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on be the avenger of that murder, and (shall fod it out in time, in the appointed time.

CORRESPONDENCE,

Marry you, George Denamg? Marry you, woeo you know, and | know, that there isa! purity secret on your soul, perhaps even to the crime of murder. We are fellow-work people, and we will remain ao till the end comes. If there is no consciousness of sin in you, you will at least tolerate my presence.’” | **] cannot,’ he groaned, «1 cannot!’’: and he strode across the floor, and mounted

the winding staircase into the paper room yor meeting with such an ostentatious dis-| When Mr. Curry took the floor and said he | meet but oor schulemaister, an’ as he is a I may |

above, where he stayed during the rest of the day, being busy, as it seemed, with the crowded reams of paper, with which our employer overstocked bimeell wotil the attic was filled to the roof. | made an errand once to follow bim, and found bim toiling, | with all bis great strength, at arranging the heavy packages; and when the time for leaving work came, and he passed through the binding-room where I was getting my tea, be looked faint and haggard with ex- haustion. During the past winter I had Jeft off lighting my fire 10 the kitchen, choos- int to sit by the one kept burning im the workroom ; and all that might tl fancied | beard again the beavy suunds of his day's tuil in the attie overhead. To be concluded neat week.

MISCELLANEOUS REWS.

OL ee

Tus Recirxocrry Treaty.— At the annual meeting of the Boston Board of Trade, 2 few days ago, the President, James C. Converse, Esq., reterred to the Reerproeity Treaty in the following terms :—

The Reciprocity Treaty (so called), be- tween the United States and Great Britain, touehing our Commercial intercourse with the British Colonies on this continent, is now under consideration by Congress, and there is some prospect that notice may be given agreeably tu the terms of the treaty to have the same annulled. The practical working of thia treaty has given dissuustaction im som quarters. Many persons consider its opera- tive so unequal and decidedly against us, as to require substantial modification of it terms. Others insist that it should be entirely abrogated. Large interests are to be more or less affected ‘by any decided change, and it becomes & question of deep concern. shall be done with it? Bostoa has, undoubt- edly, sufficient inverest in the matter to make atiention to ip by this Board appropriate.

W. B.S, ooner, Beq . said he was vlad to hear the remarks of the President on the he- ciprocity Treaty. By its terms it was to exist 10 ears, and could be ended at an time by giving twelve mouths m time would expire next June. tat the treaty would not be abrogated, though it certainly needed revision. thougtt ' much to the good feeling between this coun- try and England and Canada. He offered the following :—

Ordered, —That a committee of seventeen be appointed to consider the propos tion now betore Congress to revise the Reciprocity Treaty between the United States and Greut Britain, with power to add to their number, tu fil saeancies, and to adopt such measures in the premises us they may deem advisable

Colonel Aspiawal! seeonded the resolution in some appropriate remarks, and spoke of molasses as a lending article, the duties on which were unfairly established. He trusted that there would net be abrogation, bat a! fair and honourable revision. He hoped that our Government would take no untair advantage by diplouwey. If trickery was

Ile trusted ai-

He

ite contsnuence would contribute |

Yo rue Conpvucrors of tue Protestant.

L perceive in yout paper an unjusti§able | attack on my little Essay, which | deem in- cumbent on my answermg. Your uneharit- able assault appears to be a design to anni- bilate my essay ; bat from its being buiit on the rock of ages, it defies your pestilential storm and invidious assailment to shake it. I don't remember, in the course of my life,

play of arrogance end we pom truly say thar ignorauce and impudence con- summate & blackyuard—you assume a stan- dard of Christian perfection, but shamefully taleify your orotession by created warfare, in liew of peace, which proves your conduct to be destruc¥ive to morality and a nuisance to society. ‘Fhe public ought to ery down its promulgaton. Allow me, gentlemen, to draw your attention to the Js’ander as an example, that you may proceed in the recti- tude of integrity and intelligence. 1 have heard it suid that the Js/ander is as far su perior te the Protestant asa blood horse is to a jackass. ‘hank God I am in a country

where Lean think what Il like, ana say and |

speak woatl think. After some taunt and trash which you advance with a view of showing your importance, you come to the point in question, and ignorantly assert that Christ is equal to Almighty God. Ihave, to all intelligent minds, proved your fallacy.

Bat, supposing your dullness of comprehen. |

sion, L will once more try to illuminate your

darkness and arouse your dormant faculties. |

The 4th of Jobn and 23d ebapter, Christ emphatically declares that ** My Father is rreater than 1.’’ In short, God is the great

AM who appointed Christ as his vieegerent on earth, aud proclaimed hi as his only be- gotten Son. How ean the begotten be equal to the begetter? Christ ig now at the right hand of God as a mediator and intercessor for man. Ilow can a supplicant to the Fa-

e | ther of Mercies and the God of all comiort be |

equal to the pardoner of sins? Please, Mr. Protestant, to pull up your breeches, and

« §rouse your dormant intellect, and answer |

these questions. Christ, when speaking and avting upon earth in the execution of his mediwtorial

What vffice, was in no wise or sense equal to the |

Father. It was the Word which was God;

but Jesus Christ, in whom the Word was/x¢ the head o't; sae to let them ken | was

mysteriously conjoined with human nature, always assumed the position of obedience and submission, which is plainly recognised in all bis allusions to the Father. I is true, in one passage he suys, ** land my Father are

tice, The one ;’’ bat the sense in which he intended to | '

be anderstuod is made clear in chapter 17, Lith and 22d verse, when he prays that che same oneness as joins him as wediator with the Father may unite the disciples with him | Man is a compound, composed of the animal

'and intelligent nature: the latter was given |

, him in order to regulate and keep in subjec- |} tion the evil propensities of the former.

am fearfal some of the directors of the Pro- testant bave allowed the animal passiuns to predominate over the spiritual, and thereby absorbing the intellectual, reducing man to a mere animal. I rewémber a story offa Doc- tor of Divinity, whose name was Southerlaad, aman of much personal conceit, imagining himself superior to others in religious know- ledge and heavenly wisdom. The said Doc- tor happened to fall in company with Sheri-

him, but the Doetor did net know Sheridan. The Doctor abused Sheridan for leadimg the then Prince of Wales into dissapation ; Sheri

used, the evil effects ought to fall on the country that used it. Ile thought nations | were bound to live sn amity as well as in- dividuals. | Mr. Sabine said he bad been concerned to | some extent inthe framing of this treaty, and gave some history of its lormation and ratifi cation, He wished to have the fisheries of | Nova Scotia free tu our countrymen. He had framed that part of the treaty, and had got all the benefits he could, but he had nut been able to get what be wanted. ~ ee Rewors or Waxs.—Ube year 1864 opens on us with portentous Tumors ot a general perplexity among the Satins. — Phere are | vyiewnaries who see in these signs of the times the commencement of fulfilment of that | great prophecy which has been so variously interpreted, but whieh has been whose | without diwegnt admitted by

those whe! believe at all in prophecy, to point to a period | eluse to 1865. Now, leaving this calcuiation undisputed, and without expressing any | individual opinion on the general belief, we | éannot shut our eyes to the fact that there are indications of wars all over tie world wore than owually distinct. to CUbina, from vena to Australia, the whole of the nations seem under a strange | disturbance—in many instances, however, still showing only the cloud, not larger than a wan's hand, to furewarn cf a coming storm. If our experience teli, us right, the poet is cleo a prophet, when he says,— “ What great events from trivial cause, spring ! In Europe we see the petty matter of the Schleewig-Holstein claim threatening t in- volve all the greatStates of Europe in war. In Poland and in Hungary insurrections way be made the causes of foreign interterence, and | he isa daring epeevlator who will venture to | calculate the course which France may take | in the present year. The whole of the Kastic seething. and we muat expect ebullitions In America war already rages. Mexico is| vaseing throogh war, a8 we tiust. into peace. bas Anarchy mast be subdaed betore Mon- archy can rule. Danger to the cause of the North also looms from Mexico. Who cao say that the Emperor of the French will in-| augurate theempire of Mexico by reeognizing | the Confederate States, and influencing | Mexiew to enter into @ treaty with the | Southern Government, No one can say | what the opring will bring forth im America | and in Europe. The times are full of inter- | est to all, aud we shall be much surprised it the events of 1*64 in the old and new world | do net prove the most stirring we have wit- nessed for many years — Naval and Miliary | Greactle.

— 2+ — Tae Parvo or tux Souru — [t is worth while

te notice that the Richuwond correspondent of

the London Times, whe has shown bimself to | be decidedly mo tavour of the Southern cause, states that the faith of the South is nut im- plicit in the success of the war, @. €., im its, resulting mm the independence of the South. | lie writes, on the otuer hand, from the stand

point of the Contederate capital the that faith of the North in tts power to conquer the! South, is mach more implicit, notwithstand- | ing the fact that cut of nine pitched battles | six have resulted in favor of the South, and | three have been drawn. We are in no posi- | tion to judge of the truth of the allegation ol | this correspondent, bat it is clearly of the greatest importance if it is true. All our previous advice and the very great exertions made, bave led us to believe tu the unanimity and determination of the people of the Soath to secure their independence. If i: is trae that they are divided, or that any large por- tion of them are wanting in faith, their cause 1s already lost. We shull watch the progress

of events, and endeavor to note them in the |

spirit of impartial historians.— Montreal Ga-

ache, - oo we

Washington city is in a panic, and people are fleeing from it m every direction | been diseovered that small pox, in its must loathsome and malignant form, prevails in all parte of the city, and it ts known that not less than fifteen theusand persons are sick with it, while sundreds, if not thousands, daily are taken down. W hat is curious is, that Vaccination seems to have little or no effect The botel-keepers and property holders are dving what they can to keep the matter quiet, bat the excessive mortality is now known to every one, and tie whole cry is stricken with horror. The negroes are suffering terribly. Toc sllness of President Lincoln trom small pos, the death of Senator Bowden, last week, with the same disease, aud now the danger- ous eond:ticn of Congressman Harris, bas

communicated the alarw to bigh quarters sive blow at its vitality, and their friends preachin, but then they jumpit up an’ doon | Imports may be expected to keep pace with the ex. CePt the legacy — winch nj; There ww some talk of Congress adjourning ovurished in its bosom were voly too willing sae that | was sure it cou'dna be that.

w New York, aud holding season,

10 bis nt ; ad i alladce to'the ges oi the Arish A vats

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From America|

dan retaliated, when the Doctor vehemently exclaimed: ‘* | am Duetor Southerland."’ * Aud [ am Sheridan; we will, if you please, shake hands."’ Having returned a Rolund for an Oliver, U have no obligation tu du the same. Yours. &e. JUSEPU E. WERE.

Feb. 12, 1864. - me --

To tur Ep.rox or rue Examcner.

Mr. Eorror—

L beg permission to state in your paper a few facts in relation to the Charlottetown Reading Room and Debating Club, whieh are not generally known, and t trust may be in- teresting to the public.

The Club was instituted some five or six years ago by a few gentlemon of a literary turn of mind, with the expeetution of whiling away a few hours in the evening advantage- ously daring the winter months.

It opened its doors for debate every Friday evening, from November to May, and ad- mitted discussion on any subject that the Committee thought interesting.

{ts members were admitted on vote by ballot, and embraced all classes ir the community.

The objects of the society were not only amusement, but to endeavour to cultivate a taste for mental improvement, which it was thought the subjects tur debate would exert the debaters to do.

In these expectations they were not dis

| appointed, for it net only stimulated those \intending to take part in the debate to} become well informed on the topic to be dis-

cussed, but gave to others who had no spare time to etudy or inelination to speak, the advantage of reaping from their fellowship with the others the fruits of its labours.

It was found necessary, in order to carry out the original intention of ite founders, to attach to the Club the advantages of a Reading Room, to which any person might have aceess on payment of the subscription money. It was the Club Readmg Room, under their management, and controlled by ite President and Committee.

In a short time its tables were covered with the leading papers of the world and m: ny of the first periodeals of the day ; the evening

hours found its benches seated with many who |

formerly passed their timo either at the Bar Room or over the card or d-ce table. In faet, it did more for temperance than the straight laced sveieties, because the occupation be-

came fascinating to the mind in the pleasing | 4’

past time of storing itself trom the riches of wisdom. Unanimity generally prey.tiled ; occasionally warmth of iy displayed itself in the beat of debate, but se!dom or ever during its early stages passed the threshold of its doors.

The Clab.some two years ago,contemplated | distributing the newspapers alter laving one |

| week cn its table to the towns of Georgetown. | in’ the time 1 gat sich fun.

Princetown, Susomerside and Souris, to like | societies there, under the expectation that | the Legislature would aid them with a small | yrant of money; but on petitioning the}

| House of Assembly, that body refused to |

comply, deeming, no doubt, their assembled wisdom equal to every imaginary want; thus | the scheme fell to the ground for tle want of a | few pounds to pay the additional labour | which devolved on the manager. | The Club stragyled through with all its

Nee ee a _

‘Tbe malcontents, waiting the annual meet- banks oo used to see in the auld kintra. ing, embraced that time as i towards carrying into effect their design by dressed body that he ca’d maister Merriman | that the revenue ought to be to the extent he ae a ~— + the paereee Se ae — the votsiders en'd bin bere by wad | statee—" £90,000 or thereabout, instead of advantaye o re confusion that might likely | brange in wi some queer ave Pe. ee a ee follow. The annual meeting took pines sndet tins 7 the foek Seat. Bat then it wasna LARP. It was not z un _ ihe the sanction of Mr. Murphy, the President, that, fur they didna tak baubees. ; sae | was used in order to shew that the revenue wugh ——w new Committee were voted in with Mr. in a swither to ken what it was aboot. Neixt | be about the sum stated by us. We pointed te Calbeck at its head, when Mr. Murphy re- day, hovever, I thocht | wad garg ower aN’ | the fucts that eight years ago the Liberal Govern- fused to allow a Secretary to be asa reg bres Betty, es I didna o.oo oo ‘ment had a revenue close on fifty thousand pounds, This appeared to be the signal for revolt, the nicht afore; an’ on my way wha shoa | without tht cqvenee having tpeehdeintomenind

regretted to find a report, which be had verra freenly kin o’ man, I just said to him : | by such heavy land sales as belped to aut the lately beard, was true, viz., that there ex-|* We’ maister, what cam ower ye last nicht Treasury chest last year—that the trade of the isted a secret understanding amongst the C.ub | that ye leukit sae dour, whan the lavz war “country was then dull compared to what it war to exclude every Roman Catholic qemnen likin’ : gang mud = — ree 7 test oben that there wn asthing ithe the hide \from its munagement, in consequence of|in aelip like & sookin foal.’ 3} : a. Ce tee oe | which be sonia his resignation a a Com-|uoo, I thocht he was a quate body, but the | breadth of laud under cultivation ron the cas mittee man. bragh 1 saw brooin the jast nicht sune fell last year—that the yield of produce was immensely 1 need searcely gay no such understanding oot. Quo he: ¢ Its nae wunner ! lookit sae, greater th. it was eight years ago—that it was ever existed, and the assertion came with a to sea a maun pay’t twa hanner punsa year! jy yore active demand, and the prices far better bad grace from a gentleman who has been | w veesit oor schules, an’ that’s the way he) —that the imports must bave borne proportion te charged with writing for the Monifor news- dist. han he moves oot, whilk is no verra | paper Jong urticles abusive of the creed of the aften, jist gethers fuck thegitner to gar them ' a A ae ap | Rowan Catholic Church ; and [ regret to add lauch. He tell't us * be was a swine,’ deed | Charged with three times the duty they were in so shallow a ruse should bave caused the dis- that was as true a word as he spak ; ye ken 1855-6,—therve was then an ad valorem tariff of satisfaction that followed. The late Presi-| whan they're weol fed, hoo they sit, e’en the! 5 per cent ; it is now 15; molasses was then 2d. dent retused to acknowledge Mr. Calbeck as sicht o° meat winna mak tham stur, but it is now Gd.; tea was theu 3d. it isnow 44. ; and

/ ’ dea : ' ; ' ¢ . i head of the Club, and forcibly retained el is ccthiek ada Galas are ae from these facts we assumed that the revenue in 1 Ce 1 2

position—called a meeting of the subscribers | Mi ‘a e a of the Reading Room,and passed a resolution | porks at him — then he gets up an’ gallops 1363 should be £90,000 or £100,000. If facts so

declaring that the eonneetion which hitherto aboot in ah anco lyke, just like ane afore a indisputable ean be set aside, we shall then bow existed between it and the Club was severed | storm; but nae suner does the caliant gie|to the learned editor of the Islander, and ac- Thas, acting im direct violation of those ower porkin than doon be sits in bis auld knowledge that we have offered nothing but rules whieh Mr. Murphy as President had way again. I thocht whan he was taukin | pledged himself to uphold. aboot his snoot an’ his tail, he micht hae : The officers of the Clab, witnessing so vio- | leukit at his kute; an’ gif taukin gaulic | be the present amount of the revenue, When we lent a change, and considering it would be | maks him sae soople, 1 wish to gudences he | shali have the advantage of perasing the Lmpost aS to reconcile matters, resigned. | wad say his mornin prayers in that to see ' secounte from the several Outports—whieh the | Thus the Debating Club became defunet,| gif it wad make him veesit oor schules.’ ‘inainly through the plotting of a mischie- 5 An’ if he disna veesit your sehule,’ quo I, vious faction. — \fwha dist?" ‘Its no dune ava,” quo he. lam, Sir, * Hoot, toot.” quo 1, * that’s an awful thing.

the exports—that the hoperts in 1563 were

“ were assertion” for what we considered should

yovernment seem determined to withhold trom 3 as long as possible—we have no doubt we shall be able to enlarge the number of eur facts in sup-

eer , incr.” says the Island>r, | they gave the opinic fl , Weeallupon the Examiner,” says the Islander | ~Lo a oes into this channel, as the testatriz | very moderate quit-renta originally 5

favourable Whan the maister wad be taukin, @ queer “to give some better proof than mere assertion, |) equeuthed the money to the London poor.” — |

Yours very respectfully, | AMEMBER OF THE LATE CLUB. ‘ ——-- é = To rus Yevirug o’ tux Examiner. | Matsver Yepirur ; As‘l’ma treen o’ yedicashun, [ wad aye try an take the pairt vo’ its freens; sae gif /ye cap unerstan my aald ferrant tungue, Ll

schule, oo wad be examim-d verra atten, an’ oo wad be sae glad when examinashun day | wad come. It maun be ver’. dowie for baith | you an’ the puir weans to hae nacbody comin {in to see hoo yere gettin on. But what war they wantin here last night?’ [ speir’t. |* Weel, I'll jist tell ye,” quo he. * The vee- 'siter taks this preenter body into the schules

‘Dear me, whan f was a bairn gaan to the

port of our so-called “ mere assertion.”

The fslander boasted that the revenue of 1863 was greater to the extent of £22,896 4s. 3d. than | it was in the previous year. We asked, naturally | enough, if this amount would appear to the credit of the Colony as so niuch towards the liquidation of the public debt? The learned editor says :— |

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m that the Queen Lad no right )

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From the remainder of the paragraph, we inter | that the money in question has been pid to the Ambassador of the Queen at Paris, and will, by | er directions, be applied as the testatrix intend-— ed it should be. This is certainly a case in point; and, as it is quite clear that, in this ease, the | Queen, firmly bound by the constitutional obligu- tious which she owes to her people, could not de- | cline to accept the bequest — which would have | oven a diversion of it from its proper channel— ind, having accepted it, can hold it only in trust, .o be applied as the testatrix directed it should ve applied ; seis it equally clear that King George the Third was, by his advisers, betrayed into a gross vielation of his constitutional obligations to his people, when, by the grants which he made of the public domain of Prince Edward Island, he alienated it from the people: and long as it is since that violation took place, the people's con- stitutional right to have it rectified has not yet been cancelled by the lapse of time ; and redress is now, at this distant day, as much due t6 them from Her Majesty Queeu Victoria, through par- liamentary action, as it was from King George the Third himself, the actual instrument of the public wrong.

And now, since we have once more had re- course to legal authorities for the support of vur opinions, we will here subjoin another extraet from Blackstone, illustrative of the constitutional jealousy by which the power of the Crown is re-) stricted wherever the interests of the people are cither directly or indirectly concerned. In treat- ing of the King’s ordinary revenue, which consists in the rents and profits of the demesue lauds of the Crown, he says:

“These demesne lands, terra dominicales regis, being either the share reserved to the Crown at the original distribution of landed property, or stich as came to it afterwards by furicitures or other means, were auciently very large aud ex- tensive — comprising divers mauors, hovers, and lordships. At present they are coutracted within

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fore 1 ee a en mak _—— an’ spaks a gude word for his paper, an’ ee oe en ee ee ee paper for the veesiter, an’ they baith fecht

‘ * the + , ieorn | F ; bit newspaper, wi’ the son an’ the unicorn | je themen that gies them sae mackle siller, an

; that’s the way they work into ane anither’s

= gude reader, | teuk it to leuk ower't. An | hands.’ But the gloamin’s settin in; [ see | saw wt —— — 6 was . pr ose | ‘Tammas is daunerin in frae the byre, an’ gif | that the Schule Veesiter was making for MO | he kenn’d what [ hae be ae

a ne ve kenn’d what ae been aboot this after- | veesit’n the scbules as he ocht. The schule- nune, the yokin’ that the pair wife e’ Auc- waister tell't me that they were oebin him ; Pp iika neak aboot it. Sae lt thueht they had | wad giv me

| put the body in sich w swither that he didna | , : | ken what to say; and as he forget the best! .. : “ pr mackle obleeged oy for ee |exeuse he bad, I'll teli’t, an try vif ae’ mak | RU ee 2 what sume will ca’ an , one S ‘auld wife’s havers; but gif it werena sae

them haud their cleck, Lm valy gaun to, 16 wad te be : | say what | ken myeel. | true, it wa 4 tter for ok Parone

; : ' | m your verra obe t. servt.,

| Ae nicht, aboot a twal mon syne, when LIBBY RABSON.

| my day's wark was ower, an the feck o° fock |

| termuchty gat wad be naething to what he |

“A little reflecuon might have suggested that the question is rather premature.”

Wi ianteent a very narrow compass, havirg been almest ene : a remains S | tirely grauted away ty private subjects. This has If a man’s income 18 nearly thenty-three thousand | Gecasioned the parliament frequently to interpose ; pounds greater in one year than it was the year | and particularly after King Williain the Third had befure, it nigh ' . ; 5 | greadly lnpoveristed the Crown, an act passed before, it night be assumed that the surplus stands Whereby all future graute or leases of the Crown

to his eredit against lis debts, and his debts, there- | fur any longer term thao thirty-one years or three fore, be proportionably lessened in amount; bet | lives are deciared to be void, except with regard When it is shewn that his outlay is nearly in pro- | Houses. which may be granted for filty years. portion to his large income, without anythiug to , f : shew for the outlay, theu he has uething at all to here spoken of is quite obvivus. Although anme- brag of. As the Government will not give us, in cany weer: mr ee Parties pnguenet | a0 official form, any information touching our re. | BEPt of the Crown, its chief object was to protect veiue and expenditure, and as the Islander re- | the people from the Rnpesition of taxes, which, in bukes our eflurts at enquiry therein, it is enitin | CoPQuERSS of euch impoverishment of the | consolation to find another paper, which is known | Crown, would be bad recourse to as a remedy for

The reason of the parliamentary interference

dan, and it #9 happened that Sheridan knew |

jzethered to the ingle neuk, | teuk ap my ' stockin and tell’t T'ammas, my gudeman, that | L was gaun ower to see Betty Fyfe. Le | didna leak unco weel pleased to think that ‘he wad hae to sit alane, so he tell't me ** it } was far better to bide at bome than be geo n clashin aboot ony body's hoose.’? Noo, Mr. | Yeditur, tho’ Lsay’s that shcudna gay ’t, but | i'm as obedient to my man, and think as muckle 0° him as ony leevin wuman could o° mortal man. Yet | thoelt he ocht na to fash himself wi’ the like o° thee thiags, sae ower Lgaed. It wad be aboot aught whan { gaed in, an’ | hadna sat lang, when Becty isuid: * Tibby,’’ quo she, * f wunner ye're }u0 up at the muckle meeting that’s in the | achulehoose the nicht ; there's two gran gen- | tlemen frae the Ceety to speck there.’ Weel |} l was uuco deon i’ the mooth that | didna

hear o’t suner, but, late as it was, | lost nae |

jtime, but aff I gaed, an’ I was in sich a berry, thatatore | got half way | was pechin jatanunco rate. Hiovever, L gat there, wn jwhan L gued in, ane o? the gentlemen was Hleeshin’t aff at an unco rate hou that vv ocht ‘tu dee alore the Beak wad be taen vot 0° oor | schules.

| Whinnyglen, Jan 27th, 1864.

——« Che:)~— Examiner.

Charlottetown, February 15th, 1864.

REVENUE AND TAXATION AGAIN,

Tue Islander has made our last article on

|* Revenue and Taxation” the subject of a some-

| what lengthy reply; but it isa reply without being

a retufation of our facts and arguments. These

facts and arguinentes were set forth at consider- | able length in the Examiner of the 18th alt., and

| (he short article last week, was merely a sequel

| to it,

aet read that article, for he puts to us some ques- | tions fur which be would have found an ample

|

) explanation therein,

i

| d comparative statement of the revenue and tax-

The editor of the Islander has evidently

We based our remarks on

1 was delichted wi* hia. he sveu’d | ation fur 1355-6 with that of 4363, — instead of sear — the tamous “free system’? is almost sae airnest aboot it, he waupit his airms the former years he selects (853.9 for his-com- practically destroyed, by the svuall pittauce doled

j sboot sve, an chappit bis hans thegither, an) parisen. Before we come down to that period, |

jsqueezed them in sich an airnest kin o' a |way, au’ he had sic’n a glib tuugue, that 1) | thoeht he bud to he ane o’ yere fine Cevty | aa . : , : | meenisters. Oh, | thocht be was a cade, Phe editor of the Islander says he wishes to igude man. Weel, { was sae taen wi’ him | kHew “ how it is that we pay nearly £15 on the that T sat an’ glowert right in his face.) £100 sterling worth of goods, as well asx 25 per Win be was gaun on sae, an’, as | thocht, aboot the middle o’ the sermon, a’ atance up gat the ither gentleman an’ skricht rieht jout, ** Stap, stap, an’ le¢ me tell’s.”’ Le |” . , ‘ wes a fine suusy body, an’ weel put on; but |” per cont. on the £100 sterling—one-ninth added | thocht at the time it was raither impudene | te bring it into currency, made the amount fer to stap the ither ane whan he was doimg sue) which duty was charged £11 Qs. eurrency : weel. But after a’ I wasna verfa sorry, for duty £5 Ls. carreney. this ane tell’t us far queerer sturi-’ than the | ; ither ane; gif ye had but heard him he wad |

let bim dispose of the previous one; and then we shall review the tariff and revenue for 1352-9.

cent. on tea and sugar!” Nothing so easily. se- | swered.

dated our conaparison—ihe ad valorem duty was

10 per cent. ou the £100 sterling: 50 per cent.

(hae gar’d ye lauch sae that yere sides wad | Med to bring it into currency—inaking the duty |

hae been sair for mony aday alter't. Amang | nearly £15 per £100 sty., as before stated. As ither things, he tell't as that be ance heard | man tauikin at sich a rate, that bis breeks cam richt abreed, an’ that he (the ane that was tellin’t) **wushed he had some o’ the ae : lasses girs to put on him.”’ Then he tell’t we presume, ts 25 per cent. of an increase. us ** he was a saxty-fowr year’ll swine, ane) The dslander says: “The Examiner takes no ,o" the right breed, wi’ big white face, short | note of the decrease of duties on other articles, | snuot an’ short legs ;’’ an’ then he put his! for instance, Rum from 3s. in 1858, to Is. Gd. in | hans ahin him to fin gif there was a curl on| 1803.” |his tail; ay, an that he was keepit in ane 0 | ree . : TeFe she best o° etics. bringing this “instance” forward, as we can | a muckle drove outside wi’ lang legs, lang | *tew Chat it is of no importance whatever to its | Snoots an’ scrunty tails, squeelin to get in, argument. ‘The duty on rum is now practically an’ gif they wad get their ugly snoots mide, : they wad sune whaule him oot;” an’ whan! ,- , : ‘ ‘ he Oe o’ that, lush man, hoo the body oo The duty then, wa aah, was 30. } sow it equel't! Lsaid to myself, ** Puir, puir old! os; os ony sag at 50 per cont. grumphy, some ane ocht to scart yere side,” | over proof—the figure at which it was Imported | Afore he quat, he tell’t us be was a Hielan-; up to 1559, 18 no more than Is. 6d. on proof in | wen, ‘an’ that whan he spak gaulic, be fand | 1863. What “other articles” are to be instanced ? | |

hunself a+ yaul as whan he wasa gilpy o' |» . : tee | saxteen ;"? an’ wi’ that he gied us @ lene! Che Islander wants to give credit to its party for | |sereed 0’ some unearthly kin’ o° bletherin, | “ducing the duty on rum from 3s. to Is. 6d

| thas L didna understan; but it gav't the | 1863. Supposing that his premises are

| that article in 1856—as well ag, indeed, in 1s58— | was 3d. per Ib. ; now it is 4d. per lb.—and that,

The Islander is rather untortunate in

as high as it was during the Liberal administra

in correct,

to be in the contidence of the Government,thiow- ing, in one short sentence, a whole flood of light | upon the matter. In the Protestant of Saturday last we read as follows :—

“ Last week, we chronicled the gratifying fact | that the Revenue of the past financial year amounted to vearly £62,000, being, we believe, | an excess over expenditure ot about £8,000.

This sum will, of course, go towards the payment of the public debt.” "

The Islander will, no doubt, be apt to say that | this statement of his “evangelical” contemporary is exceedingly “ premature ;"" but, nevertheless, We have reason to suppose that it is pertectly | true.

Mr. Laird would vot offer a statement ot! this kind unless it were based upon good autho-| irity. And what does it show? Why, that out | of our large increase of revenue — boastingly

| stated to be wearly twenty-three thousand pounds wore than it was the year belore, we have only

j Saved eight thousand pounds to pay our debts and jprovide against future contingencies. Our Go-

vernment crippled the grant for education last

i ;

jeut to schoolit-ters, whe are leaving in scores

julicnations of any portions of the demesne lands

the evil. The passing of tie Act alluded to ear- ried with it, by inaplication, a deciaration of the fact, that the only right to the demesne lands of the Crown which tue Constitution recoguises in the reigning Sovereign is @ life interest ; and that he has no right lo make any disposition of them which would be prejudivial to his suecessers, and consequently, through them, to the people ; inas- much as whatever diminution might be caused to the Sovereiga’s ordinary reveuue, by improper

of the Crown, would, when circumstances should cause it to be felt, have to be supplied by exac-

tious from the people, lest a want of proper main- tenance should vecasion any diminution of the royal dignity.

If, then, the Constitution, with a direct view to the protection of the people from undue taxation, is thus justly restrictive of the power of the So- vereign over the demesne lands of the Crown which, in some sense, are the Sovereign's own property, may we net well conchide that it surely cannot be less restrictive of his power over public

in 1617, and, at the same time, the amount of the

reduced, Mr. Lubouchere’ suggested that, 8 cable settlement niigut be effected DY these ami bem bought up. In April, 1858, beth H (that is beth Houses of the Legivlature oy Pri Edward Island) agreed in Prepesing a lean £100,000 to buy up these lands, and ashes ie the guarantee of the linperial Legislature wising to repay the loan in 20 years. The a honorable gentleman (Mr. Labouchere) we i ar ty this request. From seme cause the Bil} Was postpoued last year, but a promise was ‘i! that the Hill should be brought in this eter The revenue of the Colony, which was Li in 1343, was now between £2¢,000 and £30 being an increase in the proportion of tive to twe in eight years. The Colony was tree trom debt, and had a small available surplus, A sim Ling fund was te be provided, aud the debt would extend over more than 20 years The now made would relieve the Island from an oy. barrassment which it did not create for itself, and which, indeed, had been the work ot the huperial Govermment. The noble lord concluded by ingy, ing that Her Majesty be authorized to the payment of a loan to ananmount not ing £100,000, tor the service of Prince Edward Island, with interest not exceeding 4 per cent aud that provision be made out of the consoli fund for the sum payable under the guarantes,” er

MUST IT BE A MONAKCHY?

“A. A. B.,” from the other side of the Atlantic, has again addressed a letter of advice to his ta low subjects on this side. In this letter be counsels the people of these lower provinces. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edwang Island—to unite under one central bead, and tha head an hereditary viceroyalty or constitutions)