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18 THE EXAWINER. NN TAT VRS NNN — Se oo ae ee aaa ee eee THE V SITORSHIP OF, PRINCE COUNTY.. |a Srowdy,".he could, with very little assisiance, slip] luis rumomred that the House of | a Gapaanamas THE VISIT¢ : ; them aroudd his wrists, and then, [ think, there would|theodiam of throwing ou settee rem — To THE EDITOR OF THE nee are be but little: trouble in taking to Jail any one thus| At a meeting held at the-honse of Lord ao Bill, Six,—The suggestions which I offered in a former week, it was resolved that, withou ey this

number of your independent. paper, regative “ ia slniins of Prince County, tn the appointment of a School Visitor, have been treated by “A Friend to Education iu a most diacourteous and improper manner,

‘There was nothing, | aur sure, disrespeetful in my Communication, either with reference to the authorities, or towards Mr. Arbuckle himself. What, then, could have prompted this childish and petulant retort? Why should pelities have been brought forward so unceremo- nionsly, in connection with the few simple hints to » which t called the public attention? llow does the

writer know: that I am of what he terms “The Liberal|=

Party?” Was there the slightest indication of it in my letter? or was my application to the Gazelle, in the first

instance, and afterwards to the Islander, a proof oft?) 2.

Whatever 1 may be myself, | can safely.say, that this * Friend to Education” is not a “ Liberal” in my accep- tation of the term.

Unfortunately, this ceaseless endeavour to engraft party politics upon every public transaction—important of unimportant—is a complaint endemical to Charlotte- town; and, if lam rightly informed, it is but a few weeks since—to give a recent example by way of il- Justration—that their Parish Clerk wae dismissed from his office, which he had creditably filied during a period os some twelve or fifieen years, for the ain of being a“ Liberal’ All this is in exceeding bad taste. It is painfu!, a8 well as offensive, to every generous mind, and cannot fail to do much mischief to the community at large. "To find “ Inspectors” among such characters, altoge- ther divested of malevolent feeling—men of integrity — too just to sacrifice truth at the shrine of party—would ve & hopeless task, even were you to seek for thera dili-

agently, according to Vanden Ende, “ with a lantern in each hand.”

oes this Professor of Tuition know, by intuition, that { am the brother of a Candidate for the Inspector- snip, in prospective? Is it patent to him, that, if I have

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a brother at all, that brother is unequal to the task of sonducting a P. KE. Island School? Or has he received

soree confidential intimalion from the man in power, that (f { had auch a brother, and he well skilled 4a classical and mathematical lore, that if he bore the mark of pro- scription—in other words, if he were what is vulgarly termed a “ Snatcher”—he shou!d never have the super- intendence of the Schools in Prince County placed in his hands ?

And what a compliment does this * Friend to Educa- tion”—this hungry Sciolist from “Aberdeen awa,” shivering at the bare idea of losing the “siller”—pay the people of Prince County! Men of Malpeque and St. Eleanor’s, this man dares to tell us that we are de- pendent upon Charlottetown for an Inspector!—that

among us all, including men of every profession and of

every grade, we have not an individual competent to overlook the working of our common English Schools! ! When this fact is asserted, what is the reply? ‘ Now,

T too, would be very happy if [ could only believe this.”

Believe what? “That we have many individuals im Prince County fully adequate to the task of inspecting public Schools!

If this be not insulting, as wel] as unjust, to the peo- ple of this County, it would be hard indeed to say what iz. {tis to be hoped, however, that there is sufficient mstice and liberality in the authorities to’ shield us in rature from so unmerited and false an assumption, and that he who has enunciated it in the Examiner may uever himself be put to the inconvenience of Jeaving Charlottetown, to riot, like a magisterial whale, among cae emabll fry of pedagogies in Prince County.

Yours, &c.,

Prince County, June 12.

J. B.

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To tae Epivroa or taux Examnen. be 7 Afr, Waeran ;

Sirn,—[ beg, through the medium of your paper, to eall your attention, and that of the public, to the manner in which those persons who are so unfortunate as to be found “ drunk and disorderly” in our streets, are hauled to Jail. FE have witnessed several of those * hauling frolies” in this town, and I must say that, in my opinion, unere has been more disorder on the part of the peace- makers than on that of those who have been so fuolish as to © get drunk on the premises.” | have never seen iw any place, except Charlottetown, Magistrates, Con- stables, and others, pniling, hauling, mangling, and beating a drunken man. because be would not walk quietly to prison; nor do I think the like can be seen many of the other Provinces. I do not pretend to say thag it 13 not lawful; but is it right—is it revsonable ? When a man is in a state of intoxication, that-is, de- ranged, and is noisy, or breaks the peace, is it to be eupposed that he will suffer himself to be abused, when. in nyne cases ant of ten, he does not know the Magis trate from the Pump? A blow from a Constable, o other Officer, is to him the same as a blow from any ther person; and a drunken man can hardly be blamed for resisting those who i!l-use him when his intellect is sy glouded that he cannot recognize the right which voy person har to strike or maul him with impunity Now, if an Officer of the Peace hada pair of hand-cut? ++peron bie bands, dutie bis packet-- on cem'ng wp tc

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and think it ought to be ad@pted here, ‘where the law is

sécured. { think this is eek they doin other places, so stringent respecting drunken and Gisorderly persons.

keeping the peace, when, perhaps, the head peace-maker may have sold this very person the draught which de- prived him of his senses, { don’t know where the-fau lies—perheps, Mr, Editor, you ean tell. | I am, Sir, yours, &c, . RUTH. ,

June 3, 1850.

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LATER FROM EUROPE.

STEAMSHIP CANADA.

The packet Rose brought the usual Mails, including an European Mail, on Thursday evening last. The Royal Mail Steamship Canada arrived at Halifax from Liverpool on Wednesday morning last, making the pas-

an improvement in the business transactions of the Bri- tish islands; the intelligence in other respects is unim- portant. The European Times says:

‘The commercial operations of the week have been more active, and a healthier tone prevails. In cotton a considerable business has been transacted at a higher quotation, and witha firm market. Colonia! and foreign produce is in fair deraand at generally steady prices. Qur accounts from the manufacturing districts are of a favorable character. ‘The money market continues steady, and Uiscounts are easily obtained at the currency noted in last week’s podlication.

There have been ratier increased arrivals of Bread- ‘stuffs curing the past week, which coupled with the fuvorable reports of the progress of the growing crops, caused holders to accept reduced prices fer most articles. | Indeed the trade generally has been dul!. The market ‘held in Liverpool on Wriday was inactive, and prices were in favor 6f buyers, but little business was trans- acted.

The imports of American cured provisions this week comprise 465 tes. beef, 1011 bbls. of pork, 641 casks, 3557 boxes, and 4) bales of bacon, 55 casks of ham, 239 firkins of butter, & boxes and 9 casks cheese, 2,473 trs. 4,220)bs. and 275 kegs lard. The stock of this lat- ter article is unprecedentedly large, still holders are cautious in not forcing sales; the transactions of the week are therefore confined to 50 tons.

The iron trade contiaues depressed, and the only pre- sent prospect of improvement is through the diminution of the make, which is gradually progressing, the present prices being losing ones to the manufacturers; many furnaces .have been blown out in the Staffordshire dis- trict, and about 50 in Scotland.

The market for [ng}ish securities has been steady during the past week. The atnount of business trans- acted on the London Steck Exchange is, however, limi- ted. Foreign securities have been steady.

It is really disgusting to see a crowd tearing the clothes| for £8 qualifi¢ation. off a crazy man in the public street, under pretence of

sage in 104 days. The “European Times” speaks of

A t absolutel ject) the Wreasure, the better y was y sajectio

and it has been arranged that £12 is to be substituted ! it is needless to say that th move will seriously curtail the utilisy of iL Whether the: Ministry will accept such @ mutilation sf a measure, which they profess to reyard as greatest Importance tothe sister country, remeins tobe

seen. There are more than 28 millions of acres of eniiti- acd there n

vated land in England and Wales, re four millions of families—upwards of seven acres (or eogh f unco 1

to cripple its Otrlity,

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family! “This‘is exclusive of four millions o vated land, which would give an extrd} Mere to each This is the natural provision made for our wants, How has it been distributed? ‘The whole of the 28 millions of acres sre the property of more than 60,000 persona, The Library of the British Museum contains 450,

volumes, and it has been calculated by an officer “a the institution that, if they all required to be placed on ope shelf, that shelf would be at least 12 miles in length —

“FRANCE.

Tn the continned debate in the National Aesembly at Paris on the Electoral Bill, M. Montalembert in & zoe defiant speech, tells the Socialists, in reply to'theit threat of proscription, that they the Legitimiate are. ready for the combat. M. Thiers recommended that opposition should be put down by force of arma

He denounced be aa, who a ever been the insteaments of tyrants, whether imperial or republican, “who have first used them, then fed the tod te butchered them*—who after having been subjected by. the Emperor Napoleon, who knew them well, had put a rope around the neck of his statue to drag it thro the mire. This provoked Napoleon Buonaparte (J who asked to speak. Thiers turned upon him, end | he did not wish to add to the affliction of the Aesem by exhibiting to it a man bearing the iflustrio name of Napoleon defending sucn opinions as he’ professed. This caused an explosion; a tumult epaeed inthe Assembly, and Napoleon Buonaparte was publicly — censnved. With such frequent scenes as this the Bill” has been in progress through the Assembly.

The alarm of an outbreak is dying away as well in Paris asin the departments, and the new combination with general Cavaignac at the head, is now looked to as the last refuge of the Republicans. A report hes. reached Paris that the Emperor of Russia had sent through that city discretionary orders to withdraw hig ambassador from f.ondon, on accovnt of the Greek ‘question. If anything can open the eyes of the Liberal ‘party in England as to the attitude which England ' should take, this must. But we place little faith in the reports of Russia which the London Absolutist Journals are pleased to furnish us. When we learn that the correspondent who furnished a London paper with the daily falsehoods which it published from Greece has been rawarded by King Otho with a decoration of some kind or other, it is time to examine with a jealous eye alt the reports which come from such quarters,

It is said that M. Lamartine and his wife will set ont in a few weeks for the East, and has expressed hie de- termination never again to return to his native country, unless summoned by the people.

The news from the south of Enrope this week ia not. iraportant. The English claims on Naples seem likely

The reports from the manufacturing districts begin to be rather improved in tone, and the price of goods at Manchester is gradnally creeping up to a point more in par with the cost. ef the raw material. This effect has been produced by the continued accounts received from the American markets relative to the deficit in the yield) of the past season, which has rather lessened the can-! tion of the buyers for foreign markets.

The Liverpool S'imber market; Nova Scotia and P. E. Island yellow Pine Timber Is. 4d. to ts. 44; New Brunswick and Nova Scotia do, Is. 10 Is, 2d.; do. do. Spruce 11d! to Is. N.S. and N. B. Spruce poles and spars 10d to is. N. B. and N. 8, deals, fine aad spruce per ft. of 2 in 1% to 2d. Hard wood planks 24d to Sd. fir boards per ft. of J in dd. to 14.

The London O1) market; Cod Oil in casks £34 10s, to 55; Pale Seal £30 to £31; straw, yellow and brown £27 to £29.

The news from either the British Islands or the Con- tinent is unimportant. Thousands asssembled on the quays at Liverpool te witness the departure of the Steamship Atlantic for New York. Great expertfiions were rife as to her outward passsage to America —these have been realised by the arrival of the ‘ilaniic at New York—after a remarkable run of only 11 daya.

Two or three London Journais have been down upon Lord Brougham for the sctive part he has taken in several Divorce’cases in the Upper House. "duestion is again a bone of Contention in Parliament, where Mr. fox has submitted 2 Bill for levying vn rate in aid of secular education. ‘The established clergy have taken the alarm, and with one consent declare that the rising generation will be ruined except popular instruction is doled out by them, The National Society and the Educational Committee of the Privy Conncil have come to an open rupture on this vexed question, “Tbe Go-

to attract some public attention. M. Pacifico hae pro- ceeded to England via Maita. M. Isturitz hae also Jef Madrid for the Court of St. James. :

Letters from the Cape announce thet further bodies of settlers had arrived at Natal.

THIRD. DISTRICT OF QUEEN’S COUNTY ELECTION.

Tr nominatioa of Candidates for the election of one member for this District took place at the Old Coart House on Werdnesiay last. Wittiam Dousr, Esq, wae proposed by Allan M‘Dougail, Esq., and seconded by Mr. Nicholas Jenkins.—There appeared to be a good many of the electors present. Mr. Douse addressed them at some length. [le spoke of the elective franchise as being the greatest privilege of the People; and said the Electors had never been called ufon to exercise that privilege at so important a crisis as the present, and that, therefore, it bchoved them to be careful how they gave their votes. He condemned the House of Assembly for having voted their own pay and declined to appropriate any thing for the Road Service. He accused the majority of having treated the Chief Justice with a great illiberality; and said thet, when « Jndge was treated with so little respect and considet- ation as they had manifested towards the Chief Justice there was anend of sil regard for the laws and consti- tuted anthorities of a country, He made no declare- tion of hia political principles, but ssid they were»

vernment is too liberal for the Nations} Soricty.

apie iently ol knowa w the Electes. He would be