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fuuds of thie Colent ? The organization of military corps, and the management of a) matters canmected with unlilery effarra w unde: the centro’ of the Commander-in-chief. Wiih the exceprion of procuring money for their support all else ia in the prerogative of te Lieut. Governor, ae given ander the

Royal teractions. Se tar as military matters ave concerned, t

bt ensy say 1 aus not ia the confidence of Hie Excellency. Tuat prviege be ongs to (he Adjutant General, why ts the adviser | vf the Coummander-ig-Chief ou miliary affairs. Neier am I versed in matters coam cted with Volunteer companies ; nor

did f know, til imformed by the hon, member who has just | Mis been made that the House do go inte Committees on the Bill, it)

spoken. that it wae operative on Volun eérs §) bo Orangemen. |

I remember that | calied tue attention of the Duke of Ne

castle, who wos con! esce ning ehough to Converse with me Ou} Davies moved an amendment that the whole number be 13, and that| 1 the gubject, tothe Voluuieers. Le Grace referred particular- | Charlottetown and Royalty have the privilege of returning one member, | to be proud of such protectors!

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limited amount of money at our disposal will not admit of our voting a sam sufficiently large towards this object. To be continued, J. D. Gonpvon, Reporter.

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS. Frioay, March 22.

The time of the House in the forenoon was occup‘ed in debate on the second reading of the Elective Legisla:ive Counci) Bill, A motion

was curried by a large majority. In the afternoon the Bill was taken /up in Committee, and when the clause was read in reforence to the num-

*~| ber of members in al]—12, and the number for each County—4, Mr.

Ghe Examiner.

‘on your Excellency by your shameless advisers, whose duty it was to hold consultation on petitions against any Govern- iment Act, and to draw up good, sound and strong arguments ‘against the prayer of such petitions. Why, the croaking | Kook will risk its life in defence of its young ones ; and your Kxcellency’s advisers did not raise a voice, nor write @ line, | nor utter a syilab!e in favour of their own baniling : only | put it into the cradle to be rocked to death or smothered by Mr. Brace Stewart, Mr. Char'es Wright, and the other wz- known. petitioners; and this even while the wretched thing | was only in an embryo stale! What paternal fathers your | Ministry must be! and bow great reagon the tenautry have {bere is no part of Colonial

1¢ whole. which is for signatures. He came ia with @ barre! of hering which he had forsde. He and the chief co: sable of Beltast Court met at Owen Clarkin’s; he then went eo far as Day Mooney’s,

| poor as this very district, to take it om U the reason that Dan. Mrase- is offering on behalf of the Go- verniwent land on Lot 54 for Ds. per acre for the best, aud }where he met with afew men breaking rood-, a few of whom 20s. per hundred acres for inferior ; and consequently there) ivped it, shihough they don’t know the subsiance of he ta will be a great many who will accept the offer next fail when lhe told them the last adérs« was uo good, as it wos bigned b they will be selling, or bave to sell their present improvc- so tquy children. A’! the signsturea he got he wrote them on ments for the purpose of paying the Moutague Monaghans, | the table where he and a tew others were tuking their glass, and others also, the money that they borrowed from them, When os ~~ po ee ? ~ — ae the ” A ’ - 5 ’ we piper Which Changec P Colt: rom White to eddish colar, for Dan. Mooney, Owen Clarkin, Johnny Conly and Owen | os aero aaa soli e-oaa on BR he < Slavia must have it when it becomes due. : ver at I was nearly forgetting that old Martin OB ien, of Mon- | was there, says none of them could tel! the substance of it, “a” tague, is very angry at the Editor of the Examiner for print- few of them wh» signed it did it for she purpose of ge ting ing his name, as if be was at the presenting of the Belfast! fyyuur trou Sandy, as they generally have a good anp-ga.t address to the Governor, for he says thot he never saw the | before hin ; and he told them then and there that he

howe, and he would write it over agein. My informant, whe

, ; = —s tis’ motién | suberbatortal tice better cstablished than that of sending as op bes “aii be

ly tu one Cutapauy ; and | may atate that | did fee) proud of | After some discussivn, on the question being put on Mr. Davies’ motion, } gudernatoria prac . n oa “een sh the het s- would always shew them adl kinds of justice at the cour: lie * ag i . : rot an até ne ncers very much that the towns- | ) J . * oe

hee company, aud would be glad to be their Leader, and to) there appeared, un answer by the Government, accompany lug uny complaint | good man at all; and he wo ery “

have an opporwunisy of shewing them in Lyde Park ; aad their, Capain is avything bur wa Orangeman. Hon. Mr. COLES-~1 did noi suy they were ali Orangemen.

For &—Nons. Spoaker, Yeo, Gray, Haviland, Longworth, Laird; Messrs. Davies, Owen, Holm, M‘Neill, oer, Montgomery, Kawsay. —t4.

! - | Against it—~Hons. Coles, Whelan, Hemsley, Thornton, Wightman, |

Moa, Col. GRAY—Ia my opinion, Mr. Chairman, this | Kelly; Messrs. Coure » Sinclair, Doyle, Cooper. —10. Y %} y y

House, in regard to military mutters, should Lo guided by |

the rules of the military commanders at Home. For the in-| formation of any bon. members who may not be aware of the |

fact, | may state that in Great Britain there are three distinct |

Sarurpay, March 23.

| Mr. Beer introduced a Bill to prevent congregations being disturbed

or disquieted during the performance of publio worship. Hon. Mr Haviland ‘utreduced a Bill for the protection of copyright. House

} or remonstrance against any of its acis or proceedings. Karl | Mulgrave, Governor of Nova Scotia, very recently held over for a fortnight a letter of complaint of Mr. Johnston, against some acts of his Government, to the Duke of Neweastle; and then furwarded replies from his Government to every para- _graph of the complaint, which enabled the Duke to compare

‘both at the same time, and judge accordingly. This course

budies of Troops—the Regalar Army, Militia and Volunteers ; | again resolved itself into Committee on the Elective Legislative Council | algo enabled Marl Mulgrave to lay both documents before the

the Regular Army is divided into Cavalry, Artillery, Engi- Bill, and after some time spent therein, the Bill was reported agrecd | - in the Cavalry again we have Guards | to with several amendments. Hon. Mr. Thornton moved that the Bill

neers, and lufantry and line Regiments--in the Artillery [Morse and Foot—wh le | in the Lolavtry, there are Guards, Rifles, Fusileers, Light In-| fantry, and line Regiments. The guards have many privileges |

be referred back to Committee, for the purpose of amending the sate, by striking out that part which gives Caarluttetown a member of the Legislative Council—taction lest 10 to Bl. Mr. Cvoper then moved that the Bill be referred back to Committee for amendment by altering the

Legislature. And I regret much that your Excellency did /uot act in the same way with respect to the petitions against ) the Act to give effect to the report of the Laud Commission- ‘ers; and if you bad not been advised by a Compact whose

over the others, such as the Commissioned Officers have cer- | mode of election, by enacting —“ Taat of the first Council to be consti- | iuterest it is to keep the tnantry in bondige, your Excel-

tain rights jn the presence of the Sovereign. The regulaz| Militia is a splendid body of men, who did god service ia the | Mediterranean during the late war with Ragsia. The Volun-) teers have not been lang organized, but promises to be a valu- eble arm in defence of the homes of Brisain, as weil as the

Cvbonies aleo. The Regular Army is governed by the Mutiny |

Act and Articlus of War, which applies also to the Militia, | /4tive C-uncil, and inserting the following in ticu thereof—“ The Crown |

with slight exceptious, the Militia nut being liable te corparal |

unishment. The troops of the Regular Army are enlisted |

ur terms of 7, 14, 21 years and for life. The M litia is in a! measure a levy en masse, called ont by the Lord Lieutenants of Counties; they are not bound to quit Britain unless they | choose to volunteer. Parliament cannot order them out ot | tueit own County. Allusion bas been made by the hon. mem- | ber whe spuke last to the Commanding Officers of the Militia | of the line in these Provinces veing liable, with their wen, to | be called upon to pettorm gertain duties not devolving Spon | Shem in theit military capacity. 1 remember that once in a} cvuntry where we were at that time, soldiers of the line were | ealled upon to make rouds and bridges. For th:s purpose they | volanteered, and for two years they perlormed this duty, and | then they went buck to their respective regiments These, | hewever, were officers and soldiers of the line, and no¢ Volun- | teers. Fer these reasons [ cannot admit that the Militia Act, |

tuted under this Act, the Lieut’ Governor ia Council shall appoint five members, and the rest to be returned by vote of two thirds of the House of Assembly, and all vacancies in the Council, by rotation and otherwise,

manncr’’—motion lost 4 to 20. Mr. Sinciair then moved that the Bill be referred back to Committeo, for amendments, by strik-ag out the clause cnacting that the Crown shall have no power to dissolve the Legis-

shali not have power to diesulve the Legislative Council, except in the

leney would bave acted precisely the same as Karl Mulgrave

| did; and here we seo hew true are the words of Seripture,

. of ee . an esta 79 . te | hereatter to be filled up, by vete of the House of Assembly, in like which Says ‘ib is impossible to serve (wo masters ;”’ but ua

| fortunately for the poor tenantry, tue proprietors are richer | masters, and therefore better able to reward the serv.ces o! | the Government than the tenantry are. Besices, there was

la prospect, or at least a vain hope, that the tenan'ry m g'it

event of a rejection by the said Legislative Council, in two successive | not detect the fraxd until after another general election.

| sessions, of # measure which shall have passed the House of Assembly |

in the game two successive sessivns, and the said measure after its first rejection having been tested by dissolution of the House of Assembly”

| There are few persons in this [sla..d who do not very strongly | believe (if auy doubt can exist) that your Excellency’s Colo-

—motion lost J tol) The report of the Committee was then agreed | nial Seeretary, with the whole of the Compact faction, were

to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed. Ton. Mr, Longworth intro- |

duced a Bill to alter the time for holding the winter term of the Su-

parties to the petitions against the Act getting Her Majesty's

preme Court fur King’s County, by making it several weeks earlier in| sanction ; and euch being the case, it is eusy enough {o account

the seasun. Several petitions were presented, Hon. Mr, Haviland in- |

| troduced a Bill to incorporate the Gulf Expreas and Telegraph Company. |

The Bill to cousvlidute and amend the Laws relating to the conveyance |

for the detention of the Act from April to October here in the te:der care of W. LI. Pope, to be strangled in due time

of real estate by warried women, was read a seeond time and passed} between himself and his associates ; while he published an

through Committee. The King’s County Court Bill was read a gecond time, oumimitted to Committee, and progress reported. Lon. Mr. Longworth, from the Committee to prepare a Hill to incorporate the Ro. man Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown, presented a Dill, which was read | # first tine. | Monday, April 25. |

The Congrozation disturbance Bill was read a seeond time and passed

which empowers Militia Colonels to call out certain men and | through Committee. Tue Elective Legislative Council Billi was read a| officers to perform certain services, apart {rom their military | third time and passed. The Copyright Bill was read @ secoud time and

duties, bas any bearing on the question before this hon. Com- passed through Cewmitiee. Tae Bishop of Charlottetown ineorporation |

amittee. The real question is, do we require Volunteers? If this House answers in the affirmative, then it is apparent a | law will be necessary fur their regulation, because it would

Bili was read a secoud time and cowwitied to Committee—progress re ported, The B.tl to incorporate the Gutf Express and Telegraph Company, |

Was read a second time, and committed to Committee—progress report- |

be # serious matter to put arms in the hands of any body of/ed. Hon. Mr Thorutoa presented a Bill to incorporate the Trustees | 1uvn unless under restrictions. We must admit, too, I think, | of St. Daastaa’s College. fon. Mr. Coles from the Comuiitee to ageer- |

July last, in the Royal Gazette, that “ your Excellency had received a Despatch from the Colonial Ofjice, acknowledging the receipt of the Act to give effect to the award of the Land Commissioners.” Disebarge from the public service your Colcnial Secretary aud your ofher advisers, is the sin- cere advice of Your Execcllency’s good friend, ABERDUMBEE WILUOCK.

P. 38. Just as T was about to send off the foregoing to your Fxeel ency, { reecived « dispatch from “ My Own Ccrrespon- dent,” informing me that one of your Councillors has taken a very unwarrantable liberty with my name in the Liouse of

: . ; ; se) put Fraicis Di gherds’s nome to it, who wag in town, and. wen print euch lies; and he says that he sees there is nouse | pul & eam » nda in S losine any oue now, for be says that Tom Brennick few others who were not at home ; aiso, althouzh there wage

. . ¥ great many who refused their signatur 6 °o it, and wou'd not and himself were both in the woods that day, the i4th of sige any thing be wee connecied with, LGen be dineetat

February, but as it was St. Valentine's day, he says, pel) his herring he returned im high glee, both he and hie

is a stranger here; for only be is a stranger be might know | and he wes very sorry tor 1, a8 he put a wamber of the acholans very well that he would not help to collect any rents for the wames to it before for him. He must teink the Governors Laudlords, for that both his © heart and his voice” is with | very vain a when wry vo to a wehute ss 1D getting » ne ° save he is str at "TS ? ick | Sigestures for (ve purpose of p easing huin, the poor tevants; and he says he is eure tbat Toa Brenuick | Beltast, March 28. 3 cB is of the same opinion ss bimaclf. }

Yours, &e., To rae Eorror oy ruz Examineyn.

Sin—Seeing your widely circulated and well conducted columns open .o receive communications on the all a

TRITU TELLER.

Belfast, Lot 58, March 28, 1861.

P,. S.— Martiu O- Brien’s opinion is pretty correct that the: eubject of Kdueation, perhaps you may fied « corner for one address was, perhaps, intended for a Valentiue to his Ex-| conuected with that subject, thouzh hitherto overlooked, celleney. ‘There was uo way of appeasing his ooger until he} wien I came to this Island I may safely assert that there thought of the day being Valentiae’s, the 14th February. | vas not a native teacher euzaged on its surface. A few | Years afterwards a class of wen arrived, who, in the face of

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To rue Eprron or tax Examiner. | discouragements and ie ag now happily unknown, com- 3 i dll i ot al — menced to enlightew the minds of the then rising generation Sin—I sce bya letter in the last Lraminer signed) 4 fow of these gentlemen are still at their posts, and while * Rouch,”’ dated at a place called Montugue,that the meeting | 7 pontion their names I wish it to be distiuetly und which was held at Beifast Cross Roads wus beld on the ith that it is not my intention to cast a shade over the a oi Vebruary, and | also have secn in a previous Examiner any other who may be equally deset ving, though I do nos that the address was a on the 14th . eae |i now thes. The late A.ex. Brown. K-qr., for a long time wonth. Now, they must have been very expert if they got) jnsily styled the father of teachora, Robert Robertson. St * 9U6 others” than the deputation to sign it between the 12h | "porces Road. John Butler, Lot 48, Joim MeNeill, New and 14ch—that is to va in = day ; and ere ne Perth, Joho Brooks, Murray Harbor, and Donald I 4 not have been SUG people at the Uourt on that day ; and i | Elliot River. Out of ti gentlemeu’s schools, without any

there were that many litigants [ doubt if the Selkirk Etate! pnts oid 3 enn name legisiators, merchants, clerks ‘B will be ‘*self-sustaining,” taking the £18,000 arrears of numbers oat a goodly number of oa present respectable rent aud the numbers attending Court cs a criterion, There! teachers, even of those why have lately passed the ecratiny

will be a great many short of their next instalments. By-/ ot the Board of Education, ut how bave shese gentlemen the-bye, | heard tha’ Mr. Aldous was duwa there last weck, | been treated by the present party in power? By being ex- striving to eollect the arrears of the first instalment. I empted from further trouble and rewarded with the highest wonder if they are any of the people deecribed by oue of (be | salary given to district school teachers—a reward well de« deleg ites from Murray Harbor when, before the Royal Land | served, and oue to which two-thirds of our population would Commissivn, as pot knowing the taste of molasses, | consider them justly eutitled? Nv, Sir, but they must, ip

Yours, &e., | their declining years, afier devuiing their energics an] wast- | ug their superior talents in the public service fur upwards

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haps, that they were playing tricks on the Governor, as ai Mr. Suuth, who aceynpanied hun last ume, hed gone howe,

New Perth, King’s County, March 23, 1861.

(of thirty years, again Submit to tue trouble and expenseof |

tuat such a force is abwolutely necessary. Waris probah!y | ‘ain the nuwber of writs issued for the recovery of arrears of rent since |

near our doors; the Emperor of France has 750,060 men at present bearing arms. His language, tuo, is defiant, fur he

nation ~—that the French are going to stand upon their own | round. This bold language and defiant attitude of the French | wmperor aluost makes Europe tremble. Any hour in the day |

| As : it w towards your the first of May last, preseutda report, from which it appears that Assewbly ;_but as it would not be decorous to bet

oo F Pigt ks qs there have bewn 17 writs fur rent, and 76 common processes, by proprie- Excelleney to break off my correspondence with you to notice

ferred to the Mouse when in Committee un the petitions praying action

> F le of mont no I bring tv prevent dieteaias he 40nt. | man that in the course of a couple of months, when I g

; : -. orere > Tvsspay, March 26. | ™Y present series to a close, that [ shall not forget A7m. In Several petitions were presented. House aguin went into Committee the meantime, hewever, L can assure that gentleman that I

P. S.—It is something astonishing te see the names of ' audther examination, or in disgust at public ingratitude

OBrien, Murphy and Brennick sigued as some of the depu- | abandon a calling the interests of which they had done more

“on any emergeney,” to support Landlordism and a Proprie- | does not this treatment speak in loud tones of Warning to the tary Government to distrain and enforce the payments of young mea who now cnter on that calling, though, cowpara-

' epeaks to the effect that he is nut to be dictated to by any. ors, the cause vf action for the latter not stated. The report was re-| him, I beg, throuzh your Excelleucy, to inform that a tation to bis Kxcelleney, offering their serviees to be ready, | to promote tham auy other elass ou the Island, But, sir,

a . ; rents and arrears of rents trom all the tenantry throughout tively speaking, iv silver slippers, did avy of them intend to we may have a Privateer upon us from St Pierre or Miquelon, | on = report of thy Commissioners for revising the Laws, &e.. several | am neither 80 mad nor so crazy out that | know | have for-| ne whole Island. Well! well!! well th! will they do it make it his business for life qwhich alas is pot the case)” wad in such an emergency what could private men do towards | comaions ya ogee agreed tor pad a ce eras © ee gotten more law than he ever ivarned, and that I am able to; [ wonder. But it is to be hoped they were deceived by some | would not such treatment be sufficient to deter bim frow his

defendipg themselves or their country? A corvette having |? =" Sener wrieherss ee ee ee ee d as I way be in the estimation of “the Board.” ts cls . a i ‘

100 men on board wight run inte this port on any morniag, > “mmitice on the consideration of the petitions praying for action ty; face Dim, Dad as tb way be in the estunation be SOare, fof the parties in whom they had confidence. Perhaps the, purpose? This small boon justly due to this class, at least

, : 2 . . 6e : . ° ” " -¢ e — i nt . s . i, . ‘ t cir erewa might march to the Bank, and say—'* We will | tigers oe Le as lee rae ; gene 7 a ae, rs that “there is nothing like leather,” and that if 1 bad him | schoo}master alluded to in Roach’s letter. 1 am sure theyhad while they are teaching, would certainly encourage othets te 2 4 v 0 inte order of the day, a ebate ensued, ch | Rie : . ‘ .* + a . shank you f-r what your coffers contain ’—then they might Sooanted ie oh atthe Means aaa eee — pr pt eeerantney here at present | would give his shoulders the taste of as uo confidence in Sandy Singels, the new Coroner. jimitate their noble exrmple ; and a lew words in advocacy _ good a thong of “cowhide” as ever was tauued at * L———h | J. D. fof a principle on which the psosperity of our educational

proeved to the various stores, demand anything they choose, | Wepwespary, March 27. | i” sad before sunset leave with a cargo worth £20,000; and) 44. deme tines ‘spint ta Gebatd en petitions, secpecting ortecss et| U#!l- coe eee na =o a —— may evnfideatiy be exp ected from i } .

ceuld men in @ private re resist them successfully 2 I, rent, the motivo that the Honse go iuto Committee thereon, was agreed |

leave this Llouse to answer. re are not 306 fe es some im- , to, and the greater part of the rewainder of the day occupied in discuss- | Sir—Though my ayersion of obtruding my own views on | Sir, the mabugement of-publie afizirs wil soon fall into wzine. True, the Commander-in-Chief might eall out the | ing a resulution submitted by the Hon. Mr. Cules, to the effect that; Srr—As the famous Belfast address has given rise to &@! public notiee hus hitherto prevented we from troubling QBY other bands; aed shoud this edipcomaieation pear the Militia, but what could they do without arms? His Grace | the Mouse be recuusmended to pass a Bill to prevent distraiuts fur arrears ee ; . Pon ig of the day with » yadueti | OSG > : =p ’

the Duke of Newcastle expressly alluded to the Volunteers, of rent. It was resulved that on Wednesday next the House do take 8°04 deal of dscussicn in the country, perhaps it Would not of the public journals of the day f ny P di sone, 20m | writer may,at a future period, send another, treaiing on some elcid * aun thot, Gb the Militia.’ To callout the Mi. | UP she petitions lying ou the table, | be amiss to offer a few observaiions upon that extraordinary | of oe acts of “em sie abtontieeainiealoaias ant reforms iu our educational system, which be knows would a. a . ; i Sanie -. : --. 2 | 28 r've such a turn to pu eae ood, | ‘ cor ; ie erate ae pe mh = _Old _ a —— affair; aad the very extraordinury manner in which it met heb es tempted to saa you @ short account a things ag satiefy & large Wa} tity of ibe eowutry.

would not l1ga oe pressed into service. ut, Sir, if 38 dil- | ;

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To Tur Epjtor or tee Examiner.

Tuvaspay, March 28. Some petitions presented. The Bill to incorporate the Trustees ef got up; and how all the signatures to it were obtained.

! : ; a casi - i ay judze of hing: Yours respeetfwil 4 » ae St. Duustan’s College, was read a second time and passed through Com- ad a aa : _. | they stand here at present; ana if we way jadze of anything ; . speet . y: . oo ferent with the y vianteere. They aro enrolled willingly, and mittee Hon. lir. Longworth presented s Bili to amend the Act of last | It appears fiom “we letrer of your correspondent from | from outward appearance, it may be rafely stated that if the March 21, 1801. UNE OF TUR PEOPLE. < ure delighted with the thoaght of seeking glory at the can- session for revising and reprinting tue Laws. The Biil to iscurporate: Montague, * Roache,’ and also from a statewent published | present Government Lave any hope wf surviving the present: Soper pene piste

nun’s mouth. Militiamen woald prefer their quiet ficesides the Bishop of Charwttetown was again taken up in Committee, and re- ratrer than the feid of battle with all its privations. The | ported agreed tu. House again weat inte Coimmittee on petitions res- service perforwad !y Volunteers is one grave and solemn, and | Pecting arrears of rent, aud debate continued till hour ef adjourument. quite different frou that required of the Militia. During the | D. Latrp, Keporter. jast twelve muoth«, Mr. Chairman, | may say [ was delight-| <= = ed with the young men in our Volunteer Corps; and they! corteinly reflected great credit upon Ifis Excellency the Lieut. (ivverner. They are the ground work ef a noble force. 1! would be glid to be at their head when an armed furce from | ne St. Pierre or Miquelon pe sey this city. Let 50 deter | (No. 5)

mined men, with « couple of light field guns, moet each boas | » 21 ow We ow oo a it lands, and I aa pach mistaken in & Volanteers if they | ABERDUMBEE WILHOCK, Esqx, TO HIS EXCEL- would not te easily dispose of them. (Hear.) I ae LENCY LIEUT. GOVEROR DUNDAS~GREETING. then that the Volunteer furee, when prope-ly established, will Wii } ala? 40 us math: gied, for there would eal diffoulty in or-| Since I last addressed your Excellency I bave sought in

ganizing the Militia in © Co ony such as this. Respecting | i" for a few words in Worcester’s Improved Dictionary of

Correspondence,

the apppointment of Militia Ullicers to serve in Volnntecr | the English Language, but could fiud none sufficiently ex.)

Corps, it is inadmissuble. I remember having oceasion last pressive of the diabulical infamy of those who advised your year to complain to His Excellency on this sabject, as I had | Excellency to withhold the Bill or “ Act to give effect to the heard a Captain of the 2nd Queen's County Regiment in Lot report of the Coumissiouers on the Land Question,” uatil = “ a ap all Captain of a Sere rein meek the first of October, to oblige the Land claimants at the ex- vuld have is commission vacated in the Kegiment and | d disappointment ot the poor tenapts. " iven ty another, but it turned out to be the Captain's son. | oe a d rh thew taal ae aha teen — fie. Chairman, we may be told the Laws for the better go | 0/em Stated, of h 4 saan = 7 en ee > verowent of the Militia are good, but the question arises will | dbus thus Wie Uibintg tare Wisse ' ‘anh x. oo ane *) the Volunteers submit to come under these Laws? I think ‘ha - : abide by the deciyion not—the Mutiny Act is very severe. I cast no reflections up-| or report of the Commissioners; while the very fact of the on any, but [ may state that I heard of the conduct of certain) Act to bind the Land claimants not having been forwarded hry a here. Gy smeehs "ar tier Gap echaet ee in das ht = a — ations, a eae se en t M : . onde ~ it was done for the sole purpose of freeing them (the Lan sives liable to the punishment of deatu ace rding to the pro- | claimants) from any ceygagewent whatever. I bave heard visions of tais Act. [ would ask then, do the Volunteers wish | the circumstance very justiy compared t bitcntiie Rend to come under this Stasut:, which punishes wit death dis e- '¢ circums i Lyte! Pca Ma gros ange eh phamaig: gages pen spect to @ superior ufficer? Disrespect to a superior officer is | oo was duly na 4 oue of 7 a 8, “al dean & heiaous crime. 1 once saw a fine suldier shot for this offence. ether party said, ** 1 bave you bound uow, and it wi His Corporal suid tu him * go,’ and he answered +1 will time enough for me to sign it when I shall know what the not.” A Corporal, too, is the lowest non-comm ssion- d vfficer gward may be." And so it is with your Excelleney’s Go- inthe army. f think it is obvivas, then, that our young men | vernient, who, being Proprietors and A gents themselves, will net consent to come under the Militia Law. We must!:) wo. their policy nut to bind thomselves ty any thing unless

ave - a eee = peasant: on tin, | the report should be favourable to their own desires to keep

New Branswick, Canada, and Great Britain itself. If Volun- | the poor tenants in bondage. Such cunningly devised machi-|

teers areto be eurulled they should have their Sergesnt-Ma- uations may be meritorious on the part of your Colonial jora or Adjutanis. Do thia hon. Committee want to have the Secretary, whose tame ts eo far and widely extended all over rill s we already possess

worth £16,000, but if they are not looked after, in the course |

rved? These stand of »rms are | the Islaud, that vo ove who knows him would expect better

from him, because he might say, when accused, the same as

in the Islander n-wspaper, that the mecting, at which the

parliamentary term, they shall have so regret the manifest :

address was adopte i, was beld on the 12th of February, at! insincerity and gross dapheity which ¢aracterise some of . . . ‘ * . ' * ¢ . ba ae . ae

| Belfass Cross Roads, in the very building in which the Small | their late progeedinzs. Of all the public a's of our Goverii-

j ment, the most iuportant, ana that which ive. “ost waryersall ho LI5G they have speatel the pao. © mun y

| Debts Court bulds its sitting. Mr. Alex. McLean, one o ‘the Commissioners of the Cuurt, proposing, und one of the | Bailiffs, kuowo in this district by the soubriquet of « Aonesr

Jack More-fee, the constalle,” seeondiug the reso!uicns |The ouly persons preseut at this meeting were such poor devils as were compelled to “ be aad appear” there in answei

to sutemouses issued from that Court ; eud who, for the sake | of obtaining from the Court a fiw weeks’ indulgence, would 1 if required to do so, sign their own death-warrant.

‘the time when the address was adopted, viz. 2th ifebruary | ; until it appeared in the Isfander of the 15th of that mouth,

it is quite reasonab'e to cuueiade that a vast majority of the | , Signatures of the * 906 others” were forged ; and that the

jonly genuine sgnatures to the address were those of the | parties who were in attendance at the Court when ihe address was first submitted. And we all know that tacy are not the very best characters that are seen loafing about the Belfast | Cross Roads on Court days. That the whole of a large dis- | trict could be perambulated, the assent and eonsent, and also | the signatures of 906 of the principal inhabitauts, (resident householders of course) obtained to the uddress—a deputa- | tion composed of persons from varicus parts of the district | formed—that deputation travelling to Charlottetowo—wait- | ing upon his Excelleuey—presenting the aldress—and that | address with the auswer thereto appearing in the Islander in | the short space of three days—is, to say the least of it, more than will ever obiain credence, even with the most eredalous. No, the thing is utterly impossibie, t is, indeed, very sur- prisiug that the paid conecoctors of the address—to say nothing of the Leut, Governor—who received it, and who Ought lo possess, at least, sowie common sagacity, would be so blind and so stupid as not to allow the thing to grow a little older before they sent it to the Islander office for pub- licity, without waiting to ask themselves the question, | whether their doing 6o would be attended with a good or a

i

| bad result,

| dissatesfaction, is ~the Land Commission,—thoug’ ti} wery |

lately antivipat on was on tiptoe as to the benetics 1 reaalts

i which Were sure to acerue to the tenan ry frum fois same - | Commission, Which was generally coasidered to be at edimi- | rable specimen of poplar legislation. Indeed so popular vas

this measure, ane so exiravagant the expeetations wioch s+

|) called forth in sume parts of tue country, that it was prophe-

ae

jsted by a few of cur Government's must enthusiastic admirers, |

| that future generations would vrateiully cherish the memory

, : jof the philanthropic Government which concocted it, while | When one considers the very short time thit elep-ed from | °) ‘O° bilsanbircpic Cave fy na reggae Sere

vilivrs suggested Mr. LePage should be aalled upon to employ iis poctic genius in the c mpositien of u great punegyric,

}sumewhat alter the mannerof Virgil's Baocoliea, in the good

Uvve. RmeNts praise, justly thinking that onee consecrated by genius and embalmed in verse, the memory of this glorious act could never perish.

Bat, unfortunately, both fur the deseiving Government and the deceived tenantiry,this extraordinary popularity wax des- tined soon to pass away. and give place to another and more meri ed sentiment (so for us the Government is concerned) of an opp.site matare. No sooner did tne people here become acquainted with the manner in which the Act to give effeet to the award of the Commissiupers was treated by our faith/ul Government, than they began to suspect their honesty in the cause which they professed to advocate—the interests of the people. They consider it a gross incousistency for any states- man to support and praise a measure which he knew irom the first would never come into effeet. These are a few of the causes which have lessened the popularity of the Government in this part of the country.

I happened, not very long ago, to fall in with one of our most intelligent, tre and most inflaential men bere—(his inflaence does not proceed from his wealth, but from his cra- turical talents and moral rectitude)—who is of opinion that the last shadow of hope that the Land Commission will ever do any good is fast disappearing. Lie proposes that the people themselves appoint a Commission, or rather delogates, with power to confer with the proprietors—wake reasonable offers to them ; and if they are accepted, call upon them to preduce their titles. Then, every proprietur who is prepared tu do so,

T> ror Fp:rexn oy THe Exasiae re Siz —Cen you mitora as why the ciy iad of Realrie have bern e&» silent at wont (ook place at the Shmk Vox bHhargital for i ain, &e.. RK. Fi

ee

Fos tos Esasutnre. : \CSSE OF BABACH OF PROMISE IN NEW RBRUNSWICK. .

iast week, before Fulzge Parker aud a-sp-eial pary) a Mest aime-ieg exhibtion o law, hove, hawzgbter and pevundary enternsiz: Was peslormed in the Cireutt Ceort of 3. Juhu. It was ah action for a Breach of Promise of Marriage, om-

meneed QDd preeecuted by Mis Elen Susith, Spi et

ugainst M’. rwncks Qiementson, Duchelor, Uewusel,.

‘in the law of the tand, end ezperienced in the law of evurt- iship and matiigiony, were employed for bots sides, ait brought te the Darrister's table ponderous briefs and still more pouderous piles of lese-lesters, written by Vraueis to jhis * dear Kilen,’” aad Ly tbe said Elen to ber * affection jate Frank.” In these enawoured effusions tbe mort devoted (attachment and unchanging alecivn were professed Ser each other. The number of lovers’ adjectives in the Magliae language would seem t» be compietely exhansted in this cor- | respondence, which extended over a space of eight years. ‘The learned Julge classifiel the seters from Francis td

| Kilen as being addressed—Dear Kilen, my dear leo, my dearest Ellen, my own beloved Ellen, avd last that fatal one, ‘formally beginning, “* Dear Miss Smith.” One bundved and four letters were produecd ia Court, and read with appro priate emphasis, to the delight of a crowded andienes of the bar and public.

| Miss Kilen Smith is the daughter of a respectable phyt- ‘cian ; is, probably, thirty-eight years of age; is gox— well ‘rather good looking, ouly that her appearance manifested | proofs of a shattered constitution, and told the tale of » for Jorn mind that “loved not wisely but too well.” She

evidence in the case, disclosing all the nice couversations sear

is to be paid according to agreement; but every one who is the garden gate and alone in the parlor, the protestations of

* whenthe Ceamander-in-Chief appointed a

of three years they will not be worth £5000. A young man! he gid, as is reported of him, to the Cashier of the Bank on taking up « rifle for the first time is not supposed to know|,) ’ : pas ’ bow t sty the luek to pieces, or to clean ad, ale Ser- | that be oe He worth a eine _but although your ge«nt-Majors slould be appointed in each Company to lock | Excelieney’s advisers are as bankrupt in principle as the after all these things. It remains for this House to vote a Coivnial Seeretary, yet with respect to your own future pros- small sam, if bou. members wish to further the efficiency of | pects, the case is widely different—this being your first essay this force. If we do so Mis Grace the Duke of Newe stle} at the trade of governing a Colony; and while you persist wili send as more rifles, and thea a will stand a bet-| in keeping such meu about you, 1 the vain endeavour to ter chance of boing supplied. The hea the leader of the Op-! govern a large majority bya small minority, ition referred to the appointment of my hon. colleague too. that 1 sce no ho a ot wee ade tal ‘ regret to Major of Volunteers for Queen’s County. lo England the | * y, br Y. y 0 ng involved iv their rule ohtaining is, when a Corps is first organized, officers are | °#!!Y Overthrow. Your Gover vment who have so far done selected indiscriminately. An officer who has served in the al in their power for the Laudiord, and nothing at all for regular army may go in as a privsie, a Major who has served the Tenants, have set up large claims to popular favour for in the lar arwy way be appointed Captain of Volunteers, having passed the Resolutions and Address to Her Majesty while a civilira may at once be appoiuted Colone! ; therefore praying for the Land Commission, as well as the Bill or Act