo- nial Secretary, who is bound to discharge the duties of Road Correspondent; and the labours of these two offi- ces united will be infinitely more arduous than the du- ties appertaining to the employments for which, under the old System, the Secretary received £625.

An insinuation is contained in the Jast paragraph of the editorial now under consideration, to the effect, that a “clamour” has been made against the practice of the Private Secretary retaining “legal” fees. The insinu- ation is false. It was not known that there was any such officer as Private Secretary since the establish- ment of the Secretary’s salary by Statute, and the re- tention of fees by that officer, since then, was justly complained of as being without the sanction of law. The discontinuance of the practice complained of, is the best answer to the insinuation,

LATER FROM EUROPE,

Tue Steamer Rose, bringing the English, Colonial, and American Mails, arrived at about the usual hour op Sunday evening last. The English Mail reached Hali- fax on Friday morning, in the Steamship €ambria, having been 12} days on the passage, the longest period any of the Cunard line has yet taken to cross the At- lantic. Latest dates are to the 8th instant, from which we glean and subjoin the most interesting items.

‘LIVERPOOE, June 8.

The week is almost newsless, Parliament is without any exciting topic: and we may be sure that politics are not raging very violently when we find the Premier, upon a public meeting platform, interpesing to prevent the Earl of Harrowby and Mr. G. W. Reyaolds having a fght—the nobleman and the novelist. of unpleasant fame disagreeing as to the “welfare of the lebouring classes.” It is one of the mysteries of London how Lord John got to such a meeting,

Events are stationary abroad. The new Electora! Bill having been promulgated as the law, henceforth, of France, and the democrats having determined to bide their time, the President has taken the next step towards his own destruction, and appealed to the subservient Assembly to grant him an inerease of salary. Louis Napoleon is terribly in debt, and he is in hopes that France, which is so proud of his great name, may refuse

vince of Canada is going to ruin through the aGoption af Responsible. Goyernment. when its revenue has heen fotnd te increase, smone cuscter, £50,000 over the!

to let hits bills, ye dishonored. But there has been some- thing so enti-keroic im fis Craving fur each, that ther

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