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Jast, when the Instrumental Band, in con-

nection with the Sons of ‘Temperance, gave a Concert. Theselection of pieces was highly creditable to the taste of the leader, Mr. Kiely, and were performed with much skill and spirit, A very nu- merous and respectable audience testified

their delight with the performances by

repeated bursts of applause,

‘The sons of Temperance Band repent- ed their Congert on Wednesday evening, to. the unquestionable gratification of the large audience who favoured them with their presence.

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APPOINTMENTS.

{lis Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- nor in Council, has been pleased to au- thorize Henry F. Jarvis, Esq., to act as Health Officer, for the Port or Harbour of Charlottetown, whenever the professional engagements. of Dr. Hobkirk, or causes, shall interfere to prevent him from duly fuldlling the duties of that office.

His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover- nor las been pleased to direct the names of the following gentlemen to be inserted in the Commission of the Peace:—

Qveen’s Coanty. Charles Dempsey, Charlottetown.

lienry Llaszard, do. Wiilhamn M-Guill, do, Patrick Walker, do,

William Bagnall, Lot 32. Alexander Dixon, Lot 67. Robert Mooney, M. P. P., Flinty Glen. James Robinson, Lot 34, St. Peter’s Road. John M‘Pougald, Orwell. Peter MitGowan, Charlottetown. ifenry Stamper, co. King’s County. Daniel Flynn, M. P. P., Bay Fortune. Ponald Beaton, M. P. P., Hast Point. Jobo Mtionald, Big Spring. GC. Birch Bagster, removed from Queen’s Coutity. James M‘Donald, M.P. P., Georgetown. Hienry.Gordon, Brudene}l Rive. J. E,W. Alleyne, Lot 38. Jingh M‘Lean, St. Peter’s Bay. Jobn M‘ Donald, Lot 38. Mnianvel MtKachern, Senth Lake. John &. M*Donald, Lot 56. Prince County. \Villiam Clark, M.P. P., Darnley. James Craswell, Port Hill. Miisha Hooper, Dedeque. William Jamieson, Lot 39. Angus M‘Donald, Bedeque. Joha M:‘Kinnon Lot Io. Ponald M*Lelian, (Archibald’s son.) Lot 18. James Muirhead, Travellers Rest. James Ilillison, sen.. Wilmot Creek.

Allan Fraser, Esq. M. Po P. was .ap- nointed to the ofice of Collector of Iimpast for the District of Charlottetown, ot Thursday last, aud entered on the duties of the said office on the following morn- ine.

Commissioners of Roads were appoint- ed atthe same time, in conformity with tia Act passed daring the Jate Session. Many of the old Commissionets were continned. We shall-give the names wheo they are Gazetted.

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LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS DURING . TRS LAST FOUR DAYS OF THE SESSION.

Dwrine the last four days of the session, the Ionse of Assembly. were intently en- paged in bringing to a close their. pro. ceedings in reference to such tatters ar had been for some time under their con- sideration. Amongst the most important

ofthese matters were the Additional Land

Assessment Bill and the.Fenants’ Rights iu. The former of these measures .was

passed. by the House of Assembly on,

‘; uesday. last, and sent to the Legislative Cuuncil, whers ite further consideration

was deferred until next year, in conse- quence of the lateness of the session.— On Monday the 13th instant, the other, the Tenants’ Rights Bill was read a se- cond time, committed ts a Committee of the whole House and agreed to therein. When the House resumed, on motion of the Hon. Mr. Coles, the Bill was ordered to be printed for the information of the public, and its further consideration de- ferred until next session, ‘I'o the adop- tion of this course the friends of the measure were induced by the considera- tion of the determined opposition with which the expected Bill would be en- countered, should they attempt to have it passed into law this session. ‘The at- tainment of an object, however justly de- sirable, may sometimes be pursued with an unwise and damaging perseverance ; and success is not infrequently secured by prudent delay. The Tenant’s Rights Bill, with reference both to the newly ac- quired power of its advocates, and the recent overthrow of its opponents, affords

an instance strikingly illustrative of. the

truth of this observation. As in the principle of the Bill, the faithfn! support- ers of old misrule and proprietary exemp- tion fromm cirect taxation, pretend to. re- cognize, however absurdly, a direct in- fraction of the non-interference policy enjoined. upon the Legislature of. this colony by the Home Government, with respect to. the Proprietors and their. Te- nants; and as further perseverance just now towards the attainment of the mea- sure, would merely afford the Proprietors: their Agents, and the lately discomfited friends of old Misrule here at home amongst us, a specious. pretext for be- sieging the Office of the Colonial Minis- ter, and waylaying the Government in Britain, fur the purpose of preferring their remoustrances or complaints against the roya! concessions lately made to this co- leony, on the ground—ground false enough we know—that the first act of the majo- rity of ibe Representatives of the People wis a complete verification of all they had predicted relative to the insecurity of property end its rights under the Respon- sible system; it lias been prudently de- termined to keep the question in abey-

nee until the next Session of the Leygis- lature, before which time, we hope, calin and deliberate enquiry, coupled with an observation of the prudent, even, an@ equitable proceedings of our new. Govern- ment, will have to!d so favourably for the interests of the tenant population, and of the people of this colony in general, that it will be altogether in vain for the proprietary or any other faction, any longer to endeavour to throw discredit upon, or circumvent the views and mea- sures of the Assembly, either for a con- stitutional extension of Tenant’s Rights, an equalization of puodlic burthens, or any other just, though too long delayed consideration of the mghis of the many, as opposed to the too long, because un- fairly and exclusively enjoyed advantages of the few.

A Report of the Special Committee appointed, at the commencement of the Session, to enquire respecting the lees taken and retained as Private Secretary’s fees by tse late Colonial Secretary, was under. consideration of the Louse in Coumnittee, during the greater part of the sittings on ‘I'wesday and Weduesday. The Report was sgreed to, as also an Address to the Lieut. Gavernor, praying

His Excellency to tske such steps as might be deemed advisable witifreference

to the Report.

SE IARAGLHLN LET, SE THER SPH Wife —<D +o

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To the Constituency of the Second District of King’s County.

Mr Friryps ano Fertow Coionists—

The object of my present Letter will be, to demonstrate the fallacy and absur- dity of the arguments er assertions which were employed with a view to. obstruct the introduction of Responsible Govern- ment, and tomake the advocates of that measure appear odious ia the eyes of the people. These assertions are—

Virst—That the new system would in- crease, rather than lessen, the public.ex- penditure.

Second ~—That its promoters were ac- tuated solely by a desire to possess them- selves of office and emolument.

Third—That the possession of office by. members of Assembly, under the new form of Goverment, would Jead to the practice of fraud ang corruption.

Fourth—That the owners of Land have exerted their influence at the Colonial Office to procure the introduction into tis Isiand of the system of Responsible Government,—and that they have done so on the condition, that the local Legisla- ture aud Governinent should henceforth avoid any. interference with questions which might invelve the interests of the Proprietors.

Many other absurdities have been pro- pagated from time to time by the eneinies of popular liberty, in the vain hope of effecting a reaction in the public niind in reference to the question of a change of Government,—but the ones above stated are those which have been the more prominently and pertinaciously urged.

Although: our party had many obstecles to encounter, and powerful influences to combat, in carrying out their views—they had at least common sense and arguinent upon their side. And just in proportion to our strength in this respect was the weakness of our adversaries. Ifany thing served more than another to create dis- trust of their proceedings—disgust at their little chicanery—and disbelief inal their assertions—it was the..employment of arguments at all times abswrd and in- defensible, and the recourse to modes of attack and defence, which the merest tyros in the science of political war, with the worst possible cause, would have scorned to adopt.

Assertion No. 1 is disproved by the fact, that the public expenditure is now £395 Jess than it was under the old sys- tem. The amount thea chargeable upon the Revenues, in the shape of salaries and fees, was £2705; now it does not exceed £2310. Ilere are the details :—

OLD CIVIL Lift,

Colonial Secretary, £400.00. 0 fees for issuing | #cences, 90 0 0 Legistrar and Clerk of Execu- tive Council, 150 O O Clerk of Legislative Council, 150 O 0 e

{These offices and emolu- ments were all centred in one individual—an instance of menopoly that no otuer colony can prrallel, and the abolition of which ts one of the good fruits of Respongi- ble Goverament. }

ac 5 OLDE TURE IR ATS = Treasurer, 400 0.6 Attorney General, 200 0 0 Collector of Excise, 260 0 O Surveyor Genera), 100 0 0 Prothonctary, 90 0 0 Road Correspondent, 40 0 0 Inspector of Militia, 75> 0 6 Fees to Lieutenant Governor, GO O @

Salaries and Commissions te Road Commissioners, 410 0 @6 Collecters of Customs, 180 0

KEW CIVIL List. Colonial Secretary and Road

Correspondent, £400 0 0 Treasurer, 400 0 0 Clerk of the Legislative and

Executive Councils, 120 0 oF Collector of Excise, 200 0 6 Registrar and Keeper of Plan3,200 0 0 Attorney General, 150 0 @ ttetiring Allowances to the

late Colonia] Secretary,

and late Atty.General, 400 0 0 Prothonetary, | 40 0 O Inspector of Militia, 25 0 8 Road Commissioners’ salaries, 300 0 © Comptrollers. of. Navigation

Laws, 75 0 0

£10 0 @ Old Civil List, 2705 0 @. Saving to the Colony, 395-0 = @

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In addition to this saving, we have ac- quired, by the introduction of Responsi- ble Government, controul over the Per- manent Revenue and Crown Lands, which are worth at least £1300 a year, besides the disposal of the Fishery Reserves» which may be turned to great pecuniary account: so that, notwitlstanding our having to pay compensations to the Jate Colonial Secretary and Attorney Gene- rai, we have a present gain of nearly Seventeen Hundred Pounds by the change from the old to the new system of Gor- ernment,

In reply to assertion No. 2, it may be observed, that if the promoters of Res- ponsible Government were actuated sole- ly by a desire for office, they could have

gratified that desire, in part at least, be-.

fore Responsible Government was intro- duced, when the laie Lieutenant Governor offered our party three seats in the Exe- cutive Caunci], and when two others refused the Shrievaliy for Qucen’s fa Prince Counties. { aduvit that it teas the desire of our party to obtain office, but I

deny that such was their sole desire. I]t.

was their desire to obtain office, because

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such was the wish of their constituents, -

whose confidence they enjoy ; because, in the possession ef office, they would be

responsible for the faithful discharge of

their duties to Parliament, which the late incumbents were not ; end because they could not legislate in connection with a Governinent which had, on every question, opposed the wishes of the people—imia- represented the objvets and principes of the peopic’s representatives, and misap- plied the people’x money. surely be supposed that the Libera] pariy would consent to leave the old Officia's in power, afier having reuied them in every contest—beaten them at the Liust- ings and in the Legislature—and after having their principles recognized end

allowed to be put in practice by Eyer Me-

jesty’s Government? }s it supposed that, having obtained linperial recognition of

their principles, the Liberal party would

turn round and sey to their edversaries ©

** Now we have gained all we songht tor —you may remain in ofice—we confide in your integrify, and appreciate your abiliny to serve the public, aliLough we

It could pot

lately declared you to be unworthy of anys

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