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     — eS a , nd adds it to District No.| LATE EUROPEAN NEWS 
     
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     it; ond I deplored the opposition that was and glorious example will be imitated at some | might give the tenants unreasonable expectations, | up in a kind of a way; but if the public knew as Sew) noe oe ane from having | 11.——'The House spent some time in Committee 
     
    
   
   
    
     fareed by those who call themselves the Libe- 
     
     Fai party, and I believe that opposition tended 
     
     — to produce the opinion whieh has 
     
    

    
     en given by His Grace the Dake of New- 
     
    
   
   
    
     castic Had both partics acce pred, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     unanimously asked for the confirmation of the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Award, I beliewe the result would have been 
     
     different; but designing politicians, for selfish 
     
     Purposes, incited the people against the 
     
     Award, before they had properly considered 
     
     its merits. I believe many of the people now 
     
     regret having done so. 
     
     passed here tocontirm the Award ; of theirsue- 
     
     wees | Was not very sanguine, but lL gave them 
     
     my support, beeause | thought nothing better 
     
     was likely to be obtained for the Tenantry. 
     
     Tuough 1 hoped that the Bill to confirm the 
     
     Award would receive the approbation of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bills were afterwards | 
     
    
   
   
    
     far distant day by the young couple in whose 
     
    

    
     nuptials the nation, in its eatin ty, hus taken 
     
     | 80 deep and profound an iaterest. 
     
     | 7. 
     
     Paricrs IN Ricumonp.—On the 28th ult. gold 
     
     sald in Rielunond at 4 premium, and the Eneuirer 
     
     } States this is a lower rate than had theretofore 
     
     }beea prevalent. Apples were &30 to S60 per 
     
     ij barrel; bacon $150 to $175; white beans sit 
     
     jte $12 per bushel; coffee $4 54 per pound 
     
     sugar $l 25 per pound ; molasse’, Slo Sv per gal 
     
     lon; salt 40 cents per pound; whisky S25 to S30 
     
     and apple barndy S24 per gr jjon. The Enquire ‘ 
     
     } satya that the scarcity of any of the above neces- 
     
     jsaries is caused by wae of transportation over 
     
     ithe railroads, and by the wnwillingness of pro- 
     
     } ducers te bring ther produce into the market, in 
     
    
   
   
    
     } tear that it would pe impressed by the government 
     
     bat its own pric’ ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sovereign, yet | was not surprised when it; Se Seuth, iv. the iuterior as well as the coast 
     
     did not, for i knew the opposition with whieh | HoWns, shew that séarcity is the real cause of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Proprictors and the Colonial Minister 
     
     were backed up against the Award. But 
     
    

    
     bh. it has not been sanctioned yet, it 
     
     sta there a record of the deliberate deci- 
     
     sion 6f three able and talented men, and we 
     
     have only the opinion of Lis Grace the Duke 
     
     of Newoastle that it is not good and valid ir, 
     
     law. He has not submitted it to the Luy 
     
     Officers of the Crown, and therefore we ean 
     
     only take it as his solitary opinion. \ regret 
     
     the expression of bis honor from th first dis- 
     
     trict of King’s Gounty, who has alwavs 
     
     avowed himseif a Libera!, that be agreed with 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Duke that the Avard was unjust towards | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the proprietors. le is the first iriend of the 
     
     tenantry [ ever heard make that declaration. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ’ xtraor’ narily high rates.— Boston Journal. 
     
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     rg of Tf. RoE. the Prinee of Wales, is about 
     
     to b 
     
     i. 
     
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     ; A com iete history of the events attending the 
     
    
   
   
    
     * published in England, the author being W. 
     
     Russel, L. LD. Itis intended in the illustra- 
     
     fons te represent every incident of importance or 
     
     interest from the departure from Denmark to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     magnificent preparations for the weleome and re- 
     
     ception of Her Royal Highness the Princess Alex- 
     
     andra throughout the route, and the arrangements 
     
     tor the Wedding as well as the ceretwonials at 
     
     windsor. Inadditionit is proposed to illustrate the 
     
    
   
   
    
     nifieent bridal presents. 
     
     >t. oe - 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Sut reports trom all parts of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Marriage ceremony at Windsor, to depict the! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now this secreey to keep the tenants in ignorance 
     
     of their position, and the interference with arbi- 
     
     trators te defeat the ends of justice, is unconsti- 
     
     | tutional, and therefore the despatch must have 
     
     | been petitioned for, over and over again, to give 
     
     the proprietary authorities the power they had 
     
     already exercised in dictating to the Commis- 
     
     sieners What they must not do or say; and con- 
     
     sequently, to dictate what they desired them to 
     
     do and say. Therefore, there is good reason to 
     
     believe that both the Award and the Loan were 
     
     dietated to for both 
     
     opposed to the Commissioners’ recommendation 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Commissioners, are 
     
     to the British Government. 
     
    

    
     The Commissioners represented the Island as 
     
     enfolded jn the poisoned garments of slavery, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     through errors of past policy, aud that to atone 
     
     for such errors, the tenants should be released 
     
     But 
     
    
   
   
    
     Award could be no atonement. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     from slavery, and restored to their rights. 
     
    
   
   
    
     }the Loan or 
     
     | Hither of them required the tenants to pay a high 
     
     | ransom for their freedom and property. 
     
    

    
     Again, when the Duke of Neweastle sent a 
     
     | copy of the Commissioners’ report to the Island, 
     
     }it was accompanied with his insurpera! de eb- 
     
     jections to the Award, and he could not promise 
     
    
   
   
    
     aloan. But there was no objection to enfran- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | costumes of the leading persons at the wedding, | chise and disenthrall the tenants from the poisoned | place of £3, read £6 per annum ; and for Couneil 
     
     and to represent in their true characters the mag- garment that enfolds them. Therefore there is | pews, read Couneil pew. 
     
    
   
   
    
     | good reason to believe that the British Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     inuch about it as T do, precious few would cross 
     
     in it, even if the river was as calm as a mill pond, 
     
     which it very seldom is. Why, the weight ofa 
     
     puncheon of molasses would start the bottom com- 
     
     pletely out of it. Even as it is, if it is allowed to 
     
     remain aloat for a night, it is full of water in the 
     
     morning.” ‘Does Mr. —— cross in it?” I asked. 
     
     ‘Yes, when the weather is fine,’ was the reply; 
     
     ‘but af the day is at all rough, even he goes round 
     
     by the bridge.’ TI have found sinee that what J 
     
     heard was no more than the truth. This state of 
     
     things reflects no credit on the Government of the 
     
     Colony. In other places the safety, and even the 
     
     comfort and convenience of the public are not 
     
     considered beneath the notice of the Legislature; 
     
     but here, under the very eyes of a member of the 
     
     Government, the travelling publie are daily in im- 
     
     | minent danger of Joss both to life and limb, and 
     
     no steps are taken to lessen it. ‘This is too bad. 
     
     Yours, &e. 
     
     TRAVELLER. 
     
     Prince County, A pril Sth, 1863, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     CHuARLorreTrown, 13th April, 1863. 
     
     Sir—With reference to my letter of the 9th 
     
     linstant, I find that through inadvertence I neg- 
     
     ‘lected to affix my signature to the same. In 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     by kindly noticing the 
     
    
   
   
    
     foregoing in your next issue, you w ill wblige 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     pledged themselves at the formation of the present 
     
     Government to the very measure against which 
     
     they have now spoken and voted ; and—if possible 
     
     —to make their antagonism all the more promi- 
     
     nent, on a measure in which the chief men in the 
     
     Opposition voted with the Government. We 
     
     reter in particular to the Initiation of money votes. 
     
     On the particulars of this measure we cannot now 
     
     evter. It simply meave, that the Goverment 
     
     should hold the purse strings in reality and not in 
     
     name, and be responsible to the country for the 
     
     expenditure. Never can the financial affairs of 
     
     the Colony be regulated properly, without such a 
     
     system; and yet these sage legislators opposed 
     
     the measuae as a restriction on the liberties of the 
     
     people! It is surely better that a steward, deemed 
     
     faithful and appointed to superintend an estate, 
     
     should have exclusive control of the expenditure, 
     
     rather than allow every servant about the estab- 
     
     lishment to put his hand in the purse for what he 
     
     may consider needful. 
     
    

    
     “The constituents of these gentlemen, can no 
     
     longer overlook their conduct. In honor, only 
     
     one of two courses is open,—having ceased to 
     
     have centidence in the wisdom and fideiity of the 
     
     Government, they ought to go over at once co the 
     
     Opposition, and no longer annoy and distract the 
     
     Govermnent by their misnamed independence. 
     
     In this case, as honorable men they ought to report 
     
     their conduct to their constituents, and resign their 
     
     seats if any dissatisfaction was manifested, and 
     
     then run their elections in favor of the Opposition. 
     
     If they do not go over to the Opposition, they 
     
     ought immediately to retrace their steps, and give 
     
     a hearty support to every really Government 
     
     measure. Failing to do either, their course is 
     
     anything but satisfactory or honorable; and thei 
     
     constituents would be justified in asking them to 
     
     resign as no longer representing their opinions or 
     
    
   
   
    
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     of the whole on the report of the special Com- 
     
     mittee on the Worrell Estate, and on other pudiic 
     
     lands. ‘The report was carried 15 to V2. Hon. 
     
     Mr. Pope introduced the Revenue Bill. The 
     
     Statute Cobet amendinest Bill was read a third 
     
     time and passed. 
     
    

    
     Fray, April 17.—Several resolutions were 
     
     reported from supply. The Revenue Bill was 
     
     read a second tite, and passed through Committee. 
     
     Hon. J. C. Pope introduced the Appropriation 
     
     Bill, and in the afternoon it was passed throug 
     
     Committee. The House was oegupied for a con- 
     
     siderable time in Committee diseussing a proposal 
     
     of the Congregation of St. Paul's Church to refund 
     
     to the Treasury the sum of £100 granted when 
     
     the church was in course of erection to secure 
     
     three pews in said church for the Government, on 
     
     condition that the Legislature give ap claim to 
     
     said pews. The offer was accepted by a vote ot 
     
     13 to 12, the latter number giving their support to 
     
     a resolution submitted by Mr. Coles to the effeet 
     
     that two of the pews be given up to the Congrega- 
     
    
   
   
    
     assessment, for the Legislature. 
     
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     If is understood that the Legislature will rise 
     
     about Wednesday or Thursday next—the business 
     
     of the lower House being nearly brought to a close. 
     
     We shall, at a convenient season, review the pro- 
     
     ceedings of the Session, when “ questions ef 
     
     privilege” cannot be resorted te, in erder to 
     
     prevent a free expression of opinion—end when 
     
     the exercise of extraordinary powers on the part 
     
     ot the House, derived from musty old precedents, 
     
     will be treated with the —~— eonsideration they 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion on condition that one be set aside free of 
     
    
   
   
    
     By the arrival of the Cunard freight steamship 
     
     Corsica, which arrived at Halifax on Saturday 
     
     week, we are in receipt of dates from Europe 
     
     \to the 28th,—one week later than the news 
     
     brought by the Canada, The papers are entirely 
     
     barren of important hews, The following para. 
     
     graphs we clip from the news summary of the 
     
     Liverpool Journal : 
     
    

    
     The discussions in Parliament. this week, re. 
     
     lated to the American war, to Poland, te the In- 
     
     come-tax, to Salmon fisheries in Treland, and to 
     
     voting the Supplies. In the Lords, on Monday, 
     
     Lord Stratheden ventilated the question of the 
     
     recognition of the Southern Confederacy; and, in 
     
     advocating the acknowledgement, went through 
     
     the arguents which, from frequent repetition, 
     
     have become patent. Earl Russell, in reply, ad- 
     
     hered firmly to the principle of neutraiity, lament. 
     
     ed the injury which the war was doing to America 
     
     and the civilized world, and contended that thew 
     
     duty under existing circumstances, is obivions, 
     
     whatever, might be our conviction as to the un- 
     
     conquerable spirit of the South, or that the 
     
     destruction of the American Union was final er 
     
     irrevocable. In conclusion, his lordship hinted 
     
     that the question of slavery stood in the way of 
     
     recognition. On Tuesday, Earl Skafisbury, man 
     
     interrogation, called attestion to the insurrection 
     
     in Poland. Earl Russell acknowledged that he 
     
     had receied information as to the arrest of 
     
     certain Poles by Prussia on their way from Paris, 
     
     and subseqnentiy a despatch from Berlin apprised 
     
     the Foreign-Office that the Polish students had 
     
     been claimed as naturalised subjects of France. 
     
    

    
     Things look bad in Poland. The Dictater, 
     
     Largiewicz, bas been defeated, and had to cross 
     
     over the Austran boundaries for safety. He showed 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     DI hink it isthe best course fy o take any . , oes us ved made | >» BEETF. ishes. ave 
     
     - on es don alae aon “4 Pi re any It may be remembered that ier Royal Highness ment would have carried out that recommenda- | 2 be ai iad J. P. BEET! Wishes . 4 i deserve. cae a sethenie skill ass genecal, but the fores - 
     
     ae T oe AWard Con-!| the Princess of Hease was recently thrown: from tion if it had been asked for. But that cannot be | To the Editor of the Examiner. THE REVENUE BIi . - posed te nim being overwhelining, resistance be- 
     
     ‘Gin Mr. DINGWELI I thisk wi I aes hehe spe wey Moh ee when the people choose proprietors to —— cn oer LL. Tue following paragraph appeared ee came gg nape. , document has 
     
     ' .< NGWELL.— : ed, and that ® young medical | ont assisted |” . : ; : ° ‘ : ‘eek : ay las / ‘ . is dev iewic 
     
     ! said was, that it would not be Saar ie | her into a neighbouring house, It was expected | dictate an Award to confirm the grants, and. then ehe (i ane 4vius measure was hurried through the House Weekly = Thursday last. We oa = _ ne na en ~ wioaiah i Ditan a hglewlez oo 
     
     : the Duke to pass the BD to confirm the | @*t the Iueky young Esculapius was on the high | re-elected them to press their claims upon the «@ ‘ , of Assembly during the latter part of last week, friend Ress is too much disposed to quiz the encourage the belief that the meur n Capi 
     
     exe ciee “hon. member for Tryon;” and as too much 
     
    
   
   
    
     Award. ( Toe, be continued.) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Gleanings froin late Papers.| 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     THE MORAL OF THE R 
     
     ENGLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mech a% many of 
     
     serbed in political discussions, 
     
     they will be willing to reflect for « moment 
     
     on the reasous which have called forth a na- 
     
     tional jubilee in connexion with the marriage | 
     
     of the Prince of Wales. They are eminently | 
     
     <reditable to the Queen and the nation, and | 
     
    
   
   
    
     English paper of latest date. A new view| 
     
     of the Royal marriage is presented ;—- 
     
    
   
   
    
     If there were no discrimination in popular He had the hide and shoes for the foundation of | by their Acts, and the tenants had 
     
     But while the proprietors | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ot 
     
     petitioned the Home Government to respect their | 
     
    
   
   
    
     enthusiasm, the late ovation to the Prince 
     
     and Princess of Wales would be comparative- 
     
     ly meaningless and valucless—a passing 
     
    
   
   
    
     | road to fortune, but it turns out that he was only 
     
     fou the high read to a pair of shirt studs. The 
     
     | Prineess has expressed her gratitude by sending 
     
     her preserver those trinkets, and he reverts 
     
     gloowily te rhubarb as a means of livelihood. 
     
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     Finding that the use of tobacco injured his 
     
    
   
   
    
     EJOLCINGS IN| health, a citizen of Rochester gave up its use | 
     
     {about twenty years ago. 
     
    
   
   
    
     He, however, continued 
     
    
   
   
    
     te over three thousand dollars, with which he has 
     
     recently erected a fine house, He has had better 
     
     luck in the investment than a Maine farmer had 
     
    
   
   
    
     jnot long ago. There were two brothers on the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     samme farm, one of whom used tobaeco. For 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ every plug of the weed the one brother bought, | 
     
     weil put in the following remarks from an| the other laid by a sum equal to the value there- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     of. 
     
     which died before it was a week in his possession. 
     
    
   
   
    
     a vew investment, which may turn out more for- 
     
     tunate for him. 
     
    
   
   
    
     >. 
     
     In the Canadian Parliament, Mr. J. A. Me- 
     
    
   
   
    
     With these savings he bought himself a horse, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | British Government, and oppese any measure for | —— 
     
    
   
   
    
     the emancipation of the tenants. 
     
    

    
     And again, in reference to Col. Gray's resolu- 
     
     | tions, it will be found that they are the reot of 
     
     ithe Award. The Commissioners, to have been 
     
     | appoipted under those resolutions, were to nego- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ciate aud treat with the proprietors, and learn 
     
    
   
   
    
     lee r . ween — af 2 | ‘ 
     
     our readers are now ab-/' ‘ay past the sums he was previously in the | ¢.4m them on what terms the ‘tenants might pur- 
     
     we believe | abit of spending in cigars, until they amounted 
     
    
   
   
    
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     lehase the freehold; and, as any new piece 
     
    
   
   
    
     of 
     
    

    
     proprietary machinery is jntended to work, with 
     
    

    
     ithe rest, any memorial for a tribunal, to try the 
     
     | Award, must mean a tribunal of proprietors. 
     
    

    
     When the Legislature agreed to submit the 
     
    

    
     Land Question to three arbitrators, the most of 
     
    

    
     the proprietors in the Island refused to be bound 
     
    
   
   
    
     an equal right 
     
     ito make objections. 
     
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     ‘claims, the tenants allowed their rights to go by | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | Charlottetown, April 20th, 1863. 
     
     indo aia 
     
    

    
     A FEW years ago, when a slight difference 
     
     ‘tink in the House of Assembly between Mr. 
     
     | Coles, then Leader of the Government, and Mr. 
     
     W. E. Clarke, Colleetor of Customs under that 
     
     | Government, respecting an important public ques- 
     
     | tion, on W hich the Opposition were striving to 
     
     ‘embarrass the Administration —a very furious 
     
     outery was raiséd by the Tory party on the false 
     
     /ground that Mr. Coles attempted to lessen Mr. 
     
     'Clarke’s freedom of action in the House, The 
     
    
   
   
    
     | ‘Tory press teemed with hypocritical expressions 
     
     | of sympathy for ‘ poor Clarke,” and denunciations 
     
     of Mr. Coles, because he would not quietly allow 
     
     an office-holder to give aid and comfort to the 
     
    
   
   
    
     enemies of the Government. Mr. Coles was ac- 
     
    
   
   
    
     and hastily disposed ef in the Council on Satur- 
     
     That night, at 9 o’clock, His Ex- 
     
     celleney the Lieut. Governor came to the Council 
     
    
   
   
    
     day evening. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The reasou 
     
     for this extreme haste is —that as the new Bill 
     
     imposes a higher rate of duties than the old 
     
     one it was considered advisable to put it in oper- 
     
     ation before any of the Spring vessels should 
     
    
   
   
    
     Chamber, and gave his assent to it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     arrive. There is an increase of 25 per cent. or 
     
     the ad valorem duties ; an addition of 4d. pergallon 
     
     on molasses; 1s. per ewt. on Sugar; and 14. per 
     
     lb. on Tea. This is a very sweeping increase — 
     
     greater, we believe, than obtains in the neigh- 
     
     houring Provinces, and will affect the poorer 
     
     classes in the community very seriously. The 
     
     rich, and all who ean indulge in luxuries, have 
     
     come in fora very favourable consideration at the 
     
     hands of the Legislature: as, for instance, in the 
     
     reduction of 3s. per gallon on French wines, which 
     
    
   
   
    
     quizzing, in the newspapers, is likely to bring 4 
     
     member iato contempt, we think the editor of the 
     
     Weekly should be brought to the Bar of the House 
     
     on a question of privileges. We have had no 
     
     amusement of this kind for some days past; and, 
     
     altogether, the “questions of privilege” tried dur- 
     
     ing the Session do not, perhaps, exceed a dozen. 
     
     As to the threatened duel, the “hon. member for 
     
     Tryon” is one who firmly believes that the “age 
     
     of chivalry is past;” and his anxious friends may 
     
     be assured that he will never expose himself to 
     
     an encounter with cold iron, should any fool 
     
     dream of provoking him to one. 
     
    

    
     “ We have heard it stated that the Member of 
     
     our House of Assembly, who figures in the Lendon 
     
     Tines of the 16th March Jast as the “ Hon. Mr. 
     
     Howitt of the P. E. Island Legislature,” and who 
     
     has become somewhat notorious for his enlightened 
     
    
   
   
    
     and statesmanlike views concerning the war in 
     
     the United States, has received a challenge from 
     
    
   
   
    
     tinues. If it goes-on, there is still a 
     
     European action m favour of the 
     
     Ear] Rassell hae been laudably engaged in obta 
     
     ing the cooperation of other States in a reman- 
     
     strance to the Czar; and although Russia, may 
     
     refuse to listen while in a condition to ento: 
     
    

    
     obedience, her saceess may be fotlewed by 
     
     concessions, amounting te the recogn 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     dence. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing. Discontent has nianifested itself t 
     
     unemployed operatives at Stalybridge, Asbton- 
     
     under-Lyne, and a few ether places. There was 
     
     rioting, plundering, and a large destruction of 
     
     property. ‘The military had te be called out. - 
     
     through their operation order has been restored. 
     
     The riot was caused by the proceedmgs of the 
     
     relief committee. It appears for some time 
     
     money was give to the appheasts, but as rt was 
     
     thought a portion of the mouey was speni in drink 
     
     instead of being used for the benefit of the oie 
     
     and children, the committee decided oa giving 
     
     tickets for food and not money to bay &. The 
     
     Lord Mayor's committee in London seem ap- 
     
    
   
   
    
     a oC. mn 
     
     rights only less valuable than uational inéepen- — 
     
    
   
   
    
     The home newsthis week is not entirely grail eo 
     
    
   
   
    
              
     
    
   
   
    
     compliment to a young and handsome couple Don ee ; " : ; ie (i atl | cused of most intolerable tyr the occas 
     
    

    
     : . ald has given notice that he will move the! default, and they were lost then only for the Duke e tyranny on the occasion 3 : : : 
     
    

    
     of high birth, whose character the nation} gy ing pe . ng ch gl ae ’ ; i a SES nee : Re | cost less than £20 sterling per pipe; 6d. per gal-| an American gentieman residing amongst us, who} posed to this practice, and they have recommended ate 
     
     | following resolution to place a grant of land at} o¢ xeweastle, who refused to confirm the Award; | ferred to, when, in point of fact, he did nothing feels that the reported’ proceedings of the Hoa (7) | & return to the plag of giving money, The local 9 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘was content to take on trust. Sat it was) 
     
     more than this—-the uprising of thirty mil-| 
     
     lions of free people to celebrate a union! 
     
     which gives delight to one who combines all | 
     
     the good qualities of an excellent Sovereign 
     
     with those of an amiable and affectionate | 
     
     mother, and in whose domestic happiness 
     
     the nation new takes the same warm interest 
     
     whieh, by its profound sorrow more than a| 
     
    

    
     ear back, it evineed on the occasion of her | 
     
     Piajenty's sudden and terrible bereavement. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the disposal of the Imperial Government for the 
     
    
   
   
    
     relief of distressed operatives :—“, That an humble | 
     
    
   
   
    
     address be presented to His Excellency the Go- 
     
     vernor General, praying that he may be graciously 
     
    
   
   
    
     pleased to cause to be set apart not less than 
     
    
   
   
    
     000,000 acres of the public lands of this Province 
     
    
   
   
    
     | fit for settlement, and placed at the disposal of | the plot to dictate an Award, and make the peo- 
     
     j the Imperial Goverument, for the free settlement plo believe that it was the unbiassed Award of | 
     
     | thereon of the distressed operatives of the mother | 
     
    
   
   
    
     country, and that this Heuse pledge itself to give 
     
     effect to any legislation that may be required for 
     
    
   
   
    
     | | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | power the proprietors have acquired over them 
     
     | has been by plots to enslave them and petitions to | 
     
     Ministers to have that slavery confirmed. But} 
     
    
   
   
    
     | stir up religious strife, and set men against men, 
     
    
   
   
    
     /aml the people should bear in mind that all the) 
     
    
   
   
    
     | lie officer, and that if he opposed the Government 
     
    
   
   
    
     arb trators, is the master plot. But the plot to | towards two members of the House of Assembly, 
     
    
   
   
    
     more than remind Mr. Clarke that he was a pub- 
     
    
   
   
    
     he skiould be prepared for the consequences. 
     
    

    
     But now we have an instance of coercion, and 
     
     the exercise of dictatorial power, of a very offen- 
     
     sive description, in the conduct of certain parties 
     
    
   
   
    
     which exceeds anything of the kind we have ever 
     
    
   
   
    
     lon has been taken off Gin, Rum, Whiskey and 
     
     Cordials, imported. Should the importation of 
     
     these articles rise to about the same figure as that 
     
     of last year, there will be a deerease in the re- 
     
     venue to the extent of at least £1000, without 
     
     the slightest benefit being conferred on the com- 
     
     munity generally. 
     
    

    
     Thus lave the party in power faithfully kept 
     
     the promise made to the country four years ago. 
     
    
   
   
    
     gentleman is an insult to his flag and to bis 
     
     country. We have not heard up to the time of 
     
     going to press, that the Hon. gentleman has ac- 
     
     cepted the challenge. We hope that the proper 
     
     authorities will interfere and see that this matter 
     
     shal not go any further. 
     
    

    
     It is to be teared that, from the fact of the 
     
     challenger having the reputation of being a first- 
     
     rate shot, we might lose the Hen. gentleman, 
     
     which, would be a serions loss to his country—he 
     
     being held in great esteem as the Joseph Hume of 
     
    
   
   
    
     committee, ef course, has had its pride hart & 
     
     this, and is obstinate, but as the Lord Mayor olde 
     
     the purse-strings he is pretty certain to succeed. 
     
     To the delight of the country the Queen has agajn 
     
     undertaken her public duties. On Thursday she 
     
     received addresses from the Corporations of 
     
     London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and frem the univer- 
     
     sities, and made sutiable replies. The Prince aud 
     
     Princess of Wales were preseut, and their sojourn 
     
     at Windsor must have the most cheering effi 
     
    

    
     upon Her Majesty. Lord Palmerston is on his 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the purpose of carrying oyt this resolution. the better to keep them in slavery, exceeds it in | heard of. Messrs. Laird and Howat, have, dur- ; . 
     
     he causes that have contribut Ma- : 7? Ps : ; : Then their cry was—“ Reduce the ~ — the vis ” way to Glasgow, and willspend four or five daps 
     
     ‘The ennese that have ated to her Ma- ae | wickedness ; and while the proprietors, by such ing the present Session, given proofs, more than re ae ay “ee Reduce the taxes — the| cor Island Legistature in Scotlaail He is of one much desired int 
     
    
   
   
    
     jesty's extraordinary popularity may be thus! 
     
     summed up :— 
     
    

    
     1. She ascended the Throne in the first | 
     
     bloom of youth and beauty, at a time when | 
     
     the political insticutions ot England had been 
     
     pisced more in harmony with equity and jus- 
     
     tice. The Reform Bill, which swept away | 
     
     the eld boroughmongering system, gave a| 
     
     large share of power to the people, and} 
     
     greatly satisfied them. The Municipal Act, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     An old maid in Cologne wag recently buried, | 
     
     jand her funeral was attended by an immense 
     
    
   
   
    
     number of people. On inquiry as to the cause of 
     
    
   
   
    
     one had ever heard before, it was found that she 
     
     had in her will directed that ten silver groschen | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | should be given to every one whe followed her to} 
     
    
   
   
    
     wind among the poer portion of the population. 
     
    
   
   
    
     i . . . | j i 
     
     the grave. Such a fact was not long in getting proprietors to govern them are aware of it or| e085 W ho have watched the eonduct of Messrs. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     |nut, they have empowered the proprietors to | Laird and Howat certainly put this construction | 
     
    
   
   
    
     -——-_- 
     
    
   
   
    
     An eccentric old man, well known by omnibus | oppose the best intentions of the British Govern-| Upon it; while others believe that discontent at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     claims, the tenantry are allowing themselves to be 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘this honer being shown to a person of whom 0! phoucht and sold like a flock of sheep, without | has arisen from a desire to be thought indepen- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     petition or opposition. 
     
     Whether the constituencies who returned the 
     
    
   
   
    
     too, opened honours to the Dissenters and | conductors, has just died suddenly in an eating- | went for the emancipation of the tenantry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     others—which honours had been closed to 
     
    
   
   
    
     house at Paris. This man, who was a native of| 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lyons, had his brain turned by receiving an un-! 
     
    
   
   
    
     WM. COOPER. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     plots and petitions, are trying to make good their }once, of determined sulkiness towards the Go- 
     
    
   
   
    
     | dent, and put forth merely as a feeler for popu-| 
     
     ' larity, we are not prepared to say. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     vernment. Whether this feeling on their part | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Some per- 
     
    
   
   
    
     distribution of Governmental honours is the cause. | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Phe latter hypothesis is certaisly entitled to some | 
     
    
   
   
    
     people’s burthens are too heavy — use more eco- 
     
    
   
   
    
     |nomy in the publie expenditure, and pay off the 
     
     public debt.” Now, with a large majority in beth | 
     
    
   
   
    
     branches of the Legislature, and a religious fever 
     
    
   
   
    
     | raging in the land, by means of which the Govern- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ment bave strengthened themselves in power, 
     
     they feel they can safely tighten the screws upon 
     
     the people, and send their promises to the winds. 
     
     They have more than doubled the debt, raising it 
     
     from £59,000 to £82,000, and have more than 
     
    
   
   
    
     } and February, indeed, there were some mild days, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ED 
     
    

    
     Tue Season.—The harbour of Charlottetown 
     
     is again happily clear of ice, and there aye some 
     
     indications of the return of Spring, although Win- 
     
     ter’s “ruffian blasts” ave evidently not disposed 
     
     to take a hasty leave of us. A more severe and 
     
     wearisome winter has never, we think, been ex- 
     
     perienced by the “oldest inhabitant” than the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ene we have just passed through. In Janaary 
     
    
   
   
    
     Land of Gakes. Several meetings have been 
     
    

    
     in favourof Poland, and in all probability one will 
     
     be held before Jong in Liverpool. Mr. Bright én 
     
     Thursday night, ma-e 2 speech against slavery jn 
     
     St. James’s Hall, London, and be was, as usual, 
     
     emphatie and forcible. 7 
     
    
   
   
    
     EE ——— 
     
    
   
   
    
     LATER FROM EUROPE. 
     
     Sr. Joun, April 11. 
     
     Africa arrived. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rumors prevail in London that the United 
     
     States Government contemplates enmbarge on 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     | ' i “ a. . . | o . ° ms 
     
     re _ paneer ne ae oe oi expected legacy. His folly consisted in a passion | Sailor’s Hope, 14th April, 1863. weight. It is quite clear that Mr. Laird—though doubled the taxce; and they have given a Gnish-| but Feny. Wenn SHOENy oh NOE we sontarinty o— ee aca — pene reg ym Sr 
     
     @ Queen as this early period of her career | ©’ ; * . 7 — Ld, same | , ee 7 a ia : ; . |ing . ‘ir finaneial ; veneri icy by! ralth - ee — mihi , of war, in retaliation tor piracies of the Alabama. 
     
     2 yt | for riding about, which the low price of omnibus | i ah Soe | he appeared to have resigned yoluntarily with his |!" touch to their finaneial and general policy by | to health; and what made the seasea particularly The Oxford Chak erin vas lal in ‘the bees 
     
    
   
   
    
     were not in favour with tie lory aristocracy, | locomotion enabled him te indulge in at a smal] erippling the free school system. The man of oppressive was, that no comfortable travelling itis againet he Cainbradge Club, by tag 
     
     “ : ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     To Tuc EpDIToR oF THE EXAMINER. | colleagues, previous to the reeonstruction of the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ene was Joved by the people, and supported; Ce kk a oe Ce ae oe : 5 : : 
     
     by the whole of the old Whig party, ae the oh ee ho fea —! Sir: Government a few weeks ago—expected to have | family who may hereafter desire to educate ed could be had for any considerable time smee the | lengths. : 
     
     ° ‘ eC ei e earuest ne whing, anc yas) se ; ’ . ° . lehildren in a district ce > san) . | at + ac < We : - » > Zz *olish i ti 
     
     ‘ he vo SF memel at ant . «ed : aT, : : . ill ia aia A tie . Exeentive: put! Children ina district school will be required to} frost set in last fall. We shall always eatertain fhe Polish insurrection has been mostly put. _ 
     
     Court of the young Sovereign—a model of alw ays at the starting-place to take his first jour-| Having oce-sion last autumn to take a journey | 2°€" Te tured to his vlace in the Executive; but | ! ; down. ; ¥ * 
     
    
   
   
    
     pay from 20s. to 40s. towards the support of s/| a decided horror at the recellection ef the Winter 
     
    
   
   
    
     purity and refinement—coutrasted favourably | ney. Except the short intervals occupied in tak-| 
     
     schoolmaster, whose salary from the Government | of 1862-3. 
     
    
   
   
    
     with some of ber Majesty's immediate prede- | ing his meals, his whole time, until the return of | : F se wall aed ettieelant a oe 
     
     cessors. the last omnibus to the yard at night, was spent | Summerside as to what read I should take in order | “° ee 6S ee ee ee ee ihas been reduced to the amount of £15; and ee 
     
     4 i in riding ¢ » alway i Man whan ; a oe “ ed her who had far less claim to it. Mr. Howat) °° ' oe = i . 
     
    

    
     ° j in riding about. He always tock the place next) to reach my place of destination, I was there nother w i oS ‘ bis ant, , ae TERARY ENTERTAINMENT, of hly 
     
     all ne ee ithe conductor, on the right-hand side, and was | das eon al | very probably feels slighted too. He has certainty | “ hen this additional burtien of 20s. or 40s. is | A Ly : z ; . = @ highly 
     
     adt jonally bright by the Queen's good for- : much annoyed if he foand it already occupied. — | : eeghn’. oe ie acialh thie sinter at tl fli ani jadded to the high tax on molasses, tea, sugar, | interesting character, was given at the Bemper- 
     
     tane in the choice of a hushand—a man of eagle a but that I had the choice of crossing the principal , 8°’¥°4 "8 party very faithinty tor several years and general merehandize, it will be seen that the| ee Hall on Friday evening last, under the 
     
     fine intellectual power, and almost physi-| The Washington correspondent of the Boston | Se ee : 
     
    
   
   
    
     . : : a —he has, fora man not remarkable f6t presos- . 2 . . 
     
     » ’ > a > ‘ ue ‘ AS, c i j al “ we = = 
     
     cally perfect, whose good taste showe itsalf | Journal says:—Gold staggers: it is now doomed cere eee ee ee i people of this unfortunate country are called upon | direction of the Ciarluttslows Debating Cieb. 
     
     . | al says :— staggers: : | 
     
     in a thousand ways, and in none more than 
     
    
   
   
    
     | sessing manners or ability, obtained his election | i ie kat “ei F Recitations 
     
     | Secretary Chase has been offered from English | on two cocasions with talorabie ate 3~ he repre |to pay a rather heavy price for the blessing of a The Ente rtainment eousisted of Reeitat ond 
     
     in bis abstinence from political intrigue. | capitalists the sum of one hundred millions at 63 | of those ae" . ee A | original addresses by members of the Club, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     General news devoid of interest. 
     
    

    
     Breadstuffs and provision market heary with 
     
     downward pners. 
     
    

    
     Seles of eotten tor the weeks, 30,000 bales—~ 
     
     closing firm, but with littl change. 
     
     Consols 924 92g. 
     
    
   
   
    
     STILL LATER PROM EUROPE 
     
     The R. M. Steamship Aredia avtived at Halifax 
     
    
   
   
    
     /he has been wedged out; and the seat he earned | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the western parts of the Island, I enquired at 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     disgraceful state of repair as to endanger the lives 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     who attempted to cross the river in it in | « God-fearing” Orange Government 
     
     , QP « > te . 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     . 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ pad.ing Heads—these causes have made the 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Queen and he walked in the light of the | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Constitation, and so admirably did he play | sale. and will regulate exchanges. Gold will be | rattled and shook so while driving over it that the |@iXed up with a good deal of self-sufficiency and | 
     
     | traveller laboured under serious apprehensions of SUT ess of temper, he possesses a very considerable | 
     
     ‘finding himself, his horse and waggon suddenly | 2™0unt of common sense; and he is disposed to act | 
     
    
   
   
    
     his part, that it was never known which of | 
     
     the great aristocratic parties in the State he | 
     
     favored. The Queen, by his advice, ac-| 
     
     cepted with pleasure whatever Prime Minis- | 
     
    
   
   
    
     ter Parlitment gave its support to, and thus 
     
    
   
   
    
     offending any—an ignoring of personal feel- | 
     
     ing in political affairs which mukes the reign 
     
    

    
     ot Victoria stand out in strong contrast to all | 
     
     uther English Sovereigns. 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. At no former period of our history | 
     
    
   
   
    
     were the laws of political economy so closely | 
     
     stud ed or go wellapplied. Iler Majesty had | 
     
    
   
   
    
     a 65 cents. This will soon be in the market for 
     
     adrug. Andthe new law of the State, introduced 
     
     by unanimous consent, forbidding loana on gold 
     
     at all, and taking away all the franchise of State | 
     
     corporati 
     
     late the law, 
     
     speculators. 
     
    
   
   
    
     has carried dismay into the ranks of | 
     
     Few persons have as yet began to} 
     
    
   
   
    
     new tax law. It will be immense. 
     
     Stewart's annual tax will be about $20,000!) And 
     
     hundreds of firms will pay from $8,000 to $10,- 
     
     000. {nd then the sums from all classes and 
     
    
   
   
    
     any but the calmest weather, or over a bridge that 
     
    
   
   
    
     two eyils choose the least, so I resolved to trust | 
     
    
   
   
    
     sents a large and influential cansti‘ueney,—and, 
     
    
   
   
    
     ons who shall directly or indireetly v10- | precipitated into the river or marsh below. Of fairly in his political dealings; but his prejudices and | for the 
     
     want of intelligence are very apt to get the better, 
     
    
   
   
    
     | 
     
    
   
   
    
     she stood well with all parties without! realise how great the revenue is to be from the| myself to the rickety bridge rather than to the | of him, and he is, consequently, not unfrequently 
     
    
   
   
    
     ~ 7; | rattletrap seow. On coming in sight of the bridge | made the laughing stock of the House. Neverthe- | the wise sayings and doings of our great states- 
     
     | of which I had been warned, I could scarcely be-| less, he no doubt thinks that be had a better claim 
     
     ‘lieve the evidence of my eyesight. I reined in my | to a seat in the Cabinet than such persons as Dr. 
     
    
   
   
    
     conditions will give the governmentall the money | horse in order te have time to convince myself _ Kaye or Mr. McLaren, who have never rendered 
     
    
   
   
    
     it will need, and these sums are #0 evenly distri- 
     
     buted that the pressure is light and does not dis- 
     
     turb any one. All seem to accept the burden | 
     
    
   
   
    
     | illusion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There, across that broad river and marsh, | 
     
    
   
   
    
     the good luck tu have Peel for her Prime) sith a cheerful spirit, and tell the government to stood a thing which it would be a libel on a useful 
     
    
   
   
    
     Minister mere than five years—too short a} 
     
     period for his uselulness and his fame, but 
     
     jong enough to test the superiority of poli- 
     
     tical philosophy to mere party ties, and 
     
     sufficient to sliow that the substitation uf the 
     
     new for the old system of trade was the best 
     
     and fairest means of increasing, at one and 
     
     the same time, the natjonal finances and the 
     
     material wealth of all classes in the kingdom. 
     
    
   
   
    
     4. The prosperity of England during the 
     
     last twenty years has no parallel in ite pre- 
     
     vious histury, nor indeed in the bistory of 
     
     mankind. When her Majesty ascended the 
     
     turune, only two or three leading towns in 
     
     the kimgdom weie connected by rail; now 
     
     we meusure that mode of travelling by 
     
     thousands and tens of thousands of miles 
     
     ‘The electric telegraph was unknown, the 
     
     penny postage system had not been intro- 
     
     daced, and many of the inventions which 
     
     have made the Queen's reign famous, were 
     
     either unheard of, or were just struggling | 
     
     inte the light of day. To everything worthy 
     
     of encouragement the Queen s Consort ex- 
     
     tended his countenance and support, so that 
     
     the progress of seience went tand-in-hand 
     
     with inereased wealth, increased content- 
     
     ment, and better laws—changes of which the 
     
     nation would have been unworthy if they 
     
     had npt been keenly appreciated. 
     
    

    
     5 The private life of the Queen and her 
     
     husband was so domestic,—so {dy embodied 
     
     what may be termed the Acarih affections,— 
     
     eo free from all taint; and the Royal child- 
     
     ren were brought up in such excellent 
     
     harmony with the free and unrestricted edu- 
     
     cational training of the children of the 
     
     nobility apd gentry, that the more moral 
     
     portion of the commanity were delighted, the 
     
     most fastidious satisfied, and even the repro- 
     
     bate section shamed into respect and decency. 
     
     Perhaps there is no feature in the Queen’s 
     
     character which has thrown over her reign a 
     
     brighter halo than this. Even the tenacity 
     
     with which she clings to her widow's robes 
     
     —showing the feelings of the wife and the 
     
     mother to be stronger than regal pride and 
     
    

    
     ition—is a trait so amiable as to produce, 
     
     if possible, increased sympathy and respect 
     
     for the sufferer. 
     
    

    
     6. The conduct of the leading Continental 
     
     Sovereigns ——e the last quarter of a cen- 
     
     tury, and the disrurptions and expulsions 
     
     that have been witnessed in the primary, and 
     
     even the secondary, as well as the sweller 
     
     European States, arising in almost every 
     
     instanve from tyranny, obstinacy, or the 
     
     pant of ordinary prudence on the part of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     4.'sh vation still more warmly attached to 
     
     ite.cery? Royal Family, and drawn still more 
     
     clomsjy the relations between the Cro-vn and 
     
     thePecm >- 
     
    

    
     ‘Finally, Continental Sovereigns too often 
     
     make the np, ’stake of ruling by fear and not 
     
     affection—>f believing themselves to be su- 
     
     perior to hum, ‘9 nature, and their subjects 
     
     fomething belov ¥ it. There are exceptions 
     
     we admit, to thie’ execrable system, but the 
     
     Aleuders have eity er Qee a ee or 
     
    

    
     - ¢, 1 Queen of Engiand, on 
     
     ee. neko with her mild and 
     
     keneficent sway, and hence the love and 
     
     Joyalty 6f her people. of which they have 
     
    

    
     ven such unmistakeahi* proofs—a lesson 
     
     which wise monarchs will follow, and foolish 
     
    
   
   
    
     fo On, 
     
     8 -— - ~oe -——-—— 
     
    
   
   
    
     Barwa Presents to THe Prince or WALEs. | 
     
     —Amongst the bridal presents may be added | 
     
     Sevres clock and branches, presented to the | 
     
     Prince of Wales by the gentlemen of bis | 
     
     household. The candelabrum and three oval | 
     
     salvers, presented by the Queen to the Prince | 
     
     of Wales, formerly belonged to the Duke and | 
     
     Duchess of Kent. 
     
     eh 908 oe 
     
    

    
     The continual reappearance of the announce- 
     
     ment, “ No cards,” appended to notices of mar- | 
     
     riages, still provokes comment in England.—| 
     
     Great curjosity is excited as to the name and rank | 
     
     of the intrepid lady who first ventured upon the | 
     
     innovation. <A horrid rumor, originating no one 
     
     knows where or how, that a buxom shop girl of 
     
     Oxford street, about to espouse a tailor of Totten- 
     
     ham Court read, was the first to administer this 
     
     publie cut direct to her friends and acquaintances, 
     
     threatens the overthrow of the most formidable 
     
     social schism of modern days, 
     
    

    
     CORRESPONDENCE, 
     
     AeAAee™ 
     
     To Tue Epiror or THE EXAMINER, 
     
    

    
     Sm— 
     
    

    
     Before the last election I had promised my 
     
     friends that 1 would offer myself as a candidate ; 
     
     but the winter roads breaking up before the no- 
     
     mination, I had to send them word that I must 
     
     decline, as the roads were unfit for me to travel. 
     
     My friends then requested me to write my opinions 
     
     of the Land Question and send it to the Examiner 
     
     for publication, and I promised to do so if 1 saw 
     
     it would be necessary. It was expected then 
     
     that we would have had a Liberal Government. 
     
     But when the proprietors have the management 
     
     of the land question, that alters the case, for they, 
     
     as a matter of course, will take care of their own 
     
     interest; and it remains with me to fulfill my 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     promise. 
     
    

    
     For the tenantry to understand their position, 
     
     they should inform themselves and keep in mind 
     
     that it was by secret plotting the proprietors | 
     
     made them tenants, and, to keep them tenants, 
     
     they secretly petitioned Colonial Ministers to be 
     
     allowed to exercise the power they had acquired. 
     
     And I intend te show that the same system of 
     
     secrecy-plots and petitions has been practised 
     
     upon the Land Commissioners, who were forced 
     
     to submit to proprietary dictation in proposin 
     
     a loan and making the Award. : 
     
    

    
     On the second day of the Commissioners’ Court, 
     
     which was the first day tor taking evidence, the 
     
     Colonial Secretary had to bring the public records, 
     
     which went to eorroborate the evidence then ad- 
     
     duced, and to expose the treachery which had 
     
     been practised to keep the tenants in bondage. 
     
     But on the third day of the court, the Commis- 
     
     sioners were far more reserved, and it appeared 
     
     the course of their proceedings had been changed, 
     
     which could be accounted for only on the suppo- 
     
     sition that they had been lectured and threatened 
     
     by the proprietary authorities. And this supposi- 
     
     tion is strengthened to a certainty by a despatch 
     
     from the Duke of Neweastle, some months after- 
     
     wards, to the Colonial Government, that they 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ones sj} to timitate. These combined 
     
     Sciarest for the popularity of Queen, 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ iewrs and we have no doubt that herygreat’ net to escheat the land, nor say anything that. 
     
     te * ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     ome 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ruin; it seemed like a gigantic trap set across the | 
     
     river by some evil-minded antediluvian. The piers 
     
    

    
     upon which the upper part of the fabric rested 
     
    

    
     were in astate that would set a nervous man crazy 
     
    

    
     to behold, whatever effect their appearance might 
     
    

    
     have had on the artist or the antiquarian. Some 
     
    

    
     leaned towards each other as if secretly plotting | 
     
     the destruction of those who trusted to them for | 
     
     support. Others again, as if offended, receded 
     
     from each other in the most unneighbourly manner. 
     
     Some evinced a very decided preference for the | 
     
     right, and others as great an inclination for the| 
     
     left. Some had great breaches in their side, and 
     
    

    
     there was not one that was perfect and stood per- 
     
    

    
     pendicularly en its base. 
     
    

    
     With hesitating step and slow I proceeded to 
     
     cross this—which, I suppose, in courtesy, I must 
     
     eall-—bridge. A closer acquaintance did not at 
     
     all increase my confidence in its capability of safely 
     
     bearing me or others across the river. The cover- 
     
     ing is of logs, roughly hewn and loosely laid down, 
     
     without fastening of any kind. These shook and 
     
     rattled in the most alarming manner under my 
     
     horse’s feet. Instead of a rail, some old rotten 
     
     logs were laid along on each side of the bridge, 
     
     pretty much as if they had drifted there during 
     
     some unusually high tide. These formed a sort 
     
     of curb. ‘The north end of the bridge is built 
     
     differently from the south. It is composed of a 
     
     sort of frame-work. When the traveller reaches 
     
     this part, the jolting, trembling motion is unplea- 
     
     santly changed for a swaying, swinging one. So 
     
     weak and insecure is this part of the bridge, that 
     
     the weight of a horse and waggon passing over 
     
     causes it to sway first to one side and then to the 
     
     other, inga manner which leads the traveller to 
     
     expeet that the next swing will land him neck deep 
     
     in the marsh below. I must say here that I do 
     
     not believe there exists in any civilized country, 
     
     out of Prince Edward Island, such a disgraceful, 
     
     neglected, dangerous public work as the long bridge 
     
     across Grand River. 
     
    

    
     On enquiring at the inn why such a trap was 
     
     allowed to stand, I was answered that the district 
     
     was represented in the Legislature by a gentleman 
     
     who bad as many lives as a cat, and as the whole 
     
     country was under his thumb, it was not worth 
     
     his while to cultivate the good-will of his coneti- 
     
     tuents by attending to their local wants, so the 
     
     public money went to more independent districts. 
     
     My informant assured me that it was positively 
     
     dangerous to take a load across that bridge. The 
     
     fact is, I wonder that any one has the temerity to 
     
     attempt it. He said that one of the traders near 
     
     there had a puncheon of molasses to draw over jt, 
     
     and that he considered there was greater risk in 
     
     getting if over that bridge than in the whoie voy- 
     
     age from Halifax. ‘Why not get it across in the 
     
     scow?’ I suggested. ‘The scow!’ echoed he, 
     
    

    
     that’s worse than the bridge adozentimes. Why, 
     
     it was all last winter lying a¢roge the bank, more 
     
     than half full of ice, till it was nearly double and 
     
     the sides parted from the bottom. ‘fhe man that 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     might instruct the Commissioners that they were 
     
    
   
   
    
     has charge of it got some inch or inch and a 
     
    
   
   
    
     that I was not labouring under some wonderful | "Y service to their party beyond their votes, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     who are new and inexperienced men. And, in- 
     
     deed, we cannot blame Mr. Howat for feeling and 
     
    
   
   
    
     | and beautiful work of art to calla bridge. With-| thinking in this way, for, on many grounds, his 
     
     & bad ‘ 
     
     (out a railing, and destitute of paint — a tottering | claims are unquestionably stronger than those 
     
    
   
   
    
     that may be preferred by the gentlemen whose 
     
     names we have mentioned. 
     
    

    
     The Government, feeling that they have a 
     
     strong majority at their back, show no disposition 
     
     to conciliate Messrs. Laird and Howat; but every 
     
     time those old stagers show the least disposition 
     
     to kick in harness, the whip is applied pretty 
     
     smartly to their backs by the person who holds 
     
     the ribbons of the state coach; and now that their 
     
     power of doing mischief is gone, they are very 
     
     often laughed at by both sides of the House, and 
     
     sometimes pitied by the Minority. 
     
    

    
     We have been led into these observations by 
     
     reading an article in the last Monitor — which 
     
     some people seem to think was inspired by a 
     
     person high in the Ministry — wherein Messrs. 
     
     Laird and Howat are held up to the execration 
     
     of the Tory party throughout the Island for pre- 
     
     suming to think and act on independent principles 
     
     in giving their votes in the House of Assembly. 
     
     We transfer this article to our columns for the 
     
     purpose of shewing that the most abject servility 
     
     is, and will be, exacted from the supporters of the 
     
     Government in the Legislature; and, also, to 
     
     shew that long political service on behalf of the 
     
     dominant party inspires no sentiment of gratitude ; 
     
     but that kicks and cuffs may be safely ad@minis- 
     
     tered to servants, without danger to the whole 
     
     establishment, whenever the poor menials happen 
     
     to lag in the performance of their drudgery. 
     
    

    
     Messrs. Laird and Howat are familar with the 
     
     Scriptural admonition—* Pat not your faith in 
     
     Princes.” We commend to them, and to all other 
     
     blind followers of a faction, this 9dvice—-Put vot 
     
     your faith too confidingly in the leaders of a party 
     
     when they get so many adherents around them as 
     
     to be able to despise and ill-treat you. 
     
    
   
   
    
     * MESSRS. LAIRD AND HOWAT. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The speeches and votes of these gentlemen 
     
     have rendered them of late a little notorious in the 
     
     House of Assembly. Returned and pledged to 
     
     support the Government, they have repeatedly 
     
     spoken and voted against theGovernment. They 
     
     have either forgotten their pledges or they are 
     
     liable to the charge of inconsistency. It is net to 
     
     be expected that on all points every member on 
     
     the side of the Government will vote the same way ; 
     
     nor, if a gentleman who happens ty be a member of 
     
     the Executive brings ina measure, that all en the 
     
     same side of the house must support him. No one 
     
     acquainted with political matters expects this. 
     
     But when the Leader of the Government, or any 
     
     member pf the Executive, brings forward a 
     
     measure, and states that “ this is a Government 
     
     measure,’ —that “ the Government have consider 
     
     ed the matter fully, and are prepared to take the 
     
     responsibility of it, and deem it to be conducive to 
     
     the good of the country,”—all the supporters of 
     
     the Government (the whole party without exception) 
     
     are morally bound to sustain it by speech and vote. 
     
     If the measure is such that the conscience of any 
     
     member on the Government side, in or out of the 
     
     Executive, rebels against it, the course is open to 
     
     him. Let him retire from that side of the House, 
     
     and join the ranks of the Opposition. No party 
     
     | Government can be carried on, on any other prin- 
     
     ciples,—and Responsible Government. is party 
     
     Government. No man can assume the resporisi- 
     
     bility of Leader of a Government, if at any moment 
     
     a number of ais supporters can turn round, without 
     
     preyious notice, and vote against 2 Geyernment 
     
     measure. Such proceedings must be scouted on 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     quarter boards and a lot of nails and patched it 
     
    
   
   
    
     al! hands, as destructive of all Government. ‘The 
     
    
   
   
    
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     EDINGS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LEGISLATIVE PROCE 
     
     We are indebied to the Protestant of Saturday | 
     
     following mezgre outline of proceedings in 
     
     the House since our last issué. If our readers | 
     
     ean derive any information from such a report of | 
     
    
   
   
    
     men, we shall be glad of it; but we must confess 
     
     ourselves unable to receive any enlightenment 
     
     from such misty revelations. However, this kind 
     
     of stuff is published, we beheve, with the eoncur- 
     
     rence of the House, and will, no doubt, be hand- 
     
     somely paid for; let us take it, then, in all humi- 
     
     lity, and thank our stars for even so small a 
     
     favour. As to what are called the extended re- 
     
     ports of speeches of “hon. members,” they are 
     
     not quite five weeks behind hand, considerably 
     
     more than half the Session; and the scanty re- 
     
     ports which have been published are really very 
     
     discreditable on account of the slovenly style in 
     
     which the speeches are very often rendered, and the 
     
     inaccuracy which characterises them. It is well 
     
     known that members talk an infinite amount of 
     
     nonsense in debate; but there is, sometimes, a 
     
     good deal of piquancy, and some flashes of wit in 
     
     the nonsense. The Reporters give us an over- 
     
     flowing measure of the latter quality without any 
     
     of the former ones. Our readerg have perceived 
     
     that we have published searcely any of the debates 
     
     of the lower House. From these remarks the 
     
     Not one of our subscribers, 
     
     we are glad to know, has complained of the 
     
     omission. 
     
    
   
   
    
     reasons are obvious. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Monpay, April 13.—The House was occupied 
     
     for a considerable time upon the Bill for the es- 
     
     tablishment of “A Farmer's Bank” at Rustico. 
     
     The Hon. J. Hensley had charge of the Bill and 
     
     successfully piloted it through. It was agreed to 
     
     with amendnients. The House then resolved itself 
     
     into Committee of Supply when the various items 
     
     wereseyerally discussed. The sum of £25 previ- 
     
     ously agreed to in aid of the steam boat Ino at 
     
     Georgetown was struck out of the estimates upon 
     
     a division of 14 to12. The consideration of the 
     
     Despatches from His Grace the Duke of New- 
     
     castle was then resumed upon the question of the 
     
     right of the Government to initiate money votes. 
     
     In the afternoon, His Excellency the Lientenant 
     
     Governor came down to the Building, and gave 
     
     his assent to the “ Marine Insurance,” and 
     
     ‘Steam Navigation” Bills. 
     
    

    
     Turspay, April 14.—House again in Commit- 
     
     tee upon the despatches from His Grace the Duke 
     
     ofNeweastle upon the subject or suggestion of the 
     
     principle of the Government initiating all money 
     
     votes. A lengthened discussion ensued, whieh 
     
     resulted in the adoption of the principle laid down 
     
     by His Grace. The House then went into Com- 
     
     mittee of Ways and Means, and the Hon. J. C. 
     
     Pupe introduced the Revenue Bill, the principal 
     
     features of which were the increase of tax upon 
     
     distillers from £5 to £25, an increase of the duty 
     
     upon Molasses from twopence to sixpence per 
     
     gallon, and upon Sugar the addition of 1s. per 
     
     ewt. This caused considerable discussion, but 
     
     was eventually agreed to. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WebDNEsDAY, April 15.—House in Committee 
     
     on Ways and Means; the question of the addition 
     
     of sixpence per ton on salt, was, after a long dis- 
     
     cussion, carried in the affirmative. The duty on 
     
     tea was advanced 4d. per lb. The duties on 
     
     Tobacco were also increased to the extent of 2d. 
     
     per lb. on manufactured, and 4d. upon unmanu- 
     
     tactured Tobacco. The amendment of the Upper 
     
     House to the Bill for the Incorporation of the 
     
     Orange Lodges, namely, striking out the suspend- 
     
     ing clause, was then considered, and rejected. A 
     
     committee was appointed to confer. 
     
    

    
     Tuurspay, April 16.—The Pauper claims were 
     
     read andagreed io. The Education Act was read 
     
     a third time, and passed upon a division of 13 to 9. 
     
     Mr. Brecken moved the second reading of an Act 
     
     to Amend the Iuéorporation Act of Charlottetown. 
     
     It was eventually decided, atter a lengthy dis- 
     
     eussion, that it get the three months hoist, twenty- 
     
     one. members voting for, the postponement, and six 
     
     against it——The Stathte Labor Act amendment 
     
     Bill was read a second time, and passed through 
     
     Committee. This Bill constitutes Lot 17 a new 
     
     road District, and also that part of Lot 65, south 
     
     of Elliot River: and separates that part of Lot 5x, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Amateur Band giving some adurirable musical | 
     
     performances at intervals. Several of the Rec# | 
     
     tations evinced a high degree of intellectual eul- 
     
     ture and taste, and called forth much applause. 
     
     We have never seen a larger audience ip the Hall 
     
     than was gathered on this occasion—the spacious 
     
     room up stairs was crowded from top te bottom 
     
     —the most perfect order was preserved; and on 
     
     leaving the room, every one seemed to be highly | 
     
     pleased with the Entertainment. William Mur- 
     
     phy, Esq., President of the Debating Club, pre- 
     
     sided on the occasion, and delivered the opening 
     
    
   
   
    
     address. 
     
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     CELEBRATION OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE 
     
     Prince or WALES. — Halifax papers received 
     
     this morning give long details of the rejoicings in 
     
     that city, on the 14th instant, in honour of the 
     
     Marriage of the Prince of Wales. The ceremo- 
     
     nies included a procession of all the Volunteer 
     
     Companies, Fire Companies, and Charitable § 
     
     cieties, — Dinner and Lunch on a large seale,— 
     
     Decorations of various kinds throwghout the city, 
     
     —Sports on the Grand Parade,—Publie dances, 
     
     —Public Dinner at the Halifax Hotel, tes, 
     
     —Firemen’s Procession, with torches, lanterns, 
     
     and decorated engines,—General Illumination at 
     
     night, —~—and a splendid Ball to finish off with. 
     
     The Haligonians have a beautiful way of blending 
     
     loyalty with amusement. Here, our leyalty eva- 
     
     porates in hypocritical speeches, and a tremen- 
     
     dous display of such religion as Orangeism incul- 
     
     cates. We have no time to think of anything 
     
     else. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     MILITARY Riot in HALirax.—A Riot between 
     
     the Military and civilians occurred in Halifax on 
     
     tl® evening of the 16th, in the course of which 
     
     sticks, stones and sling shots were freely used, 
     
     but no fire arms were in the hands of the rioters. 
     
     Considerable damage was done to property by the 
     
     breaking of windows, &c., and also much injury 
     
     done to persons in the range of the riot, before 
     
     peace could be restored. The cause of the row 
     
     was an altercation between a citizen and a soldier 
     
     in ne of the drinking houses in Barrack street. 
     
     : -+ me 
     
    

    
     NEWFOUNDLAND Sea Fisnery. — A tele- 
     
     graphic despatch in one of the Halifax papers, 
     
     dated St. John’s, N. F., April 11, states that two 
     
     Sealers had returned from ihe Seal fishery—fifty 
     
     were reported to have full fare; and the prospect 
     
     generally was good. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     REPORTED SINKING OF THE DESPERATE AT 
     
     CHARLESTON.—It was currently reported about 
     
     the city this afternoon that a despatch was re- 
     
     ceived by the Lieutenant Governor from Lord 
     
     Lyons, giving the intelligence that H. M. Desperate 
     
     was pierced by six shots from the Federal vessels 
     
     at Charleston, and sunk. We do not believe, nor 
     
     ean we youch for the truth of the story; we give 
     
     tt exactly as we heard it 
     
    

    
     -- —weeoem 
     
    
   
   
    
     By an arrival at New York from Havana we 
     
     have advices from Vera Cruz to the Ist, and 
     
     from the French army to the 19th. Nothing had 
     
     been done directly against Puebla, and the French 
     
     had given up the idea of its capitulation. 
     
    

    
     — oO 800 
     
    

    
     The Times Paris correspondent writes that the 
     
     news from Cochin Chiya is by no means satis- 
     
     factory, and reinforcements have been recently 
     
     asked for by the commander of the French free. 
     
     Gen. Forey is making the same demand from 
     
     Mexico, where it is said ten thousand men are re- 
     
     quired in addition to the present large force in 
     
    
   
   
    
     the country. 
     
     OOO Gin ge 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Engli pers state that the royal plate 
     
    

    
     on the Prince of ales’ marriage sesehdiahtehie 
     
    

    
     was of the value of ten millions of dollars, 
     
     —_——2 100 
     
    

    
     A Valparaise letter of the 18th of February 
     
    

    
     states that the American commerce there is fast 
     
    

    
     dwindling away, being diverted to English bottoms. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The cost of the Prince of Wales marriage 
     
    
   
   
    
     on Tharsday, 16th instant, with Liverpool dates 
     
     to the 4th. The Mail for this Island crossed the 
     
     Strait en Seturday evening, and reached Town 
     
     yesterday about I o'clock. The fottowmg items 
     
     comprise nearly alt the British and Foreign news 
     
     of any importance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The news from Poland which has come to band 
     
     since the arrest of Langiewicz seems to show that 
     
     the courage of the people kes net beew at all les- 
     
     sened by bis capture. ‘Phey fight as brasely, andi 
     
     the insurrection spreads as rapidly, as: before that 
     
     event. There are at the yresent moment, it is said, 
     
     15,000 insurgents on the very seeneot Langiewicz's 
     
     recent operations, and these men have held mow 
     
     than their own with the BRussians—they have de- 
     
     teated them in several encounters. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Corporetion of Leadon bas voted 250 
     
     guineas for the gold casket in which the freedom 
     
     of the city is seen to be presented te the Prince 
     
     of Wales. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The present from the ladies of Wales to thei 
     
     Princess is likely to take the form of a brooch of 
     
     diamonds and emeralds in the shape of a leek, the 
     
     national emblem of the country. 
     
    

    
     The indignation provoked in England by the 
     
     announcement that the King of Prussia intends 
     
     to give up to Russian vengeance all the Pohsl 
     
     exiles in his dominions has been loud and deep, 
     
     and if the subjects of this reactionary Monarch 
     
     permit him to perpetuate so infamous ao act they 
     
     will become partners in his guilt. 
     
    

    
     The revenue returns, like the last returas of 
     
     the Board of Trade, show a satisfactory state of 
     
     things — far more satisfactory, in point of fact, 
     
     than could have been expected under the disrup- 
     
     tion of the cotton trade. The total revenue for 
     
     the year ending March 3], 1863, amounts to 
     
     £70,603,561, which exceeds, by nearly a million, 
     
     the revenue for the previous year. During the 
     
     financial year which has just expired, the increase 
     
     of the Customs has been considerable— £360,000 
     
     —which is accounted for by the greater trade 
     
     with France that has sprang up since the war 
     
     in America commenced, and which would pre- 
     
     bably have advanced with equal steadiness and 
     
     regularity if there had been nu contest betwegn 
     
     North aud South. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Admiralty have received the followi 
     
     telegram :-—*“ Suez, April 2. H. M.S. O 
     
     was totally wrecked on Manakan Bar, New Zea- 
     
     land, on the 7th Feb., 1863, with the loss of Com- 
     
     modore Burnett, 22 officers, and 157 men. Nothing 
     
     saved. List of survivors, 8 officers and 62 men: 
     
     Charles Hill, Lieut. Yonge supposed to be Lieut. 
     
     D. D. Yonge; Amphlett, paymaster; Hund, sup- 
     
     posed to be C. G. Hunt, midshipman ; a. 
     
     supposed to be W. Fielding, midshipman; H. 
     
     Barclay, naval cadet; W. Mason, boatswain; J 
     
     Beer, carpenter. ; 
     
     Another collision, attended with bloodshed, has 
     
     oecurred between the Christian subjects of the 
     
     Perte and the Mussulmans, and judging by the 
     
     course of former occurrences of the same kind, 
     
     wartare is almost certain to extend. Two Chris- 
     
     tians have been killed in Daniascus, and a Chris- 
     
     tian village near Latakir has been pillaged. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     For the first time since December there has 
     
     been an increase in the number of persons re- 
     
     ceiving relief in the cotton manufacturing districts 
     
     of Lancashire and Cheshire. The increase for 
     
     the week ending the 2Ist of March is not serioas, 
     
     —only 1776; but it mdicated that the signs ef 
     
     returuing prosperity are not so strong as many 
     
     persons were led to believe. Au opinion gains 
     
     ground that the only permanent relief will, be 
     
     found in a well-devised system of emigration, to 
     
     which the employers of labour are so far opposed, 
     
     but which many of the operatives themselves are 
     
     willing to accept, if they can see no better means 
     
     of improving their condition. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE POLISH INSURRECTION. 
     
    

    
     Avespure, April 3.—The Augsburg Algemtine 
     
     Zejtung of to-day publishes an apparently semi- 
     
     official communication from Paris stating that 
     
     Count Reetiberg has been requested by the 
     
     Emperor to prepare an identical note which 
     
     France, England, and Austria will address to 
     
     Russia. : 
     
    

    
     Cracow, April 3, Evening.—It is asserted that 
     
     Lelewel, with the remainder of the insurgents 
     
     under his command, in all about 400 men, has 
     
     withdrawn to the interior of Poland. Great 
     
     agitation is now prevailing in the districs of 
     
     Szawelski and Peniewski. Military have, there- 
     
     fore, been despatched to those points. 
     
    

    
     Cracow, April 3.—Langiewiez left this city 
     
     yesterday evening, accompanied by a ervil officer, 
     
     to be conducted to Bruno. An insurrection 
     
     broken out in the departments ot Poniewiez 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘south of South Pinette River, from District No. 10 
     
    
   
   
    
     ceremonies is roughly estimated at £250,000. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Szwele. The peasants, the nobility, and middle 
     
    
   
   
    
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