“THIS IS TRUE LIBERTY,

WHEN FREEBORN MEN—HAVING TO ADVISE THE PUBLIC, MAY SPEAK FREE.”’—Evripipes.

)VEMBER 13, 184

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.I

/N, P. E. ISLAND, SATURI

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* PPE OPTS LS ZEEE EY TS ST arrogates to himself a privilege or aright whichhe would! View Mr. Holl’s elevation in whatsoever light we deny to the poorest subject of the realm. /may, we have at present no just grounds of dissatisfac-

What shade of politics may have distinguished Mr. tion. Ere the elapse of many months---perhaps weeks— *\Holl in England, is not, however, the question here and there is every reason to look fora dissolution of the now. We have to inquire what line of policy he has present Council--and the People will be allowed, we been known to advocate in this Island. ‘I'he question | may hope, an opportunity of once more declaring whe- which have more particularly engrossed the attention of ther the Council ought to be constructed in accordance our principal politicians, are, first---the Land Question; with the new doctrines of Colonial Government, or be and second---the introduction of the Responsible Sys- composed of the same incongruous and clumsy tem. With reference to the first, Mr. Holl, we have materials by which it has been heretofore distinguished. understood, will advocate any measure short of Escheat) ---be that measure purchase, reduction of rent, or exten-- PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS.—NO MONOPOLY. sion of the leasehold tenure---any measure justified by) Grorox Binnis, Esquire, has been appointed a Mem- prudence and moderation,and demanded by the wants and per of the Legislative Council, in the place of the late circumstances of the Colony. As to his views on Respon- Honorable John Brecken. Mr. Birnie’s appointment is

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CH BKATALINE BR.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1847.

THE NEW COUNCILLOR.

The Honorable Joun Myrie Howe was, on Tuesday last, sworn in a Member of the Executive Council, in the room of the Honorable Joun BreckeEn, lately deceased.

Mr. Hout is likewise a member of the Legislative council, and has often distinguished himself in that! Body, by his active and well-educated mind, and by his liberal and statesman-like principles. His standing and respectability are sufficiently well known to preclude | the necessity of remark on our part, or cavil on that of our opponents.

sible Government, we have the most unequivocal proof

It was, indeed, supposed and expected that the late) that they are in accordance with the views of the As-

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a new accession of strength to the Reform Party in the

Mr. BrecKkeEn’s seat would have been offered to a member of the Assembly on the liberal side, as there are at pre- sent no more than two members of the House at the Executive Board, and as the House have contended for the right of having at least three of its members in the Upper Branch. Now, we have no wish to discredit the claims of the Assembly—nay, we shall say, that we

should feel it our duty to insist on the claims of the)

House being satisfied in this respect, ifthe system of Responsible Government had been conceded to this

Legislative Council—and, considering the talent and sembly, as declared through their address tothe Imperia! ‘ability by which, asa Member of a former Assembly, he Government. Mr. Holl’s name, it will be remembered, was distinguished, and the amount of experience und was amongst the first which appeared on the Address pre- |:nowledge, relatively to the public affairs of this Island, sented to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor on his' which he has acquired through a long and useful career— return from Canada. ‘That Address contained a very we have no hesitation in pronouncing the selection of marked expression of opinion favourable to Responsible such a man forsuch a post, as highly advantageous to the Government; and the presumption is certainly very rea-| public interests, and therefore gratifying to the people ‘sonable and just, that Mr. Holl concurred in the opinion at large.

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therein expressed. On these two grounds, then, Liberals:

With Mr. Birnie in the Legislative Council, the

can make no objection to the appointment.

Liberal Party in the Assembly can now calculate upon

colony; but as yet, unhappily, there has been no such concession; or, indeed, if it were not for the fact of our) We can fully appreciate the value of the sneers and & good working majority; and we sincerely hope that being on the eve of an important change in the Govern- | insinuations which have been indulged and are likely to the party in beth Branches will discover their greatest ment, by the transfer of its administration from one ‘be continued, by some of the friends of the old irrespon- strength and securliy against the atiacks of the enemy, Governor to another. But, situated as we are, it is better, sible Clique, in reference to this matter. Every species Ina perfect identity of feeling and interest;—the popular perhaps, that such an expectation ought not to be realiz-|of opposition and of calumny will, of course, be employ-' party in the Assembly should consult end advise on ed—that the seat should, in fact, be filled by a gentle- ed by them against any appointment unconnected with #ll public measures of importance with those advocating man who, from his residence in or near the Town, would their party. Under the circumstances, however, the the same line of policy in the Council: thus, they would have an easy access tothe new Lieutenant Gevernor.! present Councillorship indicates no retrograde movement be brought to feel their strength, and in relying the one Let us suppose, that, when Sir Donald Campbell wil] ‘on the part of the Lieutenant Governor. It is the placing UPON the other, they could never be at a loss to foretell arrive in Charlottetown, he should find some of his Coun-/|of an office held by a gentleman, conscientious!y, we the issue of a public measure. In former times—before cil removed at such adistance from him as not to be able | believe, adverse to the Responsible System, in the hands Sir Henry reformed the Council—for it has undergone, to communicate with them, without incurring some con-'ofone who will give his talents and energies to its deve- silently and steadily, such a reform as never has been siderable loss of time, and the consequence, in all like-|lopement, when once conceded. carried into operation in any other Colony—that Branch lihood would be, that such advice would be tendered, as,| T'o revert to the claims of the Assembly, it must be was crammed with the creatures of Mr. Pope, whom if acted upon, would prove prejudicial to the in-|remembered that that Body has sustained no positive he had no difficulty in whipping, like so many trembling terests of the Liberal Party. Again, if it were found | loss in the bestowal of Mr. Brecken’s seat on Mr. Holl. urchins, into a complete submission to his mandates. Jn necessary to call a Special Council, it is not to be sup- ‘The late Councillor belonged to the second Branch of the pliancy of the Legislative Council—or rather in the posed that two gentlemen living at a great distance from|the Legislature---his place at the Executive Board is helpless, spiritiess, mesmeric state weed which that cele- town, could be got to attend it; and two votes being thus!given to one of the same body. Whilst the Honor- brated Body had been thrown by the artifices of the lost, a question or measure of importance might be des- able J. S. McDonaup held a scat in the Assembly, q Conjuror—lay the secret of all Mr. Pope’s ne in troyed by means of the majority which the opposite!due proportion of Executive power was enjoyed by the the Assembly,—he had nothing te do but get his mea- party could thereby employ. ‘House. The retirement of that gentleman from the Sures carried through the Lower House—the Upper had It is asserted, by way of objection to this appointment | Legislature, and his retention of the Councillorship, les-/N0t courage or principle enough to refuse its sanction. —and the assertion comes from those who ought to be|sened the Executive strength of the House. The seat. Sir Henry Vere Huntley has happily, however, broken the last in the world to make use of it--that Mr. Holl, in Council was civen to Mr. McDonald, we believe, in the wand of the Enchanter—the Council meets, but no while in England, advocated Conservative opinions. consideration of his legislative capacity. longer as the puppets of Mr. Pope. We are not prepared to say whether this is true or false, | If we turn to England, we shall find that in the Queen’s) ‘Tneorarus Des Brsay, Esquire, has likewise been but supposing it to be true, are we bound to infer, that,' Ministry the greater number is selected from the Lords; appointed Commissioner for issuing Treasury Notes, in because he may have been a Conservative in England, the Cominons have seven members in the Cabinet—the the room of the late Honorable Joun Brecxen. With- he must repudiate every principle of Liberalism, on/Lords have ten ;—and, therefore, whilst we have no di8-|out any reference to political principles, Mr. Des Brisay coming toasmall colony where there are no such in- position to gainsay the claim of the Assembly in refer-'is fully qualified for the discharge of the duties of this terests and objects as engage the attention of public ence to this matter, we think it would be unreasonable office. He held the situation of Assayer of Weights men in the Mother Country? It often occurs—and we and unjust to say that a principle of the Responsible and Measures, which he also received from the present have known many cases in point—that gentlemen com-/| System has been violated through the selection of Mr. ‘Lieutenant Governor, and which His Excellency, actua- ing from England, imbued wit high Conservative opi-| Holl, when it is known that that gentleman belongs to ted by the very proper principle, that there ought to be nions, become the most indefatigable Reformers in the the popular party. The selection was made without no monopoly of office of profit, requested Mr. Des Colonies. The’ points of resemblance between the!any special reference to the New System—happily, it Brisay to resign, before conferring on him the place Colonial and the British Tory are few and indistinct. | will prove favourable to the adoption of that system. of Commissioner. The former is best known by his voraciousress and) One principle that ought never to be forgotten is—! In the distribution of the four offices held by the Hon. selfishness—by a continual seeking after office, if out, that every Minister of the Crown should hold a seat in Mr. Brecken, we have a striking manifestation of the and by a perpetual struggling to retain it, ifin—con- either branch of the Legislature. The Minister who has Lieutenant Governor’s disinclination to perpetuate the tending that the principles which regulate the conduct no such seat, brings little or no strength to the Govern-| system of Monopoly which heretofore obtained, and to of a Government at Home, are wholly inapplicable to a ment—he is, in fact, a nondescript, a drag upon the Ad-| which some of the Government offices still furnish un- Government abroad—but oftener, indeed, giving himself | ministration. Councillors who ho!d no seats in the Le-| disputable testimony. Reform inthis matter was loudly little uneasiness about any principles at all, so long as gislative Bodies should be taught the necessity of giving called for, and it cannot fail to be gratifying to the feel- he shall be permitted to hold his office. ‘The latter way to those who could bring support to the administra-|ings of Sir H. V. Huntley, to know that it is one which

views every actofan administration as the necessary consequence cf some principle---he argues public mea- vures with reference to constitutional doctrinesand never

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tive policy where support would be most required,—and ‘in doing so they would properly maintain their own dig- |nity and serve the interests of the country.

will ever command the grateful remembrance of the people. Had Sir Henry followed the example of his

predecessors in the bestowal of official patronage, he