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' » othe TMi Pi askd the Ton. Mr. Palmer always compat of the outiay Uponu j ;

tion V Lid 4 Government were applying tas , aartal ae + ¢ | } } las nce fang @& hv. hoa } “one direction heir reductions were | rayds and bridges, and dewotnce I a8 @ Jn } i praiitity ae 7 Rares a : . +d a Ww ~ eaniinved. he would not bandy words t of all pi tion Eat vi the Road service wus now cn Hton. Mr. WreLan cuntinuec, he oy 1 mrt Of Bii ‘ rein. eaeby & Weis 44 5Ca e . . i ie »s donbt caquainted wrt? (MM) , 1d f 0 r! tt for ' nast year ana th with the Hlon. Col. Gray. be Was, no Goudt, acquarne .

—~ oul. is seks an) aw? J aM ss | . s : in of + ca ’ » sy cles the * ; ine on ti ia! 8 fi l mus inted tu “SOO { the expeuses of hows -ke eping in this, and the other ede of tie wing ut tn uit L ait 8 OniV wi prubabece “~ ° ee <a , »buls an

oe en i P et “ . i wey feounoaties—in uals ana wis the wh rhe aiwunt of their suving, after their magni ‘“n \t Hcy — in CIV IZ ea Oh HCI ; Zea } Si not all.) Weill) castle The hoa. gentieman had bod more expernence 10 thos

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fromiges of economy. (lou Mr. Haviland— they did not know what would be the amount of the saving. They had heard no budget. tr ypound dd. 18 was expected taut w hen the gentlem« n who formed Her Majesty's Goyernment in this Colony should get into porer, that there would be very great prosperity—that warrants would not sell at a Jarge discount —that the credit of the Colony would be placed upon a firm basis ; bat it was not the first time that warrants were discounted. pened before and might oceur again. hut ship-bdilding might again prove ruinous to those engaged in it— that merchants migit experience commercl il om barrass- ments, and uonetary pauic might involve : munity io very great distress. He hop «tl they would be epared stich calamities, and that future pr

lot of the Colony. But it had been suid t pablie offices were unnecessary —that the duties. ‘They had said £500 situations then why add, or smuggle

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wus sufHeaent in £00.

Hon. Mr. Uavitanp —There was none so blind as those who | The lion. Mr. Whelan cannot sce the difference |

would not see. in the expense of the Crown Land Office, whieh was £950, and now £250. They would also save a little more. The Queen's Printing last year cost £900, they had proposed only £600 this year. Lf the Hlon. Mr. Wightman had, during his term of office, for the last eight years saved these sums—+ 500 upon the public salaries, and £300 upon the Queen’s Printing —a saving of more than £6000 would have been effected, and the country would be at present relieved from that amount of debt. He remembered the promises held out to the country —the prosperity which would ensue—that grass would be made to grow where there was nothing but marsh—that ‘Treasury Warrants would not be ata discount. But it was highly creditable after all to find that the old Government of the country, alter a reign of 70 years, were only £20,000 in debt, and this building was part of that amount. They had been often told of the prosperity of the country—the blessing of free trade under the late Government. ‘They deserved no thanks for either. They had to thank the bounty of a kind Peovidenece for the ome in the abundance of crops, and Duncan McLean for the other, and not this Responsible Government of which they had heard so much. When the late Government were in the receipt of between forty-eight and fifty thousand pounds, they boasted that they had cleared off the debt of the Colony. But what a shame on the part of the late Government to have in four years run the country into £40,000 debt.

flon. Mr. Waetan denied that the debt was £40,000.

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Such had hap-| They did not know | the whole com- | usperity lay be the |

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haw he could pretend to, out, bobwithst ; aive the late vive the tat

inaliers hon. and gallant Coi’s experience, he would not ' ' Government credit for the outlay necessarily incurred in the support end maintenance of a building which had been origin- ally il-constructed, and which required constant repairs to render it habitable by the representative of Her Majesty in this

Co'ony. fon. Col. Garay had no desire to bundy words—to use his own expression—with the hon. member from St. neither had Ke any pretensions to do so. He had, on the con- itrary, particular reasons to decline doimg so with that hon. gentieman. A great deal had been said about the improve- ments at Government House; but what was the fact, that the sufficient to accommodate a very smali ling must be dis- ‘The people iwere not disposed to submit to fresh taxation to support such ns had been practised. Should the

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oul-buiidings were only . ' z ; ye ‘ +} family. The vast expenditure upon that burl

continued,—it never shoul! have been permitted,

monstrous eXlravag ance at shin plasters, lowering the credit of mg innumerable evils upon the people ¢ who traveled 20 miles mito Lown, get his warrant for

fic had seen a teacher, £23 ihad to sell it for £18.

| Mr. Sinciarr gave the Government credit for retrenchment, ‘but he certainly expected a greater reduction. He wes glad to hear the member for ‘I’ryon and Cropaud ask, if the offjcials were not able to do the work themselves, and dispense with the assistants? ‘Shey were not in the House now, as tr rmerly they had only to attend to the duties of their situations. If the Hon. Afessrs. Palmer and Haviland held thoge situations, he 'shon!d not think the salary too wonch. | ereater in the salaries. ithe hustings @ich should be we | would feel disappointed.

| Hon. Mr. Leoxowoartn gave the last speaker great credit for But he was wrong ia saying the people were told ereat saving Would be effected

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th ; Sinceri'y. | before the election, that any fan ithe public salaries. | people that one man could do the dutie | Secretary or ‘Treasurer's department. iness of the Road Correspondent was to be added tot | Secretary’s cdepartm who d say that one assistant was inot reqnisite It was surprising to hear gentlemen on the ‘other side say, that while the present Government were amal-

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| gamating situations, and reducing salaries, they were not carry- |

ling out a sufficient measure of retrenchment ; and that in lanpropriating £3000 for roads and bridges, instead of nearly tle was convinced,

Ilon. Mr. Contes had shewn clearly that such was not the | Perens eo will not thank nem. Ged at ti ° ¢ | rave at o he nie onic 1p! ef : > © the > re TIO case, and the Hon. Mr. Haviland need not attempt to throw | MOWCVEr, Chal the people wore ete eae ee . . . . . . * ' evr? ' » oe "ortain that the OOD 2 j } rorV dust in their eyes, by stating that this building was raised | Fon. oe ee ee Pe eee eut of the £20,000 (Hon Mir Heviland—it isa fact ) well pleased with the reduction. Jt was necessery to save: aw ~~ m vVVe a . ~- . ‘ « “ «é ‘ , . }

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green cheese, and that the room in which they sat was dark as

isidnight. This building was raiged by a special Land ‘lax. | ANige: oa : :

Mee the charge for Light Houses; they had none then, now jsion. tion. Mr. Whelan, no doubt, felt annoyed that the pre-| they are all over the Island. The hon. gentleman says there sent Government appropriated so little, Phe hon. gentleman | will be also a great saving in the Queen’s Printing—that £600 | had good grounds to complain, whea the Queen's priutiag has |

will suffice instead of £900. It is proposed to do sec, but the placing of a figure in the estimates don’t prove that it will done for that amount. Tie amount was uncertain. years it was more—some less; but till he saw a Bi!

confined it to the emount stated, he would not believe }t. Hlon: Mr. Yo said it was no wonder that the country had

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ithe €xtruvagance of their prede jupon them to do so; they had oppressed the country with tex-

lation, the present Government intended to remove that oppres- |

i been reduced from £1000 to £600. Mr. Davies did not wonder to hear the membera for King’s ta , ‘ . .

| County attack the Government, and condenin them for not cerry

loficers; but he felt surprised to hear Mr. Sinclair indulge in

jthe same line of argument, He knew that no man could do

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« Equity” challenges me to namo |

thinks that my refusing to uo 89 a 7 } me 2 ent mo abs mag ‘ ; lie roe muactut ynwolie of the fulseness of ing charges. Vovsk ue reauy | -" i fi, we

ine by so shallow an artiice $ ie he generally does It lu such @

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tie 'to keep 10 or 11 others in check, and all having a like interese. in maintaining a tolerably good feeling smongst themselves. ‘But if the Legislative Council is entitled to any consideration at all—and the majority of the lower House seemed to think it is not—the only hypothesis upon which we can account for i the’alleged gocd fecling between that branch of the Legislature’ x. J. BROWN. {and the Executive, is to be found in the old adage which : fi i gialhe rere ‘reminds us that tle oftener you ill use a dog the better it likes St. Eleanor’s, 25th April, 1859. | . . ‘you. The public are aware, that, from the commencement Fos tae Examinen: | to the close of the Session, scarcely a day passed without the Lan iacliaiaeeaiilliniin | most violent abuse haying been directed by the majority of the EASTERN TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE. ‘House of Assembly against the majority of the Legislative The regular mecting of the above Institute for the current | (.,.ncil, in their individual as well as collective cnpacity— month was held at Black Bush School House, Los 4D, on and members of the Executive Council being the persons who | Saturday evening, the 7th inst., whea a brief discussion took | “ ae steal place on the comparative merits of the normal and general indulged most feoqenntly io me ene, the Government system of teaching. The business of the Institute having | had not one solitary representative in the Upper House,—they , ‘been coneluded, a highly instructive lecture on modern, keenly felt their disadvantage in this respect, and were so discoveries, isventions and imprevements, and their immense incensed that they not only constantly abused leading membere induence in arenes ~ sets eee en vee ‘of the Council as being incumbrances, mischief-makers, and eee of et ee ee iu a the | naisnnetny but they most unjustifiably and cruelly got their ‘importance of the Press, the Steam Engine. and the Elective minions in the lower House to stop the usual pay of the Telegrash. In eonelusion, the learned Jecturer submitted members of the Upper Branch. And yet we are told how lovingly the several branches of the Legislature had put their shoulders to the wheel to urge on the ricketty coach of state ! us to derive the utmost practical advantages from the yo. taro it,’” however—(a prominent member of the Govern-* discovefies and improvements earried, requesting the lecturer to furnish copies of his,|—that he was cither’kept in ignorance of the bickering and lecture for publication to the Ewaminer and Islander eontention between the House of Assembly and the Legislative | House, on the evening of Saturday, the Sth of Juve, when | -_— : r : , a lecture on ** Nova Scotia” will be delivered by the Vice; reminding them of the good feeling which prevailed where no Bay Fortune, May 10, 1859. ‘Council will long remember the castigation thus quietly: _--ceptileiatailgghgianeiey ‘administered by their master, and learn better manners for”

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the moral proof of guilt may be strong enough | een } i x “ve : ri ¢ ’ «

‘reasonable mind, and yet legal prool be wauting. uch

hin! si] sane detect and way as he thinks will escape Getection ana

| upfi ately the case her } unfortunately the case here. : | In conclusion, Sir, I hope that “Equity” will see that the | infamy which attaches to himself and his family is inevitable | iti just rec se of their own malice \and eternal; that it isthe just recompense of the

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; ; gee Paes some pertinent remarks on the necessity of a Federal Union of the British North American Provinces, in order to enable

of which he had treated in ithe ff eS ee Considerable discussion | ™¢™* will pardon us the use of the expression) —that Sir Domi- ithe former part of his jecture, Uonsiceral eer oe ‘ : a - .

‘ensued. Before adjourning, a motion was unanimously nick himself is the sole author of the speech under consideration . 2 . 5s <° | a seal ¥ 7 » ney a ; ‘i ° . uewspapers, to which he kin 7 1 ae L ai oe er gee, Jouncil, or he was so thoroughly aware of it, that he intended

f the above Institute will be held at frotio Day Scaool | poy . : ial of the above Institute will . ’ y ‘toadminister a severe rebuke to his advisers, by ironicaily | President of the Institute. Other papers please copy. ‘such feeling had the shadow of an existence. We are inclined © JOHN CAMPBELL, Secretary. | to adopt the latter view of the case ; and we hope the Executive

(FOR THU EXAMINER.) the future. , | We give below a list of the Bills passed during the Session,

HYPOCRONDRIASIS. ot eee and assented to by His Exeeliency.

‘The petitioner, Sir, has no just claim upon this Honour- ; able House. lt appears that Mr. O’Neill has kept the un-} 1. An Act for raising a Revenue. ; ge ee es : fortunate person referred to, for nine months, which is eight 2, An Act to amend the Acts concerning tho property of

months longer than he ought to have kept him ; and if “ | the Methodist Church in Priace Kdward Island. ‘as a lunatic, he was entitled to have him admitted into the; . : : k : : 1 wl pny a se =v i * aces is no proof that the man 3. An Act for regulating the size and quality of Fish Barrele zunatic AsSyium i eS. ? 2ere Oi Dire j phone a [ J . : on : - . | and Tierces, and the weight of fis was mad, on the contrary, the testimony of the physicians _ 5 h made up therein, and for

: the appointinent ‘ish Inspec -_ merely went to shew that he was labouring under Hypochon- | “2° ®Ppow - of Fish Inspectors; also to regalate the

driasis—a complaint, Sir, which may be produced by a dis-

| ordered stomach, owing to indigestion, or by a contemplation

ling out greater retrehchment in the salaries of the pudlic | Of the sad state of one’s affairs ; as, for instance, when a person | ing gre trehehn I 2 sal

finds that he has spent four hundred pounds a year when he has an income of only two hundred.

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jmspection of Pickled Fish for sale within this Island, and to repeal a certain Act thercin mentioned.

4. An Act to incorporate the Minister and Trustees of the Free Church Congregation, Bedeque Road. 5. An Act to enable Aliens to hold Real Estate.

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been run into debt. Warrants had been paid for work that was never done. Political agents had been employed, and travelled over the country for electioneering purposes, and | they received large amounts of the public money. J. Doirant had been 80 employed for more than three months in this capacity.

Hon. Cel. Gray repudiated the idea of piying idle, lezy drones large suis of money, while their deputies had to per- form the duties. These yeutlemen were Ike a man who married a rich widow, who hung his bat upon a peg, and lived in ease and idleness. The deputies have becn done away with, but £50 were added to the principals’ salaries to enable them to pay for Assistants if they thought fit to employ them, and he felt certain that the country would fee! satisfied at the arrange- ment. The Queen's Printer bad been paid a thousand pounds. ie did not see how the people could object, if tt were equally weil done for almost half thatamount. When he looked at the extravagance of the late Government in every deportment, he wondered how the country suffered them to remain so long ia office. Louk at the expenditure for Government House for the last four years. £4,333 were expended upon it, and he was lately infurmed by his ixcellency the Governor that it was uninhabitable, and totally unsuited forthe new Governor. ‘The lion. Mr. Whelan wanted to reduce the salaries of the public officers who perform the labour, but he never thought of redue- tog the extravagant outlay upon Government House, a system of political jobbing which raised the rental in money to L800 per annum; and afier tris immense outlay the Governor de- clared ituninhabitable. The expenditure wasshameful. Many of the British nobility lived in houses which cost only £200 per annum, ‘This is what runthe country indebt. Are the Govern. ment, he asked, not entitled to get credit for the reductions which they have already made, and for having filled up the public situations with couipetent persons? What was the siate of the Land Office, and how was it managed? The Officer in shat department used to walk in there, and hang up his cocked hat—for the gentleman wore one-—and that was the whole amount of his duty, while more than 70 deeds were lying ina state of confusion.

Hon. Mr. Waenan could not uriderstand the Hor. Col. Gray. fle wanted to do away with the deputies, and still he was willing to add £50 to the Salary of the officials, to erable them to employ assistants. The hon. and gallant Colonel dwelt at great length upon the extravagant outlay connected with the repairs of Government{House. tt was not a new thing for that expenditure to be considered extravagant. He thought its con- struction originally defective. Sir Henry Huntley had converted its saloon into stables. It was unsuited for the residence ofa gentleman. It was wrong, however, to say that the-amount expended on Government House, for the Jast four years, was employed in the construction ef buildings. A very large portion was for the purchase of furniture, carpets and expensive gas fittings.

Hon. Col. Gray would carpet the domain with the amount. fle knew what house-keeping was,—he had kept house both at home and abroad. The poor people of this country are not nble to fit up a residence in euch an expensive style as might accommodate a prince of the blood royal.

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Hon. Mr. Patmar said, the discussion had arisen from the

It was a were job in its erection. |

therefore, assistauts wee necessary; and as to Government ooo : ve : i of Coal Meters except in so far as relatcs to Shar ot

House, i should be burned, and a suitable building erected. —Co’. Gray's Speech on Arthur O'Neill's petition, praying to\" f P’ : * m me Sore:

The expenditure upon it had been most extravagant, aud he S¢ reimbursed for boarding and lodging a person of unsound) |! An Act to amend the Act to enable the Supreme Coast e expe! cont, ial a 7 of Judicature to give relief against adverse claias made

hoped to see it, before four years were expired, pulled down.

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The resolutions were fiually agreed to. Adjourned at 10

v’clock.

Correspondence.

DIS-APPOLINTMENTS.

Yo tne Epiton or THe Exaniner.

Sir,—From the large amount of abuse which the late Government received for having appointed, as woe asserted, incompetent persons to fill publie offices, it was fully expected that wheu the Tories undertook the administration of the Giovernment, they would bestow office ou none but persoas who were capable of fulfilling their dutics. Dut, Mr. Kuditor, those persons in this section of the community who entertained such expectations were sadly disappointed on finding that our great Tory Reformers had actually, and, as L believe, knowingly, appointed a man wholly destitute of education to fi!l the responsible office of Road Commissioner fur the seventh district of King’s County. Now, if the Tories cannot find meno better qualified to fill oflices, I do not wonder at them granting so small a supply for roads and bridges; for bad as they are, I do not think they would be

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To rng Evrron or rur Examiner.

does he not write over bis proper sigaature? He ean surely have no objection to making himseif known, as the champion

| of injured innocence.

I have no doubt but that a few of the most unprincipled of his political adherents would be base and cringing enough to sign such a document as he mentions; but 1 would still

}continue to assert, that there is not one amongst them so

unreasonable as to doubt for a moment the guilt of his family, or so utterly abandoned as to regard them with any other feeling than those of secret horror and disgust. A com- munity of feeliag and interest will make them silent upon the matter at present; but if be wou'd once dare avow poli- tical sentiments different from thers, they would cast it in his teeth.

Permit me, Sir, to recapitulate briefly the evidence of

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itema of reduction in the estimates of the present compare:

with that of other years. Tue Government had made no lavish boast of the reduction. One member of the Government show- ed that the reduction umounted, in ail the public offices, to £500. The road service bas been reduced very materially. A certain amount is asked for repairs of Government House. it was not meant to say that no amount should be given ; the house wes built by the Colony, and it would be a breach of promisa with the home Government not to keep itin eflicient 1e- pair. He did not feel surprised tiut the large expenditure struck his hon. friend, Col. Gray, with so much surprise, it was the misfortune of the Colony that they were called upon, year after year, to vote away large sums of money for altera- tions upon Government House, wnd for the purpose of paying “political agents. ‘The majority were now endeavouring to remedy those evils ; they did not refuse tu afford the necessary amount for repairs, but they hoped they would not be so ex- pensive in future as they bad beea formerly. Ue would not say that a small sum, granted from year to year, was not neces- |

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| their guilt, and if * Equity” will shew equally strong grounds ifor suspecting any other fi { | picions may be unfounded ; futation | to offer than silly witticisms and personal abuse of me, any \further attempt at defence is but a waste of time.

|]. No other family in the world entertain such feelisgs of

| Comey hostility to me as this family. 2. Lt is well kuown | that at the time my pigs were poisoucd and my window sashes lout to pieces, certain causes existed which made them pcca- | liarly spiteful against me. 8. That theirs was the only house in this neighbourhood in which poisons were kept. 4. That 'a member of the family, who quarrelled with me some time previously, was seen in my pig-pen, where he had no business, { think it will be shewn that this is sofhething more than an “insinuating assertion.” my dast letter in the Examiner, the glass in every window | ia the side of my new house that fronts the woods were bro- |

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folol ommsh ws cetons tho expeplifune 98. SES | Sener ES | are paaned ase. matier of cures every ecmian, the abowg li Hoping no more of these wild appoiutments will give me | q@.. he ! (Ey GURU cr. re =e Gonsngenat measure. :

occasion to write you again, socom i es | We shall notice’at some length in our next No. those splen-

Sin,—If “ Equity” be not the person | mentioned, why |

ny Sus. |

5. That since the publication of

subject to Hypochondriasis, bat it arises from the melancholy |

_ vs : ene : 6. An Act to continue the Act authorising the appoint state of feeling produced by the financial ruin of my country.” x 7 te ee ppointment

against Sheriffs and other persons having no interest in the | Subject of such claims.

8. An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Bedegue. ' 9, An Act further to continue an Act regulating Seamen shipped on board of any ship or vessel beionging to Prince Edward Island.

10. An Act further to amend the Act incorporating the- Charlottetown Gas Company.

11. An Act to incorporate the Minister and Trustees of the Free Church Congregation at New London.

What is Hypochondriasis? why it is sadness, And nothing akin, says the Colonel, to madness,— Myself, for example-—no person can doubt me— lave always my wits and my reason about me ; But hy pochondriveal fits will come o’er me W henever the state of my country’s before me— Then 1 feel she’s ruin’d—she’s bankrupt and smash'd up— No matter what stories by others are hash’d up. Jler resources neglected—-her credit decay’d—

ler debt so enormous !—who can’t be dismay’d? Tis then I’m the victim of Ilypochondriasis, And not the poor slave of politieal biasses. 12. An Act to continue an Act for the better prevention of Smuggling.

8. An Act to continue certain Acts therein mentioned.

_ 14. An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the Police Coust in the City of Charlottetown.

15. An Act to amend the Act for the protection of the Rerring and Alewives Fisheries in this Island.

16. An Act to amend the Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Statute Labour, and the expenditure of public moneys on the highways.

17. An Act for appropriating certain moneys thercia mentioned.

If we except the Revenue and Appropriation Bills, which

Physiologists say when digestion is dull

The effect’s the same when the moon’s at the full Upon persons supposed to be crack’d in the skull,— Then every thing sad to their vision appears, Suggestive of sighs, and incentive to tears—

Then the world in its dreariest aspect they see, Whether caused by repletion or hypochondrie— All things have gone wrong, and ¢hey only are right Who have stomachs too full on a moon-shiny night. | And this is the case with our patriot G * * y—

| When the moon is at full he is fall of dismay ;

| Or the heart-rending estate of our country is such

| }¢ eannot be known ‘til! he’s eaten too much.

did monuments of statesmanship—tho seventeen Acts above

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.I., MAY 23, 1859. enumerated.

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THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

CLOSE OF THE SESSION.

its arduous and eminently profitable deliberations to a close on Thursday

| : | Tue Provincial Parliament brought On the first page of our present No. will be found & summary report of the debate in the House of Assembly on the ¢.stimatesof

‘two Houses with the following Speech :— | the public expenditure for the current year, and gu the amount: | Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative hes oularies allowed to the Government officialy, Jt has beer Council : _ estimated, and freely admitted by members of the Goyernment,- | Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : ‘that the gross amount of expenditure for thig year will not be | Tur completion of those measures which were necessary to | much less than that of last year, which was about forty three

| the maintenance of the public interests, upon which you have | ; | been engaged, demands my best acknowledgments, and enables | thousand pounds, and about ten thousand pounds more than

|me to release you from further attendance. |the revenue. We have no reasop, ta believe that the publie | Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : income willbe larger this year than it was last year ;—end | I thank you, in Her Majesty’s name, for the Supplies which | notwithstanding all the proraises made about economy and you have granted for the Public Service. | retrenchment—notwithstan ding, too, the furious outery raised |Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative | against the late Governraent for their alleged improvidence Council : ag : ; : - With respect to tl er | Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly : = er a = ae diture of the people’s money, and NCE ; ; heir increase i a ae it I must not permit this last opportunity to pass without ex- | " . P — slic debt they have shown a Gisposi- pressing to you the gratification which I shall ever experience tion to be less considerate with the use of the public funds in the recollection of the harmony whieh has subsisted between than ever their prede : : ' z [ : 7 7, > ; ; ecessors were. eredi | the Executive and the other branches of the Legislatare during | bie Alia ae ; e. They take mighty t the whole course of my Administration of this Government, to“? “"“"*° yes for having, as they say, cut down the publio | which eee tranquility the er during the Salaries to the extent of £500. It is true that in the estimates ‘same period, may, ma great measure, be reasonably attributed. | they have asked for no al : : | The performance of the important, and often amxious duties ir 7 ft) <i o.allowsnces for the deputies or assistants attaching to my station has been facilitated and alleviated by |'" ®°™° *.1¢ principal offices, but they took care to add fifty the confidence which you have ever so frankly reposed in the pounds exch to the salaries of the Secretary and Treasurer—

sincerity of my desire to promote the welfare of this com-| to i ts— was eT iby é ’ ; r enable those efficers t i munity ; and, notwithstanding the peculiar evils with which | th: : j ee — this Colony has had to contend, I haye had the satisfaction of | ~ reason alleged)—although wo have been told repeatedly, ve yo triumph of its natural resources in its steady | /0T Several years past, that depaties were not at all required. 10ugh limited improvement. But what guarantee have the public, ti i F , ¢ tie ic, that, 2 n | In bidding you adieu, I fervently trust that tho favor of | 7 F oo eer eet

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of the public service. It was only by such means that the finances of the country could be placed upon a secure foun- dation. The present Goveinment had pledged themselves to this policy, and they would endeavour to carry it out.

Hon. Mr. Waeran thoxght the statement of the Hon. Mr. Palmer highly creditabie to sim—that the amount for roads and bridges was very small. The country wou!d think so too. ‘The people would rather pay the interest of a larger amount,

and enjoy the advantages of the outlay, than effect a saving of

£500 in the public salaries. [It was very remarkable that the gentiemen now in power when ta opposition never complain- ‘ed of the expenditure in the service of road and bridges,

‘ton. Ms. Havaranp said, such was not the fact ; he had

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ken in pieces. Will “Equity” tell us who would be the most | likely to commit this outrage at this particular time? On_ whom cau suspicion fasten, if not on the family in questicn ?. Will he tell us that it was the “ offal of the tannery” that. did this? He has already told us that it was this which | poisoned the sheep, and any person that is gull enough to swallow the one statement will bave no difficulty in swallowing the other. 6. The last, though not the least evidence against | them, is, that the head of this family is the only man in this’ neighbourhood who considers revenge a sacred duty, and who, | believing Christianity a farce, and the Bible all u fable, has | the loust restraint upon his conscience,

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wards this Island, may ever be continued to it, and conduct deputies will mot be paid as heretofore? The deputies are its Inhabitants to the condition of prosperity and improvement. gtil] in

which is ever attainable by the united and harmonious culti- | . : : vation of such capabilities as are possessed by Prince Edward of. Ngee ee ee ee ee

Island.—Farewell ! the Law, in virtue of which they can be paid £150 a year, each, It has been always supposed that the Speech of the és still in force. If they wanted to do away with the principle Governor, either at the opening or closing of the Legislature, as well as the practice of hiring deputies for the publigg.. is prepared by, or with the concurrence of the Executive departments, why did not the present Government repeal + he Council. If this be the case in the present instance, we should Act authorising the payment of salaries to Assistants? — Se’ like to know what authority the Government has had for long as that law remains upon the Statute Book, the Go gora~ asserting that ‘* harmony has subsisted between the Executive ment is not ouly authorised but required to pay the De putiee and the other branches of the Legislature, during the waole,as heretofore, and we haye no doubt that thoir fall ¢ jdpriet

the offices—the only change being the substitution of