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es — £26 , ~ oP ers a oa Me aera eee eee eee ES m i : ‘ . . , ° e . i terview with Lord James, and aporised me that I would be your Excellency 8S seat is easier, and your health improved | Superceded, and that | ought to take care of what L bad go'—_) by the viglent discharge of cf your hilious fuliness ; or pos- tha’ { ouyhi to take the maey (£300) out of Mr. Hoelinson’s sibly, being a gentleman hued, and keep it in my own, bat seid nothinys abuut his farm ; . *“ Of unbounded stom: eh‘’’ at fu lian Rewer, aut! he fared he could pet turn me out of : : . \ Ww : oe i 1} be Having no more from me to win, offi e. Now, Waller's siygmityieg to we tha woul, de super Greet your een baith bleer and blin, ceded —! is advice to get the money in my own hend—his re- ° ’ *e . "1 ‘} : » tie bwd J st Thad no legal awhority to build aj Our dignified Excellency has exhausted all your strained veesel— pa’ on in Charl tietowa would answer much! prerogative powder in popping at me with admirab’e aim b trer—his uneasiness when Lord Jasaes disresard d hie report and great eciat. I do not know of any position or post his proposal whoa fis lordship leew, fur me to get hint) whieh [ hold subject to the pleasant practice of your guber- the money for ins farm rms a chainof evidence that Waller | natorial gun, or within range of your commander-in-chief ; en ' a > elarterown fer the our- 7 : : a . a wasiu treaty with sow »mih rwn ' the pu cannon; but | bethink me that Lam a Fire warden of this es de f the aven .agan, whea received ae * . 4 4 . . nese SNe fe =". . © ee a " eity. Perhaps your indefatigable benignity wight be able to neanswer fou Lord J mesia 182g sbout the purchase of the ch om here, 1 direct! ] ly an feed i . > react e ere, an airectiy c rectiV avai "eu at Tow vip, but received a letier f » Waller in 1828 (wher _ . : oa ree of ee ty gaia — a ic Lord Janes was unfit ww atend to business), that Mr, Haviland gratly _your amlavie prop nsity. I ray take this hint into was Wu De Agent im futue- ; and see og ia ihe newspapers that | your Excelleney's dignified consideration, and if within the Wa'ier’s iamily were tun d owt trerr farm siertly after range of practicability, again perpetrate tbe amiable, and

Me Usviland’s appoaiment to the Age: cy;—ied me te beliewe | add another laurel proof that

» af vate ¢ «? st 7 . te bee > that Mr. Haviland was at the Ww ; t bie plot tu became tht You'd persecute and muzzle still rom Wa . ; Who dares to speak bis mind and will; sagents without giving 3 Or does not bend the vassal knee, reason, why did Mr Ilaviiand assign a reason for the chawge? And bow obseqtivusiy to thee, tie must have felt conse nderhanded dsaling would Poor autvcrat of imbecility. ! no bear « ecrutiny before the pubic; and to ward off su--

purchuser of tiem Agency

at as @ Preprietor may Change!

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Your Excellency, haviog petulantly deprived me of ap- |

; bes f,tucned theig attention to me, that ia . , est ay ph te of Saar banal . , ‘on oe tne Polutments w sich [ had the honor to receive from abler and cummittid tive crime « a ah £ & veseei, me charging bue 7 i ' 1 : . tte . , rseji—g eme : " - prop ietor with the joss! But Me. Uaviand koew as well as better men — y' — een " ho could not stocp 1 dad the wro: g he had done, net on'v to me, butto the tenantry to do your Excellency 3 Wvrs, you will permit me to present

—iw d prive us f a set leweatis freehold at two siilliags an | you with the lollowing : acre, prom sed by Lord James Tewnshend. And as far as |

Poor tweedledum, soft Geergia’s fum, | coud jesrn at that time, severe) of ihe proprietors wou'd have

You're welcome to all from me; The wor revoko and the peace you broke

fullewed the examp'e. ° 2. * : . . ’ . ir YT : 4 > ile-dee- People shou d be evrefe! how they eredié the words of me: Mr. Governor Tiddle-dee-dee i wiw are greedy for t_e emo umen's of office, who pat the pro-| Should your Excellency, riding your well caparisoned pro- duce of fees m their own co fers instead of the Treasury, and pensity nag, be so fortunate as to overtake my Fire War-

f aes & lls ; i hie & ‘ . alae tS ° afie waels a ster fund, ani toking ~~ or the pa o. deney, and denade me of that, the following couplets might without au hority, whch were never refunded. ee4 wre © rf : eM

— 7 ver refunded. Fees are of & | 10¢ juappropriately be dedicated to you : far Sogher valde to such men than honesty, truth or jes ice. ‘ : ene ; lb is upwards of tW.my years since the teniits reso ved to a — otaff and a J , : as privg hy George idas S-oui withhold the rent woul the tiles were investigated ; and if ee : ~ By hook, by crook, by spleen and spite they had remsived firm to their resolution, the Laud Question Taey fell to Governor Spovnerite.

would have beer ce tled, with the consent of Ministeis, who Turni 7 ae ri — ; = + ar ay ors > sy re r , were galy wei eng (o see wht sort of a Howse of Assembly the urning trom gay to grave, L pray your Ixceilency s at-

newp @ wo ild return et the election of 1842. But Mr. Havi-| tention waile [ discuss briefly some potent facts, seasoned 1 nd had sacd tosever dof the tensn s that while I was edvisiag with good adv.ce, timo to pay ren, f wasp ying yorn. This report b: ing Your own public acts muke you public property, subject ewculate', poducelapime. The sensots gwe way,and were to public applause or disapprobation. This point establish- ain Wutsede pus ome tran delre. ™ ly thes ed, l tak : leave to remark that you unmistakeably are a very fal e report had been believed, the Moa, Col. Gray and Mr. weak miaded gen‘leman, an] altogether deficient in adminis- Leougwornh threw it in my teeth in the Heuse of Assembly ; ‘— a ee ee & , but when | produced Mc. Havilanu’s sce ant, and showed that trative capacity. Phe ephorism of a tree being ksowna by, there wis abont sx yeare rent due io’ 1843, they recalled the x its fruit is pertinently apulogous relative to your Excellency’: words e8 pabli.ly as they had ottered them. Bot the mischief administration io this Colouy, you have neither the nerve had bern dove long before. M-ny of the teusntry bad been nor the capacity to check or direct your imbecile and ruined, aud all of them greatly opweseed by ging way toa! dangerous Executive advisers; you have become in their tals report. Said ; moulding a plaster teol to their designs; they are your Ex- Noone would dispute thet Mr. Haviland basa talent for cellency’s real enem‘es, incubus and ruin; but unfortunately public business which mght have been of service to the heen secu’ und canb addline the comedies . country ; but t hae been employed to keep the tenantry in ~~ . = — eas Eres San boudage, under the scourge of proprieturs without a title; and suffers . cnene ex ener 1s your every day rula—toeir dissv- to persecute who-v. F would altemt to plead tieir cause. By lution would involve your immediate destructiun. his ubltaining tae agency he prevented the setiement of the Your Excellency’s Government has reigned about eighteen teaantry ia freelold before 1830, end if tuey bad senained Srm | months; in that short time its acts have won for it universul to their resolution, they might base had w setlement .n 18475) egidemoation. This truth will be hurled in verdict of aud a¢ the sungai reut may oe ex mated a! £2500 s-year, Its thunder upon its members whenever they shail dare to face a drawback ww that am vent from the improvement uf the cundi- their deceived country at the hustings la the early a vow of she peuple. Few mn inave received a greater amount, |), ey J mags 38 Cas Carly Coming ef the pavac moves thaa Mr. Haviland, aad no one coud have of your Cabinet you must be personally involved, because dune the cuuarry grester injury, of your partzan administration. This fact you will feel in Phe practice of the sncieat Fgvp'ians to hold a public frie! its tuil vigour, should you unfortunately remain in this com- | over a corpse, to estab iva charsever before i: was silowed mand ufter the next generalelection. Tue crisis approaches. d-ceat burial, had a powerful eff-ct upon the morals of aneople.| When the two particvs shall measure their strength by the A. the character of the deceased offecied the kindred, they be- goice uf the people, therefore prudeace aud common sense can the guardians of the cor duct of one another; and es 1 i aa : gin apes ; on suggest to you the adoption of the warning which fell from bes beCome &@ study win ey how fer they may Commit in- — bd od is. f th . 3 N } wd ’ ’ ju-tice 10 serve the: uteres’, and evade the law, it would, *¢ Svbdued lips of the conquered Napoleou I. at Waterloo, be well for civi'izcd net ove ‘9 : dovt that inetitution. ‘“sauve qui peat.” Be not regardless of that emphatic | Wa. COOPER. phrase; your position hehoves you to listen with submission ‘to its voice, aud retire from this Culony, suffering frow your ,weak, impotent, intolerant and pariizan administration. | Your Excellency may be assured that this people would be Saiteadiitih tala es sli dai etal daa benefitted by your removal from the Government of the Ee ee oe ee | Coane. $f. pour, Sees be act wholly anne, 500 man town, for the past few years, | hod oecasion to sue some persons ai ae pasity of ¥ sarily dex fj i “te aa ; on the last Small Deb: Court 10 L. 0 49, at which Court Messrs see ~ necessity 6 your om j eparture rom this command. J boa Roach Bourke, Uaszard and McRoe preside. Dar ng the Be advised, your Exceliency, and retire from public life ; ticting of the Court one of the d: fendauts went forward to con- return to the castle of your fathers—to the home of your fe the anount of deb: sued for, when Mr Bourke woul! nor ancestors, Visit the bleak hills and the misty glens of your allow the confession, and «xpress y said it wav not far; there-| pative jand; hearken to the voice of the loud thunder, vi- by mecn ne, i saypuse, that he would jo-e his 8 are of the hrating in the caverns on the heights, and mark the Way of judgment fee. I stared oun it was customary in the George- | ih barred lightning, playing among the pinnacles of the iuwa Caart to make confessions, and | believed it was legel ‘ke. Cail forth the eohos of ee Air ded eck foe § ; end cid pot # ish any unnecessary expenses put on the detend- Sauna. . , - > axlege-weay can oe me =e th, - ant, who wrSa very poor men; on wmch Mr. Bourk» ordered MISC Voices. Pars tbe long summer day “ amang the me vat of the Court, and ordered on+ of the Basliffs of the bounie highland heather ;” listen enraptared to the gush of Court to pul me out, fowever, the Bailitf »ppeared to take the fountain ; and be thrilled with the wild music of the the water « han his snpeior,es | bad wot given any roaring linn; huut the wild fowl on the moor ; and pursue | offence to the Court ae the Tarmigan on the mountain ; aud indulge, if you will, | On referring to the Sinall Debt Act, { find thatthe fourteenth your autocratic propensity amougst the vassais of your pa-| sectian provides that the defendant cau go forward at any tune |i eral estate. But retura oot, your Excellency, to guber- | befurethe trial s calied in Court, and make a confession of the re gy" ? = natoria! command, the which you bave neither the temper

debt, which confession snail stand asa jadgmett agaiast the a, oe : devier. Taw shows me that Mr. Bourke cannot be very well | BOF ability to direct, uor grace wor dignity to adorn. ith Eeb., 1°61.

posted up in the Sinall Debt Act. and proves beyond Goubt the! cher-eter given of him before the Leod Commission, when he would actin euch a violent manner for the seke of i 8 portion | ef tee judgment fees, which was only sixpence, which I paid to tLe Clerk of the Court before | left the Court. It also showe we that Mr. Bourke 18 totally void of any feeling fir h.s more unt rtagete felluw-being=, as 1 expressly to'd bun that my ob j ct i getting the delendant to coufess tie debt was to save the cust of the fee. ; {an at 9 loss to uaderstand if Mr. Bourke ia a fit and proper per-on to hold the situation of a judge or a Commissioner cf Salil Debrs, as if he holds the situation srmply for the sinall amount of fees he receives, and not for the purpose of meting om justice to the various eul'ors who go before the Court, I think the sooner he 1s removed and a more fitting person put in ins place, the bet‘er for the country ; ont I wil ivave the sub- jeci fur ihe public to judge of the transect On. lem, Sir, your obed’t eervt,

‘To show how imple:

Suilui's Wope, February 6 1861.

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ne DS ie a — | Mr. Exauingr—Ono afternoon last week, when crossing | Queen square, near the Cuolouial building, | heard two boys!

“4 mare’s nest.’’ up a black looking imp, with a large bundle of papers under his arm. ** Ilere comes a prin‘er’s devil,’’ suid une of the disputants, ** let us ask him if he knows what ‘a mare's nest’ | is.’ No svoner was the question propounded to his youthful Satynie Majesty, on his arrival, than he promptly replied, | ** Yes. a Mavor's nest isa Bank, and that there fellow coming up is @ Mayor's n¥stuinc.’’ * Oh,”’ exclaim: d the junr. of | the disputants to |.is antagonist, ** here comes Pope, wth the feathers of the nest on him — let us be off~there will be a pair | of them here directly.”’ And off they scampered. | Now, Mr. Examiner, my object in addressing you on the | subject is to advise you. if that young devil belongs to your |

JOHN KELLY. n ad : ; Georgetown, King's County, Feb. 8, 1861. | Ponag eng mong him to Aeep out of the Mayor's ¢ ee

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Fou tue Examiner. | Lerrrnr rnom tree tate Mason McGitt to Urs Excet-| texcy Laevt. Governor Duspas, &c., &c., &e.

INTERCEPTED BY Latt.e Preciovs.

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Charlottetown, P.E.I., February 18, 1861. Sin—I have the pleasure to congratulate your Excellency | upon the recent success of your distinguished weakness, and LOCAL ARBITRARY POWER AGAINST digmified attention tome in the amiable exereise of your - e yee power and authority as Lieutenant Governor and Commande - ROYAL AUTHORITY. in-Chief of Priuce Edward Is. aud, the Goverument of which | The removal of Mr. William McGill's name from the Mi- or of any other Colony af r . ee people your /titia Force and from the Magistracy, appears to be such an | oy Cea iene Se Pe sae any arbitrary exercise of authority, that something more than | 7 In your Royal Gazette, published a few woeks since, you * Passing notice is due to she onkjoot. oe did me the honor and favor to relieve me as a militia officer | any further we shall relate the facts connected with it. from your command. This petulant feat was effected in a Shortly after the visit of the Prince of Wales some disagree- | spirit and feeling pre-eminent yoy our own, and to which your ment eccurred between the men and officers of the Irish | worthy antecedents ta affiwitiy e response say amen. Volunteers, which resulted in the withdrawal from the corps Your Excelleney was in toe British Army, and I under-, i ; ‘ stand that by the ferce of your great interest, extensive of about 30 of its members. These and others, to the number | military qualifieatious, aad soldierly aptitude and bearing, of GU), formed themselves into a Company, under the name of | extending Over many years, you arrived at or obtained the the Celtic Volunteers ; and having selected Major William | renk of Captain, and my u-ighbors tell me that Ceptain McGill to be their Captain—which seemed to be according to | Dundas bay intimate knowledge of a certain bard bargain of the genuine practice of Irish promotion—a deputation waited the Queen's, ; ‘ ‘upon the Commander-in-chief, and most respectfully solicited ned catia ee per on -_ {lis Excelleney to give them official recognition; and place | Hat leave to leave the army bad, them, with respect to arms and accoutrements, on a footing : — oa en? ve ; ‘ ‘with the other Volunteers. This request the Commander- | Bat ae deakle GUGE TGR Vie Goumnerates of your in-chief at once refused, coupling the refusal with the remark high military achievements, | march upon your Royal sheet

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Before commenting |

that the Volunteer force was already numerous enough in|

Cuarlottetown; and that there were not sufficient arms for. ; |

In which [ find Your hive wind

‘the formation of a new Company. Now, in making thie Te spicen coufiued—

‘ mE at fe é . statement [lis Excellency must have forgotten the promise of

in the well directed pienityle of your interesting power, the Co’onial Minister, uttered at Government Llouse while in

that you have been graciously pleased to remove my name | eet ee od a

trom the Commission of the peace. ‘This distinguished act the Prinee’s suite, that any additional number of arms would

is eatirely characteristic of the calm dignity, sound judg- be sent from England, if required; and the Duke then pub-

nent, aud geutic temper of your excellent i:xcellency— liely encouraged the formation of as many Companies as pos- A vipe true type sible. His Excellency also must have forgotten—a fact known |

Olt G oseander . ‘ ‘ ots i plore Apap onan to scores of people in this community—that the military stores

Boy these recherche exploie you Exce'leney bas wittily in Charlottetown at that very time were more than sufficient | warred agaiust my peace, ud wat commissions being all of a to supply the wants of the Celtic Volunteers ; and he did seem

pie.e with your peaceless war persccutions, by which you to have some inkling of the fact, for immediately after stating | hone 4 pos.st Ss pian e atid i of your that there were not suflicient arms to supply a new Company, | Pamitavie tun uo, m Be au War hor @ fe » : hy : ss ’ A man of peace under your cowie Excellency. 41@ recommended tle Celtics to join some of the other Com- |

But by a dignified noppariel will, Ex Justice of Peace, late Major McGill,

|panies. The natural inference is, that if they adopted His. Kixcellency's recommendation arms would be readily procured Was let down or bung up between the two,

sy Uivecenur Dundas, the Lig Bug-a-Loo. | for them; for it is not to be supposed, that a company,

Your Fxceticnoy's all agaiust me having been accomplished | apalgamated by the introduction of the Celts, would presen, in your (ast cobbled uct for your sole gratification, the wozed | the curious spectacle of one half going through their exercises | dof wowe Vizerllenes's sul.netic end show | with the veritable ** cold iron,” while the other half would be

ee ay eae al : ) : teenie

mander-in-chief averred, it was surely an extraordinary way

, to swell the ranks of the existing companies.

thing at all.

ithey called a meeting of their fellows at the Globe [otel on

ithe Duke of Newcastle and Genera) Williams.

sulution is as fol'ows :— ’ That the refusal of the Commander-in-Chief to reeognise | the Royal Ins ractions, dated 20th of September, 1854, is as |

i Besides, if the Volunteer Force ia Charlottetown were too

large when the Celtics applied for military rank, as the Com-)

‘to avert the evil of an increase by recommending the Celtics

In fact, his Ex- cellency put his foot in it by making the remarks he did after he refused to recognize the new Company. bull that would have done eredit to the most verdant Celtic that ever fluundered through the bog of Allen. mander-in-chief bad the misfortune to be too verbose on this oceasion. An old parliamentary stager, and 4 man of un- doubted tact—as we have been often told his Excellency is—| knows, or should know, that in addressing a public body on a public occasion it .8 worse to say too much than to say no-

But to proceed with our narrative. When the Celtics

- ° ‘i . . . found their services thus spurned by the Commander-in-chief,

the 2nd November, at which Mr. McGill was requested to |

preside. They passed two resolutions on this occasion, the

. ke “ea | COMM! san to fo fs nea ile ia first condemning te refusal of [lis Excellency to recognise | cominand them to do so, the Government rifles will be very |

their Company, alter sta

The Com- tiov of rents. Orangeism—a pet institution of the present Government—to mm. pronorable Epwarp Wux | have rifles at their disposal without any cost; and the Lodge |

‘know their military designation—who have

ting in the preamble, in calm and | convenient instraments for enforcing the orders of the Orange-

enemy, they may be made uscfu/ in other ways. Riots may ‘occur in the rural districts, where proprietary oppression has

be dispatched on this service at any time. required to take the oath of allegiance, as if their loya'ty was

at Lot 49 are not insensible to this advantage.

to illustrate the martial spirit of the people of Lo: 49, deposit | the rifles lent te them by the Government in a room where an |

damnation to the Pope. | | me . . . . . . » ° '49, and they should not “lie down” when the Orangemen | last. The privcipal items of news received will be found in

But although the Volunteers are not able to resist a foreign Colonial Secretary's Office. February 13th, 1861.

| $Sir,—I am commanded by his Excellency the Lieutenant

Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication

been carried to an intolerable extent ; and the Volunteers may gy he Lith inst., wherein you tender for his Exce lency’s

They have been acceptance your resignation as a Justice of the Peace for Queen's County. Il am further commanded to acquaint you that Lis Excellency

hey involved a. of a doubtful character; and, therefore, we should not be | has been pleased to accept such resignation, | surprised to see the Government rifles employed in the collec- |

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your obd't humble serv’t, W. H. POPE, Colonial See’y. LAN,

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Besides, it may be sume encouragement to |

With singular | The extraordinary Address to the Lieut. Governor from

|jadzment and forethought, the Voluateer Company— we don’t | the people of Belfast, together with His Excellency's more

been authorised @xtraord wary reply, both of which were publisled in the last

slander—will receive some attention in our next, if epace \and leisure wil! permit. We may also notice, ot the same ‘time, some remarks made by the editor of the Js/ander in

‘ > odwe > ¢ ‘eon ; Pa a ‘ Orange Lodge meets to venerate the * pious and immortal | jj, leading article.

‘memory’? of the ‘ phlegmatic Dutchman,”’’ and drink deep | ‘eceeitineediiea aati,

If there be any Croppies about Lot} The English and Foreigu Mails arrived bere on Tuesday another column.

| Other Mails from the United States were received on Friday night. There is no additional news of any import-

courtecus language, the grounds of that refusal; and the | men. lance from the neighbouring republic, except that Texa-,

‘ . un second resolution was merely an order to transmit the tirst to}

* R-solwd, |

the Celtic Volunteers, and order their equipment in the usual manner, | f JJows :-—

appears to us to be impolitic and unjust, inasmuch as it deprived a por- | tion of Her Majesty’s subjects of the same rights and privileges as are enjoyed by others of their fellow-Colon sts.”’

know if he really presided at the meeting in question. sume unnecessary correspondence and delay, the Commander- | in-chief was informed that Mr. McGill did preside at the} meeting in question, and thereupon ordered him to retract the

resulutions, so {ar as he was concerned, or he would be re- | inov d from the Militia Foree. Mr. McGill contended, very

properly, that as a private citizen he hada perfect right to

preside at any lawful meeting, and disregarded the foolish threat. The foolish threat was, however, put in force, and Major McGill's dismissal was gazetted. The ex Major then | addressed a letter to His Excellency, which was published in the Examiner of the 7th January last, in which he made two ur three severe remarks about Mr. Dundas; but we have no proof that the remarks were untrue. The Ex Major's letter was decidedly drusgue, and ite style was calculated to give | But he had great provocation.

more offence than its matter. He was dismissed from the Militia Force in a most arbitrary manner, and for no offence that we can trace to him ; and on

he first re-| tracy, we said that that act was contrary to the Queen's | States. commands, and we shall prove thatitis. The 27th section of |

: i | the exercise of his Office, within Our said Islaud, any person exercising Shortly after the publication of the resolutions passed at | the same daring Our pleasure, aud We have strictly required and en-

: | tune "7 mao, nina . : ° the above named Meeting, the Adjutant General applied to j,ined you, in proceeding to any such suspension, to observe the direo- |

jany such person to communicate to y.u in writing a statement of the

| Us through one of Oar priucipal Secretaries of State.

| Office.’”

these grounds, we considered he was justified in speaking to)

the Lieut. Governor in language somewhat stronger than is employed in our usual friendly or official intercourse. We should have been pleased if his letter were a |. ttle wilder in

| be transmitted to England. ‘tone, and contained less irrelevant matter than it did ; but |

knowing that it was the production of his own pen, and mak- | ing every allowance for his feelings under the indignity pat | upon him—we did not care to alter a line of it.

When this letter appeared, the Clerk of the Couucil was!

commanded to ask Mr. McGill if he aathorised its publication,

and the latter having answered in the afirmative, he was dis- |

| missed without further ceremony from the office of Jus:ice of

the Peace.

Now, baving given the facte, we do not hesitate to say that the Lieut. Governor not on y showed bad judgment and want of temper in dismissing Mr. McGill from the Mi.itia Force and tie Magistracy, but that in removing him from the latter. His Excellency violated the instructions of his Royal Mistress.

First, with respect to the dismissal from tho Militia Force. The mere fact of Mr. McGill's presiding at a meeting of the Celtic Volunteers was no good reason fur his removal from the Militia. Le did not appear on that occasiva in bis capacity as Major, but asa private citizen; aud as a private citizen

. ; } he transgressed no right, nor outraged any principle of law > = , The resulution, above quoted, contains really It merely

or decorum. nothing to ruffle the temper of any sensible man. states that the Commander-in Chi-f was ‘* impolitic and un- | just’? in rejecting the application of the Celtics fur enrolwent.

Surely it was * impolitic,”’ if there be any necessity for

Volunteers at all, and if it be desirable for every Joyal man to act or the recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle. | And was it not flagrantly ‘* unjust’’ to refuse the Celtics the |

eo

in the course of his correspondence with Major McGill, said | Governor Daly— made by numervus officera in the Militia~in | ‘that the conduct of the latter was caleulated to set an example | the Civil Service, Magistrates included, throughout the Island | According to this doctrine, which we | and in the House of Assembly? But it is consoling to the |

of insubordination.

utterly repudiate, no Militia officer ean ever say or sanction friends of those Governors to reflect, that they displayed no | ‘what may be said by others, in any place or at any time, childish petulance and want of judgment in removing from | things that may grate upon the ears of the Commander in- | the Militia or the Magistracy persons whose only offence was, |

Chief, Assembly, even when epeaking on Militia affairs, make re-

marks ten times more offensive to the EE the newspapers that were not complimentary to the Lieut. |

than the Celtics ever dresmt of before or since they passe their resolutions. Indeed, we were surprised at the milk and waterish style of these resolutions, coming as they did from aj

Suppose that Major Haviland or Colone! Gray got into log- | gerheads with Mr. Dandas—-and stranger things than this |

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have happened—would the fear of dismissal from the Militia | .

Force restrain either from uttering his opinions freely about | Ilis Exceileney? No, indeed; and His Excellency would | pause a very long time before dealing with either of them as he has dealt.with{Mr. McGill. Indeed, if we had time to look | over the Pariiamentary debates, we could gather passages | from the speeches of Col Gray or Col. Longworth more offen- sive to the late Commander-in-Chief personally than the

words of the resulutions under consideration. Even General |

extent than Major McGill; but His Excellency bad then pru- | dence enough not to notice the remarks made. |

As for the d smissal of the gallant Major, we don’t cappent] it has done or will do him any harm. Le does not appear to

his return to the position of a p'ain civiliao—shown any dis- o be removed from the Commission of the Peace for Queen's | | County.

position to put his warlike beard and mustachio on a peace |

to shed immortal glory on the land of the Celts by practising | the goose step and other interesting exercises in ‘ |

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Now, with regard to Mr. McGill's removal from the Magis-| recently admitted into the Union, bas joined the Seceding

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THE LAND COMMISSION.

i : : : aa | * We have reason to believe that the Commissioners have _** Twenty Seventh.— Whereas We have, by Our said Commission, au- now nearly concluded their labours, which must have been thorised you, upon sufficient cause to you appearing, to suspend from | great—and that the award may be expected ina very short itime.’’—TJslander, Feb. 15.

All this is mere bunkum. The Islander knows very well

tions in that behalf given to you in and by your general Instructions: |

|Mr. MeGill, by command of his superior officer, requesting to | Now We do cuarge and require you, that, beiore proceeding to any such | that the Commissioners have nof * nearly concluded their

| : ‘ . Mee i After | 84spension, you do cc nsult with the said Council, and you do signify, by |). . > ! . ss ted in a ver | @ statement in writing, to the persun so to be suspended, the grounds of | tabours,” and thet the award connet be =

such your intended proceeding against him; and that you do call upon | short time.”’ We have seen a letter, a day or two ago, from grounds upon which, and the evidevee by which be may be desirous to | the Hon. Mr. Howe, one of the Comm’ssioners, in which he excul pate himself; and that you transmit both of the said statements to | states that it is not the intent.on of himself or his colleagues

Bat if, in any : 1 Ss ease, the interests of Our Service sball appear to you to demand that a | 0 prosecute the enquiry any further until next Summer, after

| person shall cease to exercise the powers and functions of bis Office in-| which we may presume they will spend considerable time

stantly, or before there shail be time to take the proceedings herein- | : ss ve beture directed, you shall then interdict such person from the exercise before they bring their labours to @ conclusion.

of Lis powers and functions, preserving to him, however, until such pro- But when their award shell come—perhaps in @ year or ceedings shall Lave been taken, the ewolumeuts aud advantages of Lis | P P ltwo from this—what have the tenantry to expect from it?

The Lieut. Governor did not observe this clause of his in- | The Bill passed last Session to give effect to the award is not structions, in several particulars, In tie first place, he is yet the law of the land, and may never be in force. Indeed, only authorised to suspend an officer—not to remove him with- we are assured on the best authority that the Bill is “* hung out consulting the Queen or her Secretary of State, unless in up,’’ that it will not be submitted for the Queen's assent until very extrcme cases, as pointed out by the latter part of the | the Commissioners have given their award; and should that clause ; and no one will presume to say that Mr. McGill's award be unfavourable to the proprietors, we may be sure

wae an extreme case. Before even proceeding to suspension, | the Bill will be disallowed. If the interests of the proprie~

| it is the duty of the Lieut. Governor to state to the victim of | tors should be promoted by the award, they wiil, no doubt,

his displeasure the grounds of bis proceeding against him, and | withdraw their opposition to the Bill, and then it may pass.

obtain from him ‘+a statement of the greunds upon which,, ‘Th’s must be very consoling to the unfortunate tenantry,

and the EVIDENCE by which he may be desirous io exculpate him- -who have been most cruelly harrassed by prosecutions for

se/f,’’ and then an account of the whole proceedings are to ‘arrears of rent, and compelled to pay enormous bills of costs, The Lieut. Governor has not since the Commissioners left here in September last ; and who obeyed this instruction ; and, therefue, we charge him with lave been shamefully betrayed int» the false bope that their having done an irregular, arbitrary and ancunstitutional act sufferings were about to cease, and that the accursed Jease- in removing Mr. McGill from the Magistracy. ‘hold tenure was to be speedily swept away, and buried with Uf all offices connected with the public service none should cognate relics of feudal corruption. be more jealously guarded against the assaults of arbitrary, The successful attempt of the proprictors to defeat the Bill power than the office of Justice of the Peace. If it be con- passed last Session, for the purpose of giving effect to the ceded that any Lieut. Governor has the right to remove a! Land Commissioners’ award, and the connivance of the Magistrate when he pleases, and on any pretext, the Com-| Government with the propri¢étors— shows that the whole mission of the Peace becomes merely a catalogue of the scheme with regard :o the Commission was intended asa sham names of Government parasites—the Magistracy loses its! anda delusion by an Executive Council, one half of whom honour and independence—the dispenser of justice becomes | are land proprietors and land agents, end are dircetly inter- the feeble instrument of despotism, anda tyranny is recognised | ested, to a large pecuniary extent, in per; etuating the eystem

(he most odivus that cver degraded and trampled on the rights | of sluvcry known here as the leasehold tenure. |

| of @ free people.

ia strong argument, as far »s L cou.d understand them, about privilege—if it be a privilege—of doing as their fellows, in Street, t» beg the Queen to remove an officer whom Ae was

Why, we have heard Militia officers in the House of | that they had the courage to take part in public meetings | distastefal to the Commander-in-chief, or to write lettera for

d| Governor. |

| was displayed by His Excellency in his removal of Mr. Me- |

jrace who have the reputation of being fire-eating devils. | Gil from the Militin, we might be inglined to think lat the)

| second folly perpetrated in his nome was altogether the act. ;of his Council ; but the Governor and his Counci! seem to |

{we doin the restofthecrew. ¢

| Gov-rner, Excelle.cy at your earliest convenience.

Coles transgressed Yn this way last, Session to a far greater w H. Porr, Esqr

footing. As for the chivalrous young gentlemen who wanted geverally entertained that it has been done in consequence of |

a letter appearing in the Exramin:r of the 7th January last, | oser the signature of ++ William MeGill,”’ addressed to your and intimating that so long as the present Government shall : this weak [axczllency, commenting on certain circumstances connected pipng time of peace,”’ they may thank their stars that they with Mr. MeGill’s removal from the Militia Force. And t) is

EATING TIlE LEEK.

Let not tie i pologists of iis Exeslency say that Mr. BicGill :

was wrong in attuckiag ** the Queen's Represcotutive’’ in the |

wanner be dil. We are sure Mr. M-tiil would not have Tex following paragraphs from the last No. of the Islander

done this wrong, if His Excellency bad wot, in the firs: in- tell their own sad tale of subserviency to the ** powers tint

} Do the ad- : °°- ‘and proprietor, who are office-helders, have been threatened

: ” is very clear froi , be conte ' stance, perpetrated a greater wrong against him. it is very clear from their whole context that the editor yueates of d: spotism suppose we forget their conduct towards sir Henry Llunticy when Mr. Juseph Pope,holding numerous with the displeasure of the Exceut.ve, aid this is the way : . they ** es } 2ek.??

offices under the Government—abused the Governor, day after | they ** eat the leek.

day, by specehes in Parliament, pamphlets and communica- ' + We find by His Excelleney the Lieut. Govervor’s answer {to the Address from the Tenants of be Selkirk Fatate, wh ec }appears in to day's issue, that the publication, in two recent tion for his removal,—when Mr. Edward Palmer also persuo- | numbers of this paper, of the editurial artieles on the subjees ally assailed the Lieut. Govern rin his place in the Agsembly, of a Loan, was decidedly inimical to the views of the Govern-

a : tment.

and actually persisted in bold.ng the office of Executive Coun- , ‘The articles were written by a sapporter of the present cillor, when he set out on his famous mission to Downing | Government, avd we were under the mmpression that their ) pubhieatiun would really pot be opposed to the wishes of the ,Government. lt appevrs, however, that a misunderstanding

tions in the preas, end went to England asa delegate to peti-

At tl e Bi at B ] 3 $ . i a in ‘i : A os 7 2 + cae . ' rs " ve B4me time there happened to come | spending their time in drill and putting on toggery for the | sworn tu uphold and advise? Do the minivns of despotism existed between the writer of the articles in question and the ‘honour and glory of their country? The Adjutant General, | SUPE Ose we forget the attacks upon Governor Barnerman ard members of tie Governmenm, with respect to their merits, of