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e 4) ; eS ORR I yn eam rep ert eto eee giere than the land mail carriers should be provided with caraces -..

Hoo. COL. SECRETARY said, if any information wag re- ed ty hon. members, unacquanned with! fucts of the case, 1).vies’ Report would s ipply the deficieney., i

i House then divided upon Mr. Muirhead’s motien to re- fer th petition to supply: ’ .

Ayrs Messrs, Muirhead, Clark, Pone, HTH. Hav land, MaecG:l, Hons. Col. Secretary, Cel. Tr asurer, Longworth and Montgomery —9, : a

Nat 3— Messrs, Laird, Metnatosh, Cooper, Yeo, Munro, Perry, Dingwell, McDonald, Hons. Meesrs. Mooney and

W ight vwan— 10.

And so the motion was lost.

‘The petition of Charles Blampied was then taken up, asc, after & short discussion, was, on motion of tlon. Mr. Mooney, rej rected

Ube petition of Peter Landrigan was taken up, whereupon a the petition

and Messrs.

ensued, ‘The prayer of Hon. Mr. Wightman, ald and Yeo. Mr. Wightman said the petitioner had twithan accident by fire in Decenber last, by which he tall he had in the world except one horse, and only prayed

considerable discussion

was warmly advocated by

use to grant him encagh to purchase seed te put in his |

— % ’ nh n ’ oF Leta ‘ a crop te ensuing spring. Hon. Mr. Mooney suggt ate d that he vlied out of the pauper money, and moved the petition

be su

be referred to the members for the district. Hon. Mr. Wight-|

man, ‘aid he would sooner withdraw the petition than Co that, |

13 he did not consider hima pauper, but a man reduced by | isforwine. Mr. Muirhead moved as amendment that tie |

orayé et the petition be rejected, upon which motion the

House divided :—

Ayvs—Messrs. Muirhead, Clark, Laird, MacGill, Cooper, Munro, Dingwell, H. Haviland, Hons. Col. Secretary, Col. ssurer, Mooney, Momgomery and Longworti:—13. Nays—lHons. J. Wightman, Messrs. McDonald and Yeo—3 And the prayer of the petition was rejected, , 4 petition of Angus McInnis (similar to the one just disposed s referred to the members for the District.

of), w i ‘I'he two leiters of Joseph Robinson, regarding the Revenue F +r yor a ke Y Service, and the reports of Preventive Officers, were taken up

referred to the House in Commitiee of Ways and Means. he Hon. Col. Secretary, from the committee to whom was d the petition of inhabitants of Cascumpec and vicinity e to the erection of a Court House and Lock-up, submitted a report favorable to the prayer of the said petition, and moved : After a siert discussion the House divided: on

yption. tion.

Ayes—Honsa, Col. Treasurer, Mooney, Longworth, Meesrs. Perry, Muirhead, Clark and Yeo--7.

Na vs—Hions. Col. Secretary, Montgomery, Whelan, Messrs. MacGill, Cooper, McIntosh, Laird, Dingwell, MacDonald and i. Havijand—10.

So the report was rejected. : Un motion of Mr. ti. Haviland, the order of the day for considering the petitions relative to the use of the Holy Scrip ures in the Normal Schoo! and Central Academy, as also

the peuution praying for a grant to St. Dunstan’s College, was discharged, and made the order of the day for to-morrow. © ’ . . 7. ‘ > Ad) ourned for ove hour. ‘T. Kinway, Reporter.

Che Exraniner.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.1., JUNE 14, 1858.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SECOND DISTRICT OF KING’S COUNTY.

Grvrieyven,—I have lately read in the Monttor—the organ of |

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the Political Alliance—an address to you from the pen of Dr.

Jardine (of unusual length for him), so full of falsehood and

| trict

: 4s oaving /nual reports were generally given, and petitions praying

ae a Jaeliame he resolution guaranteeing the ‘introducing to Parliament th gut g

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facts and inferences, and 1 can make extracts from the esa nals of the Assembly ag well as he, and ean show that he 18} wrong. The main object of bis address is, to show that there | n less money laid out in the St. Peter's end of the dis- |

. “ -s | : ‘ re than in the Grand River end of it. I admit that the

has he

haye been a few pounds more expended annually in the southern ‘ ‘ .cossityv end than in the northern; but the demand and the necessity |

lina i : ee - Jardine in the former were groater than in the latter. Dr. Jaraine |

‘cannot show that I ever rejected any application for road

money to be laid out in the St. Peter’s section of the district. Whatever sums the Road Commissioners asked for in their an- aid for bye roads have been invariably responded to in the most favourable munner. Perhaps, ina few unimportant instances, slight reductions have been made in the amounts asked for by | the Commissioners ; but the demands of the Commissioners 4 the southern end have been treated in precisely the same way. | I have done my best to appropriate the road money at my die-| posal in the fuirest manner, and to comply as far as possible | Now, there were four |

with applications from every quarter.

road districts in the electoral district under the charge of Mr.

Dingwell and myself. The first, under the comiissionership | of Mr. Alleyne, commences at the County line, near St. An-} drew’s, and extends to the west of Morell river, embracing

For the last two or three years Mr. Alleyne’s |

reports have been silent in reference to grants of money for i

three townships. nearly all the bye roads, and he has stated to me that the

Statute labour was quite sufficient to keep them in Yepair.

However, I thought there might be some complaint about the | smallness of the whole sum granted for this road district, and | we continued to appropriate, as usual, sums varying from £2 | to £7 on the bye roads, making the whole amount to be laid out in the district about double what was asked for by the Commissioner. Last year, if I am not much mistaken, the whole amount asked for by this Commissioner was about £60, and Mr. Dingwell and myself voted £149, granting the prayers of all the petitions that were sent to us. If, therefore, there has been any want of public money for roads, bridges and wharfs, in the first road district of the County, the fault has not been ours. The Commissioner who did not represent such want in his returns, and the people who did not make the 1ecessary applications, are themselves to blame.

The second road district embraces Townships Nos. 39, 40 and 41; and the third road district, (which is designated No. 6 in the County), embraces Townships Nos. 55 and 56. In the former district, no new roads have been opened, or re- quired to be opened, for several years past; while the bridges and wharfs haye been in tolerably good repair. This was not the case, however, with road district No. 6, which is the principal one at the southern end of the district, and being that in which Mr. Dingwell resides, is the one which Dr.

Jurdine would fain represent as being unduly favoured. Now,

We cannot, however, pass over one sentence in the review of the Loan Bill, without a remark. th clause of that Bill, the learned editor

Loan. Islander’s Speaking of the 12 : | observes, that it ** is noticeable for the sting, which, like a From this observation it would)

ao aa wasp, it carries in its tail,

‘soem that Mr. Maclean has added a knowledge of Entymology |

tor. The Treasuror and Clerk were then complimented on th

; ; : ; © Correct. ness of their respective accounts; especially when it was known that, in ,

the midst of all the labour of getting the cumbrous machinery of a Corporation into operation, these officers had nut ‘compared notes? from the outset of their duties. This will show that aun the accounts werg not so very unintelligible or confused; and says very little to the credit

‘of the committee to make an assertion of this nature, and lay it down es

truth, when neither of them were members of the City Counce; anything to do with auditing the City books at the time of whi boldly report.

Another portion of the report states that ‘a committee was 2ppointed

1, nor had ch they so

to his other acquisitions, and we can congratulate hira, with | in the month of August last to report on the liabilities of the City, and 0 ‘ . ,

‘‘ himself the great sublime he draws,’’ for, most assuredly,

| wherever his sting may be, wasp as he is, it is not in his head.

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TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.

Parrtes throughout the Island, who are indebted to us for subscriptions to the Evaminer and Royal Gazette, and to whom accounts have been furnished, will please remit by mail, to the address of the proprietor, the amounts of their several

accounts, with the least possible delay. Persons whose ac-

counts extend over three years will no longer be furnished with |

either paper, and legal proceedings will be promptly taken to recover the amounts due from them. Parties desirous of paying at the printing office, in the absence of the proprietor, will receive the necessary discharges from Mr. Joun Wausu, who is the only person authorised in Charlottetown to receive

payments on our account,

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Farewell Address to the Revd. Peter McIntyre from his parishioners at Tignish, with his answer thereto; ‘‘J.K. B.;”’’ ‘« Lycurgus ;’’ and ‘*A Liberal,’’ will severally appear in our next No.

‘‘An Elector’\of the Second District of King’s County will pereive that we have taken the subject of his strictures in hand, and will endeavor to meet the wishes of our correspondent.

To rae Epiror or THE EXAMINER.

Sin,—In a report of the proceedings at a meeting which recently took place at the Ten Mile House, gprs in the Monitor, | am charged with haying abused personally the Revds. Messrs. Fitzgerald and George and Alexander Suther- land. The motive which actuated the writer in penning this misstatement is evident enough—his object and that of his party being the creation of the impression that 1 had attacked Protestant clergymen as such, and thus divert the support of those of their respective congregations from myself and the Liberal candidates at the approaching election. The truth of the matter is, that I did, at the meeting, as I do now, express my regret that Protestant clergymen should employ theniselyes in matters which could only result in the arraying of Protes- tant against Catholic, as had been made manifest in the pages of the Protector. The three gentlemen are of the staff of editors and correspondents of that journal, and have paraded themselves conspicuously before the public in connection with it. lexpressed my regret that the pastor of my own Church should Gaye adepied a course which | so strongly disa proved of, and I trusted that Liberals of all creeds and denominations would discountenance the introduction of clerical agitation in

in this road district several new lines of road, earnestly petitioned for, and much required, haye been lately opened ; while a large outlay was occasioned by the extension of the Grand River wharf. And after all, the following statement,

by.

misre presentation as to require some reply. I know the Doc- tor s» well, and I have long since measured the extent of hie} . * . . . ° « y. i. influcnce amongst you, as to believe that it is not in Ais power to create an impression on your minds unfavourable to me. 2 4

that am pot willing to let him take shelter under that subterfuge. I can very well understand why his letter breathes such in-

In 1846, when I was first elected, T

tense enmity towards me. I use! my best exertions to get him returned with myself. Die put

had not much confidence in himthen. Neither had you.

‘ xts were at that time made, as they are now, to create

as cf

ctariag animosities in the District, and to destroy its peace and harmony by setting Catholics and Protestants in open hos- tility, L thought that the best way to keep them united would be for the District to return one Protestant and one Catholic. As Dr. Jardine resided in nearly the midst of the constituency, and migg% be taken as a fair exponent of the Protestant in-

terest, L urged my Catholie friends at St. Peter’s to vote for

him, which they did—much against their will. He was a tolerably consistent supporter of the Liberal party from the election. in 1846 to that of 1854—more, I believe, from neees- sity than choice; and he had hia reward in dividing between himself and his family connexions a good deal of the local patronage. During those years we had several elections, and ispent many days and nights in travelling through the dis-

him

trict, canvassing for as well as for myself, spending my money’ freely, whilst he enseouced himself in his chimney-cor- ner, or hid himself behind a bush in his orchard, and counted the pennies he did not spend. In the new House of 1854, there was a majority for the Torics. Low it was gained we all know.

The Speakership was offered to the Doctor. His political The bait

He rejected the advice, and

friends and associates advised him not to take it. was, however, too tempting. ewallowed it. From that time the partnership between him He had sold himself to the Tories, and his price was thirty pounds.

and the Libera] party was dissolved.

In the summer of 1854 the Tory House was scattered to the four winds of hexven, and Dr. Jardine, knowing that he had ferfeited the esteem and confidence of the Liberals, did not presume to offer

hiniself for re-election. Now, because his political treachery

was not overlooked and forgiven—beeause he was regarded as

a huse deserter from the Liberal ranks«-heeause, raving done hundred and ninety-nine good not feel justified in completing the thousand, he turns round, snips, and snarls, and attempts to bite me; but he will find that I can afford to treat his yelping with, indifference, and that after the next clection, as wel! as the last, he will be left to -yowl and grovel in his kennel.

During the last month I held seven public meetings in your - own house, but he had not the courage to mect me at any one

of them. If he wanted to assail my publie conduct, that was

the time for him to do it; but if he thinks that his scrihbling for the Monitor is likely to damage me in your estimation, he

my

will find himself sadly mistaken. Thank Heaven, the Monitor i3 not the only paper in the Colony, and thore are other hands that cen wield a pey as readily as his.

/'r. Jardine charges me and my late colleague with haying no, ‘eeted your local interests, or rather with having done more for the southern section of the district than for the northern.

Te save thet since } ‘ae tne so ' ae He says that since he was turned out of the House we haye

ivorn £452 -Ge Ga mm + c ‘2 Giv om £493 “Gs. Od. more for roads, bridges and wharfs on the sui thern side than we did on the nerthern’side. Even if we

hat done so, we can justify our yotes. But his firures are not reet. A man, if sa inclined. ean falsif ures as well as

turns for him, I did!

~ district, one of them was within a gun-shot of the Doctor’s|

the Journal of the Ilouse of Assembly, will

extsacted from show, that the Bay Fortune road district has not received a very Cnormous-sum above that which has been voted for the

oe ee es : a ee eke. | St. Peter's district, during the four sessions Mr. Dingwell has

1 Bat if I did not notice his address, he might be induced to say! been in the House with myself, . + . a: | could not answer it, and unworthy of notice as he is, [|

1855—St. Peter's R'd Bay Fortune R’d

District, £22910 0 District, £209 611 1856 do. 223 5 0 do. 29119 © 1857 do. 94215 5 do. 27619 0 1858 do 67 10 0 do. 922 19 4

£863 0 5 Balance in favor of Bay Fortune Dist., 128 3 10

£1001 4 83 £1001 4 3

Now, I think that Dr. Jardine, or any one else, has very

road money experded on the two principal road districts, north and south, is only £138 3s. 10d., in a period of four years, which difference is in fayour of the latter.

Dr. Jardine refers to the past and present state of the public printing,as well as to matters personal to himself in connection with which I am accused of having done him ar injury. I have not time now to enter on a review of these matters, but will direct my attention to them next week. Meanwhile, I pledge myself te prove that there is scarcely one correct or truthful statement in any part of his address to you.

I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, . EDWARD WHELAN.

Charlottecown, June 12, 1858.

THE LOAN BILL. Tux leading article in the last Js/ender in reference to the £100,000 Loan, contains the most false, malicious and absurd stuteracnts we haye ever read even in the columns of that hireling and unserupulous print, The article purports to be a sketch of the provisions of the Bill, which ere this has been ratified by Imperial legislation, but it is nothing more nor lless than a farrago of the most impudent assumptions and wildest suppositions that the baffled spite of the Tories at the success of this measure could suggest to the pliant and mercenary pen of their literary hack. The object of that party ever has been to keep the tenantry of this country in ab- ject poverty and subjection to the proprietary faction, because it was supposed that their yotes could be thereby more casily secured at elections for the minions of that faction. Many of them pretend to favour escheat because they believe that continued ugitation the most effectual means of nullifying the Land

question to be now an impracticable one, and its

Purchase Bill. In former years, when escheat wes possible, the very mention of the thing provoked their bitterest enmity against its advocates. But their dissimulation and inconsistency are too apparent to impose upon any considerable number of The Land Purchase

the intelligent people of this Colony,

Bill, to which the Loan Bill is a necessary auxiliary, is

| regarded by a large majority of the people of this country as the \only remedy for the existing distress and discontent of the tenantry of the Island, as we have no doubt will be clearly proved by the result of the elections on the 24th inst. We deem it unnecessary, therefore, to offewany lengthened notice of the Js/ander’s misrepresentations of the latter measure.

{ la \ a serious refutation of them would be an insult to the good isense and intelligence of our readers. ' | Purpose, and suflicient justification of our party, to refer to

;the generous and statesmanlike 3;

Y +

; | Many of its falsehoods are so gross and so apparent, that ; ' ’

It is enough for our

ecch of Lord Stanley,

little to complain of, when the difference in the amount of

general revenue, to the debt of the Colony, and to the cost of

ty te "m2 } . - e ’ a 2 in‘ This the chairman well knew, as he hag since acted as an ucsistant audi-

| political matters, with which Ministers of the Gospel should

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interfere.

I did not name the gentlemen until called on by one of Mr. Longworth’s supporters todo so. I complied with his request ; and not being in the babit of concealing my meaning, gave him the names I have mentioned. Yours, &c.,

Charlottetown, June 14, 1858. G. COLES.

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To THE Epiror or THE ExamINer.

Sir,—The last Islander contains what purports to be a communication, to the effect that I had sold to the Agricul- tural Society, as thorough-bred, stock which did not merit that designation; and that, inasmuch as a few cattle pur- chased at private sale did not realize at public auction, when a large number were offered to competition, the amount origin- ally paid for them, the original vendor should be called upon to pay the difference. The cattle I sold were purchased by competent judges, and no persuasion was used by me, or re- quisite to be used, to induce the Society to give me the price I asked. Perhaps the correspondent of the Islander will favor us with a statement of the animals which, at the sale, re- alized theamount paid for them.

I may state, that one heifer purchased from me was admitted to be the best milker on the farm.

I may further state, that the dams of the stock which I sold to the Societyjall took the first prizes at our Cattle Shows ; and that the strain of mixed blood in the great-grand-dam was derived through one of the best milkers on the Island ; and of this fact the Society was well aware. The writer in the Islander may console hinself with the reflection, that I never forged a certificate of the chayacter or qualities of any cattle L ever owned ; and as to his pious horror of cross breeds, it is so smaii Leer an affair, that 1 wonder at his referring to it.

Yours, &e.

Charlottetown, June 14, 1858. G. COLES.

P.S. I have omitted to mention aboye, that a butcher in Charlottctown offered me five pounds more than I received from the Society for one of the cattle sold to them. G.C.

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CITY ACCOUNTS. To rue Eprror or tae Examiver.

Sir,—The last number of the Monitor contains a report by the Com- mittee (consisting of Councillors Morrison and D. Davies—the former as chairman) ‘ appointed to examine and balance the City Books,’ which I cannot let pass without making some remarks upon. Not because I fear any evil results to my reputation, while living, from the limited circula- tion of that periodical, or from a very large and intelligent majority of iny fellow-citizens; but because there is a fraction of this community whose natural bias is to vilify almost every individual but their,‘ noble selves,’ and these might point the finger of scorn at my family in days to come, if the said report were to pass unnoticed by me: especially when it is well known that I am in almost daily contact not only with the members of the said committee, but with the whole City Council. Therefore, I beg a small portion of space in your columns.

The report represents that ‘ the books of the City were in a very im- perfect and unsatisfactory condition. Many of the accounts had not been kept in a sufficiently clear, distinct and intelligible manner; and had your committee foreseen the time and labour they have had, owing solely to this circumstance, to bestow in the performance of their duty, they

ould have condemned the day-book and ledger, and have opened an entirely new set of books. Had they done this in the first instance, they would in all probability have been enabled to present their report ata | much earlier day.’ Now, this is not all fact, and truths which should have been inserted in the report are suppressed. The committee—and especially the chairman, who appears to possess an itch for notoriety— forced themselves into this job, and if they did not foresee they would have labour with it, it was their own fault. They have been in office since August last; could have continual access to the books, and should have made themselves perfectly acquainted with their work before push- ing themselves into it. fully posted up in the ledger, it is no proof of the bold charge made that | they were not ‘clear, distinct and intelligible;’ and the very matter | which was at hand to make them clear, distinct and intelligible, was ten- dered to the committee in the very outset of their work, and was spurned | by the chairman, but which, after more than two months unnecessary | floundering and delay, he was very glad to take hold and make use of,

otherwise the accounts would not have been balanced yet. No reference is nade to this fact, nor to the fact that one of the committee was for a time from town, then sick; and that electioneering and other business | was attended to by them, which must have caused much delay. There- fore, it is clear that it was not owing solely to this pretended ‘ cireum- ; Stance ” that the report was not earlier brought forth; but was chiefly | owing te the assumed independence and self-conceit, or something worse, | of the chairman. Not satisfied with working themselves into a thank- | less commission, the committee obtained the power to emply a ‘ compe- | tent accountant’ to perform a job that any school-boy in the rudiments | of book-keeping could have done. This is an item which the City | Treasurer will have acall on the funds for, but which has not been | noted in the report. Nor is there any reference whateyer made therein | to the errors committed by this ‘competent accountant’ while copying

the day-book, which very materially tended to make the accounts much |

| less ‘clear, distinct and intelligible.’ | with the truth?

; ‘Lhe report intimates that the cause of the City accounts not being audited at the commencement of the Corporation, was owing to the books | Containing said accounts having been in so imperfect a state. {not the fact. i held of jhe books, If they designed going into the Clerk’s accounts as weli as the Treasurer’s? their reply was, ‘ They did not deem it a part )of their duty.” Aud their successors have followed in the same track.

Why did not the committee out

: : : | those liabilities were set dcwn in their report at £909 2s, 244 reference to his comparison, on his being, to a certain extent, |

Besides, although some of the accounts were not |

. " -——8S near an approximation thereto as could be arrived at iu consequence of the

imperfect and confused state of the books at that time.’ Now, however. the wonderful discovery bis been made, ‘that then the debt was fully £900.’ Facts are not stated here either, as the chairman of that com. mittee and the report itself willtestify. I was requested to make a estimate of the debts of the City, and did so, whereupon the committee founded their report; and if the present committee, in their published report, had acted as honorably as they ought to have done, they would have added that the said rough estimate and their present report came ‘within a very smail amount of each other,* which was confessed in m hearing before the report was drawn up, but it has not been noted in it. If they had made this admission, which [ contend they should, it would have spoken volumes against the charge set up about the accounts not being ‘ clear, distinct and intelligibie.’” They were sufficiently clear, dig. tinct and intelligible to me, when, at a rough estimate, made in less

an hour, I came within £10 of a polished report, which has been three months in concoction. But when persons are determined not to see things in a proper light, everything is jaundiced. Now, I defy the most erudite book-keeper in Prinee Edward Island to go through the immenag amount of diversified labour, which ean easily be proved on reference tg the records of the City and to the living witnesses belonging to the Cor. poration, that I have performed during two and a half years to the 6th January last, and at the same time to have the City accounts ke in such ‘apple-pie order’ as a shop-keeper who has nothing else to do but attend his customers, when he has any, scrape his nails and burse hig books; and particularly when one batch of accountants recommend one way to kee» City accounts, another batch a directly opposite course, ond a third an almost distinct mode from either of the others. Who, then, was to decide on the proper course? :

Another wonderful discovery has been made by the committee, * that £261 4s. 6d., in two and a half years, had not been handed to the Trea. surer, but was disbursed by the City Clerk.’ This is laid down in such a way in the report, that at first sight it appears, as bas been stated to me since its publication, as if this sum had never been accounted for at all in the books. Now, the committee knew better thun this, but had not the common honesty to state that the City Council at different times, ° through its chairman, the Mayor, had authorised the payment of penny of that sum by the Clerk; that it has all been accounted for; that he can produce vouchers for its disbursement from three-pence upwards; that much of this amount was paid before the Treasurer had well into harness, or had any great sum of money in his possession, and 5 fore the City machinery had got into working order;. and, further, that very much of it was paid in small sums as fees to witnesses, extra con- stables, the jailor, &e., which, virtually speaking,¢he Treasurer had no business with individually—all which the committee well knew, but hag suppressed, from no good motive, in their great report.

it is well known that very many persons, who have done more business than ever the committee have, could not keep a written account, and many of them had only substitutes for articles and figures. This, to the eye and taste of philosophical accountants, would be deemed unique, if not derogatory to the science of book-keeping; yet these illiterate men’s accounts could not be justly said to be indistinct and unintelligible; neither can the City accounts be justly branded as they have been, as have already shown, and as the commitiee’s own statement goes to prove, viz; that in the diversified accounts, amounting to nearly £6000, the paltry error of 223 4d was all that could be seared up, after three months? hard labour to show greater errors, as was confidently reported, in the elevtioneering tours, would be the result of this committee’s scientific and strict investigation! Here, again, the committee have shown a want of common honesty in not stating that the cause of this apparent error was pointed out and offered to be rectified, without any trouble ® them, but which was spurned; and that, therefore, no error whatever virtually exists in the accounts, which have so often been stigmatized, in their report, as not being ‘clear, distinct and intelligible,’ and as ‘ being im. perfect and unsatisfactory!’

At this late hour, it comes with a very bad grace from the committee to attempt a stigma on the character of their predecessors, and on that of their fellow-councillors, as they had it in their power when the Cor ration first came into being to aid the councillors, auditors and the clerk with their scientific knowledge of City ovok-keeping and of the law. They knew all the parties composing the body corporate; they knew their qualifications as accountants; they also knew that all concerned with the Corporation were green hacds at their respective duties; and they, as citizons, knew too that once in each month they were fully authorised by the Act of Incorporation, and that it was their bounden duty as assessment payers, to inspect the City books, from 10 o’clock in the morning till 4 o’clock in the afternoon; aad if they possessed but a tithe of the interest in the correctness of the City accounts than that which has sinee been professed, especially by the chairman, they would long since have enlightened the council or the clerk with their philo- sophical knowledge of book-keeping, and then if no improvement through their tuition was perceptible, it would have been right to have found fault.

Now, the whole truth with respect to this wonderful affair can be ina nut-shell. The chairman of the committee, soon after filling a chae at the Council Bourd, discovered, as he thought, an error in the minutes of the City Council, about his aspiring to be a common councilman, and boldly charged the clerk with having made a false entry therein; and after sweliing pretty large and making considerabte fuss about it, he obtained a committee to investigate into the criminality of the clerk's conduct, as professed, but ostensibly to beat others—whom he dared not face openly—over the clerk’s back! This is the kernel of the whole matter. However, finding the committee were fully persuaded, the clerk was right and this Chairman was wrong, his charge died a natural death, Pailing, therefore, in this instance, and treo to his nature of fault-finding, he wriggled himself into investig he City accounts, assured, as he

reported, that large sums of mone teficiont when the accounts

came to be closed; and he had the assurance to tell me to my face that the committee dreaded making owt the balecco choct more than all their other work, not from the accounts being incomprehensible and incorrect,

main strength and stupidity, te

but from sheer determination, thro:

2ake errors where none e

if Foiting in this too, and having wile fally refused, in the f£ tb ¢

less task, what would have i

made the accounts ‘ suMicic slonr, distinct and intelligible,’ to any other man, I detormine! that be should waddle through them to bis heart’s content; and whea Mr. Davies got heartily sick of hig billet, and several times threatened to give it up, and I bad wasted sufficient time with their nonsense, having to attend ¢his committee day and night,

independent of my regular work, because 1 would not trust them with the books out of wy sight, I re-produced what enlightened the chairman's benighted understanding, and obliged him, in spite of himself, to yield

to the fact, that not one shilling of the City funds is deficient!! Finding, therefore, that he could not seare up any large error, and being bound to make some show that his prophetic skill was not a total failure, 22s 4d was placed in the municipality accounts as ‘errors in the City ledger,’ whercas it should be errors in the committee! I saw where the error made by the committee was, and pointed it out to them, but the reply was, ‘out of so large a sum as nearly £6000, that 22s 4d was not worth noticing;’ but it now appears worth noticing, otherwise the committee would not have crowded it into their report. However, their reporting it tu be an error, when they would not correct it, is no proof that it isan error on my part; but, on the other hand, goes to prove, to the satisfac- tion of the unprejudiced, that the accounts, as far as I am concerned with them, are strictly correct. This is what the citizens generally like to know; they are not anxious as to the scientific style of keeping accounts, but they require, and are entitled to know that their taxes are honestly expended, and this is what they have at my hands, as they are fully invited to come and examine; and if the chairman had done me justice, he would have expressed publicly what he privately confessed, viz: ‘ that. my accounts were honestly, but to his taste not scientifically, kept!’ Why was not this placed in the report? All sources, therefore, on which te build up actual errors being completely demolished, it would be deroga- tory to the financial prophet to get up a report without noting some faule —clinging to the ruling passion even in death,—and hence the lame cock and bull story, hatched and subscribed to by this honest (2) committee, of the accounts not being ‘sufficiently clear, distinct and intelligible,

which the accounts themselves prove (if proof were wanting) that this is a fallacy, otherwise how would the accounts have turned up as correct as they have done?

In conclusion, I may say that if I at all valued the attempted deroga- tory remarks of the commiitee, I should be inclined to think that it was precious poor gratification for me to endeavour, as I bave dove day night since my appoiutment, to perform the duties of six distinct offices under the Corporation, for the paltry sum of £100 per annum, and thes tobe badgered by any party who may fancy they have authority to do_ so; but it is extremely cheering to me to note the fact, that after the chairman had delivered himself at the Council table of all the bile com tained in the report, and a motion was made fora vote of thanks, and® hint for something more tangible, fur the performance of their arduous duties, the motion was net seconded,—a decided proof that the ae of the Council (which at the time was composed of his Worship the Mayor, Councillors Heartz, Barnard, Bivns, Smith, Morrison, Davies Ducheman), valued my services very much more than they did polished report of the committee, as they did not thank them for it. The Committee have, therefore, an unenviable reward for their iabour.

Your humble ‘servant, WILLIAM B, WELLNER, City Clerk.

Charlottetown, 7th June, 1858.

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To tux Eprror or rae Examiner.

Sir,—A meeting of the electors of the First District of Prinee County took place at Ctristopher’s Cross, Nail Pond, 08 Tuesday the Ist inst. Mr. Joseph Gaudet was appointed chairman, and opened the meeting with a few pertinent remarks, when Mr, Warburton, came forward and addressed the voters at great length. He gave a full exposition of his politice conduct from the time that Mr. Yeo resigned in his favour, who thought that Mr. Warburton would bes staunch supporter

Such is | But when the auditors were asked, prior to their taking”)

of the Tory party, down to the present day; and stated, that he was not ashamed of of sorry for a single vote that be be

given since he wes first returned as a representative of thie District. He instanced many of the truly liberal and beneficia ineasures which the present Goverument had passed since they came Into power ; mentioned and explained the One-Ninth, the Free Education, the Elective Franchise, the Land purchase,

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