IIASZARD'S GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 15.

lb. Mr. Wnxr.ex.—The Return was an un- asuel one; tneitlisr His Excellency nor the Government had ex any o inion concern- ieg it beyond tht don. t was ridicu- Ioustoreiseasry about the rightsofthe people ende red, eithergy that decla- ration or no of the on. Colonial

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Seerehry. done. by either‘ per , concerning the question ill“. lneny way, sndenfii-‘ed popular ri ha. The disesmicn was t terminated y the adoption, (on e divison of 13 to 9, as before ehtsd,) of the Resolution submittedby thclion. Mr. Palmer; and the rejection, on the same divisii;i‘i of the amendment, submitted by the on. r. . §'Por the Hon. Mr. Pii.xxe's Resolution, agreed to,—the Hen. Mr. Wiiar.ai¢'s amendment rejeobd.7—aad the division b _which the former waecarried, end the other ost. see Hazard‘:

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Moitnir, February 13.

The House went into Committee on Draft Annasss in reply to his Exccllenc ’s

h at the opening of the Session— a.

ioirraari in the Chair. [The Committee appointed to re re the draft of the Address consisted of t e on, Mr. Whelen, Mpssrs. Wightinen, Clark,Mooney, Device, M‘Gi|l, end Eraser; of whom the Hon. Mr. Whelan, as Chairman, reported the Draft on Saturday morning.

The House satin Conimitte for about six hours end a half, from the time of its goin into it, in the _morning, until the House was finell resumed in the evening. 0n the pert of

vcrnment, the principal spzekers were the Izionbls. E. Whclen, W. W. rd, and J. Warburton, Messrs Moons , Davies, Clerk, end Fraser. On the part of t e Opposition, every member thereof bore a share in the discussions er_isi_ng out of a consideration of the several originel graphs end amendments ; but the Hon. . . auixa an . VILAND were the principe1§pleskers.—Mr. McEacuxas,in reply to _e on. . IILAN, gave an explanation of his cpnduot during hie oenvess previous to hie election ; repelling the charges of inconsistency end deception brought against him.—-Mr. M Gownt, in moving an amendment to an original paragraph of the Draft Address, also took occasion to exonerate himself, by hie statements, fiom w e n a van , both in the ouee and outofit, to the re'udice of his politic- orpubliccharacter.— ‘rah rrgilnlikelmenner so pve an exposition o is itice rinci- blic conduct prcvioiits) to endpsubse- s election, as it res ts hie position Assembly; asserting t e inde ndenoe end purity of his motives, end his per cct free- dom from every act of deception towards his eonstituents.—Mr. Mscaaon also spoke in ex- culpation of himself from the charges of liti- csl insincerity and deception which been preferred against him.

The amendments pro scd by the Hon. E. Palmer, end other msm rs of the opposition, to c several clauses oi the repor re Address, were ell carried; and the amendments to these amendments, proposed by the Hon. E. Wnxun, were ell ne tived on like divisions in the Committee: t e Government minority being, Hon. E. Whelen, Hon. J. Warburton, lion. . . Inrd, Messrs. Fraser, Davies, Clerk, Mooney, McGill, and the Hon. the Speeker—9

On the amendment proposed by Hon. E. W clan to an amendment to the original Draft Address submitted by Hon. E. Palmer, the Hon. the kcr voted with the Opposition. The scope of this proposed amendment of the Ben. E. Whelen's wee the exclusion of all ollice- holdere from seats in the Assembly ; the inten- tion of the hon. mover bein , as he said, to test the megirity on the prlncip ewhich itinvolved.]

The pgsition majority consis of Hon. E. Palmer, eeere. Longworth, Hsvilend, Mont-

mery, Douse, Yeo, Conroy, Meceulsy, Mc-

owen, Mcliechern, God‘, Beers, end Mecleod.

The third clause of the amended Address is expressive of e wentofconfideuce in the present Government.

After the House wee resumed, end the Ad- dress as amended, reported, the Hon.‘Mr. Wnei.an—for the purpose ofxputting upon r cord the sentiments contain in the original Draft Address, end those exp in the amendments, p posed by him, end supported

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o b the Goverudent minorityrseverall moved t e rescinded clauses end e rejec emend-

ments; end th Journal of the day with the diveicns thereon, the same being as above ‘vein, with the excep- tion of the name of Mr. ions-xiii, who voted with the Government minority, be having, as Chairman of die Committee of the whole House, bewdsd from dole so before Mon. E. Palmer, essrs. Montgomery, , Maesschcreu end Conroy, were then a Oemialttee to wait a ii Ills Excel- cy thanen seedoopyo theAddrees aficsd so by the see, end to ask when Ills Ex- es sac’ won d be pleased to N place

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PBEENTATION OF THE ADDRESS TO HIS

EXCELLENCY, AND HIS EXCELLENCYS REPLY. At two o’olock, this de , the hour appointed by His Excellency for his reception of the Address, the House, with the Speaker at their end, ed to the Library, where Ills Excellsnc , wee wsting to receive them, and resen the followin Address. to which Ilis llency wee plea to make the Reply here subjo' ed.

To His Excellency Sin Anaxsivnen Bin- ueaaun, Knight, Lieutenant, Goeeriior and Corniaandcwin-Chief" in and over Her Majesty's Island Prince Edward, and the Tcrrilorics thcrcunlo belonging, Chancellor, Vice Jdniiral, and Ordina-

ry ofihe saeie, Q-c., d;c., 51., May it please your Excellency;

We Her Majesty's loyal subjects, the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Is- land, respectfully offer to your Excellency our thanks for your Speech delivered‘ at the opening of the present session. _

In declinin to comply with the Requisi- tion addrcsse to your Excellency by seve- ral Members of llie House of Assembly, subsequent to the late general Election, to convene the Legislature at an early day, in order to adopt measures for the final arrangement of certain important questions seriously affecting the prosperity of the Island, and the administration of the local Government, ‘your Exccllcnc exercised your undoubted prerogative; an with regard to any contemplated change in the Depart- mental system of Government, it was not their intention to lead your Excellency into an admission that evils had arisen demand- ing an immediate change until the principles involved in that question should have re- ceived lhe fullest discussion in the House of Assembly, when submitted to the consi- deretion of that Branch of the Legislature.

We concur with your Excellency in the

95° belief that the people of this Island are

well entitled to the enjoyment of the privi- legs of self- overnment, and that they fully appreciate t c advantages which that sys- tem confers upon them, when carried out in its true spirit and integrity: and it is the earnest desire of the House of Assembly to give effect to such measures as shall extend rather than diminish the principle of Re- sponsible Government, as introduced by your Excellency. e, owevcr, in the performance of the duty we owe to our Constituents, cannot abstain from express- ing to your Excellency our conviction that your Excellency’s advisers have failed to carry out that system, either in accordance with its principles, as they professed to entertain them when called to your Excel- lency’s Government, or in that form and spirit which, it would appear to the House of Assembly, are still better calculated to secure the liberties and independence of the people, for whose benefit the system was intended; and your ExceIlency's Advisers have thereby forfeited the confidence of the House of Assembly.

We cannot doubt that a sound system of self-government will ensure to the people of this Island an efficient influence with the Imperial Government, in confirming such Acts as shall receive the sanction of its local Legislature; but, at the same time, we have no reason to complain of any want of attention in the Imperial Authorities to our wishes in that respect, as all the Acts passed within the Five years immediately preceding the introduction of Responsible Government, with one exception, received the sanction of the Crown.

We are gratified to learn that the num- ber of Schools contemplated by the provi- si one of the Education Act, has been applied for and registered; and we ho e that we shall soon hear thatthey are all in ull and efficient operation. To insure to the rising genera- tion the full advantage of a uniform system of Education, it is highly necessary, that a Competent Inspector should be secured: and we trust that Mr. Stark will be found to be fully qualified for the important duties attached to his situation. Duo and respect- ful attention shall be given to your Excel- lcncy’s suggestion for the establishment of sNormal School, upon the principle re- commended by Mr. Stowe, whose talent and exertions have rendered such essential benefit to the cause of Education.

We view with real satisfaction the improvement in the ‘inancial State of the Colon , as exhibited in your Excellency's Speec , and rejoice to find that this Colony, in its progress, has not been far behind our sister. Provinces in improvement in the

" various branches of our Trade-

No longer encumbered b any liabili- ties created by the erection. o Public Build- ings, and blessed with an increase of Agri- cultural produce, together with an advanced demand for that staple article, as well as an unprecedented increase in the market prices of that commodity and in our ex ort of Shipping, this Colony could not fai to participate in the great prosperity which is enjoyed by the other North American Colonies.

We shall give the Estimates our best consideration, and will cheerfully provide supplies for the Public Service.

Any re ulation with respect to the ex- port of uniper Knees will command at our hands that attention which the impor- tence of the subject merits, and your Ex- cellency may rsst assured, ihst we have no desire to practice class legislation, or duties u ii any article, where such

innsy sp er to unnecosss to remote the we fare and prosperity o the. olony.

our Excellency shall be in a con-

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us, it shall receive that full and deliberate siisieion which that diflenlt and important

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any other matters of a local nature, we shall not fail to give them that due consi- rleruliou which their respective merits shall entitle them to receive; and we be offer our thanks to your Excellency for the expression of your readiness to communi- cate with us when ocassion shall require.

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[Extract frosi His Excellency‘: Reply.)

Iobserve you state, that my Constitu- lioiial Advisers have forfeited your confi- dence; I will, therefore, forthwith adopt the course which becomes necessary on such an occasion, in order that the public busi- ness may be impeded as little as possible.

The gentlemen composing the Executive Council, you are aware, have tendered their resignations, and I have accepted them; ihose holding departmental offices will continue to perform their respective duties until their successors are appointed.

V A R I E '1‘ I B 8 . Swiuuusc or Ciiisusu W1-rNi:sees.—'l‘hs Chinese. when brought into court as witnesses in California, are sworn in the manner peculiar to their country. An oath, written in Chinese cher- acisrs upon liesue paper, is subscribed Willi their names. and burned to ashes. The purport uflhe oalh is, um if the wilness does not lull the iruih, he ho )8! that his soul may be burned and dee- lroys , as is the paper which he holds in his hands. Noiwiiluisnding ihe sci-eriiy of ihie osih, ihe evidence of a Chinese iskcn in couii is not generally of a very reliable character, and the Recorder is often obliged to discharge prisoners against whom iliere is nothing bui Chinese evid- oncc, on sccouni of the contradictions and die- crepsncics which are always discovered in their testimony.

Hirwsour: Fxe.—Rsv. W. R. Slricklsnil, ester of Union Chapel, Methodist Episcopal Church, in Cincinnsii, lately performed smar- rhge foracouple, and received in return for his Services from the bridegroom the sum of 850 in go|d,snd from ihe bride, a deed to a city loi valued at " .

Tsassu-rion or me Bisi.x.—Dr. Perkins of 0rooniish,Pareia. writes that the translation of the Bible inio ancient and modern Syriac has been comploled. '

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he Nesiorians have now the entire Bible in both languages. Convlcrs sear T0 riii: Uxviren S'ra'ri:~.—- Three Germans having been arrested at New York, charged with having committed a series of burglaries, one of them confessed that in the year 1851, he was convicted of burglary in the ciiy of Brunswick, Germany, and sentenced lo the Slate Prison for a term of years; that after remaining there until Se iember, of last year, he was pardoned by he Duke of Brunswick, on condition that he should emigrate lo the United

tales and never return. a use on in his aflidsvit to say :—“ Accordingly we were all taken from prison by the police and conveyed to Bremen, and there put on board the brig Hiram, and kept under the surveillance of the police unlill the vessel sailed ; our passage was paid b the ' Dircclor,’ and we each received from Ihem We leiided in New York on the let of December last.”

INDUSTRY IS TALENT.

W'e often hear persons explaining how one man succeeds, while another fails in the same pursuit, attributing to one a talent for his business, but refusing it to the other. Yet without denying that some individuals have a greater aptitude for particular avo- cations than others have, we think that the problem in question could be easier solved by saying that the successful man was in- dustrious, while the other was not ' Every school-boy is familiar with the fact that Demosthenes become an orator onl by the most determined psrsevcrencc an extraordinary application. Nor are our illustrations of the great truth, that industry is talents, confined to the higher intellectual pursuits. When Girard trusted the customer without an endorser, who carried his goods home on his shoulders, the shrewd old Frenchman was acting on the truth, deduced from his own experience of mankind. All eminent persons, whether, me- chanics, morchants, lawyer s or statesmen were industrious, from a Watt and Norris down to Thurlow and William Pitt. Wash- ington, Franklin, Marshall, Madison, and every other distinguished American, were bus men. ndustry, in short, is talent nine times out of ten.—-Pliiladelpia Ledger.

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Basin roo Wiiire.—Meking bread too white, may sound like an odd phrase to the reader; yet we see by a late foreign letter that Messrs. Mounez Si. Chenrcul, two French chemists, who have euperintended the provision of bread for the hospitals, and subjected all kinds to experiments, have submitted to the Academy of Sciences at Paris a memoir in which they condemn the practice, remarking that when too white it is a condiment, and not aliment.

exclusion of bran is a loss of nourishment

to the consumer.-—.Norlli Jmcrican.

At the “fish manufsctory,” as it is called, at I-Iuninguen—-the establishment for producing fish on the artificial sys- tem—lhere are now 200,000 eggs of the Rhine salmon, and of the large trout of the Swiss lakes, duly fscundated; and there are l00,000 of the seine descrip- tion of eggs, also fccundated at the Col- legc de France in Paris. These eggs are destined for distribution amongst the

voted for the application of the artificial system.

A gentleman who had arrived at Mel- bourne, when he was leaving the hotel, asked a friend what he ought to give the servants. " Why, I hardly know,” was the reply, "I should think their actions were rather grand, for I know Boots estimates his income at 521600 s-year."

The hnguage of dlplotn|¢f_ i- 191.0"- ously that of subterfuge and IlIPOI}l00I}- The business of professed ill ll sppsrenily to see how in they all beinboosle one another. The most

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departments in which money has been ,.

iidroii fellow in this line is he who can make a sentence capable of the greatest variety of plausible interpretations. To be nimble in rhetoric pnd vague in mean- ing. while distinct in expression, is in e diplomnlist, an accomplishment of the highest order. A plain statement, and an outright understanding of one another, on the port of those high contracling par- ties, called diplomalisls, is, and forever has been, something as source in market as chicken’s eyebrows.— Tribune.

HA8ZA.RD’S GAZETTE. Wednesday, February 15, 1864.

Tris: House of Assembly was the scene of u tur- bulent debate cn the evening of Monday the l3ih inst, while the House was in Committee on lbs Ad- dress to His Excellency in answer to his speech at the opening of the Session, and resulted in the adoption of Ihc amendment proposed by the Hen. Edward Palmer, which was followed up by Mr. Wsrburiou's announcement on the morning of the succeeding day, that he and his colleagues in olfice had tendered their resignations to Ilis Excellency the Lieut. Governor.

It must have been evident to them all, from what took place on the first day of ihe Session, that there was ii decided insjorily against them; and it would, we think, have shewn a more thorough knowledge of the prsclics of Parliament, and have been in better taste, bad they coma forward at once and stated that it was their intention to comply with the usual rule oii siich occasions, and resign the administration of ihe Government into other bands. As we cannot compliment them on the dignity and grsoefulness with which they closed the scene, we shall drop the cur- lain;--it is not in our nature to insult the fallen, and we will therefore abstain from any remarks on what loek place on Monday night; and we do this the more willingly, as an abstract of the debates on that occasion will be published, and our readers will be able lo judge for themselves.

Br the requisition from the electors of Princetown and Royalty, presented to the Hon. 1‘. H. Ilaviland. and his answer, published in this day's issue, it will be seen ibst a different estimate of Mr. llav'ilaud's conduct in private life, and of the manner in which he performed his public duties while invested wiih ofice, has been taken by the majority of the electors of that constituency to that which Mr. Coles and his associates would make us believe existed throughout the Island.

It has been the fashion with the press attached to the late administration, to heap all sort of uumsrited abuse upon such towns and dislricts as have chosen to manifest their independence by supporting the can- didales of their own choice, and the terms close and rotten borough have been respectively applied to both Princelown and Georgetown; but we think we could name constituencies where—lhcugh the number of sleciurs may be greater — the intelligence, know. ledge and moral standing are in inverse proper- tion to their numbers. In truth, we beleivs there are few communities in the Island where the requisites that constitute an improved con- dition of society are to be found in greater amount than in Princetowu and Royalty; and their invita- tion to Mr. Hsvilsud to allow himself to be put in nomination as a candidate to represent them in Provin- cial Parliament is at once ii proof of their good sense and their superiority to the senseless clamor raised by malignily.

Ti-is: Si-uAxs:iisiiir.—We were pleased to see the Hon. John Jardine approach the bar ofihe Le- gislative Council on Thursday last and report himself as chosen by the House of Assembly to be their Speaker. There was in the choice of Mr. Jardine lllut which told well for both parties. Thai the ins- joriiy of the Assembly should have taken their head and organ of communication from the ranks of their political adversaries, showed a confidence in the in- tegrity and uprighiuess of Mr. Jardine, honorableto him in having merited this signal mark of their spprobeiion, and equally honorable to them, in being thus able to appreciate desert in one who has been for the last three years their opponent. There was good tests also in thus making lheir selection, for ihey might have placed one of their own party in the chair, and if, on an equality of vase, he had given his casting vote in their favor, been rsprosolied with having armed him with the power of giving them an undue advantage. The Speaker must however have been selected from the one side of the House or the other, and he on whom that important oflce was conferred would as an honest and conscientious man have had, from the lnslnnl of his assuming the chair, to divest his mind of all previous party prejudice and feeling, and prepare hinseelf to act with the strict impartiality of an upright judge in all questions be- tween both parties.