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« My frightful ofee done,” pursued the headsman, “1! wae not oven allowed time to wine the blood from my sword 3 | another performed that daty for me; while [ was hustily| eon luet r bick to the saloon where food had been before provided for me, @ith the rarest wines, [8 ated myself for an instant in order to regain eon posnre but | was too sck at heart to avail myself of the profered refreshments ; and in a short time my masked companions and myself were once tore in the carriage. We travelled co without halting, save to} change horses at the s-veral stages were relays had evidently

been awaiting us, and where we were never detained beyond | |

a few minutes, throuzhout that night aud part of the follow-, ing day; and in about twenty hours, as belore, we stopped | in front. of my own house, where | was assisted. to alight, | and a canvas bag containing two handred louis wes placed in my hands. [| have brought them with me, monseigneur, taat you may make whatever use of them you think best. I was then warned never to reveal avy ctcumstance cone | nected with the event in which L hed been so unwillingly and fatally an ac'or. ca peril of my life; and assured that if I obeyed this injunction, my silence should be richly, compensated : “while if, on the contrary, you seek to pene- | trate a mystéry in wiich you cannot have an interest, and to |

which you can never obtain a clue,” added one of my com-_

panions, “the very attempt will prove your own destruction, | as wel! as that of those to whom you have been rash enough | to confide your secret.” With this assurance the strangers | drove off, leaving me standing in the road,

time, listening to the sound of the receding wheels ; and |

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then, as it died away in the distance, L withdrew the hand- | kerehief, and joyfully crossed the threshold of my own home. |

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ELECTION IN THE SECOND DISTRICT OF PRINCE COUNTY. To tne Eprror or tug EXaMIner.

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Dear Stx,—The excitement of the General Election being at an end, it may not be amiss for me to make a few remarks | on the state of parties in the second district of Prince County, | and they are alike applicable to other parts of the Island. | The election has resulted in the return of two Tory candidates, | Messrs. John Yeo and David Ramsay, both the nominees o! James Yeo, Esqr, of Port iil, and returned through the influence of his jedger aud sectarian prejudices combined. | was told by some of the Presbyterians the reason they voted against me was, that L was against the Bible, and that I went so far as to forbid my children the use of God’s Word in my | own house. [| brought this degrading falsehood home to Mr. Ramsay, whose only reply was that he heard it himsel/, but from whom be did not say. I have to thank those independ- ent electors who voted for me in all the Townships, including Lot 11, where [ polled a greater number of votes than m) opponent, for their support; but there are a few miserable} beings on that Tuwnship—some of them turn-coats, because | they were unable to seeure a plurality of offices to themselves | —others who were largely indebted to me tor benefits con- ferred upon them, including free land—and others who voted against me through fear, who merit the contempt of every independent man, Many of these men expect office from the Tories, and must be provided for, if their support is to be expected for the future; but, for the most part, the ledger will do as wel! with them.

I may here remark, that the two successful candidates, or | their representatives, held political frojies at Lots $ and 9 up| to the day of election, and brought their independent voters | to the hustings in a glorious state of uncertainty whether they. stood on their heads or their heels. One man on Lot 11} declared, in the presence of sever:| of his neighbours, that| Mr. Yeo threatened to tarn him ont of bouse and heme if he did not vote for his nominee as well as for himself; and | have in tmy possession the copy of a threatening letter addressed to a voter last year by Mr. Yeo, which 1 would| have brought to the notice of the House had I beea returned as one of its members. I have long thought, and [ believe a Jarge majority of the people of this Island are of the same Opinion, that so loug as members are returned to the Assem- bly through proprietary und Jedger influence, we can never have an judependent Assembly ; and unless vote by ballot is resorted to, these influences must prevail, and all measures calculated to promote the prosperity and happiness of the people stand a chance of being defeated in the Legislature; and should they even pass its three branches, a secret influ- ence repugnant to the constitution is at work at the Colonial Office sufficien: to destroy them, unless the people combine to resist it.

{t is unnecessary for ine to recapitulate the liberal measures passed during the last eight years; but it is well to let the people know that they were al] opposed by the Tory party in the Legislarure; and after they were finally passed, they were petitioned against by the same faction.

1 remain, yours truly, J. WARBURTON.

Charlottetown, March 28, 1858.

——————- ——__ -¢ <b ea THE QUIT RENT QUESTION, To tHe Epiror or THE FaMINER. Dear S:r,—l pass by the personalities of the Islander, in its last issue, as things which can do me no harm and itself no geod.

The editor of that paper, in quoting words used by me in a

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recent number of the People’s Journal, says :—

‘The remarkable want of truth imputable to the Islander and proprietary phajanx can never be better exemplified than by the following, with feeble endeavour at a refutation of the frets and docaments published in this paper respecting the Quit Rents. It has the following proclamation from Lt. Governor Suwith :-— Whereas by my proclamation issued on the Ist day of October, 1816, it was notified that it was intended on the

art of the Crown to fix a scale for the future payment of Quit

nts, and that a new rate of Quit Rent would commcne» on the Zoun June in that year, and that the firet half-yearly pay- ment would be demanded on the 25th day of December follow-

Mr. Thornton ard Mr. Ronald Walker stood at the head of eutous and childish excuse for going in there, ae eS ee ere | i@ poll for the third district ; but the Sherif against receiving two ; wore Walker, namely, one polled in Queen’s County, the special returns from appear on the poll book as an officer, |

‘that of Michael Power, who, it was clearly proved, had first | my first discovery of the injury I have sustained, [ am not

. ’ | wherein he voted, his vote could only be cousidered under a

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N FOR T PE OF | will adaiit tha ikely animal to eat this

iSTRIC' * i t theit a sheep was not a likely anima vain = * STRICT OF | will adm ly ne dies ELECTION FOR TH 8 a one ‘or any other filthy animal product. — Will this most exem pC war \»lary neighbour inform us what his son Was doing i my . iP ry 5 : : dane To TRE Epiror OF TUB Xa MINER. pig-pen the pivht previous to that on which t 1e pigs we re S It wi nnosed, up to the evening of the 24th, that ond _ewhen, on being discovered, he offered a niust ridi- | thet he Mr bina 0 I which 18 of a

T huving decided nature that does not admit of publication ? Does he vot know

votes which were counted for MY oy) that that con and [ were ov such terms as rendered om and one OM ost improbable that he should venture on any part of my | he district, whose name did not wrentises but with some malicious design ? the state of the poll About the same time that the pigs were poisoned, I found was declared as follows: Thos. Owen, 442; a Thornton, | some large and costly window sashes in a nog St L 309; Ronald Walker, 441. Before the expiration of the | om building in a very secluded spot near the village, a . a hour, Mr. Walker came to the Sheriff's desk, holding - bis) ond hacked to pieces. Although my political paige pop hand a list of names, which he considered bad, polled in wreak | procured me oneitensin <uhe neighbourhood, yet I wil do places, and publicly demanded an investigation. Shortly | them the justice to express my belief that, with the aan after, Thomas Owen demanded in writing an investigation, lof the family alluded to, there is not one of them whom

on the ground that Michael Power bad voted more than ounce ; | would believe capable of such foul deeds as these. |

and the time and place were declared, according to law, me I can assure you, Mr. Editor, that it Is with a : On commencing the investigation. The first vote taken Bp aS! tance I bring sueh matters as these before the public. n

voted in Lot 51, the polling division wherein he resides, a lashamed to admit that ny feclings were those of fear rather consequently was entitled to vote; and subsequently in o ‘than resentment ; for 1 did not kuow but that L a Se 52, where he had property, but no right to vote be vause O°! one of my family, might be the next victim. I resolved to resided in another polling division in the same district. The| pour all silently and patiently, and enjoined my family to next vote questioned was that of Maleolm McDonald, ares | keep the matter a profound secret, for fear that complaints man belonging to Queen's County, who had lived me are might provoke darker resentment aud deeper injuries. months with a person in the first polling division, but on the | Finding shortly afterwards, however, that the facts had leaked 10th of February last, his time being expired on Lat dl, out through some of the sereauts, I was advised to publish engaged and went to live with Mr. Watson, on Lot 02, 10 ee |a true account of the whole affair, to prevent misrepreseutation. second polling division, which, as the lew requires every) If the writer in the Islander imagines that a paper that resident in the district to vote in the polling djvision wherein will expose such atrocities is to be considered on that account he resides, was clearly contrary to law. The vote of George’. nedium of slander, I am sure that very few right-thinking Sentener was then questioned, but as it was proved the voter 'men will agree with him. se laid claim to property in the district and polling division | N. J. BROWN. St. Eleanor's, 29th March, }859. sdalilidililnlginalis sieiilintesihntphsieilgliesilubi A DREAM.

« J would recall a vision which I dream’d,

general scrutiny. The vote of John Plyer being next called, |

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and the friends of Mr. Owen seeing that they were likely to | be defeated in getting their candidate returned by the = herilf, | rushed to his rescue, by making affidavit that Mr. W alker | 7 ag lay demanded an investigation of the vote of Malcolm McDonald | Mu. Rosroa-As ‘correspbedeote of other papers’ ture yl frb oak any fat ser 0h: 100 Tay ty nating tac execs Inte gl : ' : ; s . q : ances v aU the fects will ‘les these self-styled gentlemen and champions | world, and Dae an sn ST aad aa i cept, Pe, Miatet ef Neste Sake tick Bede} change in the political affairs of this Island, a fri ad i . iu oat G4 of re rere cts " The Sheriff referred | ™° ' inform you of what Ae saw on a recent aa oe € God, A. C, Stewars, Se te hp \ FOR = ‘Land of Nod. He dreamt, he says, that one of his Sows to the entries in the Clerk’s book, and then quietly pees | aaa act ge i oe ee oe eee best overt 0a, She vote, which pares: —a en pigs in his stye; but on examining the beast, he found that voted . toe Statute Labour quer ee _ . Z pa she had only fourteen teats. He says there is no possibility | oe resided 2 but bad ¢o om P a : i wi of keeping tour of them alive, except on garbage and offal of | to another district some few mnunths previous, where be no |the west dainty detoriptive. “Hé asked my opinion ss to poaides WHD Eis Wigs. Oue yeti, SEU der | the important event. 1 told him that I thought it was one de Regt hecesbasbisg: qoentionss ae . ae of the shadows of the coming political events, vouchsafed to Hamilton, a young man, apparently afraid to present bimseil} |. eee Ot en pee ed ee, in the siding division where he resided, and was known on _ - ee poli seve “wet “aed Os be the next polling division, | 74g pigs about the new Govern 5 . gS | account of his oe a 9g mee nex v S in ee |than the poor Publie could possibly supply With suck, and | wherein he claims land. The evidence tn this case 00 Mr, | 7 ;

Walker’ i clearly that tl ung man lived with | that some of them would have to be kept from starvation by | valkxers part proved Clearly that the young Man ! t his brother, on Lot 52; that the line of Lot O1 purses

|and general searcity of money, was the cause of this deprecia«

| and we believe they have not only beem readily cashed at the

hence, they will have a very respectable amount of publie plunder at their disposal with which to commence their career, Another eLarge frequently urged against the Government vas based on the depreciation of the Treasuay Warrants, Ig was in vain to show that depression in every branch of trade,

tion. We have now, however, the satisfaction to inform oug readers that Treasury Warrants are no longer at a discount, and have net been so for some time past. The Bank has nog one Warrant in its vaults, as we understand from a gentlemag who made application for them there within a few days ago;

face, but eagerly sought, in some instances before they were issued, and money paid down for them without a farthing’s discount, by parties desirous to make use of them as an in. vestment for their spare capital, Thus do the Liberals leave the finances of the country in ahealthy state. We hope their successors will be able to keop them so.

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APRIL FOOLS.

Tux Monitor of Wednesday Jast set the Tories of Charlotte. town on the gui vive, by announeing very authoritatively, : that the ‘* Ministry’? would resign on the following Friday, The memorable day arrived, and it happened to be the firsg of April: there was a meeting of the Executive Council theg day, and it was quite amusing to see what a swarm of Tories there was about the Colonial Building, breathless with anxiety to catch the frst announcement of the great event which will give long-covetted honours and emoluments to mang [| of them. The friends of the Government, who were in the secrets of the Cabinet, and who did not want to dispel-so in-

teresting a delusion from the minds of their opponents on '

April fool’s day, quietly fanned the excitement, until the Tories danced and capered about the streets, mad with joy ond excitement. Lists of the ‘* new Ministry’? were handed about from ong to another. One of the leaders of the party had been seen in the vicinity, of Government House during Friday and the previous day. Of course everybody on the Tory side § expected that he was busy in arranging the details for the formation of anew Government. The great bone of contention was the Secretaryship. twas nut exactly decided who should get that office, ‘Dhere were three very clamourous aspirants —neither of whom possesses the least influence in the country —but each contended that he had the best claim to the situa tion. As for the Treasury, one old gentleman had actually bespoken his securities for the office, although he has as mueh chance of getting it as he has of being Prime Minister of England; and the Attorney Generalship was set apart for s man who could not poll fifty votes in any district of Prines Edward Island, not even excepting the little close borougl: of }

until told by the Sheriff that be only waated to find out which

| garbage to be picked up on the sly about the Colonial Build- | threugh their farm, leaving the house and premises on Lot

32. aud a small corner of the farm on Loi 51. Mr. Owen}

liist attempted to prove that this portion of the farm which | was on Lot 51 probably belonged to Alexander Hamilton, |

Lot the man resided on, when several witnesses were ollered by Mr. Owen to prove to where an old line had passed, leaving | Hlamilton on Lot 51; but as the whcie evidence tended to | corroborate the hitherto well understood fact that Hamiiton resided on Lot 52, his vote was evidently polled in a wrong ivision. After waiting the usual time, the Sherif again cast up the; votes, and declared the state of the poll as follows: Thomas | Owea, 439; FE. Thornton, 606; Ronald Walker, 440. The | fiionds of Mr. Owen, who had becn verg ghjomy ail the latrer | part of the day, now became frantic} and Mr. Owen sud- lenly tancying that be had discovered a discrepancy betweeu

the state of the poll as tien declared and on the former | declaration, asserting that he (Owen) was declared two ahead on the former oecasion, the convenient swearers aguin| tendered their services to prove the correetness of Mr. Owen's | assertion; but unfortunately for Mr. Owen's cause and their | reputation, Mr.Owen discovered that he had puade the blunder, aud the Sheriff was right. After some storming and threats | uf prosecution, and charges of partiality against the Sheriff,

who al! through the proceedings had been declared by some | of their strongest partizans to be acting very impartially, | Thomas Owen demanded a general scrutiny, and some! time after came into Court, and said he did not intend to! prosecute the serutiny ; but the Sherif, doubtless considering | it unsafe to leave any part of his duty unperformed, sent his officer to the place appointed for commencing the serutiny. Both candidates, Messrs. Walker and Owen, and F. P. Norton, J. P., and Thos. Owen, sear., J. P., and others, met the officer there. ‘ihe regular manner of proceeding would have been for the Presiding Officer, after being himself sworn as prescribed by law, to swear a Clerk, who should minute the proceedings, whatever they were, to be dealt with according to law; but the two Justices of the Peace present, however reconcileable to their oaths of office, with no other apparent object than to embarrass the Sheriff, refused to ad- winister the required oath to the Sheriff’s officer, who made return of the facts on his werrant; and so terminated the election for the third district, Edward Thornton aud Ronald Walker haying been declared duly elected. Yours truly, A CLOSE OBSERVER.

Georgetown, March 30, 1859.

P. S. The serutiny between MeAulay and MeDonald commenced yesterday. The Hon. gentieman appears to do all he can to aunoy the Court.

Some of the very Christian people of Georgetown have declined attending the Kaglish Chureb, because they could uot induce their worthy pastor, the Rey. Mr. Roach, to come io the hustings, and embroil himself im political squabbles.

sep thinnest) —ntesnllhadinaaa To rue Epiron or tun Examiner.

Sir,—In the Is/ander of the 25:h inst.. 1 perceive a fecble

atrempt at a refutation of the charge whieh TE brought against

ing.’ ‘This veracious editor then leaves out the words whieh overthrow his whole statement, which are as follows:—** And that if paynent shali be neglected or withheld by any proprietor, measures would be taken to resume immediate possession of the Land on the part of the Crown.’ Than this a more barefaced falsehood could not be written. The proclamation of Lieut. Governor Smith we copied verbatim from the Prince I} dward Island Gazet/e of the 22d August, 1818. The original Gazette lies in our office, ani may be seen by any person who may think proper to call and read it.”’

This being the case, l exonerate the Is/ander from originating this fraud on the public, as in justice bound to do; but the

whole case is thereby strengthened, fr the words of the pr -'

clamation of IS10, omitted in that of 1518, can be seen in the

minutes of Council of October of 1816; and what is the con- |

clusion foreed on us? Why, that either the Lieut. Governor, the Council, the Clerk of Council, or the Queen's Printer, inutilated the proclamation ef 1816, which was professedly inserted im thar of i>is, thereby affording additional proof, if Buy were wanting, of how a whole people can be imposed on by an irresponsible Council. I must further obse ve that the Proclamation of IS{S is not to be found in the Caquncil books of that date, though its being found in the Gazetie certainly proves iteexistence. Here again 's an instance of how business was done by an irresponsible Council. 1 felt it due.to the Islander to make this statem nt without delay. Your obedieut servant,

i certain family in this place, written, no doubt, by some j member of that family. So general is the belief in their guilt, and so strong the feeling of indignation against them in con- /Sequence, that i do not believe any other person would be | found capable of writing in their defence. The writer might just as well engage in the hopeless task of opposing the flow of the tide with a pitchfork as to endeavour to convi' ce the public against all evidence that the charge is unfow ded, or to divert public suspicion from the right quarter. He knows full well that my pig pen was neither within the tannery nor ‘immediately adjoimg it, and that, as I am not in the habit

ol feeding my pigs ov the offal of the tannery, it was s mply

“unpossible that this should be the cause of their death. The jidea o! their having died of starvation on my premises, w! ere |there is abundance of retuse of food (if from the wheat mill only) to feed a dozen pigs, is still more ridieulous ; be: des a child evald tell the difference of the effeets of poison aid those of starvation on an animal. It was very strange, 1:0, |that they should all die of starvation at the same tir e. /Could any clearer proof be given that it wag poison, anc @ | wost deadly poison, that was used, than the simple fact, t! at ie pet sheep which had access to the trough swelled up and ‘ded? This proves also that it was meal or some vegetabik wetter that was mixed with the poison, for however likels

WILLIAM SWARBRY.. pig migat be to eat the * offal of a tannery,” every pereon

jing. 1 leave you to say whether this is not a fair interpre- | Georgetown—with the understanding that half the plunder

tation of this remarkable dream, and if it is’nt, call me

Royalty, April 4, 1859. GRUNTER.

The Examiner.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I., APRIL 4, 1859.

wn -UBLIC FINANCES.

In our_paper of lust week we observed, speaking of the re-

sult of the general election, that ‘* never did a party take the

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helm of affiirs under less fayourable auspices than those which have now fallen to the lot of the Tories.’” The meaning of these worls appears to have been quite misunderstood,-and supposed to have reference to the financial condition of the country. Their applieation was, however, entirely different. In the same paper, and in the same column, we referred te the numerous pledges made by the Tory party while in opposition as to the changes and reforms which they would effect, if they were entrusted with the Government of the Island. We be- lieve, and have expressed this belief more than once, that they have no intention to redeem more than one or two of their many pledges, and that there are several of them which they have not the power to carry out. Inshort, they have promised some things which, if carried into law, would ruin them poli, tically for ever, and to which they will givea very wide berth in their administrative career; while there are other questions they could not carry, if they used their utmost exertions. It is to the difficult and embarrassing position in which they will be placed towards the pablic on ttrose matters, that we refer- red in the observation above quoted. It willsoon be seen that they have deceived the public and perhaps deceived themselves ; and these circumstances will constitute s rather serious diff- eulty in the carrying on of the Government. As to the state of the public finances, they could not be in

@ more prosperous condition. The total debt of the Colony on the 3ist January last—tie end of the financial year— was only £29,788, including Treasury Notes to the amount of £11,500, and against this amount there are assets sufficientto bring the debt down to the smali sum of two or three hundred pounds, as will be seen by the following authentic statement :— Debt on 3ist January, 1859, excepting a small

balance alleged to be due on purehase of

Worrel Estate, bat in dispute, £39,788 O 6 By Treasury Notes not bearing

interest, £11,500 0 0

‘* balances of sales of Land on

W orre!] Estate, secured by

bonds, and perfectly safe,16,000 0 (—27,500 Leaving the actual debt against the Colony only 12,288 And to meet this balance there are over 40,000

acres of the Publ Lands unsold, which, at

the low figure of Ss. an acre, will realize, 10,000 0 0 Besides, there are more than two thousand

pounds secured on Impost bonds since the

end of the financial year, and some that

were secured before that time, but not re-

turned to the Government; as well as mer-

chandize in warehouse that must pay daty,

say, 2,000 0 06 From which it will be seen that there are assets

enough to meet the publie debt within the

trifling sum of £288 0 0

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This is very differen: fronr theenormous balance of £70,000, alleged by the Tory party to be the amount of the public debt. Chey will not give the Colony eredit for any assets in the shape of Treasury Notes, bonds on sold lands, and unsold lands; and if they continue to act in this spirit, they must not, in their ‘uture calculations, take crcait for those assets. But, in the meantime, we challenge investigation into the correct- ness of our figures.

The public have been frequently informed by the Islander, within a few months past, that the Government had not a dol- ar in the Treasury at any one time. Its party will be grati-

fied to learn that at the last public audit, on the 31st March— nly four days sgo — there were nearly five thousand pounds

| has been stated to us a dozen of times, that a very worthy and

fa the Treseury. When the Torice get into effies, a few days

was to go to a legal member of the House, who could not, without violating his pledge, openly take the office. Little differences of opinion us to the claims of this man or that, seemed, however, to be sunk after a while in the exuberant feeling of glorification which eharacterised the conduct of the Tories at the prospect of their speedy accession to power ; and neither few nor far between were the libations poured te the success of the pew administration. The meeting of Council terminated about 4 o’elock ; and as the mewbers were seen leaving the Building, the question was asked repeatedly : ** Have they resigned? fave they resigned?”’ No,” wap the chilling response, and more than one member of the Council laughed at the victims, and cuietiy reminded them | that it was April fool’s day. If seme of them had become intoxicated with joy in the earlier part of the cay, their vexation at the hoax did not prodsce # sober or tranquilising effect during the evening.

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CLERICAL POLITICIANS.

Tuz Isfander of Friday last tries very hard to palliate the eos- duct of certain clergymen for their very conspieuous and im- proper interference at the late Election. After some Wise sawe, without the modern instances, as to the impropriety of clerical people engaging in political strife, the apologist for the poli | tical parsons assures us that very few clergymen, Catholic ot Protestant, embroil themselyes in election contests. Scareely any of the former do, we know ; and if this had not been the | case with them, the result of the late general election would | have been far different from what itis. We know only of one instance of a Catholic Priest taking part in an election, and then no further than giving his yote, which he did for a Pre testant candidate; but there is no attempt to deny that the | Protestant ministers referred to in a late No. of this paper took a very unseemly part in the election for the fourth district of King’s County. Five of them were ineesrantly canvassing that district for many days previous to theelection ; and ata publie meeting in one section of it, where a Liberal was scarcely allow- ed to open his mouth, the genius of turmoil was a clergyman of the puritanical stoek, who was not satisfied with taking s part in the proceedings like any other rational being, but — stripped off his coat as if he were going into a boxing ring =~ declaring ‘‘ that certain Protestant ministers had been charged with taking an active part in polities secretly, but that they were now determined to come out in their true colours,’’ &e.

As another instance of the intolerant conduct of Protestant ministers in political matters, we may mention the fact, which ;

intelligent man, a Magistrate, residing in the Baltic, Lot 58, : was called to account after the general election in June last, by the ministers of his own church, because be voted for Mr. Hensley, and severely reprimanded for doing so.

Another instance of undue clerical interference of a later date has just been communicated to us. On the night previous to the late general election, a certain clergyman, who resid@ somewhere about Belfast, and who glorifies himself on being a graduate of an unknown Scottish University, met the persos appointed as Returning Officer for one of the polling divisions in the fourth district of Queen’s County, and endeavoured ) persuade him to disregard the Sheriff's precept and not togo # — the hustings. ‘The person thus tam pered with had enough sens | of honour and common sense to rejeet the clerical ix junction, alleging that his compliance with it wight involv the High Sheriff in difficulty. But it would havedoue a great ; dea! more, which did not enter into the philosophy of the iar ” prudent graduate: it would have Vitiated the election of ‘ Messrs. Gray and Douse, and those gentlemen would liave bad” the trouble and expense of undergoing another contest.

The Islander states that Mr. Owen's defeat is owing to the zeal displayed by the Rev. Francis McDonald, of Georgetown, on behalf of Mr. Ronald Walker ; and that he—Rev. Mr. Me. Donald—*‘ canvassed from door to door against Mr. Owen.” |

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