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‘She didn’t say much—* Oh, my God! my God !— eometuing like that. ‘The next morning she showed me a letter which she had written to Margaret.’

‘To Margaret ?? L starved up, busi tell back again, helpless, With a groan.

‘Yes,’ suid Joseph,— and it was a letter worthy of the noblest woman. I[ wrote another, for | thought Margaret ought to know everything. It might save her life, and yours, too. In the mean time L had got worse news from her still —that her health continued to decline, and that her physician saw no hope for her except in a voyage to Ltaly. But that she resolutely refused to undertake, until she got those letters. You kaow the rest.’

‘The rest?” L said, asa horrible suspicion flashed upon me. * You told me something terrible had happened.’

*Yesto Blora. But you have heard the worst She is gone; she is by this time in Rome.’

‘Flora gone? But you said she was here.’

‘She? So sheis! But did you think 1 meant Flora ?

7 ’ iv ‘ aret !’j I supposed you knew. Not Flora, but Margeret ! Margaret }"|

‘Lsirieked out, Margaret? That’s the last_L remember

bear false witness against our propagate its ground- L am conlident the

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precepts—that we should not neighbours —and may freely indulge to ‘less insinuations, for aught L care, as ‘public understands its nuotives too well, to be misie | tal stimony, a eens another statement of the Protector, namely, ‘that no similar oceurreuce had ever taken place under the late Postmaster General, [ have merely to observe, that if ithe friends and patrons of that journal had kept up oe spy system with reference to the proceedings of my ween ‘to the same extent as they do now, they would have discovere ‘similar occurrences to complain of, and perhaps Tar more de- | serving of censure than anything which has happened under ‘my mauagement of the Post Office. :

{ am, dear Sir, yours very respectfully,

BENJ. DAYVLES, Postmaster General. Charlottetown, September 18, 1853.

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To rux Eotwor or Tuk EXAMINER. - Sim,—While chancing to call into a store the other ‘evening on business, the last No. of the Protector was put

| by chance suw the * No, of datz the 26th July ult.” in enable him to inform his readers whether any and what l which he noticed my last letter, Now, sir, Mr. MeHachera | limitations were imposed upon the two former rights of im. | resides in the bouse in which the post offi so at Cascumpec is) prisoning and enslaying. IH» will find that not only was th | kept; and as several Nos. of — Examiner come to that @ ice, aud he is not over-serupulous, you may rest assured | " ; : oacel reads each scales tie of that paper. Le, enforce his claim at the expense of the liberty of his fellow next accuses * Domo” with making statements without any | man, was compelled to sve that his wife and his children, corroborative facts; butimmediateiy alter admits the accuracy | deprived of their support, should not become a burden to the of what * Domo’ asserted, and follows up this admission by | state on that account, and that they must not be left to starve saying, that * no one finds fault with Warburton for giving ' his interest to a person who will support the Government of which be is a member.” Llere we have a man tacitly ap- ; r , proving of an act which he has been labouring zealously for | avail ; and that, if he had nothing but his bodily labor to pay the last two months to magnily into one of the most unpar- \it with, he mast pay with that, saving always the natural douable crimes which a publig man could be guilty of. It) right to hisown support and that of those naturally dependent will surely be adunitted after this that bcKachern’s “serib- | upon him. Barbarous as were theo Romans, there are a few bling ” is not worth noticing. His last ietter 1s such a com- as chic orgrenes ae st Ott oteteaee py. pouud of admission aud coutradiction that, before replying) a aa ee ee ee the princi- tv it, L should have asked myself the question—* Ls his | ples they acted upon in their civil polity ; among others they inind free from insauity ?”’ Acung, however, on the supposi-|deemed it unwise to put it into the power of any man to tion that he is of sound mind, but that his apparent im-' gratify his love of gain, his cruelty or vindictiveness, at the becility has been caused by imbibing a fitile of that intoler-

sriod in either case limited, but that he who sought to

The policy of the law to which we allude was, that a man lowing an honest debt must pay it, as far as his means would

—at least, the last 1 can tell. She was there—L was in| ji¢, my hands by the clerk, That paper having acquired her arms; she had erossed the sea, not to save her own life, | such an amount of notoriety for misrepresentation and in- bat mive, And Flora bad gone, aad my dreams were true 5 tojorance, my first impulse was to throw it down in disgust. and the breath and magnetic toach of love, Which infused L was informed, however, that it contained a long acccount warm, sweet life into me, and seemed not Fiora’s, but Mar- of the Monster Meeting, and was thus induced to glance over garet’s, were no illusion, aud——what more can 1 tell? — | the editorial part. Although prepared to find a highly ‘From the moment of receiving those letters, Margaret’s! » a rtial account of said meeting, L must acknowledge, Me. energies were roused, and she had begun to regain her health. | paitor, L was not a little staggered on reading that compound There is no such potent medicine as hope and love. Tt had | o¢ spleen, splutter and falsehood—the leading editorial. saved ler, aud it saved me, My recovery was sure and Ang jf you think the following few remarks upon it worth speedy. The happiness which had seemed tov great, too dear | insertion in your paper, they are at your service. to be ever possible, was now mine. She was with we again,) = [¢ will be unnecessary for me “to wade throngh the all my own! Only the convalescent, who feels the glow of | tortuous course” which the Editor of the Protector has love quicken the pure pulses of returning health, knows what) thought fit to pursue in regard to the Monster Meeting. One perfect bliss is. would imagine from reading the article in question, that it * As soon as [ was strong enough to travel, we set out for) was absolutely necessary for the interests of morality and Italy, the ever faithful Jo.eph accompanying us. We eu-| and truth to abuse and vilify our laboring and raral popu- joyed Florence, its palaces and galleries of art, the quaint ation because it was not their good fortane to be born old churches, about which the religious sentiment of ages’ preachers and snobs. Were it not for these very classes seems to hang like au atmosphere, the morning and eveviug which the sanctified Editor labors to insult and slander he clamor of musical bells, the Arno, and the olive crowned would long since have been earning honest bread by the Tuscan hills—all so delightful to the senses and the soul.) syeatof his brow, and be a far more useful member of society After Floreace, Naples, with its beautiful, dangerous, vol-/ 4¢ large than he is at present. I, as one of those whom he canic environs, where the ancients aptly located their heaven | desionates as “ murderers, ignorant, besotted, and degraded and hell, and where a luxurious, passionate people absorbs | mea.” &c., laugh to scorn his scurrilous and libellous attacks. into its blood the spirit of the soil, and the fire and langour | Jor what reason, let me know, have we been thus abused ? of the clime. From Naples to Rome, where we saw Si.) Haye we broken the peace—disturbed the meeting ?—or Heter's, that bubble on the surface of the globe, which the! gimeaned ourselves in such a manner as to be unfit to listen vext eartiquake may burst, the Vatican, with its marvels of ¢9 the discussion of serious public questions ? None of these statuary, the ruined temples of the old gods and heroes,|haye we done! The Hlitor himself can prove nothing the Campagna, the Pope, and—Viora. We had but a) against us save giving expression to our approbation in glimpse of her, It was one night, at the Colosseum, We) cheers and dissent in hisses. And has it come to this that

ant religious bigotry sv characterisuc of his late pastor and patron, at Beltast. Was MeMachern’s mind or imagination not affected wit some such monomania, he would certainly have written ina more concise and grammatical manner, Here is a sentence so absurd and ambiguous, as scarcely to be comprehended :—* [ do not see, if it was only to keep out Mr. Hubbard that he acted so, way he did not give his in- terest te Conroy, who, * Dome’ admits, professed his in- teution of supporting the present Government.” Mr. Me- Kachern knows as well as any man in the district that Mr, Warburton was ready and willing to give hisinterest to Mr. Conroy, if Mr. Gaudet would resigu; nay more, he pub- licly expressed his eutire confidence in Mr. Vonroy. Me- Kachern tells the old story of the Islander, namely: that Mr, Warburton’s office is a sinecure—an idea which even an intelligent Lory will repudiate. By the by, Mr. isditor, the Committee of Management of the Liberal dinner, which was lately given at the * Payilion,” were guilty of an unpardon- able omission iv not inviting Mr. Mekachern ; for 1t must be to this dinner he has refereuce in his last letter, when he speaks of quartering the “‘ exceedingly palatable loaves.”

Iu the jJatter part of his letter, if 1 rightly comprehend him, he endeavours to make it appear that he did not write the letter signed “ Amicus ;” and says, that “ Domo is uot sure about it.” Que thing which * Domo” is “ sure about,” is, that an individual very much resembling Mr. McHachern in appearance told * Domo” that he was the writer signed “Awicus.” Ls your memory failing, Mr. Mac? He next states that the words *‘ Suatcher Liberal” were not used in the communication signed “ Amicus.” Here is auother in- stance of his retention being defective. But, Mr. Editor, | that which’ caps the climax of his false assertions, is, his

| expense of the public, by allowing him to subject the community to the charge of maintaining the victim of those amiable | qualities. The debtor was compelled to work for his creditor, | who in turn, gave him his necessary maintenance and gy

| ported his family, receiving the surplus product of his labor |in payment of his demand.

This, indeed, was a truly harsh infliction on a man whose sole crime, in a majority of cases, was the mere result of mig- fortune, but he had still the consciousness that he was paying

his creditor, however slowly —that his wife and family, however greatly they might miss the comforts, were still not without the necessaries, of life—that each day brought him nearer to the period when he could look his creditor, harshly ‘and unfeelingly as he had treated him, in the face, with the knowledge that he had honestly paid him * to the uttermost turthing ;’’ and that if the bonignant gods should accord him the necessary health and strength, he might again, ‘ with wife and children blest,’’ take his evening stroll along the Sacred Way.

As to the right of hewing to pieces, we have already denied that it ever existed, and repeat our request for the authority

| power was ever exercised, we can fancy some most extraor- dinary incidents attending the division of this personal pro- perty assigned in so peculiar a mode, Faney the carcase of a poor devil of a debtor cut up, to be equally divided among all his creditors—what bones of contention would arise as to the appropriation of the various ‘ disjocta membra poets!"

on which it is assorted ; but allowing, for a moment, that such

had been musing about that vast and solemn pile by the! moonlight, which silvered it over with indescribable beauty, | and at last accompanied by our guides, bearing torches, we | ascended through dark and broken passages to the upper | benches of the amphitheatre, As we were passing along one | side, We saw pictaresquely moving through the shadows of | the opposite walls, with the immense arena between, the red-|

if we give expression to our approbation or disapprobation at a public meeting, without first having provided ourselves with a suit of superfine cloth, we are to be set down as cut- throats and savages? Heaven forbid! What then has raised the ire of the Protector folks? Because we dare think, and judge for ourselves rather than get them to do so for us, aud are not to be bullied into ackuowledging the

flaring torches and hali-illuminated figures of another party | superior judgment of these would-be dictators. Well! of visitors. | despite all the abuse and falsehood of the Protector, I, and

[ don’t know whether it was instinct, or acuteness of | my countrymen I hope, will continue to judge for ourselves, vision, that sagyested Fiora ; but, with a sullen leap of the —attend meetings in homespun rather than fine-cloth, and heart, L felt that she was there. We descented, and passed | eXpress our approbation or disapprobation in cheers or groans,

‘Stating What is positively false. It you refer to the poll |

siating that the conduct of ** Domo” was no less inconsisteut | (poets are or were proverbial as being debtors). What vehe- ja: . ee 7 - ‘ ” , » ay 5 - ™

aed mae ee he says, ‘ — voted - Mes | ment disputes would occur as to the particular value each ubbard, aud then comes out praising bis oppouent, Gaudet, |... bal . : : . :

a a. 90 : "= 7 ; ecipient might assign to the portion which fell to Ais or her aud dispraising him.” L[ will admit, for brevity sace, that | d a = ae : * Domo” did yote for Captain Hubbard. But is there oue) ws Word or sentence in my letter of the Sth ult. which could subsisted between the creditors and the unfortunate, who, in be construed, by any rational being, into praising Gaudet or order to pay his worldly debts, had been compelled to pay dispraising ilubbard? No, but McKachern has here en- also that of nature. If the creditors were a mixed community deavoured to pervert and misrepresent the facts by publicly of males and females, thers woald arise a s

share, according to their temperaments and the relations which

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he. ; =* .) such as has not oceurred sinee the dispersion of the builders book you will fiud A, Meachern’s vote recorded in favor of | les an P ‘ si af the Tower of Babel. The bachelor, married man, wife, maid

out under the dark arches of the stupendous ruin. Tue other | until we are persuaded that slavery is preferable to liberty, walked a little in advance of us—iwo of the number linger-} and intolerance to liberality. {£ must bere observe, that if ing behiod their companions ; and vertain words of tenderuess! the directors of the Protector —actuated by nought save | and passiou we heard, which strangely brought to my mind | prejudice —be the expounders of Christianity, well may those nights on the ocean-steamer. | skeptics sneer. * What is the matter with you? said Margaret, looking in} The story about the Monaghan carries falsehood on the my face. very face of it; and L have no hesitation in attributing it to * ilush ! I whispered —‘ there—that woman—is Flora!’ the fertile imagination of the writer. Its object is, plainly, ‘Sbe clung to me—lL drew her closer, as we paused, and to promote strife‘and discord through the length and breadth the happy couple went on, over the ancient Forum, by the | of our Islahd. Such conduct is disgraceful, and should be silent columns of the ruined temples, and disappeared from) severely reprehended by all lovers of law and order. The sight upon the summit of the Capitoline Lill. 'Lrish, | have every feason to believe, had not the slightest, ‘A few months later we heard of the marriage of Flora) the remotest idea of causing tumult ; and it must be admitted to an English baronet; she is now my Lady, and | must do} that notwithstanding the provocation and insults offered them her the justice to say that I never knew a woman better fitted by the Editors of the Protector and others, they exhibited to bear that title. As for Margaret, if you will return with | the greatest forbearance and the most orderly conduct. By me to my bome on the [ludson, after we have finished our) such means are they enabled to hurl into the teeth of their hunt after those Western lands, you shall see her, together | slauderer his foul libel, that they were but a * bloodthirsty with the loveliest pair of children that ever made two proud | and disorderly mob.” Did L not already know that those | parents happy. real disturbers of the peace—the Editors of the Jrotector | * And bere,’ added Westwood, ‘ we have arrived at the end | —are devoid of all Christian and honorable principles, L/|

of our day’s journey; we have had the Romance of the Glove,| would say such language is anything but becoming in ihe) und now—lct’s have some supper.’ | mouths of men who pretend to superior morality and piety. | cate ee nae eH | Disgust at the low scurrility and spleen displayed in the

Correspondence. article under review prevent me from writing dispassionatel y

‘any further. J will, therefore, conclude by recommending

TT > , . > Y - a s Lo:tue aereeror vas Ecautwen. the directors of the Protector ; and just to consider what

Sin,—My attention has been called to an article in the! their liberties would be worth were they placed in such co'uinns of the Protector—a newspaper styling itself | hands, {t, therefore, behoves them to act always as they * Christian Witness,” a fimily Journal, &c.,—on the 15th | haye done on this occasion; and let them not be provoked instant, headed, * Post Ofice—Hxtraordinary Occurrence.” | jntg hostilities against their neigabors, be they Scotch or The statement under the above head may lcad the public ae Knglish, by any contents, Of provocation, but rather cultivate believe that two letters were posted at the Post Office on the | friendship and good-will, otherwise the colony will assuredly 10th of August for Boston, containing Bills of Exchange for | suffer.

a considersble value; and that these letters were either re-| May yourself, Mr. Editor, long continue to occapy the a by — out of the ee in the Office, or! honorable position you have attained by your talents, and ‘orwarded by an indirect route. The Editors go on to confirm : , sal i t]

this statement, by attempting to substantiate a grave charge ee "Vekeu th eats

against this Department—adding that information has been | “AN HIBERNIAN. received from the Postmaster at St. John that no such) Queen’s County, September 4, 1858

Jetters had been received. : ; q

The information conveyed from the Post Office in St. John, in reply to a letter from me on this subject, is: “ No! : ; : : ‘ mails were received from Prince Edward Island of the 10th | Sir,—Though being quite conscious of the fact, that te- of August, the day on which you state as having forwarded | plying to the silly, puevile, and I may add, untrue communi-

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To tue Epiror or THe EXAMINER.

| which statement { can prove by my whole crew and other re- |

\demands. Perhaps Mr. McKay judges my character by his ‘own. I would recommend him to Government asa suitable

Mr, Warburton on the day of Election; and the very next | : day he commenced his scurrilous attack on him—an attack, °F Widow, among the creditors, would be apt to disparage

/however, which has resulted iu smoke. He says, in con- what they respectively might receive, and the preferences and

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,clusion, that he will novice no» more of ** Domo’s” * serib- | antipathies rendered immortal in the Midsummer Nights -

bling” until he sigas his proper name. [ trust he will ad-! Dream would be anticipated in a material sense. here to this resoluaion ; tor [am truly sorry that he has ac- | quired such unenviable notoriety; and in a spirit of good | Ielluwship, L Would advise him to write no more for a public | hewspaper uutii he learus to write correctly, and to confine | hituself to facts.

One cre-

ditor, whose modest wishes would be bounded by the smallest

cut of the thinnest part of the defunct, might have occasion to exclaim, with Hamlet,

“Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,”

Yours, &e., as he walked off with a haunch of some Roman Falstaff, who

Kildare, Lot 3, Aug. 18, 1858. DOMO. {had lived at 59 Esquiline Hill, merchant, bankrupt, de-

ak mmansinli: Hiaiihliadtal ceased. Some Shylock would reeeive his pound of flesh, for

To THE Epiror OF THE EXAMINER. ‘* the law allows it, and the Court awards 6.” If a choice

Sin,—Will you please insert the following in your paper. | Were given to the gratification of personal feelings against the In looking over your paper of the 2d instant, [ saw a deceased, a creditor, whose importunate danning had induced communication signed by ** William H. McKay,” in reply to | the debtor to apply the aryumentum a posteriori,”’ might select a statement made in your paper of July 12th, denying that | ¢ho offending foot, or, in a spirit of vengeful retaliation, might the Light ou Fish Lsland was out oa the aight of June 27 th, | ,

prefer to take his payment in the counterpart of the locality

spectable witnesses, that the Light was not only out at that) assailed, and claim, as his property, the os cocyyis of his depart-

time, but at two other different times. ‘The writer states that | woe : :

a vessel leaving New London at 10 p. m., would not arrive | at who shall deseribe the trial to which the modesty of at Malpeque bar until daylight. Now auy boy knows better. | the fair portion of the creditors would be exposed in the divi- I should consider a vessel a dull sailer that could not run the ;sion of the property rateably? This consideration is so

: id . f th li t distance in two hours. As regards smuggling or defrauding | heart-rending that we cannot continue to reflect upon it, and to my countrymen the serious consideration of the policy of! 1. Government, it is a business | am not in the habit ot

: must, therefore, defer further remarks till next week. doing, as L have always paid my Light money and all legal Ace

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person for Tide Waiter. If he is as competent to fill that} We would ask those of the Snarlers who may wish to be office as he is that of Light pre aeant, mae oo i. 8°) considered as possessed of common honesty, and would blush danger of the Government being defrauded, as 1 have been | |), supposed capable of gratifying their political feelings

in the harbour of Malpeque eight or ten times, and laid from : eo : : two to five days at a time, and have not been boarded by the against those whose opinions on questions of public policy may

\Light Collector. As regards making false statements, | | differ from their own, what they must think of the Protector

think [ ¢an substantiate every statement I have made by good and the other organs of their party, for publishing the false and respectable witnesses. _ | and malicious statements relative to the two registered letters

It Mr. McKay wishes for any more proof he can have it | containing securities for money, out of which they have sought by applying to JOHN PARKER. to make political capital. On reference to the letter of the

Dinchtnwn: Manses 30. 1868 Postmaster General, which we publish in another column, it ; = ’ Ue .

will be seen that the whole mail bag, containing those, as well

as other letters, was safely delivered beyond the jurisdiction of Mr. Davies, and its non-appearance in due course at St.

the letter.” }eations of Alex. McHachern—who has latterly became a)

The foregoing information was communicated by me to a ' regular correspondeat of the Aslander—can be neither in-| friend of the gentleman who posted the letter, and [ have teresting nor agreeable to the intelligent readers of the Lx-| no doubt is the person from whom the Protector people @”2”er s yet 1 would respectiully solicit Space in the next) have obtained their information, to raise a bue and ery snumber of that invaluable journal for the following cursory | against the Post Office —supposing, apparently for sinister | remarks upon his two last famous productions, I shall first | motives, the fuct of the Mail having been Jost on the route | observe, by way of preliminary, that Mr. McHacheru’s long | between Shediac and St. Juha, when it was beyond the con- | letter, referred to in my last, has appeared in the Islander of

trol of the Postmaster of this Island. The letters to which | the 23d ult.; but he uust have changed his mind with regard | the Protector aliudes were not posted, as stated by that | Its leugth, because instead of a ‘dong letter of the doings | paper, on the 10th, but on the 9th and LUth, and were made | 2! tae Suatebers in this part of the country,” he has written | up with all others, via St. John, on the 10th of August, and | Short one; but notwithstanding its brevity, he has con- delivered that day to Mr. Lund, the officer in charge of Her | trived to have it sulliciently long to contain two falsehoods, | Majesty’s Mails, ov board the steamer Westmorland, and de- | 284 seven or eight glaring errors in its syntax or Composition, | livered by him, ou the arrival of the boat at Shediac, to the | He bas here, as also io his last letter, exiibited a total iguor-, Postmaster at the Railroad Station there. jance of that part of grammar which generalises facts re- ;

{ regret to state that no further information up to the pre- | garding the customary modes of writing words aud seutences | sent moment hae transpired, although a most diligent enquiry | together, so as to be able to commit his thoughts to appro-

is in progress on the subject. “ What, are we to conclude ?” | priate language: that is, such as shall convey to others the |

asks the disinvenuous editor of the Protector. What other | @4ct meaning he has in his owu mind. Your correspoudent | conclusion eau we arrive at than that the Mail was lost|“ Preremata ” has pretty forcibly replied to his letter of the | through the negligence of the person to whom it was en-| /4:hult. For my part L considered the thing sulliciently | trusted on its way from Shediae to St. John, and that the | Sell-coudemoatory without a reply. But 1 suppose, for old | Department heve should not be held accountable for the loss, #¢quaintance sake, * Prorenata’ has been influenced by a It is the duty of the Postmaster General to sce that the mere friendly motive, viz: the being instrumental in effect. Mails are regularly and faithfully despatched, but he is no ¥ally silencing Mr. MeMachern, aud thereby preventing him : more responsibie fur theie safe carriage after they leave this | from acquiring any greater degree of noir ety iu so unen- | Isiand until they reach their several places of destination, Vmble a point of view. Lf wili now, Mr. Hditor, proceed to | than the merehant would be for the transit of a package of Teview bis letter in the Islander of the 13th instant. | merchandize, in the shipping of which he had taken all due) Mer. Mckachern thinks fit to preface this commauicuation | precaution, bat which nevertieless might be lost on the way | With an auteuth, He asserts that iu consequeuce of tue | tu its de-tinati m. The Christian Witness may continue to. Examiner and its politics hav.ng fallen into disrepute, few | pursuc its favorite avecation of beljing one of the Diving) Butmdvers of 1t come bere; that be sees it but seldom, bat |

Che Examiner.

ileal tecane et aa = — John is matter of investigation by the Postal authorities of CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E. L., SEPTEMBER 20, 1858. that Province. Will the Opposition now have the effrontery to assert that any blame is attributable to our Post Office De- partment? Willthey say that during the ineumbeney of Mr.

{IMPRISONMENT FOR DEB?.

Owen no mail bag was ever missing in New Brunswick? If they do, surely they need claim no credit for their “ stricken- 'deer,’’ the late incumbent, as we never heard that he was | Postmaster General of tha; Province.

The dirty contemptible lie which they sought to impress on the community—that not the entire mail, but those two

Our contemporary of the Js/ander, in noticing the measure which passed the Canadian Legislature, last Session, abolishing imprisonment for debt, has expressed his opinion in its favor, in decided terms. As we agree with his views on the subject, we would commend tu our readers some few reasons which

suggest themselyes to our mind on the general principle, and the absurd and cruelly unjust applicatioa of that principle to be found on our Statute Book.

As to the general principle—in other words, the right of one man to deprive his fellow of his personal liberty for non-

‘particular money letlers were missing, thereby implying dis- honesty on the part of the Post Officers here, has met its full and ample refutation, aud the originators and propagators of

it we leave to the censure of all honest men of all shades of | opinion. payment of a debt, we see muuy objections to it on grounds of | ieitiallies religion, a3 well as social and personal interest. As to the | M. H. Pertey, Esqr., Her Majesty's Commissioner for the religious objection—apart from the consideration of the spirit Fisheries, under the Reciprocity Treaty, arrived in Charlotte- of love and charity which is at once the root, branch and town last Friday evening, from Halifax, via Pictou, upon a fruit of the Christian dispensation, the right of imprisonment visit to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, in connection for debt wasat no time and by no people sanctioned and with the business of the Foreign Office. We are happy to practised with the same cruelty and injustice as among pro- hear that Mr. Perley has accepted an invitation to lecture on fessedly Christian communities. Although the Editor alleges Wednesday evening, at the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institute, on that in ancient Rome the creditor had the grim option of ‘* British North America.’’

imprisoning, enslaving or of hewing to pieces the body of an_ ——_—___+ 202 + unfortunate debtor, we, in requesting his authority forthe) Mr. James B. Pollard, Kent Street, having imported last mentioned privilege, would sagzest the propriety of his ® quantity of the celebrated Parraffine Oil, distilled from

extending his researches inte ancient History sufficiently to Albertine, the name of the coal obtained from Albert County

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