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EE = = a rs . : ; : or rl sm" Som ELE LE RO TOTES ET Positive a nd W .thout Reserve. | and the Sheriff having complied with their request, we are |the grateful encouragement which your appearance has

Extensive Sale of British and American Merchandize, &c., &c., &c. O be sold hy Auction at LI o’clock, on TUESDAY the 12th OCTOBER, and the following days, at the Subscribers’ SALE ROUM, Queen-street :— 10 Casesand 2 Trunks MERCHANDIZE, consisting of Dry Goods, Hosiery, Haberdashery, Furs, Ready Made Cloth- ing, Hardware, Cutiery, lronmongery, &e., &e., &e.

Atso—50 Chests Superior Congo TEA, 20 Boxes Cayendish |

TOBAC ‘Oo, 7 casks Brandy, Boxes Soap and Candles, Buckets and Brooms, Cil, Window Glass, Sole Leatner, Patent an Common W indlasses, &c., &e.

Terns or Sare.—£10, three months; £30, four months; £60 and upwerds, six months,

tr Sale positive and no reserve. : . J. & LT. MORRIS, Auctioneers. Ch.Town, Sept. 20, 1853. (Mon&I[sl)

“Important Notice to Smigraats

Y virtue of authority vested an me, as Emigration Agent for the Provincial Government of Auckland, New Zealand, Thereby give public notice that L aw prepared to issue Lard Urders to all persons, of good character and suber, steady habits, who will emi grate, at their own cost, from this Island to Auckland, as tollows:—Every aduit, of the age of 18 years and upwards, will, on his arrival, be en- titled to select Forty Acres of Government Land in any part of the Province act apart ior special settlement, free of all cost —except Agent’s fee (10s. etg.), to be paid on receipt of the Order, and the expense of survey at the time of taking possession of the land. For every child or servant, Over five and under eighteen years of age, taken from tais [sland to Auckland aforesaid, an Order for Twenty Acres of Land wiil be issued to the parent, rardian or master at Whose cost he or she may be taken —such Orders to cost Ss. stg. each, to be prid bere, aud suvjcct to the game regulations a3 Cuose tssu 1 two adults. Por turther information epply, (if vy lector, post paid) to CHARLES BELL, N. B.—Copies of the Auckland Lind Rezgaulatiocs wili be ready in a few days for distribution to inteadiag emigrants; and panophieta in further exp!anition are expected by first Hag ish Mail. Queen Square, Sept 20, B85.

Rmigration Agent.

Fram the Ax Kiand Provi ictal Government Gazette, May 13. PUSLIC NOTIFICATION. SuperinrenDent’s Orrice, Auckland, May 11, 1838.

I HEREBY notify, for general information, that by virtao of the autbority verted io the Superintendent by the ** Aucklaad Waste Laud Act of 1858,”’ [ have appoiuted the uaderwentioned geatlomen to be E-vigration Agents for the Province of Auckland: —

A. F. Ridgway, London, England,

James Myers, Suuthampton, ‘*

John Paradise, Stamford, “6

Canaries 0’ Rorke, Gulway, [reland, - Geo. Somerville, Castletowa, Couaty Sigo, Ireland, Robert Greer, Newry, County Down, ” George Anderson, Luveruess, Seotland,

Janes Lav, Perth, “

Tovmas H. Lusk, Greenock, “s

F. D. Wright, Torvate, Cinada, Juseph Rusievy, M D, Cape Ureton, Nova Seotia, Chariea Beil, Charlottetowa, Priuace Eiward Lélawi, tuisom Janisch, St. Helena, Frederich Joun Mullins, Bergedorf. J. WituraMsox, Superintendent.

TO Bi DISPOSED OF BY PRIVATE saALd, Q* Eb OF THE MOSf VALUABLE AND

beautifully situated properties in tuia city, having x frout of LID feet on Queen square, and 154 feet on Grait.: Street, together with the residence of the Misses STEWAR tuereun. xor particulars apply to JOHN BALL.

Casrinttetown, Sept. 20, i8o8.

bis cisanisesip tte pices cei dicclpcaeeelpdiheatiensagpgiepatevien Pay Day has come.

A LL persons indebted to the subseriber will please cal!

and gett! immediately. All Bilis over duo must be pid by the FIFTH of OC FUSER, aiter that date they will be given to an Atturaoey fur collection, without further avtice. GEORGE DOUGLAS. Furniture Warehouse, Kent Street, Sept. 20, 1808. 31

Run Away.

{TRAYED from the Pasture, on the 13th inst.. a * a small DARK RED COW, not giving much milk, has

ratuer large Horns, aud a White Streak on herrump; one of

her eara is brokea or cut, and bangs dowo; a small white spot on her

forehead. Any person giving information where she way be found will

be rewarded by M. W. SKINNER, Ca.Town, Sept. 20, 1858.

To Teachers of the Second or Highest Ciass. A young unmarftied man of good moral character, and holding a licence as a Second or Highest Class Teacher from the Board of Education, may, if disengaged, hear of a desirable situation on application by letter, addressed, M. N. at the Examiner Office. September 20, 1853. 2w.

ANTED TO BORROW, £300 or £500, on Freehold Property; —a good premium will be given. Apply to P. Hickey & Co., Charlottetown, P. E I. Sept. 13, 1858

‘Eligible Pasture and Building Lots.

OR SALE. 10 LOT'S within the City, containing a TOWN ; LOT each; also, 10 immediately adjoining the City, | (free of City taxes), of 1 acre each.

Apply to THEOPHILUS DESBRISAY. Charlottefown, August 23, 1853.

UST RECEIVED. ex Brigt. Henry trom Haliiax, avd fur sale cheap for cash, wholesale and retail,

Pale and colored BRANDY,

Pure Holland GIN,

Rea! Jamaica SPIRITS,

Old Seotch WHISKEY,

4 Diamond PURTF WINE,

Superior Golden SHERRY,

A tew Baskets CHAMPAGNE,

do. Chests TEA.

Ang. 80, 1858. P. G. CLARK, Pavilion Hotel.

For Sale.

FEET of 3 inch good quality, fresh out SPRUCB 17,000 DEALS, made ruady ae delivery by Mr. THOMAS

ANNEAR, Montague River. Charlottetown, or te Orwell, June 21, 1858.

"ee ee Cooking, Franklin, and Air-ticht Stoves.

Enquire of Bexsamin Davies, Ezqr., StEPHENS & CLARKE, Orwell.

30 OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES on hand, and ior sale a DOUV’s SRiCK “ RE, in PeowNas “tr6et as ts 2) * - TUOS WV HOV! Ch. Town, Aug. 5v, 1855 Gr. THO Psa > quate ' seoneriiticeiaitanislaiiiamsitatasguuasciienaiaigilin ttn gna

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by M. W Ch. ‘Town, Sept. 12th, 18538. Ls te ee i niiinisheimiaduul aoe - eee Stove Varnisa.

OR Sale at tho article of STUVE VARNISL, to Auring the Summer. Oharlottetown, May 77. 1254

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GENERAL MEECING OF THE [INHABITANTS QUEEN’S COUNTY, AT CHARLOTTETOWN, WEDNESDAY, 25th AUGUST, 1858. Witttaw McGitt, Esquire, High Sheriff, in the Chair. ( Concluded.) Rosert Hurcuinson, Esq., J. P., then presented himself to

4 | the notice of the meeting, and spoke nearly as follows :—

Gentlemen,—I hold in my hand a Resolution, to which I feel confident there is not a man amongst you who will not heartily agree. I will read it. Mr. Hutchinson then read the following Resolution :— ‘

Resolved, That this meeting view with disgust the unwar- rantable and groundless attacks made in the Js/ander and

—~———- | Protector newspapers, on His Excellency Sir Dominick Daly,

Her Majesty's Representative in this Colony.

Ifever a gentleman has come into this Island and assumed the government of it, with a determination to act therein in & straightforward, independent, and impartial manner, Sir Dominick Daly has done so. And, gentlemen, [ am bold to say—for, although not the most active of politicians, I am, I believe, as observant of what passes around me as most men are—that, notwithstanding all the watchfulness, all the prejudices, and all the political rancour, which have been manifested by a disappointed and yivlent faction, concerning the government of Sir Dominick Daly, and in direct opposition to it, it is impossible for that faction itself to fix upon one single publie act of his, which, in the estimation of upright, honorable, and unprejudiced men, or which, in the judgment of honest politicians, even although they may be extreme in their views, can justly be censured. [Cheers.] Sir Dominick, in bis capaeity of Lieutenant Governor has, in conjunction with his constitational advisers, honestly, faithtully, and imparti- ally, upheld and carried into practice the principles of that beppy form of government, of which, as the Representative

of ther Majesty, he came into this Colony to be the Adininis- trator. To the principles and practice of Responsible or Self-

! Government he has hitherto, throughoat his administration, faithfully and honorably adhered ; and we cannot doubt that ne will faithfully and honorabiy maintain them in their full integrity whatever may happen. This it is—this honesty, this integrity of purpose, this consistency, which has rendered Sir Dominick sv unacceptable, us respects the past and the present, and which readers him so unacceptable—nay, whicn causes him to be dreaded—with respect to the future, by the illiberal and unscrupalous faction, through whose slanderous and lying organs he has been so unjustly and grossly assailed. {tfear! Hear! Hear!) If, instead of administering the government with und-viating rectitude, with strict imparti- ality, and in perfect accordance with the principles of our

to the high trust reposed in him, had pandered to the selfish desires of the fallen, bat arrogant, leaders of an envious and worthless faction, and endeavoured, for their benefit and gratification, to oppose the will of the people and sabvert our constitution, he would have been a man after their own hearts, wd ianded by them, as the very perfection of a governor. [ilear! Efear!) Happily for us, however, happily fur our liberties, Sir Dominick, whilst drawing down upon himseli the deprecations and hatred of this contemptible faction, has most deservedly secured to himself the esteem, the love, and the gratitude of the peopie. [Much cheering.] These few remarks, gentlemen, which Ll have presumed to address tu you ars applicable to Sir Dowinick Daly in) bis adiministra- tive capacity only, as the Governor of this Colony, and have

been offered by me as but a feeble acknowledgment of the high respect to which, by his acts ia that capacity, he has entitled

(himself. But how high soever may be the honor and esteem

in which he deserves to be held in his public capacity—and they are high indeod—his private, his domestic life affords us—especially at this time—still greater cause for admiration and respect. In all the relations of domestie life, Sir Dominick Daly and his family are a pattern to the whole community. He and his sons are Catholics, whilst Lady Daly and her daughters are Prctestants; bat the difference between the creed of one part of the family and ‘hat of the other oecasions ao dissension, strife or discord among them; and, bound together by the strongest ties of conjugal, parental, filial, and brotherly and sisterly affection, they afford, in their daily and hourly intercourse with one another, a lesson of Christian love, forbearance and toleration, well worthy of being studied and imitated by every iudividual member of our com- munity. [Cheers.] This Island has atways hitherto been happily distinguished for the charitable feelings and brotherly love manifested, most generally, by the members of different Christian Communions towards one another; and, in spite of the attempts which of late have been made to stir ap reli- gious animosity amongst us, by a few uncharitable and mis- guided zealots, [ hope the great body of our community—the great body of our Island family—adhering to their practice of brotherly love and Christian charity, and imitating the example afforded tous allin that respect by Sir Dominick and his family, rather than allowing themselves to be led astray, and their passions inflamed by those religivas incendi- aries, will maintain unshaken anil unbroken the bonds of brotherly regard and confidence by which they have hitherto been so happily united. {Much cheering.] On some subjects it is quite possible there may be at times a good deal of eavilling and dispute amongst us yet still without any loosening of the social tie. With respect to the Resolution which I have just read to you, there will not, however, I con- fidently believe, be even the smallest difference of opinion in this large assemblage ; and I, therefore, submit it in the full expectation that it will be carried by unanimous acclamation. [Cheers. ]

Joan [renauan, Esq. J. P., seconded the Resolution. The question was then put thereon by the High Sheriff; and, with much cheering, it was unanimously adopted by the moeting.

Three trem :ndous cheers wore then given for His Excellency ; and thes3 were followed by three more, which made the welkin

ring, for Lady Daly and tamily.

Hon. E.. Wueusn then camo forward to address the meet- ing, and was greeted by a round of cheers, both long and loud. The hon. gentleman spoke nearly as follows : —

Gentlemen,—It was expected. on this occasion, by myselfand

my hon. friends in the Government now preset, that on this | public platform we should have to oppose our enemies face to ‘face. Weexpected thud to encounter them; and we shrank lnot from the battle. We came hither confident that, as right land truth were on our side, the victory would be ours. We / knew well that, so sustained, we could not, on any hand, be } taken unawares, or be found lacking in effective arguments.

} Conscious of the completeness of our preparation, we mo anticipated &a thaumph, pat cert Limiy we aid s tims, caicuiate that it tes 4 strifeless vi is purrs, Uni 3 wea ><

3 ; one and ali, taken fight, < mit har rt wuehary alt 33961103; ADU, ACréa. ber, WuCu aii

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ngiy faconic language or Ussar, 2nd ~ 2 — . +? came, Ws iW, i j Mach one oe nonents ventured to sa te p my WD dy, ; = . kek : . : ¥ wy aU . 4 jy 3° ton jue O v3°r *y ie @ ; sake core ng th hice erro - 2

political constitution, Sir Dominick Daly had proved a traitor }

here assembled accordingly. But where are the requisition- ists? Where are the enemies whom’ we expected to find ‘waiting ready to give us battle? Why they have not had | the manliness to face us even for an instant. “They have pte- sumed, in the most overweeying spirit, to put the Sheriff and

OF the County to serious expenses for the gratification, or rather | exhibition, of their splenetic whim and impotent malice ; and

just as the signal for action is given, they have, in a most base and cowardly manner, deserted their post, feeling that it would Phe utterly impussibie for them tu keep their ground before the sweeping force of our arguments, or even to stand unabashed and unhumbled before the condemnation of their knavery and deception, which they dreaded to read in your open, bold and manly countenances. Ina letter addressed by the Mayor of this City to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, with anticipatory reference to this meeting, I am accused, by that honorable and worshipful gentleman, of a desire to excite tumult and disorder. [The hon. gentleman then read a portion of the letter addressed to His Excellency the Lieut. Governor by Lis Worship the Mayor, in reference to an editorial article in the Examiner, and which letter has been published in the several papers. Having commented on the passages read, he presets as follows :|—Now, gentlemen, [ will ask you, have

ever been a disturber of the public peace? Have I ever sought to excite strife and discord in this community? Have [ ever endeavoured to inflame sectarian jealeasies, or to awaken the animosities which may sometimes unfortunately be too easily aroused, and called into action on account of creed. language or country. [No, never!] No, gentlemen, I have not, And they who, on that scoreshave maligned you, my countrymen; and maligned me, know full well that neither are you loyers and promoters of uproar and riot, nor am [ one who has ever excited you to acts of violenee, or of insubor- dination to the laws; bat much reason is there to believe, I aim sorry to say, that the attempt to indace His Excellency to exercise unusual powers for the preservation of the peace on the present occasion, proceeded from some vague, yet eager avpe that, could the Executive be entrapped into any undue

peace, they might, very probably, in conjunction with other provocations, elicit from you such a manifestation of ganerous indignation and scorn as might be wrought into tumult, for she future benefit, or even for the mere momentary gratification of your enemies; for even although they should be forced, as indeed they tave been, to abandon all hopes of immediately damaging the Government by tuzir proceedings on the present occasion ; yet so traly fiendish is heir malignity to the Go- vernmeot and their supporters, that 3 sincerely believe they vould rejvice in any serious commotion pr Calamity which might arise out of this meeting, in the hope tut they might be able to charge it, however unjustly, to the exgitability of the assembled friends of the Government.

His Excellency, however, seems to have entertained nou such fear of your abuse of a great constitutional privilege, nor would he allow auy such dread to be insidiously instilled into his mind, as that which His Worship the Mayor would have had him to believe had taken pussessiun of his own very wakeful and apprehensive one. Provokingly unalarmed, therefore, by His Worship’s terrible communication concerning sue dreadful ineendiarism of the Queen's Printer and the awlul excitability of tie Queen’s Printer’s countrymen, His Kxeellency merely directed a copy of the weird warning of ilis Worsnip to be sent to the Ligh Sheriff: and that officer. well assured how safely he might trust to your just apprevi- ation of your constitutional privileges and tou your peaceable lispositiuns, has, in the most complimentary manner and in che most confiding spirit, devolved upon yourselyes the duty of maintaining peace and good order, and most generous!) aud nobly have you proved yourselves worthy of the couti- dence which bus thus been reposed in you. Yes, | kaow my countrymen to be excitabh ; and freely and proudly do I con- tess it ; fur the excitability of their nature proceeds frum tie truth, the warmth, the devution, the generosity. and the courage which are indigenous to taeir hearts. As tor the dastardly set who, for the most base and selfish purposes have caused tuis meeting to be convened, but in which they dare not act their preconcerted part, aud who have causelessly vilified both you aud me, IT fearlessly declare them to be as arbitrary a class as have ever cursed a country with their blighting presence ; and to the lowest in estate of the stout-hearted, aonest, bold and independent mea whom I now address, delungs in reality more true honor than ever has been, or ever will be, achieved by the foremost or the most successful among them; and, with defiance to the teeth, I hurl back upon themselves the criminal allegations which they have presumed to prefer against both you and me. [Loud cheers.) tad [ not aright to inform my triends aad my countrymen in the East, in the West. in the North, and in the South, of the machinations which had been devised, and the onslaught which was intended to be made upon the Government whe have proved themselves their most steadfast friends ; and had 1 not further a right to express to them also my desire that they should be here, in Charlottetown, to face their enemies— {say their enemies, for the enemies of the Government are the enemies of the people—and by their numbers, by their union, by their peaceavle and orderly, yet undaunted demeanour, to give the lie to their calumniators ;~—by their tree, noble and grateful support of the Government to impart to them new courage in tie cause of popular freedom, and at the sume time strike terrur to the suuls, and annihilate the hopes, of the petty Charlottetown faction, who once tyrannized oyer this Colony, aud whose dearest wish is again to enslave it beneata taueir domination. This [ was the more anxivus they should do, because my knowledge of the cowardly cha- racter of the Tories has long been such as to convince me that they wholly rely, for the hopes of any successful issue to their schemes and devices, upon the hole-and-corner darkness and secrecy in which they are planned and concocted, and to their being able—unconfronted by their opponenta, the genuine friends of popular rights and freedom—io enunciate their de- ceptive doctrines, proclaim fictitious misdeeds, misrepresent constitutional acts, and draw the most iliegitiimate and absurd cenclusions, in the hearing of individuals prepared, by long previous training, to believe and take for granted the most groundiess falsehvods, and the most irrational assumptions: surinking from fair, open and manly discussion, upon a public platform in the hearing of tae pedple, as the most filthy and noxious creatures do from the light of day; afraid to be op- posed and questioned in the hearing of their degraded and besotted dupes, lest the light of truth, the intuence of right reason, and the power of justice should reach their minds, and operate so convincingly upon their understandings, as to in- duce even the must benigited and bewildered in the dark mazes Of their politics,tu compretiend the delusions which have been practised upon them, to perceive the bondage to

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'eo proceeded with respect to thuse gentlemen. which they have unwittingly submitted, and which they have, | challenged us to defend tiose dismissals if we can, and we, invst blindly, if not most wickedly, been aiding their en-| nothing loath to aevept their challenge, as well knowing that upon the whole people of this Colony, and | we can fully justify the discharges, are here ty do so m the

afforded to your friends, to persevere in the cause of the people ; and next, in the saddening, disheartening and ralyzing conviction which it has furced upon the minds of your opponents, that by no wiles, machinations, or devices of theirs, can you ever be induced to forego the great elevatin political advantages which, in spite of the most determine und crafty opposition, you have obtained. [Cheers.]

_ Another charge, besides that based upon my merely having invited my countrymen from ‘Tracadie, Fort Augustus, Monaghan Settlement, Newton and Millvale, and other parte congenial, to vbey the call to attend this meeting, is the enormous one of my having alluded to ** Donnybrook Fair,’’ in wy invitation. To this charge, however,—heinous, nay traitorous as the Unholies have striven to make it appear in their godless print,—as well as to the other, I boldly plead guilty. On account of neither, am | conscious of the least tearful or compunctious fecling ; nor do [, on calm reflection, think that | ought to regret my having done either the one or the other of these tiings, which the Unholies have pictured as so alarming and awful. Was it my fault that the wiss men, the seers of the petty Tory faction of Charlottetown, made choice of the 25th day of September, the day on which ‘* Donnybrvok Fair ’’ wasannually held through a long seriea of years, for the holding of their indignation Meeting? Cer- tainly not. And was itaunything more than natural that I, an Irishman, inviting you, my countrymen, to attend a mecting, to be held on the same day with Donnybrook Fair, should seek to awaken your reminiscences and conceptions of that day, so famed fur its gallantry, mirth and sports; in which 1any of you have often, perhaps, participated, and to the hamors of which, as set forth in the happily hilarious sung, called Donnybrook Fair, you have all su often listened wien buoyant and delighted spirits? [Cheers.] Certainly it was no more than uatural—quite natural—that | should do so; and long, | trust, to the frequent enthusiastic awakening of our never-dying love for Old Ireland, to the cultivation of vur naturally most cheerful and happy dispositions of mind, and to the heightening of the innocent mirth of our social and festive meetings, shall we live, in this land of our adoption to join in or listen to the hilarious ditty of Donnybrook Pair. {Much echeering.] But the chief charge againet me, is that I aave reminded yuu of Donnybrook Fair, and striven to awaken your recollections of its sports, aud pastimes, for no other purpose than to excite you to the perpetration of assaults and sutrage on the preseut occasion, aud to a revival, as the Unholies phrase it, of Donnybrook Fair on this side of the Atlantic. Than tu provoke you to deeds of commotion, turmou, or physical aggression, nothing could be farther from wy thoughts, than such an intention at the time [ playfully penned the invitation whigh the Unholies have so grossly, £0 villianously misrepresented; and sure [ am that not one amongst you who read it at home fancied for one moment that it was my wish—as the Unholies have most wickedly en- deuvoured to make it appear it was—that you should arm yourselves for deadly conflict at this mecting. Bat, oh, with how bad a grace does this charge proceed from men, all of whoss published lucubrations, for the last two years, have bsen designed solely for the satanic purpose of breaking the sucial ties by which Catholics and Protestants in this Colony nave been so clusely aud so happily bound, and of setting man against man ia im placate feud! On the contrary, as happily wany of you can testiiy, jt has throughdut the whole oi ny public career in this I-land been a constant aim with ine to Seep, as far asin me lay, unbroken and unimpaired the social jiuks by which, throughout the Island, in its several localities, Catholics and Protestants have been united in Christian and vrutheriyacuty. Uf the Electoral District whieh, for the het thirteen years, i have bad the honor vo represent in the Legis- lature, nearly ofe- ualf of the inhabitants are rvytestants and the other half Cagholios; but Ehave always found the mem ders ofeach Communiwisamoug them cherishing the most kindly and Christian fedings to,vards Chose of the other; and never, even when party spirit has Doon most excited and most active in the District—never on the ovcasion of an election, even when the contest has beea the hottest, hag the competition been embittered by sirtle, reproach, vf recrunination on account of religious crecds—and all who lave marked my behaviour, or attended to what Il havesaid, cither 12 private or in public, during any of my electioneering visits tu the District, will bear witness to the hearty manner iu which, both by lan- guage and by acts, [ have always strivento strengthen the bonds of Christian amity and good fellowship between the Protestant and the Catholic portions of the constituency. {Much applause.] Yes, gentlemen, | kuew you would give me credit for this. Aud why, let meask, when [ invited you, my countrymen and co-religionisuw, to attend this mixed assemblage of Protestants and Catholics, should it have been supposed that | was influenced by feelings of a less peaceahle, less charitable, less loyal character than those by which, you bear me witness, [ have heretofure invariably been guided both in public and private? For no other reason, gentlemen, than that should the inflammatory appeals of the Unhotlics produce those dreadful consequences which, with a view to the utter subversion of Christian freedom and constitutional liberty in this Colony, tiey have, with the most awfully deliberate wickedness, sought to produce, they might, in exculpation of themselyes if possible charge us, you and me, my fellow countrymen and co-religionists, with their iniquity. For this purpose, gentlemen, ave they 80 basely traduced me and you, who with me have—the misfortane I had almost said—but the happiness | ought to say of being Roman Catholics. [Cheers ] The cull for this meeting, «n the grounds set forth in the Kequisition, has not been made «r responded tu by one-half, no, not. by one-third, or even om- tenth of the population of Queen's County ; bat it has been made by the petty political faction in Charlottetown, the directors of which, on that stage, [ilere the hon. gentleman pointed to the platform erected against the Old Court House] ure now uttering their insane denunciations against the Government, and by the morbid-minded individaals who supply the defamatory and incendiary articles which are issued from the printing establishment there before me, [Here the hon. gentleman pointed to the Protector Office,} for the purpose of setting Catholics and Protestants at variance, and of eventually robbing them both of their political freedom and dearest privileges. [Load cheers.) But now, gentlemen, [ will address ayself tu-the object of the meeting. as declared by the Reguisitionists, and trouble you with a few remarks concerning it, although my hon. friends, Coloaial Swabey and the Colonial Secretary, have already so fuily and ably dealt with it. This meeting, it is declared, has been called to ascertain whether the people approve of the dismissals by the Governinént of Messra. Desbrisay and Owen fron the offices lately held by them, or conden the Government for having

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