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TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Sir ;—

In the Istander of the 23d March, I noticed a scurrilous communication over the name of “ Ben Rogers,” wherein he makes statements against me which he is wholly incapable io prove. I should not wish to intrude on your valuable time and space, if people knew who the trifling character is, that so wantonly attacked me; but, in order that your read- ers may know something of the fellow, I will give a brief outline of him.

blacksmith shop, and engaged in a grog shop, where le soon availed himself of the cant phrases common to such 2 place. His present situation is in a similar shop, where we now be- hold him as the mouthpiece and tool of a rejected Tory faction. He endeayours to make a flourish about my ap- pointment to the Commission of the Peace, and prates about my standing in the community; but neithor Ben Rogors nor the party of which he is but an understrapper, made any mention ef certain eppointments to the Commission of the Peace last winter, under the Tory admin‘stration. I know ome J. P.’s, of Tory appointing, who ean searcely sign their names in a Jegible manner; but forsooth! because [ was ap- pointed instead of some of the disappointed opposition cfiice- seekers, the most trifling fault is at once hurled against me, and Ben allows himself to become a seribbler to a rejected and disappointed partizan clique. Allusion is made to the nomination of candidates at St. Eleanor’s. Ben must un¢er- stand that the Sheriff, as ho states, did zot preside, but his Deputy. He talks of my availing myself of Acts of Parliament, but he is surely beside himself, any time think of availing myself of the privilege of using such at the nomination. by the Tory party to put the Liberals down. ther. 6 served that any person making the least remark against the Tories would be at once hooted at, and any person speaking

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man, a schoolmaster from Indian River, attempted to offer a few remarks, but he was at once silenced by the hootings of this opposition club. I did not think that this was fair deal- ing. Sol came forward, on the floor of the Court House, and made the following remarks :—‘ Mr. Sheriff, 1 have ob- served in the proceedings at this meeting for some time past

that whenever a person in the cpposition offer any remarks,

attempts to speak. I wish that all persons having | to offer will be heard in their turn.” At the close of the last

sentence, the Deputy became indignant, and vowed I was a) disturber of the peace. I declared the contrary and protest: | ed against such a charge. He at onee ordered a constable to | put me out of the Court House; but that functionary under- | stood his business better than the Deputy, and did not do so, | knowing I was not at fault. Ben states that J “ mounted) the platform,” that “the Sheriff put me down,” that “ the | constable expelled me from the meeting,” and that “T was) running from tavern to tavern cursing like a fiend,” &c., all of which assertions are utterly false, and only worthy of the | base mind from which they emanated. With regard to de-| livering letters to Tories at the Post Office, his foul assertions are equally untrue. I can only assure him that if he wes) worth my particular notice, I would bring him before a tri-| bunal, where he would be required to prove his false and) scandalous statements against me; but on a second consider- | ation I must refrain from so doing, knowing that I cannot} expect better from the conceited fop. The ignoramus also | tries to cast a slur on “ Coles & Co.” respecting me; but | Meser®. Coles & Co. do not care the value of a straw for all | he can squib in the Islander from January to December ; he | is far beneath their notice; and they will only view him with} contempt. I am now done with the individual yclept “ Ben

Rogers.” Ido not intend to answer any more of his filthy | statements, nor would I now only in order to rebut his slan- | derous assertions. . [ am, sir, youts respectfully, P. M. POWER. — | Summerside, March 27, 1655.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Sin ;—

We feel it a duty devolving on us to give an account of the drifting away of the Iee Boat on the 10th instant, and of our proceedings whilst in the Gulf; and in the mean time to express our thanks to the people of Nova Scotia for their kindness to us. ;

We left Cape Tormentine on Saturday, the 10th instant, shout eight o’clock in the morning—the crew being Samuel McRae, master, William McRae, Benjamin Robingon and Duncan tn cand Doctor Johnston, Doctor Haszard and Mr. Joseph Wier, as passengers—with the Colonial Mails—for P. E. Island. The morning was fine, the win blowing gently from the south west. However, shortly after

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up our boat fur shelter, the diy being far spent. Johnson took his bible and read two chapters therefrom suit-

lable to our present circumstances, and delivered a very beaue | \tiful and appropriate

exhortation, the old gentleman (Mr. | Wier) engaging in prayer, All was solemn and our prospect igloomy. Still we did not relinquish the hope of yet getting ‘toland. Our condition, however, was very precarious, 1n con- _sequence of the smallness of eld ; ‘tinually breaking up, sometimes within a shot distance of us. 'We banked the boat with snow, made the passengers as comfortable as possible, and prepared to spend another miscr- able night. This night we had much to do to keep the pas- | sengers from sleeping, Monday morning at length arrived. ‘We perceived that we had been driven to the eastward of Si. | Peter’s Island, nearly mid-Gulf. And finding that it was ‘principally open water, and the wind blowing violently, it ‘appeared utterly impracticable for us to reach the island. We, therefore, mutually agreed, as the | st alter:ative, to lighten the boat by heaving out all the baggage, except the ‘mails afd most valuable clothes, and endeavour-to make the Maia Land. We aceordingly did so, and started. Doctor | Haszard appeared very much chilled and cast down. How- ever, we done our utmost to cheer and encourage him, 80 after proceeding a little further he felt better. The frost of the | previous night helped the travelling considerably, which en-

abled us to make pretty good progress, although haying to!

‘draw Mr. Wier, who was mnch exhausted. About eleven /o’clock we put Mr. Haszard, who had become unable to walk, into the boat likewise, and wrapped him up in all the clothes we could obtain, in order to prevent him from getting frozen.

We toi'ed on thus till twelve o’clock, when the cravings of

| pature becoming more oppressive, and being extremely fati-

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spaniel which Mr. Wier fortunately had with hin, All par- s ~

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‘Cameron ant Robinson, who ate merely a mouthful, which

At dark, it pains us to relate, poor | Mr. Haszard died of cold and exhaastion. This was a very

luppalling stroke to us, and sorrow was manifest in every

vreatly strengthened us.

‘countenance. We paid every attention that was attainable to his remains, aud prosecuted our painful journey towards ‘the shore, where we arrived next morning about sunrise, ‘tiankful to Divine Providence for having preserved our lives | from the dangers to which we had been exposed. We landed iat Fox Harbor, about five miles from Wallace, but unfortu-

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and Dr. Johnson started in quest of assistance, and succeeded in reaching Mr. Nicho¥son’s; gave the alarm; and they came promptly and earried us ail te their dwelling, where.we were treated with all the kindness and attention our languishing condition required, The mails were kindly forwarded to the Cape by Mr. Huestis, Post- master at Wallace. We ean never forget the kindness and generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Nicho!son, A. McFarlane, Esq., Key. Mr. Munroe and Lady, a clergyman of the Church of Kagland, whose name we did not learn, and Dr. Mitchel. Mr. Wier’s feet and hands were a good deal injured with the frost, and his body much chilled. Dr. Johnson’s feet were also injured, but his body and hands are safe. Our

‘highest praise and respect is due to Dr. Johnson for his per-

severance, ability and skill. Regardless of cotd and exhaus- tion, he bravel it out to the last; and we had no sooner

‘artived at the house, although he was in such an exhausted

condition, than he gave useful directions how to draw the frost out of our feet, and the manner in which to dress them. Indeed, throughout the whole, he bebaved to us with all the affection of a brother, and for which we are truly grateful. THE COURIERS,

Augustine Cove, March 28, 1855,

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To Mr. Grorar Beer, “Te ignoranee is bliss, *t is folly to be wise.”

You assume in your letter published in the Islander news- paner of the Grh instant, that you were alluded to in a recent debate in the House of Assembly, hence your letter appeared. Standing as you do in this community, wisdom should, on your part, have prompted silence, and perhaps she did, but, as in many other instances, you refused to listen to her voice, I envy not the blissful consequences of such ignorance, In your letter you take umbrage at the term “ blackguard.” Now, although not very expert at defipitions, yet 1 hold that he who violates the truth by word and deed, and publishes his own infamy to the world, should not be too fastidious. A self-proclaimed spotted—I might almost say variegated — man should not be so dreadfully offended at a single word, even if that word was designed to apply to himself. Walker says that a blackguard is a dirty fellow,—George, your ac- tions have not been clean. Iam not ahout to follow you through your lengthened epistle, but shall touch only on a few of your remarks. You accuse Mr. Coles of -cowardice in “taking advantage of you when you had no means of de- fence.” Do you not remember the time when a faction, using a filthy tool for an infamous purpose, employed you as their cat’s-paw to crush and ruin a publie officer who had fully and faithfully discharged his public trusts, and eomplied

putting out there was sppearance of a shower of snow, we accordingly slackened our pace, in order that we might not get too far off, and could easily put back again if it con- tinued. It was merely a shower, the cloud passed over, the gun shone, giving every evidence of a fine day, and we press- ed on, all being pleased for starting. The travelling was uncommonly heavy, owing to the depth of the snow and broken up ice, which greatly retarded our progress. J cleven and twelve o’clock, we being then about mid Gulf, the wind veered round to the north east, blowing pretty fresh

and indicating a storm; but we coacluded it would not come |

on before night, which would give us sufficient time to reach

the Island, and which we would have succeeded in doing had

we not been prevented by the lolly on the [sland shore,

About five o’cleck we reached within a mile and a half cf

Carleton Point, and could see the land; but the storm grew

so violent and the lolly lay so deep that we could not possibly

force the boat through it. After repeated attempts, and find-

ing all our efforts unavailing, we were forced tc put back,

and drawing the boat on to a small field of ice, turned her

up to form shelter from the storm and cold, dee:ning it more

rudent to remain where we were all night—hoping that it

might be calm in the morning, when we would be enabled to

make the Island without difficulty—than to retrace our stej:s

to Cape Tormentine, which would have been utterly impossi-

ble for us to do. We spent the night very uncomfortable,

being wet, cold and fatigued. The field of ice on which we

were stationed was kept constantly in motion by the heaving

of the vez, consequently we durst not sleep for fear it might

break up, and we be unconsciously preci, itated into the deep.

Sunday morning we discovered that we had drifted about a

mile further off, somewhat to the eastward. The small stock of provisions which we had brought with us having been ex- hausted the previous day, Doctor Johnson shared out a pound of flaxseed which Doctor Haszard happened to have in his trunk, some of which we ate in the morning and the remain- der through the day. We then made preparations and started for the Island. We got the boat worked through the lolly with considerable difficulty, but had no sconer ar- rived at the open water than the wind arose of a sudden toa , accompanied with sleet, and being in danger of swamp-

ing the boat we were obliged to put back. In this manner we made several fruitless attempts during the forenoon, and meanwhile we were drifting rapidly to the eastward. We then started into the Gulf-in search of a larger field of ice, but finding the travelling sv extremely bad, we were forced : to return to the field wevhad just quitted, which was by this

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with all the requirements of the law, and whose improvements ou the public roads will remain long after your self-dishonored head shall lie harmless in the grave? You talk of measuring _swords!) Why man, your sword would be like your pistol on a recent occasion on Queen Square — invisible. Then }eomes honor and elevation! Time was when a man who | would altera document in his own favor, was honored by | being brought before the public with a halter about his neck ‘and Jack Ketch at his heels; and, as to elevation, his head was stuck upon a pole and clevated in some conspicuous place. | George Beer, talk of honor,—Bah! Bah!! Patrick Bear- | ney’s name is introduced. You are, 98 usual, wrong, for | Bearney did not offer at the last election. Who spread the ‘terror of Mr. Bearney’s name, with those of the same faith, | more than you and your party, ins:much that the inhabitants of Little York and the adjacent settlements were afraid to retire to rest lest their houses would be burned and their throats cut, according to Dr. Kvan’s elegant phraseology— and were not you and your wn bigotted supporters loudest ia your complaints against Mr. Bearney as a commissioner ? Mr. Haviland is also mentioned. money from Mr. H., he had ample interest, and principal also, at-a very brief notice. But who rose at a meeting of the Agricultural Commiitee and indignantly ordered you out of the room for conduct which in some places wou'd place you in a felon’s cell? - Did not Messrs. Haviland, Holl and others, and would they allow you to sit with them since? You say Mr. Coles was wanting in gratitude to Mr. H. Do you talk of gratitude? -Who set you on your legs, by fur- nishiug you with £250 worth of fat cattle, and cbtained no security for the Royalty Lot you were to give him in return until you went to England? Did not Mr. Coles, and was ‘not that security eventually obtained bya threat? You ad- {vanced no money onit, but had Mr. Coles’ stock to work | upon—* ingratitude is werse than witcheraft.” The under- strappers at Downing Street, you talk of, are many of them Briton’s hest sous—men of the highest order of iniellect, finished education and unsullied honour, who, if your morels

under preseut circumstances, regard your touch fully as pol- luting as the putrid shoulder fork hams you sold Mr, Pope, at an exorbitant price, for his then contemplated Australian voyage.

I am, yours,

TOM JONES.

April 9, 1855,

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of our field of ice, and it kept con-|

: . ‘took of it raw, and drank its blood, with the exception of I saw the determined effort made | 0k of it raw, ‘ i

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THE EXAMINER.

| CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L, APRIL 16, 1855.

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Tux long Session of 1854—'55 is at length brought to a close. ‘The Speech of the Lieutenant Governor, which we give below '—and for the purpose of procuring which we have delayed ‘the publication of our paper — speaks in the very highest ‘terms of the legislation by which that Session has been dis- tinguished. It may be said that the speech is the speech of the Government, and therefore it is as if the majority were merely praising themselves, This seems to be quite a popular ‘fiction. We believe that in all the Colonies the Governors | write their own speeches—in this Colony the Governors have 'done so, no matter what party happened to be in power; nevertheless, under the present system of Government, the ‘members of the Executive Council cheerfully take the respon- sibility of any part of the gubernatorial speech which may affect the general welfare. Governors, however, as well as other people, have their opinions upon public matters, and the best opportunities they can have for expressing then, are, when they are opening or closing the Houses of Legis- ‘lature. Now, the Speech which has just been delivered to our Jiitle Parliament, we have reason to believe, is the pro- ‘duction of the Queen’s Representative in this Island, and of im alone ;-and we are sure that his constitutional advisers have no reason to withhold from it their ready assent.

Some of the measures which have been passed into law, are indeed, very important ones, and are not unworthy of the higa recognition which they have received from His iex- cellency. It is gratifying to reflect, too, that in carrying out the measures to which we allude — especially the Free Trade Treaty Act, the Charlotietown Incorporation Act, and the Bank Act—both parties cordially united, and laboured in common to make them as perfect as they could be made. Indeed, it is but justice to say that never within our re- | membrance has a better understanding prevailed in the House of Assembly between the Government party and their oppo- nents, and consequently there has been far Jess acrimony in debwte than was customaty in former years. Of the mino- rity of the present House, some gentlemen placed the Go- yernment under great oligations for a manly and generous support to measures which affected the stauding and credit of the Administration.

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PROROGATION OF THD LEGISLATURE.

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Ar two o'clock to-day, Tuesday, His Excellency the Lieut. Governor, accompanied by his aides-de-camp, came down to the Council Chamber, and in the presence of the two houses of Legislature, and a large and respectable body of citizens, gave his assent to a very considerahle number of Bills passed during the Session, and brought the Legislative proceedings of the year to a close with the following

SPEECH.

Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council :

I feel assured that you cordially unite with me in fer- vently hoping that an honorable and lasting peace may be secured, by the speedy attainment of the righteous objects

tending.

to doubt, that on your return to your homes you will second my endeavours to soften and obliterate the traces of past politi- cal conflicts, and thus aid in directing the undivided atten.

full appreciation of the many adyantages which a beneficent Providence has bestowed upon Prince Edward Island.

¢—menm se ———--- THE WINTER MAILS,

We invite the attention of our readers to the statement which appears in another column from the parties who are engaged in carrying the winter Mails across the Northumberland Strait, in reference to the fatal casualty which recently hap- pened in that quarter. It will be seen that the statement in wo essential respect conflicts with that which wes given by a gentleman at Wallace in a letter to Mr. Palmer, and which went the round of all the Island papers, testyfying, in the clearest manner, to the extraordinary exertions made by the crew of the boat, as was gathered from the evidence of the | passengers themselves, in order to effect a safe and speedy ‘landing.

With his reckiess and customary malignity, the editor of the Yslander has endeavoured, in » recent article, to destroy the character of Messrs. M‘Rae & Mutturt, aud to withdraw from them the confidence of the travelling community, by representing therm as inexperienced and totally incompetent to discharge the diflicult duties confided to them. heir want of experience, we are told, was manifested in their attempting to force a passage across the Strait during the prevalence of an easterly wind, because, says the Islander, “in the winter an eusterly wind is always of short duration; and no man of judgment sound enough to be entrusted with so Weighty a charge as mail carrier across a peculiarly dangerous strait ; Would attempt the passage until it ceased to prevail. This, we have been informed, was the uniform practice of the Messrs. Irving.” “ It is said,” continues the Islander, “ we know not how truly, that M‘Rae’s boat left the opposite shore, on the fatal trip, during an easterly wind. If it did, it is clear that experience is thrown away on such a man, and that he is entirely too negligent for so important a trust.” Without at all appreciating the foree or truth of the observation abdut the usual duration of ‘an easterly wind in this country, and the alleged folly of attempting a passage across the strait during its pyevalence, we come at once to the point, and that is: when M‘Rae’s boat commenced its perilous passage south-westerly, and not an easterly wind, prevailed, ‘The weather appears to have been reniarkably fine at the eom- mencement of the trip, as we learn from the statemens elsewhere published—the sun shone out in all its splendour, giving promise of a fine day, and-the crew and passencers were pleased to think they had commenced their painful journey in such fine weather. The charge of negligence, therefore, in reference to the matter of an casterly “wind, entirely falls to the ground.

We have no wish to detract from the merits of the Messrs.

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly: |

The assiduity with which you have proceeded with the’

public business enables me to release you from your legisla- | tive labors.

I cannot too emphatically express my approval of your proceedings in reference to the attempt that has been made to throw doubt upon the validity of the titles to landed pro- perty in this Island, by endeavouring to establish a Court of Kscheat, with the consequent revival of a mischievous agita- tion, eminently calculated to injure the honest and industri- ous tenaniry.

The reiterated decisions of Her Majesty’s Government are conclusive against any enactment of that nature, and con- curring, as 1 do most fully, in the wisdom and justice of those decisions, [ am bound by every sentiment of duty to discourage the slightest expectation of a departure from them.

I would fain hope that the ability and energy which have been exerted in encouraging fallacious hopes among a portion of the people, in whose welfare I have ever taken a deep ip- terest, may in futur@receive practical application for their benefit and contentment.

The active measures which the Government have in pro- gress, under the Land Purchase Bill, require only the co- operation of the parties for whose benefit they have been un- dertaken, to secure to the Tenantry an amount of advantage which they never could derive from the agitation to which I have referred, eyen if it were possible that such a course could be successfully adopted.

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly :

I thank you in Her Majesty’s name for the supplies which you have yoted for the public service. :

The liberal addition you have made to former appropria- tions for the Lunatic Asylum will, I trust, be found sufficient to effect the most necessary improvements in that Institution, and besides affording increased accommodation, to give greater facilities for the proper treatment of its afflicted inmates.

Mr. President and Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council :

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assemdly :

_The Revenue of the past year has exceeded all previous precedent, and the prices of agricultural-produce of all sorts have been highly remunerative, which afford gratifying indi- cations of the progressive prosperity of the Colony.

For some months past, however, extensive embarrassment in the Commercial world has been experienced, from the effects of which this Island has not been wholly exempted, | and the state of the markets for shipping has, for the present, much checked that branch of our Commercial enterprise.

From these circumstances it may reasonably be inferred that the increase of the Revenue may not be maiptained in the current year, ut the surplus en the past year will, I trust, be found adequate to meet any diminution, if such should occur, until the effects of this crisis, which are alread y sub- siding, shall have been wholly effaced by the restoration of

Irving. We know them well, and have a very high respect for them, and we should have been glad to have secu th m continued in the service, if no injustice had been done to the public or to individuals. Bat we cannot, for the life of us understand why they should be considered the only persons 7 the Island capable of carrying the Mails. Of Messrs. M*Rae & Muttart we have no personal knowledge—we doubt if we ever heard of them before their names became connected with the Mail service; but we have heard from intelligent persons who know them well, that they are shrewd, active, indus- trious, and well acquainted with the duties they have under- taken to discharge. The men, too, under their contrel—and some of whom were in the boat on the oceasion referred to— were the very men who were employed by the Messrs. Trving when they had the contract. If experience, then, in the knowledge of managing an Ice Boat, could have prevented its great detention in the ice and Jolly, and the consequent suffer- ing lately experienced, we should not now have to deplore the casualty that eccurred,

But it was evidently not so much from a desire to manifest condolence with the relatives of young Mr. Haszard, or ¢o praise the Messrs. Irvirg and censure their successors, that induced the malignant editor of the Islander to make the melancholy event under covsideration the subject of editorial comment. Rankling hatred of the Government was what alone induced him tu write ou this subject. He imagines he may make a little political capital out of the disaster, in the same way that he attempted to turn the loss of the “ Fairy Queen” to his vile party purposes. He says the Government’ are to blame for not having continued the Irvings; and that Mr. Lord, a member of the Government, “ by the dint of the most desperate falschoods, obtained a transfer of the contract from Irving to M‘Rae.”

_ The first position is altogether untcnable—and the assor- tion about Mr. Lord is a downright falsehood. The Govern. ment could not have acted in any other way than they dia in this matter. It was their duty to advertize for asad for the performance of the mail service. They did so. The Irvings tendered considerably higher than any others. How could theer tender have been accepted without rendering the proceeding of asking fer tenders at all, a mockery and delu- sion, and doing substantial injustice to the other parties who tendered? Well, the lowest tender was that of Mr. Bell ana Mr. James Izving—(not one of the Irvings who formerly conducted the service)—and those parties were notified that their tender was accepted. After some little delay, however, Mr. Bell, who was the principal party to the contemplated

contract, as having the experience and means requisite to

the proper management of the service—informed the Govern- ment, through his friend Mr. Lord, that cireumstances had arisen which would not warrant his taking the contract. What were the Government to do in this matter? Should they have said to Mr. James Levtaiaaual Woe had better take all the responsibility, which yeu were incompetent in the first instance to assume?” ‘This might have been done, if Bell’s intended partner had been Vhilips Irving or Arthur

commercial prosperity. Among the important measures of this to Incorporate Charlottetown” stands conspicuous. state of the Town, and I trust that the municipal functions will be discharged insvch a spirit, as to unite the exertions of ail elasses in the development of the natural advantaces which the situation of this City presents, I have receptly received from the Secretary of State the Imperial Act for carrying the Fisheries and Reciprocity Treaty inte effact, aud having issued the proclamation thereby ss this much desired measure is pow in force, and will, rust, prove a source of increasing ity t rh a oe increasing prosperity to the peo- 1 took the earliest opportunity of announcing to Her Ma- jesty’s Government your liberal contribution of £2000 to the Patriotic Fund, and that further subscriptions for the Same patriotic aud benevolent purpose were in progress throughout the Island, and I have now the gratification of being enabled to inform you, as the reply of the Seerctary of State assures me. “ that the generous sympathy evinced by Her Majesty’s subjects in Prince Edward Island with the

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“warmly appreciated “jects.”

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Irving; but the James Irving who signed the tender with

Session the “ Act | Bell, is represented as quite a young man, having little or

no experience, and otherwise not qualified by himself for the performance of the service. But even then it would not have been an act of strict justice to the other parties who endered, if Bell’s partner got the preference. The tender of Bell & Irving became null and void as soon as the first of these parties withdrew, as effectua!ly as it would be if both abandoned it together; and the Government had no alterna- tive but to take the next lowest tender—ihat happened to be McRae’s and Muttart’s. Notwithstanding the inelancholy casualty in the Strait, they have, we understand, given gene- ral satisfaction, and have made their trips across with fully as much regularity as ever distinguished their predeecssors. This subject was brought to the notice of the House of As sembly a few days since by Mr. Lord, on his presenting @ petition from McRae & Muttart for a grant of money to build a boat, as, contrary to their expectations, the Messr’. |Irving refused to give them up the boat built a short time He gave a full and satisfactory explaration of the little he had to do in conveying Mr. | Bell's wishes to the Government, and complained of the foul

jand malignant libel in which he was held up as being acces- sory to the death of young Haszard, His spcech will be given in our noxt issue—it will carry conviction to the minds igf all parties, that he is whglly un leserving of the least ee

for which our beloved Sovereign and Her Allies are con-

The patriotism and moderation which you have disployed in the discharge of your Legislative duties leave me no room

‘tion of an eminently loyal and well-disposed people to the