THE EXAMINER.

Heath Haviland ; they did not sign it. Is there any man who will say they did? We say they did not; and this shews, that only nine out of the twenty-four of the “present members” actually supported the prayer of the Petition.

At all events, ’tis a matter of little consequence now who did or did not support the Petition. It has not been listened to; and while its principal promulgators are in-) tent upon d g Mr. Pope for having made such | arrant fools of them, we can only offer them our best as- surances to forget their folly, and to express our belief in the truth of the old saying, that experience does teach wisdom to fools.

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THE VERY LAST WHINE.

The editorial in yesterday’s Islander, on the appoint- ment of Mr. Hott, speaks feelingly the sentiments of ‘Collard’s mind. Big Martin condemns the appointment because, he says, it is not in accordance with Respon- | sible Government, and suggests that Mr. Thornton or'| -Mr. Francis Longwoith ought to have been selected. “The appointment of either gentlemen would be carrying out the System with a vengeance! Mr. Longworth | voted, point blank, last Session, against every modifica- tion of the System; and Mr. Thornton voted for Mr. Pope’s milk-and-water Address, in preference to Mr.

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| While the cavalry were passing in front of the enersy,

soon checked in their onward career. Col. Duncan brought two pieces of his battery to bear upon them, and Captain Drum, with the two captured Buena Vista pieces, also opened his fire on them, while at the same moment, Major Summer, with two squadrons of dra- goons, and Captain Ruff’s company of mounted rifles, which, until then, had been held in reserve, passed down under the fire from the enemy’s works, and charg- ed the head of their column, which they could not stand for a inoment, and commenced a confused and precipi- tous retreat.—After that, they rallied twice, and attempt- ed to return, but ateach time our little handful of dra- goons made them leave without exchanging cards, while the cavalry and the infantry, rallying, succeeded in carrying the buildings and breast-works which the enemy held, and compelled them to retreat--capturing 7 pieces ofartillery, a large quantity of ammunition,sma!! arms, &c., and about 600 prisoners. As soon as they were driven from the buildings, Capt. Drum and Col. Duncan advanced their light batteries, and Lieut. Stone brought forward one of the 24 pounders, the whole of which opened a most destructive fire upon them, as they retreated across a low plain to the rear of the position, they at first occupied.—Our loss was very heavy, and | regret to say, that some of the very best officers of our army fell killed and wounded, while‘the Mexican loss was very slight, until they commenced their retreat.

in erder to change the column of lancers, they were not under the fire more than ten seconds, and during that time they sustained a loss of 6 officers wounded, 32 pri- vates killed and wounded, and a loss of 150 horses. There were but two officers that did not have their

Rae's. But what right has Big Martin to whine about j.5/<0s shot under them—but there is one thing very re- Responsible Government? So fir as we could under- | markable that the horses from which the riders had been stand the trash he printed in the Constitutionalist a year |shot, wheeled and moved with the same regularity as ago, he was not at all favorable to it. Big Martin is ‘though they had been mounted, until they came to halt’

{ j sore about the appoiniment, not on the score of Respon-

ifrom the charge, when they all kept on in direction of| the enemy.

gible Government, but ona purely personal ground. Mr. |

‘Holl moved an address in the Legislative Council last.

session, complaining against the Government of Nova’

We were deceived in reference tothe character of the

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A FUNNY ARGUMENT.

In ovr hasty perusal of the editorial in yesterday’s Islander, we noticed an argument really too funny to be passed over insilence. Big Martin says the Lieutenant Governor should have selected Mr. Thornton or Mr. F. Longworth from the Assembly instead of Mr. Holl; because, he observes, there is no member of the House at present in the Council: Mr. Warburton, according to this luminary, having vacated his seat, and Mr. Coles not having been returned by the Sheriff. But take, he says, Mr. Thornton or Mr. Longworth, and there will then be one from the House. So, in the event of Mr. Long- worth being called to the Council, we are to infer that he would have no occasion to go back to his consti- tuents ; as the rule which would apply to Mr. Coles or Mr. Warburton would be inoperative in the case of any other. Really, Big Martin must have been ina fog when he penned this production ; and we must say, that if he won't or can’t provide better logic for the Islander, Mr. ings should look out for some other “ literary man.”

A JUBILATION BY ALL MEANS,

“ Wherefore rejoice ? What conquest brings he home f What tributaries follow him to Reme,

To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ?

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Kome,

Knew you not Pompey ?”

SHAKSPEARE—(not quoted by Big Martin.)

We are informed, through the Islander, that the De- legates may be expected to arrive some time in the course of the incoming week, and it is hoped by our coteimporary, that the Committee of Correspondence will be in readiness to do the agreeable. We perfectly

buildings, as there was no foundry, or evena sem- blance of one—and after blowing up some of the build-| ings, and bringing off our killed and wounded, we}

concur in the propriety of the hope, for we can’t do too much to show our respect for those gentleinen who have

j : . * < } > w ' : ‘evacuated them, as the occupation would give us no| taken so much trouble to spend the money we subscribed

‘ : : ; “Scotia for allowing a man to be at large in this commu-|

: sane rs 1 } ~ ha za | e : : . . nity, whose presence was, in the words of the address,| 4, sntage. Our joss was 800 killed and wounded and |for them. We think there ought to be a glorious jubi-

“ > , oes, . j ° ° e ° a ° ° “a great scandal to society, and very offensive to public janissing. ‘lation on the oceasion of their arrival, they have done so -morals.” The remembrance ofthis motion ranklesin) ‘The result of this engagement taught us one lesson,| much to deserve. tt. Let there be a public banquet, an

the breast of Big Martin, and, as a matter of course, which was that the Mexicans use their arms well, and jjjymination—(tallow is cheap)—a plentiful supply of

‘nst the annoi r \fight we hen t are i ition; and although). ; a sours him against the appointment. Set well) When tay aay peenren 5 = ©" tin trumpets, and gunpowder squibs ad infinitum. We One of the very best proofs of the fitness of Mr. Hout ‘the superiority of our arms, and the valor of the troops’ Me a oo arr ’ oe ia —— | Will eventually triumph, yet still we must call into re-| mean to have a flare-up on our own hook, in honour of isto be seen in the opposition of the fslander. ‘The |quisition all our military science and skill, or we the occasion; and a congratulatory Address will be people of the country generally adopt this simple rule—| purchase our victories at too dear a price. presented by the Printer’s Devil, expressive of unbound- that whenever Mr. Pope’s pet Journal belches its filth) The enemy’s force was 12,000 to 15,000;—the od admiration, respect, &c. &c. It is not intended to . L : 2 r Q 4 rl t } ; * S i ; f - ’ ° ° am aS against any act ofthe Government, that act must bethe American only 3,000, Immense quantities of ammu ‘exclude people of a different line of politics from partici- sane atientn ef esd inition were taken, and one account says nearly a| sone hs Shack titel loth ae . . . * ~~ - a j ,o . ’ y " \thousand prisoners, including 53 officers. Col Riley | P®es I AOE eee es Stag Cerone be no deviation was now advanced from San Angel (his formercamp) from the general line of ceremonial to be pursued. to El Piedad, in order to make a diversion, and hold)

News by Yesterday’s Mail. | the entrance to the Piedad and San Antonio road. Gen. Pillow’s division moved up within supporting dis- . 4 A | y . lat 5 THE MEXICAN WAR. ‘tance, and thus rested our army til] the Lith, without By our American and Colonial Papers, we have little any thing of moment occurring ; the engineer corps

news of any consequence. U. States Journals are al- Were busily engaged night and day in their recon- most exclusively occupied with the details of the pro-| gress of the American army in the capital of Mexico. city, Many of the accounts are characterised by suchadegree, (Gen, Bravo and staff were taken prisoners by a por- of inconsistency, as to render it difficult to arrive at any- tion of the New York regiment in General Quitman’s thing like a fair report of the hostile proceedings. We ann ee ae oe ae . : + /€C jen. Quitman, and they were taken to Chapultepec give below, however, some paragraphs which we find ~ — y oo

~~ iby Capt. Davis, aid toGen. Q. On reaching there, find- repeated in several papers, and probably they furnish ‘ing the General-in-chief stil! at the castle, he reported the truest statement that can be obtained. |

‘to Gen. Scott that he had Gen, Bravo and staff prison- General Scott notified Santa Anna on the 6th of Sep-/e"s of war. The general ordered Capt. Davis to bring tember that he would resume hostilities unless he apol- the prisoners forward where he was, when the General- ogised for his flagrant violations of the armistice. An in-chief addressd Gen. Bravo as follows: ie evasive reply being returned by Santa Anna, Genera], Ideeply regret meeting the Valiant Gen. Bravo in Worth was directed to proceed at dawn, on the 8th, to misfortune. 1 have long and favourably knew him by destroy the building, at King’s Miil, where the enemy, fame. I trust we m

ay soon be friends. I honor and it was said, were casting cannon shells and shot.

enemy, and the different entrances to the

'The respect him as an enemy.

mill is west and within range of the fort on the hill of Gen. Bravo expressing his thanks for the courtesy

Chapultepec. ‘extended towards him by the general-in-chief, the On the west side of the buildings (says the Delia’s latter directed that the former be taken into the citadel

correspondent) and the breastworks around them, is a and furnished with as comfortable quarters as the

iarge open plain, gradually descending to the position conveniences of the building would admit of.

occupied by the Mexicans—a deep ravine inclines round |

this plain, or open space, until it arrives within about

y he buildi hich rested . ; rn ie ae ae Two 24 pessedenabigion | The Halifax Sun, received by yesterday’s Mail,

to Captain Huger’s seige train, were placed in position devotes acolumn and a half toa review of the political to batter down the en _ er c — ‘affairs of this Island. Friend Dick has taken a tolerably w ie a heavy force—bdut they | : : i ‘ uae = ™ : vege aan satan Gen. Worth ad oo eee ene tere os ela Hie oe vanced his infantry down the plain, and attacked the|d in language by no means civil or comp mmentery 40 enemy’s works in the front and centre. ‘our opponents. We shall reprint the article in our next The Mexicans opened upon us a most murderous fire No. We would remind our Halifax cotemporary, that an point attacked, — both were Pag ster be jibes about the smallness of our Island are not in w own o k ss before a . | is ‘ene —_ Syl ere ee wan ai Z wn,| the very best taste; though we don't inhabit such an and the heavy loss in the ranks caused the advance to|immensely big Colony as Nova Scotia, we have just as waver fora moment, until the supporting force came up, | good a right as she to all the privileges of British sub- which also sustained a severe loss, A Column of jan- jects. Lacedemon, in olden times, set a glorious example cers, numbering 4000 to 5000, which were stationed on’, 5» Greece; we do not say, however, that Prince

the igh rceivi ffect of this deadly |~ : fire Sreiitaiiet numediticne toes fo a hope of Edward Island aspires to be the mode! ef the continental

WHAT OUR NEIGHBOURS THINK OF US.

circumstances, to put our troops to rout; but they were Colonies.

‘noisance, ascertaining and examining the positions of|

Smatt Desr ComMisstonerR FoR THE East Point. —James McDonald, jun., Esquire, of Kingsburgh Farm, has been appointed to the office of Commissioner of Small ‘Debts, for King’s County, in the room of Mr. Elisha Morrow, who has declined the appointment.

Joun Tuornton, Esquire, of Lot 16, has been ap- pointed a Justice of the Peace for Prince County.

Canapa.—It 1s rumoured that the Parliament of this Province will be dissolved sometime during the ensuing winter.

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Emigrants.—A vessel lately arrived at the Quaran- tine Station of Quecec, with a large number of emigrants. 100 persons died on the voyage, and many others are in asick and destitute condition, Two vessels have also arrived at the Quarantine Station of St. John’s, N. B., with 470 poor emigrants, banished from the Estate of Lord Palmerston, in Ireland. Those people are repre- sented to be inthe most miserable condition. What better proof can be found as to the fitness of an English Government for Ireland, than is thus given by an English

Minister ?

Murper on THE Hien Seas.—A man named Wil- liam M‘Guire, late master of the Brig Thomas Tattersall, was lately brought before the Admiralty Court in Hali- fax, charged with the murder of two of his crew. The trial was not, however, proceeded with; the jury having come toa decision, that the prisoner was insane, and therefore not in a fit state to be tried.

NEWFOUNDLAND.—Our advices from this Colony report the continuance of distress in the Outports.

Room Paper of all sorts, sizes, and patterns, can be had at Mr. Lobban’s for almost nothing. We hope the public won’t all rush at once.