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too late; or, at best, they will be kept from forwarding the policy to which they have been so long attached, and will be condemned to a humiliating and a disastrous ‘naction. ‘The association Daniel O'Connell founded is not dead. Itshall not die by its own act, at least. ‘The people shall deliberately, advisedly, and of their own tull and free will, putan end to it, if it is to die; other- wise it shall proceed after its resumption of sittings ‘early, | hope, in August), and working on the same glo- rious principles whereby emancipation and all that yet has been won of Irish rights wereachieved, it shall ac- complish speedily, certainly, and triumphantly the crown- ino measure of ajl in the repeal of the accursed union. Fellow-countrymen, assist us! We will lead you into no danger. We will betray you into no crime. No wife, uo children, no bereaved sister, no desolate widow, shall:mourn a husband, a father, a brother, a son, lost to them by reason of our legisiatton! Our cause is strong in the holiness of its justice. It is the cause of truth itself—and, like truth, it is powerful, and shall prevail ! Let us but secure the blessing of heaven upon us; by shunning all that.savours of bloodshed, violence, and crime, and that just, that rightful, that glorious cause must succeed! At sucha time as this, when the foun- cation of empires would seem to be broken wp, and society abroad is rent and torn by a convulsion that stirs with ominous heaving the yet unbroken but turbid waters here at home, it is more than ever the. interest of England to be just—to conciliate in time the Irish people—and thus to knit and tie those -silken bonds of affection and mutual necessity between the two coun- tries that will endure when the iron-chains of force must fail and snap’ asunder. Let us“but once more prove to her that we are fit to‘ appreciate and enjoy rational liberty ; and that society, property; and the throne it- self, could not have no more devoted upholders than us. For the sake of her mighty empire abroad, and for the sake and safety of every class and order among her people at home, she will, in the press of her own thickly coming: difficulties, foreign and domestic, at last aban- don her unworthy jealousies and her miserable preju- dices, grasp the hand of fast and devoted friendship that we extend to her, and give us back the means of assisting her, as well as saving and benefitting ourselves by the restoration of our own native Parliament.—I am, beloved fellow-countrymen, your-humble, but’most de- voted servant, Joun:-O’ConnELt.

Tee Army in InELAND.—The. following is an.offi-, cial return of the army. at present in Ireland, with the stations of the regiments:—1st Dragoon Guards, Cahir ; bth Dragoon Guards, Dundalk 32nd Dragoons, Athlone ; 4th Light Dragoons, Newbridge; Gth ditte,. Dublin; 7th Hussarsy. Dublin; 8th.Hussars, Ballincollig; 12th Lan- cersy Cerk ;..13th Light Drageons,-Longford ; 17th Lan- cers, Dubling Ist Foot,.2nd_ battalion, Birr; 2nd ditto, Dublin; 3rd, Belfast; Sth, 2nd. battallion, Youghal ; 13th, Newry ; 26th,. Cork; 3ist, Athlone; 40th, Gal- way; 41st, Buttevant; 43d, Templemore; 47th Clon- mel > 48th, Dublin; 49th, Dublin; 53th, Dublin ; 57th, Enniskillen :,.5%h, Templemore ; 64th, Limerick; .68th, Mullingar; 70th, Cork; 74st, Dublin; 74th,. Dublin: 75th; Dablins. 63rd, Kilkenny; 85th, Dublin; 92nd, Limerick.;.the depot companies of the 7th foot, Water- ford; the 19th, Castlebar; the .34th,, Nenagh; 38th, Boyle; 66ih, Kinsale ; 73rd, Birr; 77th, Fermoy; 79ih, Mullingar; 88th,.Tralee; 95th, Londonderry... Ia _ad- dition to the preceding, there are detachments. of artil- Jery, pensioners, sappers and miners, &c., which, with the armed police, would give a-force of, about, 43,000 Dae Nhe

POPULATION OF IRELAND.

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THE EXAMINER.

tion their appointment; and really we cannot help thinking that so much time was not necessary to form a judgment. More than two months ago, .a report was current, that Mr. Warburton, at least, would not be confirmed in his place. Why this gentleman was singled out, is more than we could divine. Before his election, the argument from the mouths of the knowing ones ran thus: he is in a minority imthe House of As- sembly, he cannot be continued without doing violence to the principle, viz: that the majority should rule ;— but the principle was never acknowledged in the Go- vernment, and was treated with contempt by the parties who then used itto serve their own designs on Mr. Warburton’s seat. When the election was over, and the M. P. P. transferred to Mr. Yeo’s name by dint of Ledgers, the song was changed: ‘ Mr. Warburton can- rot be continued in the Council, because he has been defeated on the Hustings.’ ‘This would sound very well if Responsible Government was the rule, but it is-not, and more is the pity, and disgrace. Mr. Warburton came’to the Council under precisely the same principle which tolerated the appointment of his predecessor, Mr. Palmer.

‘Mr. Warburton was in the minority’) True. Mr. Palmer was likewise in a minority in the old Parliament. Nobody then insisted that he should go out of the Council in the absence ofthe new System. But Mr. Palmer Jost no election? We grant it. But»lrad he lost an election, would he have lost his Councillorship. No. The principle—orrather the want of constitutional principle whieh prevailed inthe Assembly prevailed upon the: Hustings. In no shape was the Councillor responsible to the people. In no shape is he responsible to the people now. Were it incumbent on Mr. War- burton.to resign when-his party was left in a minority —when Messrs. Duncan Maclean, Donald Montgomery. and Nicholas onroy, led off a dance their constituents will not readily forget, in which they changed sides, and set to partners,—it would have been equally incumbent on Messrs. Coles, Holl, and Hensley to resign.. Their resignation, it may be asserted, would bea step towards Responsible Government ;—-it would have been a very false step, for in addition to the opposition with which Responsible Government would be met in the Legisla- ture, it would receive a polite negative from the local Executive. We doubt if even the Head of the Execu- tive hitnself would have given it anything more than a cold shoulder.. We may be wrong in assuming thus of His Excellency ; but we-do not forget that when he was requested by the House of Assembly last Session to furnish a transcript of public documents on the sub- ject of Responsible Government, he declined, urging as a reasoi, that the question was still under the consider- ation of the Imperial Government—{a reason, by the bye; which might have-been offered; with «all propriety, ten years ago.) The resignation of those Councillors, therefore, who. are known for their adherence to the Responsible System would have been, decidedly, a false, step.. The only proper step towards the introduction of the Responsible System, would be the dissolution of the! Assembly. |

Again, if it were true that Mr. Warburton .should|

engaced:in agricultural pursuits is 5,418,571, of whom 2.709.289 are demales, 1,219,178 :0ld men and boys, and

1.290.207 labourers.

MONDAY, AUGUSF 21, {S48.

THE UNCONFIRMED SEATS.

(were being vacancies in the two Councils shortly vefore the late Governor left the Island, gentlemen Ngtinguished for the liberality of their views were sgaected by Sir NW. V. Huntley. Before there was time

is Exeeitency, the present Governor, undertook’ the! siimaistration .cf affiirs, and the: colonial Minister sourteously permitted Sir, Donald Campbell te exercise

wib¥c-officers tats lately appointed ‘by his predecessor. ‘Nhe. months have elapsed, and'we have vet seen no wictal notice of the confirmation of the appointments of; these gentlemen, eney has. expressed no opinion on the matter -to-the Noort qretmment—that igythat be camor cannot sanc-

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cease to be a member of the Council, as some of his

ber of the House, Mr. J S. McDonald should likewise cease to be a member of the Council; for the latter centleman’s place in the Executive was purely the re-|

\sult of his having obtained a seat in the Lower Branch) Duncan Maclean.

of the Legislature. To.go still further, if Mr. Warbur-

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of usefulness to his adopted country. Should he be re- moved because he has lost his seat—(a thing whieh new appears to us improbable, the gossip of the town to tle contraty Notwithstanding }—we do not hesitate to say that a public and personal injury would be inflicted. He could be removed only to,make room for some gentle. man of the Conservative party—or some one who has. a leaning that way ; and we should like to know where are the advantages which have resulted from the admi- nistration of a party which has ruled the Island during the lifetime of a generation. His. removal would be q personal injury; for if such’ a step was to be taken, it should have been intimated to Mr. Warburton before his seat in the Assembly was declared void, and ‘thus give him an opportunity of at once resigning, and of continuing in the Assembly, where his seat would not have been-challenged, had he retired from the Council, We must confess. our ignorance of any just principle under the present state of things, which would sanction the supercedure of Mr. Warburton: The majority of the Hovse of Assembly exclude him from their Body because he has dared to take a seat in the Council—the Lieutenant Governor excludes him from the Council because he cannot resume his seat in the House! If such a wretched, narrow; and anti-British practice as this prevailed, no man would venture to go from the Assembly to the Council—incur heavy expenses at an election, and rum the-risk,of a.defeat, unless he were so certain of his return thatthe might bid defiance to all opposition—uniess in a word, he were a man so favoured of fortune as Mr. Yeo—so honoured of such a constitu- ency—most of whom, like Mogue Foley, ‘carry their votes im-their‘bellies,” and give them outonly when there is a prospect of getting something in.

- We did not intend, on commencing these remarks, to waste so many words-upon the subject. Our. readers will pardon our garrulity, and the trespass ave have com- mitted on their good sense and understanding in argu- ing a question which stands<so little in need of argu- ment, We repeat, we do not suppose His Excellency will compromise his official character—which we rejoice to say, still stands high, in the removal of Mr. Warbur- ton or his Brother Councillors; and we have been Jed to say so much, in reference to Mr. Warburton, because his seat has been the subject of much private specula- tion, indefinite rumour,.and flippant remark. But. why, we may respectfully, enquire, is he—are they—not con- firmed? We pretend to know nothing of the feelings of the gentlemen themselves in reference to their position ; but were we. in their.place, we would prefer to be re- moved rather than be continued in uncertainty. and suspense.

There can be no doubt that the question of removal! or continuance in Council of the gentlemen adverted to, . is -surrounded.with much difficulty; and such will al- ways be tho case where the system of Government is unsound, anti-British, 1rREsPoNsIBLE. Upon all these and similar questions the course of-policy would have been very plain, had Sir Donald Campbell commenced bis career on this Island by putting in. practice the principles of Karl Grey’s Despatch to Sir John Harvey, which are now so happily illustrated in the Government of Nova Scotia.

MR. DUNCAN MACLEAN:

Mr. Whelan acknowledges the many handsome com- pliments paid him in the Islander of Friday last-by Mr. . Duncan must. have. been sorely

beset fer,some subject on which to exercise his talent,

ton’s seat in the Council be forfeited by: the loss-of his; when he was constrained to make an editorial whic place in the Legislature, in the name of common sense appeared in the Examiner more than three months ago,

what argument can justify the continuance in the Coun- cil of the Hons, Colonel Lane.and Mr. G. R, Goodman;

the subject of one-of the most false-and malignant at- tacks which ever disgraced the columns of a public

sett of whom are unconnected new and always have) journal. In all his letters (and he has written many) we

been, with the Legislature. We confess we are ardently attached tothe principle, which is genuinely British, that all members of the Government should be members ofthe Legislature; but we will net submit to be told that the principle should be made to apply to one gen- tleman and-not to another.

Taking this: view of: the matter, we do not believe that Mr. Warburton’s claim to a seat in the Council has been in the slightest degree. weakened by the loss of his seat in.the House. He was called to the Council because he is a man whose talent, education, probity and

}might search in vain for foul epithets.and indecent slanders, such as this last letter of his affords. In con- sideration of the position which Mr. Maclean occupies, as a member of the Legislature, Mr. Whelan will next week give, in propria persone, full. consideration te the charges published against him..

“Porirics AND POLITICIANS IN CBARLOTTETOWN, . No. 2,” is deferred till next week, from want of room Ipropes—we cannot compliment.‘ Observer,’ in the:Js- lander of Friday, on his observation and judgment inthe »

pubtic-spitit qualified him for the post, and gave promise

matter of style. , He takes it. for-granted that thadlon,,

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