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hia pels. We commend to his perusal the remarks we have wserted below in reply to the Islander

_qhercin it #:) be seen that bis mawkish eympathy fo the Schoelmasiers is guile unnecessary, and that we ghal{ bave rouds and bridges to travel over ifthe Go- vernor, the House of Assembly and the Revenve B11: dor were ail in Jencha.

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Waen it will be remembered that Mr. D. Maclean br is dependent for his pay as editor of the Islander on the ry: officera of Government, it will be admitted itis only natura! for him to eviace great anxiety on their behalf, aod endeavour to shew that their salaries may be drawn in defiance of the House ef Assembly. To effect this desirable object, Duncan gues on figuring at a des- porate rate, in the Islander of the Sth instant, and his ealcolations result ir the admission, that the Governor mey abrogate certain Jaws of the land to pay the public efficers—and thereby raise the needful to remunerate himeolf for doing the dirty work of the Clique. | The sources from which Duncan fondly imagines £4000 can be raised to pay the official salaries, are the fellowing :—£800 now in the Treasury, derived from the

on Spirits and Beer—£1,500 from the same duty, far the whole of the present year, not taking into ac- count what may be secured by twelve month’s bonds,— £500 raised under the Land Assessment Act last year —-£500 more to be derivable from the samne source in January nert,—making in all £3,300. Very good! The balance of £700, and more, Duncan asserts, can de raised by the Governor prosecuting the purchasers of Crown Lands for the payment of sums due by them, aad by sacrificing at auction all the land that yet re- maing unsold belonging tothe Crown. A very funny cal- cwlation to say the least, and one which shews the instinct ef the animal in looking ahead for No.1. Duncan is ef course satisfied with his calculation—he always is— figures, in his estimation, are sockdelogers to any argu- ment—they look learned, and convincing, and imposing ; and it would bea pity to quarrel with him about the figures themselves. We therefore letthein pass. Tie sources poinied out may or may not yield the £4000— wt i@ &@ matter of no consequence. But we deny the essumption—on the strength of which the whole of Duncan's figuring rests, and here, unhappily for him, bie splendid vision dissolves into thin air !—that the Lieutenant Governor can of his own mere will appro- ). priate the monies thus alluded to by the Islander. : First, with respect to the Duty on Spirits and Beer. } This Duty is included in the Revenue Act of last year, and appropriated in the same Session. ‘That it cannot be anatched by the Government to pay the officers’ salaries, is suficientiy clear from the following Section ef the Act:~—

And be it enacted, That all the Moneys arising from the Rates and Duties raised and ievied by this Act and paid into the

eed no cther, as are or may be eavrassed or contained in Act of the General Assembly of this isiand, to be passed ths present Session, and ifthe Treasurer of this Island shail issue aad pay any of the said Meneys arising from this Act, for any a than is therein mentioned, declared or expressed, he stall forfeit and pay the sum of One ‘Phousand Pounds, and be pandered incapable of holding said office of Treasurer, said forfeiture to be applied to and for the use which shall be ex- praseed in the said Act, and to be recovered by Bill. Piaint or vaformation. in Hier Majesty’s Supreme Court of Judicature; A ths island.

if that is not sufficiently stringent, both on the Go- vernor and T'reasurer, take the following Section ef the same Act :—

Aad be it enacted, That it shal! not be lawful for the Lieu- tenant Governor, or other Administrator of the Goverament for the time being, either in Council or otherwise, to direct or 1926, Of Cause tu be issued, acy Warrant or Warrants for the

yment of any Moneys arising from the several Rates and

utiee raised and levied by this Act, save and except for eych purposes, and no other, as are or may be expressed in ts Act. and in the Appropriation Act of the General Assem- diy of this Island to be passed in this present Sessavn,

Hutwe may be told, last year’s Revenue Law will expire on the Ynd of May next, and the monies raised by the duty on spirits and beer will be then beyond theq camtrow of the House of Assembly. But it must be re- membered that the Act 15th Geo. cap. 4. will then be in force, and the monies must be applied to the pur- poses for which they ure specifically appropriated by the 32ad section of that Act, which is aa follows :—~ _Aad be it further enacted, That the Moneys arising from the Duties imposed by this Act, sHALL BE APPLIED AND LAID OUT IN MAKING AND REPAIRING PUBLIC ROADS, AND THe FURTHER ESTABLISHING FERRIES WITHIN THIS Istanp, and such other Usee toand for His Majesty’s Govern- ment, xé the Gonernor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander 1a Chief for the time being, with the advice of His Majesty's Couacil, shall, from time to time, order and direct, &c. Kc.

it is therefore clear that the first ase to which the produce of the Duties levied under tie perpetwal Acts, mua be applied, is, the “ making an} repairing of Pub- ac Roads and the establishing of Ferries.” When

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Next, as to the £9050 cep-oprt ced by tae Lead As- sessment Act in ao4ition to the Governors 3 lary. Ag opropriation wre set uside by the tlome Govern- men. assummye the entire payment of the Governor's Saiary, it is evident that it coust be applied with the re. mainder of the fund to the general purposes of educa. eation, until « shall be otherwise sppropriated by the Legistaturs; sac here, at once, we bave 4 provision for the Nchoolmasters, and a falarficaiion of the Is/ander’s and Gazeite’s prognvostics on this head. Duncan asserts that the Assembly did not pass am Act in the late Ses- sion for the support of Education. ‘Trae enough they did not. Had they done so they would have proved themselves to be as great blunderers as he and his party, for the Act now in force for the support of edu cation will not expire till the close of the next Session ; this Act is tlierefore a direction to the appropriation of the Land Assessment fund, which fund will be collect- ed independently of the paseage of the Revenue Bull. Next, as to the Crown Land Fund. There are claims now existing against this fund whieh the Go- vernment have been unable to meet: and it ts absurd to speak of sacrificing the Crown Lands at the hammer, when it is known that they must be sold ata certain upset price, and failed to bring that price to any extent last year. We therefore wish the officials joy of ail they are likely to get from that source.

After giving the Assembly a good deal of abuse, the Islander observes, “If a Revenue Bill were passed, the Duties might be collected, and Jocked up in the ‘Trea- sury, by refusing an Appropriation Bill, 30 long as the Assenibly considered it expecient.” This is all very fine, afier the encouragement Duncan has given the Government in the same article, to violate the Revenue, Tenpenny, and Land Assessment Acts, and commit a wholesale robbery on the Treasury. The Assembly knew too well the parties with whom they had to deal, and some of them having hitherto fingered unjustifiably portions of the public money, it was only natural to pre- sume that they would not mind again perpetrating the amiable offence.

ft is gratifying to observe that the Islander has changed its opinion in reference to a subject on which the changes have been rung more than a hundred times by Duncan Maclean and his coaejutors in slander. We allude to their hacknied assertion, that the liberal party are composed of aset of poor devils who have not shil- ling in the world. Duncan has cast aside this worn- out slander, and has come forward to bear testimony to the wealth and pecuniary status of the party, for he has attempted to shew, that if there be no Revenue Bill passed this year, seven gentlemen of the liberal party will realize by exemption from Duties on their impor- tations, at Jeast twelve hundred pounds, This sum re- presents about one-tenth of the whole ordinary Excise Revenue of the Island, and cannot fail to be regarded as a fair evidence of the wealth and importance of at least seven meinbers of the party.

“Scrutaror.”—A person, seemingly in want of a subject on which to string a coluinn of nonsense, and assuming this signature, charges five members of the najority of the House of Assembly with “ corruption,” first, in not appointing Mr. Charles Stewart to be Assistant Clerk to the House; second, in not appointing Mr. Pleadwell to be Messenger; third, in not giving the contract for printing the Journals to Mr. Ings, though his Tender was highest; fourth in not gratify- ing the malice of Mr. Palmer against Mr. Le Lacheur; and expelling the latter gentleman from the House, because Mr. Palmer had the effrontery to question the validity of a qualification which the public know to be good; and fifth, because the House reduced an un- reasonable and oppressive tax onemigrants. Why, hang it, we ourselves might write graver charges than these against the majority, if we chose to put our inventton to the rack, and copy the abusive language of “ Scruta- tor,” and ifwe wished to describe some of the good deeds of the majority we would begin thus: ist. They appointed to the office of Assistant Clerk, a man of great industry, of business habits, and an excellent scribe, Qnd. They appointed to the situation of Messenger a man who has been diligent and zealous in the performance of his duties—respectable in his appearance, obliging to

members, and every way worthy of their confidence. 3rd. They accepted the contract of a Printer for the print- ing of the Journals, who i3 not a political partizan, be- cause his tender was lowest, (next to Mr, Whelan’s, who declined the contract) the specimen of paper he pre- duced being declared by Mr. Palmer to be fully equal, if not superior to that in accordance with which Mr. Inps, tendered in 1847, the bond for that year being the ex ct, orjvinal of the bond which was entered into by the con- tracting party at the commencement of the late Session. 4th, They maintained the honour and independence of the House by not allowing an efficient and poular mem-

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poor emigrants to come to the Colony without being subjected to an exorbitant tax. The majority of the House of Assembly onght to be thankfol to “ Scrutator” for the opportunity he has thas given for explaimag some of their good acts.

LAST NIGHT'S ISLANDER. A few remarks will suffice for the three columns of abuse contained in Jast night’s Js'ender. The leading article is a feeble attempt to shew that Reeponsible Go- verament is working badly in Canada. Rr. Macieen says it is the source of corruption and abuse in that Province; and, in proof of his assertion, he quotes the New York Albion and the Montreal Gazette—two ps pers which steadfastly opposed the introduction of the system, from the first, and which, it is reasonable to conjecture, will be opposed to it to the last. He might

Responsible Government in Nova Scotia. But it would be just as fair to assert, that these authorities represent the popular sentiment in those Provinces as that Dun- can Maclean, who was rejected with contempt from the Hustings, expresses public opinion in this Island. Jn Canada, since the accession to power of the Respon- sible Government party, the Queen’s Minister has re- peatedly signified his approval of their acts, and seve- ral of the constituencies have had occasion, more than onee, to endorse the opinion of the Colomal Secretary, by returning Ministerial Candidates by large majorities over their Tory opponents. In Nova Scotia, the Queena and her Representative have spoken approvingly of the course pursued by the Liberal Party there, and the whole Province has felt the beneficial influence of the:: Legislation. We will back these authorities any dey against Duncan Maclean, and a thousand such fellows as he.

The next article—purporting to bea review ofthe Hon. Mr. Swabey’s Speech in the Legislative Council, in reference to Responsible Government—is a clumsy at- tempt to rouse e feeling in the breasts of the Tenantry against Mr. Swabey, and other gentlemen of the Coun- cil, because they were not found pliable enough to pags Mr. Maclean’s foolish Bill, relating to the purchase of the Lands. The man whose services have been bought for a consideration of thirty pounds, to defend a party who have, at all times, arraved themselves against the tenantry, is not likely, we should think, to succeed io his new vocation of sympathizer. We therefore let this part of the dslander’s rubbish pass without further com- ment.

Another article, headed “‘ Responsible Corruption,” blackguards our party for their proceeding in reference to the saluries of the Secretary and Chief Judge. In our leader of to-day we give the facts relating to the salary of the first. We have no objection to Duncan joining with hig friend of the Gazelte in profiting by the inatrac- tion they afford. With respect to the Judge’s salary, a satisfactory provision for that Officer was made by the Home Government the principal sine gua non to the concession of the lLespensible System. It would have been, no doubt, gratifying to the Islander if the majority had opposed Her Majesty’s wishes on this point, and thereby raised an insurmountable barrier to the change of Government. Messrs. Palmer, Haviland, ‘Fhornton, Longworth, and Yeo, voted for the allowance made on behalfofthe Judge. Why are they not likewise abused ?

‘The next article, wiich was written es a balm to the wounded feelitys of Duncan's ostensible master and employer, John Ings, is a tissue of hes from beginning toend. We have stated the facts of this case in our remarks on “Seratator’s” letter. Mr. Ing’s Tender was for 453.—Mr. Pippy’s 40s. Was it likely that the As- sembly should incur an expense to the Colony of £30, or thereabout, to favor a political enemy, and one who so glaringly jobbed the Journal of the former Seseion with Mr. Haszard, that tt 1s a disgrace to the Colony— the sheets comprising the Census Returns having been purchased from Mr. Haszard at a small cost, and pasted together in the Appendix. As to the assertion that Air. Pippy and ourselves go “snacks”—(to use the Islander’s vulgar phrase)--Mr. Maclean’s word is no proof of the fact; but can Mr. Maclean deny, on the part of his em- ployer, that Mr. Inga receives from Mr, Haszard a pecuniary compensation in consideration of his not having tendered lower than the latter individual for the printing of the Consolidated Lawa? He cannot deny it, for the jobbery and “‘corruption” is too well known The Islander people should bear in mind the old saw - “ those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”

Another column of the islander is devoted to the in- sertion of a letter addressed to ourselves, signed “ Fitz Loy.” “We do remember him, and hereabout be dwells,” and if we have no better employment for our time next week, we will give hin the benefit of counce!, trusting that at the bar of public opinion, our law w:!! be esteemed as sound as his,

Mecuamics’ InsvitutTe.— On Wednesday evening Jast Dr. Jarvis delivered an excelleat Lecture on “Chloroform and its advantages.” ‘The thanks of the Institute were unanimousiy voted to the learned Lec- turer.--Mr. Myers was snnounced ta lecture nex} Wednesday evening on © Music.”

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