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—— | _ yet unexplained cause, retires from office, but retains of their intoxication)—relapsed into their original stea-|he would’nt resign, and when inexorable Death put a ° . . . | y: - } . ° . =e as roe ag +e pooana | sian 'diness and dullness, we may venture to enquire what|period to the administrative responsibilities of Mr. e intrigues of the Cabral party have so tar Preval’ they have gained by the interview which is reporte rec i ed in Portugal as to carry the elections in their favours) 7 ote . aor ew which is reported to) Brecken, the Islander people began to cast their eyes and, therefore, the hopes entertained of a satisfactory | have taken place otween Lord Grey and the Delegates ‘;about, and in great tribulation they discovered, that the adjustment of the intestine divisions in that country,| The date of the interview is the 26th ult.—the nomina-| interests of the Clique were not fully represented at the

seem es far as ever from being realised. tion of Sir Henry’s successor was announced in a | Executive Board, for three gentlemen had been put in- —— elammammencze ee received by the Mail of the 19th ult., which’ to the vacant seats, holding the most perverse antipathies

re Ss; SG AS e S\N + ‘4 166 2.68 ‘ . ° ° } . . BEVEL LYS AA WAS Trae | Despatch must have been written more than a fortnight| to the ascendancy of “the ancient family.” So Big

| before uarl Grey was made acquainted of the important Martin set his wits to work, and remembering with throb- ‘fact, that Messrs. Palmer and Pope had risked the pe-| bing brews that it was at one time popular to call out rils of an Atlantic voyage forthe honor of an hour's for a change in the Councils, adopts that cry which his conversation with him. “ But,” says the Islander in its party long ago condemned as treasonable and rebellious. ‘supplement, “ the interview was the means of procuring Sundry and ludicrous have been the tactics of Mr Monpay last will be a glorious day in the annals of the the immediate departure of Sir Donald Campbell for his! Collard. Whilst he did the Constitutionalist—(and he Compact Party. ‘Their visages had for weeks before Government, and Sir Henry’s relinquishment of Exe-| did it in more points than one)—Responsible Govern- become so wan and worn by fretfulness and despair, as cutive authority.” We do not quote precisely the lan-| ment was taken under his protection; but instead of to render them objects of profound commisseration, yet guage of the Islander, but the editor of that veracious showing any affection for poor Responsible Govern- so sulky and sour was every man of them, that the very print has sought to convey, after a bungling fashion, ment, he pinched and cuffed the bantling, precisely as sky above us wore a drear.er and gloomier aspect, than | the very thing we have here clearly and briefly stated— a bad and tyrannical nurse would treat a helpless child, might be looked for at this dark and gloomy period of that the interview produced a change in the mind of and sensible people at once declared that he was not fit the year. Compelled as we were, in the performance Earl Grey. Every intelligent man knows this to be to have charge of it. Shortly after he was taken into of our editorial duties, to expose, from week to week,! false, and every clear-minded man knows the Islander’s service at the slander office, he made a desperate effort the blunders into which the chief men of the party have disregard for truth. In the Gazette of Tuesday appear- to call up the ghost of Escheat, and gave vent to a lack- been tumbling, we now and then felt inclined to put on ed a Despatch from Earl Grey, re-printed in to-day’s adatsical whine, as a reproach on the apathy with which some sort of decent grief at the mortifications and mis- paper, from which we learn that His Excellency Sir HI. the advocates of Escheat are now supposed to regard the fortunes which their followers and friends have been) V. Huntley asked to be relieved at an earlier period than measure. In this also the “ literary man” failed. Nobo- called upon to endure, when we found them lamentably was at first set apart for the coming of Sir Donald Camp- dy believed him to be sincere; for indeed his sympathies uneqtal to the task; and willingly would we have strug-| bell, as, to quote the words of the Despatch, Sir Henry in reference to Escheat betrayed no marks of sincerity ; gled to suppress the hearty laughter which has so often, was “unequal to encounter the exposure of a journey and since no converts could be made by this manouvre, shaken our sides, and set the whole region of Snatcher-|from Prince Edward Island in the depth of winter;” the Islander became very solemn and taciturn about a dom in a roar, when called upon to witness some funny and in compliance with the Governor’s wish, Lord Grey question which had many a time called forth its spleen and ridiculous manouvre of the party, only that they|replies: “! trust, therefore, that it will be an accommo-|—for none of us have forgotten that the people in whose had plunged from one folly into another with such start-/ dation to you to learn, that in consequence of the diffi- behalf the Islander makes its weekly spluttering, only a ling rapidity, that it was impossible for any one not af-|culty at that season of the year, in crossing the Gulph, few months ago turned pale at the very name of an Es- fected by their dolefi!ness to take sufficient time to sum-|Sir Donald Campbell will relieve you in your Covern-|cheator, and shunned him as they would a mad dog. mon up his compassionate feelings. But Monday “saw) ment towards the close of the present month, it being Then, says Mr. Collard, we shall revive the cry for a another sight”—-the TwENTY-SECOND DAY OF Novem- his intention to leave England by the Steamboat of the reconstruction of the Counci!,—and in giving utterance ger brought the English Mail, and with it, one of the) 19th instant.” Here, then, is the truth of the matter, | to his griefs upon this matter, we give him some credit immortal Delegates—the Cassius of the party ;—the beyond all sophistry and cavil—that the Delegates had for sincerity, and will go so far as to state, that we are “ beggarly account” of friends he had to greet him, and| no influence in the nomination of Sir Donald Campbell, as anxious for a remodelling of the Executive Council the solemn silence in which be was received, notwith-| is an indisputable fact—that their interview with Earl | as he is, because there are some gentlemen in that Bo- standing some of their opponents daring them to cheer, Grey did not in the least influence the departure of His|dy who have no constitutional right to be there, inas- —must be attributed to the melancholy and distrust) Excellency, is clearly corroborated by the testimony of much as they have no seats in the Legislature; and if which pervaded the whole party of the faithful up to|the Colonial Secretary himself. they cannot be removed by any other means than a to- that auspicious moment. But when Mr. Palmer unbur-| The Organ of the Delegates is a mean and miserable | tal overthrow of the whole Council, we are ready to give thened his bosom of the wonderful secret which had a tactician. When the Mission has proved to be one of out sanction to its extinction. Let a new batch of lodgment there—when the intelligence was swallowed the most wretched speculations ever undertaken by sane| Councillors be then chosen—but chosen from the party in by the gaping mouths and ears and eyes of the cho-|men, the Islander imagines that the best way to apolo- | who possess the confidence of the People, as indicated sen champions of Compact ascendancy, that the Dele-| gise for the absurdity of the whole proceeding, is to,by the majority of the Assembly, and not from a little gates had actually succeeded in obtaining an interview | promulgate the most extravagant falsehoods. Whoever Circle in Charlottetown, where the parties are remarkable with the Secretary for the Colonies!!! the sluices of may have been instructed to lead the Clique Party in for nothing more than their connection with the Com- their sorrow were immediately closed—and joy, and ex-|the absence of Mr. Pope, we recommend him to take, pact. ultation, and glorification spread like a conflagration,| some steps, to prevent any further discussion by the Is-| rendering them thoroughly wild. Mr. Nelson’s blood-|Jander on the subject of the Mission. Mr. Collard has! The great saayant of English news, and the valuable red flag floated triumphantly in the breeze, and Mr.| brought his party—(we mean the gentlemen who sup- comments ofa portion of the British Press, on some of Gates’s pisto] was heard to make no Jess than three | port the Delegation)—into so many false, ridiculous, and the passing events of the Old World, inserted in this thundering, stunning reports! An interview with Lord! pitiable positions, by his attempts to throw dust in the week’s Examiner—have obliged us to omit several edi- Grey! the fact was not to be sneezed at! Everybody! eyes of the public, that truly and sincerely we feel sur- torial articles intended for to-day. of the true mettle declared it should be announced and | prised at their want of penetration. Could they see anj The wonderful display made by two of the Delegates, honoured in all possible ways~-and Snatchers were eXx-| inch beyond their noses, they could not long be ignorent |! Liverpool, before . Concert Party alledged to have pected to hide their diminished heads, and speak of the of the fact that Mr. Collard’s scribblings only make! been given in that City, has not escaped our observa- astounding fact only in terms the most reverential. | their follies and mistakes the more apparent and unpar- | Hon. Although many funny things have been done by Those worthy conservators of Compact rights—the donable. Their ignorance, or infatuation, or whatever the Delegates,—(and we have had our own share of Committee of Correspondence—might be seen at the else it may be, is, however, no concern of ours ; the laughter at their expense)-—we scarcely expected to find corners of the streets, discussing the momentous news, | greatest evil we can do the party against whom we have them implicated in a scheme for “raising the wind.” every man of them carrying an interrogation on the tip to contend, is to hope, that their praises and their slan-| The Islander makes a vast amount of political capital of his nose, which might be translated thus: “ Snatchers !! ders may long continue to be written by—Mister col-jout of some remarkable observations which appeared in

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1047.

“A GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WOOL "—OR, | THE INTERVIEW AND [TS RESULTS.

did you hear the news? we have triumphed! we have lard, late No. of the Halifax Sun. Our friend Dick observes had an interview!” Big Martin was released from his’ “‘ Here break we off at this unhallowed name, greater respect for the motto of his paper than the Printer confinement to “ the bower,” sothat his eloquence might| Like Priests of old when words ill-omened came.” of the Islander. He telis us that the Sun “shines for all :”

be employed on the public thoroughfares in heralding) so it would appear; while the Islander says it is “ influenc- the event ; the types of the Islander office danced in| RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNCIL. edby none,” giving the lie to the assertion every week of their cases, impatient to be set up in supplementary | Amongst the many changes to be effected at the com-|its miserable existence. But somehow or another, the sheet; Mr. Ings himself looked inspired, giving the mencement of Sir Donald Campbell’s career, we were Halifax Juminary has undergone a total eclipse. We flattest contradiction to the scandalous imputation of told by the Islander last week, that the first shall be a’ presume the affair will give rise to a quibble with the imbecility which has been sometimes thrown out against reconstruction of theCouncils,—just as if His Excellen-|astronomers. We don’t pretend to be Jearned in the that accomplished gentleman. Joy twinkled in every cy is to be put into the traces the moment he is sworn| matter, yet we shrewdly suspect that Dick on his return official eye,—and plunging their hands deep into their in, and Messrs. Pope and Collard are to drive him/to Halifax, has been caught in a fog.

breeches’ pockets, many a brave public functionary wheresoever they please. Eighteen months ago, the! . might be heard to utter between his teeth a d——n Islander could not think of remocelling the Councilsa—|} Resprrep.—William Chesswell. who was found against Sir Henry and a benediction for the Delegates. they, (and particularly the Executive), were at that time! guilty of a most brutal crime in the County of Kent, In short, there was no end to the rejoicing which the composed of very handsome materials. Mr. Pope had N, B., and sentenced to be hung on the 2d inst., has re- intelligence of an interview produced ; it was a god- | the credit of being Prime Minister—Mr. Palmer Chan- | ceived a respite from the Peovingial Executive for three send; it was a lighting up of the dying embers of Hope cellor of ihe Exchequer, whilst the late Mr. Brecken! months. in the breasts of the Governor's opponents. was looked upon as Lord President,—so matters went on

Now, as the Compact Party must have by this time tolerably well. But when Mr. Pope was hurled from; Tue Smatu Pox has made its appearance at Wood-

-w-{for four days have passed since the eventful period his high estate—when Mr. Palmer said he would and! stock and Fredericton.

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