AND qassum ‘bs O40 SUAS-2 =. pot . ipo - Wew Series. des. THE OLD YEAR. With movenful towe | hear thee say, * Alas, another year lias sped !” As if within that eirclet lay Life's garland dead. Nor tis yields lite each glowing hu Poir trnit may yield—the tendril And clasps anew, Not his tie rudely number'd stone On |ije’s broad ways, The record meaguring his speed Je but a shadow softer spread— A browner loaf—a breken reed, Or mildew shed. And if his footfall crnsh the-flower, Mis mildew stain P, UROP the tower A giory brings. I } ' rid TTil ; Qj ; > .- t > i] Ther fect tne mu HmuUring yvorce pe ety, ; The heart glows warm wher . ® ’ Life path no niente, tae “My Fy NT 8 CNT HD ad. 4% D3 “bel he Gai Wa 8 © . yt TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Sin —- In your paper of the 25th state, “the af yo nhave ** Fre question pitt, dvrin’ the la-t month two, What has th Vane } ry Society done with the articies gesivne dgatry ot af] N ator ie to { ike niace $851 27 dd thercapen you intim your doubts are iin ¢! . - \ | that the artictes alluded to, obiatned CX} eps ae¢ ima 3 le hour te ) th so much era and mechanics, posa! of the Committee of the ral Society, have been divided the gentlemen farmers Agricutt Reval Awricoitur to be forwarded to the Exhibition of In +} fey 5) . “ too wei founds gd. go f ane Is nan eat F°1e> eh} afi plac (2 .ed% Cars bi Si ME-WEREREY GN %h Vain thought! Thy measure is not Time’s : e,; Time hath mute landmarks of his own They are not such as man may raise; oO n climbs, . . How sweet the spicy perfume springs: } pe rg ies Giakatie « The heart hold fast 18 treasure bright; SunVveuns qe as LEO BE AO LL OO CPO OPO TT Ee EEL OR TE THE AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY. Instant vor ‘qnent!v herd the ‘ ~ vr te your doubts as to this Island being reoresente a one * at that Exhibition. 1 am aire . Sir, aa the Society is concerned ia tie mate 7 -?* : z a i a a? y ter; mori HDAVe Ei fOini the be bt auUtHority, » farm- ie arionest who are members of that Cor mittee, they paying the cost : res lleasra and charges. The reason alleged, [un- derstand, for declining ta send these pra duets of ovr Usland skill and inddstry to ' e* the great Exim 700 insignificant 2 ; : portant in caari ‘2 pror te “ which in tinenc } hy : “7 » a and Chief, bvetore appeared s hom they acricnitural interests hav been amet ef the Society. Stk ae Tinineee Man. he fashed, as Dencan Mac they conld nat be j lean would sry, articles fur exhibition ; or may be it that the rich tubs of butter, t 7 ’ > . gheeses, the caudy snawis and sea ' : “ a >. Pe on t a ’ nd well--voven clotas, &c. OC, WAG suany attractions Por 8 genic PD Ol A is, buioen is, that Ley were iu value and too unim- fat fam inclined to thinls it Wes quite a diferent reason dthe Committee. Since the death of their much Jamented eps) to be uncommonly selicitous to promote the ; of the Colony, there sifest Iutl in the exertions anit may he it is that ahotst forwe rding the LLEIGHRNCER, AOE ALT LSE ET UE AIRE ONES MTN Ah ATA NO AE A A ONCE TS OTR ETR SET A NIN NER CHARLOTTE Jomiuittee to be sent all the way to Lon- don, [t may be trne enough that the articles were few In number and small in valne dul they Were such as the Society adver- ised for, ond no doubt the best the Is- land could afford ; if they were aot, prizes ought not to have been distributed. Our country is small and unimportant, and its resources scanty—so that nothing very wonderful could be expected from it; yet poor as we are, the Commitee of the Agricultural S us the disgrace of being Society should have spared the only Colony in America whose piace will be a blank atthe National Exhibition. Tam preity wel] assured, that if the Society had never pene the matter in hand, private enter- prise would ha lic meetings called, and plans matured, with the view of forwarding to the xhi- ve been stinulated—pub- bition some of the products of, the se, peakiilend industry ef this little Island, once desionated the garden of North Ameriéa. But the delay hes left the i ee ‘ id . ‘ ri nublic ne time for action. and they must submit to be cheated out of th: Ww rae oj viet tt yorlie sea +) ey tread 1@ i a eye 1h} «@° 3 of the Coninittee. reoufation throat pacity, O1 sejfishnes You,centlemen ef the Press and of the Lewisknufe, who, ery lustily for Retr in the Government, oulil pot foreet that reform isn mea ad ee places beside » Govern attention warticalarly tothe Reyal Agr ent:and I would direct sour culineal Meciety, which is ‘so much . t 4 <* pe . ~ > endent voon public funds fort The old Seciety was truly an agricultural ne, and a@:Yused much more benefit wrh for less means; whilst this 1s. being con- 4 egted infa » ’ deseriotion,—and 1 po Hieal enwime of the worst its revenue going to ‘ NY waste asrapidly aa did the Clover Seed! . ' 7 ” . io - oe ee trom the leaky casks iinported last fall, Yours, &c«., A NA 7 VE. P.S. The insincerity of the Committee’s ofter expressed desire to advance the agricultural interests of the Colony, is strikingly exemplified by their ero mar: tiutity in the matter of their public adver- tising, Your paper being taken where the other Journals are never seen, its readers would be ignerant regarding the proceedings of the Society, were if no for your gratuitous publications; ana , a there are many, | have no doubt, who . * have been deterred from suose riding to the Society hy the conduct of the Co ne | mirtee im this particnlar. Until the Depot of the Society s} iat] cease to bea political shop, and the rendezvous of Compact men, | neither you nor the public can expect iastice or fair play from it. Cavendish, December 32, 1850. Alfred Tennyson has,been ap- . ied , “pe f ointed poet laureate by the Queen o! 9 : ’ Pas er PM. ett Wneland, in. place of Mr. Words‘vorth 2 a , a “ } Hece Seu. , ' ‘THis lo PRUE ar W Hen PREL<BORN MiN—HAVING TO ADVISE ‘PRE FERAL. OG OE 18 AEP OL AEP IO BGT AS POY MORE MAE A ET TOWN, JANUARY 1. 1851. » PUBLIC—MAY SPEAK FREE. : eee an Mie ameeie s Ev RIPIDES. oo wea tee te tne “Vol. 1: No. 95 wy $ @ od aAM: 13a. ry lL ERSH. Yay ednk Sua, ieee A FREK COUNTRY Tne editor of the Isliunder tells the con- stituencies who electcd Messrs. Coles, Rae and Whelan, to call upon thei to * vacate their seats forthwith,” because the Isiander presumes they are booking for offices, and that their obtaining them is all they mean by Responsible Govern- Maclean’s to falsehood precludes the necessity of ment, ae known propensity our giving him lie in aitrivuting a desire for office where he is not sure amy such desire exists, or in asserting that the obtaining of office by three indivi- duxts means Responsible Government,and nothing more. What a little, paradise this Is! i and flovrish in unassailed, Pad wouls and befor Vorgism to bloom if Meclean’s word had any weight with those or any What a model of 2 freecountry would Primee Eas be if D: other constituency ! vard island Maclean had authority to pro- scribe every member of Assembly who dared to exvress an opiaion in opposition to bim or to his employers, and teli the constituency of each that they shouldeal upon him to resign his seat! Jt requis no extraordinary stretch of imagination issuing his ukase in ®*This Island 45 . } exceedingly well governed so long as the to picture Duncan the following style: present incumbents of oflice are retained, ake, for example, the Treasurer, C ie lector of Excise, and Queen’s Printer, Mir. Liensley, thaugh long denounced 13 a money jobber by my friend Mr. Paliner, and ridsenled co the Compact as “a . ranger,” has established a claim upoa 4 oar atiachment by bie support of our Go- vernment in the Council: Mr. Coles aspire s to his pla ce—iet Mir. Coles be dismismissed from bis seat in the Assem- bly. Myr. Stewarthas beenour ‘obdedicnt snd buishle servant upen ail eccasions—- las voted and canvassed fur us at elections: ve are bound to protect him in bis office : Mr. Rae asoires to his place 5 let Mr. Rae ismissed froin the Assembly, Mr. . } $1 cote ee t oon a a aszard—tae Midstrious wl, hI razard ve. ¢ rt ti how much do we owe thee for suppers tnd for wine! for punegyrics on our cen- énete and defamation of our adversaries | thou arta pearl of great price, and must be contimned, in office as long as thou hivest: te t \ VV he lan. Who dure S to sigh fis ‘thy brond raargins and big type,’ be dis- from his seat in the Assembly !” missed This would be a free country, indeed, } Duncan Maclean and the Fannly Cora- pact were suffered to have thelr own way in every thing. The old fashtoned mode of conducting an election would have to be completely set aside. No constitnen- to exercise their own Sit ot ey should presume the choice of a represent - wv ‘ndoment in <2 © y ° . * 11 tive. Mr. Macilean’s opinion shoud eter and qu alificn i ' al - . tu ohh + “an ~ byes . wide ae as 0 VAhY CuasPr er ey ATAU ATE ofevery candidate,—and if any one pre- tor election with the least independence of spirit, or the slightest sented himself disposition to oppose hy speech or vote wishes of the men in power, he should be “ forthwith” thrown aside! Since Dunean has taken up the trade the interests and of constitution-tinkering, he bas favoured us with sundry long lectures on the iim- propriety of giving governmen offices to members of the Legislature, alleging that those who take such offices must become tools of the Governor, who is, according to him, a tee! to the Colonial Minister. From this allegation we must infer that every Government officer now in the Colony is a tool and nota faithful servant of the people—an inference not very complimentary tothe gentlemen who pay Dunean Maclean for. editing the isiander. {¢-is excessively droil to find Mfactean advocating such a doctrine, and at the sions of a party who wheedled io get Mr same. time supperting the preten- Palmer made Solicitor Geaeral whilat he hel a seat inthe Llonse, and who, only a few mouths ago, schemed, but schomed in vain, to put Mr. ‘Thoraton—another ruember of the Assembly —inio the office of Treasurer. in fact, every or sought for, pen atone time or another the veriest With very few exceptions, individual who has neld office in this Island -has tuo! end svcophant to the Governor, or his immediate advisers, it was possible to find. So inherently rotten is the sya- tem which has beep tolerated, that the highest qualification for office consisted in heing servile and parasitica! to the Compact, who had the ear of the Gever- nor, and who were in their turn, servile and parasitical to the Governor. And this is the precious system Maciean inbowrs to perpetuate. THE LEGISLATURE. Ry a proclomation, in. yesterday's Gazelle the Legislature of thia Island is nvain prorogued until Tuesday the 28th January. When that time arrives we uppose it willbe prorogued for two or three months longer, so that the endl day 's may be put off The Le- sislatures ofall the other Provinees have for the present offieia til the farthest possible time, several weeks since been suinmoned to meet for the dispatch of business; and in New Brenswick the leading journals have most indignantly reprobated the conduct of the Government, whieh, like awaits iis extinction at the for Celaying eur own, innds of the Lervislarmre— till the Gth Feb. the meeting of Parlia- ment. ere we have two years legisias uve business to transact, which will eqire a longer sitting than on’ apy former oceasion, and yet there is no call f the House, and the Lord knows whea ‘here will be, To say there ore no ta strnetions from the Colonial Minister, oa iop atiseue with the Assembly? he mies S 7" Sel coma oe ae I OR NEE I eae a