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telieaey in Norh Americs; and Sir Walter Raleigh fed his ‘go again, America is the great pork

inviag men on “fortaggss eggs’ while satlag up the Ornoce. | even excep ing Ireland, where the pie « by the acre

tn North and South Avpertes the salt-water terrapin is a for i developed, lo America they apeak ot pickled pork ryt ih of nnd (u-cious luxury, if iaken just at tne close of summer, and | and in Ohio alone they use about three-quarters of a ae vd (4 eggs in their parchumeni-like skin—'hey have no true shel] — awine yearly. In Spain pig is game, lean and highly ce : sre always valued. he hiceatee, New fHodand’s curious! without fat or unctuousness, devoid of any capability es a. enake-neeked version of a torteiae, has a liver which would | and without a rasher or a cheek available for pe send the pare fore grass of Strasbourg out of the field alrogether 5) Richardson, of Manchester, guve evidence in Mr. Schole ‘ while of turtie the world of gonnnands is never ured, under} committee, to the effect that horse flesh is mixed Vo any form of presentation that 1 may please the chef to serve bin. | meats, and enters largely into the composition of enters a net The hideons, scaly, demoniacal-looking wuana is better in the! sausages, and polomes ; and that, indeed, it is weer ae trial than tn outside promise ; cooked skrilfaily it is like chicken | in these preparations, as, being harder and ‘nore . Pe ned in flesh and hbketurtie im favour; but if one of its paws should | pork, it binds togethe- the whole, which else would be inch happen ta stick up in the dish, it ts 80 frightfully suggestive of to run to waste and water. : ‘ a pigtny alligator that many a stout Buropean, atraid of nothing! Birds are of large importance mn oe nar “er. fer? elee Gnder the sun, would be afraid of that. it is excellent) and not only birds but birds’ nests as well—at least WI

These § are eating, being omuigustatory ; wt t¢ ke chicken, hke rabbits, | Chinese, whose dainues are always peculiar. ‘These neste ere

r tak lace when stewed or curried ; like turtle, if dressed ae turtle should! brought from Java and Sumatra, the gathering taking p ‘ ed by soleinn ceroemmies.

he, like hare,when turned ino soup, and a good dish of wnita- ‘thrice im the year, and being Inagurat tion minced veal might be made of it. with Jemon-cream, and | The nests are like fibrous, ill-connected ising lass, inclining to streaky bacon superadded. {t 1s of the ringe of white meats ;/red, about the size of a goose’s egg, ang as thick as a is «nd ite amall, soft-shelled, delicare eggs are equal to itself 10) sp00n, They hang upon the rocks like (secording to Mr. Al- ourity and darntiness of flavour, Indeed the eggs of most rep-| bert Smith) watch-pockets, Then dry they are. brittle and tiles are wondertally appetising ; but none more 80 than those} wrinkled, and are sold for twice their weight in silver. The which bring forth the harmless, hideous, and delicious iguana ; | best are the whitest and cleanest ; but even with these there ta unless it be the eygs of the contemned land tortoise. enormous labour in preparing them for the Chinese market, the

Caymans and crocodiles, lizards and frogs, are all eaten and | end and aim of the trade being a soup with these nests floaung enjoyed by certain people. ‘Mhe typical crocodile is like veal; | about like Jumps of soft, mncilaginous jelly. This nest, which but some apecies lave a strong fiavour of musk, which is naus-|is of the sea-swallow (Iirundo esculenis), is the only edible eating enough; and some are like juicy young pork, while others} one known. Many are the delicious morsels afforded by birds. rese:mble Jobster. Others again have a powerful fishy taste,| The beccafico in the fig season ; the bronzed-winged pigeon very disagreeable. On the whole, therefore, crocodile is un-|of Australia when the acacia seeds are ripe; the young, ta', certain eating, and not to be ventured on with undue rashness. | hideous diablotin or goat-sucker, if taken when a tender nest- Alligator is anpposed to be invigoraiing and restorative ; and| ling, and the same bird when older, if taken when the palms

i > nd comp -shop of the uniwerse 5 net their eyess® E jlement is also airongly allowed to munage

rehend the extent of their power in being public affairs in this Island for a short

time.

That ‘here has been much conte about the se-eral appointments, ia well known throughout the Town, and fully admitted by themselves. There are 80 many applicants for office among them—each considering that he has as good a claim as another-—it will be found a rather diffi- cult task to satisfy them all. The offices of Secretary, Treasur-

ntion amongst the Tories

er and Registrar are those about which the most dispute is said tobe kept up. W. il. Pope, kisq., has been, from the com- mencement of the incubations, nominated to the office of Colonial Secretary. ‘This was not palatable to his own party —many of whom murmured long and Jond, and continue to murmur yet about the nomination ; but Mr. Pope is ® man whom the Tories ratber fear than rerpect—he possesses con- sidezable influence over the minds of some of the absentee pro- prietors—and that is a great thing with a proprictary Govern- went—he has more cunning, more perseverance in the pursuit of his object, (no matter what it is, and more real talent than any other man of his party ; and he has, to crown all, a bro- ther in the Assembly and in th: Executive Council, with a great deal of brass and perseverance, and no small share of talent, who is Cetermined, no doubt, to uphold the honour and influence of the family. Mr. W. H. Pope is, therefore, a

rather inconvenient customer to get rid of—especially since

_ Hon, Edward Palmer,

| Hon, John Uamilton Gray, | James Yeo, Esq.,

| John Longworth, Eag.

T. Heath Haviland, 2 James C, Pope, e : Alexander Laird, heq.,

H. A. Jobnson, Esq., M.D.

We understand that Dr. dofinson has been likewise appointed | to a weat in the Legislative Council. This has been done, no /doubt, in compliment to the Wesleyan body, of which Dr. Johnson isa very prominent member. Other gentlomen of the same denomination have been in anxiows expectation of the honour. How they will display their piety and Christian forbearance in railing out against the Doctor, whom they will denounce, according to their former practice in such cases, as a@ man who came to the Colony only yesterday, and thus pre- ferred to natives and old settlers! We like to see grievanog of this nature accumulate.

It will be seen, by the above list, that the House of Assembly will be blessed by the presence of on/y seven Executive Coun- cillors—a greater number than the Government have had atuny previous time in that body. Under the late Govern ment, the Tories used to complain loudly of the influence of the Exceutive in the Assembly ; but now, when there is nearly one fourth of the whole House sworn members of the Govern- ment, we shall be told that the People’s Representatives are a very independent body, and free from Exteutive influence. ‘*It is very corrupt,’’ said the Tories when in opposition, *‘ to let members of the House of Assembly take offices."’ Ie an Executive Councillorship no office? The Conncillor does not,

at Manilla is sold at high prices; the Cramese clutching at the | are im fruit; the rice bunting of South Carolina, “hen the rice his party are about to adopt the unconstitutional as well as

dried skin, which they use in their awful messes of gelatinous sonp = Alligator is likened to sucking pig, but the alligators eggs have a musky flavour.

The Australians devour even the most venomous snakes ; and those who have tried say the flavour is like collared eel, though the general likeness 1s to veal. In olden times viper broth was, to a benighted world, what turtle soup is to us ; and viper jelly is still considered a restorative in Italy. ‘The hunters of the Mississippt have, st this day, a dish called musical jack, of which they are mightily fond, though it is only a stew ot rattlesnakes.

The French are notoriously fond of frogs, and frogs command a high price im the markets of New York ; where they sell the large bul! frog, weighing sometimes half-a-pound, es well as the teader little green frog (rana esculenta), whose hind legs are so like delicate chicken, when served up with white sauces in rhe restaurants of Paris and the hotels of Vienna. Of course frogs da not escape in China, which devours everything with blood or fibre in it; and the horrid aegroes of Surinam eat the st)!] more horrid and most loathsome Surinam toad.

Saakes and frogs seem to go somehow with monkeys and pirrots ; they are all of the same eerie class together, thongh the naturalist would scoff at such a notion, and no physical geographer would countenance it. To us they suggest a se- gutur. African epicures are never more charmed than when | they can dine off a tughly seasoned, tender young monkey, baked, gipsy fashion, in the earth. Tue Rio Janeiro monkeys sre sold in the Leadentall-markets of the place, together with parrots and the pssa, a not very edible looking rodent. The great red monkey, and black spider monkey, the howling mon- key and the couxio or jacketed monkey, are all eaten by the | various people among whom they are found. Monkey tastes like rabbit, and is reported nutritious and pleasant.

Bats and fox-monkeys—the flying lemur—are also eaten ; but are neither of very respectable holding in the gastronemic

18 ripening in the field ; and the ortolan, mere luiop of idealised fat as it ig—~these are among the most celebrated of the smaller tit-bits, not forgetting the sniges and woodcock of ovr own land. | from the floor of the Legislature, and therefore leaving every Some people ast inercys. Tne grab of the pola weevil about outsider of any considerable influence and notoriety to con- the size of one’s thumb, ts much favoured in the East and West : . Besides, it is Indies ; and the grubs of most beetles, find their admirers and tend that ho hasas good e claim as another. besides, an @sophagal tomb in some or other quarter of the globe. Lo-/ yery well known that neither W. H. Pope, Esq., nor his bro- custs are a substitute for grain with the Arubs, and are ground ther. the Ilonourable James C., would be doing very great up into a kind of bread; besides being salted, smoked, and} ~ — ’ ; 3 ; Pte: a and weak with plainly boiled or roasted. ‘I'he moors think a fine fat locus: yiolence to his conscience if he wheeled round and W } superior even to pigeon, aad the Hottentots make a coffee- | the Liberals; and any sacrifice to principle or necessity 18 coloured soup of theireggs. MN bpssveapoer sey sodas as better than such a contingency as that, which might place eaten; and, indeed, the problein seems to fiod any living thing : Be oe . which does not pasa eat the furnace for the benefit of some | the Tories again in the cold shades of opposition. It is ru one’s bill of fare. ‘The white ants—teim:tes—are said to be} moured, as we write, that if Mr. Pope can be thrown over- good eating; so are ants generally, giving a pleasant acid to board, Henry Haszard, Psqr. will be appointed to the office. the preparation, whatever ti may be. ‘They are disulled with} |” ’ a nina id be ' fi rye in Sweden for the purpose of favouring inferior brandy. The We doubt if Mr. Haszard’s appointment would be much more grub, or larva, of the termites, is like the most delicious bit of | acceptable to the Conservative party. If the blockheads had

cream; but the jusciousness of a large white fat maggot, pre- not bound themselves down to such an absurd principle as

cious to the Australian native, is said to be without compare. , f he fi e the He Mr- Stupid native!—he devours the grubs of the most valuable and that of excluding all officers from the floor ot the Mou-e, - the rarest moths and butterflies ; and certain species are almost | Gray or Mr. Palmer might, with much propriety, accept the ; : ' 1 een ' “ - : f . extinct, in the plumed state, because the thirsty, parehen; wm Secretaryship ; and should the choice have fallen on the latter, entomological black seizes on that bit of living marrow, the : ; : . ; oie grub, wherever he finds it, ‘Che thrifty Chinese first wind off Mr. Heath Haviland might, with equal propriety, have been pay cocoon, then send the chrysalis of the si/kworm to table, appointed Attorney General in place of his partner, ( whose t is a pleasant acjunct in a feast where hal!-hatched eggs, sea- . . cline oe roa ae dogs are the principal dainties "Spiders emoluments of the office he will, no doubt, share), and then aN ’ =? . ’ i. . . , are delicacies of the dessert kind to the Bushmen; and Lalande | the offices mentioned would be filled by parties who really and IK Maria ee on to eat them like aa ae : have an indisputable claim to them. is said they resembie. Snats have their partisans, and Murti- my ny . - i ant to lo’s Sevilie boy eat a snail pie while he waa being painted. The Treasury is another oflice about the apaeninr Hven we rear a large white race, which we sell in Covent which there is a row, and a consequent delay in filling it up.

Garden, to be made into soup and jelly for the consumptive, | Me, J. Robins, the present efficient Assistant, has been asked

foolish principle of excluding such officers as the Secretary

aristocracy ; they have a rank odour and are unpleasant, but rere eaten, nevertheless, by the natives of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, Malabar, &c. One species of bat is good eating ; it 1s called by the naturalists the eatudle bat, and i8 said to be white, tender, and delicate ; is much favoured by the inhabitants of Trnor: for all that, 1 is a hideous beast, like a Wease!, with a ten-inch body, covered with close and shining bisck huir, and four-feet wings, when stretched to their full extent.

if the rank fox-monkey may be eaten, why not the fox? So he w. In iialy reckoned a crowning delicacy; and in the Arctic regions where fresh ment is scarce, when judiciousy in- terred in a pie, he is considered equel to any rabbit, under the sume conditions, even bred on the Sussex downs. But | strange to say, the Kequimaux dogs, which will eat anything else, will not touch fox» The skunk, the prairie wolf, and the sloth areeaten. Cats and dogs find purchasers and consumers in China, where thev are bung up in tne butchers’ shops, to- gether with badgers—iasting like wild boar—and other oddities of food,

In the South Seas. too, dog is a favourite dish, and a puppy stew isa royal feast in Zanziber ; but itis only justice to say, that | where dog is eaten tie is specially fattened for the table, | and fed on milk and such like clean'y diet. ‘Toe Australian | native dog or ding» 1s eaten by the vlacks, and by no one else ; and a South African will give a large cow for a well.s zed masuff. The uger is thought by the Malays (o tmpart bis own strength and courage to his consumer.

The American panther end the wild cat of Louisiana are said to be excellent eating ; so is the puma, which 1s so like veal in flavour that you would not know the difference blindfold, The lion, too, is almost identical with veal in colour, taste, and tex- |

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tore. Bears’ paws were jong a German delicacy; and bears’ | flesh is held equal or superior to pork by connoisseurs, having » mixed flavour, which purtakes of the jotut exceliences of both beef and pork. ‘The fat 1 as white as snow, and “if a man were to drink a quart of it,’* says one amiable enthusiast, ‘* it would never rise on his stomach!’ She tongne and hams are cured, but the head ts accounted worthless, and thrown away.

The badger tastes like wild boar ; the kangaroo is not inferior to venison, and kangarov-ta:) soup is better than half the messes which pass in London under the name of ox-tailsoup. Hashed wallaby isa dish no one need disdain, and a sinall species of | kangaroo, called pademelon, 1s as good as any hare ever cooked. An Australian native banquet is an odd mixture. Kangaroos and wallabies, oppossums and flying squirrels, kangaroo-rats, | wombats and bandicvots, al) of them more or less of the venison | type, represent the pieces de resistance: while rats, mice, snakes, snails, large white maggots, cailed cebberra, worms | aud grubs, are the little dishes and most favoured entrees. A | mice fat marmot is a treat—why aot? ‘They are pure feeders. An Esquimavx strings mice together as a Londoner strings | larks, and eats them with equal gusto.

The mask rat of Martinique is eaten, musky as it is, and in- describably loathsome to a European; and the sieek rats of the sugar-cane fields make one of the most delicious fricassees

Sagar plauiations generally maintain» yp rat-caicher,

‘their successors have yet scarcely made a beginning in patting

who believe them to be a 3 specific 0 , 528s ‘ m t Imest a specific for that complamt and coaxed to take the office, and assume all the responsibility

The Chinese gloat over seu-sing or beche de mer, and a dish of r } a certain sea-worm 1s one of the events of life to the dwellers in | attached to it; but this he would not do; and several other

the Islands of the Southera Pacific. The people of Chili eat | gentlemen have sinee been named successively as the intended barnacies as we eat whelky: the Horentots devour falls ; os ; IOIKS ’ it venots d hand 8 ! of incumbents of the office. But somehow or other their nomi-

roasted caterpiilara which taste like sugared cream or almond hesnoke se paste, and stand to them in the piace of sugar-plums and com- nations don't seem to take: Mr. J. D. Haszard bespoke secu-

fire, What a blessing it would be if we could persuade our | rities for the office more than a week ago ; and only so late as rising population to exchange dafl und mineral-coloured lozen- Friday night last, we are told that he tried very hard to drive gea for nice young harmless caterpiilars roasted in the ashes. Be ae : ; Think how the farmers would gain by the exchange ! a bargain with Mr. Robins to do the duty of the office at his

(Mr. Robins’s) present salary, while he (Mr. .) would be

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oarsssoe: | that this gentleman finds some dificulty in getting the neces-

the principal. Mr. George Wright has since been named; but we are told

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.1., APRIL 12, 1859. sary seeurity; and so the Treasury remains yet without a

rinci pal. POLITICAL CHANGES — SCRAMBLES FOR OF- : ect of Registrar of Deeds is angther stumbling block.

FICE— AND LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE, WITH | vp, J.D. Haszard—whose chances of the Treasury were from a VRRORARCS: the first pronounced nal by the party whom he has served cer- tainly not too wisely but too well—has been named in con- vection with this office ; but nearly all his own friends laugh at the nomination; and it is shrewdly suspected that as Mr. Arbuckle must be provided for in some sort of way, he will be the white-headed boy so far as filling up the Registry office

Ir seems that the formation of a Government is a very laborious and difficult undertaking, when the materials te be worked up are of the true Tory stamp, or the workmen en- gaged on the job must Le the most lamentable botches and bunglers that ever put their hands to such work. It is now

more than a week since the Liberal Government resigned, and | '8 Concerned. ?

The Excise fails to the share of the Hon. F. Longworth, and no one doubts his claim to a good office under the present

the state coach in working order. On Saturday morning His : : regime. Even the Liberals would not envy him a much better

Excellency the Lieut. Governor signified to Mr. Coles by letter

" ° ° . e ; ri le Si i i ° his acceptance of his resignation and that of his brother officers. and more honourable situation

The Attorney Generalship, we are told, is to be, or has been

Their connection with the public service then terminated, but given to Mr. Frederick Breecken. We are ata loss to make

their places are not yet filled, and at the time we write (Mon-

day afternoon) several of the most important public offices con- | out his claim to, or his peculiar fitness for the employment

nected with the public service are without any persons of | over the heads of older men at the Bar; but we presume it is

authority in them. This is utterly disgraceful. Is there a because his partner, who is an Executive Councillor, and pre- country in the world, of the most extensive area, where so | tends to be mighty independent — likes to help his cousin and much time should be taken to surround the Governor with | Partner to pocket the si/er, This is a grand way of securing a few public servants and advisers? Where are the boasted | ‘‘ the independence of the Legislature.”

strength, influence, intelligence and talent of the Tory party,| The Queen's Printership, of course. goes to Mr. Ings. Why

when they cannot agree upon the choice of scarcely a dozen |shouldn’t it? His father-in-law is an Executive Councillor— men to fill public situations, not of much more consequence | a land agent, and a land proprietor to a small extent. The than so many clerkships in a respectable mercantile establish-} Tory Government cannot do without his vote ; and the talk ment? Eight days to form a Government, and not to have it! which the Tories made while they were in opposition, about accomplished even in that time!!! Who ever heard of such | putting up the public printing to competition, will be con-

lied : imaginable—so tender, plump, cleanly, and luscious sre they. 73 thing? Om ton: 18s8 of Fobrnery last, when the House was veniently forgotten for the present, or pooh-poohed as a very |in session only a day and a half, and when the Government | impracticable measure.

but some people think that rat produces consumption, so dis- | members did not choose to attend in their places for part ofa! The Tory Government have, we understand, appointed Mr , ; : .

courage the sport. The Chinese are in a rat paradise in Cali- foruia, where rats are incredibly jJarge, highly flavoured, and very abundant; they make a dish of rats’ brtims equal to the

day, the Tories sent their erier about the streets proclaiming, Dunéin McLean to the office of Land Commissioner. We that the Liberal government was lost. [s there no patriotic | have no doubt he is quite competent to discharge its duties,

‘ : . * . . . . s famous plate of nightingales’ tongues spoken of in a certain | crier, with a single eye to his country’s welfare, who will re- and there is no man amongst the set who has worked so inde-

Roman history ; and rat--oup 1s thought by ail right-minded Ceilestiais to beat ox-tail or gravy-soup iollow,

Mr. Albert Suuh gave his impressions of Chinese fare as consisting, for the muct part, of © rais, bate, snails, bad eggs, wad hideous fish dried in (he must frigictul strtades,”? with the addition of # soup of ** large caterpillars boiled im a Uiin gravy with onions.’” India is now about to suppl China with salted rats, Which Is hoped will open a cew field of coinmercial enter- prise and fortune quite unparalleled. ‘The bandicot, dear to Australian palates, is ine pig-ret; and the vaulting rat, or jer- boa, is of the same order. The tudians eat the beaver, winch 14 suld tu be like pork ; and porcupine ts a prime favourite with the Duich, the Hovtentois, the Australians, the Hudson Bay t-appers, and the Italians. Porcupine is a croea between fow! aod sucking pig, and accounted exceedingly nutritious.

Elephants’ feet, pickled in s'rong toddy vinegar and cayenne pepper, are considered in Ceylon an Apician luxury. The trunk 18 said to resemble butfalo’s hump, and the fat isa god- send to the Bushinen, who wii] go almost any distance fora Prrtion. Hippotamus fat, too, is a treat; when salied it is tho ight superior to ovr best breakfast bacon ; and the flesh is b th palatable and nuiritiwue; the fat is used instead of butter fr making puddings, aud, indeed, for all tue erditary uses ot but er. The young tapir is like beef. and the peecary and mick hog are buii superorto the common purker, it care 1s taken ty eutent the ded orifice inthe back. Pig—the pig for whieh Charles Lamb would a'most dare a crime, and the Tromertal Chonan burnt down fis house— he pig of our child- pood, our maturity, and eete ald age—has detractors and calum-~ fiatore 5 surely wo wen who has once tasted could ever fore-

‘lieve the anxious minds of our dear public by asking in the’ fatigably for an office as he has, But let us hope that we shall

| public streets and highways what has become of the great Tory | hear no more about rejected candidates being appointed to party who promised to perform such wonderful things for the office, for the gentleman above named happens to be in this}

son-in-law, nephew, or any other relative, as exemplified in

our public affairs.

In the new Council the unfortunate “ Papists’’ have nota solitary representative. Why should they? They are only one half the population of the whole Island, and one of the leaders in the present Government has solemnly declared thas he would on no account sit under the same mahogany *‘ with a Papist ;’’ besides, there is the admonition of the defunet Pro- tector—that ill-gotten chiid of Bigotry and Fanaticiem, and whose premature decease is sorely lamented by its dry nurses,

Government.

In i851, when the Liberals first took office, the Islander was very fierce in its denunciations of members of the House of As- sembly, because six of them took the customary oath prescribed for Executive Councillors. It was then asserted, that when a member of the House of Assembly took the “‘ oath cfeervility ,”’ as it was described, he became a traitor to the people, and bartered away their rights and liberties to the Crown for his own benefit. In lovking over a file of the Js/ender for 1951, we find in its issue of the 17th June an article on the subject

over Her Majesty's Island of Prince Edward: and that I will, in the place and office of Uer Majesty's Courcillor in this Island, well and faithtfally serve her said Majesty

and promote the good ef Her Majesty's effcirs with tay best advice and counse! :—~I will, with the best of my wbility, defend this Island from all foreign invasions an intestine insurrections :—I! will not countenance or couceal any party or seditious conspiracies, or any treasonable or seditious speeches agamst Her said Majesty, Her leirs or Successors, or Lis sard Excellency, but I will give speedy notice thereof unto Elis said Excellency, or to some Member of the Council : — the secret debates of ‘the Council / will not reveal, directly or indirectly : all which I shall

to the best of my ability, perform. :

**So Help me God.”

f Edward Palmer, | Jobn H. Gray, : {| dames Yeo, . Sworn by < John Longworth,” members of T. Heath Haviland, _— James C. Pope,

| Alexander Laird, |

‘« The preceding Oath merits the gravest considerati every person who takes an interest ™ public affairs, The aa use of the Assembly is to stand between the people and the tyranny, or misgovernment, of the Crown. But under ‘* Responsible Government,” of which the principle and practice is for six of the leaders of the majority of Assembly with the concurrence and support of all the rest of that

benefit of the country when they would be allowed to form a | interesting category. The ‘* independence of the Legislature” | the Crown, for the sweets of the lucrative offices which they

Government? We understand that all the members of the | Wil! be beautifully illustrated in his person. He can’t get a Tory side of the House were in town for the first half of the | Constituency himself; but is‘at it enough for him to supply ‘week, and about that time returned to their homes, when brains to the new Queen’s Printer, to whom a new Executive ‘they fondly hoped they had put all things to rights ede tare has given a wile?

| forming a new Government; but it appears there were some | screws loose—messengers were packed off in all directions to bring back the wise statesmen from their several barn-yards;

and those patriotic men—each putting a clean shirt or dickey

| in his pocket—again trudged back to the capital, where they

| have been in solemn conclave ever since. The Leader of the | | incoming Government appears to have his hands full of some | to discover that there are others in the community whose

| employment, if we are to form any judgment from the various pretensions are quite as hegh and their claims as good. The

- yeports we have heard respecting the incursions which haye’ scramble for office promises to result in a very pretty quarrel

been made upon his premises for several days past by nha a

who think their advice may be useful in forming a Govern- |

pment, and by that numerous class who expect to on »xpe get a share | a r rosy init. Put leader and followers are evidently bewildered by | Siete

: sas : 5 f i ontlem ; : the novelty of their position, and will take some time to Tax following gentlemen were sworn in as members of tho

pe? Executive Conncil on Saturday last :~

i that it is substantially and literally correct and genuine. We do not think that any of the six worthies, pre- viously quoted, will publicly venture to deny its authenticity

indeed, directly receive any emoluments, but he has s controk over the whole patronage of the Government, which ‘he can easily turn to his pecuniary advantage or to that of his family, by appointing to :ucrative offices his brother, cousin, partner,

the conduct of the Government now assuming the control of

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the political parsons ~ did it not admonish good Protestants iv oliti: starve and exterminate al! the Catholics in the Island, or make le ni them change their religion? And we have no doubt that this =

is the policy whieh has dictated their exclusion from the new a

of the Executive Councillor's oath, very much to the point; vilans and we readily transfer it to our columns, on the principle, dander that what is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. hand The only alterations we make in the article are the substitu- Orily « tion of the name of * Sir Dominick Daly’’ for ‘+ Sir Alexander ¥ tak Bannerman,” and the insertion of the names of the preseus cr wi Councillors in the place of those who were appointed in"9851. ir. In all other respects the article is as it originally appeared— by will the arguments being, of course, as forcible now as they were ery li then~-and the editor of the IsJender tmust be delighted to sve 7 them recalled :-— (from the Islander, June 17, 18S!) [Lhe Ex-Officio OATH taken by an Executive Councillor :— ‘si do swear, that will I faith ane true allegiance bear unte We a her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and to her Heirs and Successors, and shail be true and faithful to Hie Sawn Lxcelle ney Ser Dominick Daly, «#8 he is commissioned be Liew Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and eliains

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majority, to take the foregoing Oath of servi p The A the Crown, but to Sir Dominiek. the saad er Pi Ag eeEene pleteiy deprived of the protection of the representative body _ readiness than if the Assembly had no existence. It has been converted Mr. Pre into an engine of oppression, to which the will of the — Cou Crown is law. The men who have sworn, and the members Mr. Spe who support them, have alike repudiated that fidelity which . Ti

they pledged to their constituents on the hustings; and the 7 Preidan people, cheated with the forms of free institutions, have been ; ed the ia betrayed and sold by their representatives to the diseretion of | has founc now enjoy. The interests and affairs of the people a: ten | posed to c in antagonism to those of the Sean - and au ome , see the Responsibles nave thrown their coastituents “ over- festl board,”’ and, sworn to *+ serve’? and‘ promot ” exclusivel Sin “a ‘** Her Majesty's affairs,’’ or intorests. . Her Maj bo ‘+ It is difficult to define the ** spific’’ legal interpretation’of | 28 the su ) ati he above’ article sean wecithen,, we leaks tat Hiiery seditious speeches,’’ but we imag:ne that within the meani “Tovinces Hasuand. “ill.” Gali dtlemnandi ht ti w HP and precedents of the law it would he utterly destruetive The Ac a » Esq ‘ is competitor, W. H. Pope, | free discussion. And yet if any of the members aforesaid n this Is 'Esqr., and carried off the prize of the Colonial Secretaryship. | "a their confiding constituents utter * seditious speeches” ‘rom the There is no doubt that Mr. Ilaszard’s claim to the office is | Bloody Depue i = a minick, on account ‘of the i , . F ch, for example, the ot, wi juri vocument

nearly as good as Mr. Pope’s; but their own party will be apt | themselves, refrain from cmanie deamaie pag Dont nicht ) you. | or to some of his Council, for the matter to be debated in Copies Secret inquisition. In plain English, ** Responsible Govern- Commins “ment »” has perverted the majority of the Assembly into = ‘un, wh Government spies upon their constituents! The absentee @ “ent top ‘Proprietors knew well what they were doing when they - | noneyoinas - ot Minister tu extend Responsible Govern- vn a"

‘NTLE rer noe __, |inent to this Island. ishery THE GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE TAKEN TUE “OATH! «© Weare aware it wil] be said that the Oath isan invention seoneny ‘of the Islander ; but the public may rely, wich the utmost insiders . ) dy >

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