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exceedingly ill became the llon. J.C. «worse indeed than it would become any

other hon. member of the House,—and one!

hon. member of the House ; bat the twuches| of conscience, with hiw, it seemed, were} quite tuu feeble either tu repress nid spleen | or discomft his elrontery. the prosecution ot bis orivate business, the

summonimgy af the Legisiature had been de-

Jayed # tall mouth bey md the asuul time ot

its being assembled; and be had not even! attended (a his place waul after it had been | » fortnight in wession. Lad he (tlon. J. C | Pope) been on the Istand, it would have been | suawoned in February, and, by this tune, the public bustaess would haye been nearly | wll datposed of. On gecount, however, of th delay vcvasiuned by that bon. member's) ahsevee from the [sland at the time when thi Legislature ought to lave been summoned jt was nut bkely that the Session woald be | terminated beiure the beginnimg ot May. | potwithstanding all the haste with which the Governitent were disposed to arge forward | and carry their measures —a haste, which, it | submitted tu by the minority, would deprive | them at the power and liberty of speces, anu |

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eonstituents. Wath their nuwerical strengtl

verse opinions op the part of the Opposition, was anything but creditable to them. The

sulbcient kouwledge of their constitutiona! privileges in the Louse, but sufficient deter

so that, however annoying a declaration o sheir sentiments might, in general, be to the Government and their supporters, their wisest eourse would be to make a virtue of necessity, and quietly allow them ty be lully sou husestiy avowed.

iloa. Colonel Gray denied that the sum- woning of the House baud been delayed ow account of the absence trom the Island of the jiva. J. C. Pope. Lhe delay bad, on th contrary, been occasioned solely through the extra duty which hai devu-ved upon the Go-

| be constitutionally invested — ihe right ov!

ol withholding it?’ | voted agaiust the Bill, ia all its stages: not.! with in the market, they have very little to | of perplexed persuns in this und othes parts indeed, bevause he thought the Orangemen | say beyond iwputing to them designs and | of the euuntry.

prevent the discharge of their duty to thetr) houstful than they were, cou.d not fail to be

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vernment ip consequence of the constitutions! privilege which bad been lately aceordeu to them of havmg the imtiativa of all money votes. To the duty of fully preparing th estimates, the Executive bad earnestly de-

woted ¢ emeclves fur two or three weeks be- |

What he then mtended to say, was that the whether the sammoning of the Legislature | and the Catholic religion co-exist in Frange; animadverting upon any hon. nem her's oe- had or had not been delayed on aeeount of | therefore the Cathole religion causes intideli- vaaional absence tram bis plave in the House, the absenee from the Island of the hon, mem- | ty. Pope! ber from Bedeque; but gertainly it was very | bigoted : much to be regretted that the Govermment) causes bigotry. should think 16 proper that the time of the! mon in lreland: therefore the Catholic re-

wight have thought that conseiousness of bis) House should be so unprofitably employed as ligi-m is the promoter of anarchy. own delinquency, 48 tespected the dweharge | it thea was in the revival and discussion ot al

of bis public duties, would haye been quite) question which had already been productive | fore the Catholic religion favors ubsolutisu. sufficient tu seal ap tis mouth concerning any of nothing but unseemly excitement acri | They are happily unconscious of the contra- faults of omission up the part of any other mony, sbuse, and uncharitableness, both| dictions and absurdities to which they com-

m the House and out of it. However, since} they were again engaged in the ernsideration|

: jut at, be thought i would be thew wisest themselves, as it sometimes is, with consid- > : _ saewnge bs | Guaeee te keop out of the debate all matters! erabie effeet, the uproar they make is ex- (thea, J.C. Pope's) absence in England, 10! which were tureign to it, and endeavor to! ceedingly vmusing. A

terminate it as speedily as possible. Phe} pot betore the House, in the Resolutions} which haye been submitted for their eoansid- eration is simply this; ** Llave they a right| tu censure the Duke of Neweastle for having | exercised the privilege, with which, as the | Minister vi State tor the Colonies, every hon. | member, at the time of passing the Orange Bill with # suspending clause, knew him to

submitting it tu the Royal consideration, or} He (thon Me Leusley) |

ot Pringe Edward [sluud were desiruus ov! working mischief or of causing bloodshed in the country; but merely becuuse he believed that the legalizing of their organization, by in Actot [ncorporation, whilet it might ren- der them more offensively confident and

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regarded by those for whose intimidation,

in the House, the impationes with which the | they themselves said, their Lostitution Was aod the most unchristian Goyernment listened to an expression wi ad-|

| primarily intended, as a gratuitous insult to | them and their religion, on the j;art of the | Legislature, and because such a feeling, whether justly or unjustly conceived, could not fail to widen the breach aud inerease the | iit will which bad already, in so unchristian | bt mauner, been created between Protestants jaud their Roman Cathylic ielluw subjecs sud brethren; and for precisely the same } reasons which induced hiu ty oppose the | Billdast year, would he oppose the Resvlu- | tions respecting its disallowance which wer then under the consideration uf the euminit

jtee. When the Bill was passed, it was pas ised with a suspending clause, the meanuin, jut which was that the propriety of reuderipg }it a law should be left to the determination fof Ifer Majesty the Queen and Her Minis

| ters; and in that furm it was sent home to | ibe allowed or to be disallowed, as might be |

| thought best by Ller Majesty and ber consti- | tutional advisers. Aud no ¥,absurdiy envugh,

svlate Government obtains in Austria: there-

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5 9M cape Mare 8S: : en = a _ — Af sans ee , afternoon, as some other hom. members were. nothing, as in this. Tt mattered not now) make one the cause of the other. Infidelity | Island. According to some, it

Phe people of Cotholic Spain are very therefore the Catholic religion Agrarian outrages are com-

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itt themselves by such a mode of reasuning, though, when itas brought to bear against

little knowledge, sume philosophy, and a considerable increase ot charity, would make them mure exact reasoners and better Christians.

But ty retura to Mr Breeken s speech 3 it contained, as all effusions of Orangemen and their aduirers do, a great amount of trrele vant matter, Which has as much connection with the polities of this Islund as it has with those of Dahomey. This constitutes their mn trade. Deprived of it, they are completely bankrupt. Of the Catholics. whom they meet in the street, and bargain |

wutives, the evidence of which must be suught fur in the actions and the pulicy ol Catholics of other ages and of other countries. Che Catholics of Prince Edward Island are veld respousible fur the acts of the Catholics of all times and of all ages. Lt should b> re-

means @ grant to St. Dunstan's College ; to others, 1¢ means Mr. Whelan ag Queen's Printer; and vd sume good pegple m the country, Od eg the appointigent of some half-dozen Cuthol ie Magistrates and Road Comaissioners. Tv the great bulk of thuse who fear 16, 1618 some shadowy monster which it is im possible to define ; but that it is something exceedingly horrible, it is rank heresy to deny. If those who blod forth om this subject were # little more definite in their statements und logical in their conclusions, plgin matter of fact people would know what to be afraid of, and world be in a position tw guard ayainst its attacks. What is it that the Catholic priests are incessantly intriguing for? Is it some- thing obtainable er unvbtainable ? W here is the proof that they are intriguing atall? Are they using constitutional or unconstita- ai means to attacn their ends? = If the editor of the Protestant, with Mr. Breeken’s aid, will bave the guodness to lay belore the pub- lic & plain statement of what the ** Romish Pricsts ’ would be at—if they would give us sume tolerably reliable information of the uowense ** Popish Plot” that 1s being ma tured in the secret places of the Island, they would confer a favor on quite a number

All that we require to ac- company the statement oF information is sucn an amount of evidence as would satisfy a Beneh of Magistrates in a case of assault vr battery, or substantiate a clain for the recovery of a strayed horse. Unul we are in possessten of such information, confirmed

membered by Protestants that of all ways of judging our neighbor this is the most unjust Let the Cathulies of Priuce Edward [sland answer for the stus of the Cathulies of Prince Edward [sland,— If they have committed crimes, and perpe- trated blunders, they must suffer the conse- quence ; butif they conduct themselves us honest men and Cbristions, let us aet to- wards them, and speak of them, as we du to wad vt all ther howest men and Christians Let us act upon the manilestly just aod Coristian principle of considering men inuo- cent until they are proved to be guilty. Let us wait until the Catholics among us have courmitted sume overt act against our liber ties befure we enter into combinations aga ust jthem. Let us not impute ty them evil de- }sigos and mulives, without the clea.est evi- dence—the most indubitable proof. But, says Mr. Breekeu, the Belfast riot of 1347 proves that the Catholics would deprive us tour rights if they could. tacts ol this case? An election rivt sume seventeep years ago tuok place in Bel’ast. A

What are the

| because the power or judguieut, sv residing jim ter Majesty and her Ministers, had been Bill, and

exercised to the disallowing of the

number of ignorant hut-beaded Lrishwen there fought a number of equally ignerant ‘aad bot-headed Highlanders. Some lives

fore the meeting of the Legwslature; and| tothe chagrin of its promoters, the House | were lost, and sume boues broken in Ube tray. through their baving done sv, the business) were called upon to stultify theuwselves by | Does this circumstance prove that the whole ol the Session would, be believed, be got/agreemg to a Resvlution which said that | Cuthol ¢ people and priesthood bad entered

through in two or biree weeks less time this | because that power or judgment had been! into a conspiracy tu deprive us of our rights?)

it had, ia a yeucral way, been got throug): when that time, of more, Was speut in useles=

| manilested in & manner adverse tu the Bill | the cunstiiational rights of the Legislature

hAs a lawyer, Mr Breeken should possess | some knowledge of tie law of evidence —as

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debaung upos the most trifling estimates oof the Colony had thereby bea invaded) a man of average powers of maind, be should muney votes which came up tur cousideration and infringed f They all knew what was) possess a little common sevse—und as a

When the Government side of the Hous puwbered seventecn vutol a House of thirty,

as they did, the abseuce of one or two could | Lt was srmply that if Her Majesty’s advisers | be but of very little consequence to the Gu.) thought that such a Bill oaghe wo receive the |

werument; aid certainly much as they

valued the services vi the Hon. JC. Pope,| recerved that allowance accordingly ; but i} they bad been under a0 necessity of delaying | on the contrary they thought it ought not to} the summoning of the Legislature on account | receive the Rogal allowance, it was not laid | He (the! before her at all, and such a withholding ut |

et his absence from the Island. jlon. Colonel Gray) ad, in tact, never ex-

ted his return uotil he saw him back ;

t then, assured.y, beth be and his cul- leagues were hearts y glad to welcome him back ; and well they wight, fur bis services saved the country the expense of & Minister

of Finance, whuse sulary, were such an ap-/ on such Bills and such questions were nut |

gintment to be made, evald nut be fixed at/ calculated to promote peace or baru my, | F Ile was not! either within the walls uf the Legislature. | fur without them; and he deeply regretted |

ess than £400 or £500 w year. then going to propose the appointment ot

such ao officer; bul the time was coming) that such a measure had ever been brought | }

when, through the increase of the financial affaira cof the Government, it would not te

ywaible to gspeuse with the services of aj bad enough ; but when advautaye was taken |

‘nance Minister.

Hon. Mr. Coles. The Hon. the Leader ui | the Government bas suid that the servives o' | the Hon. J. C. Pope are equivalent to a) tabiry vf £400 or £500 4 year w the Colony. | ewhieti sam would De (ue sulary of a Miuicter | of Finance. bat had we had « Minister of | Finance, and had he properly discharged his! duties, he would have prepared © properly | classified and correct statement of the Public | Avaounts; and then, instead of hon. mew-! bers, who might have wished to examine or) investigate them, having bad to puzzle their brains over such w most incurrect and unin-}| gelligible jumble of them ay hay this Scssion | been submitted fur the batlling of their skili| gs ueeouatants, and the trial, if not the com-| plete exhaustion, of their patience, there | would have been laid before the Ll. ase suc | @ plain, systematic, and correct arrangement | aod statement of them, as would have atford- | ed, even to the less skillui io the art ul ae- gvuunting, a clear and full understanding 1 | the whole. Again, the Hon. the Leader oi | the Government bas told the Louse that, | fur two or three weeks, before the meeting of the Legislature, the Government had) earnestly devoted thems:lves to the prepar-| ation of the Estimates, aud that their having dune so wouid have the effect of shurten-| ing the ueaal duration of the Session by as) jong a peri: dasthey had been so engaged ]f the Estimates bad been su prepared, why | were they nut luid upon tue table ut the commencement of the Session, that every | bon. mewber cf the Hvuse migit have bad a/ full and fuir opportunity of examining and scrutinizing thew at lisieisure? The Mouse) had been three weeks in Session, and the Estimates had not yet been brought duwn to) the House. No! and the reasun was that) the Government were not, as they ought to have been, tully prepared to take up n thew. aelver the full responsibility of the Estimates Tiey had not dared to do that without bay- | ing first, in caucus meetings, consulted their supporters, und pledged them, im secret, to) support whatever vo.cs they might have de | termined tu eubmit to the consideration oi | the House. Notwithstanding their boasted | majority, they did not dure to assame the) constitutional respousbility which atached | to their position, witiuut having, in the first! place, gathered courage (rom the seoret pro-, Wises vo! Support given tu thew by their sup |

ters. ‘They did not dare to bring auy |

thing forward for discussion without having

first drilled their party inte promises of su,- rt and subserviency to their views,

Hon. Mr. Davies. Who told hitaso? |

Hon. Me. Coles Their acta told him ao. | But aiter all their cabinet deliberations, and alter ali their drilling of their supporters, it did not appear that they Were always able toe tutroduce their wcasures i a manner in) perives accordance with parliamentary rules: and usages, Bails bad been brought dows, by thew, whieh his Honor tae Speaker had | had to tell them Were unconstitutivual, a! | though they had spent weeks in concucting | them, The means which were had recourse | to by the Government to secure the Passage of their measures terough tue Muuse, con. contrasted, must unfavourably for them. selves, with that pursued by the Liberal Go-| yernment. By the present Government, no| wegsure of theirs Was submitted to the or- deal of discuss in the House until alter | their majority bad been orivately drilled into. eu accepfance vf 1. in @ caucus mnvebing ; whercae their predevoseurs 10 the administra tion, without wpy preparatery tramung vt their supporters tu ensure the success of their measures, fairly and | oncatly submitted them, wpon their own merits, to the unbsassed

tion of the whole Hoase.

Hon. Mr. Longworth said, it was not in

uence Ol the alwenee frum the Island of the Hon. James C. Pupe, that the Govern- ment had delayed the summoning of tue Le- oo beyond the usual time of doing so, |

t beowuse it wae thought unnecessary tu, call them tagethor to do nothing bus pick | dheir fingerenars for two orthree works. |

blon. Alr. Heusley. However bad the pre

feof Wasting time im useless debates and ut doing little ui wore wenge than pos thoi finger nails, whish may have wot durmgz any Session, ether of the eo orotany tormer House, he thought

won, ® til! worse agen than cn pre Amy

in nO Session, since es ati loetan peat in the House, bad so much tune sonpumed either iv unwise and y tufitable Gucuseivns, oF else spent in literally doing

| perly administered, will completely cure the

fer. peculiar ty the party whose cause

House hud @lrevdy afforded, in the pre-|

}meant by the submitting of a Bill, with a | suspending clause to the Royal consideration

| Royal allowance, it was laid before her, and it was accounted w disallowance of it. The

‘latter mode of proceeding bad been adopted with respeet ty the Orange Bill, and as it

| was perfectly constitutional, le could see no!

|reas on whatever why the House should be | called upon to complain of 16.

und r the consideration of the House The | mere discussivn of the question was in itsel! |

jot the opportunity which tt«Mforded to assail | in the must wanton and unjustitiable manner | the character of a clergyman, as iad just been done, the evil tendency of such antago- wistic measures as Orange Bills and the un

christian spirit engendered Cy their advocacy } }

Debates up-|

| Lbristian, 16 iy his duty to judge as charita- /bly of the actions of others as the cireum- stances will permit. [ put it to him, asa lawyer, is the mere circumstance of a uum- ‘ber of men combining to commit an illeg:l act any evidence that all other men of the community ty: which they happen to belong are them accowplices? Li some Catholics —~ad- wmitting, for the sake of argument, that they deserve the whole blame of that disgraceful transvction --were guilty of commuting a crime seventeen years ago—uare all the Catholies new living on the Island to be eon- jstdered guilty?) Tue idea is absurd. Yet. to such a conclusivg Mr Breeken would Jead us, tf bis admirer, Mr. Laird, bas due jus- tice tu lus arguments, man of common sense, Who is in & condition ty use that invaluable gilt—is it at ull pro- bable that a handitul of Catholies, ip this in- significant part of Ller Majesty's dominions. would conspire to deprive their Protestant fellow subjects of their rights, when they must know that such an attempt could not by any possibility succeed, add would not fail to draw down upon their heads the ven- yeanee of the whole nation to which both we and they fave the happines to belung? Tis would be to suppose that the wholé Catholic

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became su apparent, that. in his vpinion, | population bad taken leave of their senses,

they could nut be sulficreutly reprobuted.

CORRESPONDENCE, =

nan LL LNA ANAL NANA AN

ORANGEISM AND ORANGEMEN,

Mr. Epitror ;— It ean easily be seen from the late debate.

jon the Orange Question that the Government

bave nut yet abandoned the vicious policy of | mixing up what sume people call religion! with polities. By this mode of proceedure | the men who govern us countess that they do |

| not consider themselves suffiviently strung---|

have not confidence enough in themselves and in their policy to base their claims for sup- porton political grounds, ond on those alone | Lins calling in to their aid the quasi-religious | element is a piece of political quackery, and | is an open confession either vf their dishones- | ty or their imbecility. The Orange Elixir! is the nostram which is tu cure all the poli- | tical diseases of our people. One dose is! warranted to cure the most desperate cases | of Snateherism, and two or three doses, pro- |

tuil-woro tenant, though far gone in the! worst stage of the anti-proprietary fever. | [ is famous elixir is warranted to divide the!| most united people, and to render sour eus-| picions and irritable men of the sweetest, | wust confiding and must placid disposition. | And what is best of all is, that the suffering | patient may have the full benefit of all the | virtue it is capable of bestuwing withuut the inevitable ** 25 cents ”’

‘Lhe speeches of the Colonial Seeretary and |

of Mr. Brecken are expressiuns of the views and feelings of two classes of our “sonlliten, population. The Colonial Secretary, in al strain of low invective and indeeent vituper-| ation, expressed the opinions and manilested | the spirit of the most ignorant and most! rabid class of anti-popish bigots. These wen, | having oo religion of any kind, foulishly im agine that the absenve of every Christian) virtue is amply compensated for in the esti-|

wation of their fellow Protestants hy an out.) assutn tion,

rageons zeal against the Roman Catholic! Cuurch. Suci: persons you may see in the | grog shops, half intuxieated, ready on the | least shadow of a provocation, tu throw or} their goats and fight for « Protestant As. | cendancy,"’ and the Orange Lustituuon, and) who, in the fuulest and most blaspheuous | terms, bellow furth their hatred of the Ca-| tholic religion and every .thing and every | — cunnected with it. The Hlon. W. I

ope 18 their representative man.’’ Differ | ing in & few externals, they are the same in| spirit—equally foul-mouthed and equally in- tolerant. There may be this farther di fer- | ence between Mr. W. H. Pope and those! whom he represents: while they are sincere | in their unreasoning hate, and really lear the} phantoms of their own imagination, the lant | tudinarian Mr Pope looks upon ail religions) with equal indiffereuce—the Protestant and | the Catholicethe Christian and the Ma- hometan—cnd laughs at the terrors of his. ignorant and tmfatuated dupes, Mr. Pope | places more reliance on the hatred that his) toowers besr to Catholiws than on ther) love for truth, and has more confidence in their fears of Catholiciew than in their geal lor Protestantism.

Mr. Brecken represents the anti-papish mania iv a milder torm. He does not appeal ro muck to Protestant fears and antipatiues as to Protestant & li-righteousness and spir- itaal prids. tie presents to us the pharisa- iegl aspect of the quesuon. He as smouther ip bis speeoh than Mr. Pope, aod pretends to use Che language of reason ine of that of passion. He would proseribe Catholics in goed set termé—dewmeliay them with a syllo-| gisu—silenee them by an histurical allusion —and aunihilate them by a rheturial flour- ish His reasoning, though nut at all ort-

‘48 su wartnly espoused.

Thos elas ot | | Pecsoners impute every mistake

of Catholic | hations, and every fault and erime of Ca-|

thotie individuals tu the intluence of the Ca- | tholie religion. They find, or imayine they | find, two things existing im a given country )F HHO Heme times aud by & process of argu- | wentetion, with whieh reason aud logic have

we little as possible ty do, they furthwith

ido not stop to calculate consequences, — | Orangemen are not likely to be very furbear-

}eountry is continaallly harped upon; and)

| the sense of injury and injustice un the other,

| and were fit subjects for the Lunatic Asylum | This, at least, as far as the Clergy are con- verned, is what Mr, Beeeken and bis party are far from admitting, for they give the ** Romish Priesthood’? tne credit of pussess- | ing great sugucity in discerning the ** sigas of the times,’” and insist that they not only choose the fittest time to strike a blow, but adopt the subtiest and surest mweaus vl rend- ering it effectual.

L ask any wan not blinded by bigotry, and unehristianized by intoleranee, if it ts not much more reasonable, as well more Ciris- tian-like to vonelude—wha' | verily believe to be the true state of the cas+—that the Catho- lie clergy were deeply grieved at the conduct of the Catholics who tovk part in the Beliast riot of 1847 ; and that it is mainly owing to their influence that we have vet had a re

currence of such scenes—that it 8 owing to) small Colony, as fatas population was coucerned, | days, yet, their exertions in keeping the peace, and in| but that strong Colony as far as moral courage, | restraining the passions of their people that, | absence of fluukies, wolves in sheep-clothing, and

novwitistanding the insults which have been | heaped upon Cathulics and every thing they | hold sacred during the past five years, there | has been uo violation of the peace, and that | with scarcely an exception they have borne | the only kind of persecution that our age | and laws permit with a patience and forti-| tude traly exemplary. ( very much fear! were the circutustances reversed, that Pro-| trastants would not have shown so much | Coristian forbearance. That this view of | the cuse is the correct one. is, L think, | proved by the conduct of the Catholic Clergy

| when a rioé Was imwoinent in Charlottetown

Then, the devoted Minister of Religion, re- gardiess of danger, exposed himself to the violence of an enraged mob, that he might execute the most holy duty of his sacred yo- | cation, that of peace-maker, Would that sone of our Protestant Clergy were actuated | by the same spirit, and that they exercis:d) their talents, not in fomenting sectartan bit- terness bat in allaying strife.

To say that the quiet of lite years is ow- ing to the dread inspired by the Institution | of Orange Societies, is purely a gratuitous) unsupported by # parcele ot proof. ‘The Catholic Lighlander and the) Irishman are as ready to face danger us| their Protestant fellow subj -ets and we know

/ when men are urged to deeds of violence by ejected ones; and if no tenants could be found,

what they consider religious motives, they {

ing wien suspicion of the designs of Catholics is forever sounded in their ears. They are uot likely to bear towards Catholies the most kindly feelings when every circumstance of |

past aged and every fault of every Catholic |

by a logic perfectly satisiactory to the ig. norant and the unthinking, made tou embitter | the minds of Protestants against their Cn-| t! olic tellow subjects of Catholics towards Pr -testants be wiat, they ought, when they finl themselves the | objeets of suspicion and dislike--when the

[ appeal t» every |

by such evidence, he or they must not think lit is unreasuvnable, or irreligious if we ** think no evil’ of our Catholic ltellow Colouists, and if we do not suspect them of harbouring ‘more designs against us than we harbour | against them,

| Apologising for the length of this letter

L am, Sir, yours, Xe. A PROTESTANT. Prince County, May dit, 1804. fENANT DELEGATION MEETING. To THE Botren Gr THE EXAMINER.

Sin :—Allow me, through the medium of your uselul weekly joQirual, to make a few remarks on the Tenant Delegation Meeting, and on the hostile comments of the Editor ot the lslander.

As 1, in common with the HONEST and iutelli- gent portion of the public, look upon the Tenant Leagues as by far the most sensible and effectual organization that could take place on this Island to redress the evils of landlordisin; and, in eom- jinen with the general population of the Island. jentirely coincide with the able and judicious re- marks of Mr. Adams, lately publisied in Ross's Weekly— wish to say a tew words in reply te the editorial ot the islander of the 29th Aprillast. The editor of the Islander sees Lo imagine that he has succeeded in making all the old women of both sexes on the Island believe that all lie lias to do is }to ery out “ Liberal” or ** Catholic” to make | them all hide in a corner fer tear of immediate | destruction. Surely the MEN of P. be. Island are not se sunk in the lowest mire of tguerance, o1 such silly babies, that any sell-icterested aud sell- seeking office holder or hunter could trighten them by calling them Liberals, just like a nurse telling aun auruly child to take care ot the bear. With is usual wautef fair play, the editor of the Js- ‘ander misrepresents the volice of the Delegation Meeting, aud takes advantage of his own tisre- preseuiaon of that notice te sing the praises o! the landlords. ‘The editor of the Islander says :— ~‘Lbe proprietors vt this Island, as a body, nave wot been * haran je oppressive,’ and in justice to them, he must admit int they are not charge- able with ‘arbitrary, intolerable and tyraniic couduet. By these remarks, the editor of the Islander wishes his readers lo betteve that the Delegation notice falsely charges the landlords with arbitrary, Malolerable uid ty ranuie couduct, What are the words of the Delegation Nutice ¢ Phey are these : that they repudiate tue arbitrary, intolerable and tyrannmie propositions of resideut jand absentee proprietors; aud evidentiy allude to the Landlords’ Bill, and to the Dall latel, passed by the Legislature of this Island, and which we may partly cail the Landlord Flunkey’. Bill. Lhe editer counties to say that the laud- lords lave never, ly lis Knowledge, exacted trom Their beaauts mete Luan tiese lenauls agreed to

was, that no charge of mal-administration of the | public money could be sustained against the othi- cer named. Tt was now brought betore this Hon, House with a view of passing a vole of censure agaist the Government.”

"How; Sir, you will, perhaps, think, after all these statements, that the people of the East River are rebellious subjects, or are at least op- posed to the present Government; and, therelore, we are bound tu shew that we were net at that time, nor are even now, epposed to the Govern- ment; but if they persist io this and some other of their acts of folly, the time may shortly come when the whule people will impelled to iove in

s matter

Pee sir, in regard to the first of these state- ments, that the Executive paticutly investigated the Whole matter, we merely Wish to kuow what claim they bave to the name of such a fair pre- ceedure, When that affair had wuly a one sided view of the case, as nove of the complainants nor their witnesses were suffered to” be present. Now, it may be said, that the Executive are not anopen tribunal, Then why uot take the proper corse, and investigate by the Superintendent of Pubhe Works or otherwise; for surely there is a proper course to bring a public officer to justice, who may have stepped out of the path ot duty ; for any person Whe tnty have been acquainted with the proceedings of the Executive in tuis case, way conclude that the course taken was a Course of humbug. d Again, the Hon. Col. Gray said that the °* Px. ecutive patiently investigaied the whole matter. Well, then, let ime ask how they could patiently investigate the whole matter trom a secret, one sided view of ths case? ner would they show us the Commissioner's “explanation of the circutie stances counected therewiib,” although they pro- | mised to do sv at one time, yet they receded trom that promise in time, leading us to believe that there Was something which they kuew ty be very unfair in that istroment.

Another fact is, that an eminent member of the Exeeutive said that probably he would yet be able to read that explanation to me, but with the understanding that L would wot make auy public use of it, which oifer strengthened our suspicions; and that although one member ot the Executive was more honest than his fellows, yet there is a taint there that will corrupt the whole In tue. And in regard tu the secoud stalemeut, that “it was how brought before this Hon. House with a view of passing a vote of censure against the Go- vernment.” Now, Sir, this statement is equally absurd, Whatever tendency it might effect, such was not our object, and when we say that we had wot the sligvtest intention te convey a Cel sure, we say What we beileve to be the honest t- tention of every signer of that document; and we may state that our object Was no more than iu pure desire to have our rights protected, and our sinall share of the appropriated monies tairly aud directly applied; aud @inking, as in Uiues past. that the House of Assembly was a thore proper tribunal, aud that we would receive trom them the justice due to British subjects, therefore, we petitioned that body, but the statements of the

ing, but, I ieve, no blows struck. In the midst of the fray, a good son of Baechus got on top of a bench, and seid he would belong to nei- ther suciety, for he believed drinking whiskey was preferable to both. But the one that took imy attention most was a small black bearded body, who was shocking brsy, and whom they all called the “ Litth Deacon.” He was ere und be was there, he would praise and he would abuse —he would fight and he wouldnt fight; aud [ understand the * deacon " ig an Orangeman. The gallant Sens maintained | their position till about nudnight, and could have done the same till day break, did they think proper so tody. All hover be to the Sens of Temperance of Granville Division, and special honer to that brave and noble man they ealled the Worthy Patriarch. When the Tempiars were about re- tiring to a private house to erect their Temple, they were told that should they humble them- selves, and then ask leave of the Trustees for the use of the Institute, they should bave it. This having been done, it was granted, when the Sens marched off ip order, unity and quietness. Hoping that much good may be effected by both Sons and Templars,

T remain yours, &e.

INDEPENDENCE.

New London, April 20th, 1864.

The Craminer,

Charlottetown, May 16, 1864.

GOVERNMENT 15 YEARS PURCHASE BILL.

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Tus Bill having appeared in the Royal Gazette a few days ago, we vow transfer it tv our co- lninns, Our readers. whe know any thing of the Land Question of this unfortunate Colony, will be more amused than enlightened by its perusal. It is. we think, without exception, the most re- markable piece of mock legislation we have ever seen, The very title is most absurd aud ludi- crous, It is called “an Act for settling differ- ences between landierd and tenant,” &e. It should be styled ‘an Act for perpetuating differ- enees between landlord and tenant, for encourag- ing agitation, and confirming proprietary claims.” The proposed right to purchase at 15 years’ reut is a cruel mockery of the unfortunate tenantry who are required to pay from Is. 3d, to 2s. an

that time. in the lease is that at which the fee simple value of a farm shall be estimated ; and this being the

Hou. Leader of the Government have bad theit desired effect, tree open investigation has been ugain put down. Such precedents may serve their present end, but they will wave a bad Leu- dency throughout the country of deterring others, in similar circumstances, from making Lheir cases known; thereby leaving the way open to any grasping speculator who may be inclined, it te Were in & position, to take advantage of the chance thus stforded.

Query, lor what reason, when we used the words in our petition, the “ fraudulent wasting ot

it, if the Mxecuuve patiently investigated the whole matter, and found ao tault. ALEXANDER MILLER, JOUN STEWAKT, Appletree Farm.

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To Tue Eprror or THE EXAMINER.

appear to be about played eat. The Popes and Palmers and other “land sharks” have Lew got the poor tenantry degally caugut in tie fatal suare. They have got the trou power to eject from thei lauds all those poor fellows who cabot pay rent, Phey have all but got this by having all but got their own shabby “tithes? all bat confirmed. Tuis tine bext year will fod those tilles confirmed by the sanction of the Crown. The Bill whieh has so lately passed our beautiful Legislature will eff-et all this. Thanks to the Tors! Let the

Orangemen now lay dowa their aris! Let the religious bug-bear sink te its future bed ot

“peaceful rest’?! Let the poor country put Uber

jpay. How very Kiud! By what law could they jxet mere 1) What would be the Judye’s opinion cota criminal whe told him vet to pass seutence ou lim jor murder, thal as svou as le was quite sure his vieiias Was dead he never struck hin an- other blow. “ The enormous amount of arrears now due are proof that landlords have net been tyrauniecal,” says eur landlord frieud of the Islan- der. Wis a far greater prool of the poverty ot ihe Lenauuts aud of he cruelty of exacting reut tor woods, stumps aud barreus. The editor vext condescends to grunt his high permission to hold Lenaut meetings, and says he is friendly tu such tuvelings; but, frew friends like bins good Lord deliver us. Lue yeditor of the Islaader, like u lady in her letter, Keeps the cream of lis argu- ment tor the last, aud then he comes out full ery agaist any prestinptieus wortal that dares Op- | pose hits all powerlal lord atid aiasier—the oui | potent landlord. "Though we are told this by one j woe cousiders litwselt were than a prophet, | namely, the editor yf the Islander, who says that lit every one on the Island, teuants, magistrates, | government, ail combined aguiust the landlords, jit would be all ia vain. Why! The editor ef tue Islander tells us su, and “ who ever dares his | coat displace, mest meet Botubastes face te face.” } In 1848-9, the Luperial Government of Great | Britain and Lrelaud resvived to uke the Cape ot Good Hope a Penal Colony. Tiiat weak and