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aaa CC.hrc et

“ ale _ | ' . 7 ir, ' . ~ “. | =. yi KE Dy 4 A M ! N i Rr ur PLE ERT ee ect Ser er Pe PEP TUE LL __ P : - , m smous mane or . ce LT Te ne PT aN ane rar © “3 . ~ tls ae eae | , | | | ? | | , 3 PR ces SS Ba 14 i from one | Government in the only constituts ynak way in which it could vernment to believe, that, on his return from Georgetown he oo. SST : = ; ; hat 19 ail. et them travel irom one yernm ou my. oe ~ y : * , | 7 -_ | he 24th the vest Stig to Ihe i byt : ay eau never Gnd be successfully assailed, 2018 Polity al Parson appears “0 would receive the new assistant in a courteous and becom (fice for the second tiie, Which Was on Saturday the atin 1 of the Uuited States to the other, but they wis : ng Ps confirmed habit of using threatening language towards ! | m f | , : sac a t See a uit nak anralaee manner, and point out to him the duties of his stati

inst., Mr. Owen treated me ai

there with the same coutempt aud indifference as he did ou

« former occasion, by telling me [ might come there if J

wished on the following Monday, but to bear in mind that l

would get no information from Aim respecting the dutics of

the Post Office; and that the paruies who sent me migut

hink he ws ius urn Schoolmaster in addition to wot think he was going to turn Schoolmaster in ad

his other duties—tbat Le would endeavor to struggle with

she

me until something would ocear to relieve him irom his present distressing embarrasmeuts; and that he would re-| post, In New York—Tribune, tain the services of Mr. DesBrisay there as long as he him-) perce, &c.

self would be permitted to hold the office, and concluded by saving—" go and tell the Government ¢é/at.” ‘L accordingly attey ied on Monday morning, at 5 0 clock,

id the parties who sent me such a beautiful ciate, nor one

8 ‘ a sia 1) Ww ; othe suinmer; and, above all, you woula

bets aa rave curl

ras you ha as regards obtaining bealth, and : 3

ter satisfaction, ; lollarsa week. 1 think that if the the Boston

suc vive them bet ve tem sevent@éel ¢ of Charlottetown would advertise i | it would tend to turn more of the travel

not char hote «ke epers aud New Yurk papers, oe public im that direction th os L will name some of the principal papers, in order know which is the Dest to patronize, Journal, Traveller, Transcript and Herald and Journal of Com-

privilege. lihat they may fit to do so:—-In Boston—

in” an the original one it the | "The old “* Log Cabin’ —I mean the original one and nm ‘imitation, Which were par hint hich Presideat Harrison lived whea he was nominated for i >

w : > ‘ans of ensuring

en Whi the Presidency, and which probably was the ine

ar . oe nia tiie aicay Bia Mains e. | Je . » Gea a faw dave azo. and saluted Wr. {> Wen On In} eater Lue the ofive, il ’ aoe ‘his election, was totally consumed by fire ; few a uot f ints ever, made bo reply, and affected not to notice me, until L ‘he expenses of Mr. Buchanan's adininistration O » made pe > e} s

pat my hand on a parcel which Was being pre; ured for Mail, upon which he bawled out at me in a very surly tone not to touch or interfere with any thing in the office, as something very serious might occur in consequence of my doing so, ln t me to touch nothing whateyer in the office, but

fict, he told 5 oye that L might look at Mr. Swatey perforining his busivess. { did so in compliance, rather than be idle. I stood for a 7 4

considerable time with Mr. Swabey where he was re ‘eiving

aud delivering let | few minates, when [ reached my hand to receive a ictter at

Bi i uate teehee tate the window; but Mr. Qwen, perceiving me, ran immediately

ters, until he had oceasion to retire tor a

in ereat fury and snatched it from me. : 4) lav (Mondav'. I had some Tu the afternoon of the same Gay (Monday;, iad some

further conversation with Mr. Owen, in which [ told him uot

to dread me so much as he seemed to do, fur I did not come |

there to steal or pilfer. He then said he wanted to hold no couversation whatever with me, and therefore fur me uot to

speak to him on any account; and that he hoped soon to

know from a despatch which he sent to the Home Depart-

Oo + I ge alarming degree above

veneral Government have increased to an e | ti Phe amount

that of his predecessor, and his was bad enough. being, for the current year, £103, it will be before the year is out remains for ' if Mr. Buchanan goes on at this rate the result of his labours will be. that direct taxation wiil ensue,

We are waiting with breathless anxiety to near

8396. 728 ;

the future to tell.

the result of i } : “* ‘ i Igo empt which is now being made to lay the Atlantic Cable.

the att ' vesse) lntbe World

\ ’ ly Some scientific gentlemen say that the omy which is able to lay the cable is the Leviathan, because tn her it could be reeled; but the vessels now eugaged are obliged to led. and in paying out from coils it 1s altpost sure to

have it cotled, : reuk. All we can

let kinked ; and so sure as it kinks it wall b; da is to hope that it will be successful. Reading a piece in one of the papers af g ‘a postmaster who was removed from office, not because he voted, but merely because | outs me in mind of the great fuss the Tory papers in Char- ‘lottetown are making over the removal of Peter Desbrisay. Here it does not require a Goverament officer to vote avains the party which gave bin his office, but if he merely expresses himself as opposed to some of its measures, the next few days

sf : TOrny » er rare «am } . v ; © Whi : 7 ment if the Government here were going to annoy him and | will bring hun a little billet, whose meaning, when sumined up, destroy the harmony of the Post Office, by sending Assistaats |), .).60% Your services are no longer required’? And ‘under

there whom they choose to pick up off the streets.

| no condition is a wan allowed to hold office who 1s opposed to

i ° ° ° > } i » ‘ Y ‘ 4 e He ceased speaking to me ever since, this being Wednes- | the party having the gift of office. Why sh muid the Tories

day evening. It must, therefore, be considered, Sir, that Mr.

Ywen has regarded me since presenting myself there ratlier | Ww Ss 5

as an interloper than any thing else, aud dogs not seem in uny respect to recognize the authovity of the local Government.

have, therefore, no encouragement or chance of improving | ’ i) a

5 myself while such feelings exist. I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, James E. Ketuy. Mon. George Coles, Cul. Sec’y.

Mr. Owen, Postmaster General, in reply to further complaint of Mr, James E. Kelly. GizeneraL Post Orrice, Charlottetown, July 31st, 1853. Sir,-—I beg to acknowle ive the rec ipt of your letter of the Hoth instant, accompanying copy of another communication

trom Mr. James E. Kelly, addressed tu the Honorable the |

Colonial Secretary, dated the 28! treatinent on my part towards him, to which complaint 1 am directed to reply.

In doing so | would beg to inform His Excellency that I } have ever studied in every instance, as far as has been my duty, to pay minnate and particular attention to every com- mand and instruction given by Lis Excellency, as well as by

all former Lieutenant Governors since L have been placed in tharge of the Post O.fcs ‘Jepartment in this Colony ; but | ave already informed His Excellency that I cannot perform the unceasing duties of the office | hold without the assistance

of one person at least completely conyersant with all its

minute details; and Mr. Jumes EK. Kelly, from his former

1, complaining of ancourteous | | Territory, belonging to the Hudson Bay Company to the Go- |

complain, or even Mr. Desbrisay? If he was opposed to the principles of the present Government, be should not have voted l against them, if he wished to hold his office. But no, Mr. | Editor, he expected that the present Government would be de feated, and thoucht it would not make any difference whether

‘has received his just reward; and the Government deserves all |

praise for the promptness they have shown tn dismissing hin, There is an old sayima, that if you take a tan in and treat him

got nearly all you have, turn upon you and kill you, m order to possess himgelf of all you have left. And sach has been, in some respects, the case with Mr. Desbrisay. He has been

ving in the good graces of the present Goverament for a nua |

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ber of years ; and now when ie thought they were avout tu ex- lore, he turns uponthem and throws defiance in theirface, I | hope that all such customers will be treated in the saine way and their ingratitude held up to the gaze of a disceraing public.

authorised to sell the entire property, in the Uinted States

| vernment, for S000 000. This property consists of anu uberof posts and trading houses, sheep and cattle.

| Mr. Shatfuer, of this city, has published a letter in the Reston ! Tranelle r, advocating a {ine of telegraph to Europe by Green- ind, Jeeland and paragraph of his letter, whiten J vive entire, as anything re-

» % > . . tne i yroe Isles. Derow stne cont ludinyg

ating to the ocean telegrapi is of sy mucin aporjance at the

present moment 3—

| It is my purpose to go over the whole route from Quebec to |

Murope, traversing Labrador, Davis’ Straus, Greenland, the sea i,

} ' ; t eo — io leeland, aud over that Isle, and thence Dy ihe Laroe Isles to

if they see

¢

than now avail themselves of the |

aded all over the country in 1840 — |

and how much more |

few days ago about |

1e sided with the Duuglas Democrats, |

others. L have heard that many of his own congregation have | wofs of this unchristian disposition of his, Belfast. But the independent hom he threatened, seemed to think as [ do, that the s or the curses of the hypocrite—whether he be an

i} had abandant pr ' . previous to the election in

men w | prayer | ussumed

’ ‘unavailing in this world and the next. . Yours truly, GEORGE COLES. Charlottetown, August 21, 1858.

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To rus Eprror or Tus Examiner.

Governor, in which the writer endeavours to make the public believe that His Excellency, in recommending for the Royal jallowance the Bill to secure compensation to Tenants, * at- ‘tempted to deeeiye the Colonial Minister, and unjustiy to deprive the land propri ‘tors of their estates.’’ Sir, I do not | wonder that the paid advocate of the Proprietors and connexion of the old Family Compact of this [sland should feel disposed to abuse His Excellency and misrepresent his actions. The Governor’s adyocacy of the Compensation Lill was just and necessary ; and the recent conduct of the proprietors and their agents has proved it to be so. The Tory clique have always laboured to keep the poor tenantry in bondage, and more par- t

ticularly when an election is about to take place. At the last election this tyrannical disposition was manifest enough, when

back rents to the last shilling, if the wretched tenants did not ‘vote for the nominees of the proprietors ; and thos} who were independent enough to discard the threat, in many instances, have been harassed by law proceedings ; and some ot them | will be foreed to leave their farms, and thrown ina destitute | state upon the world, after many years of hard labour ; whereas

r\if His Excellency’s recommendation with regard to the Com-

‘‘ Minister of the Gospel’’ or not—are alike

agents and proprietors threatened to enforce the payment of '

no. Mr. Owen had evidently meanwhile taken bad As soon as Mr. Kelly returned to the office, as he states ints letter of the 28th July, answered by Mr. Owen on the

| he was received in no better spirit than that which character ‘ised the Postmaster’s bearing. towards him on the b> “casion. He was not instructed in any of his duties—; > ‘not allowed to touch anything in the office ; and he aie Government who sent him there were threatened with the ay, ‘pleasure of the Imperial authorities.

. . i Sir,—I have observed in the last Islander a communication; Mr, Owen’s reply of the 3lst to Mr. Kelly's & ot signed ** W. HL. Pope,’’ addressed to Lis Excellency the Lieut. | tter

28th, does not refute any of the latter’s statements 85 to up, ‘courteous treatment; but is merely a round-ahout to Mr. Desbrisay’s efficiency as a Post Office clerk, whom jy says he continued to employ for several hours a day, and nishes a sort of running commentary on Mr. Keliy’s . ignorance with respect to the discharge of Post Office duties, There was only one course open to the Government a8 gio,

as Mr. Owen’s communication of the 3lst¢ July Was received. either to let Mr. Desbrisay remain in the office, and cancel thy appointment of his successor — practically acknowledge that Mr. Owen’s authority was superior to theirs; or convince Mr, Owen, by his own removal, that he could not administer the department in a high-handed manner. ‘The latter course _have taken — it was forced upon them; and we are

| the people’s representatives, notwithstanding all the splutip that has been heard from a few ‘Tories in Charlottetown, wi

he voted or not; but for once be has been disappointed, and he |

well, and give him everything he desires, he will, after he has |

Lord Napier, the British minister at Washington, has been |

; tte justify this act of the Executive. | pensation Bill had the desired effect, there would be some little | J J

| relief for those victims of [oe ae a eat 7 pris tote The only grounds of defence set up for Mr. Desbrisay ayy: The Tory Faction, of whom ‘* W. H. Pope appears to be | ial Rais di , . - Lae Gee eanniun is annoyed ve His. Excellency | sa Seay he was able to perform his duty in the Post Office ; | yoverns this country in ac ynstitutional manner, and according and 2d—that he always voted as he did at the last election, to the principles of Responsible Government. If Mr. Pope, With regard to the first plea, it is only necessary to obserye land persons of his way of thinking, could use, as they formerly sili all otic Snbetalie Wik annL . | did, back stairs influence in opposition to the Governor's cone | ere J eee ze ¥ Y was as inexperienced stitutional advisers, they would not be so rabid against Sir | and as ignorant of Post Office duties as Mr. James is, Dominick Daly as they are at present ; but because they have | We think the latter, however, is quite as well educated ag the succeeded to a small extent, by a resort to such influence, former, and has braine enbagh to lear. be discharge his datie | with the Colonial Minister in England, they are savage at : 5 being thwarted in similar attempts with the Governor of the | @8 well. If Mr. Desbrisay had a right to live forever, with Colony. ‘The Legislature of this Island should, next session, /unwaning powers, this plea set up on his behalf would beep address the Crown and the British Parliament, and respectfully | remonstrate against the practice of allowing priyate and | ‘unauthorised representations sie rave rs prevail over | the deliberate decisions of its Legislature and Government ; | a a lcs pas for rt i = so cidade in the Colonial Office until an | Desbrisay ungratefully opposed his employers on former op ‘address of this natare shall exercise its proper and legitimate | C4sions, we cannot see why he should be permitted to doa Your obed"t servant, ee for all time to come. One step in the wrong direcfion wil] A TENANT PARMER. not justify another in the same. One great fault which the —— ee Government have committed heretofore was, giving too much

titled to some further consideration.

The second plea is still more indefensible. Because My.

influence. Lot 31, August 14, 1553.

To raz Korror or rus Examtver, latitude to subordinate officials. The Tories, if in power, Sir, —I feel a degree of pleasure to have it in my power, | would not tolerate, and never did tolerate while they were in ” . o- - ' 1 . as _ uh . - _ *

(after some Investigation), thus publicly to exonerate our | power, opposition from subordinate officials. Why should the

church member who was accused with aiming a blow of a stick

Liberals be expected to pursue a different course of at my head, as reported in the Examiner of the 9th instant, - which charge, I now believe to be false, was positively pre-

ceeding? The Government did not ask Mr. Desbrisay to vote ferred against him before many witnesses at my house by

for them—they would be perfectly satisfied with his conde alone is responsible for that | if he had not voted at all; but when he cast his dice in the

an ill-disposed person, who alumny. Aud, Sir, L would take this occasion to warn such | general game, and lost with those en his side, he ought to have

s | a - = . i I ek ae ac ee i : persous of the erying sin aud evil tendency of “ bearing false | manliness enough to put up with the consequences withoudl ¢

wituess against their neighbour,” let their motives be what ropining ing.

ithey may; and fran what [ know of the accused person’s coial

| previous peaceable and obliging disposition, I have no hesi-

eceupation, cant be expecta have a knowledve of Post} Norway and to North Scotland. | umtend to se@ every fvot of ; > Ce - ee : m . “wan ™ casi Z pation, Gan 1 1% | - IL to Lay J: 10 0s 08 I vt Norway ani to iN rth s 2 thick. | n ne) ) see every rvol o tation, in charity, to take his word for his innocence of the THE INDIGNATION MEETING. O.lice uccounts, or be ¢ bp tie fora | yee tiie OF Porioriming j the land aud Water to ve ifaversed, Defore 4 present the enter-| , . - the complicated duties which [ have, with much confidence, | prise for pubtic favor. ‘There will be no speculdtuion in my un- | os 7a. . } : . - . a , : hitherto entrusted to Mr. Desbrisay ; and if His Exeellency’s| dertaking. You will never bear of any stock tm this line until | { would also, in order to prevent a wrong impression, We believe it is really the intention of the O ctives to . : aking. 1 bstru ’

Government supposes that, in addition to the arduous labour |

y and attention required to be observed by me, I must place confidence in, and teach Mr. James E. Kelly to do the duties which only by a long practice can be correctly and satis- factorily preformed, they require from mo mu¢h more than it i3 in my power to accomplish.

When Mr. Kelly came to this ofice on Monday morning last, [ directed him to observe the manner in which the work

of the depertment was conducted; and shortly afterwards |

perceiving him moving some packets of letters which I had carefully placed for transmission, I sharply directed him not to displace a single article in the office. And with respect to his charge, that L took Mr. Swabey’s stand on his being absent, ! beg to state that I must have a longer acquaintance with

Mr. Kelly than a few urs or a few days can give me : Mr. Kelly than a few hours or a few days can give m »}vernor, &+., commences in afew weeks; but nothing at pre-

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before [ allow him either to deliver or reevive letters where

the rates are so various. But as His Execellenc y’s Government !

hag placed him in a situation that he is at present quite |

incompetent ty fill, his best mod is LO observe what is d pine :}

$3 aud by a correct and pleasing conduct strive to give me con- oe. - aucnee.

— ‘ . | 1 have already informed His Excellency that I eannot

perform the duties of the office without a competent assistant. but Lam happy to state that Mr. DesBrisay has kindly | ie| Sm,—tIn the last Js’ander I observe a long letter addressed

promised to assist ne a few hoursevery day, which will, in some

measure, relieve me from my present emarrassment. |to Lis Exceileney Sir Dominick Daly, signed by one ** Alex- ‘ a ne os . eee. Pa ee =p ll or es Iinivareitu a ; ; ] Tam, Sir, your most obedient humble servant fander McKay, graduate of a Scottish University, and ordained | ’ 7 ¢ ? | ae ‘ —s . ‘ , , . Tuouas Owen. | Minister from theg@hurch of Seotland over the Presbyterian ! 7a

Andrew Mitchell, Esq., Assistant Colonial Sec’y.

Letter to Mr. Owen, 3rd August, 1858, notifying him of the apporntment of his successor.

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Councis Orricer, 3rd August, 1253.

Sin ;—His Execliency the Lieutenant Governor in Council. |

having had under consideration a letter from Mr. James #. Kelly, dated the 28th July last, further complaining of your conduct towards him, as also your letter in reply thereto, of the 31st ultiune, addressed to the Assistant Colonial Secretary, in which reply it appears that, notwithstanding the d smissa | of Mr. DesBrisay, you still retain tim ia the General Post Office, and thit you have made an arrangement with bim to

isgist you daily in the duties thereof; and as there is no atteurpt |

m your part to deny the truth of any of the statemen's made by Mr. Kelly, [ aim instrected to acquaint you, that the Govern’

ment—~having had hitherto no tutention to make any change |

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with respect to yourself in the Post Otfce—regret that they have now no elternative, under all the e:reanj-tances, than to

. . | relieve you from the duties of your office by the appoiatinent of |

your successor, (o wiada, at the earliest p ssible period, you are hereby required to deliver all Book, Papers, Letiers, Ducu- ments, and other property in your hiinds ag Postunoster General.

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1 have tbe honor to be, Sir,

Yous most chedient humble servant,

CHanves DesBarsay, C.C,

i‘homas Owen, Esquire, &c. &c. &

we.

an ~ eee — Correspondence, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.

Kosron, August 2, 1858.

Ma. Eorror,—Thinking that a few lines fran the «* City of Yotions’? would uot be totally unacceptable to you and your readers, [ have concluded to send a few, and leave them to your judgment, evther to lay them before your readers, or consign them to the flames, where, { believe, you deposit more than ever reaches the public eye.

July has been very cold with us; so co'd, that during some parts of jt, Gres and win'er clothing were quite a luxury. Such weather as that which we have bad during the pist month is a g eat disappowtinent to the hetel-keepers at those fashionalfe

places of resort during the summer months, heeause peop'e will | not leave their own homes as long as the weather ts moderate, |

and they are right there ; fur seventeen dollars a week for board. for a single person, is no incogsiderable sum, especially when it ts allowed to run on fortwo or three mouths: and. besides, they do not find such bracing weather as you have in your Island heme; they my find some more dyspepsie-producing toed, if

telegraph proposed. I will have the aid of good civil and tele- |

vraplic engineers, and after a careful survey of the countries proposed to be traversed, and of the seas to de crossed, if it shall be fonnad feasivle, thea. and not until then, will you hear

fof the affiirs of any company under the Royal and luperia| y awarded to me, as velpg before the

; concessions generously | public for patronage.” | The Governor General of Canida gets $5.600 inore per fannum than the President of the Uaited States, his salary betng lonly $25,000, while the Cunadian Governor has $31000. i jthink the American people pay their Presideut very ueanly jindeed ; he should have $100,000 at least.

} Our fall campaign for the electioa of Governor, Lieut. Go-

sent indicates that it will be a lively one. Mr. Banks will | probably be again returned, | The steamship Persia's last trip from New York to Liverpoo! was mide in Y days, 6 hours and 22 minutes. More anon. Yours, &c., &c., BLUE-NOSE,

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To rux Epiror or THE EXAMINER.

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congregation of Bi

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roper to falsify and misrepresent my language at the recent

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isetions ; and charges me with endeavoring ‘ to excite the | worst passions of the people of a certain faith against him and ,’ meaning, | suppose, the Political Parsons who |e ideavoured to overthrow thie present Governinent at the last | Elections ; or does he only ravan himself and Mr. Lochhead? | Now, Sir, I never advised the people ‘* not to take summary | vengeance *’ against those Political Parsons ; but what I did say | was, that it was most disgraceful to Protestants the part many lof the Protestant Ministers had taken at the elections. And. | Sir, at Covehead Read, after the contest there was over, | advised the Liberals to go home and forget and forgive the nany insults that had been giyen them both in the public apers and at meetings, for I was satisfied the worst passions ad been worked up against them by ministers of religion, who ought to be ashamed of their conduct. Now, is this seeking ‘¢ to add fuel to the flame and accomplish the basest purposes ?”’ | No, Sir, but this Mr. MeKay having failed—by his anchristian ‘conduct towards Mr. Davies at the reeent Election and his | fire-brand speeches at Public Meetings, which he attended in company with the opposition candidate, and by mounting | the hustings tlfe first on the day of polling—to deter his congregation from voting for Mr. Davies, and in opposi- jtion to the Government,—he now, after trying with the {assistance of the Protector to raise the “* worst passions ”’ of | the Catholic community, calls upon His Kxeelleney to show | his disapproval of the censure which I and others have felt {ourselves bound to pass upon the conduct of those Political | Parsons, and backs his appeal by a threat, that should His i Excellency decline to take immediate steps to show his disapproval of such conduct, that they ** must soon give vent to their sentiments in the most certain way of obtaining

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| redress | Not so fast, Mr. McKay. You are not, and have not been, (in that meek and Christian-like spirit for some time that a | Christian Minister —~ professing to follow in the foot-steps of ithe Saviour—ought to be: “If thy brother offend thee, ‘forgive him, not only seyen times, but seventy times seven.” But what redress da you mean to take? You have done your best to destroy the Government at the late elections, and that by the most disgraceful conduct a Christian Minister could be |gailty of; and now you doubt the Government havine a ma- jority in the new House, for if your party had, you and your political friends, Yeo & Co., could easily obtain the siznatures of those who might be supposed to constitute the Tory majority

» " ‘Kay Ya w , jut Mr. McKay ts well aware that the supporters of the

lat r li i ——- NOULWICHS . al A A , « 4

| 1 , ] " a } a t . le ] { a be sUOWL COST if i ‘“ il iit ertorts mad ry DIMSsls AY us Tycuer E 4arsons—to damage His Exeelleney 5

ke Sea: x ep ep Ya . ; ' | potent malice in using a sill~ threat azainst the Lieut Governor

it bas been well deteritined as a practicable route for the |

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Ck Sa Se Oe ee : : ca oh -t

st, P. E.1.,’’? wherein, he has thought |

to a requisition to His Excellency to call the House together. | T - > ae. A

Opp ysition in the new House dare not attempt ta take this step. They know they have nota majority ; and the Belfast ** Gradu- re ans wae J elfast rade ate of a Scottish University ”’ only shows his own folly and im- |!

state that the person who accused me with embezzling the] porsavere in their insane desi ; ‘ . f

a a , fa a te os _| persevere in their insane design of holding a public meeting on puouitc Money, i Uot a Miecmver -O: Mr, Auox Ss Uhuren oO! Yours respectfuliy,

©. STEWART.

-- «—m,_ee + ———-—- —-——--—

the Market Square, on Wednesday next, fur the purpose of

congregation.

: . fa =O :} j se a J owa » Roseveath, August 16th, 1858. showing their teeth to the Government, because the latter

exercised the constitutional power with which they are invested of removing a couple of subordinate officials who thought they could oppose the Government with impunity, and deny the

To rue Eptror or Tue EXAMINER.

Sin,—As Mr. Charles Stewart admits that he was misin- ‘formed respecting certain charges preferred in his letter, ad- i dressed to the Rev. Dr. Kauox, and published in the Examiner laud has given me to understand that, had he not been so

right of any power in this Colony to interfere with tiem ia their respective offices. In the matter of claiming and holding

on to office, the Tories haye always had uncommonly loom notions of propricty and independence of spirit. Of the latter, indeed, it may be fairly assumed that they are in blissful ignorance of its adaptation to the affairs of public life. Ones puta Tory in oflice—a minor one of course—and he straight way imagines that he is settled there as long as he can draw

| is informant, he would not have published

| grossly deceive i DY h lthe above mentioued letter, which L consider to be, as far as

I am concerned, a sufficient apology for the same,—T there-

| fore would request you to suspend the publication of my letter.

i

1] } Yo ia sneatf ie ours respectfully,

JAMES McLAREN.

. | ae ~ - - poate — ane after two or threo years experience, he is fool car ff v - none) haliave ths : : . ea 29 4" /enough to believe that no one in the world can dise the | Zye Cxantuier. r harge

duties of the oflice so satisfactorily as himself. He may beap ass or a blockhead, and a cringing syeophant, before he enters | CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.L, AUGUST 23, 1858. ee ae : /on the duties of his new employment; but let him be there for EDL LDL IBID LIDLOLDLPELDLDLLLCLODLELOLLOLOL LOLI WW ‘ a iN i ne Sinmeepeen mois a few years, and he sets upa claim, or his friends will do it for POST OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE. ¥ " ‘ at : : eS him, to the possession of unrivalled intelligence and talent ; and

r > ’ 7 ’ 4 eiat rhile 1ecaqd j sée ly ; ‘ 3 39 We reprint in our present No. from the Royal Gazette of | ™» while dressed in ** a little brief authority,’’ he should takes

Thursday last the correspondence which has taken place | between the Government and the late head of the Post Office | and to snap and snarl at the power which gave him official life— it is held as a piece of monstrous presumption for any one tg question his right to do so. Should he be eased of his dignity —or taken down a. peg or two, as we say in common parlance, und unceremoniously dismissed —he is at onee proclaimed as

| Department, respecting the removal of Mr. Peter Desbrisay | and. the appointment of his successor. Our readers will ob- serve the marked difference of tone in the reply (dated July 17) which Mr. Owen made to Mr. J. E. Kelly’s first complaint,

martyr — the sympathies of all good Tories are eyoked in his behalf, and indignation meetings are frowningly threaten, as if they would haye the power to undo what the Execativt

| } ” e 1 as to the uncourteous reception which he met with at the | | hands of the Postmaster General, from that which character- | | |

|ises his second epistle of the 3lst July. In the first he is all i submission, and does not hesitate to say that Mr. Desbrisay | had done. | had acted very indiscreetly in voting as he did. He labours | We should like to know—although we have no expectation ‘to extenuate his own indiscreet conduct in treating rudely the of getting information from them on the subject—what o& nominee of the Government, by referring to los ‘* excited | vantage the Obstructives hope to derive from their indignatios feelings’’ at the loss of his friend’s assistance-——he knows that meeting on Wednesday next? What good will it be to Mt he was wrong in using indignint language, which he admits; Owen or Mr. Desbrisay? It won't restore them to their jhe ought not to haye used under any circumstances—hopes ‘Official employments—it won't alter the decision of the Gover | he will be excused ; and says that if Mr. Kelly will go back ment with respect to their removal ; and we are quite sure it to the office as soon as he (Mr. Owen) shall have returned from | won’t frighten the Government nor the Island at large from Georgetown, where he was then going on a Crown subpoena, |its propriety. We observe that the Sheriff has obliging! iful acceded to the Lory request to call the meeting. If be

|he will endeavour to discharge his duty as well as the painful circumstances under which he is placed wlil permit. There | S#Pposes he will conciliate their good opinion, or lessen the

‘could be no objection to the style and matter of this abuse of their organs against himself by this concession, he is ‘letter. It must have been written on the spur of the moment, | delightfully ignorant of the malignant disposition of the Tories ‘almost immediately on the receipt of Mr. Kelly’s letter, for of Charlottetown, li may be, that the Sheriff has called the that was handed into the Secretary's Office only on the after- | meeting to let us all see what the Tories can do in facing the

assembled electors of the County ; but if we are to judge of |

noon ef the preyious day, where a copy of it had to be taken

| for Mr. Owen’s perusal, and we have no doubt that the Post-| the results of the meeting by tue extent of their efforts to ge

‘master was wise enough not to take the advice of his friends | the requisition signed, they will have small cause for mae | before he wrote the letter in question. Had he continued congratulation on Wednesday night. In this County there jander the disposition that prompted the very proper senti- | @re about seven thousand electors. The requisition ” the , |ments which it contains, he would be in the Post Office yet, ‘Sherif, with all the labour that has been used to get it signed, | enjoying, as he formerly did, the confidence and esteem of the | had not over a thousand signatures to it up to Saturday night, Government. But he blinuiy sacrificed his position, to gratify, hand amongst those were the names of very many boys

the ald, the enmity of some of his | others who are not electors, besides a great many more, written by the one pen,and eyidently forgeries. But if the whole

‘ ‘ . “ ™ . tropy- seyen thousand electors of the County had pat their pm ccordingly:

las perhaps he th

pught he

j i> ot} pe YIGY } ¢, : vw Y , OU is 7 ; : | partizan friends,—he foolisaly threw away his own office in the | j reckless attempt to keep in the public employment, in spite of | | the Government, a clerk of tie departinent who had forfeited | mics to the requisition, and attended the meeting @

\their confidence by an admitted indiseretion. He led the Go- j and joined in the howl of indignation against the

‘fancy to play some *‘* fantastic tricks before high heaven,"«— ™