publication of the Document itself is probably the best answer that can be given to the

Linked sweetness Jong drawn out,

of the member for Charlottetown and his political co- adjutor.

His Lordship of Downing Street “entertains no doubt that the House of Assembly is the proper judge whe- ther or not a vacancy exists,” although, he says, “ the words of the Act (6th Wm. 4th) might apparently bear either this construction,” (i. e. that a vacancy did exist), “or that put on it by your Law Advisers ;” and, conti- nues his Lordship, from reasoning peculiar to Downing Street, “I think therefore the course pursued by your predecessor, Sir Henry Huntley, on the first occasion when the seat of Mr. Coles was declared vacant, was the correct one.” Now, let it be remembered, the House of Assembly did not declare a vacancy in Mr. Coles’s place, previous to the issuing of a writ by Sir Henry ; yet, his Lordship says Sir Henry’s course in reference to this seat was the “correct one,” after admitting to be “ apparently” “ correct” the decision of the Crown Offi- cers, that no such vacancy existed.

The Noble Secretary expresses an opinion contrary to his decision:—“If 1 am called upon,” he says, “ for an opinion, 1am bound to say that I concur in that which has been given by your Law Advisers;” and fur- ther he says that the view taken upon the subject by the majority of the Assembly is “ erroneous,” “because the words, ‘ His Majesty’s Council, contained in the Act, could only, at the time they were used, have been intended to refer to the Legislative Council, since no other body to which they could apply was then in exist- ence,” and further, because the Office of Executive Councillor is analagous to that of Privy Councillor in England, the acceptance of which by a member of the House of Commons does not vacate his seat. “ For these reasons,” concludes the logical Secretary, “I am of opinion that the majority of the House of Assembly has been wrong in determining to regard the appoint- ment of one of its members to the post of Executive Councillor as vacating his seat.”

Now mark !—Lord Grey manifests no reserve in com- ing to thisconclusion. Before doing so, he says the Act upon which it is partly founded might admit of two different constructions, and that Sir Henry Huntley did right in adopting a course contrary to that subsequently advised by the Crown Lawyers, in which advice he, Lord Grey, concurs !!!—and that, in fine, the majority of the House of Assembly has been wrong in determining upon that course which Sir Henry was right in pursu- ing!

Surely, a Nobleman of Earl Grey’s acquirements, abilty, and consistency, never penned this most incon- sistent and absurd Despatch? It tells us that the As- sembly did right in ejecting Messrs. Coles and War- burton, because the House thought proper to do so—but that, in doing so, it disregarded the law and practice of the colony, as well as the practice of the Mother Coun- try!

The band of exclusives in the Assembly rejoice at the decision of the Noble Secretary for the Colonies! Is it not a reproach to them, and an honour to the minority ? Ifthe Despatch means any thing, it means this—that factious motives influenced the proceedings ofthe for- mer-—a regard for the law and for constitutional prac- tice governed the conduct of the latter. The former cry out a triumph,—if it be, sucha triumph is more dishon- ourable than the most signal defeat.

The following jeu d’esprit from a correspondent is not, an inapt commentary on the Despatch above referred to:—

IMPROMPTU ON A LATE DESPATCH.

DEDICATED WITHOUT PERMISSION TO THE HON. JAMES WARBURTON.

That wrong is right, no longer doubt ; That right is wrong, be sure;

You should stay in, but must turn out— Both conquer and endure.

That Black is Grey, and Grey is Black, Is clearly shewn by Grey,

Who says, although you sha’n’t come back, You should not stay away.

Tae Cuvurvun.—His Excellency the Lord Lieuten-| ant has been pleased to appoint the Rev. William War-| burton Vicar of Kilberry, and one of his Excellency’s Chaplains to the Deanery of Elphin, vacant by the death of Dean Ffrench.—Dublin Evening Mail.

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THE EXAMINER.

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‘THE “GAZETTE” ONCE MORE ON THE DE-|

FENSIVE.

Tue few hastily-written observations printed in the last EXamineER, on the subject of the recent nominations to the Shrievalty, has fortunately procured for the Print- er of the Queen’s Gazette an editorial leader and a ve- rification of the old saw—* it is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” For afew weeks past we felt a lit- tle sympathy for the Pownal street functionary, as every Tuesday our eye glanced over the columne of his pub- lication to discover what a melancholy “ falling off was there,” since the demise of his “literary man ;” and we ‘do now give ourselves no little joy when we reflect,’ that we have been—though unwittingly—instrumental in obtaining for Mr. Haszard an original editorial to re- lieve the monotony of stale jokes and o}d advertisements with which he crams the columns of his paper. The writer of this article—(not Mr. Haszard, for we seldom! dream of accusing him of anything original)—charges_ us with the heinous offence of having made “a most un- warrantable attack upon His Excellency Sir Denald. Campbell.” Now, this is positively untrue. Our re-| marks will bear no such construction as that put upon| ‘them by the Gazette. We did not attack Sir Donald, Campbell. We said that he had been ill-advised in no-| minating Messrs. McCallum and Hunt to be Sheriffs! for King’s and Prince Counties; and we say so yet, ‘without harbouring a thought or feeling hostile to Sir Donald. We doubt not His Excellency followed what | is termed “the proper and constitutional course,” and to this, we presume, he was advised by his Honor the Chief Justice. But we give it as our opinion that His Excellency was ill-advised, for these reasons :—

Ist. Because the intention of the Legislature has not been duly regarded: Sir Henry Huntley was last year requested not to continue the same individual in office two successive years. Now, Messrs. Hunt and McCal- lum have been allowed to do the business of their offices for more than two years. The honour of being High Sheriff has not, to be sure, been constantly enjoyed by them; but they have evinced a determination to pocket the fees of office, whether the Government be willing or not.

2d. Because it is a stigma on this important Office to allow a Deputy to assume it. In no other country would the practise be tolerated. Any man, having been She-| riff once, who would, from aura sacra fames, take the inferior post of Deputy, renders himself ever after un- worthy of the principal Office.

And 3d. Because the individuals alluded to have ex- cluded much better men, and are obnoxious to a very large number of the inhabitants of their respective Counties.

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The head and front of our offending Hath this extent—no more,

Why does Mr. Haszard affect so mnch concern about His Excellency’s good name? Does he deem it his! duty, as the Queen’s Printer, to defend the conduct of the Queen’s Representative? We are glad to see him awakening at last to a sense of his true position, and casting off the mock neutrality which hung about him so clumsily and so long. He not only neglected the performance of this duty for two years—but emersed himself in official guilt—such as will always be found to be the offspring of cowardice and meanness—-that would elsewhere have led to his expulsion from office. During these two years the Gazette not only suffered to go unanswered the many “ unwarrantable attacks” made upon the Lieutenant Governor by the Islander, but the sly Queen’s Printer actually employed and paid the person who made them, and printed a pamphlet, written by the same individual, in which Sir Henry was most “ unwarrantably” assailed; and a still further proof of his unfitness for the office which he holds was given by his aid and co-operation in the publication of a News- paper, avowedly and virulently hostile to the Govern- ment.

The Queen’s Printer would have belied the whole te- nor of his official life had he neglected an opportunity of administering a “sop” tothe new Governor. Mr. Haszard is a second Barnaby Palms who would not like’ his eggs “ overfresh”—at Government House, and who. delights * to feel his way”—to the heart of Sir Donald. And in these respects he only follows the tactics of his political friends both in and out of the Assembly, in whose smiles he “ lives, and breathes, and has his be-

ing.” ‘To fawn upon every Governor, so long as there is a prospect of making any thing by him, is a well understood scheme of theirs. We have felt for Sir Do- nald when, frequently, we have seen his steps dogged by some of these parasites, who ‘treat him to “smiles and blandishment to-day——while he is yet unpledged to any particular line of policy—but should His Excellen- cy decide to-morrow upon a course that would bring ruin to their hopes of gain, no curse would be too hea- vy for him—no slander too malignant. Such was their conduct at the commencement and the close of Sir Hen- ry’s Career, against whom their

——Anger, unappeasable, still rages,

Eternal tempest never to be calm’d.

We have a direct and easy course to pursue, a8 a public Journalist, in reference to Sir Donald Campbell. As yet, we have seen little to censure, and much to commend; we will not be unwilling to award His Ex- cellency the just meed of applause for every praisewor- thy act of his Government,—but we are not disposed to overlook or palliate his faults, (to which all men are lia- ble) whenever, or ifever, they occur. And we trust this honest and independent course will be more accep- table to Sir Donald—as it would be to every honourable and conscientious man—than the practised hypocrisy of the venal, who, like the Printer of the Gazette, having lived in an atmosphere of falsehood, distribute the ma- laria as the rich incense of. Truth, and the reward of the virtuous and good. Believe us, Sir Donald,

A villain, when he seems most kind, is most to be suspected.

THE LEGISLATURE.

The greater part of last week was occupied, in the House of Assembly, in completing the appropriations for the current year; and in holding free conferences with the Legislative Council on the Currency Bill, to which the Council offered, by way of suggestion, some important alterations. We regret we have not space to glance at them, in the present No., but we shall probably do so ina future one.—The Council struck out of the Bill the clause determining the rate of Cur- rency at which rents shall henceforth be received in this Island, being the addition of one-ninth to the pre- sent standard. The House agreed to the erasure of ef this clause; and the Hon. Mr. Coles introduced on the following day, a separate Bill embodying the prin- ciple of it, which was passed.—There are yet before the Council several important measures, sent up from the House; but it is expected, they will all be disposed of by to-morrow, and the Legislature will be prorogued either then or the following day, (Wednesday. )

His Excellency the Lieut. Governor this day assen- ted, in the Legislative Council, to the Act for raising a Revenue, the old one having just expired.

DIED.

At his residehce, Saint Peters (Black Farms), on the 18th alt, and in the 84th year of his age, Angus M‘Varish. He emi- grated to this Colony from Muirdart, Scotland, in 1790, and was an old and respectable inhabitant of that settlement.

At Cow River, Lot 43, on the 17th ult., after a lingering illness. Mr. John M‘Eachen, aged 37 years.

Packet between Bedeque, P. E. Island, and Shediac, N. B. T

HE Schooner OREGON, James Watsn, between the above nam

Master, wil! sail every week during the ensuing Season, at12 o’clock noon, every

ed laces, leaving Heard’s Point Wharf Testes, and Green’s Wharf the same evening at 9 o’clock P. M., or after the arrival of the Stage from Charlottetown; and leaving Shediac about 10 oclock, A. M.on Mondays. Small parcels taken charge of at 74d. each. All commissions attended to at 5 percent. Lug- gage, parcels, &c. not called for on the arrival of the Packet, will be left in charge of William J. Taylor, at the Summer- Side Hotel, Green’s Wharf, Bedeque. Fare.—Cabin Passage 7s. 6d. ; Forecastle 5s., N. Brunswick currency. May 1.—Gaz.4w.

Summer-side Hotel.

HE Subscriber begs to inform Travellers, and the Publie generally, that he has recently opened a House of Entertaiument at the Wharf, Green’s Shore, Be- deque. The House is spacious and well adapted for the pur- pose. He therefore hopes to give satisfaction, and merita

share of publi tr , ee WILLIAM J. TAYLOR. May 1, 1848.

Administration Notice.

LL persons having any claims on the estate the late Tuomas Inwin are requested to present them to the Subscriber within eighteen months from the date hereof, and all those who stand indebted to the said Estate are request- ed to make immediate payment. Persons holding Mathemati- cal Instruments or Bocks, an - ——— Estate, are re- uested them over to u r. mesved to hand them over DONALD McEACHARN, Sen: Savage Harbour, May 1, 1848.—2w Administrate:.