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HASZARD’S GAZETTE. FEBRUARY 11

own personal benefit and aggrnndizeinent, by dividing auiotigst themselves the princi- pal Ollices of trust and eniolumcnt, and thereby too often prostituting the Legislative and Executive powers entrusted to them, to purposes calculated to maintain themselves in oliice, instead of directing their attention exclusively to the furtherance ofthc public welfare.

IV: believe Your Excellency to be too well acquainted with the principles of Re- sponsible Government, to yield to the extra- ordinary und unconstitutional attempt of the memorialists to controiil the opinions ofthe majority ofa newly elected House of As- sembly, or to deprive that majority of the opportunity ofcarrying out, in all its integ- rity, the established system of Responsible Government, in such form and inauner as will prove most copducive to the general interests of the Inhabitants of the Colony.

WITH full reliance on the knowledge pos- sessed by Your Excellency on matters of- fecting the constitutional privileges ofthe Representatives of the people, we humbly and respectfully request that your Excel- lency will decline to accede to the prayer 0 the Mo_ 'lists to Dissolve the present

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(Corv) [Of Memorial to Sir Alexander Bimnerman, to Dissolve the recently elected House of Asa¢rnbly.] MAY 11' russs Youn Excxcncxcr;

W: humbl desire to convey to Your Excel- lency. as the epresentntive of our Most Gracious Sovereign in this Colony. an assurance of our con- tinued uttnchtneut to Her Majesty's Person and Government.

This feeling of loyalty and attachment is deepened and strengthened by the reflection, that on Your FIxcellency’s assumption of the Go. vernment of this Colony, the principle of Execu- tive Responsibility was conceded to the Inhabi- tants of this section of the Queen’s dominions.

For noarlv three years that principle has been in operation. and the many important measures of reform ofwhich it has been the precursor, have been productive. as was anticipated, of great ad- vantages to the people of this Islun .

Your Memoriulists regret to perceive a disposi- tinn on the part of a majority of the present House of Assembly, now about to be convened, — s was evinced by their Address toYour Ex- cellency. dated the 30th of September, praying for an early call of the Legislnture.—to overturn the Constitution established under Your Excellency's auspices, andlto introduce or re-establish a. form ofGovernment, nut congenial to the wishes. and destructive. as our Meinorialists believe of the best interests o a nmjority of the Inhabitants of Prince Edward Islan .

Wen |liumbly beg to assure Your Excellency. that, holdiu opinions, as we believe we do, in accordance with a verylarge majority of the peo- ple of this Island, our feelings and o inions are not represented by the fifteen gent emen who signed the Address toYour Excellonc . dated the 30th of September. assuming to be epresentav tires of the people,—some of those gentleman having been elected, as your Menioriulists un- derstand. in consideration ol their promises to support the Governinent,as now establish , and to secure to us and our posterity the continuance cfltesponsible Government in all its inte rity.

We therefore earnest y beseech Your Excel- cnoy that you will not admit ofiliiy clia beln efscted in the Constitution of the Country, nor yield to any voteof ii iua_orit of the Assembly, which may have a tendency to alter the political complexion. and intr ucc dilferent principles into Your Exoellency‘s Government, from those by which it is at present influenced, without first aflbrding to your Meinorinlistu, an opportu- nity. by means of another General Election, of rectifying the errors of the post. and deciding on the merits of the Party seeking to change Your Excellency‘s Government.

HASZARD'S GAZETTE. Saturday, February 11. 1854.

TH: Speech lrom the Throne. on Thursday, was one of the longest. that we ever remember to have heard delivered on a similar occasion. It comprises, however. but four topics,--on ouch of which we shall olfcr a few remarks. Since the introduction of Its- sponsiblc Government, the Speech at the opening of the Session has rlways been considered by us as emanating from the Executive Council; spd we shall always continue so to treat it, not holding the Gover- nor for the time being in any way personally respon- sible for the incorrocincso of the statements or opin- ions which may bc therein promulgated. The ullu- sion to the Requisition presented during the vacation by a majority of the newly ulsctcd members, for the purpose of having the Legislature conven an early day, was. we think. in bad tests; an answer had been previously given to the rcquisitionisto.which was matter of public notoriety, and any further mon- tion of it was therefore superfluous; and we should pass it by us unworthy of further comment, were it not for the extraordinary, and, in our opinion, totally incorrect assertion that is therein contained. In this port of the speech, the Liout. Governor is mods to say, that his reason for not acceding to that request was “ that such a departure from the usual course would have been construed into on admission on his port that ovils has arisen demanding an immediate chungu,— for one of your own statutes, passed six yours ago. is in force (us it was at the time of the Election) dolining what are Dcpurtmontul Otlceo.” Now, we deny thotsny definition of what are und what are not departmental otiicso can be gathered from that statute, which was passed to prevent ollicee of rinolonunt being distributed by the Government, among members of the House of Assembly, thereby diverting their allegiance from their constituents, and making them subservient to the Crown to the preju- dice of the people. A wholesome and constitutional jealousy, und well calculated to keep the Represen- tutiveu of the People in continual mind whose servants they uro and whose interests they are bound to keep constantly in view. The circumstance of the statute having hoon puuood six years ugo-—throo years before the system of governing by Hoods of Dopurtnicnts holding souls in the Lower House of Assembly, and therefore responsible to the people, was thought of- h conclusive upon this point. . That the present Idministrotoru of the Government " cannot understand why the Council should be or- oludod from participating, us they have hitherto done. in _u shore of the suluriod or dopurtmontol ollicos of thoGovoruinout," is note! all to be wondered at, for thoh whole conduct (run the beginning shows that they have been tonlly bosons of the principles of lqsudhlo or Osl’ Govornnsu, pm.

Iicc by which such principles are to be constitution- ally carried out: the answer, however, may be given in a very few words, and it is this: because the amn- bcrs of the Lrgirlirtive Council hold their seats at “ the pleasure oflltc Crown." midore not responsi- ble to the people. ’l‘liut the Colony has been for the last three years prospcring, and therefore tranquil and contented, is ii circumstance which we should rather attribute to the merciful dispensulions ofnn indulgent Providence than to the form of Government undo which we live,—for let its merits be what it will, it has not, we presume, the power of controlling the elernenls and of conferring good seasons and plentiful harvests. VVlion the learned Judge, alluded to, de- scribed the Education Bill as " the wisest, the noblest and the best that ever graced the Statute Book," it was clearly evident to all who heard him that he had never read it, and meant rather to sulogizc the prin- ciple of Free Education in connection with the teach- ing of Agricultural Chemistry in District Schools—a mutter upon which the Act is wholly silent. We have, us yet, no reason to doubt Mr. Stark'o compe- tency, and can only wonder why his name was intro- duced into the Speech at all; his semi-iinnual reports and suggestions of improvement. and his lectures on Agricultural Chemistry, will best show whether any great benefit will result from his labors as u Visitor of Schools.

'I‘ho allusion to the Shcrifi"s Return to the writ of election for the tint district of Queen's County. is unconstitutional, indelicaie snd uncalled for; nor is it at all extsuuntcd by the admission, that "its legality is ll matter entirely for you to decida;"—but it is of a piece with the ignorance displayed by the Colonial Secretary, on his return to the House of Assembly. in moving for leave to lay before the House the Writ of Election for the In District of Queen's County; and the former was intended, we suppose, to pave the way for the latter. This unconstitutional interference of the Crown with ilic privileges of the Assembly has, we are happy to see, been met in in proper and becom- ing spirit by the firm, yet tsniperato resolution pro- posed by Mr. Pnliner. and adopted by the House.

All the iniposing—or mount to be iinposing—urruy of figures with respect to the flourishing condition of the Revenue, is totally out of place. It is the busi- ness of tlic mover of the Address in answer to the Speech to enter upon the details illustrative of the facts alluded to in the lattpr; and this is the dilfer- once which has been often remarked between the Speech from the Throne by the British Sovereign, and the Message of the President of the United States.-—tlie former being compared to the notes of a speech, or the heads of a discourse, the latter to the discourse itself The rest of the Speech we have no great fault to find with. The question as to the duty on the export of juniper knees had better have been the subject of a message; and the para. graph respecting the fishery reserves need not to have been one quarter the length that it is. In conclusion, we have only to say. that we think the Speech was not so much intended for those within the walls of the Colonial Building as for those without, and more especially for those in llio more remote districts of the country, where a coloring may be given to it suit- able to the views of the now confessedly minority.

In future, we trust that Speeches put. into the Lieut. Governor's bands will be constructed upon the model of those of the Crown above alluded to, and thatouch paragraph will be so framed that n distinct enuncia- tion of concurrence or the reverse inny be given to it in the Address of the House. Ifthut Address is an echo of the Speech. the party in power will nfill rctniii the administration of utfairs; on the contrary, if amendments are proposed and carried, the fuctwill be a signal to them to tender their rosignutiono with as little delay as possible.

To TE! Eon-on or HA5lAlD'I Garrrl. Sin;

On the first day of the present Session of the Assembly, the Honorable the Colonial Secretary —a Member ofthe House and a Member of the " ‘ by command of His Excellenc , ofered, in his place, to lay on the table of t c House of Assembly the Writ of Election for the First District of Queen's County. Ilis object in doiu so was too obvious to be mistaken, or even to e positively denied by himself: it was to lead the House into it contest on the Sherifl"s Return in favor of Mr. Beer, and to give Mr.

Coles the benefit of trying the Ie lity of that -

Return, without petitiouin the ouse, as the law requires he should. ' he House of Assem- bly immediately perceived tho object, and by a. spirited Resolution—whicli it is to be he d will ever be upheld as a record of their wi out and independence-—and passed after the utmost op- position which the members of the Government could odor to it, refused to receive a message of such an unconstitutional and dangerous charac- ter. Could a vote of want of confidence in, or a censure on the Government be passed a stronger terms? What? — refuse to receive a message from the Government, miiugre all the cfibrts of that Government to force it upon the House? Just so. From the moment that vote was passed. no man, however course his sense of honor, can den that the Government were placed in a position humiliatin beyond any other instance that can be referre to in this, or any other Colony.

And yet. Sir, that Government still cling to ofioe! How many hours, I would ask, would a British Ministry remain in oficc if the House of Commons rejected a message which that Min- istry had advised Her Majesty to send down to it‘ It is no less than a Colonial disgrace. that there should be found in the Island any number of public men who could for one hour submit to such do ding meanness. Their conduct to the Queen s Representative is no What a rcdicomcnt to have been t o pilacing im in .' Are they going to wait till

is Exoellenc says to them, " Geutlonieu, you have rendcre yourselves ob’ etc of public cou- tempt and distrust, and i on don’t imme- diately retire from my Council you will render me so too." This, no doubt, is the signal the are waiting for, and the only Inn on men can understand. The Hon. Jofin fsnrdinc, much to his credit, has rcsi cd.—huppy, no doubt, in embracing such nnfonorublo oppor- tunity of “ coming out from amon them,’ no that of accepting t o Speaker-‘s chair. It is be- lievsd. however, that he would have done so in any event. and the ncral course of his politi- cs life justidcs the opinion. The lingering frngmontn of the Government will now at the straw which the ofinflilin up his vucnncy. Will the Governor o so! WIS he nppoiut one from the House of Assembly- whonoo. on? c ' , there should come flee! Wil be up int one from the nnnsrilyi Poor Rosponsiblos!-—wlist wide mouths and throats they require, to enable them to swallow wliplssule. their own rules, or what they would

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Enrroas or -run Iswuiosn AND lI.tszAnn‘s Gnsrrru.

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On Wednesday last, the 8th February, instant, being Small Debt Court da lit St. Eleunul'l, n Mr. John Adams, of l.ot 16. in I’rince County. whilst at Nose‘ llotol, produced a Letter, in the presence of several persons. and alleged it to have boisi written to him by is Excellency Sir Alex. lliinuermnn, requesting his (Adsms) influence to obtain Signatures to the Petition for the Dissolution of the Aoncinbly. It having come to my knowledge that lliu Excellen- cy’s name had been used for the same purpose in various other sections of the Island. I. this morning.

oomed it my dot to wait upon His Excellency and acquaint him with what Mr. Adams had ptibli(|:ly stated when His Excellency positively denied us having, at any time, authorized his name“ 0;’ influ- ence to be used in obtaining signatures to I e etition raying for o Dissolution of the Assembly; and urtbor declared thiit Mr. Adams‘ siutsmont qvns “ o rossfolscliood ” no he had never written n otior to Mr. Adams upoh any subject. um. Gentlemen. youn, &c. . Ilsa-rn HAVILAID. Feb. 10, I854.

His Excellency has also been pleased to order the name of David Irving. Esquire, Cherry Viillo , to be inserted in the Commission of the Peace for uuon‘o County.

Married, On the 2d of January. by the Rev. W. Stewart, gt Georgetown, Mr. John Luvors, to Miss Murgorst ole

rs. By the some, on the 24th ult., ut the Parish Church. Georgetown. Mr. George R. lilcllish. to Miss Christy Ann Robertson.

At Charlottetown, on the 27th January, Murgarot. third daughter of Mr. Alexander McDonald, aged three years and six months.

At New York city. 28th January ult., of Cholera. Mr. George William Hix, in the 25th your of his age. The deceased was son of Mr. Geo. His. of this town.

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I‘ fieri. ESOLVED,'I‘bst the ollowing Stun ing Order ofthis House, be inserted three times in each of the Newspapers published in Charlottetown, for the information of the Public, viz :—

" ' t no Bill, Petition, or other proceeding. founded upnany application, addressed to the House ofAl ly, In sustained by the Council, unless an npplioufin to the some efiiict, with such documents no muyuceompsny the name, be also presented to the Goficil in General Assembly."

CHARLES DESBRISAY. Clerk Legislative Council.

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COMMISSARIAT. - RAFTS at sight on the Corrimisuariat Chest nl Ilclifax, will be given in exchange for British Coins, or Mexican Dollars, at par. JAMES B. LUNDY, D. A. C.G Conimissarist. P. E. Island. 22d Nov., I853.

N O I ICE.

HE Subscriber hereby requests all persons who have Accounts against him. to furnish the some

for settlement. And all persons indebted to him. are requosto-I to discharge their respective amounts before the 25th inot., so on that day, he intends placing all his Accounts, Notes. &c., in the hands of an Attorney

for immediate collection. ‘ J. WEATHERBE. Charlottetown, Ioth Feb, 1854.

HE Subscriber now receiving. per "Sir .dIo.runilq" and " Helen" from Liverpool, 168 PACKAGES MERCHJNDIZE. suitable for the present and coming seasons. which, having been personally selected from some of the first Houses iii England and Glasgow. he is enabled to offer to his customers at extremely low prices for prompt payment. ’I'hc STOCK couipi-'isos:— I0 Cases Ready Made Clothing, 5 do Halo and u , 8 do Dress Materials, 5 do Huborduuhor , 2 do Lncos sud hlvillinery,

I do loves, I do Silks. Ribbons und Volvotu. I do Jowollory, I o on, 10 Trunks Boots and Shoes, 5 Rules Clothe 6 Bales grey and white Culicoos, 5 do Linen Drapery. 5 do Carpets and ‘luuuolo, 10 do Puper Hangings, 20 Chests 'I‘en, 85 Packages Groceries, 40 do Hardware and lronmo , DANI .L DAVIES. Charlottetown, Nov. 4. 1858.

Carpenters’ Tools. JUST received per Schooner " Fanny." nu uosort. ru-

. Sorby'o Cast Stool Socket, Monies and F inner CHISSELS und GOUGES, Do. single and double PLANI-‘. IRONS. Jock. Smoothing und 'I'r ing PLANES. Grecian und Quirk U. Grecian Ovsloo, Robbot, Muich, Hollows und Rounds. Road and other Moulding PLANES, Gugos and Turko Oil Stones, Crooocut, Hund, ennon and Mill SAWS, Smiths‘ und Carpenters’ I-‘ilco, &o. Cboup fot cash, at the Store of DANIEL DAN IES. Quoun street, Jun. 26. I854.

FALL ARRIVALS.

HE Subscriber has received, on Consignment,

r uchrs. Mary Jlnns and Isabella, from

N, a quantity of GOODS. which he offers

for Solo at his Store, Queen Street, consisting in

pgrt ol'—Io0 piocus grey, white and printed Cotiono,

ion of striped Shirtlngs. Doriiomo und Bod-ticks,

Furniture Cottons, window blinds, Handkerchiefs.

sotinotts dooskius, vesiings, ubowls, table cloths, dsc.

Also,

50 chests, hulf-chests und I5lbs. boxes Congou TEA, Tiorcoo Rico. hhds. Muscovsdo Molasses, boxes Raisins, Drums Figs, Drorno Jews A plus, dcnsns Buckets. rooms, nests Tubs, Pilot road. barrels Pitch, Tor. und Rosin, Franklin and other STOVES rourrio wriing und wruppin Pupur, cone and wooden ooutod Chairs. n vurist of'Bruso Clocks, boxes and shoes, 50 gross hlutcbeo, 50 boxes

P’ mars uoaais Ociobor II .

V lilo err is Msiiclirster House. RECEI CD by lots arrivals, undforSnIo by Illo 3050005507. I General So y of DRY GOODS I OCE IF-S. Also. DIG)’ SNOIED HIRRINGS. .l.N'sV'.lP0l.I8 CHEESE. OILS. WINE, Chats nporior Inn TE1. Es. to.

for Solo or to Let

A FARM on the St. Potso‘u Rood, about three miles from Charlottetown. consisting of N Acres ofI.AND,huhlghstutoofuBtiv;t:,u. "

A WIIE . No. 5, Richmond

ctoinuisosoltfl.

L.

FOR SAL .

ACRES of luinl on 'I'owaslii No. 51

having a front of 20 Cliuiiis on Montague River. 200 Acres on Lot No. S. embracing the West Point of the Inland I00 Acres on 'l‘ownship No. 50. Pasture Lot No. I88 in the Royalty of George-

town on Lot No. 95 in the 4th hundred of Lots in

Town Charlottetown. Iipply to WILLIAM FORGAN. Feb. 7th. I854. To be Sold. Y PRIVATE SALE. the billowing VALUAIILE REAL ES'I‘A'l‘E of the late Ilon. Colonel A. Laue. situate in Charlottetown. and its vicinity, viz: TOWN LOTS Nun. 57,58, 59. 60 and 61, in the Fourth Ilundrod of Luis in Charlottetown coniuiniii nourly two Acres o Laud, fronting on Roelifor Square, tastefully laid out with ornamental, fruit trees, and Garden; it contains also the Family Rosi- doncc, out houses of the docossed, of tho moo com- modious description. ' 'I‘owir Lo'rs Nos. 3, 4. 5 and 6, in the Third Hundred of Lots in Ciirhlottctown uforcuuid, and Ono-twentieth port of Town Lots Nos 61, 68 and 69, in the Second hundred of Lots in Charlottetown, ud- joining the property of Daniel Hodsou, Esq. , in lots to suit pure nscrl. Town Lo1's Nos. 8, 4, and 5, in the Fifth hundred of Lots in Charlottetown, aforesaid, in lots to suit

Lo'r No. 64. in tbo'Fourlli hundred of Lots in Charlottetown, adjoining the residence of the Chief Justice.

Coxnsosr Lo-rs. I2 and IS. in the Common of. and in close proximity to Charlottetown, containing Twenty-four Acres, in lots to suit purchasers.

Part of Common Lot No. Is, in the Common of Charlottetown, and which forms the Western side of the approach from Town to Government House, in lots to suit purchasers.

Pnrrvas: Lot No. 554. in the Royalty of Chur- lottetown, containing Twelve Acres.

i.so—I"F.W No. 3!, in the South Aisle of St. Paul's Church, Charlottetown.

For further particulars, apply to W. Fonasw. Esq. Barrister at w, hurloltctown; ut Pictou. to J. Hiuati.-ron LANE, the Actin Executor of, and one of the Trustees named in the ill of the late Co ii A. Lune.

Charlottetown, 26th October, 1853.

FARM FOR SALE.

7 0 be sold by private sale, the Lcusohold for

999 cars, containing 80; acres of Land, with Zliuildings thoroon. About 40 acres are clear. ore is a g pump at the door ol the Dwelling House. This I"iirm is situated about 10 miles from Charlottetown. on the 'I‘ryon Road. and known so the SUJV‘ IJV‘./V‘, for the last 18 years. Half the purchase money can remain on the Premises. For further particulars apply to Mrs. \VlDGllI\' on the Premises, or to llurrnir Pauux, Esq., Charlotte-