; a ee ee a a eee A: ae} . Sf sd 194 RET LT LL CATING PORE IE TS EE SORTER SE LTE OY LRT AONE Te ee eee een en pemnonons NTT LAND COMMISSIONERS’ COURT. yw, Chursday, 20th Sept., 1260. C MakKLoTTeT | (CONTINUED ) Evidence of il J » Yoo, MM. PF. PP. Is 8 Sreowre or (iwnes t Lat {3 ii hor rit Letwree 1O.400 asd LOD sy. 2 by leet fi r £40 0 currence) Ile bed solid nb a 400u = ' Part ol e land “ase very in Wiverent, li- ‘Mend tua good many settiers within © las iw ¥ rs [ there he he weit nan read yhe oames of th } Urs Bess. } Vike linds« oo ' were wood lands, The p wae Sile, wt, pe rcre, bough: dete currency by ed ron pty Go, Cdn tyot 4) che tease) iere nd their farms at ls. s’y per acre, pr annie Pre terns wee, 2 years free, then & thes Dt, ang thew be. por gers, per annum A farmer could | or, 9¢ rs seppQet Pune tt and tus fanily upoy adout 50 scres, | V4 % geeeral rule, ween a leaseholder bas got about 20 of BU vuaple of his farm, if uw con- ey ers tt ba tarm cleared, the fees 6 i 100 avcres, may be wQeih £1003; bat some imoaroved farms, rs of that extent, are worth twice mach. He cors dered tu provements of 20 or OO acres to be worth £1 an acre, and 1@ freehold of the who'e to be worth another vound. per aecr the rewt beiog £5 Lis. lj currency, peransum. 8 yne cleared i.rms of [00 acres each, were each worth £800. The valuc s@vended uvon the extent aad nature of the unprovements. From woat he knows of the neihbouring Provinces, considers that the farmers-—'hat is the poople in general of Prince lt 1. | ward I-lnoni—are far from being worse off than they are in tivee Proviveze. 8, ol f one who went to Canada from this sand not long ag), whe aow wishes he were back again. It is @ fact that he (fr. Yeo) is not fit to be an agent, or a p Prwter einer. lie w too easy wih thetenantry. Ele can’t eisttaia upon sal st mon. He never did disirain, excep! oon tws one of whom owed hiin LOO, and would not pay bin wae penny. lie bas been Jo yea i rrietor, li Syroh im «bom capicite-, lie was a ship- rider, and curred « frequently off a ws opportunities to pay the r rents ! } ' I by giving them work tm hes ship-yards. Ee never gave a shor ? ot . ¢ i ment ie ‘ eise@, and he never stepped a inan from cutting frewood of hia own fariow UE it wae ear that he bad done so, it was a 29 et malhecious falachood There wae no clas: inthe leases |‘ which gave tht agent or the proprietors the power to prevent teranta from cutting either firzwood or timber for their own | t 3 ediate use. He tal granite! general permits to car timbe “i a ‘ne poveity nad des'itution of set rs ie not vw Sod aos aaa 7 peel = s } 1 ' +? . y* : on va ; . i j ©. a . i hong - iarlottetown about two months ago, and although this! rerulate my finances without apprehending the least danger . rreat .@ it ms been desc ec 'Yy § ne oer *tois ur’. ‘tine e tne a : as j ‘ - £Od : ° ‘ ‘~ : ; > Je _—— ik coealiaia + i: zentieman mast be paid at the rate of LoVU per annum from | oO loss from the result—but that is my business. J: is quite tue, bowever, (iat sone setilers, with large families, ee ee 5 <r i ++ | Several seri aecidar limb and lift rrod tw ; tec) found it very hard to n e time he left Scotland, nevertheless he has yet no puyils Several serious accidents to limb and life occurred last week ar arn ea of urge t huuned i er pire Oo get on. aa ” cea ~ ye . : . . i z : * j bey cont One 60 If ar estaie be sol} al- | VOF 8" College to teach them in. This is not the Professor's; /" and about St. John. A young lad while engaged in work fur @eme years Mie Wey ent. If bes a . 3 5 —_ eee Es > the sane anal : : : 1 f ee a ae aa ‘ in one of the saw mills got entangle: 1¢ belting and was i loot bia 2 o kee tenn, § well Deeold at a mach cheaper re'e| faalt, but thatiof our scalous, holy, intelligent and immacu- 7 w mille got ¢ tangled in the belting an 1 was | judge told the boy to go round ana -00 Z hr . : ca z ane ee oe a ‘ violently drugged through a portion of the machinery while in tiaa # gold im parce is Eias not himself euld a: 45s. an acre. | iate Government, reeal, Poraays they are not so much te si "iia I eae ves } " iv | e eheso he wou'd sell cheap. On Let 8 he nad an ae oh ee Se te etd ghd : % } operation. tis body was dreadfatly lacerated and one arm f he bought chesp youd sell cheap. “ > had sue alter ali, z Is Sal hat Ove honouradie ‘mher of =~ niatale ans iment Cai } : ? Pt cse Ee Gail ciewiddaad +: « ees naa, oo : - tal Ove honouravie meter of) completely torn from him; he yet survives. Another little . lar 4a 4 ‘ * t L 3 S$ not ‘ « HU Wa the Xecutive has been able < ct -* env iit ’ . ry y . } 2. ; . i aay t a eared 6 gard: ‘tnedeWeea @ , 36 MLKCCULIN as been Avie to GO Or Say itt or nothing boy eame to his death under like circumstances, carrying on i ' a Wi urd lar ‘ OE Oe a Bh a .* * 4 se : * , | : : : Py oe ! P eerdery tr ee ie tees RO Mien pada since the Prince’s visit ex: pt expressing his astonishment at) bis remains marks of horrible mutilation. One George How- | ‘ lhe mard tr hendreds and thousands af! 1): I> } ' ' : ‘ a oe : . ; — cere not v h cro farthing an sere 5 , i tlis Royal * Ighness’ and the numerous “ hornaments”’ ard, a pro essional pugilist, of a sombre complex on, was, — » were ” Ww i ' ing acre. “aAinougn eo do) 79 ; kill N ‘ i i i } | i ep : ae aed ie which he * seed” on ~* is” breast—that another is studvine | “lle lat Norton a few days ago in going through a sparring ; re i nm i ; ’ s £ r far ra nie rea: mae anota is Sludying , ; ‘J ‘ caaans : we : > me ’ ; . a i’ ; ; the + dead lanctaces”..that another f ses eh ©' entertainment with a comrade. The Coroner's inquest found raad to the cultivation of their lands, than to neglect them fur! ‘4 Acad lanzaages —that another irequentiy taxes hypo- | f | P death ! 7 : } e ra 7 a verdict of eccedentai deain ! i Co ; — een a } s} ‘ 2 i Gin. | te presecetion ef t *rre The ! ners the Is boriac U's, and that the others are joviny! envareua ht ry } : ‘ } j : Mey SAgAECC 30 he lecture season at the Mechanics’ Institute has com- have been wucn de elel by {ie operation of the reciprecity | th treaty with the United S stes; Wilcucary a4 respecte the ex- t| a, meat, fiah, &e. Ona Lot j portation, to the Staree, cf Pp otn 13 jeaceholdere compare favorably with freeholders. personal appearance there is nothing by which indtviduals of |. the one class may b¢ knotra from iniividuals of the other. ile . bought @ part of Lot 18, and paid 13:. 101. : +h en acre for it.) & Yousg mtn bat on’ youn” wtg Who had bought a farm from hin, came to! 0 ; 2 . : ¢ hia flier a tne, &! wished t) know wheiher be would tase’ seven or erht ama: ac — sentiaiei lade 4? . ; . ° * + ° Wide fA 8: 1am, Tats, te ins ade ae aa, even of eight hand:ed pounds to transform the Academy bore the ebaract-r of aman who entertained inordinate am- join in the silent } & the land, we m goods tne ’ mich be had ine La ia — . ‘ . or ¢ ° . ee : ore a purchese of it, and let him have it into the Quilege. And then the annual salaries of the two! bition for positions of honour and emoluament ; but all the >ii ya neeeant of It por ; nu le have te) * ee ‘ee » m 3 ° . : } : ‘ ry . Now, Mr Y 1 will ask v Professors will be, I believe, six hundred pounds lon’t | Plgmy eritics pronaunce tue learned doctor's leeture to be an lease. Cocn. VPa_wea. Now, Ur. reo Wil as& you one | 1, "ee 2 ; - sr ne a se * wrofound one GQ. it woe ROOW OW Well p eased ecuntry people In general will be at woie, earnest and proiound one, 50 it was, e Court You were present :n {leanur’s when § Mr. Conroy was examined, end said that, when he first settled Z ' 11 Trgaish, no preprietors were recugn eed ov Lots J] and 2.) ' Can you, Oe. Yeo, of your own Know edze, say whether the | clauns of @ proprietor had been ackno viedzed on Lot J, be- I fore the vear 1830 ? ii host 35 ¥ s rent matt the es fio. M ; + ee. Abo ov Vt Savo rent was pais, dy seti- 0 jera og Lott, 1 think to old Mr Yolimer. o When qiestioned by Couy. | aLmen respect the agree-, ° ’ sents inch be (Vr. Yeo) hadi givea to the loa, J se ply Wigetmea and ve tien. Edward Thormon, in whch st is written that “he co s net bind hitiee! lo grant a jesee at pre-! j fant, as be bos not the p wer to do an, but a3 soon as he gets) [ . ; Sane oe * : P pwer be Will gra a long wise, Mir. Y« > eXxolained that theese gentieurea having wished him to send down, to Three | .. : ' ¢ : » Dee same ¢ ¥ Rivers, a numb Pr of ageeemente, ready signe d, for namierants from the o'd country, #8 he thought, he sent down a buimdred o idew that either Mr. Wizht-|" se of them. By taking them, by Janes Yourg; but he had wnta of Mr. Taornton » nted they bad not, however, lost any (hing either in induence or re- | pudiic revenue to a Protestant or sectarian College, unless eprctat wv. rew'. ll» taee yy had mo power tu lease ; bub Mr. Dehlois bas promised thar be | { will grant leases, Weta respect to leaseholders in genera’, wn the properties whic are, or have been, under his manage- |} went, Mr. Yeo wu, they who pay their rents are wel! off ; and they who pay notiong have nothing. Industrious men are r ‘ general yada to pay; Janda fiid it very hard to pay. tle hoped the absentee pro-) | pretary Lords and Yireas w id forgive the arrears of rent) t cue by thar tenantry. ile himself had forgiven £700 of | « 4 P's, he had a claim in eoasequence of his writing some. very prosy Charlottetown ! z al determined to uproot * Popery” from our midst, have | | ind power suflicient to enab!e them to command the Govern- Aeade ny. In their) in general are desirous to becone tree holders ; | Wi o this enormous expenditure of t onefi the des ’ Tit ' : : } yoneut of the Gear young I uzgeralds, Satherlands, O lebars, ustice towards public property for a Protestant Coilege. Tae Academy | the 20th ult., and, from the furmidable appearance of the tants, aod the land which is attached to it is public preperty, t > also against the injustice of devoting a large portion of the Moncy they bad not lost, for they had paid no| at the same time an equal amount, or an amount prop-riicn agreements were for strangers, lie! ate to their number. be given to Catholics for their College notwithstanding their poverty, have built a splendid College, but they who are settled on wilderness | 2nd have kept it in operation six years without one single Ghe Craminer. i { 7 . ; : j and he himself! duties of a Colonial Governor sre, however, in some sort subor- it is for him and his family to amenities, charities, and society | | mit one half of the Chureh at joint expense ; holt tre parsonace house (Bnglish) at his own sole expense. | dinate to his other duties. Did you never distrain upon ateaant. Ans. | preside over the courtesies. Coun. PALMER. ! : of the Colony, to bring together and harmonise so far as pos- No, ev Te be continued.) sible. its discordant elements to diffuse a spirit of toleration | enn nnn ennnnnsteeeeennevmnmennmerecceremeremerememrs ind ¢ od feeling throughout its ecclesiastical and social oo ut SD OY AD 4 artye agreemcnts—to diffuse the naman) ties and nbostentasinenly | & VES SUE He P. {to encourage activity, 4 val, intelligence, in whatever shape ° they may be manifested,—in short, if we may be allowed the ee ee ee illustration, to play that useful and yaluable part on & small EDUCATION—THE NEW COLLEGE. stave which the Sovereign plays on a larger seale at home. Pa OBSERVATOR., To tau Eprrorn or tne Examiner. veal --—nieelibiiianaeeieiiie NEW BRUNSWICK AFPPAIRS. (From our own Correspondent.) Sr. Joun, N. B., Dec. 5, 1860. That mysterious annual visitor. the Indian Summer, con- | tinues to sojourn in our midst, and is appsrently inclined to | nrolony his visit, which, I imagine, he may do with perfect 5 ’ inted Llead Master of the A rademy at] in} onity. The weather has been more than uncommonly the patronage of the saiafs was withdrawn from that Lnsti-| miid and salubrious for the season Some sharp frost and * Papist,” aod Mr. Fitzgerald | slight sprinkliogs of snow nade their appearance, as if to re- ) , mind the sublunary mortals in this ** wilderness of joy”’ of the proximity of winter, but have been as quickly superceded hy rain and cenial sunshine. Tse nes spapers — both Scubtail eye is another ianstliaiion Ces " > — } Str—The new Protestant Goll eartmat enlarel ‘ oe igainst which Catholies have very just reasous to protest, us wect infringement of their rights to perfect equatity. " Sas , 1 . »* . 7 Chis College has been estublished for t ng the s | he purpese of satisly- ’ ‘ } , | ). Bitagerald, George Sutherland, and Orangemen and fanatics in genera!. When being ad 7 arian bias of the Revie. Mr. Kenny was app tution on aecount of his bein and other holy men su the idea of gettio rupa Pro- testant Coliege. Vope and * Povery” have, it appears, hitherto sueceeded ; } <),% "agi. ce eS Pee oe 7 and Smasher—assort that never within the memory of the | 0 youd their most sanguine expectations. These saintly haters aud reviiers of the ee _ 1 may be wrong} ojqost inhabitant did so fine a fali prevail. | in this, if it is trae that the Rev. G. Sutherland is in high! ‘ppe system of Decimal Currency was introdueed into the | }dudgeon at his not being ap einted to the principal pro-| Province on the first of last month, and has caused some con- | fessorial chair of this College, to which, perhaps, be thought | fusion amongst the mercantile community in fixing the standard | say | value of the old coin. That difficulty, however, is almost dis- aipated through the agency of the Chamber of Commerce. | Some adhere to the old pound, shilling and pence mode of | ealeulation, and others, more favorable to innovation and pro- | letters on Kducation. L deeply sympathize with his reve- rence ; and to be candid, the Government should not over-! , gi Ri ) av gent onk hie ennarior claims natrons : st fre hi : . | 3 an agent, and 4 years a_ look his superior claims to natronage, for were it not for his ress, have adopted the reformed plan. About four thousand apostelical labors among Or iness extensively In that line. ie) vernment would not be in existence this day, and the Pope} silver coin from the United States are imported to meet the | yveme neralveratur Sa. “ ° ‘ ; ‘ : . j ngemen, peraiveature the Go-! jollars in Canadian bronze cents and eight thousand in small wight be issuing his Balls from the Provincial Building in| public demands until the arrival of the Provincial coinage | At allevents the saints being in theie holy | ftom England. But the people are dissatisfied with the per-| -, | plexity arising from reckoning the old coppers with the new cents: they must have abundance of the latter ; and in fart*er- ance of that determination a large quantity was stolen from ; ae : the Treasury on the Sunday night of last week. It troubles | ee ge — FUINS Of the me but little what kind of coin becomes current, or what the One of the Professors ef this College arrived in) manner of calculating it; for 1 can, with admirable facility, | xerted themselves most strenuously, and have had interest neat to establish a Protestant Colle mat « soe Of . ‘ ‘ h ; +) af Species OF iabOr KkuOoWO as tbe oceupation of | meneed Hon. Dr. Tupper. of Nova Sectia delivered the opening address, which was upon the present political condi- | jis | tion of the lower Provinces. Lie strongly and boldly discoursed on the propriety of an immediate confederated union of the | Colonies of New Branswiek, Nova Scotia and P. BE. Island ; ind strenuously, if not successfully, endeavored to demonstrate the material advantage that would arise from such a coulede- i ; ‘racy. <A portion of the Press declare the lecturer's views to it it wil cost, perhaps, | be premature and impolitie, and in-inuate that his language 1¢@ Wolkenny eats. It is too much to exnect that the ‘ a '? . poor wha rnitants of ¢ | td sil nts ‘ . iB ry Olony Will continue fo paya Professor £390 a year ung nothing. vem: to pay those public servants who really do their ~ I think they will consider it quiie wro , ig man for v siting Governor Dundas and thoyt pay a : ot a ther friends. L have no doubt br ’ , : The Commissioners recently appointed to select and recom- *| mend a site for the erection of a City Hospital, have jast ter- Sandie sal Gils ates ieee oda oe oe minated their assigned daty in a manner far from evincing ; a ner young gentry about Charlottetown. | wisdom or judgment. They have chosen a spot in the Imme- ‘ 1 country people ever ask themselves what benefit they are | di.te vicinity of the Railway depot, at the base of an elevated kely to derive jrom paying a very large amount ev ry year elift a ljoining the public street, where the only prospect to | ets to support a College for the s: éciai the poor copfined sufferers will be a rocky and unadorned sarlottetonians ! rs F prominence on one side, and a few yards of a thoroughfare on : another. And yet much censure should not attach to the Commission, considering the physical_barriers, swamps and y he pudite mouey for the specia ¢ ut of their poe antage of the C! The establishment of this Protestant College is, without “aur 1 = ae and outr: geous acts Of 38-) marshes with which the City is eneircled. ‘The building will atholies ever perpetrated in this Colony. or one Joud!y protest against the gross injnstice of using cost £10,000. ‘The Crrevit Court for the County of St. John was opened on ails by the money of Catholics as well as of Proates- docket, is likely to continue for five or six weeks longer, en- | a tertaining these who watch its proceed ngs through ** The tedious forms, the solemn praie, The pert dispute and dull delate,”’ ‘ St nd helongs to the former as well'as to the latter. L pr with specimens and oftempls ol forensic eloquence where a Ritchie, a Gray, a Thompsen ef ala vceasionaily redecm the ‘+ dull debate’ and taciturnity with their commanding oratory. : 3 In his charge to the Grand Jury, Jadze Ritchie, who presides, t is well known that Protestants on this Island are better off referred in complimentary t ‘riis to the handsome manner in han Catholics. Why then do they put their hands into the which the Court Room was fitted up for the bolding of the ockets of Catholies to endow their new Colleges? Catholics, | Prince's levee. le also remarked that it was the des! and most commodious jadicial hall which he evor siw in hjs tra- vels. I]t must, notwithstan ‘ing this commendation, be ob- served that it ie one of the worsé rooms for tie reverberation of sound that ean be found devoted ta public discussion. , ; A remarkable ineident has just taken place in the Pall Lf they want a College, let them, like honest | near the City. Those rapids when at low water roll down an 5 venny from the pudlic revenue, except a very paltry sum for woks, or something like that; aud why do not I’rotestants Jo the same ? ; “ers ‘ tdom heppened th an mca-trious : alte PSA ae on ‘ 2 - . . . : : : arrests. 1 sebtun heppened that eatrious mp, alter) fulks, build and support it out of their owa funds, and not ascent of some ten or twelve feet with great impetuosity, | been svettied on his farn for a few years, could no. pay his rent; his femily being tien so far grown up as to be able ta gve him assis ace m the clearing aod cultivating of his Was agent for tot Gl, the property of Mr. Sullivan. having { ' land. All the rest he had recenwed on account ofit was £8103. Mr./| Catholies. ‘Tas tevantr; 2 ®% poor -\ their Bibles, every pave * whic > 2s tl 1 - ys . , : : umtgy are & poor, re-|theie Bibles, every page of which teaches the divine and pidity, carried down to and beneath the suspension bridge, | Sullivan is £200 in bis debt belliova set. ready to resist al! individuals authorised to make eternal prince! manda, or se Zires, for or on account of rents, with pitch-| he done to “ Papists” as well as to Jews or Turks. de forks, dung forke, or whatever else they can wicid. Ie had never himself seen thea make such resistance’, but he had Heer! of their doings n tat wor. Coun. Hensney. Do you think the? are able to pty treaty? They went upon wild: roess lands. y J got no rent. Jnever gotnercthem, Tiey hold their lands . Se staf acles at tle belong ' Sullivan: | : ; “ > 1 > sc(re P shai > 3 ° . ° . hy their pitcht wei. Let 2 ales belongs to Mr. Sullivaa; but operation, and not to pay one cent to the Professors of the! breach of promise of marriage, brought by a young lady | system of education now in operation. the settlers upon it are e:vil aod weil behaved people. Coux. Llensucy. What, ia your 0,\n100, Is the value of the land. | jlox. Ma. Yeo In gevera!, Nh may be worth from 153. to Se. an acre; but sone of tt is not worth Is. 61. an acre. Corn. Hexscer. You live on Len 13 It is @ narrow part of ihe Taland, @ sd pos +O 380 | great factlities for shipp ng. Do you riiuk Jands oa Lot 9, on wh sh there are no harbours, are as valuable as Lin Is on Le iO? tlox. Ma. Yeo the velae of leads. wreater than thore 6 Lot 13 are worth more ‘hau th lands of Lo: 9. Cocx. Uensexy. Ind Bl. Sullivan make any outlay for io: isadvantages certainly lessen he ovtoral advan'ages of tot 13 are NN +” f Lot 9; and, consequently, the lands of estglern 7 the improvement « f iis » 6, and about Morray Harbour. Hos. Ma. Yee. Yer: on) Cour. exsist. liave you any Eishery Roserves on your prep iv on Let 137 a ifox. Mr. Yeo. Wosld no! deny a ‘isherman a cunmnodation fer carrying on @ fishery upon nt: Liigoments upou tt. the necessary . indsed wouid ee giad to see fishing esia Io anewer to qrestions put to him. by Coun. tlenerer and Coun. Tuomson, respecting Lennox Island, tion. Vir. Yeo atated, that it belongs to Mr. Stewart; that he (Mr. Yeo) has, fre the last 20 yerrs, rent ba partof it forthe hay it yields. The Indians live on ihe Island. ‘They set up a claim asains in 1326 and 1827. How did they don? By how? ($d you attempt to teke possession ? They hin, foe the hry, $27. writ, oF ‘ " [lad you to swim for it? No, pustied off my canoe. Coux. Tnuowson. Yousay you honvht about between 15,600: end 16.000 acres of fot 13 for £4000 currency ; that is for about 54. an acre. Vo what dines the rent roll of that portion of Wenawally amount? VYo£170 or £190 3 not quite to £200 Coun Teowsox. Whed you were agent for Sie George Ney- «our, how much did you rea t © him annually ? 450 or £60. | | nud to pey the taxes, they were very heavy. Coun. Puom- gon, Then the property was worth ony £00 or £60 a year bo the proprietor ? I received £180 or L190 a yar from the of which | had to pay the texes and the expenses of managing the proserty; @ d the remamder | remitted to the proyprieior. CoM. Howe. iow did it bapsen that you gave | £A OO tor property wh ch yielded only £50 or L609 a year ? CeO. Tuouson. Po you inean that vou paid the difference | he ueen £30 or £60 and £180 or £190, on account of, or in hqudation of taxes? My ralary, ag agen’, was £3()a year; sud ithe remainder of the £100 or £190, except the £50 or £60) the proprietor, wae exoended tn the payment of Did you not tenants, out remitted to "i ws tixes, and upou the roade, Cows. Tomson. | wake more goga the propery than ine owner of it? -I mide my salary. (OUX. THousos There wasn good deal of tine ber oy me lend? ¥ es. Coun. Tomson. You granted hi-| eences fur the cutting ¢ f tinder upon nt. lfow much did you | Fceive tor such licences? |b csn't tell how much, Coon.| Tuovsex Did you youre: f get any timber off the estate ? | Yery tule. 1 got ti ber Gow the tenents; but | paid for what I yo from them Coun. PHOMSON. Hid you keep an account of the tuber which you took off the vacant land ? Yee; of every stick. Tne rent roll was about £2004 year when U bought ie propeity 5 Dut ido but know Whal itis now. Cavs. Taomsos Gye! me an idea af what it i, or what it wil be worth When comes to full rent? £400 a year, per- haps. Cous. Thomsog In buying i, did you meke a good bargein 2? Noto very wove one, Coun. Tuomson. Would von set ab for the money, Wh ineres', which you gave fur mw? L. would. Couns. Tomson Wou'd the onrchseer have a good bargain 2 (Ou reperivr did nn catch Mr. Yeu’s answer t: ths qvession | Li answer lo one of two or her qiestions whieh were pul bt. fin, Mr. Yeo sa d that he had beeu elecred a member of the Howse of Assemb yar ounter of years before he Uecaue @ p-vpt O uF. Toat<ir George Sey aur gad he had 7 out of the pu athee off? oN. ©. mte ten nesty 1 justice to pay. from the public funds, the Pro- j : : ‘ llow are they off: I Ma. Yeo. I don't know. | hones y ana j c pay pus 1uGs, (ne is the ingenuity of the lawyers of whom there are about eight ‘of a Governor of acknowledged political ability and eapacity,| deed was committed, he having been under the influence of When Protestants come to | during which no vessel or boat of any description can venture over them without imminent peril of being dashed and smashed amongst the rocks. “But yesterday one of the little tug steamers on approaching the boiling whirlpool, was snatched instantaneously through the foaming waters with terribe ra blie revenue. indersiand the matter [ believe there will be very few of bem who will not be honest enoug' to show fair play to If there be any who will not, they, should read — P oss . ii . er ; . ; : P68 principles of justice; and I presume justice should and arrived safely unnayigated in the harbor of St. John. | Will) The 13th of this month is commanded to be observed as a) Mr. Sccretary Pope, or any member of the Government, or day of public thanksgiving for the abundant harvest of—buck- | J 3 J any one on their behalf, have the kindness to inform us| Wheat, [ suppose. whether it is in accordance with the principles of fair play, A trial ot absorbing interest to the juveniles of this commu- | nity 18 soon to engage the attention of the Supreme Court and | 23s f a Proteste Jollege before the said College is i ; fessor of a Protestant College before tie said College is in| stained to bring the truth to light. It is an action for a) | (nearly equal in years to the defendant) against a youth io | | affluent cireamstances, and ‘of about 49 years old. I have| ‘heard it said that this will be the first case of the kind ever | tried in New Brunswick. If so, it must speak powerfelly in | : : | behalf of the constancy of attachment between the sexes in| For tac Examiner. this eold country. ‘The amorous defendant’s appearance is COLONIAL GOVERNORS. that of a well-fed Englishman, and looks like a person physi- : cally eapable of taking his own part. +He resembles Major | Mr. Wuetan—The London Daily News, of the 25th of McGill very much, but is not quite so good looking. and dves | October, takes a very sensible aud comprehensive view of not appear to have practised the external accomplishments 60 | the qualifications indispensable to Colonial Governors, and | extensively as the Major. The fair complainant | never saw ; | but I have no doubt sho is as pretty as the most of New Brunswick’s daughters. Every young man of respectability | a Mii Mal ld ae ys Should attend the proceedings im this most interesting case, in | quently occurring incapacity of gentlemen sent outas Chiet order to know how far he can trifle with wowan’s affections. Mayistrates to Bvritixa Colonial possessions ; and marks with peculiar tact and discernment the damaging influences which ioo often interpose at Downing Street to a jobbing selection | Catholic College during the six years of its existence ? A LOVER OF JUSTICE. November 39, 1860. —_-_~ -——_—_- -4 ~—wem@ » — suecinctly points out administrative errors and evils destruct- yt ive of the vital welfare of a Colony, arising from the fre- CRIMINAL TRIALS IN sT. JOIN, N. B. of gentlemen naturally uofitted, and devoid of experience Two most important cxpital offences have terminsted with a | ee ore ue ; te, ee melancholy decision in the Cireuit Court, now holding its sitt- tact and talent for the gubernatorial direction of a Colony, | ines in the city of St John. The first, which occupied the whole tu which fact some of H. M. British North American Pro-! of two days, was that of William Munford, a young athlete, vinees can unfortunately bear testimony, in the fall vigor of manhood, for the wilfal marder of Inahali A Governor of that iatellectual grade and east, with) Ann Jackson, a colored woman of notorious repute, who Royal prerogatives vested in him, may be a vassal to faction perished about six weeks ago in a haunt of wretchedness. —a dupsto inirigue—a martyr to designing Kxecutive ad-| {¥° Jorore wen} ois sted to on the pois of the geteoner. The visers—become a party weathereock, merge into a political | Attorney General appeared for the Crown ; 5. Rt. Thompson | " see ks ge : é : : and Wm. Widderburn, Esqrs., for the defence. The hall was | partizan, and if a he rengren; ee nena ruler, tironged with spectators of every class and color, and cha- | and a bane to the Colony, the Government of which le mal-j pacter; and it was with difficulty that the business of the | administers ; and in the ratio of evils and wrongs bis inea-| Court could be proceeded with. The continual opeaing and pacity, stupidity and bigotry inflic’s, polisieally, socially and shutting of doors, the rushing up and running down stairs, | ecclesiastieally upon the governed, he covers himself with called for the interferauce of the Judge, who requested the administrative disgrace, and finally makes a dishonourable Sheriff to place a Constable on each doorway and prevent un- and spotted retreat from his gubernatorial command. But 1) D&Cess4ry noise. Daring the whole oe soleme proceeding i theca wah Soe ali Seiden Kialla’ Nees: eneak in thie the culprit sat almost motionless in the dock, with downcast eee way i . eyes, and the paleness of death on his features, which but a | subjoined extract, which is not ouly pertinent to a place, siort time bofure were fresh and blooming. He appeared | Mr. Whelan, tu your public spirited Journal, bat worthy oi utterly unconscious, and did not seem to realise that he and a eareful perusal by the highest fuectionary down to the the cireamstances about to be disclosed were the objects that huwblest individual in the land, attracted the crowd of spectators and auditors who thea filled ; , “ . ‘the Court room. ‘The evidence on behalf of the prosecution From the London Daily News, Oct. 25, 1850. P ** A Colony is very apt to estimate the value in which it is! assault which resulted in the death of Jaekson ; but his held at home by the character of the man sent out by the | Counsel endeavored to convince the jary that their unfortunate Colonial Office to preside over its affairs. By the appointment client was not accountable for his acts at the time the fatal succeeded in finding a man resembling the prisoner - ‘he placed in the dock. The prisoner was ordered to stand sume that he has been admitted into that fraternity whose ae Wr Taras awful announcement of cuiLty, accompanied with a recom-| bold assertion, and is one that cannot be supported by a par- mendations to mercy. As the prisoner was being remanded | 4:01, of proof. If it meansany thine. it the tears rushed unbidden to his eyes, and he proceeded | “°° © Proc” y thing, it means that Protestant slowly and heartbroken to his dismal cell, thence, perhaps, to imterests were neglected to advance Catholic claims; but we be ealled to expiate his erime upon the scaffold. | defy the Secretary to show that the former suffered the smal’. The other capital,offence, one, be it said to the honor of oy” aohment j ‘ his country, of rare occurrence—seemed to create in the | °S* neroae ment in any way. It cannot be said that the minds of the community sensations of mingled borror and | Protestants were denied their full share of Government patron. commisseration. [t was the alleged commission of an assault/age. All the principal offices in the Colony, except two, were on the person of a young female, sixteen or seventeen years) ¢1144 1. thom - : : old, while, with half a dozen smaller and younger children, | ” y them; and with regard to the smaller offices in the she was gathering blue berries at a place ealled the Five Mile | country districts, there was an overwhelming majority of them Barrens, in the month of Augast last. For this high crime| jn the hands of the Protestants. In the Executive Council and misdemeanor, to which the statute law of this land annex- t! — 1 * ‘ : es the furfeiture of life, Johnston Bean was arraigned and | ‘¢Fe Were onty two Catholics to seven Protestants, and in the pleaded not guilty. He isa man about 40 years of age, has| Legislative Council only two Catholics to ten Protestants a wife and two young ebildren! He is a rough looking cvs-| [Tq the House of Assembly their number was still small “3 tomer, with a head bearing evidence of great animal propen- ‘ : — ie ; oo sities — phrenologically speaking. He is of a powerlully proportion to the number of members there, and in proportiog museular conformation, and considerably hump-becked. ‘The | also to the number of Catholic inhabitants in this Colony, investigation of this trial engaged the attention of the Court | [ndeed, it is a remarkable fact that Catholic constituencies in for three days ; and the crowd of people who attended exceeded | |, . li that of the previous days. The Solicitor General conducted this Icland have always shown « grester ines to elect the prosecution, and S. R. Thompson, Esqr., appeared for the Protestont members, when they could be found worthy of their prisoner. ‘The testimony adduced for the Crown, the whole | confidence, than persons of their own communion. All these arts of whict e establis! ri act coinci ove : : : parts of which were established with exact coincidence, proved facts combined disprove the tion of the Colonial S that Bean was the man who—came, saw, and conquered Most of the witnesses against the prisoner were quite small | that the Catholics exercised undue influence over the late Go and young, apparently not more than seven or eight years! yornment. We again challenge the Colonial Secretary to old. On the second day of trial an interesting—and, I doubt). : : : not, to some a most fatal scene took place. It was this: a point out one solitary case in which purely Protestant interests young boy was called from an adjoining room ag a witness : suffered while the Government was in the hands of the his extreme youth and diminitive stature attracted the atten-| Liberals. tion of the Court and all present. Mr. Thompson objected to ‘ . his being sworn on account of his tender years: the little We may be reminded of the old falsehood that the late, fellow was lifted ap on the stand, and the Jadge asked, ‘* What) Bishop desired to exclude the Bible from the common schools, did you come here for ?”’ ‘* To tell the truth, Sir,’’ was the| and that this was an encroachment on Protestant rights ; quick response. ‘* Do you say your prayers?”’ ~ Yes, Sir.’’ | *: Who teaches you?”’ ** My mother, Sir.’ +» What prayers?’’ | but that falsehood has been pretty well engiyaes. At the ‘ Our Father.” “ Where will you go if you don’t tell the| time the Bishop wrote his celebrated letter, his Lordship wag truth ?”? «To the bad place."’ ** And where if you do tell| under the impression that an attempt was about to be made, the truth?” «To heaven.’? Such were the questions and , i . replies of Judge and child. Mr. Thompson still objected, and under te auspices of John M. Stark, to give a sectarian in doing so, asked the boy, ‘* Do you die altogether when you | character to the district schools, and he suggested that it wonle leava this world?’ Toe answer was, ‘* My body dies, Sir.) po better te exclude the Bible altogether than create conter- but my séul never dies.” He was then sworn and related all | tion in the community by forcing a version of the Seriptares he knew of {he case: the question as to the identity of the) _ ; : na sect being abovt to be asked, the Judge suggesed to the| into the hands of children whose parents did not approve of Crown officer that the J/t#le witness be sent through the Court it. The present Government, as well as their predecesso, : look for andjpoint out tie — pnt: ae te Dey Ot eaeny out the late Bishop’s sagg»stion — the Bible is nog © rere e r te : sone ~<-s * the Court were asked fo ethane. 2777 at every one and see forced —it is left to the parents of children to determing if Bean was there: he did so, slowly, anJ with piercing eyes: where and when it shall be used, or to exclude it altogether, on coming in front of the dock he halted and mr “ome "id fail if they think fit. And it is now a well ascertained fact, that stared the prisoner in the face: it was thought he so." "1 potwithstanding all the outery raised by the Orange bigots to recognise him, but, peering close up to the dock, he #8 ‘ ‘ : ‘This is theman.’? Atthat momenta subdued manifestation | an4 their dupes, previous to the last election, there is less use of applause spread through the Court. Not satisfied with | made of the Protestant Bible in the common schools than was this proof of recognition, the prizoner’s Counsel resolved to «the late Govtimment test the boy’s knowledge in a more severe manner. This he| the ease unactT «- . did by having him sent to another room. and in his absence! The Islander atates that a correspordent of ours, “ signing: whom» imself + Fair Play,’ has teccnt!¥ denounced the Government: amongst the crowd. ‘he little fellow then came out, and for not appointing the Right Rov. Dr. Melntyre, Romam was told again to find out Bean : he proceeded as before, till Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown, and several of his clergy to eae lost the dock and eontinel lo king t 28 490" gets atthe Board of Education.” ‘The Jslonder ie misao Lotane his eye glanced to one side and rested on the real one, | ‘‘ Fair Play’? has never written a word on the subject, to our whom he pointed to and said, » This is the man who was in| knowledge. “A Lover of Justice ’’ did, indeed, suggest, that this dock before’? Instantaneousiy a shock, as if of elec-| -+ 4. Government had any desire to deal fairly with the tricity, pervaded the crowd, and the prisoner attempted to! : : ; An applause ; but his trembling frame told too Catholics, the Bishop and two of his clergy should be ap- well the feelings that prompted him to assume a demeanor of pointed to seats at the Board. This suggestion was made on if-reneo The ry aee ix avi x clos } Maye ms | 2 indifference. The prosecution having ¢ osed, Mr. Thomson | 4), ground of there being, at present, three Protestant clergs- opened the defence with a statement that he was prepared to : oles prove what the law cals an abi. This plea, however, could, men at the Board; and as the Catholics are nearly half the not, from the evidence pro and con, he sustained, and the population of the Island, our correspondent considered that, learned Counsel seemed to feel that his ease was a hopeless three of their clergymen had an equal right to be ¢ one. He closed the prisoner's case with his aceustomed ability | : ! : ' and earnestness. Of this part of the proceedings the Freeman | Now, let it be remembered, that this was merely a suggestion says * Mr. Thompson made a long and powerful address to the to, not a denunciation of, the Government, as the Islander jury on behalf of the prisoner. ‘The Solicitor General closed aeanates Sint oumn su eee cof it. Weds for the Crown in a speech of much ab lity.’’ On the morning | - ae Pee a ae of the third day the Judge commenced his charge to the jury, not wish to see Catholic clergymen at the Board of Education; i re al a re a ey i aw’? | . : " Pe reading over all the evidences, and * laying down the law,”’ | we believe thoy would not go there if they were appointed. which took him three hours todo. At one o’c'ock the jury Under the late Gevesement-cule ons Calhaiie sienaae retired to their room and came into Court at 6 o’clock and | : . : y : “rey held asked the Judge to read again the evidence of the prosecutor, | a scat at the Board; and he resigned his place, after attend- nda aleo her 5 at ; aes ha Palia Tana Whi ~ oo . ° * “ and also her deposition taken at the Police Office This hav- ing a few meetings of tho Board, in accordance with the ing been doue, the jury again retired, and again retarned at 1d wish of the late Bic! eS awe alll 7 o'clock. As they came in. their countenances annoanced CE press WER of HES oe snop. Jncesd, WS eae the solemn termination of their deliberation. Their verdict | thought that clergymen of every d-nomination should be qe was guilty.’ oan, during the trial, preserved a fearless cluded from the Board, Their spiritual duties, if they attend deportment, and looked as if be did mot understand that his iif’ was in the hands and at the disposal of twelve of his countryinea ; bat on this morning a little after 10 o’e'ock as} time and attention; and it is very well known that clergymen eae oc. . his fentures shewe: hat s had . ° i he ‘was Groeght tito Coats, his tensapes eoew that he lat) are generally the most incompetent persons in the world & at last realised his dreadful position. Hie and Manford ap- ; es : th él ciate . peared bofsre the Judza who pronoane2d on them the terrible | "4Ve anything to do with the administration of seculer affain, Sentence of Death! On Munford being asked if he had any-| The Islander says the Colony ie divided into two partite ening to say why tae menunee ee law should n ie Pro Catholics and Protestants, and that the two are “ utterly nounced, he made no reply ; but Bean in answer te the same) , atte 9 : : : qnestin, raisol his arm and said, ** | have nothing to sry, irreconcilable.” In matters of faith they may be; in politi- only as £ lift my hand before God L’m innoeent.”” Tiey were cal affairs they are not. The Colonial Secretary would fain th y Amne ilia ha sea ft»! , Ss 4 he 5r} . m both condemned to die on the seail yid, on Nat id ty, the 5th | believe that ail the Protestants in the Islund are su pporters of of January next. Lt is thought that the Executive wiil ote ; : , commute Munford's sentence in consequence of the circum. | the present Administration. He is as mach in error on this stances under which he committed the crime, and the recom-| point as he is on many others. Thousands of the most intelli- sea “ee” ao . per | sent Protestants on the Island are staunch advocates of the see. guon, WN. ec ¢ S . o Bs. be j _ sae ‘ : ; Liberal cause, and determined opponents of the existing G.- e+ ee * _vernment. Their number and influence are daily increasing; &) Hi e wv x al mM \ iW t ¥. and we confidently expect that at the next es Petal SSS SS === | voters will have the honor of thrusting out of office the wretched Charlottetown, Datuk December 17, 1860, | apology for a Government that now obtains in this Is land. ~ The Colonial Secretary says: ‘* We most sincerely regret Wiru his habitual and characteristic disingenuousness the that religious strife should exist in this Island, as it does at Yolonial Secretary misquotes and misconstrues, in the last | ome, and that sectarian prejudices should be aroused and Islander, some of our remarks on the so-called ‘ perfect” | ept alive, for political purposes.”” We cannot give the Secre- tary credit for much sincerity in this matter. According t Ile asserts that we! ,. os : ; sae Sig ee _his own admissions, noticed in the first part of these remarks, have ridiculed * a.] religious denominations other than that| he, like ais brother officials, is altogether indebted for the. to which’’ we belong, and that we have said the whole * Pro-| £350 paid to him by the people for doing nothing, to the, eo = oe tl Vie ie religious strife and sectarian prejudices ”’ which his testant community’? were opposed to the late Lieut. Guvernor | excited previous to the last election, without any justi because he happened to be a Roman Catholic, Now, all this yeason, and without any other result than the possess on of is untrue. We have never ridiculed *‘ all religious denomi- | office by Mr. W. H. Pope and others of less influence, talent ns ” : , F ination : : " and respectability. nations,’’ nor, indeed, any ann ion ; moreover, we rt The Orange Societies recently formed te diftstent of never declared that the Lieut. Governor was opposed by the | the {sland have no other object than to keep alive for de next: whole Protestant community. We have, we admit, laughed election the * religious strife and sectarian og oaerene Mt which 4 8a ee ‘ tiem b rendered such essential service to the Tories at the last one; at the follies perpetrated in the name of Protestantism by a but @ disreputable trick of that kind will not do to be pleyed few fanatics and bigots, who preyed upon, and diverted to more then once. Orangeism bas received 4 knock in the head their own purposes, the religious prejudices of many of their | from ey it will not speedily recover ; See least intelli- peer . : : } gent of Protestants will grow tired of cherishing ‘* sectarian ignorant followers, by means of the most absurd falsehoods. prejudices” when they perceive that the rarer are doing The Orangemen claim to be the only true defenders of Pro | nothing to excite them. testantism in the Bvitish Empire. The principal fanatics in- - this Island to whom we allude, are nearly all Orangemen;, Tux junior Clerk of the Executive Council is determined and it is not surprising to hear of their absurd pretensions | that his superior, Mr. W. II. Pope, shall not outstrip him im being advanced here as well as in Canada and Ireland. That the career of defamation. The last Mon:tor contains a letter Mr. Pope is an Urangeman, we were not prepared to believe ; ‘from the pen of Mr. Donald Currie, third clerk in the Exe- but as he seems inclined to endorse their views, we may pre- cutive Council, in which we are assailed with the grossest _personal abuse. The arrival of the English Mail and other brethren haye lately made such memorable exhibitions of matters leave us no space to-day for a reply to him. Donald heir folly on both sides of the Atlantic. | may rest assured, however, that as soon as we can get a spare Mr. Pope makes an extract from our editorial, and inter- hour and a colamn of space he shall receive his deserts, ia polates the name of the present Lieut. Governor by way of | company with that incomparable bypocrite, blackguard avé ‘nvidious contrast with that of Sir Dominick Daly. He knows swindler who proclaims himeelf the editor of the Monitor. very well that the name of Mr. Dundas was not used in con-| Some time ago Mr. Dundas expressed his surprise and re ncetion with our remarks ; nor did we intend thatany of those | gret that there should be any bad feeling in this small com /to them, are numerous and onerons enough to occupy all their > oD 7 nae LALA AALS -_ ‘remarks sould bear any allusion to His Excellency. We can | munity. If there be, we shall, perhaps, have to hold His Ex very well understand the object for which this falsification is cellency responsible for the most of it ; he allows the chief made. If it serves a politcal turn for My, Secretary Pope | clerk of hss secret Council to worry the tenantry of the Isao! and his party to drag the name of their master unnecessarily | —to defeat, if possible, the objects of the Land Commissioa= clearly established the fact that Munford perpetrated the into our disputes, and if the master permits the liberty~-we | to excite religious prejudices for political purposes; and can only say we pity them all for having recourse to such an defame every leading man in the Opposition. artifice. | The Colonial Secretary says that the last election was alto-| benefit an office was created at £100 a year, and holds of caltivated manners, of moral standing and of pure domestic strong drink. They contended that in consequence of his life, the Colony is not only, and very properly faitered, but) having received a severe injury in the head while young, and reveives a reai benefit in being thas furnished with a high | having been intoxicated at the time, his mind must have been standard of political, moral and social life. If, on the otuer| in a state of temporary derangement, and consequently not a hand, a Governor is sent Gut either deficient in these qualities,| sane aod responsible being, and that, therefore, the verdict or & lifeless and yerfunctory person, or of inferior political,| could only be inanslaughter at the most, and noé murder intellectual or moral reputation, a feeiing is at once excited| Mr, Thompson, who closed the defence in a long and pathetic in the Colony that in the selection other considerations than | appeal for merey, discharged his duty through the different its welfare and happiness have prevailed, that its interests are | stages of the trial with boldness and discretion. His closing little cared for or atiended to in Dewning Street, and that the | sentences were truly affecting, and at this time only did [ see public at home cannot be roused to control or defeat the in- | the prisoner's eyes become softened and bedewed The adyo- difference vz jobvery of the Colonial Minister. There can) cate’s efforts was unavailing. ‘The stern facts of the prison- be no greater mistake than to suppose that the importance of} er's guilt, aud the inflexible realities of the law were insur- Colonial Governors has de-reased under Responsible Govern-| mountable. The Judge charged the jury ina lengthy and ment in the Australian, African and North American Colonies. | lucid manner, explained what constituted the crime cf marder, ‘Tree it is that there are ministers standing between them and | and adjudged them, in the most impressive manner, to banish ‘the loeai Legislatures, and that a Colonial Minister can fall| from their bosoms all considerations of sympathy for the ignominiously withont affecting the esteem in which the Colo-| prisoner or his friends. He emphatically told them that nial Governor is held. Nevertheless, the experience, the tact,| voluntary drunkenness was no mitigating circumstance ; and ‘the temper, the independent jadgment, and the better know-/ that if they believed the evidenco, their verdict must be mur- iedge of huiman nature of a competent Governor, must always | der and noéf manslaughter, no matter how distressing such a be of inestimable value to the political «ffairs of a Coluny,| decision might be to their feelings. The jury retired about | withuwt igvulving Lim in its purty conflicts. Yhe politioul| 1 o'clock on the second day, and returned at 6 p m with the | gether a contest between Roman Catholicsand Protestants, as| higher position than that of a common flunkey to the Adm /such ; and that the latter haying triumphed, they accordingly tration, must also rush into print, and show that he can be . | took the Government. The fanaties, before alluded to, cer-| bold a liar as any other scribbler in the pay of the Goverte | tainly raised this cry ; but the leaders of the Tory party sent | ment. The Executive must be in asad condition when ; ‘forth a far different shibboleth. They raved about the ex- | to call in as their principal advocates paid officials of an in clusion of office-holders from the Legislature, with the view of | furjor grade. J.B. Cooper, Donald Currie and Ewen Am? securing its independence—they whined about the erroneous | make a fine Unicorn team in the Government Coach. we | amount of the public debt—and growled at the policy of the’ gaye one of them his feed not long g9, | Liberals for passing a Land Purchase Act, and buying up been tolerably quiet, and the other two bru | proprietary estates, whereby our whole people were to be| oats next week. ‘taxed for the benefit of a few. Now, if the religious spirit nl was the thing which decided the elections in favour of the) CA THOLIC YOUNG MEN’‘S LITERARY INSTITUTE. present Government, all the nonsense that was written and; Qn Jast Thursday evening Mr. Roche delivered 2 ane 'spoken on the questions referred to, could have had little or | teresting and instructive lecturezon ‘* Geology, no effect on the whats of the electors. - eo reday evening next the Secre om deliver 4 = The Colonial Secretary says that the ‘late Government; ture, subject —** Poetry,” with me . ELLY, Soo’y: was entirely under Roman Catholic influence.’ This isa tes will get theif on Pamveinaciesi call Emboldgped by this bad example, the Jackeen, for whos — since which he ba .