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The Examiner.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1850.

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«CHRISTIAN POLITICS.”

Tus is the caption to & short sermon which appeared ette, 14th inst., wherein much valuable Scrip- jure quotation is employed to shew the sinfulness of resorting to “ wanton and repeated acts of hostility and contempt to our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, in we person of her Representative the Lieutenant Go- sernor.” The holy admonitor has not condescended to ay pointedly where, when, and how, those “ wanton ind repeated acts of hostility and contempt” have been Jone; but from sundry allusions to the House of Assem- | ily, we are left to infer that the majority of that Body ae regarded as the sinners. ‘The majority are too) godest to lay claim to any extraordinary degree of anctity; yet, at the same, we thin

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s chance of getting into heaven as most of those would- |

be saintly people who are perpetually quoting “ precepts: from the Holy Scriptures,” who, while they have the *jight to their feet and the lantern to their path,” have hypocrisy, and cunning, and uncharitableness in their’ hearts. That the House of Assembly have acted in. opposition to the wishes of the Lieutenant Governor, in,

gore ;” but how that opposition can be construed into an.act of wanton hostility and contempt to the Governor, guch less tothe Sovereign, is a feat which we confess ourselves unable, by any sort of reasoning, to accom- lish. ‘The Governor first placed himself in “ hostility” to the people, by refusing them their just rights, and his “contempt” for the:n was somewhat too pointedly indi- cated by the manner in which he called and prorogued their Representatives,—while the latter had too much good sense to suffer themselves to be betrayed into that pettishness of spirit, in their intercourse with the Go- vernor, which, marked His Excellency’s. conduct towards ‘hem. It is no less the duty of the Queen’s Representa- tive to respect the Representatives of the people, and to conform to their desires, when those desires are not inimical to Sovereign authority, than it is the duty of thePeople’s Representatives to respect him. Of all fallacies that is the most absurd which alleges opposition to the Queen’s Minister to be opposition to the Queen herself. The Governor of a Colony is inere- lya Minister of the Crown: he.may be a very bad Minister; and as such, be violently opposed, without the loyalty and attachment of his opponents to the Crown and Constitution being diminished or disturbed. Although the Bible inculcates respect and obedience to “the powers that be,” the inculcation cannot, or should notbe held to mean, blind subservieney ta the ministers of “ power,” when they choose to make use of the ad- ventitious circumstance of place and authority to carry ou. their own arbitrary designs. Let “A Lover of Onder” go preach to the serfs of Russia: he cannot make ‘aves of British subjects by inducing them to adopt the le servile opinion that they are in rebellion to their Sovereign the moment they cease to be parasitical to ler servant. Tell the plainest man in Britain that he is _ disloyal to the Queen, if he happeas: to think and say at Lord John Russel! is a tyrant and a trickster, and

tis first impulse would be to spit in your face. How _ ‘any are there in Canada, in Nova Scotia—men of that

| hliteal party’ whose principles are favored by the Old Court House for a Guard Room. The expense of.

| “arelte, and doubtless by its half-reverend correspon- _ ‘eit~in undisguised and virulent hostility to the Go- | vemnors of those Provinces: are they disloyal because

‘4ey speak and write against the Earl of Elgin and Sir,

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John Harvey? How many are there in Charlottetown *\o arrayed themselves fiercely im opposition to the late Widutenant Governor of this Island? Why slumbered ue holy admonitor of the Guzeifé while “* wanton and peated acts of hostility and contempt” were put in

‘/intention of any party or class of men in this Island

k they stand as good ,complain than any soldier of the line: he may, indeed,

7 *thoir offending hath this extent, no justify the Governor’s conduct in reference to the Tele- | ad and front of their offending (eee, ‘the Islander’s flattery, as well he might, and teils the

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man’s chatacter by every species of slander, and to club | object; but speak not of hia successor in any other | terms than those of commendation, else you have the, Bible flung in your face, and your ears.dinned with the antiquated nonsense of centuries, that has stuck like cob-webs to the skulls of fellows who are too stupid to unlearn their follies.

They grievously err who suppose it is the wish or

“to degrade the person and office of the Lieutenant Governor.” ‘l'hat party, whose principles we have the honor to explain and defend, and to whom this silly imputation is directed—have a nobler aim in view. Against Sir Donald Campbell, as the Queen’s repre- sentative, they wage not war:—to Sir Donald Camp- bell, as the victim of error, and the unconscious tool of a faction, they are, and must be, in opposition. ‘Their object is to place him in a position, wherein error can- not warp his judgment-—where, elevated above the

conflicts of party, his fame cannot be soiled by the dust and smoke of party warfare. When he thrusts himself unnecessarily into the breach, he, as others, must abide by the fortune of war; and if now and then he happens to get an unlucky poke, and the shots fly somewhat too hotly and thickly about his ears, he has no more right

expect to be applauded for his courage, but never for

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trifling. Even were it the reverse, that could have been

e t ny acdven . . e ; : .e ° : . 4 , hee : a yfter many © 0,000 do}lars. He has in his posses+| pounds and pence with the view of accomplishing that | 0 obstacle to the putting up the Signal Staff. as the

account for that service would not be presented immeo- diately ; and if it were, there was money in hand to to meet it. It would be well for the Lieut. Governor ‘9 look for a more ingenious advocate than the Gazette when he gets himself into a scrape,

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PRETORIAN MAGNANIMITY.—No, 2,

We observe that Government is exceedingly busy in addressing Circular Letters to gentlemen holding minor offices connected with the public service, informing thein that as no Supply was granted by the Legislature, their warrants could not be issued as usual. One of these circulars, addressed to the Librarian of the Le- gislature, has been handed to us for perusal ; and we were astonished when we were told that the Librarian had not applied fur his Warrant, and that the usual time of issu- ing it was the Fall of the year. Why then the haste to communicate to him the fact of there being no Supply ? Was he not 2s well aware of that circumstance as the Government itself? or was it intended to be a hint, that he might decline transacting the business of his office, as there was no immediate appropriation of his salary ? Other similar circulars we have heard of, but have not seen; and we must say, the whole affair developes a de- gree of meanness and petty spite on the part of the Go-

vernment to which there can be no parallel in colonial

history, the object being to provoke public dissatisfuc-

tion with the Assembly,and to render unpopular the

principles contended for by the majority.

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THE TELEGRAPH. Our remarks onthe Signa! Telegraph, in Tne Ex- AMINER of ‘the Ith instant, furnished the Gazette with | the subject of a leading editorial in his issue of the}

the matter of the Appropriations, “is most true”—* the; 14th, in which old Spitfire takes considerable pains to|

‘graph, likening the House of Assembly to children who, ‘in times of yore, could raise, but noi Jay, the devil, and. ‘of course ‘perished miserably.” It is, we presume, a source of exquisite joy to the Gazette to have the slightest opportunity of parading his legendary lore; ‘but the selection, in this instance, is singularly unfortu- nate, as its proper application would put the Governor in the position of the devil, while the House of Assem- bly would represent the childish conjurors; the sequel, if not reversed, will be totally inapplicable, for instead of the Assembly * perishing miserably,” there is very little chance of their enemies eseaping from that politi- cal perdition to which their misdeeds are daily driving them. We have stated that the expense of putting up the upper mast of the Telegraph, whith we believe was all that was required to be done, would not amount to more than 10s. The Gazette does not positively deny ‘this; but he asks, what says the Journal of the Assem- ‘bly? We have referred to several year’s Journals, and ‘by these we are borne out in ourassertion. The Town “Major’s account for 1842 gives the expense of taking ‘down the Telegraph at ten shillings : the same Officer's ‘account for 1843—printed on the 91st page of the Ap- | pendix—gives the expense of taking down the Tele-

graph, for that year, at ten shillings. It is worthy of ‘note, that in both those years, 1842 and 1843, there was

‘no charge made for putting up the Telegraph. Again, we have obtained an extract from thé account for the! ‘Staff Department for 1845, which is as follows: * Paid)

The Islander and Gazelte, a few weeks ago, made a

great flourish of trumpets about a paragraph which ap- —

peared in the Pictou Eastern Chronicle, respecting the

‘action taken by the House of Assembly of this Island ‘on the question of Responsible Government. The

Chronicle was applauded to therskies for pretend.ng to throw cold water on the zeal of the advocates of Re- sponsibility: but the Chronicle has become ashamed of

Editor of the latter “he must be either a fool ora very bold man” for choosing the course he has taken. The Chronicle speaks thus of the Islander :—

‘‘We observe that the ‘Islander’ makes a show cf opposition to the introduction of responsibility on the part of the Executive, into theirConstitution. He must be either a fool or a very bold man, and one wiser than all others of his day and generation, who at this.time of day attempts to roll back the stone, which the British Government has set in motion in the principle recog- nized by them as most applicable for the Government of these Colonies. It is too Jate now to attempt such a movement, and the ‘Islander’ will only damage the cause of those whom he seeks to serve by such a course.”

We received by the last Mail files of American and Colonial papers; also a California paper as late as the first of April. The latter teems with accounts of the successful operations of the Miners. We have not space to-day for extracts from either of those papers, but will endeavour to find‘room for some on Saturday.

GovERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.—The Lieut. Gover- nor was pleased to make, the following appointments 1 Council, May 9, 1850 :—

Mr. John Frost, of Grand River, Lot 56, to bea Commissioner for the Summary Trial of Smali Debrs for King’s County, in the place of Mr. John Coone-, who has left the Island. ©

Mr. James Bearisto, jun, of Lot 18, to be 2 Com- missioner for the Summary Trial of Smal] Debts ror Prince County, in the place of Robert Hyndman, Eec.,

ho has left the District.

! . 2 Ww |Whelan and Artitlerymen for putting up Telegraph, Mr. Harry S. Macnutt, to be a Commissioner fur

tarring, rigging, and painting same, as also the Signal | ors , r oo

Staff at Government House, and repairs at the Bloc ‘House, £1 123 6d.” Thus, it appears, the whole ex-

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‘to only 32s. Gd. The Gazelte says the expense of the, ‘Telegranh for 1848 is passed by the Committee of Pub-; lic Accounts at £16 7s. 7d. ‘Thatisnotcorrect. The,

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expense that year, we are informed by competent autho- | rity, was no more than the usual [0s.; and the sum of | £16 7s. 7d. was the whole amount of the Town Major's’ disbursement account for various services, the principal |

item in which being for fitting up the back part of the;

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the Telegraph for 1849 is again quoted by the Gazette’ at £12 4s. 11d. This is an error similar to the previous, one, £12 4s. 1ld. was the amount of Major Lane’s genera) disbursement account for that year-—the exact expense of the Telegraph for the same year we have ascertained to be £3 14s. 10d.; we have seen and| read the account in the Treasurer's Office, where it was,

and would not be necessary this year. These are facts, which all the falsehood of the Gazefle cannot set aside ;|

‘nactice by the Tories ageinst Sir H. V. Huntley? 1t! “8 justifiable then to attempt to blacken that Gent!e-

they establish our assumption that the cost of erectirg, the Telegraph for this year would be exceedingly’

‘pense of tarrimg, rigging, painting, putting up lwo} Telegraphs, and repairing the Block House, amounted |

i |toking acknowledgments to Deeds for Prince County,

in the place of Robert Hyndman, Esq.

Joseph Bell, Esq, to be a~Commissioner for tie Summary Trial of Small Debts for Prince County. on the place of Archibald Campbell, Esq., who has re- signed that office, :

The Hon. E. Palmer, F. Longworth,and W. W. Lord, Esquires, Members of the House of Assem> y, and J. Longworth, Esq., to be ‘Trustees of the Luna's: Asylum and House of Industry.

The Hon. W. Swabey, the Hon. 8. Rice, the Hon. FE. Palmer. F. Longworth, B. Davies, J. Pope, and J. Jardine, Esquires, Members of the House of Assemb!y, ‘Trustees and Governors of the Central Academy.

Seeds! Seeds!! Seeds!!! VOR Sale at Sxinxen’s Mepican Warenorse a large assortment of

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paid,—it includes painting, tarring, rigging, ropes, flags, JUST ARRIVED, and warrant:d Fresh, a greater vi- and a nuinber of things which are very seldom required, ‘riety of

PLOW BR SBBDS than ever hag been offered to the public. May 11. Gaz.

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