heen plainly indicated to hin, “by authority,” that he seght to pursue, can sione de justly ascribed the very egies! dilemina which has completely immeshed both gimse!f and his advisers; and upon his head and theirs alone, should any evil Consequences to the general in- secosts of the people result therefrom, ought a just re- tribution of the mischief fall, I am, Sir, A LOOK ER-ON, April 12, 1850. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER, Sin,—It has often struck me that the Rushes on the sides of our rivers ard the adjacent marrhes, sre pre- esely the same in size and character as some I used ennually to sell to Basket-makers on the banks of the River Ouse. There is no difficulty in the management ef this object of industry. The Rushes are cut with a reaning-hook, or scythe, towards Autumn, and spread on (he banks to dry like hay; when dry, they are tied ap in sheaves and carried under cover or stacked. In the winter, the making Baskets might occupy the younger branches of a family. 1 do not know any one conversant with Basket making; but it is so simple s business that T think it might be carried on by imitation; however, I write you these few lines in the expectation that they will meet the eye of some one who knows’ THER BKABILER power and emolnment by the issue of a General Elec- tion, itis painfui!y *pparent to them that from the feeling and disposition of the present Assembly they have noth- ing toexpect. We have iterated and reiterated our firm conviction that the Ilouse will not y'eid—that they will not only not consent to provide retiring allowances for any officer now connected with the Government, but that they will correct the mistaken generosity they were disposed to manifest towards the Secre'ary and Treasurer by consenting to their being placed in eub- ordinate situations; and nothing short of a general ex- termination of all the old rats will, or ought to, satisfy the Assembly. If His Excellency then, in exercise of the prerogative, involve the country in the *nnoyance, agitation and expense consequent upon a General Elec- tion, it will be evident thatit is his determination to govern only for the benefit of a few, and that he is re- gardless of cultivating the good opinion of the peopie entrusted by Her Majesty to his charge. We confess we cannot seriously think that Sir Donald Campbell will be so far led astray by bad counsels as to adopt a proceeding that can ultimately place the obstructives how to perform the work. It is not improbable that the! in no better position than that in which they now stand, ladiane might take to it. Matting for halls, churches, &c., are made in the same way as baskets, and though ignorant whether flag or mat baskets are in use in the est Indies, I conceive they would find a ready sale in that part of the world. I have ‘beat for snipes so many places where these Rushes abound, that I can answer any enquiries as to where they can be had, themgh, in fact, there are few parte of the Island without them. Your obedient servant, = VOR THE EXAMINER. POOR LITTLE BOYS BEWARE. Sin,—Soine stray animal has been we-haw-ing| through the columns of a late Isiander, offering a penny te any person who should take him home to his dis- vessed mother, whotill then “did not know he was out.” This asa would make the edmirers of the Islander be- weve that he was threroughly acquainted with a mena- — and the mode of trating animale therein; but he nows inore xbeut a manger. Having heard the cele- ated “ prefesser” ef the Islander, or the sapient editor of that *palmy” publication, make use of the term wenagerie after some of their recent visits to Pethick’s Brewery and Distillery, or Robert Hutchinson's grog sanclum sanctorum, he thought he would crib the word and his would-be wit would look and sound so very much enperior through it than through a manger; but he quite mistook ite meaning, as is very evident froin the tener of his epistie, ard the sooner that worthy gets a billet in the Insane Asylum the less will he drink of Pethick’s wash, and consequently the less the public will be annoyed by his braying. The object of this scrap, however, iz to caution chil-| dren from being taken in by this donkey, lest any one ef them, being iaveigled into leading him home—as a poor little boy was nabbed to guide and help home a tertain * = =* . * few evenings since—in ‘ne anticipation of getting a penny, he should be disap- puted inthe receipt of his reward to buy marbles and cannot fail tocreate sucha feeling agains, himself as will render his removal from the Government a mat- ter of necessity. It is true that the Obstructives them- selves are not of this opinion. They, indeed, calculate a new Election be called. They count seven favour- able to their views in the present [louse ; we are notso sure that they are correct in this estimate of their strength, for Mr. Montgomery has left them on more than one division, and Mr. Douse has not yet declared for either one side or the other since his re-election; and it is hard to say, whether the good example of his ‘new colleague, and the general desire for reform which actuates not enly his constituents but the Island at large, will not induce him to act upon those principles which he has upon more than one occasion advocated in nis speeches while he abandoned them in his votes. But even admitting the Obstructives to have seven (the nuin- ber is, in all conscience, small enough, and we will not be so greedy as to quarrel with them upon 80 immate- rial a point)—-let us see where they are to get the other seven, to make their anticipated majority of fourteen. In Georgetown they assert they will get one in the room of Mr. James M‘Donald, whois to-be succeeded Harbour, a nominee of Mr. Wightman, that gentleman taking to himself Mr. Thornton’s place;—in the second: District of King’s County, Mr. Whelan or Dr. Jardine isto be displaced by Mr. Theophilus DesBriaay ;—in the seeond District of Queen’s County Mr. Neil M‘Neill is to be turned adrift to make way for Mr. John Long- worth, the constituency in this District being supposed to have only now ciscovered Mr. Leagworth’s superior with, for although the Jslander can boast of a bank ve claims, and to have repented having thrashed that gen- #ren of coins, yet there are a thousand chances to one i the said bank and coins, with their professed owner, the publisher of the Jelander, were kicked from their office ® Pethick’s Brewery and Distillery, and round by Hutchinson's back again, that there would be kicked sut of them one bona fide copper coin of the value of one peuny, unless it were loaned to them for the occasion. For the sake of explanation, allow the remark that what! called a “bank” in a printing office is a sort of table wa which sheets of blank and printed paper are laid, tnd in one end of this is a drawer cortaining a number ef blocks of wood called “ coins,” whieh are used sbout the presa and among the types; therefore littie foya, if vou should be stopped by any animal of the mule ow donkey tribe, and asked to take him home to his mother, be sure you fob the penny first, and not de- gead for your pay on the f ISLANDER BANK, atiarlottetown, April, 1250. Che Cxraminer. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, i850. * Wital) THE TORIES HOPE TO GAIN RY AN , PLECTION. Peneebena a eur last paper we intunated that ‘it ig supposed by “ertain parties in Churlottetewn the present Iause of goes will be dissolved, in the event oftheir not é'€eing to surrender the rights and liberties of their “Niuente, and yielding to the dictation of [His Exce!- tleman at the late Election;—in the third District of Hon. Mr. Haviland;—for the first District of Prince County Mr. Yeo is to carry into the House of Assembly upon his back the Hon. J. Spencer Smith, in opposition to Mr. Warburton ;—and in the third District of Prince ‘County, Dr. Conroy isto be Mr. Pope’s successor. It is further intended by the obstructives in Charlottetown to throw the Solicitor General overboard, he having be- come unfit for further use,—and to take inte his place the Attorney General. alil these Districts, and thus getting a majority of four- ‘'teen—{as they profess te be sanguine of succesa with ‘reward to every scheme they take in hand, uaul they |present themselves to the public and find how lamenta- . a jbly they misealeulated their strength)—they will, it may ‘be presumed, usc every stratagem to get Sir Donal’) Queen’s County, Mr. Davies is to be rejected for a The Obstructives being quite eure of succeeding in! 91 — ne ee Isiander. No attempt is made to show that the present system of administration, which denice the people eny control over the Gorernment supported by their inde try—is preferable to that which is advocated by Ure Liberais. Their first and last thought ia of self; many of them wil] even admit the Responsible System te be a very excellent System indeed, but.ite glory and ite exceilence vanish if about haif a dozen gentlemen in Charlottetown are not to be permitted to eat roast bee® and drink champaigne at the public expense. The edite: of the Islander—driven to his wit’s end for an argument. and abandoned as he is to any course of policy that psys him well—does not pretend to justify the existing sy6- tem of Government, though he has sold his conscience tothe individuals composing it—{an article, bye the bye, not worth purchasing at any price). In two late numbers of his paper he, indeed, tried his hand at con- stitution-mongering, and while he praised the Constiv- tion of England and that of the United States, he seemed to think that only something patched out of both wou!d suit this Colony. Ilis reason for asserting that mem- bers of the Assembly cannot safely be entrusted with: situations under the Crown, is very obvious indeed. He has no chance of ever again being in the Assembiy himself, and the party for whom he writes is likely te conunue to be in a very contemptible minority there; and, therefore, that which they cannot enjoy themselves, as members of the Assembly, they will be anxious to upon having fourteen of their party in the Assembly if] deny to others. But it is false to assert, that the Liberals seek to pet themselves into office at the expense of the presen: holders. Their object is to make the tenure of publie offices dependent upon popular favor, and thus to affore an incentive to honorable ambition, and to prepare & reward for just merit. If the present holders of office be removed, it must be acknowledged that they have been well paid for their services therein; and their removal must be attributed to their past misconduct, by which they have forfeited the respect and eorfidence o the country. The impudent assumption, that no other body of men can be found capable of filling office, has been too often replied to and refuted to require further comment at our hands. It may yet obtain credence with the servile few who patronize the Islander in Char- lottetown, or with that elife circle about New Londor, whcee mental calibre wae so appreciated by Mr. Mac - lean in times gone by as to induce him to favor them with the appellation of yahoos. But the attempt to force the Islander into circulation 4 offering it gratuitously and insultingly to Catholic Clergymen in the country , with the vain hope that they would use their influence to extend its list of subscribers, and by thrusting it inte the pockets of countrymen whenever they can be kid by a nominee ofthe Hon. Mr. Thornton;—in Murray jeunes in the streets of Charlottetown—shews plain y and satisfactorily enough how timited is the influence which that assumption, or any other put forth"by the Islander, exercises over the minds of the public. Ix the Islander of yesterday we are, as usual, favour ed with several columns of abuse. Though Duncer cannot convince the public thet he is a disinterested an¢é consistent politician, he bids fair, certainly, to convince his paymastera thet he is an industirous fellow, a6 he seems anxious that his labours shall be estimated rather by the quantity than the quality of his editorials. Not. withstanding the paine Mr. Maclean has repentedty undergone to decry the Examiner and represent i os a Journal void of influence, it ie evident he has @ very high opinion of our writings, since he appropriates = large a portion of his paper to the insertion of angry 1" vective and jow blackguardism against ourselves. We could not desire a better proof of the telling effect of on: editorials than is evinced by the soreness of the Islan er; and so jong as Mr. Maclean will be kind enoug’ ‘: act the part of the blackguard--the liar—and the scold, r» long shall we be assured of having gained a decisive +: tory overhim. Noman need ever be ashamed of incut ring the enmity and slander of an unprincipled scoundre’. We rejoice that the editor of Islander has proved bra self to be such, without any testimony to the fact beine required upon our part; we are only afraid that we aha: have to add the vice of cowardice to that of scouncre ism. es The Boston press continues to feed with insatiad'e: appetite on every incident concerning Dr. Webster 2. hie family. Lattlefield has received the reward of $3. iC >to their wi _ 1000, that was offered for the discovery of the fate ot iCampbel! to concede to their wish for a general election, the Phrhaslas. Men, Svaheter aod three, depghiecs bak | ple—involved in their opposition to the R Government Party. ‘The ery of their organs is, ‘* The Liberals want to pat themselves in office at the expense ' ; tl = and thereby give them a chance of continuing in office. an interview with Governor Briggs on Saturday, bent There is not a principle—nor the shadow of a princi-ithe result of itis not disclosed.—The apartinents ©! esponsible} the College that Dr. Webster occupied were opened ‘public inspection on Monday ; about 5,000 persons. * ‘is reckoned, touk edvantage of the privilege to 11D >'e i | the scene of the frightful tragedy, and having #at:*'*: of the present holders. Why should they be removed ‘itheir morbid curiosity, retired well pleased with 1) The affairs of the Island have been very we!l conducted | a since they have been in office, and itis impossible to; StU MF iar pian ond wk, lodunoat hg, wbante aud entertainment thue #forded!—A rumor of 8 Mecirs, eut having seen Dr. Webster standing over 16 ‘ey the Lj ; Lieutensnt Governor. There is no doubt} ‘ind in the present stage of the community any set of antreatier to leave the city, had obtained consideret.« aews ofthe Faction the wieb ig father to the whatever ebenes they hare of retiiging huthea of Gentlemen quatified to succeed them.” Thie is thel credence iy Boston, but on investigation ‘> @lerp \ the song weckly enoz by the Grzelt: and! prononnced entirely destitute of trith. ther ie r