"motionless, we trust that the emigrants ~

who havevin the you reached our shores

‘ will ultimately find their industry recompensed

was

by the attainment of a and secure .gettlement as farmers. ‘

We feel satisfaction at the increase of the Revenue, arising from the Customs, as,it may enable the Legislature to dispense with any new tax, and even to lighten some of those at present -in operation. ~

In regard to the grant of £1500, for the estab- lishment of a Lunatic Asylum; we feel pleasure

that some provision can now be made for alle-

viating the distress in which families have been ,plunged by any of their members boing visited by

‘such a calamity; and trust that the measures to s

be taken by your Excellency in this matter will result in the erection of a building properly

, located, suitable to the purpose, and not soon

requiring alteration or repair. _

As your Excellency has given us to under- stand that the Public Accounts will be laid before us at the earliest period, we trust that the investigation of them will soon be completed. In regard to any necessary expenditure on Roads and Bridges, over and above the sum appropriated for that purpose, we will cheerfully take such steps as are in our power for its being made good, as well as in providingdo’l“: the ex- penditure of the current year. ff ‘ ' ..

Whatever communications from the Imperial" Government your Excellency may‘,‘caus‘_e,to be laid before us, shall receive our sfifié‘ifibnsi-

deration; and we earnestly wish, by‘diligence:

in the discharge of our legislative duties, and frankly communicating with your Excellency, to use in a. short Session, all the means in our power for the welfare ofthe Island.

n, ,_

TH!

xoouonaammnmamno

so roam Y, FEBRUARY 1, i840.

-. Since our last, an English Mail has been re- ceived, but the advices by this conveyance are not so late by several days as those received some time ago by way ofNew Brunswick. No Halifax letters or papers were received by last post, and it appears that the bag-containing the British letters has also been led behind.

Sr. 'JOHN, N. B. JAN. 18.

Two days later from Win—By an arrival at New York, Liver 001 papers of the 11th December and Lon- don of the l tli, have been‘rcceived—the former one, and the latter two days later than those brought by the Robert Bruce, at this port.—The New-York Commer- cial Advertiser remarks— 1‘ Intelligence of considerable importance had been received from India, the dates being, from Calcutta, October 13, Madras 19, and Bombay 28. On the 18th September, the Anglo-Indian troops set out on their return from Ghizni. They were to stop for a few days at Kelat, and depose the chief of that rincipality,for alleged unfriendly acts towards the Britis interests, and especially for taking an active part in the hostilities encountered by the troops on their march to Afghanistan.

A commercial treaty, highly faVourable to England, had been concluded with the Prince of Herat and ano- ther with the successor or Run'eet Singh, securing to the British the navigation ofthe butledge. A'civil war, however,wus apprehended in the I’iinjanb, on account ofthe succession—another chance for the intervention of the Anglo-Indian Government, and probably for a new accession ofterritory.

The Delhi Gazette ofthe 3d ofOctober states that by the treat with Kamram, we agree to put the city and fortifications of Herat into thorough repair, and to indem-

The House “Ming reSOlved itselrinm a cumming" 0f nify the Shah for the loss sustained by the ravages ofthe

the whole on the Address, Mr. Rue in the Chair—

Thc Chairman proceeded to read the Address, para- graph by paragraph.

The first paragraph was agreed to without any discus- sion.

On the second paragraph being read, Mr. Thomson moved an amendment, that the words “ and being well aware that the industry of those who clear away the forest and cultivate the ground has produced almost the whole of whatever property is to be found in the coun- try, and that the due encouragement of these is neces- sary for developing its natural resources, we trust that the emigrants who have in the past year reached our shores will ultimately find their industry recompensed by the attainment ofa comfortable and secure settlement as farmers"—be struck out, and the following substitu- ted—“ and the usual commercial relations ofthe Colo~ riy ; and we cannot doubt but that the influx of emigra- tion, very properly designated ‘ the wealth and sinews ofa new country, will prove eventually advantageous to the country.’ The amendment, which was opposed by the hon. the Speaker and Mr. Le Lacheur, and sup- ported by the hon. ,Mr. Pope, M r. Longvvorth, and others, was finally negatived on the following division:

For the amendment—Mr. Thomson, Hon. Mr. Pope, Hon. J. S. Macdonald, Messrs. Longworth, Hudson and Yea—6.

Against it—Mr. Speaker, Messrs. Le Lacheur, Macin- tosh, D. Macdonald. \V. Dingwell, Dalziel, J. Ding- well, Beck, Forbes, Macfarlane, Mucneill, Montgomery, Gorman, Fraser—14.

In the fourth paragraph an amendment was proposed to leave out‘the concluding words “ and not soon requi- ring alteration or repair," which passed in the negative.

0n the Speaker resuming the chair, the Address, as prepared by the Special Committee, was reported agreed to Without any amendment.

The Address was then passed to be engrossed, and ordered to be presented to His Excellency by the whole Ilouse.

TH URSDA Y, January 30.

Mr. D. Macdouald, from the Committee appointed to prepare a Bill to continue several Acts near expiring, presented a Bill for that purpose, which was read a. first time.

Mr. THOMSON complained, that owing to the neglect and refusal, in two cases, of the Magistrates of George-

town, the provisions of the Act for the improvement of

Georgetown had been rendered wholly inoperative. He also stated that he was pretty confident communi- cations hnd been made to the Lieut. Governor relative to the Act; and moved, that an Address be presented to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, requesting that he will be pleased to furnish the House With copies of any communications which His Excellency had received or taken, relative to the circumstance of the Act 2 Vic. I, cap. 7, remaining inoperative. Before sitting down, Mr. Thomson explained, that at the time of framing the said Act, he had proposed that the senior Magistrate of Georgetown should be directed by the ,to give eight days notice of the intended. levying ofa A Assessment, for the purposes mentioned in the Act; lit, as it was not clear who ought to be considered the senior Magis- trate, he had yielded to the suggestions made by Mr. Palmer, that the Act should direct any one of the magistrates to act for Georgetown, and that the clause ope- rating tbereon was filled up accordingly.

Mr. Poi-r. said he would suggest the propriety of

commencing the inquiry by moving for a return of any taxes or assessments which may have been levied under the said Act. hostility to the motion ofthe honorable member (Mr. Thomson), neither did his for a moment question the correctness of the honorable member's statements in support of his motion; but he thought it right and pro- r, by proceeding as he would .recommend,.to shew, Iigfore entertaining such a motion as bad Just been made, that the House had good and sufficient reasons, independent of the assertions of any individual, unsup- ported by corroborative proof, fpr such determination. He was of opinion that no magistrate had any right, in his magisterial capacity, to question the expediency or olicy of any Act passed by the Legislature; it was imperative upon him to act in strict conformity thereto; and, with respect to the proposed inquiry, he by no means wished the honourable member (Mr. Thomson) to desist therefrom, but, on the contrary, would advise him to persevere, when he had succeeded in proving to the House, in the way recommended, that tiere were sufficient grounds for pursuing the course called for by the motion in questi Mr. Tuosison them it would appear a little absurd to ask for the returns ofull monies leVIed, when it was rvell known that no assessment whatever had been mad'g under the act; but he was perfectly Willing to acqui-

i with an

Persian army. He agrees to acknowledge Shah Soojuh King of Affghanistan, and to hold no correspondence of the states to the westward of Herat. Ac- counts rom Caboul mention that the King had arrested Hajee Kakur, Hajee Dost Mahommed Khan, and other powerful chiefs of whose treachery he had ample proofs.

FRANCE.—-The Paris papers of December 8, are almost wholly omnpied with the war with Africa. The latest advices from Algiers were to the 30th November inclu- sive. on that da distant firing was heard at Algiers. All the troops ha been withdrawn from the town, and sent to join the forces contending with the troops of Abdel Kader. _ >

All the crews ofthe vessels in the roads were sent on shore to keep the Moorish population in check. Steam- ers had been sent to Oran to bring all the troops not ab- solutely required for the defence of that place. The campsin its vicinity had been abandoned.

The Paris papers mention a new seizure of arms, am- munition and projectiles, at the house ofan individqu who had been pointed out to the police as having had something to do with the infernal machine. He had not been found.

ARABrA.—Accounts were received in London, on the 10th, that the English garrison at Aden had been attacked by 4000 Arabs, and, being only 400 strong, compelled to retire into the fortress. The Arabs, however, were re- pulsed with severe loss, the English sustaining none.

DENMARK.——The Hamburg mail, which arrived at London on the 10th, brought intelligence ofthe death of the King of Denmark, but no particulars are given. His name was Frederick, the seventh of that name—he was born in 1708, and having no children but daughters, is sucig'eded by his nephew, Christian Frederick, born in 178 . - .

The proceedings in either House of Legisla- ture have, as yet, been little more than preliminary, no. measure ofany importance having et been introduced. The despatches alluded to in His xcellency’s speech will likely be sent down in the course of the day, and will probably be taken up at an early day next week. The report of the delegation to England will also be given in, it is understood, at an early day, so that the House will soon have some business before them. Yesterday,tlie Legislative Council waited upon the Lieutenant Governor with the following Address :—

To IIis Excellency Sm CHARLES AUGUSTUS

FITZ ROY, Lieutenant Governor, Q's. rye. (3%.

May it please your Exoelleucy;

We Her Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Members of the Legislative Council of Prince Edward Island, in Colonial Parliament assembled, offer to your Excellency our sincere thanks for the Speech which you were pleased to deliver at the opening of the present session.

We fully appreciate your Excellency’s motives in convening the Legislature at a season of the year when our public duties can be bestdis- charged with the least inconvenience to our private interests.

We are gratified to learn from your Excel- lency, that emigration has so materially increased during the past season, and that, notwithstand-

He was not maved by any spirit of ing a partial failure of the wheat crop in some

parts of the Colony, the harvest has been abundant. '

We thank y0ur Excellency for the informa- tion, with reference to the improved state of the public Revenue for the past year, which affords the best test of the public prosperity; and it is most satisfactory to learn, that the Customs' department has so considerably added to that improvement.

Our most respectful attention shall be given to the several communications from Her Ma- jesty’s principal Secretary of State, which your Excellency may be pleased to lay before us, as well as to all other matters connected with the public interests, which your Excellency may deem necessary to bring under our consideration, satisfied as we are, that your Excellency has the best interests of the Colony at heart.

Fully impressed with the conviction, that the

once in any come 0" Proceedinl the “W” migh' happiness and prosperity of the Inhabitants of

recommen . . . After some brief observations from Messrs. Le

this Colony depend upon unanimity of feeling

Lacheur and Palmer, tending to prove the pro riety of between the different branches of the Legisla-

adoptin the suggestion of Mr. Pope, Mr. homson begged Ileave to withdraw his motion; and leave being obtained, it- was withdrawn accordingly.

On motion, the flares then adjourned for an. hour-— and being again Incl, the following Resolution was proposed and'unnnimously agreed to :— I

Resolved, That aaMessnge be sent to his Excellency

~Z the Lieutenant Gavernor, requesting that he will be

leased to flirnish, for the information of the Hous’e,a

statement of all moneys raised under and by virtue of

the Act. 9 Vict. c. 7, intituled “ An Act for the improve-

ment of " ainst accidents by fire.

Then the flouregcdjouined.

pony in Georgetown, and to provide '

ture, we assure your Excellency, that no effort shall be wanted on our part to promote that most desirable object; and we trust that our unitedfiondeavours may be productive of those advantages which your Excellency anti- cipates. , To which His Excellency made the followirig reply: My, Presidm, and Honourable Gentlemen of (lie Legislative Council ,' a I I return you my thanks for this Address, and for the assurance of your efforts to promote such

measures as may tend to advance the interests of

this Island. -

The followin is His Excellency’s reply to the Address of the House 0 Assembly, which was also presented yesterday :—- "

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House offlnembly ,- _ I thank you for this Address. I shall at all times be desirous of communicating freely with

you upon any matters connected with the wel- P

fare of the Colony.

At a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Geor etnwn, held in the Court House on the 22nd ult. Mr. ufus Shuttuck in the Chair, Angus Macdonald and John Thomson, Esqrs. Messrs. Rufus Shattuck, Wil- liam Mockay, and Dr. J. C. Mackeown were severally ap- pointed School Trustees tor the ensuing year, and the following Resolutions adopted :—

1st.—That it is the opinion oftliis meeting, that a larger sum than that allowed by the late Act, to a Schoolmnster in Georgetown, is required, in order to ensure the accep- tance of the situation by acoinpetciit teacher.

2d.-That it is the opinion of this'mcctiiig, that the ”

Act for the improvement of propert at Georgetown, and to prevent accidents by Fire, oug t to be so amended, that the inhabitants may be enabled to deriva those ad- vantages which the Act contemplates.

3d.—Tliat it is the opinion ofthis meeting, that were the Royalty Roads run outnnd made, the Crown property would be enhanced in value, and the inhabitants at the same time benefited.

4th—That it is the opinion of this meeting, that were a Market House erected in Georgetown, it would be of great service to the inhabitants of the town and country.

of res religion, and all holy-livin , may abound am Christians of every denomination, remain, ours truly, \ THOMAS H. AVIES. Crapaud, Jan. 28, 1840.

13th,

On the 26th ult., at New London, in the 81st year ofhfr *, Mr. James Cousins, an old and respectable iihabitant of ace. *-

At Pinette, on the Q‘hh ult ,' in the 65th r of his age, Hr. Allan Shaw, one of the first settlers in the District, and a man ofremarkable integrity, and of steady industrious habits. HG has left behind him a sorrowing widow, and a family of 20 chil- dren, (ten sons and ten daughters,) to mourn their bereavement.

In the House of Assembly, Thursday, January 30, 1840.

RESOLVED, That no Petition praying aid ‘ fbr Roads and Bridges, or for any object ofa local or private nature, be received after Thursday the 20th day ofFebrnar next. . 'g ' ORDERED, That the above Resolution be inserted in the different NeWspupers published in Charlottetown. By Order, I .- W. CULLEN, Clerk.

BONDS.

Treasurer's Oflice, November 11, {839. GREEABLY to the Order of His Excellency

the Lieutenant Governor in Council, ofthe 8th No- vember, 1838, which directs that in future the ayment of all Bands be enforced within One Month uflert ey shall becomedue, I herebyfinotify all persons having BONDS in the Treasury, which come within the meaning ofthe above Order in Council, that unless their amounts be

5th—That it is the opinion oftliis meeting, that an ad- forthm’h diaChflrged’ they “’i": Wi‘h‘ml diluncum‘i '10

ditional Block and Bridge are required to the Georgetown Wharf, to make it convenient for shipping.

Gib—That the Member for Georgetown be instructed to act on the foregoing Resolutions.

Mr. Shattuck having left the Chair, and John Thom- son, Es . being called thereto, on motion. the thanks of the meeting were tendered to the former, for the manner in which he conducted the business ofthe meeting.

MECHANics’ Insrirurs.—'—On Wednesday next, Mr. Isaac Smith will lecture on “the properties of matter."

On Tuesday last, Alexander Dixon, aged 15, son of Mr. George Dixon, Miller, Dog River, while as- sisting a neighbour to remove a log house upon sleighs, slipped and fell; and, being unable to recover liimselfin time, one of the sleigh: passed over his left arm, and completely severed it from the body, at about three inches from the shoulder. The unfortunate boy, we re- gret to add, is considered to be in a dangerous state.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIAL HERALD.

Sir; Your paper of the 18th January, I perceive, contains ucommunicutinn from 56 persons, belonging to

the Crapaud Settlement, animadverting u on a com- -

munication of mine in the Herald, of the th ult., and professing to rectify the many errors into which they affirm I have, in my letter, unfortunately fallen.

Your correspondents have neither rectified one error of mine, nor proved the existence of many. intimate, in said letter,a belief that the signatures to

placed in the ‘hands ofthe Attorney General, to-proceee thereon for their recovery. . a T. H. HAVILAND, Treasurer.

BAZAR.

HE BAZAR. advertised for the 14th Febru-

ar , is put off until Thursday the 27th February. 31st anuary, 1840.

TEMPERANCE. , THE 'Annual General Meeting of the Char-

lottetown Temperance Society will be held il'f‘the yesleyan Chapel on Monday next, the 3d February, at

, p. m. ‘ . (I? A full attendance is respectfully requested.

PRINCETOWN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. _GRAIN SHOIV. , .v THE followmg Premiums for the competition of Grain will take place on Mondn ,the 10th February next, at the house of Mr. George airsto, in . this Royalty, at 10 o'clock, a. in. Competition open to members only, viz :— '

For the best two bushels of Wheat, - £1 ' 0 0 2d do. - - 0 10 0 3d do. . - - 0 '7 6r "

Best 2 bus. Oats, - 0 18 0 2d do. - - 0 9 0 3d do. - - 0 5 6 Best two bushels Barley, - 0 I7 0 2d do. - - 0 8 0 3d do. - - 0 5 0

The Grain to be the production of the competitor's

I do not ftp-ms, and the growth of 1839.

The Judges will be appointed on the morning ofthe

the Address of thanks were spurioust obtained; but, exhibition.

tliatI had reason to believe those persons put their names to the document from a sense ofthe propriety of rendering duo thanks for a gift to Crapaiid, and not for the more purpose of adding the influence of their names toanew sect. Was this one of my'many errors? 1 did not deny, the fact, that 56 persons had signed the document; norcouldI know the, views they entertained of the-language of ,the Address; but my design, in alluding to these persons, as is evident to an impartial reader, was, to show what kind of adherents to the Association the were—some of them ,Presbyterians, some of them aptists, some of them young persons. The publication of the names proves that I was not mistaken. I must confess, that I thought, and still think,that Mr. Smith had one great object in view, in rocuring that Address, and in baiting it worded as it is, besides the worthy one of thanking the donor of the gift; namely, to make his skill in proselyting and gathering ad ierents to a new denomination known to his employers in England—to whom, if my information be correct, the Newspa ers containing the Addresses were speedily forwarded?

That same of the signatures in your paper of the 18th January were rocured in a very loose andimproper manner, I hesnate not to declare. And this appears from the fact, that some ofthose persons have requested me to baptize their children, since the said document appeared in the Herald. Three of their number (I inquired of no more) assured me, thatthey neversaw the writing against me for which they are made ac- countable, nor heard it read—but that they were requested, by the procurer of it, to allow him to ut their names to some paper, which was to declare, tiut they had subscribed an address of thanks for a gift to Crapaud, and which would exculpate him fromn charge of falsehood; but that they knew not they were to appear in the public prints, as ogronents of the Wes- leyan Minister. “x if