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— LIBERTY, WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE.”—Evrirwes.

[No. 16.

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OP VHS EOE HWTAS DBBSB_ annual charge of the Civil List.” However—the subject

=== |has already grown upon us, nearly beyond our available space—and so we must needs clip the important com- munication alluded to, and, quoting the passage from which we have deduced our own conclusions, leave our readers to judge for themselves.

{From the Halifax Sun.)

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AFFAIRS. RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

Political affairs inthe Island Colony have, of late, been j rpitude and assuming an unwonted degree of importance—not ex- Out upon the turpit grovelling meanness of the

actly in consideration of the magnitude of the interests |/2ction, whose successful juggling has caused a valuable

hin ' a) : ‘ at stake, but rather of the principles involved in the issue | or aoe nom : rn a P aay me oe a he eee joined by Sir Henry Vere Huntly and the People, on) ag oe See pene Ss Nee er

‘Jo. and the Tory faction on the other. Ce think it right to observe, that the question incident-

the one om, y ; ., {ally raised by Mr. Coles, respecting the introduction of Neither leisure nor space will permit of our detailing| what is usually termed the system of Responsible Go- at length the causes which appear to have arrayed ajvernment into Prince Edward Island, must rest upon

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little knot of influential officials in such uncompromising gtonnds and be affected by considerations there, which

hostility to the Lieut. Governor. However, our readers |“Z@ not ap plicable to that question in_ reference to the

may pretty nearly guess the general complexion of those be borne in mind, that the Legislature of Prince Edward

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« grounds and rocks of offence,” when we tell them Ganiisland have not, hitherto, made provision for defraying Sir Vere Huntley had the audacity to question the su-| the mee charge ite eweennanel = ae in

ae : i. . -.¢ every Province in which that system has hitherto been premacy of ae _ e wes wach vee hn cit ittroduced. I do not at present undertake to say what as the London ‘Times would say; and tha wilh a spirit influence these circumstances ought to have upon the which does him infinite honour, and marks him worthy of question of the proposed change of system. 1 notice

a position rather more influential and important than that them only as circumstances which it would be impos- of Head of the Executive ofa petty Colony.

Governor of Prince Edward Island had the manliness)

to avow his approval of the system “usually called the! At no period, then, of the political history of the North

: : ; . . rene Responsible system” of Colonial Government ; possibly, | “merican Dependencies of England, did there exist

sanction such a change.”

jadjacent British Provinces. Thus, especially, it must.

_The Lieut, |St2le to overlook before proceeding to establish or to,

greater reason for watchfulness-and decision of action |

TSR AS, TLE EO TES RT Iwas one of the legitimate consequences of Parliamentary Reform.

Who could have dreamt that such institutions would find their way across the Atlantic, and that Orange Lodges would have a place and a voice in British Ame- rica? The purposes which they have been made to ‘subserve in Canada, are still more remarkable and un- ‘accountable, than the fact of their establishment {Orange- men have always professed to espouse the principles of the Prince of Orange, whose mission to Great Britain recognized the right of the people to change their rulers. Orangemen in Canada have been converted by their leaders into the tools of every unjust and tyrannical Government with which Canada has been afflicted. Nothing can be more absurd than for a set of Orange- men to abuse every liberal principle, and swear fealty to every despotic Ministry, to whose chariot their leaders are pleased to attach them. At the late Toronto de- monstration, it was openly avowed that Orangemen were to be used as they hitherto had been, on the side of a ‘l'ory Administraticn, universally despised for its incapacity afd mismanagement. Many who are not under the influence of the clique are opening wide their ‘eyes, and in astonishment, that they have been so long

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‘subjects seek no superiority over their neighbours, and molest them in no respect, and having found no opposi-

| misled. They find that their Roman {Catholic fellow

too, he hinted at an intention to apply the “ Russell) ‘tion, their ill-will is gradually being converted into

purge” to certain offices “ within the sphere of his admi-| nistration.” However, acertain Mr. Palmer*, as w appear, the Mercurius of the clique, was delegsted to, the Colonial Office, post-haste, “to procure (as the most|

speedy method of averting the storm,) his Excellency’s) ; _—, ) : 'effiminate fear of being thought hasty, or rash, or factious

—no listening tothe voice of either cloth, or flattery, or the Board of Executive Council—* unaccompanied” as|°2™ turn the leading men of the Party from their honest

Earl Grey expresses it in his despatch, “ by a condition.” | 22d avowed purpose.

But the M. P. and his employers seem to have reckoned | Let the Leader of the opposition that was—the Leader without their host, for Earl Grey, with promptness and | of the Government that must and soon will be—prove as decision, appears to have met the approach of the dele- civil and refined as he please in the drawing rooms, stil] gate with a signal and humiliating rebuff, quietly in- he knows full well that he has a solemn duty to perform, forming the gentleman that he had come home on a fool’s and a Country looking on.

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removal fromthe colony.” The said BM. P. at the same, time refusing to tender the resignation of his seat at)

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‘upon the part of the Liberals than at this moment. 7T‘he | ould 70” should not be allowed to cool—the Constitutionalisis |

‘should strike whilst it is holt—sTRikE STEADILY AND| 4 is ‘thie tel dad wile © litical | DELIBERATELY. The eyes of the other Colonies are! TARECMES SHEN EE, ENE EN, SOS Sn en ee

| . . . . . c anxiously bent towards this Province. Let. no silly| f° of its unprincipled leaders. The extensive organi

esteem and attachment. As these feelings become more strong and more general, which they must do,

ization of Orange Lodges has produced no opposing ‘Societies. Those who would in former times have ‘met them with stern hostility now rest their sole con- ‘fidence in the laws oftheir country, and even look on ‘with good humour, when memorials of past events nd an unpleasant kind were thrust upon them in open- day.

We believe sincerely that this is the true remedy for ‘such painful feuds, and that the days for quarrelling on

‘such grounds are numbered. Of all things in the world,

errand—that Sir Vere Huntley’s recall had already been| ——

decided on—and “without any reference to or knowledge’ of the charges preferred against his Excellency in the! petition of Mr. Palmer's employers”—and more, “ that) the contemplated step was not, in any degree, dependant,

‘the most ridiculous is for men to band themselves in the name of the Prince of Orange, for the support of arbi- ORANGE ASSOCIATIONS IN CANADA. i trary Tory government. Let them never do so in that name—let them call themselves Jacobites at once. Do ‘we wish to discourage jealousy of constitutional rights ?

[From the Toronto Globe. ]

As the Province advances in light and intelligence,

on, and could not in any degree, be effected either by the disposition to rally under Orange Colours appears to fay from jt—we would have every man watch over the

the proof or refutation of those charges”—(Earl Grey's Des., 28th Sept. 1847). All which must, of course, have,

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proven entirely satisfactory to Sir Vere Huntley and the’

popular party, his supporters--and matter of bitter

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shame and confusion of face to the faction; and more}

be onthe decline. Many good and peaceable men who | isis of which he is for a short time a custodier, that had been filled with apprehension of injury from their!

‘they may not suffer while in his possession, and from Roman Catholic fellow subjects are now convinced of whatever quarter danger arises, let him bear his part in their error, and that they have been made the tools of a | .cicting it by the free exercise of his rights as a British

few designing leaders, who have no other objects but subj ect. To dothis, Orange Associations are not want-

especially so, inasmuch as Mr. Palmer’s supporters had ‘the promotion of their own interested or ambitious views. | 4 ‘and so far as they now exist, they are exercised for

sought to make the “ recall” appear the effect of his dele-| gation, and the influence exercised by his employers. |

Now, had the only effect of this “ Hurricane in| Lilliput,” been the discomfiture of the petty tyrants

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who have so long mis-ruled a portion of our fellow colo-|

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nists—we should have made it matter of special gratu-|

. . ee . i. } y The machinations of these designing men are not Yet urposes hostile to freedom, and to equal rights. Occa-

laid aside, and we observed with sincere regret, that @ <4 enough occur where those who hold the principles

dinner party of Orangemen was lately assembled at) .¢ the revolution settlement may bring them into ample Toronto, evidently to arouse the latent feeling of those | exercise. When the High Church party wish to steal who had been deluded to join their ranks. That they King’s College from the youth of canada, and to take

have succeeded, or can now succeed, to any considerable the largest share to themselves—when the Methodist

lation and rejoicing—but turning to the Despatch of extent, it is impossible believe. Earl Grey, in reply to a communication from Sir Vere’ Weall know the origin of Orange Lodges: that they

Huntley, (13th July) “on the subject of certain com- Were regarded as Associations in Ireland for protecting |

plaints made by the Hon. Mr. Coles, respecting the in- the Protestants against the Roman Catholics, from whom tervention of certain officials as his opponents at his they apprehended danger, as the most numerous body. election to a seat in the General Assembly,” we find a| This was the ostensible reason—but it is also known that passage, which, as we read it, conveys an admission of Orange Associations were used as the tools ofa corrupt

leaders eagerly enter into the nefarious operation, and when the leaders of other sects who are to share the spoil stand by, then should an admirer of King William step in and raise his voice against the unhallowed com- bination.—To be on the opposite side of the question is the very height of absurdity. Every sentiment uttered by the Liberal party in the Provincia) Parliament, every

the practicability of establishing in the three continental Government, in whose hands the whole power and word which is uttered in bebalf of ministerial responsi- Colonies, that system of constitutional government, on patronage of the crown was placed. Of the manner in pility, every measure which maintains the entire equality the broadest basis, for which the Liberal party are con-| which that power was used, the modern history of freland of rights, is founded on the great principles of the revo- tending. Indeed, Lord Grey does not appear to appre- bears ample testimony. When the British Government Jution settlement. The men of that day, it is true, did hend any very serious difficulty to impede its introduc-| began to open their eyes in regard to doing equal justice not admit the full right to others, which they claimed tion even into the miniature government of the Island to all classes of the people, they abolished all such in- for themselves, but a century and a half cannot, have Colony—were but “ provision made for defraying the |Stitutions as tended to cherish strife and animosity, and not passed in,vain, and an admirer of William the Third Orange Lodges, having secret oaths, were held to be! wijl not do full justice to his memory, until he learn to

* Our cotemporary seems to have forgotten that Mr: Pope| unlawful, and they fell with the rest by authority of Par-| maintain, not his own rights alone, but those of every liament. This great step towards the peace of Ireland class of his fellow subjects.

was employed in conjunction with Mr. Palmer on the Mission heal ‘to.—Ep. Ex.