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. ~~ OE i? Ku > } Ww Pea ieicy THS EXAMINER. ieee “ rier PLS PLL IT OS ET PTO ANETTA TOT Ea eee eee -—-—- ' i. : ‘ La , ’ bs ’ eae os : ty himself. He wonld in the Address|from Her Majesty’s Principat Secreta-|the other North American Provinces,}ry, while they demand, en the part of th

which he (Mr. Coles) expected to be: ad- opted, see the true and undisguised aim and meaning of the majority ofthe House; and would distinctly be given to uader-| stand that they did not mean to transac! business with a Government in whiels| the people had no confidence.

Mr. Pope seconded the proposed am endiment,

Mar. Yeo denied that the public meet- | ings to which the hon. member for| Queen’s County (Mr, Coles) had referred, | as demonstrations on the part of the peo-| ple, of their desire for the introduction of

Responsible Gaverument into this colony, | could justly be considered as offering apy | vide such evidence. Heaseribed the meetings) hiishment of the Colony, in accord-) the application for Pensions,the House |

of the people on those occasions to other causes thaa their persuasion that Respon- gible Government would be for the general good. Ile denied that the individuals composing such meetings represented a tithe of the respectability and intelligence of those sections of the country in which they were held, Such was his opinion of the generality of them, formed trom what ke had heard of them from such sources ts he deemed most worthy of being relied on; and with respect to those held in his own immediate neighbourhood, he did not believe that there were more than twenty

ry of State for the Colonies, dated 31st! the House of Assembly here, cannot lanuary, 1851, laid before the House |help reminding your Excellency that by your Excellency, together with!the Revenuesand Lands proposed to your Excellency’s Message aecompa-|be surrendered to this Colony are nying the same, wherein the terms are}comparatively unimportant, undesery-

set forth in compliance with which|ing of great consideration; and that a

Her Maiesty’s Government purposes] part of those Revenues, namely, the to.surrender to the Local Legislature| Permanent Duties, belongs of right to

the disposal of the Crown Revenues of|this Colony, as being intended to be this Colony, and sanction the esta-|applicd to the service of its Roads, blishment of Responsible Government) Bridges anc Ferries.

—they beg respectfully to assure a

Excellency of their readiness to pro-| ations and of the reasons which com+ for the payment of the Civil Esta-| pel the House of Assembly to refuse

ance with the Civil List Bill of last)take the liberty of respectfully sug- ‘year, and to suppress the objection-| gesting to your Excellency, that it lable clause of that Bill, alluded to in} was their constitutional right te have the said Despatch. the Executive Couneil of this Island The recommendation of the Colo-|so constructed as to represent their we Minister, to a‘ fair provision be-| views, without negotiation and with- ing made for existing holders of office, out price. ‘entitied to suchcompensation ” has re-| Nevertheless, should your Excel- ‘ceived the dispassionate consideration’ lency consider as insufficient and un- | louse, as will be seen by the satisfactory the reasons contained in lannexed Resolutions, and the House /the accompanying Resolutions and in

of this

of Assembly cannot believe that the this Address, the House of Assembly, |

independanily of all these consider- |

|Crown, before ris ktevenues are surren+ idered, compensation whieh they considet lio be justly cue to two indjviduals, thet leave to the uncontrolled discretion of the | Assembly, the umount of Salaries to ali functionaries holding office, or who may hereafier be appointed to office, in this Co- lony, with the exception of such as are ‘permanently fixed by Statote. Notwith- ‘standing the unanimity which prevails in ithe Assembly on this subject, (which Js always so desirable in the popular branch ‘of the Legislature,) and notwithstanding the care and anxiety to waich over the in- ‘terests of those whom they so worthily ‘represent.

The Lieut. Governor will now proceed to notice the suggestions about §the un- eranted Crown Lands. from the sales of which, the Assembly propos¢ compens® tion (not Pensions, he observes.) shouli- be given to the Attorney General and Co- lonial Secretary. The Lieut. Governor did hope that the Assembly had suggested some mode which would enable him to ful- fil, if not the letter, at least the spirit of his instructions, and he naturally directed a return to be made of the source of revenue derived from the fsale of ungranted lands, for the last five years; that return is now before him, and the average is £108 5s.

or twenty five voters among them. Ov Officers particularly mentioned, name- actuated by an anxious desire to meet, |. currency ! per annum.

the authority of some of the newspapers of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and from all that he had. gathered in conver- sation, Whilst lately passing through the Jutter Province, be declared that he had read and seen enough fully to convince him that the people of those Provinces were heartily sick of their experiment,and longed for nothing more than to be rid of theic Responsible Governments, which

were fast leading them to the verge of

ritin, With respect to.the state of our isnances, and.the amount of-public money now in the Treasury, he could see nothing 10 boast of on.that score, as the hor.

| member for Queen’s County (Mr. Coles),

had done. When the majority lind locked up the public chest, the money could not be taken from it: but what. had by that means been retained in it, could not cer- tainly be regarded.as so much saved to the country, forit would yet have to be expended in.those public services from which it hed been withheid.

Mr. Wargurtox, in answer to his colleague, Mr. Yeo, emphatically insisted not only upon the respectability and Tt telligence of the majority of tiose com- posing the meetings which be (Mr. W.) had thought proper to call for the purpose of testing their estimation of his conduct, as their Representative, inthe Legislature | —with reference. to the question of Res- ponsible Government, but a'so upon the indisputable unanimity of their verdict in! favour of the course which he had pursued |

jn conjunction with the majority of the, House.. The hon. member also farther jusisted, that not only‘ had be had the sa-. tisfaction to see elicited by the meetings, which he had himself called, a complete triumphant.expression of public opinion, in favour of Responsible Government;| but that the very meeting. callec by his honorable colleague (Mr. Yeo), as an cvowed enemy of the measure at which he (Mr. Warbarton) had. contronted that gentleman at his own door, surrounded. by all over whom he, could hope to exercise influence or contron] on the printed Ke- solutions which had been sent out to him (Mr. Yeo) from Charlottetown, but which were submitted to the meeting as written out by an individual inthe pay of Mr. Yeo, he beat him five to one.

T'o be continued. °

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The Negeciatien,

ETWREN TRE LIEUT. GOVERNOR AND ‘PH HOUSHE OF ASSEMBLY.

ADDRESS

Of the Assembly to. Mis Excellency touchmng the conditions en which Her Majesty’sGoverniment purposes to concede tke system of Responsi- ble Government and to surrender to the Legislature the dispesal of the Crown Revenues of this Coleny.

May it please Your Faeelleury..

The Flouse of Assem dlr having had

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ily, the Attorney General and the Co-/as far as possible, the views of Her Jonial Sceretary, come within the Majesty’sGovernment and _ those terms of his Lordship’s recommenda-}your Excellency, and to bring to a tion. terminationa negotiation, the. further They deem ii their duty at the same continuance of which cannot fail to time frankly to state to your Exccllen-| prove detrimental to the welfare of ‘ey, that it is the unanimous opinion ef; this Colony—will be prepared to re- the House, that the creation of a Pen- linquish their demand to the surrender sion List in this Colony would be ut-\of the ungranted Crown Lands, out terly repudiated by the grezt bedy of of which Her Majesty’s Government its inhabitants. may provide such compensation as When the system of Responsible they may deem the Attorney General Government was conceded to ihe other andColonial Secretary, on a recone Provinces in Novth America, and on'sideration of their claims, justly enti- itheir assumption of the payment of tled to. ‘their Civil Establishments, the con-} | Lied sut- MESSAGE from. His. Excellency the irender of great Imperial Interests, ia-) Lieut. Governer by Mr Secretary Havi- ‘cluding millions of acres of valuable! and, in answer to the above Address. \Crown Londs; and in New Brunswick | 4, Bannerman, Lieut. Governor. |particularly, when that Province UB-| ‘The Lieat. Governor hes reeived the dertook the charge ef its Civil List, Assembly’s Address, with the Resolution before Responsibie Government was! which sccompany it. He obsaves, they

‘conceded to it, amongst the relinquish-/ hail with heartfelt gratithde 4 gracious

icessi n was accompanied by the

a \the Attorney General’s case, and the offer

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‘made to him to continue in that office. Jt is:very gratifying to the Lieut. Governor to find the high estimation which, by suck a proposal, that gentleman must be held by the Assembly,and, as the Lieut.Gover- hor unéerstands, by the community at large of this Colony, andsuch being the case, if the Assembly are prepared to pro-

man, so long ag he shall continue Attorney General. equal to the compensation which Her Majesty’s Government consider him entitled to, the Lieut. Governor will im- mediately communicate with the Attorney General : But he cannot well see how the Attorney General can be expected to hold a seat, politically speaking. in the Fxecu- tive Council, nor will the Lieut. Gi v-rner press on that gentleman, any arrangement which may be contrary to his feehngs.

| In the ease of the Colonial Secretary, ihe Lieut. Governor to sure that the As-

sembly will expect Her Majesty's Rey r=.

‘seatative to observe the Christian maxim

jof ‘doing as he would be done by.”’ and-

to presume that no one isguilty until he js

vide apermanert Salary for that gentle--

ment of oilier interests, the Imperial | concession of lier Majesty’s Goyernment, proved to be se. But of ths, the Assembly Government surrendered to the dispo-}'° the Jong entertained and earnestly ex-/ may be assured, that, if Mr Naviland hes sal of its Legislature money to the | presred wishes of the People of this Is-| received or been paid any fees, sum or ; ca ’ ‘land, on the subject of Responsible Go-) sums of money illegally, the Lieutenan amount of more than one hundred) yernment G oe : edhe Os rare yovernor wil] adoptsueh measures as will thousand pounds, Crown Revunue,| It will not be the fanlt, therefore, of the! secure their being refiinded, and Jay the then: in the Chest. On the change Lieut. Governor, should that system of proceedings before Her Majesty's Govers of Government taking place in two of Government, which, it seems, is so ear-}ment. The Assembly refer the TLientes thoseProvinces, namely, Canada and nestly desired by the People, be Jonger!ant Governor to Lord John Russel’s Dee- Nova Scotia, application was made to| Withheld. Kis introduction depends on the! patch, of the 16th October, 1839, and the ee Sea - 1. «assembly, who expect the Lieut. Governor case of Sir Rupert George.in Nova Scotia. their Legislatures respectively _ Lor will exercise, with impartiality and can- The Lieutenant Governor has only to re- to provide pensions for the principal dor, the discretion with which he is invest-' mark, that his instructions are imperati- office lolders under the former sys-'ed, in arranging the necessary details :\ ve, from the Government, of which Lord tem of Goverment. Those Legista-| fle is ready to do so, when the Assembly| J. Russell’ is the head, and that the same

. i does, th: - subject, he may. lexcept in one instance, and Her Ma-|"0®s that, on’ that? subject he@ may: act (ah EMAAR Sa ag AB qi vith discretionary powers. Dut the As— ijesty’s Gover mi no k 2F presse pews Sener error | ae ‘sembly. must admit also, that the Lieut. ithe claims of these individuals Ol Governer has no. discretionary authority 1 » ? ‘rs " . on ° o \whose behalf it interposed. ‘The in-/10 yield the conditions on which Respon stance referred to, is that of Sir Rup- sible Government isto be conceded, and ’ i ~ yy ert D. George, who had held the |the vie Revenues ea . The office of Provincial Secretary, in No-|0tl¥ discretion left to the Lieut. Governor aN see Ee ene ate oP lett tediek | was, to endeavor to arrange amicablyw hich va Scotia, for upwards of forty years, oy ie sums, the Chief Justice's. Salary

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vice wasunexceptionable. ‘The House! Lieut. Governor will express his opinion of Assembly of Nova Scotia were) by and by ; but, befors he does go, end be- constrained to vote a Pension to the fore noticing the proposal of the Assembly gentleman in question because, hay-j|'? surrender the proceeds of “i eee of = . os . the ungranted Jands, a proposal to. which ing left England to fill his situation,) 10 tieut. Gove ~ wilt ct adie a dhenes he%came within the terms of Lord Pee ea :

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os He is desirous to notice one point in the John Russeli’s Despatch of 16th Oc-] Assembly's Address, to which they seem tober, 1839, which * announced the

to attach great importance. ‘They say— rules. thereafier to be observed in|'*Thev deem it their cuty, at the same Prineo Edward Island, as well as in|time. frankly to state to your Excellency, the other Colonies, in r -ference to the

tenure of office.” ‘Tb flouse cf As- sembly would respectfully call your Excellency’s attention to this Des- patch, as. being directly applicable to the Officers for whom Pensions are now clanmnad,

House, that the creation of a Pension List in this Colony, would be entirely repudiated by the great body of the Inhabitants of this Colony.’ His Excellency deems it to be his duty, as trankly to state to the Assem- hly,.that they are unnecessarily alarmed ;/ for he knows, thet Her Majesty’s Go- vernr ent never dream’ of ereatiag a Pen-

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thatit is the unanimous opinion of the)

tures, however,refused the application, | give him the opportunity, adavitting,.as he} Nobleman is now Colonial Minister wh

(conducted the arrangements in Nova Seotia, and who is fully aware of Mr Havi- land's being in the receipt of a commuted allowance, as JateNaval Officer in this Is- jland, where he has been for 35 years.

In regard to the case of the chief Jus- tiee’s Salary, the Lieutenant Governor be- lieves it to be unprecedented in anv of the other Colonies : but having stated the facts in his. Message to the Assembly. of the 3ist March, he can only express his opin- ion, that of the two sums, alladed to in Marl Grey's Despatch, the larcer one should be the Salary of the Chief Justice , but anv diseretion whieh has been left to him, will, he fears. prove of litle avat!, when the Civil Listis voted, should the same unanimity prevail en the subject of the Chief Justice's Salary, as exists on the subject to which he has before alnded.

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April 7. 1851.

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