NR. HOWE AT BIRMINGHAM.

We give to-day a full report of what the local press of Birmingham terms a * powerful and eloquent speech’ delivered im that city before the Colonial Emigration Society by the Ilon. Joseph Howe.

The Hon. J. Howe, Prime Minister of Nova Scotia, seconded the resolution ina oe and eloquent speech of eonsidepabie ength. He said he had listened to the gen- tlemon who had preceded him with delight, and he had met them upon that platform with an interest which he could nat duseribe lt was the firat opportanity he had had of meeting in the same room and ypan the same platform representatives of the alan the intelloct, and the progress of their dis tant southern hemisphere—jhear). There fore, if that society has done more than to brirg together the leading men fom the western and southern colonies of

(ireat Britain, it would haye done a great |

wrvico. Although thig was the first time they had met, it was not the first time they had thought the same thoughts, endured the same struggles, toiled jn the same offices, ad- voeated tho same principles, or upheld with the same'vigor, the saure firmness, and the game loyalty, in distinct portions of this om pire, the flag af Bogland, her honer, her glory, and her yeaown— (cheers). Nova Scotia, which he pepresented, was hut a small colony, not quite so large as Eggland, hut very much like it in pects. bt jzt ted out intothe gea. He believed God origin- ally inteuded jt for an igland, but bethinking himself of the modern ipyention of railroads, he just attached Nova Seotia ta the main land by an iathmue of fourteen miles in length. Then she pesembled Old kogland in another rospeet, that whenever an emigrant came out the climate was gure to agree with him. Lt they toak g rosy-gheeked Jrishman from Tipperary or Conngmarg to the Southern States, im three years the roses would be al! gone, and though he spoke trish, still he would luok a Yankee. But let them bring him to Noya Seotia, and his rosy complexion would stick to him gs jong ag he lived ; jet them bring an Aberdonian Scotch- man or @ jolly Englishman, aod they would nreserve their patignality ag long as they lived. :

Then they might go half oyer the United States and find no goal, and they knew what had made the greatnegs of England — it wae her iron and coal. They the Nova Scotians, sent to the [nternatiqnal Exhibitiog a section of a seam of coal 33 or 36 feet wide, and they had many others of lese dimensiong, but the country was full of coal. ey also sent to the Exhibstiop cutlery made from the finest steol, the iron of which was dug from the mountains of Nova Seatia. This country was, therefore, like England, ipgasmuch as it had gga} and jron in combination. Now, Noya Scotia, at the present jme, bad only a population of 350,000, but he was not

nothing |

Ireland, an@ Scotland, 200,008 adult men and |

bread—(hear, hear) ~ who cost the British Go- vernment @ sum much more than a million a r. Hemaiatained then, thatif this Society,

V any organizetion, or any instrumensality, |

could direct the attention of the parochial an- > thorities or of the Government to the subject

these mon should be. buried and kept immur | ed in public bastiles, living on the labour’ of

the industrial classes, and yet not adding anything to that labo ir—(loud cheers), Australia or Noya Scotia, if g healthy adyle, | oreven a boy went begging, he would be laughed at anfl S¢outed. “It washot because he loved the North American colonies that! he said this; it was because he loved Nuglandt | He said it was a burning shame and disgrac. | }to England, with all the noble territory ae | her dis i able-bod colonies opening their lands and giving them | jalmost for nothing, that there should live in this glorious island one man who is able

to work, ard who i qut of employment—

(hear, hear). We are now maintainig 30,- QUO policemen and cogstables ta keep our

population in qrder—three times tho whole

army of the United States before the civil war

began. fle was not quite sure that it was not larger than the army of the Duke ot

Wellington when he fought all the battles of the Peninsula ; but he wae quite sure that

it was much tao large an army to be main-

tained in a well governed country—(hear, | hear). Waving given some statistics with re-| gard to Scotland, the honourable gentleman | concluded by enjoining bis bearers to second

the efforts of honourable and disinterested

gentlemen who had promoted that Society —

strengthen them, aid them by their eounten-

ance, give them their sympathy and their cordiai and hearty co-operation. He could assure them they were engaged in a good

work, and if there were time to preseut to them the arguments which suggested them- selves to him upon this great subject, he had not a shadow Ba doubt that every man and woman then present would bid to the Society

God speed. Thanking them for the atten- tion with which they had listened to his re- marks, the honourable gentleman resumed bis seat amidst prolonged applause.

UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

It is not often that we haye read a Message delivered by the President of the United States to Congress assembled, with so much interest and satisfaction as we peruse that sent by President Lincoln to both Houses on the Ist inst.

It is an able document, manifesting a tho- rough comprehension of the peril in which the integrity of the Union is placed, and a

rfect understanding as to the means most

ed to say that he was a native of that evantry, of to paint her as she is.

giishman's or Irishman's or Secotehman's| bouse was raised ip that colopy, and yet he | could pow take them into ap agricultural district where they goyld ride a distance of five-and-twenty miles with apple blossoms floating oyer their heads. The Nova Scotians bad sent recently to our horticaltural show fruits as lovely aud ag rich as could be pro- duced ip any part of the boasted United States. From return which be beid in his hand, he found tht the production of oats, barley. buckwheat, hay, cheese, butter, and

tatoos, in little Nova Seotia, were, at this| States had enjeyed an increasing commerce | praises? Why, they hace more than doubled the When the Government fell inte their | | basdathe debt. ef tbc Colony, vearing interest, rious landlords and their friends in the Go-

moment, equal to that of half the States of the Union. Gone word on anothér branch of industry whieh the Nova Scotians cultivated. Imitating the example which the mother country dad set, Nova Seotia not only cul- tivated the lapd but the sea. Their cuantry was surrounded by the ocean; it came up to the yery bosqm of their most valuable coun- ties, and la ped the land as if it loved it. Pheir bar winter, and ia every

It was disruption. rie not moge than 15 years since the first En- | These opening sentences, in their simple

ikely to be found effectual in avertiog a vital

pathos mast have come home to tho heart of every loyal American: ** It has not pleased | the Almighty to bless us with a return of |

ace; we can but press on, guided by the) ost light He gives us, trusting that in His good time and wise way, all will be |

own well.

M- Lincoln justly laments that this terri- ble internecine war has, for a moment, ** ra- dically changed the oceapation of the Ameri- ean people; and thus deeply affected the prosperity of nations with whieh the United |

for more than half a century.”’

The allusion to the treaty with Great Bri- tain for the suppression of the Slave Trade is referred to with ‘* especial pleasure,’* and | acknowledgment is made that, ‘* on the part of Great Britain, the execution of it has been marked by jealous respect for the authority | of the United States, and the rights of their | moral and loyal citizens.’’ ‘This does not |

there were inlets and harbors, giving them land

wopdzous facilities for instruction in abip- |

** Mistakes’’ as to the efficiency of the |

building, and in the management of ships. blockade. gre candidly admitted and regret- The pesalt of all this was that his 350,000) ted, ingeniously and courteously, in terms |

countrymen had upon the ocean between

2.500 ind 3,000 vessels, bearing the flag of | England on every distant sea.— (bear, hear). |

Vbrow off the colonies, they were told Throw off the colonies! Why England would be mad— (cheers). tive North American colonies at this moment and they were the fourth maritime power in the a. England beat a}| the world, and the United States came pezt, Frapce next; end then the North American came next, in point of maritime typremacy. The world would ask, was it jast to leave such colonics to the tender When he first heard this doctrine broached in ha Canada, he gave his answer to those who disseminated it in language which he soni never regret. But he would say to them that when they were mad enough to adyise the Government of this coantry to sever from their empife so great, so dis- tinguished, so rich, so promising, and yet only half-developed territory, they would be doing an aft of suicide and madnees such as be believed the people of Great Britain could not be guilty of. Thie was the giant inglisb oak, with its stem firmly rooted in the earth, bus the colonies were ite mag- uificept branches. Mf never another English- map, Jrishman, or Scotchman, touched the shores of the North American colonies —if to- morrow the tide of emigration was to stop—

they had a popalation of four millions al- 94 they bad got all the natural resoarors thet wo boil, they bad mines and winerals,

and forests, and magnificent rivers, and noble lakes, and everything that could minister to their fature greatness, comfort, or civilization. In twenty-five years their fowr miliions would be eight millions, and so they would go ° don Phin every prc or thir ears. oble nghen would grow up Mod if peither Pinglish. 7 not Seotch foot ever again trod upon its soil! If they would bear with him for a few minutes, he would out to them be Eng!aud's imtereste.

purpose? sod forbid wine w any soe: fur was that they

might be relieved from misery and want, and

that they might not be cooped ap in work- houses and almshouses— (cheers). ' yen years ago be had brougist the sub-

ion before the British

overnment, but took no notice of it.

had drifted from had drifted tq ¥ side - Had Goyernmept hobateentinl itish public taken an interest in ques- direeted the striam of emigration their own colonies, they would have bad a yillion and a half more of British consumers and British subjects strengthening and sup- port the mo cuuplry, od a million and ee fower enemics wang side f the line. As to the cost of the colonies, Gemeente es sms fata of the manyfactures of Engl:

were now consumed by her own cylonica— (hear, bear). On this nm he held this dactzine, pod he should fike to seo any ype contradict it. Eyory yard of cloth that Man- chester sept to the evlopies, every pair of pciesers thet She sept, eyery sword o. bayonet, or paper of rt sy that

inmingham sent was lye with the cost a tion, inelud ale ta which oyernent im or the in- Lot of the yationyl debt, and fog the sup- port of the army and navy. Therefore, upon these £40,000000, of Rangl uh achures which the colonies received i honestly, they paid their share towards the national debt aud the support of our army and navy. Quoting frow statistics, Mr.

Liat, beccseded 1 pe that in 1851 the of Ragland paid ioe £7 000,000, - A

ing @ year for the support of their poor, and last year the yates increased neatly half a mil-

lion those in the previous year. Le would admit that she people al Kagland must

pe those setvices. Was anatuer elass thas he could that it made him weep when. he tauat live how they bhaat at the Gime there were 19 the Workhouses in Koylant,

Why, let them take the | occasjpnal mistakes, and inflicting uninten-

nat ha believed to he want their

‘then a million and a half of British

this yt Bi

like these :

**A blockade of 3C0Q miles of sea coast could net be established and vigorously en- | forced, in a season of great commercial ac-

tiyity like the present, without committing

| tional injaries upoo foreign nations and their | subjects.

| ‘A civil war, occurring in a country | where foreigners reaide and carry on trade |

fal of complaints of the violation of neutral, lrights. Such collisions tend to excite mis- | taal reclamations | have & common interest in preserving peace and friendship. L have, so far as possible, heard and redressed complaints which have been presented by

and au pnenting. number of doubtful cases upon which the Government is unable to agree with the governments whose protection is demanded by the claimants.

** There are, moreover, many cases in which the United States or their citizons suffer

of fureign nations, which the Governments of theye States ape pot at once prepared to re- dresg.”’ Congsess is asked tq e9-operate with the Executive in messures proposed for facilita- ting emi ion of free negroes to Liberia and Llayti. The President says :

* Liberia and Hayti ape, as yet, the only countries to which Colonists of African des-

ceived and adopted as citizens, and | regret to say that backs persons contemplating colo- nization do not seem willing to emigrate to these countries as to some others, nor willjng,

however, the opinion among them, in this respect, is improving, aud that ere long there will be au augmented and considerable emi-

tion to these cuantrics from the United Sratew.”

The Republic is congratulated on the un-

disturbed state of its foreign relations. The Message says : ** Daring the last year there has not only been no change of our previous reiations with the independent States of our own continent, but more friendly sentiments than have here- tofore existed are believed to be entertained by those neighbours whose safety and pro- gress are sv intimately connected with our own.”’

The all-im portant matter of finance is dealt with at length, and, we think, in a masteply manner. Assuming Mr. Lincoln's premises to be sound, we shal] eptertain uo misgivings in tho fature 98 to the power of the loyal States to sapply the sinows of war, promptly and vigorously.

The vast issuc of paper currency is justified by the necessity of the case ; and a return to specie payments, at the earliest pericd com- patible with due regard for all interests, is most strongly recommended.—/alifar Sun.

TUE NEW YORK PRESS ON THR MESSAGE.

The Times says what the President has to say of prospective emangi pation and of the ization ‘of the enlranchised slives will not command universal assent, and deems it very doubtiul whether Congress will enact the Jaws necessary tg carry his yeeommenda- tions into effect. But no one can dgybt that the President has made thom from the most patriotic motives,and with a sincere desire to contribate all in his power to the permanent settlement of the most important question of the age. The /ferald says, the slavery question is the great ic of the Message. Mr. Lincoln to have razed all other subjects to

cent can go with the certainty of being re-|

ae L think thei interests demand. | hejivye..

Island are new in a shamefully dilapidated eondi-

others, ‘wnd his expdse will be hailed with’ eatigiders he is paid

women able to work and earn their own) hearty approyal or spurned with execration, | a report on the Distriet

as the reader substantially agreos or dissents | from his judgmenton the point. Essen tially the President sees and proclaims that slavery has become the implacable foe of the Ameri- gan Union, and thaf the slaye power must

die in order that the repablie may live. | that some ofthe schools were not ouce visited by | which ' riod of two and three years, | finances, thare will be tey thousand pounds more } € ineffickent badded to the debt by the Jist January next—thu | quite suificicnt to mect all the requireyrents “| lincreasing the public Tiabilities that bear interest that establishment. ‘ Better,” says he, “burn it to the enormous extent ef forty thousand pounds !! | down than spend more than £200 a year on it.” | Colk xe. We are not awave that any of our pub- | L'! Lep thp Electors pou- | But what bas heen tpe cost of Government House | lie men has given much attention ta either of these ide by |nader Pory management ? We find by their own | questions. As regards the third article, we desire ‘any amount of quibbling or equivocation. Theve | shewing, that in three years they spent one thou- |to inform our readers that the St. Dunstan's | are the figures staring the Government in the face | sand eight hundred and sixty pounds eighteen | Schools in Charlottetown are as completely under

of emigration, there was no reason why | Hoartily agreeing with hig on thé main) this officer ipa pe

question, we, differ on sybordinate points} ithout reserve and without feeling. We} show that we believe gradualism with negro

In| exportation caleulated to commend emanci- | PUrpese, . rei i . We belieye on the} tioned the Lagisigture (gr reutuneration, It would | ig jess than fyur yearg!

locher hand that gur gounity bas ho labgrers! je absurd todiope tyr any progress iy the cause | der over thege fapte—they eanypt be set as

pation to the South, to export, and that the p! inters of the South cannot svon find laborers so easily paid, and| sv docile as those to whem they are accus- | tomed, would generally prove themselves if free, but so long ae the great end ys kept)

If these tubs amuse the whate lep him have them.

The World's editorial draws a comparative analogy between the President’s Emancipation Proclamation and hig Megsage. It says: ** The proclamation looks to the suddep ean cipation, while the message declares that sud. den emancipation ison all aecaunts undesirable and would be, especially in populous slave re- gions, a great evil to its immediate recipients. Lhe proclamation treats slavery ag if if were ao unmitigated crime. The message regog- nizeg slaves as property, frankly admits the validity of the argument, excusing the pre- sent generation of slaveholders from the guilt of its existence, and declares that the North which consumes and trades in slave produc- tons is nearly as much responsible for its continuance as the South, ‘The proclamation contempiates 4 sweeping system of uniform emancipation. The message proposes to leave the fact, time,mode and concomitants of emancipation to the diseretion of each State. The proclamation implies no doubt of the en- tire feqsibility of the sudden emancipation it anneunces. ‘The Messuge, by a distinct recognition af the plonary power of every State to protest itself fram a free negro po- pulation hy the exclusion of free negroes from its limits, virtually confesses that sudden emancipation is a practical nullity, for it is manifestly impossible to transport and colo- nize four millions of people on the instant. The Message contrasts with the proclamation as sense with folly.”’

~ CORRESPONDENCE, —

PRINCE

THE ELECTORS OF EDWARD ISLAND. GexTLEMEN—

In my last letter to you T merely glaneed at the conduct of the Government in reference to the Land Question. review of their political career during the last four years.

You are well aware that when thedast general election was about to take place, the loudest ery

TO

I will now take a more general

of the Tory party was regarding the public debt. |

They told you that the country was ruined by the Liberals —that the Government was bankrupt, and the people taxed te an uubearable extent, For all these evils they promised a remedy, if they They promised to pay off the publie debt — to lessen

were allowed to take the Government.

public taxation, and to bring prosperity to our languishing trade, How have they kept their

Schools can be had from) him at the end of the Legislative Session, when it should be laid bofore Parliament at the beginning of a Sessions and wembers on both sides of poli-|

‘ | tics have publicly givem their testimony to the fact |

Other schools were Visited iv a yery inanner by deputies whom he employed for the

whom be refused to pay, aud who peti-

ft Wdueation under this gross mismapagement. The Visitor evidently believes that he can bes. | neglecting

erve bis employers by

schools to orgamze Orange Lodges—to oxeite |

yasal, with Australia inviting her! steadily in view we can waive all incidentals | hivgetry and prejudice in peaceful communities—- | . e , 2 - > , ‘ . ‘ * . “~ iti , ied men, with the North American | —gradualisms, compensation or exportation. | ty turn the well meaning Protestant against the} power. What can the Government shew for the | and forty-one pounds, fourteen shillings and two

unotlendiny Catholic, under the bgse, false and, mischievous delusion that the latter is aiming at undue power-over the former, and must be kept in utter degradation, Lut a subordinate official like Mr. Arbuckle may, to a very smallextent, be excused for pursuing this infamous and anti- christian conduct, when it appears ta be the re- sult of the settled policy of the whole Government. He is merely carrymg out the mstructions of his masters. Under the very eyes of Hé@r Majesty's Representative, in the Colonial Building, and with the public stationery at his hand, the Colonial Secretary employs the tire for which the people unwillingly pay hin, in labouring to excite see- But I am happy te learn fram all quarters that he does

tarian strife throaghout the whole Island.

not suceyed in his unchristian efforts — that Bigotry dees not flourish in the land to anything like the extent it did four or five years ago. The so-called “religious question” has happily not taken root, but is regarded as the most contemptible of all the shams ou which the Government lean fur support. ' I remain, Goutlomen, Your abedt. servt., GEORGE COLES. Charlottetown, Dee. 20, 1862. —_——— > a

(FOR THE EXAMINER.)

THE ARBITRATION CLAUSE!

The Government which studiously ignored and set aside every salutary elements in the Award, and have sought the irregular action of the Legisiatare in sustainment of the arlitralion clause, wust possess a face of ** triple-brass,’’ in preeuming to present themselves before the people. They calcu- late, unduly we should hope, on the ignorance of their supporters, and on the knavish fana- ticism of their pulpit partisans. But did we only seek the gratification of our personal resentments against wen who dare to take such liberties with the good-natured confi dence of their supporters, and with the very religion of God, merely to maintain them- selves in their paltry offices, we should be well contented to await the righteous result The people are naturally confiding, but they are also terrible in their wrath when they tind themselves cheated and deceived not only in their politicians, but in their ministers.

Now, what would be the first effect of con- firming this arbitration clause ? Clearly, and by necessity, legal implicatiun—the confir- wation for ever of every landlord title.

public debt.

was about £25,000 — now it is nearly £0,000. This they cannot deny. lustead of

giving en

couragement to trade and commerce, as they |

pronisxed to do, they have erippled every branch of industry by largely inereasing the taxes on all

,. : ‘ were open throughout the | savor much of colduess or alicnatiun of feel- imported articles—on some goods the duties have rt of the sea-coast| ing, much less of cxasperation towards Eng- | been inereased 100 per cent, and in no case ha

there been the least reduetion made.

They raised an outery respecting the mullipli- city ot public offices, and they promised to abolish all offices that were not necessary for the public They declared thatthe Land Office war not necessary — that it ought to be shut up, the imeumbent dismissed, and the Lalauce of the pub- lie Lands sold at auction for any price they auaigdht bring. Clerks in the other offices

elared to be a useless charge on the revenue, aud

service,

were alse de-

we were told that they should be dismissed. Lei

: . : ~ | us see now how the Tory party have kept thei under treaty stipulations, is necessarily fruit-| F

promises ih referance to these matters. Notwithstanding all their objections tothe Land

of the United States? apprehensions, and, ossibly, to produce mo- Purchase Lill, two estates have been bonglt un-

the business. la the Executive Cowucil, where perform the duti-s allotted to them, there are now | no less than four clerks. i that the most discreditable jebbery is practised in soe of the pubhe offices — for instanec, the sa-

| | laries ef some officials are laid wider contribution

wrongs {rom the naval or military authorities for the support of other persons who do net ap Libera

| pear before the pablic as the recipients of suet favors. Look at the office of Attorney General. | Me. F. Brecken is voninally the incumbent of | that Office, but it is well known that Mr. Palner performs the principal part of the duties belong-

ing to it, and pockets, if not fhe whole, the greater part of the salary; while he receives considerable | fees as Queen's Counsel in criminal cases. ‘There jean be no objection to Mr. Palmer receiving the ‘fair reward of his political exertions, but he and his party took the reius of Goverument with the express declaration that no member in either brauch of the Legislature sheuld hold an office of jemolumeut, or handle public money for their own advautuge, as it was said to have a corrupting Now, we know that Mr. Palmer hax used lis powition for his own ; euniary advance- }ment and other members of the Government in the House of Assembly have used their position to draw public money into the pockets of ther brothers aud other counexions, Which is just the samme as if they were filling their own purses out of the public chest, while the people have been denied all constitutional control over those salaried officials. ‘There is no part of Her Majesty’s do- minions wherein sueh a system of Government prevails as that ef this Island. In every other Colony the principal paid officials are directly re- sponsible to the people. Here the most unpopular men are thrust into office, and the people are de barred from expressing an opmion ou their pro- motion, But you have now the opportunity, and I trust you will use it, for remedying this state of things.

influence,

What have the party in power to show for the cnormous increase of the public debt? They have not spent any money in fostering trade of any kind—they liuve eonstrneted no public works worthy of noliee — they have spent very little money ou bridges and wharfs compared te that which was speut by the Liberal Government. for the sane service; and it is notorious that very many of the bridges and wharfs throughout the

tion’ ‘Phey have given very litle or no money to encourage Agricultural Societies; by whieh ‘ily principal resources mnight bo more filly develiped than fey are. The few Agricenitural Societies that did exist before the advent to power of the Tory party have dwindled away to insignificance, because that party converted those Societies into

the syvallest possible dimensions in order to have ** ample scope and verge envugh for his elaborate argument in support of the new compromise which he proposes for the slavery question.”’ Mr. Lineoln’s views open the sabjeet cannot fail to convince the reader that be is actuated by the most patriotic, bamane, just and generous considerations, but we fear that the abolition radicals of Congress will treat his propositiyn and his pleadings with indifference if not with scorn and Contem pt.

The Tribune says Mr. Lincoln's Message discusses many topics of yrave interest, und ewhodies many mportant suggestions, but the interest therem -canyassed overrides all

political conibinations and factions. It ix true that Edueation costs more than it did under the Liberal Goyermment, but the blessings of Education are dess Widely diffused thay they were five years age; fer, indeed, not more than half as iiany children appear to be towud at the public. schools how as were there uuder the late Govergment.

It as well known, too, |

good and bad, throughout the Isla. Thus we perceive the auxiety of the spu-

| vernment to have that clause confirmed ; and | we alsy observe the good, equitable and legal | reasons which the Duke of Neweastle and the honest portion of the proprictors had for rejecting this fraud upon the rights of the ‘ ‘olony.

Mr. Pope may warn us against the Ca- thulics, but we rather susp-ct that both Protestants and Catholics in this Island had better take timely warning against himsell and friends. Nei himeelf nor the humble, retiring and charitable Sutherland need fear that the religion of pineteen centuries, and of rome three hundred millions of people on this globe. can suffer much from their pleasure or displeasure ; but it's with the eighty thou- sand inhabitants of this Colony we are more particularly interested just now, and we therefore send to these vur timely and res- peceful warnings.

It was very politie of Mr Haviland to throw himselt and those doubtful landlords whom he represents on the side of the genuine proprietors and» along with the Duke, after

tas Government lad failed in its design in jcoufirming their apocryphal tithes

Itis with very great diffiemtty | the first debt Of 1851 by ten thousand pounds. | that the Tories

‘Phe increase af the debt up to the Sixt January | jast was thipty thousand pounds,

paid fer printing and ytationery | £281 186. 11d more'than the Liberals divin 1559. |

There ie seareely any comment required for this

thing. Its infamy is too indelibly camped em

because, as the} Dhen, the other matter about which the ‘Totes | every liné=eayd its meanness and basetiess are toe

Islander itself admits, the amount then against | made a terrific ontery was the charge for repairs plainly conspicuous under the fourth head to eall

the Colony was £69,220 5a 49d j;—now ye may safely assun@® that, pecording to the manner in

to Government House. Col. Gray was awfully

| indignant on that subjeet — the conutry, he said, aay a fo words about it the Gaverument have conducted our public | was ryiped by having so much maney lavished on articles are put down merely to excite the fears

overpmeyt House — £200 a year he copsidered |

for a single remark frou us. We shal), however,

The first and second

and prejudices of Protestants. No man or no party oppesed te the Gayernment is pledged to endew St. Dunstan's, ov disondow Prince of Wales

the public —the Islander does not deny their correctness— ! shilli igs and six pence en repairs to Government | the contre! of the Boord of Education, and are us

they cannot lie—and they elearly attest to the in-] Monse, while in tho three previous years the | alike subject to the Education laws, as any of the

capacity and mismanagement of the party now in

engpmoug increase of forty thousand pounss to | the publie debt in less than four years!—at the | rate of something more than ten theusand a year!! There is really gething deserying of the least notice. Jf they tell us that they purchased the Selkirk Estate and tlie barrens of Lot 54, we must remind them that they have bragged tre- inendonsly about those notable speculations ; and they have declared that the lands bought by the Government have paid far themselves byt have Jeft the Government a handsome sum in hands by way af profit. Let hte people then ask, in the name gf all that is just and righteous, why the Colouy has heeg syak in debt forty thousand pounds more than it was four years ago?

present not only

The Tabular Statement before us gives some information on twa points which gaye rise to a great deal of contention while the Libeyals were We were told that the eharge fey pub- lic printing and stationary was shamefully excessive and extravagant under the Liberal Government— that Mr. Whelan was deriving enormous emolu- meuts from the office of Queen's Printer—that the work should be set up te competition, and that a great saving would be eflected thereby. We believe that some small jobs in the printing line have beon done by coutract—at least, it appeared

in office.

was miraculous to observe, that the jobs never, by any chance, went into the hands of a printer

that tenders were asked for and received—but it |

Liberal Goyernment spent puly thirteen hundred

pence, making a difference in favour of the Libe- rals and against the ‘Tories of £519 4s. 6d.—for

the cost of Government House !!

The dslgydce makes several quotations from the Parliamentary Reports of Cowmmittees oa Public Accounts, in which shallow excuses are made for the excessive expenditure of the Tory Government —suchas the ebarge for the rééeption of thé Prince

_of Wales, repairs to Goyerpmept House, opening of new roads, surveys of public lands, Land Com- | mission Humbug, Volunteer Humbug, &&, ke.

The Tory Committee of the House of Asseubly said these things “ought not toe be consbered as forming part of the ordinary expenditure of the year” in which they appear as part of the public indebtedness ; the Islander thinks 80, too, and en- dorses the opinion of the Committee. But this ix sheer nonsense. It would be quite easy for the servile apologixts of any Government to find ex- cuses for extravagance iu the expenditure of the public money.

If we were so disposed, we might make out a large catalogue of excuses for the Liberals on this principle. We might, tor example, point to the yote of £2000 for the Patnotic Fund in 1855— £20,000 for public lands—large sums for bridges at Fife’s Ferry, Wheatly River, Squris, an expen- | sive Ferry Wharf in Charlottetown, and several ‘hundreds of pounds for renovating the Normal School Building—and then demand that the money paid for all these things should be deducted from

lieve that if an out-and-out Liberal offered to do the work for nothing, he would not be allowed to have it. But with all their nonsensical talk about saving in the items of printing and statio- nery, the fact is, that the present Government have, on the average, gone beyond their predeces- sors in the eharge for printing and stationery. Look at the Tabular Statement, and it will be seen

opposed to the Government; and we firmly be- |

‘the general charge against the Culouy while the | Liberals held office. We would he deservedly |taughed at if we made such contemptible ex- ‘cuses for our party; and the Government who try to excuse their waste of the public money by adopting siuilar excuses, framed by a corruptand | prejudiced Committee of a defunct House of Assembly, cannot fail te imewr the derision and coutempt of every intelligent man in the com- ‘ munity.

TABLE showing Anoual Expenditure daring the years 1856-7, 1857-8, and 1858-9, as compared with Anoual Expenditure during the years 1859-60, 1860-61, 1861-62.

lle thus jsought to transfer the odiam from the Go-

tween mations which | der it, with money obtained at a iigher rate of! yornment ts the Dako and those landlords cal Celi edi | interest than the Liberals paid, aud a second effi-| who had sustained him, and by placing him- | 1 CNOA Canes U8 tie Rw) cial has been added:to the departinent devoted to | se in ther good company to put the titles |

he represents m the same category as theirs. But the fraud is too transparent. We thank

friendly powers. There is, however, & large | two Clerks were formerly decid suilicicut te | the Duke and those Jandlurds for defeating a

scheme of permanent and universal landlord. ism on the part.of our landlord Government |and the spurious proprieturs. And we feel |conviteed that we need not apprehend our | worst difficalties from those proprietors who (are in sasion of the best titles, when the Government shall undertake the ‘equitable abvlition of all landlordisin in the Island. The system is vicious, and must be entirely abolished. Jt generates and keeps alive the worst passions in its support, as we see in Ireland; whilst the possession of pro- rietary rights, on the part of the people, gets self-reliance, independence, and loy- alty. In the interest of the Empire and our own interest, we must abolish it, instead of rooting it in the soil, as we charge the Palmer Government with attempting. Had the ar- bitration clause, when approved, not had first of all the effeet of confirming the landlords’ titles and thus place them in a very different position, by enbancing the value of their property in making a certainty of an uneer- tainty, there might be some remedy for it found in future legislation. Lut no. Once confirmed in this way, there was for ever after an end of all emancipation from land- lordism ; and the people had the consolation of knowing-that a destiny of miserable serf- dom awaited their descendants in this Island, as the reward of their bigotry in favor of the Palmer Government. |

Che Examiner,

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Charlottetown, December 22nd, 1862.

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THE PUBLIC DEBT AND EXPENDITURE.

THERE is an old saying, that “ figures cannot lie,” and we hope the truth of it will be fully ap- preciated by the supporters of the Government when they examing the puolie accounts, a very briéf abstract of which is furnished in the fullow- lng Statement obligingly published by the Islander of the 12th instant.» By this it will be seen that in the years 1856, 57 and ‘53, the Liberals spent on roads, bridges and wharfs £10,414 more than the ‘Tory Government have done in the eorres- ponding periods of 1259, 60 and '61. In the same years —"56, "57, and "53—the Liberals expended for the encouragement of Agriculture £1768 10s. 4d. more than the Tories did iu the corresponding periods of °59, "6G and "61. ‘These two amounts, for two very important services, make £12,182 10s. 44.—and actually two fhousand pounds more than was added to the whole debt of the Colony during the eight years the Liberals held the reins of Goveriment. When the Liberals came into office the debt was £228,579 10s, OFd., and when they went out in 1259 it was L947 10s. 24d.— shewing an inerease jn eight years of ouly 2. 268, during which time the Liberal Government expended te city thousand pounds on tle purchase of lands—coustrueted a free system of education ui Very great coxt, amounting, in faet, in the “ight yen, to titty or sixty thousand pounds